The empress dowager's eyebrows did not move, but said, "It is difficult for these concubines to be busy serving the emperor all day long, and they have to run to the old woman of Ai's family and invite them in."

Just as the palace maids went to invite the three empresses, Yuzhu looked up and said, "I wonder if the queen mother can agree to Yuzhu's thing?"

"What's the matter?"

"Let me see which pair of gold bracelets is good?"

The Empress Dowager and Yuzhu in the palace will not mention it for now. After a while, the three gorgeous concubines walked in one by one under the ring of the palace maids.

The one who walked in front was Concubine Bai, and the one who followed her was Concubine Shi, and the recently favored daughter of the Minister of War An, the Queen of Concubine An.

After the three concubines greeted the Empress Dowager together, they sat down one by one.

Yuzhu was given a seat by the empress dowager before. When she saw the three empresses entering, she stood up and waited for the three concubines to sit down before saluting.

Concubine Bai smiled and looked at her and said, "You are Concubine Xiao's sister. In my eyes, you are like your own sister, so there is no need to be too polite."

Concubine Shi seemed to suddenly say, "Oh, it turns out that this is the famous female jade master, can that boss with rough jade and gold be successful?"

Yuzhu lowered her eyes and said respectfully: "It's just a trick of being a little scammer, and it's not a good name."

The concubine Shi was quite round, with a luster that was unique to a plump woman. Her nose was shining brightly. Now she was half raising her neck and even more when she raised her chin.

"So, the craftsman who stole yesterday was also taught by you?"

When saying this, Concubine Bai looked at Concubine Shi with embarrassment and said, "Sister can't say that. The servants are just stealing things. What's the matter with Miss Yuan?"

Concubine Shi sneered and said, "Now that the palace is undergoing major renovations, not only the empress dowager will have craftsmen outside the palace coming in and out, but also other palaces. If the craftsmen are all as dirty as those who are made of uncensored jade and gold, wouldn't the palace be messed up?"

After saying this, Concubine Shi closed her chin and said to the Empress Dowager: "Empress Dowager, when I think of this, I was worried all night. I just reported the matter to the Empress. However, the Empress was not in good health and always did not care about the matter. Concubine Bai always took charge of the affairs of the palace. However, Concubine Bai said that she could not make the decision on this matter, so we came to see you. I hope that you will take the initiative and remove the uncensored jade and gold errands in the palace. This will also avoid such disasters."

The queen mother smiled gently, and she asked Madam Shang beside her to cut a plate of orange for her, then handed it to everyone present, and said gently: "Have theft case been found out?"

Seeing that Concubine Bai lowered her head and peeled off the orange peel, Shi said, "The person was caught and the person was handed over to the eunuch who was in charge of the punishment. He had already used the board, but the duck was stubborn and fainted before he could admit it. He was about to wake up and then be punished, and the person admitted it."

Yuzhu felt nervous when she heard this, but there was no panic on her face. She said lightly: "Empress Shi Fei followed her very tightly. Everyone said that the board in the palace is heavy. I will beat her up again. My friend doesn't need to confess and she will be able to die."

Shi Fei didn't expect that she would dare to be so tough in front of the empress dowager. She immediately felt aura in her heart, and she smiled and said without a smile: "Oh, from what Miss Yuan meant, do you think your friend is innocent? I only now know why your subordinates are so brave. It turns out that this boss is brave enough to see where this place is, but where you are talking?"

Yuzhu said lightly: "I don't know what the bracelet that my craftsman stole was like."

Shi Fei snorted, "It's a pair of gilded four-happy bracelets carved with Caifeng. I specially chose to match the clothes for the empress dowager."

Yuzhu smiled slightly: "Caifeng's gold-plated four-happy bracelet? If Yuzhu is not mistaken, this should be a product of rough jade and gold, right?"

"This..." Shi Fei did not remember such trivialities? These jewelry and gold items were purchased by his family for her socializing in the palace. How could she pay attention to the store seals carved by these jade bracelets? She just chose a pair of the most dazzling jewelry inlaid and gave them to the queen mother.

The Empress Dowager said at this time, saying, "Come, take the pair of gold bracelets to Miss Yuan for a look."

So the little maid brought the tray and handed the pair of gold bracelets to Yuzhu. Yuzhu picked up one, flipped it over and looked at the shop seal inside, and indeed saw the unique oval shop seal of "Unforgettable Jade and Gold".

After she finished reading it, she put back the gold bracelet and said, "It's indeed the gold product in my store. This colorful phoenix gilded bracelet is the new product in my store this year. Because it is inlaid with jade and gems of different colors on the gold, it can present the texture of the colorful phoenix bracelet. The most detailed inlaying technique in my store is Master Kou. The bracelets are probably all from his hand. If you can get it, Yuzhu also wants to ask Master Kou in person why he risked to come to the Queen Mother's bedroom to steal theft?"

The words were asked very sharply. Concubine Shi did not expect that the bracelet was the finished product of Master Kou himself. She was speechless immediately, but after taking a deep breath, she immediately replied: "What? He made this thing, can't he steal it? Maybe he loves it, and really likes his proud work. Unexpectedly, he met it in the palace and saw that no one was around and stole it!"

The Empress Dowager said gently: "Since that's the case, let's ask the jade craftsman to confront him. The Ai family has always been eating vegetarian and doing good deeds. It's not that they have wronged the good people and have committed sins."

The empress dowager spoke, how could the servant not do it? In a short while, the craftsman Kou Yujian was dragged into the empress dowager's bedroom.

Because I wanted to see the noble man in the palace, the blood marks on his face were naturally gone, but his cheeks were swollen and he looked like he had been beaten.

Yuzhu felt sad in her heart. This man was an honest and honest craftsman, but like her father, he accidentally got involved in the internal strife among the masters in the palace and ended up like this. If he could not save him today, I wonder if the children in his family would be like him and gain the reputation of the sinners for the rest of their lives?

Thinking of this, she felt even more determined and she must save Kou Yujiang out.

The Empress Dowager looked at the jade craftsman who barely knelt down below, and ordered the palace maid beside her to hand the pair of gold bracelets to Master Kou and said, "Let's see if you recognize this pair of gold bracelets?"

Kou Yujiang looked at the gold bracelet, picked it up with his trembling hands, barely opened his swollen eyes, looked inside and out and said, "I recognize that this is the jade bracelet from the uncensored jade gold shop."

After hearing this, Concubine Shi raised her eyebrows and said, "Did you make that?"

Kou Yujiang was a honest man and replied honestly: "It was not made by villains."

When Shi Fei heard this, she immediately became proud, and her nose lit up a little, saying, "Since it wasn't you who did it, are you happy to see it and want to take it for yourself?"

Kou Yujiang coughed hard and said, "Qi Bing... Cough cough, Qi Bing, this empress, this jade bracelet is definitely not made by a villain, but it must be the work of a villain's apprentice! The villain's apprentice learned inlaying with the villain this year, but the technique has never been very skillful. Any jade bracelet made by the villain himself should be rounded in the edges. When the inlay is opened, the gem inside should be the same as the inside and outside, and it is oval and transparent. However, the little disciple wanted to save trouble, so he changed the inlay grooves and changed the inside of the gem to a cone shape for easy embedding and would not move around during inlaying. However, in this way, the transparency of the gem will be greatly reduced."

Speaking of this, he coughed a few more heartbreakingly and then said, "The owner has always told the shop that the old man is not fake, the gem business should not be fake, the stubborn craftsmanship is not good, but the materials used are all excellent, and if they are discarded, it is always a bit of a pity. The valuation of the store evaluated several jade bracelets he made as medium and low-quality products, and sold them to customers who are not very picky at a discount. Therefore, the empress said that she was happy about the little one, which was really wronged to a villain! She nodded and wanted to let it go out of the store, but she didn't want to hurt her apprentice's self-esteem. Otherwise, if such a bad product was made by the villain himself, she would rather smash it than let it ruin its signature on the market!"

After hearing this, all the lights on Shi Fei's nose turned into white-haired sweat. She was so angry that she was a little restless, and raised her voice and said, "Bold! Are you accusing me of choosing the Queen Mother to buy it for the Empress Dowager? Is it a discounted product?"

Yuzhu said lightly, "Is it true, you will know after testing." After saying that, she got the approval of the Queen Mother, she reached out to take off the hairpin from her head, took a gold bracelet and opened the buckle, poured out the gem inside, and flipped it over and saw that the gem was indeed a cone-shaped seat.

Yuzhu said at this time: "When Kou Yujiang entered the palace, he should have brought the samples he made by himself, right?"

Kou Yujiang said hard: "When he returned to his boss's house, the younger one brought a set of jade inlaid candlesticks."

So the palace maid brought the candlestick again. Yuzhu picked up a place where the gems were inlaid, poured out the gems and saw them, polished them as round as water drops. Moreover, the two objects were placed in one place. The gems of the same texture had a completely different brightness. It was really made by Kou Yujiang himself and it was even more exquisite, which made them even more lovely.

Yuzhu put the thing back and asked Shi Fei generously: "I don't know if the empress knows how valuable this Kou Yujiang's products are?"

Empress Shi said a little annoyed: "I have been in the palace for a long time and haven't visited the market, so how can I know?"

Yuzhu smiled and said, "What the Empress said is, but you have to know that in my shop, the products of other people are more than five times worse than this Kou Yujiang. The pair of bracelets he made was enough to buy the pair that the Empress Dowager gave to the Empress Dowager. What's more, this master worked very hard in a year and made countless finished products. Although this person who relied on craftsmanship was not as envious as the honor of officials in the court, the remuneration he earned was probably not comparable to that of the second-rank officials in the court. Why would such a person who was not short of money steal a defective bracelet that he wanted to smash after seeing it?"

Concubine Shi felt that her fat face could bleed. She never expected that her family would buy a bunch of defective products to enter the palace to prepare some.

In fact, this really wronged the person who was doing business at her home. It was because the products in the store are really rare and difficult to choose and sell. Even this pair of discounted defective products is much more expensive than those in other stores on the market.

Besides, where can you tell so many differences if you don’t understand the jewelry skills?
Chapter completed!