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Chapter 306 Red Plum

Li Qiniang is not a ignorant little girl who has been unemployed. She has been engaged and divorced, and has been divorced. Qi Wei's attitude towards her. With her life experience, she would have noticed it as early as Pingcheng. However, for Li Qiniang, Qi Wei is the benefactor of their mother and daughter. She would not think too much about having this kindness, and even if she had a moment of doubt, she would quickly suppress it.

But just the day before leaving Pingcheng, Qi Wei told her that from then on, they no longer had a relationship between rescue and being rescued, and the kitchen knife.

Since she came to the capital, Qi Wei and her Hongyan passed on a letter. Although Li Qiniang can write with her, she usually only uses it to keep accounts and read accounts. She occasionally has nothing to do, so she picks up her daughter's book to read it on a few pages, and knows nothing about poetry and songs. The only advantage of the letter she wrote to Qi Wei and Yishui's plain language is that it is quite smooth.

But what Qi Wei wrote to her was actually in vernacular.

Li Qiniang remembered it very clearly. Yan Zhaoshi also wrote a letter to her, which was to send Yan Jingxiu to study in Pingcheng, and to take a fancy to the house in Luoguxiang. The time when the couple came back to ask her for money for more than ten years, the only letter to them was limited to that time.

The letter from Yan Zhaoshi was written all over the place, and there were also a few words that Li Qiniang didn't recognize. Li Qiniang read it several times, but fortunately the money was written clearly, otherwise Li Qiniang would not even know the purpose of Yan Zhaoshi's writing this letter.

But Qi Wei's letter is different. Each stroke, horizontal and vertical, is a style of the Pavilion used by civil officials. It does not have any verbal words or cited classics.

For example, Li Qiniang talked about Uncle Zhong in the letter, saying that Uncle Zhong was free and had nothing to do, so she grew a lot of vegetables in the Duke's mansion. After the first time I came to Qingping Lane to deliver vegetables, Uncle Cai also learned that Uncle Zhong had grown vegetables.

Qi Wei replied, saying that he had been away from farming and sericulture for many years. After seeing Li Qiniang's letter, he was curious. He also heard that vegetables were planted in the Persimmon Hutong, so he asked Fusheng to find vegetables and set up a vegetable field in the Duke's Mansion in Pingcheng. The manager of the Duke's Mansion also asked Fusheng for seeds and also planted a vegetable in the Duke's Mansion. However, shortly after the vegetables sown by Qi Wei germinated, they all died, and the vegetables in the Duke's Mansion grew lush and plump.

Qi Wei said in the letter, I am glad that I was not born in a farmhouse, otherwise I would have been a idle man in the village.

Li Qiniang replied and asked, "It's just that she didn't grow vegetables, so why did she become a idle man?"

Qi Wei replied, saying that most grains and vegetables are only sown once a season, and the vegetables are not planted. This time, it not only wastes seeds, but also wastes time. There is no land to plant this season and can only be idle. Wouldn’t it become the idle people in the mouth?

Thinking of this, Li Qiniang smiled. She had never thought that the Duke would joke or tell jokes before.

"Why, don't you recognize this letter?" Qi Wei's voice was like the hot spring water in winter, neither anxious nor slow, but it made people feel like spring breeze.

"The letter I wrote does not have plum blossoms."

Li Qiniang raised her face. Although she was a mother and daughter, she looked a little similar, but her temperament was different. Yan Xuecai was a little more pretty and charming, while Li Qiniang was generous and bright. Although Li Shiji's red lanterns could not brighten the place, they were also slightly red. The night softened her eyebrows and eyes, and the afterglow of the lantern made the already soft eyebrows and eyes dyed the already soft eyebrows and eyes.

Qi Wei took a deep breath. It was obviously a cold winter night, but he felt that the air around him was warm.

This is the fireworks on earth, the noisy voices, the bright red lights, the air with the fragrance of rice, and the woman like red plums.

"I painted the plum blossoms. I learned to paint when I was young, but the master said he had no talent and had been teaching for only a year and refused to teach them again. Look, my plum blossoms can only be drawn on your envelope and show them to you. I know you will definitely not make fun of me."

Li Qiniang couldn't help but look closely. The night was too dark and she couldn't see the details, so she could only recognize that it was a plum blossom.

"I think the drawing is very good. At least I can recognize it at first glance. You don't know. I used to learn embroidery and learned it for a long time. Finally, I embroidered a pair of mandarin ducks, but others say it was a water duck."

As soon as she said that, Li Qiniang regretted it. She said what she did.

Her smile froze on her face, and she sighed in her heart. Her daughter's family only embroidered mandarin ducks when embroidering dowry. In order to get married, she once studied embroidery. She tried very hard to make herself a good wife and a good daughter-in-law, but no one cherished everything she did. Those people ate her and lived her, enjoyed everything she brought to them, but stepped on her into the soil.

If it were an ordinary woman, she would probably accept her fate, but she did not. She took her daughter and not only made a way to live, but also let the road be covered with sunshine and flowers, warming every place and everyone passing by.

Like Mrs. Ye, like a blessing, like Xiaoman, like the person in Li Shiji, like him...

"It's okay. I remember that there was a sewing room in the Duke's Mansion before. From now on, you and Sister Huai'er could take it over and let them do it. But I don't know if the sewing room is still there."

Li Qiniang's little embarrassment just now disappeared. She smiled and said, "Sewing room? Are you talking about those two old ladies? They are old, so I will help them put on pinholes. I dare not take the needle and thread over to ask them to help."

"Two old nannies? I clearly remember that they are only in their early forties. At most, they are nannies. How could they be old nannies?" Qi Wei was puzzled.

"Yes, they were in their early forties when you left. In recent years, you have been outside and occasionally returned to the capital. I'm afraid you haven't called them over to speak. Think about it, have you not seen them for more than ten years? Now they are almost sixty years old, their eyes are blurred and they can't make needles and threads. The clothes of Zhong Bo and the others are all bought from the ready-to-wear shop outside."

......

Before he knew it, the two of them had been talking for a while. It was not until Chai Yan saw Li Qiniang stomping his feet that he realized that it was winter and he was a martial arts practitioner and was not afraid of the cold, but Li Qiniang was weak and delicate, so how could he stand it?

"It's because I'm not good. It's too cold. I'll take you back now. You can get in the car."

Qi Wei said, taking the footstool awkwardly, lifting up the curtains of the car, and letting Li Qiniang get in the car.

Li Qiniang looked behind her but could not see Lu Ying'er, and said, "Where is Ying'er, there is Dazhuang."

Qi Wei comforted her and said, "Don't worry, Fusheng will send them back. I see that the restaurant is about to close. They will go back together. You get in the car quickly."

"But Dazhuang is not here, who will drive the car?" Li Qiniang was still worried.

"I'll drive the car." Qi Wei said.
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