I'm a humble concubine. My acting skills are off the charts. You can check my performance.

Qingpingyuan

Early in the morning, before the weather got too hot, Chunshao helped Zhao Fangyu through the corridor to Qingping Courtyard.

She lived in the eldest lady's courtyard. It was only a few steps from the door to the place where she paid her respects. She had the most leisurely life among all the sisters.

"Fourth sister, eat!"

Zhao Fangmo, who was barely old enough to tie two small bags at the age of three, wore a peach-red brocade jacket with a pattern of seven fairies picking peaches. The seven-treasure necklace hanging around her neck had a string of pearls at the back and a piece of mutton-fat jade the size of an egg at the end.

Zhao Fangyu brought Xiao Beiyun to the front and put it in Zhao Fangmo's hand. He then took the pastries handed to him by Zhao Fangmo and fed him little by little.

At the age of nine, Zhao Fangyu has grown up and has begun to show the grace of a young girl.

Her long, jet-black hair was shiny and combed into two buns like thick clouds of ink.

It was clearly a bun, but because Zhao Fangyu had so much hair, it looked like cat ears, which was very cute.

She inherited the charming peach blossom eyes from Aunt Qian, with curved eyebrows, rosy cheeks and pink lips, and red coral earrings the size of soybeans on her cheeks, adorned with two small white jade flower trays. When they sway, she is so beautiful that it leaves people speechless.

The long, slender fingers were dyed with nail polish, not heavy, just a light pink that girls use for fun. It was obviously not dyed well and the color was uneven, but it looked good, making the hands look like they were carved out of white jade. When she was not talking, even when she was holding the teacup and staring blankly, she looked incredibly beautiful. When she moved, she looked more like an immortal in a painting come to life, and her every move was different from others.

Zhao Fangmo likes this beautiful fourth sister the most. Apart from the eldest sister Zhao Fangjin, the one he is closest to is Zhao Fangyu. Even Zhao Zhihuai's wife Mei Xunyin has to step back.

"You came just in time. A new batch of fabrics arrived yesterday. Summer is coming soon, so I made a few more summer shirts for you guys."

Mei Xunyin was wearing an apricot-colored pear blossom straight-sleeved dress, a lotus-colored cloud-patterned tube top, and a smoked yellow raccoon-patterned pleated skirt. She bowed and greeted with a smile as she entered the room.

He chose a seat closest to Zhao Fangyu and sat down. Zhao Fangyu immediately moved the teacup in front of him away, and Mother Cui brought him a bowl of jasmine honey water.

"It's better to come at the right time than to come at the right time. As soon as I entered the door, I got my mother's good fabric."

Mother Cui moved all the things to the table on the side and piled up the cloth. At a glance, there were more than twenty pieces!

While Zhao Fangyu and Mei Xunyin were talking, Zhao Fangmo in his arms felt hot, so he ran out of Zhao Fangyu's arms, threw himself on the eldest lady's lap and acted coquettishly, wanting to eat some cold fruit.

Zhao Fangwei and Zhao Fangjin came together.

Since Zhao Fangjin and Zhao Fangwei were both over ten years old, they had been separated from their biological mother's courtyard and lived separately. Zhao Fangjin lived in the chess courtyard and Zhao Fangwei lived in the rose pavilion. The two courtyards were not far apart, and the two often went together when they paid respects.

Zhao Fangjin wore her hair in double buns, with two pearl flowers in her hair, two small hairpins with pearl flowers on the left and right, fan-shaped earrings with white jade beads and kingfisher feathers, a light white top, a pomegranate red peony half-sleeve, a white jade peony sash around her waist, and a turmeric-colored skirt with precious flowers.

Zhao Fangwei's outfit was much simpler, with a lotus-colored half-sleeve top and an apricot-yellow folded skirt with a belt of the same color. She also wore a string of white jade forbidden steps, and had two hanging buns in the same style. She wore a pair of silver-gilt pearl flower hairpins and pearl earrings.

Zhao Fangyun arrived the latest. She was wearing a water green half-sleeve top with a lotus-colored skirt. It was clearly an elegant outfit, but she insisted on bringing two golden pearl flowers, which made her cute look seem materialistic.

The sisters all bowed to the eldest lady. After greeting each other, they began to choose from more than 20 pieces of fabric.

The sisters understood that Mei Xunyin had gone through a difficult time during her pregnancy, so they asked her to choose first. Mei Xunyin declined twice, but the eldest lady personally gave her two pieces of heavy lotus silk.

The two best pieces of heavy lotus silk were given to Mei Xunyin, and the remaining two pieces of heavy lotus silk were given one to Zhao Fangjin and the other to Zhao Fangyu.

Zhao Fangyu didn't like bright colors, and she liked less saturated colors because she had the same style as Zhao Fangjin. So she picked out a piece of white rattan purple Guangling and a piece of fish belly white Guangling. She originally wanted to take another piece of blush Suduan, but Zhao Fangwei took it, so she took another piece of pink Guangling.

"Why so plain?"

When the eldest lady saw that Chun Shao Xiangyao was holding something so white that it looked as if it were plain, she poked Zhao Fangyu with a finger in amusement and took out a piece of rouge-colored Su satin from the pile of cloth and gave it to her.

Zhao Fangwei also picked a plain color. Since there was no lady to choose for her, she picked a piece of scarlet silk for herself.

One person took five horses, leaving three: one Canglang, one Zhuanhong, and one Haitianxia.

"Give it to the three of you. I remember there is a piece of pink material in the storeroom. Take it out and give it to the fifth girl."

Zhao Fangyun was originally unhappy that the rouge color she liked was given to Zhao Fangyu by the eldest lady, but then she changed her mind and thought that any material accepted by the eldest lady would be good, and Yingying pink was also beautiful and would be best for making summer skirts.

When they came back from paying their respects, the sun was already high. The girls were all thinking about how to make clothes. Zhao Fangjin was afraid of the heat, so she hid directly in Zhao Fangyu's room.

The room was filled with the scent of gardenia spirit, faint and cold, neither strong nor weak, as if Zhao Fangjin had plunged into the room of the gardenia spirit.

"You can open a spice shop tomorrow and empty the pockets of all the girls in Beijing!"

Zhao Fangyu asked the perfumer to mix jasmine honey water, and then rinsed it with well water. It was cool and just right for use.

Zhao Fangyu took bean green, white vine purple, fish belly white, pink rice, rouge, and sea sky glow.

Zhao Fangjin took pomegranate red, brick red, turmeric yellow, frost color, sea and sky blue, and grape purple.

The two of them were talking about making a skirt and a half-sleeve, and as they talked, they came to the topic of Meng Yanzhen's coming-of-age banquet next month.

"My cousin is coming of age. Apart from anything else, we have to help her maintain her appearance."

Zhao Fangjin was thinking about what color clothes to wear that would be decent but not overshadow the others, but then he took a look at Zhao Fangyu's already stunning face and started to worry.

I couldn't help but pinch the soft flesh on Zhao Fangyu's face: "Fortunately, you and Sister Yan Zhen are five years apart, otherwise I would have covered you from head to toe."

Zhao Fangyu smiled so hard that his teeth were exposed and he fell directly into Zhao Fangjin's arms like a scoundrel: "Sister, please quickly take the sack and put me away. Put me in your small storehouse and let me see what rare treasures are there."

The two sisters were making a noise under the window. Zhao Fangmo, who was in the eldest lady's room, heard them and ran over to join in the fun.

The eldest lady looked towards Zhao Fangyu's house with a smile, taking a rare break from her busy schedule to enjoy the wind under the eaves.

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Pingboyuan

Zhao Fangyun and Zhao Fangwei were already sweating when they returned to Pingbo Courtyard. Zhao Fangwei looked at the blush and lilac purple that she had picked with her almond-shaped eyes, and she became more and more upset the more she looked.

Aunt Song added a spoonful of calming incense to the Boshan stove.

The fragrance was faint, but it had no effect at all. Zhao Fangwei was still angry.

However, Zhao Fangyun, who was born half a year later than Zhao Fangyu but was not half as good as Zhao Fangyu, made Zhao Fangwei very angry.

"I told you to discipline Fang Yun properly, why are you still so superficial?"

"I wanted to throw myself into the arms of the fourth girl and snatch the fabric. My eyes were fixed on her. If someone didn't know, they would think we were short of fabric and had no clothes to wear!"

Zhao Fangyun was so angry that she jumped up and down. She never felt that there was anything wrong with the look in her eyes. She just... just particularly liked the rouge-colored horse in Zhao Fangyu's arms.

"You don't deserve to bring up something you just saw twice. It's obviously your fault. Daddy won't let you work as a clerk in the study. Why are you taking it out on me?"

"We are both born of the same mother. Am I half a head shorter than you? You blame me for everything. Why don't you blame yourself for not being as good as the fourth girl? That's why dad didn't choose you!"

Aunt Song frowned slightly and looked at Zhao Fangwei with a look full of disapproval.

He took the aggrieved Zhao Fangyun into his arms and said to Zhao Fangwei, "Xiao Liu is gone, Xiao Wu is your only sister. No matter what, you should take care of her. She likes that batch of fabrics, you can go and exchange it with Fangyu."

"You are the elder sister. I don't believe that if you go to the fourth girl to exchange cloth, she will not exchange with you. If one piece is not enough, then two pieces. The cloth that the eldest lady chooses for you will not be bad."

When Zhao Fangwei heard this cliché, she felt as if she had heard the Tightening Curse on the Monkey King and had a severe headache. Then she looked at the mother and daughter huddled together, and her headache got even worse.

They are all daughters, why should she take care of everything?

It was clearly my sister's fault, but now it has become her fault? But where was her fault?

"Okay, okay, my son, don't be angry. Auntie has another pair of pearl earrings. Can I give them to you?" Zhao Fangwei looked up, thinking that it was Auntie Song who came to coax her, but when she looked up, she saw that it was Auntie Song who was taking Zhao Fangyun to the inner room to pick out jewelry!

"Aunt is the best. She only allows me to do this and not my sister. My sister is not good. She didn't help me just now and only said bad things about me."