Chapter 265: Xia He's Joy
The best cashmere is spun into wool and then knitted into sweaters, which is not only thin but also warm. With just two slender bamboo needles, a sweater was outlined. Li Ze was the one who started it. He was originally an orphan, but he has never forgotten the skills he learned in the orphanage. However, he is only good at and only knows the simplest stitches. When he taught Xia He the method of knitting clothes, this skill began to bloom with great vitality. Various stitches and various fancy styles were outlined under the skillful fingers of women. In this regard, Li Ze couldn't help but sigh that human wisdom is always lacking. What they lack is just that someone needs to push open this window for them.
The sweater she was in hand was just beginning to fall this year, and Xia He started knitting. She originally wanted to let Li Ze wear it after winter, but things came one after another, so she had no time to do it at all, so it was time for this cashmere sweater to only complete the main body, and the two sleeves were still missing, but it looked like a vest.
Although she was all focused outside the house, her hands were still flying up and down like a butterfly. After many years of doing these tasks, she no longer needed to stare at them with her eyes.
"Li Mi, you go and rest too!" Li Ze's clear voice came from outside. Xia He's pretty face in the room immediately turned red. He stood up suddenly, walked towards the door, and placed his sweater on the dressing table in front of him, but he didn't expect a cashmere thread to be wrapped around her hands. Following her steps, the piece that had just knitted fell off and turned into a thread again.
Xia He still didn't realize it at all.
The door was pushed open with a sound, and Li Ze appeared in front of Xia He.
After seeing each other in March, Li Ze grew taller. In the past, when she stood in front of Li Ze, Xia He's forehead could reach the tip of Li Ze's nose, but now, it seems that she can only reach Li Ze's upper lip.
His face was not as delicate as he was when he left, adding a lot of wind and frost. It was obviously caused by running around in the cold wind for a long time. Although he also woven a mask for him, the cold wind in the north was everywhere.
"I'm back!" Li Ze looked at Xia He and opened his hands.
Xia He obviously dressed up carefully, and his head had long been combed into a woman's bun. In the past, Xia He had bangs, but now he has combed the bangs, tied up the hair behind him, and combed it into a round bun with a golden pendant. He was inserted into a small hairpin with a golden pendant.
Above her thin-pinked face, she had her eyes full of willow eyebrows and starry eyes. She looked at Li Ze's big eyes, which were watery, and she was filled with tears, as if she was about to fall out in a flash. The half-open and half-closed cherry lips were a different kind of bright red, which shone with two rows of white jade-like teeth.
Xia He's makeup was also cultivated by Li Ze. By the way, Li Ze still doesn't catch a cold about the mainstream makeup of this era. Li Ze really can't appreciate the look of applying her face as white as snow and then pointing a little red on the middle of the upper and lower lips.
The room was very warm, Xia He was wearing a goose yellow cotton jacket with bamboo pattern with open collars, and underwear was directly worn. There was a woman with a higher status in the Tang Dynasty, the lower the collar she had.
After a few months of not seeing each other, in Li Ze's eyes, Xia He seemed to be thrillingly beautiful, from the beauty of a girl in the past to the mature charm of a woman now.
It was like a bird flew into the forest. Xia He looked at Li Ze for a while and then pierced her head in Li Ze's arms.
Li Ze laughed and kicked the door backwards, then picked Xia He up and walked inward.
A small separation is better than a newlywed!
I don’t know how long it took, but the room finally calmed down. Xia He’s carefully combed hair had long been scattered. The hairpin was thrown to the ground, and her head was covered with black hair scattered on her satin-like skin.
But Li Ze had turned into a big flowery face, full of red lips.
Looking at Li Ze's appearance, Xia He burst out laughing, wrapped it in a thin quilt, twisted a hot towel in the outside room, and wiped the red mark on Li Ze's face one by one.
"Stop busy, I'll print it again later anyway." He carried Xia He to his side, and he also got into the quilt and sat down with him.
Xia He screamed in surprise and took out a fur vest from the big bed. At this moment, the body of the wool vest that had been completed was also removed, with long cashmere threads and many of them wrapped around Li Ze's legs.
"It's almost done, and now it's all ruined." Xia He held the remnants in front of him, and she was about to cry without tears.
"You can also wear it as a small vest!" Li Ze smiled gurgled, holding the cashmere vest in his hand and looking left and right, "It's been several months, and it's not finished yet?"
"Where is the time?" Xia He sighed and simply threw the cashmere vest aside. It seems that he would not have finished weaving it this year. "It's okay to say something about Yizhou. Cangzhou, Dizhou, Jingzhou, and Yingzhou are completely confused. After nearly a month of busyness, he barely straightened out the accounts of Cangzhou and Dizhou."
"Don't worry, take it slowly." Li Ze stroked the other person's long hair and said indifferently.
"How can you take it slowly?" Xia He shook his head and said, "Spring is about to begin. After spring, it will be spring plowing. The sequelae of the earlier war has not been healed, and we have to work hard on this business again. Cangzhou and Dizhou will definitely not be able to go in until next autumn. The only hope is whether Haixing's salt drying field can produce more salt after improving the process as the young master said. If so, there will be some inputs."
"Also, the ones that the young master taught me, I picked up some simple teachings to the tax officials who were transferred. They were all extremely clumsy and slowed down their work progress. Now I can only barely get started. Sometimes, I can only ask them to do two sets, one using the old method and the other using the new method. Although it took some more time, the comparison between the old and new is to let them practice, and the other is to let them see which one is simpler and easier to do."
Li Ze couldn't help but shake his head. The reason why Xia He felt it was simple was because he had been learning for so many years, and had heard and seen from childhood. The people he pulled from below, let him change his years of understanding in a short time and accept a brand new knowledge. It is difficult to imagine. Moreover, there are no mistakes or omissions in finance and taxation. Then you can imagine how much pressure these people are.
Thinking about the sad scenes of those people scratching their heads and pulling their beards, Li Ze felt a little pitiful to them.
Xia He is the queen in the house that belongs to her. When many subordinates see her, they are typical of not even breathing. First, of course, it is because of Xia He's special identity, and secondly, it is because of Xia He's unique financial and taxation system. The things that the people below spent several days were often picked up in less than a quarter of an hour before they were given to her. This made people convinced.
Although Li Ze was not in Wuyi, the relevant information here would still be gathered in his hands.
"I heard that you were drunk a few days ago?" Li Ze asked with a smile.
"Where am I drunk?" Xia He shook his head repeatedly.
"I still want to argue?" Li Ze stretched out two fingers and clamped Xia He's nose, "Tell me, what's the matter worth getting drunk?"
Xia He was silent for a moment before then he raised his head and whispered: "Young Master, I am indeed drunk because I am happy. Because... Because..."
"Because you know that Liu Ruyan is going to follow me to Chang'an, and you will live in Chang'an forever in the future, and you won't come back with me, right?" Li Ze asked.
Xia He lowered his head and nodded for a long time.
"Actually, I have been thinking about how to get along with Miss Liu in the future, but if I can't be together, it's naturally the best."
Li Ze smiled.
It is normal for Xia He to have this kind of mentality.
In the past, Xia He would not have such psychological burden at all, because she positioned herself as a little girl, and the best result was to become her concubine. But now, the power she holds in her hands is getting bigger and bigger, and she has seen more and more big scenes. One by one, the high-ranking officials and nobles under her command are respectful to her. How could her psychology not change? Her vision will become higher and higher, and her spirit will become more and more arrogant. This is a natural change.
But Liu Ruyan was an insurmountable mountain pressing against her head.
This point cannot be changed.
So, when the news came that Liu Ruyan and Li Ze would live in Chang'an for a long time after they got married, she breathed a sigh of relief. She didn't have to worry about how to get along with the eldest wife anymore. She could still live as freely as before.
"Young Master, am I very bad?" Xia He asked timidly with his head raised.
"It's nothing, human nature." Li Ze smiled and said, "But Xia He, you don't have to worry about Miss Liu so much, because you have never been used to entertain people."
Although Xia He's appearance is not as good as Liu Ruyan, it is actually the best choice. More importantly, Li Ze has been slowly cultivating her since she was a child, because Li Ze doesn't want to make herself look so lonely in this world. At least when she is alone, he hopes that someone with a worldview that is close to him can talk to him and accompany him. Over the past ten years, Li Ze's plan has undoubtedly been successful. Xia He's conversation and hobbies are very different from ordinary women in this world. The knowledge she has is not what people of this era have.
She and Li Ze are not only about family affection and love, but more importantly, their spiritual closeness is the similarity between them, and their similar understanding and feelings about a thing.
Chapter completed!