Chapter 008: Careful Thoughts on Holding the Qin

Song Wuji saw her speaking sincerely, and indeed there were no good fabrics in her scraps of cloth, so his mood improved a bit.

"Tianfu!" Song Wuji shouted and called Tianfu, who was waiting at the door, inside. "Go find Baoqin and ask her to pick out two pieces of trendy brocade from the storeroom to give to Ruyi!"

"Ah!" Tianfu had been eavesdropping on the commotion inside the room, so he naturally heard what Zhao Ruyi had said. He felt relieved that it seemed like his master had no intention of blaming her, and instead asked Baoqin to bring some brocade. He knew that Ruyi had turned the situation around.

Meanwhile, Zhao Ruyi, still kneeling in the room, blinked her big eyes.

She was only making a few small things like sachets, so why did she need whole pieces of fabric? Should she keep the leftover fabric? Or should she keep it?

So she tentatively said, "Young Master, making sachets doesn't require much fabric. What about the leftover pieces..."

"I'll reward you!" Song Wuji said lightly, "But one thing, the sachets you make must be better looking than this one! Otherwise, I'll make you look good!"

"Ruyi naturally knows her place!" Zhao Ruyi replied with a smile, already planning to use the fabric to make new clothes for her parents.

On the other hand, Baoqin was surprised.

The young master actually asked her to pick out two pieces of trendy brocade from the storeroom to reward Ruyi?

What trick had this girl played again?!

She glanced at Tianfu, who had come to deliver the message, and put on a smile. "Did the young master mention what it's for? Otherwise, I won't know which brocade to pick!"

But because of the previous incident, Baoqin had offended almost everyone in the courtyard, so Tianfu didn't want to talk to her much.

"It's for making sachets for Ruyi!" Tianfu said with folded hands. "The young master said to pick two pieces of trendy brocade and send them to Ruyi quickly! I have other errands to run, so I won't talk to you anymore."

With that, he slipped away as if he had oil on the soles of his feet.

Upon learning that it was the young master's personal choice for Zhao Ruyi to make sachets, Baoqin had to let go of her grievances.

After all, her needlework wasn't good.

Because of her falling out with the Duchess, the young master's clothes had been made at outside tailors for years, and they had no contact with the people in the needlework room.

Although Baoqin was still upset, she had to carry out the task given by the young master.

However, she didn't select the newest fabric from the storeroom, but instead chose two pieces of Shu brocade that had been stored for quite some time to send to Zhao Ruyi.

"I didn't expect you to have so many tricks up your sleeve!" Baoqin said to Zhao Ruyi with an unfriendly expression. "But I still want to advise you, don't play any tricks or have any crooked ideas in Xizhao Hall."

This made Zhao Ruyi want to laugh.

In her opinion, Baoqin's scheming was nothing to be afraid of.

After all, in her previous life, she had earned the position of the second young master's senior maid based on her own abilities. She had plenty of methods and means to deal with people like Baoqin.

Fortunately, in this life, she had less of a competitive spirit. Otherwise, she wouldn't even care about one Baoqin, let alone ten.

But since she had chosen to show weakness, she had to act weak.

Zhao Ruyi put on a frightened look and repeatedly said she dared not.

After Baoqin left, Zhao Ruyi checked the two pieces of fabric.

Although she had been mentally prepared, and didn't have high expectations for the Shu brocade, she still felt that Baoqin had been too perfunctory in this task when she saw the moldy and yellowed plain fabric.

Fortunately, the fabric needed for making sachets wasn't much, so Zhao Ruyi picked the cleanest parts and made a white ingot sachet and a gray toad sachet, which she then presented to Song Wuji.

As she had promised to make them better than Tianfu's gourd sachet, Zhao Ruyi put a lot of effort into these two sachets. Not only were the stitches fine and dense, but she also used the multicolored bead embroidery that would only become popular in the capital several years later, making them look novel.

After receiving the new sachets, Song Wuji naturally returned the gourd sachet to Tianfu.

Song Wuji smiled as he played with the new sachets in his hand, but soon his brows furrowed.

Although he didn't often go out, he could recognize the Shu brocade used to make the sachets as a fabric that had been popular in the capital several years ago. He had owned two garments made of this fabric a few years ago.

According to the trend of the capital changing every year, the Shu brocade from back then couldn't possibly be in a trendy pattern now.

Even though the Shu brocade was no longer in fashion, it had sold for one or two taels of silver per piece back then, and Zhao Ruyi definitely wouldn't have kept such valuable fabric. This meant that the base fabric she used for the sachets could only have been given by Baoqin.

Although using this Shu brocade for sachets was a waste, Baoqin had gone against his instructions, which he couldn't tolerate.

"Are you sure you told Baoqin to pick out two trendy brocades for Ruyi?" Song Wuji looked at Tianfu with displeasure.

Tianfu nodded hurriedly, "I did tell Miss Baoqin, and she even asked me what the trendy brocades were for. I told her they were for making sachets for Ruyi."

After understanding that all the problems stemmed from embracing Qin, Song Wuji naturally scolded Qin again.

"I thought that after the last reprimand, you would have restrained yourself, but it seems you are still the same," Song Wuji, feeling somewhat disappointed, didn't even look at Qin, who was kneeling and crying. "Do you think that being the chief maid by my side gives you the right to do whatever you want? If that's the case, then starting tomorrow, Zhao Ruyi will also be promoted to the first-rank maid and come to serve me by pouring tea and water!"

Upon hearing this, Qin collapsed.

She never expected that Zhao Ruyi, whom she had been guarding against like a thief, would rise to the same level as her in less than three months. And this situation was all her doing!

Qin regretted it so much.

But she also knew that once the heir had made a decision, there was no room for change. If she continued to dwell on this matter, she might provoke the heir's anger and end up having to obey Zhao Ruyi.

Therefore, Qin had to grit her teeth and inform Zhao Ruyi of this news.