After hearing this, all the noble ladies felt a little relieved, but another noble lady raised a question: "Looking at the situation, there must be thieves making trouble. If the male in our family died in the battle, how could they find me? They were outside just now.

If you just shouted something like that, it might be true."

When Xiao Yao saw many ladies looking at him worriedly, he smiled and said: "This is obviously a lie. If you are concerned, you will be confused." Then he started talking eloquently,

"You think, if all the men in our family are killed in the battle, why do those thieves outside persuade us to surrender? Wouldn't it be cheaper to just shoot arrows to kill us? They keep attacking without killing people, and they don't stay in the ground.

The reason for persuading surrender is precisely because our father and husband are helpless and want to use us to blackmail them. Therefore, we must hold on until they kill the traitors who are causing trouble."

As soon as these words came out, all the ladies nodded: "That's the truth. You are right." Fu Fu was very worried, "It's just that there are few of us. We have persisted from noon to now, and we are almost unable to hold on. How can we do it?"

Will you persist until the next day?"

Xiao Yao said: "Why not? We are at a high place, and it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. As long as we stay within the defense line, is it because we cannot break through our defense line?"

The female relatives thought so and felt a lot more relieved.

Xiao Yao saw this and knew that they had calmed down, so he said: "The people we rely on now are the guards we brought. Therefore, we must appease and win them over and let them defend for us."

All the female relatives nodded: "That's the truth. Let's each appease our own guards."

The eldest princess said: "It is not good for each family of guards to fight independently. Even if they work together without a unified command, problems can easily occur. According to my opinion, Mrs. An Ninghou Shizi is calm, courageous and smart. She can be here tonight."

The defense depends entirely on her, why don't we just leave it to her to take command, do you think so?"

All the ladies looked at each other and finally nodded.

Although in the eyes of many ladies, Xiao Yao's identity is not valuable enough, but tonight the enemy suddenly launched an attack, and it was Xiao Yao who took the lead in calling on everyone to move up while summoning guards to resist. Just now the enemy persuaded them to surrender, and it was she who came out to stabilize people's hearts.

It is more appropriate to give this temporary command to her than to others.

After hearing this, Xiao Yao stepped out and said: "You trust me, I will not give up even if I die. However, I hope you will promise me two things. The first one is that before leaving here, I hope that all the guards in your house will listen to me."

My priority is higher than everyone else's instructions. If you agree, I will agree. If you don't agree, I will not dare to agree."

After hearing this, all the ladies hesitated for a moment.

They were worried that when danger came, Xiao Yao would ask their guards to protect herself and ignore them.

The Prime Minister's wife whispered a few words to the Zhenguo Duke's wife, and then went over to talk to the eldest princess.

Other ladies also gathered together in twos and threes and chatted in low voices.

Xiao Yao let them discuss it and waited patiently.

After a moment, the eldest princess looked at Xiao Yao: "Ms. Xiao, what do you mean your priority is higher than ours? If we are in danger, we ask the guards in our house to save us, but you don't let us.

Should our guards listen to you?"

Xiao Yao shook his head: "Of course not. If we encounter danger, I will give priority to rescuing you. I mean the strategy of holding on to the defense line and the deployment of troops. These are all subject to me."

In fact, she really hopes that she will have priority in all aspects, because she has to guard against the ladies being caught by outsiders and threatening the guards, but she knows that if she really says this, she is afraid that the ladies will not

If you are willing to listen to her, after all, from noon to now, the noble ladies of various families have listened to her, ordered the guards to help, and have defended. You can continue to use this strategy instead of leaving it to her command.

After hearing this, the eldest princess looked at the Prime Minister's wife and the Duke of Zhenguo's wife with a smile, and the latter two nodded to her.

The eldest princess immediately said: "In that case, I will leave it to you to take command. You must guard it." Then she asked, "What about the second one?"

Xiao Yao said: "The second thing is that I haven't finished the double-sided and three-different embroidery that I paid tribute to the palace this time. I have to rush the work tonight, so I hope the eldest princess, the prime minister's wife and the Zhenguo Gong's wife can help.

Let’s sit here and stay here together.”

The eldest princess, the prime minister’s wife, and the duke’s wife all looked at each other, nodded, and even expressed interest: “Will the double-sided and three-different embroidery be completed tonight?”

Xiao Yao nodded: "Yes. If you three want to take a look, you can see it later."

After hearing this, the eldest princess and the others immediately remembered that the top priority was to defend this place, and nodded.

They are the top noble ladies. Once they have made a decision, other noble ladies will naturally not object.

After making the decision, the ladies called the person in charge of their own bodyguard, pointed at Xiao Yao and said: "Those who are guarding the defense line here, you all listen to Mrs. An Ninghou Shizi. When the enemy is retreated, we will record the merits of everyone.

There are many rewards.”

Only then did he hurriedly give orders, and another attack was launched outside.

Xiao Yao immediately walked to the defense line and calmly directed the guards to defend.

The eldest princess, the prime minister's wife and the Zhenguo Duke's wife were sitting together. They didn't know much about marching or these defensive battles, so they didn't say much. But after seeing Xiao Yao's arrangements, the outsiders couldn't attack at all, so they were relieved.

When Xiao Yao saw that the offensive outside had stopped, he asked Ban Yue to go back and get his own embroidery.

After a while, Banyue brought out the embroidery shed and candles to Xiao Yao.

Xiao Yao invited the eldest princess and several others to enter the temporary tent together and let them see the double-sided and three-different embroidery.

The three of them saw an orchid on one side, with a white orchid blooming on it, and a chrysanthemum on the other side, with chrysanthemums that were about to bloom. The flowers and leaves on both sides looked lifelike. Although they were simple, they were left blank.

It's just right, it looks like a painting by a famous artist, and it's full of meaning.

The three of them were greatly astonished and marveled. They kept looking back and forth, wondering how to embroider the two sides with different patterns.

After watching for a long time, they couldn't see any clues. The three of them looked at Xiao Yao in admiration: "What's going on in your kid's head? You can actually come up with such an embroidery method."

Xiao Yao said with a smile: "I learned double-sided embroidery at that time, and I kept thinking about whether there was a way to embroider different patterns. Then I kept thinking about it. Fortunately, I finally figured it out."

The three of them praised again and again, and asked Huashangtang if there was one. When they found out that there was no such thing, they were all very sorry, and asked Xiao Yao to think of them next time there were three-sided embroidery with different colors. After that, they kept surrounding the double painting.

Take a closer look at Mian Sanyixiu, and admire it while looking at it.

After a long time, Mrs. Zhenguo, who was not very interested in embroidery, left the circle and looked at Xiao Yao who was sitting and waiting. She saw an embroidery piece next to her and asked, "This piece of embroidery has not been embroidered yet."

Okay?"

Xiao Yao nodded: "There is still one butterfly left. Due to time constraints, I can only embroider a simpler butterfly."

Mrs. Zhen Guogong asked in surprise: "Is it too late to embroider a butterfly in one night?" She didn't like embroidery, but she also knew that it would take several days to embroider a butterfly.

Xiao Yao sighed: "Actually, it's too late, but my embroidery is simpler and faster, so I should be able to stay up all night." After saying that, he stepped forward to call the eldest princess and the prime minister's wife, and said apologetically that he wanted to embroider.

Butterfly.

The eldest princess and the prime minister's wife knew that this was a tribute to the palace, so they could not delay it, so they had to reluctantly return the embroidery to Xiao Yao, but they refused to leave, so they sat aside and watched how Xiao Yao embroidered it.

They were all shocked when they saw Xiao Yao starting to embroider directly with the sandalwood fan. Before they could say anything, they saw Xiao Yao's embroidery speed and their eyes widened in shock: "What a dexterous pair of hands!"

Xiao Yao was immersed in embroidery, so he responded casually and continued to embroider. After embroidering for a while, he picked up the black silk thread and embroidered small characters on it.

The eldest princess, the prime minister's wife, and the princess's wife all opened their eyes wide when they saw it.

After a long time, the eldest princess slowly spoke: "How do you know that they will send your embroidery to the palace?"

Xiao Yao stopped his embroidery, sighed softly, and said: "I am actually betting. If they don't want Beijing to know that something happened here, they will definitely let my embroidery be sent to the palace. If I guess

Wrong, then there is nothing to say.”

After saying that, he lowered his head and continued embroidering.

No matter what the situation is, she will always be prepared for the butterfly on the embroidery.

However, Lu Chong, the guard who was attacking outside, frowned deeply when he saw that the attack failed, and immediately summoned the captains of each team to come in to discuss countermeasures.

All the squad leaders came in, and he said in a deep voice: "Master Wang asked us to take down the women and young children inside tonight, and go to the capital to hide them at starry night. But now that we can't attack for a long time, we will have to wait until dawn.

Chi Gua Luo. What can you do?"

A team leader suggested: "Master Wang asked us to capture those ladies and children, it must be to threaten their families. Since we can't capture them, we will trap them here and not allow them to enter the capital. Their families will naturally believe it."

of."

Lu Chong frowned: "A siege is naturally necessary, but their family members must not be aware of it before tomorrow's official time, so as not to alert the snake. But if we capture them, we don't have to worry about this."

There is a serious shortage of troops at the top. Not to mention a positive palace change, even if they secretly force the palace tomorrow night, there are not enough troops. Therefore, it is necessary to seize the old mother of the important person or the young family heir and quietly threaten them in advance, so that they can cooperate inside and outside to increase the number of people.

The probability of successful palace transformation.

But the palace coup is a rebellion. Without the personal belongings of the relevant personnel, how can we convince those old foxes to rebel?

That was a serious crime against the nine tribes!

Thinking of this, Lu Chong asked again: "Do you have any other ideas?"

The team leaders all shook their heads with embarrassment, saying that there was no way out: "It's bright at noon, so it's not easy for us to attack. Now it's pitch black and snowing. It's really impossible to think about it."

At this time, the third son of the Lin family came out and said, "Sir, I have something to report."

Lu Chong thought he had some good ideas. He was happy and asked quickly: "What do you have to say?"

Third Young Master Lin said: "Just now, Mrs. An Ninghou Shizi said that there are tributes that need to be sent to the palace tomorrow. If her tribute is not allowed to be sent to the palace, I am afraid that the palace will notice that something is going on here before Shen Shi. In this way,

, I wonder if it will have any impact on Lord Wang’s plan?”

Lu Chong raised his eyebrows in displeasure: "What kind of tribute? Why is it in the hot spring village? Don't listen to their nonsense."

Mr. Lin hurriedly said: "The speaker is Mrs. An Ninghou Shizi. Her double-sided embroidery is famous all over the world. A few days ago, she told the public during the snow viewing banquet at the Princess's mansion that tribute will be paid on New Year's Eve.

Her embroidery is a double-sided three-dimensional embroidery, and this matter has already spread throughout the capital. As for the double-sided three-dimensional embroidery, she is the only one who can embroider it at present, so she is very likely to get it to be embroidered by the hot spring village."

Lu Chong's brows furrowed deeply: "Then why double-sided and three-different embroidery is famous? Does everyone in Beijing know about it?"

Third Young Master Lin nodded: "Exactly."

Lu Chong looked at the other team captains and saw them nodding, and couldn't help but wonder: "Is Lao Shizi embroidery really so famous?"
To be continued...