Daming female local tyrant

Jinglan, Xiulan, and Yulan watched the precious flowers planted by their ancestors in the greenhouse, chatting and laughing from time to time, and soon after more than half an hour, it was Qingyao who came to tell the three of them that the masters of each house and The wives are here, let them go out to accompany them.

Then they came out into the hall.

At this time, in the spacious hall, the elders of the third house of the Lu family came, and Jing Lan and other juniors stepped forward to salute and wish, and then stood aside.

Not to mention they are standing, even their parents are still standing as grandchildren.

Jing Lan and Shu Lan stood behind Qi, and Cheng Ze and Cheng Yuan stood behind Lu Xueshan.In front of them, Yuan Shi was sitting on a chair with a back, and she was whispering something to her cousin Luo Shi who was sitting in the chair next to her.

After a while, a maid ran in and said that the ancestor had come, and everyone stopped talking, sat up straight, and waited for Feng, the oldest member of the Lu family, to enter the hall surrounded by the maids.

After taking a nap for more than half an hour, Feng felt much better. After entering the room, everyone in the hall saluted her respectfully.

"Sit down quickly..." Feng said with a smile on his hands, and Yuan and the others sat back obediently.

After Mrs. Feng sat down on the Luohan couch in the middle of the hall, she began to say that today is Qixi Festival, and asked the whole family to come to her place for a gathering. After eating, the women stayed and went to the back garden to beg for cleverness.

After begging for cleverness, the ladies in the room and their maids are fighting for cleverness. Among the ladies, whoever gets No. 1 will be rewarded.As for maids fighting skillfully, whoever comes out on top will be rewarded by the ladies.

Of course, the women in each house agreed with their ancestors.

The dinner was served in the side hall, Feng ate happily with his son and daughter-in-law, grandson and daughter-in-law, great-grandson and great-granddaughter.

The men finished their meal, had tea with Mrs. Feng, talked for a while, and then withdrew.

Feng then took a group of female relatives to the back garden of the Lu family. At this time, the maids in the garden had already set up incense tables, melons and fruits.

Mingyue Tower, the Lu family will come here to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival every year, go up to the tower to enjoy the moon, and spend a good night together.

In addition, it is Qixi Festival, when the women of the Lu family will come here to worship the moon and beg for cleverness.

The Mingyue Building has already been set up, and several palace lanterns are hanging to see that the building is brightly illuminated.

According to the list, the ancestors sat on the Luohan couch in the middle, and on both sides sat the daughter-in-law, granddaughter-in-law, and great-granddaughter of each house.

The old ancestor asked the six great-granddaughters to call one of his maids to come and fight skillfully for everyone to have a good time.

Among Jinglan's maids, Qingyao and Qingluo were maidservants trained by their ancestors, so it goes without saying that they are dexterous.However, for Qing Yao and Qing Luo, Qing Yao's embroidery skills were better than Qing Luo's, so Jing Lan asked Qing Yao to go.

The maids still have to compete in three skills, needle threading, paper cutting, and embroidery skills.

Dou Qiao's needles are specially made, and the needle hole on the nose of the needle is much smaller than that of ordinary embroidery needles.There is also paper-cutting, which is also a pattern that the ancestors turned out temporarily, pasted on a piece of paper, and put it in front of Douqiao's maids, asking them to cut it like that.Whoever cuts it fast and well wins.As for the competition of embroidery skills, what they want to embroider is a temporary design, still pasted on a piece of paper, for them to see, and ask them to embroider according to the pattern, and the requirements are also fast and good.

The daughter-in-law of the third room, the daughter-in-law grandson, and Mrs. Feng, a total of seven people were judged.

Whoever gets more support wins.

The six maidservants sent by the six young ladies each sat in front of a small table. There were all the things needed for this competition, as well as the paper-cut and embroidery patterns pasted on the paper.

After the ancestor announced the start, the maids seized the time and began to fight against the clock.

The six small tables were placed in the middle, and an octagonal palace lantern was hung above each person's head. The people sitting around watching could see their every move very clearly.

This is the first time Jing Lan has seen this kind of fighting skill competition, and she is also very interested in watching it.

Seeing the small needle nose, Jing Lan felt that if she used a thread to thread a needle, it would probably take a while to pass through, but the maids who participated in the competition almost passed through in the blink of an eye.

After threading, they put the needles and threads into a nearby tray.

For paper cutting, they took a piece of red paper, folded it a few times, then picked up small scissors, and cut according to the pattern on the paper.At this point, someone pulled it off.

Jing Lan was pleased to find that her maid, Qingyao, was the first to cut and put down the scissors. After putting the paper-cuts into the tray next to her, she picked up the white silk material that had been stretched long ago, and put it on a few times. Thread, pick up the embroidery needle and start embroidering according to the pattern.

The pattern embroidered by the maids tonight is a magpie standing on a red plum branch.

The pattern roughly outlines the appearance of a magpie and a red plum, which can be embroidered by dexterous girls in a quarter of an hour.

Of course, you can't embroider too sloppily. At least some details, such as the feathers on the magpie's wings and tails, should not be blank to embroider the texture of the feathers.There are also red plums, at least you have to replace them with red thread to embroider the petals of the red plums.

When the maids were nervously competing, the hall was very quiet, except for the occasional sound of teacups being placed on the coffee table.

"Old Ancestor, the maidservant has finished embroidery." After putting the stretcher into the tray on the small table, Qing Yao stood up and bowed to Feng Shi.

Seeing this, Feng Shi, who was sitting on top, nodded with a smile, and said, "Okay."

After Qingyao finished the skill competition, her maids also finished their embroidery work one after another.

Another maid wrote down the order of the competitions completed by the maids, and then some maids went to the Feng family and other wives and wives with a tray in their hands. Each of them had a specially cast copper coin with a begging pattern in their hands.If they think they like the paper-cutting and embroidery in the tray in front of them, they put the copper coins in their hands into the tray.In this way, which tray has the most copper coins and compares the order in which the maids complete the fighting skills, and finally can determine who is No.1.

Not surprisingly, Qingyao, Jinglan's maid, came out on top and won No. 1 in the maids' skill competition.

The six young ladies gave Qingyao a tael of silver each, and Qingyao couldn't help but laugh from ear to ear. As for the other maids who participated in the skill competition, they didn't even get a penny.

Six taels of silver is equivalent to her four months' wages.

The second-class maids of the Lu family are paid one or five taels of silver per month, the first-class maids are paid two taels of silver, and the little maids only have six hundred taels of silver.

Under the envious and jealous eyes of the other maids, Qing Yao walked back to Jing Lan, who gave her a thumbs up and praised her for being amazing.

Qing Yao said that at least she didn't embarrass her master, Jing Lan.

She also said that after returning, she took out a reward of one or two silver coins and went to the kitchen to ask the cook to add some dishes for everyone to eat, which was considered her treat.

Jing Lan smiled and said, "Then I'll wait for your treat."

Then came the highlight of tonight's skill fighting, the six young ladies who were great-grandchildren of the third family of the Lu family took part in the competition in person.

Jing Lan also came on stage. She sat down next to the first table, looked at the needlework, paper-cut patterns and embroidery patterns in front of her, and couldn't help but smiled wryly.

The rules of the ladies are the same as those of the maids, except that the embroidery needles and paper-cut patterns are different from the embroidery patterns.

The needle nose of the embroidery needle is smaller, and the paper-cut pattern and embroidery pattern are more complicated.

Probably the elders of the Lu family, headed by Mrs. Feng, felt that they should be more strict with the ladies.

According to the list, the ancestors announced the start, and the ladies began to fight skillfully.

Jing Lan started by picking up scissors and cutting paper.

Since traveling to this era, becoming Jing Lan, following Shen Wan's side, she has also seen other maids cutting paper and playing with it.Generally speaking, she knows how to origami and how to cut it, although she can't cut it very well.

Why did she cut the paper first, because she felt that she would definitely not be able to thread the needle, and if she couldn't get it through all the time, she would definitely be anxious when she saw that all the other ladies had gone through it.

Once you get up in a hurry, you can't do the following things well.

So, she started with relatively easy paper-cutting.

With a calm mind, Jing Lan quickly cut out the paper according to the picture. Although it was not detailed, it was finished.

Then she started to pick up the stretcher, and first compared the design with the embroidery needle on the white silk material, and drew the outline of the design with the tip of the needle.She has self-knowledge and knows that she does not have the ability to embroider patterns on the stretcher with a pair of skillful hands.If you don't draw the outline, she will definitely embroider out of shape.

There is roughly an outline, Jing Lan picks up the needle and thread to embroider the outline first, and then embroiders the inside.

After the embroidery was so-so, Jing Lan finally started the first link to thread the needle. Probably because she successfully completed the next two links, Jing Lan was in a good mood. She finished the Qixi Festival today in third place after Shulan and Jilan. A battle of skill.

The fourth place is Xiulan, the fifth is Yilan, and the last is Yulan.

Then the maids picked up the needlework, paper-cutting and embroidery that the six ladies had put on the tray, and showed them to the ancestors and others.

After some evaluations, the ancestor announced with a smile: "This time, Shulan won the first place in the Qixi competition, followed by Jilan, Xiulan third, Yilan fourth, Jinglan fifth, and Yulan sixth. "

After listening to the old ancestor's words, Jing Lan secretly breathed a sigh of relief. At least she didn't come in last this time, which already satisfied her enough.After all, even Yu Lan, who was in the last place, had been learning embroidery from Master Wan for more than two years, so she was much better than her.She thought that the reason why she didn't come last was probably because she finished the competition in third place, even though the quality of her "work" was very poor.

The old ancestor above looked at his daughter-in-law and granddaughter-in-law and continued to talk with a smile: "...this time, we will follow the routine and give a piece of jewelry to Shu Lan who is number one in Douqiao."

"Old ancestor! The second sister is not worthy of being number one at all, the number one should be the third sister!" Yilan, who suddenly stood among the young ladies, pointed at Shulan and said loudly.

Yilan's mother, Miao, was startled when she saw her daughter say this in front of her ancestors in public, and hurried forward to pull her up, scolding her for what she was doing, why she said such crazy things for no reason.

This sudden situation made everyone, including Jing Lan and others, look at Yilan in unison.

Shu Lan's face suddenly changed strangely, Ji Lan lowered her head, Qi's and Yuan's eyes darkened a little.