Rebirth Red Mansion Planting Farms

It was the end of the month, and while Qiaoer and Baner were reading together, and the sheepherder was herding sheep, Qing'er secretly took the work of playing with the lotus leaves with fish, and made the flowers in her hands bloom richly, quietly. He went out and went straight to the shop at the end of the bridge in Du's village.

At this moment, half of the people in Du's village have been allocated for the embroidery conference, and they are only assigned by Du Baifang.

Because in the village, the Du family was a newcomer, and they didn't follow the etiquette too much, and most of the children in the family were people who did whatever they wanted.Therefore, this Miss Du dared to take on the big responsibility, and brought with her three big maids, Fenxiang, Gexiangyouxiang, and four young maids who were talented, and lived together in the three-entry and two-exit courtyard behind the Du's embroidery shop.There are three or two wives and daughters-in-law who live outside the second gate, passing news every day, and patrolling at night.The men bought another house and lived next to each other.

The master and servant lived together for less than ten days, and the embroiderers who came to participate had already filled a whole roster book.

Besides, the old woman outside handed in today's list of various embroidery products and weaving embroidery. Fenxiang looked through it all the way. I just thought that there is nothing uglier than it in the world. You have gained a lot of insight today, and I have embroidered a whole lot of it. It’s hard for her to spend so much time, but I can’t tell what it is." As she said that, the little maids saw that she was walking in front of her, and hurriedly helped to open the curtain for Concubine Xiang.

Ge Xiang was doing haircuts for Du Baifang in the house, and when she heard her say this, she asked with a curious smile, "You are the one who likes to pick people's lengths, where is there any unrecognizable embroidery, can you send it to the girl for a look?"

Fen Xiang handed it over with a smile, Du Baifang looked down, and unconsciously covered her mouth with a chuckle, saying that she was right.

Ge Xiang put down the mahogany comb here, took a look, and saw that the moon-white satin was embroidered with all kinds of miscellaneous threads in an orderly manner as Fen Xiang said, and she really couldn't see what the pattern was, so she kept laughing for a long time He rubbed his stomach and said: "Just for the ten taels of silver we threw out, these people don't care about the face of the girl's family, they don't care if they can embroider or not, and they all send them here, and they are not afraid of people seeing the joke. I originally said that the embroiderer from the ten miles and eight villages, no matter how coincidental she is, she couldn’t go to our Du’s village. At that time, the girl said that I was sitting in a well and watching the sky, and my knowledge was short. Now we have lived here for less than half a month. There are not one thousand pieces, but there are eight hundred pieces, have you ever seen a decent one? In the end, I’m afraid, as others have said, the ten taels of silver were meat rotten in the pot, and our own embroiderer took it.”

Fen Xiang also laughed and said: "That being said, it took a lot of effort. I saw your aunt just now, and she said that if the girl didn't like it, she would take these to the soles of her shoes. I'm not willing to put them away, how about putting them away?" It’s not too late to make plans after waiting for the embroidery meeting there.” On the other hand, he handed over the roster in his hand and said, “Here are the names of girls corresponding to the embroidered products, I only looked at the few on it, and there are still some names. There are some things that I haven't looked at carefully. If there is nothing wrong with the girl, why don't you take a second look, if it's good, keep it, if it's not good, just put it away."

Du Baifang nodded, and Ge Xiang brought over the brochure, and called Zhu'er, the little maid, and ordered her to show Du Baifang the embroidery carefully one by one.The three masters and servants were busy all morning, and there were a total of 21 pieces of embroidery. Except for those with unclear patterns and awkward stitches, there were only ten pieces left.Among the ten pieces, the color embroidery method was tested again, and only four pieces were left for selection.

Du Baifang watched for a long time and felt that her neck was sore, Ge Xiang came up and squeezed her a few times, and heard her say: "These ones are better than the ones I picked before, but they are not satisfactory."

Ge Xiang laughed and said: "Miss has said this seven or eight times, but I was really puzzled. Hearing what Miss means, it seems like I'm just waiting for someone to come."

Isn't it just waiting for one person? Du Baifang secretly slandered in her heart, but said: "Don't talk about what's available, find someone to go to the shop outside to see if there are any embroidery items delivered today. If not, close it." Let's have lunch."

Ge Xiang hurriedly responded, and was about to go out when You Xiang, who had gone out to prepare meals in front of her, came in from outside, holding two pieces of embroidery in her hands and said: "Look what good things I got!"

Ge Xiang patted his chest and scolded with a smile: "I am asking you to do something seriously, but you have been running for half a day without seeing anyone. Just talking about eating, your legs and feet are about to get up, what a fuss, what good things do you have to show off. "

You Xiang sneered, pushed her away and said: "You don't care if I run for half a day or for a day, as long as I do what the girl orders satisfactorily, no one has anything to say." Ge Xiangjing pushed her away, couldn't help but cursed with a smile Little Hoof also rebelled, but he was really thinking about the good things she said, so he didn't care to go out, so he hurriedly turned around to look.

Only then did You Xiang put the things in her hand on the dressing table in front of Du Baifang, and said: "Look, girl, how do these two pictures compare with the earlier ones?"

Du Baifang had already heard the two of them quarreling, now that Youxiang said this, she hurriedly picked it up from the dressing table.It is a picture of flowers blooming and wealth and a picture of fish playing with lotus leaves.The two are comparable in terms of color matching, but in terms of needlework, the fish playing with lotus leaves has various needlework methods, except for the commonly used stitches, laying stitches, and stitching stitches, it also uses stitches that most people have never seen before. Scale engraved needles and single sets of needles, there are as many as ten kinds of needles in one piece of embroidery, which are actually better than flowers and riches.

Du Baifang was amazed repeatedly in her heart, but her face remained calm, she just held the two pieces of embroidery in her hands and kept weighing them.After seeing this one, I went to look at that one, hesitating left and right.The maidservants on both sides stood there for a long time, because she was easygoing with emotions and was most afraid of being disturbed when she was thinking about things, so Fenxiang, Ge Xiangyouxiang and others did not dare to ask.

But Du Baifang looked back and forth no less than three times, and took the picture of flowers blooming and rich to think about it. On that day in Zhou Mansion, the same kind of peony was embroidered on the pine-colored sweat scarf, with complicated colors and delicate stitches.If it is said to be from the same person, it is also very possible.It's just that I don't know who embroidered the picture of fish playing with lotus leaves. Could it be true that there are people outside the sky and people outside the sky?

After thinking for a long time, he said, "Report the names of these two people."

You Xiang was stunned, and laughed quickly: "Girl, these two pieces of embroidery were embroidered by one person. I heard from the news that it was sent by Wang Qing'er, the daughter of Wang Gou'er's family in our former village."

"Wang Qing'er?" Du Baifang murmured once, and asked with a frown, "Why don't I know this person, with such a good needleworker, who forgot her name and didn't report to our embroidery shop?"

Fen Xiang and Ge Xiang hurriedly said: "We have never heard of it. When my son went down to choose an embroiderer, the former village was almost searched for. If she was famous, why didn't she come to apply for the election, but why did she choose?" What time do you come?"

You Xiang smiled and said: "I asked the same question. Zhang San's family said that when we were choosing Xiu Niang that year, this girl happened to go to live with relatives in the city for a few days, and she didn't come back in time. No, I heard that in July there was For the embroidery conference, I embroidered two pieces at home and brought them with me, and I just asked the master and the girl to choose a good one carefully, and that's it."

Du Baifang couldn't help sneering with a big tone, and held the embroidery in his hands again and again, after all, this meeting was not in vain, after all, he found the person he was looking for.So he raised his head and asked solemnly: "How old is this Wang Qing'er?"

You Xiang said: "He looks less than twelve years old, but he is still pretty."

Du Baifang quickly said: "Take these two embroideries in another place, let me know from outside, after the end of June, no more embroideries need to be sent in, anyone who likes them can take them home, just don't let outsiders Just know."

Sanxiang was speechless when she heard the words, but Youxiang was more courageous, and hurriedly asked: "Why is this? Since it is an embroidery conference and it will be held on Qixi Festival, why not wait until that day?"

Du Baifang said impatiently: "These embroideries are enough to choose. If there are any good ones, they should have been sent long ago. The rest must be due to inexperienced skills. I don't know how many needles and threads were spent on making them. It's useless to send them. No need to ask, Just follow my orders."

Seeing her displeasure, Sanxiang didn't ask any more questions. Ge Xiang hurriedly went outside to ask, but seeing that there was no embroidery to bring over, she asked the little maids to prepare a bowl, and Ge Xiang Youxiang came up to serve Du Baifang to wash her hands and eat.

In a blink of an eye, it is Qixi Festival, and there are many rumors that the Weaver Girl will cross the river to meet the Cowherd on this day.Whenever the willows are on the moon, every family will serve melons, fruits, wine and food in the courtyard or on the terrace, and talk about the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl crossing the river.Women piercing needles to the moon is called Qiqiao.Or put the spiders in a small box, and get up the next morning to observe the density of their webs, thinking that it is very clever.

In the old days, there was a poem dedicated to praising the custom of begging for cleverness.His poem says: Chu Ke's soul is shocked, Yanjing's custom is to fight with needles.The towers send summer fans to autumn, and the gates welcome the cold and raise evening anvils.

But Qing'er sent the two pieces of embroidery in, and after returning home, she was more or less absent-minded, always thinking about how good or bad the two pieces of embroidery are. She was concerned about the fish playing with lotus leaves that she embroidered, and thought that Qing'er had already put it on, so she didn't ask much.

This morning, Qiaoer just dressed up and went out. Grandma and Wang Gouer and his wife were already in the yard. When they saw her, they all smiled and said, "Hello, girl, we are here to celebrate her birthday." Qiaoer was surprised for no reason. , then remembered that it was Qixi's birthday, and laughed quickly: "It's hard for grandma and uncles and aunts to think about this, I completely forgot about it myself."

Grandma Liu pulled her forward and said with a smile: "I can't remember other people's birthdays, but I can never make mistakes about girls' birthdays. I named you that year because girls were born on Qixi Festival. Come and serve the incense sticks, the kitchen has already prepared birthday noodles, after the incense is served, let's go eat the noodles."

Mrs. Wang and Liu also hurriedly said: "Mother was muttering about this all night last night. It's just that our small family can't afford a heavy birthday gift, so we have to make longevity noodles for the girl. Please don't dislike it."

Qiaoer laughed and said that eating noodles is the best, and everything else is empty.Just as they were talking, Qinger Baner also came out of the house, and when she saw this scene, she smiled and asked what she was doing, and grandma said that today is Qiaoer's birthday, so happy that Qinger Baner hurried forward to kowtow to Qiaoer Happy birthday.