Chapter 66: Purse
Xiaocui said: "This is my young lady's own doing"
Fifth sister-in-law Song was surprised and said, "Is it really the girl who did it herself?" This embroidery and style are among the best in the capital."
Xiaocui said proudly: "When we were in Yong'an City, my young lady was the most powerful embroidery girl in the Splendid Workshop, if it weren't for the young lady at that time, the Splendid Workshop would not be so prosperous."
Xiaocui also wanted to talk about the Splendid Fang, but was stopped by Shen He and said, "Xiaocui, don't talk patronizingly, quickly pack up your clothes." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Fifth sister-in-law, these are all small skills of carving insects, and they can't be elegant."
Fifth sister-in-law Song said: "This is not simple. Aren't you worried about having no livelihood right now? Isn't it just right to make some embroidery like this to solve the urgent need in front of you? ”
After hearing this, Shen He said: "It's just that we don't have a storefront, and we don't have a market, how can we sell it?" ”
Song Wu's sister-in-law said: "I can help you sell it, my wife knows a lot of rich people, if they like your embroidery when the time comes, I will help you sell it for silver."
Shen He thought about it for a while after hearing this, this was the best way in a short period of time, so he promised Song Wu's sister-in-law to make an embroidery in the next few days, and let her come to pick it up within five days.
After Song Wu's sister-in-law left, Xiaocui was puzzled and said, "Miss, why didn't you let me say it?" I'm telling the truth, and it's not a bad thing."
Shen He said: "Although the fifth sister-in-law is enthusiastic, we are new to the city, and many people are not familiar with things, so don't mention the matter of Jinxiufang at will in the future."
Xiaocui said: "Miss, you are too careful."
Shen He said: "You are still young, and many things are too simple to think about"
Xiao Cui pouted and said, "Miss, it seems that you are so old"
Shen He said secretly: The things I experienced in my previous life are things that you may not be able to imagine in your life, and of course I am much older than you.
The two of them cleaned up while talking, Ah Niu had already wiped off the dust of the tables and chairs in the wing room, and wiped them clean with a damp cloth, and Xiao Cui put on the two vases and a set of azure glazed tea bottles that Xiao Cui brought in the future, which were Shen He's favorite pieces of porcelain at that time, which were carefully wrapped by Xiao Cui and secretly placed in the box.
Now, looking at Shen He's surprised expression, Xiao Cui looked like she was waiting for praise, Shen He had no choice but to nod her nose and said, "What a little clever ghost"
Xiao Cui knew that the young lady must like it, and smiled happily. When the woman saw Xiao Cui's happy appearance on the side, she also laughed, and began to say that her appearance was really flattering, and she looked the best when she smiled.
Everyone was also happy to see that she was now more and more able to understand other people's words.
That woman seems to have regarded Shen He and Ah Niu as relatives these days, although she still often talks about how well-behaved and endearing her Rong'er was when she was a child, but her mind seems to be a little more sober than when she first came, and she no longer always follows Xiaocui's side, sometimes she sits next to her in a daze, and sometimes she helps Xiaocui sort out her clothes.
By the time everyone had packed up, it was already dark. Looking at the new home in front of him, Shen He felt a little more steady.
Now, the most urgent thing to do is to help the woman find her family, and it is not easy to follow her like this, but how to find it? Now her priority is to earn money, and she will find a way when she is busy with the first batch of embroidery.
Lying in bed at night, Shen He began to wonder what embroidery to make? If you want to make clothes, it is very time-consuming and requires a lot of fabrics. But when they came from Yong'an City, for the convenience of travel, they only brought a horse of Yunjin and a horse of Shu silk, both for their own clothes.
Do silk handkerchiefs? Make a hijab? Some of them are of little use, and they don't cost much money. What can you do if it's good-looking, practical, and can be sold at a high price?
She had an idea, and suddenly thought of the purse that had been all the rage in the capital in her previous life.
She remembered that she was working as a cleaning girl in an official eunuch's house, and for a while it was popular in the capital to carry purses. At first, it was just a woman's ornament, and later it became popular as a kind of fragrant purse.
This kind of fragrant purse is to put different spices in the purse and wear it on the body to exacerbate the fragrance. Some people also hang this kind of fragrant purse on the bed curtain in the room in order to fill the room with fragrance, so that the house can also have a pleasant aroma.
Later, not only women wore purses, but men also began to carry a waist round purse.
It is to wear the purse on the waist, which contains some small objects, and the bottom is hung with tassel jade pendants, etc., which can not only play a beautiful role, but also put the small items you carry into it, so it is quite popular with the children of those rich families, and for a time the streets and alleys are proud of wearing the purse with gorgeous workmanship, bright colors and exquisite pendants.
Later, there were more types of purses, not only purses, but also needle purses that were specially stored for needles and threads.
Thinking of this, Shen He's spirit was shocked, and he decided to make a purse from tomorrow.
On the second day, Shen He got up early, asked Xiao Cui to find some bits and pieces of the fabric he brought, and began to draw patterns, and asked Xiao Cui to help cut them.
Xiaocui was a little puzzled: "Miss, what are you cutting these little pieces of fabric for?" Can it still be used? ”
Shen He said: "You can cut it according to the way I painted, didn't the fifth sister-in-law let us make embroidery and sell it for money?" I'm going to make a purse. ”
Xiao Cui said: "Purse? What does it look like? How come I haven't seen it."
Shen He said: "This is something that rich people will bring, of course you haven't seen it, you'll know when I make it."
Xiao Cui let out an "oh" and began to crop. The woman sat next to her and watched, and suddenly a sentence came out of her mouth: "Rong'er likes purses?" Is it okay for my mother to make one for you? ”
Shen He and Xiao Cui were surprised, they didn't expect her to know this.
Shen He said secretly, originally she saw that this woman was very well-dressed and dressed, and thought that she was the wife of a large family, but now it seems that this woman is likely to be from an official eunuch's family.
The two comforted her and began to get busy.
Shen He asked Xiaocui to cut out the shapes of some animals, chicken hearts, and flowers according to the way she painted, and she sewed these fabrics, wrote a few spices, and asked Ah Niu to go out and buy spices and come back.
She found several kinds of leather silk with good breathability and began to sew the purse. After the sewing was finished, she began to embroider patterns on it, usually with twig patterns, some simple flowers, and some melon and fruit patterns.
For the weaving and embroidery of fragrant purses, Shen He used embroidery techniques such as yarn embroidery and poke yarn that are easy to emit fragrance, so as to have the effect of incense. If the sewing is airtight, the fragrant purse will not have the function of emitting fragrance.
After sewing and embroidering a purse, Shen He loaded the spices bought by Ah Niu, and then tied the mouth of the bag with silk, so that the fragrant purse was made.
In the hand, it is really exquisite and fragrant.
Xiao Cui turned the purse over and over again, put it on her nose and sniffed it, and praised: "Miss, it turns out that this is the purse, so beautiful and fragrant." How did you come up with it? It's amazing! (To be continued.) )