This inkstone is the sister of Lin Mo who went to Yangzhou to welcome the spirit, named Lin Yan. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info came out to be an embroidery girl through the hands of Ya Pozi, because she was driven out by her husband's family, and the reason for being driven out has something to do with Daiyu and her party.

Although Daiyu, Zijuan and Snow Goose didn't recognize Yanniang, Yanniang recognized a few of them. A while ago, all the Lin family members of the side branches gathered in Zhuangzi outside Suzhou, and they were busy for more than ten days for Lin Ruhai's affairs, and she was also among them. Yan Niang raised her eyes and saw that it was Daiyu who was caged with a snow fox in the room, and the girl next to her was a purple cuckoo and a snow goose. Daiyu, Zijuan and Snow Goose were also surprised, and Pei'er next to her hurriedly reached out and grabbed her sleeve and said, "Don't worry, this eldest lady, why do you have to leave after seeing the master's house?" Is it because we are afraid that our family will not be able to pay the salary? ”

Yan Niang lowered her head and saluted Dai Yufu: "It's not that I'm afraid that there is anything wrong with the girl, it's that Yan Niang is looking for a way to find her relatives, but it's not abrupt." ”

As soon as Daiyu heard this, she knew that it should be a side branch of this relative in Suzhou, and then looked at her clothes, she was very thin on a cold day, and knew that Yan Niang's life must be very difficult. She walked over, took Yan Niang's hand and settled her on the chair to rest, while asking Zijuan to make hot tea quickly. Zijuan took a cup of hot tea and put it in Yan Niang's hand to warm it.

Daiyu said: "When I was young, I grew up in Yangzhou with my father and never came here, so most of them didn't recognize me. In the past few days, it is also rude that I have not been able to go to the relatives' houses in person. It's my sin that I didn't recognize it when I saw it today. ”

Yan Niang hurriedly said: "The girl is young, her body is weak, and she has suffered such a big change, there are too many people from our side branches, how can we recognize them one by one." ”

While talking, Zijuan asked Pei'er to go to the kitchen to bring some tea and fruit snacks. It just so happened that Song'er came from outside the gate again, because the tooth woman surnamed Qian was still waiting for news outside, dressed in red and green clothes with a big white powder face like paste, and a bloody mouth, waiting outside the gate of the Lin family was really ugly. After a long time, there are more passers-by, but I am afraid that it will attract a lot of gossip.

As soon as Pei'er lifted the heavy cold-proof curtain, she saw Song'er probing outside the yard. Pei'er asked him, "Brother Song'er, what are you still doing here?" Song'er said: "I forgot to reply to a sentence just now, there is a woman surnamed Qian who is still waiting for Xin'er outside." Pei'er nodded and said, "You wait a minute, I'll go in and ask the girl what she says." The embroidery girl who came today is a relative of the girl in Suzhou, and I am afraid that she will have to talk for a while. ”

Pei'er turned around and entered the house again, and the people in the house had already heard Song'er's words, so Daiyu asked Zijuan to take five taels of silver out and handed it to Song'er outside the door to ask him to send Qianya's mother-in-law. Yan Niang hurriedly got up to leave, but Daiyu and Zijuan left her behind and asked Pei'er to take the money and send the money back.

Yan Niang couldn't help it, so she had to sit down and talk to Daiyu again. After chatting for a while, Yan Niang said that she had a younger brother who was studying at home, and Daiyu and the others knew that Yan Niang was Lin Mo's sister, and she was only in her twenties this year.

Yan Niang's embroidery is alive in Suzhou, a place where every family embroiders, and it can be regarded as a first-class level. As they talked, they talked about needlework.

Suzhou's embroidery is extremely famous, and Hunan embroidery, Guangdong embroidery and Shu embroidery are called the four famous embroidery, and it is the leader among them. There are dozens of stitches such as needles, loose sets, needles, virtual and real needles, random needles, dots, yarn pokes, needles, needles, rolling needles, beatings, sets of sets, etc., the finished products have double-sided embroidery and single-sided embroidery, and the finished products are also embroidered on clothes, handkerchiefs, purses, and also embroidered on screens, and outstanding embroidery is often a piece of gold. Just embroidering a large screen or embroidery often takes a year or even two or three years to embroider, which is one of the reasons why the price of Suzhou embroidery remains high.

Although the embroidery is valuable, the embroidery lady can get not much wages, part of it is used to buy embroidery thread, brocade and other items, but also by the consignment shop to extract three to fifty percent of the profit, the rest of the money, is only enough for food and clothing. There is also a kind of attachment to the house of a wealthy person, specializing in embroidery work for this family, and the salary is paid on a monthly basis by making a contract, which is the same as the monthly money of the girl's mother-in-law.

Yan Niang talked in Daiyu's house for a while, and thought of going back to help her go to someone else's house to hand over embroidery work to see if she could find a place to live, and her heart was full of bitterness. Since Yan Niang and Daiyu are close relatives and side branches, there is naturally no reason to hire relatives to call. Seeing that it was getting late, Yan Niang got up and prepared to leave.

Daiyu looked at her expression, and guessed what Yan Niang was thinking, so she got up and said to her: "Sister Yan, do you think these two girls in our house can still be taught?" ”

Yan Niang didn't understand what Daiyu meant, and said with a wry smile: "Both of them are water spirit girls who are one in a thousand, no matter what they learn, they can learn well." Daiyu answered with a smile: "Since Sister Yan is not particularly stupid when she looks at them, is it okay to stay and be the embroidery master of the two of them?" ”

Yan Niang was stunned for a moment, but she didn't expect Daiyu to say that she would hire herself as the embroidery master of Zijuan and Snow Goose. She was embarrassed, and Xue Yan said: "Master Yan is worried that our girl is stingy, and for the sake of relatives, she will not give her apprenticeship and restraints?" Don't worry, the girl's change is for Sister Zijuan to keep, if she doesn't want to give it, Sister Zijuan will take it directly from the box, and she will definitely not miss this bundle. ”

Daiyu couldn't help laughing, and said to Xue Yan: "It's a shame to be like your own sister every day, and I haven't said a word about you, do you think I'm such a stingy person?" Zijuan also came to persuade Yan Niang, Yan Niang thought about it for a long time, but she couldn't resist the sincerity of Daiyu and the others, so she nodded and agreed. Daiyu immediately asked Zijuan to take a silver ticket of fifty taels of silver, and asked Pei'er to bring two cups of new tea, and Zijuan and Snow Goose solemnly bowed to their teachers. After all the processes were passed, he asked Qing'er to send a message to add vegetables to the kitchen at night, and then ordered his mother-in-law to clean up a room for Yan Niang to live in. Then he accompanied Yan Niang, chatting about the needlework carefully, and Zijuan and Snow Goose were also listening.

Gradually in the afternoon, when it was getting late, there was a burst of voices and neighing outside, and it turned out that Aunt Ye was back. She instructed Lin Zhuo and a long entourage to bring down the things brought from the carriage, and Song'er and Shan'er hurriedly took over and moved in and sent them to the courtyard. Daiyu came out with purple juan and snow geese, only to see a jar on the ground, this is a green plum wine, that is plum blossom preserves, as well as honey-stained plums, plum blossom honey, etc., all of which are packed in small and exquisite jars, neat and tidy, and I like them first before I taste them.