It's late January, and the New Year is getting closer and closer. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The snow in Qingshui County has been falling for three days and three nights in a row, and the whole town is white. Unfortunately, Warcraft does not have the habit of hibernating. The killing outside the city intensified, and at one point it almost reached the city gates.

Those unarmed people can only choose to leave their hometowns, and seeing that the Spring Festival is approaching, the whole city is lifeless and without a festive atmosphere.

"Your Excellency. Of the 20 officers recruited by the military this time, only five came back in the end, and two of them were seriously injured and are still in a coma. Song Qingsong stood in the study, reporting with a heavy face. He couldn't wait to go to the battlefield to kill the demonic beast by himself, but Cheng Zhi always sheltered him and did not allow him to go out in person.

"yes, got it." Cheng Zhi listened to the report, but his eyes kept staring at the dark clouds outside the room, and he had a hunch that Qingshui County would not survive next year.

"You go and do a good job of comforting the families of the injured and wounded officials, and then go to my private treasury to take an extra ten taels of silver for comfort." Cheng Zhi lowered his head and sneered: "Heh, I have a county order, so I can only cower in the city and watch my brothers die tragically." If it weren't for Yu'er's young age and motherlessness, I would have fought this old bone to kill the enemy from Rong. ”

"It is more difficult for an adult to preside over the affairs of the county than to go into battle to kill the enemy." Song Qingsong symbolically comforted a few words, and then withdrew from the study.

"Chunniang, did you hear all that just now?" Cheng Zhi picked up the purple clay pot and took a sip.

Li Chunhua kept standing at the door, not daring to say anything. After she was summoned by the master, she heard that the soldiers in front were tight, and heard that more than half of the servants were killed and wounded. Even if she is an uneducated peasant woman, she can hear that this Qingshui County is unstable.

"Su Su and Fan'er, you've been teaching for almost two months. Which of them do you think is more likely to be selected as an embroidery girl? Cheng Zhi asked solemnly, when dealing with his subordinates, he always maintained the majesty of the head of the family.

"Back to the master, Su Su and Fan'er are very talented and very hardworking." Li Chunhua got up and began to report on the progress of teaching.

"The best of the best, I know they're both good, I just want to know, who's better?"

Li Chunhua had a bitter face, and her answer became a little hoarse: "In the humble opinion of the people's women, Miss Su Su is more stable and usually makes fewer mistakes; Miss Fan'er is more spiritual, and she can often get through it at one point. ”

"Hmm. Steady, spiritual. It's true that each has its own strengths. Cheng Zhi tapped his fingers on the table, and with his own observation of the two girls, it was indeed the same.

"Is the final work of the two of them decided?"

"It's settled. Miss Su Su chose landscape embroidery, and Miss Fan'er chose bird and beast embroidery, but the two of them learned embroidery for the first time, and they should only embroider some simple ones. ”

"Calm as a landscape, smart as birds and beasts. It seems that the work reflects people's hearts, and it is not false at all. Cheng Zhi muttered to himself, looking forward to the final product of the two women.

At this moment, in the bedroom, Chen Faner was biting a charcoal pen, meditating.

The reason why I chose birds and beasts is because I have watched Granny Qin embroider all kinds of small animals since I was a child. Chen Faner wanted to find a work suitable for the current situation in her memory, so as to overcome the coldness.

"Hmm, I've seen a lot of embroidery by Granny Qin before, why can't I choose the right one?" Chen Fan'er looked up at the night sky outside the window, thinking that it would be nice if Granny Qin was by her side. But the more I thought about it, the more determined I was to win the embroidery girl's place.

"Granny Qin's stitching is extraordinary, and I don't have that much time to explore now. If you want to use the flat needle embroidery method, you can only choose birds with relatively monotonous colors, but not too ordinary......" Chen Fan'er seemed to grasp some inspiration, and the image in her mind gradually became clearer.

"Why haven't you started drawing yet, sister, I've already started embroidering." At this time, Leng Qingsu was walking into the house with a bowl of water, and she couldn't help but be a little curious when she saw that Chen Fan'er was still in a daze.

"Huh? Yes, what is Sister Su going to embroider? Chen Fan'er asked curiously.

Leng Qingsu put the bowl in Chen Fan'er's hand, and said mysteriously: "Of course, this must be kept secret, the two of us are in competition." ”

"But sister, why did you choose to embroider birds and beasts? Embroidering living creatures is vivid, those tigers, peacocks, all of them are big works, we only learned a little fur, can not express that kind of artistic conception at all. ”

Chen Fan'er picked up the bowl, took a sip, and replied, "I can't help it." I've lived in the mountains since I was a child, and I haven't seen any good scenery, just dealing with some small animals......"

Speaking of this, Chen Fan'er suddenly thought of the white horse. The first time he encountered the white horse, he was drinking water by the river when a small blue magpie was perched on its head.

"That's right! I've got it! Chen Fan'er put down the bowl, shouted, and immediately lay on the table and slowly traced the outline of the little magpie with a charcoal pen.

Leng Qingsu saw that Chen Fan'er had determined the selection of materials, and did not say more, returned to his position and continued to fiddle with the needle and thread.

"Mother-in-law, mother-in-law, what's the name of that little blue bird?"

"Oh, that's the blue magpie, which shows its head every year at the beginning of spring. Many animals love them, because anyone who can be chosen by the blue magpie will have good luck in the coming year. You see, the white horse seems to have found an herb that suits it perfectly. ”

Chen Fan'er depicted it in detail, and recalled in her mind the scene when she first met Lan Cuique with Granny Qin. She decided to paint two of them, with a pure white background, like a bird perched on horseback.

In the next few days, Chen Fan'er will embroider the painted blue cuique.

She borrowed embroidery thread from Aunt Chun in three colors: indigo, Molan, and sky blue, plus some of the original embroidery threads of some basic colors, and the whole embroidery picture has as many as eight colors.

"Fan'er, are you sure you want so much blue? I don't think any animal is blue. Li Chunhua puzzled these colors to lend, these colors are unpopular, if the embroidery landscape may be used, but for the embroidery of birds and beasts, at most can only be decorated.

"Aunt Chun, don't worry." Chen Fan'er mysteriously stuck out her tongue, and went back to her room with the embroidery thread.

"Well, I hope you win." Li Chunhua looked at Chen Fan'er's back and sighed silently. With her intuition, if she can choose an embroidery girl, Chen Fan'er's achievements in embroidery will be much higher than Leng Qingsu.

There are still three days left on Chinese New Year's Eve, and Chen Fan'er and Leng Qingsu's works have entered the final stage.

Chen Fan'er didn't peek at the finished product, because in her heart, the principle of fair competition has always been maintained. But Leng Qingsu is different, she wants to confirm Chen Fan'er's embroidery results in advance, if it is obviously inferior to herself, then there is no need to take the last step.

At night, it was Chen Fan'er's turn to take care of Cheng Yu for half an hour, and Leng Qingsu secretly turned out Chen Fan'er's embroidery work pressed under the pillow.

"This, this is ......" Leng Qingsu was shocked by this work that was about to be completed, but she quickly regained her composure, and her wry smile was mixed with a touch of cruelty: "I didn't expect your embroidery skills to be so high, it seems that you deliberately hid a lot, and you want to surprise us." ”

"In that case, don't blame my sister for being ruthless. On Chinese New Year's Eve, I won! Leng Qingsu's eyes flashed with determination, put the embroidery picture back in its place, and walked quickly to the kitchen.