This day is the end of the month, taking advantage of Qiao'er and Ban'er's reading companions, herding sheep, Qing'er secretly took the fish play lotus leaf work, and the flowers in his hands are rich and rich, quietly went out, and walked to the shop set up in Dujiazhuang at the head of the bridge. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

At this moment, half of the people in Dujiazhuang have been allocated separately for the embroidery conference to listen to Du Baifang's dispatch.

Because in the township, the Du family is a latecomer, and they do not follow too much etiquette, and most of the children in it are freewheeling. Therefore, this Miss Du also dared to take on the big responsibility, and brought three big maids with her, Fenxiang Gexiang Youxiang, and four talented little maids, who lived in the courtyard behind the Du family's embroidery shop. There are also three or two wives and daughters-in-law who live outside the second gate, spread news every day, and go on night patrols at night. The men found another house next to each other.

The master and servant lived for less than ten days, and the embroidery girl who came to participate had already written a whole roster, and the scenery was extraordinary, which was beyond Du Baifang's expectations.

Let's say that the old woman outside handed in today's list of embroideries and embroidery, Fenxiang walked all the way and looked at it, and laughed before entering the door: "Come and see, yesterday you said that the squirrel grape embroidery is completely unusual, and I just thought that there is nothing uglier in the world than it." Today can be regarded as a long insight for you, this is full of embroidery, it is difficult for her to spend so much work, I can't even see what it is. As she spoke, the little maids saw that they had walked in front of them and hurriedly helped to open the curtain of the Xiangfei concubine.

Ge Xiang was in the house to do Du Baifang's hair, and when she heard her talk about this, she smiled curiously and asked: "You are the most picky person, where are there embroideries that can't be seen, do you want to send them to the girl quickly." ”

Fenxiang handed it over with a smile, Du Baifang lowered his eyes, and unconsciously covered his mouth with a smile, and said that he was right.

Ge Xiang put down the peach wood comb here, took a look, and saw that the white satin on the moon was really as Fen Xiang said, and embroidered it all over with various miscellaneous threads without being organized, and sure enough, he couldn't see what the pattern was, and he couldn't stop laughing, and rubbed his stomach for a while and said: "Just for the ten taels of silver we threw out, these people don't care about the girl's face, regardless of whether they can embroider or not, whether the embroidery is good or not, they will all send it, and they are not afraid of people seeing jokes." I originally said that the embroidery lady of ten miles and eight towns, no matter how clever she is, we can't go to Dujiazhuang, and the girl said at that time that I sat in the well and watched the sky, and I was short-sighted. Now we have lived here for half a month, and the embroidery sent is not 1,000, but 800, have you ever seen a decent one? In the end, I'm afraid that as others rumored, the ten taels of silver will rot in the pot and let our own embroidery girl take it. ”

Fen Xiang also laughed and said: "Even so, it took a lot of effort, just now I saw your aunt, and she said that if the girl doesn't like it, she will take these to the soles of her shoes." I didn't want to, so it's not too late to put it there and wait for the embroidery conference to make plans. At the same time, he handed the roster in his hand and said, "Here is the name of the girl corresponding to the embroidery, I only looked at the top of the book, and some of them have not had time to look at the bottom." If the girl is fine, it is better to look at it twice, if it is good, she will stay, and if it is not good, she will still put it away. ”

Du Baifang nodded, Ge Xiang took the booklet over, called the little maid Zhu'er on the side, and ordered her to carefully show the embroidery to Du Baifang one by one. The three masters and servants were busy all morning, and there were a total of 21 embroideries before and after, except for those that could not distinguish the patterns and the stitches were awkward, and the rest were only ten. Of the ten paintings, only four of them were selected for selection.

Du Baifang looked at it for a long time and felt that her neck was sore, so Ge Xiang came up and pinched her a few times, and listened to her: "These are a few points better than the ones I picked before, but they are not satisfactory." ”

Ge Xiang smiled: "The girl has said this seven or eight times, I am so puzzled, listening to the girl's meaning is like waiting for a person to come." ”

It's not just waiting for one person! Du Baifang secretly slandered in his heart, but said: "Don't talk about those who don't have it, find someone to go to the shop outside to see, if there are any embroideries sent today, if not, close the door and let's have a good lunch." ”

Ge Xiang hurriedly answered, and was about to go out, but Youxiang, who was going out to prepare a meal, came in from outside, holding two embroideries in his hand and said, "Look what good things I have got!" ”

Ge Xiang patted his chest and scolded with a smile: "Seriously, let you do things, you ran for a long time and didn't see anyone." Just talking about eating, your legs and feet are getting up quickly, what are you talking about, what good things can you show off. ”

Youxiang sneered, pushed her away and said, "You don't care if I run for half a day or a day, as long as I do what the girl tells me to do well, no one has anything to say." Ge Xiang pushed her, and couldn't help laughing and scolding the little hooves and rebelling, but she was really worried about what she said about the good things, so she couldn't care about going out, so she hurriedly turned around to look.

Youxiang then put the things in her hand on the dressing table in front of Du Baifang, and said, "Girl, how are these two paintings compared to the earlier ones?" ”

Du Baifang had already heard the two of her arguing, but now that she heard Youxiang say this, she hurriedly picked it up on the dressing table and looked at it. See that it is a picture of flowers blooming rich and a picture of fish playing lotus leaves. If the two on the color matching is comparable, if on the needle, that a fish play lotus leaf because of the needle changeable, in addition to the commonly used needle, paving needle, needle, but also with the general people have never seen the scale needle and a single set of needles, a total of more than ten kinds of stitches in an embroidery, is actually a step higher than the flower wealth.

Du Baifang's heart was amazed, but his face was silent, and he only held the two embroideries in his hand and kept weighing them. After seeing this one, I went to see that one, hesitating left and right. The maids on both sides stood for a long time, because she was moody and casual, and she was most afraid of being disturbed when thinking about things, so Fragrant Ge Xiang Youxiang and others did not dare to ask.

But said that Du Baifang looked back and forth no less than three times, took that picture of flowers and wealth to think about himself, that day in the Zhou Mansion, the pine color sweat towel was embroidered with such peony flowers, the color is complicated, and the stitches are meticulous. It is very likely that it was written by the same person. It's just that the lotus leaf of the fish play is embroidered by someone else, is it true that there are people outside the sky?

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

Youxiang was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "Girl, these two embroideries were embroidered by one person, and I heard from the news that they were sent by Wang Qing'er, the daughter of Wang Gou'er's family in our former village." ”

"Wang Qing'er?" Du Baifang muttered in his mouth, frowned and asked, "Why don't I know this person, there is such a good needle, who missed her name and didn't report to our embroidery village?" ”

Fen Xiang Ge Xiang was busy saying: "We haven't heard of it, when we went down to choose an embroidery girl a while ago, almost all of the people in the front village were searched." If she was famous, why didn't she come at that time, but chose to come at this time? ”

Youxiang smiled: "I also asked, Zhang Sanjia said that when we chose an embroidery girl that year, this girl happened to go to a relative's house in the city for a few days, and she didn't come back in time." No, I heard that there was an embroidery conference in July, so I embroidered two pieces at home and brought them, and I just said that the lord and the girl carefully selected a good one to come out and be selected. ”

Du Baifang couldn't help sneering and let out a big sigh, and shook the embroidery in his hand, whether he did this conference in vain, after all, he found the person he was looking for. So he raised his head and asked seriously: "How old is this Wang Qing'er?" ”

Youxiang said: "The appearance of not being twelve years old is still delicate." ”

Du Baifang said: "Take these two embroideries in another place, and inform them outside, after the end of June, there is no need to send embroidery inside, if you see it, you can take it home, just don't let outsiders know." ”

Sanxiang was speechless when he heard this, but Youxiang was even more bold, and hurriedly asked: "Why is this, since it is an embroidery conference and it is held on Qixi Festival, why don't you wait until that day?" ”

Du Baifang said impatiently: "These embroideries are enough to pick, and if there are really good ones, they should have been sent a long time ago, and the rest must be not skilled, and I don't know how many needles and threads have been delayed to make them, and it is also in vain to send them." You don't need to ask, just listen to me. ”

Sanxiang saw that she was displeased, so she didn't ask anymore, Ge Xiang hurriedly went outside to ask, and when she saw that there was no embroidery to send over, she asked the little maids to prepare a gargle, and Ge Xiang Youxiang came up to serve Du Baifang to wash her hands and eat.

In the blink of an eye, it is rumored that the Weaver Girl will cross the river to meet the Cowherd on this day. Whenever the moon rises on the willow tops, every family holds melons, fruits, wine and food in the courtyard or on the balcony, and talks about the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl crossing the river. Women thread needles through the moon, called begging. Or use a small box to hold the spider, and get up the next morning to see its dense webs, thinking that it is a coincidence.

In the old days, there was a poem that praised the custom of begging. Its poems: Chu Ke's soul is shocking, and Yanjing customs fight through the needle. The building sends the summer to urge the autumn fan, and the plug welcomes the cold and rises the twilight anvil.

But said that Qing'er sent the two embroideries in, and after returning home, he was somewhat absent-minded, always thinking about the advantages and disadvantages of the two embroideries.

When she got up this morning, Qiao'er got dressed and went out, and her grandmother and Wang Gou'er were already in the yard, and when they saw her, they all smiled and said, "Hello girl, we are here to celebrate the girl's birthday." “

Qiao'er was taken aback for no reason, and then remembered that it was Qixi birthday, and said with a smile: "It's hard for grandma and uncle and aunt to worry about this, I forgot about it myself." As he spoke, he saw that incense candles had been set up in the courtyard.

Grandma Liu stepped forward and pulled her and said with a smile: "I can't remember other people's birthdays, but I will not be wrong with the girl's birthday. Come and stick to the incense, the kitchen has prepared the longevity noodles, let's eat the noodles after the incense. ”

Wang Liu was also busy saying: "My mother muttered about this last night, but our small family couldn't afford too heavy a birthday gift, so we had to make longevity noodles for the girl, and asked the girl not to dislike it." ”

Qiao'er smiled and said that eating noodles is the best, and everything else is empty. As he was talking, Qing'er Ban'er also came out of the house, and when she saw this scene, she smiled and asked what she was doing, and her grandmother said that today was Qiao'er's birthday, and Qing'er Ban'er was so happy that she was busy kowtowing to Qiao'er. (To be continued.) (To be continued.) )