After going back, Gu Ruyi put the twenty taels of silver and the five hundred wen together, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that what the shopkeeper Chen said was very true. The stitches of the pug are threaded, and there is not much stitchwork in total, and the rose, all over the painting, is full of stitches, and even the white color is embroidered with white embroidery thread. The shopkeeper Chen also said that it was difficult to look at the picture, so it means that there is a picture? There is, there is. As long as there are cross-stitch sketches, learning to embroider cross-stitch will definitely not be a problem, and those who are flat embroidery, bead embroidery, velvet embroidery, find Xi Mama! If we don't learn art, can't we just buy a picture? Gu Ruyi felt that if she gave Mama Xi a little more "filial piety", she would have everything.

The technique of cross-stitch looks very simple, in fact, its stitches are not all full needle embroidery, that is, crossing, as well as half needle embroidery, quarter embroidery and three-quarter embroidery, French knot embroidery, and what pick embroidery and other stitches. And it's not a traditional embroidery method, you have to have a drawing, and you have to start from the middle...... Without these, there would be no such many effects. It also involves embroidery needles, embroidery threads, and embroidery cloths that are not available in the Qing Dynasty. Gu Ruyi didn't have any of them, and of course she didn't know that she needed so many conditions. There are also those velvet embroidery and bead embroidery, and you can't see how they are embroidered at all, because they are embroidered by sewing machines.

The exotic year of 2,006 was a very fashionable period for cross-stitch, and even men were tinkering with it, which shows that it is easy to learn. Yun'er learned the foundation of cross-stitch from Xiaoli, and learned a deeper stitch and cross-stitch creation through video teaching. At that time, a large pair of cross-stitch could be sold for two or three thousand yuan. The stitching of cross-stitch is easy to learn, but the picture is a bit complicated.

Cross-stitch is embroidered with different colored threads according to the marks of the drawing, and the large grid in the drawing is used to determine the position, and will not appear in the work. As long as you find the right position, it doesn't matter if you have a positioning grid or not.

Each pattern is represented in the form of a grid chart. Each square represents a full crosshair, and a half square represents a quarter of the word. Black or colored dots represent French knots, black or colored ovals represent flat petal needles, and straight lines represent hook edges. Each diagram is accompanied by a color table indicating the desired embroidery thread color in the diagram.

Every woman can learn cross-stitch, but every woman doesn't necessarily have to draw cross-stitch drawings.

After Yun'er taught the cross-stitch technique to the eight teaching grandmothers, her energy returned to painting. Although it is usually not a lot of time to draw, Yun'er's brain capacity has been expanded by the master, and it is quite quick to accept new skills, and the basic skills that she usually practices are memorized, and the previous twenty years have been laid foundations, so after practicing a lot of new painting methods and stunts in foreign lands, I tried to start creating. First of all, learn from the layout of others, starting with peony flowers.

Peony flower is one of the more difficult to draw among all flowers, and it is not very difficult to learn and learn the painting of peony, other kinds of flowers. The peony album and physical photos brought back by Yun'er include the painting strengths of many peony masters and all the flower types of peonies. Yun'er also has the painting understanding of learning from others' strengths and making up for her own shortcomings, so the speed of progress is advancing by leaps and bounds.

She has an endless supply of paper, pencils, and paints, and she doesn't need to count the amount of money for these consumables. So whenever I have time, I spend it drawing.

The "Splendid Future" painted in the Yulong cold drink hall was already well drawn by others, but now that I look at it, I feel "miserable".

Yun'er's peony can not be used as the background of spring, but also with wind, snow, dew, fog, and rain as the background, and even Mr. Chen, who is an expert in painting, can't figure out how the dew on his daughter's dew peony is drawn. Crystal clear, round and full, the feeling of being about to roll down.

There are also peonies of various flower types, frontal, side, looking up, looking down at peonies of various angles and various colors, the real one is Yao Huang Wei Zi, Yin Zi Yan Hong, full of spring color!

But Yun'er still feels that she owes a lot of heat and is still practicing.

The embroidery skills of the embroidery girls in Gu Ruyi's embroidery workshop are not good, but the embroidery manuscripts are not available. Gu Ruyi's requirements for embroidery drafts are very high, and the general level of drawings is not good. Su embroidery, embroidery is very tired, many embroidery girls are tired of their eyes, the most serious thing is that they can't see things clearly when they are old. The skills of Suzhou embroidery are very traditional and high-grade, and I am so sorry for those hard embroiderers with ugly sketches.

In addition to the sketches of Master Lu, a full-time painter in the store, Gu Ruyi also bought a little more. But it must be of a high standard. It doesn't have to be very flamboyant, but the painting must be superb.

Of course, the remuneration is also very high.

There are not many people who provide embroidery drafts for Gu Ruyi, because the young lady who can draw embroidery drafts is not short of money, and the things in the boudoir are not passed on, so they are afraid of taking advantage of loopholes for people with ulterior motives.

Master Lu, the painter in the shop, said goodbye without saying goodbye, and did not leave a sketch for Gu Ruyi, thinking of this Gu Ruyi was stunned: "If you don't want to do it, just say it, how can there be such a trick?" More than a dozen people waited for his sketches and embroideries to sell for money, but he was fine, and there was no shadow.

Mama Xi of the Hitara clan in the house and Gu Ruyi are a batch of older palace maids from the palace, and they have some contacts. Mu Xiu also went to Gu Ruyi's embroidery workshop, and saw the paintings in the Yulong hot and cold drink hall, and Xi Mama felt that the Su embroidery in the embroidery workshop could not be compared with the paintings of Master Yun. After returning home, he specially asked to see Master Yun, and told Yun'er about the situation of the Ruyi Embroidery Workshop: "Master Yun, the slave thinks that the peony you painted in the Yulong Hot and Cold Drink Hall, such as the peony embroidered by the Yi Embroidery Workshop, looks much better, and it is more than enough to get rid of them for eight streets!" Listening to Gu Ruyi's meaning, their painters may not be back, as if they are going to participate in the scientific examination, why not sell your peony picture to them? The slave asked Gu Ruyi, and gave ten taels of silver for the good-looking sketches. ”

"Thank you, Mama Xi, for providing me with a message to sell my paintings. Let's wait a little longer and see if any of the Lu painters can come back. If people can come back, it seems that we will pry into other people's business. ”

"Yes, yes, you're right, if you need a slave to match, just speak."

"Don't worry, I won't treat you badly when the time comes."

Joy and Mama walked away happily. Although she belongs to the people in the garden, she also wants to stammer. Who in the mansion doesn't know that Master Yun is now a person who is favored by the prince, and even Fu Jin is kind to Master Yun, and he is a little bit more conceited. The garden is the closest to the Feiyun Tower in the inner house, and Mama Xi is still a housekeeper, and she is the eyeliner of the Queen Mother. If you have more contact with Master Yun, you may be able to know some of the news that the Queen Mother needs, and you may be able to get the reward of Master Yun.

Don't look at the errand in the garden, you also know a little about the things in the front and back of the inner house. For example, the cloth that Master Yun pocketed for the girls and grandmothers in Fujin Courtyard was used to patchwork cloth, all of which were brand new! In ordinary life, whoever gives birth to a child, there is a "ruler" for the newborn to make a small coat for the newborn, which is the cloth head. It's very good to give two pieces, but Master Yun actually pocketed Fujin! Those maids and wives in the Fujin Courtyard are talking about catties! I also heard that there are cloth pockets that reach the roof in the hall downstairs of Master Yun, and there are elastic rulers inside.

It just so happened that Gu Ruyi bought a lot of various embroideries from the Nalan Department Store and brought them back to his embroidery workshop, and he couldn't figure out how people embroidered. For this reason, Gu Ruyi came to the house again to find Mama Xi.

Mama Xi knew that Gu Ruyi was a proud person, so she deliberately didn't see Qiao. Gu Ruyi had no choice but to go to Gonggong Wu again and ask Gonggong Wu to send her to the palace. Gonggong Wu said: "Are you looking for death? Grab land with the emperor? The skills that Wang Ye Rui has learned thousands of miles away from are for the sake of the country and the society, and give you personal money? If you still do your embroidery workshop, you can't get in the way of others, so don't be delusional about the rest. ”

But who is Gu Ruyi? Those who will not give up until they have achieved their goals. It's not okay to ask someone, let's learn by ourselves! So she carefully studied all the representative embroideries bought in the Nalan Department Store. Not to mention, I also roughly understand it, that is, "it is difficult for a good girl to cook without rice", I have never seen the beads embroidered with beads, as well as those round sequins, shiny silver nails, and flower-like gadgets...... Wu Liangfu, an old and cunning thing, can obviously send himself to the Ruiwang Mansion to learn art, but he refuses. Xi Mama seems to be a little lower than she can do, how much face can a housekeeper have in front of her master? With a little hope and luck, Gu Ruyi came to find Mama Xi again, but it was a coincidence, Mama Xi happened to be a break time to go shopping. As soon as he left the house, he ran into Gu Ruyi, so there was no way to hide.

"Hey, my sister Xi, where are you going with such a spring breeze?"

"Where can I go? Feel free to take a stroll around. My sister is here to find my sister? I'm sorry, my sister has something to do. If you can't do that, the palace is not easy to enter. ”

"My sister knows, I just want to discuss with my sister if I can buy one from the house

What about cross-stitch drawings? ”

"No, you can't. I'll tell you, the cross-stitch sketch is matched with the materials, and it is the personal property of the side Fujin in our house, and she sent it to the maids and women in the front and back courts. I haven't even seen my sister, if you have another way to get it, sister, I'm happy for you, I won't accompany you. "Mama Xi left, and put Gu Ruyi there.

"How can something be so hard?" Gu Ruyi muttered and walked back, there was no hope for the side Fujin's things. But is what this Xi Mama said true? How can Fang Fujin's personal things be sent to everyone for use? Isn't it good to keep it for yourself to make money?

Today is also the day of Mama Lin's rest, she has been married to Suo Qing for a while, and she is happy, ready to go to the street to buy some fruit to satisfy her hunger. went to the street with a housekeeper in a big restaurant, Suo Qing was too busy to accompany her.

When I arrived at the porter, I found Mama Xi talking to a woman dressed in a full house, and I took a closer look at her acquaintance! It is the shopkeeper of the Ruyi embroidery workshop. Mama Lin is a person from a family of Su embroidery, she has learned Su embroidery since she was a child, although she has been sold for many years, her craftsmanship has not been lost. I also sold Su embroidery in Gu Ruyi's shop, so I naturally knew Gu Ruyi, but Gu Ruyi had a lot of contact with people, and I didn't recognize Mama Lin. Listening to her and Mama Xi talk about what she wanted to find the side Fujin, and there was another way to do something, she hurriedly hid in the inside of the gatehouse. No, this must be told to the cloud master! Is it Gu Ruyi's idea to fight the cloud master? Although I only heard a rough idea, I always felt that Gu Ruyi and Mama Xi were discussing something unfavorable to the four estimates. I changed my mind:

"Mama He, I'm sorry, I have to go back, I don't have enough money to buy things."

"It's okay, it's okay, does Mama Lin need to wait?"

"No, no, don't delay your errand. You go first, I'm sorry. ”

Mama He left first. Mama Lin thought for a while and asked the soldiers standing guard: "The woman who talked to Mama Xi came to find Fang Fujin?" ”

"No, no, that person seems to want to go into the house to learn skills and come to Mama Xi. This Xi Mama is her countryman or something, where does she have that ability, so she refuses her. ”

"Do you know that woman?"

"Naturally, my subordinates don't know her, I heard Mama Xi say that she is the shopkeeper of the Ruyi embroidery workshop in Andingmen, surnamed Gu."

Mama Lin hurriedly returned to Feiyun Tower, immediately came to see Yun'er, and told her about the situation. Yun'er smiled lightly: "This Gu Ruyi is really good, he wants to go undercover in the palace to learn art, he has the courage!" Is it bad to learn Suzhou embroidery? Don't be a toddler. Mama Lin, don't worry, our exotic materials will never flow outside. However, I would like to get acquainted with this shopkeeper Gu, her embroidery is very expensive, have you ever seen it? ”

"The slave maid is a learner of Suzhou embroidery, and she has been to the Ruyi embroidery workshop many times before. He also sold the slave and maid to her what they embroidered. It can be said that the embroidery there is excellent, but the sketches are not very good. The embroidery stitches are very delicate, but I feel that all the flowers are not so ...... Anyway, it's far from what you painted. ”

"I'm drawing freehand, and it's a different thing than a sketch, right?"

"Not necessarily, if you draw your painting according to the sketch of the embroidery, the embroidery will be completely different."

"You're going out, aren't you? Next time, the next time you take a break, I will go out with you and meet this Gu Ruyi. Let's take a look at her character first, if she is honest, she will supply her drawings at a high price, isn't it also an input? ”

"Your idea is very good, why don't you go today, the slave and maid have nothing to do, just go to the street to buy some food, just accompany you to the embroidery workshop to have a look."

"You're not happy."

"It's okay, the slave can still borrow light to ride in your car."

"Okay, okay, I'll go out for a walk. Sister Shui'er, let's go out dressed as men. Give me a braid. ”

Shui'er was busy putting on Yun'er's makeup, not only turning her two heads into a big black braid, putting on a melon skin hat, but also drawing Yun'er's eyebrows a little thicker, her mouth shape became bigger, and the bridge of her nose was stiffer, somewhat masculine. Yun'er took a fan, held Shui'er's chin with the fan, and teased: "This little lady is very standard, take it back for use." ”

Shui'er blushed: "The master has learned badly!" ”

"Xiaosheng apologizes, don't be angry." After speaking, he gave the water a blow. Mama Lin also laughed: "The master is still very romantic." ”

"So-so. Let's go. By the way, Shui'er, you go to my drawer to get some silver, and when you go out, you don't have any expenses at all, which is not the true color of this son. ”

When he arrived at the door of Feiyun Tower, Shui Er instructed the little servant Chengzi that Master Yun should go out and prepare the vehicle and the people who followed. This kind of thing is all a little guy Zhang Luo, and when Yun'er arrived at the gate, the carriage was waiting at the door, and there were two other guards.

Yu'er didn't follow, she wanted to talk to Fujin.