Chapter 785: The Indian Lady (1)
During this period, Uncle Shi Tongshi and Uncle Zhou secretly discussed several times and wanted to go home. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoOne is that you can't act, what does the juggling team do if you don't juggle? Without a source of livelihood, what do you become by relying on Bing'er and Xue'er? Another is that Kumei and Shi Dan are both happy, isn't it a dead end to have a child in the wilderness? Now that the two of them are in-laws, they usually get along very well, so they secretly discussed going back, even if they were sorry Bing'er, they couldn't do anything. Uncle Zhou tried his best to persuade Shi Tong to go with him to his hometown in Wuqiao, Hebei, saying that Shi Tong only had a son and a daughter-in-law of Shi Qing, and the three of them were alone, so it was better to join the Wuqiao team. Anyway, Shi Dan must be with the outline. Shi Tong said: "How many of us don't know how to perform acrobatics, and we don't work for nothing? No, the three of us still go back to our hometown in Jinan, and now we have some money in our hands, so we can't juggle and buy a few acres of land to plant, and the leaves fall back to the roots, and I am relieved that Shi Dan is married to a child like the outline. And Wuqiao acrobatics is a very traditional skill, unlike him, he can't perform hard qigong when he's old, Shi Qing's training of small animals, you can't play without Bing'er. "It's a little sad.
Uncle Zhou can also understand the mood of his in-laws, joining his relatives is to send people under the fence, and he is not a person who has no children and no daughters, his arms and legs are complete, and he still has some strength, and it is not that he can't farm, or live his own life, and don't make trouble for others. The two discussed it, and they had to discuss it with their children, but their son and daughter-in-law did not agree. One is that what he is doing now is also making money, which is more than juggling and acrobatics, and the other is that he wants to learn a few more skills from Xue'er; The third is that the men in the juggling class and the acrobatics class can't do anything, Shi Qing and the syllabus are both learning the skills of weaving corn husks, and they can make money wherever they go, and the other is to go at this time, which is equivalent to flashing Bing'er Xue'er. The suggestion is to wait a few more days to see, but if you can't tell Bing'er again. Shi Tong and Uncle Zhou could only agree.
Just a month after Cher's hook flower team finished the hook flower mission, Mr. James, who had disappeared for many days, appeared in front of the small courtyard of Ami's house. He also carried two noble ladies wearing Indian saris with red dots dotted between their eyebrows. Cher cheered and ran out to greet her.
"Let me introduce, these two ladies are my Indian friends, and this is Mrs. Kieran."
"Hello ma'am." Xue'er learned from this noble lady and folded her hands and gave a salute. ”
"Hello, pretty girl." Mrs. Kieran speaks Chinese, fluent, pure Chinese with a Beijing accent!
"This is Mrs. Ashmita, the one I told you about her father who was once an Indian envoy."
"Hello, ma'am."
"Hello hello, you are so beautiful, no wonder Mr. James is a little fairy." This person also speaks Chinese!
"Thank you for the compliment, ladies and gentlemen, please come in."
"Okay, little fairy, hurry up and prepare me plenty of drinking water, I'm going to die of thirst. Don't use a bowl, just use that bucket, a bucket. "Mrs. Kieran is a self-cook.
"You're here for bathing, aren't you?" Mr. James teased him.
"It's drunk to the stomach, thirsty too!" Mrs. Kieran learns from James.
The crowd laughed.
"Two ladies, please take a seat, it's a bit messy here, I'm sorry."
"It doesn't matter, Mr. James said you were working on a very beautiful flower and lace for him, can we take a look?"
"Look at what you said, you drink tea first, and I'll get it right away."
"Hey, little fairy, are you halfway there?" James asked impatiently.
"We've just finished our mission." Cher spoke in the back room.
"Done? Little fairy, you mean it's done? Twenty thousand? It's only been a month! ”
"All of our female compatriots here have gone into battle, including Cher's mother-in-law and sister-in-law. This is a sample, please ......"
"Oh my God! Is there anything so beautiful in this world? The two ladies exclaimed, snatched the sample of the crochet flower in Cher's hand, and looked at it very seriously.
"You two think it's more pleasing to the eye?" Cher looked at them.
The heads of the two of them nodded like chickens pecking rice. And Mrs. Ashmita said very directly: "We want to order too, can we?" I was born in the Qing Kingdom, but I have never seen such beautiful flowers and lace. ”
"This is something that my father, mother, and uncle learned from a long way away when they went on a tour."
"Wandering? Is the little fairy talking about Yunyou from Buddhism or is it unique to Taoism in your Qing Kingdom? ”
"We are all Buddhist disciples, and they are traveling with a Buddhist master, who is an eminent monk."
"Oh! That's great! Although we are not from the same method, can you tell us his Dharma name? We are also Buddhist disciples. ”
"Yes, his Dharma name is Ganlin, we all call him Master Ganlin, he looks young and handsome, and we all respect him."
"Buddha Shakyamuni was also very young when he became a monk, and the master Ganlin you are talking about must have a deep foundation, right?"
"Yes, but he's very low-key and never makes a big deal out of himself. The two of them just said that they also want to order crochet flowers? Can you use it? ”
"Yes, yes. Many of our Indian women wear saris, which is about five feet long in your Qing Kingdom, which is wrapped around the body in various ways, and the edges are also decorated. Some are embroidered lace, and some are rolled on ready-made silk. If you use this crochet flower of yours, I think it must be beautiful! Hurry up and agree, we will give you double the processing fee. ”
"Thank you, two ladies, thank you for your trust, but we've run out of ingredients." Cher didn't dare to say that it was James's line, for fear that he didn't say it and messed things up.
"This is not in a hurry, we still have to go to Qingguo, and it is estimated that several months have passed when we come back. But there should be 10,000 round flowers, 10,000 square flowers, and 10,000 feet of lace, and the more samples, the better. I serve the royal family, I don't care how much it is, the price can be doubled. ”
"Don't double, you are friends of Mr. James, how can we see profit and forgetfulness? It's the same processing fee as him. What do you say, Mr. James? ”
"Well, I thank you for the two ladies. This is the processing fee, four hundred taels of silver. ”
"You're too anxious, you haven't seen the finished product, and you haven't counted the silver yet?"
"I don't know what kind of character you are? What about the Zhao class master? Why isn't he there? ”
"They're weaving straw sandals in the backyard."
"Braiding, weaving straw sandals? What do you mean? ”
"In this part of Yunnan, ordinary men seem to wear shoes with open toes, and there are also women who wear them. But we saw that their shoes were all made of straw and were not very strong. In addition to the mountains, this place is a mountain, and it costs a lot of shoes, so I used the skills of cornskin straw shoes that my mother learned, as well as baskets and baskets. They are men, and if they can't do it, they will do what they can. Who's going to find Bing'er? Let's just say that there are guests at home. ”
"Sister Xue'er, I'll look for it." Ami's sister Ah Lian reported that she ran bravely to find it, and when she was young, Bing'er and several male compatriots came over and had a bear hug with James.
Seeing Bing'er's straw sandals, Mrs. Kieran made a fuss again: "It's possible to make straw sandals so beautiful?" At first glance, it is sturdy and durable, and it looks better than usual. These are women's straw sandals, right? There are also embroidered flowers on it, and I have to learn not only to crochet flowers, but also to learn to weave straw sandals! Little fairy, will you promise me? "Okay, this one will also sell cute, but it's natural, very sincere, not pretentious at all, not sensitive.
Xue'er hurriedly agreed: "Okay, okay, I promise, but these skills are from another country, and they may be very awkward when they start learning, and they will get used to it after a long time." ”
"What else can corn husks be woven other than straw sandals?"
"There are more, you can also weave straw hats, baskets, handbags, furniture, sachets, chess jars, chicken coops, kennels, and so on."
"We will definitely persevere until the whole school is gone!" Mrs. Kieran looked energetic.
Cher didn't dare to agree to her, but changed the subject:
"Sister Ami, please give each of the two ladies a crochet needle and a ball of thread."
The two ladies thanked them for their kindness, and carefully looked at the crochet needle in their hands, which was strange and awkward, but those beautiful flowers were all crocheted with this kind of needle, and they really couldn't imagine how to get them.
So the two Indian ladies joined the girls who were studying the arts, and they studied very seriously. They wanted to learn to return to China to recruit disciples, and this kind of hooked flowers were best sewn on the top of the sari. In fact, she didn't know that Xue'er had mastered a lot of hooking methods, and there were three-dimensional flowers, that is, the hooked flowers were not a plane, but had several layers like real flowers, and they could stand up. The inside is small petals, and the outside is large, layered, similar to the real thing, but large or small, and there are many types.
When the stitches of the flowers hooked out by the two of them were balanced, the speed became faster, and they were so happy that they grinned all day long. Don't look at this skill as being different from clothing cutting, but it is a new skill from abroad. The two of them will not participate in the processing, otherwise it will be difficult to settle the accounts and pay the processors. They practiced what they had just learned, and they knew that they must be skilled in needlework, and practice makes perfect.
Xue'er also told them that the pigtails hooked before practicing crochet flowers can also be used for lock embroidery, and gave them a demonstration, drawing a cloud on a piece of fabric, and then sewing the hooked pigtails on the cloth according to the handwriting of the clouds, and sewing a plastic bead that imitates pearls on the pigtails or empty spaces at intervals, which suddenly looks noble, and it is the pigtails that also add a sense of nobility to the cloth. It is best to make a man's cloak in this way, and the men's clothes are not embroidered, and the pattern of this lock embroidery effect plays an embroidery effect.
Mrs. Kieran hurriedly took out a notebook and wrote down this method in the notebook, for fear of forgetting.
Cher tells Lady Kieran and Lady Ashmita that the crochet needle in their hands will be given to them. The two hurriedly clasped their hands together and thanked Cher: "Thank you, thank you!" ”
After Mrs. Kieran placed an order with Xue'er, she directly gave all the payment to Xue'er, saying that the accounting of the order and delivery was too troublesome, and she could just take the goods when the time came, and complete the transaction if there was no unqualified, which was simply the case.
Seeing her order, Mrs. Ashmita said to Cher, "Miss Cher, Sister Kieran has ordered, and I want to order it too, don't worry, I won't chase after you from the back of your ass." ”
"Don't worry about Mrs. Ashmita, I'll process it for you as soon as I'm done processing for Mrs. Kieran, and I won't get anyone else in between.
Xue'er's disciples worked very hard, and after receiving the order from Mrs. Kieran, they began to process the flowers according to Xue'er's requirements. The hands will become more and more proficient, and the stitches will be very even, and the hooked flowers will be the same size. Otherwise, the flowers will be different in size and will not be usable. Cher taught them seven or eight new tricks in a row, and the little sisters used them to make crochet flowers for Mrs. Kieran. Showed the two Indian ladies samples, picked a few of them, and gave all the money to Cher.
As a result, the women's scouts who participated in the processing and purchase began to crochet a variety of lace. The hook is hooked back to back on the two flowers hooked together, leaving one side, and then made into a small pocket with brightly colored cloth, filled with spices, put into the hooked flowers, and then sealed with a crochet needle, tied with a rope, decorated with colored beads, tassels, it becomes a new purse, very pretty, very simple purse, this kind of sachet is not in a foreign land, it was invented by Yun'er. Seeing this sachet, Mrs. Kieran snatched it over: "I'll give you twenty taels of silver to sell this sachet to me, right?" "A pitiful look on his face.
Xue'er smiled and said: "What kind of kung fu has Mrs. Kieran practiced, she snatched it away in one fell swoop, how could she rob things like this, and give people money after robbing." ”
Everyone looked at Mrs. Kieran and smiled. Then Mrs. Kieran again mentioned the order: "I say, little fairy, what other goods do you have?" What can we use in India? As long as it looks good, we will order, okay? ”
"Mrs. Kieran, I don't know what you want? There are so many things that can be used in India, can you elaborate a little bit and what they include? Cher asked with a smile.
Mrs. Kieran pondered for a moment: "I will buy everything that looks good, that can be worn by a woman, and that can be put on a beautiful display and that is fun to hold in my hand." ”
"I hear you mean to buy some luxury?" Cher asked.
"By the way, I'm for the royal family, aren't the royal family lacking some new and weird things? It's also apt to call it luxury, do you have it? You're so skillful, you can do it. Don't worry, when will it be completed, I will give you all the payment, and you can just give me a receipt. ”
"What you said seems to be very general, there are so many good-looking, fun things that can be worn on women, how does Cher know what you want? What if we have one, and you have one? ”
"It would be nice if you could give me a sample, let me say I can't really tell."
"Okay, I'll look for it, I'm a little out of sight, I'll show it to you tomorrow if I find it?"
"Yes, yes! Little fairy, don't be too anxious and look for it slowly. ”
"Lady Kieran, do you believe me so much?"
"Huh! I just believe you, what's the matter? Everyone laughed at her as a "scoundrel".
Mr. James introduced Cher to these two Indian ladies, which made Cher like it very much, especially since the two of them had a very serious self-acquaintance spirit, and they had just come to mingle with Cher.
Cher only knew that they were Mrs. Kieran and Mrs. Ashmita, and as for what family they came from, the husband's occupation, etc., she didn't introduce them at all.
Xue'er is not embarrassed to ask more, what do you do when you ask so much about other people's family affairs?