"How much?"

"Twenty taels."

"Huh? Twenty taels is expensive enough. Still, it's really good-looking. Shopkeeper Chen, how about I introduce you to a buyer? It was Gu Ruyi, the embroidery girl who came out of the palace, who opened a large embroidery workshop and made money. ”

"I think I've heard of it."

"I'll go to her now, and before she comes, please don't sell it."

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say." Rui Qian thought, don't you say that I can't sell it for a while, Sister Yun's pricing seems to be too high.

Just thinking about it, a few guests came in, and one of them was a young woman who must be the master, and the imposing princess and queen were not far behind.

"Young grandmother, look, there must be an embroidery in that box."

"Let the shopkeeper take it down for me."

"Yes, slave and maid obey." A personal grandmother who accompanied the young grandmother hurriedly went to the counter where Rui Qian was standing: "You are the shopkeeper?" My grandmother told you to take down the embroidery that was hanging on it. ”

The man put on a large stool and took it down: "Can't I get it for you below?" ”

The young grandmother couldn't say that she could hang it up and take it down again, so she said: "Shopkeeper, this embroidery doesn't seem to be Su embroidery." ”

Ruiqian introduced: "This is a novel embroidery called cross-stitch, which is different from Suzhou embroidery, Beijing embroidery and other embroidery methods."

"How much silver?"

"Twenty taels."

"So expensive?"

"It seems that the price is a little expensive, but this lady, please see, this cross-stitch is not the embroidery method of the Qing Dynasty at all, and even the embroidery thread and embroidery cloth are different from the Qing Dynasty. If you look at this embroidery, there is only a rose on the picture, with dew and thorns, and with shadows. Do we have it in the Qing Dynasty? There is a saying that rare things are expensive, in which embroidery shop have you seen such embroidery? ”

This young grandmother likes this cross-stitch very much, but she still thinks it is expensive in terms of price, so she grinds hard with Ruiqian there, and Ruiqian just doesn't let go.

At this moment, a woman in her thirties came in, looking at her dress, although she was not a lady of a large family, she was capable and free, with a momentum. When he came in, he said to Ruiqian: "You are the shopkeeper Chen, right?" I'm going to have this cross-stitch. My friend has already said hello to you to stay, right? ”

Chen Ruiqian remembered that before this young grandmother, there was indeed a sharp soprano who talked to Gu Ruyi of Andingmen, and asked him to keep the cross-stitch, and hurriedly said: "Is there such a thing, you are the Gu shopkeeper of the Ruyi Embroidery Workshop?" ”

"Exactly." Saying that, two ingots and ten taels of silver appeared on the counter.

Chen Ruiqian handed the cross-stitch to Gu Ruyi. The young grandmother next to her refused: "."

Well, what? I didn't say I wouldn't buy it, is there such a domineering one? ”

Chen Ruiqian smiled and said, "This lady, this cross-stitch was indeed left by the trustee of the shopkeeper Gu, just before you." ”

"Why do you want to sell it to me if you have been left behind? Two of them? ”

Chen Ruiqian was not angry at all: "Didn't you say it's expensive? ”

"Hey, strong words, I have to buy it, what's wrong?"

Just now, I was grinding for half a day and didn't mean to buy it, so someone would buy it and she would rob it, what kind of person. If Chen Ruiqian was a big-tempered person, he would have been able to quarrel with her at that time. However, he has always pursued the business principle of "harmony and wealth", and never had quarrels with customers. So he said to the young grandmother very sincerely: "Do you think this is good for this lady?" This kind of cross-stitch is a new kind of embroidery, which has just come in from outside, and this shopkeeper Gu can buy it, and other guests will also buy it. There will definitely be a new kind of cross-stitch another day. At first glance, you are a reasonable person, why don't you raise your noble hand and let it go, and come back another day? ”

A "reasonable" appeased the young grandmother: "Can there really be?" ”

"Naturally, if it's convenient for you, come back tomorrow and the day after tomorrow? Maybe there's something better. ”

"Okay, I'll listen to Shopkeeper Chen."

It's really good, and it's reasonable. The roses with dew let Gu Ruyi buy them steadily. Gu Ruyi is also a person on the scene, and the shopkeeper Chen is really committed to giving face. He said, "I'm sorry to embarrass you." ”

"It's nothing, if you like it. The lady just now liked the embroidery too. ”

"Shopkeeper Chen, I would like to ask you, who embroidered this cross-stitch?"

"I'm sorry, the embroidery was sold in the store by my relatives, and he didn't say who embroidered it." Chen Ruiqian knew that Gu Ruyi wanted to learn cross-stitch, and he didn't spend a few words to learn it and save the shackles. Even if the government didn't tell him not to tell people about the source of embroidery, Ruiqian wouldn't say it, this is professional ethics.

Gu Ruyi couldn't ask anything, so he had to leave. She is also in business and can understand this Chen shopkeeper.

Gu Ruyi bought the cross-stitch back, excited and excited. This is a new kind of embroidery that she has never seen, although she is learning Suzhou embroidery, and she is also very interested in other embroidery species and embroidery methods, and she is not the kind of person who is conformist. However, Suzhou embroidery is an independent embroidery species, with its own unique embroidery methods and characteristics, cross-stitch is not involved. She is interested, for example, she likes to eat sweet, and occasionally taste sour.

Andingmen is not close to Zhengyang Street, Gu Ruyi hired a carriage with a canopy, and watched her cross-stitch along the way, how good it looks. I think if I can learn it, the store will sell some cross-stitch as well. The embroidery workshop sells embroidery, and no one stipulates that only Suzhou embroidery is sold, so you must understand this skill!

Gu Ruyi is an older palace maid who retired from the Palace Embroidery Bureau. In addition to contracting and processing Suzhou embroidery, it also collects new sample sketches, and the business is relatively lively.

After Chen Ruiqian's Jade Dragon Cloth Village was hung with the emperor's royal gold plaque, its reputation was shocked, and Gu Ruyi also came here to buy sachets, purses, small pockets and wide-faced cloths. There is also a kind of flower made of transparent yarn, which is incredibly beautiful, and it is all materials and methods that are not available in the Qing Dynasty.

Gu Ruyi's store doesn't operate these, because she is interested in them. She was walking on the way to Yulong Buzhuang when she met a friend who hurriedly sent her a letter, and came without saying a word. As soon as I entered the door, I saw an embroidery with a very special embroidery, not Suzhou embroidery, not Hunan embroidery, not Guangdong embroidery, not Beijing embroidery, but also in a good-looking frame. The swaggering young grandmother was grinding with the shopkeeper Chen. Looking at the dress is from a big family, looking at it is simply a king of the door. So I made a quick knife to cut through the mess and bought embroidery.

When she was in the palace, she used to be a small leader of the embroidery bureau, and the level of Su embroidery has reached a certain level. It is a foreign "special recruitment" to enter the palace, and the embroidery girl who is additionally recruited is a Han person.

When he reached the age of leaving the palace, Gu Ruyi did not return to Suzhou, but stayed in the capital and opened an embroidery workshop. Specializing in high-end embroidery. It is said that she has a good relationship with a certain adult in the palace's internal affairs office, and a woman can eat in the capital without relatives, but it is not simple.

After taking the cross-stitch back, Gu Ruyi was in his room thinking about how to take out the embroidery and study it well. From the surface of the embroidery, it can be seen that this cross-stitch is completely different, the stitching method is simple to home, many stitches are a cross, and these crosses of different colors form a beautiful picture. There must be a very special sketch that tells which stitch is what color. Gu Ruyi doesn't care how expensive things are, but how to learn to make money. This cross-stitch is certainly not worth twenty taels, but it is the only one of the scorpion tails. While others have not yet learned, they have learned, and then embroidered and sold, that is, a piece of ten taels of silver, embroidered a hundred and a thousand taels are waiting for it, a huge capital, there are many officials, and their families are enthusiastic buyers of embroidery.

Gu Ruyi felt quite good about this cross-stitch, and wanted to think about it carefully, but he couldn't figure out how to take the embroidery out of the frame. It turned out that Yun'er didn't let Tian Liang nail the small nail in the back, but sealed the back with the yellow tape paper used for the package. It's not that I'm afraid of people looking at it, and I think it looks clean.

Gu Ruyi scratched his ears and cheeks anxiously, and there was nothing he could do. Fortunately, her aunt and cousin worked as a bookkeeper in the store. The bookkeeper picked up the frame and looked at it over and over. Finally, a small piece of upturned tape was seen on a corner, gently pulled up, and little by little carefully pulled apart, the frame was finally opened.

Picking up the embroidery and looking at it, Gu Ruyi understood how it was embroidered. She has been learning Suzhou embroidery since she was five years old, and she is quite sensitive to the stitching of embroidery. The embroidery cloth of cross-stitch is not from the Qing Dynasty, and the embroidery thread is not from the Qing Dynasty. The shopkeeper Chen of this Jade Dragon Cloth Village is really cunning, and he didn't mention a word about why this embroidery method is embroidered.

Gu Ruyi came to Yulong Buzhuang again and greeted Ruiqian very warmly: "Oh, shopkeeper Chen, if you have a golden plaque in your cloth village, you can smash us to death." ”

The eldest sister laughed. We are in business, and we are also accumulating pennilessly. You must have something, right? Let's put it bluntly. ”

"Shopkeeper Chen is refreshing! Who embroidered the cross-stitch that the little woman bought back yesterday? ”

"As I said below, my relatives entrusted me to sell it on my behalf. I really don't know who embroidered it. Under is a man who is not interested in embroidery. ”

"The little woman can't get the news in vain, please accept this little meaning." With a coquettish smile on his face, he pushed an ingot of ten taels of silver in front of Rui Qian. Rui Qian hurriedly pushed back: "This eldest sister, if I accept your money, I should go home tomorrow to pick up the child." You've also seen the gold plaque on the door, which wasn't hung up casually, so please forgive me for not being able to tell you anything. ”

"You're a real man." Gu Ruyi didn't mean to be angry at all, but with a coquettish face, he quietly took the silver back.

"Your relatives are also in the cloth business?"

"Pretty much."

"It seems that your relative is a person with eyes and hands."

Ruiqian snickered. The heart said, "Shall not only the eyes of the hands reach the heavens?" It was a prince Chitose. "If it had been someone else, it would have been a good time coming. But Ruiqian's personality is similar to that of his uncle, and he is very low-key.

Gu Ruyi put it left and right, and didn't put a word of news out of Ruiqian's mouth that she thought was very important. I had no choice but to think of another way.

Pregnant! Gu Ruyi thought of someone who could have a very reliable source. Go find him!

"Hey, my boss, what are you busy with, hurrying your steps?" Gu Ruyi finally "accidentally" met the emperor's personal eunuch Wu Liangfu and Wu Gonggong in the palace. I don't know how to talk about it, Gu Ruyi actually climbed into the hometown with Wu Liangfu.

"Why is Miss Gu so idle?" Don't look at Wu Liangfu as the emperor's personal eunuch, but his attitude towards people is very kind.

"Where is the little girl idle? There is something important to ask the chief manager. ”

"The girl is very popular outside the palace, and she still needs to consult our family?"

"Look at what you said, I was just trying to honor you, so you came. Don't be too little, drinking tea and playing cards can last for a few days. As he spoke, he stuffed a silver ticket of one hundred taels into Wu Liangfu's sleeve.

"Well, there's an eye. Say, what to know. ”

"You must have heard of the Jade Dragon Cloth Village on Qianmen Street, right? Is it the one that the emperor gave the gold plaque? ”

"It's not just that I heard that when the emperor wrote the inscription, it was still the ink that our family gave the research. You are from the embroidery workshop, he sells cloth, and the wind and horses and cattle are not related, so ask him what he does? ”

"Why not? Qianer Ruyi also bought an embroidery in Yulong Cloth Village. You also know that Ruyi has been doing this embroidery for many years, but I haven't seen other people's embroidery, just make a fork, and connect it into a piece that is called good-looking, Ruyi just wants to know who is doing embroidery. ”

"Even if you asked, I'll tell you, don't compete with Yulong Buzhuang. What about people's backstage, just you? I can't spell it. ”

"Where does Ruyi dare to fight with the merchants who hang the royal gold plaque, I just want to learn how to embroider it."

"I'm afraid it's hard. I'll simply tell you, Yulong Buzhuang is the business of Rui Wangye, and the shopkeeper Chen is Rui Wangye's eldest brother, that is, the cousin of Fujin on the side of Rui Wangfu. Those delicate purses, sachets, and small bags are all made by the maids and ladies of the Ruiwang Mansion, can you go into the mansion to learn? ”

"That's exactly what Ruyi means. The troublesome manager sent Ruyi in as a relative. ”

"What are you kidding? The courage is greater than that of the nest melon. The recipe for making cold drinks is not allowed to be leaked by the queen mother and the emperor, and you still want to run into the belly of the princess of the iron fan to be a demon? Other people's trading is for the emperor to make money, and you can also send the money you earn to the treasury? I advise you to die of this heart! It's not that I don't help you, it's that I can't kick my head as a ball, I have to go back quickly, or the emperor can't find our family, he should be scolded. ”

This news is so important! A hundred taels of silver are not in vain! Although he couldn't go into the Rui Wang's Mansion to study, Gu Ruyi knew that the woman in the mansion was the Xitara clan in the garden of the Rui Wang's Mansion. Gu Ruyi is a specially recruited embroidery girl, and Xitara is the palace maid of Xiaoxuan, both of them belong to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and they have met many times without a big friendship. They are all in the ranks of the minions, and their identities are similar. The difference is that Hitara is Manchurian, and Gu Ruyi is Han.

Hitara was a little out of time, when she entered the palace, the emperor Shunzhi was still young, and when Shunzhi grew up, she was more than twenty years old, although the palace maid also had the opportunity to be favored by the emperor, but Hitara did not catch up.

Gu Ruyi and Xitara don't have much friendship, so there is no conflict of interest, so naturally they won't make enemies. Both of them are the same, they have been in the palace for ten years and have been out of the palace. Xi Mama entered the Ruiwang Mansion, and Gu Ruyi opened an embroidery workshop. The identity is half a catty and eight taels: a retired palace maid.

After leaving the palace, what the two of them wanted to do most was to get married. is already twenty-three or four-year-old, and no one wants it if he doesn't get married. Unfortunately, Gu Ruyi's fiancé who was married since childhood passed away, but Xitara's was not married, and the people who raised the matchmaker were either old men or concubines.

Hitara is also a little bit beautiful, with a glimmer of hope, and asked someone to enter the Ruiwang Mansion. She knows that there is only one side Fujin of Prince Rui, and there are three vacancies, and Wang Ye Fujin naturally likes to understand the rules, and maybe there is hope of being a side Fujin. It's just no, the pro-soldiers and guards in the house are all young people, and some of them have families. As a result, I didn't achieve my ideal for several years after entering the house, so forget it. It's much better in the Ruiwang Mansion than in the palace, at least you don't get beaten, you don't get scolded, you get the monthly routine on time, you don't have to live tremblingly, so you are willing to stay here for a lifetime.