Three days later, Mama Lin went out and went to the Ruyi embroidery workshop near Andingmen accompanied by the second-class maid Yue'er. Looking at Mama Lin's dress, giving people the feeling of a lady from a big family, the guy hurriedly went upstairs and invited Gu Ruyi down. Mama Lin was originally from a big family, and she has a noble momentum in her bones. Yun'er dressed her as the wife of a big family is not a façade decoration, and now Suo Qing has rehabilitated Zhaoxue and restored her official position as a first-class guard. The first-class guard is the third rank of the martial arts in Beijing, and the court member of the Eight Classics. Soon the emperor will have a holy decree to canonize Mama Lin, Yu'er, Shui'er, Mustache, Bun'er, Mrs. Chen, and Mrs. Zhu's Doctor's Wife, and this lady is also worthy of the name.

When Mama Lin and Suo Qing got married, Yun'er once gave Mama Lin eight pieces of authentic brocade cloth, which was brocade with the effect of Su embroidery. Mama Lin is not only excellent in Suzhou embroidery, but also a first-class master in cutting. made several beautiful cheongsams from Yun'er's brocade. Suo Qing is the official position of Zheng Sanpin, and she can't be shabby herself.

"Greetings to Madame." Gu Ruyi bowed down and made Mama Lin blush. They have met, Mama Lin often comes here to sell her embroidery, but as soon as she changes her clothes, Gu Ruyi has to change her attitude when she recognizes it, and she can't be so casual.

"Shopkeeper Gu doesn't need to be polite, let's just take a look." Mama Lin sat down but didn't drink tea. With Yue'er's support, she carefully admired Gu Ruyi's Suzhou embroidery hanging on the wall. "Insiders look at the doorway, laymen look at the liveliness", in Yue'er's view, every embroidery here is so fine. But Mama Lin has her own vision, the stitching and color matching are impeccable, but the sketches used are unsatisfactory. It gives the impression that the flowers are all half-flowered, and there is no three-dimensional effect. At first glance, it looks good, gaudy and bright, but it can't stand up to scrutiny. Almost all people are willing to listen to praise, and there is no one who likes others to find fault with them. Mama Lin is pregnant, and she doesn't want to cause trouble. In case a guy is short-tempered and beats himself indiscriminately, the fetus in her womb will suffer, but she can't let herself come for nothing, so she thinks about countermeasures while looking at the embroidery, how to convince Gu Ruyi, and willingly buys the four estimated drafts.

"This lady must be an expert and looks so carefully. Can I improve it after putting forward the shortcomings below. ”

"Shopkeeper Gu is kind-hearted, he actually has such a request, this is the person who does great things." Mama Lin hurriedly praised her. Then he deliberately brought out the Jiangsu and Zhejiang accents and said to Gu Ruyi: "Listen to the accent, Gu is the shopkeeper from Suzhou, don't you?" ”

Just three words "yes", Gu Ruyi's tears all came down, the familiar local accent, the kind Wu Nong's soft language, Gu Ruyi actually forgot the reserve of the past, and suddenly took Mama Lin's hand: "Madam, you are also from the south?" ”

"Ala Taicang people."

"It's the old Suzhou of Didi." Gu Ruyi also came to a pure hometown dialect.

Both laughed at the same time.

"Sit down, sit down." Gu Ruyi changed to Beijing again, and her attitude was very enthusiastic: "What do you call Madame?" ”

"My surname is Lin, and my husband is Manchurian. I have long heard that the shopkeeper Gu came out of the palace, and he is very capable, and it is not easy for a woman's family to run an embroidery workshop. ”

"Where, where, Mrs. praised it falsely, ran it with a small capital, and ate it with a mouthful of food. If the lady takes a fancy to the embroidery in the contemptible shop, Ruyi can give you a discount. ”

"Thank you very much. I would like to ask you if I can pre-order embroidery here? I'm sorry, I want to use my own sketches, please embroider the embroidery, so it won't be too abrupt, right? It's not that the drawings you use are bad, it's ......."

Gu Ruyi's heart was overjoyed, and she immediately said, "Madame is too worried." You produce your own sketches, we don't want the cost of drawings, only charge your manual fees, it's nothing, the eyes of the guests are different, radish and cabbage, each has its own love. You bring your own sketch and we will embroider it according to your sketch. Did you bring it? ”

"Bring it, Yue'er estimates, you give it to Shopkeeper Gu."

Yue'er took out the sketch from one of her delicate bags and handed it to Gu Ruyi respectfully. Gu Ruyi also took it with both hands respectfully, and said in his heart: I also brought my own sketches, who can cross the sketches in our store? When I opened it, I was stunned: there were several blooming peonies in front of me, swaying as if they were alive.

Rao is Gu Ru has too many opinions, and he has also seen top embroidery drafts in the palace, but he has never seen such a beautiful and superb painter, that is, the real peony is open in front of him! She couldn't even breathe, and her eyes were fixed on the sketch for a long time. It seems that Gu Ruyi is really not the kind of big profiteer, cunning and cunning, who is good at hiding his emotions. Some people obviously like it but want to disparage. Her joys, sorrows, and sorrows were all on her face. Mama Lin has been observing her, and the details can also look at people's character.

"Madam, did you paint this drawing?"

"No, it's painted by the four estimates in our house." Mama Lin's words are not fake.

"It's a young lady, huh? That's amazing! This painting is alive! ”

"My family has been painting since I was a child. Gu shopkeeper to see if you can embroider it? It is better to embroider it without being out of shape at all. ”

"Yes, yes! You can rest assured. I don't know if it's used? ”

"Of course it's better to be faster."

"Understood, understood! Do you name a date? ”

"How's twenty days?"

"It's a little rushed, let's do our best. This lady has a reluctant request. ”

"You say."

"The painter in the Ruyi shop went back to the south to visit relatives, and there was no news for several months. He said before that he wanted to take the road of official career, and we can't delay the future of others. It is estimated that he will go home to review his homework, and there will be a big exam next year. So, if you want to buy your artwork, you won't lose in price. How about we give ten taels of silver for a medium-sized delicate sketch here, and twenty taels for yours, double? ”

"Well, my family didn't say they wanted to sell the manuscripts, and I sold them halfway, and she wanted to lose her temper, I ......"

Gu Ruyi immediately "guessed" that the fourth girl that this lady said must be her stepdaughter. Or Miss Yanchu, the official wife in front of her is a side room, and she doesn't dare to call the shots. It may be that she is giving a dowry to the young lady, and the young lady is not good to come forward in person. Seeing that his wife was hesitating, Gu Ruyi gritted his teeth: "How about giving you thirty taels for each medium-sized drawing?" "She can't let go of this lady's drawings no matter what, and such drawings must be kept!

"This ...... I'll go back and ask about it, the painting was painted by her, and we don't particularly need money, it's not good for the boudoir woman's painting to be passed on outside after all. ”

"Don't worry, we won't go out to show off and publicize this. We use this kind of painting ourselves, for fear that others will rob it. You go back and discuss with the young lady, how to say that we are also fellow villagers. If the sketch can be sold, the manual fee will be waived this time. ”

"That's not good, one yard is one yard, how much should the manual cost be, you say a number. I'll go back and ask about the draft. She agreed to me before she dared to give it away. You have given a lot of money, and I am sure she will agree. Otherwise, I'd be in a big way. ”

"Okay, okay, you can ask, Ruyi really likes this painting so much, it's vivid, our capital is really a place where the dragon and the tiger are hidden." As for the embroidery fee, it is 20 taels embroidered on both sides of the pillow, 50 taels embroidered on the quilt, and 30 taels embroidered on the cheongsam. ”

"Our embroidery is bigger than an ordinary pillow, but it is a single piece, how about thirty taels according to the price of the cheongsam?"

"Yes, you can."

"So that's it? When you're done, count the money. Farewell. ”

"Madame, walk slowly."

"You stay."

Mama Lin's business is negotiated! With the support of Yue'er, I went out of the embroidery workshop, bought some snacks and fruits from the south, and went home. Along the way, he and Yue'er kept laughing. Yue'er stretched out her thumb and praised: "Mama Lin, you are really from a big family, you have a style!" Gu Ruyi took the initiative to take the bait......"

"What do you say, stinky girl? Co-author: I'm a cunning man? It's just that the words are getting there. I'm still worried about what to say about selling paintings, and she took the initiative to buy them. I guess, the painter she said wants to flash them, and if no one gives them a draft, they won't have to embroider, and when they see our master's sketch, can they still put it over? In fact, with this sketch, she can use it many times, and she won't suffer at all. I also learned Suzhou embroidery and know how to trace. ”

As soon as Mama Lin left, the other embroidery girls in the store spoke: "Shopkeeper, don't rush to the doctor, Master Lu will be angry when he comes back." ”

"If he doesn't come back, we'll be fish drying under the eaves, dry?" Gu Ruyi will also make witty remarks. Yes, there are more than a dozen people in the store waiting to eat, if Master Lu doesn't come back, everyone will starve to death? This person is really, he doesn't say hello when he leaves, and it's not a shame to participate in the scientific examination, everyone can understand it. Who wouldn't want to run for a future? You have to say when you'll be back, right? People can arrange the rest of the matter, they can't wait for you for a lifetime, but it's good, don't say goodbye, do you dislike giving less wages, or who said anything unpleasant? Such a small amount of gas for a big man!

"Look at the drawings drawn by others, they are still painted by a young lady, and no one can live without this world." Gu Ruyi was very dissatisfied with Lu Painter.

"Wow! No wonder, the good fortune of the shopkeeper Gu can get such a sketch! If we can embroider it, we can sell it at a good price! But what exactly does the size of this sketch do? nor like the face of the face, nor like the cheongsam. ”

"It doesn't matter where he uses it, let's just embroider."

On the third day of Mama Lin's visit, Mama Xi came to the Ruyi embroidery workshop. Gu Ruyi was very surprised, and Mama Xi, who had repeatedly rejected her, actually came to visit. Gu Ruyi, who has always taken "harmony and wealth" as his creed, still greeted him with a smile: "Oh, isn't this Sister Xi?" Come here, there is a long way to welcome, please sit, come, tea! ”

"Alright, don't be busy. There is something to tell you, isn't our house doing business for the emperor? I'm afraid that you, a well-informed person, also inquired, that Nalan department store will sell some goods to the house, and the shopkeeper Chen will also sell cloth to the house, and the people themselves also have their own goods, that is, they sell a small part. My sister can't arrange you to go to the house to learn art, but I also thought about whether I would like to find a way for you to sell some embroidery for the house......"

"Wow, Sister Xi, you're my mother, right?" Gu Ruyi's interjections were all chaotic with joy. She saw with her own eyes how Chen Ruiqian and Nalan Donggui's small shop was prosperous, but it was just selling on behalf of others, and she didn't need capital. Then you can take a profit from it, so why not?

"Don't be too happy, there are rules for selling on behalf of others. The first is that you are not allowed to increase the price arbitrarily, and you must sell it at the price set by the government; Second, you have a profit, sell one tael and you will have a hundred wen, and sell ten taels with your hard work; The third is that it is not allowed to be sold by others. The house is to see my face to give you a chance to make money, and I have done it for you with all my words, isn't this better than you entering the house to learn art? ”

"Good, good, great! I don't need to make a profit, which is the blessing of my life. Hi sister, how should my sister honor you? How about eating roast duck at noon? ”

"I don't eat that, greasy and greasy." Mama Xi wiped her eyelids.

"If you don't eat roast duck, then eat this." Gu Ruyi knows the mentality of older palace maids best and likes silver. smiled and gave a silver coin of ten taels, and Xi Mama accepted it half-pushed and half-accepted it. From the bag he brought, he took out a dozen sachets, purses, and handbags.

"You sell it first, this is called a siu mai bag, ten cents a piece, this is a purse, it is also ten cents, this is a handbag, there are many materials, it takes a lot of effort, and it is also good-looking, the key is embroidered, one hundred cents. When you sell, see which one the customer likes, tell me, and get more for you next time. I have other things to do, and I'm gone. ”

"What did you say, you left without taking a bite of tea?"

"You don't come. The house can trust me, but I can naturally trust you, and you can take a closer look at other people's work when you look back. If you want to learn, isn't it ready-made? ”

"Listening to your words, it's better to read a book for ten years, Daigo empowerment, Daigo empowerment! My sister Xi, you are really my second parent......"

"Nasty, flamboyant. You just try it, these kittens and dogs on the purse are called cartoons, we don't have them in the Qing Dynasty. The embroidery method is also very strange, what is it called? Forgot. Walked away. ”

"Ruyi sent my sister and hired a car for you."

"Thank you very much."

Send people back to see, the sachets and purses are in the hands of all the embroidery girls, they are usually good sisters, and it is not easy to grab them. He asked, "How's it going?" How is it better than what we embroider? ”

"We? Where are we going? How do you see people embroidering? The kitten is about to stand up. ”

"It's velvet embroidery!" I saw it in Nalan Department Store, Gu Ruyi was going crazy! The fluffy kitten is also dressed and so cute! What cards, cartoons? What do you mean? Wow, how did you make this little bag? In the hand, it is small and exquisite, and it must be a young girl's favorite. This purse is lock embroidery! That mother of mine thought that Ruyi would never be able to learn these skills again. Isn't it possible to learn what you bought from Nalan Department Store? Forgot, forgot! There should be a sketch, my own embroidery is a human hand, and painting is a pig's hand.

"It's okay, it's okay, think about it slowly." Gu Ruyi was a little restless.

"I said shopkeeper, are you a little out of business? You just thought about embroidering Mrs. Lin's Su embroidery, why is it velvet embroidery and lock embroidery? "Senior Li Xiuniang is very disdainful of Gu Ru's opinion, this mountain looks at the mountain high.

"We are in the business of Suzhou embroidery, so don't mess up other messy things.