Seeing Master Lu's happy and sincere appearance, Gu Ruyi's heart let go and relaxed. I simply showed him the fabric art items sent by Mama Xi. Although the shopkeeper is Gu Ruyi, Lu Painter is also a pivotal figure in this embroidery workshop. Doesn't it mean that his painting skills are very poor, he was at that level in that era, can he compare with foreign painters?

"Who made this? The materials used in these things are not from our Qing Dynasty! Shopkeeper Gu, I didn't expect you to be very powerful in the past few months, don't get me wrong, I'm not angry now, I'm telling the truth. What are you talking about, what do you do? ”

At this time, Gu Ruyi would be a fool if he didn't speak again. If Lu painter doesn't take advantage of the opportunity to show off, when will he wait?

"You ask Mama Xi? She is a show girl who was selected to enter the palace, and like Ruyi, she stayed in the palace for ten years, and went to the Ruiwang Mansion when she left the palace. In the past, Ruyi liked the cross-stitch on their house very much, and begged her to bring Ruyi into the house to learn skills. But she is just a little housekeeper in the house, even if she is brave, she doesn't dare to bring Ruyi in, and Ruyi can't let people lose their jobs. Later, she didn't feel like it, she didn't know what kind of door she worshipped, and she actually took the fabric made by the girls and grandmothers in the house to let Ruyi sell it. They are all embroidered on them, which also conforms to the rules of our embroidery workshop. ”

"Wait! Shopkeeper, you say Rui Wangfu? That Xi Mama is from Rui Wangfu? Your connections are powerful enough, and you have hooked up with the palace. These things were made by the maids and ladies of the Rui Wangfu? No way? Have you taken a closer look? Look at the stitches on this purse, is this made by man? ”

All the embroiderers laughed: "Lu painters are used to telling jokes, isn't it what people do?" ”

"You are women, you should have a smaller heart than me! Hee-hee-ha-ha, these pins are generally big! The measurement with a ruler is generally large, and no matter how skillful the hands are, they can't! This Ruiwang Mansion is a place where the dragon and the tiger are hidden! Listen to me, starting tomorrow, I will go to the market to inquire about the Ruiwang Mansion, and when you go back, you will find that Xi Mama, let's invite her to dinner, and get her drunk......"

"Isn't that okay? The secret of your palace is to be killed! ”

"It's not a secret of the palace, it's a secret of craftsmanship! The palace doesn't bother us in any way, I just want to get those strange skills of the Rui Wangfu. You see, these purses, sachets, and this small bag, many of them are not the styles and materials of our Qing Dynasty. If you look closely, it's not a way to do work! I'll go out for a spin tomorrow. Shopkeeper Gu, you want to find a way to invite that Xi Mama here. What kind of heart? What did she say that she shouldn't say, did she dare to go back and report to her master? You women have long hair and short knowledge, and sesame seeds are a little bit bold. ”

All the embroiderers burst into laughter.

Lu is really a bit condescending to be a painter, and he is still very qualified to be a secret agent. He is a man, and he doesn't worry about being molested by the disciples wherever he goes, so he walks around and asks everywhere. From being aimless to squatting in teahouses and soaking restaurants, I finally heard about the "Jade Dragon Hot and Cold Drink" related to Ruiwangfu. Without saying a word, he "came". As soon as I entered the hall, I was shocked by the huge peony with a "bright future". Lu painter, who has been painting all year round, can be sure at a glance that this painting and the manuscript sold to Gu Ruyi are completely and completely painted by one person! Although the embroidery manuscript belongs to the fine brush painting, this is freehand, but the shape, posture, painting method, pen and ink, and coloring of the peony are the same! After carefully looking at the inscription and seal, the "Feiyun Mansion Lord" was impressive. This Gu Ruyi is really easy to fool, and he said that he is a young lady, which young lady has such a name? It's clearly an old man who is over the age of old! Without fifty years of painting experience, it would not have been possible to paint such a majestic giant peony. How can the woman's painting have traces of delicateness, don't look at anything else, just the inscription, 'Only the peony is true to the country, and the flowers are full of the capital', the pen is strong, like a whimsy, sprinkled, flowing clouds and water, all in one go. Completely everyone's handwriting, but also women! What a vision!

There is not only one Lu painter who looks at the painting closely, but at least more than ten people. Everyone has to show their prophetic prescience, and preemptively make a statement: "This painting is full of divine strokes, brother palace, please look here, this peony has a yin and yang side, and a real peony is open in front of you." ”

The person known as "Brother Gong" shook his fan and said: "Brother Wu only saw one leaf, but not Mount Tai. The petals of the whole peony are from deep to shallow, and the natural transition is true and accurate. I pondered for many days and couldn't figure it out. A few days ago, I was drinking with friends in the private room, and I heard the person next door say that Feiyun Tower is the residence of Fujin on the side of Rui Wangfu, and it must be called this. ”

"You mean that this painting was painted by Prince Rui's side Fujin?"

"Not what I meant, it's someone listening to the person next door. The man also said that this woman was stunning, and followed the prince and brother to a place called a foreign land, learned a lot of exquisite skills, taught the maids and daughters in the house, and sold all the money to the emperor and deposited in the treasury......"

"Bang dang!" Painter Lu really fell into the dust and fainted.

When he woke up, someone sent him back to the Ruyi embroidery workshop, and he was lying on his bed, where several embroidery girls took care of him.

"I said Master Lu, earlier you also said that our women have long hair and short knowledge, and sesame seeds are a little bold. But none of us are like you, and we faint when we look at the paintings. If it weren't for a wife who had bought our embroidery, recognized you and sent you back in someone else's car, we wouldn't have known that you had gone out to show your face. "This is what the embroidery lady Li Mama said.

"Shame, shame! I think that I have reached the age of standing, and I have achieved nothing, and I am no better than a weak woman. ”

"You have always looked down on women, and you always say that women have long hair and short knowledge, how is it today? There are also heroines among our women! ”

"We don't need to invite that Xi Mama, everything is clear, the one who drew for us is the side Fujin of the Ruiwang Mansion, and the money from the sale of the painting will be sent to the treasury. There are people of such a high realm in the world! ”

"Well, Mama Xi told Ruyi. Lord Rui and Fang Fujin also had a guard who traveled for a year, and they didn't know where they went, and the things they brought back were all rare things that the Qing Dynasty didn't have. ”

"We must not give up this opportunity to cooperate with the Rui Wangfu. Prince Rui's reputation in the government and the opposition is the best, and among the favored ministers of today's saints, the greatest credit is also Lord Rui, it's right to follow him! ”

In addition, in the Ruiwang Mansion, there are orders for large families and eunuchs in the capital to order gifts for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Handbags are the mainstay, as well as a variety of delicate small pendants and cross-stitch embroidery. Tian Liang divided the maids in the house into several work areas according to their work positions. Each district is responsible for one product. The Xiaoyao Palace, Temple, and Family Temple of the Middle Road Building are all managed by maids and maids, and there are also one or two halls that can be used as a place for processing various commodities. Tian Liang specified the location of these sites for processing a certain product, and at the same time issued one woodworking board to each work group as a workbench. Each workbench can sit around ten people to work, count a work group, designate one person as the team leader, one person as the deputy team leader, manage the ten girls and grandmothers to process products, supply Nalan Department Store, Yulong Buzhuang and processing orders. There are also specific management rules, which are very similar to the exotic "post responsibility system", but they are stricter and more detailed than that, the rewards and punishments are strict but not harsh, and the work can be fully bearable. At present, there are those who specialize in making sachets and handbags, those who specialize in wearing bracelets and necklaces, those who specialize in silk screen flowers, and those who specialize in crochet flowers and headdresses. Ten maids and women gathered together, and the materials for making work were placed in the middle of the case. The most conspicuous is the kind of large axis called "tower line", inserted in the iron rod of an iron plate that can be rotated, who wants to sew the needle, pull the thread, sew the thread, and cut it with small scissors, which is very convenient. Small beads, small buttons, and crystal rhinestones, bright crystal glass, plastic buttons, metal flowers, and resin flowers are all placed on a plate, and anyone can get it with it, which is very convenient. Remuneration is paid 10 days after the sale of the goods. Everyone was calm, and after finishing their own errands, they began to process various products. But in the outside world, King Rui's Mansion has become the center of discussion between the government and the opposition. With the prince as the mainstay, the two heroines, as well as the two brothers-in-law of the prince, and even the eight teaching grandmothers such as Yu'er Shui'er and Mama Zheng have become well-known shining stars.

The order still started with the grandmother on the five-grade official mansion, and the Mid-Autumn Festival gift was set just after the Dragon Boat Festival. There are many people in the house, and there are many children, and the young master and young lady all like those delicate gadgets. Eight hundred sachets were ordered at one time, and of course there were also gifts and rewards for others.

The order needs to be signed and half of the deposit must be paid in advance. Tian Liang is the only one who signed the contract, and he is an expert. If you want to be sloppy and take advantage of the contract, there is no door.

More and more people ordered, and all the maids and women in the house participated in the processing and production, and they all processed the products in their own residences. Methodical and meticulous. is still too busy like this, under Yun'er's suggestion, with the approval of the prince, and Tian Liang's overall arrangement, "second-line" personnel such as Mama Zheng, Mama Liu's daughter-in-law, and daughter are all on the battlefield. Nalan Donggui's daughter-in-law Fucha? Wen Jing, sister Nalan? Dongzhu also became a member of the cloth army.

The prince's business path can only be regarded as a real step from now on.

Since the use of sewing machines, the efficiency of processing and making fabrics has increased by leaps and bounds. The sewing machine is the first process, there is a place where the sewing machine is used, the sewing machine is first processed, such as embroidery, embroidery and then synthesized pockets, if the sachet is filled with vanilla, lavender or sun-dried petals, and then synthesized, the matter of filling is the eunuch in each yard, the little maid is responsible, to the sachet sewing seal, rope, wear colored beads, decorate the knot and tassels are the girls and mothers who can needle and thread. Check whether there is a place to drop the line, and then check by the inspector to determine that the name of the processor, the name of the processed product, and the number of pieces are registered, and then packed and sealed, which product is to be sold, and then checked by the custodian and relevant personnel out of the warehouse, and then sent to the place where it is needed to sell. The sales proceeds were first handed over to Mr. Chen, the chief accountant, and the capital was retained in proportion to the state treasury, and then the rest was distributed according to the fruits of labor. The whole process was rigorous and error-free, and there were no loopholes.

The girls and grandmothers were very confused, and the manual work they did was the same as before, but the method was different: they used to do it themselves from beginning to end, but now they have done more than half of the materials in their hands, and everyone's task is to put up pockets, sew ropes, buttons, and so on. Who did all those embroidery and sequins? Don't dare to ask, who asks who is "Yu'er": "Do your work, ask so much about what to do?" Curiosity kills people, you know? If you have this effort, you will earn two more pennies if you do more! ”

Think about it, don't you? I asked people and didn't tell them, and they were "Yu'er" in vain. No one asks, making money is serious.

Order one after the other, or several copies at the same time. The more orders you place, the busier the maids and girls become, and the more money they make. The housekeepers often reveal the news of the order to these front-line processors: "There is an order again, everyone work carefully and don't rework." Rework, delay time, delay and make money, and there is no face. ”

This is from the bottom of my heart.

During this period, Prince An, Prince Xian, and Prince Jian all came to the palace as guests. When they saw the people in the house working in a busy and orderly manner, they really realized that the emperor's support for Prince Rui was not completely in the grace of saving his life, but the fact that Prince Rui was really down-to-earth. Prince Jane, who has always had an opinion on the emperor and has also had a slight opinion about the prince, is really convinced. Prince An said: "This guy Jidu has rarely admired anyone, and now he is throwing himself into the ground for the second brother of Fuyou." ”

"I am throwing myself into the ground for the second brother of Fuyou, but I am even more on the ground for the sister-in-law of the Chen family."

"You guy, don't talk too much." Prince Ann warns Prince Jane.

"What's wrong with me? Don't think about it. I just admire the painting that people painted, how can it take forty or fifty years to practice that kung fu, and people are stunned to draw a peony to stand up. Last time, I asked my sister-in-law for two peonies, both of which were framed, one in the main hall and the other in the dormitory of Fujin. Fourth brother, you have been practicing painting for fifty or sixty years, right? I haven't seen your painting come to the top yet. ”

"I drank too much, and I said I didn't go off the board. I'm not even forty years old, and I've been practicing painting for fifty or sixty years? How did I live? You're thicker than the city walls, and you've made two at once. ”

"I ask for one for myself, and my family asks for one, and each asks for his own, why can't I? You're thin-skinned, and there are dozens of women in your backyard. ”

"Strong words, talk about painting, don't talk about anything else."

These two, just like Mama Zheng met Mama Zheng, they fought when they met.