Li's embroidery shop business is becoming more and more prosperous, the two counters separated by Wenying's grocery store are full of embroidery, Zheng Huozi put up two boards behind the counter, full of embroidery early every morning, and the market is picked and cleaned before dusk.

Some big girls and little daughters-in-law buy several pieces at a time, either for giving them away or for their own use, or to study the crochet pattern on the handkerchief, the same silk thread, the same cloth, the same jumper, how can they not embroider such a vivid pattern as the embroidery workshop. I bought it and looked at it carefully, and threaded it according to the needle on it, but I still couldn't embroider that charm.

You know, the embroidery workshop of the pattern is quiet and spend a lot of effort to describe, it seems that the two pieces of handkerchief are the same, but a closer look is very different, she every day to the embroidery workshop is not the same pattern, which needle is heavy and that needle is light, she is not afraid of another embroidery worker who bought a handkerchief to learn the head, the style they can learn to go, but the spirit of the inside is indeed stolen and can not be stolen.

The embroidery workshop only sells handkerchiefs, foreheads, belts, purses and other essential small embroidery pieces, to say that those embroidery girls have a grace to the Li family, all the thoughts are on the embroidery, all the work is the top of the best, they only these items, fine and fast, embroidered out of the same as live. It's just that now the embroidery workshop is either a widow or a divorced or abandoned woman, and the reputation is unlucky, and it is a pity that it is difficult to buy the big work of dowry. You know, Baitu Town is a bustling commercial port where people come and go, almost every day there is a dowry covered with red silk shuttling in the Xiaohuai River or on the official road, although the wedding dress is embroidered by the married girl, but not every girl is ingenious, there are such pampered twisted needles can not wear the thread, and after the order is completed, I am afraid that the rough stitches of the wedding dress are draped on the body. cut a few feet of cloth and bought a few catties of meat to go to the ingenious girl's house. If you open a happy shop, you can win this business.

Li is a kind-hearted person, opened the embroidery shop and made up his mind to invite those lonely widows first, because of the taboo of lonely widows, some of the big girls and little daughters-in-law who intend to come to the embroidery workshop to do work will not come, they are innocent people, and lonely widows gather together to work. In case a girl with a reputation spreads, don't even think about getting married. For this reason. People whose families are in a difficult situation dare not come to the door regardless of their reputation.

Li and Xuejiao discussed the embroidery shop, and now they have silver in their hands. But it's not like the rumors that he made a fortune, and if he wants to open a happy shop, he can't open it right away, and now Chen Xiucai has gone from Yuhang to Sichuan to sell Shu brocade, and he ran on the boat in those days. Li was anxious day and night, lest he fold his book. The money in her hand is reserved for urgent matters so that she can have a charter.

"What are you worried about, why do you have so much to eat and drink?" Mrs. Li brought two bowls of sweet tea to the Li family and clapped her hands, "I went to your shop a few days ago to take a look." The embroidery work is so bright, but it's a pity that their good craftsmanship is a pity. ”

Now the Chen family's big house is not as good as before, and the food and drink are better than the average rich family in the village. Li thought that the poor family couldn't open the pot back then. If it weren't for the help of my mother's family, where would there be such a good life. So I sent things to my mother's house every once in a while, and in the past few days, I have picked up my mother to live at home.

Mrs. Li saw that her daughter opened a shop, she was overjoyed, and when she asked and learned that the embroidery workshop was hired by a hard-working person as an embroiderer, she frowned at the moment, and secretly complained that her daughter was honest, you gave another way to live, and another one did not give you the opportunity to do business, this is not adjacent to the township, and you don't have to eat a bowl of rice, this is a real business, your embroidery is good, and it is not your turn to marry and have children. Mrs. Li tiptoed to the embroidery workshop alone to see it, and saw that the embroidery workshop was lively, the embroidery lady was not as sad as she thought, with a smile on her face, all of them were plain clothes, and her hands and feet kept embroidering and weaving, and Mrs. Li was happy at the moment.

She had heard about Lan Niang, and other embroidery girls pointed out to her, she saw that Lan Niang's face was still injured, and she was busy working with the minute needle, followed by a little girl who had not left her head to thread the needle.

"A beast with a thousand knives, why don't you die." Mrs. Li took Lan Niang's hand and looked left and right, the more she looked at it, the more she liked it, thinking of her ex-husband's abuse of her, she couldn't help but speak out for her.

She thought that just two months ago, it was rumored that her son-in-law was gone, she was like a thousand arrows piercing her heart, she only sighed that she was a pity for her daughter, fortunately it was a false alarm, otherwise Li was also like these orphan girls, and was regarded as an eye not an eye and a nose is not a nose.

When she returned to her daughter's house, Lan Niang sent her out far away, and she sighed when she entered the door of the north wing: "Then Lan Niang didn't accumulate virtue in her last life, so she found such a family." He also sincerely praised the Li family, "It's a shame that you give them a way to live, if it weren't for the embroidery workshop, those orphan girls would not be able to get it from the cold kiln." What you did right is to accumulate blessings, and this blessing will not be repaid to you, but to your children. ”

Li Shi drank a bowl of sweet tea, spit out the kernel in his mouth, and said to the old lady: "I am also discussing the matter of Xipu with Xuejiao." ”

As he was talking, he heard Xueru's voice outside: "Aunt Lan is here." ”

What is she going to do now, Li frowned slightly, could it be that something happened in the embroidery workshop.

Without thinking about it, Xue Ru led Lan Niang into the house, Lan Niang was dressed in a plain orchid shirt with a dark background, pulled up a smooth bun, inserted a black silver beaded hairpin, with a smile on her face, and when she entered the door, she had to curtsied first, and called to Li: "Mrs." ”

Since the embroidery workshop was set up, those embroidery girls have signed a live deed, and the embroidery girls in it are called "Mrs." when they see Li's, until now Li is not used to this title, listening to Lan Niang's shout, put down the red date tea in her hand, and hurriedly pulled her up: "According to the seniority, I should call you a sister." ”

Lan Niang pursed her lips and smiled: "You should be a wife." ”

Mrs. Li had already brought another bowl of tea, Xue Ru put two plates of fragrant pears, Xue Jiao pushed the fragrant pears to Lan Niang's side and greeted: "Eat pears, it's sweet." ”

Li Shi looked at her, helped her up, put a cushion on the chair, pulled her to sit down, looked down from above, and sighed: "You look much better." ”

Xue Jiao also looked at her carefully, since her ex-husband was stabbed and distributed, her heart was completely relaxed, and people looked relaxed, so they naturally seemed to be energetic. It's only been a short time of more than ten days, but now it looks very different, his face is ruddy, his back is straight, and he is smiling when he steps and raises his eyebrows.

"You're here now, but what's going on in the embroidery workshop?" Li Shi saw her eyebrows and smiled, and asked casually, he didn't take it seriously What would happen to the embroidery workshop, since he beat Lan Niang's ex-husband once, the shopkeeper Han helped to make a few meals, and stuffed two bottles of good wine into the head catcher for a few meals.

"The embroidery workshop is all good, and today's embroidery is more alive than yesterday." Lan Niang took a sip of tea and smiled with a smile on her face, "I heard Sister Xu say that our brother is going to participate in the Autumn Festival in a few days, I specially embroidered a pair of Wenqu stars to bring to my brother, and I only wish the title of the gold list, Hui'er, to give the Wenqu star to Mrs." ”

Xue Jiao and Li saw a seven or eight-year-old little girl standing at the door, this girl is also from Baitu Town, the family wants to sell her as a child daughter-in-law for a living, she desperately refused, happened to meet Lan Niang and was rescued, Lan Niang accepted her as a goddaughter, Li already knew about this, and allowed her to enter the embroidery workshop to live with Lan Niang, see you for the first time. The girl's round face, with joy, stepped forward to Li Shi and opened the box, inside a three-foot-long silk, picked up a Wenqu star statue, Wei Ran sat upright, holding a scroll in one hand, pen and ink in the other, the silk thread picked gold and silver threads, but it is a precious silk thread, which is rarely used by the wealthy.

When Mrs. Li saw it, she stood up and said, "Obediently, hurry up and make offerings for Qi An to make two pillars of incense in the morning and evening." Walking forward and rubbing the silk cloth, he didn't dare to touch the face of Wen Quxing: "This one, if someone else comes to invite it, it will cost dozens of taels of silver." "Such a fine work, such a long silk cloth, and the use of so many gold and silver threads, is not dozens of taels of silver.

Mrs. Li praised it, and Li also felt that this gift was really valuable, although Lan Niang made the most money in the embroidery workshop, but she could not give everything to such a pair of Wenqu stars, not to mention anything else, only the gold and silver wires would cost more than half of the money.

"I also have a pair of people there who have just started their heads, and it is the medicine prince who keeps the peace, and it is specially given to the old lady." Lan Niang looked at Mrs. Li and said with a smile.

Mrs. Li went back to the embroidery workshop, chatted with her, and said that her old man had a strange problem of not being able to eat meat, and Lan Niang actually remembered it in her heart, but when she saw her, she gave such a valuable gift. Mrs. Li was so happy that she couldn't close her mouth, shaking her hand, Li praised Lan Niang in her heart for being gracious, she worked day and night in the embroidery workshop, she had so much silver in her hand, how much did it cost to embroider two portraits, she was not as good as others, this was the silver on her side, and she could only find an opportunity to replenish her in the future.

After Lan Niang left, Li hung the statue of Wenqu Xing in Qi An's room, lit three incense sticks with his own hands, and turned back to the hall and sighed: "Which family of scholars does not invite Wenqu Xing, such a picture is time-consuming and laborious, and some scholars may not be invited even if they make silver." ”

Li just said it casually, and Chen Xuejiao's heart suddenly moved. Since the embroidery lady in the embroidery workshop can't touch the wedding dress and dowry, and can't make a lot of money by relying on handkerchiefs, foreheads, and belts alone, why not make the idea of embroidering the statue.

A few months ago, Li wanted to ask Chen Xiucai for a safe Guanyin, and he had to go to Xuzhou Mansion to get it. There are many temples in the area of Xuzhou Mansion, every household likes to worship the Bodhisattva, and there are people who go to invite the Bodhisattva every day. Like embroidery girls are people who have kung fu in their hands, usually listen to the scriptures and chant Buddha every day, embroidered Guanyin Tibet, there must be someone who is willing to spend a lot of money to invite the family, hang on the wall in the morning and dusk three incense sticks worship.

Chen Xuejiao thought about it for a while, and told Li Shi carefully, and before she finished speaking, Li Shi stroked her hands and praised: "It's still Xuejiao's mind is active, I see that the road works." (To be continued)