Lan Niang sent out two embroidered statues in a row, and for this love, the Li family treated her like the Xu family, did not hire from it, and gave her a great price if she sold it.

Li told Wen Ying about Xue Jiao's idea, and Wen Ying couldn't stop praising her niece, and immediately decided to embroider such a large object in the embroidery workshop. Zheng Huozi visited various private schools and temples, like Wenqu Xing and Guanyin statues are in short supply, especially now, it is very close to Qiuqiu, and generally people with students at home ask people everywhere, just to invite the statue of Wenqu Xing, so as to burn three incense sticks before the exam. How to endure, there are many people who ask, few people who embroider, like such an embroidered image, drawing, winding thread, walking needles, not staying up for ten days and a half months can not be embroidered, Lan Niang's craftsmanship is fast enough, and the embroidery of day and night will take seven or eight days to collect the needle.

Everyone listened to the news from Zheng Huozi, and their hearts were overjoyed. Those handkerchiefs wipe the forehead belt is the easiest to embroider, and there are three or four pieces of embroidery a day, but a handkerchief is only a few pennies, at most three pennies, and no matter how good your color is, how fresh the work is, it can't be sold if it exceeds three cents. After deducting the cost, you can earn a maximum of one or two taels of silver a month, which is not enough to rent a house.

Embroidering portraits is more than a small handkerchief to wipe the forehead, it seems that it takes more time and earns more money, not to mention the gold and silver thread embroidery image embroidered by Lan Niang to Li's family, only that the embroidered image embroidered by ordinary silk thread also costs twenty or thirty taels of silver.

Xue Jiao gave Li and Wen Ying another idea, the embroidered statue should also be divided into three, six, nine and so on, not all of them are the best silk inlaid with gold and silver wire, and ordinary people can't afford to invite such an expensive embroidered statue. There are only a few wealthy families in Xuzhou Mansion, most of them are ordinary people, if you want to do this business for a long time, you must consider the needs of ordinary people, and the embroidered images of gold and silver filigree cannot be let go. Naturally, there are rich and noble people who come to collect it.

What to embroider like, it was originally very simple. But neither Wen Ying nor Li Shi had ever done this kind of business, so they didn't think of it for a while. Xue Jiao's reminder, the two of them immediately followed Xue Jiao's train of thought.

Xue Jiao is already half an adult, and her temperament is becoming more and more refreshing, and she follows Zheng Huozi to buy silk threads every day, and gradually understands the entire silk thread business. Don't just think she's young at first. After she bought a few times alone and fought with the silk merchant a few times, those people didn't dare to underestimate it. After picking the silk, I have to go to the embroidery workshop every day to reconcile. The daily expenses in and out are clear, and Li and Wenying don't worry about it at all. Xuzhou Mansion does not have such strict rules for girls, and the daughter of a small family helped her mother take care of her younger siblings at the age of seven or eight, and there was a family that had no son and set up a female household. Inside and out, it should be the daughter's family who shows up, and it is not surprising that people who often walk in the market see women doing business. Therefore, Xue Jiao can participate in her own business without scruples.

"Xuejiao is a good boy, she is so knowledgeable at such a young age, but she was not deceived by that wolf-hearted dog at the beginning." Wen Ying said with emotion.

"I can go to the embroidery workshop every day to show everyone how to embroider quickly and densely." Jing Hao said, she has a natural comprehension of embroidery. After carefully observing Lan Niang's Wenqu star chart a few times, she had a plan in her heart, and she has been changing the needle method for the past few days. The purpose is to find a way to embroider the image quickly.

Li told the embroiderers in the embroidery workshop about the decision to embroider the portrait, and no one disagreed with the idea. It took some effort to earn more silver, and I agreed without even thinking about it. Not everyone can embroider portraits, Lan Niang is enthusiastic, willing to teach these sisters who work as hard as her, in the embroidery work is not selfish at all, from how to twist the thread, how to walk the needle, how to pick flowers, teach the boy carefully. Quiet good embroidery work, every morning to the embroidery workshop to teach embroidery Niang embroidery, busy until the evening to come back, she in addition to her own one-handed double-sided embroidery did not show, the rest of the stitches all taught to embroidery.

Soon, the first batch of three embroidered statues came out, one was Wenqu Xing, the other was Yangliu Guanyin who kept peace, and the other was the medicine prince who eliminated disasters and men. As soon as the three portraits came out, they were just hung in the Wenying grocery store, and they were bought, and in the evening, some people came to ask, and even gave a deposit to book directly.

The craft of the embroidery workshop is famous, within a few days, there are more people who have a name, and there are officials who came from Xuzhou Mansion to invite the Bodhisattva statue, Li listened to Xuejiao with a smile on his face, she and Wen Ying are kind people, they made money and did not forget the embroidery girls of the embroidery workshop, and added a few more words to the original salary, and the motivation of the embroidery girl was more sufficient.

Living in a courtyard, the movement of them to make this embroidery workshop is not small, the old man and Mrs. Chen in the upper room, as well as the people in the third and fourth rooms, all know about it.

Sanfang and Dafang have a good relationship, since the division of the family, Chen Zifu and Cai's two started the business of grinding tofu, and the capital is still borrowed from Li's, they know that Dafang has an embroidery shop to make money and is happy for Li's. And the big house is rich and has not forgotten them, every time Chen Xiucai goes to the house for a little object, the Li family will leave a copy for Cai's and Xuewa, Xueyan is not a little old, and the Li family gave a pair of golden bean earrings. Li's embroidery workshop has three meals a day, and often orders tofu from the third room, which adds a lot of income to them.

Cai said to Chen Zifu in private: "The richer the eldest brother's family, the better, in the future, the leakage of their fingers will be enough for us to eat, what kind of brothers are your two brothers, they have been in Xuzhou Mansion for so long, and they don't even bring a needle to their homes." ”

These days, Li, Xuejiao, Xueru, and Jinghao are all busy in the embroidery workshop during the day, while Mrs. Li cooks for Qi Ping and Qi An's two grandsons at her daughter's house. Mrs. Li is a neat person, and she is sometimes too busy with her hands and feet alone, so Cai's finished grinding the tofu every day and often comes over to help Mrs. Li cook the pot and wash the vegetables.

Mrs. Chen glanced through the window of the upper room, and secretly scolded Li from the inside out, and scolded Cai for being a eater inside and out.

Cai's personality is fierce, Mrs. Chen didn't scold her if she didn't scold her, so she walked around the chicken pen, pinching an old hen that didn't lay eggs, pointing at Sang and scolding Huai Dan to pinch Cai's weakness: "From morning to night, three meals a day are not the same feeding, it cost me so much food, and in the end I didn't even give birth to an egg." ”

Cai was sitting in Li's room talking to Mrs. Li, holding Xueyan who had just climbed in her arms, and was teasing her with a cloth tiger, and when she heard this, her hand trembled, and the cloth tiger fell to the ground.

Her heart was full of bitterness. But she has no room to refute this sentence, if she goes out to talk back, her mother-in-law will definitely say that she is scolding the chicken, but this is clearly scolding her, and her face is purple and suffocating. She knew that although her man was enlightened by his eldest brother, he also wanted a son in his heart, and he forgot about it when he was busy. My mother-in-law has such a loud voice today. Chen Zifu was soaking beans in the house, and he might have something to think when he heard this.

Mrs. Li couldn't see her mother's style, so she pouted. She is not afraid to slap her own face when she says this, her daughters are different, and the two daughters who are different from each other are here to reveal the scars of their daughter-in-law, and now they greet their mother-in-law with a smile on their faces through the window: "Mother-in-law." Come to the house and drink a bowl of tea, what do you care about a chicken? Maybe it's thinking in its heart that no matter how many eggs it lays, it's not that it's been eaten. Hey, mother-in-law, I heard that Wen Yan is pregnant again. I'm afraid it's just a kid. This was said euphemistically, and Mrs. Li smacked in her heart, it is better to look at her own daughter who does not lay eggs if she has that spare time.

A sentence blocked Mrs. Chen's mouth. She was bitter in her heart, but she couldn't say a word.

Wen Yan handed a letter to his mother's family a few days ago saying that she was pregnant. After two days, it was rumored that it was not Ximai, it turned out that she was greedy for cold and sour cucumbers and ate too much, and she couldn't stop spitting sour water and didn't believe in the moon, thinking that she was pregnant, and she made Mrs. Chen happy in vain.

When Old Man Chen came back in the middle of the afternoon, she wiped her tears and cried, not crying about being squeezed by Mrs. Li, but crying to Wen Yan: "...... It's not easy for my daughter, she is not your daughter, you don't feel distressed, how can you do without a son, I heard that the eldest daughter-in-law's embroidery workshop embroidered Guanyin, if you go to the eldest daughter-in-law to ask for a picture, hang the text at home, three incense sticks a day, I don't believe she can't give birth to a son. ”

The big house has plenty of money, and I didn't forget to go to the room, Xuejiao often runs to the room to send food to Mr. Chen, yesterday I heard that grandpa wanted to eat sauce elbow, and I bought one early this morning for Chen Zifu to bring, and the rest of the half of the food at noon is being placed on the table.

Old man Chen has lived comfortably these days, and his face has a brilliance in and out, and he learned that his eldest daughter-in-law and second daughter have partnered to open an embroidery workshop, and he is really happy for the big house.

Mrs. Chen scolded three times a day: "I'm crazy about money, open an embroidery workshop to make money, and lose you to death." ”

Old man Chen saw her crying like this, and was silent, the little girl gave birth to two daughters, which has always been a problem in his heart. How can the girl who grew up not hurt.

"You're thin-skinned, if you don't say it, I'll say it." Mrs. Chen straightened her chest, with her understanding of the Li family, it was easy to hold her and ask for an embroidered statue, and the crying she had just now was just to get her husband's support.

In the evening, Li and the others came back from the embroidery workshop, and as soon as they put down their chopsticks after dinner, they saw Zhang enter the house, and his eyes fell on the chicken leg on the table: "Sister-in-law, my mother asked you to go to the room." ”

Li and Mrs. Li glanced at each other, she heard about the afternoon incident, is it difficult to set rules for her, Mrs. Li crossed her waist: "Don't be afraid, you go to yours." Xue Jiao also followed, and helped your mother get an idea when she was in a hurry. ”

Xue Jiao and Li went to the upper room, the old man Chen was not there, the old lady Chen was sitting on the side of the kang, eating walnut kernels, seeing the Li mother and daughter coming in, they didn't raise their eyelids, and said: "The embroidery in your embroidery workshop looks good to me, if you embroider a picture of Guanyin for Wen Yan, it won't take much effort to leave and right, and you should accumulate virtue for your children." ”

This is true, there is no beginning and no end, Chen Xuejiao was a hundred dissatisfied in her heart, and wanted to pull Li away on the spot. Li is not the Li of the past, she has always disliked Wen Yan, an embroidered image has to spend a lot of effort to embroider, so painless to give to people who don't like it, but also depends on whether she is willing or not: "Mother, the embroidery statue of Guanyin has not yet started, and now the embroidery is ordered by another one, since it is my sister who begged to come, then I will follow my sister's life first." ”

When Mrs. Chen heard this, she was proud in her heart, let you make money, you don't know the east, west, north and south, and you will not be soft in front of me.

"It's just that I don't know how much silver my sister has made" Li's voice was like a mosquito, although her back was straight and she dared to face Mrs. Chen, the habits she had cultivated over the years could not be changed all at once, and she still put the silver on the bright side. Chen Xuejiao glanced at Li in admiration.

The smile on Mrs. Chen's face froze on her lips, and she raised her voice: "Do you want money?" ”

Chen Xuejiao said: "Sending Guanyin is the most difficult to embroider, generally such an embroidered image costs thirty taels of silver, and my aunt is not a bystander, so I will give fifteen taels of silver." ”

Fifteen taels of silver, that's the cost of the croppers for two years, Mrs. Chen's stomach hurts angrily, and she really wants to slap it.

Xue Jiao pretended not to see it and brought out Wen Ying: "My mother is not alone in this embroidery workshop, most of the business in it is my aunt's, and my mother can't be the master." ”

The corners of Mrs. Chen's mouth twitched even more, who is not good at mentioning Wenying, it is better for her to beg Wenying to let her die.

Chen Xuejiao took the opportunity to pull the Li family out, and happened to meet the old man Chen, the old man Chen and the Li mother and daughter exchanged a few words, and suddenly said: "Wen Yan, your sister, the heir is difficult, alas! (To be continued)