Chapter 58: Not advisable
Half an hour later, Zeng Rong sketched a cluster of raspberries on his silk handkerchief.
The reason why I thought of embroidering this was because of Xu Jing.
Xu Jing was bitten by a snake this time because he mistook the snake bubble fruit for a raspberry, so, in a sense, the relationship between the two has a great relationship with raspberries.
It's a pity that Zeng Rong hadn't painted raspberries before, so it was quite difficult to paint, and it took her almost half an hour to barely get a look.
It's just that what she didn't expect was that when she embroidered this raspberry bush, few people knew about it, some said it was mulberry, and some said it was lychee, so after breakfast, everyone gathered around her to discuss this thing.
Unfortunately, when they learned that this thing was growing in the middle of a field, several people immediately pouted and returned to their seats.
"Ah Rong, why don't you embroider the orchid?" Ah Mei bit Zeng Rong's ear and asked, she didn't understand Zeng Rong very much.
"It's nothing, even if you think about it, you can't embroider a hundred orchid silk handkerchiefs, and there's nothing wrong with changing the patterns, maybe someone will like it? Seriously, wouldn't you want to take a bite when you see it? Let me tell you, the sweet and sour are delicious. Zeng Rong asked, pointing to the two red fruits.
"Really?" Ah Tao swallowed when she heard this.
At breakfast, the four of them sat together, and Zeng Rong found that Ah Tao's meal was the largest among the four of them, and he belonged to the category of eating Ma Ma Xiang, so he was also the fattest of the four of them.
"Of course it's true, if you don't believe me, I'll take you to the fields when I have a chance next spring."
After speaking, Zeng Rong realized that he was wrong, because there was no such thing in the northern region, and Xu Jing took her to Zhuangzi to find it in the previous life, and returned disappointed.
Sure enough, as soon as she finished speaking, Amei asked her suspiciously: "You are from the south, is there this thing in the north?" How come I haven't seen it? ”
"You're from the north?" Zeng Rong actually found out that Amei's accent was different from everyone else, a very pure Beijing accent, unlike others, most of them had a southern accent, and most of these embroidery girls came from the south.
"You don't know, Amei is from the capital and is the shopkeeper of Yu. . . ." Ah Tao said quickly.
"Ah Tao, don't always put me and Shopkeeper Yu together, I am a little related to Shopkeeper Yu, but I also entered the Splendid Workshop with my own ability." Ah Mei was not happy and interrupted Ah Tao's words.
"That is, if you want to put it this way, I also have something to do with the shopkeeper Yu, this is originally the Bai family's industry, what is so strange about how many Bai family children there are?" Ah Ying scolded Ah Tao.
"I, I didn't mean that, I, I didn't mean that, I, I..." Ah Tao saw that these two people were angry and wanted to explain, but in a hurry, she couldn't say everything.
"Okay, it's all my fault, I have to talk to you about raspberries." After Zeng Rong finished speaking, he picked up his embroidered bandage, and the time for a stick of incense was almost up, and he was ready to work.
Fortunately, the three of them didn't say anything more, after all, most people started work at this time, and talking again would affect other people.
After embroidering this silk handkerchief, Zeng Rong thought that good things would come in pairs, so he simply embroidered another raspberry, but this time she added a vine.
To be honest, because she has to embroider different patterns every time, Zeng Ronghua does not spend much less time on drawing patterns than embroidering silk handkerchiefs, so at the end of the day, she only completed four silk handkerchiefs, one of which was completed most of it yesterday.
However, she replaced the fourth silk handkerchief with a daisy, without him, this kind of daisy also grows on the field, she has embroidered it in her hometown before, and the effect is good.
Before getting off work, Amei collected several of their embroidered silk handkerchiefs and handed them in, Zeng Rong knew that they could get 20 yuan for each embroidered silk handkerchief, Zeng Rong calculated that it would take her about a month to spend about a month on this 100 silk handkerchiefs, that is, she could earn two silver a month.
If ordinary people can get so much in a month, they may be very content, but for Zeng Rong, this bit of silver is tantamount to a drop in the bucket.
It seems that she has to open up some other way to make money.
When she was struggling, Amei came over to pass the word, saying that she was looking for her in the shopkeeper.
When Zeng Rong heard it, she guessed that it was related to the silk handkerchief embroidered today, and after finishing the abdominal draft, she entered the east wing.
Sure enough, the shopkeeper Yu was in a daze at a pile of silk handkerchiefs on the desk, among them, the two silk handkerchiefs embroidered with raspberry patterns and the silk handkerchiefs embroidered with daisy patterns were placed in the most prominent position.
"Shopkeeper Yu, are you looking for me?" Zeng Rong stood in front of the Luohan collapse.
"Why did you change your style?"
"Back to the shopkeeper, I think so, the people who buy silk handkerchiefs are some boudoir ladies, they are used to seeing orchids, peonies, plum blossoms and other elegant things, I want to change something new for everyone to see."
She was also inspired by Xu Jing, with the conditions of the Xu family, Xu Jing had never eaten any delicacies from the mountains and seas, but he was alone in the heart of the raspberries born in the fields, which shows that people still need freshness occasionally.
"If you say that you are accustomed to seeing elegant things, who wants to appreciate those vulgar wild pleasures? That's it, forget about the embroidered two, from tomorrow, you still continue to embroider orchids, if you really want to change, replace it with peonies, begonias, pomegranates or something, no matter how bad you can embroider a few butterflies or something. ”
Zeng Rong saw that the other party's face was elongated, and he didn't smile at all, so he had to respectfully agree.
In fact, if she only embroidered orchids, it was actually a good thing for her, and she was very familiar with it, so she completed four silk handkerchiefs in one day the next day.
This time, Shopkeeper Yu didn't look for her again, but Amei begged her and asked her to add two lines of poetry to her silk handkerchief.
The other party begged with a smile, Zeng Rong couldn't pull his face to refuse, and in the end he still helped Amei write two lines of poetry, "I have no intention of fighting for spring, and I am jealous." ”
"I'm sorry, I just remember these two sentences, you can't look for me next time, I have to look for it now, by the way, Sister Amei, why don't you go to the two sisters Bai Zhi and Zi Xia, and ask them to help you draw the picture?" Zeng Rong asked.
She guessed that the shopkeeper was disappointed when he saw the four silk handkerchiefs she embroidered the day before yesterday, so he gave this idea to Amei, right?
But what Zeng Rong can't figure out is that it's just a silk handkerchief, why should he be so particular?
No, these boudoir ladies' silk handkerchiefs are generally embroidered by themselves, and no matter how bad they are, there are maids to help embroider, how can they buy silk handkerchiefs from the embroidery workshop?
Therefore, in addition to sending the silk handkerchiefs of the embroidery workshop to the palace, I am afraid that they are more sold to the children of those families, right? And these children of the family are generally elegant or something, so when the shopkeeper saw that Zeng Rong couldn't help her, he abandoned her and used Amei.
Or, her original intention at the beginning was to let Ah Mei follow her to learn embroidery poetry, otherwise, why didn't she get the four of them together at the beginning?