Chapter 72: Faith (2nd Update)
What Zeng Rong didn't know was that the ten purses she embroidered were not placed on the display case, but were privately hidden by Yu Yunqing, but before the private collection, she ordered Bai Zhi and Zixia to draw twenty similar patterns according to these ten purses, and the poems were copied and not changed.
The next day, when Zeng Rong arrived at the embroidery workshop early in the morning, Ah Mei and Ah Ying were both lying on the desk and drawing the patterns of the cicada series, which Zeng Rong was not surprised.
Soon, Zeng Rong himself was busy.
This time she planned to embroider the orchid series, which was a temporary decision she made last night, firstly, because there were not many poems about grasshoppers in her head, and grasshoppers were not animals with noble meanings, and secondly, she remembered the orchid silk handkerchief with verses she had embroidered on the first day she entered the embroidery workshop.
Father-in-law Liu can see the silk handkerchief at a glance, indicating that the person he wants to send must be very fond of orchids, but if it is only because of orchids, I am afraid that Father-in-law Liu is not so interested, after all, there are more people who can embroider orchids, but if there are two lines of poetry on it, the meaning is different, after all, most embroidered girls are illiterate, and will simply draw gourds in the same way, without novelty, it is difficult to enter his eyes.
It's a pity that Zeng Rong didn't figure out the joints at that time, and she didn't want to show her strength too early, so she refused the hints and explicit instructions of the shopkeeper.
This time, Zeng Rong chose light purple satin, and she also planned to make a series of ten, so after the cropping, she began to draw again.
The three of Ah Mei were all busy drawing their own tricks with their heads bowed, but they were surprised to see Zeng Rong draw directly on the satin surface without even making a draft, and Ah Mei was the first to bully her.
"Ah Rong, why did you draw orchids again?" She clearly remembered that Zeng Rong said yesterday that she wanted to embroider grasshoppers, and her aunt told her so.
"I didn't like a few grasshoppers after I went back yesterday, and I thought I would go to catch two grasshoppers outside the city in a few days to see and then paint, but I couldn't be idle, thinking that embroidering a group of orchids was the same, and I embroidered so many orchid silk handkerchiefs before, and I could draw them without drafting." Zeng Rong stopped what he was doing and explained.
"Are you really going to catch grasshoppers?" Tao came over.
Zeng Rong nodded, "No, although I've seen this thing, I've never painted it." ”
In fact, she did not paint grasshoppers well, on the one hand, she was not familiar with it, on the other hand, she had never painted it, unlike cicadas, although she was not very familiar with it, but she had painted with Xu Jing a few times in her last life.
Therefore, it is not surprising that Zeng Rong's group of cicadas series can be favored by Yu Yunqing.
"Well, my brother and sister are idle, and I'll let them catch two and send them to you." Ah Tao said enthusiastically.
"Okay, thank you very much." Zeng Rong was not polite to the other party.
However, when Ah Mei heard that the tone of these two people was so familiar, she intuitively felt that these two people must not only have a friendship in the embroidery workshop, thought about it, and said: "What are you doing with this, ask Bai Zhi or Zixia if they haven't painted two paintings?" ”
"It's okay, but I haven't embroidered an orchid-patterned purse, so it's the same if I embroidered an orchid first."
"Let's embroider orchids, orchids are simple, I don't have confidence that I can embroider this cicada." Sakura looked up and said.
It took her a long time to draw this cicada, and it must be more difficult to embroider it, and she has no confidence in herself.
"No problem, you can tell the shopkeeper Yu when I finish embroidering." Zeng Rongzheng didn't want to be this wicked person.
Because she had embroidered dozens of orchid-patterned silk handkerchiefs before, she was familiar with both orchid painting and orchid embroidery, and it only took her seven days to complete the ten sets of orchid-patterned purses.
Similarly, this set of purses in front of Yu Yunqing surprised her again, but this time it was not because of Zeng Rong's embroidery skills, but because of Zeng Rong's temporary flexibility.
"Why did you suddenly change your mind?"
"Because I'm not happy with the grasshoppers I painted." Ready-made reasons, Zeng Rong repeated.
"Then why do you want to add a poem to it?" Yu Yunqing asked.
Don't blame her for being careful, before she asked Zeng Rong to add a poem to the silk handkerchief but Zeng Rong refused, and later Amei asked Zeng Rong to help inscribe the poem on the silk handkerchief, Zeng Rong only gave the title once and refused, on the grounds that she would only have that sentence.
At first, she originally believed it, but the last time she saw Zeng Rong's purse of the set of cicadas, she knew that Zeng Rong had lied, but at that time she was only happy and forgot about this stubble.
If the cicada last time was a coincidence, then this orchid is definitely not simple, so she must ask to understand, she doesn't want to be busy for half a day to make wedding clothes for others.
"Naturally, it's because of the silver, the last time the cicada had an inscription poem, so I could get one or two pieces of silver, and this time the orchid must be the same, there are more people who can embroider orchids, but there are definitely not many people who can inscribe poems." This reason was thought of by Zeng Rong when he decided to embroider orchids.
This reason was direct enough and frank enough that Yu Yunqing almost believed it, but she quickly remembered the lies that Zeng Rong had told.
"By the way, you're not saying you didn't go to school, but where did you get these verses? Also, I asked someone to authenticate your handwriting, and they said that you have at least ten years of skills, but you told me that you have only been learning for a few months. After Yu Yunqing finished speaking, she looked directly at Zeng Rong.
She was waiting for Zeng Rong's explanation.
Zeng Rong's eyes widened when he heard this, his mouth opened slightly, and then he smiled, "Impossible, right?" Am I so good? To be honest, these poems are now learned by myself after entering Beijing, and I have been practicing the characters, but I used to practice them on the ground with tree branches, and it was really only a few months since I really started to learn words. ”
The last sentence obviously had some teasing meaning, but it made Yu Yunqing believe Zeng Rong again.
However, it is better to say that she gave up the question, what she wanted to do has not been done, at this time she definitely does not want to talk to Zeng Rong against her, so this time she also gave the ten purses ten taels of silver, and still made a request, the patterns of these ten purses were handed over to Amei to embroider, and Zeng Rong continued her grasshopper series.
Zeng Rong only found out that this set of orchid pattern purse Yu Yunqing only gave Ah Mei in the afternoon of the next day, Ah Ying is still embroidered before the cicada series, probably because it is not enough to sell, Ah Tao also began to embroider the purse, which is also the cicada series.
Because of this discovery, Zeng Rong went to the exhibition hall again when he had a gap to consume food after dinner, and found that neither the cicada series nor the orchid series embroidered by himself were put out, and even the cicada series embroidered by Amei was not seen.
That's kind of weird.
Zeng Rong had the heart to ask the shopkeeper, but she was afraid that the other party would reprimand her for talking too much, so she had to endure it.