Zeng Rong, who sat down, took the initiative to pour a cup of tea for the shopkeeper, sent it to her with both hands, and then sat upright, waiting for the other party to speak first.

Shopkeeper Yu stared at Zeng Rong for a moment, then picked up the tea and asked the first question, "How many years have you studied embroidery?" ”

"Back to the shopkeeper, three months." Zeng Rong can't lie, Old Madam Xu must have inquired clearly.

"Smack." The shopkeeper put the water cup on the table and raised his eyebrows, "You dare to enter the Splendid Workshop in three months?" Do you know who the embroiderers who enter the Splendid Workshop are? ”

"Back to the shopkeeper, it's not very clear, it was the second wife who took the initiative to introduce me to Mrs. Xu, and Mrs. Xu explained to me that I should start with small things, and if I don't know how to do it, I will learn more from others." Zeng Rong had no choice but to move out of Mrs. Xu and the Bai family.

"What is the relationship between you and Mrs. Xu?"

"I don't have a serious relationship, I helped her family a little favor by chance, and in return, she brought me to the capital, originally planning to leave me in the Xu family, because I didn't want to sell myself as a slave, and I wanted to beg for food with my own skills." Zeng Rong didn't mention any life-saving grace, for fear of arousing the other party's disgust.

But who is the shopkeeper?

Thinking of the words of Mother Zhao and Mother Jiang, she concluded that Zeng Rong should be the life-saving benefactor of the eldest grandson of the Xu family, so Mrs. Xu would repay the favor, but she didn't understand why her wife wanted to take this errand.

After all, there are many embroidery workshops in the capital, and with the name of the Xu family, there is still nothing to do?

This is one of them, and the second is that a little girl from the countryside, if she can enter Xu Mansion to be a maid, it would be a good choice, but this girl emphasizes that she doesn't want to sell herself as a slave and wants to support herself, what is her confidence?

Third, this girl is polite to her, but she is neither humble nor arrogant, she is by no means a country girl who has never seen the world, what is her true identity?

Thinking of his true identity, the shopkeeper Yu asked a series of questions about Zeng Rong's background, family status, and family members.

Zeng Rong picked out some answers that could be said, and there was nothing to say about the part involving the secret of her rebirth.

In the end, when the shopkeeper saw that he could not find anything useful, he called a maid to come in and asked her to get some needlework and a plain silk handkerchief, and she wanted to test Zeng Rong's embroidery skills on the spot.

Silk handkerchiefs and needles and threads were soon delivered, and the shopkeeper ordered Zeng Rong to complete a painting by himself within an hour, with no limit to the subject matter, and he painted whatever he wanted to embroider.

Zeng Rong thought for a while, asked for a paintbrush, and drew an orchid pattern, this is easier to explain, there are a few orchids planted in the flower garden of the academy, and she has embroidered it before.

The shopkeeper waited until Zeng Rong completed the orchid picture before getting up to leave, during which she kept silently staring at Zeng Rong's strokes, and before going out, she glanced back at Zeng Rong again, but Zeng Rong was bowing his head at that time and didn't notice her glance.

After about half an hour, the shopkeeper Yu came over again, this time, she did not enter the door, but only stood at the door and observed Hui Zengrong's needle and thread before leaving.

After about a quarter of an hour, Zeng Rong embroidered this orchid, and saw that the other party did not come to inspect the goods, guessing that there should be a little time, so she took a pen and drew two lines of poetry, "If there is no spring breeze blowing, who will the fragrance be for." ”

After the description, Zeng Rong embroidered these two poems, after embroidering, she got up and twisted her neck, feeling a little swollen lower body, then remembered that she had not moved for more than an hour, so she put down the embroidered bandage, went out to find a maid to ask the location of the thatched house, and went straight to the thatched house.

The thatched house is in the back cover room, directly from the verandah on this side of the wing room There is a moon door past, through the moon door, Zeng Rong found that the back cover room also has three upper rooms, but the room here is obviously smaller than the front, so the three upper rooms are next to the side room and a partial room, there is a well in front of the side room, and a forty-year-old mother-in-law is choosing vegetables and washing vegetables by the well.

Zeng Rong had the heart to ask her identity, but he was afraid that it would not be good for it to pass into the ears of the shopkeeper, so he went back to the front yard directly past her.

Who knew that when she returned to the previous east wing, she saw two maids standing at the door of the wing, and when she saw Zeng Rong coming, one of the maids waved her hand, and Zeng Rong stopped.

About half an hour later, I saw four maids coming out of the front exhibition hall, holding a bunch of ornaments with a tray in their hands and entering the east wing.

It's just that she has nowhere to go here, the three upper rooms next to her are like embroidery girls' workshops, Zeng Rong is not a good person to rush into, and there may be some nobles in the hall in front, and it is not good to collide with anyone, so after a little thought, she had to stand in place.

I waited for half an hour.

Hearing the movement in the house, Zeng Rong consciously stood behind a doorpost, although she wanted to know some guests who came to the door, but she understood very well, now is not an opportunity, if you don't get it right, it will be troublesome to offend the shopkeeper.

It's just that Zeng Rong never expected that what came out of the room was actually a eunuch wearing a brown eunuch uniform and a three-mountain hat.

From the conversation between the two, Zeng Rong captured a message, this eunuch's surname is Liu, it seems that the Dragon Boat Festival has arrived, and he came out to buy some sachets and colored bags or something.

Surnamed Liu, Zeng Rong's mind turned around, but unfortunately, she was really not familiar with the people in the palace, although she lived in Xu Mansion in her previous life, she was a concubine after all, besides, she had just entered Xu Mansion in this period in the previous life, and she was only six years old, and she would not come into contact with these.

After about a quarter of an hour, the shopkeeper returned to the courtyard, and was just about to open his mouth to call someone to call Zeng Rong, when he suddenly saw Zeng Rong standing under the porch, so he beckoned to her, and Zeng Rong followed her into the east wing again.

"Who taught you to embroider the patterns on the silk handkerchief?" The shopkeeper sat down first.

Zeng Rong saw that the embroidered bandage he put on the desk was still there, but the silk handkerchief on it was gone, although he was a little puzzled, but he pretended not to know, "I came up with it myself, there is a cluster of orchids in the academy where I live, which was planted by the mountain chief himself, I saw that the mountain chief liked it very much, and one day he drew an embroidery sample for me." ”

"What about the poems on it?"

"I just saw it last night, and I thought I'd make something chic, maybe you'll like it."

When the shopkeeper heard this, he asked her what book she had seen and why she chose these two poems alone.

"Back to the shopkeeper, because these two poems are easy to understand, I remember, but it is coincidental and appropriate, it is the orchid."

There was nothing wrong with this answer, and the shopkeeper Yu didn't ask anything more, got up and stood up, and motioned for Zeng Rong to follow her.