Chapter 57: Tricks
Zeng Rong remembered very well that she had not removed the embroidered bandage from the embroidered bandage after she had embroidered the silk handkerchief yesterday, and then she went out on a trip to Gong, and was stopped outside the door when she came back, and when she went in again after the eunuch left, the embroidered bandage was empty.
The most important thing is that after sending the eunuch back, the shopkeeper Yu was a lot more friendly to her, not only promised her to stay, but also assigned her tasks.
Therefore, Zeng Rong suspected that his silk handkerchief might have been taken by the eunuch, and he might have taken it away with other silk handkerchiefs, sachets, fan covers and other things.
So the question is, who is the father-in-law for? Unlikely it could be himself, right?
If Zeng Rong didn't guess wrong, it should be which favorite concubine in the palace likes orchids, so this father-in-law took it to borrow flowers to offer Buddha.
Which favorite concubine will it be?
Also, what is the identity of this father-in-law?
Zeng Rong felt like there were several ants crawling in her heart, but no matter how itchy it was, she couldn't ask these words, at least not now.
"Sister Honggu, do we usually embroider a lot of orchids?" Zeng Rong turned a corner and asked.
"How can you ask that?" Honggu asked rhetorically, without even raising her head, and naturally she didn't stop the movements in her hands.
"Yesterday, the shopkeeper gave me a hundred silk handkerchiefs, requiring that the patterns cannot be repeated, I, I'm a little worried, I'm afraid I can't draw so many patterns."
When Honggu heard this, Fang stopped the needle and thread in her hand and looked up at Zeng Rong, "If you are worried, you can go and consult the two girls, Bai Zhi and Zixia, who are responsible for drawing patterns for everyone." ”
"Is there one? Where, Shopkeeper Yu didn't tell me this. Zeng Rong turned around and looked around, except for the embroidery frame, there were personal cabinets in these three rooms, and he didn't see any tables or other things.
"The two of them are in the West Wing." After speaking, Honggu lowered her head, obviously not wanting to continue.
Zeng Rong had to get up when she saw this, she wanted to stand up and see if there were any orchid patterns on these embroidery frames.
Not to mention, I looked around, and I really saw an embroidery girl embroidering an orchid picture in the northwest corner, but her focus was not on orchids, but on the butterflies dancing on the orchids, orchids were just embellishments, and butterflies were the focus.
Zeng Rong was just about to walk over to take a good look at the layout of this embroidery, when Amei came in, Zeng Rong had to turn around and step forward.
"I'm sorry, I locked the cabinet for you without your consent yesterday, you won't blame me for a lot of trouble, right?"
"What is my sister talking about, Ah Rong is grateful, yesterday I also went out for the first time, thinking about the little sister at home, I had to take the first step." Zeng Rong explained.
At that time, she was really anxious and didn't think it through, so she put the things down and left, she didn't think that someone would make it bad, but she felt that she was embroidering a silk handkerchief, and no one should have trouble with her.
Taking a step back, even if someone really can't get along with her, she won't lose much, just a silk handkerchief.
Besides, the embroidery work on these embroidery shelves in the house, which one is not more precious than her, since no one is locked up, isn't it a bit of a fuss for her to do this, obviously distrusting others?
"Okay, there's no need to be grateful, you don't think I'm troublesome, I'll help you get all the materials you need, you can check it yourself." Ah Mei smiled and handed the key to Zeng Rong.
Zeng Rong took the key, Amei followed her to the cabinet in the east room, opened the cabinet, Zeng Rong found that there was an extra basket in the cabinet, in the basket was a few rolls of embroidery thread and a set of embroidery utensils, and then there was a burden, open the baggage, inside was a hundred strips of various pigments and a bunch of embroidery thread.
Seeing these things, Zeng Rong understood why Amei wanted to help her lock it up, if these Supa and silk threads were lost, they would definitely have to be compensated.
"Thank you." Zeng Rong thanked him again.
took out the embroidered bandage that he hadn't finished, and Zeng Rong asked again: "Sister Amei, where are you sitting?" ”
Amei smiled and pointed to a low table in the north corner, there were four small low stools in front of the low table, "I'll go get something first." ”
Seeing this, Zeng Rong was a little puzzled, it seemed that when he came to put things before getting off work yesterday, the window sill was not a low table, but an embroidery frame.
Unfortunately, she wasn't very sure, just a little vague impression.
Zeng Rong is not a person who likes to drill the horns of the bull, and seeing that he couldn't remember it, he quickly abandoned the matter.
Besides, at that time, there were already two people with embroidered bandages coming, both of them were dressed in green shirts, both of them were fifteen or sixteen years old, just a fat point and a thin point, without waiting for Amei's introduction, the two took the initiative to say hello to Zeng Rong.
In comparison, Zeng Rong prefers this chubby Ah Tao with a round face, the main face is more pleasing, although the facial features of Ah Ying are more delicate and delicate, Zeng Rong faintly feels that her face is slightly mean.
After seeing each other, all four sat down and began to concentrate on the work in their hands.
Zeng Rong took about half an hour to finish yesterday's embroidery, but in the process of dismantling, Ah Mei leaned over and asked in a low voice: "Why didn't you embroider two lines of poetry today?" ”
This is the question of the silk handkerchief she saw yesterday?
Zeng Rong asked directly.
"I haven't seen it, but I've heard someone else say it."
"I'm sorry, I also happened to see those two lines of poetry before embroidering them, and there are no suitable verses in my head."
Just kidding, a hundred silk handkerchiefs, she doesn't have so many orchid verses in her stomach.
Amei opened her mouth and wanted to say something more, but when she saw Zeng Rong dismantling the silk handkerchief, she closed her mouth and closed it, and then saw Zeng Rong put on the new silk handkerchief and held her chin with both hands and looked at the begonia tree outside the window in a daze, she came over again and asked her if she hadn't thought about embroidering anything.
Zeng Rong really didn't think about what to embroider.
Through Fang Cai Amei's dialogue, she faintly felt that the shopkeeper left her behind because of the two poems on the orchid picture yesterday, embroidering orchids is simple, but at the same time, it is not simple to think that the poems of Yong Orchids are also embroidered.
Because there are few full-time embroiderers who are literate, let alone read these poems and songs.
But although she knew that she was clever because of two poems, Zeng Rong didn't plan to keep embroidering like this, so it was easy to have a new idea, she didn't want to waste it like this, maybe when she could use it again.
Besides, a hundred silk handkerchiefs, she can't embroider orchids all the time, right?
But if she doesn't embroider orchids, what does she embroider?
It must not be plum blossoms, peach blossoms and cherry blossoms, which will cause the other three to be worried, she has seen the work in the hands of the three of them, Ah Mei is still embroidering plum blossoms, Ah Tao embroiders begonia flowers, Ah Ying embroiders butterflies, to be honest, plum blossoms are better, that cherry blossoms and peach blossoms are not much different at all, if you want to embroider brilliantly, it is really difficult, presumably this is also the reason why Ah Tao and A Ying changed embroidery to other things.
Since this is the case, Zeng Rong also wants to change his tricks.