Chapter 173: The Contest of Embroidery
After the Lin Yuzhu brothers and sisters left, Xie Yun immediately put on a hat and came to the Golden Silk Embroidery Workshop.
Although it was the last day of recruitment, there were still a lot of people queuing outside.
There was a recruitment notice posted on the wall at the door, and there was a girl next to it who explained to people who didn't know where she was from time to time.
Xie Yun was already familiar with the above conditions, and walked directly over and lined up in the line.
People come in batches, and when a group comes out of the door, those queuing outside can enter a batch.
It was also Xie Yun's luck to catch up with the tail of the group of people who entered.
She followed the men in front of her into the embroidery workshop.
The embroidery workshop is built on the street, a two-story building facing the street, and there is an open hall about the size of a basketball court, with a circle of carved wooden railings in the shape of a hollow on it, and the staircase is located at the corner of the hall.
There is a courtyard at the back, and there are houses on the east, west, and north sides of the courtyard.
At this time, there were six square tables in the hall, and on all sides of the table were placed a small embroidered basket with needles and threads and bandages.
As the interviewer of the first interview, Qiao Niangzi was standing in front of the eight flowers and birds floor-to-ceiling bamboo screens due north, facing the people who came in, and said, "You choose a place to sit down." ”
When everyone was seated, she motioned for the two maids standing behind her to unfold a painting.
It shows a group of koi fish of various shapes, swimming leisurely in the water.
Qiao Niangzi announced the test question: "Choose a koi fish on this painting to embroider it, and the time is a stick of incense." Everything you need for embroidery is in the basket in front of you, now, let's get started. ”
Xie Yun first looked at the needle and thread in the basket in front of him, and found that it was the same as everyone else on the table.
The painting had been fixed on the easel by the maid, and everyone could see it when they looked up.
Xie Yun looked at the painting and selected a red and white koi according to the color of the embroidery thread, but she did not immediately start embroidering with needles and threads, but continued to stare at the koi, observing it carefully, and making sure to engrave it in her heart.
Only when the bamboo is in the chest, the needle is stable when embroidering.
This is what her mother taught her.
And many people in the field have begun to embroider in a hurry, they are afraid that there will not be enough time.
The time of a stick of incense is not fixed, there is a quarter of an hour, half an hour, an hour, and the incense used by everyone in the embroidery workshop for this interview is a quarter of an hour.
It is not easy to embroider a koi fish in a quarter of an hour.
Once he started embroidering, Xie Yun's movements were very fast, and he didn't need to look at the embroidery like others did.
In the blink of an eye, the outline of a fish appeared on the embroidery in front of her.
When a stick of incense was burned, many people in the audience were only halfway through the embroidery.
Qiao Niangzi raised her hand and said, "Okay, put down the embroidery bandage." ”
Some people were unwilling and wanted to embroider a few more stitches at the end, but they were quickly invited out by the maid.
The others immediately put down the embroidery bandages in their hands.
Mrs. Qiao came over and looked at them one by one, and everyone who was inspected was very worried, not knowing if they could pass the test at their own level.
Xie Yun lowered his eyes and stared at the koi he had embroidered, waiting quietly.
Soon, Mrs. Qiao came to her side, and when she saw the koi fish she embroidered, her eyes lit up.
This koi carp is really embroidered vividly, just like the real thing!
There is no doubt that Xie Yun passed the first interview, and he was the only one who passed this interview.
Recruit embroidery girls, of course, to embroidery as a criterion.
Xie Yun's embroidery skills are obviously much better than others.
After the first round of five-day interviews, the embroidery workshop selected a total of 12 embroiderers with outstanding embroidery skills, but at present, the embroidery workshop has just opened, and the demand for embroiderers is not so great, so the second round of interviews was conducted.
The test questions of the second round of interviews are to play freely in a stick of incense and embroider a work.
This time, a stick of incense is half an hour.
Since it is free to play, the embroidery girls are naturally what they are best at.
In this interview, Xue Wu also came, one was to see the grand occasion of a group of embroidery girls getting together for needlework, and the other was that a batch of things she had customized before were delivered, and she came to inspect them.
Things include hangers, human body molds, clothes rails, etc., with these things, the finished clothes are convenient to display, right?
Xue Wu looked around the embroidery girls in the hall for a while, and found that there was a girl who was a little familiar, it was one of the three women who had celebrated Zhao Ji's birthday on the same day before.
Seeing that she was concentrating on embroidery, she didn't go up to bother.
Xue Wu doesn't understand the technical level of embroidery, but she still has an appreciative eye, but before the finished product comes out, she is not easy to comment.
After silently serving as an official for a while, she went to the back.
The hangers and other things have been delivered, and they are placed in the warehouse, and Mother Xue is watching them with two maids.
In the face of those human body molds, several people were still a little embarrassed, and their eyes didn't dare to look at the hidden position of the mold.
Of course, these molds cannot be made as unobstructed as modern times, and modern people are accustomed to molds, but here is still ancient, conservative and subtle.
What do you say about breast-bare breasts? Not even a dummy! It's so unethical!
Therefore, the drawings provided by Xue Wu at the beginning were blurred and painted with a layer of shameful clothing, but she still encountered difficulties when she found someone to carve out the mold.
Several carpenter shops don't take this job, thinking it's too immoral, how can you do it with your arms and legs exposed!
Some even glance at it and immediately withdraw their gaze, as if their eyes have been burned.
Xue Wu was speechless in her heart, feeling that you were wearing clothes when you slept with your daughter-in-law?
"I can't take this job, but you can go to Zhang Jiuzhi to try, as long as he has the money, he will accept any job."
A carpenter said this to her after refusing her.
Zhang Jiuzhi?
Xue Wu went to find this person.
Zhang Jiuzhi opened a workshop in a very remote place, which is a family-style workshop, and the workshop is both his home and his studio.
Due to the remote location, the place is not small, there are a lot of wood piles in the yard, and many half-finished wood carvings are messily placed in the open house.
Zhang Jiuzhi sat under the eaves, carving a knife in his left hand, wood in his right hand, and sawdust falling in his hand, accumulating a small pile on the ground.
His right hand, which holds the wood, is missing a little thumb.
I guess that's where his nickname comes from.
As for his name, no one remembers.
Before coming, Xue Wu inquired about the news of this person, it is said that Zhang Jiuzhi had a lot of money when he was young, but after the death of his parents, he quickly lost all his family wealth, and he also became addicted to gambling and owed a lot of money to the casino.
That little thumb was chopped off by the casino people because he couldn't pay the money.
Penniless, his hand was crippled, Zhang Jiuzhi was very depressed, and he disappeared from people's sight for a long time.