"That year, my father had just accepted the Yang family's silk business from your grandfather......"

It's the hardest thing to start with.

Just when Yang Xindu, who had just taken over the business, was busy with the things of the shop, another shocking news came.

The delivery truck hired by the Yang family was robbed by gangsters on the road, and there was no one left of a hundred good silks!

As soon as the news of the carjacking spread, the people who came to Yang's house to ask for orders and collect arrears almost stepped on the threshold of Yang's family.

In the end, Yang Xindu tried his best to make a note in public, and put all the land deeds under his name in the Chinese as a guarantee.

This made the creditors temporarily relax and gave the Yang family a one-year grace period for repaying the debt.

However, everyone understands that this bandit is not a house to rob the road, and it is impossible to come to the door and return the silk they stole to you after a few days.

Therefore, the kind-hearted creditor couldn't help but shake his head and sigh for this, and said in his heart that the Yang family was sad.

But after Yang Xindu sent away the creditors who came to collect debts, he changed into plain clothes and knelt in front of the ancestral throne, "dong dong" kowtowed.

After burning incense and kowtowing, Yang Xindu stepped forward and asked for the ancestral shrine, and then he was so anxious that he removed the shrine that was dedicated to the shrine.

I saw Yang Cong take out a two-foot-long, foot-wide and narrow-sized cypress box that was sealed with wax and oil.

Here is a little explanation, in the past, people used to hide the most valuable things in the family under the ancestral shrine, not really ancestral spirits, can appear at a critical moment to protect the contents of the box from thieves.

In the past, people had to incense their ancestors three times in the morning, noon and evening, and after the incense was offered, they had to wipe the ancestral shrines one by one with a fine cloth.

Once an outsider sneaks in and secretly has to move the divine case to find the mechanism under the divine table, the order or position of the tablets on the table will change, and the people who come to offer incense every day can see the problem.

This god was moved by outsiders, and naturally there was a thief who recorded his own things, so the master would not move and arrange for the family to quietly ambush around the ancestral hall, and when the thief came again, he would be caught and sent to the official.

There must be an ingenious mechanism in the place where this big family hides, how can there be a reason for someone to crack it once it is explored?

Because when the thieves carry the tools in hand and want to come to crack the mechanism for the second time, they will be captured by the family members who have been ambushed around for a long time.

The descendants who can give incense to their ancestors, the ancestors will have blessings to pass on to their descendants.

As for those unscrupulous children and grandchildren who don't visit their ancestors all year round, your ancestors naturally don't bother to care about you, that's the reason.

Straight to the point.

As soon as he saw the box, large tears suddenly welled up in Yang Xindu's eyes.

"The ancestors of the Yang family are on top, and today the children have to ask for this thing in order to protect the family business of the Yang family, and also ask the ancestors to bless the children to succeed here."

The official asked: "Since the Yang family attaches so much importance to this cypress box, and does not hesitate to hide it under the sacred table dedicated to the ancestral tablet, what exactly is contained in this box?" ”

It was a cloud brocade, a cloud brocade dyed with gold embroidered feather yarn!

The magistrate asked again: "Isn't this cloud brocade a kind of silk?" As for using such a large formation to hide a piece of silk? ”

This cloud brocade weaving process began in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Yixi thirteen years (417 AD), in Jiankang (now Nanjing, Jiangsu) there is a brocade department in charge of weaving cloud brocade.

In the following 1400 years of development, the weaving process of cloud brocade gradually became more and more complex.

It is necessary to rely on the brocade weaver to operate the jacquard wooden machine, a group of six, cooperate with each other, and weave the patterns in the memory one by one.

The whole brocade process of cloud brocade is extremely complicated, if any female worker does not want to weave the wrong needle, the whole piece of material will be wasted, must be dismantled all over again, so the folk win an inch of brocade, an inch of gold's law.

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, this Jinling Yunjin was selected as a tribute to the royal family, and Kangxi Ye set up the "Jiangning Weaving Mansion" to be in charge of Yunjin weaving......

I wonder if you have read "Dream of Red Mansions"? The author Cao Xueqin, his father used to be Jiangning weaving!

At this time, another official asked: "Since the Yunjin is so valuable, how good is it for the ancestor of the Yang family to directly sell this Yunjin and exchange it for gold and silver to do a big business?" ”

This official, Yunjin is really good, but it is also very difficult to sell, a bit taboo!

Why? It's because this cloud brocade is so precious.

Even in the Imperial Palace, Yunjin is only used on special occasions, such as the dragon robe worn by the emperor when he ascended the throne, the court clothes worn when attending court meetings, and the auspicious clothes worn by the couple when the emperor was married.

This Yunjin material used to make dragon robes and court clothes, no one will dare to buy it, otherwise he just wants to rebel.

And the Yunjin material, which is specially used to make auspicious clothes, although it is not illegal to buy and sell, there are not many people who dare to ask for it.

Because this is the 'wedding dress' worn by the queen's mother when she gets married, outsiders wear it on suspicion of wanting to rob someone's husband, and the lady in the palace will be unhappy.

As the saying goes, 'How do you wear Pinru's clothes?' That's what it means.

Up, the origin of the Yang family's cloud brocade is really legendary.

According to reports, there was an embroidery girl on the ancestor of the Yang family, who was selected by Jiangning Weaving at that time to embroider auspicious clothes worn by the palace Gege because of her outstanding embroidery skills.

I don't know if it was unlucky, when the embroidery girl embroidered auspicious patterns on the cloud brocade, she didn't want to make her strength stronger, and suddenly pierced the tip of the needle on the index finger of her left hand that pressed the fabric.

Suddenly, a bead of blood the size of a bean rolled out of his fingertips and dripped onto the unfinished Jifu.

Earlier, this auspicious dress was worn by the Agogeges in the palace during their weddings.

It is a very unlucky sign that the auspicious clothes are stained with blood, and this whole piece of cloud brocade material can no longer be used.

Therefore, Jiang Ning, who supervised the weaving of auspicious clothes, wanted to behead the embroidered girl to apologize.

The embroidery girl knew that she had committed a great sin, so she quickly fell to her knees and begged Jiang Ning to weave.

"The folk girl knows that she is guilty of a great sin, and I don't ask you to spare my life, but please see if you can reward me with a decent death for the sake of my hard work in the past few years for the weaving bureau.

Give me a white silk and let me break it myself? ”

(In the past, when a condemned prisoner was beheaded, he had to untie his robe before being escorted to the execution ground.)

In this way, it is convenient for the executioner, who is standing by with a torture knife, to look at the neck of the condemned prisoner in advance, to study the angle and strength of the knife during the execution, and to be able to smoothly get the knife up and down when the knife is lowered.

Although the condemned prisoner was not completely naked at this time, the skin on his neck and the base of his neck, which was usually covered by a thick collar, was exposed, and some people who were particular about it thought that this was very unseemly.

Some people even wrote to the emperor for this purpose, begging him to allow him to behead himself in official uniforms...... ）

It's a coincidence, that year it happened to catch up with Kangxi Ye to visit Jiangnan.

So, this Jiangning weaver played this matter to Kangxi Ye and asked the holy bow to judge it himself.

This person, whenever he comes out to play, he is not in a bad mood, so Kangxi nodded when he heard it: "Don't execute, wait until I see this person first." ”

What happened later, the Yang family did not record it in the family tree, so there is no way to know.

I only know that Kangxi Ye finally pardoned the death penalty of this embroidered girl, and also rewarded her with the blood-stained cloud brocade.

Later, this embroidery girl married the ancestor of the Yang family, so this cloud brocade has been passed down from generation to generation in the Yang family.

That year, my father took this ancestral Yunjin horse to seek buyers in Shandong, Hebei and other places, but he did not find anyone willing to look at the goods and ask the price.

However, when my father was so discouraged that he walked into a wine shop and wanted to use wine to drown his sorrows, he met such a person there......"