Du Mei didn't say anything, only smiled at him, like a breeze in the moon.

"Bring it." Du Mei held out his hand.

"What?" Ye Qing was so shocked by her laughter that she didn't know why.

"Give." Ye Dan handed the embroidery bandage to Du Mei, turned his face and glared at Ye Qing, Ye Qing was a little embarrassed and stuck out his tongue.

The needle and the silk thread are in front of her, Du Meisu's hands are delicate, threading the needle and thread, the butterfly love flower is her small practice, where to start the needle, where to drop the needle, has long been familiar with the heart.

Under her nimble hands, the patterns on the butterfly's wings were revealed, and the two trembling tentacles seemed to fly away with a slight touch.

The peony used up all kinds of red silk threads, the gathered flower centers were delicate pink, the stretched petals were bright bright reds, and the low-hanging ones that were about to wither were used more white silk threads as the base. On top of that, there are a variety of different shades of red that naturally transition in between.

A plump and realistic peony flower was born in Du Mei's hands, and the onlookers held their breath, for fear that their breathing would be heavy, so they blew off the petals.

Aunt Shi saw that there was no noise in the store just now, thinking that she hadn't recruited anyone today, so she came in from the back hall. She just saw Du Mei with her eyebrows lowered and twisted the thread, her eyes lowered and the needles walked, she had a moment of trance, this girl seemed to be familiar.

It's been more than ten years, how can she still be a girl, Aunt Shi shook her head. She thought to herself that she might be really old, and she was more and more nostalgic for the people and things of the past.

Du Mei hid the last thread and handed over a complete pair of butterfly love embroidery to Ye Qing.

Ye Qing had already looked stupid, he only knew that Xu's embroidery was one of the best in these ten miles and eight towns, who would have thought that her daughter was not inferior. In time, it will be better than the blue!

"Aunt Shi, come and see!" Ye Qing turned around and called.

"Who taught you this embroidery?" Aunt Shi looked at the embroidery for a long time, looked at Du Mei's eyebrows and asked.

"My mother taught me." Du Mei saw the old man in front of him with kind eyes and replied respectfully.

"Your mother? What is her last name? Aunt Shi asked a little eagerly.

"Oh, Aunt Shi, do you want to say that this embroidery is not satisfactory?" Ye Qing was very satisfied in his heart, and he anxiously interrupted Aunt Shi's questioning.

"Satisfied, satisfied, this is the best one." Aunt Shi said in a loud voice.

Her hand gently stroked the peony flower, although the embroidery method has changed slightly, but the bottom can still be seen. Those who know this kind of embroidery method can't find a hand in Gangneung City, but there is such a person hidden in this rural place.

"The embroidery girl of Yunshang Embroidery Village is Du Mei, do you still have doubts?" Ye Qing raised the embroidery and said proudly.

"Needless to say, who can compare?" The onlookers shook their heads.

"Hey, what about the two eldest sisters?" Ye Qing stood on tiptoe and looked for the person who had just made trouble in the crowd.

"Leave early, stay here, wait for the slap in the face." A woman holding a child next to her said with a smile.

"Du Mei, are you from Du Jiagou?" A girl with a round face squeezed up and spoke boldly to Dumei.

"We only know that Aunt Xu's embroidery in Dujiagou is the best, and the price charged by Xiaoye's shopkeeper is also the highest. Do you know her? Another wheat-skinned girl next to her asked.

"She's my mother." Du Mei laughed.

"Ah, no wonder you embroider so well!" The two girls said in unison.

When Aunt Shi heard the girls' words, her heart sank: "It turned out that it was really not her." ”

"I am Chunhua, she is Qiuguo, and we are from Chenqian Village." The girl with a round face is called Chunhua, obviously older, and a little self-cooked.

"Can we come to your house tomorrow to see the doll

Qiuguo asked a little shyly.

"Okay, I have a lot of them at home, cows, ducks, and little monkeys." Du Mei nodded.

"Then let's go back first." Chunhua Qiuguo held hands and reluctantly left.

The dust has settled, and since the embroidery girl has been selected, the lively people have dispersed one after another.

"Come in and talk." Aunt Shi greeted.

"Whoa." Du Mei stepped in.

The last time she came, although she didn't enter the store, she felt her kindness, and she naturally felt a sense of intimacy with her.

"You haven't eaten yet, have you?" There were a few customers in the shop, and Aunt Shi took Du Mei into the inner room and brought some pastries and tea.

"Hmm." Du Mei was a little shy, she came all the way, and she was in a hurry to embroider, and at this time, she was really a little hungry.

"You eat first, I'll go to the front to see if Shopkeeper Ye is busy resting?" This girl's family has been specially taken care of by the prince, and they are naturally very concerned.

"Thank you." Du Mei owes himself a blessing.

In the middle of the night, Du Mei was waiting anxiously, and Ye Dan and Ye Qing lifted the curtain and came in.

"Can I see the pattern of the screen?" Dume stood up and asked.

"Okay." Ye Dan turned around and took out four painting scrolls from the blue and white calligraphy and painting jar next to the big case, and spread them out on the case one by one.

Du Mei took a closer look, and sure enough, there were four extremely beautiful paintings. A magpie climbs the plum, a red plum reflects the snow, and a cold three friends.

The last picture is the silhouette of a girl wearing a white fox fur and red cloak, under the huge hood, only half of the eyebrows and apricot eyes are exposed, and the nose and lips are exposed. As far as her eyes could see, a red plum blossom came in from the corner of the paper.

"Is it difficult?" Ye Dan saw Du Mei looking at the painting stupidly and asked.

"No, it can be embroidered, this painting is so beautiful." Du Mei raised his eyes and smiled.

"This is Yan ......" Ye Qing's words were overshadowed by Ye Dan's violent cough.

"It was painted by Master Yan, and he specified four screens like this." Ye Dan coughed and spoke.

"Can I take the painting back with me and embroider it?" Du Mei asked cautiously, people clearly said that they were recruiting embroidery girls, and they should be working in the shop, which is a kind of display and has the effect of attracting customers.

"This ......," Ye Dan muttered.

"I'll take it back, and I can embroider it at night." Du Mei hurriedly said.

"Sister Meizi, this is not in a hurry, you can embroider it whenever you want." Ye Qingding remembered his master's words.

"Ahh Du Mei rolled her eyes inwardly. Isn't that impossible?

"I'll bring it back to you, do you have an embroidery frame at home?" Ye Dan said with an unchanged face.

"Nope." Du Mei is refreshing, her mother only accepts small pieces, and there is really no such embroidery frame at home.

"Later, I will send you the ones in the store, and the fabrics and silk threads are also designated by Master Yan, and they will be sent to you together." Ye Dan was afraid that Ye Qing would agree too much and too quickly, which would arouse Du Mei's suspicions, so he deliberately grinded slowly little by little.

"How do you calculate the salary for such a large piece of embroidery? You should have given me a deposit. Seeing that they didn't mention the remuneration in vain and black, Du Mei simply asked himself.

"Hehe, you're a quick-talking girl." Ye Dan said with a smile.

"Four doors for a total of fifty taels of silver, pay you ten taels first." Ye Qing said a little humbly. The master did not explicitly indicate how much money he would give, so he estimated it, and it was high or low.

"Ten taels, that's ten hanging money, this is... That's a lot of money. Du Mei's heart jumped wildly.

"Deposit, I don't want money." Du Mei's eyes flashed.

"And what do you want?" Ye Dan looked at Du Mei's eyes and asked funny.

"I want paddy!" Du Mei said with a serious face.

"There is rice, there is rice, but it is before

years of laying. Ye Qing was so happy in his heart, he just asked him to deal with Chen Rice, and he was thinking about it.

"Rice is quite expensive now, but the summer grain is about to be opened, and the high price of grain is already the end of the crossbow, waiting for you to sell it, I am afraid that you will not be able to make money now." After all, Ye Dan was born in a family of businessmen, and he was born with a business acumen.

"In that case, you don't want to convert it at the current price, it's just right to drop it by fifty." Du Mei stretched out his open five fingers.

"You girl, it's really funny, it's a pity not to be a businessman." Ye Dan is in the town every day, what is the price of rice, he is like a mirror in his heart. This price is almost the lowest price for Du Mei when the rice is on the market in the autumn.

"Sister Meizi, you have the final say, reduce the achievement by five and reduce it by fifty." Ye Qing secretly pulled the corner of Ye Dan's clothes. The master only let the rice be processed, but he didn't say that he wanted to make money on this matter.

"I'll give it to you according to the price of the autumn harvest, eight hundred wen and one stone." Ye Dan looked at his younger brother helplessly. To be fake, you have to be like a little bit.

"Then I'll have ten stones, and I'll pay for the rest." Du Mei thought about it in his heart.

"Well, the deposit is ten stones of rice, two pennies." Ye Dan found a pen and paper, dipped it in ink, and wrote a contract.

Du Mei looked at it, and then signed the pledge. This country girl knows how to read, and her handwriting is so beautiful, which makes Ye Dan both surprised and impressed.

"It's still early today, let Ye Qing go to get the rice first, help you send it home, and we'll send the embroidery frame silk thread and painting early tomorrow morning." Ye Dan said.

"Okay." Du Mei felt that although the young man in front of him was a little inconvenient with his legs and feet, he was really a shrewd businessman and arranged things in an orderly manner.

After accepting the two pieces of money, Du Mei said goodbye and went out with Ye Qing.

"Sister Meizi, are you going to pull rice with me, or are you going to walk around the town, and I'll pick you up in an hour?" Du Zhong returned to the countryside, but he couldn't find a competent man for a while, so Ye Qing had to drive the carriage himself.

"I'll walk around the street, and I'll wait for you at the intersection to Dujiagou in a while." Du Mei broke up with Ye Qing with a basket.

There will be 1,000 catties of rice soon, which will immediately alleviate the plight of duck food. There were still two hangs of money in his hand, and Du Mei was happy.

She went into the cloth farm, carefully selected a few pieces of cloth, and summer was coming, and the sisters were all grown, and last year's clothes were short, so she had to make one for each of them.

My mother hadn't made new clothes for many years, and she was only in her thirties, so she should have a decent dress. She hesitated for a long time, and then picked a piece for herself. I also chose some odd pieces of cloth of various colors, and it cost a total of 300 wen.

Passing by Butcher Zhang's butcher's meat stall, Du Mei cut the good pork belly on the knife and spent 30 yuan. Butcher Zhang saw that Du Mei's face was full of joy, he was a person of few words, so he didn't ask, but just gave her some meatless bones.

Passing by the shop where she bought candies and preserves, Du Mei went in and weighed a little bit of each of the ones her father used to buy for them, and wrapped them in paper. It took another 10 wen.

Seeing that the basket was full, and the hour was almost up, Du Mei waited at the intersection.

In the distance, Ye Qing came with a carriage, and a lot of dust was raised behind him.

The carriage was full of sacks of rice, Du Mei sat in front of the carriage, and Ye Qing slowly drove the carriage.

The best thing for Du Jiagou to go out is the ox cart, and as soon as Ye Qing's carriage entered the village, it caused an uproar. The women and children, who had nothing to do, followed the carriage to watch the excitement.

Ye Qing drove the carriage all the way to the door of the second room, watched the lively villagers, and saw Du Meiti under the heavy basket, so he began to exchange ears.

When they saw the sacks of rice in the carriage, their eyes widened like brass bells, and they all let out a cry of surprise: "Where did this come from?" 2k reading network