After a few days, the weather is getting colder and colder, it is already a small cold solar term, and a large carbon stove is also placed in the embroidery room, the house is warm and drying, the temperature is suitable, and it is also convenient for the embroidery girls to work normally. On this day, Tang You was embroidering in the embroidery room with other embroidery girls, and after a while, Aunt Ruzhen walked in and told everyone to stop what they were doing and say that they had something important to announce.

After everyone was gathered, Aunt Ruzhen sat on the main seat and said to everyone, "Because after some time, the concubine in the palace will return to Su Mansion to visit relatives, and the old lady specially ordered to come down and let Xiuzhuang hurry up the time to make a new set of clothes for Concubine Xian in the near future." ”

Tang You also heard that today's concubine Niangniang is the eldest daughter of the Su family, Su Jingxian, the sister of Su Yun and Su Yu, I heard that she has outstanding appearance, both ability and political integrity, and when she was not out of the cabinet, she was a famous talented woman in Bianjing City, and later entered the palace and was deeply favored by the emperor, and was named a concubine in the second year of entering the palace. And Su Jingxian, as the only daughter of Mrs. Su, has spoiled her like a pearl since she was a child. Tang You was thinking about it, but saw Aunt Ruzhen looking in the direction of the door and said, "Second master, you are here." ”

Tang You followed her gaze and saw Su Yu, who was dressed in a luxurious purple robe, walking in slowly, looking cynical.

Aunt Ruzhen hurriedly stood up, and only after Su Yu sat on the main seat did she sit on the chair beside her. Tang You deliberately lowered his head and didn't look at him, Su Yu glanced at the embroidery girls, and his eyes fell on Tang You, the corners of his lips were slightly hooked, and he said to Aunt Ruzhen on the side, "Aunt Ruzhen, you continue." ”

Aunt Ruzhen answered yes, and then continued to speak, "Concubine Xian Niangniang has always been thrifty, like Su Ya, do not like extravagance, I give you three days, each person embroidered a pair of embroidery samples, three days later, by me to pick out the most suitable embroidery samples to make new clothes, the old lady also spoke, if which embroidery Niangniang's embroidery sample has been adopted, can please Concubine Xian Niangniang, there will be a heavy reward." ”

After Aunt Ruzhen finished speaking, she heard Su Yu ask, "Aunt Ruzhen, I don't know if I can choose embroidery samples together in three days." ”

"That's naturally excellent, Concubine Xian is the eldest sister of the second master, her preferences, the second master knows better than us, if the second master chooses, it is naturally the best."

Su Yu nodded with satisfaction, and asked again, "By the way, do you have an embroidery girl named Shen Qiao?" ”

"Yes, I don't know what the second master commands?" Aunt Ruzhen replied.

"I heard that her embroidery is good, and on the day of recruitment, the eldest brother personally responded and was selected to join the embroidery village?"

Aunt Ruzhen paused for a moment and replied, "Exactly." ”

Su Yu glanced at the embroiderers with a fake look, "I don't know who it is?" ”

The eyes of all the embroidery girls looked in the direction of Tang You, Tang You had to raise his eyes to look at Su Yu, and bowed slightly, "I've seen the second master." ”

"Come here." Su Yu beckoned to her.

Tang You was slightly stunned when he heard this, and when he saw Aunt Ruzhen winking at her, he stepped forward and walked in front of Su Yu.

Su Yu sat comfortably in the main seat, half-squinting his peach blossom eyes and looking at Tang You's whole body from top to bottom, his eyes were playful, and after a while, he said, "Well, I look good, my figure is not bad." As he spoke, he looked at Tang You's hands again, "These hands are even more white and tender, and they are very well maintained, a little more tender than the hands of the Tianxiang girl in the Drunken Immortal Building." ”

As soon as these words came out, all the embroidery girls looked at each other, they had long heard that the second master of the Su family was an unreliable master, and he usually spent all day drinking outside, but he didn't expect that he was so frivolous in Xiuzhuang, and he really thought that this was a drunken fairy pavilion, and it was really a waste of such a good skin.

Aunt Ruzhen on the side couldn't listen to it either, so she quickly coughed a few times and said with a smile, "I don't know if the second master has any other instructions?" ”

Su Yu laughed when he heard this, "It's okay, I just think that this embroidery girl looks quite beautiful." He stood up with a smile, completely ignoring the surprised eyes of everyone around him, looked at Tang You, and said meaningfully, "Shen Qiao, I hope that in three days, you can show me the best embroidery sample." ”

After Su Yu left, Aunt Ruzhen walked to Tang You's side, glanced at her coldly, and said in an unkind tone, "Don't think that if the second master praises you twice, you don't know how thick the sky is." I'm still the same sentence, as long as I am in the day, this embroidery village will never allow your messy embroidery, this time is to make new clothes for the concubine Niangniang, the stakes are very high, you yourself weigh it, so that you can do it yourself. ”

"Thank you aunt for reminding me, I must keep it in mind." Tang You replied in a low voice.

The night was silent, there was a crescent moon hanging on the dark night sky, Tang You and Yuxiu came out of the bath, the cold wind blew on the face, Tang You wrapped the coat on his body, and let out a breath of white air, "It's so cold!" ”

"Yes, in a few days it will be Laba Festival." Yuxiu also rubbed her hands coldly, "I heard that on the day of the Laba Festival, Xiuzhuang can allow us to go home for half a day." ”

"Really? It turns out that there is still half a day off. Tang You then remembered that she hadn't been home since she entered Xiuzhuang, but maybe it was because Shen Qiao wasn't her real relative, so it didn't mean much to her whether she had a holiday or not.

"Yes, you can go home and spend Laba with your loved ones. By the way, Qiao'er, you don't seem to have mentioned your family to me? ”

"Me, my parents are gone, and I have an older brother at home."

"Oh, you have a brother." Yuxiu's eyes were a little gloomy when she heard this, "I really envy you for being able to see my brother." ”

Tang You knew that Yuxiu was thinking of her late brother, so he hurriedly said, "Yes, he is annoying, just like a living treasure, you will know the next time you see him." ”

Yuxiu snorted when she heard this, and said with a smile, "You, it's so bad, how can you talk about your brother like this." She laughed for a while, and then said, "By the way, Qiao'er, how are you embroidering today, as Aunt Zhen told everyone to embroider?" ”

"I haven't figured it out yet." Tang You did think about it for a day today, and he hadn't thought about what patterns he wanted to embroider, plus Aunt Ruzhen's warning, he didn't need to embroider with needles, and it should be impossible to stand out among many excellent embroidery girls with traditional embroidery methods. It's just that Tang You doesn't really want to fight for the first place this time, the so-called gun shot the first bird, she has only been here for a short time, and she doesn't want to be too eye-catching.

"Haven't you figured out what to embroider yet? There are only two days left. Yuxiu was a little anxious for her.

"It's okay, and you don't have to fight for this first."

"You really don't want to be the first place?" Yuxiu asked.

"Of course. Why am I lying to you? ”

"Oh." Yuxiu didn't say anything more.

As soon as the two of them walked to the door of the dormitory, they heard Ruxiang's voice coming from the room, "I said that Shen Qiao, he is a fox spirit, and I don't know what kind of fox tricks he used, even the second master of the Su family hooked up." ”

Yuxiu was indignant when she heard this, and was about to push the door in, but was stopped by Tang You, she shook her head and didn't let Yuxiu make a sound.

At this time, I heard Yueya say again, "Ruxiang, don't say that, I think Shen Qiao is usually very good." ”

"What do you know, who can't pretend to be a good person, they can deceive you. Didn't you notice that Aunt Ruzhen didn't like her. ”

"Huh? It seems that you say so, why doesn't Aunt Ruzhen like Shen Qiao? ”

"You don't know this, I can't remember the day of recruitment, Shen Qiao didn't know where to learn some strange stitches, embroidered a messy embroidery, originally thought that Aunt Ruzhen's meaning, would never be able to enter the embroidery village, if it wasn't for the Su family uncle and Mr. Liu to keep her, how could she enter this door."

"That's the case, then why did Uncle Su and Manager Liu keep her?"

"How do I know that! That's why I said she was a fox spirit, and I don't know what fox tricks she used, you didn't see the eyes of the second master of the Su family looking at her today, I can't wait to eat her, in my opinion, she may have more means than those prostitutes in the green building! ”

With a bang, the door was pushed open by Tang You, only to see Tang You striding up to her and asking in a cold voice, "Catch the thief and scratch the dirty, but tell me how I seduced the second master of the Su family!" ”

Rue Xiang was taken aback just now, and when she saw Tang You rushing over so violently, she felt a little weak for a while, and she couldn't speak, so she only swallowed, "I... I..."

"Let's go, let's go to Aunt Ruzhen to confront each other and see who is justified!" Tang You grabbed her by the collar and lifted her up from the bed, Tang You herself was more than seven meters tall, Rue Xiang was half a head shorter than her, and she was pressed down by Tang You in terms of momentum, she struggled desperately and shouted, "Let go of me!" I'm not going! I'm not going! ”

Tang You let her struggle a few times, then threw her back on the bed, and said coldly to her, "I'll let you go this time, and let me hear it next time, you chew the root of your tongue behind my back, but you won't be as lucky as today!" ”

"Qiao'er, your orchid embroidery is really good." Yuxiu came to Tang You's side and saw the orchid picture being embroidered on Tang You's embroidery frame. This orchid has been known as the gentleman in the flower since ancient times, representing noble and elegant, Tang You felt that if you want to use a flower to describe the concubine, it must be an orchid.

At this time, Yueya on the side heard Yuxiu's words, so she also came over to watch, and said in surprise, "Shen Qiao, how come I have never seen your orchid embroidery, where did you find it?" ”

"I drew it myself." Tang You replied, because she herself is an art student, she likes to paint very much when she goes to school, and she loves Chinese painting, and she herself most often paints the flowers in Chinese painting are peonies, plum blossoms, orchids, and she also specially bought Zheng Banqiao's painting collection to copy, his orchid picture is very distinctive, and the orchid leaves are written in thick ink, which is indulgent and colorful; The orchids are painted in light ink, the heart of the flower is awakened with thick ink, and the vigorous leaves are full of frost and snow. Tang You's orchid picture was drawn by herself, on the basis of Zheng Banqiao's orchid picture, she added a little smart feeling, the orchid leaves are free and stretched, staggered, and beautiful.

"Did you really draw it yourself?" Yueya couldn't believe it, "It's really well drawn." ”

The other embroiderers all gathered in front of Tang You's embroidery frame when they heard the sound, and they were all amazed, and Yuxiu said with a smile on the side, "This is not only a good painting, but also a good embroiderer, Qiao'er, you are really amazing, you can really embroider birds to listen to the sound, and embroidery can be fragrant." ”

Hearing this, Yueya sniffed and said, "Really, I seem to be able to smell the fragrance of this orchid, Shen Qiao, how did you embroider?" Why is it so good to embroider? ”

Shen Qiao smiled and said, "Actually, I didn't use any special techniques, it was embroidered with loose set needles, mainly because it was flush and bright, and it was embroidered with a smooth texture like jade." ”

"That's pretty good, too!"

"yes, I can't embroider like this. Shen Qiao, can you tell us more? ”

"Well, it's not that hard..."

At this time, everyone in the embroidery room gathered in front of Tang You's embroidery frame and listened to Tang You's explanation. Only Rue Xiang stood alone in front of her embroidery frame, looking at Tang You, who was smiling in the group, with a look of disgruntle.

At night, the embroidery room is lit up with a lamp, many people have not completed the embroidery sample, have picked up the lantern night battle, Tang You's orchid picture belongs to a relatively concise pattern, it took two more hours to stay up late, and the orchid picture was completed. She yawned and was about to go back to the dormitory, when she saw that Yuxiu was also done, so she went back to the dormitory with her. When the two arrived at the bedroom, they saw that Yueya had fallen asleep on the bed, and Ruexiang's bed was still empty, so it should not have been embroidered yet. Tang You was tired for a day, so he washed up and went to sleep.

Early the next morning, Tang You and Yuxiu just came to the embroidery room, and found a group of people around her embroidery frame, seeing Tang You coming, Yueya hurriedly shouted in a hurry, "Shen Qiao, it's not good, your embroidery pattern has been destroyed, come here!" ”

Tang You's heart sank when he heard this, and he walked quickly to the embroidery frame, and saw that there was a small hole on his orchid map that had been scalded by something, although the hole was not big, but it was on the orchid.

"Who the hell did this?" Yuxiu said anxiously when she saw this.

"I don't know, I came this morning and saw Shen Qiao's orchid picture embroidered, so I planned to come over and take a look. As soon as I came up, I saw this small hole. Yueya hurriedly said.

"Will someone come to see Shen Qiao's orchid picture last night, and the spark of the oil lamp in his hand accidentally splashed on this embroidery."

Yuxiu said angrily, "I think this is obviously deliberate, who would be so careless and just splashed this spark on this orchid." ”

Yueya also said, "Yes, yes, I also think it's too strange, why did this hole just burn on the orchid." ”

"Hey, it's a pity that such a good embroidery pattern."

"yes, yes, it's a pity."

Everyone sighed, but they tacitly felt a little glad that there was one less competitor who was so powerful.

"What can I do about this?" Yuxiu looked at Tang You anxiously, but saw that she didn't speak, staring straight at the orchid picture on the embroidery frame.

Yuxiu hurriedly stepped forward and comforted, "Qiao'er, don't be sad, we can still think of a way, or we will beg Aunt Ruzhen to let her give you one more day." ”

Tang You still didn't speak, just stared at the hole in the orchid.

"Qiao'er, Qiao'er, what's wrong with you?" Yuxiu stepped forward and pulled her arm.

Tang You suddenly looked at her and said, "I have a way." ”

"What? Do you have a solution? But it was less than two hours before we handed over the embroidery samples. Yuxiu looked at her puzzled.

Tang You said with a firm gaze, "It doesn't take two hours to complete." You watch for me, I'll go to the sewing room and get something. With that, she turned and ran out.

Two hours later, Aunt Ruzhen came to the embroidery room, ordered someone to hand over all the embroidery samples of everyone, and then left the embroidery room with the embroidery samples and entered the inner hall.

As soon as I entered the inner hall, I saw two people sitting on the main seat, Su Yu in a luxurious purple robe and Su Yun in a moon-white robe. Aunt Ruzhen was slightly stunned, and hurriedly said, "Uncle, you are here today." ”

Su Yun slowly put down the teacup in his hand and said lightly, "I just came to the embroidery village to do business, and I happened to meet the second brother, and I heard him say that he wanted to choose a new embroidery pattern for Concubine Xian Niangniang today, so I stopped by to take a look." ”

Su Yu said with a smile, "I don't think my eldest brother is worried about my vision, so I have to come over to check it in person." ”

Su Yun glanced at him lightly, his gaze seemed gentle, but with a sense of majesty that could not be ignored, Su Yu closed his mouth with interest, looked at Aunt Ruzhen and said, "Aunt Ruzhen, I see that the embroidery is already over there, let's start." ”

Aunt Ruzhen answered yes, sat down on the chair beside her, and instructed the housekeeper on the side to carry the long wooden table in front of the three of them, on which the embroidery patterns of the embroidery girls were placed in turn.

Su Yu glanced at all the embroidery samples on the table, and his eyes were attracted by one of the distinctive embroidery patterns, he stepped forward to pick up the embroidery sample, on which was a picture of an orchid with exquisite embroidery, and what interested him the most was that the orchid on it seemed to be carved and embroidered into a three-dimensional orchid, "You see, this is interesting, this orchid seems to be embroidered alive." ”

Aunt Ruzhen glanced at it a few times, but said, "Second master, in my opinion, this is just a side door, and it can't be on the stage." ”

"Aunt Ruzhen is also very old-fashioned, I think this orchid picture is unique, absolutely superior."

"Second master, as the saying goes, if you don't follow the rules, you don't make a circle, and the same is true for embroidery, this kind of trick can attract people's attention, but it must not be allowed to develop, otherwise embroidery will not become a child's play."

Seeing Aunt Ruzhen's resolute attitude, Su Yu turned to look at Su Yun, who had not spoken, "Big brother, what do you say?" ”

Su Yun glanced at the orchid picture a few times, and there was no expression on Junyi's face, so he only said lightly, "It's better to invite this embroidery girl to come in and listen to what she has to say." ”