Three months later, Tang You sat quietly embroidering in the thatched hut, a crockpot was stewed on the stove in the house, and the aroma of steaming chicken soup was bubbling in the crockpot, and now Tang You's injuries have been completely healed, after these days, she has gradually learned a lot of things, the country she has crossed now is called Nanxia Kingdom, which is a country that does not exist in history, and her body owner is named Shen Qiao, and the only relative is her brother Shen Qiao, their brother and sister have depended on each other since childhood, and they have suffered a lot in the mixed market. Shen Qiao has also developed a lot of bad habits because of this, stealing and gambling on weekdays, and dreaming of making a fortune all day long. And Shen Qiao was not willing to live a hard life all his life, so he entered the Meng Mansion as a maid, and climbed into his bed when the Meng family was drunk, and was beaten half to death after being found the next day, that is, the day Tang You just crossed into her body.

Tang You has also thought a lot these days, although he doesn't know why he crossed over to this place, but now it is impossible to travel back, so he can only resign himself to fate and settle down here first.

Fortunately for Tang You, what she learned and loved in modern times, embroidery, has helped her a lot now. The place where she lives now is called Bianjing, which is the capital of Southern Xia. The two most famous embroidery villages in Bianjing are the Sujia Embroidery Village in the south city and the Mengjia Embroidery Village in the north city. These two embroidery villages are rich on the one side, accounting for half of the entire industry, and the strength is also equal, and the royal clothes and fabrics that are paid tribute to the emperor and the concubines in the palace every year are selected from these two embroidery villages. Not only that, the Su family and the Meng family are also relatives of the emperor, the sister of Meng Wanjiang, the head of the Meng family, is the current queen, and Su Jingxian, the eldest daughter of Su Sheng, the head of the Su family, is also a concubine in the palace.

And Tang You's only job opportunity at present is to enter the Su family's embroidery room to become an embroidery girl, maybe for other modern people, it is simply difficult to let a modern person enter the embroidery room as an embroidery girl, but for Tang You, it is a godsend. This has to start from the birth of Tang You, Tang You was born in Suzhou, a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, was born in a family of Suzhou embroidery, her mother and grandmother are engaged in embroidery work, she saw the most scene when she was a child is her mother sitting in the sun quiet embroidery, since childhood, she gradually fell in love with embroidery, about seven or eight years old, she has picked up the embroidery needle and began to learn embroidery. After going to school, she studied art and became an art student, and later was admitted to the Shanghai Institute of Fashion Technology, and has been working as a fashion designer since leaving school. Because she loves embroidery, usually when designing clothing, she will also add embroidery elements into it, and the needs of work plus her own hobbies make her often embroider on weekdays, and she has more than ten years of experience. And Tang You also went out to the ready-to-wear shop of Sujia Embroidery Village some time ago, and determined that the stitches used in their embroidery were Su embroidery.

Tang You also knew that if it was only about embroidery, although she could embroider, after all, she didn't make a living from embroidery all day long, so compared to those embroiderers with decades of experience in the embroidery room, her embroidery was definitely not the most brilliant place. But she has an advantage that other embroiderers in this era will never have, that is, she is a modern person.

History is constantly evolving, and the experience accumulated by those predecessors and the technology that is constantly innovating are the most valuable assets for future generations. Tang You carefully observed the embroidery of Sujia Embroidery, and found that although the embroidery of the embroidery girl is good, there are obvious problems, they are still using the most traditional cross needle and triangle needle method to embroider at this time, due to the strong regularity of these two stitches, the flowers and plants shown are not flexible enough, lack of hazy, smooth, and the gloss of the picture is relatively flat. Of course, this limitation of embroidery girls will not understand, even our history of Suzhou embroidery is after hundreds of years so inherited, until in modern times a Zhenhu embroidery girl with more than 30 years of experience in Suzhou embroidery invented the self-created embroidery method "three-two combination of chaotic needle needle method" to solve this problem, and also applied for a patent for this embroidery method. As an embroidery enthusiast, Tang You certainly knows a lot about this matter, and she deliberately spent a long time looking for relevant books and videos to study. She remembered that she had studied for months and learned a lot, but she didn't expect that she would really be able to come in handy now. She looked at the embroidery that was about to be completed in front of her, the lotus pond lotus leaf picture, it was this kind of stitching method that was used, and taking this embroidery to Sujia Embroidery Village would definitely make people's eyes shine!

"Sister, brother is back!" The curtain at the door was lifted, and Shen Qiaole walked in, he glanced in the direction of the crockpot, and swallowed his saliva, "This chicken soup is so fragrant!" As he spoke, he picked up the bowl on the table, lifted the lid, filled a bowl of chicken soup, put it to his mouth, blew on it, and drank it.

Tang You glanced at him and said, "Won the money?" ”

"That is, what kind of person is your brother, he will win every gamble." Shen Qiao smiled and drank a big mouthful of chicken soup, suddenly remembered something, put the bowl in his hand, walked in front of Tang You, magically took out an extra emerald beaded hairpin in his hand, and said, "Look what my brother brought you back." ”

Tang You didn't stop the embroidery in his hand, he only said, "Put this aside, how much money did you win, hand it over quickly!" "Tang You also understands this Shen Qiao these days, he is not a bad person, and he is really good to his only sister, but he is too good at gambling, and he spends all day in the gambling house with a little money. Tang You didn't want to care about him at first, until one time he lost a gamble and owed money, was beaten up, and crawled back with injuries. And Tang You was poor and hungry for several days because he had no money, so he decided to take good care of her, the titular "brother".

"Sister, your embroidery is so good, this little fish is like living!" Shen Qiao looked at him left and right, trying to avoid the topic.

Tang You slowly raised his eyes to look at him, "If you don't take out the money, you won't want to drink this chicken soup." ”

Seeing this, Shen Qiao had no choice but to take out a money bag from his pocket, handed it to Tang You, and said with a smile, "That's all, can't I hand it all in?" ”

Tang You took the silver, his face softened a little, and he asked again, "Let you inquire about the Su family's embroidery village recruiting embroidery girls, how are you inquiring?" ”

Shen Qiao picked up the chicken soup on the table and drank it in one gulp, wiped his mouth, and then said, "Don't worry, I have already asked Huzi clearly, and tomorrow will start recruiting workers, and I also heard that the uncle of the Su family will personally come over to choose a new embroidery girl tomorrow." Speaking of this, he looked at the embroidery in Tang You's hand, and said with a confident smile, "Sister, it's not me who blows it, just your embroidery, in my opinion, I am afraid that the entire Su family embroidery village will not find a second person who can embroider it!" Our brothers and sisters will enjoy endless glory and wealth in the future. ”

As one of the two most famous embroidery villages in Bianjing, Sujia Embroidery Village is a place where all embroidery girls in the world are flocking to, and the recruitment assessment of Sujia embroidery room is also very strict, only 20 embroidery girls are recruited every year, and the age can not exceed 25 years old, it can be said that the embroidery girls who can work here are outstanding leaders.

And today is the annual recruitment day of Sujia Embroidery Village, at this time, the extraordinary gate has already been crowded, gathered from all over the country to come to apply for embroidery girls, people are boiling, in addition to those relatives who accompany them, there are seventy or eighty people in the embroidery girl, Tang You and Shen Qiao are also in the crowd.

After a while, I saw a young embroidery girl in her twenties wearing blue clothes walk out of the gate, and said something to the family standing at the door, and saw the family Ding say to everyone, "Don't squeeze, the embroidery girl who wants to apply for the job will stand here and enter in turn." ”

The embroidery girls lined up in turn according to what the family said, and walked inside behind the young embroidery girl, Tang You also said goodbye to Shen Qiao and walked in with the back of the team.

Wait for everyone to enter the wide hall of the inner courtyard of the embroidery village, which is carved and painted, magnificent, and can easily accommodate more than 100 people. In front of the hall stood two rows of young embroiderers dressed in blue, and on the first chair sat two people, a woman in her forties dressed in indigo on the left, and a man in her fifties with a burly figure on the right.

When everyone was quiet, they saw the woman on the left stand up and said, "Thank you for coming from afar, let me introduce you, I am the aunt in charge of the embroidery room, you can call me Aunt Ruzhen." She said and turned to look at the man beside her, and said, "This is Manager Liu of the Su Mansion, and the results of your assessment this time are for me and Manager Liu to make the final decision." ”

"First of all, I will talk about the content of this assessment, which is mainly divided into two rounds, the first round, first hand over the embroidered embroidery you brought, and I and Mr. Liu will evaluate these embroidery. Only those who pass the assessment can enter the second round, and the second round of assessment content is on-site embroidery, which needs to be completed within three hours of a pair of embroidery we specify. Those who pass all the two assessments will be able to become the embroiderers of our Sujia Embroidery Village. The first round of assessment is officially carried out below, and you are invited to hand in the embroidery you have embroidered in turn. When she had finished speaking, she sat back in her seat.

At the front of the embroidery girls was an embroidery girl in her twenties, she seemed to be familiar with the process, so she took the embroidery in her hand, walked in front of the two people, offered the embroidery with both hands, and said softly, "Please aunt and housekeeper Liu take a look." Aunt Ruzhen took the embroidery and brought it to Steward Liu, the two looked at it carefully, and the two whispered a few words in the middle, and after a while, they saw Aunt Ruzhen put down the embroidery and said a few words to the embroidery girl. After hearing this, the embroidery girl showed disappointment, took the embroidery and walked out quickly.

Tang You was at the end of the line, he was not in a hurry at this time, he was looking around, but he heard the embroidery girl on her left whisper to her, "Hey, are you nervous?" ”

Tang You raised her eyes and saw that the embroidery girl on her left was a seventeen or eighteen little girl, with a round face and bright almond eyes, and she looked very delicate and cute. She smiled politely, "It's okay." ”

"I'm so nervous, my mother said that the people who can enter this Su family embroidery village are very powerful embroiderers, I don't know if I can go in." She smiled embarrassedly, "By the way, my name is Yuxiu, what's your name?" ”

"My name is Shen Qiao."

The two were silent for a moment, Yuxiu looked left and right for a while, and then whispered, "By the way, I heard that the uncle of the Su family will come to Xiuzhuang today?" Why don't you see anyone? ”

"Maybe not yet." Tang You smiled and didn't say anything more, she remembered that Shen Qiao had mentioned the second master of the Su family, who seemed to be a merry gentleman, but she didn't know where this uncle of the Su family was?

Time passed quickly, and soon it was Tang You's turn, and half of the embroiderers in front had been eliminated, leaving only more than thirty embroiderers. She saw that the embroidery girl named Yuxiu in front of her had passed the assessment and was left in the embroidery girl waiting for the second round of assessment. She took the embroidery and walked forward.

"Please take a look at my aunt and Mr. Liu." Tang You handed the embroidery to Aunt Ruzhen.

Aunt Ruzhen took the embroidery and looked at it, her face showed a hint of surprise, she raised her eyes and glanced at Tang You, and then carefully looked at the embroidery in her hand. Manager Liu on the side saw that the embroidery was also bright, looked at it for a moment, looked at Tang You with a happy face, and exclaimed, "What kind of stitch is this, why have I never seen it before, this lotus embroidery is exquisite, and the koi fish are even more vivid, just like alive." ”

"It's a stitch method I created myself." Tang You opened his mouth and replied, a small sense of guilt rose faintly in his heart, guilt and guilt, in order to survive, forced to be helpless, Ami Tofu.

Manager Liu looked at her appreciatively and said, "Is this really your own embroidery?" ”

"Exactly." Tang You said categorically.

Seeing this, Manager Liu said with a smile, "Well, it's very good to have such a talent at a young age, what do you think?" He looked to his aunt in charge for her opinion.

Aunt Ruzhen said with a solemn face, "I don't think so, embroidery is the most important thing is the stitch, pay attention to the "flat, Qi, and, light, smooth, even", whether it is a straight needle, a disc needle, a set of needles, and needles are all from this, this is a tradition that has been passed down for hundreds of years, and this embroidery needle is very messy, there is no rule at all, it is really a side door, can not be on the table. ”

"What my aunt said is very true, if you talk about orthodox embroidery, this embroidery's stitch is indeed a bit of a sword, but I think this stitch is not unavoidable, although it is unique, but it is also wonderful, this embroidery is more delicate and delicate than what I usually see, lifelike, refreshing."

Just as the two were at a disagreement, they suddenly heard a slight whisper of women in the crowd.

"It's Uncle Su!"

"It's really Uncle Su here!"

"Ah, Uncle Su is here too!"