Lin Hong's mind turned quickly, and he quickly reacted to what she meant.

"Maybe you'll be able to embroider a decent flower!" Lin Hong said happily, looking forward to all kinds of sudden surprises that fell from the sky after Xue Mingcan's illness.

Mingcan squeezed his eyes and smiled at him, "You just wait for me to embroider a double-sided embroidery of a hundred birds and a phoenix!" ”

Her fan-like self-confidence really didn't come for nothing. The previous piles were inexplicable, but in the end they gave her a lot of ethereal confidence.

When she arrived, Mama Li was praising Lin Tangluo's embroidery work. This Mama Li is now fifty years old, and she is the best embroiderer in the palace embroidery workshop, and she once guided the female red of the Lingxian County Lord. It was the old lady in the Bofu who specially begged the queen mother for permission.

"What's the use of embroidery? It's not like I'm going to be an embroiderer. Lin Tangxiao muttered in a low voice, but she didn't expect to be heard by Mama Li.

The old palace maid sighed lightly, and there was no anger on her face, but she just persuaded lightly: "I'm afraid that the fifth girl's words are wrong." Naturally, you are a famous lady, you don't need to embroider to the level of an embroiderer, but at least you have to be able to handle it. Talent, embroidery, these intangible things, in fact, are your dowry. If you are born no matter how noble you are, you can't do it well, and you can't even sew close-fitting shoes and socks for your husband's in-laws, I'm afraid it will make people laugh. ”

After Mama Li said these words lightly, Lin Tangxiao's thin face was already slightly red with shame. However, Mama Li has already shifted her focus to Xue Mingcan, who has just entered the door.

"Miss Xue, I haven't seen you for a few months."

Mingcan saluted, "I've been recuperating for the past few months, and Mama Lao remembers it." For some reason, she always had a little bit of awe and awe for this old woman, and she had a sense of familiarity that she had known for a long time.

"I haven't touched the needle and thread for a few months, I don't know if Miss Xue's embroidery has regressed?" Mama Li said as she took an embroidered bandage, "Please Miss Xue draw a pattern by herself first, and then embroider it, and the old slave will guide you after reading it." ”

Lin Tangxiao couldn't help laughing, "Mama, no matter how much her level regresses, she can't go anywhere." ”

"Xiao'er, embroider your own." Lin Tangmei glanced at her sister.

Lin Tangxiao pursed her lips and didn't speak again, and Mingcan didn't answer her words, only smiled at the corner of her mouth.

She "chuckled" in her heart, and suddenly realized, remembering all the strange things before, everything is possible, since Xue Mingcan can shoot the colorful silk and recite the Book of Poetry, maybe everything else will be inexplicably wonderful.

Thinking about it like this, she couldn't help but pay attention to her all the time. Leng Hui moved an embroidery pier for Mingcan, and she sat down next to Lin Tangluo to draw patterns.

Lin Tangxiao, who was diagonally opposite, peeked twice from time to time, and Lin Tangluo also watched, because Xue Mingcan's craftsmanship was worrying, and she had helped her complete it several times before.

"Hey, cousin Mingcan, what kind of flowers are you depicting? It's so beautiful. Lin Tangluo's eyes lit up, and on the moon-white satin, a few flowers bloomed in layers, embellished in a cluster of small leaves.

"Is it a gardenia?" But it doesn't look like it, the petals are more layered than gardenias, and the flower shape is more rounded.

Xue Mingcan pondered for a while, and then suddenly remembered and replied to her: "It's Baozhu Jasmine." ”

"Orb Jasmine?" Lin Tangmei was surprised when she heard it, such a precious flower is very difficult to raise, so it is also very rare, but she loves this flower, once accompanied her grandmother to the palace to visit the Queen Mother, and saw it in the Queen Mother's palace.

Lin Tangmei leaned over to take a look, and it was really the outline of the pearl jasmine.

"Cousin Mingcan, where have you seen this flower?"

Xue Mingcan shook his head helplessly, "Forget." ”

The Xue family is in the south, and her father is a businessman, so maybe he has sold this kind of flower sometime, and it is possible that she has seen it and remembered it in her heart. Lin Tangmei could only think so.

"Miss Xue, this jewel jasmine is well described." Mama Li picked up the moon-white satin and admired it again and again, which reminded her of the flowers planted in front of the main house of Lingxian County, which were covered with a layer of white snow when the flowering period came, white and tender.

Ming Can praised her like this, and the ethereal confidence in her heart was stronger by more than one point. I couldn't wait to pick up the needle and thread, but I was confused when I dropped the first stitch.

"Can't you embroider a flower?" A little panicked, Mingcan simply decided to close his eyes and try.

Embroidery, the hands that pull her like a marionette! Her mind was completely blank, and her eyes were dark, Huo Ran opened her eyes, and she found that she really didn't know how to embroider.

But Mama Li was staring at her tightly, she couldn't let Lin Tangluo next to her help, so she had to pinch the needle and pierce the moon-white satin.

She sighed while embroidering, relying on the little fur she had learned before, she worked hard to thread the needle and thread, dozens of stitches down, and she was embroidered in a cold sweat.

It seems that the eight characters are not suitable for embroidery.

Finally finished embroidering a small flower, she looked up and saw Mama Li's slightly frowning brows, and the drum in her heart was beating loudly.

To say that the stitches of this flower are messy, and they don't pay attention to stitching at all, but Xue Mingcan's embroidery this time is much better than the original, and more importantly, Mama Li frowned again, she didn't know who she learned this action from, and when a needle was pierced back from the opposite side, her wrist liked to turn slightly to the right.

Mama Li thought about it for a while, and recalled that she had seen this action on the county lord. She also corrected it many times, but she didn't let the county lord change it. And the county lord also loves to embroider pearl jasmine very much, but the embroidery is not satisfactory.

Where did this Xue girl learn this action, she wasn't like this before?

"That's it, at least it's a lot better in drawing patterns, Miss Xue still needs to practice diligently." Mama Li pointed out a few words, then didn't care about her anymore, and went to see Lin Tangmei's embroidery.

Lin Tangmei is now fifteen years old, and in a year or two, she will be married, so she has to step up in these aspects.

The four girls stayed in the west ear room until the sun set, when Lin Xian came back from the Hanlin Courtyard and came to pick up Mingcan. He looked in through the half-open and half-hidden plum blossom window, and saw that in the faint pile of fat powder, a little girl wearing a half-old light blue skirt was lying on the purple lacquer painted gold landscape pattern begonia-style incense table, fiddling with the embroidered bandage in her hand bitterly.

A faint golden glow sprinkled on her, half-light and half-dark, a pair of round apricot eyes looked blurry and hazy when they were lifted because of staring at the bandage in their hands for a long time, as if they were fainted by a layer of mist.

Xue Mingcan saw Lin Xian in the mist, and shouted with a smile: "Brother Xian! ”

She knew that when she saw Lin Xian, she saw the end of school, Lin Xian had come once before, and that time Mama Li ended the female red time early.

Sure enough, Mama Li saluted Lin Xian and let the girls rest. Several people left one after another, and Mingcan buried his head in a few more stitches.

Lin Xian had no choice but to walk in, looked at it for a while, and really didn't see anything famous, so he asked her what she was embroidering.

"Jewel Jasmine." She didn't lift her head.

"This is ......" Lin Xian frowned again and looked at it carefully, and finally sighed and didn't say anything to her. It's still young, and it's going to take a long time to learn.

"Aren't you leaving?"

Mingcan shook his head, "I want to embroider it in a hurry." ”

Leng Hui was surprised by her girl's sudden enthusiasm, "Girl, you have never liked embroidery, why today?" ”

"I want to embroider it to make a sachet, Leng Hui, when the time comes, you will teach me how to make a sachet."

"You're going to make sachets? For your own use? Lin Xian asked.

"No, I'm going to give it away."

"To whom?"

"I won't tell you."

Lin Xian was choked by the little girl for the first time, patted her lowered little head gently, and said, "Don't give it to your brother." He often has to take Xue Mingyu out for a walk, and Xue Mingyu has to go to the school every day to study, if he carries such a delicate sachet, it looks weird and awkward, and he loses his demeanor as a student.

Mingcan didn't reply to him, still bowed her head and embroidered bitterly, until Lin Xian said that she was here to pick her up and go to Huixian Restaurant for dinner, she was willing to raise her head from the embroidered bandage and go out with him happily.

When they arrived at Xinmen, they found that this time there were not only two brothers and sisters who were eating, Xue Mingyu arrived early, but there was another old man sitting on the main seat of the table, and there was a girl below.

Mingcan recognized this girl as Zhong Fu, who went to Zhongfu the day before yesterday to celebrate her fifteenth birthday and give a big gift.

Zhong Fu wore a fragrant concubine-colored silk Ruyi cloud pattern shirt today, with a lot of beads on the bun, a butterfly pattern inlaid with sapphire hairpins hanging next to his ears, and the sprinkling of gold beads and begonia earrings on his ears shone brightly. set off her face with a luxurious and graceful face.

Mingcan felt that her name should be given to her.

When Zhong Fu saw the two of them coming in, he hurriedly got up and saluted, and behaved calmly and elegantly, not busy or chaotic.

"This is the sister of the Zhong family." Lin Xian introduced her to her, and said to Zhong Fu, "This is my little cousin Xue Mingcan." ”

"I've seen this fairy sister." Mingcan said with a smile, and everyone in the side room laughed.

"Sister Xue." Zhong Fu's voice was very soft, and the eyes that looked at her were also clear and sincere, and she intuitively felt that she was different from those arrogant noblewomen, and even more so than Lin Tangmei.

"Cancan, this is Lord Zhenguo Gongzhong." Lin Xian's expression became a little more serious, and he led Xue Mingcan to the person sitting on the main seat.

Xue Mingcan looked hesitantly, this Lord Zhong was about sixty years old, and he had full of crane hair, but he had a green jade crown on his head, and he tied his sparse white hair neatly. He was wearing a gray plain robe, but he did not have the domineering posture of an ordinary grandfather.

As soon as the old man opened his mouth, he laughed twice, and beckoned to Mingcan to come closer.

"Such a clever appearance, like her mother." Although Zhen Guogong's eyes are wrinkled, they are still bright, and he seems to be able to see through the minds of others.

"Do you know, little girl, your mother is my daughter-in-law, and I am also your grandfather. Hahaha......"