Looking at Ruxiang's sad face, although I wanted to persuade her, but the empty persuasion at this time could not make her feel better, so I only slightly explained a few sentences, and asked: "Then when will you go to the embroidery workshop?" ”

"I'm going tomorrow."

"Tomorrow." I thought about it for a while and said, "Can you trouble Aunt Zhao to help me take care of Li'er tomorrow?" I'll go with you. ”

"Huh? What are you going to do? ”

"Go to the bazaar, it's time for me to get a job."

"Oh, then I'll talk to my mother later."

"Trouble her."

She shook her head with a smile, gossiped with me a few more words, and then said goodbye and left, and went to Aunt Zhao's. After she got married, she naturally lived in her husband's house, but I heard that Aunt Zhao's two sons should have come back a long time ago, but because of the border pass, they have been transferred several times, and there is no news until now, but fortunately, the two families are in the same village, and she usually takes care of her mother who lives alone.

I got Aunt Zhao's consent, and before dawn the next day, I got up.

As soon as I finished freshening up, I heard the sound of Aunt Zhao knocking on the door gently, I invited her to sit down and drink tea, and said a few words to Li'er, who was still half asleep on the bed, and went out.

This time I returned to Jixiang Village, and my relationship with Aunt Zhao was more harmonious than before. First, her daughter is married, and secondly, I am a woman with a child, and such a vulnerability makes people even more defenseless, even sympathetic. Although the other people in the village were not enthusiastic about me, they were not embarrassed, and Gu Ping's appearance frightened Gou Er before, and the villagers heard and witnessed it more or less, and knew that I had a big backer behind me, and it was not easy to mess with.

In this way, I feel more comfortable leaving my children in the village and going to the embroidery workshop by myself.

Went to the bazaar with Rue. According to her, some of the big money shops are closed, and it should be much more deserted than before, but some medium-sized shops are still there, but they create a lively atmosphere, and after the summer, the fruits and aquatic products in the south of the Yangtze River are abundant, and the roadside stalls are not too inferior to before.

The little people are the little people, there is always the resilience of the sky falling and respite from the cracks.

Rue Xiang took me all the way, and sure enough, I saw the embroidery workshop in front of me, which was the place where I had also taken over odd jobs here to subsidize my family.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw dozens of embroidery girls surrounding it, and the owner of the embroidery workshop was talking to a businessman who looked very decent and wealthy with a big belly and a silk coat.

Rue Xiang walked in with me, and I heard the man's eager voice.

"Boss Gao, how good are you like this. I'm still counting you to finish this shipment. ”

"I'm really sorry, Boss Wang."

"Hey, if you go, I'll ask for embroidery in the future, who will I ask for."

The boss Gao just smiled and didn't answer, but the embroidery girls next to him were all anxious, and one of them said boldly: "Boss, you're gone, what can we do in the future?" ”

"Hey, in this world, it's up to you."

"Boss Gao, what you said is not right. How many years of business have we been dealing, you can leave, I am still waiting for someone to catch up with this batch of goods, otherwise I won't be able to pay the errand......"

Listening to what they said, Rue Xiang sighed softly beside her and said, "You also saw it." Boss Gao is leaving, these embroidery girls are gone, people are soft-spoken, even if those big bosses have jobs, it is impossible to find them one by one, I am only afraid of ...... in the future"

I didn't speak, I just watched that Boss Wang became more and more anxious, his red face was covered with greasy sweat, and he kept wiping his face with a handkerchief, but that Boss Gao had already made up his mind to leave, but he was a businessman in the end, and he was kind, no matter what the people around him said, he was just smiling and perfunctory.

I kept standing by and listening, and I didn't show off, but I walked over cautiously and talked to a few senior embroiderers in the embroidery workshop, and generally figured out some of the situation. When Boss Wang couldn't stand it anymore and turned around dejectedly and was about to go out, I stepped forward and stopped in front of him: "Boss Wang, please stay." ”

He stopped and looked at me, probably thinking that I was also an embroiderer in this embroidery workshop, and frowned: "What are you doing?" ”

"Boss Wang has a lot of work on his hands now, but no one can take it, right?"

His brow tightened even more: "What does this have to do with you?" ”

I smiled: "This has nothing to do with me, but I heard that Boss Wang's goods are in a hurry, so I want to help." ”

"Help? How can you help me, a woman? ”

"I think next."

"What? You? ”

He looked me up and down a little attention.

I also specially wore a slightly more decent dress today, and Boss Wang looked at my clothes, his brows stretched slightly, but he still looked at me uneasily: "Who are you, what ability do you have to take this job?" ”

Before I could speak, the boss inside had already recognized me, and said with a smile: "Boss Wang, you don't know, she turned out to be an embroidery girl in our embroidery workshop, although she only took some sporadic work, but her skills are very superb." ”

"Oh?"

I smiled at Boss Gao.

Although I also know that he said this just to get rid of Boss Wang's entanglement and push things out, but this time is really beneficial to me, I smiled at him gratefully, and then I heard Boss Wang say: "Superb skills? How masterful? ”

“……”

I raised an eyebrow and smiled.

I didn't think that this Boss Wang would hand over this job to me so easily, at least there should be a reason to reassure him. So I smiled and took out a silk handkerchief from my hand and handed it to him: "Have you ever seen this?" ”

He was originally a little disdainful, but when he saw the silk handkerchief I took out, he suddenly shook it, and hurriedly took it over to take a closer look, and the embroidery girls around him also heard the sound at this time and walked over, and saw the silk that was as delicate as flowing water, and they were all amazed, Boss Wang was considered to know the goods, and immediately said: "This is the silk handkerchief of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, how did you get it?" ”

I laughed and said, "It was given by a friend." I want to ask Boss Wang, do you see someone who can embroider on this? ”

When he heard this, he was shocked, and the embroidery girls around him were also embarrassed.

The silk handkerchief produced by the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau is the most delicate, and the seams are almost invisible, although the silk handkerchief is soft and comfortable, but it has become a great difficulty to embroider it up. Not to mention that it is difficult to get under the needle, the special embroidery needle alone is as thin as a hair, and people with unstable hands and eyes cannot resist the needle at all, blind embroidery will only make the stitches messy, and the rough embroidery will ruin a good handkerchief in vain. It is said that the manufacturing bureau was still in its heyday, and there were only a few dozen embroidery girls, all of whom were the top skilled experts in the country, and then the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau was closed, and these embroidery girls were lost in the market.

Boss Wang exclaimed: "Can you?" ”

I smiled, didn't speak, and just asked the person next to me to help me with the bandage. Rue Xiang had been standing next to me, and at this time she hurriedly brought it to me, and I bandaged the silk handkerchief, and someone next to me immediately handed me a set of needles.

But when I saw it, I immediately shook my head.

These needles are too thick to be used on ordinary silk, but embroidery on such silk handkerchiefs is obviously completely impossible.

Rue Xiang whispered, "What then?" ”

I thought about it, reached out and plucked a hair from the top of my head, and with a twist of my hand, I twisted it into a needle, and pulled out a filament through the eye of the needle. The people around me were so stunned that they forgot to breathe, and dozens of pairs of eyes were all staring at that point at my fingertips.

I couldn't pay attention to my surroundings at all, and I saw a filament fluttering on my fingertips and the silk handkerchief, and in a short time, a lifelike butterfly appeared in the corner of the silk handkerchief.

When I finished the last stitch, I heard an exclamation from the people around me.

I removed the bandage, straightened out the piece of silk, and handed it to Boss Wang: "Do you think this is okay?" ”

Boss Wang was already stunned, the silk handkerchief was handed to him, and it took a while to react and take it, and he looked at it carefully, and then looked up at me, with a complicated look in his eyes, and said: "There are really mountains outside the mountains, and there are people outside the people, I can't imagine that a small Qishan village is like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and today I have seen it." ”

I smiled and bowed my head, but I didn't say anything polite to him.

Now I'm talking to him about business, and there's no need to be modest or anything at this time, not to mention this skill in this embroidery workshop, even if the whole Jiangnan people who know this skill can not count more than a pair of hands, that is what I learned hard, and I deserve to be praised by one or two.

After Boss Wang finished reading it, the people around him also took the silk handkerchief and passed it around, and they all let out a sigh of admiration.

Even Rue Xiang said: "Light, you have such a good craft, why didn't you say it earlier." ”

I just smiled softly.

However, at this moment, Boss Wang said to me: "This lady, your skills are indeed outstanding. However, just because you're skilled doesn't mean you're capable of taking on such a big job. At the end of the day, it's not something you can do alone. ”

My heart sank.

This boss Wang is a calm businessman, and it is true that my skills are outstanding, which does not mean that I am an honest businessman, just like the boss of this embroidery workshop, he was not originally a person who can embroider, a person who works and a person who does business, originally two different things.

So, I still smiled and said, "Boss Wang's words are also reasonable. But now you have also seen the situation, Boss Gao didn't do it, but these embroidery girls still want to do it, to say that I take this job, the employment is the same as in the past, but the people who handle it have changed. ”

After speaking, I turned my head to look at the embroiderers: "Are you willing to stay and follow me?" ”

Those embroiderers were still a little dazed, looking at me blankly, and I said calmly: "All the rewards are the same as in the past." Get a job, get a pay. As long as you are willing to do it, you will naturally have money and food. ”

Hearing me say this, they came back to their senses, and the embroidery girls who had talked to me hurriedly nodded: "Yes, of course we do!" ”

"We just have to do our part, we just have to live."

"Yes, it doesn't matter who you follow."

With them taking the lead, the other embroiderers also hurriedly nodded their heads and expressed their willingness to follow me.

Seeing them like this, I smiled and turned my head to look at Boss Wang, but seeing that he was still not very reassured, I frowned and said, "You said it lightly." It's the change of the person who handled it that makes people feel uneasy. ”

I said, "Then I don't know, what can I do to reassure Boss Wang?" ”

Boss Wang pondered for a while, looked around again, and said: "Well, in the end, I also want this batch of goods to be made quickly, if the people here can still maintain the same, then there is no problem, but before receiving this batch of goods, you must deposit money to me." ”

"So, how much do you want?"

"Not much," he said, holding out a finger, "a hundred taels." ”