Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Woman in Red
Zhang Xiuxiu looked away, no longer more than imagined on those shameful fabrics, her eyes circled the room, and many extremely beautiful embroidered shoes attracted her attention, and she couldn't help but step forward and caress the upper, she dreamed of having a pair of shoes that showed her beautiful feet.
She wanted to try them on, but she picked them up and put them down countless times, but finally gave up with her teeth pressed and put the shoes back on the shoe cabinet and placed them neatly.
Zhang Xiuxiu, who shifted the desire and impulse in her heart, finally stayed on the concave and convex table in the center of the room, and it was not so appropriate to describe it as a table, it was a particularly prominent area in the center of the room, like the clay kang at home, but there were too many differences.
As for the hand-spun carpet on the platform, the size is just right, the pattern is beautiful, and even the color matching is just right.
Zhang Xiuxiu looked forward with curiosity, and now when she looked closely, she saw clearly the embroidery frame that she mistakenly thought was embroidery, and she couldn't see it at such a height as to what pattern she wanted to embroider.
Maybe it was the urging of curiosity, and there was a hidden idea in my heart that I wanted to go up and take a look, but I couldn't bear to see the gorgeous carpet on the stairs, and I couldn't bear to get down, for fear of getting people dirty and getting into trouble.
But I thought about it for a long time, and I felt that I might be here for embroidery, and the embroidery frame on the platform was exactly what I had to work on, otherwise how could I leave myself here alone and no one cared about it.
Thinking of this, Zhang Xiuxiu was bold, but just about to step on the ladder, the unfallen foot was retracted, she couldn't bear it, so she had to take off her shoes, naked jade feet up, the hand-woven blanket, there was a cold meaning behind the feet, but it was soon warm and decent, quite comfortable.
When you are fully mounted, sit down on your side and look at the pattern fixed in the framed table. On the blank brocade cloth, there are two pythons leaning on each other, although it is not real, but vaguely, Zhang Xiuxiu, who saw the picture for the first time, couldn't help but look at it a few more times, but he couldn't see other doorways.
As for why this is so, she prefers to use this painting, and she will not ask, even if she is called, she will do her job well, and the rest has nothing to do with her. Holding a needle in her hand, she repeatedly hooked according to the pattern, as for the color matching, she chose it, looking at the color line with a lot of colors, but felt that the silver line and the black line were more eye-catching, one was silver and white and one was red and black, and the picture was extremely eye-catching.
Not long after his hand embroidery, the door opened, and Zhang Xiuxiu, who was concentrating on embroidery, lost her mind, and the sharp iron needle just poked at her fingers, and the pain made her instinctively withdraw her hand. Ignoring the pain in his fingers, he looked towards the door, pushed the door and entered the stranger standing in the doorway.
Zhang Xiuxiu was stunned at first sight, the person who entered the door was actually a woman, although she didn't say that she was captivating the country and the city, but the enchanting feeling that penetrated into the bones was particularly prominent and eye-catching, and even the dazzling red outfit filled in a lot of ingredients for it.
The woman at the door saw someone sitting on the platform, strode forward and went straight to the embroidery frame, Zhang Xiuxiu could catch a glimpse of the woman's angry expression, only felt that the breeze was coming, and closed her eyes in fear.
The woman in red looked at the pattern that had already shown off her outline, and her originally angry look also calmed down, and she couldn't help but touch the pattern on the canvas, feeling satisfied.
Only then did she look at the woman who got up and closed her eyes and waited for death, looking at her beautiful and charming face, the woman couldn't help but look at it a few more times, and her eyes passed from above until she stopped on the jade feet.
The woman bent down and caressed her beautiful feet with her palms. Zhang Xiuxiu, who thought that she would not be able to escape death, couldn't help but tremble, instinctively shrank her feet, opened her eyes, and looked at the woman who grabbed her naked feet suspiciously.
"You embroidered this?" Although the voice of the woman in red was not the sound of a swallow warbler, it also had a soft whisper.
Zhang Xiuxiu didn't answer, the inexplicable tremor made her nod her head.
"What's your name?" the woman whispered.
Zhang Xiuxiu lost her fear, but her voice was still trembling, especially after listening to the woman's soft words, her mood fluctuated even more, "Zhang... Xiuxiu. "I tried my best to say the name, and the few words were like draining my body's strength, making him feel a little tired.
The woman pinched Zhang Xiuxiu's chin and said with a smile: "It's really beautiful, you are the tenth person to come here, and the only one who dares to touch my things, and the only one who is alive." ”
Zhang Xiuxiu's heart was like a stormy wave, the fear when she entered just now, and the insight was the meaning of death. As for why the woman didn't kill herself, she couldn't figure it out, let alone guess.
The woman in red walked down as she spoke, and even stepped on the ground barefoot, the white skin made Zhang Xiuxiu sigh to herself, and when she stopped completely, there were already a lot of extra clothes in her hands, including the lining that made Zhang Xiuxiu ashamed before.
The woman in red threw it away, the force was just right, and all the clothes fell neatly in front of Zhang Xiuxiu, "Change into these clothes, I don't allow things that don't belong to me here." Afraid that Zhang Xiuxiu didn't understand and added, "You naturally belong to me now!"
Zhang Xiuxiu wanted to refuse, but seeing the command of the woman in red, she had to bite the bullet, take off the original clothes, and put on those shameful linings one by one in front of the woman.
"In the future, the embroidery in the frame will be left to you to do, of course, it will not be done in vain, as for when to embroider, I will send someone to pick you up. The woman in red said.
Zhang Xiuxiu nodded, although it was only a little needlework, but this picture is not small, and I am afraid that it will not be completed in a year and a half after embroidery.
After that, there was also a year to go back and forth, and a third of the embroidery had been completed, although it was not famous, but it was much better than before.
After getting in the carriage that came up to find this day, Zhang Xiuxiu changed her clothes in the carriage and put on the clothes that she had to wear, every time, it was a little difficult to talk about at first, but she could accept it after a long time.
As usual, he still went out of the city, and he naturally remembered the road back and forth, but he was curious about what was being dug in the mine, and why he felt a little sad every time he passed by the mine, which reminded him of his husband who had not yet returned.
The carriage quickly stopped, Zhang Xiuxiu came to her senses, knowing that she had arrived, she dismounted from the curtain and ran to the house, waiting for her to push the door and enter, the woman in red, who usually always returned late, was waiting in the room early today.
Zhang Xiuxiu nodded and saluted, wanting to take off her shoes and embroider, but the woman in red interrupted her movements, grabbed her waist with one hand, and said: "Xiuxiu, I won't embroider today, I'll take you to see something." ”
Zhang Xiuxiu is accustomed to the frivolity of the woman in red, she is already a woman, except for being uncomfortable, she doesn't have much disgust.
The place where she went on this trip was the deep pit that made her grief, the pit that was originally extremely curious, but at this time she flinched a little. The woman in red didn't notice this, and pulled her arm into the hole.
Zhang Xiuxiu, who originally thought it was only a deep cave, only saw the inside of the cave after looking left and right, which is a narrow hole, it is clearly another cave, and it is even very spacious, and the height of the head is also several adults high.
Zhang Xiuxiu didn't have time to be surprised, and was pulled forward, after walking straight for dozens of meters, the original road became a cliff, and the road ahead had been dug up and there was no way to go, only the ladder road carved out of the wall wall, winding all the way down.
Zhang Xiuxiu followed behind and went to the depths, the road that was originally carved out of the wall, naturally many places deliberately set aside windows, and countless torches were hung on the stone walls, illuminating all the areas brightly, and there were few dark corners.
Zhang Xiuxiu looked at the ropes hanging from the cliff, and did not understand what the function was, and even imagined how many people it would take to complete such a large project.
The curious Zhang Xiuxiu had to look out of the window every time she passed by a window, guessing what was hanging on the countless ropes.
Finally, after getting down three windows, she saw something swaying in the window, and the scene in front of her was so frightened that she almost fell to the ground, if it weren't for the quick eyes of the woman in red, she would have already rolled along the stone ladder to the depths of the stone ladder.