Embroidered color and fragrance

Chapter 7
After breakfast, she and Cai Xuan were led to the front yard by the little girl.

Jinxiufang is divided into three workshops, Qiu Gugu Zhang Shanshui Pavilion, there are 60 embroiderers in the pavilion, divided into three classes, embroidering famous landscapes, flowers and birds, and most of the works are decorations, while the other two pavilions, one is Xiju Pavilion, Most of them are for daily use at home, such as Xiapei pillows and quilts for weddings of princes and nobles. The last one is the Jinxiu Pavilion, which is the most dignified and noble existence in Jinxiufang, and is mainly used to embroider dragon robes and other supplies for the emperor.

The Shanshui Pavilion is a typical Jiangnan attic, with three upper and lower floors, painted with red paint, and the colorful glass windows indicate the extraordinary status of Jinxiufang. Eight patterns, such as Leaping over the Dragon Gate and Flying Crane Spreading its Wings, use bright colors and three-dimensional images, and the embroidered characters are vigorous and powerful.

She is an excellent embroiderer, she looked at it with a look of pain in her eyes, and turned her eyes to look elsewhere.

There are rows of embroidery frames in the main hall. The mahogany frames are covered with embroidery with different patterns and different progress. Twenty girls are wearing the same color washed blue short gowns and hibiscus thread skirts, sitting elegantly and dignifiedly in front of the frames.

Quiet and quiet, only the rustling sound of embroidery thread passing through the base material.

Su Wanru thought of the scene in her previous life. She and her colleagues also worked in the same way. The surroundings were quiet and only the slight sound of their fingertips could be heard.

The sleeves were pulled, Su Wanru looked at Cai Xuan, and heard her discouraged tone, "This is really beyond my skill."

"Who's embroidery is not honed." Su Wanru smiled reassuringly. Her embroidery was also practiced for more than ten years. In the end, her eyesight was ruined, and she couldn't see clearly even with glasses.

Aunt Qiu brought Dou Rao and Ruan Siying downstairs, but Hu Qiongyue was not there.

"Come here." Aunt Qiu beckoned, Su Wanru and Cai Xuan passed through the corridor, Aunt Qiu introduced to them, "You are just here, learn here first. Go get the fabric later, and make your own clothes first."

"Okay!" Su Wanru responded meekly, and Dou Rao smiled and said, "Auntie, can we come here to watch Sanniang sister work when we are free?"

Aunt Qiu liked Dou Rao very much, she nodded and said: "In Jinxiu Workshop, there is nothing that cannot be passed on to the outside world, as long as you don't delay Sanniang's kung fu, you can come and learn."

"Liu Sanniang?" Cai Xuan was startled, and said happily, "Is that Liu Sanniang who embroidered "The Sparrow Opens the Screen"?"

It must be Liu Sanniang who is going to enter the Moon Tower next year, Su Wanru raised her eyebrows slightly.

Aunt Qiu nodded, "It's her."

Cai Xuan was very excited. I heard that "The Sparrow Opening the Screen" was brought by the Queen Mother when she moved to Kunning Palace last month, and it was even hung in the main hall. What an honor!
There is another point that no one dares to mention. When Yingtian returned to the Later Song Dynasty, Liu Sanniang was favored by Empress Ruan. Although she was never summoned, she was given something from Pingjiang Mansion as a reward.

It's just that the winner is the king and the loser is the bandit. Everyone dare not mention the original honor.

Aunt Qiu is also very happy, Liu Sanniang is her direct disciple.

"Siqiu, Zhenying, come here." Aunt Qiu called out, and then two young women in their early twenties came out from the room behind the screen, wearing light purple jackets and combing willow buns, bowing softly Greetings, "Auntie is well."

"These are the other two embroidery chiefs of our Shanshui Museum." Aunt Qiu introduced them, and Su Wanru followed everyone to salute. Aunt Qiu, Lu Siqiu, and Jiao Zhenying ordered: "The four of them have a bit of background, you take it for a few days first, Wait for them to be proficient before assigning work to them.”

"Su Jin and Cai Xuan followed Siqiu, and Siying and Rao girl followed Zhenying."

Lu Siqiu looked at Su Wanru, frowning slightly, "Your face is itchy, when you talk to Zhennan Hou, what kind of virtue is that?" She slandered, and looked back in disgust.

Su Wanru frowned, Lu Siqiu was with the embroiderer who bumped into her yesterday and called her a vixen.

It seems that there will be no birthday for a while in the future.

"Follow them in the morning, get the fabric in the afternoon, and do it here. First, take it easy, and second, let's see how the seniors work." After Aunt Qiu finished speaking, she went out.

As soon as she left, Lu Siqiu glanced at Su Wanru, and said with a half-smile, "I learned it all before? Cut a few threads for us to see."

"Yes!" Su Wanru's expression was the same, followed everyone into the room, and as soon as she entered the door, she saw a woman with a round bun and a black jacket, with a fair complexion and a delicate face. She was trying to guess who it was , and already heard Lu Siqiu complaining: "Sanniang, tell aunt, we still have a screen that we haven't finished embroidering. Although we are not in a hurry, we are not idle."

She really hates Su Wanru.

"It takes more work for those who are capable." Liu Sanniang's voice was naturally hoarse, and she couldn't hear her in a low voice. She put down the teacup and squinted her eyes to look at Su Wanru seriously, and said with a smile: "Since you are here, learn your skills honestly and obediently." , don't make trouble."

"Yes!" The four should be, Su Wanru and Cai Xuan walked behind Lu Siqiu and stood there.

"Split the thread." Lu Siqiu took out a roll of silk thread and dismissed it, "Ten threads for Rong, eighty threads for silk."

Yirong is an embroidery thread split in half and split into two strands, and a thread is an embroidery thread split into sixteen strands!
It is a test of fingertips.

The four of them sat down and picked up the thread. Everyone had studied embroidery for several years. Splitting the thread was not difficult, but the difficulty was the quality of the thread after it came out... Lu Siqiu and Jiao Zhenying looked at each other calmly.

Su Wanru lowered her head, her long eyelashes were quiet, and her slender fingers were nimble and beautiful when she was working. Lu Siqiu stared at her hands with an unpredictable expression.

After a cup of tea, when the finished product came out, Lu Siqiu took Cai Xuan's thread and raised the eyebrows slightly, "Slow down next time when chopping, the thread is a little hairy, can't you see it?"

Cai Xuan lowered her head and agreed.

Lu Siqiu pulled Su Wanru's hand, then snorted, twisted the thread and shouted to Jiao Zhenying and Liu Sanniang, "Auntie, you have been cheated, what do you mean by studying for five or six years? I think five or six months of studying is better than her." I don't know how much."

Jiao Zhenying took a look at it, and also took a look at Su Wanru, her tone was slightly better than Lu Siqiu's, "I need to practice more."

"Look at what they did." Lu Siqiu took Dou Rao's thread to Su Wanru, "Compare yourself, she said she had studied for five years and I believed it, but you said you had studied for five years, no ghost would believe it."

Su Wanru replied obediently: "Thank you for your teaching, I will definitely practice more in the future."

"Practice?!" Lu Siqiu dropped the thread impatiently, and sat down in front of her embroidery frame, waving her hands in disgust, "You can ask auntie for thread to practice on your own, I don't have time to take care of you."

The corners of Cai Xuan's mouth twitched to speak, but Su Wanru held her down and said softly, "Yes, we're going to get the silk thread now."

After the words fell, she dragged Cai Xuan out.

Lu Siqiu turned his head to look at the thread on the ground, and said sarcastically: "Such a thing wants to come in. When we are in Jinxiu Workshop, we all rely on craftsmanship for a living, unlike some people who want to rely on a face."

"Okay, don't say a word." Jiao Zhenying interrupted Lu Siqiu's words, turned to Dou Rao and Ruan Siying and said, "You go and get the fabric, I will tell you the requirements for the clothes later, try to make the clothes before tomorrow afternoon."

Dou Rao should be, but Ruan Siying walked out quickly, she watched and followed, and shouted: "Why are you going?"

"I'm going to comfort Ah Jin, she must be very uncomfortable." After Ruan Siying finished speaking, Dou Rao said coldly: "Okay, you can go. Then go and tell your aunt that you also move to share a room with them. "

Ruan Siying was taken aback, looked at Su Wanru's back, then at Dou Rao, and followed Dou Rao helplessly to get the fabric.

"Ah Jin." Cai Xuan said angrily: "Why are you putting up with her and throwing the thread in her face. You are too bullying."

She wouldn't have tolerated it before, but now there's no need to fight over this kind of thing, "I didn't split the line, if it's not our fault, it's meaningless."

"You are easy to bully." Cai Xuan stomped her feet anxiously, her eyes were red, Su Wanru pulled her to comfort her with a smile.

"Let's go lead the line, and I'll teach you tonight." Cai Xuan said fiercely.

Su Wanru nodded with a smile, clasped her hands and said, "Master, please accept my apprentice's bow."

"You hate it." Cai Xuan laughed through tears, and the two went to Aunt Qiu's room. As soon as they entered, Su Wanru saw Hu Qiongyue. She was threading needles with a stretcher. Her eyebrows were slightly raised, and Cai Xuan had already said: " You didn't go to the Shanshui Museum, so you are here."

It was the handkerchief that Shen Zhan brought yesterday, and Aunt Qiu really let Hu Qiongyue take over the job.

Because what Hu Qiongyue learned in Gongzhong was Hunan embroidery.

Hu Qiongyue glanced at them and continued to work. Aunt Qiu came out and saw them and asked, "Qiongyue is working with me for the time being. What are you doing here?"

"Let's get the silk thread with my aunt, Lu Xiuchang said let's practice splitting the thread first." Su Wanru said indifferently, Aunt Qiu was stunned, and asked with clusters of brows: "Is it not good at splitting?"

"Yes." Su Wanru replied, "I said I need to practice more."

After she finished speaking, Hu Qiongyue suddenly raised her head and looked at Su Wanru in surprise.

(End of this chapter)