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80. Embroidery Girl 2

The man's appearance is one of thousands of miles away, and it is unparalleled in the world. Therefore, just a few days after he moved in, the little maid at home had already found out his details.

"Go back to the girl," the little maid looked around, approaching Lin Dan's ear, and said secretly like a thief: "Next door is the nephew and niece of the deposed queen Du, named Du Rusong and Du Ruyan, and his father was calm and Hou Xue Lie. When Du was favored, the brother and sister were known as the double domineering in the capital, one was a playboy and the other was arrogant, and almost no one dared to provoke him. Du was deposed and their mother was abandoned by his husband's family. The two changed their names and followed the deposed queen Du to live in Lin'an Mansion. This place is very close to the Taoist temple where Du practiced, which is convenient for care, so they moved here."

The emperor ascended the throne at a young age, and was very talented. He governed the country very well. He also played with the queen's zither and was very loving. Therefore, the queen's mother's clan was highly valued by the emperor and gradually controlled the military and political power, and was considered a powerful person. Unfortunately, the flower was not popular for a hundred days, and the man was not happy for a thousand days. Empress Du had no children and was confused. She wanted to poison Concubine Min who was in childbirth and took her child for herself, but because she was not cautious enough, she was seen through by the emperor.

The emperor was furious and immediately ordered the queen to be confined. Many censors took the opportunity to impeach the queen and expose their various crimes. After the emperor thoroughly investigated, he found that all these crimes were death sentences, and he couldn't help but feel even more heartbroken by the queen. He heard that she was resentful and tried to commit suicide by hitting the pillar. He finally completely disliked her. He abolished her throne and demoted her to Lin'an Mansion to become a monk.

The deposed queen is now staying in a Taoist temple not far away to practice. I heard that her face was ruined and she could never go back. In order to protect herself, her family members all distanced themselves from her, but her sister always protected her and did not hesitate to break up with her husband's family for this. It's a pity that her sister's life was not good and soon died of illness. Her children came to Lin'an Mansion with a huge dowry to join the deposed queen.

It is better to say it is to take care of it than to say it is to take care of it. The deposed queen has nothing now and has to stay in the Hanliang Taoist Temple for the rest of her life to endure the misery. In order to make her live a little easier, the Du brother and sister did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to repair the Taoist temple and moved to this not-so-spacious mansion to live in.

Concubine Min, who was poisoned by the deposed queen, was blessed in disguise and was promoted to Concubine. The prince he gave birth to is now two years old. The toxins in his body have not been removed, and he is weaker than ordinary children. The emperor was ashamed of the mother and son, so he vigorously promoted their mother tribe. I don’t know if it was a coincidence that Concubine Min’s father Li Ran was transferred to Lin'an Mansion as governor.

In this way, the deposed queen and the Du brothers and sisters would have a harder life. They were already excluded and isolated by the high-ranking clans of Lin'an Mansion. If they were not lucky, they would probably never make a fortune in their lives, and their situation would not be much better than the Lin family.

After listening to Boyun's treacherous harem struggle, Lin Dan nodded and said, "How to deal with each other in the future, there is no need to deliberately alienate." She was unable to add icing on the cake, but she was not willing to put a deception.

"Don't you really need to deliberately alienate?" The maid was a little confused. After all, the Du family was a family that even the emperor disliked, and they always had to take risks when dealing with them.

"No, distant relatives are worse than close neighbors. Have you never heard of this sentence?" Lin Dan waved his hand and said, "Go down, I want to sleep for a while."

After the maid left, she slowly frowned and showed a little worried. It was extremely difficult to change the situation of the Lin family. You must know that the Meng brothers and sisters were the governor of Zhejiang and the mother of Concubine Min. If Concubine Min has always been favored, the Li family will not be defeated in one day, and the Meng brothers and sisters will be able to rise up and fly higher and higher.

The Lin family has been stepped into the mud. Can they still turn over? Can they still fight against the Meng family, which is very good at hand?

One question after another appeared in Lin Dan's mind, but she pressed it down all the time. No matter how slim the future or how difficult the road was, she would first learn the embroidery skills and then talk about other things. With her superb embroidery skills, she could open the embroidery shop and open the embroidery shop to compete for the position of the imperial merchants. The rice is eaten at a bite, and the road is taken step by step, and it is impossible to hurry.

Thinking of this, Lin Dan closed her eyes and fell asleep instantly.

The next day, the two aunts came to teach her as usual and explained patiently: "Embroidery skills are a skill that takes a lot of hard work. You must calm down and study them well. You cannot learn embroidery skills. There is no shortcut. They are all knitted with stitches. Are you ready?"

"It's ready." Lin Dan took out a set of needles and thread and was cautious.

The two aunts said with relief: "It's good that you have the heart. Embroidery is exhausted. In order to avoid losing the tone, you need to choose a suitable place to operate. This place should not be too dark, not too noisy, not too chaotic. It is best to only choose four characters, which is actually idle, quiet, bright and clean. You can sit down wherever you meet the standards and let's learn slowly."

Lin Dan looked around, pointed to the garden outside the window and said, "Then let's embroider it in the yard."

The yard is full of shade, flowers, butterflies dancing and beetles flying, and the spring scenery is beautiful. Sitting under the tree to embroider, the light will not be too bright or too dark, and there will be no noise or quarrel around. It is really a good place. The two aunts said with satisfaction: "Okay, let's go to the yard to embroider."

The group sat in the yard, first explaining the embroidery category, and then talking about the patterns and colors. Then let Lin Dan start practicing with the simplest flat needle embroidery and said bluntly: "Stand needle embroidery is divided into vertical, horizontal, and oblique flat. There are four key points, namely flat, uniform, practice, and straight, not uneven, not overlap, not cross, and not exposed the base cloth. Only after practicing flat needle embroidery can you continue to practice other needle techniques. Flat needle embroidery is the basis of all needle techniques. With this one needle method, you can embroider most of the patterns in the world. Do you understand?"

"I understand." Lin Dan nodded obediently.

"Let's demonstrate it to you first, you can watch." The two aunts took out their needles and threads and started to embroider. Soon, two vivid forsythia flowers appeared on the white embroidery cloth. Although they were just laid out in flat needles, the style was simple, but the thread was dense and pink and tender in color, which was very cute.

Lin Dan almost knew it when she saw it, and quickly twisted a needle and started threading it.

There were not many servants at home, and the two concubines had to do work besides teaching. Seeing that Lin Dan was very serious and conscious, they left one after another. They occasionally took time to take a look and asked the maid to guard her to prevent her from being lazy.

Lin Dan pinched an embroidery needle and carefully shuttled through the embroidery cloth. Her expression looked very calm, but she was filled with countless anger. She originally thought that operating an embroidery needle was a very simple thing, but she realized how difficult it was when she actually practiced it! She originally wanted to put the needle here, but when she trembled her hand, it was a thousand miles away. A good forsythia was embroidered into a pile of bird droppings, yellow, white, and a ball of paste.

She stared at the "bird droppings" for a long time, and her hands holding the embroidery needle were shaking. She felt that she should not hold the needle, but should hold the knife and cut all the messy things.

"Miss, Miss, what do you want to do?" The maid suddenly got up and went to the woodshed and hurriedly followed her.

"Miss, you can't take a knife, be careful to hurt your hand!" Seeing her walking out of the room with a hatchet, the maid turned pale with fright.

Lin Dan stood a wooden pier in the yard without saying a word and chopped it up. When she felt unhappy, she always wanted to chop people, but she didn't know when this problem happened.

"Miss, what are you doing? Stop!" The maid was really crying by her. She wanted to get close to her but was afraid of being hit by the splash of wood chips, so she could only stand there to persuade her.

Lin Dan ignored it at all, cut the wooden pier into pieces in a few seconds, and then slowly patted the hem of the skirt covered with wood chips, and said slowly: "Change me a piece of embroidery cloth, let's continue practicing."

The maid looked at her calm face as if nothing had happened, and then looked at the wooden trunk on the ground that was too broken, and she couldn't help but shivered. She quickly changed into a piece of embroidery cloth for Lin Dan, cleaned the mess on the ground, and then left for a long time, not daring to touch Lin Dan's edge.

Lin Dan hid the hatchet under the tablecloth, picked up the embroidery needle as if it were a decent, and continued to practice the flat needle. After practicing for a while, the third aunt came. She picked up the "bird droppings" and looked at it. Her expression was a bit hard to describe. Fortunately, Lin Dan did not run away today, nor was she lazy. It was a great progress. She did not dare to blame her, but instead said a lot of words of encouragement.

Lin Dan nodded obediently and continued to embroider. A quarter of an hour later, a slightly better-looking "bird droppings" came out. She held the embroidery cloth for a long time, and then she threw away her hand and bent down, taking out the hatchet from under the table.

The maid moaned and hurriedly retreated.

Lin Dan was unwilling to let her go, and said calmly: "Get another wooden pier."

The maid was hesitant, and when she glanced lightly, she ran towards the woodshed like a frightened bird. In a moment, she took back a wooden stake that was half a person high.

Lin Dan slowly rolled up her sleeves, raised her knife slowly, and cut the half-human-high wooden stake to only two feet long in a few seconds. Embroidery almost exhausted all her patience, and she was now full of her mind. Why is it harder to use an embroidery needle than a knife to cut people? Why?!

Her eyes were as dark as water, her face was as cold as frost, and she looked a little scary. When the wooden stake was cut, her cold aura instantly closed and she became the sweet and innocent girl with a little innocence.

"Okay, sweep the floor and change me to a piece of embroidery cloth. Let's continue practicing." As usual, she hid the hatchet under the tablecloth, and she explained very calmly.

The maid was so scared that she didn't dare to breathe. She quickly cleaned the yard as quickly as possible, and then sent the pitiful wooden stakes that were left with only a little butt back to the woodshed.

As soon as Lin Dan sat down, the fourth aunt came, picked up two embroidered cloth and looked at it, and praised, "No, there is progress! Keep practicing, don't stop."

"I can do it," Lin Dan nodded and suggested: "Fourth Auntie, let the servant carry a few more bundles of firewood later, and the firewood will be empty soon."

"Okay, our Dan'er knows the director too." The fourth aunt left with relief. Lin Dan pinched the embroidery needle and continued to practice. Her expression seemed as calm as she was.

Not far away, Du Rusong quietly jumped off the treetops, shook his head and laughed. Why is this little girl so horny? It's so interesting!
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