Embroidery requires great patience, and this is exactly what Lin Dan lacks the most. Every time she sits quietly for a few quarters of an hour and embroideres a pattern, she will become very anxious and cannot continue anyway. However, the Lin family has fallen into decline, and she has no other choice except to learn embroidery skills and revitalize the family business. Therefore, she has to find an effective way to suppress the anxiety in her heart and smooth out her sharp edges.

The wooden piers and stakes at home were decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye. When cooking, the fourth aunt complained that the servant was too diligent and chopped the firewood too much, making it difficult for her to control the firewood. The servant felt bitter, but he didn't dare to say it. He was a little scared after seeing the lady's ruthlessness in chopping firewood.

Lin Dan practices embroidery for a while every day and chops firewood for a while. Her waist is no longer sore, her legs are no longer hurt, and she feels more vigorous with needles. Slowly, she feels that the blood in her bones is decreasing, and many more flexible and calm things are pouring up.

She originally thought that tyranny was her nature, but in this way it was not. Rather than saying that it was a sequelae caused by a special experience, which was slightly smoothed out. Strictly speaking, her temperament was more like water, which could change with the trend, moisten things silently, and surging.

That day, she sat for two hours before taking out the hatchet and preparing to adjust her emotions, but saw the maid Cuilan walking in with a strange expression.

"What happened?" Lin Dan straightened the wooden stake and asked casually.

Cuilan looked around and lowered her voice: "The Du brother and sister have been moving here for more than a month, but they never deal with our family. I don't know what happened today, but they actually sent someone to send a car of gifts."

"What's so strange about this? In the past month, they had to sort out their new homes, so they naturally had no intention of making friends." Lin Dan split the wooden stake into two evenly on the left and right sides with a knife, and then arranged neatly, splitting them into four, followed by six and eight slabs...

Since the servant was scolded by her two aunts, she has stopped venting her stakes, but has split the wooden stakes into strips so that she can take them to the kitchen to serve.

Cuilan leaned closer and replied, "Miss, you don't know anything. It's not surprising that it was more than a month late to give a gift. What's strange is that his family actually sent a truck of sawed wood! A few feet long wood cannot be used as wood, and it is difficult to make furniture. It's useless except for firewood. What do you think his family means? It's not that poor enough to even afford gifts, right? The lady is sulking now, thinking that his family bullies people."

Lin Dan grinned, and said with a happier tone: "The wooden stake I gave? Very good!" She didn't bother too much of this thing at all. She cut as much as she gave, just saving money on buying dry firewood.

Cuilan: "…"

She shouldn't have discussed this with the girl!

The two were talking to each other, but they didn't know that behind a wall, Du Rusong was leaning on the trunk of a tree, listening to their conversation, with a smile of interest on the corner of his mouth.

"Brother, brother, I heard you sent a cart of wood next door today? I'll tell you, we are no longer the princes of Anding Marquis' Mansion, and we can't fool people like this!" A girl in a butterfly skirt hurried into the yard with a loud voice.

Du Rusong's smile immediately stopped, and after listening carefully, there was no sound next door.

"Brother, what do you want to do? They didn't mess with us, so don't mess with us!" The girl was still clamoring, making Du Rusong's face dark. He was about to scold his sister, but the crackling sound of chopping wood sounded again, and he was not disturbed by their conversation at all.

Du Rusong did not collapse and covered his mouth and smiled softly.

Du Ruyan seemed to have caught some evidence of crime and pointed to the other end of the wall and said, "Did you hear it? Where can anyone chop wood in the garden to cut it? You must have annoyed people, and they deliberately chop wood to protest!" The two families were originally ones, but later the owner sold the house in two. The large garden in the middle was divided into two small gardens by a wall, and the layout was symmetrical.

The more Du Ruyan thought about it, the more she felt that this was the case. She lifted up the hem of the skirt and climbed up the treetops, wanting to see how the person opposite was angry with her brother, but she didn't expect that the person who chopped the wood would be a little girl with a round face, round eyes, and a round nose, and her appearance was very delicate and cute.

Du Ruyan fell in love with this little girl like a doll and waved to her, "Little sister, did my family give you a cart of wood, and are you angry?"

Lin Dan picked up a new wooden stake, slashed it in half with one knife, shook her head and said, "No, I'm practicing embroidery."

Du Ruyan sneered and said, "But you are clearly cutting wood!"

Du Rusong also jumped up to the treetops and looked at the little girl with a smile. Seeing that she easily split a wooden stake into even-sized wooden strips, her eyes couldn't help but dim. A layman looked at the tricks and an expert watched the excitement. He could tell at a glance that this little girl was not chopping firewood at will, but was organized. Such a knife skill like her could never be achieved without more than ten years of hard practice.

As soon as he felt alert, he suddenly realized that the family's background was indeed unclear. Lin Dafu and Zhang Hui were both horse thieves back then, and the skill of killing people was better than the other. It was not surprising that he taught his little girl like this.

When I recalled the little girl's life experience, looked at her cute appearance, and thought of her tough personality, somehow, Du Rusong wanted to laugh a little.

Lin Dan didn't look at him, but just stared at Du Ruyan. She often heard Cuilan say how beautiful the lady next door was. Today, she really became famous. Compared to Du Rusong, carved and grinding, Du Ruyan looked softer and more delicate. She climbed up to the treetops in a gauze skirt embroidered with butterflies, and looked like a fairy descending to the earth, exuding an extremely moving spirituality.

Lin Dan was very patient with her, pointed to the embroidery frame behind her and explained: "I felt uneasy after sitting for a long time and always wanted to cut things. I could only go back to embroidery after I cut these woods."

"So that's it." Du Ruyan suddenly realized, looked at her brother thoughtfully, and said, "Can you show me the flowers you embroidered?"

"For you." Lin Dan put down the hatchet and picked up the embroidered bandage.

Du Ruyan's expectant expression was slightly stiff, and she praised: "It's quite vivid and well-embroidered." She couldn't tell what it was, so she didn't dare to say more.

"Thank you. If you have any needs in the future, you can come to me to buy embroidery. Sooner or later, I will be better than Meng Si's embroidery." Lin Dan said seriously.

"Yes, if I need it, I will definitely come to you." Du Ruyan smiled so hard that her mouth was cramped, but she couldn't bear to tell the truth. With the little girl's embroidery skills, I'm afraid she will never catch up with Meng Si in her life. She started to learn embroidery at the age of three. How old is the little girl? It seems that she should be fourteen? It's a bit late.

However, Du Rusong, who had always been poisonous, nodded and said, "I believe that if you give you a while, you will definitely surpass Meng Si. If there is wood in your home, you can come to me." After saying that, he chuckled again, and his handsome facial features shone brightly in the spring.

Cuilan's eyes were so straightened. If her mouth grew a little longer, she might have saliva flowed down. Lin Dan was unmoved and nodded and said, "Thank you, I will give you one for free when I embroidered the finished product." She said very confidently.

"You are polite girl." Du Rusong couldn't help laughing. Seeing that her sister wanted to talk to someone, she pinched the back of her neck and jumped out of the tree. For more than a month, he had already figured out the girl's routine and cut down two wooden stakes. She should practice embroidery again now, so she can't waste her time.

"Brother, you are really good at speaking just now. If you were like this when you were at home, your father would never have taken your position as prince." Du Ruyan looked at her brother up and down, with a very ambiguous smile. She gave her a gift and said caring words. Isn't her brother Hongluan's heart moved?

"I didn't tell a lie," Du Rusong said confidently, "As sooner or later, the little girl can accomplish something, please watch." Embroidery can also embroider a ruthless spirit of killing the enemy, and force yourself to sit wither and practice hard all the time. With this perseverance, what can the little girl do?

Du Ruyan shook her head and hummed, not taking her brother's words seriously.

On the other side, Lin Dan was already immersed in the embroidery wholeheartedly, with one stitch and one thread, and the embroidery was flat and fine. After March, she had mastered several basic embroidery techniques and learned very well in tailoring. She also made a skirt for Zhang Hui and her two aunts, and put them on very well.

On this day, the two aunts finally changed the tutorial and said, "You have learned the seven basic stitches of embroidery, and we can't teach you even more advanced stitches."

Lin Dan shook her head and said, "No, the people who invented embroidery did not know anything, they all rely on their own exploration bit by bit. Every needle method was developed by the embroiderer day and night. They can do it, and I can do it too."

The two aunts said with relief: "It is best for Dan'er to think like this. There are some embroidery pieces with outstanding skills in the family, all of which your father has found from all over the country. We will take them here for you to take a look later. Maybe it will inspire you. From today on, we will teach you how to paint. No matter how superb an embroidery girl is, she can still embroider anything without beautiful patterns. If you can learn painting well, you can get twice the result with half the effort of embroidery. I heard that Meng Si is very good at painting. When embroidery, you don't even need to draw on embroidery cloth. When embroidery, you can embroider it easily. Many of her embroidery pieces are comparable to those of the world's top painters. Wu Huasheng can sell a painting for a thousand taels of silver, and her embroidery pieces can also be sold at the same price. People in the world say that her embroidery pieces are no less than peerless paintings. It can be seen how critical it is to learn painting well."

Lin Dan nodded and said yes, not daring to slack off at all.

The two aunts took out a few strands of silk threads and said, "Before learning painting, we will teach you to distinguish colors first. If composition is the basis of embroidery, then color is the soul of embroidery. Only by perfectly combining the two can we embroider the work that has passed down from generation to generation. Look, the silk thread in my hand has four colors, namely dark green, dark green, medium green, and light green..."

Lin Dan looked at the embroidery thread and shook her head and said, "Auntie, you are wrong. There are clearly six colors here."
Chapter completed!