After rounds of bidding, the statue of Guanyin Master was eventually bought by the Admiral's wife for 20,000 taels of silver. The ladies and merchants present were richer than her, but her status was the most precious. The Japanese pirates attacked for years, and they all depended on the navy to keep the safety of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Who has the courage to offend her?

After taking the portrait home and hanging it in the Buddhist temple, a group of female family members from the Xu family gathered together and looked at Guanyin with a devout expression.

Suddenly, the door of the Buddhist temple was kicked open rudely, and Admiral Xu, who was tall and powerful, walked in angrily and cursed: "Wang, you stupid woman, I heard that you spent 20,000 taels of silver to buy an embroidery painting? I kept my head on my belt all day long to earn this family business. You fucked you 20,000 taels of money! Where is the embroidery painting? Return it to me quickly, otherwise I will tell you to get out of here immediately!"

"Who are you?" Before Mrs. Xu could not sit still, Old Mrs. Xu slapped the table and stood up, angrily: "If you dare to make the idea of ​​this embroidery painting, I will never end up with you!"

Admiral Xu's face froze slightly. He was about to comfort the old lady, but suddenly he saw the embroidered painting on the wall clearly. He immediately took a breath of air conditioning, touched his waist with his hand, and almost drew his sword to defend himself. Nothing else, he blamed the golden-haired croaking in the dark Buddhist temple, and he seemed to be about to pounce on the sacrificial and eater. When he looked at it again, he was comforted by the kind-hearted Guanyin Master and became calm.

"This, is this the embroidery painting?" Admiral Xu was stunned for a while before speaking in disbelief. No matter how he looked at it, he felt that this embroidery painting did not look like a painting, but more like a mirror. The mirror end was a passage to the divine realm, and inadvertently reflected the characters in the myth.

"That's right." Mrs. Xu didn't look at him, but just held her two and a half-year-old grandson and pointed at the embroidery painting to lure her: "Good grandson, look, that's Guanyin Bodhisattva, he will bless you in the future."

When Yuxue's cute child saw the vivid golden-haired bead, he was so scared that he cried and hurriedly tugged his head into Mrs. Xu's arms.

"Don't look at the monsters, look at the Bodhisattva," Mrs. Xu turned her direction and asked her grandson to continue to look at the embroidery paintings. She pointed her hand at Guanyin's face and said, "Look, the Bodhisattva is smiling at you."

The little boy looked at the embroidery painting timidly, and then was fascinated by the kind-hearted and smiling Guanyin Master. After a while, he stretched out his hand and giggled, as if he wanted Guanyin Master to hug him. The child's cognition was still in a state of ignorance, and he could not tell that it was just an embroidery painting, not a real person. But this is enough to prove from the side how exquisite and magical the embroidery painting was.

Admiral Xu looked at the reaction of his grandson and couldn't help but be amazed. When he went to see Guanyin Master again, he took a few steps back in surprise, circled around the Buddhist temple a few times, and said in surprise: "Guanyin Bodhisattva and the golden-haired mantle have been looking at me! What's going on? The light is still shining above Guanyin Bodhisattva's head. Did you see it?" He rubbed his eyes repeatedly, for fear that he would have hallucinations.

When Lin Dan was embroidering the Buddha's light behind Guanyin Master, he combined more than a dozen needle techniques such as mixing needles, willow needles, applying needles, flat-going needles and scattering needles, and splitting the silk threads very thinly and then rubbing smoothly to express the scattering and softness of the Buddha's light. The flat and dense embroidery surface looks like a mirror, which not only makes the golden silk thread more dazzling, but also reflects the light in nature.

Therefore, when others stare at Guanyin Master, they will have the illusion that he is really shining. Without extremely exquisite embroidery skills, this will never be possible.

"We have seen it a long time ago. Don't whine in the Buddhist temple. Be careful to offend the Bodhisattva!" Old Mrs. Xu was very dissatisfied with her son.

Mrs. Xu chuckled and said, "Master, I haven't given the 20,000 taels of silver yet. I didn't bring enough silver notes at that time. I brought the embroidery painting back on credit. If you think this embroidery painting is not good, I will immediately ask the housekeeper to return it."

"Don't!" Admiral Xu waved his hand quickly: "Don't retreat! Send someone to send the silver notes to the door to ask for it." He came up in the military camp and experienced escaping from death more than once. The most dangerous time was that he fell into the sea and was swept away by the waves. He vaguely saw the Buddha's light and heard the sound of the Fanyin. Then he was carried ashore by a dolphin and placed it on the beach. He was accidentally picked up by several subordinates, so he saved his life.

After he came back, he realized that because of a premonition, his mother knelt in the Buddhist temple and recited scriptures for three days and three nights to pray to the Buddha to bless him with a safe return. The mother and son sat together and thought that it was the Bodhisattva who appeared and the Bodhisattva was blessing their Xu family. Since then, Admiral Xu has changed from an atheist to a Buddhist believer, and the old lady has also believed in the Bodhisattva more firmly. Now, Mrs. Xu has brought back such a statue of Buddha with dazzling light and spiritual energy. They have not had time to worship it day and night, so how could they bear to return it?

"Is it true that I won't retreat?" Mrs. Xu teased her husband.

"If anyone dares to move this Buddha statue, he will be unable to get along with me!" Old Mrs. Xu poked a crutch so loudly.

Then Mrs. Xu smiled and said, "Mom, master, then I'll send someone to send the silver notes to the Danyan Embroidery House?"

"Go and go, so that people won't get the money and come to ask for a return." Admiral Xu waved his hands repeatedly, with an anxious expression. Others are rushing to buy such good things. He finally got them and couldn't lose them anymore.

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Since selling the picture of Guanyin Master, Lin Dan's name has spread in Lin'an Mansion. Now when it comes to embroiderers with top embroidery skills, the first thing that everyone thinks of is her, and then Meng Si, Yao Huiyun, Fang Wenqi and others. If you write a ranking list of embroiderers in black and white, Lin Dan will definitely be the first, and others dare not compete with him.

On the day of opening, Danyan Embroidery House made 21,000 taels of silver, and its huge profit was shocking. Twenty thousand taels of pounds were the income from selling embroidery paintings, and the other 1,000 taels were deposits for the custom dresses of all the ladies and ladies. After all, the end of the year is coming soon, and every household is rushing to cut paper and new clothes for the New Year. Du Ruyan took this opportunity to contact the cloth merchant again, and actually bought a lot of expensive fabrics one after another, which solved another trouble.

On the other hand, life in Meng's embroidery shop was not as good as that. Eight out of ten or nine out of ten customers were snatched away by Lin Dan. Meng Zhong could only watch the guests on the other side come and his embroidery shop was deserted. Fortunately, Danyan Embroidery shop had just opened and the scale was still very small and could not take on too much work. Meng Zhong picked up some leftovers from others. When he settled the accounts at the end of the year, his turnover had dropped by 70% to 80%. It was not an exaggeration to say "the business was bleak."

In the past, when I asked Meng Si to customize embroidery screens, there were endless customers who embroidered paintings. Now, they would rather spend several months waiting for Lin Dan. With pearls and jade in front, who would be willing to make the defective products?

Meng Si, who was demoted to a "retrograde product", felt very uncomfortable and locked herself in the room and refused to come out. In the end, Meng Zhong kicked the door and walked in, poured a bucket of cold water on his head, which woke her up. The brother and sister cheered up and went to the street to buy New Year's goods, and relaxed. When they saw Lin Dan and Du Ruyan coming towards her, their faces sank.

Lin Dan seemed to have not seen the two of them, and walked over without looking sideways.

Meng Si shouted with tears in her eyes: "Lin Dan, wait. Your father caused my family to be destroyed. Everything my brother did was to avenge his father. Since your father died, the grudges between our two families have been cleared, and my brother has not attacked you anymore. Why do you have to be aggressive and take revenge on me? I asked myself that I didn't feel sorry for you."

Du Ruyan's eyebrows stood up and she wanted to start arguing, but Lin Dan gently pressed her shoulders down.

"First, if you can avenge your father, I will naturally avenge your father, and there is no question of two purgatory." Lin Dan turned around and said word by word: "Second, I did not revenge on you. I was just revitalizing my family business. Is this also hindering you? Have I used despicable means to steal your family's property like your brother? Have I ever used insulting methods to destroy your reputation? Everything I have gained now is earned by my strength, and my future is also embroidered by me with one stitch and one thread. I have not won the victory, nor have I harmed others and myself, nor have I used any means. Where did your accusations come from? Am I better than you? Is it because I am wrong? Looking at the entire Lin'an City and even the Great Zhou Kingdom, there are so many people who are better than you. Are they wrong?"

Lin Dan turned around and waved his hand and said, "If you really think so, then Miss Meng, I advise you to go and see the doctor as soon as possible. Narcissism is a disease, and I think you are very sick."

Du Ruyan was almost suffocating to death. Unexpectedly, Lin Dan's mouth was even more poisonous than her brother's. She turned around and rolled her eyes at Meng Si, with a very disdainful expression. Who are these people? They can't compare to Dandan and come to curse. I really can't afford to lose!

Meng Si looked embarrassed and found that passers-by were looking at her. She hurriedly hid behind her brother and secretly wiped her tears with a handkerchief. She really shouldn't have run to question Lin Dan in an impulse. Now that Lin Dan really didn't use despicable means to deal with her, she has always been upright. Even if she deliberately targeted her, it was all on the surface, relying on her own strength. She lost to Lin Dan because she was not as skilled as others.

Meng Si became more and more frustrated as she thought about it, and she choked up and said, "Brother, let's go back, I don't want to go shopping anymore. I always feel that everyone is laughing at me. Jiarong hasn't come to see me for a long time. She may think that someone like me is not worthy of playing with her. If I hadn't been good at it, the business of the embroidery shop would not plummet. After the New Year, Zhejiang Province will select the Royal Merchant again. What should you do if you lose your qualification for the Royal Merchant? It's all my fault, I was the one who harmed you."

"What are you talking about?" Meng Zhong said with a gentle tone, but there was a hint of sinisterness in his eyes. "The New Year is approaching, and every household is busy preparing for the New Year gift, so Jiarong naturally has no time to see you. If you send her a post, you will ask her to come out. Next year's royal merchant will definitely be me, so don't worry. Lin Dan is just a little embroiderer. If I want to kill her, it's as simple as pinching an ant to death. Look, after the New Year, I will make her business unable to continue. I have an embroidery book here, which Li Xiudian specially found for you. It is an antique in the previous dynasty. You are very happy to study it. If you learn this, what is Lin Dan?"
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