Before Lu Cailian wrote the letter, Shen Xiu had received many orders.
Since she embroidered some embroidered handkerchiefs for several little girls, because of the novel patterns of the embroidered handkerchiefs, she has had many repeat customers.
These repeat customers brought many more customers over. This month, Shen Xiuguang was always reluctant to accept orders.
In order to save time, Shen Xiu temporarily handed over the shop to Liandong to take care of it. She took Daya at home and embroidered from morning to night.
Liandong is a local, the whole family is in the county town, and Lu Caiwei is the guarantor, so Shen Xiu can use it with confidence.
And Lonicera is indeed very capable. She greets the guests when there are guests, and keeps the shop spotless when there are no guests.
That day, when Lu Caiwei came with a letter from her eldest sister, Rendong was wiping the table. Hearing footsteps at the door, Rendong put down his sleeves and hurried forward to greet her.
"Fourth girl, why are you here in person in such a cold weather?" Liandong quickly poured Lu Caiwei a cup of hot tea.
It was freezing cold outside, but it was as warm as spring inside the shop. Lu Caiwei waited for a while before she felt that her hands and feet were not so cold anymore.
"Lonicera, where is Mrs. Shen?"
Ling Dong said: "Ms. Shen is busy doing embroidery work at home! These days, Mrs. Shen has taken a lot of orders and is very busy, so she doesn't come to the shop."
Lu Caiwei was a little disappointed. She also wanted to ask Mrs. Shen what the orchid embroidered screen looked like.
"Lonicera, give this letter to Mrs. Shen later, remember to give it to her," Lu Caiwei warned.
Since Mrs. Shen was not here, Lu Caiwei didn't stay long, handed the letter to Lonicera and left.
Liandong waited until it got dark, closed the shop, and then went to the house where Shen Xiu lived.
Shen Xiu was doing embroidery work in the inner room. In order to keep her hands flexible, the stove outside was never turned off, so that the fire in the inner room could always keep the temperature.
In addition to keeping your hands flexible, you also need to keep them moisturized and shiny.
Silk embroidery thread and satin base are the most delicate things. If your hands are slightly rough, the embroidery thread and satin surface will be scratched.
Shen Xiu applies homemade balm several times a day to keep her hands soft and soft.
The balm was placed in a porcelain box. Shen Xiu picked up a little with her fingertips and applied it evenly on her hands. After the balm completely penetrated into the skin, she wiped her hands with a cotton towel and started to split the thread.
Before the thread was split, the sound of honeysuckle was already heard outside.
Shen Xiu asked Daya to make a cup of longan tea for Lonicera. Shen Xiu often had to do embroidery work these days, which strained her eyes a lot. It was inevitable that her liver and blood were insufficient, so she bought some longan.
After following Shen Xiu for a long time, Daya became generous and put a dozen longan in the longan tea she brewed for Honeysuckle.
Ling Dong smiled and thanked Da Ya, took the tea, and while warming his hands, told Shen Xiu that the store had taken two more orders.
"Ms. Shen, I think if this keeps up, our shop will soon become famous." Of course, Liandong hopes that the shop's business will be good, so that she can be in business for a long time.
Shen Xiu smiled and said: "It doesn't matter if you are famous or not, let's stand on our feet first."
Her positioning of the embroidery shop is very simple, that is, it specializes in high-end embroidery. However, only a few people can afford high-end embroidery, and it is not easy to become famous.
However, Shen Xiu asked herself that she was not lacking in patience, and she could still afford to wait for three or two years.
"By the way, Miss Fourth came here today and brought a letter, asking me to give it to Mrs. Shen." Liao Dong thought of the letter Lu Caiwei gave to her and hurriedly took it out from her arms.
Shen Xiu took the letter, opened it and smiled after reading it.
"Ms. Shen, what is written in this letter?" Liao Dong asked from the side.
Shen Xiu smiled and said, "That's a good thing. This letter is from my aunt in Fucheng. She wants to order another orchid embroidered screen and some embroidered quilts and pillows."
The Yu family thought that their future uncle would like orchids, so they planned to prepare more dowries embroidered with orchids.
For that orchid embroidered screen, Shen Xiu only wanted three hundred taels of silver from Lu Cailian in order to gain fame.
In fact, if you really want to judge the value of that orchid embroidered screen, it is more than this price.
Shen Xiu planned to raise the orchid embroidered screen to five hundred taels of silver this time. Since Lu Cailian named the orchid embroidered screen, it was obviously the orchid embroidered screen that caught the attention of everyone in the city.
Of course she had to take the opportunity to raise the price, otherwise she would not be able to live up to her own craftsmanship and the famous orchids of future generations.
There are also a lot of dowries such as embroidered pillows and quilts. This business can earn almost a thousand taels of silver in total.
Shen Xiu was happy but also a little worried. Having more business was a good thing, but the silk embroidery thread in her hand was almost used up.
Fortunately, what Lu Cailian wanted was a dowry, so there was no rush and delivery would be fine next year. But by the time she finished embroidering the orders in her hand, the silk embroidery thread would be almost used.
Without silk embroidery thread, she would not be able to make high-end embroidery. Although silk embroidery thread and cotton embroidery thread are both embroidery threads, they are very different.
Shen Xiu didn't want to ruin her sign, nor did she want to close the shop when business was booming.
She remembered that when she asked Li Miao'er to deliver the embroidery, he also mentioned the silk embroidery thread to her. It was almost the twelfth lunar month, and she didn't know when Li Miao'er would come back.
If the other party can come back before the twelfth lunar month and bring her some Jiangnan silk embroidery thread, then her urgent need can be solved.
People are indeed the least talked about.
Shen Xiu just chanted Li Miao'er several times in his mind. When he got up early on the third day, Lu Yuhan sent someone to deliver a letter to Shen Xiu.
The letter said that Li Miao'er had returned from Jiangnan and came to the county seat before she could return to the capital. She wanted to pick up Li Miao'er and ask Shen Xiu to come too.
When Shen Xiu arrived at Lu's house, Li Miao'er was talking about what he had seen and heard along the way. Shen Xiu was thinking about the fashionable embroidery and silk embroidery threads in the south of the Yangtze River. She appeared to be listening carefully, but in fact she was absent-minded.
Finally, after Lu Yuhan left due to something, Shen Xiu had the opportunity to ask Li Miao'er.
Li Miaoer smiled and said: "Don't worry, I brought you a lot of fashionable embroidery this time, and I also brought back some silk embroidery thread. But the things are still stored in the box and cage. When I get back, I will pack them out and give them to you." You send it there. I heard from Yuhan that you now have an embroidery shop on the street. Where is the embroidery shop? I will send it to you personally, and then I will take a look at your shop."
Shen Xiu felt that this was too much trouble for Li Miao'er, "My aunt can just send someone casually, there is no need to go there in person."
Li Miaoer winked at her and said, "Don't be polite to me yet, I still have something to ask you for help!"
Shen Xiu wanted to ask her what kind of help she wanted, but Li Miaoer held back and insisted on waiting until he went to the shop.
On the day Li Miaoer went to the embroidery shop, the sky happened to be extremely gloomy and it might snow at any time.
Ling Dong helped Li Miao'er untie her cloak and served hot tea, and Shen Xiu put her away.
Li Miao'er knew that Shen Xiu was waiting for her to reveal the answer to the mystery, so she smiled and said: "It's not that important. Although I haven't returned to Fucheng yet, I heard that the Yu family in Fucheng has made a comeback recently. His family The eldest mistress got an orchid embroidered screen from her parents' house. I heard that the orchids on the embroidered screen are so vivid that people who come to see the embroidered screen almost break the threshold of the Yu family."
When Li Miaoer said this, she glanced at Shen Xiu and said, "I thought about it, isn't the eldest mistress of the Yu family Lu Cailian? Her natal family is our Huaian County. And who else can have this skill in the county besides you?
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Shen Xiu smiled and said: "My aunt guessed it right. That orchid embroidered screen was indeed embroidered by me. My aunt said that I could help, right?"