Lin Ye pushed a brocade box in front of Shen Xiu, "These are ten embroidery needles I brought from Shu. Although these embroidery needles are not as fine as Su needles, they are not easy to hurt your hands."
"I have benefited a lot from what you said these past few days. These embroidery needles are just a little bit of my thoughts."
Shen Xiu did not shirk and took the needle, "I wonder what your plans are next, Lin embroiderer?"
In just a few days, Shen Xiu also got to know Lin Ye's personality. He was obsessed with promoting Shu embroidery and would not stay in Fucheng for long.
Sure enough, Lin Ye said: "I plan to go to the capital. I heard that there are many embroiderers from all over the country gathered in the capital. Even if I can't compete with them, it's good to see more of other people's embroidery."
After he finished speaking, he looked at Shen Xiu and said, "In fact, Mrs. Shen should also go to the capital to have a look. Your embroidery skills are still better than mine. If you go to the capital, you will definitely be appreciated by the nobles."
The capital is too far away for Shen Xiu.
She shook her head: "My embroidery skills are still far from perfect. Let's wait and see in a few years!"
Lin Ye didn't force himself, he quickly called the waiter over and left the room.
Shen Xiu saw him out of the inn for the sake of their acquaintance, and then returned to Yu's house.
Someone from the Yu family is already waiting for her.
Li Miaoer waited for a full hour before Shen Xiu came back.
Before Shen Xiu came back, it was the eldest wife of the Yu family who came to entertain Li Miao'er. Now that she saw Shen Xiu coming back, she found an excuse and went out so that the two of them could talk.
"Why are my aunt here?" Shen Xiu asked with a smile. Only the Lu family knew about her coming to Fucheng. I don't know how it reached Li Miao'er's ears.
Li Miao'er said: "When you came to Fucheng, why didn't you say hello to me? If I hadn't heard from people in the embroidery shop, I wouldn't have known you were in Fucheng."
Shen Xiu smiled and said, "My aunt is usually very busy. I was afraid of disturbing you, so I didn't send anyone a message."
Li Miaoer said: "Your brother Qian is in charge at home, so what do I have to do? Fortunately, you came just in time. I had originally planned to send someone to deliver a message to you."
"Last year in the twelfth lunar month, didn't you help me embroider an orchid embroidered screen?" Li Miao'er said: "I originally wanted to show off to my husband's family so that I could make some money. When I entertained relatives in the first lunar month, this orchid embroidered screen was indeed given to me. I earned a lot of face."
When Li Miaoer said this, she felt her mouth was dry, so she took a sip of tea and continued: "In the spring, the Zhu family next door took a fancy to my orchid embroidered screen and said that their family was hosting a banquet and wanted to borrow it for display. put.
Seeing that we were all neighbors, I agreed and had the orchid embroidered screen sent over.
Unexpectedly, among the guests of the Zhu family, there is an old man named Mi who is interested in your orchid embroidery skills and must meet you. He said that he has two precious camellias in his family and wants you to use them as a gift. Embroider it down.
I know you are busy with your shop, so you didn’t want to agree at first. But Mr. Mi is determined to find you, and he also said that as long as you agree, he will give you a double-sided embroidery that he has collected at home as a reward."
Shen Xiu heard this and asked hurriedly: "Mr. Mi really has double-sided embroidery in his hands."
Li Miao'er said: "It is said that Mr. Mi's ancestors were high officials. I heard from the Zhu family that Mr. Mi's home has many antiques and treasures from the previous dynasty. The double-sided embroidery should be genuine."
As soon as Shen Xiu heard that Mr. Mi really had double-sided embroidery in his hands, Shen Xiu agreed without thinking.
"Auntie, go back and tell Mr. Mi that I promise to help him embroider camellias."
When it comes to double-sided embroidery, not to mention embroidering camellias, even embroidering dragon robes, Shen Xiu will agree to it.
Li Miaoer said: "Mr. Mi said that if you agree, he will send you a message in two days. The flowering period of camellia is only these two days. If you miss the flowering period, you will have to wait another year."
Shen Xiu didn't want to wait a year to get the double-sided embroidery, so she urged Li Miao'er to reply to Mr. Mi.
Mr. Mi also wanted to let Shen Xiu see the camellia as soon as possible, so he quickly sent a greeting card and formally invited Shen Xiu to be a guest at Mi's house.
Before going to Mi's house, Shen Xiu specially asked Yu Shuya to inquire about Mi's house.
Yu Shuya said: "I don't know much about the Mi family. I only know that his family has always been very low-key, but I heard from my mother that his ancestors once had a chief minister, who was very powerful at that time and was very famous in the city.
Now his family has not produced a Jinshi for decades, but the family still has a lot of property. It is just because there is no one in the court, so it is very low-key, and the descendants also stick to their duties."
When Shen Xiu heard this, she felt a little relieved. She was also worried that the Mi family would bully others, but now that she heard that everyone in his family kept their duties, she knew that her worries were unnecessary.
On the day the Mi family entertained guests, Shen Xiu specially wore new clothes. She wore a light apricot yellow satin shirt embroidered with blue snowflakes on the upper body, and an autumn fragrant-colored skirt embroidered with silver embroidery on the lower body.
Lu Caiwei held Shen Xiu's hand and said that she looked good.
After she met Mr. Meng, she felt that he was gentle and polite, so she nodded shyly.
Mother Lu also has a good impression of Mr. Meng.
The Meng family also felt that Lu Caiwei had a good family background and was lively and pretty.
Both parties were very satisfied with each other, so the marriage was settled. After Lu's mother returned, the Meng family sent someone to propose marriage.
Now that the marriage has been settled, Lu Caiwei is in a good mood, and even treats Yu Shuya less tit-for-tat.
This time Shen Xiu went to Mi's house as a guest. Lu Caiwei not only praised her beautiful clothes, but also gave her the idea to wear a pair of gem-encrusted agate flower hairpins.
The pair of gem-encrusted agate hairpins were a meeting gift from the eldest wife of the Yu family.
Although the body of the hairpin is made of silver and gold-plated, the gems and agates inlaid on the hairpin are small but of good quality and can be worn.
Shen Xiu originally didn't want to dress up so ostentatiously and just wear a silk flower. However, Lu Caiwei advised her that since she was a guest, she should always wear some jewelry, otherwise she would be easily looked down upon.
This was reasonable, and Shen Xiu followed her wishes. In addition to wearing the pair of agate flower hairpins inlaid with gemstones, she also inserted a new silk flower from Li Miao'er on her temples.
This time Shen Xiu went to Mi's house, and Li Miao'er, as the matchmaker, was waiting at the door of Yu's house early.
She knew that Shen Xiu was not familiar with the situation of the Mi family, so she told Shen Xiu all the news she had learned from the Zhu family.
Mr. Mi is the head of the Mi family, and he is the head of the household.
He has only one son, who has always been reclusive and rarely comes out to see people.
And his wife is a girl from the Tao family, and she is Tao Ziqian's aunt in terms of seniority.
Mr. Mi's first wife died young, and the head matron of the Mi family was Mrs. Tao.
Shen Xiu came to visit this time, and it must be Mr. Tao who came to entertain her.
Li Miaoer married in Fucheng not long ago and was not very familiar with the Mi family or the Tao family. She only knew that the Tao family was very virtuous and virtuous. Because she only gave birth to two daughters, she took many concubines for her husband.
As Li Miao'er said, Mrs. Tao was indeed a virtuous and virtuous person. Ever since she found out that her father-in-law had invited an embroiderer to visit her, she had started to organize her work early in the morning.
After she and her maids had arranged the room and prepared the menu, they heard from the servants that the guests had arrived.