When shopkeeper Liu heard that she was going to sell this embroidery technique to an embroidery shop, he was moved in his heart and said to himself, "I have to ask my employer about this."
Shen Xiu also knew that in such a big matter, he alone as the shopkeeper could not make the decision. In the end, it would still depend on the wishes of the owner of the embroidery shop.
Shopkeeper Liu waited for Shen Xiu to leave and then went up to the second floor of Xiuzhuang.
The second floor is where the embroiderers embroider. Three embroiderers are gathering together to embroider a screen.
Shopkeeper Liu stopped for a while and said a few words: "This screen is given by Mr. Lu to Mrs. Lu as a tribute. You must be careful and don't damage the embroidery shop's sign."
Business has been difficult recently, so Shopkeeper Liu has been nagging a lot more than usual.
The three embroiderers all knew his temper, so they just smiled and said nothing.
Shopkeeper Liu looked at the screen and asked, "Is the boss in the room?"
One of the embroiderers raised her head and said, "My boss has been here since Chenshi. He should still be in the room."
There is a quiet room at the east end of the second floor. Shopkeeper Liu clicked the button a few times on the outside, and a gentle voice came from inside, "Come in!"
There was a woman in her thirties sitting in the room. She had an ordinary appearance and was dressed in ordinary clothes. It was hard for anyone to think that she was the owner of this embroidery shop.
Shopkeeper Liu looked at the account books on the table and said, "Is the boss worried about Ruyi Embroidery Workshop?"
The woman, Hui Niang, nodded, "Ruyi Embroidery Shop is rich and powerful. I heard that they will recently invite an embroidery lady from Jiangnan who is good at Su embroidery."
Huiniang couldn't help but smile bitterly when she said this: "If they really invite a successor of Su embroidery with superb embroidery skills, I'm afraid our embroidery shop will never be able to continue operating."
Shopkeeper Liu was also shocked in his heart, but he kept his face, "Even if Ruyi Embroidery Shop really hired an embroiderer who is good at Su embroidery, our embroidery shop still has some regular customers, so how can it last for several years?"
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Huiniang sighed and said, "I hope so!" After saying that, she felt that the topic was too heavy, so she changed the subject and asked, "Uncle Liu, what's the reason for your visit?"
Shopkeeper Liu smiled and said, "Look at me, I've forgotten the real thing." After saying that, he took out a round fan from his wide sleeves and said, "How about you, boss, take a look at this fan?"
Hui Niang took the light gauze round fan from his hand. She was an embroiderer herself. When she saw the fan, she knew that the stitching method used on it was the same as the light round round fan that she asked someone to bring back from the south of the Yangtze River.
Her skills are still better than those of Jiangnan embroidery girls.
Not to mention that this fan is actually made of gauze. You must know that embroidering things on gauze is not an easy task. It takes more than ten years of effort to do it.
"Uncle Liu, where did this fan come from?" Madam Hui looked at the fan and couldn't figure out who embroidered it.
Shopkeeper Liu smiled slightly and said: "This fan was embroidered by the young lady who often comes to the embroidery shop. My boss has also seen the handkerchiefs embroidered by her."
"You're talking about that little lady." Madam Hui had seen Shen Xiuxiu's handkerchiefs, and her embroidery skills were as good as those of the other embroiderers in the embroidery shop.
At first, she thought that he was a rare talent with such superb embroidery skills at such a young age. However, the embroidery shop could not afford to support so many embroiderers, so she did not recruit him. Now that she saw this fan, she realized
The embroidery skills shown by the other party are actually just the tip of the iceberg.
Shopkeeper Liu said: "This young lady also knows about Ruyi Embroidery Workshop. She wants to sell the Tiaoluo embroidery technique to our embroidery workshop. But the matter is so big that I don't dare to make the decision."
Huiniang didn't speak for a while, and she rubbed the gauze fan under her hand for a while before saying: "Uncle Liu, you know that there is not much money left in the store."
Shopkeeper Liu said: "I know. It's just that the little lady said that this Tiaoluo embroidery can not only embroider round fans, but also embroider gauze tents and tents."
Shazhang and Luozhang, Huiniang pondered: "Did she really say that?"
Shopkeeper Liu nodded, "That's indeed what she said."
Hui Niang held the round fan in her hand without saying a word and seriously considered the feasibility of this matter. The main reason for her hesitation was that the round fan was a seasonal thing and fewer people bought it when the autumnal equinox came. That's why she was unwilling to spend the money.
I spent money to buy this Tiaoluo embroidery technique because I couldn't make back the capital back then.
But if this tuoluo embroidery can be used on gauze tents and tents, it will be different.
The gauze tent and Luo tent can be used in all seasons, and are much more practical than the round fan.
Furthermore, the big families in the county always like to follow the trend, as you can tell by looking at the sales volume of Qingluo Tuanfan this time. If the embroidery shop can take advantage of this trend and launch the gauze tent and tent made of Tiaoluo embroidery, maybe it will really become popular.
For a while.
The more Huiniang thought about it, the more she felt that maybe this was a way out for her that God had shown her. With this fashionable Tiaoluo embroidery, she might really be able to compete with the menacing Ruyi embroidery shop.
"Uncle Liu, when that young lady comes again, bring her directly to me!" Madam Hui quickly made up her mind. As long as the price offered by the young lady was not too high, she would buy the technique.
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Shen Xiu was not surprised by this result.
The next day, when she followed Shopkeeper Liu to the quiet room on the second floor, she met Huiniang, the owner of Xiuzhuang.
Hui Niang asked her to sit down politely and politely, "The young lady looks young, but I didn't expect her embroidery skills to be so outstanding. I just don't know who the young lady studied under?"
Shen Xiu smiled slightly and said, "My boss can just call me Axiu. I have no formal apprenticeship. I just learned some embroidery skills from a widow."
These words can fool laymen, but they cannot fool Hui Niang. She is an embroiderer herself, so she can naturally see that Shen Xiu's embroidery technician is outstanding, and it is not as simple as being taught by others.
However, since Shen Xiu was unwilling to tell her master, Huiniang did not ask any more questions, but talked about some interesting things that had recently happened in the county.
Shen Xiu knew that the other party was trying to compete with her for patience, and whoever could hold his nerve more calmly at this time would have the upper hand.
She listened calmly to the new things Huiniang said, occasionally adding a few words, as if she was not in a hurry.
A quarter of an hour later, Hui Niang took the initiative to end the topic and got down to the topic with a faint smile: "Axiu, I invited you here today because of the Tiaoluo embroidery. I heard shopkeeper Liu say that the Tiaoluo embroidery can actually be used for other purposes.
Embroidering gauze tents and Luo tents, right?"
Shen Xiu nodded: "Actually, Tiaoluo embroidery is also embroidery with yarn. It can be used to embroider round fans, gauze tents and tents, and even cloud shoulders, purses, and fan covers."
After saying these few words, Hui Niang's eyes also lit up. By the way, why didn't she think of using this Tiaoluo embroidery to embroider cloud shoulders? Since cloud shoulders can be embroidered, it should also be embroidered on clothes.
She slowly turned the bead string on her hand, suppressed the excitement in her heart, and said calmly: "From what you said, Axiu, this jade yarn embroidery is indeed good. But I heard from shopkeeper Liu, this jade yarn embroidery is really good."
Embroidery seems to be very time-consuming, it takes two days to embroider a fan."
Shen Xiu knew that she was deliberately finding faults. In fact, finding faults meant that she was already moved, so she wanted to lower the price. She smiled lightly and said: "I used gauze base material, so it took a little longer. If it were changed to
Silk cloth can shorten the time."
"But the embroidery effect on silk cloth is not as good as that on light gauze, right?" Madam Hui said sharply.
Shen Xiu knew that she was an expert, so she told the truth: "Silk cloth is indeed not as light and transparent as gauze. But if you are in a hurry, using silk cloth is indeed faster than gauze."
For embroidery shops, of course, the sooner they can produce a batch of embroidery products, the better, so that they can resist Ruyi Embroidery Shop.
Hui Niang was a smart person. Of course she heard what Shen Xiu said. She no longer hid it and said directly: "I intend to pay a hundred taels of silver for this embroidery technique. I don't know what you mean."