In this era, sixty or seventy taels of silver can buy a smaller house in the county. Twenty taels of silver is equivalent to the annual expenses of a middle-class family in the city. Ten taels of silver can buy a maid.
Huiniang offered this one hundred taels of silver, which is already a good price in the eyes of ordinary people.
However, Shen Xiu was not as ecstatic as the other party thought. Instead, she asked without answering: "I wonder if my employer has taken a closer look at the fan I embroidered?"
Huiniang knew that she must have a deep meaning when she mentioned the fan at this time. She thought about it carefully and said, "I have seen that fan. The patterns on it are fresh and the stitches are neat and even."
"It seems that my boss didn't pay attention." Shen Xiudao, "I wonder where the fan is. Can you take it out?"
This request was simple, so Madam Hui quickly took out the gauze round fan that Shen Xiu had embroidered.
Shen Xiu took the fan and raised it to the sun. The morning light shone on the fan, and the silver-gray gauze became extremely light and translucent, like a thin layer of silver-gray smoke. And the silk threads on it also
Shows bright colors under light.
Huiniang looked at it carefully for a few times and finally discovered the subtlety, "Why is this embroidery thread so shiny?"
After Shen Xiu discovered the characteristics of this embroidery thread, she did not put down the fan in her hand, but changed her angle again and said, "Master, please take a look."
After changing the angle of the fan, the luster of the embroidery thread also changed significantly.
"This is what I want to tell my boss. Compared with ordinary embroidery stitches, the biggest feature of poke yarn embroidery is that it is rich in color and can show different effects at different angles. But the premise of all this is the embroidery thread on it
What is needed is silk embroidery thread, and only silk embroidery thread can maximize the advantages of poke yarn embroidery.”
Shen Xiu continued: "Of course you can also use cotton thread for embroidery thread, but the effect will be greatly reduced."
After hearing so much, Hui Niang guessed what Shen Xiu was going to say, so she asked: "So, you have silk embroidery thread in your hand?"
Shen Xiu smiled, it was easy to talk to smart people.
"I do have a lot of silk embroidery thread in my hand. If the owner wants to pay a hundred taels of silver to buy this embroidery technique, that's fine, but the silk embroidery thread needs to be bought from me. I won't ask for more, just one pound.
Silk embroidery thread only costs ten taels of silver."
Madam Hui didn't respond for a moment, but after careful calculation, one pound of silk embroidery thread could embroider ten pieces of embroidery at least. Thinking about it this way, the price of ten taels of silver was not very high.
"Okay, I promise you."
After both parties reached an agreement, Huiniang wrote a deed in front of Shen Xiu.
After the deed was written, Madam Hui handed it over and asked, "Do you want me to read it to you?"
Shen Xiu raised his head and smiled: "No need, I still recognize the words on it."
She has learned a lot of words with Wei Yan these days, and she can even guess the words on this deed.
Madam Hui was a little surprised that she could read the deed. She seemed to have never expected that a country girl like her could actually read. You must know that she only learned a lot of words with Uncle Liu after she opened an embroidery shop.
Shen Xiu saw Huiniang's surprise, smiled slightly and said: "My husband is a scholar, and he taught me this word."
Hui Niang finally understood and joked, "It seems that your husband-in-law is very kind to you. I have seen many talented ladies, but few of them can read."
Shen Xiu had already read the deed and heard what Hui Niang said. She was extremely lucky to have met Wei Yan, who not only taught her how to read and write, but also did not relax his demands on her at all just because she was a woman.
Although the world says that a woman's lack of talent is a virtue. But if a woman is literate, it will indeed be much easier whether she is going out to do things or dealing with people. Wei Yan is indeed better than others in this regard.
Therefore, when Hui Niang made such a joke, Shen Xiu was shy and a little sweet at the same time.
She blushed slightly and said, "I've read the deed, and there's nothing wrong with it."
Since there was no problem, both parties signed their names and fingerprinted it.
After pressing the fingerprints, Madam Hui asked Shen Xiu to wait, and went out for a while. When she came back, she had an extra purse in her hand.
"It's not convenient for a woman like you to take so much silver. These are the banknotes from Liji Bank. They total one hundred taels of silver. Please keep them."
One hundred taels of silver was not a small amount. Shen Xiu had originally had the idea of exchanging the silver into banknotes. Now that Hui Niang had thought of it for her, she thanked her and took the banknotes.
After all, one hundred taels of silver was a huge sum of money. Shen Xiu put it close to his body and made an appointment with Hui Niang to teach the embroiderers how to embroider yarn.
"Of course the sooner the better." Huiniang said, "What do you think of tomorrow?"
Shen Xiudao: "Then I'll come over at the beginning of the morning tomorrow."
Hui Niang considered that Shen Xiu lived a little far away, so she asked, "We still have a few quiet rooms in our embroidery village. I'll let a few embroidery girls squeeze in. How about you stay here for the next few days?"
Shen Xiu thought about it for a while, but declined. After all, she was an outsider to the embroiderers, so it was better not to cause trouble to them.
"I actually want to buy a house in the city, but I don't know where to find a suitable house."
Huiniang said: "If you want to buy a house, you might as well go to Yahang and ask. There are brokers there who can sell and rent houses to the owners."
Buying a house is a big deal, Shen Xiu doesn't want to be taken advantage of, and it will be inconvenient for her as a woman to come forward.
It happened to be the fifteenth day, so Shen Xiu went to the teahouse next to the academy.
Wei Yan could not come out of the academy until the afternoon, so Shen Xiu ordered a pot of tea. When she saw two guests next door asking a waiter to buy sesame sesame cakes, she called a waiter and asked if there were any famous snacks nearby.
The clerk recommended to her the soft meat pancakes from Huangjia Shop and the rock sugar mung bean cold water from Panjiayuanzi.
While Shen Xiu was eating and drinking, Wei Yan was listening attentively to the Master's lecture on "The Book of Changes" in Wenhua Academy.
After the one-hour lecture, as soon as the principal left, Qu Huan yawned, "I'm so sleepy!"
Yuan Ziwen pursed his lips and smiled: "If the mountain chief hears this, you will be dead."
Qu Huan yawned and said: "I thought the Book of Songs was the most hypnotic, but I didn't expect that the Book of Changes was even more hypnotic than the Book of Songs. Another day when I had insomnia, I asked someone to read the Book of Changes to me in my ear.
", it must be very effective."
Yuan Ziwen laughed at him and said: "You don't even have a wife, and you still want someone to read to you while you sleep."
The two of them often quarreled like this, but Wei Yan ignored him and went to pack his things. Then Qu Huan patted him on the shoulder.
"Brother Wei, it seems someone is looking for you."
Wei Yan's hand movements paused. He originally thought that Shen Xiu was here, but then he thought that Shen Xiu was a woman and could not enter the academy at all.
Sure enough, when he turned around, standing not far away was a wealthy man in his forties. This man was none other than the owner of the restaurant where Wei Yan had stayed before, and was Lu Yuhan's uncle.
"Master Lu." When Wei Yan saw the person coming, he guessed the purpose of the person's visit, but the person was already here, so he stepped forward to greet him and said, "Long time no see, how are you and shopkeeper Xie?"
Mr. Lu smiled and said, "Okay, Shopkeeper Xie and I are doing fine. I heard that you entered Wenhua College, and I happened to pass by here today, so I stopped by to see you. You probably haven't eaten yet, let's go, today
I'll be the host and invite you to eat the authentic Sophora japonica Leng Tao."