Lu Yuhan walked into the embroidery shop with her maid, and the first thing she said was: "Shopkeeper, how is the embroidery of the gauze suit I customized?"
Shopkeeper Liu said hurriedly: "The three embroiderers have been working day and night, and they have already embroidered half of it. It will be delivered to your house in a few days."
Lu Yuhan said: "That's good, just be careful. It's the county magistrate's wife's birthday soon, and I'm still waiting to wear this gauze dress to visit the county government office."
Shopkeeper Liu smiled apologetically and said: "The seventh girl's matter is of course a big deal. Our embroidery shop will definitely finish the yarn as scheduled."
Lu Yuhan then snorted with satisfaction and asked shopkeeper Liu if he had any new styles of embroidery recently.
Shopkeeper Liu took out a small embroidered screen. This embroidered screen used the technique of stamped yarn embroidery, and embroidered a light-ink landscape painting on it.
The entire embroidery only has two tones of gray and black. Several shades of gray and black are cleverly combined to finally outline a landscape painting with a far-reaching artistic conception.
And because of the unique characteristics of stamped gauze embroidery and the extremely light and translucent base material, this landscape painting becomes even more hazy and graceful.
But what's even better is the size of this embroidered screen, which is only one foot wide and two feet long. Compared with larger embroidered screens, it is more suitable for display on the bedside coffee table.
Lu Yuhan fell in love with it at first sight, "This embroidered screen is so exquisite."
Shopkeeper Liu smiled and said, "This embroidered screen was embroidered by Mrs. Shen herself."
This embroidered screen was indeed embroidered by Shen Xiu. A few days ago, she taught three embroiderers the techniques of yarn embroidery. There were some things that were difficult to describe in words, so Shen Xiu personally demonstrated them. This embroidered screen was the one she taught while teaching at that time.
Embroidered.
Now that she heard Lu Yuhan's praise, Shen Xiu smiled generously at Lu Yuhan: "Thank you, Miss Lu."
Lu Yuhan then glanced at her and said, "No wonder my cousin treats you so politely. It turns out you are indeed somewhat capable."
Because Shen Xiu acted in a low-key manner, no one except the people at the embroidery village knew that she was the best at embroidery. Including Lu Yuhan, everyone thought that Li Miaoer's wedding dress was made by the three embroidery ladies at the embroidery village.
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Therefore, Lu Yuhan's attitude towards Shen Xiu cannot be called warm.
Shen Xiu didn't care and said calmly: "I can't talk about my skills, I just make a living through embroidery skills."
Lu Yuhan and Li Miao'er have completely different personalities. Li Miao'er is straightforward, while she is arrogant.
Shen Xiu's words were just self-effacing, but to Lu Yuhan's ears, they were an admission that she didn't have much ability. Lu Yuhan pretended to be reserved and nodded: "You don't have to belittle yourself. Although your embroidery skills are not as good as
Zhu Xiu Niang, but compared to others, she is pretty good."
Shen Xiu didn't know who Zhu Xiu Niang was, so she glanced at Shopkeeper Liu.
Shopkeeper Liu said: "I'm ashamed. It would be great if our shop had people like Zhu Xiu Niang. I heard that the peonies embroidered by Zhu Xiu Niang were regarded as treasures by Mrs. Lu. It's a pity that I didn't have the opportunity to witness it."
Only then did Shen Xiu realize that this Zhu embroiderer was the embroiderer who was good at Su embroidery.
She followed shopkeeper Liu's words and said, "The peonies embroidered by Zhu Xiu Niang are really as good as the shopkeeper said?"
Before shopkeeper Liu could finish speaking, Lu Yuhan glanced at her lightly, "Zhu Xiu Niang learned serious Su embroidery, and that peony embroidery is indeed exquisite and eye-catching."
Shen Xiu smiled faintly and said: "I don't believe it. I have only heard that Su embroidery is good at embroidering cats. The best embroidery person should be Hunan embroidery."
Lu Yuhan said slightly displeased: "You won't say that when you see the peony painting."
Shen Xiu still smiled lightly and said: "Unfortunately, I have never seen it, so I don't believe it."
"You..." Lu Yuhan was obviously irritated by the other party.
Seeing that the provoking method worked, Shen Xiu added two more words, "Sometimes the rumors may not be credible. Do you think so, Shopkeeper Liu?"
Before shopkeeper Liu could reply, Lu Yuhan was already a little angry and said: "Okay, I will let you understand today what it means that there is a sky outside the sky."
Shen Xiu blinked and said, "What do you mean, Miss Lu?"
Lu Yuhan said slightly angrily: "Do you dare to come back to Lu's house with me? I'll let you witness the embroidery skills of that Zhu Embroidery Lady with your own eyes."
Shen Xiu hesitated deliberately, and waited for Lu Yuhan to show his impatience before saying, "Okay then, let's ask Miss Lu to lead the way!"
Lu Yuhan was so angry that she took Shen Xiu to the Lu family directly.
The Lu family is a large family. From the moment you enter the second door, there are maids coming and going passing by from time to time.
These people greeted Lu Yuhan one by one, and their attitudes were very respectful. It was obvious that Lu Yuhan's status in the Lu family was not low.
Shen Xiu followed Lu Yuhan and soon arrived at Xile Hall where Mrs. Lu lived.
Lu Yuhan was afraid of being scolded, so he did not dare to take her directly to see Mrs. Lu. Instead, he led her to a tea room first.
When several maids in the tea room greeted Lu Yuhan, they all glanced at Shen Xiu curiously.
Shen Xiu was busy doing embroidery these days, and she almost didn't think about dressing up. She was still wearing her old clothes.
She was not shy and stood there openly.
Lu Yuhan did not introduce her to the maids, but just told one of them, "Go and see what grandma is doing. Don't disturb her."
The maid came back soon after she left.
"The old lady is playing cards with some young ladies!"
Hearing that the old lady was wiping cards, Lu Yuhan quietly led Shen Xiu from the backyard to the old lady's bedroom.
As soon as Shen Xiu entered the dormitory, she saw an embroidered screen with a peony picture embroidered on it.
The entire embroidery is made of light blue satin, with three peonies of different colors embroidered on it, interspersed with rocks and golden pheasants.
The colors used for the three peonies are elegant and generous, and the rocks and rooster embroidery are lifelike.
Shen Xiu took a closer look at the stitching techniques used in this embroidery. They include rushing stitches, trocaring stitches, applying stitches, sub-stitching stitches, and pricking stitches. The silk threads are smooth and the stitches are delicate. It is indeed Suzhou embroidery, and it is indeed delicate and expressive.
She had to walk a few more steps inside to see what the back of the embroidery looked like. Suddenly, the voices of maids came from outside the bedroom, as if some maids had discovered their traces.
Lu Yuhan could only ask Xiaocui to block it first, and then urged Shen Xiudao: "Are you okay?"
Shen Xiudao: "It'll be ready soon." After saying that, he took a few steps behind the embroidered screen.
The back of the embroidered screen is a smooth satin surface, which is pasted and mounted after the embroidery is finished.
Shen Xiu couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the peony picture was embroidered on one side. If it was really double-sided embroidery, she really wasn't too sure.
Lu Yuhan waited for her to finish looking at the embroidered screen and was about to take her out when a maid's voice scolded Xiao Cui came from outside.
"I don't care if you follow Miss Qi's mischief, but you can't damage the embroidered screen inside. That peony embroidered screen is to be given to the county magistrate's wife for her birthday. If there is a mistake, the old lady will blame it, and even Miss Qi will
I can’t protect you either.”
Shen Xiu's steps were short. If this embroidered screen was to be given to the county magistrate's wife for her birthday, then I'm afraid it would be too late.
No matter how confident she is, she can't embroider an embroidered screen in a few days.