Li Miao'er didn't know Shen Xiu's lofty ambitions, but she happily expressed her willingness to help her.
"Brother Qian understands that I have been traveling all these years, so he let me rest at home for a while. I plan to set off with the caravan after August. It should be winter when I come back."
Li Miao'er had a good taste, and Qian Chen was not only affectionate, but also sensible. He knew that Li Miao'er had a restless temper, so he didn't stop her from showing up after marriage. He just felt sorry for her that she was away from home all year round and asked her to rest at home for a few more days.
Shen Xiu said with envy: "Brother Qian really knows how to care for people."
Li Miaoer smiled sheepishly and said: "By the way, I came from Fucheng this time and brought a lot of fresh silk flowers and velvet flowers to my cousin. You can pick a few from them later, which can be regarded as a little bit of my appreciation."
Shen Xiu was not interested in the first flower, but after hearing Li Miaoer talk about Fucheng, she asked: "Isn't it much more lively in Fucheng than in the county town?"
"Of course it is." Li Miao'er said, "The capital is several times larger than the county town, and there are many shops. There is also a night market in the evening."
Shen Xiudao: "So, if you open a store in Fucheng, the business should be quite good."
Li Miaoer said: "You can also say that."
"How many embroidery shops and embroidery workshops are there in Fucheng?"
Li Miao'er thought about it and said, "I don't know much about this, but there are only two famous embroidery shops. I heard that these two embroidery shops hire famous embroidery girls from Jiangnan."
The two embroidery shops are the embroidery ladies from the south of the Yangtze River.
Shen Xiu thought about it silently in her heart. It seemed that it would not be easy to convince Ruyi Embroidery Shop to open a shop in Fucheng!
She was thinking about this in her mind and was absent-minded when she came out of the Lu family.
Until the two waiters walked up to her and made a gesture of invitation, "Our boss would like to invite Mrs. Shen to come over and talk."
In the teahouse, Jia Lin, the owner of Ruyi Embroidery Shop, sat at the table and slowly poured Shen Xiu a cup of tea, "This is the best West Lake Longjing. Madam Shen, try it."
Shen Xiu picked up the teacup and sniffed it. It was indeed the best Longjing tea. She just put the teacup to her lips and touched it, then put it down after thinking about it.
Jia Lin saw all this in his eyes, raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Are you afraid that Jia will put medicine in the tea?"
Shen Xiu said without changing her expression: "That's not true, it's just that I'm not thirsty yet."
When Jia Lin heard what Shen Xiu said, he clapped his hands. The waiter from the teahouse came in with a tray and put four plates of snacks on the table.
"This is a delicate dim sum that the teahouse specializes in. I heard that the dim sum maker was invited from Jiangnan." Jia Lin said, "Since Mrs. Shen is not thirsty, let's have a piece of dim sum."
Shen Xiu picked up a piece of snack and was not in a hurry to eat it, but used her chopsticks to pick out the sweet-scented osmanthus on the pastry. "Boss Jia came to see me, are you just here to drink tea and eat snacks?"
Jia Lin picked up the fan from the table and fanned it twice, "That's not true. I invited Mrs. Shen here, of course, for business."
Shen Xiu split the dim sum into two parts with chopsticks and said calmly: "If Boss Jia is talking about asking me to join Ruyi Embroidery Workshop, then I have nothing to say."
Jia Lin fanned himself and said, "Ms. Shen doesn't give me any face at all. Could it be that she thinks my salary is low?"
"It's not about wages." Shen Xiu said straightforwardly: "Xiuzhuang has been kind to me and I won't leave easily."
Jia Lin closed the fan little by little, "Are you really so devoted to Xiuzhuang?"
Shen Xiudao: "I disappoint Boss Jia. I am indeed a person who accepts death."
Shen Xiu can have something to say about other matters, but her position must be firm. Since she is from Xiuzhuang now, she must unswervingly refuse Jia Lin's offer.
Jia Lin's face was very ugly, and he said in a deep voice: "Don't think that I dare not touch you. Even if the county magistrate's wife likes you very much, so what, I don't believe that she would go behind my back for an embroiderer like you.
The forces are torn apart."
Facing Jia Lin's threat, Shen Xiu behaved calmly: "If you really don't have to worry about anything, then I won't be sitting in front of you at this moment."
Jia Lin stared at her for a long time, and then realized that Shen Xiu was really not afraid of him, and was not bluffing.
"You are quite brave!"
Shen Xiu smiled slightly: "I am not bold, but I have a backup plan. Since the manager of your Ruyi Embroidery Workshop came to my home, I told the people at home and the embroidery village that if I suddenly disappear one day
Yes, it must be related to your Ruyi Embroidery Workshop. So once I disappear, they will immediately report it to Wang."
"Boss Jia must have heard of Mr. Wang's wife, Mrs. Xu," Shen Xiu said with a smile, "Thanks to Mrs. Xu for not giving up, she became a sister with me in private. If something happens to me, she will definitely not
Those who are willing to give up."
Jia Lin's face became more and more gloomy, and he suddenly said: "That's enough, I know you have a backer. But I, Jia, am not a nobody."
He stretched out his hand and pinched his fingers, "If you don't want to join our Ruyi Embroidery Workshop, that's fine, but you must hand over the technique of poking yarn embroidery today."
"Why should I hand it over?" Shen Xiu frowned and said, "The yarn-piercing embroidery is related to the survival of the embroidery village. If I hand it over, I will put the embroidery village to death."
Jia Lin sneered: "You must hand it over today. Do you think I came to you today unprepared? Sophora japonica in Stone Village is your good partner, right? I heard that the silk embroidery thread you use is
She dyed it.
You said, if I spread the news that the embroidery thread used by your embroidery shop is dyed by a broom star, do you think anyone will patronize your embroidery shop? Once your embroidery shop has no customers.
, then you are the biggest sinner, do you think Huiniang of Xiuzhuang will still take you in?"
Shen Xiu's heart skipped a beat, "How do you know who dyed my silk embroidery thread?"
Jia Lin sneered and said: "If you don't want others to know, don't do anything except yourself."
Shen Xiu looked at him without saying a word. Only a few people knew about Huaihua helping her dye silk embroidery thread. One was Aunt Cui and the other was Shopkeeper Liu.
Needless to say, Aunt Cui will not betray herself easily. Shopkeeper Liu is the shopkeeper of Xiuzhuang, so it is even more impossible for him to betray her.
After thinking about it, Shen Xiu could only think of one thing. It was probably someone else who heard what she said to Shopkeeper Liu, and this bystander could not be anyone else. It must be the three embroiderers in the embroidery shop.
From this point of view, there must be a mole among the three embroiderers, and it was this mole who told Jia Lin about this matter.
"How about it, do you know how to master the technique?" Jia Lin urged impatiently.
Shen Xiu calmly thought of a solution, then suddenly raised his head and said, "Of course I have to submit the technique, but not now."