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Chapter 53 53. Embroidery
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The next afternoon, Lan Tianming drove to pick Fang Fang up.

"Mr. Lan, you are really punctual. The two o'clock you agreed on is exactly two o'clock, not a minute or a second away."

"Mr. Lan, why are you so ignorant? Didn't you call me brother before! Brother Tianming."

"This... is not good!"

"What's the matter? That night, one mouthful and one brother called Duoqin. Now that they are so familiar, they have become different."

Looking at the giggling Lan Tianming, Fang Fang felt that although he was a rich man, he was very down-to-earth.

"Alright, respect is worse than obedience, I will call you Brother Tianming."

"Since you called me brother, you must tell brother if there is anything going on in the future, don't hold on by yourself like before."

"Okay, thank you Brother Tianming."

Lan Tianming drove Fang Fang to a villa complex.

There is an elegant environment surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the white houses are hidden in the green vegetation with red flowers and leaves.

Lan Tianming's villa is very big, with a garden and a swimming pool, and the living room on the first floor is also very large, but the living room on the second floor is still normal, it won't look too spacious.

Lan Tianming's grandma is over 80 years old, with gray hair and fair skin without blemishes.One can tell at a glance that she must have been a beauty when she was young.

Now that he is older, he has a kind face and kind eyes, but he also reveals a veiled wisdom.

She greeted Fang Fang to drink tea with a smile, and told Fang Fang that this kind of tea is a kind of black tea, which is most suitable for girls to drink.

Fang Fang took a sip lightly, the taste was faintly fragrant, but the aftertaste was long.

Fang Fang doesn't understand tea, but she knows that this tea has the same connotation as the elegant grandma in front of her.

Fang Fang said to the old lady, "Grandma Lan, this tea is really delicious."

The old lady narrowed her eyes with a smile.

"My surname is not Lan, but there is a word Min in my name, so call me Grandma Min."

"Okay, Grandma Min."

Lan Tianming is impatient: "Grandma, show Fang Fang your embroidery! Maybe she will help you repair the embroidery! She is ingenious and handy, and she is a good tailor and turner in Ruyi Garment Factory." , is still a very good designer.”

Fang Fang waved her hands quickly.

"Brother Tianming, you have won the prize. I can sew clothes, but I can't do embroidery, especially the ancient embroidery, which is double-sided embroidery, and the technique is clever. The embroidery techniques that have been handed down to the present are not as good as before. kind of essence.”

"Fang Fang, don't be modest. The plum blossom you embroidered for Jiacheng looks pretty good to me. I have also seen many embroidery works, but they are not one-tenth of yours."

Grandma Min said: "Whether it works or not, I'll show you! It's better if you can fix it, but it doesn't matter if you can't."

Grandma Min entered her room and took out an exquisite box.

Open the box, and there is a piece of brocade.

Inside is a piece of embroidery.

The embroidery is noble in quality, 1.2 meters wide and [-] centimeters high.

This is a pair of embroidery with beautiful flowers and a full moon.

Embroidery is double-sided embroidery, and the embroidery is exquisite. Nowadays, there are very few people who can have this kind of embroidery.

Fang Fang thinks about these things when she is free, so she knows something about embroidery.

The embroidery is exquisite, the flowers are lifelike, the butterflies are lifelike, the bright yellow moon is glowing with clear light, but unfortunately, the embroidery work is a little loose on the lower corner of the moon.

Fang Fang couldn't help admiring.

"This kind of embroidery is very rare. I'm afraid this kind of embroidery will be extinct!"

Grandma Min nodded.

"This is my grandmother's dowry, and later passed it to my mother, and my mother passed it to me, so it should be an embroidery from the Qing Dynasty."

"Then this embroidery is a family heirloom."

"Of course it is a family heirloom, but unfortunately, the silk thread here was accidentally broken, so the entire surface of the moon is a little loose. If it is not repaired in time, the wound will become more and more serious, and this embroidery will be useless."

Fang Fang took a closer look.

"Grandma Min, do you have this kind of silk thread at home? If you want to repair it, and it will be perfect after repairing, there will be no traces of previous repairs. I don't think the current silk thread will work. No matter the color, the thickness of the silk thread, or the material, it must be repaired. Just the same."

"I have spent a lot of effort to buy this exact same silk thread."

As Grandma Min said, she opened another small box and took out some silk thread.

Fang Fang compared it, and indeed, it was exactly the same as the silk thread on the embroidery.

"Grandma Min, is it not easy to find such an identical silk thread?"

"Of course, you can't buy it on the market at all. The manufacturer I contacted specially made it for me."

"Grandma Min, I'll give it a try and see if I can mend this embroidery, but I don't dare to do it directly. I have to experiment with a piece of scrap fabric."

While watching the embroidery research, Fang Fang did many experiments with expensive fabrics, and finally she had a plan in mind.

She tightened the embroidery with a stretcher, then began to mend.

Grandma Min wore reading glasses and watched Fang Fang mend without saying a word.

Before, when Fang Fang was practicing on waste fabric, she carefully observed her techniques and the results of the practice, and saw that she could operate proficiently after practicing a few times, and the embroidery she made was also impeccable, so Fang Fang proposed to do it herself. She started to mend on the embroidery, and she had no objection.

Sure enough, Fang Fang quickly repaired the flaws on the embroidery to perfection.

Grandma Min took the embroidery and looked left and right, up and down, but there was no trace of repairing at all.

She was overjoyed and praised.

"Fang Fang, to be honest, when I saw you just now, seeing you were so young, I didn't have any hope for you at all, you know? I once recruited people who would do double-sided embroidery at a high price to repair it, and more than 20 people came and went. They all said they could do double-sided embroidery, but I saw their works first, which disappointed me, and I didn’t dare to let them do it.”

Lan Tianming also said: "That's right! Fang Fang, my grandma won't trust others easily. This is her treasure. She dare not be a test sample for others. Everyone who comes here says that she can embroider on both sides. Grandma has to test it first." They asked them to embroider a pair of double-sided embroidery face to face, but you said that you don’t know how to embroider, so you should study it first. I didn’t expect you, a person who can’t do double-sided embroidery, to study it yourself, and you can still embroider well. It has a shape."

Grandma Min happily took Fang Fang's hand.

"You girl, you are very honest, and you are also very smart. You can actually figure it out by yourself."

Lan Tianming looked at the embroidery and said in admiration: "That's right! You girl is too smart."

"Grandma, tell me, Fang Fang has helped you so much, how can you thank her?"

"I used to ask someone to repair it at a high price of [-], how about it! I will give you [-], because I am very satisfied."

(End of this chapter)