Portable Space: Traveling through Nongmen

Chapter 178 Suzhou Embroidery
"That's it. Let me tell you that you did the right thing this time. How much money do you usually earn by helping others wash clothes? Your tired hands are sore and your hands are red and swollen. But if you use the time of washing clothes to embroider A handkerchief or a screen can earn more money than laundry..."

Dongniang nodded in agreement.

She also knew that Shen Yingshu would often pick up some jobs, such as washing clothes, making clothes for others, and weeding people's geography...

This work is not done by their embroiderers. The most important thing for their embroiderers is their hands. If the fingers are rough, the thread drawn will be hairy. Will the embroidery be beautiful?

But she went there a few times before, and Shen Yingshu still went her own way, and she couldn't help it.

After all, the two of them haven't gotten to know each other well enough. If she talks too much, it will be annoying.

Shen Yingshu touched her head, but did not speak.

Half of her speed now is due to the help of an ingenious hand, otherwise, at her own speed, she might not have embroidered a screen in half a month.

Yuanyuan may have considered many things, and her speed is not too fast, just like using her free time to do some work.

"Don't say that your craftsmanship is getting better and better. You can see that this screen is more delicate than before. It feels like work if you don't pay attention."

Dongniang casually took out a handkerchief that Shen Yingshu had embroidered, the beautiful flowers on it were amazing.

"I think it's fine."

Shen Yingshu followed Dongniang up to the second floor.

She embroidered more this time, and the embroidery was more delicate and was checked outside. Dongniang was worried that some customer would scratch the embroidery if she didn't pay attention.

It's better to go up to the second floor and no one is quiet.

After going up to the second floor, Shen Yingshu and Dongniang spread the embroidered screen and handkerchief on the table, and gradually waited aside.

Dong Niang began to check carefully, every part of the embroidery must be exquisite and beautiful, these are all from their shop, if there is any problem, if the customer is not satisfied, there will be no repeat customers.

However, Dongniang still believed in Shen Yingshu, she only checked it roughly, and after confirming that it was correct, she carefully put it away.

After putting it away again, Dongniang still couldn't help sighing, "Your embroidery is getting more and more exquisite, do you want to pick up some more this time?"

"If there is, you can pick up some more. See what kind of embroidery work Dong Niang wants me to do?"

When Shen Yingshu saw the shopkeeper in front of her, she automatically mentioned it, it seems that Dongniang should know it well.

"Nothing can be hidden from you, drink tea."

Dongniang shook her head helplessly and smiled, poured a cup of tea and put it on the table in front of Shen Yingshu, and then sat down opposite to Shen Yingshu.

"This time the effect is more difficult than the previous ones. What the customer wants is Suzhou embroidery. You also know how difficult it is and how detailed it is. I originally planned to hand over the work to other people, but I saw it this time. The screen you made has fine stitches, and I just want to ask your opinion."

"Su Embroidery?"

Suzhou embroidery has a unique style of beautiful patterns, ingenious ideas, meticulous embroidery, lively stitches, and elegant colors, with strong local characteristics.

Meticulous embroidery work and ingenious conception alone require top-notch embroiderers to produce, otherwise they may not meet the requirements of customers.

Dongniang also knew this, so she stared straight at Shen Yingshu.

Shen Yingshu pretended to hesitate for a while, and said before, "I tried to show this Su embroidery at home before, but I don't know how high your requirements are, Dong Niang, why don't I embroider some for you now?"

In fact, with the blessing of "Ingenuity", not to mention Su Xiu, even Hunan embroidery, Shu embroidery, and double-faced embroidery are easy for her.

But the original owner didn't know these things before, so she could only do it gradually, and slowly let Dongniang feel how powerful he is now.

"also."

Dongniang thought about it and felt that Shen Yingshu was right.

Even if Shen Yingshu said that she could embroider Suzhou embroidery, and the embroidery was pretty good, but she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she was skeptical in her heart, why not let Shen Yingshu try it on the spot, and it would be clear at a glance whether it would work or not.

Dong Niang quickly got up and searched for a piece of cloth in the house. The upstairs is his public area. As the proprietress who repairs electricity, he is also proficient in Xiuhuo, so there are quite a lot of cloth, needles and threads in the house.

She found a piece of cloth the size of a handkerchief, and then took out a box of silk thread. This silk thread is silk, which is relatively fine, not to mention the price.

Shen Yingshu stretched out her hand to take it. The main feature of Suzhou embroidery is its fineness and elegance, and its stitching is very delicate, that is, a silk thread can be split into tenths, one-twentieths, and one-fortieths.

Shen Yingshu didn't know what kind of thread Dongniang wanted this time, but now that time was tight, she first split a thread into half.

The silk thread itself is not thick, and twenty-one is not much thicker than a strand of human hair.

Dongniang watched quietly from the side, and was pleasantly surprised by Shen Yingshu's speed and movement of splitting the thread. It seems that she not only knows Su embroidery, but also is quite proficient.

Why didn't I realize that Shen Yingshu was so good at embroidery? Before, I only asked her to embroider some handkerchiefs and the like. It was a pity, it was a waste.

Shen Yingshu, this little girl is also a fool. If she had said that she could embroider Suzhou embroidery, even if she embroidered Suzhou embroidery at a slower speed, if she could embroider a screen a month, she would have to earn at least ten or twenty taels of silver in that month. .

Not to mention only supporting her and Bao'er, even adding a few more people would be easy, and there is no need to work hard every day.

At this time, Shen Yingshu didn't notice that Dongniang who was standing behind her had already regarded him as a fool.

She is currently embroidering flowers seriously. Even with the blessing of the skill of ingenuity, she still has to concentrate on the difficult embroidery technique. If one wrong step, the embroidery will be ruined in half.

Shen Yingshu tried her best to control her speed, neither too fast nor too slow.

Seeing that Shen Yingshu was so serious, Dongniang also blocked the thoughts in her heart, and looked at Shen Yingshu's embroidery seriously. She was also interested in Su Xiu when she was young, but as she grew older, she became more and more powerless.

Every time the Suzhou embroidery is embroidered, it always feels unsatisfactory, um, it can't reach the top level, it just hovers in the middle, but when she sees Shen Yingshuyu's handkerchief rising and falling, she just feels that her soul is about to be sucked in.

Both of them were very serious, because of the time issue and the lines were too thin, an hour passed before they knew it.

As Shen Yingshu stopped the last stitch, a shy and elegant lotus flower that was still in bud appeared in front of Dongniang.

Perfect, just perfect.

(End of this chapter)