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Chapter 69 Hunan Embroidery
On May 25th, Zhou Ran went to the Wu Mansion with her embroidered "Happy to See the Durian Blooming".

The county magistrate's wife held a flower viewing banquet, so she couldn't invite only one or two people. When Zhou Ran arrived, several carriages were already parked at the door of Wu Mansion.

She came forward with the invitation and handed it to the maid who was responsible for welcoming guests at the door. After reading the invitation, the maid smiled and invited Zhou Ran to come in, and then asked the waiting little maid to take Zhou Ran to Wu Xiangling.

When Wu Xiangling saw Zhou Ran, she smiled and came forward to hold her hand: "Ms. Zhou, you are here. I will take you to see my mother first."

Zhou Ran smiled and nodded, "Okay."

Mrs. Wu was in her yard talking to two ladies with whom she had a good relationship. When she heard the maid coming to report, she smiled and talked about Zhou Ran with the two ladies.

"This Lady Zhou is not an ordinary person. Although she is young, her embroidery skills are unparalleled in our Nanxing County. More importantly, this Lady Zhou is very benevolent and righteous."

Hearing this, Mrs. Hu smiled and said: "I rarely hear you praise someone like this. I will have to take a closer look at what kind of person this lady is, and she can get such a compliment from you."

Mrs. Wei also smiled and said: "Like Yu Niang, I am also very curious about Mrs. Zhou."

Mrs. Wu smiled and said: "Don't be anxious, you will see the person soon."

While talking, Wu Xiangling walked in with Zhou Ran.

Zhou Ran wore a snow-green dress today, with a thin layer of pink and white. On her hair was only the thank-you gift Wu Xiangling sent that day, a unique orchid hairpin, which exuded a gentle temperament in her beauty.

After saluting Mrs. Wu and the two ladies, Zhou Ran took out the "Happy to See the Pomodoro" she brought.

"I'm lucky enough to be invited by Madam to attend the flower-viewing banquet. Zhou Ran doesn't have much, but her embroidery skills are pretty good. This is "Happy to See the Pomelo" embroidered by me myself. I hope Madam likes it."

Mrs. Wu looked at Zhou Ran without any trace, then said with a smile: "Ms. Zhou is too polite. There is no reason to invite you as a guest and ask you to bring gifts."

Zhou Ran said respectfully: "It's your first time to meet Madam. It's not good to come empty-handed. Being careful is not respectful. Madam, please don't dislike her."

Madam Hu on the side said with a smile: "How could she dislike it? Madam Zhou doesn't know. Before you came here, she had all kinds of compliments on your embroidery skills. I was just saying that I didn't have the chance to see Madam Zhou's embroidery skills. I never thought this opportunity would come.”

Zhou Ran responded with a smile: "It's an honor for me to be praised by these ladies."

At Madam Wu's signal, the maid next to Mrs. Wu took the box from Zhou Ran's hand and took out the embroidery inside.

The embroidery is unfolded, and two lifelike magpies stand on the top of a pomegranate branch with fiery red pomegranate flowers.

The magpie's feathers are embroidered with extremely fine black and white silk thread, just like a living thing, and the pomegranate's flowers and leaves turn freely, and the light and shadow change. The whole embroidery has fresh and elegant colors, even stitches, and simple composition. It uses the embroidery method of Hunan embroidery.

The characteristics of Hunan embroidery are rigorous composition, realistic patterns, bright colors, both form and spirit. It is majestic from a distance and ingenious when viewed up close. Hunan embroidery is often based on ink paintings, skillfully integrating traditional calligraphy and painting techniques with embroidery techniques, using colorful stitches and ever-changing thread colors to express the natural texture of the embroidered objects in a subtle way.

Therefore, Hunan embroidery has the reputation of "embroidering flowers can produce fragrance, embroidering birds can hear sounds, embroidering tigers can run, and embroidering people can convey spirit".

However, although Hunan embroidery was known as one of the four famous embroideries along with Su embroidery, Guangdong embroidery, and Shu embroidery in later generations, during this period of the Shun Dynasty, the reputation of Hunan embroidery was far less than that of Su embroidery.

When many people think of good embroidery, Suzhou embroidery is the first thing they think of.

But Mrs. Wu is different. She and Magistrate Wu are both from Tanzhou and are very familiar with Hunan embroidery. She was surprised and happy when she saw the painting "Happy to See Pomegranates Blooming" given to her by Zhou Ran.

"Ms. Zhou is very interested. I didn't expect that you are not only very good at Su embroidery, but you are also so proficient in the special embroidery skills of our hometown."

Zhou Ran said modestly: "It's just a little dabbling. Mrs. Wu deserves the award."

Mrs. Wu smiled and said: "Mrs. Zhou is too modest. When I see the "Happy to See the Pomegranates Blooming" you embroidered, I want to ask you for another Hunan embroidery."

After Mrs. Wu finished speaking, the system that had not assigned tasks for a while appeared.

[Short-term task: Agree to Mrs. Wu’s request and embroider a piece of Hunan embroidery for Mrs. Wu. HP +70 (limited to days)]

Zhou Ran listened to the mechanical music in her ears and said with a smile: "Madam, you are serious. Madam, just speak up if you need to."

"Since Mrs. Zhou said this, I'm not polite." Mrs. Wu smiled and said her request, "First of all, the composition must be elegant and have artistic conception. It is best to focus on flowers and birds."

The Wu family is a prominent family in Tanzhou. Although Magistrate Wu is the magistrate, he is not the only official in the Wu family. Magistrate Wu also has a second uncle who serves as the Shaoqing of Dali Temple in Beijing.

The second uncle will be celebrating his fiftieth birthday in a while. If they can add a pair of Hunan embroidery with excellent embroidery skills to the birthday gift, the second uncle will definitely be very happy.

After hearing this, Zhou Ran nodded and said, "I don't know if Madam is in a hurry. I have just recently set up a Liuguang Pavilion to teach women embroidery. There are still some things that I have not sorted out. If Madam is not in a hurry, I will do it within two months." Can you give the embroidery to Madam?"

Zhou Ran deliberately mentioned Liuguang Pavilion to give Mrs. Wu an impression of Liuguang Pavilion.

"Okay." Mrs. Wu nodded. After agreeing, she asked Zhou Ran a few more questions about Liuguang Pavilion, and also praised Zhou Ran.

Mrs. Wei and Mrs. Hu on the side also followed Mrs. Wu's words, and the atmosphere in the room was quite harmonious.

Two quarters of an hour later, a maid came to report that all the ladies and ladies had almost arrived. Mrs. Wu then took Zhou Ran and others to get up and go to the garden where the banquet was held.

As a new face following Mrs. Wu, Zhou Ran attracted the attention of everyone present as soon as she appeared.

After Zhou Ran sat down, a lady who couldn't get in front of Mrs. Wu tried to talk to her.

After Zhou Ran "accidentally" told the ladies who came to talk to her that she was just an embroiderer with relatively good embroidery skills, and that her husband was just a young scholar and had no relationship with Mrs. Wu, these ladies gradually Dispersed from her.

Zhou Ran could finally enjoy the flowers, enjoy the delicious food, and listen to these ladies pricking each other with smiles on their faces.

During a flower-viewing banquet, Zhou Ran seemed to be watching a big show.

At the end of the flower-viewing banquet, everyone stood up and left, but Zhou Ran deliberately stayed at the end, wanting to see Wu Xiangling alone again. She paid attention and found that she was not the only one who stayed at the end.

Zhou Ran noticed that the wife of Qin County Cheng and a Mrs. Pu also stayed.

However, the purpose of these two people was Mrs. Wu, which did not affect Zhou Ran's meeting with Wu Xiangling.

(End of this chapter)