Rebirth cannon fodder

Chapter 80
"When threading a needle, you have to show sincerity to the moon." Meng Liya said with a smile, "So I turned off the lights. Let's take a rest and drink a few cups of tea. The needlework will come soon."

Sure enough, a few slim maids offered fragrant tea, Xu Manzhen took it, and took a sip.She wasn't thirsty when she arrived, it was just that she had to make a gesture to be considered a considerate guest.

Soon, the cup of tea was still hot, and all the maids brought all the props for the needle-threading game like wearing flowers.In front of one person was a small sewing basket, which was a very delicate and beautifully woven bamboo basket, with green and thin bamboo strips, the size of which was only a little bigger than a palm.

It seems that this thing, like those gold needles just now, is a special begging item.

Inside the basket was a row of gold needles, the first needles were about half a centimeter apart, and they had already been fixed. Xu Manzhen took a closer look and found that the holes of these needles were obviously larger than those of the usual needles, and they were almost catching up with her. The eyelets of the thick needles used when sewing quilts at home when I was a child in my previous life.

In addition to this row of needles, there is a handful of thin threads in the basket.There are twelve needles in a row, and the threads are twelve colors.The thread is also much thinner than usual.

It seems that the Meng Mansion has really worked hard for today's competition, so all the things are specially made.It doesn't look very eye-catching, I'm afraid the whole thing won't be cheap.

Xu Manzhen took out the needle and picked up the money.

The needle threading game tests the dexterity of the hand. It is necessary to use those threads at the same time to thread the needle at the same time. The more you pass at a time, the more powerful you are.

Compared with the needle-throwing game just now, this game is obviously a test of real skills, and it is difficult to find a way to find a coincidence.Xu Manzhen looked at the needle and thread in her hand, and sighed, how could she have this ability, if she threaded one thread at a time, there would be no problem with such a thin thread and such a big needle eye, but, if she threaded two threads at the same time I'm afraid it will be a little embarrassing.

If she wears three threads at the same time, she is not guaranteed to be able to pass one.And if there are four lines...

Then she just abstained.

Looking around, most of the people picked up more than five threads, and some took seven or eight. She quickly glanced at Xu Shuzhen, she took a big handful of threads, and was hesitant look.

So many, no more than eight!Does she have that ability?Xu Manzhen was a little skeptical.Although Xu Shuzhen's embroidery skills are good, but she is too young, she doesn't believe it. If she was at such a young age, in her previous life, she would still be a primary school student who didn't understand anything. In this time and space, she would be considered against the sky. How far can it go?She can't start embroidery from the mother's belly, can she?And it's almost the same as only practicing needle threading.

At this time, Xu Shuzhen's eyes also drifted towards Xu Manzhen.

Seeing Xu Shuzhen glance at the thread in her hand, Xu Manzhen breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly had an idea.

Seeing that Xu Shuzhen cleared the thread in her hand, she was about to put down a few threads, but Xu Manzhen was still there, and picked up a few more threads from the basket, and cleaned them carefully.

Seeing this from a distance, Xu Shuzhen's face froze.

Originally, Xu Manzhen only took three threads, but now she picked up five more, making eight threads altogether.She sorted out the colored silk threads in her hand with a relaxed face, carefully adjusting each thread.

"Hmph, this game is actually not difficult at all!" She said in a louder voice on purpose.

Xu Shuzhen didn't know if she heard it. She looked at the colored thread in Xu Manzhen's hand, and then at the colored thread in her own hand. Originally, she was holding nine threads, but she was a little unsteady. Where are the nine threads? , it is not so easy to pass through, so I put down two more, making it seven.

As for the seven threads, Xu Shuzhen is still very sure that six threads cannot escape.

But now Xu Manzhen has taken eight threads all at once...one more than herself. Does she have the ability to thread through so many threads?
Maybe she just wanted to scare herself, to disturb her mind.

But knowing it clearly, Xu Shuzhen was a little hesitant.What if Xu Manzhen could really go through so much?

Or, she can't wear so many threads, but she has 8 threads and she only has [-] threads, so the chances of losing to her are great...

How to do?
Xu Shuzhen thought and thought, and resolutely took another piece of thread from the basket in front of her. Now, she took as much thread as Xu Manzhen.But in this case, the chances of winning are still small...

Unexpectedly, when Xu Manzhen saw that Xu Shuzhen had added threads, she actually took another one.

You fool!Do you have the ability, now there are eight threads, do you have the ability to pass so many at once?

But what if she happened to have one more than him?It would be embarrassing enough to just go through as many threads!I am famous in the mansion for my dexterity!

Xu Shuzhen gritted her teeth and took another one.

Now she has taken nine threads, looking at the remaining three threads in the basket, Xu Shuzhen is full of pressure.She has never tried wearing so many threads at once, can she succeed?

You must not lose to that idiot Xu Manzhen!

She took a long breath and began to straighten the thread.

Compared to Xu Shuzhen's nervousness, Xu Manzhen was really relaxed. She was happily arranging the silk thread in her hand with a slight smile on her face.

Xu Shuzhen was too far away, if she was closer, she could still hear Xu Manzhen humming a little song that she had never heard before!

After sorting out the three threads, Xu Manzhen stopped, picked up the row of needles in the small basket, aligned the threads, and tried it.

Well, there should be no problem with these three wires.

It seems that this needle threading game is actually quite simple!Xu Manzhen suddenly felt that she seemed to regard this game as too difficult, and it shouldn't be too difficult. As long as the intervals are adjusted, there is nothing wrong with it. The eye of the needle is as big as a cow's nose!
So Xu Manzhen simply pointed at the row of needles and straightened the remaining silk threads in her hands.

She only cared about her own work, but Xu Shuzhen glared at Xu Manzhen from time to time. Seeing her tidying up the silk threads one after another with a very confident look, Xu Shuzhen suddenly felt that even if she had as many silk threads as Xu Manzhen, her own It is not so sure to win her.

what to do?Xu Shuzhen felt resentful in her heart, so she simply picked up another silk thread and put it in her right hand.

Now, she has already taken ten threads into her hands, and someone who was practicing threading needles at the side saw it, and told the people next to him, and soon, all the girls under the grape trellis knew that the concubine in Xu's mansion was really The ability, even took ten threads to thread the needle.

"How powerful is she?" Someone quietly leaned on Xu Manzhen's ear and asked her.

"Maybe, I heard from my family that she is very good at embroidery. Even Huang Xiuniang who was released from the palace admired her very much." Xu Manzhen replied.

"Hmph, a concubine, what's so great about her needlework being better, she's so blind to show off like this." The person who came to ask said angrily, and then backed away.

Xu Manzhen just smiled and said nothing more, still carefully sorting out the few coins in her hand.She is not greedy for more, and carefully adjusts them one by one.

Although the eye of the needle is very large and the thread is very thin, it is a very troublesome thing to wear so many at a time. At such a time, everyone just feels that their hands have somehow turned into chicken feet, and they are extremely clumsy.

So Xu Manzhen has a very good mentality, as long as he can exceed three.More than three, compared with herself, she wins.

She had to finish one piece completely before moving on to the next one.

"Okay, are you all ready? Then, now, the needle threading competition officially begins!" Meng Liya announced with a smile.

At this time, the little noise in the field disappeared completely. Everyone held their breath and carefully threaded the needle, for fear that if they breathed a little thicker, the silk thread in their hands would be blown away, causing the thread that could have The thread that passed through it turned out to be impossible to pass through.

Xu Manzhen also wore her needlework very carefully.She is different from others and has her own way of dealing with it.Others align the finished stitches with the row of needles as a whole, and then thread them. In this way, there will be a situation, that is, because human hands cannot completely guarantee that there is no trembling at all, and generally speaking , the more nervous you are, the more you shake. In this way, many silk threads are knocked crooked by the needle during the process of passing through the eye of the needle due to shaking hands, resulting in failure to pass through.

Xu Manzhen was not like that.She aligns it thread by thread. First align the innermost thread with the needle, then align the needle and thread of the second thread, and then the third thread... just like this one by one facing.

As for the fifth thread, it was still very good, and there was no accident, but something happened to the sixth thread. It should be that it was not done properly when it was sorted out, the thread was crooked, and it was not aligned with the eye of the needle.

Seeing such a situation, Xu Manzhen didn't bother, and directly gave up this thread, but went on to the seventh and eighth threads.The ninth line was also a bit off, and she didn't bother to care about it anymore.

When all the threads were aligned with the eye of the needle, she threaded them quickly... yeah, great, this time, very successful, she threaded five threads at once.

Much better than she expected when she first started.Originally, she thought that she could only pass through three threads at most, but she didn't expect that there could be five!
After putting on her own, she let out a long sigh of relief, and then turned her eyes to Xu Shuzhen.Xu Shuzhen's face was a little ugly, but she had put down her hands and put her needles and threads on the table, so Xu Manzhen had no way of knowing how many needles she had threaded through.

The maids in the Meng Mansion began to count the results, and after a while, the sound of counting came:
"Miss Zhang, there are seven silk threads in total, four of which have been threaded successfully."

"Miss He, the total silk thread..."

(End of this chapter)