Shanghai Embroidery Lady

Chapter 14 Boss Meng
The night was as quiet as water, and the lights in the house were dimly lit.Zizheng was writing in front of the table, Ye Zijin thought about it and felt that Zhao Jinnian should give something back, so he got up and took out the unfinished peony silk handkerchief and began to trace it carefully.

Ye Zijin embroidered for a while, then looked up at Zizheng.The same is writing calligraphy, but the young master I saw at Zhao's house that day was a little more calm and elegant than Zizheng.

Zizheng just stopped to dip his pen and ink, and accidentally noticed that Ye Zijin was looking at him in a daze, and said with a smile: "Sister, what are you thinking? Why are you blushing?"

Ye Zijin hurriedly lowered her head and continued to embroider the handkerchief, pretending to be calm and said, "No... didn't think about anything."

Zizheng saw Ye Zijin's reaction was a bit abnormal, he knew his sister best, in front of him, Ye Zijin's eyes would never lie.So he got up and moved over, and saw the peony on the pattern at a glance.

Zizheng pursed his lips and said with a smile: "Sister, do you have someone in mind? Tell me honestly, otherwise it will be easy to embroider some peony."

Ye Zijin was caught by his younger brother's words, and he didn't know how to hide it for a moment, so he responded indiscriminately: "Nonsense, can't you embroider peonies if you don't have someone you like? This flower doesn't have only one meaning, you must have misunderstood it."

"Oh, that's it." Seeing her shy face, Zizheng didn't continue to expose her.But he was happy for his sister in his heart. After all, he also hoped that Zijin could find someone who could be entrusted to her for life as soon as possible, so that she wouldn't have to work so hard like now.

Ye Zijin was embroidering the handkerchief stitch by thread, and suddenly thought of the song "Qin Wei", "Victors and women, Yi Qi flirted with each other, and gave them a spoonful of medicine."

Looking at the budding peony on the paper, a warm current flowed through her heart...

Ye Zijin wraps the book of poems and puts it under the pillow, she must take it out and look through it before going to bed.Every time I read it, I can feel his breath. Has he ever held this collection of poems with yellowed pages in such a night, carefully reading the sad and impressive lines...

Every day at the tailor shop is busy and fulfilling. Apart from helping the master with simple needle and thread tailoring, Ye Zijin spends the rest of her time practicing basic point seams and cheongsam buttons.

On this day, Master Shen and Xiao Wu went out to measure for the guests, Ye Zijin cooked the paste, and prepared to make some flower buds.A small flower button looks simple, but it is very difficult to do the processes of cutting the strips, adding water lines, making pan heads, and corking. It is both delicate and labor-intensive.

A black car was parked outside the store, and a fat man got down from the front and opened the door of the back seat.

A pair of white high-heeled shoes protruded from the car, and a woman wearing a beige vest and trousers with a thin plaid shirt came out, holding a red handbag in her hand, dignified and generous with a hint of sassy at the same time.

The woman walked a few steps and then stopped, as if she was intentionally waiting for the man in the black top hat who came out from behind.When the man came to her side, she naturally took the man's arm and entered the store together.

Seeing that she has a lot of background, Ye Zijin glanced at it lightly and then continued to do the work at hand, Xiaoyue was receiving the three people who came in.

The woman said to the man next to her: "Hao Xiang, do you think I look better in this phoenix wearing peony-patterned material or this moon-white blue and white one?"

As soon as Meng Haoxiang entered the door, he saw the woman in the corner, and thought it looked familiar...

In front of the cutting bed, a woman was concentrating on making flower buttons. She was dressed in a simple blue jacket and a black skirt, and she was as quiet as a jade.The two jet-black braids complemented her beautiful face, and her gestures and gestures were quite ladylike.

"Haoxiang, I'm asking you which of these two pieces of material looks better?" The woman's voice was slender and gentle, following Meng Haoxiang's gaze, she glanced at Ye Zijin calmly.Although the woman was smiling, her fingers tightly gripped the handbag.

Meng Haoxiang withdrew his gaze from the corner, glanced at the two pieces of fabric, and said, "They all look good."

The woman was a little dissatisfied when she heard that, "If you say it, it means you didn't say it. I really shouldn't ask you men to choose materials together. I thought your dignified Boss Meng would have a higher vision."

Qian Jiang, who was standing next to Meng Haoxiang, smoothed things over and said, "Miss Manling is so beautiful, of course she looks good in anything she wears. What my elder brother means is that if you like both, you can buy both together." As he spoke, he asked Xiaoyue to cut it off. Those two horses.

Seeing that Meng Haoxiang was absent-minded towards her, He Manling was a little coping with her words, and she also looked at other women just now!She felt displeased suddenly, and said, "I only want one."

Qian Jiang felt a little troubled, scratched his head and said: "Then I want the peony, the one with the big color, it looks very handsome."

Meng Haoxiang didn't answer He Manling directly, but instead asked Xiaoyue, "Is Master Shen not here?"

Xiaoyue shook her head, "Master has gone out, if you want to make clothes, you can choose the material first, and I will tell him when Master comes back."

He Manling suddenly walked straight to Ye Zijin, stood beside her, and glanced at the already made button.

"The workmanship is good. When did Master Shen accept a new apprentice?" He Manling asked.

Xiaoyue hurriedly explained: "Her name is Ye Zijin, and she came to the shop only after the next year, so Ms. He has never seen her before."

Ye Zijin...Meng Haoxiang chewed on this name over and over in his mind, and it was difficult to connect her now with the "tomboy" she saw at the flower market that day.

"Hello, Miss He." Ye Zijin stood up and nodded with a smile.

He Manling was already angry, and when she looked closely at the beautiful and graceful appearance of this woman, she felt even more unhappy. She seemed to have noticed that Meng Haoxiang looked at this woman with unusual eyes.

At this moment, Ye Zijin also recognized that the man wearing the top hat was the one who saved her at the flower market that day!

Gangsters...gunshots...blood...scenes came to my mind again.

(End of this chapter)