She gently placed the letter of appointment as the chief embroiderer on the desk and sat in the armchair, staring at it with her chin in her hands.
Should it be fate?
From "Su Embroidery Home" to "Yue Yun Embroidery House", her life seemed to have an unclear relationship with embroidery.
Perhaps it should be said that "Su Embroidery Home" created her exquisite embroidery skills, which allowed her to establish herself so smoothly in a completely different place from Suzhou in the Republic of China.
Chief embroiderer?
Su Shuiche curved her lips, withdrew her gaze, and put the letter of appointment into the bookshelf.
Since Ah Yao asked her to make up her mind, then she would follow her heart and wait until she finished embroidering "Drunken Imperial Concubine" before making a decision.
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She opened the embroidery pattern of "Drunken Imperial Concubine". Sure enough, it was the same as what she had guessed. It was a screen of drunken imperial concubines.
Su Shuiche stared at the three pictures of drunken imperial concubines with different expressions and backgrounds. The main characters were all Yang Imperial Concubine. In the first picture, she was raising a cup to invite the moon. In the second picture, she seemed to be drinking. She was holding a heavy headdress and was slightly tipsy while admiring the chrysanthemums. In the last picture, she was being supported by a servant and was staggering into the inner room as if she wanted to rest.
After looking at the embroidery pattern, Su Shuiche's first reaction was that this should be a six-fan screen embroidery, not an eight-fan screen.
Otherwise, the pattern of the pattern would be broken.
However, the embroidery of nearly five meters was only a six-fan screen. It seemed that the width of the single fan was a little too big.
Su Shuiche compared the proportion of the characters and scenes on the embroidery pattern and thought about how to distribute the embroidery into an eight-fan screen.
Thinking about it this way, the "A Male Phoenix Seeking a Female Phoenix" that was purely used as a mural was obviously much easier.
Perhaps the embroidery house was testing her. Su Shuiche tilted her head and thought of this possibility.
Generally speaking, when making a screen, the embroidery pattern would be separated by imaginary lines to mark the installation of the screen frame.
However, since she was the chief embroiderer, she not only needed to know how to embroider according to the pattern, but also needed to think about the overall layout.
According to the standards of the House of Su Embroidery in the past, the design, drawing, embroidery, production … After a series of evaluations, the one who obtained the highest evaluation in each of the individual and overall aspects would be considered the winner.
Therefore, Su Shuiche, as the eldest granddaughter of the Su family and the chief embroiderer of the "Su Embroidery Family" for five consecutive years, was excellent in all aspects related to Su Embroidery, such as drawing, embroidery, and making finished products.
Then, how could she possibly be stumped by the small layout of the "Joycloud Embroidery House"?
Su Shuiche raised the fine weasel brush and gently and surely traced a tiny mark that only she could understand on the embroidery pattern after measuring it.
Not only did it not destroy the overall beauty of the embroidery, but it also reminded him where to embroider and how much space he needed to leave to make the wooden frame of the screen.
The three drawings were divided into eight embroidery designs of the same size.
Of course, she did not destroy the overall style of the Imperial Consort. Occasionally, the hem of the dress, flowers, leaves, and branches were arranged on another screen, forming a unique style of fan screens connected together like lotus roots and silk threads.
She let out a sigh and put down the weasel brush. Finally, she had divided the embroidery designs of the eight screens.
Next was the embroidery.
The background of the "Drunken Imperial Concubine" was an antique light yellow silk brocade. Therefore, according to the embroidery design, the colors of the various silk threads were very easy to match.
Su Shuiche looked at the embroidery threads of various colors that were specially provided by the embroidery house. It almost included all the embroidery thread types and colors in the various stores of Fanluo City.
Even the golden apricot and silver brown that she could not find last time were included.
Was this the benefit of the painstaking embroidery process?
Su Shuiche shook her head with a smile. She thought that the "Joycloud Embroidery House" was trying their best to tell her to embroider the "Drunken Imperial Concubine" in the most perfect way.
She wondered if the city lord of Fanluo City had used his identity to threaten them.
Forget it. Even if it was for her beloved embroidery career, she should do her best.
Moreover, she was now an embroiderer who could only rely on embroidery to earn money.
Although Lin Siyao had repeatedly stressed to her that she did not need to worry about the household in the future, she only needed to do what she liked and did not harm her health, such as reading books, doing needlework occasionally … and accompanying him … She shyly closed her ears and pretended not to hear the last suggestion.
However, she did not think that the burden of the family should be shouldered by him alone.
She was also a part of the family. Although she could not go to the fields, go up the mountains, do rough work, and carry water … she could still embroider well and delicately.
Since embroidery could earn her money and satisfy her condition of not hurting her health, she was certainly willing to accept it. However, she had to complete the task perfectly. Only then would she live up to her title as the chief embroiderer of the "Su Embroidery House".
Therefore, for the next one and a half months, Su Shuiche entered the role of a full-time embroiderer.
Of course, three meals were fixed. Occasionally, she would digest, drink water, and go to the toilet … As long as it was Lin Siyao's request, she would obediently do it.
It was not only to maintain a healthy body, but also to maintain the freedom to embroider.
That's right. Su Shuiche had secretly decided to sign a contract with the "Yueyun Embroidery House" as the chief embroiderer when she was embroidering the "Drunken Consort".
There was nothing wrong with having a stable embroidery house as her support.
Moreover, the conditions they offered were really tempting.
One tael of silver every month!
She should be content, shouldn't she?
According to the household expenses of the past six months, Su Shuiche already knew how useful one tael of silver was.
She and Lin Siyao, as well as the two carnivorous wolf pups, would only need to spend 300 copper coins a month at most.
In other words, one tael of silver could easily last them for three to five months.
Moreover, this was under the condition that they had to buy rice, flour, and other food.
If next year, their family's two mu of fertile land had a good harvest, wouldn't they be able to save even more?
Thinking of this, Su Shuiche couldn't help but pat her cheeks.
'Really, when did I become so calculative?'
She didn't think about it. Most of the time, the meat that appeared on her family's table was hunted by Ah Yao who risked his life to hunt for it.
Thinking of how he had given her all the money he earned from selling his game for safekeeping, Su Shuiche couldn't help but curve her lips.
Lin Siyao had really put in a lot of effort.
Whether it was the trivial matters at home or the busy work in the fields, he did his best to complete them.
Even his disciple, Dabao, had improved rapidly under the double whammy of his kindness and authority.
This kind of man's past achievements were definitely not mediocre.
Now, he was willing to abandon his past and his identity. He was only willing to stay with her in a remote village and be an ordinary and monotonous farmer.
She was content and happy.
Because of this, she wanted to use her own hands to make this warm little family even more beautiful and prosperous. She wanted to live in this simple and quiet Blossom Town with him, to have children and live peacefully until old age …
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