Chapter 83

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date="2020-11-14"

title="Chapter 83"

weight="105229"

series = ["The Female Supporting Role Shows Out"]

mode = "manual"

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Seeing Du Rusong praised his embroidery highly, Lin Dan's serious little face finally showed a smile. She waved her hand and was about to jump off the wall to go home for dinner, but saw Du Ruyan rushing in with a riding whip, sweeping the flowers and plants on both sides all the way, her beautiful face was tight, her eyes full of anger.

"What's wrong?" Du Rusong twisted his eyebrows.

"Brother, I am going to die of anger today!" Du Ruyan, who had endured for a long time seeing the closest person, finally shed two lines of tears, and said aggrieved: "Foxing Temple will hold a Buddhist meeting in half a month. At the convenience of the Buddhist meeting, all the young talents of Lin'an Prefecture will gather. You know, I am so old that I will become an old girl if I don’t marry, don’t you have to be more social?"

Du Ruyan was originally a daughter of the Hou Mansion, and she didn't worry about marrying, but she had an abandoned aunt, and her mother was abandoned. How can such a life experience be worthy of the son of the rich and giant? So naturally, her fiance broke off the marriage contract with her and married her. Now that she is nineteen years old, the girl who changed to someone else's house probably even gave birth to a few children, but she is still wasting years.

Recalling the past, Du Ruyan felt even more bitter in her heart, gritted her teeth and said: "In order to participate in the Buddhist meeting, I want to make a new set of clothes. Today, I saw a piece of silk and satin with clear water and hibiscus on the satin. The swaying and colorful, the color is gorgeous, it was embroidered by Meng Si himself. I immediately took out the money to buy it, but it was snatched by Li Jiarong, who arrived later. I said I came first, and I paid for it first. , This silk should be sold to me, but the shopkeeper ignored me, returned the silver, wrapped the embroidered cloth, and sent it to Li Jiarong’s carriage. Li Jiarong always mocked me as a phoenix when he left. Not as good as a chicken. I squeezed my palms so I didn't draw out the horse whip to teach her. Brother, my temperament has changed and I didn't cause you trouble this time."

Having said that, Du Ruyan stretched out his hand and let Du Rusong look at his palm, and saw that there were many bloody crescent marks printed on it, which was mottled and shocking.

Du Rusong's eyes were dark and his face showed pain.

Du Ruyan wiped away his tears, and said: "The cloth was snatched away. I want to buy another one and ask the shopkeeper if there is any cloth embroidered by Meng Si himself. The shopkeeper told me that their lady now only Embroidered screens, not clothing. I asked him what Li Jiarong took away just now. The shopkeeper said, unless I’m also a daughter of the governor, I don’t want to wear the clothes embroidered by their young lady. Embroidering clothes for the nobles is what I am."

Du Ruyan raised her head and her eyes were all unwilling: "Brother, can you think that we will have today? Can you think that on this day, we will be pointed at the nose by others and cursed, isn't it a thing?" So far, she He slowly lowered his head again, covering his face, to prevent his nearly collapsed look from being seen by his brother.

Du Rusong took his much thinner sister into his arms and patted him, his face was still so calm, but his heart was turbulent and hard to calm for a long time. After all, he was too incompetent to let his mother, aunt and sister suffer these humiliations. What is it to be in the army, what is it to fight with his life, as long as he can control the power and protect his most important person, he is willing to do anything.

After listening to the gossip, Lin Dan said tentatively: "Miss Du, do you still need embroidered cloth?"

Du Rusong's eyes lit up, and he immediately said, "Of course it is necessary."

Lin Dan rubbed his hands, feeling a little excited, but there was nothing on the face, and said in a serious way: "Then you can give me fifty taels of silver as a deposit. I have to buy embroidery thread and fabric. I will finish embroidering. I can also make ready-made clothes for you directly, but the price will be higher."

"Five taels of silver? No problem." Du Rusong immediately took out a silver ingot from his purse and handed it to the little girl sitting on the wall.

"This is ten taels." Lin Dan weighed the silver ingots, jumped off the wall without saying anything, turned into the small garden of Du's house, picked up the big knife Du Rusong had left aside, and split the silver in half.

Du Ruyan was frightened by his brother's emergency medical treatment and Lin Dan's sturdy behavior. He was full of grievances and forgot to the back of his head. The teardrops did not fall off, and he looked at the little girl with a big knife in one hand and silver in the other. .

"Don't," Du Ruyan hurriedly grabbed his brother's sleeves, and said: "I will find the fabric by myself, so I don't have to trouble Miss Lin." She still remembers Miss Lin's "amazing work" still fresh, but she dare not. Wear that stuff on your body.

Du Rusong ignored her request, took half a silver ingot with a smooth cross-section, and smiled, "I beg you to ask Miss Lin to measure the size for her sister. You can figure out what pattern to embroider, and we can discuss the price."

Lin Dan waved his hand generously: "When the clothes are finished, you can give them a little. If you are not satisfied, give a little less, and if you are satisfied, give a little more. Anyway, I'm taking a job for the first time. I am not very familiar with the market price. When I become famous in the future, the price will go up."

Du Rusong had long been accustomed to Lin Dan's character of what he said, and the condensation on his face slowly receded and was easily replaced. When getting along with this little neighbor, he can have no burden, and he doesn't need to figure out her motives after speaking, let alone distance each other deliberately, so as not to get a fishy. It’s the right time to settle here.

Du Ruyan was taken aback by his brother's decision, and wanted to shout "I don't want it, please let me go", but did not want to hurt the little girl's self-esteem. Well, isn't it just a waste of some money? When the ready-to-wear is made, she just presses it into the bottom of the box. The little girl has worked hard to learn embroidery in order to support the Linjia Embroidery Shop, and she can no longer discourage her enthusiasm.

Thinking of this, Du Ruyan could only compromise and asked Lin Dan to measure the size for himself with a blank face. When her elder brother and Lin Dan joined forces, her unwillingness and resentment faded away without knowing it, except for laughter.

"I must bring my clothes before the Buddha meeting." Lin Dan silently noted Du Ruyan's size, then climbed up the wall, turned over, and moved more neatly and neatly.

Du Ruyan looked stunned and reminded: "Brother, you just let her turn over the wall of our house? If things go on like this, won't our house become her back garden, just come in if you want, and leave if you want?"

If another person dared to do this, Du Rusong would have interrupted the other person's leg. But right now, he just smiled slightly and waved his hand indifferently: "It's okay, Miss Lin has her own feet."

Du Ruyan looked at her elder brother for a long time, and then walked away while shaking his head.

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This was the first business Lin Dan received, and it was also her first step in reopening the embroidery shop. Naturally, she did not dare to slacken off. After receiving the deposit, she sneaked out of the house with Cuilan to buy embroidery thread and fabric. However, the slightly better fabrics on the market are very expensive, and you can only buy some scraps for fifty taels of silver.

"Miss, we still have some good fabrics in the storeroom. The wife left you as a dowry. You can use the fabrics at home. After you make the clothes, let Master Du pay you." Cuilan suggested.

"Also, let's go." Lin Dan put a large bundle of white embroidery thread into his back basket. She is now used to buying thread and dyeing it herself. There are too few embroidery thread colors on the market for her to display.

When the two of them walked halfway, Lin Dan changed his mind again, "Why don't we go to the Faxing Temple." You can wear anything at home, but when you go out, it depends on the occasion. She has to see it with her own eyes. You can find inspiration for embroidering clothes by seeing what Xingsi is like.

Cuilan also wanted to go and play, so she nodded and said, "Okay, Faxing Temple is not far from here, and it's only a quarter of an hour on foot."

The two came to the Faxing Temple, visited inside and outside, and gave some money for sesame oil. When the sun was about to set, they didn't want to go back. Through the guidance of the young novice monk, Lin Dan knew that on the day of the Buddhist meeting, the young talents of Lin'an Prefecture would hold a poem meeting in the garden behind the Daxiong Hall.

Lin Dan did not remember how towering the temples of the Buddha, nor how compassionate those Bodhisattvas, she only remembered that she walked into the garden where the autumn mood was growing, and she was taken away by a huge ginkgo tree that has survived for thousands of years. According to the little novice monk, this ginkgo tree was planted by the emperor of the Qin Kingdom thousands of years ago. It has been baptized by wind and frost. After dynasties, it has always been lush and standing. The trunk is as thick as five people, and the huge canopy towers into the sky. Cover the sky and the sun.

The autumn breeze dyed it a brilliant golden color. Pieces of uniquely shaped ginkgo leaves shed like raindrops. Looking up, they are full of dazzling colors, and there are blue clear sky and star-spotted sunlight dotted among the branches, as if separated A kaleidoscope is spying on another world, that scene can only be described as touching.

Lin Dan was dumbfounded, and it took a full quarter of an hour to recover from the magnificence of nature. After leaving the Faxing Temple, her mind was filled with golden ginkgo leaves, some hanging in the treetops, some falling around in the air, and some laying layers on top of each other, so dazzling.

When she finally got rid of the shock of the soul and returned to reality, the door of her house was close at hand. Zhang Hui was carrying a feather duster and staring at her viciously: "Where did you go today? Just settled. After a few months, it has sprouted again, right? I made you lazy and disobedient!"

Zhang Huichai beat her behind her daughter, mourning his misfortune and angering him.

Lin Dan subconsciously hugged his head, and explained as he ran: "Mother, don't worry, I took an embroidery job today and went out to buy embroidery thread."

"Just relying on your little three-legged cat's kung fu, what kind of embroidery work? Who can look at you? The third aunt and the fourth aunt praised you in front of me today, saying that you are talented, and you only need to work harder to become a talent. , As soon as you turn your head, you disappeared, and even the embroidery frame was empty! You only learned a little fur and you are so slack, how can you support this family in the future? Look at the other Meng Si, she has studied for more than ten years Embroidery has reached the pinnacle of craftsmanship, but you keep practicing every day! Compared to others, what are you, do you have the right to be lazy?" Zhang Hui's eyes were red with anger, but there was nothing to do with his daughter. She was reluctant to beat her too hard, and her daughter didn't remember anything. She had known that the Lin family would have today, and she shouldn't have spoiled her daughter so much and brought her into the wayward and lazy appearance now.

Lin Dan ran into the hall, hid behind the two aunts, and explained: "I am not lazy. This is my embroidery work. Please read it first. I think I can go to the teacher. Embroidered."