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Chapter 80
The man's appearance is one of the best in the world, so he has just moved here a few days before the little maid at home has already found out his details.
"Back to the girl," the little maid looked around, and leaned close to Lin Dan's ears, and said surreptitiously like a thief: "Next door is the niece and niece of Du after the abandonment, named Du Rusong and Du Ruyan, and his father is Xue Lie An Dinghou. When Du was favored, their brothers and sisters were known as the double hegemons in Beijing, one dude and the other arrogant, almost no one dared to provoke them. After Du was abolished, their mother was also abandoned by their husbands, and the two changed their names and followed the abolition. Later the Du family came to live in Lin'an Mansion. It was very close to the Taoist temple where the Du family practiced and was convenient for taking care of them, so they moved over."
Today's emperor ascended to the throne in his youth, is quite talented, governs the country very well, and is very loving and peaceful with the empress. Therefore, the queen's mother clan was very popular with the emperor, and gradually took control of the military and political power. It’s a pity that flowers don’t have a hundred days red, and people don’t have a thousand days. Empress Du has always had no children and messed around. She wants to poison the concubine Min in labor and take her children as her own. However, because she is not cautious enough, she was taken See through.
The emperor was furious. Even if he ordered the queen to ban his feet, many officials took the opportunity to impeach the descendants and expose their various crimes. After a thorough investigation, the emperor found that these crimes were all capital crimes. He couldn't help but feel even more chilling towards the queen. Hearing that she felt resentful and tried to smash herself, he completely disgusted her. An edict abolished her post. Demote her to Lin'an as a monk.
After the abolition, now practicing in a Taoist temple not far away. heard that face has been ruined and can never go back. In order to protect herself, her mother's family has separated from her, but her sister has always protected her, so she will break with her husband. It's a pity that her sister had a bad life, and soon fell ill and died. Her pair of children came to Lin'an with a huge amount of dowry and defected.
It is better to take care of it than to defect. After the abolition, there is nothing now, and have to endure misery in the cold Taoist temple for the rest of life. In order to make her feel better, the Du brothers and sisters did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to repair the Taoist temple, and then moved to this not spacious mansion.
The poisoned concubine Min, who was poisoned after the abolition, got a blessing in disguise and was promoted to a noble concubine. The prince born is now two years old. The toxins in his body have not been removed, and he is weaker than ordinary children. The emperor was ashamed of the mother and son, so he vigorously promoted their mothers, and it was not a coincidence that Li Ran, the father of the concubine Min, was transferred to Lin'an as governor.
In this way, the life with the Du brothers and sisters after the Abandonment is even more difficult, and they have been squeezed out and isolated by the high-ranking clans of Lin'an Prefecture. If there is no great good fortune, they are afraid that they will not be able to make it in this life, and the situation is not much better than the Lin family.
After listening to the treacherous harem struggle, Lin Dan nodded and said, “How to come and go in the future, there is no need to deliberately alienate.” She is incapable of icing on the cake for others, but she doesn't bother to get down on the cake.
"Is there really no need to deliberately alienate?" The maid felt a little unsure, after all, the Du family was a family that even the emperor hated, so dealing with them always takes a risk.
"No, distant relatives are not as good as neighbors. Have you never heard this sentence?" Lin Dan waved his hand and said, "Go on, I want to sleep for a while."
After the maid went out, she slowly frowned, showing a bit of worry. It is extremely difficult to change the situation of the Lin family. It is important to know that the Meng brothers and sisters caught up with the governor of Zhejiang, the mother of the concubine Min. If the imperial concubine Min has been a holy favorite, the Li family will not be defeated in one day, and the Meng brothers and sisters will be able to fly higher and higher.
Now that the Lin family has been stepped into the mud, can it turn over? Can you beat the Meng family with hands and eyes open to the sky?
One question after another appeared in Lin Dan's mind, but she pressed them all down. No matter how slim the future is and how difficult the road is, she will learn embroidery skills first, and then talk about other things. With superb embroidery skills, she can open the embroidery shop, and only then can she be qualified to compete for the position of the emperor merchant. The meal is eaten one bite at a time, and the road is taken step by step.
Thinking of this, Lin Dan closed his eyes and fell asleep instantly.
The next day, the two aunts came to teach her as usual, and patiently explained: "Embroidery is a very painstaking skill. You have to calm down and study it. You can't take tricks to learn embroidery. There is no shortcut. It depends on a needle. Are you ready for a single thread?"
"Ready." Lin Dan took out a set of needles and threads and nodded carefully.
The two aunts said gratified: "You have the heart. Embroidery takes a lot of eyesight. In order not to lose the color, you need to choose a suitable place to operate. It must not be too dark, not too noisy, not too messy, and only choose the four characters. Good, it is really leisure, quiet, bright, and clean. You can sit down wherever you see that meets the standard, and we will learn it slowly."
Lin Dan looked around, pointed to the garden outside the window and said, "Then embroider in the yard."
The shade of the trees in the yard, fresh flowers blooming, butterflies dancing and warblers flying, the spring scenery. Sitting under a tree for embroidery, the light is neither too bright nor too dark, and the surrounding area is not noisy or noisy. It is really a good place. The two aunts said with satisfaction: "Okay, let's embroider in the yard."
A group of people sat down in the yard, first explained the embroidery category, and also talked about the pattern and color, and then asked Lin Dan to start from the simplest flat needle embroidery, bluntly: "Flat needle embroidery is divided into vertical, horizontal, and oblique. The four key points are leveling, uniformity, practice, and smoothness. Do not sparse uneven density, do not overlap, do not cross, and do not expose the bottom cloth. After practicing flat stitch embroidery, you can continue to practice other stitches. Flat stitch embroidery is everything The basis of the stitching method, you can embroider most of the patterns in the world with only this one stitching method. Do you understand?"
"Understood." Lin Dan nodded obediently.
"Let’s show it to you first. Look at it." The two aunts took out their needles and started embroidering. Soon, two vivid winter jasmine flowers appeared on the white embroidered cloth, although they were just flat stitches and simple in style. , But the thread is dense, the color is matte, very cute.
Lin Dan almost saw it, and quickly twisted a needle to start threading.
There were not many servants at home. The two aunts had to do work besides teaching classes. Seeing that Lin Dan was very serious and conscious, they left one after another, and occasionally took time to take a look, and let the maid guard to prevent her from being lazy.
Lin Dan held an embroidery needle and carefully shuttled across the embroidery cloth, his expression looked very calm, but countless anger was tumbling inside. She originally thought that operating an embroidery needle was extremely simple, but only after real practice did she know how difficult it was! She originally wanted to place the needle here, but the needle there. In the end, her hand shook, and it was a thousand miles away. A winter jasmine flower was embroidered into a tuft of bird droppings, yellow and white. Mumbled into a ball.
She stared at this tuft of "guano" for a long time, and her hands holding the embroidery needles were shaking. She felt that she should not take the needle, but should carry the knife, and cut all these messy things.
"Miss, miss, what do you want to do?" Seeing that she suddenly got up and went to the woodshed, the maid hurried to follow.
"Miss, you can't take a knife, be careful of hurting your hand!" Seeing her walking out of the room carrying a hatchet, the maid paled in fright.
Lin Dan stood a wooden pier in the yard without saying a word, raised his knife and chopped it. When she felt unhappy, she always wanted to kill someone, and she didn't know when this problem came down.
"Miss, what are you doing? Stop it!" The maid really made her cry. She wanted to get close but was afraid of being hit by the spilt sawdust, so she could only stand in place and persuade her.
Lin Dan ignored it. He chopped the wooden piers to pieces in twos or twos, then slowly patted the skirt covered with sawdust, and slowly said, "Give me a piece of embroidered cloth and we will continue to practice."
The maid looked at her calm and unaffected face, and at the wooden piers on the ground that could not be broken, she shivered. She quickly changed a piece of embroidered cloth for Lin Dan, cleaned the mess on the ground, and then withdrew to a long distance, not dare to touch Lin Dan's side.
Lin Dan hid the hatchet under the tablecloth, picked up the embroidery needles decently, and continued to practice the flat stitches. The third aunt came after just practicing for a while, picked up the tuft of "bird droppings" and looked at it, her expression a little hard to say. Fortunately, Lin Dan did not run away today, nor was she lazy. It was already a great improvement. She didn't dare to criticize, instead she said many words of encouragement.
Lin Dan nodded obediently and continued to embroider. After a quarter of an hour, a little more beautiful "guano" came out. She held this piece of embroidered cloth and looked at it for a long time, until her eyes were almost frozen before she threw away her hand, bent down, and took out the hatchet from under the table.
The maid blew back and hurried back.
Lin Dan didn't want to let her go, and said very calmly, "Bring another wooden pier."
The maid hesitated, and when she glanced lightly, she flew towards the woodhouse like a bird with a bow, and in a moment she brought back a half-person high wooden stake.
Lin Dan slowly rolled up his sleeves, slowly raised the knife, and cut the half-person-high wooden stake to only two feet long. Embroidery has almost exhausted all her patience, and she is now full of thoughts about hacking people. Why is it harder to take an embroidery needle than to slash someone with a knife? why? !
Her eyes were as dark as water, and her face was as cold as frost, which looked a little frightening. When the stake was cut, her cold aura instantly closed, and she became the little girl with a little innocence in her coquettishness.
"Okay, sweep the floor, give me another embroidered cloth, and we will continue to practice." As usual, she hid the hatchet under the tablecloth, and she confessed very calmly.
The maid was so frightened that she didn't dare to pant. She cleaned the yard as quickly as possible, and then sent the poor wooden stake with only a small butt back to the wood house.
Just as Lin Dan sat down, Si Yiniang came, picked up two pieces of embroidered cloth and looked at it, applauding: "Yes, there is progress! Continue practicing, don't stop."
"I will," Lin Dan nodded and suggested, "Si maternal aunt, let the young man carry a few more bundles of firewood later, the firewood room is almost empty."
"Okay, our Dan'er also knows the director." Fourth Auntie walked away very comforted, Lin Dan pinched the embroidery needle and continued to practice, his expression seemed calm and calm.
Not far away, Du Rusong quietly jumped down the treetop, shaking his head and laughing. Why is this little girl so sturdy! It's really interesting!