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Chapter 81
Embroidery requires great patience, and this is precisely what Lin Dan lacks most. Every time she sits quietly for a few quarters of an hour and embroiders a pattern, she becomes very anxious and cannot continue anyway. But the Lin family has already fallen. She has no other choice but to learn embroidery skills and revitalize her family business. Therefore, she has to find an effective way to suppress her anxiety and smooth her sharp edges and corners.
The wooden piers and stakes in the house are decreasing at a speed that is visible to the naked eye. When the fire is cooking, Fourth Auntie blames the little servant for being too diligent and breaking the wood so that it is difficult for her to control the fire. little servant was bitter in his heart, but he didn't dare to say, he was a little scared after seeing the fierceness of the young lady chopping wood.
Lin Dan practiced embroidery for a while every day, chopped firewood for a while, his waist was no longer sore, his legs were no longer painful, and he felt more vigorous in taking needles. Slowly, she felt that the blood in her bones was diminishing, and many more flexible and calmer things came up.
She thought that tyranny was her own nature, but in this way it was not. It is not so much a kind of nature, as it is a sequelae caused by a special experience, which will be smoothed after a little grinding. Strictly speaking, her temperament is more like water, which can change with the situation, can moisten things silently, and can also be surging.
On this day, after sitting for two hours, she took out the hatchet, ready to adjust her emotions, but saw the maid Cuilan walk in with a weird expression.
"What happened?" Lin Dan straightened the stake and asked casually.
Cuilan looked around and lowered the volume: "The Du family has moved here for more than a month, but they have never dealt with our family. I don't know what happened today, and they sent someone to send a car of gifts."
"What's so strange about it. They had to organize their new home more than a month ago, so naturally they didn't want to make friends and neighbors." Lin Dan cut the wooden stake into two evenly left and right halves with a single knife, and placed them neatly into four halves. Then came six petals, eight petals...
Since Xiaosi was scolded by the two aunts, she stopped venting indiscriminately, but split the wooden stakes into strips so that she could carry them to the kitchen for business.
Cuilan leaned a little closer and replied: "Girl, you don't know anything. It's not surprising that the gift was given more than a month late. What's strange is that his family actually sent a cart of sawn wood! A few feet of wood can't It’s not easy to make furniture when it’s wood. It’s useless except for firewood. What do you mean by his house? You can’t be so poor that you can’t afford gifts, right? Madam is sulking at the moment. His family bullies people."
Lin Dan grinned, with a somewhat happy tone: "The wooden stakes you gave? Very good!" She didn't think too much of this stuff. She chopped as much as she gave it, just saving the money for dry wood.
Cuilan: "..."
She shouldn't discuss this with the girl!
The two were talking with the duck, but they didn't know that Du Rusong was leaning on a tree trunk behind a wall, listening to their conversation, with a slight smile on his mouth.
"Brother, brother, I heard that you gave a cart of wood to the next door today? I can tell you that we are no longer the sons and daughters of the Anding Hou Mansion, so we can't play tricks like this!" A man wearing a butterfly skirt The young girl hurried into the yard with a loud voice.
The small smile at the corner of Du Rusong's mouth was immediately reduced, and when he listened carefully, there was no sound in the next room.
"Brother, what do you want to do? They didn't provoke us, let's not provoke them!" The girl was still shouting, making Du Rusong's face black as ink. He was about to reprimand his sister, and the crackling firewood sounded again, without being disturbed by their conversation.
Du Rusong didn't collapse, covering his mouth and laughed.
Du Ruyan seemed to have caught some criminal evidence, and pointed to the other end of the wall and said, "Have you heard? Where can someone chop wood and put it in the garden? You must have annoyed them, and they deliberately chopped wood to protest! "The two originally belonged to one family. Later, the owner sold the house in two. The large garden in the middle was divided into two small gardens by a wall, and the layout was symmetrical.
The more Du Ruyan thought about it, the more he felt that this was the case. She lifted her skirt and climbed up the treetops, trying to see how the opposite person was made by her brother, but she didn't expect that it would be a little girl, round. The round face, round eyes, and round nose are very delicate and lovely.
Du Ruyan fell in love with this ragdoll-like little girl all of a sudden, and beckoned: "Little sister, did my family give you a cart of wood, are you angry?"
Lin Dan picked up a new wooden stake, split it in half, shook his head and said, "No, I'm practicing embroidery."
Du Ruyan smiled and said, "But you are clearly cutting wood!"
Du Rusong also leaped up to the top of the tree, looking at the little girl with a smile, and seeing her easily split a wooden stake into even-sized wooden strips, his eyes dimmed slightly. The layman watched the doorway, and the layman watched the excitement. He could tell at a glance that this little girl was not chopping firewood at will, but had rules. Like her sword skills, she would never be able to achieve without more than ten years of penance.
He just became vigilant in his heart, but he suddenly thought that the details of this family are indeed not clean. Lin Dafu and Zhang Hui were horse thieves back then, and their skills at hacking people are better than each. Not surprisingly.
Recalling the little girl's life experience, looking at her lovely appearance, and thinking of her sturdy temperament, Du Rusong somehow wanted to laugh.
Lin Dan didn't look at him, just stared at Du Ruyan. She often heard Cuilan say how beautiful the lady next door is, and she really deserves her reputation when she saw it today. Compared with Du Rusong's delicate features and deep lines, Du Ruyan is softer and more delicate. Wearing a gauze dress embroidered with butterflies, he climbs up the treetops, and looks like an earthly fairy, revealing an extremely moving spirituality. .
Lin Dan was very patient with her. He pointed to the embroidery frame behind him, and explained, "I feel uneasy after sitting for a long time. I always want to cut things. I can only continue to embroider after I cut the wood."
"So that's the case." Du Ruyan suddenly realized, looked at his brother thoughtfully, and said: "Can you show me the flowers you embroidered?"
"Here you are." Lin Dan put down the hatchet and picked up the embroidered bandage.
Du Ruyan's expectant expression was slightly stiff, and she praised: "It's vivid and embroidered very well." She couldn't see what it was, so she didn't dare to say more.
"Thank you. In the future, if you need it, you can come to me to buy embroidery. Sooner or later, I will embroider better than Meng Si." Lin Dan said arrogantly.
"Yes, if I need it, I will definitely come to you." Du Ruyan smiled so much that his mouth cramped, but couldn't bear to tell the truth. With the little girl's embroidery skills, I don't say that one day sooner or later, I am afraid that I will not be able to catch up with Meng Si for a lifetime. They started learning embroidery at the age of three. How old is the girl this year? There should be fourteen in this way, right? It's a bit late.
Unexpectedly, Du Rusong, who has always been poisonous, nodded and said, "I believe you will be able to surpass Meng Si for a while. If there is no wood at home, you can come to me." The words fell with a chuckle. The handsome facial features glowed with scorching brilliance in the spring.
Cuilan's eyes were straight, and her mouth grew a little bigger, she was afraid that there would be drool. Lin Dan remained unmoved, and nodded, "Thank you, I will give you one for free when I embroider the finished product." He was very confident in his words.
"The girl is polite." Du Rusong couldn't help laughing. Seeing his sister still wanted to talk to someone, he pinched the back of her neck and jumped off the tree. After moving here for more than a month, he had already figured out the little girl's work and rest patterns. After cutting the two wooden stakes, she should practice embroidery again now, but she shouldn't delay her time.
"Brother, you really can speak. If you were like this when you were at home, your father would never take your place as a son." Du Ruyan looked up and down his brother, smiling very ambiguously. It's another kind of gift, and it's also a thoughtful thing. Brother, this is Red Luan, right?
"I didn't tell a lie," Du Rusong said firmly, "Sooner or later, the little girl will be able to get things done, so watch it." Embroidery can also embroider a force of killing the enemy, and force yourself every day. Sitting withered, practicing hard from time to time, with such perseverance, what can't the little girl do?
Du Ruyan shook his head and snorted, not taking his brother's words seriously.
On the other end, Lin Dan was already immersed in embroidery wholeheartedly, stitching stitch by stitch, embroidering smoothly, finely and densely. After another three months, she had already mastered several basic stitches of embroidery, and she also learned tailor-made clothes very well. She also made a dress for Zhang Hui and her two aunts, and they wore them very well.
On this day, the two aunts finally changed their tutorials and said: "You have learned the seven basic stitches of embroidery, and we can't teach you more advanced stitches. We can't teach you."
Lin Dan shook his head and said, "It's okay. The people who invented embroidery at first didn't know anything. They all relied on their own groping bit by bit. Every needle method came out by the embroiderer who worked out day and night. If I can do it, I can do the same."
The two aunts said with satisfaction: "It is best for Dan'er to think this way. There are some excellent embroidery at home, which your dad found from all over the country. We will bring it over for you later. , Maybe it will inspire you. Starting from today, we will teach you painting. No matter how exquisite an embroiderer is, she can't embroider anything without a beautiful pattern. If you can learn painting well, you should learn how to embroider. You can get twice the result with half the effort. I heard that Meng Si is very good at drawing. When embroidering, he doesn't even need to draw pictures on the embroidered cloth. He can embroider with needles and threads. The finished products are quite aura. Many of her embroidery products are comparable to the top painters in the world, Wu Huasheng A painting can sell for a thousand taels of silver, and her embroidery can also be sold at the same price. The world says that her embroidery is not inferior to peerless paintings. It can be seen that learning painting is crucial to embroidery."
Lin Dan nodded and said yes, and did not dare to slack off.
The two aunts took out a few more threads and said: "Before learning to paint, we first teach you to distinguish colors. If composition is the basis of embroidery, then color is the soul of embroidery. Only the perfect combination of the two In order to embroider hand-crafted works. You see, the silk thread in my hand has four colors, namely dark green, dark green, medium green, light green..."
Lin Dan looked at the embroidery thread and shook his head: "Auntie, you are wrong, there are clearly six colors here."
The two aunts looked at the silk thread and then at her serious face, suddenly a little startled.