79, the embroidery girl 1
Lin Dan was awakened by a feather duster. When he opened his eyes, he found that he was curled up in a corner of the wall. A thin woman beat and scolded her, as if she was so angry. Lin Dan had not yet figured out the situation and did not know what the woman had to do with him, so she was not easy to resist. So she hugged her head and shrank her back to the corner of the wall, and sorted out her memories.
Although she couldn't figure out who she was and what she had experienced, she was already used to this situation.
The original owner was named Lin Dan. His father, Lin Dafu, was originally a horse thief and made his fortune by robbing the caravan. Later, he had no children. He guessed that he had done too much evil and damaged his good deeds. He donated most of the money he had robbed to build Buddhist temples, Taoist temples, road bridges, etc., and his other half was used to do silk business, and he slowly embarked on the right path.
Perhaps because of his many good deeds, Lin Dafu's wife gave birth to Lin Dan when he was fifty. Although she didn't carry a hand, she was also the root of the whole family. She naturally looked at him more than her eyes. She really felt afraid of melting when she held it in her mouth, and was afraid of falling when she held it in her palm. She was spoiled very much. When she grew to 16, she was about to recruit a son-in-law and inherit the entire family business.
However, the good times did not last long. Lin Dan was just fifteen and was almost a big girl. However, Lin Dafu was retribution for those evil deeds back then. The descendants of a family he had robbed by him set up a bag-and-dropping plan and exchanged the Shu brocade he bought from Shuzhou for linen, causing him to lose all his money.
Lin Dafu felt sorry for his wife and children, so he couldn't afford to get sick and died within two months. However, the family who designed him made a fortune by using Shujin that had lost his bag. Because of his superb embroidery skills, he won the favor of nobles. He settled in Lin'an Prefecture and replaced the Lin family to become the largest embroidery house in the area.
The Lin family lost its reputation, shops, and money. Only a few orphans and widows were left. Life was really difficult. Now the thin woman who was whipping Lin Dan with a feather duster was Lin Dan's mother, named Zhang Hui. She had just struggled with a serious illness, but she saw that her daughter was still so coquettish and willful, and she didn't know how to restrain herself, so she started to take action.
While fighting, she scolded, "I asked you to learn embroidery skills with the third aunt and fourth aunt, and learn embroidery skills. What did you do today? Do you think the Lin family is still the same as before, and you can make it as you do? You can do such a fool for one hundred taels of silver to buy a clay pot! Do you know how long it takes for our family to spend? You have been thrifting all the expenses of a year. Will you drink the northwest wind in the future? If you learn embroidery skills well, you can embroider lifelike and priceless embroidery like Meng Si. Why worry about the glory of our Lin family? When your father was not dead, he often said, asking you to learn more and support your family business in the future, but look, not long after he died, you have exhausted the last little family's fortune. Do you want to make him angry or to piss me off? Do you have any conscience?"
The original owner had a conscience, but his personality was relatively simple and he was deceived. Someone told her that the pottery jar was a pre-Qin antique, worth tens of thousands of yuan, so she bought it. She originally wanted to give it to her mother to make her happy, but she almost angered her mother to death.
"In the future, you can stay at home to learn embroidery skills and Nu Hong. When will you compete with Meng Si? When will you go out again?" When hitting her, it hurts her mother's heart. Lin's mother sucked two more dusters and stopped, with a look of care on her face.
Meng Si in her mouth is Meng Zhong's own sister who designed to frame Lin Dafu. Their hatred with the Lin family dates back to the previous generation. Lin Dafu led the horse thief to rob Meng Si. Meng Zhong's father told Meng's father to lose his family and his wife and children. The brother and sister have been fed up in bitterness since childhood, but they have also developed a lot of skills. The brother and sister are good at doing business and the sister are good at embroidery skills. The brother and sister work together to support the defeated Meng family again. When they found that Lin Dafu opened an embroidery shop in Lin'an Prefecture, they also quietly followed him to take revenge.
Meng Zhong was extremely strategic and quickly gained Lin Dafu's trust and introduced him to a big business. At that time, Lin Dafu was the only royal merchant in Lin'an Prefecture, providing fabrics and embroidery for the royal family, so he tried his best to search for rare fabrics everywhere. Among all the precious categories, Shu brocade produced in Shuzhou is the best in the world, but due to the small output, it is difficult to buy.
Meng Zhong helped Lin Dafu to connect with the cloth merchants in Shuzhou, while taking a huge commission, he also bribed Lin Dafu's subordinates and asked him to exchange goods. In the end, Lin Dafu lost all his money, but Meng Zhong sucked the blood of the Lin family and replaced it with the trend to become the imperial merchants in Lin'an Prefecture.
His ability to quickly gain a foothold in Lin'an Mansion was related to his wisdom, but it was also inseparable from Meng Si's help. Meng Si was beautiful and had a gentle personality. She learned family embroidery skills since she was a child. As soon as she arrived in Lin'an Mansion, she won the favor of the governor's daughter with her unique skills. Through the introduction of the governor's daughter, she met many local noble girls. She gradually became the name of Meng's embroidery shop and won the qualification of the imperial merchant.
On the market, her embroidery piece can be sold at a high price of 1,000 taels of silver, which is enough to match the annual income of an embroidery shop. A few days ago, the "Picture of Wind and Snow Going Out of the Bushes" she carefully embroidered was bought by the governor's son for 5,000 taels of silver. The price is astonishing.
Seeing that the Lin family was getting worse and worse, while the Meng family was stepping on the Lin family, how could Zhang Hui be willing to do it? Look at Meng Si, who was famous and then looked at her unfavorable daughter. She made up her mind to force her daughter to learn embroidery skills. Fortunately, Lin Dafu really brought in a few concubines with superb embroidery skills for the family's business. Otherwise, with the current family background of the Lin family, he would not be able to afford a good embroidery girl to teach Lin Dan.
It’s a pity that the original owner was not good enough and did not want to calm down and study. Instead, he placed his hope on getting rich overnight, which really cost a lot of money. She deserved this fight, and Lin Dan did not struggle. When Zhang Hui was tired of fighting, he tentatively said: "Mom, learning embroidery skills is not a day's work. Why don’t I go to the beach to fight Japanese pirates? After I earn military merits, I will immediately shine my ancestors."
For some reason, she felt that it was more appropriate to be an embroiderer than to be an embroiderer.
"What did you say?" Zhang Hui looked at her in amazement.
"I said I wanted to join the army to kill Japanese pirates. The heads of a hundred Japanese pirates can be worth a first-level military merit. When I save enough military merits at level 20, I will get you a wife of an imperial decree." Lin Dan slowly stood up with a serious expression.
Zhang Hui took a deep breath, then jumped up suddenly, aimed at Lin Dan's head and slapped, scolding: "I told you to daydream all day long, buy a broken pottery jar, tell me it is a pre-Qin antique, carry an embroidery needle, tell me you want to be a general, why don't you go to heaven? Seeing that I won't beat you to death today, we are all over!"
Lin Dan, who had just stood up, immediately hugged her head and retracted, feeling distressed. What she was telling the truth, why didn't anyone believe it?
But soon she knew that the path to joining the army was not easy. The technique called "Shura Sword" that inexplicably appeared in her mind was not suitable for this body practice. She could no longer improve by practicing the most basic breathing technique. Except for the slight increase in strength and a slight strengthening of physical fitness, it did not have any obvious effect.
Lin Dan breathed several times, but he could not condense into a cyclone in his dantian, so he gave up, "Mom, stop fighting, I will never go out to play again in the future, stay at home and learn embroidery skills. Isn't that possible?" Since she has replaced the original owner, she has to take on the responsibility of the original owner and support the family again.
"Okay, okay, sister, don't beat me. The child has already admitted his mistake. You can spare her this time." The two aunts hurried over to fight. After Lin Dafu died, more than a dozen aunts he had taken on had not given birth to children. They were in their youth, so they ran away with their burdens. Only these two elderly aunts stayed and depended on Zhang Hui and his daughter for their own life.
"If she runs out secretly in the future, you will break her legs! Use this to beat her, don't show mercy!" Zhang Hui inserted the feather duster into the crack in the ground and warned her sternly.
The two aunts nodded quickly and sent Zhang Hui, who was so tired that she was breathing, back to her room to rest.
After the person walked away, Lin Dan slowly stood up, lifted up the messy hair on his forehead, revealing a small face full of red marks, looking embarrassed and funny.
"Puchi", a low laugh came from nearby, causing her ears to move slightly. She walked around the courtyard wall and finally found a man in the thick shade of trees. The man's eyes were like stars, his nose was as bright as a gallbladder, and his thin red lips curled a breathtaking curve, which was full of charm and unparalleled in the world.
He poked his head out of the shade of the tree, his voice was low, and there was a bit of terrifying hoarseness, "Little girl, I didn't peek here on purpose. It's really that your house is too noisy to make me sleep, so I jumped up to the tree to find out what was going on."
It turned out that the man was the neighbor who had just moved in, and he was separated from the Lin family by a courtyard wall.
The man's appearance is even nobler than the bright moon and more scorching than the bright sun. Lin Dan just looked at him casually, nodded, and then left. This tree is originally from a man's house. He likes to climb and crawl, and there is nothing to worry about. Furthermore, Lin Dan seems to be used to being watched and does not feel embarrassed or embarrassed.
The man was stunned when he saw her back, and when he heard his servant calling from below, he barely came back to his senses and jumped off the tree. He was seen as such a farce but was not embarrassed at all, nor was he disturbed by his own appearance. The little girl in this family was quite interesting.
"Which family is opposite?" After moving in for a few days, he finally became a little curious about his neighbors.
"The opposite is a dilapidated family, so the young master doesn't need to care." The servant waved his hand.
"Downtown?" The man's eyes were flowing, his thin lips were slightly bent, and his expression looked very gentle, but he made the servant sweat and almost scared. He forgot that his son has now become a depositary.
On the other side, Lin Dan was grabbing the maid and asked the same question: "Which family is opposite? What's the details?" She saw that the man's demeanor was definitely not owned by ordinary people after just one meeting.
Chapter completed!