Jian Zhaoxing

Chapter 49 Hibiscus is not as good as beauty makeup

Seeing Lin Zhiqing walking towards the woman, the expressions of the others were not very happy.

"This Miss Lin is indeed as clueless as the legend says. She chose an embroiderer from a common embroidery studio instead of someone from the Imperial Weaving Department of the Palace!"

"They're like a turtle looking at a mung bean. If they fall in love, would you dare to accept it if she chooses you?"

"This is a Spring Banquet! It's also a great opportunity for us to make a name for ourselves. What new clothes can she come up with? We might as well wait for Princess Pingning and the others behind us."

When Lin Shian heard these remarks, he couldn't help but glare at the person who made the noise, but Lin Zhiqing acted as if nothing had happened and walked up to the embroiderer in just a few steps.

"Greetings to Miss Lin." The embroiderer pursed her lips, clasped her hands tightly together, hunched her back, and looked a little restrained.

"Don't worry about these empty formalities. Let me ask you, how is your needlework?" Lin Zhiqing went straight to the point.

Speaking of this, the embroiderer's mouth curled up and her forehead relaxed: "There is no better embroiderer than me in Shengjing City."

As she said this, her body relaxed and the ends of her eyebrows slightly raised, which was a sign of confidence.

Lin Zhiqing nodded: "When can we start?"

The embroiderer was unable to react for a moment: "Wha...what?"

After seeing Lin Zhiqing's serious expression, she realized that she had indeed been selected. She nodded as if waking from a dream: "Now, we can start now."

But when she saw the pile of mesh brought in by the maid, the embroiderer's face was slightly surprised: "Miss Lin, have you been deceived?"

After enduring it again and again, she still chose to give a reminder.

Lin Zhiqing was not surprised by her doubts: "It's okay, just follow the steps on my drawings."

Although the embroiderer had doubts, she still chose to believe Lin Zhiqing.

Compared with the two busy women, Lin Shian seemed a little redundant.

After he tore the mesh for the third time, Lin Zhiqing put on a "polite" smile and decisively asked him to leave.

At this time, the rest of the people also found tailors that suited their tastes one after another.

Princess Pingning arrived late with a pile of expensive fabrics and walked straight to a male tailor with a mustache.

Then, she sat aside and began to observe others leisurely.

When she saw Lin Zhiqing rolling up her sleeves to help the embroiderer with her work, she looked at her with disdain: "She doesn't look like a lady from a noble family at all. I really don't know what Prince Jiang likes about her."

Her gaze turned to Jiang Liuyun. Their situation was not going well.

"Purple is elegant and free and easy, so use purple." Jiang Liuyun handed the material in his hand to the tailor.

Lu Huai was not to be outdone and handed over the blue brocade in his hand: "Blue is elegant and not too sharp. Use blue."

The tailor was so anxious because of these two busy men that he was sweating profusely and didn't dare to accept the cloth from anyone.

Jiang Liuyun crossed his arms over his chest and said, "This blue girl is so nagging and has no manliness at all. No."

Lu Huai raised his eyebrows: "Prince Jiang, of course I chose this blue color for a reason. This dress is tailor-made for one person."

"Who?" Jiang Liuyun's attention was drawn.

Lu Huai smiled brightly: "Of course it's you!"

"Then I want to wear purple!" Jiang Liuyun agreed to Lu Huai's suggestion without thinking: "Qing'er likes purple!"

"No problem." Lu Huai glanced at Lin Zhiqing in the corner and quickly agreed.

The two were able to move forward normally. Time passed by minute by minute, and in the stands, Miss Hua continued to observe the situation on the field with relish.

But the old lady felt a little tired and was taking a nap with her eyes closed.

"boom!"

As the gong was struck, the old lady slowly opened her eyes.

At the same time, Lin Zhiqing, who had been busy for two hours, breathed a sigh of relief, smoothed out the last wrinkle on the finished clothes, and followed the maid to the wing room.

During the process of changing clothes, Lin Shian was always guarding the door, which made Lin Zhiqing feel a lot more at ease.

She had read about plots in novels about attending banquets and entering side rooms, but today, perhaps because the Bachelor's Mansion had made some preparations, everything went smoothly.

At the same time, Miss Hua was getting restless and couldn't wait to see the finished clothes everyone had made.

At her urging, it was finally time for the show.

As the nanny beside the old lady announced the start, the first person to appear slowly walked from the special passage to the center of the small garden.

"Greetings to all the ladies. The ready-made clothes I brought today are embroidered with free-stitch embroidery, and the flowers and plants of the spring banquet are added to the clothes." She introduced them while showing the clothes.

After the old lady and the others had looked at it, they praised it with words like "exquisite" or something like that, but Miss Hua was not very satisfied:
“While the idea of ​​depicting a spring banquet scene on the garment is clever, both the style and the embroidery are very conventional and can be seen everywhere in Bianliang.”

Although her words were blunt, she was also making serious comments, which did not make people feel bad.

Several more people gave presentations afterwards, but Miss Hua was not interested.

It wasn't until Jiang Liuyun and Lu Huai appeared that a smile appeared on her face, but that didn't mean the clothes they designed were that good-looking.

Jiang Liuyun appeared in a purple robe with a majestic tiger embroidered on it, which gave him a heroic look.

However, he had a ribbon tied on his head, which gave him a tough beauty at first glance.

But when he turned around, the ribbon tightened. It seemed as if some mechanism was triggered, and the purple robe fell off instantly, and another blue robe fell down.

The funniest thing is that the big tiger that was so aggressive just now suddenly turned into a white raccoon with a fierce head.

This ingenious design immediately caught everyone's attention, especially Miss Hua, who liked the raccoon very much.

Ignoring Jiang Liuyun who was looking confused on the stage, Lu Huai bowed and attributed the tiger-turning-cat scene to the tailor's double-sided embroidery.

As for the clothes changing from purple to blue... this is also a little clever idea that requires a little bit of mathematical calculation.

The old lady was also amused by the play and gave it the highest praise so far.

Finally, a design that caught people's eyes came out. Miss Hua's interest was piqued and she was looking forward to the performance of the next person.

Before she could recover from the embroidery of the cat slave, there was a sudden commotion among the crowd below.

"Hibiscus is not as beautiful as the makeup, but the wind in the water palace brings the fragrance of pearls and greenery!"

"This... is this a fairy from the world descending to earth?"

"Beautiful, truly beautiful! There's really no need for those behind to come out. Today's champion must be her!"

Amid the exclamations of the crowd, a wisp of gauze slowly emerged with the graceful steps of a woman.

Miss Hua opened her mouth slightly and couldn't move her eyes away.

(End of this chapter)