Re-embroidering life

Others did not believe it and rushed over to touch it. You touched it, I touched it, and by the time we had all touched it, the yellow butterfly had turned black.

Chen Jinlan looked at everyone with a smile: "How do you feel about it? Is it embroidered?"

No one said anything. Meng Xiuniang turned pale.

Shopkeeper Wang, who had been watching the show from the side, finally pushed through the crowd and came over. He took the embroidery from Chen Jinlan, took a closer look, and made the final decision: "It is embroidered, guaranteed to be genuine."

Just as Shopkeeper Wang was about to continue speaking, a voice interrupted him.

"I lost." Meng Xiu Niang suddenly spoke. She walked up to Shui Qinghua, looked at her intently and asked, "What technique did you use?"

"The Shui family's unique secret skills. If you want to learn, please come early tomorrow." Shui Qinghua looked at her with a smile.

"I'll come." After saying this, Meng Xiu Niang walked away expressionlessly, leaving Zhao Xiu Niang and Han Xiu Niang at a loss.

Shopkeeper Wang laughed loudly, clasped his fists and said to everyone, "As you can see, my Silk Memory Shop's Water Embroidery Shop will open in the winter, and this amazing lady will be in charge! We hope that the neighbors will come and support us!"

"This is a good thing, you should open earlier, but don't sell things too expensive!" the customers cheered.

"Okay, okay, I'll make sure the neighbors are satisfied!" Shopkeeper Wang clasped his fists.

After the crowd dispersed, Shui Qinghua asked Shopkeeper Wang with a smile: "Are you satisfied with this show?"

Shopkeeper Wang replied calmly, "Mrs. Shui, you have wronged me. This was not arranged by me. It is just that you want to gain a foothold in Jiangxia Embroidery Industry. This is a matter of time. In the future, there will be more people looking for you to challenge you."

"I understand," Shui Qinghua took a deep breath, feeling the heavy pressure. "But after today's disturbance, I might be in trouble."

Shopkeeper Wang disagreed: "Mrs. Shui, you have heard of the story of standing out, right? A cone in a bag cannot be hidden. If you want to do something, don't always think about hiding."

Shui Qinghua admitted that what Manager Wang said made sense. She was not afraid, but she just didn't have the energy to argue with him. Now, Tan Meixue was going to be in trouble again.

On the second day, Shui Qinghua came to Shui Xiufang again, and this time she brought Dou Jianzhi with her.

Ten embroiderers sat neatly inside, and Meng Xiu Niang's trio were also there.

Shui Qinghua did not mention what happened yesterday. The past was over. The most important thing was to teach them natural embroidery as soon as possible and produce all the embroidery needed for the business. Time was running out.

Meng Xiu Niang and the others were a little afraid that Shui Qinghua would make trouble, but when they saw her start teaching directly, they couldn't help but feel relieved. But before they could relax for long, they found the difficult problem in front of them: within half a year, they had to learn a very difficult new technique and embroider 100 pieces with the new technique, with an average of 10 pieces per person!

"This is impossible, this is too difficult!" The embroiderers were furious and protested.

"Usually, we spend several months or even a year on one piece of embroidery. It is simply impossible to embroider one piece in just a few days."

Shui Qinghua signaled them to be patient: "I will only embroider one piece a year. Such works will not be displayed in the Shuixiu Workshop."

She asked Meng Xiu Niang: "How long did it take you to embroider "Dragon Flying"?"

Meng Xiu Niang was confused: "One and a half years."

"You have been embroidering for a year and a half, and you are the treasure of the shop. If Si Yi Fang only needs such fine products, why is there a need to open Shui Xiu Fang?" Shui Qinghua explained to them the positioning of Shui Xiu Fang: "The characteristics of Shui Xiu Fang can be summed up in two words: novelty. New techniques, new patterns, new colors, a route that is completely different from Si Yi Fang."

She took out the embroidery patterns that she had decided on and passed them around. Accustomed to the exquisite, elegant and gorgeous Suzhou embroidery, they found that the lines of this batch of embroidery patterns were simpler, the colors were more intense, and the patterns were lively and interesting, many of which were unheard of and unseen. Chinese herbs, swords, and chimes can all be used as patterns? And this cat, round and plump, doesn't look like a real cat at all.

An embroiderer asked: "This style is neither like Su embroidery nor completely like Chu embroidery. What kind of embroidery is this?"

"Water embroidery. Since it's Shui Xiu Fang, of course it's water embroidery." This was the first time that Shui Qinghua clearly mentioned the word water embroidery.

The embroiderers present were all experienced. They estimated the difficulty of the embroidery based on the embroidery pattern and concluded that they could complete one piece in ten days. However, they had another problem: "Our monthly salary at Siyifang is as low as three taels and as high as five taels. For Sister Meng, it's even higher. You will definitely not be able to sell these embroidery pieces at a high price. Will our monthly salary be reduced?"

Shui Qinghua signaled to Dou Jianzhi with his eyes that it was time for the chief steward and accountant to be put to use.

Dou Jianzhi understood and immediately used his eloquence to explain the business account of Shuixiufang to the embroiderers. The main idea was that the embroidery of Shuixiufang was novel, and although the price was not as high as that of Siyifang, it was not too low either. The quality was affordable and it was easier to sell. Not only would the monthly salary of the embroiderers not be reduced, but they would also receive red envelopes of varying amounts at the end of the year. More importantly, they could learn novel needlework techniques in Shuixiufang without having to become apprentices or pay tuition. They could not get such a good deal anywhere else. They did not have to pay out of their own pockets because of the kindness and generosity of Shuimao.

He was a bit unsure whether Shuixiufang could make as much money as he said. But seeing that his second sister was confident, he was no longer worried. His belief was that if he followed his second sister, good things would happen!

The embroiderers' eyes lit up after being fooled by Dou Jianzhi. They all expressed their willingness to stay, but the prerequisite was to sign a confidentiality agreement for the natural embroidery technique. That is, the works embroidered with this technique could only be sold in the Water Embroidery Workshop. If they went to other embroidery workshops, they could not use them, pass them on to others or accept apprentices. Otherwise, the Water Embroidery Workshop had the right to sue her to the government.

Shui Qinghua knew clearly that this kind of written contract could only protect against gentlemen but not against villains, and there was no way to prevent it from being leaked if someone really wanted to. She could only seize the short period of confidentiality to make some money, and at the same time work hard to upgrade her skills so that imitators would never catch up with her.

After a day of teaching, she felt dry mouth and sore all over. She finally won over this group of embroiderers. It was like fighting a tough battle. She was looking forward to going home to have a hot meal and a good sleep.

When she returned to the Ji family, before she went to the third room, Qin Xin came up to her and said that the old lady wanted to see her. After all, she had some kind of incense relationship with the third room. Qin Xin quietly told her the truth, and Shui Qinghua understood. As expected, Tan Meixue did not delay for even a day and started jumping around again.

Shui Qinghua was fed up with the childish tricks of complaining to the old lady whenever something happened. She had to think of a way to solve the problem once and for all.