Lin Dan was woken up by a feather duster, and when he opened his eyes, he found himself curled up in a corner, a thin woman beating and scolding, as if she was furious. Lin Dan hadn't figured out the situation yet, and he didn't know what the woman's relationship with him was, so he couldn't resist, so he hugged his head and shrank more and more into the corner, sorting out his memories by the way.
Although she didn't know who she was and what she had experienced, she was already used to this situation.
The original owner's name was Lin Dan, and his father Lin Dafu was a horse thief who made his fortune by looting caravans, but he never had any children. He guessed that he had done too much evil and had damaged Yin's virtue, so he donated more than half of the looted money to build a Buddhist temple. , Taoist temples, roads and bridges, etc., and the other half used it to do the silk and satin business, but they also slowly went on the right path.
Xu Shi has done a lot of good deeds. Lin Dafu's wife gave birth to Lin Dan when he was 50 years old. Although he didn't bring him, he was also the root of the whole family. She was afraid of being melted, and she was afraid of falling in the palm of her hand. She was very spoiled. When she was sixteen, she was going to hire a son-in-law to inherit the entire family business.
However, the good times did not last long. Lin Dan had just turned fifteen and was about to become a big girl. However, Lin Dafu was punished for his evil deeds. The descendants of a family he robbed set up a scheme to spend his money on him. The Shu brocade he bought from Shuzhou with a lot of money was replaced by linen, which made him go bankrupt.
Lin Dafu felt sorry for his wife and children, so he fell ill and died within two months. The family who designed him made a lot of money by relying on the Shu brocade that was sold out. Favored by the nobles, he settled down in Lin'an Mansion, and since then replaced the Lin family as the largest embroidery village in the area.
The Lin family has no reputation, no shop, no money, only a few orphans, widows and mothers are left, and life is really difficult. The skinny woman who is now beating Lin Dan with a feather duster is Lin Dan's mother, named Zhang Hui, who just struggled from a serious illness. hand.
While beating, she cursed with hatred for being iron-clad: "I asked you to learn embroidery skills with the third and fourth Yiniang, and the girl is red, what have you done today? Do you think the Lin family is still the same as before, you can do whatever you want? Is it true? Buying a clay pot for 100 taels of silver is your fault! Do you know how long it takes for our family to spend 100 taels of silver? You have spent all the expenses for a year, and you will drink it from now on. Is it the Northwest Wind? If you learn embroidery skills well, you can embroider lifelike and priceless embroidery like Meng Si. Why should our Lin family lose its glory? Ning, I told you to learn more things, so that you can support your family business in the future, but look at him, not long after he died, you exhausted the last bit of your family. Do you want to revive him or make me mad In the past? Do you have any conscience?"
The original owner has a conscience, but his personality is relatively simple and he was deceived by others. Someone told her that the pot was a pre-Qin relic and was worth thousands of gold, so she bought it. She wanted to give it to her mother to make her happy, but unexpectedly, she almost angered her.
"In the future, you will stay at home and learn embroidery skills and female red. When will you be able to meet Meng Si, and when will you go out again?" Duster, he also stopped, with a look of pity on his face.
The Meng Si in her mouth is the sister of Meng Zhong who designed to frame Lin Dafu. The feud between the two and the Lin family can be traced back to the previous generation. In those days, Lin Dafu led the horse thieves to loot the fathers of Meng Si and Meng Zhong, causing Meng's father to go bankrupt and his wife and sons to be separated. The two brothers and sisters grew up in bitter waters since childhood, but they also cultivated their skills. The brother is good at business, and the sister is good at embroidery. The two brothers and sisters worked together to support the fallen Meng family. They found that Lin Dafu opened an embroidery village in Lin'an. He also quietly followed, waiting for an opportunity to retaliate.
Meng Zhongji has a strategy, and soon won the trust of Lin Dafu and introduced him to a big business. At that time, Lin Dafu was still 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, the Shu brocade produced in Shuzhou can be described as the best in the world. It's hard to come by because of the low volume.
On the one hand, Meng Zhong helped Lin Dafu to connect the cloth merchants in Shuzhou, and on the other hand, he took a huge commission and bribed Lin Dafu's subordinates to exchange the goods. In the end, Lin Dafu lost everything, but Meng Zhong sucked the blood of the Lin family and took the opportunity to replace him as the royal merchant of Lin'an.
His ability to quickly gain a firm foothold in Lin'an Mansion had something to do with his resourcefulness, but he couldn't do without Meng Si's help. Meng Si has a beautiful appearance and a soft personality. He has learned family embroidery skills since he was a child. As soon as he came to Lin'an Mansion, he won the favor of the governor's daughter with his unique skills. Through the introduction of the governor's daughter, he met many local ladies. He gained the title of Mengshi Embroidery Village and also won the qualification of imperial merchant.
In the market, a pair of her embroidery works can be sold for a thousand taels of silver, which is enough to equal the annual income of an embroidery village. A few days ago, the "Wind and Snow Out of the Forbidden City" that she had meticulously embroidered was bought by the governor at a price of 5,000 taels. The price was staggering.
Seeing that the Lin family is getting worse and worse, while the Meng family is stepping on the Lin family to get higher and higher, how can Zhang Hui be reconciled? Look at Meng Si, who is famous for her surname, and then look at her daughter who is not a successor. She is determined to force her daughter to learn embroidery skills. Fortunately, for the family business, Lin Dafu did admit a few concubines who were skilled in embroidery.
It's a pity that the original owner was not up to his expectations and was unwilling to calm down and study. Instead, he pinned his hopes on getting rich overnight, and he really spent a lot of money. She deserved the beating, so Lin Dan didn't struggle. When Zhang Hui was tired, she tried to say, "Mother, learning embroidery skills is not a day's work, why don't I go to the beach to fight Japanese pirates? Once you gain military merit, you will be able to honor your ancestors immediately."
For some reason, she felt that it was more suitable for her to join the army than to be an embroidered mother.
"What did you say?" Zhang Hui looked at her dumbfounded.
"I said that I want to join the army to kill Japanese pirates. One hundred Japanese pirates' heads will be worth the first-level military merit, and when I accumulate enough 20-level military merit, I will get you a Dangdang, a madam." Lin Dan stood up slowly, with an expression on his face. serious.
Zhang Hui took a deep breath, then jumped up suddenly, twitching at Lin Dan's head, cursing while twitching: "I told you to daydream all day, buy a broken pottery pot and tell me it's a pre-Qin artifact, Carry an embroidery needle and tell me that you want to be a general, why don't you go to heaven? See if I don't kill you today, our mothers are a hundred!"
Lin Dan, who had just stood up, immediately folded his head back, feeling distressed for a while. She is telling the truth, how come no one believes it
But she soon learned that joining the army was an impossibility. The exercise called "Asura Saber" that appeared in her mind inexplicably was not suitable for this body to practice, and she only practiced the most basic ones. The technique of breathing can no longer advance an inch, except for a slight increase in strength and a slight increase in physique, which has no obvious effect.
Lin Dan breathed out several times, but couldn't condense into a cyclone in his dantian, so he gave up, "Mother, don't fight, I won't go out to play anymore, just stay at home and learn embroidery skills, it's still worth it. Can't you do it?" Since she has replaced the original owner, she has to take the responsibility of the original owner and support the family again.
"Okay, okay, don't fight my sister, the child has already admitted her mistake, so please forgive her this time." The two concubines hurried over to fight. After Lin Dafu's death, more than a dozen aunts he accepted did not have children, and they were in their youth. Naturally, they ran away. Only the two old aunts stayed, and Zhang Hui and his mother and daughter left. Depend on each other.
"If she runs away secretly in the future, you will break her dog's legs! Don't be merciful with this beating!" Zhang Hui stuck the feather duster in the crack of the ground and warned her sternly.
The two concubines nodded quickly, and sent Zhang Hui, who was so tired and panting, back to the room to rest.
When the others were far away, Lin Dan slowly stood up, pushed back the messy hair in front of his forehead, revealing a small face full of red marks, looking embarrassed and funny.
"Pfft," an inaudible laughter 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 are like stars, his nose is like a gall, and his thin red lips are drawn in a breathtaking arc, which is suave and unparalleled in the world.
He poked his head out of the shade of the tree, his voice was low, with some inexplicable hoarseness, "Little girl, I didn't mean to peek here, it's just that your house is so noisy that I can't sleep, Then I jumped up the tree to find out."
It turned out that the man was the neighbor who had just moved in, and there was only a courtyard wall separated from the Lin family.
The man's face is more noble than the bright moon, and more scorching than the fierce sun, but Lin Dan just glanced at him indifferently, nodded, and left. This tree belonged to a man. He liked to climb and climbed, so there was nothing to worry about. Furthermore, Lin Dan seemed to be used to being watched and didn't feel embarrassed or embarrassed.
The man looked at her back in a daze, and when he heard his servant shouting from below, he was able to regain his senses and jumped off the tree. Seeing such a farce without being embarrassed at all, let alone being disturbed by her appearance, this little girl is quite interesting.
"Which house is that opposite?" After moving in for a few days, he finally became a little curious about his neighbors.
"Across the street is a rundown house, you don't need to worry about it, the young master." The servant waved his hand.
"Broken down?" The man's eyes rolled, his thin lips were slightly curved, his expression looked very gentle, but he made the little servant dripping with cold sweat and almost scared to pee. He forgot that his son is now a broken house.
At the other end, Lin Dan was holding on to the maid and asked the same question: "Which family is the other side, and what are the details?" She could see that the man's demeanor was by no means ordinary people.