After round after round of bidding, the statue of Guanyin was finally bought by the Admiral's wife for 20,000 taels of silver. The noble ladies and merchants present are not richer than her, but her status is the most valuable, and the Japanese pirates have committed crimes for years.
After taking the portrait home and hanging it in the Buddhist hall, all the female relatives of the Xu family gathered together and paid their respects to Master Guanyin with a reverent expression.
Suddenly, the door of the Buddhist hall was kicked open rudely, and Admiral Xu, who was tall and majestic, walked in angrily, and scolded: "Wang, you stupid woman, I heard that you bought a picture for 20,000 taels of silver. Embroidery? I only earned this fortune by putting my head on my trousers belt all day long, and you will spend 20,000 taels with a wave of your mother's hand! Where is the embroidery, return it to Laozi, otherwise Laozi will let you immediately Fuck off!"
"Who are you, Lao Tzu?" Before Mrs. Xu could react, Mrs. Xu couldn't sit still, slammed the table and stood up, angrily said, "If you dare to make up the idea of this embroidery painting, I will not finish with you! "
Admiral Xu's face froze slightly. He was about to appease the old lady a few words. Suddenly, he saw the embroidered paintings on the wall. He suddenly took a breath and touched his waist. He almost drew a knife in self-defense. Without him, it's just that the golden hair is too lifelike and terrifying. When he glanced in the dark Buddhist hall, he seemed to rush to eat people. When he looked again, he was comforted by the kind-hearted Avalokitesvara. To be at ease.
"This, this is the embroidered painting?" Admiral Xu was stunned for a while before he spoke in disbelief. No matter how he looked at it, he felt that this embroidered painting was not like a painting, but more like a mirror. The mirrored end was the passage leading to the realm of the gods, and Yu inadvertently reflected the characters in the myth.
"Exactly." Madam Xu didn't even look at him, she just hugged her two-and-a-half-year-old grandson and pointed at the embroidered painting to coax: "My grandson, look, that is Guanyin Bodhisattva, he will bless you in the future. ."
When Yu Xue's lovely child saw the lifelike golden retriever, she burst into tears in fright, and hurriedly put her head into Mrs. Xu's arms.
"Don't look at the monsters, look at the Bodhisattva," Madam Xu turned around, letting her little grandson continue to look at the embroidery painting, and pointed at the face of the Avalokitesvara, "Look, the Bodhisattva is smiling at you."
The little boy glanced at Xiuhua timidly, and then he was fascinated by the gentle-looking, serene smile of Master Guanyin. After a while, he stretched out his hand and giggled, as if he wanted Master Guanyin to hug him. Children's cognition is still in a state of ignorance, and they can't tell that it is just an embroidered painting and not a real person. But this is enough to prove from the side how exquisite and miraculous the workmanship of this embroidery painting is.
Admiral Xu looked at his little grandson's reaction, and couldn't help but tut his tongue in admiration. When he went to see Master Guanyin again, he took a few steps back in surprise, and went around the Buddhist hall a few times, and said in surprise, "Guanyin Bodhisattva and that The golden retriever has been looking at me! What's going on? The top of Guanyin Bodhisattva's head is still shining, have you seen it?" He rubbed his eyes again and again, for fear that he was hallucinating.
When Lin Dan embroidered the Buddha's light behind Guanyin, he combined more than a dozen stitches such as mixing needles, willow needles, applying needles, flat needles, and spreading needles. , to express the scattering and softness of Buddha light. The flat and dense embroidery surface looks like a mirror, which not only makes the golden thread more dazzling, but also reflects the light in nature.
Therefore, when others stare at Guanyin, there will be the illusion that he is really shining. This can never be done without a superb embroidery technique.
"We've seen it a long time ago. Don't make a fuss in the Buddhist hall, be careful to offend the Bodhisattva!" Mrs. Xu was very dissatisfied with her son.
Madam Xu chuckled and said, "Master, I haven't given the 20,000 taels of silver. I didn't bring enough cash at the time. I brought the embroidered painting back on credit. If you think this embroidery painting is not good, I immediately asked the butler to return it."
"Don't!" Admiral Xu waved his hand quickly: "Don't retreat! Quickly send someone to deliver the silver note, lest the embroidered mother come to ask for it." He came up from the barracks, and had escaped death more than once. . The most dangerous one was when he fell into the sea and was swept away by the waves. He vaguely saw the Buddha's light and heard the Sanskrit sound. Then he was carried ashore by a dolphin and placed on the beach, and was accidentally picked up by several subordinates. , which saved a life.
After he came back, he learned that his mother had a hunch in her heart, so she knelt down in the Buddhist hall and recited the scriptures for three days and three nights, in order to ask the Buddha to bless him with his safe return. The mother and son sat together and summed up, and they all believed that the Bodhisattva had manifested, and the Bodhisattva was blessing their Xu family. Since then, Admiral Xu has changed from an atheist to a Buddhist believer, and the old lady also believed in the Bodhisattva even more. Now, Mrs. Xu has brought back such a radiant and aura of Buddha statue. It is too late for them to worship it day and night, so how can they be willing to return it
"Really?" Madam Xu teased her husband.
"Whoever dares to move this Buddha statue will not be able to get along with me!" Mrs. Xu slammed the cane into the sky.
Madam Xu pursed her lips and smiled, and said, "Mother, sir, then I will send someone to send the silver note to Danyan Embroidery Village?"
"Go, let's go, lest people come to the door and ask for a refund if they can't get the money." Admiral Xu waved his hands again and again, his expression anxious. Such a good thing, others are scrambling to buy it, he finally bought it, but he can't lose it again.
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Since the sale of the Avalokitesvara picture, Lin Dan's name has spread in Lin'an Mansion. Now when it comes to embroidery girls with top embroidery skills, the first one that comes to mind must be her, followed by Meng Si, Yao Huiyun, Fang Wenqi and others. If he were to write a list of embroidered girls in black and white, Lin Dan would definitely be number one, and others would not dare to compete with him.
On the day of its opening, Danyan Embroidery Village made 21,000 taels of silver, and its profit was astounding. Among them, 20,000 taels are from the sale of embroidery paintings, and the remaining 1,000 taels are deposits for custom-made dresses by ladies and gentlemen. After all, the end of the year is coming, and every household is rushing to cut paper and new clothes to celebrate the New Year. Du Ruyan took this opportunity to contact the cloth dealer again, and bought a lot of precious cloth one after another, and solved another trouble.
On the other hand, in Meng's Embroidery Village, life has not been so easy. Nine out of ten customers are taken away by Lin Dan. Meng Zhong can only watch the opposite customers come every day. Fortunately, the Danyan Embroidery Village has just opened, and the scale is still very small, so it cannot take on too many jobs. Meng Zhong picked up some leftovers from other people's mouths. When the accounts were settled at the end of the year, the turnover dropped by 70% to 80%. "Business is bleak" is not an exaggeration.
In the past, there was an endless stream of customers looking for Meng Si to customize embroidery screens and paintings. Now, they would rather spend months waiting for Lin Dan. With pearls and jade in front, who is willing to deal with defective products
Meng Si, who was relegated to "defective", felt extremely uncomfortable, and locked himself in the room and refused to come out. In the end, Meng Zhong kicked the door and walked in, pouring a spoonful of cold water on her head, and then she poured it over. Awake. The brothers and sisters cheered up and went to the street to buy New Year's goods, and by the way, they relaxed, and their faces sank when they saw Lin Dan and Du Ruyan walking towards them.
Lin Dan walked over without looking at the two of them as if he hadn't seen them.
Meng Si shouted with tears in her eyes: "Lin Dan, wait a minute. Your father ruined my family, and everything my brother did was to avenge my father. Since your father died, the grievances between our two families have been cleared up. My brother didn't attack you again, why are you being aggressive and taking revenge on me? I asked myself that I didn't feel sorry for you."
Du Ruyan raised her eyebrows and wanted to fight, but Lin Dan gently pressed her shoulders.
"First, if you can avenge your father, I will naturally be able to take revenge for my father, but there is no such thing as a clear-cut relationship." Lin Dan turned his head and said word by word, "Second, I didn't take revenge on you, I was just serious. It's just to boost the family business, is this also hindering you? Have I ever stolen your family's property by subordinate means like your brother did? Have I ever used a sinister method to destroy your reputation? Everything I have gained now , I earned it with my strength, and my future is also embroidered by me. I am not invincible, nor do I harm others, nor do I use any means. Where do your accusations come from? Is it my fault that I am better than you? Looking at the entire Lin'an City, and even the Great Zhou Kingdom, there are countless people who are better than you, are they all wrong?"
Lin Dan turned around and waved his hand: "If you really think so, then Miss Meng, I advise you to go see a doctor immediately. Narcissism is a disease, and I think you are not too ill."
Du Ruyan almost choked her laughter to death. She never expected that Lin Dan's mouth was more poisonous than her brother's. She turned around and rolled her eyes at Meng Si, her expression very disdainful. Who are these people? It's really hard to lose than to come and scold people indifferently!
Meng Si looked embarrassed and realized that passers-by were looking at him, so he quickly hid behind his brother and secretly wiped his tears with a handkerchief. She really shouldn't have rushed to question Lin Dan on the spur of the moment. Now that I think about it, Lin Dan really didn't deal with her in a submissive way. Instead, she has always been upright. its own strength. She lost to Lin Dan, and that was because her skills were inferior to others.
The more Meng Si thought about it, the more depressed she choked: "Brother, let's go back, I don't want to go shopping anymore. I always feel that everyone is laughing at me. Jia Rong hasn't come to see me for a long time, she may think that someone like me is not worthy of me. Play with her. If I didn't live up to my expectations, the business of the embroidery village would not have plummeted. After the end of the year, Zhejiang Province will select a royal merchant again. What should you do if you lose your royal merchant qualification? It's all my fault, it's me who hurt you. "
"What nonsense are you talking about." Meng Zhong's tone was gentle, but there was a hint of ominousness in his eyes, "The New Year is approaching, and every household is busy preparing for the New Year's Eve, so Jia Rong naturally doesn't have time to see you. You can send her a post another day, Just ask her out. Next year's royal merchant will still be me, don't worry. Lin Dan is just a little embroidered girl. If I want to kill her, it's as easy as killing an ant. Look at it, it's over In 2010, I will let her business go on forever. I have an embroidery book here, which Li Xiudian specially brought to you, and it is an ancient relic from the previous dynasties. You Haosheng studied it and learned this, what is Lin Dan? ."
After taking over the embroidered manual handed over by his brother, Meng Si's frustrated expression was immediately replaced by ecstatic ecstasy.