After Lin Yuzhu and her sister left, Xie Yun immediately put on a veil and came to the Jinluoyi Embroidery Workshop.

Although it was the last day of recruitment, there were still many people queuing outside.

There was a recruitment notice posted on the wall at the entrance, and there was a girl next to it who explained it from time to time to those who didn't understand.

Xie Yun was already familiar with the above conditions and walked straight over to join the queue.

People come in in batches. When one batch comes out, another batch of people queuing outside can go in.

Xie Yun was lucky enough to catch up with the tail end of the group of people entering.

She followed the people in front into the embroidery workshop.

The embroidery workshop is built facing the street. There is a two-story building facing the street. Inside is an open hall, about the size of a basketball court, with a circle of carved wooden railings in the shape of a U.S. character. The stairs are located at the corner of the hall.

There is a yard at the back with houses on the east, west and north sides.

At this time, there were six square tables in the hall, and on each of the tables was a small embroidery basket, with needles, thread and canvas in the baskets.

Madam Qiao, the interviewer for the first interview, was standing in front of a bamboo screen with eight panels of flowers and birds on the north side. Facing the people entering, she said, "Please choose a seat and sit down."

After everyone was seated, she signaled the two maids standing behind her to unfold a painting.

The painting shows a group of koi fish of various shapes swimming leisurely in the water.

Madam Qiao announced the test: "Choose a koi fish from this painting and embroider it. You will have one stick of incense to complete it. Everything you need for embroidery is in the basket in front of you. Now, begin."

Xie Yun first looked at the needle and thread in the basket in front of her and found that it was the same as that of everyone else at the table.

The painting had been fixed on the easel by the maid, and everyone could see it as soon as they looked up.

Xie Yun glanced at the painting and chose a red and white koi according to the color of the embroidery thread. However, she did not start threading the needle immediately. Instead, she continued to stare at the koi, observing it carefully, making sure to imprint it in her heart.

Only when you have a clear plan in mind can you place the needle steadily when embroidering.

This is what her mother taught her.

Many people in the field have already started embroidering hurriedly, for they are afraid that there will not be enough time.

The duration of a stick of incense is not fixed. It can be a quarter of an hour, half an hour, or an hour. However, the incense used by everyone interviewing at the embroidery workshop this time was a quarter of an hour.

It is not easy to embroider a koi carp in a quarter of an hour.

Once she started embroidering, Xie Yun moved very quickly, unlike other people who needed to look while embroidering.

In the blink of an eye, the outline of a fish appeared on the embroidery frame in front of her.

When the incense stick burned out, many people in the field had only finished embroidering halfway.

Madam Qiao raised her hand and said, "Alright, put down the embroidery frames."

Some people were unwilling to give up and wanted to embroider a few more stitches, but they were quickly asked to leave by the maids.

Everyone else immediately put down their embroidery frames.

Madam Qiao came over and looked at everyone one by one. Everyone whose finished products were being inspected was very nervous, not knowing whether they could pass the test with their level.

Xie Yun lowered her eyes and stared at the koi fish she had embroidered, waiting quietly.

Soon, Madam Qiao came to her side, and when she saw the koi she embroidered, her eyes lit up.

This koi is embroidered so vividly that it looks just like the real thing!

There is no doubt that Xie Yun passed the first interview and was the only one who passed it.

When recruiting embroiderers, of course the embroidery skills should be used as the judging criteria.

Xie Yun's embroidery skills are obviously much better than others.

After the first round of five-day interviews, the embroidery workshop selected a total of twelve embroiderers with outstanding embroidery skills. However, the embroidery workshop has just opened and the demand for embroiderers is not that great, so a second round of interviews was held.

The question for the second round of interviews was to create an embroidery piece freely within the time limit of a stick of incense.

This time, one stick of incense lasts half an hour.

Since they are free to express themselves, the embroiderers will naturally embroider what they are best at.

Xue Huan also came to this interview. One reason was that she wanted to see the grand spectacle of a group of embroiderers gathering together and working with their needles and threads. The other reason was that a batch of items she had customized before had arrived, and she came to inspect them.

Things include hangers, body molds, clothes rails, etc. With these things, the finished clothes can be easily displayed, right?

Xue Huan walked around the hall and looked at the embroiderers for a while, and found a girl who looked familiar. She was one of the three women who had celebrated their birthdays on the same day at Zhao Ji.

Seeing that she was concentrating on embroidering, she didn't go up to disturb her.

Xue Huan didn't understand the technical aspects of embroidery, but she did have an appreciation for it. However, she couldn't make any comments before the finished product came out.

After watching silently for a while, she went to the back.

The clothes hangers and other things have been delivered and are placed in the warehouse. Xue's mother and two maids are looking after them.

Faced with those human body molds, some of them felt a little embarrassed and didn't dare to look at the hidden parts of the molds.

Of course, these molds cannot be made as clearly visible as modern ones. Modern people are accustomed to molds, but this is still the ancient times, which emphasizes conservatism and subtlety.

How can you be so rude? Even if it's a mannequin, it's too immoral!

Therefore, the drawings Xue Huan provided at the beginning were blurred, with a layer of clothing to cover the person's body. However, she still encountered difficulties when finding someone to carve out the mold.

Several carpentry shops refused to take this job, thinking it was too immoral. How could it be possible to have arms and legs exposed?

Some even looked away immediately after taking a single glance, as if their eyes were burned.

Xue Huan was speechless. It turned out that you guys wear clothes when you sleep with your wives?

"I can't take this job, but you can try Zhang Jiuzhi. He'll take any job as long as there's money to be made."

A carpenter said this to her after he rejected her.

Zhang Jiuzhi?

Xue Huan went to find this person.

Zhang Jiuzhi opened a workshop in a very remote place. It is a family workshop. The workshop is both his home and his studio.

Because of its remote location, the place is quite large. There are a lot of wood piled up in the yard, and many half-finished wood carvings are placed in a messy manner in the open house.

Zhang Jiuzhi was sitting under the eaves, holding a carving knife in his left hand and wood in his right hand. Sawdust from his hands fell down and formed a small pile on the ground.

His right hand, which was holding the wood, was missing its little finger.

I guess that's where his nickname came from.

As for what his real name was, no one remembered.

Before coming here, Xue Huan inquired about this person's news. It was said that Zhang Jiuzhi was very wealthy when he was young, but after his parents passed away, he quickly squandered his family fortune. He also became addicted to gambling and owed the casino a lot of money.

That little finger was chopped off by the casino staff because the man couldn't pay back the money.

Penniless and with a disabled hand, Zhang Jiuzhi lived in poverty and disappeared from people's sight for a long time.