"Sister Feng, please hurry up and embroider. The incense is almost half burned." A noble lady urged with concern.
"Yes, you'd better hurry up, the village girl has already embroidered two plum blossoms." Another noble lady urged.
"Could what the village girl said be true? Why doesn't she dare to give the needle?" A noble lady was whispering with the people next to her.
"Feng Panpan, why don't you embroider? Do you know how to embroider?" A noble lady with an upright character spoke up.
Immediately, several noble ladies echoed, "Yes, maybe you really can't embroider."
Feng Panpan stubbornly argued, "Who said I can't embroider? I'm just using an unfamiliar embroidery frame and needles, and I'm a little uncomfortable with them."
Under the gaze of everyone, Feng Panpan finally gave the first injection.
In the blink of an eye, a stick of incense had burned out.
Xiao Luzi put the two people's embroidery frames on a tray and presented it to the queen for inspection.
Xia Miaoyuan moved closer to the queen and looked at the tray.
I saw a short plum branch on an embroidery frame, with three plum blossoms on it, some in full bloom, some in bud, lifelike. It was embroidered by Baili Ning.
Xia Miaoyuan couldn't help but praise: "As expected of Ning Qiaoniang, whose name is known throughout the border!"
The queen was slightly startled and secretly glanced at her daughter.
Ning Qiaoniang?
Baili Ning has loved needlework and studying it since she was a child. By the age of fourteen, her needlework was already quite impressive.
Later, she began to study textile techniques. Because she was the daughter of a criminal, no one would marry her. She was content with the quiet life and devoted all her energy to the study of textile technology.
After five years of dedicated research, she developed a new type of jacquard machine based on the original one.
The new jacquard machine can not only weave exquisite patterns on fabrics, but also has a wider variety of patterns, and the woven patterns are also smoother and more beautiful.
The queen held the embroidery frame and pretended to admire it, but her heart was already filled with excitement.
Bailining, who came from the frontier, actually has these skills!
This new jacquard loom created quite a stir in the local textile industry. Locals nicknamed Baili Ning the "textile prodigy Ning Qiao Niang."
In the border areas and even in the northwest, as soon as Ning Qiao Niang is mentioned, everyone, young and old, women and children, will know her.
It's just a pity that the local official was incompetent. Seeing that it was designed by the descendant of a criminal, he didn't take it seriously. He didn't even report it to the court.
In Daxia, if there were talented people in the local area, or if someone invented something, the local officials would report it to the imperial court.
After the emperor personally reviewed it, if he thought it was good, he would reward the inventor and promote the technology to benefit the country and the people.
The queen pursed her lips. This local official was really ignorant.
After Xia Miaoyuan recalled Bailining's invention, she looked at another embroidery frame.
There was only a plum blossom embroidered on it, and the plum blossom was crooked and the stitches were rough. It was embroidered by Feng Panpan.
[Oh my god, Feng Panpan's embroidery skills are so good that even a ten-year-old girl from the countryside could embroider better than her.]
The Feng family is so shameless. They've secretly kept an embroiderer in their house for so many years, creating a persona for Feng Panpan as an embroidery expert, but her own skills are so unpresentable.
When the queen saw that her daughter had looked at both embroidery frames, she handed the tray to Xiao Luzi and signaled him to show the embroidery frames to the other noble ladies.
Xiao Luzi called two young eunuchs, each holding an embroidery frame, and stood in the hall to demonstrate it.
Because there were many noble ladies in the hall, when they were watching the two people embroidering on the spot, many people could not squeeze in close, so they had not seen their embroidery works.
Now that the Queen had someone demonstrate it, they immediately gathered around to watch and started talking about it.
"Oh my god, Feng Panpan only embroidered such an ugly thing."
"Her reputation is all fake."
"Ah! She actually lied to us for so many years."
"She even beat me in the Beijing Embroidery Competition last year. Oh, that gold medal should have been mine."
Feng Panpan was already sitting in the corner, her face flushed with embarrassment and her head lowered, completely different from her previous arrogant look.
"Everyone." The queen stood up.
The ladies all turned to face the Queen, waiting to hear what she had to say.
"Their embroidery works are already laid out before us. The results speak for themselves. I will not elaborate further today."
The Queen paused and looked at Baili Ning: "I forgot to introduce this lady to you. Her name is Baili Ning."
As soon as the Queen said the three words "Baili Ning", all the noble ladies showed surprise and looked at Baili Ning in unison.
The last name is Baili, could it be?
The Queen found everyone's reaction amusing and continued, "She is the Emperor's legitimate cousin, the eldest daughter of his uncle, Duke of Wei, Baili Feng."
The noble ladies were so surprised that they couldn't close their mouths. Those noble ladies who had previously supported Feng Panpan and ridiculed Baili Ning as a country girl were even trembling with fear.
I did hear a while ago that the Baili family, who were convicted and exiled, were rehabilitated by Xia Zhengqi, and have returned to Beijing and restored their title of Duke.
But he never expected that the village girl in front of him with shabby clothes and old-fashioned makeup was actually the legitimate daughter of the Duke's Mansion.
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"thump!"
Several noble ladies suddenly knelt down and kowtowed to the ground.
"Please forgive me, Your Majesty. I was ignorant and offended Miss Baili."
"Miss Baili is magnanimous. Please forgive us!"
The Queen ignored them and continued to speak, "My sister-in-law grew up in the frontier, so it's inevitable that she's a little uncomfortable now that she's suddenly returned to the capital."
"But don't underestimate people."
"When Bailining was in the frontier, she had great needlework skills and even improved the jacquard loom."
"Ning Qiaoniang, the famous textile genius of the Northwest, is her!"
[Oh my god, my mother has shocked me again! Even though she's in the deep palace, she still knows about Ning Qiao Niang from the northwest.]
【Mother is so awesome! 】
Xia Miaoyuan looked at the queen with admiration.
The queen raised the corners of her mouth slightly, and forced a smile. Hahaha, little girl, I am just learning and applying it now. If I hadn't just listened to your thoughts, how would I know that Baili Ning has such a glorious reputation.
The daughter of the Minister of Personnel, Lord Tan, suddenly exclaimed, "I've heard of the textile prodigy Ning Qiaoniang!"
The other girls looked at her.
"My uncle is the Jiangning Weaving Master. He came back to Beijing to visit his family a while ago and told us about this. He said there was a woman named Ning Qiaoniang in the northwest. Although she was a girl, she was quite knowledgeable about textile technology. She even developed a new type of jacquard machine."
"When we sisters heard this, we were amazed. We were impressed that a young girl could actually do such a thing. She really put many men to shame."
"My uncle even lamented that it would be great if Ning Qiaoniang could be invited over, but unfortunately, he didn't know who Ning Qiaoniang belonged to."
"I didn't expect that this famous Ning Qiaoniang is actually the daughter of the Duke's Mansion."
After she said that, she turned around and bowed deeply to Baili Ning.
"Tan Xiaoyun is very polite. If there is a chance in the future, I hope Sister Baili will do me the honor of visiting the Tan Mansion."
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