That day, when the store was not very busy, Li Yu went to Xinghua Lane.
Zhao Yue lives here. It was Lin Qing who opened the door. When she saw that the visitor was Li Yu, she quickly invited her in without asking her purpose.
"Second Aunt, come in quickly. You're here to see my mother. She's looking for things for my brother's new house when he gets married."
Li Yu smiled and said, "Are you helping your mother too? I heard from your mother that you've been learning embroidery recently. How is it going?"
Hearing Li Yu talk about this, her face turned red: "I'm not very good at learning, Second Aunt, am I too stupid? I heard that embroiderers all started learning from a young age.
My future sister-in-law is her, and it seems too late for me to start now."
Seeing her depressed, Li Yu had no good solution.
The life of girls in ancient times was really boring.
I guess Zhao Yue never thought of letting her learn embroidery before, she only let her learn needlework.
But Lin Qing is 16 now, which is the age for marriage. Zhao Yue didn't want her daughter to be worse than others, so she asked her to learn.
At this time, Zhao Yue came out from the house.
"Second sister-in-law, come in quickly. You are so busy every day, why are you here today?"
She knew how good the business was in Li Yu's shop these days. Every time Lin Heng went to look for his brother Ah He, he would come back and say that his second aunt was helping in the kitchen.
"Hahaha, I need your help with something. The temple fair is over these few days, and I'm not so busy, so I'll leave it to them." Li Yu said.
"Tell me, I don't think I have the ability to help you, Second Sister-in-law. Everyone in our family knows what you are capable of."
Zhao Yue teased her.
…
Li Yu was helpless. What ability did he have? He was just relying on the extra life span.
"Don't make fun of me, your second sister-in-law. I really need your help this time. I can't do it."
This made Zhao even more curious about what was going on.
"Tell me about it?" she said.
"Meimei and I have recently been looking into some woolen clothing. We've found it's quite good, light and warm. We're planning to open a clothing store like this."
After Li Yu finished speaking, he opened the bag he had just brought, took out the sweater inside and handed it to Zhao Yue to see.
"This is it. Take a look. What do you think? It's even more fitted than a cotton coat."
Zhao Yue took the sweater and compared it on her body, then looked at it again and again, and found that this kind of clothes is not easy to be damaged, and there is no problem wearing one for two or three winters.
She was surprised at first, then scared and said to Li Yu:
"This dress is a treasure. Second sister-in-law, how dare you take it out? Aren't you afraid of bringing trouble?
Although I am a woman in the inner house, I often go to Qingqing's father's shop, so I have some understanding of our Tianqi's clothing and fabric industry.
There is absolutely no such clothing in the entire Tianqi Dynasty at present."
Li Yu once again marveled at the intelligence of the ancients.
She said to Zhao: "To be honest, I really didn't dare to take it out before, for fear of bringing trouble to our family.
But isn't Ah He going to take the provincial examination soon? It's less than two months away, and as long as he gets the title of scholar.
In that case, even if someone wants to do something, they still have to think about it.
Ah He had already promised himself that he would pass the exam. Even so, I was still very worried at first, after all, a scholar was nothing in the eyes of the bigwigs.
But Ah He recently found a master, and we didn’t know his identity at first.
As a result, a few days ago, Ah He told me that his master's identity was not ordinary and I didn't need to worry.
That’s why I’m planning to open this store.”
After hearing Li Yu say so much in one breath, Zhao Yue felt relieved.
"Then how do you want me to help you, sister-in-law?" she was puzzled.
Li Yu smiled and said: "As you can see, although learning to embroider clothes is not as difficult as embroidery, it also requires skills.
So I plan to find a few young girls to learn how to do it from Meimei first, and then they can work in the store when the store opens.
The store will be open in at least two months, so I need to learn and stock up first."
"Second sister-in-law wants me to help you find someone?"
"Yes, you know, my family has only been in town for three months, and I don't know many people. I'm busy every day and don't have time to make friends.
You're different. You grew up in town, so you definitely know more people than I do," Li Yu said.
That’s true, Zhao Yue thought. She did have quite a few playmates and relatives in town, and all of them had little girls in their families.
"Second Aunt, count me in. I'll go learn from Meimei."
Before Zhao Yue could answer, Lin Qing suddenly spoke.
"Ah? Aren't you learning embroidery?" Li Yu asked her.
Zhao Yue also looked at her in confusion.
"Mom, I'm sorry, I can never embroider well. There have been many times when I didn't want to embroider anymore, but I couldn't tell you.
Thinking about how hard you and dad have worked and how they spend money to let me learn a craft, I would be ungrateful if I don’t learn it.
I was too stupid and failed to live up to your and Dad's expectations."
Lin Qing did not answer Li Yu's question first, but spoke to Zhao Yue with tears in her eyes.
After that, she turned to Li Yu and said, "Second Aunt, please don't think I'm too stupid. Your niece will definitely study hard. I just want to reduce the burden on the family.
My sister-in-law is going to be married in a few months, and we are still renting a courtyard house. Although the other party didn't say anything, I don't want my brother to be looked down upon by them."
Before she could finish her words, Zhao Yue burst into tears.
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