Chapter 147 Love Me
Opening the "Xie Family Farming and Weaving Pictures," Shen Yuanzhu saw on the first page that it read, "Warp and weft are the framework, looms are the tools."
The Xie family's ancestral precepts include: not selling moldy yarn and not passing on the lineage to male members of other surnames.
Shen Yuanzhu looked at it, then raised her hand and tore the first page off.
What Xie's Farming and Weaving Chart? In her hands, it becomes her own Farming and Weaving Chart.
The Farming and Weaving Picture is divided into several parts. The one in the Shen family's possession is the Heavenly Crafts Manual, which covers the production and maintenance of items such as the flower loom and the reeling machine.
Half of the looms in Xiecui Workshop were made by craftsmen using this farming and weaving chart and have been maintained ever since.
She skipped over the maintenance instructions and flipped to the next page.
She only began to study it carefully when she came across one she had never seen before.
The Xie family's brocade weaving is famous because the Xie family has a unique and secret method for refining raw silk.
For example, when soaking Jili Lake silk, a sinking magnet needs to be placed in the soaking process.
Soaking the silk for seven days removes its roughness. While simmering the silk over a low flame, three mulberry leaves are added to enhance its resilience.
For example, when shredding cotton grains, the distance between the iron rollers should be adjusted to the width of three grains of wheat. If it is too tight, it will damage the fibers.
Such secret methods are what Shen Yuanzhu truly desires.
No wonder the brocades woven by her Xie Cui Fang are not as smooth and durable as those of the Xie family; upon closer inspection, they always appear somewhat dull and obscure.
Shen Yuanzhu lowered her eyes and looked at the pattern design on the back.
She didn't actually need this pattern much; the Xie family's pattern maker was getting old, and no new patterns had appeared for many years.
Occasionally, the Xie family would commission an artist to redraw the artwork, but the new designs were few and far between.
Perhaps because she was younger, Shen Yuanzhu preferred newer patterns.
She would even send people to the desert and even buy Persian samples to learn from, in order to integrate and innovate.
Looking at the Xie family's pagoda, lotus, spring peach, summer lotus and other patterns, Chen Yuanzhu shook her head and quickly flipped over.
She didn't stop until she saw the last few pages that said it was a family heirloom.
"Tsk, outdated."
Beyond the pattern records, there were details about raw silk, raw material storage, and how to disassemble and relocate the machines. Shen Yuanzhu lowered her eyes, thought for a moment, and couldn't help but laugh.
The Xie family is not honest either.
The book of farming and weaving diagrams delivered to her was certainly not complete, but neither the patterns nor the loom maintenance were important to her.
What she wanted was the chapter on Earth Vein Classic.
These are some secret methods for refining raw silk.
With this, she could elevate the quality of the brocade, cotton, silk, gauze, damask, and brocade woven by Xiecui Workshop to an even higher level.
Shen Yuanzhu looked at it carefully and quickly memorized the contents.
When Xie Qi came in to see her for the third time to see if she was still sad, Shen Yuanzhu rubbed her eyes and went to find Xie Qi.
"Don't be too sad. The dyeing manual is still in the Xie family. I'll help you steal it back."
Xie Qi took a soft handkerchief and gently wiped Chen Yuanzhu's reddened eyes.
"No need. They're already targeting you. If they do this again, they'll only cause you more trouble."
Gently resting her head on Xie Qi's shoulder, Shen Yuanzhu said softly, "I originally intended to give you that dyeing manual, but now that the Xie family has taken it, let it go."
"I'll just consider it as me keeping the agreement between the two families..."
She took out the farming and weaving chart and handed it to Xie Qi: "The Xie family all know about this, right?"
Xie Qi looked down, remaining silent.
Xie Xuchuan grew up in the Xie family's loom room. Xie Jingyuan was about the same age as them, and the two learned how to make and maintain looms together from a young age.
Even various secret weaving and dyeing techniques.
But he alone never entered the Xie family's loom room.
Xie San Niang refused.
Now that this thing, representing the identity of a member of the Xie family and the inheritance of the Xie family, was actually presented to him, Xie Qi didn't want it as much anymore.
He took it, flipped through it casually, and put it aside with a faint smile.
Xie Qi wrapped his arms around Shen Yuanzhu's waist and brought his nose close to hers to sniff her.
It wasn't until much later that Xie Qi let out a soft hum: "For the past ten years or so, I have wanted to prove to the Xie family every moment that I am a pillar of society who is intelligent, capable of both business and industry."
"I hope that Xie San Niang and Hua Nan Zhi can regret their actions, and even Xie Boyu. I look up to them every day and hope that they will regret what they did to me back then."
“Ke Yuanzhu…”
Xie Qi spoke softly, making Shen Yuanzhu feel a sense of etherealness: "I thought that as long as I gained the Xie family's approval, received their guilty apologies, and were valued by them, my heart..."
He tilted his head gently, nuzzled Shen Yuanzhu's ear, and murmured, "You will find peace, you will find tranquility."
Warm breath brushed against her ear, and Shen Yuanzhu did not flinch away, but instead gently soothed Xie Qi's head.
Her fingertips unconsciously wandered over Xie Qi's cheek, occasionally brushing against his earlobe before stopping to play with and caress it.
If she noticed Xie Qi trembling slightly, she would stop moving and gently squeeze him as if to soothe him. But once he had truly calmed down, she would continue her mischievous teasing.
Xie Qi didn't find it annoying at all; he enjoyed every touch, hug, smile, and even... from Shen Yuanzhu.
He felt at ease as long as he was by his side, in a place where he could see him.
He pulled the person closer to his chest, and Xie Qi whimpered twice like a puppy.
As Shen Yuanzhu listened, her fingers paused for a moment, then she continued to gently stroke and soothe him.
Hearing his satisfied hum, Shen Yuanzhu pinched the back of his neck as a warning.
Xie Qi calmed down and continued, "But now, I have obtained the peace I wanted, and my heart is at peace."
He hadn't felt that violent emotion for a long time, nor had he hurt himself again.
Even when he heard Xie San Niang's insults, Hua Nan Zhi and Xie Boyu's indifference, or even the contempt in Xie Xu Chuan's eyes, he no longer felt resentment or hatred.
The resentment that had taken root from being treated unfairly for so long seemed to wither away little by little until it no longer caused him any pain.
Perhaps it was because someone applied medicine to his wounds that the pain that had lingered for years gradually faded.
Shen Yuanzhu smelled really good. Every time Xie Qi nestled against her neck, he would feel an addictive sensation.
"Perhaps what I need has never been the Xie family's assets, the Xie family's farming and weaving charts, or even the Xie family's approval."
He twitched his nose and mumbled, "Yuanzhu."
So, this is what he wanted...
Someone has come to love me.
Xie Qi remained silent for a long time. Shen Yuanzhu tugged at his hair and asked, "What's wrong?"
Xie Qi blushed, her face and ears turning red. The two were entwined intimately when Luo knocked on the windowsill from outside...
She half-covered her eyes, leaving only a slit.
She smiled and said, "Miss, wait a moment before hugging her. Your sister-in-law has come to the Xie family to cause trouble."
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