Chapter 53 What a heavy blow!
Looking at the colorful and lifelike flowers on the cotton cloth, Aunt Ma and other needlework experts were stunned.
Yu Qingqing was even more dumbfounded. Her mind was filled with thoughts of how this was impossible. How could such messy lines become a flower? How was this embroidered?
Liu Lan saw something. She recalled Yi Chichi's needlework and turned to look at her. "Chichi, did you use the cross-arrangement of long and short lines to create the light and dark layers of the flowers?"
Yi Chichi's eyes lit up. She knew that Liu Lan was favored and smart in studying, but she didn't know that she was actually talented in embroidery.
The first time I came into contact with free-stitch embroidery, I noticed one of the characteristics of free-stitch embroidery.
She hummed and asked with interest, "Besides this, what else did you notice?"
Aunt Ma and the others blinked. Is Chi Chi going to teach Liu Lan? Yu Qingqing had already fallen into silence as if she was autistic the moment Yi Chi Chi finished embroidering the flowers. At this moment, she had no sense of existence at all.
Liu Lan glanced at her, and her eyes fell on the cotton cloth in Yi Chichi's hand again, "I don't quite understand, you don't have any embroidery pattern, how do you determine the transition and division of the stitches when you embroider?!"
She asked sincerely, as if she was humbly seeking advice.
Yi Chichi sighed in her heart. This was not the answer she wanted.
To be honest, she was quite disappointed.
Originally, I thought that if Liu Lan had talent, she could teach her.
After they have learned it, they can make an appointment to embroider their works together and send them to the Friendship Store to test the market.
My grandmother said that in the 1970s, the Friendship Store had a wide range of business operations and sold a wide variety of items.
These include cloisonné, lacquerware, jade carvings, stone carvings, drawnwork embroidery and other handicrafts that represent traditional Chinese crafts.
Friendship Store has regular embroidery masters to work with and under normal circumstances will not accept embroidery works sold by private embroiderers.
But fine crafts are different.
My grandmother opened the door to the Friendship Store with a pair of double-sided embroidery in different colors.
She became the specially-appointed master embroiderer of the Friendship Store.
Yi Chi has never thought about becoming the specially-appointed master embroiderer of the Friendship Store. She just wants to establish a cooperative relationship with the Friendship Store.
However, it was difficult for her, a sent-down youth, to take this path. It would be different if she could bring Liu Lan with her.
Unfortunately, the focus is wrong.
But it’s not time to give up yet, you can try again! Thinking of this, she smiled and explained, “I don’t need a pattern, I can just compose it in my mind.”
"ha?!"
Liu Lan suspected that she was hallucinating. "Direct composition? What kind of composition method is that?"
Aunt Ma and the others became interested and looked at her with burning eyes.
Yi Chichi thought about it and said, "Just think of the style you want to embroider in your mind."
The room was filled with silence.
Yu Qingqing got up and left. There was no way they could play together.
Yi Chichi's ability is beyond the reach of someone like her who has only learned a little bit.
"Qingqing, where are you going?"
Yu Qingqing's sudden departure startled everyone who were in a daze. Liu Lan quickly grabbed her sleeve and said in surprise.
"I went home and was devastated by her."
Yu Qingqing replied without even turning her head, and the disappointment and inferiority in her words made Aunt Niu laugh and cry.
"Then you shouldn't have left. You have a ready-made master here, but you didn't want to learn a thing or two. Instead, you ran away. Are you stupid?!"
Liu Lan is a good supporting actress. When she heard what Aunt Niu said, she smiled and replied, "Yes, it's quite silly. Anyway, I want to learn from Chi Chi."
Yu Qingqing stopped walking. Yes, why should she walk? If she can't compete, then she can't compete. There is nothing shameful in admitting that she is not as good as others.
It is better to learn two skills.
Turning around, she looked at Yi Chichi with burning eyes, "Chichi, can you teach me?"
"If you are willing to learn, I will teach you."
If she doesn't want to learn, she won't rush to learn.
She didn't say this, but everyone present could hear the profound meaning in her words.
Aunt Ma and the others exchanged glances and thought that Yi Chichi was a generous child.
"Qingqing, come and become my disciple!"
Is there such a good thing?
Yu Qingqing's eyes lit up, and she rushed back to Yi Chichi, "Master, please..."
"Stop!"
Yi Chichi quickly grabbed her arm to stop her from bending down to become his disciple, "I can teach, but I don't just accept disciples casually."
Are you kidding? She has very high requirements for accepting disciples.
She didn't even know the level of Yu Qingqing and the others, and she rashly accepted them and failed to train them subsequently, which was a waste of time.
This kind of stupid thing must not be done.
Yu Qingqing and Liu Lan were very disappointed and said in unison, "If you are willing to teach, why don't you accept us as your apprentices?"
"It's not a master-disciple relationship where you don't have to take responsibility. How much you can learn depends entirely on your own understanding, or talent."
Not only do you have to teach your apprentice everything you know, but you also have to worry about whether the apprentice has food to eat.
Therefore, it is impossible to accept disciples unless Yu Qingqing and the others are particularly talented.
Yu Qingqing and Liu Lan, who wanted to learn needlework, looked at each other in bewilderment. Did they think they had no talent? On second thought, it was normal, just like teachers at school liked smart students, and elders at home would also favor sweet and smart children. If you have no talent and are not smart, no one would bother to pay attention to you.
but--
"If you don't want to accept disciples, then don't accept disciples. You teach us and we can learn as much as we can."
Yi Chichi smiled and was in a very cheerful mood.
She spread the embroidered flowers in front of them and said with a smile, "Come on, tell me what the characteristics of this flower are."
The two of them felt a tightness in their hearts. Damn it, the assessment was about to begin.
Take a quick look and find out the features.
The two of them stared at the flower without blinking, looking at it from top to bottom and left to right. After they were done, they picked it up and continued to look at it from the front and back. Then one of them looked at it from a close distance, then from a distance, and after they were done, they took turns.
After reading it over and over again, Liu Lan hesitated and said, "I don't know if what I said is right..."
He looked very hesitant, and his eyes were always on Yi Chichi's face, trying to read her thoughts from her expression.
"You don't have to look at me. Just speak boldly. It doesn't matter if you're wrong."
Yi Chichi raised an eyebrow and encouraged her with a smile.
Liu Lan let out a long sigh, "I have carefully observed that your needlework is not complicated... When embroidering petals, the first stitch is inserted from this point, and then inserted from another point. After pulling out the thread, the entire thread is drawn out and then tightened... The needlework for the leaves is actually similar, except that the distance between the two points is a little different... Then the stamens..."
Having said that, she bit her lip and looked as if she was struggling with what to say.
Yi Chichi didn't rush her and waited patiently for her to organize her words.
Yu Qingqing's comprehension is really poor. Even though Liu Lan has explained it so clearly, she still looks confused as if she doesn't know what year it is.
I didn't understand it at all.
Seeing this, Yi Chichi completely gave up on her and placed all his hopes on Liu Lan.
This girl lived up to everyone's expectations and finally found the right adjective. She slapped her thigh and said excitedly,
(End of this chapter)
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