Chapter 175 Pepper Harvest
Since they were able to sign up, these people had solid basic skills, so Cui Qingyi skipped the basic divisions and directly gave them a self-designed topic, allowing the embroiderers to create a double-sided embroidery work on their own.
The title is also very simple, 'Summer.'
There is actually a lot of room for creativity in this topic, mainly to allow the contestants to give full play to their imagination. In the end, what matters is whether the needlework skills are up to par.
After receiving the topic, the embroiderers on the stage lowered their eyes and thought. Li Miao no longer cared about regrets and looked at Qi Yuan with sweat in his palms.
After that day, she went to Qi's house to talk to Qi Yuan. The two sisters didn't expect that their lives would come to a crossroads so soon, but from the heart-to-heart talk with Qi Yuan, Li Miao also found her future goal.
Since she couldn't enter the palace, she didn't want to marry and have children as her mother had said. She wanted to learn embroidery seriously and set up her own embroidery workshop in the future. One day, she would be able to see the scenery of the capital with her own efforts.
The embroiderers on the stage were sew- ing quickly, and the audience below were mesmerized. Even Ji Yunzhi had never imagined that one day he would be so engrossed in watching someone embroider.
How could someone use needle and thread to depict lotus leaves after the rain, even the water droplets on the lotus leaves are clearly visible. If he wasn't still watching the game, he would have wanted to touch it to see if the water droplets were real.
Aunt Qin initially thought this was just a boring competition, but when she sat here and watched the young girls compete with each other, and then saw the amazing works gradually taking shape under their needlework, Aunt Qin suddenly wondered if she had really been so secluded all these years that she was out of touch with the outside world. Has embroidery developed to this point now?
The calmest person present was probably the proprietress of Jinxiufang. After all, no one cared more about the progress of Cui's female embroidery class than she did along the way. Then, looking at the promising talents such as Chen Yingchun and Qi Yuan whom she had high hopes for, she felt heartbroken. Woo woo woo, these people should have all belonged to her Jinxiufang.
Her plan to build Jinxiufang abruptly ended.
As the embroiderers on the stage finished their work, the people below couldn't help but start to discuss: "This is really embroidery, how is it possible?"
"What embroidery? This is embroidery, embroidery!"
"I'm also going to send my children to school, and I'll be there soon..."
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But the shock given to everyone by the embroiderers on the stage went far beyond this. When the timing gongs and drums sounded, several people stopped their movements in unison.
As Cui Qingyi raised her hand, Chen Yingchun was the first to turn her work over. On the back, a lady in a sky-blue dress walked gracefully, like a fairy who had strayed into the human world after the rain.
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In the end, Chen Yingchun, Qi Yuan and another embroiderer successfully won the place to enter the palace, and this competition also achieved the result that Cui Qingyi had originally expected.
But Cui Qingyi had no time to be happy, as the embroiderers were about to leave for the capital. Cui Qingyi took over the task of teaching them from Kong Ran.
There is no need to say much about the patience and understanding of these people. After finishing the last lesson on double-sided embroidery, Cui Qingyi wanted to tell them something with full of worry.
But looking at the looks in their eyes, Cui Qingyi found that she couldn't say anything discouraging.
"As your master, sir, I only hope that you are safe. Master Konjac and I will be here waiting for your return."
Chen Yingchun burst into tears unexpectedly. Ever since she decided to go to the capital, even though she was fighting with her mother-in-law and husband every day, she had never shed a tear in that family.
But Cui Qingyi had just said the simplest words, but Chen Yingchun felt her eyes were filled with warmth, as if she was not alone and helpless here, and that there were people who cared about her and were looking forward to her safe return.
When Chen Yingchun and others left, Cui Qingyi and Konjac accompanied them all the way out of the city. She stood on the third floor of the Hongyan Teahouse and watched the carriage gradually moving away, feeling mixed emotions.
Although I feel confused, life must go on.
The girls' school was on vacation, and Cui Qingyi and Konjac rested at home for a few days before starting to go out of the city again, mainly because Cui Qingyi's peppers were starting to have a good harvest.
In fact, the peppers had been ripening one after another some time ago, but Cui Qingyi and Konjac were very busy at that time. Qiao Yishi followed Cui Qingyi's instructions and went to the fields with Qiao's mother every day to collect the red peppers.
At the end of July, the peppers in the fields began to mature on a large scale.
Cui Qingyi was wearing clothes that were convenient for working and a veil on her head to protect her from the sun. She could hardly bear the strain of bending down to pick a basket of peppers.
Not only did I have back pain, but the weather was so hot and humid that beads of sweat kept dripping down my face while I was wearing a veil.
But Cui Qingyi held back and didn't say anything. She felt that one advantage of doing farm work was that it didn't require thinking, especially when the body was very tired. The human brain seemed to stop thinking automatically and only needed to issue simple body commands.
Although the body is tired, the brain has gotten enough rest.
After all, they were not used to doing farm work. Before Cui Qingyi and Konjac had finished picking the peppers, Qiao's mother had already turned back.
There is strength in numbers. A few people harvested two acres of peppers in just one day. There is no need to take care of the pepper plants for the time being, as more peppers will mature one after another.
However, Cui Qingyi plans to use all the peppers harvested in autumn to make chili sauce and pickled peppers.
The noise of harvesting was so loud that it was impossible to hide it from the people coming and going in the farm and the alleys. When someone came up to ask out of curiosity, Cui Qingyi did not hide it and generously cut the peppers in half for the other person to taste.
If the only spicy flavors that the people of Dongping County have ever tasted are ginger and dogwood, then chili peppers are the unbearable burden in their lives.
If they didn't know that the young lady in front of them was a good person, those whose tongues were numb from the spiciness of the chili peppers would probably suspect that this man was trying to murder them.
Those who have tasted the chili peppers can't help but ask a soul-searching question: "Ms. Cui, why are you growing this? Are you trying to make things difficult for yourself?"
Cui Qingyi...she wants to plant it because he is too good to herself.
In fact, it wasn't just the people who occasionally came to see the new things who didn't understand. Even Qiao's mother didn't understand. When the peppers were just ripe, she was curious and tried one. She wasn't prepared at the time and felt a buzzing in her head. Qiao Yishi was so scared that she thought she was poisoned.
The wedding date of Konjac and Qiao Yishi is approaching. The Qiao family has been busy for her for so long. Taking advantage of the good pepper harvest, Cui Qingyi invites the Qiao family to her home for dinner.
Mother Qiao watched with eager eyes as Cui Qingyi poured plates of chili peppers into the wok and stir-fried them, and she suddenly felt that she might not live long.
Even Qiao Yishi and Brother Qiao looked at each other in confusion when they smelled the pungent smell in the air, wondering whether they should find an excuse to slip away.
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