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Chapter 7 Learning to Embroidery Red Bean Addicted

The dinner that night was very lively, but it had little to do with Yu Hongdou, because she fell asleep halfway through the meal and didn't even know how to get home.

When she woke up again, everything in front of her was pitch black. Yu Hongdou thought she was blind. She hurriedly opened the system panel and only breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the information on it.

[Host: Yu Hongdou]

[Check-in point: 1 (automatically +1 after o'clock every night)]

[Skill: Embroidery Level 1]

【背包：古代常用成药箱1个；白银2两；白米3斤；绘画工具1套+宣纸20张】

Seeing the painting tools that she had spent 2 huge points to get, Yu Hongdou's heart sank, but as she looked at them and opened the painting tools layer by layer, she had no other words to say except screaming.

This is a five-layer rotating wooden box. The first layer contains brushes of different sizes and thicknesses. The second and third layers contain stone-colored and grass-colored pigments respectively. Each layer of pigment has 12 grids with a lid. The lid is marked with the name of the pigment in gold-painted small characters. The fourth layer is half paper and half Juan. The fifth layer contains ink sticks, inkstones and rulers.

Yu Hongdou once followed some high-profile Internet celebrities on a certain website, especially those who painted thangkas and traditional Chinese paintings. Whenever they talked about pigments, they would be heartbroken and their comments would start at the price of a house. So in the end, Yu Hongdou did not appreciate the holiness of thangkas and the elegance of traditional Chinese paintings. She only remembered that traditional Chinese pigments are expensive! Super expensive!

After appreciating the colors of vermilion, indigo, gardenia yellow and indigo for a while, Yu Hongdou turned his gaze back to the sign-in point.

Seeing that the sign-in points that she had squandered had been restored to 1, it seemed that it was already past midnight. The rhythmic breathing of her parents came from the kang opposite. Yu Hongdou clicked [Embroidery] again and entered the teaching mode.

Her eyes went dark and then bright, and when she regained her vision, Yu Hongdou found herself in an unfamiliar room.

There was a green curtain hanging in the room, embroidered with green lines like vines, simple yet elegant. Through the curtain, a thin and pale woman who looked about the same age as my mother, Xu, was standing in front of an antique rectangular embroidery frame.

"Miss, I am your embroidery master Lian Wenzhi, the owner of the Jijing branch of Lian's Embroidery Workshop. In the Lian family, my embroidery skills are only average. At most, I can help you improve your embroidery skills to level 2. I am good at embroidering auspicious patterns, such as auspicious cloud patterns, cloud-thunder patterns, dragon and phoenix patterns..."

"To learn embroidery, we must first learn the tools. This is the embroidery frame. The styles of the frame are..."

Yu Hongdou was a little dizzy from all the embroidery knowledge thrown at her. She tried to talk to the teacher about cultivating the master-disciple relationship, but found that the teacher was like an NPC. When it came to the key words of embroidery, he would answer her endlessly, but when talking about other things, he would just look at her silently with a smile on his face.

Forget it, I'd better learn it first. In ancient society, learning embroidery might be of great use. At worst, I can help my mother mend her socks.

Yu Hongdou had hardly ever picked up a needle in her previous life, but she had seen her own mother embroidering cross-stitch pieces here and there when she had free time. After retirement, she had already developed French embroidery and bead embroidery. After each piece of embroidery, she would post it on her Moments and tag her, asking her to like it...

Yu Hongdou felt a little sad, but she had been open-minded since she was a child, so she quickly let it go. After all, her parents had a carefree life in retirement, and she had younger brothers and sisters to take care of her at home. As a wanderer who had not returned home for many years, she had unknowingly lost the homesickness she felt.

Under the guidance of the embroidery teacher, Yu Hongdou began to divide the threads and thread the needle. She was busy for an unknown period of time before she finally made the first stitch and began to embroider straight lines... The teacher did not have high expectations of her. Even though Yu Hongdou's embroidery was crooked, the teacher did not scold her. She only explained what auspicious patterns could be embroidered with straight lines, what water ripples could be embroidered, and so on.

Perhaps because nightlife without a mobile phone was too boring, Yu Hongdou actually patiently embroidered more than twenty straight lines.

At first it was crooked, but soon her talent for drawing lines in science and engineering was revealed. When she finished embroidering the twentieth straight line, her embroidery skill progress bar had reached 1% of level 2. At this rate, she could reach level 980 by embroidering another 2 straight lines?

It seems that as long as she can keep up with the time, it won't be difficult to upgrade. But what time is it outside now? Her parents should be up by now, right?

Yu Hongdou exited the teaching mode, and the darkness before her eyes had become a little brighter, but her parents seemed not to have woken up yet. Yu Hongdou decided to go in and embroider for a while. No wonder her mother was sewing so fast every day, this thing was really addictive!
After embroidering fifty straight lines and finally getting the teacher's approval to start embroidering wavy lines, Yu Hongdou, who was dizzy and dazed, finally came out of her study mania. It was already daybreak, and her parents were sitting at the table on the kang and talking.

"No one expected that the new county magistrate would be so young, but these children from noble families are not simple people."

"I had originally thought of using that person's influence to arrange for Xiaosong to work in the government, which would be a career that would support him for life, but I didn't expect that it would almost harm my descendants.

"Your Excellency said that the yamen runners of the previous dynasty were all from the lowly class, and were not allowed to take the imperial examinations within three generations. The current dynasty is lenient, and in order to recruit talents as quickly as possible, no restrictions are imposed on those who have passed the imperial examinations. However, the number of people in the world is increasing, and it is possible that there will be other restrictions in the future. Therefore, Xiaosong was not asked to be a jailer, but a library worker."

At this point, Yu Sanlang sighed, and seeing his wife's face full of fear and confusion, he explained to her that the document library was responsible for serving the county magistrate's internal affairs, and was responsible for the daily management of documents, files or other items.

Yu Hongdou, who was pretending to be asleep, thought for a moment and equated the position she remembered with her brother's current job.

Yes, it’s the warehouse manager.

"Master, I don't understand what's going on outside, but I think Xiaosong definitely understands that no matter what you do, it's for him to live a better life." Mrs. Xu could see that her husband was also shocked. Even though she was still a little confused, she still tried to comfort her husband first.

"Well, Xiaosong is indeed sensible. In addition to learning how to do things in the county government these days, he has been reading books whenever he has time. Our son is smart and has impressed you. The lawyer who follows you even said he would teach Xiaosong! Huiru, thank you for giving birth to such a good pair of children for me." Yu Sanlang was very happy when he thought of his son's cleverness and intelligence. He held his wife's hand and expressed his gratitude sincerely.

"Stop talking nonsense. My son said you also found a job. What's going on?" Xu was shy. She glanced at her "sleeping" daughter on the kang, then pulled out her hand and patted her husband.

"It's not really a job. I'm just helping an important person. As a county magistrate, do you really go into the mountains just to seek something new? Actually..." Yu Sanlang listened to the noise outside and then whispered a few words to his wife.

Perhaps the matter was too confidential. Even though Yu Hongdou's ears were perked up like radars, she could only vaguely hear three words.

"The Zhixiang Cult."

(End of this chapter)