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The Illegitimate Son of the Song Dynasty Volume 4 Chapter 757 Su Xiu

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    Everyone says Jiangnan is good, but tourists only like Jiangnan.

    The spring water is as green as the sky, and the boat is painted and listened to the rain to sleep.

    The people beside me are like the moon, with frost and snow on their bright wrists.

    "Don't return to your hometown before you are old. Returning to your hometown requires breaking your heart."

    A melodious song "Bodhisattva Man" floated over from the painting boat opposite. The green waves on Taihu Lake were vast and misty and rainy. The painting boat appeared faintly in the mist and rain, like an ancient ink painting.

    Qing Niang was wearing a long dark green dress, swaying softly in the spring breeze, as if the clear waves on the lake were rippling. Her eyes were retracted from the painting boat opposite, and the paintbrush in her hand was lightly painting the paper.  stand up.

    Soon, a painting of a boat appeared on the paper. A woman with water sleeves dancing in the wind could be seen on the bow of the boat. From the movements, it can be judged that the woman on the bow of the boat was dancing the green waist dance, which perfectly blended with the background of the mountains and rivers.  One body.

    Yang Yi likes to see Qing Niang concentrating on her work. For example, when she is seriously painting now, her expression is calm, her eyes are clear, and her charm is quiet and elegant. In addition, the rain outside the boat is as thin as smoke, and the eaves are dripping like curtains. This in itself is the most beautiful song.  of poetry.

    "Okay, Brother Yang, it's your turn to write the postscript." Qing Niang put down the brush and turned to look at Yang Yi. Her pretty face seemed to be filled with spring breeze, and the shallow pear dimples flashed away. Every little expression was like that.  vivid and bright.

    As a result, Yang Yi stared at her steadily without any reaction. Adela next to her covered her mouth and snickered, causing Qing Niang's bright jade-like cheeks to suddenly become stained with two peach halos.

    "Brother Yang, Brother Yang" Qing Niang lightly stamped her lotus feet and called twice more.

    "Oh, oh. Is something wrong with Qingniang?" Yang Yi woke up from a dream, obviously still a little confused.

    This time Adela finally couldn't help laughing.  I can barely hold a cup of tea.

    Qing Niang¡¯s eyes turned and she looked at Adela first.  Then he hummed to Yang Yi: "Brother Yang, I have finished the painting and asked you to write a postscript. But you see Adela was so absorbed in it that she called you many times and you didn't hear it. Huh, let me go ashore first and wait for you."  alright."

    Adela was shocked and then said, "Okay, Qing Niang, people are obviously fascinated by you. But you come to make fun of me, and I don't listen to you."

    ??The two beauties with different styles but the same alluring beauty soon began to fight together, and the crisp laughter floated into the mist and rain on the lake. For a moment, Yang Yi became an outsider.

    This time he consciously walked to the table, picked up a pen and wrote the title of the song "Bodhisattva Man" that Hua Chuan opposite had just sung in the blank space.

    Qing Niang found out, she immediately stopped playing, came up and said: "Brother Yang, this is not possible, you are not allowed to use the poems of the predecessors, you have to compose one yourself."

    Yang Yi spread his hands and said with a smile: "It's too late, Qing Niang. The blank space has been filled with questions, but there is no room for more questions."

    "Humph, I understand. Brother Yang did it on purpose just now. You deliberately caused others to fight with Adela so that you could write secretly."

    "Qingniang, Xiaosheng is wronged. How did Xiaosheng know that you were going to blame Adela and finally triggered a war between the two parties?"

    "What a war? It's so ugly to say, huh, you know it anyway, you know it. You have always been scheming. Sister Qing'er has long told me to be careful about you." Qing Niang pouted her little mouth, crossed her waist, and said  He said it fiercely, but his eyes were full of smiles.

    "Why did your sister Qing'er tell you to be careful about me?" Yang Yi blurted out and asked.

    "Be careful if I sell it to you and count the money for you!"

    "Oh" Yang Yi covered his face and groaned in pain, "How can you say that to me? It hurts my heart so much. How could I let you count the money for me? I can only sell it a few times more."

    "Pfft!" Qing Niang was amused and smiled, "Okay, Brother Yang really doesn't have any good intentions. Humph, I won't pay attention to you from now on."

    Adela even laughed so hard that she fell into Yang Yi's arms, her body fragrance intoxicating.  Yang Yi hugged her and winked at Qing Niang. Qing Niang was so angry that she picked up the brush from the table and started to paint his face. Yang Yi was so scared that Yang Yi ran around in the boat and almost was forced into the lake.

    The three of them laughed and joked for a while before sitting down. With a cup of tea and the song "Oll and Heron Forget the Machine", they let the boat sail away with the waves. Outside the boat, a lake was covered in mist and rain, and three mountains were faintly visible. From time to time, there were people visiting the lake.  As the painting boat rows by, you can hear the sound of reciting poetry from time to time, mixed with a string of Wu Nong's soft words, like the murmur of orioles, which feels particularly soft.

    The painting boat slid across the lake in mist and rain, and finally arrived at Wuxian County.

    ??Wuxian County is close to Suzhou, encompassing Taihu Lake in the west, Yangcheng Lake in the east, and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal running from north to south. The whole city is like a network of water alleys, and the water surface accounts for about 30%. Every home has a boat, which is the most typical water town style.

    Rice is abundant here, and planting mulberry and raising silkworms has been a common practice since ancient times. You can hardly find a piece of wasteland in Wu County.In addition to the soft mountains and rivers, there are fields and mulberry forests as far as the eye can see. Other fisheries, handicrafts, shipbuilding, etc. are all very developed.

    Today, Yang Yi came to Wu County to see none of this. He only came to Suzhou embroidery for one thing.

    The boat sailed leisurely into the water alley of Wuxian County in the rain. The arched bridges on the water were crossed, willows clung to both sides of the river, the attic near the water, the high horse-head wall, and the bamboos and plantains sticking out of the white walls were all quietly bathed in the misty rain.  , making this Jiangnan water town look more soft and graceful.

    From time to time, you can see silhouettes of dancing skirts under oil-paper umbrellas on the shore, walking through the long alley paved with bluestone slabs.

    ??One after another, the awning boats passed through the water alley, and they always avoided each other nimbly, said greetings to each other, and walked away from each other.

    Facing the beautiful scenery of the water town like an ink painting, Yang Yi spoke leisurely: "Su embroidery is the most beautiful complex in the life of Jiangnan women. The embroidery stretchers, stretchers, Su needles, and flower threads, their attached gazes will never be forgotten.  They will leave the Jiangnan women who are as fresh as grass and as clear as flowers. When Ren Yi grows old, their eyes will not leave in Jiangnan. This is an unforgettable love. Su Xiu has an everlasting love for the Jiangnan women. Let the whole world know that,  There is a kind of ingenious Su embroidery in the south of the Yangtze River. The female red is so skillful that it touches the spring breeze."

    Qing Niang didn¡¯t know why Yang Yi suddenly came to such a scene, but after hearing Yang Yi¡¯s sigh, she was fascinated by it.

    Adela couldn't help but ask: "Sir, is Su embroidery really that good? Although I have heard of its name, I have never seen the real thing."

    Yang Yi chuckled and said: "Adela, you'd better be mentally prepared, don't wait until you see Su embroidery and scream out in surprise. Wu people's embroidery. The needles and threads are fine, one or two threads, and the needles are as thin as hair.  Silk, the colors are exquisite, dazzling, the mountains and rivers are far and near, the pavilions have a profound charm, the characters have a vivid feeling of looking at them, and the flowers and birds are very graceful and colorful. In short, they look lifelike, and the best works are better than the paintings by famous artists.  A bargain."

    Adela would not doubt Yang Yi's words, but said even more strangely: "Then why are Bian embroidery and Shu embroidery mostly sold in the Tokyo market, but Su embroidery has never been sold."

    "Adela, this is the reason why I came to Wu County. Su embroidery is so skillful, but it is precisely because of this that a good embroidery often takes a year, or even several years. Moreover, it is difficult for a non-dexterous woman to master it.  If the technique is not done properly, it will just be an imitation. The embroidery can hardly be called Su embroidery."

    In fact, Su embroidery is not well known. The main reason is that it is spread in a very small range. At present, only some women in Wu County master the techniques of Su embroidery.

    Su embroidery has really spread.  It happened in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. At that time, almost all women in Jiangsu states and counties mastered the skills of Su embroidery.  It formed a grand scene where every family raised silkworms and every household embroidered;

    In painting.  At the same time, the Wu School of Painting, represented by Tang Bohu and Shen Zhou, emerged, which further promoted the development of Suzhou embroidery. Artists combined paintings with re-creations, and the embroidered masterpieces were lifelike and full of ink and wash charm, and were known as needle-painting;

    It was only then that Su embroidery formed its own unique artistic style in terms of stitching, color and pattern, and became famous in art gardens, rivaling calligraphy and painting.

    When Yang Yi arrived in Suzhou, he heard that there was a woman named Shen Sanniang in Wuxian County. She was originally the most famous Suzhou embroidery artist in Wuxian County. Now various workshops have sprung up in the south of the Yangtze River. She also took advantage of this spring breeze and opened an embroidery workshop.  , hired nearly two hundred women to teach them Su embroidery skills. Of course, Shen Sanniang would account for 60% of the revenue from the embroidery produced during this period;

    Even so, there are still many women who come here to learn Su embroidery. You must know that a good piece of Su embroidery now sells for as little as a few dozen guan, and as high as a thousand guan. If calculated by the pound, its price is gold.  Ten times. Yang Yi was not exaggerating at all when he said that its value was more than that of famous paintings.

    The last time I inspected the cotton spinning mills in Yongqiu County, I accidentally mentioned something to Qing Niang, that is, the emergence of many large cotton spinning mills and silk factories will definitely have a huge impact on the original household textile industry, and many women may  Weaving, the livelihood that sustains the family, will be lost.

    Qingniang was very anxious about this, and Yang Yi also paid attention. Now weaving can be transferred from homework to large-scale factory production, but embroidery is a purely handmade work of art, and it is absolutely impossible to produce it on an assembly line;

    Women can no longer make money by weaving, so switching to the embroidery industry is definitely a very good choice;

    If it can be done like in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, when every family in the south of the Yangtze River is raising silkworms and every household is doing embroidery, why worry about women not having a job?

    After Yang Yi went to Suzhou and heard that Shen Sanniang had taken on apprentices and taught embroidery, he didn't stop in Suzhou anymore and went straight to Wuxian by boat.

    Let¡¯s first have an on-site inspection and talk to Su Sanniang and other people with superb embroidery skills to see if we can use Su Sanniang¡¯s method of operation, or some other method, to popularize Su embroidery skills throughout Jiangnan as soon as possible to solve the "employment problem" of Jiangnan women.

    The boats were moving leisurely in the water alleys of Wuxian County. In the confused mist and rain, the wine flags on the water alleys were hanging low, and the leisurely drinkers were laughing and drinking upstairs. There was almost no busy scene here, everything was so leisurely.  ;

    Time seems to stand still here. There is nothing worth pressing for, nothing worth persisting in. The quiet time goes around in the misty rain and clear water alley.

    Finally, the last embroidery flag appeared on the small dock in front: Shen Sanniang Embroidery Workshop.

    The five characters are embroidered with silk thread, which is beautiful and three-dimensional. There are also embroidered auspicious clouds next to it. This embroidered flag alone makes people feel extraordinary.

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