Chapter 717: Exquisite Embroidery Technique
Chapter 717: Exquisite Embroidery Technique
The night passed quietly for Nan Hua.
In fact, Nan Hua looked like she didn't have anything to do because she spent most of her time embroidering. She looked like an old lady who didn't have anything interesting in life and spent her time to embroider.
Her servants did their duty around her, making sure to take care of everything that needed to be taken care of. That way, Nan Hua didn't have to do anything.
"Miss, Concubine Mu came to visit."
Nan Hua stopped her embroider and looked up. She could see Concubine Mu waited patiently by the gate as if she was waiting for permission to enter. Slowly, Nan Hua nodded her head and the servants allowed Concubine Mu to come in.
After getting the power to control the household, the first thing Concubine Mu did was to pay a visit to Nan Hua?
"Young Miss Nan." Concubine Mu curtsied. She looked at the embroidery in Nan Hua's hand and chuckled. "Are you trying to make a pouch, Young Miss?"
"Yes, but it didn't seem to be going well." Nan Hua tried to make embroidery pattern to form a pouch. However, it didn't seem like she could make it well because the shape seemed rather crooked even when she had only started.
Concubine Mu looked amused. The young girl in front of her seemed to be calm at every single time and always had a good grasp of situation. But facing this kind of embroidery, it seemed that her talent was not exactly that good.
"Would you like me to teach you a technique? I'll teach you how to use more than one needles to make sure that the shape wouldn't change."
"That would be an honor to be taught by you, Concubine Mu." Nan Hua didn't mind.
"In that case, I won't be polite."
Taking a seat beside Nan Hua, Concubine Mu asked her servants to prepare a set for her and began to teach Nan Hua. She came from a village that specialized in embroidering, so she had already started to embroider ever since she was of young age. If not because of her family poor situation, she would have become an embroider girl.
But that was only a big if.
In this kind of era where luxury items were not valued that highly because of wars, they couldn't easily find money. Even though they worked hard, they could barely make a living and had to resort to other means in order to survive.
Nan Hua listened attentively and applicate what Concubine Mu taught her to the somewhat crooked embroidery pouch she made.
Looking at how Nan Hua learnt fast, Concubine Mu was a bit stunned. It seemed that Nan Hua's ability to copy other people after seeing it once was extraordinary. On the other hand, if she just trained on her own, figuring each steps one by one, her talent in embroidery only allowed her small progress.
'How cute.'
Concubine Mu smiled as she patiently taught Nan Hua her skills. In any case, there was no one else who would inherit her skill as embroider girl. Teaching this to Nan Hua would not make much difference in her opinion.
…
"Is this news accurate?" Nan Shu Cheng looked in disbelief at the documents that his men had found not long ago. After hearing that Emperor Yang Zhou actually still targeted and even eliminated an entire family, he became even more cautious.
He was worried that the Emperor would set his eyes on Nan Family and made him the target next. While his father's status was that of the highest in the entire kingdom and only below those of Imperial Family, his own status was rather low.
If the Emperor didn't want to give any face to Old Master Nan, it was entirely possible for him to target Nan Family.
At that time, he could only plead for lenience.
Not to mention… if those evidences pointed at his involvement in that matter, he knew that he would be done for.
But the piece of news that his men brought to him pointed at another possibility for him to escape this calamity. If he presented this to the Emperor, he was sure that his previously stagnating career would skyrocket.
"Master, this is trustworthy news that had been verified. The men we deployed had already made inquiry and found out that it's the truth."
"Heh." Nan Shu Cheng looked at the news on his table and grinned. "Prepare a carriage. I would like to inspect on my own. If this turned out to be the truth, I'll definitely able to get my promotion tomorrow when I bring it to the court."
"Yes, Master."
…
Nan Hua learnt embroidery by Concubine Mu and improved once more. It seemed that her poor talent in terms of embroidering could still be salvaged after getting the education from a master. Even though she was good at using needles, weaving them to form specific pattern was a different matter compared to using the needles to kill someone.
The former required her to understand the route and the effect on the cloth while the latter one required her to understand the points on human's body that was effective to use needles.
After teaching Nan Hua, Concubine Mu didn't say anything and leave directly.
"Miss, what does Concubine Mu intend to do?" Xiao Yun was confused. She thought that Concubine Mu would directly ask for a favor from Nan Hua. After all, Concubine Mu had just gotten the power to control the entire household.
"She didn't need to ask." Nan Hua put away the pouch she made. This time, she made the word star on the surface along with some vines pattern at the side.
Looking at the word, Xiao Yun paused for a moment but still tidied it up carefully. For some reason, she felt that the reason why Nan Hua even bother trying to make this pouch was actually very obvious.
But of course, she would not say it.