Feast of Flowers: 9.Eight years

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Seeing that Hua Jin did not accept the red envelope, the person opposite became unhappy.

It’s not too cold in winter: Teacher, feel free to accept it, this is just my opinion.

What else can Hua Jin do? Of course, she can only fulfill the other party's wish. She likes the behavior of customers who are not stingy when they have money. Over the years of learning embroidery from Aunt Gao, she has encountered all kinds of customers. Some even yelled at each other because of the high price, saying that it was just made of a few pieces of rags and a few threads, and asking for such a high price really cost money. Crazy or something.

Being willing to give her money doesn't mean you have much respect for her profession, but someone who doesn't want to spend a dime and scolds her for cheating definitely doesn't show any respect.

As the times change, the stitching techniques of embroidery may not change much, but the aesthetic style will change. Aunt Gao said that Shu embroidery has been changing with the people's preferences for so many years. The patterns that were once popular may not be popular now, and the patterns that have the largest audience now may not have been popular a few decades ago.

Most of Hua Jin's needle techniques have been improved over generations. She really doesn't understand the formations and embroidery styles from seventy or eighty years ago.

The next morning, she got up and prepared to go to Aunt Gao's house. When she went downstairs, she met Mrs. Chen who was returning from shopping for groceries.

"Little Hua." Mrs. Chen saw Hua Jin and stretched out her hand to wave to her.

Hua Jin looked at the expression on the old lady's face that said "I have gossip here, you must come and listen", sighed secretly, and walked to Old Mrs. Chen.

"Yesterday...the one next door to you asked you to be a matchmaker?" Old Mrs. Chen said mysteriously, "Don't listen to her nonsense. How can her relatives on her mother's side be promising? If they are really promising, how can they be so good? Can you let her live here? How about I tell you about someone from my place. Not only does his family have several houses, he is also an honest person. Is he more reliable than the boy she introduced?"

Hua Jin: "..."

She only knew that Mrs. Chen and Sister Qin were not on good terms, but she did not expect that they would secretly compete in this regard.

"Grandma Chen, I have something else to do, so I have to leave first." If we stay any longer, the old lady can chat with her for an hour.

"Hey..." Mrs. Chen didn't expect Hua Jin to be in such a hurry. Seeing that she was walking too fast, she stepped on her feet and looked at her back, "My knees are bad, but I still run so fast..."

When Hua Jin came to the house of Aunt Gao who taught her embroidery, Gao Shulan was watering the flowers on the balcony, and Uncle Tan was reading a book with glasses on. Seeing her coming, the two elders were very happy and asked her to sit down.

The two elders only have a daughter, Tan Yuan. Hua Jin has been with them all year round, and she is like half a daughter.

"If you come over next time to buy something, I won't let you in." Gao Shulan scolded Hua Jin for spending money lavishly, while placing fruits and snacks in front of Hua Jin, "I heard Yuanyuan say, you You spent a lot of effort to make a dragon and phoenix quilt some time ago?"

"Yes." Hua Jin nodded in a small arc, a little embarrassed to look at her. Aunt Gao has always emphasized that the real art of embroidery is striving for excellence. It took her less than a month to make the dragon and phoenix quilt, which cannot really be called striving for perfection.

"I know what happened, and you did a good job in this matter." Gao Shulan did not blame her, but was very pleased, "Art and life do not conflict. You can grasp a balance in this matter." It's accurate, I'm happy."

Hua Jin looked up and saw Gao Shulan looking at her with a smile. She smiled helplessly, "At that time, there was really no other way except to rush to work overnight."

Gao Shulan has always regretted that she could not meet Hua Jin, a good apprentice earlier. She believed that Hua Jin's talent in embroidery would far exceed hers. Although the two of them have been master and apprentice these years, she doesn't like Hua Jin calling her teacher respectfully. She and Hua Jin are both masters and apprentices, as well as relatives and friends. Her husband does not fully understand her ideas and persistence in embroidery, and her daughter is not talented enough. Only Hua Jin has completely inherited her ideas. , and is better able to adapt to the current environment than she is.

"Being kind but not pedantic is a virtue." At this point, Gao Shulan glanced at her wife. Tan Qing knew that he was disliked again, so he pushed up the glasses on his nose, got up and went to the kitchen to cook.

Xiaohua is here. Can you get the things the old lady made?

Hua Jin and Gao Shulan chatted about some trivial matters, and then mentioned the panda embroidery style from seventy years ago.

"Panda embroidery is one of the representatives of our Shu embroidery. Although it has changed over the years, there is not much difference in the stitching techniques." Gao Shulan got up and went to the study room to pull out a photo album. High-quality photos of Shu embroidery. The earliest works were produced in the 1920s. Unfortunately, the photos from that year were black and white and could not highlight the characteristics of our Shu embroidery."

Hua Jin took the old but very clean photo album, looked through it gently, and found two pieces of panda embroidery in it. The style is indeed different from the style favored by young people today.

The panda in the photo is round and mighty, but now some panda embroideries are designed to cater to current preferences, and the pandas in the embroidery pictures are more naive. They are like "you can obviously rely on your strength, but you still live by being cute." typical.

But the nurse who sacrificed her life for the country did not embroider the handkerchiefs for herself, but for her daughter who was only a few years old. When she embroidered pandas, would she make the pandas more in line with the aesthetics of children? ?

Hua Jin couldn't make up his mind, so he contacted "It's Not Too Cold in Winter" again. After asking about his grandmother's ancestral home, he began to check the local customs and customs information.

Different counties and cities have different customs and habits, not to mention a place as big as Shucheng, and they also have different hobbies and taboos.

After checking the information for several days, Hua Jin was unable to accurately place the needle. Later, Gao Shulan couldn't bear it anymore and called her home again, advising her: "It's useless to just read the information. Why don't you go to the local area?" Take a walk and ask the local elders for advice, maybe you will gain more."

Seeing that Hua Jin did not speak, Gao Shulan gave Hua Jin an address: "This embroiderer is the best at panda embroidery. I had some friendship with her back then. Her ancestral home happens to be this city. If you want to go there If you know the situation, you can go visit her."

Taking the address, Hua Jin bit her lip: "Aunt Gao, I..."

After escaping from the village at the age of seventeen, she has not been to Shucheng for nearly eight years. Although she knows in her heart that her hometown is just a remote mountain village in Shucheng, as long as she hears the familiar accent, she can Recalling the gloomy memories of that year.

"Xiao Jin." Gao Shulan touched the top of her head tenderly, "You have to look forward. You will become one of the best Shu embroidery masters in the future. Only by overcoming the bottleneck can you make progress. I think you will too. Clearly, your embroidery skills have stagnated in the past year."

The paper with the address written on it was pinched by Hua Jin. She took a few deep breaths, raised her head and met Gao Shulan's gentle and encouraging eyes: "Aunt Gao, I understand."

"But don't force yourself." Gao Shulan smiled, "Life is only a few decades, and living happily is the most important thing."

Hua Jin forced a smile: "You are right."

The most important thing in life is to be happy. Only by breaking through bottlenecks can we make progress.

A few days later, Winter is not too cold, who has been following Huajin Weibo, discovered that the blogger named "Fanhua" finally updated Weibo. This time the photos she posted were not embroidery, but There are towering green mountains and the beautiful Shucheng International Airport.

Fanhua: Eight years later, I am still a beautiful girl when I return.

Shucheng International Airport is located in Furong City, the provincial capital city. Hua Jin stood at the entrance of the airport where people were coming and going, and was instantly surrounded by lively popularity.

After queuing up to get into the taxi, the taxi driver was a very upright person and told her not to eat in flashy restaurants. It was not only expensive but tasted ordinary, and none of the locals would go there.

Listening to the familiar Shu sounds and looking at the high-rise buildings outside the car window, Hua Jin recalled that when she was a child, she had imagined what Furong City was like, but the real Furong City was much more prosperous than she imagined.

"Sister, are you here for a trip?" Seeing that Huajin was interested in the scenery of Furong City, the driver's uncle introduced her to several places, "But you are a girl alone outside, so you need to choose a better hotel. It’s safe.”

Hua Jin smiled and thanked her.

The driver sent her to the door of the hotel, helped her carry her suitcase up the door steps, and left happily. It should be said that this uncle's smile never faded from the beginning to the end.

Walking into the hotel door, Hua Jin handed her ID card to the front desk.

"Are you...Hua Jin?" A young man who was also going through the housing procedures stared at her for a long time, "Are you Hua Jin?"

Hua Jin turned to look at him calmly: "I'm sorry, you admitted your mistake."

"I'm sorry." The young man looked a little embarrassed, "You look a bit like my high school classmate, so..."

"It doesn't matter." Hua Jin took the room card from the front desk staff and smiled, "I have a public face, so it's normal for me to be mistaken."

The young man laughed. It was really unconvincing for such a beautiful girl to say that she was a popular face. But he felt a little depressed when he thought about the girl in his class who had exceptionally good grades but somehow failed to take the college entrance examination.

In small places like theirs, the college entrance examination is the only way out for many girls. His classmate's grades were so good that even the teacher said that she would definitely be admitted to a prestigious university, but on the day of the college entrance examination, she did not come to take part. Later there were rumors that Hua Jin’s family didn’t want her to go to college, so they wouldn’t let her take the exam. Later there were rumors that Hua Jin was getting married to a very wealthy family.

He didn't know whether the rumors were true or not, because no one had seen her since.

Looking at the young woman who was already dragging her suitcase towards the elevator, the young man shook his head secretly.

Hua Jin is dark and thin, not as beautiful as this lady.