The Meng family is in the printing and dyeing business. In order to attract large merchants, Zhou Baoer will embroider patterns with newly printed and dyed materials, so she has been asking embroiderers for advice over the years. She is skillful and talented, and her embroidery skills are getting better and better.

Zhou Baoer's proposal made Lin Qiuniang very moved. She clearly hoped that her daughter would embroider her wedding clothes, and she would not be able to embroider her in three or five years. Since she could find someone to do it for her, she would be too lazy to make things difficult for her.

Thinking of this, Lin Qiuniang said, "Of course you have nothing to say about your embroidery work, but your business is getting bigger and bigger. This wedding dress is not a matter of one or two days. I am afraid it will delay your business."

Zhou Baoer smiled and said, "Don't be anxious about buying and selling. Xiaoxiao's wedding dress is the top priority. As long as you don't dislike it."

Seeing that she said this, Lin Qiuniang was not beautiful to refuse any more, so she responded: "Finish, I will trouble you if you are happy. I can't believe others except you."

When Zhou Baoer heard this, she was very happy: "Then I have to show my skills to live up to Sister Qiu's trust." After that, she said to Qin Xiaoxiao again: "I will find a good style to send it here, and we will make any one you like."

Qin Xiaoxiao waved his hands repeatedly: "No need to be so troublesome. I'll go to your house to choose, and let me teach you secretly, hehe."

Lin Qiuniang hit and said, "You can't teach me step by step, just by stealing your master?"

Qin Xiaoxiao refused to admit that he was stupid and muttered in a low voice: "If I don't learn, it's not necessarily that I am stupid. Maybe it's because you, the master, was half a cup of water, and I couldn't help enlightenment."

Lin Qiuniang had sharp ears and could hear clearly: "Are you blaming me?"

Qin Xiaoxiao shook his head quickly and said flatteringly: "No, I'm too stupid to learn, how can I blame you?"

Lin Qiuniang was too lazy to argue with her and said to Zhou Baoer: "I will give you her body size later, but she is still rushing. When cutting, you have to put two more points in this size."

Zhou Baoer said, "I will leave two inches of the sizes everywhere. After all the patterns are embroidered, then stitch them according to her body." As she said that, she joked to Qin Xiaoxiao: "Don't be greedy on weekdays. If you eat it like a fat pig, these two inches are probably not enough."

Qin Xiaoxiao lowered her head and looked at her slender waist, and said confidently: "Don't worry, auntie, I won't eat enough."

Zhou Baoer had never seen her fat before, so she believed her words.

Knowing that the couple would not stay overnight, Qin Xiaoxiao talked for a while, then went to the vegetable garden to dig up earthworms, took the fishing rod and went fishing in the lake.

This time she only had crucian carp, and she muttered for a while in her mind. In a few breaths, crucian carp as big as a palm took the bait one by one, and in a short while she caught more than twenty.

If it is cold today, keep the fish in the water, and it will be no problem for ten or eight days. I guess it will take a while to eat it. Qin Xiaoxiao caught a few small fish and threw it to the cats he touched. Then he put away the fishing rod and picked up the fish bucket and walked home.

Before she could step into the door, she heard lively laughter from inside.

At first she thought that the relatives who were not close to each other were coming, and was thinking about whether to put down the fishing rod and bucket quietly. She went to the mountain to avoid it. The people in the room had already discovered her.

"Xiaoxiao, why are you standing at the door stupidly?" Dabao walked out with a big smile. Seeing his sister looking at him stupidly, he touched his face and said proudly: "How is it, do you suddenly feel that the eldest brother is particularly masculine?"

Qin Xiaoxiao did not answer, freed up a hand to grab his black bearded man, and then pulled it hard: "Hey, is it true?"

"Oh, be gentle!" Dabao screamed loudly, quickly patted her hand off, grinning and rubbing the place she was hurt: "Why are you doing so strong with your hands? Your skin is almost pulled off!"

"Brother, why are you growing a beard?" Qin Xiaoxiao looked at her elder brother incredibly. She didn't understand why he had changed a lot after a few months. If it weren't for the sound that had not changed, she wouldn't recognize him at first glance.

"Your brother, I am not a eunuch, what's so strange about having a beard?" Dabao glared at his sister angrily, took the fishing rod and bucket in her hand and asked unwillingly: "How about it, are you very masculine and very masculine?"

Qin Xiaoxiao looked at the strange and familiar face carefully and said disgusted: "I didn't see the masculinity and masculinity, but I felt that my face was completely dark and unclean. Who knows if there were a few lice hidden inside."

Before he had a beard with this face, Dabao was not handsome. Fortunately, Bai Baijing was a spiritual young man.

Now that his face is half taken up by his black beard, he doesn't even say that his scholarly anger is gone, and he doesn't look like a merchant, but he looks like a bandit leader blocking the road in a storybook. In short, he doesn't look like a good person.

"Are you still my sister? How can you bury your brother like this?" The proud bearded, belittled by his dear sister, was so angry that his lips trembled with trembling angrily.

Qin Xiaoxiao looked at him with a look of my goodness for you: "Brother, I'm doing it for you. No little girl will like your face now. You should just shave your beard, otherwise my second aunt will do it yourself."

Dabao knocked on her forehead: "I don't know how much trouble your brother has saved this beard, and it can't be easily shave."

When Qin Xiaoxiao heard this, she couldn't help but guess whether he had gone to a very dangerous place in the past few months. But her family was there, and she was afraid that they would worry about asking, so she gave up the idea of ​​asking.

Dabao accidentally glanced at the fish bucket and found that it was full of crucian carp that he liked to eat. His resentment towards his sister was suddenly wiped out and said with emotion: "Did you guess that my brother is coming back today and went to the lake to catch so many crucian carp?"

Qin Xiaoxiao grabbed the fish bucket and said coldly: "Wanwan got sick a while ago, so this is for her to nourish her body. My elder brother wants to eat and go fishing in the lake. He wants to eat as much as he wants."

When Dabao heard this, his heart was broken: "Sister, am I still your brother? How could you treat me like this? I know you got engaged to a boy named Jing, so I rushed back from afar."

When Zhao Caoer heard this, he raised his eyebrows and said, "Boy, weren't you just saying that you were thinking about my birthday? You rushed back to have a baby for me?"

Dabao thought it was not good, and his eyes turned and he thought about it: "Mom, I wanted to live a life for you at the beginning. Later, I heard that Xiaoxiao was given a marriage to someone named Jing by the emperor. Isn't this a coincidence?"

Zhao Caoer reluctantly believed his explanation and taught a lesson: "Don't talk about the surname Jing and the boy. Xiao Jing and Xiaoxiao get engaged. From now on, you will be your brother-in-law. When you meet someone, you will give me some warmth. Don't mess with me like someone else."

Dabao didn't want to have a dispute with her, so he said unconsciously: "Okay, okay, I understand."

Zhao Cao'er didn't let him go and said in a nagging manner: "Xiaoxiao's marriage has been settled. You should find me a daughter-in-law as well, otherwise you don't want to go out and run around next year. Be honest with me to study for the top scorer..."

Dabao was so troubled that he looked at his cousin as if he was asking for help.

Qin Xiaoxiao pretended not to see it, pointed to the fish bucket and said to Zhou Baoer, "Auntie, you will take the bucket away at a later time, and change the water every few days. It should be enough to eat it for ten days and half a month later. Then I will go to your house to choose the wedding dress style and take some over there."

Zhou Baoer smiled and responded, thanked her daughter for her kindness again.

After lunch, the couple is going back.

Qin Xiaoxiao sent them out of the village and asked about the newly opened printing and dyeing workshops on the way: "Several time-honored printing and dyeing workshops in Beijing almost cover all the printing and dyeing needs of the cloth shops. Did you encounter anything after you opened the business?"

She doesn't know much about the business world, but Dabao will tell her every time he comes back. For example, these old brands in Beijing can stand tall for many years. Apart from having excellent printing and dyeing skills, it is hard to say that they have no backing behind it.

It is impossible for my aunt and uncle to have such courage to open the printing and dyeing workshop to the capital to earn a few taels of silver.

Besides, she had seen her aunt's printing and dyeing skills, which were no worse than those old brands. Even after calculating the Meng family several times in Meng Meng's foreign and in-laws' family, she felt that the Meng family should have secret skills.

That's right, once those old brands are noticed, I'm afraid they will face them sooner or later.

"Don't worry, the printing and dyeing workshop will not appear for the time being. It's still like before that the dyed materials will not attract the attention of others." Zhou Baoer knew that Qin Xiaoxiao was worried about, so she explained.

Originally, the Meng family only had the printing and dyeing business, but later several time-honored brands in Beijing made the printing and dyeing business happy, and the Meng family's business became increasingly difficult to do. At her suggestion, the Meng family simply opened a cloth shop and bought a low price to print and dye it for themselves.

In just a few years, the business of the Meng Family Clothing Village has become better and better. Not only is it famous in Le'an, but the cloth shops in several surrounding counties and towns will also get goods from the Meng Family Clothing Village and sell them for a difference.

Who made the Meng family good printing and dyeing skills? Not only did the color bright but it did not fade. The key is that the price is also cheap, and fools are rushing to ask for it.

This time they did the same thing, wanting to try the waters in the capital, and then slowly approach them after they have gained a firm foothold.

"Well, that's good." Qin Xiaoxiao felt a little relieved and reminded him: "If you encounter trouble, don't hide it from me. I may not be able to help you with a lot of things, and it's okay to come up with small ideas."

Zhou Baoer smiled and said, "Okay, I'll write down these words."

Watching the couple walk away, Qin Xiaoxiao returns home. Seeing Dabao cracking melon seeds under the corner of his yard, she walks over and looks at his moving beard. The more she looks, the more uncomfortable she becomes: "Brother, are you really not going to shave this beard?"

Her mouth was bare and sometimes there were oil stains on the corners of her mouth after eating. She had to wipe it clean with a veil. I couldn't imagine how much dirt was hidden in her elder brother's beard. Maybe there were a few lice crawling around inside.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but tremble for a moment, and she wanted to take her kitchen knife over to help him scrape it.

"Why are you shaving? Grandpa and your father and my father, don't they all have beards? Why don't you dislike me?" Dabao saw her cousin's thoughts at a glance, gave her a blank look, and patted the chair beside him: "Come here, let's talk."

"What are you going to say?" Qin Xiaoxiao sat over and reminded before he spoke: "If you say that Brother Li and I are not compatible, then don't say it, it's useless to say it."

Dabao was full of words and said with a blocked look, "What does it mean to say it is useless? Are you just determined to marry him?"

Qin Xiaoxiao asked back, "The imperial edict has been issued. In addition to marrying Brother Li, can I marry someone else?"

Dabao choked again and could not refute.

"Brother, you have seen how he treats me over the years. Even if I follow your wishes and marry someone who satisfies you everywhere, it may not be better than him."

Qin Xiaoxiao said calmly, and stabbed his elder brother: "No girl treats you as good as Brother Li treats me, so I can understand if you don't recognize Brother Li."

Dabao stroked his chest and was hit hard: "Yes, it's amazing to have a fiancé. Next time I will bring you a sister-in-law back to let you know what it means to be really good!"

Qin Xiaoxiao suddenly felt energetic and asked excitedly: "Brother, do you have a girl you like? Which girl is from? Does that girl like you too? When are you planning to propose marriage?"

Dabao twitched the corners of his eyes, grabbed a melon seed and threw it over: "Shut up, you have so much to say."

Qin Xiaoxiao raised his hand and grabbed the melon seeds, peeling the shell while asking unwillingly: "Brother, tell me quickly, I'm a tight mouth. As long as you don't want others to know, I promise not to tell the third person."

Dabao didn't believe her nonsense. His mouth was tighter than the clam shell: "Don't ask, you'll know in the future."

"Let's forget it. When I see my sister-in-law in the future, I will complain to her." I'm sure he won't say it, Qin Xiaoxiao no longer wasted words, and calmed down after he put down his harsh words.

Dabao was not afraid of her complaining, and she slumped on the chair without any image: "Oh, it's still comfortable at home. I'm running around outside, sometimes I don't even have a place to stay."

Qin Xiaoxiao had long wanted to know what he had been going in the past few months, so he asked, "Brother, you have been out for a few months this time, where have you been to?"

Dabao wanted to fool him, but he just met his sister's eyes. He knew that he couldn't fool him, so he looked around and said in a low voice: "I went to the sea this time."

Seeing that his sister widened her eyes, he hurriedly said, "Don't be afraid, we did nothing, we just followed other boats to sneak out to sea and gathered in the fun. After staying in less than half a month, we got off the boat to ensure safety and nothing happened."

Qin Xiaoxiao suppressed his worries and anger and said seriously: "Brother, after the founding of the court, the court implemented a maritime ban. If anyone violated the order, he would be treated as treason. Don't you know what consequences you will bear after being reported?"
Chapter completed!