Chapter 6: Handily captured

She hid the child in the space and told the outside world she had died, just so the Tian family wouldn't use the child to talk about things in the future.

That Tian Sanzhuang was dead, so be it. If he wasn't dead, letting him know of the child's existence would definitely be another trouble.

Qiao Mai thought while walking, looking up at the sky, which was deep blue, with white clouds as white as snow.

Taking a breath of air, her lungs felt very comfortable. She liked this environment so much. Thank you, Heavens, for letting me transmigrate here. This young lady likes it here too much!

Meeting villagers along the way, they were all people from the surrounding villages, some going to town to work, some carrying loads to town to sell goods. Seeing her disheveled and her clothes patched like that, they all showed curious gazes.

She swayed and swayed, putting on a very weak appearance, and finally managed to reach Tianshui Town.

Standing before the town sign, looking at the scene ahead, the ancient small town wasn't considered big. The official road divided it into two, all the shops were concentrated on both sides of the official road, and the residences were behind the shops, orderly divided into small streets.

Vendors set up stalls on the side of the road, and the shops were seven or eight meters away from the official road to facilitate people coming to the store to buy goods to park their vehicles.

She walked over slowly, looking and thinking while walking past one shop after another.

In her previous life, she was an agent. Besides missions, studying, and spare time, she liked those antique things, especially collecting embroidery. Sometimes she would embroider a bit herself.

Every time summer vacation came and there were no missions, she would pay high tuition to learn from embroidery masters.

She didn't like antiques and didn't understand them, so she hadn't collected them, but she had collected many pearls, agates, and jade ornaments.

There were also many classical clothes. If she liked them, she would buy them and put them in the space. When she was free, she would take them out to wear. She was a sweet girl who looked very fashionable on the outside, but a female knight-errant from ancient times on the inside.

After every mission was completed, all her money was used to collect these things.

At the same time, her space was so big that it had everything from cars to firewood, rice, oil, and salt. She felt these things were useful because sometimes they were needed for outdoor operations.

She really didn't expect that she would end up here. It could only be said that it was exactly what she wanted!

Passing by the pharmacy, she shook her head. Because besides bandaging wounds, she knew nothing. Even if people needed such talent, and she was a woman who had just separated, the pharmacy definitely wouldn't want her. Going in was also futile.

Passing by the pawnshop, she smiled bitterly. She came out of Taohua Village without a cent. Go pawn things from her space?

That was impossible. If someone with ulterior motives knew, there would definitely be trouble.

Passing by the cloth store, let alone mentioning it, just walk past.

Passing by the restaurant, she curled her lips. In her previous life, she only knew how to eat, a total foodie. She had been to high-end restaurants, but if she had to cook? The consequences were unpredictable.

Uh, it seemed there was one thing she could do. The instant noodles she cooked were chewy and delicious, and she had eaten them in many ways.

Ordinary versions, luxury versions, handily captured. Thinking of these, she swallowed and shook her head, lifting her legs and walking past, not considering it.

Grocery store, blacksmith shop, woodworking shop, didn't even stop. Finally, she stopped at the door of a shop.

Qiao Mai looked up at the shop name. Although she didn't smile, her eyes were full of joy. She finally found a chance to get something for nothing and turn things around openly.

"Ruyi Embroidery Manor!"

She took a deep breath, adjusted her state, and saw that there weren't many people inside. Only a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl was organizing items, and a middle-aged woman, still charming, was sitting behind the counter calculating accounts.

She lifted her feet and walked in. Discovering someone had come, the girl turned her head and, when she saw her, only showed a slight look of surprise.

"This sister, are you looking to take on embroidery work, or?"

She couldn't say the word "buy." How could such a poor person come to the store to buy embroidery?

Qiao Mai smiled at her. "Not buying, not taking on work. I want to find your shopkeeper or the owner to talk about something."

The girl turned and said to the counter, "Mother, this sister is looking for you."

The woman raised her head. Seeing Qiao Mai, she first frowned, then said:

"This sister, speak, I am the shopkeeper."

Qiao Mai came to the counter. "Can you please ask this little girl to find a piece of useless white cloth, and bring me needle and thread? I want to let you see my craftsmanship."

The woman sized her up. "Ruyi, go prepare."

"Yes, Mother!"

Xi'er saw a seat on the side and sat down without being asked. She had been tired after walking for half a day.

"Sister, what is your surname?"

"Surname Qiao, you can call me Qiao Mai. How about you?"

"My surname is Lu, everyone calls me Lu Sanniang, that is my daughter, Lu Ruyi."

"You mother and daughter have kind faces, you look like good people."

Lu Sanniang grinned. Based on her experience, this little woman in front of her definitely had a poor family background and wanted to show off her craftsmanship in front of her, mostly wanting to take on work without a deposit.

If it was really like this, it wasn't impossible. She, Lu Sanniang, had long-term vision and wasn't a person who haggled over every ounce.

This little woman looked like a kind person, otherwise, she wouldn't have let her see her craftsmanship first.

The girl quickly brought the needle and thread basket, inside which was a white cloth stretched on a round frame.

"Sister, please!"

Qiao Mai nodded at her, then exercised her fingers.

Her hands had scars, frostbite, and the black village dirt that had never been washed for a day, truly looking unsightly.

Qiao Mai calmly took out an embroidery needle from the needle tube, pulled out a thread, skillfully threaded it, picked up the stretched cloth, closed her eyes to think of a pattern, and began to embroider.

The woman stood up, walked to Qiao Mai's side, and watched her embroider stitch by stitch.

From her technique, it wasn't hard to see that Qiao Mai's embroidery skills were absolutely not bad, but why had she fallen to such a state?

Half an hour later, an embroidery pattern of a vivid little bee collecting honey on a fresh flower was produced.

Qiao Mai handed the cloth frame to Lu Sanniang. "Sister Lu, please look!"

Lu Sanniang had long been itching to see it from the side. This craftsmanship was not just generally good, making her, who had opened an embroidery manor for many years, feel admiration in her heart.

She couldn't wait to pick it up and look at it, and from time to time, she touched it with her hand, a smile hanging on her face.

"Not bad, your embroidery skills are truly not bad. It's a pity I don't have work suitable for your skills here. However, if you do work here all the time, I can specifically take on big jobs for you."

"I don't take on work."

"You don't take on work? You didn't come to take on work?"

"Right, I want to embroider myself and bring it here to sell. For example, screens, palace fans, and the like. Not taking on work is because the work requested by customers is very messy, troublesome to do, and easy to cause trouble."

Lu Shopkeeper thought it made sense. After doing it according to the customer's request, they would either pick on this or pick on that, wanting to take the opportunity to lower the price. If you embroider the finished product and sell it directly, if you like it, you buy it; if you don't like it, you walk away. This was quite good.

"This is also possible, just don't know if customers will like it."

"They will definitely like it. Sister Lu, look at the back?"

Lu Sanniang hurriedly turned it over and looked, her eyes widening in disbelief. "This, this is double-sided embroidery?"

"Yes, this is what I am best at. Secondly, I also know other embroidery methods."

"Double-sided embroidery is only known by famous embroiderers in the capital. Wow, wow, wow, truly hearing a hundred times is not as good as seeing it once."

Qiao Mai glanced at her and said slowly:

"Not to hide it from you, I am down and out now, needing someone to help me, and also wanting to find a partner. If you are interested?"

Before she finished speaking, Lu Sanniang hurriedly said.

"With your craftsmanship, I'm afraid I'm not flattering you enough, how could I not be interested?"

"Then can I make a few requests to you?"

"Sister, you speak? As long as I can do it, Sister will promise you!"

"First, can you help me rent a house in town? Second, can you help me prepare some daily necessities? Once I nourish my body, I will start embroidering, how about that?"

"What happened to you?"

Lu Shopkeeper sized her up. Just now she only saw that she wasn't dressed well, but now looking closely, she felt something was wrong.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 7 =====