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.
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