Jian Zhaoxing

Chapter 47 Cheap Cloth

"Cousin, I have lived in seclusion for a long time and am not familiar with these fabrics. Could you help me take a look?" Lin Zhiqing stretched out her chin towards the fabrics, but her eyes were fixed on the stands.

After hearing what she said, Lin Shian couldn't help but frown.

In his eyes, Lin Zhiqing deliberately mentioned that she was not familiar with the fabric, which was actually an accusation that the Lin family did not care about her.

The second round of the competition has already begun, but Lin Zhiqing is not choosing the fabric carefully. It seems that he is in a daze or doing something else, as if he doesn't care about the competition at all.

As expected, there was still no hope. He shook his head and picked up the material on his own.

After Lin Zhiqing confirmed that the old lady had been paying attention to the selection process here, he moved and walked behind the maids.

Most people choose from the front, but Lin Zhiqing chooses not to follow the usual path.

This behavior drew a lot of eye rolls, and Princess Pingning snorted coldly: "Grandstanding."

Lin Zhiqing didn't respond to her at all, but took advantage of the maid's cover to look at the old lady on the stands again.

The old lady and Miss Hua chatted and laughed, and from time to time they would check on everyone's selection progress.

Eyes!

It’s the eyes!

Lin Zhiqing noticed that the old lady's eyes stayed on the red fabric for a long time, and the corners of her mouth would slightly rise.

This means that she prefers red fabrics.

On the contrary, when she saw Lin Shian pick up a piece of emerald green floating brocade, the old lady raised her eyebrows and reacted rather calmly.

Following this pattern, Lin Zhiqing discovered that the old lady preferred bright-colored fabrics, such as rouge red, lake blue, and goose yellow.

She didn't pay any special attention to the other colors of black, brown and green, and treated them as normal.

When the old lady saw the white, the corners of her mouth dropped instantly and her eyelids drooped, which was an expression of dissatisfaction.

She hates white!

After collecting so much color information, Lin Zhiqing quickly found Lin Shian who was holding the emerald green cloth.

"Look at this piece of moon-white brocade. It will look great when used to make clothes." He was very confident.

The corners of Lin Zhiqing's mouth twitched slightly. His cousin had a good aesthetic taste, but he was prone to making mistakes.

"It is indeed beautiful." Out of politeness, Lin Zhiqing wanted to compliment it first and then politely refuse the moon-white material, but his cousin was quick to speak:
"You think it looks good too? Then this is it!"

Saying that, he reached for it.

Wait... Before Lin Zhiqing could even utter the word "wait", a pair of soft and boneless hands reached out from the side and took the moon-white material.

Lin Zhiqing looked up along the hand and saw the face of Princess Pingning and the provocative smile on her face:
"Sorry, first come, first served."

"Princess, we were the first to see this piece of material." Lin Shi'an bowed his hands and said, "And I have already decided on this piece of material. Please, Princess, give it up."

I doubt she would give it to you!
Lin Zhiqing stood aside with his arms folded leisurely, not saying much.

Princess Pingning was targeting Lin Zhiqing. She pretended to touch the material and said, "Everyone in Shengjing knows that I'm easy to talk to. If Miss Lin begs me, I can give it to you."

Hearing this, Lin Zhiqing secretly rolled his eyes: "Do you like this material so much?"

"Of course." Princess Pingning raised her head proudly. "This is the Moon Shadow Veil that only foreign countries can make. When you move around, you look like a fairy descending to earth. It's normal for people like you from humble backgrounds to have never seen it before."

Lin Shian clenched his fists. He could tolerate the princess insulting him, but he could not tolerate others insulting the Lin family: "Princess, you..." "Okay, since the princess likes Yueyingsha so much, why not let her?" Lin Zhiqing interrupted Lin Shian and pulled his arm to walk somewhere else:
"We are people who follow the rules. Do we really need to compete with her?"

"What are you doing?" After walking a distance, Lin Shi'an called out Lin Zhiqing's name in a low voice: "People are bullying you to the point of no return. Can you show some courage?"

"Cousin, instead of sulking now, why don't you pick out some good fabric?" Lin Zhiqing turned over a piece of red cloth in front of him.

Since coming to this world, she has never put any effort into clothing.

Although Dasheng was not any dynasty she was familiar with before, the costumes here were closest to those of the Song Dynasty.

Women often wear a jacket with a skirt and a robe. The jacket is a woman's top, usually made of luxurious materials such as silk.

But unlike the Song Dynasty, the jackets of the Dasheng Dynasty had few colors and monotonous patterns.

Even very expensive fabrics are sewn together using simple methods, and the styles are similar.

Men's clothing mainly consists of robes and shirts. The most common one is a single-piece straight robe, which is mostly light-colored.

In such a situation, if you want to stand out, you have to do something different.

But if we only make adjustments to the colors and patterns, it is possible that other places in Dasheng... such as Bianliang, have already adopted this improvement method.

Miss Hua, who is from Bianliang, was present, so she would definitely not find it outstanding.

In that case... Lin Zhiqing pinched his chin, and many clothes suddenly came to his mind.

If you want something unique, the Tang Dynasty's ruqun, the Qing Dynasty's cheongsam, and the later cheongsam are all good choices.

But for Dasheng, a place with “simple folk customs”, cheongsam may be too “revealing”.

Lin Zhiqing was choosing fabrics while thinking about the clothes he was going to design. His brows were tightly furrowed and his thoughts were complicated.

Just as she was struggling, the tray carried by the maid in the corner caught her attention.

There was a thin layer of gauze on the tray, and the texture didn't look very good.

I don’t know if it’s because it hasn’t been taken care of, but there are some wrinkles on it, which forms a sharp contrast with the other materials.

Everyone avoided this place, as if looking at it any longer would pollute their eyes.

Lin Zhiqing's eyes lit up and some ideas came to his mind.

She reached out to the tray and picked up the layer of mesh, but Lin Shian grabbed her wrist and said, "What are you doing? This mesh is mostly used by fishermen to catch fish, not to make clothes."

His words immediately attracted the attention of others, and Jiang Liuyun, who was not far away, shouted loudly:

"Qing'er, if you don't have the right material, come and pick one from Lu Huai and me."

Hearing this, Lu Huai looked at the cloth in his hand and frowned slightly.

After he shouted this, everyone else noticed the cheap mesh in Lin Zhiqing's hand.

"Has the Lin family reached this point? Can that kind of thing still be used to make clothes?"

"The clothes Lin Zhiqing is wearing aren't made of good fabric. How good do you expect her taste to be?"

"So what if we made it to the first round? Looking at the situation, Lin Zhiqing is in danger!"

Lin Zhiqing turned a deaf ear to him and looked at the maid with a smile: "Do you still have this kind of fabric?"

(End of this chapter)