Chapter 179: The Chief Is in a Good Mood
The clothes took a long time to make. Even for her, she had to stay in the system for over ten hours each day. If she got tired, she would nap for a while and then continue embroidering. As a result, it took her roughly ten days to finish the garment. She didn’t even dare to imagine how much longer it would take outside the system—dozens of days, a few months, or even longer.
After all, this kind of pure hand embroidery is inherently slow. Thinking back on it, those in later generations who embroidered cross-stitch, like the Qingming River Painting, would take five to six years to complete. And if she were to use the traditional double-sided embroidery technique, she really didn’t know how long it would take.
However, she did want to challenge herself with embroidering a Qingming River Painting that spanned several dozen meters.
The Qingming River Painting needed to be replicated, but fortunately, the system forced her to learn line drawing, contour drawing, and Chinese painting. Otherwise, she really couldn’t have managed it. She didn’t think her drawings were exceptional, but at the very least, they were undoubtedly not better than her calligraphy.
She was not all-capable. The system might want to cultivate her into a famous calligrapher and painter, but she wasn’t interested in that path. While she had a modest understanding of calligraphy, when it came to painting, she truly had no talent. However, her copying skills were decent and her embroidery was tolerable.
Although not the best, she was diligent and hardworking.
She believed in the proverb "the early bird catches the worm" and that hard work could compensate for lack of natural ability. If she wasn’t smart enough, she would make up for it with time. What did she lack now if not for time? One year for her was equivalent to ten years for others. Wasn’t that enough?
After completing the clothes, the system once again cued the recycling sound: a hundred gold coins. Qin Xiangnuan sighed. Why was it that things she wanted to sell couldn’t fetch a good price, while the things she didn’t want to buy were so valuable? Sometimes the system really knew how to play with people.