Chapter 252 Questioning
"You two are great. Our village is blessed to have you two!" The village chief put his hands behind his back, looked at Li Luo with a sincere face, and nodded with satisfaction.

On the second day after counting the number of people, Li Luo gathered everyone to a meeting place and asked everyone to receive a piece of embroidery cloth and needle and thread. He also gave them a sample pattern and printed it out with a photo.

When everyone saw such a complicated pattern, they backed off for a moment: "This... this pattern is too complicated, right? Even just a phoenix bird has to go through several color changes, which increases the difficulty."

"What else? If there is no difficulty, wouldn't it be too easy to get this hundred dollars?"

"Besides, they have prepared the needles, thread, and embroidery cloth for you. Even if you can't embroider it, you can keep these things at home and help with sewing and mending at home, which can save a lot of money."

The complaints were soon drowned out by other voices. No one had any more objections and they happily took their needlework and went home.

In the previous day or two, everyone was very enthusiastic. Even if they had to go without food or drink, they still wanted to study how to embroider the patterns in the photos. Those who were good at hands-on work had already started to stitch on the embroidery cloth.

Those grown men, seeing their mothers or wives, all held on to their embroidery cloths and refused to let go, even stopping to cook and wanting to lose their temper.

But when the women shouted, "As long as I can embroider this pattern and win the prize, I can get the twenty yuan. Isn't it a hundred times better than working hard to earn money?"

The men were silent. Cooking was not a difficult task, but they were unwilling to do it. However, for the hundred yuan, even if it was only the twenty yuan for the third prize, it was worth a month's work.

For a time, there was a craze among men in Wanlong Village about cooking. What's more, some men even picked up embroidery needles and asked their partners to teach them how to embroider to join in the fun.

However, before the fifth day had passed, the women could no longer bear it. The patterns were too complicated, and they did not have the exquisite embroidery skills. They could only copy what was designed, embroidering and dismantling, dismantling and embroidering again, and in the end the embroidery ended up in a mess.

Afterwards, more and more people chose to give up. Only Guo Yi from the Guo family came to Li Luo's house with embroidery cloth and found Li Luo.

"Sister Luoluo, can you teach me how to embroider?"

Li Luo heard from the village chief about Guo Yi. The Guo family took away all the compensation from Guo Yi's parents. Although they were under pressure and allowed Guo Yi to be registered in their household registration, Guo Yi's life did not improve.

Even the clothes they wore were adults' clothes that were modified into smaller sizes.

This was the first time that someone took the initiative to ask Li Luo for advice, and she was a little girl who was only in her teens.

"How did you think of asking me to teach you embroidery?" Li Luo was also very surprised. Although she had thought that someone would ask her for advice on embroidery, she did not expect that only a little girl would be willing to come to her.

"Sister Luoluo, this embroidery was organized by you, and the beauty of these embroidery works must have been made by sister Luoluo, so Aunt Luoluo's embroidery skills must be amazing!" Guo Yi looked at Li Luo with a sharp gaze and a sincere face.

Li Luo smiled: "Then why do you think I will teach you? After all, I paid for the prize money. Aren't you afraid that I won't want to pay for it?"

"If Sister Luoluo really didn't want to spend the money, she wouldn't have held this competition. And anyone who participates can get the money. I think Sister Luoluo held this competition because she wanted to select people who have a basic embroidery foundation and want to do blood embroidery."

"This style is very complicated. Some of the lines and needlework require a very deep foundation to embroider. In my opinion, the only person in this village who often comes into contact with these is Sister Luo Luo."

Li Luo didn't expect that Guo Yi could analyze so much from her just a few words, and even see her intentions clearly. If given time, this girl will definitely be a talented person. Thinking of this, Li Luo naturally would not bury a talent, so he first looked at the embroidery in the girl's hand and found that although the stitches of the girl's embroidery were immature, they were very beautiful and bold, and even the colors used were different from the colors on the embroidery.

"Did you match these colors yourself?" Li Luo was a little surprised. This little girl actually used the advanced Mondrian color system by accident, and the proportions she matched were so visually impactful.

"This, who taught you this?" Li Luo was a little excited for a moment.

Guo Yi blinked her confused eyes: "Hey, Sister Luoluo, is there any problem?"

Li Luo shook his head: "Is this a pattern you designed yourself? It's very beautiful."

The embroidery is a small doll with a unique design. Although it is not as complicated as the master's embroidery, it can catch people's attention at once.

Guo Yi nodded: "My father bought me a doll before, but I couldn't save it in the fire. My aunt said that it turned into ashes just like my parents. I wanted to give it new colors, so I embroidered it..."

"Sister, I can't embroider such a beautiful phoenix. Can you teach me?" Guo Yi's eyes were full of desire.

Li Luo touched Guo Yi's head and said, "When you have time in the future, come to my house and I will teach you some basic techniques. However, I will not teach you how to match colors. You can let your imagination run wild."

After Guo Yi left, Li Luo was still excited. He didn't expect that he had held a competition and actually found an unpolished gem. It was a pity that the child was too young, and the Guo family hadn't sent their children to school yet. Such a young child...

If I didn't have this talent, if I hadn't discovered it, I would probably have been buried here for the rest of my life.

Soon, it was time to submit the finished products, and many people backed out. In the end, only thirty finished products were submitted, which was more than half of the sixty that Li Luo had envisioned.

However, it basically met Li Luo's expectations.

Li Luo looked at the embroidery pieces that had been submitted and found that most of them were unfinished. There was one completed embroidery piece that had more than just one person's stitches on it.

After observing all the embroidery works, Li Luo basically had a preliminary judgment.

Li Luo also picked and chose those semi-finished products, and finally selected several embroidery pieces with good quality and craftsmanship.

Even Guo Yi's works were selected.

"Li Luo, why was this embroidery put away? The color obviously doesn't match the phoenix at all!"

When Li Luo displayed all the winning works, some people raised questions.

"Look, this is the phoenix from Zhang's embroidery. It is the most complete one. I have no objection to it winning the award. However, although the degree of completion of Aunt Liu's embroidery is not high, at least it can be seen that it is a phoenix."

"Why not choose Aunt Liu, but a little girl?"