After dinner and taking her medicine, Hua Yan picked up a sachet to embroider. Caiqing widened her eyes, having not expected the Crown Princess Consort to actually be capable of needlework; she secretly thought: surely there is nothing the Crown Princess Consort can't do.
All women under the heavens are skilled in needlework. But in her view, that didn't include the Crown Princess Consort.
Although the Liu Family from the capital and the Hua Family from Lin'an were most proficient in needlework, the Hua Family had jade-woven fabrics, ink-cloud colored sandalwood satin worth ten gold pieces per inch, matched with the unique and exquisite Feitian Embroidery of the Hua Family, handed down through generations. To obtain a piece was to possess a treasure as valuable as a city, but, regrettably, the technique had been lost a hundred years ago.
