Embroidery Official Record

Shen Heng, the sweeper of Shanggong Bureau, sweeps the floor on a daily basis and does embroidery secretly. A blunt needle, half a roll of broken thread, she hid it for four years. Until the last stitch of the Queen's sacrificial dress was missing, no one in the embroidery field dared to repair it. She was pushed out to take the blame, lowered her head and finished the injection. The Shen family's ancestral "hidden needle" is used - no stitches are left on the front and no pinholes are exposed on the back. An embroiderer died in the bureau. The needle went in through the throat. The murderer used an embroidery needle. Shen Heng discovered that in this palace, secret messages were delivered without paper but with clothes. The number of cuff pleats is the number of words, and the color of the belt is the secret level. There was something shady hidden under every fine dress she touched. The cold-faced waiter Pei Zhao stared at her. He had been investigating the Shen family's murder case for eight years and recognized the acupuncture techniques in her hands. He asked her: Are you from the Shen family? She said: First tell me who killed him. A man fights with needle and thread. A man invests his life to investigate the case. There was no confession, only she sewed an extra layer of anti-wear lining on his cuffs, and he blocked the secret knife for her. Until the perfect secret comes to light - what the ancestors of the Shen family left behind is not an embroidery technique, but a taboo technique that can attract thunder and rain, avoid fire and cover the sky. The late emperor wanted it, and the Shen family was destroyed. The Queen Mother wants it, the Yan State wants it, and the man behind the destruction of the Shen family also wants it. Shen Heng held the needle in his hand and made a decision that no one expected. She doesn't hide anymore. She wanted to copy the flawless clothes into two hundred books and send them to embroiderers all over the world. "Craftsmanship is valuable only if it is hidden. If it is spread out, no one can take it away." All embroidery used by the emperor must leave a single thread unsewed. This line is a tribute to the way of heaven and a limit to power.