Chapter 58: The Fog (8)
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In the hall, Cui Jinxiao, who knows that she can change her mistakes, is obediently doing embroidery work with her grandmother, but her heart is not quiet enough, otherwise she would not be pricked with needles from time to time, which shows that she has not put down the bracelet in her heart.
Mrs. Cui was spinning the thread on the side, glanced at her granddaughter who was pricked by the needle, shook her head helplessly, and spun the thread skillfully.
Spinning is also a delicate work, first the cotton is bounced into a fluffy sliver as thick as the middle finger, and the sliver is placed on the left hand of the spinning man, and there is a steel wire called a mullion on the spinning wheel, and one end of it is pointed, and it should be directed towards the spinning man.
At the beginning, the spinning man should first pull one end of the sliver outward, rotate and rub in one direction, and then wrap the head around the mullion, straighten the tip of the steel wire, and pull the sliver evenly with the right hand and the sliver in the left hand, and the rhythm is short-short-long.
After spinning the thread, the thread is also dyed, and the natural pigment extracted from the plant is used for the dye, so that the dyed thread is more natural, and the color is also ever-changing and colorful.
The diameter of the thinnest silk thread is about one-tenth of a person's hair, don't underestimate this splitting silk, this job is not done overnight.
Stretch the embroidery cloth on the embroidery stand, draw the pattern to be embroidered, and you can start embroidering. Fine feet, different embroidery methods, rich colors, embroidered patterns are vivid, vivid, and real.
However, this embroidery work is quite time-consuming, but also consumes eyes, and quite exquisite skills and stitches, requiring it to be "flat, Qi, and, light, smooth, even", embroidery requires more calm, quiet embroidery can be embroidered well.
In ancient times, it was not easy for a girl who could not embroider to marry. Before a woman gets married, her husband's family should look at the woman's embroidery, which is used to judge the woman's life skills and character.
Mrs. Cui learned from her mother since she was a child, so she also hopes that her granddaughter can learn it too, and on the other hand, she also wants her granddaughter to meditate, but the effect is not ideal. I've learned this from her for all these years, and she still only learns some skins, and she hasn't made much progress.
This embroidery is not good, there is no progress, it can only be said that Cui Jinxiao has no heart to learn this, in her heart, now she can buy anything with money, why bother to embroider.
Cui Jinxi looked at her sister who kept being pricked by needles, and shook her head helplessly, my sister didn't know who she was with, and it was good to be pricked by needles, so she didn't have to come up with any moths.
"Knock!" "Stinky boy, just play chess well, what do you want, don't pay attention at all! You are far from Brother An, although that kid is not as smart as you, but the baby is serious." Cui Jinxi, who was thinking wildly, was knocked on the forehead by his grandfather, and he quickly rubbed it with his hands when he was in pain, and when he was about to say that his grandfather was really heavy, he heard his grandfather say who was better than him, and he couldn't wait to come tomorrow, he wanted to see how good the brothers and sisters who were praised by his grandparents were.
"Grandpa, those two babies are really as good as you say, better than me and my brother?" Cui Jinxiao was pricked by needles, and put the embroidery aside angrily, and when he heard what his grandfather said to his brother, he asked his grandfather curiously.
Old man Cui glanced at his granddaughter, then at his grandson who was staring at him, stroked his smooth white beard, and then said, "That's not it, my two little apprentices, that's really good, not arrogant or impatient, this sister is smart and aura, this brother is serious and down-to-earth, but he is much better than the two of you, especially Xiaoxiao, you have to study hard." ”
Originally, Cui Jinxiao was just curious, but when he heard his grandfather say this, he was even more unhappy. His eyes rolled and he looked at the grandmother who was spinning, "Grandma, look at grandpa, how long have you known those two babies, and you have been biased like this, my brother and I have come all the way, but I haven't heard grandpa praise a word." ”
"Hehe, Xiaoxiao, your grandfather is not wrong, this Siwa'er and Brother An are much better than you, smart and unassuming, modest and not boastful......" Before the old lady Cui finished speaking, the old man Cui interjected.
"That's right, your grandmother is right, people are much younger than you, and that idea is not as naïve as you. Cui Jinxiao listened to his grandfather's words, and his heart became even more angry, and he already held a grudge against Gu Sisi, who he had never met. Grandma doesn't talk to her, his brother always will!"Grandma, why do you turn your elbow outside, brother, look at grandpa, is your sister really that bad?"
"Xiaoxiao, I don't think my grandparents are wrong, look at your performance, your temperament really has to be changed, it's really not good to be so impetuous. Cui Jinxi didn't feel that his grandparents were wrong, and his sister's temperament was really not very good.
In the capital, only my mother can manage it, but it's different here, although my grandmother dotes on my sister, she is not doting, and grandpa is even more impossible, it is quite strict. If those two children are really as good as their grandparents said, he also hopes that his sister can see the good of others, and slowly be affected and can change.
"Brother, you, why are you the same as your grandparents, why are you all like this, am I so bad......? I want to see tomorrow how good those two babies are, hum ......" After Cui Jinxiao finished speaking, he covered his face and ran back to the room, only to hear the door slam shut, and saw Cui Jinxi, Mrs. Cui and the old man looking at each other.
At this moment, Cui Jinxiao was very hurt in her heart, she was almost mad, tears were really rolling in her eyes, she originally thought that her brother would stand on her side and help her say good things, but it turned out to be not as she expected.
Gu Sisi and Gu Xing'an don't know, the two of them have been remembered, if they knew, presumably the brother and sister would hide far away, after all, the trouble is not easy to provoke, not to mention the trouble of finding the door.
Over there, half an hour passed, an hour passed, the young man sitting cross-legged on the ground, at this time his right hand clenched his fist, from time to time to pound the ground, he had turned around here, but still didn't see a reason, just looking at the big pit on the ground that was smashed out by him, I knew that the young man was a little anxious and irritable.
Even the two wolf dogs around him seemed to feel the uneasiness of their owners. One of the wolfdogs kept sniffing in front of the stone wall to the south, as if it had smelled something, and then scraped the ground with its paws.
The boy still had his head down, as if he didn't have a clue yet. The other wolfhound kept touching the boy's calf with his head, and when the owner did not react, he bit the boy's trouser leg with his mouth.
At first, the boy thought that the dog was comforting him, but when the dog went to bite his trouser legs, he felt that something was wrong, and when he raised his head, he saw that not far away, another wolf dog had dug out a big hole.