Chapter Twenty-Six: Like-mindedness
The Shi Lengzi family cried, angry, angry, resentful, a miserable scene.
This peach is not an ordinary woman, she thought to herself, and said that Aunt Shi's daughter is corrupt and virtuous. But people can at least find ways to make their lives prosperous, and they didn't steal, rob, kill or set fires, why are they criticized by so many people.
Besides, what is that "women's morality", she doesn't resist water when she is thirsty, she doesn't resist hunger when she is hungry, she doesn't protect herself from the sun in the scorching sun, and she doesn't resist the cold in the harsh winter. Seeing that the rice tank at home has bottomed out, and now there are no wild vegetables to dig and eat, is it difficult to starve to death?
After thinking about it for a long time, I excused myself again:
"I'm just going out to hang out, it's not much of a sin, and I haven't had an eye with a man."
Thinking of the man, he blushed with shame. Immediately said in his mouth:
"Bah, bah, bah, what is a girl's family thinking?"
took advantage of her father's absence to take a burden and secretly went out to Aunt Shi's house.
I didn't meet anyone along the way, and when I walked to the gate of the Shijia fence, I hesitated for a long time and didn't dare to enter.
"Who's poking your head out of my house?" Shi Zi'er was chopping wood in the yard, and when he saw a woman standing in front of the door for a long time, he didn't enter.
Seeing a half-grown boy, Xiang Tao knew that it was the son of the Shi family, so she mustered up the courage to ask:
"Is your sister at home?"
Situ Ming heard it, walked out of the house, went to the door and let the peach into the house, and the two of them were polite first.
"Sister, the color pattern of this cloth is so beautiful, how did it dye it?"
Xiang Tao looked at a piece of cloth with white flowers on a blue background in the room and asked curiously.
"I weave this cloth first, and then dye it." Situ replied.
Ordinary home weaving cloth is generally soaked in the cotton and linen thread in the dye vat first, taken out to dry after a certain hour, and then used to weave after all the dries. It's just that it is very troublesome to weave patterns in the process of weaving like this.
If you weave the fabric directly, dye the fabric after it is finished. The dyed cloth is monotonous and has no patterns.
"It turns out that my sister's house has a mold for printing and dyeing." Xiang Tao said enviously. The printing and dyeing mold is only available in the big dyeing and weaving workshops, and this little girl really has the ability, and I don't know where to get it. Xiang Tao thought to herself.
"How can there be any printing and dyeing mold, Sister Peach, I'll sue you. My method of dyeing cloth is called tie-dyeing, which is to tie the cloth into knots or sew it with needles and threads, and when dyeing, some places cannot be colored, and a good-looking pattern is formed. ”
Peach had never heard of this kind of hair dyeing, and she was even more surprised.
"Actually, that's what it is, there are good tie-dye hands, and you can dye a piece of cloth into many complicated patterns. You can even dye it with a young woman dancing, or dandelions flying all over the sky. Situ said.
"It turns out that there is so much knowledge in dyeing cloth, can my sister teach me?" Peach asked tentatively.
"Of course, I can, I'm not afraid of my sister's jokes, although I can spin and dye cloth and weave cloth, but I don't know anything about embroidery women. I taught my sister how to weave and dye, and my sister taught me how to embroider, and that was not a perfect thing. ”
The two talked happily, and the room was full of laughter.
Shi Zi'er heard himself talking to himself outside:
"Hmph, when facing me, he has a face that wants to teach people at any time, and he talks and laughs at outsiders, and his sister is so kind. I have never heard her call me half a brother, and she calls me all day long. ”
Xiangtao suddenly remembered that she came today to ask for something, in fact, Situ Ming also saw that she was carrying a small burden on her wrist, but it was not good to ask her directly, for fear of abrupt her, so she decided to wait for her to speak first.
Peach said embarrassedly:
"The people in the village know what is going on in my family. Since I'm here, I have to be cheeky and beg my sister. ”
"Look at what my sister says, we are also very close to each other. If my sister has anything to say, just tell me, and my sister will never let down anyone who can help. ”
Xiang Tao opened the bag and let Situ Cheng see it, which was filled with some embroidered handkerchiefs, red, yellow and blue cloths, embroidered turbans and so on.
"Yikes! This handkerchief is so beautifully embroidered! Situ Cheng picked up the handkerchief embroidered with the spring return of swallows and exclaimed.
In her previous life, she was forced to weave by her mother-in-law, where did she have time to learn embroidery. Originally, embroidery women were from nobles to commoners, and every woman had to learn. Her mother-in-law hated her and deliberately wanted to raise her to be a fool who couldn't do anything. And the weaving is also a farmer's woman's man, who knows that her mother's malice has been turned into her ability to eat.
"I just said that I would let my sister teach me embroidery, and my sister will shame me with such a beautiful thing." Situ Cheng joked.
"How dare I." Peach almost took it seriously.
"I know what my sister means, don't worry, I'll go and talk about your father!" Situ told her.
"What? You're going to tell my dad? Peach was taken aback. Although Situ Cheng is still young, there are not so strict requirements for the defense of this man and woman. But it is too shocking to let a woman who is still in the boudoir convince a strange middle-aged man.
"I know your dad in my peanut field last fall. If it weren't for your father's insistence and a few punches from Laicai, my father wouldn't know how many slaps he would have to take. Situ said.
"Sister's things will be put down first, and I will let my father go and sell them at the market. Don't worry, just say that I weave this cloth and embroider the flowers. Anyway, outsiders don't know that I don't know how to embroider. Situ Cheng smiled, and took out a bag of money under the pillow of the kang head, about forty or fifty yuan.
She handed it to Peach and said:
"You take the money first, and I'll make it up for you when the goods are sold."
Xiang Tao opened it and looked at it, and hurriedly said:
"It's worth so much, my sister will give me more than a dozen yuan." said that he would return the money to Situ Ming.
"That's a lot of money, how can I buy all my sister's things. This embroidered handkerchief alone must be a hundred dollars for those who know the goods, and there is also a cloth turban. Situ Cheng was afraid that she would not believe it, and said:
"My sister also knows that things in the boudoir are difficult to buy in the world. I'm not saying this to make fun of my sister, but I just want to say that the harder things are, the higher the market price. Situ Mian said a lot of similar words, and Xiang Tao accepted it with trepidation.
Xiangtao has been out for a while, and she is afraid that her father will find out, so she quits and wants to go back.
Situ said:
"Sister, don't be busy leaving, I'll add some coats and go with my sister." Although it was spring, the weather was still very cold, so she changed into a thicker dress and went out with a peach.
When the two of them walked hand in hand to Xiangtao's house, they met a neighbor. Situ Cheng generously took the initiative to greet:
"Auntie, where is this going?"
The neighbor said: "The sister-in-law's house next to me is visiting." As he spoke, he glanced at the peach a few more times, and the peach hurriedly lowered her head.
When the neighbor was far away, Situ said to Xiang Tao:
"Is my sister afraid to walk with me?"
Xiang Tao knew what she meant, and replied to her:
"Sister Ming, don't worry, since I'm looking for you, I don't think the same thing."
"That's it, let them see it, and let them say it, we don't take it seriously." The two looked at each other and smiled knowingly.