Chapter 37: The Uninvited Guest
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"That's how your family does it?" Old man An didn't take into account the mood of the mountain chief, he had actually come over often for more than half a year, Zeng Fan's class, he didn't listen to one or two classes. The pen %fun %pavilion www.biquge.info just didn't let Zeng Fan see it. He had something to do today, and he really didn't expect Zeng Fan to take someone to eat rice cakes in the courtyard. He also said that it would be cooked at noon, so he didn't leave, waiting here to eat.
"No, this is my mother's taste, my mother makes it, it should be a different way. By the way, this can also be roasted and eaten, or fried and dipped in sugar, or you can use sugar to make stringing. By the way, in fact, after the hot beating was just finished, pulling a piece down and dipping it in peanut flour and powdered sugar is also our famous practice. Zeng Fan hadn't eaten what Li Ping had made, and he couldn't think of what she would do, but it seemed to be more worth looking forward to.
"Do you want to invite me to your house for a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner?" Old man An began to rub his chin, and it sounded delicious.
Zeng Fan and Shan Chang are petrified, do you want to go to someone else's house for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner? However, the mountain chief didn't dare to speak, and Zeng Fan didn't dare to refuse, so Old Man An felt that Zeng Fan agreed, and then wiped his mouth and left, and the matter was decided so happily.
The mountain chief also felt that this might be the case for the master and apprentice, so he had to pat Zeng Fan's shoulder comfortingly to show comfort, and didn't say anything.
And Li Ping heard that Old Man An and his wife were coming for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and Li Ping wanted to die a little. Why do the two members of the Shoufu family want to go to someone else's house for Chinese New Year's Eve? Or Chinese New Year's Eve, shouldn't they eat with their sons and grandchildren in their own homes?
But no matter what she was doing, she still honestly stayed in the kitchen with Koyanagi and Lilac all day, and the three of them studied the recipes, to have the taste of their hometown, and to take care of the taste of the capital. Also, I don't know how their teeth are, anyway, all kinds of busy.
On the thirtieth day, as soon as it was dark, the old man and the old lady came. Zeng Fan and Li Ping could only continue.
You can't just let them eat as soon as they come, can you? The old man went to see Zeng Fan's study. By the way, I will compare the knowledge of Zeng Yi, Brother Hao, and the little monkey.
Brother Hao and the little monkey actually wanted to dodge, but they didn't dodge, the two could only hold hands and wait for the old man's torture, usually thinking that they could read, but now they have a feeling of confusion.
Mrs. An naturally arrived at the back house, sat on the kang in the east house, and waited for Li Ping and them to finish saluting, so she hurriedly pulled Li Ping up.
"I'm sorry, our old man just said that once it comes out, how can anyone go to someone else's house for Chinese New Year's Eve."
Mrs. An was embarrassed, holding Li Ping's hand and not knowing what to say. Mrs. An looks like the patriarch of the Li family is about the same age, she looks a little over fifty, her figure is slightly fat, but her face is good, it can be seen that when she was young, she was very beautiful. At this time, he gently held Li Ping's hand and spoke softly, making people embarrassed to say no.
Holding the old lady's hand, Li Ping was embarrassed, the old lady's hands were delicate, and her own hands were even calluses on her fingers.
"I heard that it has not been easy for you all these years, but now that I look at it, it is really not easy." The old lady felt it too, opened her hand, and sighed softly.
"What's the matter, Xianggong is very helpful, I really didn't do anything." Li Ping was embarrassed, how did she know that Zeng Fan was talking nonsense outside.
"I heard you can embroider, this is your job." The old lady sat down and looked left and right, and the house was really not something that the poor could live in. So she said to Zeng Fan that he relied on his wife's ten fingers to provide a little unbelievable. I happened to see an embroidery frame covered with a cloth in the corner of the kang, and I was busy asking people to carry it over to take a look.
This is Li Ping's embroidery to prepare for the old lady's birthday in February, and at this time she showed her face, which made Li Ping a little embarrassed. It was too busy during the day, and she really forgot about it, knowing that she should put it away. However, at this time, I was not allowed to see it, and it was too small, so I only opened the cloth, and inside was a statue of Guanyin.
"Master Guanyin, is this Hunan embroidery? Something seems wrong! "Mrs. An is also well-informed, in fact, it is recognized that the four major embroideries do not include Beijing embroidery, but there are Hunan embroidery. Over the years, Mrs. An has received the fine products of Hunan embroidery. At first glance, this Guanyin master is the embroidery method of Hunan embroidery, but if you look closely, it is not.
"In fact, the younger generation of Beijing embroidery is also good, this is the younger generation combined with the characteristics of Xiangxiu and Beijing embroidery, what do you think?"
"Is the hardest part of the face? Look at the fluttering clothes you embroidered first. "The old lady is knowledgeable, this is a middle hall, and the face is left at the end.
Hunan embroidery originally had a sense of "embroidery smells fragrant, embroidered birds listen to the sound", at this time, some are the grace of Beijing embroidery, but there is no conflict between the two phases. Just looking at the fluttering clothes, the holiness of Guanyin Master has already come to his face.
"No, the most difficult thing is these, the face is a flat stitch method, but it is not very difficult." Li Ping smiled, she used to do the hardest first, and the easiest last. She has embroidered this statue of her, and so far, she is quite satisfied.
"Now I believe that Lord Zeng is the one who provides with your ten fingers." Mrs. Ann asked someone to take the glasses, looked at them carefully, shook her head and sighed. With such a craft, there is nothing surprising to live in such a house.
"What's the matter, Xianggong himself is also working hard." Li Ping blushed and said hurriedly.
"I heard the old man say that Zeng Zeng copied a book for a year before, and it was not as good as you embroidered this one, right?" Even if this embroidery is only taking shape, you can see how good this person is.
She is used to seeing good things, and generally two-way things can't get into her eyes, and she knows the value. Such a thing may take several months to embroider, but such a piece is an ordinary embroidery harvest, and I dare not offer a low price.
"It's a gift." Li Ping thought about it for a while, this was her first time trying, so she started to prepare so long in advance. She has done a small sample before, but now she actually doesn't embroider much every day, she really embroiders carefully, and this is the first time in many years.
"Gifts?" The old lady's heart moved.
"Over the years, I have embroidered so hard, except for the Baizi embroidery when I was pregnant with my first child. It's this time, when Baizi embroidered, because it was the first time to be a mother, there were a lot of feelings, and I was very happy to embroider. And this time, it's gratitude. Li Ping smiled and looked at the white-clothed Guanyin.
When I was preparing at that time, I just heard that Mrs. An believed in Guanyin. And the old lady's birthday happened to be February 19, which is the legendary Guanyin's birthday. In addition, this time it was the old lady's 60th birthday, so she thought of embroidering a statue of Guanyin.
The old lady smiled, she had just thought of it, "You want to send the old body?" ”
"Yes, your sixtieth birthday, of course, you have to take it seriously. But the first time I embroidered, I was honestly afraid. Li Ping said softly.