Jiang Wanbai unfolded the moon-white satin, "How big does the embroidered screen need to be?" ”

Tian Liu'er thought that Jiang Wanbai agreed, and immediately made a gesture, probably using more than half a piece of silk. In other words, these two pieces of silk can only be embroidered with two screens.

Jiang Wanbai looked at the remaining small half, "Liu'er, you first use this piece of silk to embroider such a large screen ornament, if it is embroidered, the rest will be embroidered for you." ”

Jiang Wanbai stretched out her hand and gestured, in modern times, embroidery is a kind of handicraft, she once went to Jiangnan to play, and saw a kind of quadruple, each of which is about half a book-sized screen ornament, which is very delicate and beautiful.

After comparing for a long time, seeing that the person on the other side was confused, Jiang Wanbai picked up a stone and drew it on the ground, "It's a miniature version of the screen, but it's a group."

It's probably so big, you can embroider spring, summer, autumn and winter or Meilan, bamboo and chrysanthemum, or you can embroider four beauties, depending on what you embroider and what you are good at. ”

Zhang's had seen a lot of good things, and he first understood what Jiang Wanbai meant, and his eyes lit up, "Mother, I have learned a little double-sided embroidery, if it is embroidered on it, it must look good." ”

Jiang Wanbai's eyes narrowed, "Of course that's good." ”

"Milk, I can do it too." Tian Liu'er hurriedly said, "My mother has already taught me that kind of needlework." ”

Jiang Wanbai smiled and said, "Okay, I'll wait to see your results." ”

In the afternoon, Tian Chengyu and Tian Chengbao got a lot of small shrimp back, which were made into shrimp paste by Jiang Wanbai and put in the backyard.

At the beginning of the shrimp paste, the shrimp paste and the water are layered, and stirring it can make the shrimp paste ferment more evenly, and you can also look at the fermentation process to judge when the shrimp paste will be ready.

Cheng dù, the fermentation of shrimp paste, is similar to what Jiang Wanbai thought, and at this rate, he should be able to catch up with the town market.

Tian Lao Wu didn't come back again, Jiang Wanbai didn't speak, and the others didn't mention it, as if Tian Lao Wu didn't exist.

And in Wuliu Village, more than ten miles away, Tian Lao Wu was sitting there with an irritated face, and next to him, a woman dressed in red and green was holding his hand with her hand, and said hypocritically: "Aren't I all thinking about the future of the two of us." Think about it, your mother is going to send you to the salt kiln, she wants your life!

Since she doesn't recognize you as a son, what do you still think she is a mother? You also have a share in your house, you take out the deed of your house and put it in my name, and my father will definitely agree to us being together. When the two of us live in such a big house, and I embroider some things to earn money, wouldn't it be like the days of falling in a honey pot? ”

Tian Lao Wu's hand clenched and let go, showing his struggle at this time.

The woman next to her, that is, Ma Xiaocui, had more and more smiles on her face, and she felt that she was about to succeed.

The next day, Tian Chengbao and the others brought back fewer shrimp, and they knew that there were so many shrimps in that small river, and now they have almost been caught.

On the third day, Jiang Wanbai thought that the two of them would get fewer shrimp back, but when they came back, she was taken aback, there were two baskets of small shrimp, twice as many as yesterday.

"The third brother noticed that there were fewer shrimp, so he took me downstream along the river, and then we saw a big lake with a lot of small shrimp and fish.

We could have caught more shrimp, but we didn't have anything to hold them, so we couldn't get them back, so we'll go back tomorrow. Tian Chengyu said excitedly.

"Lake?" Jiang Wanbai's eyes lit up.

"Yes, it's in a col more than ten miles away from here."

"How many miles have you walked?" Jiang Wanbai said in disbelief.

This trip is more than ten miles, and the back and forth is dozens of miles, Tian Chengyu is only nine years old, even if Tian Chengbao is older, he is only thirteen years old, and the two of them have walked so many ways.

"It's nothing." Tian Chengyu's little face was full of excitement, after speaking, he saw that Jiang Wanbai's face was not very good, and stared straight at his and Tian Chengbao's feet, a little misunderstood Jiang Wanbai's meaning, and said worriedly: "We took off our shoes and walked, milk, don't worry." ”

Listening to his words, Jiang Wanbai took a closer look at their feet, and sure enough, she saw that their shoes were clean, but there were many mud spots on their pants, and there were a few bright red scratches on their ankles.

If Jiang Wanbai was just shocked that they could go so far at a young age, then now she is full of distress, and she feels sorry for these two children from poor families who have long been in charge.

"The shrimp are almost enough now, and tomorrow you will rest at home, and I will buy you delicious and fun from the market." Jiang Wanbai didn't say what she felt in her heart, but talked about tomorrow with a smile.

Before dawn the next day, Jiang Wanbai took Zhang's, Wang's and her jar of shrimp sauce to the market, but before she went out, a figure flashed out of the West Chamber.

"Mother, there must be a limit to eccentricity, the ladies in the family all go to the market, and leave me alone at home, just look at me later, it's easy to bully, right?" Zhao pouted with hanging eyes, and said angrily.

"Fourth brother and sister, I went with my second sister-in-law to sell embroidery and buy some thread and came back, it's not ......," Zhang quickly explained.

"Who knows what you're going to do, every time you go to sell embroidery, you go secretly, for fear that others will follow. God knows how much you sold, if you hid some of it yourself. Zhao glanced at Zhang.

Zhang's face flushed, "I didn't." Every time I sell the money, I give it to my mother, otherwise, you can ask my mother. ”

"Ask Mother? Mother didn't follow you to the market, how do you know how much you sold, and then ......" Zhao Shi was a little unrelenting, but before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by Jiang Wanbai.

"If you want to go, you can go, and you will talk crookedly about what it does. You don't have to take care of other people's affairs, and it won't be your turn to take care of them, you just need to take care of yourself. Jiang Wanbai glared at Zhao, and then put the jar in his hand into Zhao's arms, "I don't have any eyes at all, don't you know how to help me get something!" ”

After speaking, she didn't look at the Zhao family, said "go", and took the Zhang family and the Wang family out of the door.

This jar of shrimp paste was originally mixed with coarse sand and burned, which was very heavy, and now with so much shrimp paste with a lot of moisture, it weighed dozens of catties, and Zhao suddenly held it in his hand and almost didn't catch it.

When she subconsciously held the jar in her hand, her face turned red with anger, and she glared at Jiang Wanbai's back fiercely, she moved her eyes to the jar in her hand, and a trace of ruthlessness appeared on her face.

On the other hand, he said: "Mother, this jar is so heavy, I can't hold it steadily." She was relieved of her anger as she surveyed the ground with her eyes, hoping to find a stone or something, so that she could throw the jar on the stone and smash it to pieces.

"Miao'er is not young anymore, it's time to prepare a dowry, sell this shrimp paste today, save some money for Miao'er, and ...... it later" Jiang Wanbai said this leisurely for half a sentence, and then stopped talking.

In rural areas, a girl's dowry is a top priority, because it is related to the girl's face and status in her in-law's family.

Betterer families have been preparing for their children almost since they were born, and even if they are average, they will add a little bit to their children every year, although it is not much, but it is also a lot of wealth when they get married.

Like the Tian family, who can't prepare anything for their daughter, they will be looked down upon, and the girl can't find a decent family at all.

Tian Miao is the girl brought by the Zhao family, she is thirteen years old this year, the same age as Tian Liu'er, and it will soon be time to prepare the dowry and find her mother-in-law's family.

However, Zhao first worked as a widow for a few years and spent all the family's money, and then found a Tian Laosi who was still poor and white, where did she have the money to prepare a dowry for Tian Miao, which was almost her heart disease.

Subconsciously, Zhao Shi hugged the jar in his hand tightly, as if holding a gold ingot, "Mother, what you said is true, this thing can really be sold for money, and the money from the sale will be used to prepare a dowry for Miao'er?" ”

Zhao said with a smile.

Jiang Wan glanced at her in vain, "Is it interesting for me to lie to you?" ”

Zhao Shi was not angry when he got a roll of his eyes, but was very happy, "Mother, this jar is so heavy, you should have asked me to help you move it a long time ago." By the way, otherwise I'll call the fourth child to move, he has a lot of strength. ”

"Whatever you want." Jiang Wanbai said.

Zhao immediately ran into the west chamber like a gust of wind, and after a while, Tian Laosi yawned while walking out with his clothes on.

"Hurry up, didn't you see that my mother was waiting?" Zhao pinched Tian Laosi's arm and urged.

Tian Laosi sighed in pain, didn't know what he muttered in a low voice, and spit a mouthful of phlegm to the side, and then followed with the jar.

Tianjia Village is not far from the town, only about four or five miles away, in the eyes of the Zhuang family, it is as easy as eating a meal, even the Zhang family is not red and breathless, but this does not include Jiang Wanbai.

After walking less than a mile, she began to panting, and after walking another half a mile, she felt that her waist was sore, her legs were also painful, and even her vision was a little blurred, and her head suddenly hurt, so she had to sit down and rest.

While beating her old legs with loose muscles, while rubbing her old waist that was about to fall apart, Jiang Wanbai rolled her eyes, not tired, but angry, how could such a good thing as being a god be met by her!

In this way, after three breaks along the way, the five of them arrived in town. At this time, the sun had risen high, and the market was full of sellers, even many people came to buy things, they wanted to find a place to sell shrimp paste, but there was no vacancy in the huge market.

Zhao glanced at Jiang Wanbai dissatisfiedly, and said to Tian Laosi, "Sleep, sleep, sleep, you know how to sleep, it's okay now, there is not even a place, and you still sell things, sell a fart." ”

Zhao pointed out that Sang scolded Huai, and Jiang Wanbai naturally would not let her scold. But now that they were in the market, they were already standing prominently here, and she really didn't want to say anything to attract others to look at them as monkeys.

I wanted to endure it and wait until I went back to clean her up, but suddenly, Jiang Wanbai thought of a good idea to sell shrimp paste, and she said loudly: "Fourth daughter-in-law, although this thing is delicious, but the family can't eat so much, it's good to change some money to go back and buy something else." ”

Her voice immediately attracted the attention of several curious people.