Chapter 6 The family is looking for a livelihood on all sides
Although it was only four or five miles away, with the thin bodies of Chunyu and Chuntao, it took half an hour to reach the town.
After arriving, Chunyu was somewhat disappointed, and the ancient streets did not look magnificent on TV. Although the town is lively, it is not necessarily very prosperous. There are still some uneven dirt floors on the streets, on both sides
The buildings are also low-level houses, and you can only see a few courtyards that look quite atmospheric from a distance, and they are also hidden by the rows of willows in front of the door.
It seems that this is just a small town, but unfortunately it should be good if I haven't been to the county seat. Most of the shops selling things here are small shops, and there are also those who set up sheds on the street to make a small business, and there are quite a variety of shops.
When the two of them passed by a noodle soup stall, Chunyu saw that there were only three tables here, and only two customers were eating noodles. Although there is occasionally the fragrance of noodles wafting by, and the bowl is quite large and sufficient, but there is not even a green onion on that side, which looks white and makes people lose their appetite.
"Sister, are you hungry? We can't afford to eat the noodle restaurant here. Chun Tao sniffed and said, smelling the fragrance of the face and being a little hungry.
"Eldest sister is not hungry, are you hungry? Otherwise, I'll collect the money to buy you a bowl of noodles later. Chunyu said distressedly that her family doesn't eat white noodles once a year, no wonder Chun Tao is hungry.
"I don't eat it, the somen noodles are two pennies a bowl, let alone five pennies a bowl of shredded pork noodles." Chun Tao said that she would not eat it, but she was very yearning in her heart.
"It's really expensive, but the eldest sister will definitely let you eat better noodles." Chunyu touched Chun Tao's hair and said that the three sisters in her family were all weak and withered, and even her younger brother Xiao Baozi did not look like a five-year-old boy. Hey, and her mother's cough is even worse this time, and I don't know her mother
What kind of disease do you have, I have the opportunity to ask Dr. Liu another day to see if I can make up for my body through guò diet.
Chun Tao hadn't been to Liu Xiuniang yet, and she found it really hard to find here. I don't know how the eldest sister who came here once remembered the way.
Chunyu took her into an alley, and turned east and west to a street that was not lively or deserted. There are some shops scattered there, and Liu Xiuniang's Yunxiu Fang is the last one at the end of the street.
Liu Xiuniang is a well-known embroidery girl in the vicinity, many large families are looking for embroidery work, over time she is too busy to do more work, so she found some embroidery work good embroidery girl to help embroider things, she charges some money for each job, and the rest of the money is all given to the embroidery girls. Later, there were many embroiderers
There is a lot of work, so I opened this Yunxiu workshop, and also bought some embroidered papa, purse, silk flowers and the like. It can be regarded as finding a place for the daughters-in-law and daughters of those poor families to earn money, and Yang Yuemei also came to Liu Xiuniang's Cloud Embroidery Workshop to get a job when the girl was a girl.
When he arrived at the gate of Yunxiufang, Chunyu found that although the place was not large, it was elegantly decorated. As soon as you enter the door, there is a hollow carved screen, and I don't know what kind of wood it is. On the aisles on both sides, there is also a loose tulle of twisted tassel ropes woven with fine threads, and there are faint cigarettes wafting out, which should be a point
of incense.
"Eldest sister, this place is like a lady's boudoir of a big family......" Chun Tao was a little restrained and said enviously.
"How do you know you've been?" Chunyu couldn't help but laugh, how could the boudoir of a big family be willing to use a cheap silk yarn, this Yunxiufang is just an elegant picture.
"No, I heard what the boxwood of the Lizheng family said, her aunt's second girl was sold into a big family as a maid, and later I heard that the master of the family took a fancy to carry her aunt. When she returned to her parents' house, she told her family that the big family was so good, and said when she would take boxwood to live there for a few days. However, I think what she said is not bad, the life of that big family is good. "Chun Tao is a little yearning.
"How can you be at home when you go to a big family, although the days are hard and there is a rush, hard work will always be good. How is it like a big family, doing things to serve people is not even their own life...... Second sister, don't envy those, our family will definitely get better and better in the future. Chunyu was noncommittal, she was afraid that Chun Tao would have some ideas.
"How can I have ......," Chun Tao pouted.
"It's rare for a little girl to have this kind of insight." As the sisters were talking, a nice female voice came out of it, and then a girl came out of it.
Chunyu looked up and secretly called a beauty. This girl is about ten years old, wearing a lotus-colored embroidered skirt, a lake-green cardigan gown, her skin is not fair, but it is a healthy complexion, and a pair of smiling crescent eyes under her thin eyebrows.
"My sister has won the prize." Chunyu replied generously.
"Yes, if you don't look at the dress, you think it's someone's young lady. Sister Xiu, I didn't find what I was looking for when I came to you today, but I found something interesting. The girl was still smiling, but looking behind her.
"Look at your energy, don't scare the little girl away." Behind her came a young woman of about thirty, who was also quite good-looking. The woman looked at Chunyu for a while and said with a smile: "But Chunmei's sister's Dani Chunyu? ”
"Yes, Aunt Liu has a good memory. My mother asked me to send embroidery work, and I would see if there was any new work. Chunyu also smiled and reached out to hand over the burden.
"Let me see, this time the Chunmei girl didn't take long, and the embroidery work is also good." Liu Xiuniang opened it after taking the burden and found that the embroidery work that Yang Chunmei came to receive last time was embroidered in less than ten days. Hey, it's not easy, I'm afraid it's also in urgent need of money, wait a while
Give as much as you can.
"My mother is a little hard, but it's a pity that my female celebrity can't do it, otherwise I can help my mother a little." Chunyu said depressedly. Even the original spring rain can barely embroider some flowers and make some simple clothes, not to mention that she can't even sew buttons well.
"It's okay, you're so young that you still have a chance to learn." The girl spoke up to comfort her.
"Thank you, sister." Spring Rain said sweetly.
"I heard that Sister Wuxiu, but people call me sister, how can it be like your bastard boy Aunt Chengtian, Aunt Yu screamed." The girl said with a smile.
"Haha, Chunyu, I see you still call her Aunt Yu, her name is Caiyu, and she is Aunt Liu'er's godsister. It's an old girl who is ten **, and I'm embarrassed to call other little girls to call you sister. Liu Xiuniang quipped.
"Sister Xiu......" Caiyu pretended to be unhappy and took two steps forward but returned with a smile: "Forget it, I am indeed old, Chunyu girl, you can call me Aunt Yu." I'm on an errand in the Zhou family in the county, I'm afraid I'm going back after a long time, and I'll see you next time. ”
"Okay." Chunyu said that it seems that the relationship between the two is quite good. But the Zhou family that Caiyu said was the Zhou family that she almost sold herself into slavery. Whatever, he won't have anything to do with the Zhou family anyway.
"You're leaving? Don't stay for dinner? Liu Xiuniang was reluctant to let her godsister leave.
"I came to look for you to find some fresh embroidery, and since I don't have one, I have to go back. I have to go to other houses to find it, the eldest young master is coming back from the capital, our third lady has always been good with him, and said that he must make a novel purse for him, so I will come to find embroidery. It looks like it's all cheesy
Old-fashioned. Caiyu said disappointedly.
"Hey, what else can the purse embroidered for the young masters be besides Meilan bamboo stone?" Liu Xiuniang is also stumped, to say that she is the top one and two, but she is also some old patterns in this embroidery, and she will not make one.
“…… Sister, Aunt Yu, I don't know what the eldest young master likes? Chunyu listened to their conversation, and her heart moved. In her previous life, she didn't study very well, and she studied painting for two years in order to add points to the college entrance examination, and there were so many patterns in her previous life, she should be able to find a pattern that the eldest young master liked.
"What, you have embroidery?" Caiyu's eyes lit up and asked expectantly. Liu Xiuniang didn't believe it, if she had a good embroidery pattern, her mother would have embroidered it and sold it for money.
"Yes, I know some words, and occasionally I draw beautiful patterns in books, and after a long time, I draw some by myself. I was afraid that the painting would not be good, so I didn't show it to my mother. Chunyu saw Liu Xiuniang's disbelief and hurriedly explained.