Chapter 15: Gold in the Clothes
If you want to ask Hui Ya what is the reason for this newly made homespun clothes, it has to start from when Hui Ya and Mama Zheng stored the gold and silver they had on hand separately.
Eggs can't be put in the same basket, although this theory Huiya and Mama Zheng have never heard of it, but the cunning rabbit three holes, the way of opening up if you have money, has been widely spread among women in the back house for thousands of years.
Not to mention anything else, ordinary women hide their own money, and if it is turned out by the mother-in-law, they will take it away, and if they are separated, they will only take away a part of it, and if they are all put together, they will be gone as soon as they are taken away. So the daughters-in-law who hid their private houses, hid a little from the kang head, a little bit from the cabinet, and a little bit from their mother's family, holding the same mind as the little mouse to hide the winter grain, and the tradition of opening up the private money was slowly formed.
Although the practice is superficial, the principle of this equal sharing is very transparent, Zheng Mama and Hui Ya two according to the practice of storing gold and silver separately, one is on the surface, two is behind the back, and the heart is more steady.
And the share in Huiya's hand is some small and sufficient things, such as a pair of twisted gold bracelets that Huiya has been wearing on her arms, and then Huiya's own private silver purse, which contains about a dozen silver bills of different sizes, and for example, the red gold and sterling silver hairpins, hairpins, bracelets, earrings and other things in Huiya's makeup box.
These things are all delicate and expensive and easy to hold and put away, and those eye-catching silver plates, silver chisels, etc., are all placed in the share on the surface, or in the gold and silver of Mama Zheng.
Hui Ya has already summed it up, if once Mrs. Dong turns her face and denies people, even if she and Mama Zheng can escape with their lives, the silver on the surface around them can't be kept at all, such as the pair of twisted gold bracelets on her arms that have been stared at by Dong Taohua for a long time.
When sewing clothes, I also thought of this, so according to my own ideas, I sorted out the jewelry that had not been exposed, and the bracelets of pure gold and sterling silver were tied together in pairs, ready to be sewn on the cuffs. The hairpins and hairpins, which are somewhat rough and stiff and of different lengths, are hinged into sections with scissors, and smashed smoothly with stones, ready to be sewn into places such as belts and trouser legs.
The coarse soil cloth in the mountains is already very rough, and Huiya deliberately showed her female red craftsmanship very badly, the clothes are sewn with eight warps, and after the clothes are done, even if a big stone is embellished in it, it may not be able to show out, not to mention that Huiya has carefully designed a small amount of gold and silver?
However, according to Huiya's long-term cautious nature, after the gold and silver jewelry was disposed of, Huiya did not sew them directly into her clothes. On the contrary, after finishing the clothes, he happily wore them on his body, and went to Dong Taohua to show them with great interest.
The gray and abrupt homespun cloth was cut by Huiya of different lengths, and the sewn clothes had crooked collars, long and short sleeves, bulging clothes, and trousers as if they had not been lifted, which made people look at it without any sense of beauty.
Hui Ya was originally a little girl carved in pink, she was very noble when she wore silk and satin, and at first glance she put on the coarse cloth clothes that only Tu Niu wore, taking advantage of the little face that was slightly red by the sun, not to mention that Mama Zheng looked uncomfortable, even Dong Taohua felt awkward when she looked at it.
"Miss Huiya, what are you doing here!" Dong Taohua's eyes widened and looked at Huiya who was wearing homespun clothes, the young lady of a big family who was originally noble like a little fairy, after wearing homespun clothes, she suddenly became a small village girl.
"I see that Uncle Dong brings back hares from the mountains from time to time, and I want to go and see them, but Mama said that my clothes are too soft, and I will definitely be damaged when I enter the mountains......" Huiya couldn't help but pull her clothes when she spoke, "Are these clothes beautiful?" If it looks good, I'll wear it, and if it doesn't, I'll go up the hill in that pale yellow dress! ”
The light yellow skirt is the clothes that Huiya prepared when she went to Beijing when she was in Hai'an, the workmanship is very exquisite, and the size is slightly larger, it is the favorite one in Dong Taohua's heart, and it should be the most suitable one.
Dong Taohua has long been thinking about that dress in her heart, where is she willing to let Hui Ya wear it up the mountain, this silk and satin clothes are very expensive, wear it on a trip up the mountain, Dong Taohua wants to ask for the skirt again, she is very anxious in her heart, and she is busy boasting to Hui Ya, "It looks good!" Miss Huiya, you can wear this, this is the first dress you made yourself, how beautiful! ”
Huiya looked at Dong Taohua's anxious appearance, and knew in her heart that she was thinking about her clothes and jewelry, but she didn't dare to show it on her face, and said happily, "It's really good-looking, great, I'll wear it for Mrs. Dong to see, if it's really good-looking, I'll wear it up the mountain!" ”
Where did Dong Taohua dare to let her mother-in-law say that it was not good-looking, even if she volunteered to find her mother-in-law, by the way, she made a set of words with her mother-in-law, saving her mother-in-law from saying that she was bald and spoiled a piece of her own good clothes in vain.
Later that day, when Huiya saw Mrs. Dong, Mrs. Dong saw the clothes, although she felt sorry for Huiya's child wasting fabric, rubbing the clothes made by Huiya, her mouth was full of praise. What Mrs. Dong said made Hui Ya so happy that she couldn't see her teeth, and immediately said that she would wear this dress to go into the mountains to hunt with Dong Da and them.
The clothes passed the bright road, and Mrs. Dong also rubbed them carefully, Huiya's heart was relieved, and she sewed her share of gold and silver into the hidden pocket of the clothes according to the original design overnight, and then put it on her body to try it on, touching the position of the gold and silver little by little, feeling that she couldn't find the abnormality, so she put her mind at ease.
At this time, Mama Zheng also woke up from her slumber, and when she saw Huiya put on the homespun clothes again, the light in her eyes flashed, and she couldn't help but show a wry smile.
"Mama, look at my own clothes!" Hui Ya excitedly showed this dress to Mama Zheng, the secret in this dress Mama Zheng knew, Hui Ya sat down in front of Mama Zheng, and asked her to find where the secret place was.
"I really can't see this dress...... Mama Zheng looked Huiya's homespun clothes up and down, shook her head, and put a smile on her face, praising Huiya for being a little ghost, but sighing in her heart that she was dragging Huiya down.
The originally hard and thick fabric, coupled with Hui Ya's not clever female red, made the whole dress look not smooth and obedient at all, and the gold and silver hidden in the small corners were naturally gone.
Wearing her net worth of money on her body, Huiya's heart can be regarded as steady, even if there is something wrong with herself and her grandmother, as long as this dress is still worn on herself, there will be a settlement in the days to come.