Chapter 523 The Republic of China's Hard-working Child Daughter-in-law 13
At the Salesian Church, Hua'er came into contact with many children of the same age, and under the care of the nursery, she learned to help take care of the younger children, becoming more and more cheerful day by day, and the changes were gratifying.
Yang Dawang just started squirming in the school, and in the first few days, he had to mention the matter of not going to school every day. Gu Xiaoxiao took out the arithmetic book, tutored him personally, and lied that he also learned it every day, so he followed suit.
Although fifteen or sixteen-year-old teenagers are not as flexible as children, it is still not very difficult for them to stabilize their minds and learn some Chinese arithmetic. Coupled with Gu Xiaoxiao's careful on-demand, Yang Dawang strengthens his body every day, his head has become bright, and the learning process is a thousand miles a day.
Gu Xiaoxiao didn't expect Yang Dawang to learn to be famous, but she didn't want him to be blind and illiterate, and the flowers in the Salesian Hall gradually showed their talent for ingenuity.
Even Sister Yan praised Hua'er for being a steady and intelligent child, which made Gu Xiaoxiao extremely happy.
The two children are progressing fast, and sometimes Gu Xiaoxiao also suspects that this is not the effect of her use of aura to imperceptibly nourish the two.
As her body became stronger and more dexterous, Gu Xiaoxiao bought two daggers, one for Yang Dawang and one for self-defense. If it weren't for the lack of a way, Gu Xiaoxiao actually wanted to buy a pistol, and only by having a gun in her hand this year would she not panic.
In less than half a month, the three of them have integrated into the life of Xianyang, and Gu Xiaoxiao also found an old shop that made cheongsams with the help of the enthusiastic aunts in the mansion, and took over the embroidery work, and she could get five silver dollars for embroidering a dress.
This is simply a huge profit, all because Gu Xiaoxiao's embroidery skills have reached the point of perfection. The embroidered landscapes, flowers, birds, insects and fish are all lifelike, which makes people love it.
The Jade Embroidery Pavilion where she helped also became famous, and many people named the newcomer Gu Niangzi to embroider.
A thriving business is a good thing. The shopkeeper couldn't close his mouth with joy, but Gu Xiaoxiao only had one, and he couldn't do so much work. She paid again and asked Gu Xiaoxiao to come to the store on her day off and instruct the embroidery work of the masters in the store.
Those apprentices who have just started are only envious, after all, they only touch the embroidery screen. Even if Gu Xiaoxiao teaches them hand-in-hand, they may not be able to learn it.
The continuous decline of traditional folk art in later generations made Gu Xiaoxiao deeply regret. Now that someone is willing to learn and have silver dollars to take, she doesn't hide it privately, and almost teaches it with all her money.
In fact, embroidered clothes have now become a niche preference, and most of them are improved cheongsam. Gu Xiaoxiao has a limited affection for cheongsam. Relatively speaking, I prefer to sew dragon and phoenix wedding dresses.
Four days ago, the next-door neighbor moved out, and Lao Li cleaned up the house with a dry cigarette in his mouth, and then hung up a rent-seeking sign. In the past few days, there has been an endless stream of people coming to see the house, either because the price is not appropriate, or because they don't like the house in the big house.
Unexpectedly, Gu Xiaoxiao took Hua'er and Yang Dawang and went out of the restaurant. I bought paper and pens for the two of them, and when I got home, I found that there were more new neighbors.
The flowers have been much more cheerful lately. She likes to play with the children outside the house, and when the new female neighbor gives the children candy, she realizes that there is already a person living next door, a young couple.
In other words, these two are more like a couple, the woman is really young and a little unlikely, with short hair and a blue cloth and fir black skirt, full of student spirit, only a pair of small red leather shoes, revealing her family background.
The skin is very good, and the paint has not fallen off, the slender high heels, she stepped on the ground steadily, as if she often wears it, and the girl who can be familiar with dresses and high heels in this year will not be too bad.
In comparison, the man was wearing gold-rimmed glasses, a robe with a plaid scarf, and a bronz-like pocket watch hanging in his arms, obviously he was also dressed as a student, Gu Xiaoxiao always felt that he looked a little uncomfortable.
A man is still rubbing snowflake powder, and his gestures seem to be measured with a ruler, which makes people feel disobedient, Gu Xiaoxiao doesn't know if she is too careful, but she is also attentive to this strange man.
"Children, Auntie has candy here, do you want to eat it?"
The short-haired schoolgirl squatted and spoke to the children, including the flowers, with a smile on her eyebrows.
The blue undersides of her eyes were covered with snowflake powder, but a small piece of powder fell off, giving people a glimpse of the clues. It seems that the two of them also experienced a rush before coming to the mansion.
The other children reached out and took the candy with the flower paper, the flower put her hand behind her back, glanced at the candy quickly, and turned her eyes to the house again, just to meet Gu Xiaoxiao, who heard the sound, so she called out in a low voice.
"Hello, Hua'er remembers to thank Auntie for the sugar. I am Hua'er's mother, surnamed Gu, just call me Sister Gu. ”
Gu Xiaoxiao doesn't like to be called sister-in-law or something like that, and not long ago, Yang Dawang was asked to change her name, and now she says the same to her new neighbor.
"Thank you, Auntie."
Up close, the girl looks very delicate, her eyelashes are very long, there are only freshly ground calluses on her palms, and her cheeks are thin and half-hidden in her sleeves, and her skin is snow-white.
When she spoke, she spoke in a soft Wu Nong accent, which looked like she was from the south.
"Sister Gu is good, little girl Hua'er, it's good if you call me Xiaowan, I just moved in with my husband today, please take care of me in the future."
Xiaowan didn't mention her surname or hometown, and when she mentioned the word husband, she turned red behind her ears.
The young man was wearing a robe, standing there reservedly, holding his glasses and greeting Gu Xiaoxiao: "Hello, my name is Song Qiusheng, just call me Xiao Song in the future, please take care of me." ”
He used to raise his eyebrows when he spoke, and there was a relaxed smile on his pale face, but the smile seemed to be attached to his face, and even the amplitude of the corners of his mouth and the details of his teeth were like being set in a frame.
"Hello, I don't often stay at home during the day, you can find Lao Li if you have something in the future, or you can find me after dusk."
Gu Xiaoxiao had a good impression of Xiaowan, but she was not very interested in Song Qiusheng.
Hua'er had sugar in her mouth, the corners of her eyes curved into a small crescent, and she said vaguely: "Sweet." ”
Due to Hua'er's malnutrition and bad teeth, when she was about to change her teeth, Gu Xiaoxiao attached great importance to it and rarely let her eat desserts.
But children who don't like to eat sugar, the more they are not allowed to eat it, the more greedy they are.
"The flowers are so cute. Qiusheng, you take out some more halva from the house. ”
"Okay." Qiusheng responded with a good salute, and his eyes were filled with silent warmth. has a sense of immediacy in the idol drama of the Republic of China, reached out and stroked Xiaowan's short hair, and then turned around and walked towards the house.
"Thank you two, the flowers have bad teeth, you can't eat too many desserts, don't bother."
Qiusheng stopped, tilted his head slightly, and said with a smile: "It's good for the child to change his teeth." But we adults have to suffer a lot. ”
"I'll teach you to look at your teeth early."
Xiao Wan seemed to be coquettish, and her eyebrows were even more moving.
When Song Qiusheng spoke, his mouth always looked like he couldn't open it. Gu Xiaoxiao could only vaguely see that his teeth were yellowed and not straight.
Most people from wealthy backgrounds pay attention to dental care, for example, Xiaowan has white teeth like broken jade, and Qiusheng's accent is more northern. Teeth are not good either. It seems that the gap between the two families is a bit big.
Gu Xiaoxiao wiped the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief, and smiled at Xiaowan: "You are in free love, the relationship is really good." ”
Qiusheng stretched out his hand to wrap his arms around Xiao Wan's shoulders, and raised his eyebrows: "You can see it, we used to be classmates." ”
Xiao Wan's cheeks flew red, and she said with a shy face: "I should cook on the fire, and I'll talk to Sister Gu later." ”
Qiusheng didn't speak again, and leaned into Xiao Wan's ear and said affectionately, "Wan'er." Let you endure hardship, you can rest assured. I'll go out tomorrow to look for a job. In the future, you will definitely live a good life of living in a mansion and hiring a nanny. ”
"You, don't be too tired." When she entered the house, Xiao Wan's body turned slightly to Qiusheng.
He spoke in a very soft voice, if it weren't for Gu Xiaoxiao's deaf eyes and clear eyes, and his six senses were stronger than others, he really wouldn't have heard the conversation between the two.
However, Gu Xiaoxiao was not moved at all, it seems that the two may be a student couple who eloped together to fight for free love, and the woman who is immersed in love always can't see through the essence of men.
If Qiusheng really has a mind, he can let Xiao Wan cook alone.
But in the affairs of other people's houses, the door is closed, and she, an outsider, is not easy to beak.
The next day, when Gu Xiaoxiao took Hua'er and Yang Dawang to church, Xiaowan also saw off Qiusheng at the door, and after a few words of greeting, they left separately.
Xiao Wan is still wearing yesterday's clothes, Qiusheng has changed into a brand new robe, and he still has two books in his hands, dressed as a cultural person.
Compared with Xiaowan's gentleness, Qiusheng is always faint, with a subtle sense of rejection.
The news of the mansion is always well-informed, and a new young couple has become a hot topic, and everyone speculates that the hometown of the two is still related, and one by one they become detectives and dig out their hearts to solve this mystery.
Gu Xiaoxiao's help in the Shengguang Church Primary School was seen by a tenant in the mansion, and after a day's work, the entire mansion seemed to know.
The little lady is quiet, gentle and literate, and the big girl and little daughter-in-law in the courtyard always have more respect for cultural people. In addition to these, it is also very cost-effective to bring some hand-made snacks and let Xiaowan help her write a letter of faith.
Compared with the people in the courtyard who are proficient in human affairs, Xiaowan is obviously more tender, and she doesn't know what she said when she was unconsciously taken away.
Within a few days, someone had already pulled Gu Xiaoxiao and mysteriously said that the little couple living next door to them were actually students who had eloped from Xinghai City. They also said conclusively that Song Qiusheng was a poor student from a poor family, and Xiaowan was a lady from a good family at a glance.
This is no different from what Gu Xiaoxiao guessed, but she lives next door to the two, and she accidentally heard their conversation a few times before she was sure, and the woman in the compound is really not to be underestimated.
But Gu Xiaoxiao didn't get involved, she knew more than the people in the courtyard, when they felt that the two students were bold and engaged in free love behind their families, Gu Xiaoxiao already knew that Xiaowan's family had already been engaged, and in order to give birth to Song Qiu, the family was already so angry that they planned to publish the newspaper to cut off relations with her.
The two once quarreled because they couldn't return to Xinghai City to admit their mistakes, Song Qiusheng was always soft-spoken but firm, Xiaowan was gentle and gentle, and his anger made people feel like they were coquettish.
Song Qiusheng's job search was not smooth, he went out early in the morning every day and came back close to dusk, and his job was not settled.
The two have been spending Xiaowan's private money, and she occasionally gets angry with Song Qiu, also because the money is not enough to spend. But Song Qiusheng had a good reason every time to dispel Xiaowan's doubts and write one blank check after another.
Gu Xiaoxiao lives next door to the two, and she is not very optimistic about their feelings in her heart, Song Qiusheng is too slippery, and he behaves in all aspects. But a big man who has read a book, and he can't find a job after going out for three or four days, doesn't look like a word no matter how you look at it.
What's even more strange is that Xiao Wan proposed to go out to work, but Song Qiu stopped her stiffly, on the grounds that he took her out and couldn't let her suffer, and he would definitely make money to support her.
Listening, it seems to be deeply affectionate, but Song Qiusheng kept saying that raising Xiaowan was completely a young master at home, and he didn't see him doing housework.
As Gu Xiaoxiao looked at coldly, Song Qiusheng was a man who was very particular about dressing up, and he had to change his clothes every day or two, and he changed more clothes than Xiaowan.
Gu Xiaoxiao was not worth it for Xiaowan in her heart, but the thing of infatuated men and women has been around for a long time, and every time the two of them lowered their voices and argued, she couldn't rush in inexplicably.
Besides, Gu Xiaoxiao didn't deliberately do anything about peeping into people's privacy, but occasionally heard one or two ears, and they were sometimes good and sometimes bad, and people couldn't see it.
Gu Xiaoxiao's work at the Holy Light Church became more and more comfortable, and she also began to teach the two children simple English and French, the reason was naturally to learn from other teachers.
Hua'er is young, it is the period of accelerated language development, and she learns quickly, Yang Dawang is embarrassed to be compared to his sister, and he also learns with it. Gu Xiaoxiao bought paper and pens, and bought an oil lamp, urging the two to study every night.
On the seventh day when Song Qiusheng and Xiao Wan moved over, at eight or nine o'clock, Xiao Wan suddenly came to knock on the door.
Gu Xiaoxiao said enter, Xiaowan pushed the door in, her eyes were red as if she had cried.
Hua'er and Yang Dawang looked up in unison, looking at Xiaowan with some surprise, Yang Dawang covered up the words he wrote with some restraint, afraid that the dog-like Western alphabet would be seen.
It was pitch black on the wall smoked by the kerosene lamp, and the flowers called Aunt sweetly, and Yang Dawang half-lowered his head and called Sister Xiaowan, and the two brothers and sisters were staggered.
"What's wrong Xiaowan, sit down, why are you crying?"
Xiao Wan wiped her eyes with a handkerchief, and after realizing that she had ruined the warm atmosphere in the room, she sniffed and said, "Sister Gu, I'm bothering you, it's nothing, I'm just a little scared just now." ”
What she said was very fake, everyone was neighbors, and Gu Xiaoxiao couldn't turn a blind eye, so she said to Yang Dawang with a side face: "Dawang, take your sister Hua'er to your house to write, and I'll check it later." “
When the two of them packed up the notebook, Xiao Wan saw the English letters on it, twisted the handkerchief, and said with some surprise: "Hua'er and Dawang are learning Western, it's really good." ”
After saying the three words, Xiaowan was a little depressed, and she remembered the scene when she took the Western class.
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