079. Pondering cloth stickers
At Kite's suggestion, Carambola still exchanged the silver for a silver ticket, and she finally knew that the original silver ticket could also be used directly for spending, and it did not necessarily have to be exchanged for silver.
Originally, star fruit was still thinking that taking so much silver back must have brought grandma a fright rather than a surprise, but this time, she can use it to temporarily not let grandma know that she has so much money.
In fact, star fruit also thought about whether to deposit the silver in the kite first, but although she already trusted the kite, she still didn't feel at ease to hand over the money to him, in case he suddenly disappeared mysteriously one day, her silver would also be missing!
"Big Black Brother!" Star fruit began to deliberately make her voice sweet again, so that she would not frighten her grandmother, and not let the whole village impress or look sideways at her, she felt that it was very necessary to block Lu Dahei's mouth.
"I won't say it!" Lu Dahei didn't wait for the star fruit to speak, so he glared at the star fruit. Although he can't fully guess this girl's thoughts, he can still understand a little.
"Brother Xiexie." Carambola continues to sweeten the voice. In essence, she believes in Lu Dahei, although Lu Dahei has a simple brain and a tendon, he can basically do what he promises.
"I will definitely find a way to make money for most people in the village to build a new house." Star fruit is happy and full of confidence, and vows.
She must find a way to make the people in the village live a good life, not how great she is, but how well she must hide herself, now there are two groups of people who have noticed her, and whether there are any other people, it's hard to say, no matter what, she has to save her life in order to enjoy the beautiful life.
"Humph!" Lu Dahei was noncommittal about star fruit's words, obviously not that interested.
Because there is no need for embroidery. Star fruit decided to seize the time to train her "teacher Liliang" first, and every morning, in addition to letting Pei Yifan practice calligraphy, she also taught Liucheng arithmetic.
Carambola found that she was still very able to discover everyone's strengths, and Liu Cheng learned arithmetic very quickly, and because of the fast teaching of star fruit. She taught other children much more slowly in the afternoon, and she only taught once every three or five days, which was far more than the others.
Not to mention Xia Dongyun, because he would have memorized a few poems, he learned them from his uncle's brother when he went to town before, and at that time he was playing with fun things, but he didn't expect it to come in handy at this time, and because he only taught everyone a poem every two or three days, giving everyone time to memorize. It can also be handy.
Although Pei Yifan's handwriting is progressing slowly, this is originally a matter of work, and he can't be in a hurry, but fortunately, he teaches more slowly, and there are fewer children who also learn to write, and they are all just getting started, and star fruit will not be in a hurry, nor will he urge Pei Yifan.
Speaking of which, except for star fruit. Lu Da Hei and Liu Tao are the busiest, and Lu Da Hei has to go to study in the morning. Liu Tao came to learn to paint with star fruit.
Regarding learning to paint, it was the big girl Liu Tao who said to the star fruit when she accompanied the star fruit home in the courtyard that day, Liu Tao's voice was small, and I was afraid that the star fruit would refuse, which made the star fruit embarrassed to say no. But she still told Liu Tao that she could only teach her when she had time.
Carambola found that although Liu Tao also followed everyone to learn others, she was not very interested in memorizing poems, arithmetic and writing, but she was only interested in painting, although her talent was a little worse. But very attentively. The drawing skills of star fruit are also ordinary, and they can only be taught from a simple start.
In this way, star fruit is busier than usual in the morning, but in the afternoon there is more work, because she only tells a story every few days, and it is very tiring to tell every day, and there are not so many stories to tell.
Other times, she will sit next to her and listen to how Xia Dongyun, Liu Cheng, and Pei Yifan teach everyone, to say that in addition to Pei Yifan being introverted, Xia Dongyun and Liu Cheng are really decent.
Of course, in order to live in a new house as soon as possible, star fruit thinks about how to make everyone make money. Although embroidery makes more money than usual, the embroidery work in Aunt Liu's place is also more and less often, and other people in the village are used to it, because it was also like this when the Wang family took embroidery in the past. Star fruit can only tell herself, take your time, take your time, she also happened to take advantage of this time to take a break.
On this day, Xia Dongyun was teaching everyone to memorize poems. To say that Xia Dongyun can get along with everyone so quickly, the key lies in Liu Cheng, these two girls usually quarrel with Xia Dongyun, and when they are in class, they will consciously help Xia Dongyun maintain order, and they are really a good boy who knows the general situation, and after a few days, even if they don't like to deal with Xia Dongyun, they slowly become harmonious with Xia Dongyun.
Xia Dongyun taught everyone to recite poems, and everyone listened attentively, and the star fruit had nothing to do, so he took a needle and thread to sew sandbags for everyone. This sandbag is a low-value consumable, it will be kicked and broken at every turn, and it is necessary to sew a few more spares.
Because some of the small rags are really small, I want to learn from my grandmother when she sewed sandbags for her when she was a child, and put the small rags together, so that the sandbags sewn out are colorful and very beautiful.
Carambola took a few small rags and gestured around, the sandbag was not sewn, but suddenly remembered the bag of cloth that was bought for three cents, and grandma had not yet started to use it. If the star fruit remembers correctly, there is actually a large piece of it in it, but because the material is not good, Aunt Liu did not use it again.
Carambola flipped through it, although these coarse cloths were of different colors, but most of them did not have complex patterns, and the carambola picked out a piece of black, cut it into a rectangle, and stared at the cloth for a while, and slowly formed an idea in his mind.
Can you use these cloth heads and rags to make cloth stickers and sell them in the town? Although she doesn't know how other people's cloth stickers are made, she can figure it out for herself.
Among the paper she bought, there were also some hard yellow paper and hard white paper, and the star fruit took out a sheet, first drew a simple flower, then cut the flower, traced it to the cloth, cut out the pattern of the flower, and then found a way to sew it onto the base cloth for the preparation of haode.
But the star fruit found that the Dongdong sewn out like this couldn't help but have a lot of folds in the picture, and it was not crisp at all. Star fruit thought about using rice slurry to make a cloth, but the effect was not very good.
After tossing for two days, painting, washing, cutting and sewing, grandma and Pei Yifan were not surprised, they were used to her tossing alone, but the cloth stickers she made were always soft.
"Grandma, you say, how can you make this cloth not so soft?" Star fruit finally sighed and asked with a frowning face.
"Peaches, the uppers we use to make shoes are very crisp." Grandma looked at the star fruit and thought about it again. "I just don't know if it's the kind of crisp you want."
Carambola immediately looked at her grandmother excitedly, she was really stupid, there was a ready-made teacher here, and she even remembered to ask for advice.
"Grandma, how do you make your uppers?" Star fruit asked hurriedly.
"It's just to make some paste, put the useless cloth on the flat wooden board layer by layer, and after it is dry, it becomes a jacket." Grandma said. "If you want to use it, grandma can get it for you."
"Grandma Xiexie!" Star fruit kissed grandma on the face.
She felt that she was really smart and confused for a while, and she was stuck in such a simple thing as paste, which not only made the base cloth crisp, but also solved the problem of sewing up with needle and thread, and the stitches were large and wrinkled! Cloth sticker canvas sticker, of course, is mainly "paste", and what I tossed in the past two days is not "paste" but "sew". Of course, sometimes in order to highlight the three-dimensional effect, it should also be sewn.
Finally, star fruit made the first cloth sticker in her life, a brightly colored red carp, and a big red blessing character, although the picture is a little simpler, but it must be festive and special when it is pasted on the wall during the New Year.
"Grandma, look." Star fruit was the first to share her masterpiece with her grandmother. "Is it pretty?"
"Good-looking, good-looking." Grandma said again and again,
"Grandma, you have more than half of the credit for this!" Star fruit rubbed affectionately on grandma's body. "If this can be sold for money, grandma can help us with other grandmothers in the village in the future."
"It's going to sell for money." Grandma was very supportive of the star fruit to the cloth sticker. "It looks better and sturdy than the paper drawings."
"Then, I'll take it to Aunt Lu and show them." Carambola was immediately more confident by what her grandmother said, and she happily took her cloth sticker and looked for the aunt. If she is right, everyone's embroidery work should be basically finished.
Sure enough, Aunt Lu and Aunt Liu had already collected everyone's embroidery work, because it was not time to tell Zhang Yao to pick them up, and they couldn't go to the town to hand them in, so they were all left at Aunt Lu's house.
"Auntie, look at this one I made, can you sell it?" Carambola handed the cloth sticker to Aunt Lu, and began to feel a little proud in her heart.
"What is this? It looks like a painting you made, but it's made of cloth. Aunt Lu asked.
"This is something I've been thinking about for the past two days." Star fruit began to talk again, embarrassed. Anyway, she doesn't know how to make cloth stickers, she needs to ponder, but it's not her original, but there is really no such thing in the place, she's an amnesiac person, she can't say when she saw who got it, she can only say that she figured it out herself.
"That's good!" Aunt Lu took the cloth sticker away and looked at it again. "Peaches, I have a hunch that this will definitely sell for a good price."
"Really?" Carambola was encouraged and became more and more energetic. "Auntie, if you think it can be done, anyway, we still have a few days to go to the town, why don't you make a few more at home, take them to the town and put them at Aunt Liu, and let her help sell them. If we can sell it, we will do more in the future, and we will share the money we earn with Aunt Liu, what do you think? ”
Seeing that the star fruit looked very confident, and even thought about the sharing, Aunt Lu didn't feel that she was also moved, anyway, everyone is idle and idle, it is better to try a few, it is best to sell it at a good price, but it can't, and it is also beautiful in your own home. (To be continued......)