Chapter 2 Chrysanthemums that leak out
"Hmph, my mother still doesn't believe what I said." Zhao Ju pouted and said.
"Sister, why do you want to speak today, you didn't listen to what my mother said about you before, and you didn't speak all day long. Did I hit my head this time and cured the disease of not wanting to speak? After Zhao Ju finished speaking, he looked at Zhao Lan in surprise.
"Maybe."
"Do you really know how to speak?" Zhao Ju's head stretched out in front of Zhao Lan's eyes, looking left and right, as if he wanted to see if Zhao Lan's disease was really good.
Zhao Lan's heart finally fell.
Zhao Lan doesn't like to speak, she may be too inferior, so she doesn't like to speak, and she can't stand too much stimulation, and she hits the wall as soon as she is stimulated.
Fortunately, I'm not a person who talks a lot, looking at Zhao Ju's curious little face that wanted to ask a hundred thousand whys, Zhao Lan suddenly didn't want to explain to her again.
And there's nothing to explain it. I can't say that your sister who doesn't want to talk has become a fairy in the sky and is no longer in the world, I am a sister who wants to talk.
"Then, sister, what else do you want to say?"
Look at what this girl asked.
"Where's Daddy?"
"Daddy went to strike iron."
"Striking iron?"
"Well, what's wrong?"
Zhao Ju tilted her head and looked at me suspiciously.
Can this still be a good chat.
Change the question.
"What about brother?"
"Brother went to study."
I'm asking the wrong person! Zhao Lan involuntarily raised her arm and supported her forehead with one hand.
"Sister, do you have anything else to ask? Sister, do you have a headache when you talk too much? It's so strange what you asked, is it that you still can't speak, or you are not proficient in speech, I sew buttons crookedly, and my mother said that I am not proficient, and I need to practice more. Do you want to practice more? My brother speaks the same way you do. I tell him to talk every day. ”
Look at what this girl said, I really want to slap her out, when I want you to speak, you say two words, and when I don't want you to speak, you talk a lot. It seems that the wrong person was really asked.
"Next time, you're not going out to play?"
"Go, go, I made an appointment with Du Chunhong, let's play and pick up stones together." Before the words fell, the man had already left the door. Only Zhao Shen's shout in the courtyard came: "I haven't eaten breakfast yet, where are you going?" ”
Zhao Ju's interruption, I can't sleep, let's get up, it's not early. The rice should be cooked as well.
At the head of the bed was a pale pink blouse and a dark blue dress. This is the clothes that Zhao Shen took out and put there yesterday for Zhao Lan to change.
The clothes are half-new and half-old, and the style is not complicated, a bit like the Hanfu that has become popular in modern times. The other Zhao Lan couldn't say it.
Get dressed and tidy up the room, in fact, there is nothing to clean up except fold the quilt. In a room of about twenty square meters, a simple wooden bed was placed on the west, and under the window on the east side there was a simple old wooden cabinet, under which were placed clothes, on which rested a half-new comb, an old almost copper mirror, a basket made of bamboo, in which there was a half-embroidered handkerchief, a few strands of embroidery thread, and a purse that had just finished and did not seem to be embroidering bamboo. A few pieces of loose rags, a few red ropes tied to the head.
Besides, there is nothing else.
There is a courtyard when you go out, and the room where Zhao Lan and Zhao Ju live together should be regarded as the west wing, two rooms in the west, and two wings with a similar layout in the east. The east side should have been used by Zhao Chun as a study.
One to the east of the gate is the kitchen, and the other to the west is the utility room. Inside there were piles of straw, firewood, and some farm tools.
There is a large water tank in the yard by the kitchen, a small green vegetable is planted on the north side of the water tank, and a grass shed is built in the southwest of the yard by the utility room. There are a few chickens in the straw hut. Scattered against the west courtyard wall were firewood, pickled vegetable jars, wooden jokes, and some miscellaneous things. There are two rows of green onions planted on the side of the road in the middle, and a large piece of coriander is planted next to the green onion. The spinach on the side of the coriander has just grown an inch long. The leaves are green and beautiful. In addition, there is a small plot of land planted with leeks, which have just been cut and are bare and have not yet grown.
The courtyard wall of the earthen rampart is not solid, but it is good enough to be high. Ordinary people can't get in.
Behind the three stone and brick houses, there is a toilet on the west side, and there are two half-stone and half-earth houses with straw on the side of the toilet, one of which has two pigs, the pigs are only half the age, and it is estimated that they are piglets that have just been bought after the year
Beyond the pigsty is a field where this vegetable is grown. Like beans, eggplant, loofah, cucumber, taro, almost all of them. Cucumbers, eggplants bear fruit, and the climbing of other climbing vines blooms and blossoms. In another ten days and half a month, it will be picked. As long as the vegetables come up, the rural people will have a better life, and they can sell the vegetables if they can't finish eating. The land in the back is really not small, and the two rooms next to it seem to be so big, and the land in the ancient building circle is really big. It's good to have fewer people! In fact, the Zhao family can be so big, which has a lot to do with the fact that the Zhao family was built in the last row of the village. There is a small hill not far behind, which can also be said to be a small mound, because it is not very high, but the paving is quite wide. Behind this hill is a big mountain. Lush ridges stretch into the distance. It's refreshing to watch! Infinite yearning!
In addition to the stove, the stove is against the wall and has a table that is level with the stove, on which are placed kitchen utensils such as chopsticks, plates, basins, kitchen knives, baskets, etc. There was also a small old table in the middle of the room, and one of the legs of the table had probably been rotted by the dampness of the years, and only a stone could be placed under the foot of the table to lay it flat. Five small stools that are still worn. There is also a water tank in the kitchen, presumably for the convenience of water.
After Zhao Lan finished washing, she entered the kitchen, only to see that the rice soup that could be seen had been put on the table to dry. There were five or six nests in the bamboo basket, and another was a bowl of pickled dried radish and two boiled eggs.
"Sister, you're here, eat quickly. Today, my mother also boiled eggs. ”
Zhao Ju was banging on the table with an egg in his hand, peeling the egg while talking without raising his head.
"Where's my mother?"
"My mother went to the river to wash clothes. Tell me to look at you. ”
This kid can't speak.
"Don't look at me, my sister won't hit the wall again."
"Really, then I'll go and play with Chunhong after eating. My brother hasn't woken up yet, so you can help watch it by the way. ”
Zhao Ju looked at me excitedly.
"Okay, you go play. There's me. ”
Zhao Ju listened, wolfed down the meal, grabbed the peeled egg and slipped out.
A child is a child, and she believes everything you say.
Before Zhao Lan finished eating, Zhao Shen came back with a wooden basin of clothes.
"Zhao Ju, this girl went out again, and her soul was lost outside. Your brother hasn't woken up yet? You eat the eggs on the table, and I'll dry the clothes. ”
Zhao Shen didn't see Zhao Ju when he came back, and his voice became louder. After finishing speaking, without waiting for Zhao Lan to speak, she turned around and walked to the yard with a wooden basin for washing clothes.
Zhao Lan finished eating, cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and walked out of the kitchen. Walking into the house, Zhao Lan remembered that there was nothing in the house.
There is no TV, there is no mobile phone, there is nothing to kill time, it can really suffocate people.
Zhao Lan stood at the door of the room, her eyes swept around the room, and her eyes suddenly lit up. Embroidery! Before crossing, Zhao Lan also embroidered a cross-stitch and sold it for 500 yuan. Later, I embroidered cervical spondylosis, and I didn't dare to embroider again.
A handkerchief embroidered with two flowers should be completed quickly, so as not to commit cervical spondylosis. Zhao Lan secretly thought in her heart.
Zhao Lan took the bamboo basket and sat under the eaves, and took out the half-embroidered handkerchief. There are three green leaves embroidered on the corner of the veil, and the leaves of the peony are a little like the leaves of the chrysanthemum, and the flowers on it have not yet moved the needle, and I don't know what flowers I want to embroider. This embroiderer is really out of his hands.
Peonies are too difficult to embroider, or embroider chrysanthemums. Small chrysanthemum varieties are very easy to embroider, especially single-petal chrysanthemums, the graphics are simple, the color is also simple, and there is no need to spend a lot of effort to match the color and do not need to think about the transition color of the flower. Just embroidered a red chrysanthemum, Zhao Lan made up her mind. The chrysanthemum is embroidered with round pink stamens, and the round outer circle is evenly distributed with more than a dozen slender oval rows of petals. In this way, a small chrysanthemum is embroidered, and if you want to look better, you can also have a transitional color. The first time you embroider, it is simpler, you can see the effect quickly, and you can also enhance your confidence.
Zhao Lan thought about it, so she picked out the pink thread from the basket, compared the size of the flower next to the green leaves of the handkerchief, and began to embroider it.
Zhao Shen dried his clothes, finished eating, and was about to feed the chickens, and glanced at Zhao Lan, who was sitting in front of the hall embroidering, and then settled down, thinking, Lan'er seems to have changed a little, but it looks like it has changed for the better, and he spoke in the morning, and the bowls for dinner were all washed without being washed. How is it different? Zhao Shen couldn't say it, but he felt as if he was sitting there with his waist straighter.
After finishing his work at home, he got Zhao Qiu to have breakfast and let him play in the yard. Zhao Shen washed his hands and also took out embroidery. Zhao Shen's embroidery work was taken back from the embroidery shop in the town to do, a total of twenty handkerchiefs, a pillowcase, and the materials were all well matched. Pay for the work. The pillowcase was embroidered earlier, and there are still five short of twenty handkerchiefs, if it weren't for Zhao Lan hitting the wall, the last five handkerchiefs would probably have been embroidered earlier.
Zhao Shen took out a white handkerchief, picked the thread and embroidered it. Zhao Shen's embroidered twig pattern, half of the twig pattern embroidered, planning to rest for a while. Zhao Shen, put down the handkerchief, pinched his shoulders, swept his eyes over Zhao Lan, and aimed at the handkerchief in Zhao Lan's hand, wanting to see how she embroidered?
But I saw that Zhao Lan's slender and fair-skinned hands were holding a white handkerchief. On the white veil, the green leaves, the brown-green stems, the red petals, the pink stamens, the flowers are colorful, the flower shape is full, simple and clear, so the two flowers are in full bloom, and a wild chrysanthemum with buds is about to bloom on the veil. It's a delight to the eye!
"Lan'er, where did you get your tricks? I've never seen you embroider before. ”
Zhao Shen, who was stunned for a while, couldn't help but ask.
"Ahh The wild chrysanthemums on the side of the road look like this. ”
"But they're all white, and I've never seen anything like this red."
"Isn't there any red?" Zhao Lan looked up at Zhao Shen in disbelief, and said in a panic: "The white one is not good-looking, I like the red one, so I embroidered it into a red one." ”
Aren't there any small red chrysanthemums?
Oh! OMG!
We're crimson, red, pink, yellow, blue, beige, white, red, green, colorful, you name it. Why isn't there even a red one here?
It's really a little thing that can go wrong.