Chapter 93: Needlework (Cotton-Mianjiachang)
Although Mu Hongsheng has never been in the palace, since her mother said, don't think about anything else, just go into the palace to play steadily, she simply doesn't think so much. She has planned everything, and when the time comes, she will do whatever her mother asks her to do, and she will be honest and obedient, which must be right.
No longer worried about entering the palace, Mu Hongsheng began to practice with his brothers every day to go to school, and was busy fighting with a pile of rags in his spare time.
Well! That's right! Fight the rags. Xie Shurou really sent Mu Hongsheng the pattern of the "backpack" as promised, and Mu Hongshang asked Duchess An Guo for the strongest green cloth, and began to sew backpacks for her brothers.
It's a pity that Mu Hongsheng is quite bright when he learns martial arts, reads, and even the art of war, and he is really not good at needlework. She felt that she was too stupid, and it took a lot of effort to find Xie Shurou's pattern and cut out a bunch of pieces of cloth, but in a blink of an eye, she didn't know who should be sewn together.
In her opinion, the cloth and the cloth look the same, and it is not easy to tell the difference. After the extremely destructive little girl Mu cut a whole piece of cloth, she couldn't successfully sew a backpack.
However, in the matter of making backpacks, the most tormented person was not Mu Hongsheng, but her two maids, lotus leaves and water chestnuts. Every time they saw Mu Hongsheng holding a pile of rags and gesturing, they couldn't help but get anxious, and they couldn't wait to snatch the cloth in Mu Hongsheng's hand, and cut and sew it directly to save their worries.
It's a pity that when it comes to making gifts for her brother, Mu Hongshang is really unexpectedly stubborn, and she doesn't want lotus leaves and water chestnuts to help.
Fortunately, there is also Mu Qingyi. Fortunately, there is also Fourth Young Master Mu who can save the lotus leaves and water chestnuts that are almost so impatient that they are in the upper room.
Two days after Mu Hongsheng launched a vigorous manual action, he was discovered by Mu Qingyi. At the beginning, Mu Qingyi looked up to his little sister, after all, they grew up together, and Mu Qingyi knew very well that her sister was very smart. Learning martial arts spirituality, reading is also fast, and now two days after accompanying Jinyi to start reading the art of war, Mr. Sun also praised Mu Hongsheng for his good understanding.
Mu Qingyi thought with confidence, isn't it just to sew that "backpack"! According to the cleverness of the little sister, sewing according to the pattern, it should be done soon.
But Mu Qingyi soon found out that he was too naΓ―ve, and his little sister was ...... It's really a natural offense. At first, Mu Qingyi couldn't figure it out, why couldn't the little sister of the cut cloth recognize it? How can the little sister not be able to do such a simple thing as sewing two pieces of cloth together? It's just so weird!
After watching Mu Hongshang's struggle with the cloth for a few days, Mu Qingyi finally made a great decision - he decided to personally help and help the little sister sew the backpack.
The fourth brother must help, Mu Hongshang hesitated for a while and agreed. She was very resistant to letting the maids interfere with the gifts given to her brother, but the fourth brother had to come to help in person, Mu Hongshang thought about it and felt that it was acceptable. Maybe the brothers in the north will be even happier when they receive the backpacks she and her fourth brother made together!
And then...... Then Fourth Young Master Mu, who pretended to be smart, found that he was really too naΓ―ve and thought too highly of himself. It seems easy to see the maids do such a thing as sewing two pieces of cloth together, but it really doesn't seem so easy to fall on their own heads.
Soon after, Mu Lingyi and Mu Jinyi also discovered Mu Qingyi and Mu Hongsheng's after-school handicraft activities, and soon joined the vigorous female red army.
The Mu family members suddenly found that their backyard, which was lively after school, was suddenly a lot quieter, and after learning the military books in the afternoon, before dinner, it should have been the most lively time for the Mu family, but now it is always quiet. Four children gathered in one place every day, three men and one woman, one holding a sewing basket, gesturing to a pile of rags.
Old Mrs. Mu and several ladies of the Mu family laughed badly, but they didn't care about them, and let the children toss by themselves. And An Guogong saw it and thought it was very good. In his words, the boys will live in the north for a long time, and it doesn't hurt to be able to do needlework. At least in the future, if you scratch your clothes when you go out on the expedition, you will be able to make do with the sewing, and you don't have to wear a leaky robe all the time, and then send it to be sewn back to the camp.
As the saying goes, three stinkers, one Zhuge Liang, and four people sew backpacks together, and the progress is much faster. When Mrs. Mu sent someone to make the new clothes that Mu Hongshang wore during the palace banquet, the first handicraft work of the children of the Mu family was baked, and the children were gathering in a circle to sigh how ugly their handicrafts were.
"But sturdy enough." Mu Jinyi commented: "It doesn't matter if it's good or not. β
"Only the fourth brother sewed out the thread is straight," Mu Hongshang said, "The ones we sew are crooked, like centipedes." β
"But the stitches of the fourth brother's sewing are too big," Mu Lingyi was very disdainful: "You have to sew twice to be strong, although we sew crookedly, but it will be strong and troublesome once." β
"I think it's okay." Fourth Young Master Mu was quite satisfied with his first female red work: "With experience, the next one will do faster and better." β
"Yes," Mu Hongsheng asked worriedly, "Then who is this ugliest thing for, is it for the eldest brother?" β
"Yes, yes, just give it to the eldest brother." The three brothers of the Mu family nodded their heads one after another: "The second brother and the third brother are both in Shuozhou, send them together, which one is uglier and which one is better, you will know by comparison." The eldest brother is alone in Yanzhou, and he can't find out if we send the ugliest past. β
"You monkeys are good," Mrs. Mu, who was watching the backpack together, laughed almost angrily: "I see that sooner or later, one day it will be exposed." β
"Then let's say that the idea is all made by my sister," the three brothers were interested in together, and pointed to Mu Hongsheng together: "Don't do our business." β
Blaspher Man Mu Hongshang: ......
"Alright!" Old Madam Mu was happy and pointed to the tray placed aside: "Come here, try new clothes, and let your brothers continue to cut cloth pieces." β
"Huh?" Mu Hongsheng looked curiously and looked at the new blue dress on the tray that seemed to be shrouded in a cloud of mist: "This is ...... Luo skirt? It doesn't look sturdy. β
"This is nature, how can Lan Wuluo be strong, it just looks good." Old Madam Mu replied with a smile: "I can't let you enter the palace in a Hu skirt, right?" It's good to participate in the palace banquet, even if you go to play, you can't be rude when dressing up. So my grandmother made you a new outfit and came and tried it on. β
Lan Wu Luo, an extremely precious grosgrain, is woven with very fine silk threads in the weaving method of Suluo, but it is as light and soft as light yarn, and from a distance, it is like smoke and fog, as if a layer of clouds and mist gathered, which is very beautiful.