After patting it again, Lin Zhen put down his hand, took a step back and waited for someone to open the door.

However, after waiting for a long time and seeing no movement, Lin Zhen's originally anxious heart turned into doubt, and he looked at his wife.

Liu was also a little confused, and when she met her husband's gaze, she guessed uncertainly:

"Aren't you at home?"

"You knock again."

Lin Zhen nodded, and deducted it again, but still no one responded.

He didn't believe in evil and buckled several times in a row, and while knocking on the door, he shouted at the top of his voice: "Is anyone home?" Anyone? ”

There was still silence, and no one responded.

Now it's really certain, there is no one at home.

Lin Zhen retracted his hand helplessly and shook his head at Liu.

Liu never thought that her mother was not at home.

There was no way, a few people could only sit at the door and wait.

Guo Chengling drove the ox cart to the shade of a tree and tied the ox to it. Together with Lin Zhen, he unloaded all the things in the car and put them at the feet of the mother and daughter who were sitting and resting.

After packing up, the two sat down and waited together at the door for someone to come back.

Liu's mother is picking wild vegetables in the field.

Her big name is Wang Qiuye, and this name is still the name given to her by the hostess when she was an embroiderer in the master's house.

Grandma Wang's real name is not Wang Qiuye, and when she was sold into the hands of the gambling ghost father, her name was Honghong, and she was not surnamed Wang.

After tossing and turning several times in the hands of the people, he finally entered the palace and became a little maid who learned embroidery skills in the embroidery room of the palace.

Large families will train their own embroidery girls, and every year they will select girls with slender fingers from the hands of people to learn embroidery skills.

But not everyone has the talent to buy the maids, and there are often only two or three people in a group of people.

Fortunately, Grandma Wang was one of those two or three.

The master she followed was the most skilled, and he was also the most demanding to his apprentices. When she first started to learn embroidery with her master, she looked down on this little apprentice, but she didn't expect Grandma Wang to really persevere.

Grandma Wang was willing to endure hardships and was talented, and soon impressed her master, and officially began to teach her own things.

Grandma Wang studied with the master for six years, and after the master left in the seventh year, she stood out from the crowd of embroiderers and replaced the master to become the embroiderer with the best embroidery skills in the palace.

But the good times didn't last long, two years later, the master's family was exposed because of the corruption of the male owner, not only did he lose his official position, but also the female relatives of the family also suffered, and their little maids were also sent back to Renyazi to be re-sold.

Fortunately, the soldiers who took over the palace did not know that she could embroider, and Grandma Wang was cleverly mixed in a group of sweeping maids, which was not conspicuous.

Just at Renyazi, Grandma Wang met Liu's father, Liu Zong. Liu Zong bought her back from Renyazi and married her.

Grandma Wang was very grateful to this man who saved her life, and after marrying Liu Zong, she had to follow him desperately.

If Liu Zong hadn't bought her, in another day, these little maids would have been sold to the Qinglou. That's not a good place to go, Grandma Wang knew when she was a maid in the past that Qinglou is a place where you eat people and don't spit out bones.

Unless a large family sells a disobedient maid, unless the maid is particularly disgusted, or the maid commits an unforgivable thing, he will generally not sell the person to that kind of place without conscience. At most, it is to send it back to the hands of the human tooth and resell it.

So when she knew that she was about to be sold to that place, it was no less than a bolt from the blue for Grandma Wang.

She was ready to die.

Liu Zong's appearance was like a rescue soldier from heaven to her, and when he asked Grandma Wang if she would like to go with him, Grandma Wang nodded without hesitation.

Even if Liu Zong later said that his family was very poor, and there was no silver left after buying her, and he might not even be able to let her eat, Grandma Wang did not waver at all.

She has embroidery skills, and she didn't even tell anyone about it, and no one knows.

She is not afraid of hardship, even if she eats bran vegetables, Grandma Wang is willing, it will not be worse than now.

In this way, Grandma Wang followed Liu Zong back to Buffalo Village and became the daughter-in-law of the Liu family.

Liu's mother was originally dissatisfied with her son's spending a lot of money to buy such a daughter-in-law who didn't look like she could work, her nose was not her nose, and her eyes were not eyes.

Even the people in the village are waiting to see their jokes.

Everyone knows that the stupid big man of the Liu family spent twenty taels of silver to buy a daughter-in-law who can't work.

Grandma Wang didn't think of surprises, but she knew that if she couldn't change her impression in Liu's mother's heart, she would have to endure the rest of her life.

She doesn't argue for herself, no matter how ugly Liu's mother says, her face will be white at most, looking at her like this, Liu's mother can't talk about her more, but the next time she sees her, her face is not very good.

Grandma Wang held her breath and wanted to make Liu's mother change her opinion of herself, but she didn't shout bitterness or tiredness about what Liu's mother asked her to do, and rushed to do it.

Except for farm work, she has never done any other household affairs, and Grandma Wang is very quick to get started.

Mother Liu soon found out that her delicate daughter-in-law, although she looked delicate and weak, was able to endure hardships and be smart, and she was quick to work.

The eyes that were originally prejudiced against her gradually became warmer.

Liu Zong would not protect her in front of his mother, he knew that this would only make Liu's mother more angry. But he would tell Liu's mother in private that she was good, which Grandma Wang knew, which made her feel that she was not looking at the wrong person.

After staying in Liu's house for three months, Grandma Wang's embroidery skills have just emerged in Qingshui County and are famous.

Mother Liu has completely treated her as her daughter, and no longer talks about spending money to buy her all day long, but praises her when she sees people.

Everyone knows that the daughter-in-law bought by the Liu family is not only beautiful and capable, but also has good embroidery skills, which has earned the Liu family a lot of money.

Although Grandma Wang has a good temperament, she is not weak, and she has her own principles for dealing with others. has been in the palace for so many years, she has been exposed to it, she also has a unique vision for people, who can come and go, who can't have deep friendships, no need for Mother Liu to say that she is beautiful.

But in the face of her husband, Grandma Wang did not have any temper, she has always been grateful to her husband for saving her life, and she is full of gratitude and love for him. Liu Zong is extremely satisfied with this wife, her appearance and ability are the dragon and phoenix among people, and everything he does is in line with his heart, so he naturally loves her.

The two did not quarrel much until Liu Zong's death.

Grandma Wang's first child was a daughter, that is, Liu. Liu Zong was still pleasantly surprised by his first child, and carefully selected her to be named Xiurong.

Liu's mother didn't say anything even if she wasn't as happy as her son, and served her daughter-in-law well after the confinement. When I chatted with my daughter-in-law only occasionally, I hinted at her intentionally or unintentionally that she wanted a grandson.

Fortunately, Grandma Wang's stomach was angry, and she became pregnant with her second child after two years, and this time she gave birth to a big fat boy named Liu Yaozu.

Mother Liu was overjoyed, and now she didn't even have the last meaning for this daughter-in-law, and she was not dissatisfied at all.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are as close as mother and daughter, and when Liu's mother died, Grandma Wang fainted crying.

Sounds like both the process and the result are pretty good. Even if there were misunderstandings and grievances at the beginning, the result was good in the end.

However, Grandma Wang's life was not so smooth.

The Liu family's original family background in Buffalo Village was not very wealthy. Liu's mother, a widow, pulled her son up, and naturally there is no need to say much.

Later, Liu Zong emptied his family in order to buy Grandma Wang, and the Liu family was even more destitute. I won't mention it after all the ridicule, but life is really sad.

It wasn't until she took over the embroidery job that she slowly got some money.

Fortunately, I survived, but it didn't last long. The years were only quiet for a few years, and when Liu was fifteen or sixteen years old, something happened to their family.

Grandma Wang's embroidery work is getting bigger and bigger, and she knows the truth of the tree's big wind, so many times she deliberately pushes the work outward, but many can't push it over, even if she waits for a long time, as long as her embroidery work.

Others, not only were they not grateful for her behavior, but they felt that they were trying to get away with it. came and went, jealous of her, and more and more people were red-eyed.

Man, when this eye is red, the heart is black.

Finally, an embroidery girl who was robbed of the limelight shot at her.