Ah Xiu didn't expect her to ask about this, her nose was sore, and she almost burst into tears.

"My mother, she, she's gone."

Touched somewhere that had been hidden, Ah Xiu bit her lip, and tears the size of beans fell straight down one by one.

When her mother's life was exhausted, her thin face appeared in her mind again, and her emotions poured out like a tide, and she couldn't help it.

Seeing this, Chang reached out and hugged the person into his arms.

"Don't be sad, it's all over, it's my mother who is not good to mention sad things."

Chang's heart was also uncomfortable, she patted gently, coaxing her like a child.

Ah Xiu cried in her arms for a while, and finally her eyes were swollen when she finally held back her tears.

Later, the family discussed it carefully, and then left the pharmacy and went to the fabric shop in the town.

The plan to open the store has been negotiated, and now only the silver is owed.

Originally, Chang's hand had three taels of private money, plus one or two dollars for selling embroidery two days ago, that is, four taels, and there was still a big gap between the cost of twelve taels.

It is impossible to earn so much silver in a short period of time, and it is impossible to borrow it, and the only way is to get a few more embroideries and take them to the city to exchange for money.

This time, Ah Xiu not only picked out cherry pink, emerald green, and lake blue forged fabrics, but also some ordinary white cotton cloth.

The three-color bright material is to be produced, and the white cotton cloth is used to test the hands of Chang's teaching.

Nowadays, there is a shortage of personnel, and only Chang's can help Ah Xiu.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law returned to the village from the town, just in time for the family's meal.

They bought a lot of material in small quantities, and there wasn't much after they were folded.

Hong saw that the second family was carrying a small baggage, but he didn't see what was inside.

In the afternoon of the same day, Ah Xiu stretched the material and taught Chang a set of the most basic stitches for her to practice.

That night, Ah Xiu embroidered a handkerchief under the oil lamp and accompanied Song Tian to read.

After a while, she felt that her sleeves were being pulled, and when she looked up, she saw Song Tian smiling, and pulled out a piece of rough-edged paper sandwiched in the book to show her.

Above is a five-character poem, which seems to be a new work by him.

"Today, Mr. praised me, and he read it in front of the whole class."

Song Tian was a little proud, and saw Ah Xiu stretching his neck to stare at it, and read it to her word by word.

It is indeed a good poem, Ah Xiu smiled: "Brother Tian, you are really at stake." ”

Since Song Tian started to study, every time he made a good article and poem, he would show it to Ah Xiu, and when he was praised, he would look like this time, with a triumphant look, his eyes full of starlight, and his inner joy overflowing his cheeks.

"What about you, why don't you read today?"

Ah Xiu actually reads, but she doesn't show it.

Unless the eight-year-old girl is in a special situation, it is impossible to be literate no matter how she thinks about it.

In order to let her understand her articles and poems, Song Tian took the book of enlightenment for Ah Xiu to study, but from today onwards, she will be busy, and her "homework" will be temporarily left behind.

"Brother Tian, I went to town with my mother today."

Ah Xiu put down the embroidery in his hand, and a pair of smiling apricot eyes sparkled in the orange light.

Song Tian was stunned, staring at her curiously with one hand on his head.

"The matter of opening a shop has almost been discussed, as long as we have enough money, we can start."

"So fast."

Song Tian must know about the fact that the family wants to open a fabric shop, but this matter is also done secretly in private, he only knows that Ah Xiu has explained his father and mother, and he doesn't know what the situation is.

"By the way, last time you said that you asked your father to sell the handkerchief and purse, how is the situation, did you sell it?"

The little girl embroiders things under his nose every day, Song Tian naturally knows that the handkerchief and the small purse, and he has heard Ah Xiu mention it when he takes it to try the price.

Ah Xiu nodded: "Last time my father came back, I sold it." ”

"How much did it sell?"

Song Tian was a little curious, in his eyes, the handkerchief and the small purse were naturally high-quality products, but no matter how beautiful the thing was, it was just a handkerchief and a purse with small things, and it was not worth a few dollars.

Song Tian looked slow and careless, and Ah Xiu knew at a glance that this person didn't understand the outside world, and he looked down on those things.

"The price was not as good as expected, and the two things were only sold for one or two pieces of silver."

"How much?"

Song Tian couldn't believe it, and the hand supporting his head slipped down.

Ah Xiu laughed when she saw it, and then repeated what she had just said.

really sold a tael of silver, Song Tian was stunned, and inexplicably felt a little ashamed.

Just now he was studying literature with the person in front of him, and when he turned his head, he had already begun to earn money, and two small things were worth one or two, which was worth a month's salary for his father.

"Embroidering this, don't you waste your eyes?"

Song Tian stretched his neck to see the embroidery, it was still the pink material from last time, but the pattern was different from last time, it was a yellow and white flower.

"It's okay, just pay attention to the combination of work and rest."

While walking the needle, Ah Xiu told the three of them what they had discussed during the day.

"As long as the embroidery on hand sells well, you should be able to scrape together enough money in two to three months, and you can still have extra money to send you to the town to study. At that time, our family will not have to run at both ends, and will move directly to the town. ”

Ah Xiu slowly chatted about her plan, and Song Tian became more and more stunned the more she listened, and finally couldn't help but say, "You are also quite interested." ”

Ah Xiuxiao, this is the first time Song Tian has praised her, and when he looked up, he wanted to say something more, but he saw him hanging his head and pretending to be reading seriously.

"Brother Tian, what's wrong with you."

The two have been together for a long time, and Ah Xiu can naturally tell whether their expressions are true or false.

"It's nothing, it's just a little sleepy."

Song Tian closed the book, covered his mouth and yawned and went to bed.

It's not too late now, Ah Xiu glanced at the oil in the lampstand and said, "I'll be busy for a while, Brother Tian, you can sleep first." ”

"Well, it's not too late."

Song Tian put down the curtain and lifted the quilt and lay down.

In the dim light, he rolled from side to side a few times, and finally focused on the little girl outside the tent.

The light outlined half of her face in the dark, long eyelashes, shiny cheeks, a pair of small hands sometimes pulling threads, sometimes pricking needles, skillful movements to draw a brisk and beautiful arc.

In Song Tian's eyes, the little girl is beautiful at all times, but at this time, she is only a few steps away, but Song Tian feels that she is far away from him.

"Perhaps, I should have worked harder."

Song Tian thought so and slowly closed his eyes.

In the middle of the night, Ah Xiu yawned, put down the embroidery bandage and finally blew out the lamp.

Next door, Chang was still fighting under the lamp, and she had a trick in her hand that Ah Xiu had given her to try out in the afternoon, and she herself had already scrapped two pieces of cloth with the smallest embroidery bandage.

"No, I'll have to ask Ah Xiu to show me again tomorrow."

Chang Shi also yawned a long time after speaking, and he couldn't stand it.