In the month of Layue, those who have a big daughter and a little daughter-in-law at home have started to be on duty in advance with new clothes and new decorations for the New Year. When the women make new clothes, they mostly go to the cloth stall to pull two rulers at the market, and then come back together to sew them by hand. The countrymen are dressed, men's wide-brimmed green cloth shirts, green cloth pants, green cloth hats, and a small melon skin hat; There are many women, wide-sleeved skirts, narrow-sleeved spiral jackets, horse-faced long skirts, a few silver coins at home, and a silk thread-inlaid armor.

As for this new ornament, in addition to buying some cloth flowers at the market, most of them are to go to Li Silversmith's house to make a few decent faces.

It is this year's wax moon, and Li Silversmith's home is particularly lively.

In addition to the two masters, Qian and Yue, two of the apprentices were selected as foils.

Diancui is naturally one, these days are eating and living in Li Silversmith's house, Qian Laosi's family wishes she ate in another home, plus now she is at work, Li Silversmith also gives three coppers every day, and Qian Laosi's family paid out this salary early.

The people who came to make a face were all village women around Fangyuan, and the styles required were not very elaborate and complicated, most of them were new and generous.

Diancui learned the tired silk of the month, and learned solidly, and now most of the simple sample jewelry can be made alone, and Master Yue gave her to do some small inserts and pecking needles.

Small inserts and pecking needles are small pieces, about five cents of silver each, and most people like some delicate and interesting styles such as flowers and grass insects.

Flowers, curly grass these are also simple, dotted cui made of half-open lotus, broken branch peach blossoms, peony leaves...... The one who made the lotus leaf and used copper wire to weave a small toad on it, and as a result, this golden cicada lying lotus leaf sold the best, and the silversmith Li hurriedly urged Diancui to make more than a dozen pieces in a row.

There are also slightly more expensive pecking needles, about eight cents of silver, which are some dragonflies to point water, butterflies to flap their wings, and bees to catch flowers...... In the same way, the tentacles of these butterfly insects are the most critical, and they should be pulled by a very fine silk with a slightly thicker silver needle, and they should be wound around one by one, and after the silver needle is withdrawn, it must be so that each circle can not be too sparse or too dense. The particular thing is to insert it on the head, and as soon as you walk the aisle, the tentacles of the butterfly insect can tremble and tremble, bringing a smart and delicate beauty.

Within a few days, Diancui made this kind of pecking needle and small insert was already handy, and then the two masters simply let her go and asked her to be responsible for making a peck needle insert. This little cui can be busy, in addition to the people who have been scheduled to do it before, there are also to do something else, look at the peck needle insert made of some cui, and immediately add a few points of silver.

No one could have imagined that her little apprentice would be of such great use in the last month of the New Year's Festival. As soon as the silversmith Li was happy, he sealed the red envelope of five coins of silver with her, and instructed the people in the courtyard to remember to hide it from the fourth family of the old man.

Five coins of silver is not a small amount in Diancui, the next year officially became an apprentice, only eight coppers a day, ten coppers for one cent of silver, ten dollars of silver for one penny of silver, these five coins of silver, exchanged for copper, but the whole five hundred coppers.

After the bustling annual fair on the twenty-third day of the lunar month, Diancui and they finally became idle. Diancui took a half-day off, went to the market, and spent a fortune in the ready-to-wear shop to buy a fine green cloth wide-sleeved soap-colored edge of the straight-body gown, another 20 coppers, a pair of Xuanbu thick-soled Chen Qiao shoes, 10 coppers, and a square Pingding Confucian scarf.

These are naturally bought for Yuan Zhiheng, there are a few Confucian scholars in the village within a radius of a few miles, but most of them are poor, and there are a few such large-sleeved robes, which are not many such clothes in the ready-to-wear shop.