Chapter 46: Something Happened to My Brother!
"Don't worry, Auntie, I know." Gu Changning nodded again and again like a chicken pecking at food and said, "I still understand the truth that wealth is not exposed, such a way to make money, if there are more people who know, it will not be uncommon!" ”
Speaking of this, Yang Huiyun was puzzled again, "How did you come up with the idea of selling vegetables in winter?" ”
Gu Changning looked at A-Niang with a look of "do you still need to ask?", and said: "Because I know that the price of rare things is very high, we only ate cabbage and radish in previous winters, and there were no other fresh vegetables, if different kinds of vegetables can be grown in winter, many people must buy them!" As soon as there are many people, won't the price go up? I still know this! ”
Yang Huiyun looked at her daughter's rather proud appearance, and shook her head with a smile, there was nothing she could do.
"Moreover, the last time I went to the market to sell raspberries, I listened to a few aunts in the stall next door chatting and said, they said that the vegetables in the restaurant in the winter are all imported from the south, and a dish of vegetables can be sold for two taels of silver, my ears were pricked up at that time, and I have been thinking about this since I came back, thinking that it would be great if our family could also grow vegetables in winter, and the result was not thought out by me!" Gu Changning said with a fluttering eyebrow, as if there was really such a group of aunts who had discussed this matter.
She knows that A-Niang is delicate, and if she is not careful, it will be easy to show her feet, so she must make up the words to perfection, it is best to be reasonable, and it is not easy to find someone to confront her, so that A-Niang's doubts can at least go to eight or nine points.
Besides, her current performance is completely in line with when she was eight years old, although she occasionally reveals maturity that does not belong to her age, but because of Gu Shan's death, everyone will also consciously think in their hearts that she was hit too hard by Gu Shan's death, and she grew up rapidly overnight, and they will not guess whether she was reborn or was stained by something.
So she was sure that A-Niang would no longer have any doubts about this matter.
Sure enough, Yang Huiyun listened to her words, and did not become suspicious, just sighed, lowered her head without saying anything, picked up the embroidery shed she put down, and continued to teach her daughter the skills of needlework.
She remembered that it was indeed after returning from the bazaar, Gu Changning suddenly began to actively go up the mountain to pick up firewood, I was afraid that she already had this idea at that time, but she was angry because Gu Changning was selling things alone in the bazaar, so Gu Changning didn't dare to tell her at that time.
Yang Huiyun restrained her emotions and cheered up to teach her daughter.
Gu Changning listened to A-Niang's teachings while putting down the needle, holding his own small handkerchief and embroidering a begonia petal in the blank space with a needle by stitch, looking serious and focused, and in other places of the handkerchief, she had already embroidered other tricks, which showed how deep her hard work has been these days.
Gu Shan passed away less than three months ago, Gu Changning can not use colorful embroidery threads to embroider, can only take light and elegant threads to depict, just the petals of begonia flowers are very elegant and fresh, even if you don't use bright and gorgeous embroidery threads, you can show its beauty to the fullest.
Yang Huiyun looked at Gu Changning's stitches that fell on the handkerchief, and nodded lightly with a hint of approval in her eyes.
Ning Ning has followed her to learn embroidery for more than half a month, and the stitches have diverged from the messy at the beginning to the current neat and fine, and the begonia petals she is embroidering are clearly layered, lifelike, and have seen the prototype.
In addition to being related to her diligent practice, it can be seen that Ning Ning is also a clever child, and over time, she will definitely be able to become an excellent embroiderer.
Gu Changning didn't know that her evaluation was so high in A-Niang's heart, she just wanted to work hard to embroider the patterns more beautifully and vividly, so that she could increase the price of embroidery in the future and improve the living conditions at home.
If she Gu Changning wants to do it, she will do the best!
The moon quietly climbed up the canopy above his head at such a warm moment, and the outside gradually became darker, Gu Changning saw that it was almost time to rest, so he returned to the house with his sewing basket.
When he left the main house, he still had a happy look on his face, and his feet fluttered lightly as if he were stepping on the breeze, and he hummed softly with joy.
Although Ah Niang didn't say anything, she could see a satisfied look on Ah Niang's face.
Forget about other aspects, if you can get a good face from A-Niang in embroidery, it means that she has completed it very well, of course she is happy, and she feels that she is one step closer to her goal!
The sky was dark, Gu Huai'an silently closed the door of the study, frowned slightly, and walked to his bedroom with a solemn expression on his face.
There was such a big incident in the school today, and that Master Lin didn't know if he could stay in the school to teach.
To be honest, it's not a pity that a gentleman like Lin Fuzi is gone, but once he goes, there is no master to teach them for the time being.
Gu Huai'an is very complicated now, he hopes that this Master Lin can leave the school because of this matter, and he can have more time copying books to supplement his family, but he is afraid that he will delay his studies because of this.
was in a dilemma, and suddenly heard Gu Changning's cheerful tune coming into his ears, Gu Huai'an was slightly stunned, raised his eyes and glanced ahead, and saw Gu Changning's back just disappearing at the door of her room.
He didn't stop Gu Changning, but just stood in place, with a trace of dazedness and fragility on his face.
He has struggled internally these days.
He knew that the current situation in his family was not good, and he also knew how heavy the annual restraint of the school was for families without a male master.
Before Ning Ning persuaded him to go back to school, he also agreed with a brain fever, without thinking carefully about whether it would bring too much burden to his family.
Now that he calms down and thinks about it, Gu Huaian feels that he is too ignorant, even his eight-year-old sister is already thinking about his livelihood, and he can still continue to study with peace of mind.
Not to mention that after the uncles and aunts in the village learned the news, they secretly ridiculed him for his good life, even if Daddy went, he didn't need him to support the family, which made his already depressed mood even worse.
And now there is a new master, this new master is still an eye-opener, all the students who have given him benefits have been treated politely by him, and those who have not been sent have been tempered by him, which makes Gu Huaian wonder if his decision to return to school is the right choice.
The night was cool, the moon hung in the sky, and the courtyard was silent.
Gu Changning and Yang Huiyun had already rested, and there was no movement in the house.
Gu Huai'an stood quietly alone in the courtyard in a daze, the frost-white moonlight as cool as water shone on his body, coated with a layer of soft halo, and the whole person looked like a piece of jade with a luster color.
After a while, Gu Huai'an laughed silently as if he had suddenly figured it out, turned around and went back to his room.
He is really a demonic obstacle, A-Niang endured the grief in her heart, and her sister worked hard without shouting tired, in order to hope that he could study hard, take the imperial examination, and improve the current situation of the family.
As for Lin Fuzi, who he was worried about...... Whether Master Lin can stay in the school or not is not up to him, when the time comes, he will decide what he wants to do, it is better to rest early and get up early to copy books, and it is right to complete his task.
Gu Huai'an, who had figured this out, no longer struggled, he lay on the kang, let out a long breath of turbidity, and looked at the pitch-black beams on the roof, the tiredness of the past few days rolled up in his heart, his eyes closed, and he soon fell asleep, as if the person who was hesitating and questioning just now was not him.
The next day, he continued to act like a nobody, carrying his schoolbag and leaving the house with lunch, Gu Changning watched him the whole time and didn't notice a flaw, in this regard, the brother and sister's ability to whitewash Taiping is still very strong.
At the time of Shen, Gu Changning had already finished the work at home, and at this time he was sitting with his own sewing basket and Yang Jin and the others under a big banyan tree in the open space of the village, discussing their respective embroidery work.
Gu Changning arranged all the things to be done every day in an orderly manner.
First of all, after breakfast in the early morning, she went to the chicken coop to add water and chicken food, and cleaned the chicken coop by the way.
Then water the garden and clean the front yard.
After sweeping the front yard, I washed the clothes that I had changed the day before, and dried them on the bamboo poles in the front yard, and the work at home was almost completed in the morning.
The reason why I didn't wash the clothes first and then clean the yard was because I was afraid that the clothes would be stained by the dust swept up in the yard when they were drying, so wouldn't the clothes be washed in vain?
That's why you have to sweep the yard first and then wash your clothes.
It took about an hour to complete this, and there was still an hour before noon, and she was not in a hurry to make lunch, so she and the rest of the people went up the mountain to collect firewood, and waited until it was almost noon to go home and cook, without any delay.
After lunch, she rested in her house for an hour, and went to A-Niang's house to learn embroidery when the sun was at its hottest.
If they still want to go up the mountain to find something, she will follow them to collect firewood, and if they don't want to move, find a shady place to sit, she will follow.
In short, she cherishes the present moment very much, unlike in her previous life, she refused the invitation of the little sister from time to time because she was too hot, and she was much more gregarious than before.
It is precisely because of this that after everyone began to learn to make clothes, they had one more activity -
Sit under the big banyan tree and practice embroidery.
Embroidery is something that every girl in the farmhouse has to learn, mainly because the ready-to-wear is too expensive.
If you go to the shop to buy ready-to-wear clothes, you can buy one or two pieces of fabric for the price you spend and come back to make several clothes, which is very not cost-effective, and only the ladies and ladies of large families will invite someone to do it.
It is because the girls in the village generally have to start learning this after the age of ten, not only in order to make clothes for themselves in the future, but also to marry their husbands, the family's clothes including shoes have to be made, and the embroidery workers do not learn.
Not only do you have to learn, like those girls who are good at embroidery, you have to grab them, after all, outstanding embroidery means that there is one more way to make money, and such girls don't have to worry about not being able to get married.
It's not that if you don't do a good job in embroidery, you can't marry at all, and the average person picks a daughter-in-law, mainly looking at a few points.
First, the body is strong, and the sick don't want to.
The second is to be able to work, the work here does not only refer to embroidery, such as being able to go to the field to farm, raise chickens, raise ducks and pigs.
The third is to eat less, if you can eat ten catties of rice in one meal, even if you can farm again, then people don't want it.
The harvest is not as much as she can eat, and who can't think of it will marry this girl.
It just so happened that Gu Changning met all these three points, so she was not worried that she would not be able to get married.
Well...... Of course, she doesn't quite fit the second point yet, because the embroiderer is still learning.
But Gu Changning is not afraid at all, she firmly believes that she will be able to shine in embroidery!
After all, she is A-Niang's daughter.
This point has also been confirmed in a few friends, and I didn't see that they rushed to ask Gu Changning if they didn't understand anything, which shows that her embroiderers are far ahead among these people.
Therefore, when Gu Changning pointed out the problems of several little girls' embroidery, a loud voice shouted at her from afar.
"Changning, something happened to your brother!"