"Looking for them is to look at their craftsmanship! What's the matter? Who dares to disagree? Is your sister-in-law or your third sister-in-law saying sour things, or do you have an opinion? Mrs. Li asked vigilantly, as long as Mei Xiaotong said yes, she would go and scold the two daughters-in-law.

Mei Xiaotong hurriedly reassured: "No, no! Mother, I was thinking, I will always marry one day in the future, I can't get married, and I have to do needlework with my sisters-in-law, you mean? Anyway, I'll learn a little bit more, and I can just mend a dress or something. ”

There is some truth to that.

No matter how much he spoils his daughter at home, but when this girl gets married, she is from someone else's family, and she really can't even take a needle.

It's just that my daughter herself is not clear? Don't look at what she says now, it is estimated that it is still the impact of withdrawing from her family, and if she really wants to calm down and learn, it is estimated that she will not be able to.

However, in the past few days, some rumors in this village have really spread, saying that the Mei family has committed something, why have a son and a daughter been dismissed?

Did the Mei family do something bad?

Or simply say that your fourth child and daughter have something that can't be said or something like that.

On the grounds of learning needlework, it is better to detain your daughter at home for a few days, and then go out when this rumor has dispersed, so that her daughter will not be happy when she goes out and hears it.

The people who spread these gossips, Mrs. Li knew with her feet, it must be Li Dagui's family.

It is estimated that he thinks that his daughter's reputation has stinked, so he simply went into the water at Lamei's house.

This kind of rumor is not painful, and it is not a matter of conduct, it is mainly aimed at Mei Changgui, but Mei Changgui is not in a hurry to marry his daughter-in-law for a while, and this rumor really can't hurt him.

It's Mei Xiaotong who was purely piggybacked, this girl is different, it hinders her reputation, especially Mei Xiaotong's age, in the Zhuang family, it is not small, and generally girls of this age have families.

After Mei Xiaotong was dismissed, although Mrs. Li was glad that her daughter didn't have to jump into the fire pit of the Song family, she was also anxious, and she took the matter of reputation very seriously.

When I first heard this, Mrs. Li was so angry!

the broom and smacked his son the back.

Drew Mei Changgui almost doubted life.

Now that I heard the girl say this, I thought about it for a while, and I agreed.

Since the girl wants to learn, whether she is serious or not, the teachable person can't be sloppy.

Thinking about it, the two daughters-in-law in the family, the old family's work is a good hand, and the needlework is ordinary, and the countrymen don't pay attention to this, just don't pay attention to the size of the stitches.

My daughter, I must learn well, that is, the third family, although I don't talk much on weekdays, and my body is weak and can't work in the field, but I heard that the dead mother turned out to be an embroidery girl, the third family, not to say the truth, can learn two or three crafts, it is enough in the countryside.

On weekdays, she also noticed that the children's clothes in the third room were all clean, the patches were all smooth, and the stitches were fine, which was Wen's craftsmanship.

Then Wen's!

Mrs. Li slapped the board and called Wen over.

Wen was summoned by her mother-in-law, and she was apprehensive, but when she arrived at the main house, she was relieved to hear her mother-in-law say that she would hand over her sister-in-law to herself and let her teach her how to needlework.

She has always remembered what her sister-in-law helped last time.

Although she knew that Mei Xiaotong was probably just talking about it and wouldn't learn it seriously, she still planned to teach it with her heart.

I happily agreed.

Mrs. Li agreed when she saw that the Wen family didn't fight for a while, she was satisfied, and her expression was relaxed, although the third family was useless, she was quite honest.

Wen agreed to teach, Mei Xiaotong was in a hurry to complete the task, it was morning at the moment, neither hot nor cold, the sun was good, it was better to choose a day than to hit the day, it was recommended to do it today.

Although Wen was surprised that her sister-in-law was suddenly so active, it was a good thing that she was interested, so she simply went back to the house to move the sewing basket out, and sat in the yard to teach her how to thread the needle.

Mei Xiaotong looked confused!

It's not the same as she imagined, okay? Although she didn't think about flying needles and threads at the beginning, why don't you give a piece of cloth and let her take two stitches first?

Wen also taught respectfully on the side: "Little sister, if you want to learn needlework, you must first be able to thread needles and threads, you learn to thread needles first, and I will give you a demonstration——"

As he spoke, he gently pulled the thread with his tongue, and then pointed it towards the sun, and with a slight movement of his fingers, the thread passed through.

Mei Xiaotong discovered that although Wen's hands have been doing housework for many years, and the joints are slightly thicker, the fingers are slender and fair, the skin is delicate, the nails are trimmed and round, and there are no calluses on the fingers.

It didn't look like a rural woman's hands.

Look at your hands again, they are as fat as pig's trotters, and their fingers are thick, more like the hands of a woman in the village than Wen's hands.

immediately let out a sigh of relief, "Third sister-in-law, how do you maintain your hands?" ”

Wen's body stiffened, his hands paused, lowered his head to divide the thread, and said softly: "If you want to do a good job of needlework and thread, the most important thing is to maintain a good pair of hands, otherwise, if your hands are rough, you will scratch the fabric and thread." My mother used to be an embroidery girl, and she had a special hand guard. Soak your hands in rice water every day, rub your hands with lard for a quarter of an hour before going to bed, and then cover your hands with a cloth, and hold on for a period of time, and your hands will become tender. ”

Mei Xiaotong nodded, she had heard of the wonderful use of rice washing water before, and she also knew that in the past, women in the countryside had no money to buy skin care products, so they used lard to prevent their hands from cracking.

Look at your hands, well, what woman doesn't want to have double slender hands? My pair of pig's trotters should be able to be rescued after losing weight, right?

Wen saw that Mei Xiaotong only nodded and didn't speak, she was a little scared in her heart, and she said a little tentatively: "Little sister, the lard I wipe my hands every day is not taken from the kitchen, I am looking for someone else to change it, don't tell my mother-" She knew that this matter could not be hidden, so she simply confessed it, lest Mrs. Li know that the autumn queen will settle the account.

Mei Xiaotong didn't understand it at first, but it took a moment to react, and she just wanted to open her mouth to comfort Wen and say that it was nothing.

When the words came to his mouth, he thought of his own personality, so he had to swallow it back again, and deliberately made a high-spirited appearance: "Then you have to teach me well, I won't tell my mother!" ”

Wen nodded gratefully, and taught Mei Xiaotong a set of hand exercises to exercise finger flexibility and flexibility that his mother passed on to him, which was regarded as hush money.

Mei Xiaotong originally felt that her fingers were too stiff, but after learning this finger exercise, after practicing twice, she did feel that her fingers were hot and not so stiff.

Only then did he start to pull the needle, just such a simple action, for the current Mei Xiaotong, it is very difficult.

The fingers are too thick, the needles are too thin, and they can't get it, if it was Mei Xiaotong before, she would have dropped her thing a long time ago, lost her temper and left.

But now Mei Xiaotong, what she lacks most is patience and determination.

She can calmly accept it when she crosses here, what is it to wear a needle?

Wen looked stiff and tense on the side, always guarding against her sister-in-law from leaving violently.

As a result, I was surprised to find that although Mei Xiaotong was sweating profusely from practice, she didn't look impatient at all.

After a full quarter of an hour, Mei Xiaotong laboriously picked up a needle.

Wen breathed a sigh of relief.

Hurriedly took out a handkerchief and gave it to Mei Xiaotong: "Little sister, wipe the sweat on your palms, no matter when, as long as you pick up the needle and thread, there can be no sweat in your palms, otherwise it will be stained on the thread and cloth, and it will be a flaw." ”

These are her mothers, who taught her sentence by sentence when she was a child, and she also wanted to pass all this on to Xiaoque, but Xiaoque couldn't sit still in a hurry, and she had to help herself do the work with her younger brother, so she really didn't have time to learn this.

She was under Mrs. Li's nose during the day, and she didn't have a moment to spare, and everyone was tired at night, and she couldn't teach it in the dark, so she dragged it out until today, but she told her sister-in-law first.

Mei Xiaotong nodded, took the handkerchief and wiped her sweat.

Like Wen's method of threading a needle, he faced the light and tried to thread the thread through the pinhole again and again.

In Wen's hands, the needlework that was obedient was very disobedient in Mei Xiaotong's hands.

Countless times and pinholes misplaced.

Mei Xiaotong's hands were sore, and her eyes felt flowery, so she finally found a little feeling and threaded the thread in.

Wen didn't dare to say much, but he just glanced at this sister-in-law in his heart, but he didn't expect that people who are lazy and selfish on weekdays and have a bad temper are still very tenacious after they really settle down.

In particular, she didn't know if it was an illusion, looking at Mei Xiaotong from the side like this, how could she feel that her sister-in-law seemed to be thinner than a few days ago?

The bulging flesh on his cheeks has disappeared a little, and the eyes are as thin as a slit by the fat meat, and now it looks like the slit is a little wider.

However, Wen felt that he was probably dazzled, how could her sister-in-law lose weight if she ate and drank well?

Bah! I must have thought too much about it.

In the courtyard of Mei's house, the Zhou family was embarrassed in the room, and the little beans went out to play, Mei Zhongzhong was probably still angry with Mei Changgui's marriage in the past few days, holding the cigarette bag and pot and not letting go, and the room was covered with clouds and mountains.

In the past two nights, Mei Xiaotong often heard coughing in the middle of the night in her father's house, and a cough was in the middle of the night.

Mei Xiaotong also saw Mei Zhongzhong in the morning, her face was not very good, but her spirit was okay, especially after drinking loquat water, she didn't cough, Mei Xiaotong comforted him a few words, and said something about the fourth brother who would marry him in the future, and Mei Zhongzhong would give him a palm, so that Mei Zhongzhong could finally lift his spirit a little.

As long as you don't cough and make up for it, it shouldn't be a big deal.

Countrymen are like this, this kind of small problem naturally does not go to the doctor, they all use earthwork to treat headache and brain fever or something.

Mrs. Li saw that the man in charge could sleep peacefully, so she was relieved to hand over Mei Xiaotong to the Wen family and went out.

During this time, just after spring ploughing, the villagers can take a breath, and they are only busy with some light work in the vegetable garden at home.

There are many Mei families, these things, the eldest son and the third family did it easily, plus the old family was scolded by her so much that they didn't dare to come out these days, and the rest of the family, which one didn't live by looking at her.

In addition, everyone in Lingshan Village knows that the Mei family got ten taels of silver for retiring from their relatives, and those families with thin backgrounds don't look at the Mei family's family background, just look at the share of this silver, and there is that family who has secretly asked someone to ask if they want to marry their daughter to Mei Changgui, and they don't want much, just five taels of silver dowry.

Mrs. Li's confidence is getting more and more full, she has been running to the village entrance under the locust tree to chat with a bunch of old ladies as soon as she is free these days, with her present, it is not good for others to say some gossip about the Mei family, and the person who wants to marry the Mei family and marry her daughter in the past is holding her in and out of the words, following her, and saying a few words about the Li family.