I don't know how my father and mother discussed, the next day Mai Wang still went to the town, and Mai Xiaofang was depressed when she learned the news.

Mai Xiaohuan squatted next to Xiaozao to boil goat's milk, which her father helped squeeze when he left in the morning, fortunately, there were apricot trees at home, and she also found that almonds were not bitter, which was great, and there was one more tonic.

Mai Xiaofang, who had fed chickens, ducks and dogs and cleaned the yard, sat next to her sister, and she wanted to witness how such an unpleasant thing was swallowed.

Mai Xiaohuan pinched his nose with his left hand, picked up the bowl with his right hand, and drank a bowl of goat's milk in a few gulps. Mai Xiaofang hurriedly stuffed a small pinch of brown sugar into her mouth, and then looked at her sister with infinite sympathy, waiting for her to cry to herself.

At this time, the brothers who went outside to herd cattle and mow the grass also came back, and they also came over to watch the excitement, Mai Yonghai joked: "Little sister has drunk enough, or the second brother will squeeze you another bowl." ”

"Hiccup" Mai Xiaohuan held her breath hard, and only after confirming that the goat's milk was in her stomach did she open her mouth and say, "It's not so unpleasant, second brother, can you help me collect some apricot kernels?" ”

Mai Xiaofang poked her sister and scolded with a smile: "What are you talking about, tell you!" Don't be in the bed with me tonight, I don't want to be woken up in the middle of the night by the smell of goat's milk. ”

"Then I'll go again in the middle of the night, blow two breaths under your nose, and you'll wake up directly." Mai Xiaohuan tasted it for a while, although the taste was still not small, he could only reluctantly accept it. Next, she has to find someone to accompany her to the mountain to explore treasures, and she will be content to pick some wolfberries and mushrooms.

As soon as she heard that the little girl was going up the mountain, Shan Cuihua lifted the curtain of the linen cloth and walked out, she also looked at the empty bowl on the table curiously, this child really drank! Thinking of the taste of goat's milk, Shan Cuihua stroked her chest with her own hands, and endured the nausea to teach Mai Xiaohuan: "You can't go anywhere if you stay at home honestly, so I can't go anywhere, so I can't go to practice embroidery if I have nothing to do!" ”

It's not that Mai Xiaohuan is lazy and doesn't want to embroider, it's that the materials her eldest sister got back are not plain, and how can she embroider them with flowers! The rest are all clothes worn in the field, embroidered for the land lord to see?

Mai Yonghai said with a yearning look on his face: "I saw people in the county with purses, and I also want one, Xiao Huan, will you do it." ”

This can be had, Mai Xiaohuan nodded, how could he have embroidered cross-stitch, and it is not difficult to sew a purse.

The other three people all thought that Mai Xiaohuan was bragging, and they couldn't count on her for the work at home anyway, Shan Cuihua threw her a piece of cyan silk cloth, and went out to work with a ball of white thread. The eldest girl will be back tomorrow at the latest, and she has to take Xiaofang to clean the house, and let the two sons go to catch a few fish in the afternoon, and then kill a chicken, and then leave a chicken leg for the little girl.

Looking at the white seam and blue cloth in front of her, Mai Xiaohuan wondered if her mother had made clothes for so many years, or was it a popular mix and match style in this Xirui country? Mai Xiaohuan went to the needlework basket to find a thread that could be matched, and silently sketched the pattern in her heart, she couldn't expose the fact that she would use needlework at once, today's purse was only embroidered with a few bamboo leaves, her idea was to either not do it, since she did it, it would be like that.

Compared with things like holding firewood and cooking, embroidering purses is really easy, Mai Xiaohuan spent a morning embroidering bamboo leaves, and another afternoon to sew the purses.

At dinner in the evening, McWan came back alone, yo! It's great that the rich lady didn't come back with her, and Mai Xiaofang just wanted to cheer, when she heard the second brother sneer: "What are you happy about, the eldest sister just didn't go back with her father tonight, and she will still come tomorrow." ”

Why?

Mai Xiaohuan glanced at the second sister sympathetically, why else, if the eldest sister comes back at night, who can see the scenery of her riding in the carriage, how to show the maid, mother-in-law, fabrics, and food to the parents and villagers in Shaxi Village!

Seeing the disdainful look of her youngest son and daughter, Shan Cuihua tapped the table with chopsticks and warned: "You all give me some peace tomorrow, your father just said that your brother-in-law is also coming, let's go to bed early after eating, and we have to get up early tomorrow!" ”

This eldest girl just gave herself a long face, and she gave birth to two grandchildren after three years of marriage, and now the Dou family's silver is spent by her, and even Dou Liangfu has to nod and agree if she wants to accept a small one.

If Mai Xiaohuan knew what her mother was proud of, she would definitely be unable to help but pour cold water, shouldn't a good man only love his wife? Duna is still worth showing off when he is small, and Mai Xiaohuan can only hehe.

"Little sister, is my purse ready?" Mai Yonghai didn't want to mention the eldest sister's family, a rich man in the town, and the portrait of the pie came from the capital, so the people of Shaxi Village had never seen a rich person! The Tang family in Qingcheng County is the real gentry! Brother-in-law Dou Liangfu is nothing in front of others, and he is just playing prestige in Pingliang County and the surrounding villages.

Mai Xiaohuan swallowed the mixed noodle bun in his hand, drank the soup, went back to the house, took out the purse, and handed it to the second brother.

The five heads came up together, and Mai Xiaohuan didn't hear a response after a long time, thinking that his first work had failed?

Shan Cuihua wiped her mouth, picked up her purse and asked Mai Xiaohuan: "Did you embroider the bamboo on this?" ”

Mai Xiaohuan wanted to emphasize that she embroidered bamboo leaves, not bamboo, and after thinking about it, she felt that in her mother's heart, it was estimated that bamboo leaves and bamboo meant the same thing, so she nodded and admitted.

If the girl practices this craft in the future, she will not starve to death, Shan Cuihua "hehe" laughed twice and said: "After your eldest sister leaves, I will take you to Xujiatun, where there is an elderly embroiderer, just point to the apprentice for a living, you go to worship her as a master, learn to embroider, and it will be a way out in the future." ”

In this patriarchal dynasty, it is not easy to meet such a mother who still knows that she remembers her daughter, Mai Xiaohuan nodded sensibly.

Mai Yonghai hung his purse on his belt and shook his head angrily, as if with this purse, he would become the young master of a rich family. To thank his sister, he promised to take her up the mountain in a few days.

"Make one for the second sister, Xiao Huan, you can embroider no, it doesn't matter what kind of flower it is, as long as it means that." Mai Xiaofang is not demanding, who makes her as a girl have a headache as soon as she gets a needle and thread?

Seeing that the eldest brother also looked at him, Mai Xiaohuan instantly found a sense of existence and promised to embroider one for the eldest brother and the second sister. When she turned around and asked her father if she wanted it, Shan Cuihua said that it was inconvenient to bring that thing to work, but Mai Wan just shook his head and didn't say a word.

"Eat quickly, then go to bed early, get me up early tomorrow morning, do you hear?"

I almost forgot that tomorrow there will be a big shot! Mai Xiaofang secretly prayed while cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, it would be better to rain heavily tomorrow, or the carriage would break down as soon as the eldest sister left the house, and she really didn't want to entertain her!