Yi Yu put the backpack on the mahogany table and opened it, and it was indeed the good needlework and embroidery that the Lu family entrusted Steward Li from Chang'an City a few days ago, and remembered the conversation between the two maids, as if the more handsome one was the daughter of Steward Li and the sister of the black-faced little girl Li Le, and compared the three of them one by one in their hearts when they spoke and acted, and secretly said that it really didn't look like a family.

After she put her things away, she wanted to continue practicing calligraphy, but the previous thing was somewhat bad mood, and she stopped after ticking the second word, thinking that when Lu Shi went out in the morning, she said that she would come back at noon, and it was almost noon, and it was time to start the stove, so she packed up a few cases, got up and went to the small kitchen of the cubicle.

The most satisfying thing in this small courtyard is probably here, compared to their simple stove in the countryside, this small kitchen is more spacious, and it is full of kitchen utensils.

As soon as she took the firewood and was about to light the fire, she heard a knock on the door outside the courtyard, and after running out to open the courtyard door, she saw Lu Shi and Liu Xiangxiang standing at the door wiping their sweat.

"Why did you come back so early?" After entering the house, Yu Yu hurriedly poured water for the two of them.

After drinking the water in the teacup in one gulp, Lu Shi replied while fanning the wind with his sleeve: "Something happened to the peasant workers we hired in the village, and a child came to the field to deliver a letter, and then several people went back. ”

Yi Yu asked curiously, "What's wrong?" ”

"It seems that because of a forest under the mountain in the south," Lu sighed lightly, "a few years ago, several families in their village bought a piece of terrain at the foot of the mountain in the south to prepare for mulberry planting, but the seedlings planted in winter began to die in the spring. ”

Liu Xiangxiang said on the side: "Coincidentally, after they left, I talked to the child who delivered the letter, who did you say that sold the land?" It's the house we live in now across the street, Xu's house. I think there are also rich and powerful people in that house, and since the land has been sold, I am afraid that I will never pay them back. ”

After listening to Lu's explanation, a thought flashed in his mind, and now after listening to Liu Xiangxiang's words, he only felt that the thought became clearer and clearer. After Lu and Liu Xiangxiang rested, they got up and went to the kitchen to cook, leaving her alone to sit in the room in a daze with her chin on her chin.

***

After lunch, the three of them sat in the bedroom to do work, Liu Xiangxiang stayed in Zhang Zhen for four years, just serving Zheng Li's diet and daily life every day, and had never practiced female red, today I saw Lu Shi packed up the things to do the work and said that he wanted to teach her family embroidery, it was inevitable that she was surprised and delighted and cried, and was deliberately laughed at by Yu Yu before stopping.

Lu Shi picked out the needle and thread, and handed it to Yiyu with a medium-sized bandage, and said: "I didn't buy a big bandage, I embroidered some small pieces to make handkerchiefs and pouches and other things, your female red is already good, and when we save the money, we will buy an embroidery frame, and then teach you a large one." ”

Yi Yu's eyes lit up when she heard it, she had been tired of embroidering those little things for a few years, one was that there was no embroidery frame at home, and the other was that Lu always said that she was not skilled enough in stitching, and she never had the opportunity to do something big, other girls didn't know what to think, but Yu Yu used embroidery as entertainment to do, not only to hone her patience, but also to pass the time, and the finished product can also be exchanged for money, which is already another hobby for her in addition to practicing calligraphy.

Although Liu Xiangxiang doesn't know how to be a female red, she knows that the things made with the embroidery frame are much more difficult than the bandage, she doesn't know the craftsmanship of the jade, at first she heard Lu say this, only when she coaxed the jade to play, and so on for more than half an hour, she barely embroidered a peach blossom under the guidance of the Lu family, and when she was distracted to see the jade, she saw that the bandage in the other party's hand had a pair of thumb-sized, delicate and small white-headed long-tailed birds came out, and the two birds were interspersed with a cluster of emerald green and red, and the end was vivid.

", mother," it wasn't until Yu Yu took off the bandage and began to lock the edge that Liu Xiangxiang turned her head and stammered at Lu Shi and asked, "Xiao, Xiaoyu, how long have you been studying?" ”

Lu Shi did not stop the needlework in his hand, and replied without raising his head: "It's been four or five years." ”

Liu Xiangxiang pointed at Yu Yu with a strange look and asked, "Didn't Xiao Yu just celebrate her ninth birthday before, and she started learning this at the age of four?" ”

Lu Shi raised his head and smiled at her, "It's not too early, I also started to learn female popularity when I was five years old, but I don't have a good temperament like her, and I don't cry pain when I grind my hands, but when I was a child, I cried to my mother because of needles and threads." After speaking, she looked at Yi Yu, and saw the little girl looking up and smiling at herself, her expression became more and more gentle.

Liu Xiangxiang knew that Yu Yu had been stupid for a few years, she moved from other places when she was young, and after Yu Yu was found to be demented, whether adults or children in the village, there were some strange psychology, sympathy, disgust, and schadenfreude, Liu Xiangxiang was more kind, although she was young at that time, she didn't follow those naughty children to shout Yu Xiao fool, but she felt pity for this little girl who couldn't speak.

Later, I don't remember which year, Yiyu suddenly got better, the Liu family and the Lu family are in the east of a village and a village in the west, there is no communication on weekdays, she has some impressions of Yiyu, or on the day Zheng Li sent someone to the village, the Lu family mobilized the villagers to donate money to her family, in the courtyard of the Lu family, she saw Lu Zhi and Zhiyu sitting on the threshold with an intimate attitude, and she was sold by her brother, she only felt extremely envious.

Unexpectedly, four years later, they met their mother and daughter again in the Zhang family's house, and escaped together with another twist and turn. For the Lu family, she was grateful back then, so she agreed without hesitation when the other party proposed to recognize her as her daughter.

Although she left her hometown and came to this strange place, she has been working in the field every day in recent days, and when she comes back every day when she is tired, she just wants to fall asleep, which is not as easy as doing a room with Zheng Li, but she likes such days, there are relatives who care, someone can say intimate words, and someone teaches her to read and write.

"Mother, you said last time that you wanted to make clothes for your eldest sister, which color material did you use?" Yi Yu put the things in his hand aside, poked his little head and rummaged through the backpack on the low table, and asked after seeing the two colors of clothing materials.

"The blue-colored, tooth-white one is going to make some underwear for the two of you." Lu Shi glanced up at Yi Yu before noticing Liu Xiangxiang who was in a daze, chuckled, patted her forehead, and said, "What's the matter, I learned from Xiaoyu, and I was stunned from time to time." ”

Liu Xiangxiang collected a trace of confusion in her eyes due to memories, turned around and smiled at Lu Shi, "It's okay, godmother, you can tell me about it here, I can't embroider well." After speaking, she stretched out her finger and pointed to the crooked peach blossom on the flower she was holding, and gently hung her head to make a listening appearance.

Lu Shi didn't pay attention to the flash of water in her eyes when she lowered her head, and only taught her gently.