Chapter 5 Adjusting to a new home
It has been more than 20 days since the relics traveled to the Tang Dynasty, and the days have been spent in the care of the Lu family, by Lu Jun, and by Lu Zhi.
Because the new emperor began to ascend to the throne, the countryside has recently secretly frequently talked about some things about the court, so after this period of patchwork, she has completely determined that although this era is the Tang Dynasty, it is definitely not the Tang Dynasty she knows, although the history is extremely similar, but there are still some differences.
The route of the times has not changed, but the details are much worse, for example, the current saint Li Shimin has become the eldest son of Gaozu Li Yuan, and the change of Xuanwumen has become an incident in which Li Jiancheng, the second son of Gaozu, was suppressed by the crown prince Li Shimin after he raised troops to seize the throne; The Sui Dynasty still has a faint emperor Emperor Yang of Sui, but the Emperor Yang of Sui here is not the Emperor Yang of Sui who is brutal and lewd in the construction of buildings, but a figure like Adou, who allowed his ministers to confuse the government and caused Li Yuan to raise troops to seize power.
After knowing this, she was relieved that the main track of the times was the same as the history she knew. This is a relatively peaceful era, from its prosperity to decline for a long time, to do not have to worry about the war caused by the people's livelihood, after all, she is now in a farming family, as the bottom of the society is naturally the most vulnerable part of the war to be sacrificed.
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When the harvest began in the past few days, the Lu family always took his second son to the field to supervise the work, so as not to steal and cheat on their own grain, and brought back the grain with an ox cart every night, preparing to wait for the government to collect the grain and then sell it together.
If the peasants wanted to save some effort, they generally sold it directly to the government for some money, and some would rather pull the grain to other places and sell it to the grain shop to earn a few more yuan. In the past, her family's output was sold directly to the government, and this year, the Lu family only had some left, which was planned to be milled into flour and used as a daily staple food for the relics.
The division of labor in the family is very clear, although the two elder brothers have reached the age of studying, but the Lu family itself has a good foundation, and she personally taught her to read and write, and now there is another legacy. Because Lu Jun himself doesn't like articles, since last year, he has been doing chores in a small martial arts hall in the town every two days to learn some boxing and kicking, and Lu Zhicong is easy to learn, so he gets up early every day to go to the mountain to graze cattle and graze and read books and study by the way. She has a ploughing cow at home, this cow is still very strong, often some village women come to borrow cattle to make a set of carts to drive to the market, Lu is not ambiguous, although often lend the cattle to others for nothing, but always ask those people to help buy firewood and things and so on.
As for the father who is said to have died of illness, although Yu Yu is curious, she will not take the initiative to mention this person who seems to have been deliberately forgotten by the mother and son, after all, she has passed for less than a month, and the ready-made family of three is still slowly adapting, let alone the dead.
On weekdays, the Lu family doesn't go out much, and before they start collecting grain, they only make some female celebrities at home to subsidize the family. The weather is gradually getting hotter, Lu Shi also took off his jacket and put on a short undergarment for Yu Yu, although it is a coarse cloth, it is also breathable and comfortable, Lu's female red is surprisingly good, for her who is used to wearing machine clothes in the new era, this homemade ready-to-wear garment is not good but the style is simple and generous. I paid attention to the clothes of the villagers next to me, and felt more and more that Lu's was not simple, and her needlework and craftsmanship were enough to catch up with the professionally trained embroiderers. Before she came here, her husband's family must have some ability, otherwise how could she marry a woman like Lu who can live a life and is proficient in all kinds of martial arts.
Although curious about the origin of Lu's marriage, but Yu Yu is more greedy for her good embroidery, you must know that it is the Shu embroidery, she is full of choking mother is the heir of the Shu embroidery school, from the age of four to take the needle, now it has been 30 years, in modern times it is comparable to the existence of giant pandas.
At first, Lu was afraid that her fingers would be worn out, but in the end, she couldn't stand her soft coquettishness, so she copingly gave her bandages and needlework to teach her something simple, just waiting for her to give up after she was fresh.
Yu Yu first began to embroider a few days but suffered a little, although it is not a brain-to-brain, but at the beginning it is inevitable that the tender fingers will be red and swollen, if it is really changed to other four-year-old children will definitely throw off the needle and thread, but this is nothing to her with a real adult soul, because she knows that in this era one more craft is more life security.
As an orphan, she grew up in the cold eyes of others since she was a child, and has always longed for the day when she can change everything through her own efforts, but some things are indeed not rewarded for people's efforts. In her previous life, she was due to the mediocrity of her qualifications, and it took her three times as long to figure out what others learned twice, so even if she tried her best, she was only admitted to a third-rate university. It's rare that she can do it all over again, and have what she dreamed of before, how could she waste her time and talent in vain.
It wasn't until Lu Shi was shocked to find that her little finger was grinding out of calluses, and Yi Yu only said to her innocently in a child's tone: "Yu'er wants to learn, she must learn well." ”
So from that day on, Lu also seriously taught her authentic Shu embroidery, this mother's idea is very simple: since her daughter wants to learn and perseverance, then she must teach with her heart, once she will not teach twice, until the church.
The pen and ink were too expensive, and there was only enough for Lu Zhi to practice calligraphy occasionally, so Lu Shi got some sand to sprinkle on the smooth ground, and took a branch to teach her about composition. Starting from the flowers and plants, Yi Yu was very surprised to see that although she painted sand and soil, her painting was also neat. Generally speaking, embroidery is to be patterned, but Lu is now just embroidering some simple small pieces to sell, for her who has been immersed in Shu embroidery for more than 30 years, some simple embroidery workers are just at hand, and her family heirloom this embroidery art does not need to be embroidered on the bottom liner. But Yi Yu admires her every time she threads the needle without a drawing, and she doesn't know when she will be able to reach this realm.
The second is color matching, because the cheap cotton thread has few colors to choose from, Lu always asked his eldest son to pick all kinds of flowers and plants at the corner of the mountain to teach her to distinguish colors.
The last and most important thing is the stitch, the authentic Shu embroidery pays attention to the smoothness and concealment of the stitches, the stitch is the richest of the four major embroidery categories, meticulous to more than 130 kinds, the finished product is better to be vivid and smooth, such as the dragonfly embroidered by Lu for the first time, it looks like a living thing.
Due to the benefits of crossing the belt, Yu Yu also easily complied with Lu's education, literacy and embroidery, although she deliberately slowed down the progress, but it still surprised the family and praised her for being smart. Especially the Lu family, every day after her study, she always looked at her with happy and joyful eyes, as if she never knew this daughter who had been raised for three years, and every night she coaxed her to sleep and shouted something like heart, liver and blood, bitterness and so on, although it made Yu Yu laugh secretly, but she was still happy to make Lu happy.
At first, Yi Yu was not very comfortable with the food without any oil and water, but after four or five days, he got used to eating it like that. Lu's cooking skills are still very good, and the boiled dishes are also very flavorful, and she bought flour more than half a month ago and came back to open a small stove for her to eat every day. The two brothers watched her eat the bread very greedily, but they never competed with her, and every time she tried to push the two of them to refuse, this also made her feel emotional, and she became more and more intimate with the mother and son.
As for the father who is said to have died of illness, although Yu Yu is curious, she will not take the initiative to mention this person who seems to have been deliberately forgotten by the mother and son, after all, she has passed for less than a month, and the ready-made family of three is still slowly adapting, let alone the dead.
This is exactly what it is, a cowshed and a house, a cow with 30 acres of land, an old lady can teach, a brother Xiwen and a brother Wu. Such a day has made her live a very leisurely life, less employment pressure and become a child again, without the beginning of the discomfort, under the care of the family, Yu Yu likes the current pastoral life very much.