didn't say anything, but Man Xiu felt the same way, and couldn't help but be angry: "Lack of affection, your father is not a thing." "It's the same person as Tang Meiniang.

Grandma Li's mouth was bitter: "Are you going back to Luohe City?" ”

Xin Shansi didn't say anything, she didn't know where to go.

didn't wait for an answer, Grandma Li didn't care, and poured some medicinal oil into the palm of her hand. Man Xiu was numb in pain, and his eyes were staring at Shanniang's dexterous hand.

There was silence in the room. Xin Shansi laid a good plum blossom vein, and Grandma Li also rubbed her feet for Manxiu. She put the medicinal oil back into the house: "I'll go boil the water, you wash it first." ”

At the mention of "washing", Xin Shansi was embarrassed again, pulled her lips and smiled bitterly, got up and went outside the house, and took out the cloth bag in the back basket. The rabbit she caught before was still breathing, and she looked at Grandma Li: "Can I use this to change clothes with you?" It doesn't have to be very good, you can wear it. ”

"I have clothes, you wear mine." Man Xiu shouted in the house.

Grandma Li looked down at the rabbit, and said slowly, "You didn't bring a change of clothes?" ”

"Brought food." Xin Shansi whispered, her face flushed.

Sighing, Grandma Li turned around and went to the West House, and she didn't take out a bag in a while: "The embroidered girl left two bodies, you are about the same size as her, and you will wear it." ”

Xin Shansi really didn't know what to say, ordinary people in this world couldn't pull two clothes in a year, her mouth was open for a long time, and finally she only thanked her, took the burden with both hands, and her eyes were moist: "I met a good person." ”

"You saved the embroidery." She didn't do this to everyone, Grandma Li bent over and picked up the rabbit and went to the backyard.

The house is full of embroidery, a little unhappy, Tang Meiniang ran away, why did the milk still keep her clothes?

"Shanniang, wear mine first tonight. The two bodies you are holding must be washed well. ”

Xin Shansi hugged the burden tightly and smiled: "It's up to you." After the water was boiled, she first helped Man Xiu wash her hair and take a bath, and then she helped herself. Gently rub your hair with soapy water, soak it for a while, and rinse your head. Sit in the tub and massage your swollen legs.

In the hall, Grandma Li picked up the plum blossoms in the sewing basket and looked at them carefully.

Sitting on the kang with his hair twisted, Man Xiu couldn't help but praise: "It's better than Chen Hongxia, and her hands are fast, and she doesn't hide it." Pouting, her milk is a little lacking. In the past few years, how much good meat has the family sent to the Chen family, thinking that Chen Xiuniang can teach her to order female red.

Chen Xiuniang did teach, but she only taught a little sewing, and other daughters even avoided her. The cutting was still something she explored when she was dismantling and mending.

I flipped through it and looked at it for a while. Grandma Li put the rope back in the sewing basket, went out of the house to the backyard, and took two pig kidneys.

Xin Shansi washed it, trimmed her nails again, put the clothes they had changed into a basin and carried them to the well, washed them and dried them. The basin was returned to the house, and she went to the kitchen to help.

In the evening, I ate kidneys soup, pasted cakes, and fried vegetables with oil residue.

After the meal, Grandma Li took a split pig's head out of the salt brine, washed it twice, and soaked it in a basin. Xin Shansi poured the rice into the dustpan, and planned to hand it over to Man Xiu to deal with.

"Cheng, I rested my feet for the night, and I should be able to go down to the ground tomorrow morning. There are still oil residues at home, let's cut the leeks and mix the filling, and eat the kang cakes. ”

The two who can't live together go together. The corners of Grandma Li's mouth hooked, embroidery has not been so happy for a long time.

It was dark, and the house was lit with oil lamps. Nothing, Xin Shansi took the sewing basket and sat next to Man Xiu: "Do you use the yarn for yourself, or do you sell it?" ”

Man Xiu blushed: "I want to earn this silver, but the embroidery workshop in the city is not blind." "Help divide the line," but this one you hit is beautiful and meticulous, and the embroidery workshop will definitely accept it." ”

"Plum blossoms are not difficult to beat, I'll teach you." Xin Shansi saw her hand pause, and couldn't help but raise her eyes and ask, "What's wrong?" ”

"Nope." Full embroidery curved lips: "You are cheap, I don't want to take advantage of it." "Two clothes that Tang Meiniang doesn't want, change other people's skills, her face is not so big.

"You have to have a heart to learn, I'll teach you a few more styles." Xin Shansi didn't think it was a great skill.

Learn, of course I want to learn Manxiu, but I hesitate: "I made my own gown." For my craft, my grandmother gave two pigs to Chen Xiuniang in the former village in four years. Chen Xiuniang's man likes to drink with pig tails, and my milk has never sold a pig tail. Pick up the plum blossom yarn, "Just your small thing, send it to the embroidery village, it will be sold for five or six yuan, and go to two silk threads, but you can get three yuan." If you hit a few sticks in your spare time a day, you can save a lot in a month. ”

After studying female celebrity for four years, there is not even a flower on the gown. Xin Shansi understood the meaning of Manxiu, and joked: "Don't worry, I don't need Grandma to send me pigs." ”

"Are you really going to teach me?"

"You don't want to learn?"

After thinking about it for a while, Man Xiu said sincerely: "Then I'll give you a cup of tea." ”

"Not really," Xin Shansi said with a smile: "How much you can learn depends on your own ability." ”

After Grandma Li finished feeding the pigs, she brought a bucket of water to the old cow, and when she returned to the house, she saw her granddaughter staring at Shan Niangzi's hand learning to tie the ropes, and scolded Chen Xiuniang in her heart.

The old lady, the apprentice who received the same, was diligent and diligent to the girl of Zhongfuzi's family, but she was very impatient with her embroidery, and even the girls she raised were high and low. In addition to her embroidery, she has no father and no brother, what is not good next to her? Go to the ear room, turn out the crutch that my son used when he was alive, and wipe it clean.

This night, Xin Shansi slept alone in the Westinghouse and had a good night's sleep. She woke up before dawn the next day, lay down in bed, heard movement outside, and got up.

In the kitchen, Grandma Li was boiling water, and when she saw Lady Shan, her subordinates were slow to add firewood to the stove.

"Good morning, Grandma."

"There's a brush in the cabinet over there, I made it myself, you can use it."

"Thank you, Grandma."

Seeing her take the brush and turn around to go out, Grandma Li took a breath and said, "You teach embroidery and tie the yarn, and I will provide you with food and drink." If you want to leave one day, you don't have to say hello, right? She knew that Chen Xiuniang was not good, but she still begged others, just because she wanted her granddaughter to learn more skills, so that she could stand up and speak when she married into her in-law's family in the future.

Xin Shansi was a little surprised, she was going to leave at noon.

Seeing that she didn't agree, Grandma Li said, "When I go out, I use money." If you are in my place, I will take it to the embroidery workshop for you to sell. All the money you sell, and the money you get when you cut off the thread, will be yours. ”

Xin Shansi was a little moved, she was indeed the most short of silver at the moment.

"And your body, too, must be nourished. Where else can I have such a good soup? ”

Without hesitating for long, Xin Shansi turned around: "I'll teach first." "I didn't say how long I stayed," Manxiu is a good girl, and you think about everything for her, she will not be bad in the future. ”

"Early in the morning, borrow your auspicious words." Grandma Li rarely smiled.

After a night, the swelling on Manxiu's feet disappeared a lot, put on his clothes, walked a few steps in the house on crutches, and only went out when he was familiar with it.

"Milk, I'm up, are you still killing pigs today?"

"Don't kill, go to Zhanghekou in the north to see the piglets in the morning. If it's good, I'm going to catch two and come back. "What's wrong with embroidery without a father and no brother? The family's fourteen acres of land were all her dowry. Grandma Li felt that her body was tough and she could work for a few more years. I put two handfuls of buds into the pot, grabbed half a handful of rice, stirred, covered the pot, and returned to the back of the stove.

"Okay." Man Xiu poured all the two or three catties of noodles placed on the small table into the clay pot: "I'll make a few more cakes, you bring two, and eat when you're hungry." ”

Xin Shansi cut the leeks and came back, pinched the dead leaves, and took them to the well to clean.

Chapter 4

The pie made of full embroidery is very large and thin, one in one pot. She was willing to put oil, and both sides of the kang were oily and yellow. Smelling the fragrance, it is even more delicious with gruel.

Grandma Li ate three before putting down the chopsticks: "Today, you two stay at home, don't run out." I've fed all the pigs, cows and chickens. ”

"Okay." Knowing that Shanniang was going to stay for a few days, Manxiu was overjoyed: "I'll change the water for soaking the pig's head in a while." ”

After a sigh, Grandma Li said, "I'll come back next day." He carried the basket to the backyard, dragged the hay mat underneath, and put the rabbit in.

Xin Shansi helped wrap two cakes, filled them with water bladders, and sent Grandma Li to the gate of the hospital.

Man Xiu brushed the pots and bowls, and saw that Shanniang was washing the pig's head, so he walked to his room on crutches and came out with a burlap bag.

Plucked the remaining hair on the pig's head, Xin Shansi soaked it again, wiped her hands and walked quickly to help Man Xiu carry the bag: "You are incapacitated, call me if you have something." ”

"You've done all my work." Man Xiu smiled: "This is not heavy, it is full of rags." Wait for you to flip over, pick a few delicate pieces and put them together, and make two belly pockets. ”

There is also a menstrual belt, and the villain in Xin Shansi's heart is crying and chirping. Forget about the side, what she is most worried about now is menstruation. When he went into the hall, he removed the kang table and poured all the cloth on the kang.

Man Xiu picked up a palm-sized piece of red satin, a little depressed: "Chen Xiuniang's two daughters can make embroidery bags, and I can also sew cloth bags." In her memory, Tang Meiniang often took an embroidered bandage and sat under the eaves.

Last year, my grandmother and Chang Er's mother-in-law quarreled over the matter of Tian Ridge. Chang Er's mother-in-law jumped three feet high and ridiculed, saying that the milk Kefu and Kezi spent twenty-six taels of silver to pick a good daughter-in-law to go home, but she couldn't keep people.

She doesn't understand, what kind of life does Tang Meiniang want to live? There is no need to serve the fields when you are well fed and clothed, how many women in the village have enjoyed this blessing?

"These rags don't want the embroidery shop?" Xin Shansi picked out a few pieces of muslin cloth and put the long strips of cloth aside by the way.

"Where..." Man Xiu came back to his senses, pursed his lips, and said: "I bought it with silver, two pennies a catty, and I still picked the rest of the embroidery lady in the embroidery workshop." My grandmother expects me to learn a needlework class, and she will always buy three or five pounds for me to practice in a month or two. I didn't waste it, I'm not afraid of your jokes when I say it, and I have dozens of menstrual events. By the way, you can ask me to get it when you need it. ”

"Okay." Xin Shansi still wants to make some of it herself. A few pieces of thin cotton, a piece of shorts is enough for two pairs of shorts. Belly pockets with satin. Although this body is thin, the thymus gland is well developed, and the convex place is not ambiguous at all.

"I also have to boil some paste, and paste cloth to make a mille-feuille bottom. You wear small shoes on my shoes, you can't always wear black cloth shoes with my milk. You can take the soles yourself, and I'll do the uppers. ”

"Okay." Xin Shansi wants to bow to this little girl, she is cute and so considerate.

In the morning, the embroidery was full of patchwork. Assemble the cloth and help with the cutting.

When Grandma Li came back, Xin Shansi's belly pockets were ready, and the shorts were being sewn. She had a curled edge at the waist of her trousers, intending to sew the sprinkling strips into it as trouser straps.

Man Xiu looked at her milky back basket and asked, "You went to the market?" ”

"Hmm." Grandma Li glanced at Lady Shan without a trace.

Inserting the needle on the cloth, Xin Shansi went to the kitchen and scooped a basin of water out: "It's weirdly hot, you hurry up and wash and rest for a while." ”

Man Xiu walked out of the house on crutches: "Have you eaten the cake, how is the piglet?" ”

After washing her face, Grandma Li breathed a sigh of relief and said, "The piglets are all set and run away." Today's set is not peaceful, the Xin family in the south of the city has been robbed, it seems that some heirloom has been lost, and the thief is looking for it everywhere. I heard that a few beggars' nests have been searched three or four times yesterday and today. ”

"The Xin family will also be robbed?" Full embroidery is rare.

Grandma Li said it to Lady Shan, and seeing that there was no color on her face, she was a little uncertain in her heart: "Don't go out of the yard recently, I rarely come." In case someone bumps into you and asks, you say that you are the granddaughter of my eldest sister's family. ”

Xin Shansi was grateful: "I've caused you trouble." ”

"Milk, you're thinking too much." Man Xiu took out the things in the back basket: "The Xin family catches thieves and always rushes to the beggar's nest, so the one who is looking for it must be a buried person." Our Shanniang is refreshing and refreshing. ”

A little bit of ingenuity is all about eating. Grandma Li didn't say anything about her: "I'm just a wake-up." For the ordinary people, it is one thing to be less. ”

"In my opinion, the master who can steal the heirloom from the Xin family, the Xin family should not bother to catch it, it can't be caught." Man Xiu turned his eyes to look at Shanniang: "Do you know the Xin family in the south of the city?" ”

Xin Shansi pretended to be stupid and shook her head.

Man Xiu knew that you didn't know, and said: "Their family members carry swords when they go out, and they can also fly eaves, walk on walls, tread water and cross the river." ”

"Here's for you." Grandma Li didn't want to listen to her granddaughter's nonsense anymore, so she took out a money bag from her cuff and took out a string of copper coins: "Rabbits are not rare goods, and a pound is more expensive than pork." Six catties and two taels, a total of eighty-seven dollars. ”

"This..."Xin Shansi hurriedly refused: "I said that you used it to change clothes, you quickly take it back." ”

"I'll give you milk, and you can take it. Those two clothes are Tang Meiniang's don't want, what kind of precious things are you? Full embroidery lowered his face.

Grandma Li knew that her granddaughter hated the Tang family, and she didn't want to make her unhappy: "Lady Shan, you put away the money." Let's do as we said in the morning, you bring embroidery, and I will take care of your food and drink. ”

At this point, Xin Shansi's refusal is her hypocrisy.

Grandma Li stuffed the money string into her hand: "I have this thing on my body, and I am steady." ”

"Yes." Man Xiu echoed: "Put it away." ”

Xin Shansi was grateful, her hands were heavy, and her fingertips rubbed the bumps on the copper coins, and she secretly decided that she would definitely teach Manchu embroidery well.

After a rest, Grandma Li went to the kitchen to cook the pot and prepare to cook the pig's head.

In the evening, the soft pork head meat is served. Xin Shansi didn't dare to eat more, she had a weak stomach and had to adapt for a few days.