Youthful Splendid Edge

Chapter 3 Contact Embroidery
I have to say that although Zhang Dachui's words are not pleasant, they are very realistic. Even in today's materialistic world, no one likes to drag oil bottles, let alone the era when life was difficult.

Aunt Niu gave Zhang Dachui a blank look, and signaled Zhang Dachui not to continue talking. After putting down some daily necessities for the baby girl Ye Er, she took the baby girl from Ye Er's arms, sat on the stool and began to feed the baby girl. Babies drink rice soup.

"Dumb, don't take Hammer's words to heart. Although it's not pleasant, but to be honest, it's not easy to raise a child. It's okay to feed this rice soup for a day or two. If you really want to raise it, you still need to drink milk."

"Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa."

Ye Er knew very well that Zhang Dachui and Aunt Niu were doing it for his own good, but the baby girl had already been picked up and was about to be thrown out, which was impossible anyway, especially after Aunt Niu changed the baby girl's diaper and Behind the clothes on her body, the baby girl miraculously stopped crying, and smiled at herself. It was this smile that made Ye Er feel that he had to raise the picked up child.

Zhang Dachui and Aunt Niu saw Ye Er's continuous gestures, and they already understood that Ye Er's attitude was very firm, so they also looked at each other, smiled helplessly and shook their heads.

At this time, Zhang Ming had already taken Zhang Liang's hand and walked to Aunt Niu, happily circled around the baby girl as if seeing a baby, and Zhang Ming touched the baby girl with his hand: "Hee hee, Uncle Dumb has a baby, so Xiaoliang and I will have a little sister in the future, Uncle Dumb, what's the name of the little sister!"

The speaker was unintentional, but it sounded intentional. The adults were busy all the time and didn't think of this question. Now that Zhang Ming brought it up, everyone, look at me and I look at you, and the whole room fell silent.

After a while, Aunt Niu looked at Ye Er and was the first to break the deadlock: "I'm dumb, I need to give the child a name."

Ye Er was stunned for a moment, then suddenly grinned, pointing at himself with both hands and making "ah wow" sounds from his mouth.

Aunt Niu seemed to understand Ye Er's words, and she couldn't help but burst out laughing: "That's right, you can't even recognize the words, so how can you expect you to name the child, um, what is the name of such a handsome girl?" OK?"

"The mute's surname is Ye, so this girl's surname is naturally the same as the mute's. In my opinion, she must be called Ye Hua!" Zhang Dachui saw that Zhang Ming was having a great time teasing the baby girl with a bunch of white flowers picked outside the house, so he quickly proposed .

Aunt Niu rolled her eyes at Zhang Dachui again, and shook her head again and again: "The girl's family name is Xiaohua, which is too vulgar, um. In my opinion, it should be called Ye Fanghua."

Zhang Ming stopped what he was doing, touched his head, shook his head and looked at Aunt Niu puzzled: "Mom, what does Fanghua mean?"

After all, Aunt Niu had studied in private schools for several years when she was a child, so she had some cultural background: "I hope this child will have a good life like a fragrant flower."

Yes, living in troubled times, who doesn't want to have a good time, this is not only Aunt Niu's vision for the baby girl's future, but also a regret for living in such an era, hoping that the next generation will no longer be affected by her. Suffering, can have a bright future.

Everyone's attention is on Ye Fanghua, imagining what kind of day tomorrow will be like, the hope for a better future, the prospect of world peace, and the mood of living a happy life, all of them In this baby girl who was just abandoned, no one would have thought that Ye Er's decision would make him a master of Suzhou embroidery and bring a turning point for the revival of the Chinese nation's Suzhou embroidery craft.

Although Ye Er is not good at taking care of children, he puts all his body and mind on Ye Fanghua's body and takes good care of him. It can be said that although he is much more tired than when he was single, every time he sees Ye Fanghua's exquisite With such a small face, Ye Er felt indescribably satisfied, not to mention the kind neighbors around would take care of Ye Er, especially Zhang Dachui's family.

After all, the minds of people in the past were very simple, not as complicated as they are today. In addition to being invaded by imperialism, everyone had the mentality of fighting against each other, so the spirit of mutual assistance between each other seemed very normal.

Time is like a flowing river. When you care about it, it will only flow quietly, making you feel that it passes slowly, but once you don't care about it, the days will become as fast as a shuttle.

In this way, the peaceful years flowed slowly, and Ye Fanghua was 5 years old in a blink of an eye. This morning, Ye Er went out early to collect the trash, and Ye Fanghua was helped by Aunt Niu.

If it was last year, at least Zhang Ming and Zhang Liang would have played with Ye Fanghua, but now that Zhang Ming and Zhang Liang have reached the age of study, they went to school early, Ye Fanghua had no choice but to be honest Really follow Aunt Niu.

"Auntie Niu, this pair of ducks of yours is so beautiful!"

Ye Fanghua soon saw the needle and thread in Aunt Niu's hand, threading the needle and thread in the fabric, and embroidered a pair of vivid mandarin ducks in a short time. The girl of this age seems to be tireless and full of curiosity about everything.

Aunt Niu stopped her nimble hands, looked up at Ye Fanghua with a smile, stretched out her hand and fondled Ye Fanghua's head: "Silly boy, this is not painted, this is called embroidery, and it is done with needles and threads. The one stabbed up, the one that sticks out is not a duck, but a mandarin duck."

???

"Mandarin duck." Ye Fanghua stared wide-eyed, looking at Aunt Niu understandingly.

"Well, mandarin duck is a kind of bird, which represents the relationship between husband and wife. You little girl is too young to understand!"

"Is it the same relationship as Uncle Niu and Aunt Niu?"

"Ah? You Uncle Niu and me, ah, haha"

Ye Fanghua's big round eyes blinked. Although she really didn't know what it meant, she still had that hazy feeling in her heart, so she blurted out the words from the bottom of her heart, and Aunt Niu covered her mouth and laughed.

Ye Fanghua tilted her head and looked at Aunt Niu with a questioning expression: "Aunt Niu, Aunt Niu, can you teach me?"

"Aha? What? What can I teach you?" Aunt Niu thought she had heard it wrong.

In the ancient town of Mudu, women in every household can do Su embroidery, but this is just a habit, and Su embroidery is just a skill to support the family. So, in Aunt Niu's eyes, Ye Fanghua is just a manifestation of children's playing games, and she probably forgets it after talking about it.

(End of this chapter)