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Chapter 23 Apprenticeship
Zhou Ying looked at the old lady, "Mama, can I?"

Mrs. Zhou said, "As long as you want to learn, we will learn, but neither grandma nor your mother is good at sewing, so you have to find someone outside to teach you."

These days, women basically know how to make clothes and do needlework, it's just good or bad.

Yang's mother-in-law died early, and her father married her a stepmother. The stepmother was very talented, and the young girl Yang had a lot of training under her hands. Naturally, no one taught her how to do needlework. As for the clothes, Mrs. Yang herself was smart and asked her aunt to teach her.

It's just that the craftsmanship is limited to making clothes, let's not talk about the others.

When the old lady was a girl, it was after the war, and every family had a hard time. Although she learned a little from her mother, she was busy helping the family reduce the burden at that time, doing work every day and night, and spending less time on sewing. I haven't learned much, so like Yang, I can only make clothes.

In addition, her eyesight is not good now, and the clothes of the family members are basically made by Yang, so the old lady seldom worries about these things.

Seeing that her granddaughter wanted to learn now, the old lady thought about asking someone to teach her.

With this skill, he will also have the ability to support himself in the future, so that he will not be manipulated by others.

Zhou Ying was a little hesitant. She heard that to learn needlework from others, her family would send her to an embroidery shop and sign a personal contract. Only then would the embroidery shop accept people and let her mother teach her.

Or ask the embroiderer to teach at home.Most of these embroiderers are self-supporting from rich families, some were expelled for committing crimes, some redeemed themselves, and some were released from the palace or the palaces of princes and princesses when they reached their age.

Without exception, the cost of hiring people is extremely high.

In my own situation, if I want to learn, the only way is to go to Xiuzhuang.

But it still costs money, and you have to sign a contract. It can be said that you are selling your best years to the embroidery shop.

"Grandma, I..."

Mrs. Zhou interrupted her granddaughter, "Yingying, just tell grandma, do you want to learn? Others, grandma is here, so don't worry about it."

Zhou Ying said, "Grandma, I want to learn!"

Mrs. Zhou heard what her granddaughter said, searched around, and finally set her target on Zhou Liang's daughter-in-law, the mother of the tiger.

The next day, Mrs. Zhou asked Mrs. Yang to leave ten vegetable cakes, filled them with two catties of wheat flour, picked up five or six eggs, put them in a basket, and took Zhou Ying and Koi to Huzi's house.

"Tiger lady, are you home?"

The tiger girl Su Qing came out of the house, wearing a plain linen dress, Yingying walked to the door, saw that it was Mrs. Zhou, and immediately said enthusiastically, "It's the old lady, hurry up and sit in the room."

Su Jinli saw Su Qing for the first time, saw that she was not like an ordinary village woman, couldn't help but looked at her curiously, and saw that the breath on her head was faintly golden, so she knew that she had meritorious deeds.

I just don't know whether this merit is from the previous life or this life.

Su Jinli called out obediently, "Hello, Aunt Su."

Zhou Ying followed closely behind and shouted, "Auntie."

Zhou Liang's father and Zhou old man are cousins ​​who have not been out of Wufu. According to their seniority, Zhou Ying is called Aunt Su Qing.

But because Su Qing's surname was Su, Su Jinli couldn't call her aunt according to the Zhou family's seniority, but called her aunt.

The old lady didn't teach Su Jinli this, she called it based on the original owner's memory.

Su Qing patted the heads of the two children respectively, and said softly, "Hi, little koi and Yingying."

Su Jinli blushed a little at Su Qing's gentle words, and hid beside the old lady in embarrassment.

Zhou Ying was a little embarrassed.

At this moment, she already understood what grandma meant by taking her to Huzi's house, that she wanted Huziniang to teach her how to embroider.

She heard from her mother that Hu Ziniang's embroidery work is the best in the village, and she often makes things to sell in Ziyun County, and she also takes work from the owner of the embroidery shop. If she does well, she will win the master Everyone likes it, and it costs a lot of money for one job.

Su Qing poured water for Mrs. Zhou and Zhou Ying Su Jinli, "Madam, Jinli, Yingying, drink water."

Mrs. Zhou picked up the bowl, took a sip, and said why she came.

"Ms. Hu Zi, I came to see you because I wanted to ask you for something." Then, the old lady pushed Zhou Ying to her, "Yingying wants to learn how to embroider, and neither my mother nor I are good at it. Since you are the best embroidery work in our village, my aunt has the cheek to beg you, and I hope you can teach this child Yingying a lesson."

Su Qing's embroidery work was learned from her mother.

When her mother was young, she was a servant girl attached to a rich family. Later, the Zhan Luan master's family died and got lost. Her mother survived by luck, married her father, and had her.

When Su Qing was six or seven years old, he taught her hand in hand, which can be said to be the true biography of her mother.If Su Qing hadn't looked at Zhou Liang because of his stature, her mother would not have married Su Qing to Zhou Liang if she felt that Zhou Liang was honest and willing to work and was good to the girl.

After marrying Zhou Liang, Su Qing became pregnant. Zhou Liang has always been kind to her. With Su Qing's embroidery work, the family lives well.

But last year, due to the snow disaster, Zhou Liang died unexpectedly, and life at home became difficult.

Some time ago, if Zhou Dalang hadn't seen his wife sad, and Huzi fainted from hunger again, and gave Su Qing a small half of the food, I'm afraid the couple wouldn't be able to survive now.

With the food provided by Zhou Dalang, Su Qingniang and his wife got through the time of lack of food temporarily, and later made a few handkerchiefs and sold them to the embroidery village, and the family's life is barely up to now.

Hearing Mrs. Zhou's pleadings one by one, Su Qing hurriedly said, "Ma'am, don't say that. If the elder brother hadn't shared half a bag of food with us, Huzi and I might have..."

At this point, Su Qing's eyes turned red, and she saluted to Mrs. Zhou.

Then he said, "My aunt does not dislike my rough craftsmanship, I will definitely teach Yingying well."

Mrs. Zhou held Su Qing's arm and said with a stern face, "Ms. Hu, if you say that, Madam wouldn't dare to say that Yingying learned embroidery from you. When Dalang gave you food, the family was also in trouble. For this reason, the aunt even scolded him, if you mention this matter, you will embarrass the aunt to death."

Although Mrs. Zhou didn't regret scolding her son, she refused to make Su Qing agree to teach Zhou Ying about it.

When Su Qing heard Mrs. Zhou say this, she immediately said, "Ma'am, don't think so. At that time, everyone was in trouble. It is common sense for you to do so. I don't blame you. If it were me, I'm afraid I could do better than Madam. Not as good."

Seeing that Su Qing understood, Mrs. Zhou stopped talking, "Okay, since you said that, then I will stop talking about it. Teaching Yingying, you can do it if you think it's okay. If it doesn't work, I'll think of another way."

Su Qing said, "Auntie, I'll take over this matter. Just ask Yingying to come to me every day. It's just that you are just starting to learn. Just give Yingying some rags or cotton linen. Don't use new ones, it's a waste."

Mrs. Zhou gave her granddaughter a push, "Hurry up, kowtow to your aunt and offer tea."

Zhou Ying immediately kowtowed to Su Qing and offered tea.

Su Qing sat down, sat down, drank Zhou Ying's tea, and handed Zhou Ying an embroidery needle, "Yingying, from now on you will learn needlework from your aunt, I hope you will work hard and put what you have learned into practice."

(End of this chapter)