After the whole family was swept away, I lay down flat

Chapter 61 "Beginner"

Haitang claimed that she must learn embroidery well. She would never show it to her grandmother Ma until she could not embroider good flowers.

Then she hid back in the west wing amidst Ma's laughter, holding the basket of red tools and began to worry.

In the past few times, she had been ordered by her grandmother to do needlework, and she only embroidered one or two simple flowers and grasses. She just had to make sure that each stitch was a little crooked. It looked like a flower, but it was not much better. Go, perfect for "beginner" level.

But now, Ma handed her an embroidery pattern. Each flower on it was of the simplest style, but there were seventeen or eighteen in total, connected by vines. The shapes of each flower were slightly different, and there were even Several flowers are buds of different sizes with different blooming postures.This is not something that can be dealt with with just a few crooked needles.

It is normal for one or two flowers to be embroidered crookedly, but if you embroider seventeen or eight flowers, even a fool will make progress.How should we measure the magnitude of this progress?It would be too much effort to fake the whole process, right?

Haitang tried to embroider with her left hand. However, her left hand had been embroidering flowers for many years, but the level was much worse than that of her right hand. Although the embroidery effect was not very good, it was not something that a beginner could embroider.The flowers embroidered by many people with their dominant hand may not be as good as the simple flower and branch pattern embroidered by her left hand.

There was no other way, so Haitang had to dismantle the entire picture and embroider it again. This time, the needle position was a little crooked than before.

The second time it came out much better, it looked like the work of girls with average embroidery skills.In Haitang's memory, when she first traveled to the Dachu world in her previous life, her eldest sister who was the "protagonist" was almost at this level.Although the eldest sister was not well-known in the surrounding countryside as a popular girl, when she was twelve or thirteen years old, she made clothes, embroidered purses, etc. for her parents, younger siblings, and no one laughed at her for her poor skills.

Therefore, the result this time is still not good.Haitang dismantled it again.

Ma waited for two days and saw that she still refused to take the embroidered things to the main room, so he smiled and said: "You have been hiding in the house these days, haven't you been lazy? It's a good thing or a bad thing, bring it to grandma Take a look? If you don’t embroider it right, Grandma can teach you how to embroider it well.”

Haitang put on a stubborn expression: "No need! I know how to embroider. When I finish embroidering, I will show it to grandma! I'm so smart, how can embroidery stump me?!"

Mrs. Ma laughed again when she heard this and stopped asking questions. She only occasionally teased her granddaughter about it in private with Aunt Cui.

When Haitang was embroidered for the third time, the soldiers of Baihusuo and Qianhusuo stationed in the villages and towns under Suzhou transported the grapes produced locally to Suzhou City. The Weisuo immediately dispatched manpower to help Haixi Ya start her first embroidery. Wine making.

When Haitang finished her fourth embroidery, the glass workshop produced the first batch of newly fired glassware, mainly two basic styles of glass bowls and glasses. Although they were not exquisite enough, they were beautiful in shape and high in quality. good.The Daishi craftsmen were worried about their future and had reservations when teaching their skills. They were unwilling to teach their apprentices the techniques of making exquisite glassware, but they also did not dare to do anything.The smartest among the apprentices have mastered the basic skills of glass firing and can become the right assistants of the great food craftsmen in the second firing.

When I finished embroidering Begonia for the fifth time, the autumn mood in Suzhou City was already very strong.Hai Xiya led the farmers hired by the guards to finish harvesting the corn in the experimental field, and was pleasantly surprised by the harvest.Generals Wednesday, General Gu, and local magistrates all came over to watch. Even officials from Ganzhou heard the news and came to see what was happening.Everyone has agreed that we must expand the trial planting area of ​​corn next year and strive to harvest more food locally.Ganzhou has also decided to try growing this new grain species.

However, how should we eat the corn after harvesting it?Everyone still needs to brainstorm ideas.Xie Wenzai immediately went home to read a book, while Hai Xiya began to visit the passing merchants in the city and inquired from them about the relevant information.

Haitang brought the fifth embroidery work to her grandmother Ma.The simple flower and branch pattern embroidered this time actually looks decent, a little worse than the second one, but as a beginner's work, it is already very good.But Haitang didn't care, because the embroidered cloth was full of needle holes and thread marks, and it was also a little wrinkled. It was obvious that it had been repeated many times.Ma didn't have a keen eye, so he wouldn't have guessed that she only embroidered five times, and each time the embroidery was not bad. But seeing that it took her so long to embroider to this level, it didn't feel strange.

Mrs. Ma also said with great satisfaction: "You have just learned needlework, and it is already very good to be able to embroider like this. Grandma knows that Tangtang is a smart kid!"

When Haitang heard this, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.It seemed that she passed this level safely.

To be honest, it is not an easy job to imitate beginners' embroidery all the time.From beginning to end, she must concentrate on it, otherwise if she is distracted for a moment, her hands will subconsciously embroider exquisite and smart patterns. The composition, stitching, stitching skills... everything is the handiwork of an embroidery master.Is it easy for her to embroider like this?It's really not worth spending your time on this!

She began to feel that after going through the initial novice stage, she should gradually "grow" into an embroidery master, or find a way to distract her grandmother Ma from staring at her needlework. .As long as Mr. Ma can ignore her for two years, it makes sense for her to appear in front of her family as a master!

Haitang was still making her own little plans. Ma didn't know what her granddaughter was thinking, so she just gave her a new pattern.

It's autumn now, and she was supposed to embroider chrysanthemums, but Ma took into consideration that her granddaughter had to work on a simple flower branch pattern for nearly a month. When she finished embroidering such a complicated pattern of chrysanthemums, she was afraid that all the chrysanthemums would wither away, so She gave a picture of red plum blossoms, which was relatively simple.When Haitang finishes embroidering this red plum pattern, she can make a red plum forehead wipe for her grandmother, which she can wear during the Chinese New Year. The color red is festive!

Haitang obediently accepted the new pattern, showed a well-behaved expression, and said to Ma: "Grandma, I feel that I have improved a lot than before. This red plum blossom looks very simple. I will definitely make one for you." A nice one with a forehead wipe."

Ma suppressed a snicker and nodded: "Sure, since you dare to boast, I believe it!"

Haitang added: "I want to give my family a sewing gift in the New Year. If you want red plums to wipe your forehead, I will make other gifts for my grandfather, second uncle, second aunt, and brother. But I don't have any new flowers. Look, we can’t all use plum blossoms. I want to ask Grandpa Cao and Grandpa Lu. I saw Grandpa Lu painting flowers some time ago, and the flowers he painted are prettier than yours!"

Lu Bainian is actually drawing line drawings of medicinal herbs.The herbs he tried growing in flower pots came alive, and when the weather got colder, he moved them indoors without any problems.This greatly encouraged him, and he is actively collecting various medical and medicinal books, describing many medicinal herbs that can be planted in the northwest, and attaching explanatory texts, intending to bind them into a volume for reference.

Ma knew this.She ordered Uncle Cui to buy the pens, inks, paper and inkstones Lu Bainian used to draw pictures.

She readily agreed to her granddaughter's request, but she didn't feel that her pattern was inferior to Lu Bainian's herbal drawing.My granddaughter has been struggling with even simple patterns for a month. If she were asked to embroider patterns of medicinal herbs, would she cry after just two days of embroidery?
Haitang thought she had a chance to use herbal medicine to bring up the topic of winter tonic and temporarily divert her grandmother's attention.She happily went to the second courtyard, and when she arrived outside Lu Bainian's house, she heard him saying in the house: "Is this wine good?"

Haitang's eyes suddenly lit up.

The finished wine is out?
(End of this chapter)