marriage is natural

Chapter 25 The Gift of Thanksgiving

When Gu Xu came in with Tao Defu, He Wei had just finished the draft, pasted it under the silk surface, and put it on the shared light box in the workshop to outline the final draft.

He Wei has always been focused when doing things.Once you are getting better, you can do everything without distraction.

As for the other embroidery workers, they were aroused by He Wei's actions one after another. After the lunch break, none of them returned to their seats. They all whispered around He Wei's table to watch her sketch, and no one paid attention to the movement behind them.

Therefore, the two of Gu Xu stood behind everyone and watched for more than half an hour, but no one noticed their existence.

Oh, it can't be said that no one noticed it at all, Yu Yajun who was sitting alone in a corner in a daze saw it.It's just that Yu Yajun has always been self-confident, even if he is a big boss or shopkeeper, she doesn't mean to say hello at all, instead she has a mentality of "I'm a senior embroidery worker, you should come and get close".

In this way, until He Wei traced the draft on the silk surface stroke by stroke, let go of the charcoal pen and raised her head with a slightly sore wrist, did she see the two silent people behind everyone.

"Hi shopkeeper!" He Wei hurriedly got up and stood at attention.

Only then did everyone realize that the shopkeeper was right behind them.

And the young man next to Tao Defu is unfamiliar, but if he can be led by Tao Defu to the workshop, even if he is not a distinguished guest who came to Yuxiu Pavilion to order embroidery, he must be a heavyweight person. Without saying a word, he slipped back to his seat, pretending to be busy doing embroidery work, but actually listened to He Wei's movement with his ears up.

"Your method is novel."

Gu Xu picked up the silk surface and the draft on the light box, compared the two, looked sideways at He Wei and asked, "But the silk surface is so simple, won't there be mistakes in embroidery?"

Since He Wei has been a noble lady for 16 years, when answering questions, she always habitually folds her hands in front of her body, hides her thumbs in her palms, and looks at her nose and heart with her eyes.

She looks like a noble lady who came out of the pictures of ladies in ancient times.

Gu Xu sighed inwardly.

There was a slight light in the black eyes hidden behind the glasses.

It seems that he has to make a correction: that guy's vision is not bad so far.

"Before embroidering, it is necessary to distinguish which color of embroidery thread is used for which part, so that it is not easy to make mistakes when embroidering."

Although He Wei was curious about the man's identity, she still gave a detailed explanation based on the principle of "the customer is God".

Gu Xu nodded, and returned the manuscript paper and silk surface to her, "Do it well, if you need help with anything, just ask Lao Tao." He didn't forget that a certain guy sent a message specifically to ask him.

Immediately, before He Wei felt overwhelmed, she strode out of the workshop.

Tao Defu patted He Wei on the shoulder, said a few words of encouragement, and then left.

As soon as the shopkeeper left, the embroiderers couldn't help chattering again.

"Hey, I said, could that person just now be the shopkeeper's big boss who often talks about it? He's so young!"

"It's impossible to be so young..."

"Is there anything impossible! Didn't you listen to what he said to Xiaohe? 'Work hard, if you need help with anything, just ask Lao Tao', if it weren't for the big boss, who would dare to say that?" An embroiderer took Gu Xu learned that sentence so vividly that it amused the others.

He Wei couldn't help laughing, and then saw that it was getting late, and the rest would have to wait until the next weekend, so she locked the things on hand in her storage cabinet, said hello to Zhao Furong and others, and started gone.

"Xiaohe." As soon as she went down the stairs, she saw Tao Defu waving at her: "Come here, I have something for you to try."

Tao Defu gave her a cage of hairy crabs.

When the autumn wind blows and the crab legs itch, it is the time when the hairy crabs are fat and oily.

Although he didn't understand why the big boss was so interested in a young embroiderer who just entered the store, but just now in the workshop, he didn't see any abnormal tendency between the two of them beyond the relationship between the boss and the employees. Maybe it's really out of love for talent.

Thinking about it this way, Tao Defu was happy to do favors, and handed over a cage of hairy crabs with a high market price to He Wei.

How could He Wei dare to accept it, she was too greedy to accept it, she hurriedly pushed the crab cage back to Tao Defu.

"If you give it to you, you can keep it! Just treat it as the boss who cares about his subordinates, what's there to be ashamed of!"

Tao Defu's righteous words couldn't stand up to the staff on duty outside, everyone's face was weird, and they couldn't help muttering in their hearts: Boss, we are also employees of Yuxiu Pavilion, okay?This disparity is too great.

If Tao Defu heard the voices of the guys, he would definitely kick them over: If you want such good treatment, you must first learn ancient embroidery!The ancient embroidery skills that little girls will lose, will you know it?Little girls know the complicated double-sided embroidery method, do you know it?Still muttering about nothing, work! ! !

So, when He Wei returned home, she had an extra cage of hairy crabs in her hand.

He Wei's family has now moved out of the Jiangbin community, and they are renting on the upper floor of the woodware shop. The layout is similar to the original small apartment. In terms of size, there is an extra spacious balcony with floor-to-ceiling curtains that is enclosed indoors. After tidying up, It became He Xidong's bedroom, and the siblings finally bid farewell to the narrow bedroom where you are separated from each other through the closet, and you don't have to worry about disturbing each other if there is any movement on your side.

And because the woodware shop is downstairs, Hemu simply put the gas cylinders in the shop, and asked Hefu to make a dining table. The family eats three meals in the shop, and there is no fire upstairs. It looks much cleaner.

He Wei got off the bus and walked home slowly with the crab cage.

From a distance, I saw the big black lacquer and gold-painted signboard of my woodware shop - "Heji Woodenware", shining in the afterglow of the autumn sun.These are the words she wrote, and they were taken to a plaque shop to order.

Father He and Mother He thought it was expensive at first, and they said they could just take a piece of scrap wood, write a few words on it and erect it at the door of the store?What are you doing so formally?But when the plaque was brought back and hung above the store door like this, the couple immediately stopped talking about it. How could a casually arranged signboard be as beautiful as a black lacquer and gold plaque!

As the saying goes: People rely on clothing and Buddha depends on gold clothing. Naturally, this shop also needs a facade.No, as soon as the plaque was hung, nearby shops all came over with admiring eyes and chatted, one after another, ten or ten, and almost every household in the alley knew that there was a new wood shop in the alley, The boss is the carpenter who used to make barrels for a married woman in the community. The number of residents who come to order wooden utensils for the home is a little exaggerated, and it can be called an endless stream, although most of them are bathrooms. Buckets, bathtubs, small bookshelves and other small things can add up to a lot, and there are many people coming in and out of the store, so it seems that the business is booming, doesn't it?

There are even a few old ladies who come here with their grandsons and granddaughters in their arms as soon as the store opens, grab sample wooden chairs, and sit at the door of the store to play with their children and chat with the mother who knits sweaters until noon. I went back after lunch, and continued to chat after taking a nap in the afternoon.

Even the topics on the dinner table of the He family were rich, the parents of the east and the family of the west were all gossip heard by He Mu during the day.

Hemu is a restless woman.In the past, when I was busy from early morning to late and had no time to rest, I always looked forward to taking a good vacation, but since my family opened a shop and didn’t need her to go to work early in the morning, I couldn’t sleep anymore. Excited, 05:30 So she got up on tiptoe, mopped the floor and did the laundry and went downstairs to light the stove to make breakfast. When the rest of the family got up, she had already made preparations before opening the door. What are you doing here?She evened out a few taels of fine wool from the old lady she was familiar with, and wove her daughter a pile-neck woolen sweater that is popular nowadays.

He Wei doesn't know if it's because she was late in development, or because she followed He Mu's petite body shape. In short, she was only 1.5 meters tall in the first grade of junior high school, and her weight has always remained at a little over 1.6 catties.But He Wei doesn't think she is thin, at least not the kind of skinny bamboo pole body that can fall down when the wind blows. Speaking of this, she can't help but think of a girl in the dormitory opposite in her previous life, who lost weight so much that she couldn't stop. It is said that the original weight of [-] was abruptly reduced to [-] kg, and the girl is [-] meters tall. It is conceivable how thin she must be, and she can definitely fall down when the wind blows It can be described as a bamboo pole or a rib bone that has been cleaned of granulation.

He Wei didn't think she was of that type of body type, she just followed He Mu's small skeleton, and there was still a lot of flesh on her body.But Hemu doesn't think so. Look at the clothes her daughter is wearing. She is in the first grade of junior high school. She can wear the clothes of the fifth and sixth grades of elementary school casually.No wonder the school uniform issued by the school, the smallest size can leave more than half of her body.

Besides, half of the first day of junior high school is almost over, and she hasn't seen her menarche yet, so it must be due to insufficient nutrition. Before, there was no money and nothing to do. Now that the family is well-off, I want to give her supplements, but I also know that I can't make up for it indiscriminately. No, Hemu spent a whole day on a special trip to Hechun Hall in the southern district, queued up to sign up for an old Chinese doctor, and when she came back, she stewed her daughter's medicinal food according to the doctor's prescription.

When He Wei arrived home, He Mu had just taken today's medicinal food from the coal stove. Seeing her daughter coming back, she hurriedly asked her to wash her hands: "It's just right, you can drink it, and eat after an hour."

He Wei responded, handed the crab cage to He Mu, and walked to the sink to wash her hands.

"This is... a hairy crab?"

Rao's family seldom buys this kind of seasonal food, and they have a general understanding of the price. Especially in this season, when the hairy crabs are the fattest and most delicious, the price is naturally not low.

Yesterday, an old lady Yang who came to play with her granddaughter in her arms was still complaining to her, saying that her son and daughter-in-law wanted to eat hairy crabs, but she went to the vegetable market and asked, darling, the cheapest ones cost 60 or [-] yuan a catty, If you want that kind of fat and oily one, don't even think about it for three or five hundred.

Mrs. Yang was naturally complaining that her daughter-in-law was too lazy to cook, but what He Mu thought of was the crab in her hand, which was estimated to weigh three to five catties. Even if it was the cheapest kind, it would cost two hundred cents.

After such a calculation, Hemu became restless, and chased her daughter with the crab cage and asked, "Where did you get it? Did you buy it at the vegetable market?"

Thinking about it is wrong.Although the pocket money for children has increased now, it used to be [-] per month, including breakfast money. This month, each person is given [-], and breakfast is eaten at home, saving some money. I saved a lot, but no matter how much I can save, I still can't afford such a big cage of hairy crabs.

He Wei just wanted to speak, but was interrupted by He Xidong who was hungry and came in looking for something to eat: "Wei Wei, you just came back? Where did you go in the afternoon? Huh? Hairy crabs? Mom, you bought it? Hey! I have a good meal tonight !"

"I bought it. Your sister brought it back. I was just asking her where it came from. There are at least three or four catties of crabs here..." He Mu said as she poured the crabs from the cage into the sink and counted them. , eight, each of them weighs half a catty, but doesn't it weigh four catties?

On the way here, He Wei thought about taking the hairy crabs to the physical education teacher's house, so as not to make excuses for her, but she thought that her family had never eaten such big and fat hairy crabs before, so it would be a pity to give them all away As for the excuse, she didn't think about it being too complicated, she just said: "I helped someone this afternoon, this is a thank you gift from him."

"Oh, it turns out that our family Weiwei went to do something good this afternoon, no wonder she came back so late..." He Xidong heard this, and spontaneously put a reason for her sister's late return, and asked casually, "Who is helping?" ? Such a big deal, to actually send hairy crabs..."

He Mu heard that it was a thank you gift from someone else, and frowned to teach her daughter: "In the future, if you help someone, don't accept things from others, and it's still so precious, how embarrassing..."

He Wei nodded like a pounding garlic, and felt relieved.

He Mu rolled up her sleeves and was about to scrub the crabs, when she suddenly said, "There are more than eight of us in our family, so you can send some to your physical education teacher. It's hard work for me to accompany you to exercise every day after school. The congratulations from last time Mister... Forget it, his unit is quite special, so he shouldn't have so many holidays... Just mention four, even if you are at home, four is enough..."

Hemu picked out four of the fattest crabs, two for each male and two females, put them back into the crab cages, and asked He Weiti to give them away.

As a result, on the dinner table of the He family, there was also a seasonal river dish that night - steamed hairy crabs.

On the peeled crab shell and crab meat, the oily crab roe and crab paste that are almost overflowing are very exciting.

"Crack-"

Before eating, there was an appetizing food photo on He Chifeng's mobile phone, and a few seconds later, it was sent to his nephew's mobile phone in the form of MMS, with the following postscript: Thank you for saving your life.You are not here, your aunt and I will do it for you, don't thank me too much!

(End of this chapter)