Rebirth of the poor elder sister-in-law

Chapter 123 Buying Embroidery Tools

In ancient times, a girl who learned embroidery would be paid more attention even if she married into her husband's family in the future. After all, embroidery is a craft, and even if she has no money to spend in the future, she can also rely on embroidery to subsidize her family.

Here, some ladies from all over the world can also learn embroidery. Liu Man'er will not think that it is not good for women to learn embroidery just because she has a modern soul. In fact, she thinks that embroidery is also a way for ancient women to relax and entertain .

Embroider your own thoughts and feelings on the purse or silk handkerchief stitch by stitch, and all the entanglements are the thoughts that you can't tell.

Very good, just like modern people keep diaries, ancient women embroidered some silk handkerchiefs to hide their thoughts.

Hearing Liu Man'er said that they would learn embroidery, Ye He and Cao'er's eyes lit up, Liu Man'er laughed and said: "Tomorrow, I will post a notice at the door of the store, inviting an embroiderer Come teach you."

"Okay, thank you, sister-in-law." Ye He never thought that she would have the opportunity to learn embroidery. It is said that only some ladies in the city know how to embroider.

"Okay, if you want to learn archery, you can learn it. Anyway, there is no harm in learning it. There are many women in our family now. If you learn some kung fu, you won't be afraid of being bullied by others." Liu Man'er said.

"Don't worry, sister-in-law, I have to learn." Ye He said: "From now on, I will get up early in the morning to practice archery, work in the morning, learn embroidery in the afternoon, and read characters in the evening."

"That's right." Liu Man'er was quite satisfied when she heard that, "You are a child with a plan, and my sister-in-law is very relieved. In the future, when my sister-in-law is not at home, I will rely on you to take care of the house."

"Don't worry, sister-in-law."

Ye He has a sense of housekeeping since she was a child, at least she is better than Fang's. Fang's people are too kind, and they never argue.Ye He may have seen these things in her eyes, she has become more mature than her peers since she was a child, and she is quite disciplined in doing things.

In the evening, Liu Man'er set up a few targets in the backyard for them to learn archery. Fang shook her head when she saw them. She just thought they were playing children's house games, and she didn't care. , let them play.

What Man'er said is right, they are a little silly to work or study at home every day, so it's good to have fun.

Liu Man'er is a person of action, she said that she would ask someone to teach Ye He how to embroider, and the next day, after opening the shop, she actually wrote a notice and posted it at the door in her free time.

However, this embroiderer is not as easy to find as this aunt who does chores. Even some embroiderers, like Liu Man'er, cherish themselves with their brooms and are unwilling to pass on the craft of embroidery to others, so Liu Man'er can only wait for those who are destined. up.

But this time her luck was obviously not very good. For several days, no one came to apply for the job. In order not to disappoint Ye He and Cao'er, Liu Man'er decided to buy some embroidery sheds and colored silk threads for embroidery. , if there is an embroiderer at that time, they can learn.

After closing the shop that day, Liu Man'er came to a shop specializing in selling these gadgets. The shopkeeper was also a woman, she was quite kind, and when she saw Liu Man'er coming in, she greeted Liu Man'er warmly.

"This guest officer, what do you need?" As soon as the words finished, she saw the handsome man behind Liu Man'er, and said, "Oh, this must be Shopkeeper Ye, right?"

"It's a concubine. I don't know what the shopkeeper calls me?" Liu Man'er bowed when she saw the female shopkeeper recognized her.

The shopkeeper bowed to Liu Man'er at the same time, and said: "I am from my husband's family, Xing Zhong, and my maiden name is Wang. Others call me Zhong Wang. I have long heard that although shopkeeper Ye is a woman, she manages a prosperous business by herself. Huo, the concubine is also envious, hurry up."

"Shopkeeper Zhong is too polite. I am envious of Shopkeeper Zhong. Running such a big female celebrity shop by myself must be a skill." Liu Man'er said with a smile.

"Where is it, shopkeeper Ye is admirable." Zhong Wangshi also shook his head with a smile, his face flushed slightly.

They were probably both women, so they knew each other about the difficulty of running their own shops. Liu Man'er and Zhong Wang praised each other, and their relationship became much closer in an instant.

Only then did Zhong Wang ask Liu Man'er's purpose for coming here: "Sister, what do you want to see when you come here today?"

"The main thing is to buy some embroidery sheds and silk threads." Liu Man'er told Zhong Wang the purpose of her coming here.

"Ah, I didn't expect that my sister is not only a good cook, but also a good maid." Zhong Wang praised again.

Liu Man'er shook her head and said, "I'm ashamed to say that I'm not good at female celebrities. Now I'm buying these things to let my sister-in-law learn. So I ask my sister to recommend some tools suitable for beginners."

"Don't worry about that." Hearing what Liu Man'er said, Mrs. Wang went to the back of the counter and picked out a bunch of things for Liu Man'er.

"This is an embroidery stretcher. Beginners can use this hand stretcher first. Needlework is a must. Our embroidery needles are different from those used for sewing clothes."

As Zhong Wang said, he took out a box of needles, Liu Man'er saw that it was indeed different, the needles were really thin.

"This is a wool needle, very thin." Zhong Wang took out one and showed it to Liu Man'er and said, "The finer the embroidery, the longer it will take, and the more embroidery needles you need." Therefore, we embroiderers must maintain a pair of clean hands in order to be able to embroider perfect flowers..."

As Zhong Wang said, she showed Liu Man'er her hands, and her fingers were green onions, as clean as jade.

Liu Man'er was too embarrassed to stretch out her hand. Although she also used some ancient skin care products to do skin care work during this time, after all, she was very busy every day, and her hands were either holding a knife or doing other things. Therefore, compared with Zhong Wang who looked to be in her thirties, Liu Man'er's hands were rougher than hers.

After Zhong Wang showed her hand, she took Liu Man'er's hand again, looked at it, shook her head, and said, "It's not my sister, I'm talking about you, but your hands can only embroider some poor embroidery at most. It's like that kind of high-grade silk, and your hands will snag when you touch it."

"Yes, yes." Liu Man'er withdrew her hand, and said bitterly: "It's not that I learn it, but I want my sister-in-law to learn it. The requirements are not high, and I don't expect them to become famous embroiderers. I just learned it. It’s a craft.”

"Oh..." Mrs. Zhong Wang nodded, and said again: "Since I bought it for your sister-in-law, I have to buy an embroidery frame. After I learn how to embroider small pieces first, I can embroider large patterns on the embroidery frame. Girls learn fast."

"Okay." Liu Man'er didn't know anything about embroidery anyway, so whatever Zhong Wang said, she could just pay for whatever she wanted to buy. Anyway, when she came to this store today, she fell into another trap.

"There are several kinds of wood for this shelf. I don't know which kind shopkeeper Ye wants?" Zhong Wang asked again.

"An ordinary one is better." Liu Man'er said hastily.

"It's more common." Mrs. Zhong Wang nodded, and while picking and choosing among those embroidery frames, she said, "This embroidery frame is something that accompanies a woman's life. Even if your girl gets married in the future, she can still use it as a A face-saving dowry, to be married to your husband's house."

"It's true to say that, but most of my money was given to my mother-in-law, and now I only have two taels of silver." Liu Man'er said, "And there are two people in my family who want to learn embroidery."

"Oh..." Mrs. Zhong nodded again, and said, "Oh, we women, we look like we are enjoying ourselves outside, but in fact we don't even have any money in our hands. How difficult it is."

As she spoke, she chose two embroidery frames for Liu Man'er, then put away a box of woolen needles and replaced it with a box of ordinary needles, and put away the gold thread she took out earlier, and replaced it with some ordinary needles. The silk thread and gold-rimmed handcuffs were also taken away, and two ordinary wooden ones were replaced, and then they settled the accounts on the abacus, saying:

"Sister, the ones I chose for you are all practical and affordable, just two taels of silver."

As she said that, she thought about it in front of Liu Man'er, and then showed it to Liu Man'er.

God knows, Liu Man'er doesn't know how to read abacus at all. When she was in primary school in her previous life, she seemed to have learned abacus, but she had forgotten it long ago. For the little things she sold, she could just do the math in her head.

So Liu Man'er stretched out her hand, pushed the abacus, and said: "Hey, that's all, am I still afraid that you will not be able to deceive me, sister, that's what you said, that's it."

Then she took out the silver.

"Shall I have someone deliver these to your shop?" Zhong Wang asked.

"Okay." Liu Man'er nodded, but she muttered straight in her heart. Unexpectedly, embroidery is also a costly thing. It costs so much money to buy such a few things. Two taels of silver, an ordinary student two taels One year's tuition, for an ordinary family, one year's tuition.

Fortunately, she is doing a very good business selling iced drinks now. Because it is the only one, the price she sells is quite high. Just a popsicle costs five cents, and fruit juice and fruit salad are ten cents a bowl. As for The ice cream costs twenty Wen, plus the money earned from roast duck, stewed duck, chicken, rice crackers, etc., there are about ten taels a day.

"By the way, did you invite Xiuniang to your house, sister?" Zhong Wang asked again.

"No." Liu Man'er originally thought that Zhong Wang's business was very shrewd, and she didn't want to tell her about it, but thinking that she hadn't found a suitable person for a long time, she shook her head honestly, "If there is a suitable person If so, please ask shopkeeper Zhong to help introduce one."

"Hey, that's a coincidence." Zhong Wang immediately laughed when she heard Liu Man'er say this, and said: "What fate, my sister-in-law is at home, why don't you let her go to your house and give embroidery to these children? "

"Isn't that very good?" Liu Man'er hesitated.

"What's wrong?" Zhong Wang said while asking the staff to help deliver the things to Liu Man'er's shop: "Sister, I'm telling you the truth, my little sister, she was divorced by her husband's family, and now every day her mother's house It doesn't look like it, after all, she is a married daughter."

When Liu Man'er heard this, she vaguely understood that the Zhong Wang family must be dissatisfied with her sister-in-law, and she was dissatisfied that her sister-in-law was in her house.

"But don't worry, my sister-in-law's embroidery work is still good. Although it's not as good as mine, it's more than enough to teach your two sister-in-laws." Zhong Wang said heartily.

(End of this chapter)