farmhouse ditty

Chapter 55
Gao's natal family lives at the end of the village, and the people who live there are old households for a long time, and the road is difficult to walk, so Xiu Niang and Liu's family walked through the mountain trails, and the two hurried along while chatting. .

Mrs. Liu asked, "What? You have to leave first?"

Xiu Niang nodded, "I don't want the handwork money. I'll leave after I ask something. It won't take long, but I will still help where the embroidery thread should be."

Hearing what Xiuniang said, Mrs. Liu didn't bother her much, but asked Xiuniang to talk to her when she was about to leave. This time, she came over to help with the embroidery work. She didn't bother to deal with the many women, so hurry up and talk to Xiuniang. Let's go home together.

Suddenly, Mrs. Liu thought of something again, and she patted Xiu Niang's hand, "Hey girl, tell me, the stitches on your embroidery sample are so fine, even my brother-in-law and aunt Xu boasted when they saw it."

Xiu Niang smiled after hearing this, "It's just a small rag to embroider some flowers and plants, and it's not a big cloth to embroider those big mountains and lakes, why did it catch the eyes of the sixth sister-in-law."

Mrs. Liu still boasted, "Hey, it depends on the needle and the thread to see the workmanship. I will not talk about those flowers and grasses. Just a few days ago, Da Ya took your flower cloth Come here, let me take a look..."

She opened her arms and looked at Xiu Niang, grinning, "I'm just looking at the pair of little house sparrows, ouch, I'm afraid that if I shake the cloth around me, the little house sparrows will fly away in shock."

After hearing what Mrs. Liu said, she called Xiu Niang to feel embarrassed, "Sister-in-law Liu, you are exaggerating me. My picky needles and threads are suitable for embroidering some flowers, sparrows." , Those are all small gadgets, in fact, to put it bluntly, it is to hide the stitches in those lines, and sew from the inside to the outside..."

Mrs. Liu said so many good things to her just now, but she just wanted to ask her how to embroider needles. Now she memorizes a few tricks, so that she can learn and sell them when she is in someone's house.

Originally, when people in the countryside embroidered flowers and sewed clothes, most of them only wanted to make them durable, and they seldom paid attention to them to look good. The dexterity of the mother-in-law and aunt in Yang Village mentioned earlier actually depends on where to put it.

Furthermore, they are full-hearted, and they only pick some big objects to start with, and the needle and thread will be finished after a few steps of ups and downs, but they have never seen such delicate embroidery work by Xiu Niang.

After that, the Gao family was in a hurry to hold a wedding, so they paid for embroidery work, and a lot of the village's mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law must have gone, and the Liu family went there to show their skills Well, this is a contest between mothers-in-law and aunts, because you can't see how the house is cleaned up, so you can only let it go and watch the skillful hands.

But Xiu Niang didn't care how they compared, earlier she talked about taking over Gao's embroidery work, on the surface she wanted to earn the sewing money, but in fact she was going to inquire about Gao's family.

So that Xiuniang picked the best embroidery sample and sent it to Mrs. Liu, and asked her to take it to Mrs. Gao to have a look first. She also expected that they would be rare about this embroidery sample, and those are only found in big houses and big households. Only then can we see it.

Who is Xiuniang's mother, Mrs. Chen, who used to be a maid in a big mansion before, but she often sees silk and satin, with flying needles and threads, and after a long time, she just looks like a cat or a tiger.

The needlework of Xiu Niang's skillful hands was learned from Mrs. Chen's, and that embroidery worker is almost indistinguishable from those in the mansion.

After hearing this, Mrs. Liu muttered, "So there is still such a needlework method. Hey, if you don't talk about it, these ten fingertips are all idle, and you are talking about your hands."

Xiu Niang smiled, "I can't even cut a piece of clothing properly, why don't I ask my sister-in-law for help?"

Mrs. Liu waved her hands, "Hey, how long will it take you to poke little by little with a thin needle? You have to pick with a big needle. Let me tell you... ..."

The two of them were laughing and chatting arm in arm, and after they got off the mountain path, they just walked a little further. It was the first time for Xiuniang to come to the end of Xiayang Village, and she looked really bad.

The residents in this area are all old households, but they are all old-fashioned and well-behaved owners. The walls of the outer yards of each house are built with straw and mud, and the walls are high and the neighbors are placed far away, unlike in those days. At the east end of the village, the two houses are mostly placed on the same wall.

Besides, the trail in Xiuniang's house is also easy to walk. Although it is full of potholes, it is not so intrusive. If the pothole goes down, it will be a long way.

Xiuniang and Mrs. Liu were walking next to the wall. It was raining a few days ago, and there was still water in the dirt pit in the road, making it difficult for people to set foot.

After two households, Mrs. Gao was leaning on the earthen steps at the entrance of her courtyard, grinning and chatting with the two wives, and seeing Mrs. Liu from afar, she said with a smile, "Good sister-in-law Liu, I'll just wait for you." ... Yo, this, this Chu Ge family, you, why are you here too."

Just now Xiu Niang was walking behind Mrs. Liu, she didn't see her, but when the two of them walked into Mrs. Gao's face, she changed her face, she smiled strangely, and even the mother-in-law who was chatting with her also stopped and said something. Just entered the house.

Mrs. Liu patted Mrs. Gao's hand, and pointed at Xiuniang, "Brother Xu's family, didn't you see how well-behaved the house sparrow was on the cloth pattern last time? Oh, that's Xiuniang's sister embroidery. of."

Facing Mrs. Gao's uncomfortable look, Xiu Niang smiled and said, "Hello, Sister Gao." She has seen the faces of those aunts and aunts a lot in the past two days, and she doesn't care anymore.

If Xiuniang didn't call her 'Sister-in-law Xu', she didn't want to have a relationship with her husband's family. This was her attitude towards Chu Ge. He looks young, even if Mrs. Gao feels uncomfortable, she will agree.

Gao grinned, "Hey, okay, the girl is here."

Mrs. Liu smiled, "I brought Xiuniang here today, so I can help you put out the quilt of the house sparrow club, match it with a fur color, and add a naked body."

As she spoke, she dragged Xiu Niang into the yard, but when she got to the gate, she was stopped by Mrs. Gao. She smiled and said to Xiu Niang, "Then girl, you can stay here for a while, I will talk to the sixth sister-in-law Just don't leave."

Xiu Niang answered and stood at the door. Gao Shi pulled Liu Shi and entered the yard. She looked around and smiled at Liu Shi, "Good Sixth Sister-in-law, you are a monkey, you know how to get her Tricked into coming here."

Mrs. Liu frowned and looked at her, "What's cheating, but you said you would pay for it by hand, don't renege on it, don't make it difficult for me to be a good person, I always talk to other girls gone."

Gao slanted her eyes and said, "Come on, don't pretend to be a fairy girl like me. After a while, you have to prepare a thank you gift for me."

As she said that, she shook her hand into the room, and many women came out, all of them with their sleeves rolled up, and two of them rubbed their feet out, drooping the shoe boards, and after a while, they could use their hands.

When Liu saw that there were so many people here, they all got along well with her, she smiled, "What are you doing, look at your posture, are you here to embroider or smash people's houses? ?”

One of them rolled up his sleeves, turned his head to gouged out a glance at the little woman at the door, and said to Mrs. Liu, "Hey, from the old Liu's family, don't say that the old sisters didn't help you, today we are going to let that foxy woman Lizi knows how powerful it is."

As she said that, she called all the women to run to Xiuniang...

(End of this chapter)