take a wife to support the family

Chapter 32 The Egg and the Basket

A day or two later, when the pattern of magpies and plum blossoms was embroidered, Lily looked left and right, and felt very beautiful, so she was very proud.

She does not pursue the meticulous craftsmanship of the embroiderer. Living in a farm is just affordable and sturdy. Her embroidery is not top-notch, but her flexible layout and comfortable color matching make people love it.

Because the draft is made with fire charcoal pen, my hands will sweat during daily embroidery, and both the white cloth and the embroidery thread are stained. Lily fetches water to wash the white cloth with the pattern twice, and then soaks it in alum water. It took a while to fix the color of the embroidery thread, wash it until it was white, and hang it in the sun to dry.

The insole that was pasted a few days ago was almost dry when pressed under the bed, and there were two flat pieces.When the embroidery is dry, cut it off along the edge, leaving a half-inch wide side, and compare it to the left and right insoles according to the shape.

Make another spoonful of paste, apply it evenly on the back of the pattern, press it on the insole to stretch and flatten it, then turn the excess edge to the back of the insole and stick it well.In this way, the insole has two sides, the front is made of snow-white good fabric, embroidered with magpies and plum blossom patterns, and the back is a base made of rags.

At this point, the insole is roughly formed, and you only need to sew the valley pattern with white thread (Note 1), just like spreading sesame seeds evenly on the front, so that several layers of the insole can be integrated into one, strong and easy to wear, and finally Sew black or teal trim on the insole.

Sewing the valley pattern and hemming is a time-consuming job, so there is no rush. At this moment, Lily put down the insole to let the paste that was just applied dry, and still pressed it under the straw cushion.

After going to the house, throw a handful of chaff to the hens, hoping that they will lay more eggs.Going back to the front, I saw two people approaching from a distance, their figures looked familiar.

Lily is not nearly [-] degrees short-sighted as she was when she was a teacher. Her eyes are bright and clear, so she takes good care of her eyes and refuses to waste her eyes in dim light.

Looking at the two people from a distance, they looked like Li Meijiang and Li Qingsong, Lily quickly went up to meet them, and when she got closer, she really was. "Father, Qingsong, why are you here?"

Carpenter Li wrinkled his face with a smile, Qingsong said first: "Father has finished the basket, and I want to send it to you!"

"You came here just to pester you, didn't you?" Qingsong is neither too old nor too young at this age. He can't do much farm work, but he can still help the family with some things.

Poor children in the countryside don't need to go to school. In the past two years, he ran to the town every day, and even eavesdropped on his teacher's lectures outside the private school. In the past two years, the Li bamboo craftsmen and his wife intended him to learn more about the way of life in the fields, so they didn't go too far. The town is coming.

In his early ten years old, he couldn't sit still at home the most, no, he heard his father said that he would come to deliver a basket to the eldest sister, so he insisted on coming.Carpenter Li and his wife regarded Qingsong as an eyeball, Carpenter Li couldn't hold back any of his children, and Mrs. Zhu was even soft-hearted when Qingsong acted coquettishly, so he asked him to come with him.

Lily nodded Qingsong's forehead and led the way: "Come in!"

Turning around, she saw her father and younger brother looking dumbfounded at the three huts, "Sister, our house is better than this..."

"It's hard for me big girl..."

Qingsong was still a child, so he didn't tell him all the important things in the family, such as his eldest sister's marriage, in fact, he sold the eldest girl for him to save his family fortune, and he only thought that the eldest girl married to the town to enjoy the blessings , can always live better than living in my own home in the mountains.

Now seeing the three broken huts of the Song family, Qingsong almost shed tears.

But Carpenter Li is already in tears. He has no skills, and he has been working hard all his life and has not been able to earn a decent family business for his daughter.

Mrs. Zhu planned well. After passing the eldest girl, there are two girls and three girls. In her mind, as long as she doesn't sell her daughter back to her natal family's poor mountains and rivers, she will be good to her daughter.

But Carpenter Li felt that he was sorry for his daughters. Caifeng from his family married to the town a few years ago, ate white flour buns, lived in green tile houses, and wore fine cotton cloth.But his big girl has nothing...

The father and son almost hugged Lily and cried, Lily was a little emotional, no wonder the eldest girl was betrayed, lived in fear under Song Haonian's hands, and never resented her family when she went to a dead end and jumped into the river.Even though Zhu Shi is ruthless, her father and younger brother still have a conscience.

"Father, don't be sad. New Year's Day was very good to me. When you look back and build a big house, it must be different. Are you still sad when you have a grandson in the coming year?" Yuyong, Lily is only thinking about how to improve her life so that she can live a good life.

Carpenter Li wiped his tears with his cuff, "Hey, good boy, good boy..." followed Lily to the house.

The young man in Qingsong was easily distracted, and he jumped three feet high: "Sister, are you going to have a baby?" He looked at Lily's waist from left to right, very curious.

Lily couldn't laugh or cry, and gave Qingsong a slap: "What nonsense! Your sister can't give birth to a baby!"

Although she swore to Carpenter Li that she would have a grandson for him to play with, in fact, she and Song Haonian had never consummated their marriage, so where would they have children?Besides, she is only now, and her body is weak, and she cannot keep up with the nutrition for giving birth. She will have to take care of her for a year or two before she can give birth.

Lily always boiled a pot of water, kept warm on the stove, and dared not drink cold water no matter how thirsty, lest she get dysentery. There was no medicine or medicine in this place, and money could not buy a life.

Let father and younger brother sit down in the house, Lily went into the kitchen and poured two bowls of warm water for them, and boiled another pot of water to prepare more food, and came back and said: "Father, I will make more at noon, and you and Qingsong will go back after eating." .”

Carpenter Li couldn't bear to eat the food from the eldest daughter's house, and was afraid that she would be sad, so he nodded, thinking that he would send some food to the eldest daughter later, otherwise the son-in-law came back and saw that the food was running low, so he didn't know what to do with him little girl.

Lamei Qingsong and the others, Lily believed everything they said, thinking that Song Haonian was a good person, and Li Bamboo craftsman for many years, would not so easily believe that a prodigal who does not farm can be a good person.

Carpenter Li carried a big back sash and put it against the table, Li Qingsong pulled Lily to look at the contents: "A back sack is all baskets, there are thirty or forty of them, all made by my father day and night! "

"Father, I'm not in a hurry, you should take care of yourself anyway." Lily told Carpenter Li, and counted baskets with Qingsong.

In the whole family, Qingsong is the only one who can count to more than one hundred, and everyone else is living in a muddleheaded way.

For example, Zhu's counting the wages brought home by Yingchun, they put dozens of them in a pile, and dozens more. This is already a rare shrewd woman. After Yingchun came to Liu's house, she learned to count money. Won't.

Seeing that Lily counts faster than Qingsong, both father and son are assumed to be Lily's new learning after marrying in the town, and it is probably Song Haonian who taught her.Carpenter Li felt that there was probably a little truth in what Da Niu said about Song Haonian.

(End of this chapter)