70s Xiao Que Xing

Chapter 387 Introduction to Embroidery
"I don't use this enamel jar for drinking water, it's filled with good things!" Xie Xiaonian said slyly.

"What a good thing, so mysterious!" Mrs. Zheng said with a smile.

"Grandma Zheng, I know what it is!" Panbing stopped playing with Huanhuan and the others, and said positively.

"I know it too, I know it too!" Heping also rushed to say.

"I can't say, I'm going to reveal it, Dang Dang Dang, look, goat's milk! I just boiled it this morning, and it's still hot, auntie, give it to Uncle Liu, this goat's milk is good for his body " Xie Xiaonian said first.

Xie Xiaonian opened the lid of the enamel jar while talking, and let Aunt Zheng see what's inside.

"Your family only feeds one goat. The goat's milk is just for the pancakes and apples to drink. What do you get for your uncle? He is so old, how can he compete with the children for food?" Aunt Zheng refused.

"Don't look at the family and feed a sheep, but the milk production is huge, and this stuff is easy to get angry, so you can't drink it every day. I just cook apples for them once in two or three days. The rest is wasted if you don't drink it. Yes. I will send some to Uncle Liu in a few days, so that he can nourish his body, and it will also give Huanhuan some to drink. You see, Huanhuan is about the size of a pancake, but his face is a circle smaller than a pancake. "Xie Xiaonian persuaded.

Aunt Zheng looked at her great-granddaughter and pancakes, and found that Huanhuan's complexion was indeed much worse than that of pancakes.

She usually thinks that Huanhuan is well-raised, but when compared with the pancakes, Aunt Zheng feels a little distressed.

The same children, how can there be such a big gap, one is fat and white, like a doll in a New Year painting, and the other is thin and yellow, like a malnourished one.

It is because their adults are incapable that children suffer from childhood.

Aunt Zheng thought, since her apprentice honored her, she should accept it, even if it was for her husband and great-grandson daughter, she couldn't refuse it.

In fact, Mrs. Zheng was wrong. Compared with the children outside, her great-granddaughter is not bad, but compared with the pancakes carefully raised by Space Water, there is no other way but a complete failure.

Xie Xiaonian also grasped this point, which made Aunt Zheng unable to refuse.

After Aunt Zheng and Zhu Yufang finished feeding Uncle Liu and Huanhuan the goat milk, Aunt Zheng began to teach Xie Xiaonian embroidery.

"If you want to learn embroidery well, the first thing is to take good care of your hands. Although you don't want to reach the point where your hands are soft, you can't have barbs or cracks, otherwise the embroidery will be scratched."

After Madam Zheng finished speaking, she took Xie Xiaonian's hand.

After careful inspection, Aunt Zheng said with satisfaction: "Your hand is well maintained, and I don't need to bother to take care of you anymore, but you have to serve snacks in the future and do less rough work. Take care of your hands."

"Well, I see." With space, Xie Xiaonian thought it would be easy to take care of his hands.

When Aunt Zheng was looking at her hand, Xie Xiaonian was also touching Aunt Zheng's hand, and saw that although her hand had dry lines and small cracks, it was much stronger than the hands of ordinary old ladies, and it didn't look like it when touched. Scratching your hands like emery cloth, he praised: "Ma'am, your hands are really well maintained."

"I'm old, so there's nothing wrong with it, I'm no younger than you." Aunt Zheng said with a smile.

"No, just look at my aunt's hand, and some people will believe her when she just turns 40 this year." Xie Xiaonian said seriously, and these words were indeed from her heart.

"Of course, you don't know how much my mother loves her hands. Every spring, summer and autumn, she would pick fresh flowers to soak her hands in the morning and evening, then apply some homemade retting seeds, and dry some of the flowers. Keeping it for winter use has been persistent for decades. Even when working in the fields to earn work points, it has never stopped. If it is not because of too much work, the maintenance is not enough, and the hands become thicker, it will definitely be worse than It's better now." Zhu Yufang said proudly.

"Really, that aunt is really powerful. It's hard for me to do it just by persisting. Auntie, you should also teach me some ways to protect my hands." Xie Xiaonian said.

Even if Xie Xiaonian didn't say it, it was part of what Aunt Zheng wanted to teach her, so Aunt Zheng told Xiao Nian briefly what she knew, and she had to refer to the information in her handbook after her apprenticeship. Record learning.

Xiao Nian is a doctor, I believe learning will get twice the result with half the effort.

Next, Aunt Zheng began to teach Xiao Nian the simplest thread splitting, color matching and flat embroidery.

"I'll just teach you these in general first, and you won't be able to remember if I talk too much, and no matter how good you are at learning theoretical knowledge, it's better to embroider by hand. You should first follow the embroidery pattern I gave you and follow what I just taught you. Xiu, I will guide you by the side."

"okay!"

The next one is embroidery and the other is guidance, and they get along very well.

Although Mrs. Zheng knows the "Five Famous Embroideries" of Su embroidery, Guangdong embroidery, Long embroidery, Hunan embroidery and Shu embroidery, she even knows some lesser-known embroidery methods such as Beijing embroidery and Bian embroidery, but she is best at their hometown. Hunan embroidery, so the techniques taught to Xiao Nian are also based on Hunan embroidery.

Xie Xiaonian liked embroidery in the first place, and finally found a master to learn from, so she showed her previous life's energy to sprint for the college entrance examination, and studied very seriously.

More than an hour later, Aunt Zheng saw that she was still bowing her head to embroider, so she forced her to say: "Okay, don't embroider, and rest for a while, this embroidery can't be learned in a short time, as you I haven't learned this embroidery method yet, and my eyes and body are ruined first! You must pay attention to the balance between work and rest, you know? You can't be like me, and your eyes will be blurred early."

"Well, I see, I was too eager to get it done!" Xie Xiaonian said with some embarrassment.

"However, your vigor is still worthy of praise. If you can keep it up, I believe you will be able to become a teacher in a few years!" Aunt Zheng continued to praise.

"Mom, I think Xiao Nian is more talented than me. You can see that she can embroider a leaf in just over an hour, and the stitches are dense, much better than I was before." Zhu Yufang also praised with a smile.

"Sister Yufang, don't laugh at me. I know what I am like. You can see that the leaves I embroidered are so uneven and crooked. Aunt Zheng can embroider better than me with her eyes closed." Xie Xiaonian was ashamed Said.

"My mother has been embroidering for how many years. You are just learning to compare with her. Then you will be hit later!" Zhu Yufang said with a smile.

"Xiao Nian, you are indeed more talented than your sister-in-law, just being able to sit so steadily for more than an hour is not comparable to her." Aunt Zheng said very pertinently.

She is becoming more and more satisfied with this apprentice. Although she was only recruited for the sake of her family at the beginning, she was lucky and happened to meet a spiritual and patient one.

As for Aunt Zheng's praise, Xie Xiaonian was very excited, just like the children who were praised by the teacher, her mouth was open and she didn't hide it.

"I also happened to take a break to water the vegetables at home. There is a kang burning in this house, and the soil in the pot dries quickly." Zhu Yufang said as she put down the things in her hand.

After listening to Zhao Qiuxiang's words last year, those who didn't grow vegetables regretted it to death. While scolding Zhao Qiuxiang behind their backs, they also spread the news about growing vegetables in the house so that everyone in the compound knew.

So this year, almost all the residents in the compound imitated Xiao Nian's house and grew vegetables in the living room, as did Aunt Zheng's house.

"Sister-in-law, I'll pour the vegetables for you!" Xie Xiaonian also got up and got off the kang, ready to help.

"No, you can rest, I can do it myself!" Zhu Yufang hurriedly refused, and there was no reason to ask the guests to help with the work.

"It's okay, Mrs. Zheng is my master. As the saying goes, you are a teacher for a day and a father for life. From now on, we will be a family. You don't have to be so polite with me." Xie Xiaonian said directly.

"Xiao Nian is willing to help, so you can ask her to help. She was the first to come up with the method of growing vegetables in the house. Maybe she can help you see how the vegetables grow. It's Xiao Nian, don't you If you lift the water, if you roughen your hands, it will hinder embroidery." Mrs. Zheng said directly.

"Hey, mother has Xiaonian, so she just threw me aside!" Zhu Yufang said funny.

"That's right, Aunt Zheng is the best to me. From now on, your position in Auntie's heart will be in the back row!" Xie Xiaonian said cooperatively.

"I just love Xiao Nian, who made her so sweet!" Aunt Zheng said with a smile.

"Oh, mother really doesn't love me anymore, hmph, I'm so mad, I will ask Xiao Nian to do more work later, and get back with revenge!"

After finishing speaking, Zhu Yufang still seemed to be real, and wanted to drag Xiao Nian to work.

"Xiao Nian is not as old as your son, you are ashamed to be jealous of her, don't be ashamed!" Sitting on the kang, Aunt Zheng said with a smile.

After finishing speaking, regardless of the two of them, I went to massage my husband and move his hands and feet.

She felt that since Xiao Nian came to the house, the atmosphere in the house has improved a lot, and laughter can be heard from time to time, it is not as lifeless as before.

Although my husband has been lying on the kang all day long, his brain is not bad. Such laughter and laughter can make him feel more relaxed and stop thinking about it, and it is also conducive to his physical recovery.

Here, when Xie Xiaonian was helping with watering, he took advantage of the opportunity to mix some space river water into the bucket.

As long as she helps from time to time, I believe that within a month, the vegetables in this pot will be juicy and juicy, and they will grow better than other people's vegetables. This will also indirectly improve the health of Aunt Zheng and the others.

After teaching water, Xie Xiaonian carefully observed the two pieces of embroidery by Aunt Zheng.

The more she looked at Xie Xiaonian, the more depressed she became. Thinking about the ugly orchid leaves she embroidered, Xie Xiaonian felt that if she wanted to embroider like this, she really needed to work hard.

"Hey, when will I be able to embroider such a difficult work!" Xie Xiaonian sighed.

"Once you learn it, you will definitely be able to embroider it, and then you won't find it difficult!" Mrs. Zheng said encouragingly.

What she didn't say was that it would take at least 10 years of skill to achieve such a skill.

(End of this chapter)