Carrying a bucket into the kitchen, Caiwei poured the water into the jar and mixed some water from Lingxi into it. After finishing her work, she straightened up and listened to the noises in the house. She was surprised that she didn't hear her mother's nagging and complaints.
She entered the big house and found that her mother was not at home. Wen'er and Wu'er were not there either. There was only Caifei in the house.
At this time, Caifei was sitting at the table on the kang, sewing underwear for Wu'er. She lowered her head slightly, with a calm and peaceful look on her face, which was very different from the fierce look when she raised the needle and thread basket to hit Li that day!
In fact, my sister is a gentle and weak girl in her bones. It is the harsh life that has polished her into that fierce and fierce look!
Caiwei thought, feeling a little distressed. When she made money, she would make sure that her sister would be like a real lady, drinking tea, embroidering, playing chess, reciting poems every day...
Caifei noticed her sister's presence, put the work in her hand on the table of the kang, and greeted her with a smile: "Eldest sister, why are you standing there quietly? You didn't even tell me when you came back."
Caiwei said: "I see that you are working hard, and I can't bear to disturb you. Come, let me see how your needlework is now? Have you made any progress?"
As she said that, she walked over, sat on the edge of the kang, and picked up the small pants she had made and looked at them carefully.
Fei'er's needlework skills were very weak, and her embroidery skills were not good, but she was serious. Wu'er's short underwear had even and fine stitches, and she specially made it one size larger, rolled up the trouser legs and sewed them, so that he could wear them when he grew up in the future.
"Well, Fei'er made it very beautiful! He will definitely be a clever man in the future!" Caiwei praised.
Fei'er was very happy to receive the praise from her elder sister. She took out a pair of shoes and a bellyband and asked Caiwei to appreciate them.
Caiwei looked at the shoes and bellyband, which were embroidered with rich peony patterns. Although the embroidery was not very good, it was obvious that she had put a lot of thought into it. The petals of the peony were in gradient colors, which looked lifelike and vivid!
"The embroidery is really good, almost as good as the embroiderers in the embroidery shop." She praised against her will.
Caifei said modestly, "It's not as good as my sister said. My little skill is just the most ordinary fur. I heard that the best embroiderers can embroider different patterns on the front and back of a piece of cloth. Hey! When can I learn such a skill? It will be considered good!" The skill that
Fei'er mentioned is the famous double-sided embroidery, the top embroidery method in embroidery technology. People who can have such a skill are mostly employed in the embroidery clothing bureau of the palace, and are rarely seen among the people. Caiwei was a little surprised. In this closed and backward northern mountain village, there were very few people who knew about double-sided embroidery. How could Fei'er, a little girl, know such a high-end thing?
"Who did you hear about double-sided embroidery from?"
Caifei said, "Of course I heard it from my mother!"
After that, she seemed to remember something and said, "By the way, my elder sister went to fetch water. Why did she take so long to come back? My mother kept talking about it. If Aunt Zhou hadn't come to find me, I would have gone out to find you!"
"What did Aunt Zhou want to find me for?"
Caiwei was puzzled. Didn't she have a distinguished guest at home? Shouldn't she stay at home and entertain the guest?
Hearing her sister's inquiry, Caifei immediately said with a little gossip excitement, "There are guests at Aunt Zhou's house. They are people that Brother Jiujin met in the mountains. Aunt Zhou said that these people are all tall and strong, and they are not ordinary people! Aunt Zhou's house is out of tea, so she came to my mother to ask for some, and asked her to help with cooking at her house!"
Tea!
Caiwei covered her chest and asked anxiously, "What kind of tea did mother bring over?"
Fei'er pointed to the big bowl on the corner of the table and said, "There is no real tea at home. We only have the scented tea bought by our eldest sister. Mother said that our scented tea is also very delicious, and I think those nobles will like it, so she took some of the scented tea away."