"It's not too late yet. Let's go buy rice now to avoid any more trouble!”Grandpa said seriously.
"Then I'll go get some more money. How much do you want?”Grandma had just come out when she heard this and wanted to enter the house again.
"Take another 20 taels! We only need to buy 300 noodles and 200 catties of rice. The two of us won't be able to eat much. Even with Auntie Ge, it'll be enough for a while. Let Yaxian and the others buy more, and buy more that can be stored!”Grandpa said.
"Grandpa, can I go with you? I haven't been to the market in a long time. Bring me along!”I say with longing! I haven't had a good shopping trip since I came here. I want to take this opportunity to take a look.
"Don't make trouble. Mom will bring you around in a few days. Your grandfather and father won't have the energy to look after you today!”
"Here, this old man will give you the money. This is 25 taels.”Grandma took out the money.
"Little Jia, be good. Let's go shopping again in a few days! Liangcheng, let's go now!"
"Alright, let's go to Xi City to buy it! There are many shops and rice shops there. If we buy more, it might be cheaper.”
"Alright, let's go to Chengjiang first to pull a cart. After we're done buying, we'll bring your family's rice and noodles to your house!”
The two of them walked out as they talked!
After they left, I had nothing to do. I just watched my mother embroider. She embroidered lotus flowers and looked like a dudou!
"Oh right, Mother, the day after tomorrow is the birthday of the twin sisters of the Liu family's youngest uncle. Do you think I should give them something?”
"Oh! How old were they? I remember she was five or six years old!"
"Yes, the day after tomorrow is my sixth birthday!"
"Then what does Little Jia want to give? It's only one day, so it won't be easy to prepare!"
"Mother, teach me how to embroider. I will embroider a handkerchief for them.”
"Haha, how can you learn embroidery in a short time? Besides, you can't embroider two scarves in a day.”
"Then what should I give him?"
"Why don't you send Luo Zi? Didn't Mother teach you before? Will you still?"
"Luo Zi? I don't know if I can do it, I'll try!”Luo Zi? What was it like? When he was in elementary school, he knew how to knit hand ropes. At that time, he was crazy about it for a while. He also knew how to make a few kinds of Chinese knots. If he couldn't do it, he would give him a rope knot. Anyway, it was a token of his appreciation!
"Then wait a moment, I'll go find you a rope! What color do you want?"
"Show me all of them!"
"You even took them out as if you could make up a flower!”As he said that, he went to the west room to get the rope!
After a while, she came out with a sewing basket and placed it on the table. Oh my god, there are so many! The colorful ropes were piled up one by one." These are all here. These are all used by Mother in the past. Take a look and see which color you like!”
"Mother, can I use all these?"
"Yes, but don't waste too much.”After my mother finished speaking, she didn't care much about me.
I placed these colored ropes on the table one by one, separating them from dark to light. There are so many colors, almost the same as my mother's embroidery thread. The color of the rope is a little dark. I don't know if it's because it's been a long time or the color of the rope itself is dark. After I arranged it properly, I counted 72 bundles-_-! The 28 colors, from dark to light, looked like a rainbow on the table.
"Don't touch the golden bundle! This mother only has one bundle." When my mother saw that there was a bundle of golden thread in the string, she immediately said!
"Isn't it just a bundle of rope? Let's play!"
"That won't do. This bundle of golden ones costs two taels of silver per bundle! We can't let her be excited." As he spoke, he put away the bundle of golden ones!
__-I didn't intend to be rash! Do you really think I'm a three-year-old child?
I held the colored rope and looked at it carefully. It was similar to the hand-woven rope I used when I was in primary school, only slightly thicker. I remember that there was a hand-woven style that was very beautiful. At that time, I had learned it for several days. I weaved it into the shape of a small daisy flower. I chose an orange and a duck yellow color. Then, I found an emerald green as the base color. I found a pearl white color at the center of the flower. After finding a good color and fixing the thread, I started weaving. Although I hadn't done it for many years, I was a little rusty at first. It only took him a few times to get used to it!
In less than an hour, I finished weaving the hand ropes. One orange and one duck yellow, exactly the same. It's just right to give them to the twins. The fancy style is the same and the colors are different. I'm satisfied!
"Mother, do you think the rope I made is beautiful?”I couldn't wait to show it to her.
"Aiyo, you really made up a story! It's nice. Our Little Jia is quite skillful too. You've improved. In the past, when I asked you to weave, you were so stupid that you could only knot a knot and couldn't even tell what it was! Today's one is not bad, but how did you make it up? I don't even know how to use this flower. Who taught you?”
"No one taught me. I weaved it myself, disassembled it, and weaved it. After trying it out for a long time, a flower came out. I saw that it looked good, so I weaved it according to this method, and I weaved this patterned hand rope.”I lied. But not all of it was a lie. I made it up, and they all saw it!╭(╯ε╰)╮
"Come and teach mother. This is really good.”As he spoke, his interest was piqued!
"Alright!" I also took a pink and rose thread to make the petals and stamens, and it was also emerald green as the contrast. He fixed the thread properly. Since he had already made two hand ropes, he was very familiar with it.
"Mother put this pink one in the middle and the rose one on both sides. This way, the flower looks like it has a heart, and this green one looks like a leaf! See, that's it. It would be even better if there were small beads to match it.”I said happily.
After seeing me weave a few flowers, my mother started choosing the colors and started weaving them herself. She chose an army green, champagne, and orange color. The colors looked very noble and solemn, suitable for older women to wear, unlike the colors I matched, which were either simple and elegant or bright, suitable for little girls to wear.
I finished weaving the rose-red one in my hand. My mother's side is also almost done. She weaved it just as well as mine. Her hands are too skillful! She only looked at it, but I learned it for a few days! You have to throw it when you compare people!
I took the one I had woven and put it on my wrist to try. It was not bad. The color was nice and the size was just right!
After my mother finished weaving one, she put it aside and began to pick the rope. After picking the color, she went to the west room and took out a small wooden box.
"Mother, what is this?" I leaned over.
My mother opened the box and found some small pearls in it. They were of all colors and were all very small. The bigger ones were bigger than soybeans, and the smaller ones were about the size of green beans. They were not all round. There were oval ones, water drop-shaped ones, and gourd-shaped ones! "So many pearls!" With that thought in mind, I blurted it out.
"These are all worthless little beads. They are used to decorate clothes and scarves!”Saying so, he opened the hidden button of the box. The box was made of two layers. After taking the pearls from the upper layer, he found that there was a layer of wooden beads on the lower layer. Some of these beads were dyed, some were in the original color. However, they were polished very smoothly without wooden thorns. These wooden beads were much larger than pearls.”
"Most of these are used to make Luo Zi decorations! Some of these beads had a fragrance. If they were placed together, other beads would also have a fragrance.”
"Fragrance?" I picked up a bead and smelled it. It smelled like mothballs. This must be made of Camphor wood! This piece of wood seemed to be able to refresh one's mind and repel mosquitoes. Most of these wooden beads were used as bedhead decorations or worn on the body!
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