Because Wang Shiyu didn't want to take the imperial examination, but wanted to avoid being illiterate, especially some books about music, chess, calligraphy, painting and women's crafts. She read more of them, but she couldn't understand the professional numbers. There was no such skill in the books she brought before. The main reason was that these things were all family inheritances and never passed on to outsiders, which led to the extinction of many inheritances.

Because this dynasty also advocated that women are virtuous even if they are not talented, but they also looked at the girl's inner qualities, as the skills of music, chess, calligraphy and painting were essential. However, her parents had never taught her any of these skills even when she was a child, or it might be that no one in her family knew any of them.

Not to mention the female workers and making clothes. Even when making clothes, Mo Ruru would just take the fabric back to her room and make them. She never mentioned wanting to teach Wang Shiyu, as if she was deliberately avoiding her daughter. Wang Shiyu was not interested in making clothes. You have to know that she was born in the era of information explosion, and making clothes was a piece of cake for her. She knew a few common patterns, after all, she was from an orphanage.

So now she could only take the cloth in the space at night and slowly study how to embroider. No matter how good the text teaching was, it was not as good as someone demonstrating it directly to her, and even correcting herself when she made a mistake.

Especially because of her rough hands, she couldn't do these jobs. The barbs on her hands could scratch the silk at any time, making it impossible for her to do embroidery.

So she was taking care of her hands anxiously. In order to make her hands more tender and smooth, she even soaked them in milk and eggs.

As her hands became softer day by day, the calluses on them gradually faded away. Although her hands did not change much, except that they became softer and whiter, the old man noticed it. He didn't know if the old man had installed a surveillance camera on him.

She had better fabrics than those of this dynasty, but she was reluctant to use them, so she had been using cotton cloth to learn female embroidery techniques. She discovered the Shu embroidery technique in an ancient book, especially the two-color embroidery, which looked very high-end.

She is also a novice and has no idea how to do it. She is now training her hands. Otherwise, her hands will be too rough. Every time she takes the thread and cloth, she will scratch the cloth. She can't even split the thread properly. The split thread will have burrs and she won't be able to embroider.

The old man didn't say anything else, but just arranged for her to do a lot of more laborious work, such as sweeping the yard, picking up various shells and oysters at the beach, and even gave the laundry, fire and dishwashing work at home to Wang Shiyu. Second Aunt was very good at embroidery because she was a scholar's disciple, but Wang Shiyu had no access to it since she came here. The old man asked Second Aunt to embroider in the house, and the rest of the work was done by Wang Shiyu and Mo Ruru.

Wang Shiyu also noticed the old man's secret little action, but she didn't say anything much, because she felt that the old man was the elder after all, and she had to do what he arranged. So from then on, Wang Shiyu no longer used milk and eggs to care for her hands, but chose to soak them slowly in hot water at night. This not only relieved the fatigue of working during the day, but also relieved the fatigue of her hands.

When she works during the day, she will stick some hand-sticking gloves on the palms of her hands. This not only protects her hands from being roughened by the bamboo pole, but also prevents her hands from being injured even when washing dishes, picking up firewood or cracking shells.

Because her hands quickly turned black again during this period, the old man did not continue to assign her other tasks.

Instead, he took his two sons to go fishing at sea every day. Because the family's boat was small and they didn't have a decent fishing net, they could only use a large homemade net to catch fish. Even if there were fishing nets for sale in Jizhou City, he would not buy them. Obviously, the family had plenty of money, but he just wouldn't buy any.

This job is actually very dangerous. Their wooden boat is not big, about eight meters long and four meters wide. They can bring back some fish from the sea every day, but the selling price is not high. They can earn thirty or forty copper coins every day. The income is not much, but it can support the family for a day.

In fact, this money is not enough for the two children to study and learn calligraphy. Now the two children rely on the old man's guidance for their studies. When there is nothing else to do, the old man will drive the boat to Zhou Island alone to see how the Zhang family is doing. Every time he goes there, he brings a lot of bags, as if that place is his home.

Ever since she discovered that the old man's attitude had changed, Wang Shiyu had never had a private conversation with him again. Every time she seemed like a nobody. But this time, when the old man went to Zhou Island, she suddenly felt a little panicked for some reason.

It seemed like something was about to happen, but the old man had walked that road countless times. Even if he got there now, there shouldn't be any big problems, right?

Or maybe something was coming towards her. Wang Shiyu frowned and looked at the road where the old man left. She hoped that the old man would not seek death, as she was not a pushover.

Sure enough, the old man came back directly in the afternoon. Apart from being a little wet by the sea water, he was not injured at all.

On the next morning, when it was originally scheduled to go fishing, the old man asked his two sons to rest at home. He took Zhou Qingyun away directly, as if he was going to take him to Zhou Island, but this was inconsistent with the old man's behavior during this period.

Wang Shiyu, who was wiping the furniture with a rag, couldn't help but clench her hands, then finished the work with a blank expression, because her grandmother was now bedridden. Wang Shiyu had an additional daily task: wiping her grandmother's body. Her mother was already very tired. The food, clothing and shelter of the whole family fell on her mother, and the money earned by her second aunt's embroidery work was also in the hands of the old man.

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