Chapter 128 Going to catch sea intestines again?
"Come in quickly, don't catch a cold." Xiao Jiuyue led He Lian into the house and ordered, "Luo Kui, make tea for Miss He Lian."
"No, thanks." He Lian couldn't speak clearly. She stood awkwardly at the entrance. Even though she had lived in the Xiao family for a long time, He Lian still didn't dare to move. She even looked at something for fear of damaging it.
"Sit down." Xiao Jiuyue said with a smile, looking at He Lian's awkward appearance. He Lian was not crazy. The clothes she wore were washed white, and her hair was tied up with a wooden hairpin. She was without makeup, and she was so thin and frail that she seemed like she would fall down with a gust of wind.
"Miss, I, I heard from Miss Lianxin that you wanted to see the tongcao flowers?" He Lian mustered up the courage to speak, took out the tongcao flowers hidden in her sleeves, and said a little embarrassedly: "Miss, this is the hibiscus flower I made. If, if, if you don't mind..."
He Lian looked at the jade hairpin in Xiao Jiuyue's hair. She didn't know what it was made of, but it looked out of her reach. The tongcao flower in her hand seemed a bit difficult to give away.
Just as He Lian was about to take it back, Xiao Jiuyue stood up and picked up the tongcao flower, and a voice of praise came over: "This is the hibiscus flower you made yourself, it really looks like it!"
The moment Xiao Jiuyue's slender fingers grasped the hibiscus flower, He Lian felt that the paper flowers she had made seemed even more beautiful. He Lian looked at Xiao Jiuyue with joy and excitement and asked, "Miss, do you really think... the hibiscus flower looks like it?"
"Not only does it resemble it, but it's also beautiful." Xiao Jiuyue pinched the tongcao flower and said, "The lifelike hibiscus flower is like a girl putting on makeup. It's beautiful!"
"If Miss likes it, I will do something else." He Lian's face turned red with excitement, as if she was finally useful!
"Sit down and talk slowly." Xiao Jiuyue held up the tongcao flowers and motioned He Lian to sit down. She asked, "Are there many tongcao flowers in Fu'an Village?"
"Miss, are you talking about Tongcao? There is a lot of Tongcao. There is an area in the back mountain that is full of Tongcao." He Lian's voice was also very gentle. When she talked about Tongcao, her eyes were shining.
Xiao Jiuyue listened carefully. She had seen books about velvet flowers, which looked very similar to paper flowers. She remembered them being made of silk and iron or copper wire. She asked, "If I were to use silk, would you be able to make velvet flowers?"
"Silk?" He Lian's eyes widened, and her eyes seemed to be full of doubts: Silk is such a good thing, but it can be used to make velvet flowers?
"Yes, it's using silk." Xiao Jiuyue told He Lian what little knowledge she had learned. She only had theoretical knowledge, and she didn't know if He Lian could understand her half-baked skills.
"Miss, I think I understand what you mean." He Lian seemed to understand and said, "It's a pity that I don't have the materials on hand, otherwise, I could give it a try."
"I'll have someone send it to you tomorrow. Try to see if you can make a velvet flower." Xiao Jiuyue encouraged him, "Give it a try. It doesn't matter if you can't. Hair made of tongcao flowers is also very beautiful."
Xiao Jiuyue pinned the hibiscus flower in her hair. She touched it with her hand. Even though she couldn't see it, she believed that such a delicate, lifelike and beautiful hibiscus flower would look good in her hair, matched with her black and shiny hair!
"So pretty!" He Lian's eyes welled up as she watched Xiao Jiuyue wearing the paper flowers she made. She added, "The eldest lady is so pretty that even the flowers I made look pretty!"
Xiao Jiuyue didn't scold her for doing useless things like others did.
"The flowers you made are beautiful." Xiao Jiuyue told He Lian about her idea of making head flowers to sell. He Lian said hesitantly, "Miss, will anyone buy these?"
Xiao Jiuyue raised an eyebrow and replied confidently: "How could no one buy such beautiful flowers?"
"But, it takes a long time to make these paper flowers." He Lian thought, it takes half a day to make one flower, and this is not a particularly complicated one. If it is particularly complicated, it will probably take a whole day. With the few flowers she has made, it will be difficult to make dozens of them even if she does not eat or drink. She is afraid that she will not be able to sell them.
"That's fine. Try the velvet flower I mentioned first." Xiao Jiuyue consoled him, "You still need to recuperate. So, consider it as asking you to make velvet flowers for me, and I'll pay you every month."
"I don't want it." He Lian replied anxiously: "Miss, you saved me, saved my elder brother, and found a job for my mother. I don't want any money."
He Lian was so anxious that her face turned red.
"First, take a look and see if you can make the velvet flower." Xiao Jiuyue calmed He Lian's emotions. After sending He Lian away, she sat on the chair and didn't move for a long time.
He Lian is like the poor little sister Xiaoya in the welfare home. No, she is stronger than that little sister Xiaoya. If she had the ability to help little sister Xiaoya at that time, could little sister Xiaoya also start a new life like He Lian?
Luo Kui stood by and quietly took out some snacks from the bag around her waist: "Miss, I have some mung bean pastries here, would you like to try some?"
Xiao Jiuyue came out of her thoughts. She looked up at the mung bean cake in Luo Kui's hand. She took it and stuffed it into her mouth. The sweet mung bean cake filled her mouth with the fragrance of mung bean cake. She said, "Don't you remember that your toothache?"
When Luo Kui heard this, she covered her face and said, "Miss, I, I am fine now."
Toothache is not a disease, but once it starts, it can be life-threatening. Just mentioning it now makes Luo Kui feel the pain in his teeth again.
"The doctor said that if you don't eat more candy, you will lose all your teeth and become an old lady." Xiao Jiuyue glanced at her sideways and reached out to grab her small bag. Lianxin usually took all of it, leaving only some dried carrots.
"Miss, I'm gone, really gone." Luo Kui was about to cry. If he had known, he would not have given it to the young lady.
Xiao Jiuyue ate all the mung bean cakes in her bag before saying, "I'll make you something to eat someday. It won't cause you to get irritated easily."
"Really?" Luo Kui immediately laughed and chased after Xiao Jiuyue to ask what it was that he was eating!
The next day, Xiao Jiuyue prepared all the silk threads, iron wires and copper wires for He Lian. Xiao Jiuyue picked up her pen to write a letter to her elder brother Xiao Jialing. At the same time, she told the Xiao family that they would send things to Lingnan every once in a while, and asked everyone to make clothes, shoes and socks and send them over when the time comes.
Xiao Jiuyue went to purchase a batch of medicinal herbs to prevent snakes, insects, rats and ants. The humidity in Lingnan is high and the weather is dry, so rats and cockroaches are likely to swarm together. Whether it is the elderly Mr. Xiao, the middle-aged Xiao Fu, or Xiao Jialing, who has been pampered since childhood, they are probably all uncomfortable.
Xiao Jiuyue thought about it and thought of a method to make ice, so she wrote it down vaguely. She believed that Xiao Jialing was smart and would be able to figure it out.
Lingnan.
"Jia Ling, are you fishing for sea intestines again?"
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