On the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, the academy was closed for holiday. Tian An and Zhao Yiming took Xiaokang and Xiaoqi to stay at the farm for two days, and brought Mr. Han back with them.
Tian An has already told Zhao Yiming about Mr. Han and An Rong. If nothing unexpected happens, this year will be the last year that Mr. Han and Grandma Qin spend with them.
When Mr. Han and An Rong get married next year, they will move out of the general's mansion with Grandma Qin.
After this visit, they probably wouldn't come to the village again before the New Year, so they brought New Year gifts with them.
Candies, snacks, cloths, and some hand creams are available in every household in the village.
In addition, Tian An also brought a lot of velvet flowers to give to the aunts, young wives, and young girls in the village. The velvet flowers were all a bright red, which looked festive and more suitable for the New Year.
This made the women in the village very happy. After all, no matter how old they are, every woman loves beauty.
Knowing that Tian An and her family wouldn't be visiting before the Lunar New Year, Tian Mingcai brought his four children, Tian Kai, Tian Zhuang, Tian Caihe, and Tian Caiping, to visit them and give them the lucky money he had prepared for them.
Tian An and his friends did not refuse. They took the lucky money with a smile and gave them the gifts they had prepared.
Xiaokang and Xiaoqi prepared a few Spring Festival couplets. They have recently become obsessed with writing them and have stockpiled quite a few at home. Not to mention their own and Tian Mingwu's courtyards, there are probably enough for the entire mansion.
Zhao Yiming gave some pens, ink, paper, and inkstones, which Tian Kai and Tian Zhuang could use for their daily studies. As for Tian Caihe and Tian Caiping, she didn't care. He would not give anything to any woman except Tian An.
Tian An prepared a set of clothes for each of the six members of their family. The clothes were all made of good materials, but not very expensive fabrics, so they could be worn on a daily basis without any pressure.
The children were delighted with the new clothes, but since their father hadn't given the nod, they didn't dare to take them. They could only look at Tian Mingcai eagerly.
Although their lives are better now than before they separated, they don't have to give all their money to Old Lady Wang to manage, nor do they have to give money to Old Lady Wang every month like when they were still in the village.
But Tian Kai and Tian Zhuang had to study, which cost a lot of money, so making new clothes was still a luxury for them. Even if they really had no clothes to wear, they would occasionally make a piece of clothing, but the material was definitely not as good as the one given by Tian An, and the style was not as beautiful.
Tian Mingcai looked at the gifts given by several people and was silent for a while. After thanking them, he nodded to the children and signaled them to accept them, thinking that there would always be a chance to return them.
After accepting the gifts, Tian Mingcai was about to go back. The children were not willing to go back as it was a rare opportunity for them to go out. Tian Mingcai urged them to go home early and then let them do what they wanted.
Tian Kai and Tian Zhuang played together with Xiaokang and Xiaoqi, while Tian Caihe and Tian Caiping followed Tian An closely.
After the two of them followed her around the entire yard, Tian An finally couldn't help but said helplessly, "Why do you two always follow me? Go play by yourselves!"
Tian Caihe stared at Tian An with a pair of starry eyes and said with longing: "We want to play with Sister An An."
Tian An raised his eyebrows and looked at her: "What do you want to play with me?"
Tian Caiping looked at her like a little fangirl and said, "As long as I'm with Sister An An, I can do anything."
Tian An held his forehead, looked at the snowflakes falling outside the door, and suggested: "How about I teach you embroidery?"
Sister Tian Caihe is good at sewing and can knit sweaters, but she can't embroider. It would be good for girls to learn embroidery.
Moreover, the purses I made for Zhao Yiming before are old and it’s time to replace them. I’ll give them to him as a New Year’s gift during the Chinese New Year.
The key is that it’s too cold outside, so it’s better to stay at home and warm yourself by the fire.
"Really? Is Sister An An really willing to teach us embroidery?"
The two sisters were naturally delighted to hear that Tian An was willing to teach them embroidery. Embroidery was different from ordinary needlework. It was a skill that could be used as a livelihood, but not many people knew it, and generally no one was willing to teach it.
Tian An nodded casually and turned to ask Xiangtao to prepare something.
The two of them had some basic skills, so Tian An didn't say much and just taught them acupuncture techniques directly.
After explaining it once, she picked up the embroidery frame and embroidered a red plum blossom herself as a demonstration for them. Then she simply drew a red plum blossom pattern on the embroidery surface and asked the two of them to learn to embroider it.
After watching them embroider for a while and correcting them a few times when she saw that it was almost done, she picked up her own embroidery frame and started embroidering.
The purse I embroidered for Zhao Yiming before was in the shape of a ginkgo leaf, so this time I’ll embroider one in the shape of a green bamboo!
Tian An picked out several kinds of green silk threads, thought about it briefly in her mind, and then started to embroider. She no longer needed to draw patterns when embroidering such small objects.
Embroidery requires a lot of concentration and is also time-consuming. Sisters Tian Caihe immersed themselves in it with great interest, and when they looked up, it was dark.
She immediately put down the embroidery frame in a hurry, called Tian Zhuang and Tian Kai who were playing chess with Xiaokang and Xiaoqi, and was about to say goodbye to Tian An.
Tian An looked at the sky outside and asked them to stay for dinner, but the four of them hesitated for a moment and finally declined.
Although they also wanted to eat delicious food at Tian An's place, their father would be alone if they didn't go back, and they couldn't leave their father alone at home.
Tian An didn't force them and asked Deng Xue to go to the kitchen to pack a bowl of braised pork, braised chicken and some snacks, and send them back.
They were also allowed to take away the embroidery frames and silk threads they used for embroidery today.
After the few people left, Zhao Yiming came out of the room and saw Tian An still embroidering the purse. He reached out and took the embroidery frame from Tian An's hand and put it back in the basket.
"It's getting dark, it hurts my eyes, I'll embroider it tomorrow! I'm not in a hurry."
Tian An paused and glanced at him, "I didn't say I would give it to you."
Zhao Yiming looked at Tian An, who was saying one thing and thinking another, and curled the corners of his lips. "If you don't give it to me, who else do you want to give it to?"
Tian An immediately looked at Xiaokang and Xiaoqi beside him and said, "You can give it to Xiaokang and them."
Xiaokang, who was playing chess, was called upon. He turned around to look at the half-embroidered bamboo on the embroidery frame in the basket and said loudly, "Sister, you didn't embroider it for me. I only like tigers. Sister always embroiders tigers for me."
Xiao Qi also said immediately: "Sister definitely didn't give it to me. Sister only embroiders pandas for me."
Hearing this, Zhao Yiming raised his chin slightly and looked at Tian An with a half-smile on his face.
Tian An glared at the two brats, then looked at Zhao Yiming unyieldingly, "It's not for them, and it's not necessarily for you. There's also my dad!"
Now Zhao Yiming was no longer calm. His father-in-law was a daughter slave, so he had to do whatever Tian An said, but he hoped that Tian An would not really take away his wallet.
Zhao Yiming, who had a strong sense of crisis, hurriedly said some nice words in a gentle voice to coax Tian An, and finally he made her admit that the purse was for him.
Finally, he went a step further and ordered another belt.
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