Chapter 288: Farm Girl, Rare
Wen Caichuan thought he was joking and knew that he still had to help Yunhua clean up the room, so he tactfully returned to Qiuzhi Hall to review his homework.
The two side rooms on both sides of Qi Mo's study are not large, but they are kept clean and tidy, and the room is filled with a faint scent of ink.
Yun Chengfu helped her make the bed and wiped the dust off the tables and chairs, then took her out from the backyard. When passing by the Enlightenment Hall, he caught a glimpse of Baoya, Yunyue, Jingzhen and others sitting upright in the background from the window, and smiled.
"Don't disturb them. I'll take you there." Yun Chengfu said.
Yunhua nodded: "Okay."
As the two walked out, they met Qi Mo coming in from outside, so Yun Chengfu greeted him.
Qi Mo looked at Yun Hua who was following him and nodded: "Go ahead, you are young and promising, and you will achieve great things."
"Thank you, Mr. Xiao Qi." Yunhua answered obediently and followed Yun Chengfu.
Yun Chengfu helped her carry a small bag and walked a few steps ahead.
He took a few steps and reached out his hand towards Yunhua.
Yunhua took a few quick steps, stretched out her little hand, and grabbed his big hand.
Yun Chengfu held her hand, a smile appearing on his lips.
"When you get there, you must study hard. If you have any problems, tell me and we can discuss it together."
"Yeah." Yunhua nodded obediently.
"It's still early, let's go to the shop and have some breakfast, and bring some for the old woman. What does she like to eat?"
"Sweet tofu pudding."
"Okay, then let's bring two more bowls."
The two went to Yunji Breakfast Shop. When He Chunxiu saw them, she hurriedly asked Lanxiang and Cuiqiao to prepare breakfast for the two children. She also packed two portions for Grandma Yu and Qianqiong, including sweet tofu pudding, fried cakes, and hot red date soy milk.
When they arrived at Grandma Yu's house, the time was just right. Qian Qiong came to open the door and saw that it was Yun Chengfu who brought them there, so she quickly let the two in.
Yun Chengfu did not enter the house. He thanked Qianqiong, told Yunhua to study hard, and then left.
Grandma Yu was wearing a dark blue jacket today, with her hair in a smooth and neat bun, and she looked much more energetic than that day.
"Grandma Yu, I brought you some sweet tofu pudding." Yunhua placed two packed breakfasts on the table. "There are also fried cakes and red date soy milk. Aunt Qiong hasn't had breakfast yet, right?"
Qianqiong smiled and nodded. She was just wanting to wait for Yunhua to come so that she could do it.
Grandma Yu's nostrils moved slightly, and she inhaled the aroma of the sweet tofu pudding into her nose.
"Then let's have breakfast first and not waste the child's kindness."
Qianqiong nodded, and the three of them sat at the table in the main hall and ate the breakfast brought by Yunhua.
Because of her poor eyesight, when Grandma Yu went to get the sweet tofu pudding, she found nothing several times, and it was Qianqiong who had to hand it to her.
Yunhua then remembered what Baoya had told her on the day she came to become his disciple.
"Aunt Qiong, among the apprenticeship gifts I brought the other day was a small black piece wrapped in a handkerchief. Is it still there?"
When Qian Qiong heard her say that, she remembered and said with a smile, "Yes, I put it away."
"That's the medicine I got for my mother-in-law at Yaoxian Hall. It's for treating her eyes." Yunhua said according to what Baoya had taught her before.
"You are so thoughtful." Grandma Yu slowly ate the sweet tofu pudding while holding the bowl, but a bitter smile appeared on her lips.
She is old and her eyesight is blurry. This is not a disease and cannot be cured by medicine. I am afraid that this girl will worry in vain.
But despite what she said, after breakfast, Qianqiong still helped her take the "medicine".
Yunhua watched her eat it and immediately felt a lot more at ease.
After breakfast, Qian Qiong cleaned the table neatly, brought a basin for the two to wash their hands, and checked Yunhua's ten fingers one by one, trimming her nails into round and neat shapes.
Grandma Yu said, "If you want to learn Suzhou embroidery well, you will inevitably have to work with silk and brocade in the future. Your nails must be trimmed regularly. If your nails snag the silk and tear the cloth, that's absolutely unacceptable."
Yunhua listened attentively, nodding her head as she listened.
Qianqiong helped her cut her nails and polished them one by one. She looked at Yunhua's ten slender white fingers, which were as smooth as peeled onion roots, with smooth lines and beautiful shapes.
He enviously said, "A girl from a farming family is really rare."
Nowadays, who would raise a baby girl as a treasure? Ever since she could walk, she would be asked to work. It was obvious from Yunhua's hands that she had never done much work at home, at least not any heavy work.
"Emerald and gold threads, embroidered into a costume for singing and dancing. Without the moon in the clouds, who can compare with its brilliance?" Grandma Yu smiled. "This is the Su embroidery described by Li Shixian. Simply put, Su embroidery is the unique embroidery of Suzhou in our Great Kang Kingdom."
"Embroidery skills require flatness, neatness, harmony, brightness, smoothness, and evenness. Flatness refers to the flatness of the embroidery surface; neatness refers to the neatness of the edges of the pattern; brightness refers to the dazzling brilliance and vivid colors; and smoothness refers to the smoothness of the silk thread..."
When talking about Suzhou embroidery, Grandma Yu becomes completely immersed in it.
She leaned forward slightly, her face full of kindness, as if she had forgotten everything around her.
Yunhua moved a small stool and sat next to her, also listening with fascination.
"Single-sided embroidery, also known as one-sided embroidery, involves embroidering a pattern on one side of a piece of Suzhou embroidery base material. This can be flowers, birds, landscapes, or figures, cats, or dogs. Double-sided embroidery, also known as two-sided embroidery, involves embroidering images on both sides of the same base material, with identical outlines and equally delicate and beautiful patterns."
Grandma Yu spoke slowly and calmly, full of her lifelong passion for Suzhou embroidery.
On the other side, Baoya, Jingzhen and Yunyue in the academy were also listening to Mr. Xiaoqi's class attentively.
When you are devoted to something, time often flies quickly. In a blink of an eye, Mr. Xiao Qi has announced the end of class.
Knowing that Yunhua would be rushing to the academy for evening classes soon, Qi Mo deliberately let Baoya and the others out a little earlier. The two children would definitely go to pick up Yunhua.
Baoya and Yunyue were going to Grandma Yu's house to pick up Yunhua and bring her to the academy, but Jingzhen didn't follow them. He sat on the donkey cart at the gate of the academy, holding a newly sprouted willow branch in his mouth.
Baoya and Yunyue thanked Qi Mo and ran away in a hurry.
Jingzhen looked at the backs of the two little girls, shook his head and chuckled.
When I arrived at Grandma Yu's house, Grandma Yu had just finished teaching.
Qianqiong invited the three children into the house and served them hot tea and some snacks she had just made.
But for once, Baoyatou didn't focus on the cloud cake on the plate, but pulled Yunhua to ask:
"Third sister, what did Grandma Yu teach you today? Show me your embroidery pattern!"
Yunyue also took her other hand: "Yes, show it to us!"
Grandma Yu sat in the rocking chair, smiling: "We just started today, and haven't started embroidering yet, but I taught her a few stitches. Yunhua, can you show them to your two sisters?"
Yunhua's little face immediately turned red: "Grandma, I'm not good at embroidery."
"That's great, it looks quite decent." Grandma Yu smiled.
Yunhua took out two pieces of plain white silk cloth and handed them to Baoya and Yunyue.
"Wow!"
"nice!"
The two little girls looked at the neatly arranged stitches on the cloth, which outlined lines of different shapes, and thought it was quite interesting.
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