Chen Ahfu clicked his tongue twice, hugged Chen Dabao and kissed him twice, praising him, "Oh, Dabao is already handsome. Now that he's wearing new clothes, I can't recognize him anymore. He looks like a handsome boy who walked out of a painting. Oh, when my son grows up, I wonder how many girls will like him."
Dabao's face flushed with joy, and he said insincerely, "I feel embarrassed when my mother praises me like this."
Chen Afu smiled and said, "From now on, if mom praises you like this every day, you won't feel embarrassed." After saying that, he put firecrackers on him.
Chen Dabao quickly got off the kang, put on his straw sandals, and ran to the outer room. Wu and A-Lu had just gotten up, and when they saw Dabao wearing new clothes, they praised him profusely, making Dabao go crazy with joy.
He wanted to go outside and show off, especially to his good friends Xiao Shitou and Si Xizi, but he held back because of the rain and mud outside, and could only walk around in the house. Because the crotch of his pants fell too low, he had to pull them up from time to time.
He kept muttering, "Oh, it's raining so hard that I can't even go out for a walk."
It made the other people laugh.
Today was Chen Ahfu's first time cooking, so Wang Shi didn't do it. She cut the pickles again, but she did it very slowly. She didn't dare to cut them into strips, so she could only cut them into slices. She washed the cut pickles with water and mixed them with crushed rock sugar and mashed garlic. It was a pity that there was no chili oil or sesame oil, otherwise it would be more fragrant.
Unlike Wang who cooked a plain egg for Chen Ming in the morning, she steamed it into an egg custard and added some lard and chopped green onions, the aroma of which spread from far away.
The food was served, and the brown rice porridge was thicker than usual. Except for Wang who felt a little sorry for wasting extra ingredients, everyone else was happy.
Ah Lu took a bite of the pickled vegetables and said, "The pickled vegetables my sister made are really delicious, not salty, and very fragrant."
Dabao was so excited that it seemed like he had made it. Listening to his uncle's praise, he smiled and kept agreeing while eating pickles, "Yeah, yeah, my mother is so smart that it's really unexpected. Grandpa, try it, grandma, try it." He also picked pickles for Chen Ming and Wang.
Chen Ming also used a small spoon to scoop a spoonful of egg custard for each of them, and said with a smile, "Try it. Ah Fu is very skillful, and the steamed egg custard is much more fragrant."
Wang was also delighted, pretending to be angry and said, "I know it tastes good that way, but that's the condition at home."
Chen Afu pulled Wang's sleeve and said coquettishly, "Mom, my illness has healed, and our family will live better and better. In the future, I will make a lot of money and cook more delicious food."
In fact, Wang was only four years older than Chen Afu in her previous life, but Chen Afu truly regarded her as his own mother in this life.
Seeing his mother acting coquettishly with his grandmother, Chen Dabao was so proud that he helped to persuade her, "Grandma, please stop being angry. Look how lovely my mother is."
Chen Dabao's words not only amused Chen Ming and A Lu, but even Wang laughed, nodded his head and said, "You are the most lovable person."
The family thought about the different sewing baskets and sewing kits they had made, and they all had many expectations for the future, looking forward to the arrival of June 19. Especially A Lu, he dreamed of curing his leg so that he could work more in the future, have a strong fist, and protect his family.
After dinner, the rain not only did not stop, but it got heavier.
There was no way to go to the county town to buy medicine today, so Wang went out in the rain. She wanted to go to Guqiao Village to buy some meat for Chen Ming to replenish his body. Chen Ming had been working hard recently, so he needed to eat better.
Chen Ahfu diligently chopped chicken food, and then went to the backyard to feed the chickens wearing a straw raincoat. Chen Ming continued to weave baskets. Today the weather was getting colder and windy, so he put on a padded jacket and a hat and sat in the kitchen weaving.
A-Lu and Da-bao were studying in the east room. After Chen A-Fu recovered from his illness, he took over many chores and stipulated that the two boys must study for an hour in the morning and half an hour in the evening.
After Chen Ahfu finished feeding the chickens, he returned to the east room. There were more than 20 sewing baskets piled up in the room. Once the sewing baskets were finished, Wang would take them to the east room to keep them there, for fear that they would be seen by people who occasionally came home.
There are round and square needlework baskets, large and small, most of which are made of cattails, and a few are made of thin willow branches. The inside and edges of the baskets are all covered with fine cloth and sewn together. The cloth inside the baskets is sporadically sewn with tiny flowers and grass cut from scraps of cloth, and the edges of the baskets are sewn with two slightly larger flowers woven with a net.
After looking at the sewing basket, she took out two sewing kits from the kang cupboard and looked at them, smiling even more.
One side of the rectangular sewing kit is sewn with three lotus flowers and a few lotus leaves made of fine silk. One side of the semicircular sewing kit is sewn with a cartoon dog head made of brocade, with two round black eyes, a black nose, and a red tongue sticking out of its smiling mouth, which is very cute.
The other side of the two sewing kits is the same, with several chrysanthemum buttons made of cloud satin. The buttons are extremely exquisite and are the finishing touch of the sewing kits. Moreover, this kind of buttons did not exist in this era.
It was also when Wang was making knotted buttons that Chen Afu realized that knotted buttons of this era were still relatively simple, consisting of straight-line knots made of twisted cloth strips or cords, and abacus-shaped knots made of cloth.
Chen Afu knew that even in the long river of history in the previous life, the flourishing development of buttons began in the Qing Dynasty. From the single-character buttons to the large flower buttons imitating animals and plants, and the lucky-shaped buttons, they became more and more exquisite and complex. Later buttons were no longer just buttons, but also exquisite decorations. Especially in the Republic of China, the buttons on cheongsams were even more beautiful and varied.
In her previous life, when she was in college, she loved buttonholes and wrote a paper on them. She also looked up a lot of information and looked at a lot of pictures. But she had never made them, because making exquisite buttonholes was very difficult. Not only did she need to be skillful, but she also had to spend a lot of time and effort, which was more laborious than making a set of clothes.
Although Chen Afu didn't know how to make button-stitches, she had seen them and knew how to make them. She also had a skilled embroiderer like Wang in her family. So she had a new idea. Not only did she want to make a different needlework kit, but she also wanted to start the button-stitch reform of the Dashun Dynasty from her family.
Wang is indeed a senior embroiderer. She not only quickly grasped the essence of needlework bags and buttons, but also carried forward and integrated the aesthetic characteristics of this era. The things she made are finely crafted and well-colored, and are more beautiful than those designed by Chen Afu. Chen Afu is very self-aware. Even if he recovers, the things he makes cannot catch up with one tenth of Wang's.
The fabric of the sewing kit is made of brocade. When the first exquisite sewing kit was born, it sparkled the eyes of the whole family.
It's just that making this kind of sewing kit takes too much time. I only made six in more than two months. There is only more than half a month left until June 19th, so I can make two at most.
Chen Ahfu has already thought about it. The money thread basket is more popular and will not be priced high, but these sewing kits must be sold at a high price. Because it is not only a sewing kit that women cannot do without, but also a beautiful luxury product, and a great revolution in buttonholes.
This time I only made chrysanthemum buttons. I can make more money by making other buttons in the future.
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