Chapter 94 Errenzhuan
"Ignore them and come get your stuff."
Yi Chichi waved at them.
Dunzi was the first to run over, "Happy New Year to all the uncles and sisters!"
"Happy New Year."
Yi Chichi handed over a Cuban candy, a handful of melon seeds and a few peanuts. The child quickly opened his pocket and said, "Sister, put it here!"
"good."
Yi Chizhi took a quick look and found that they were not the first family the children came to pay New Year's greetings to, and they had pine nut maltose and other things in their pockets.
"Don't put sugar in your pockets, it gets dirty easily."
"Don't worry, we will eat it soon."
Children don’t care whether it’s dirty or not, they just want to be convenient.
"We still have to go to Great Grandfather's house later."
That's fine.
After distributing them around, the plates were empty and the children's pockets were almost full.
After politely thanking them, they left with cheers.
Watching them leaving happily, Yi Chichi thought of his great aunt and Qin Jiu in the cowshed, and thought about finding time to pay them a New Year's greeting.
But there are so many people around and it’s really hard to act alone.
She rolled her eyes and asked with pretended curiosity, "Do we need to go to pay New Year's greetings?"
Bai Chen and the others looked at each other.
"Do we still need to celebrate the New Year?"
They had never celebrated the New Year before.
Yi Chichi, "??? You guys don't even want to wish the captain and the others a happy new year?"
"I haven't done that!"
Yi Chichi remained silent. This way she wouldn't be able to sneak away to see her great aunt and family.
That's fine.
"Then I'll go back and embroider."
"Aren't you going out for a walk?"
Yi Chichi looked at the increasing number of people on the village road and realized that they were almost done with the reunion dinner and were starting to go out for a walk.
"No, you can go out for a walk if you want."
Bai Chen and his friends discussed it and decided to go out for a walk.
As a result, Yi Chichi was the only one left in the Youth League Institute.
As soon as she closed the door of her courtyard and room, she took off her shoes, got on the kang, put the embroidery frame in place, arranged the needle and thread, and started to work.
The slender fingers flew up and down along the needle and thread, and a auspicious cloud gradually emerged.
Yi Chichi's embroidery skills are at the genuine master level, and her embroidered works are characterized by being "flat, neat, fine, dense, harmonious, bright, smooth and uniform".
The formed auspicious clouds are uniform in density and no stitch marks are visible.
Time passed quickly while I was busy, and in the blink of an eye it was already night.
Bai Chen and his friends, who were strolling outside, finally decided to come back.
Yi Chichi, who heard the noise, stopped working and walked out the door with his neck stiffened from looking down for so long. Before he could ask them where they were going, Bai Chen and the others excitedly asked, "Chichi, there will be singing and dancing activities starting tomorrow, do you want to go?"
"???Where will it be held?"
"It was held together by the Kaoshantun Brigade, the Hongqi Brigade and the Qingshan Brigade. The venue was in the drying yard of the Hongqi Brigade. There were singing, dancing and stilt walking, from the first to the fifth day of the New Year."
It sounds very lively.
It doesn't hurt to take a look.
"go."
So, after breakfast the next morning, the large group set off in a mighty manner.
You don’t know until you go out, and you will find that there are really a lot of people participating in the event in Kaoshantun.
Liu Lan and others are also one of the performers.
Looking at the red handkerchief turning non-stop in her hand, Yi Chichi was so shocked that his jaw almost dropped.
"Can you also do the Errenzhuan?"
Liu Lan: "??? I don't know how."
Errenzhuan all has a master, and one has to specifically apprentice to learn the art.
It’s not a skill that you can learn successfully by yourself just by watching or hearing it a few times.
Yi Chichi pointed at the spinning handkerchief, and Liu Lan understood immediately that he saw her red handkerchief and thought she had learned the Errenzhuan.
"I'm just spinning a handkerchief, it has nothing to do with Errenzhuan."
Then he added, "There are many people in the village who know how to do it."
Before he finished speaking, Liu Dongmei and the others holding red handkerchiefs showed off their skills.
Yi Chichi was amazed by what she saw and borrowed their red handkerchiefs with great interest to try it out.
You don’t know until you try it. Once you try it, you will find that turning the handkerchief is also a technical job.
And she, after Liu Lan and the others taught her again and again, and when she could no longer bear the ridicule for her clumsy hands, she decisively chose to give up.
"No, I can't learn this."
Every profession has its own expertise, so she just works hard on her embroidery.
Yu Qingqing laughed, "Same thing, if you can't learn to turn a handkerchief, we can't learn to embroider from you either."
Liu Lan didn't like what she heard. She raised her chin and said proudly, "That's you, not me."
Her embroidery skills are much better now than before.
She firmly believed that with time she would be able to master half of Chi Chi's skills.
"Chi Chi, look at the flowers I embroidered."
A beige handkerchief with locked edges was brought over. Yi Chichi reached out to take it, unfolded it, and found that Liu Lan had finished embroidering the pattern she had drawn with random stitches.
The embroidery cannot be said to be very good, but it cannot be said to be very bad either. It is acceptable, but you cannot look at it in detail.
Yi Chichi paid special attention to her layout, color matching and stitching, then sighed.
There is still practice to be done.
My sensitivity to colors is still a little bit off.
"The embroidery is...poor?"
Liu Lan was originally quite proud of herself for embroidering very well and was almost praised by her family at home. However, she became nervous when she heard Yi Chichi's sigh.
"The color is not good, the layout is not great, but the needlework has improved a lot."
Yi Chichi, who doesn't like to lie, speaks frankly, which makes Liu Lan dejected. Aunt Ma and the others can't stand it and take Liu Lan's work to see.
“Isn’t this embroidered very well?”
“Not good.”
Yi Chichi pointed out the shortcomings of her work in detail and made clear his arguments.
Aunt Ma and the others didn't take it seriously at first, but after she finished speaking, they couldn't help but sigh that she was indeed a professional.
If she hadn't pointed out the shortcomings in detail, they wouldn't have been able to find them.
but--
"Is there no cure for Lanlan's poor color sensitivity?"
“There is help!”
Liu Lan's eyes suddenly lit up, "How to save him?"
“Observe every blade of grass, flower, and tree in nature.”
Yi Chichi gave her an analogy, "There are many kinds of green. When plants sprout, they are mostly light green or light blue. For example, when a willow tree sprouts, the buds are light yellow when viewed up close, but light green when viewed from a distance. The reason for this is that when the willow buds sprout, they are surrounded by a layer of white hair, and only a light green color can be seen. Because of the light and angle, they appear light yellow to the eye."
Then, she talked about the color changes of peach blossoms from buds to buds, half-opened, blooming, and finally blooming to withering.
The air became quiet.
Everyone was shocked by Yi Chichi's observation. It takes a lot of free time to observe the changes in leaf color and flowering color of plants.
"Did you do nothing at home before, just focusing on sewing?"
The captain holding the cymbals in his hand couldn't help but ask with doubts in his heart.
Yi Chi Chi's mouth twitched. "What does this have to do with work? If you pay a little attention, you can find out the color change of plants, just like you uncles can tell whether there are corn kernels on the corn cob by the color change of corn silk."
(End of this chapter)
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