"I have an idea, but I wonder if sister-in-law agrees."
"What's the solution, Guo'er? Tell me quickly." Li Jinhua became excited as soon as she heard that there was a solution.
"I know my sister-in-law is good at making clothes. I want to make a set of clothes for myself and my mother. I wonder if my sister-in-law is willing..."
"Yes, yes! Don't worry, leave it to my sister-in-law. Her dressmaking skills are so good in our village that no one dares to claim to be the best if she dares to say she's second to none!"
"Okay, when the clothes are finished, I'll give these three feet of cloth to my sister-in-law as a thank you gift."
"Okay, sister-in-law will start making it for you tomorrow, and I guarantee that I will finish it all in two days." Li Jinhua's enthusiasm was fully mobilized by the 3-foot cloth.
Wen Guoer suddenly thought of a passage she had heard in her past life: "Things without desires are called things, things with desires are called people, and those who can control their desires are called characters." And what Li Jinhua was portraying at this moment was that vivid person, right? As for the character...
"By the way, sister-in-law, if I draw the clothes I want on paper, can you make them according to that?" Wen Guoer suddenly had an idea.
"As long as it looks like what you can see, your sister-in-law can make it for you!" Li Jinhua was very confident.
Wen Guoer had no doubt about this. Li Jinhua's mother used to be an embroiderer who specialized in making clothes for wealthy families. Li Jinhua learned a lot of skills from her mother when she was a child.
It's a pity that we are destroying the four olds now, and we don't want to do those fancy things. And there is a shortage of supplies. It's really a general who has no place to use his skills.
"Okay, I'll show the look to my sister-in-law later." After saying that, he turned and walked towards the room.
For Wen Guoer, drawing two design drawings was quite easy. She was Miss Wen, and had been taught music, chess, calligraphy and painting by famous teachers since she was a child.
"Are you hungry?" Tang Zhan asked as he poured her some water when he saw her come in.
"Mom brought us some dry food this morning, and we ate it on the way."
She looked up and saw Tang Zhan staring at her, then he looked down at her and asked, "Why are you looking at me like that?"
"I'm watching to see how my young wife is so amazing." Tang Zhan walked forward and put his arm around her waist, answering jokingly.
Wen Guoer pushed him away, took out a pencil and a notebook, sat cross-legged on the kang and started drawing.
Tang Zhan sat opposite her, watching her paint seriously.
The more I watched, the more astonished I was. Her brushwork was methodical, her lines clean and precise, as if divinely inspired. With just a few strokes, she had already defined the shape. Two clothing designs appeared on paper in just a few minutes.
Tang Zhan couldn't help but pick it up and look at it carefully. The clothes looked simple and neat, with more details than the clothes that people generally wear nowadays, but it looked more dignified and elegant.
Tang Zhan often went to Beijing and had been to the Friendship Store that sold foreign goods. He felt that the clothes painted by his wife were better than those sold in the Friendship Store.
"Wife, how could you draw this?" Tang Zhan was so shocked. He felt that he didn't seem to understand his wife at all.
"The clothes look like what we saw when we went to the county town. I changed some of them. I learned to draw from comic books when I was a child." Wen Guoer thought, I might as well portray myself as a top student, then many things will be easier to explain.
(My three older brothers in my previous life: It’s as if you’re not a top student! I don’t know who got those double degrees from Harvard.)
"You mean, you can draw after just looking at it once?" Tang Zhan was even more shocked after hearing her indifferent answer.
"Fourth brother, your wife is actually quite smart." Wen Guoer held her chin with both hands, looked up at him, her big eyes twinkling.
Tang Zhan couldn't help but lean over and kiss her forehead.
"Tell me, how smart is my little wife?" he said jokingly.
"I've memorized all the books that Tang Long and the others studied. I've also secretly done their papers and got them all correct."
“…”
Tang Zhan didn't expect his young wife to say such a shocking thing in such a calm tone.
Tang Long is in the third year of junior high school this year. According to what his wife said, if I understood correctly, she has memorized all the courses for the third year of junior high school, while his wife has never attended school for a day.
No wonder he always felt that his young wife was strange in every way, but he could never find out what was strange about her. Now he finally understood what was strange: his young wife was actually a cultured and knowledgeable person.
"Xiaoguo..." Tang Zhan stepped forward and put his hands on Wen Guoer's shoulders.
"Did you really learn all this by yourself?" he asked.
"No one taught me... By the way, I also learned how to treat diseases and how to make medicine!" Wen Guoer continued to throw thunder.
......
He suddenly felt a little panicked. In a time when educated youth were being sent to the countryside and cultural revolution was underway, if all this was true, his young wife's extraordinary talent might not be a good thing. He had been away from home for many years and knew the current environment well. Only those who know can be afraid.
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