Zhong Mingwei looked at the pair of white and thin hands, holding the scissors and moving them flexibly on his toes, and his heart was warm. He picked up a sock and looked at it in his hand. There was a small bat on the heel of the white cotton sock. It was very vivid and beautiful. There was a hole in that place a few days ago. He didn't care too much. Nowadays, let alone socks with holes, he would still wear clothes with mold spots every day. But when Ah Chou brought the socks this morning, there was a small bat on the heel of the sock, which just blocked the hole.
"My embroidery skills are pretty good, right? Hehe." Ah Chou also noticed that Zhong Mingwei was looking at the bat, feeling a little proud.
"It's really beautiful." Zhong Mingwei nodded with a smile, and asked curiously, "Why did you think of embroidering a bat?"
"In the past, I was doing laundry for Concubine Zhao in the Yanxi Palace. I found that bats were embroidered on many of her clothes. I didn't understand it at first. Why did they embroider these black bats on such beautiful clothes? It was scary. Isn't it a waste? But later, I heard from other palace maids that bats are a good omen and represent good fortune. Then I understood." Ah Chou explained while putting Zhong Mingwei's other foot on his leg and continued to trim his toenails, saying, "I embroidered bats on your feet. Naturally, you will be blessed and have a smooth life in the future."
"But, your embroidery is so beautiful, how can I bear to step on it?" Zhong Mingwei said softly, gently stroking the lifelike little bat with his fingertips.
Actually, he wanted to touch the girl's face, but he gave up in the end. The girl was too thin-skinned, and her face would turn red at the slightest provocation, and she couldn't speak clearly for a long time. He felt sad when he saw it. He really felt sad. He had heard people say that treating their own children "if you hold them in your mouth, you're afraid that they will melt; if you hold them in your hands, you're afraid that they will fall", and he always sneered at it, but now he truly felt the same way.
"Tsk, you just say nice things. You keep saying you're reluctant to wear it, but you still wore it for a whole day." Ah Chou glared at him with a look of disgust and disbelief.
"So I didn't want to move easily all day, for fear of sweating and making the little bat wet," Zhong Mingwei said flatteringly. As if he was worried that Ah Chou wouldn't believe him, he added in a low voice, "Really, don't disbelieve it."
Ah Chou couldn't stand him like this. A grown man in his thirties acting like a spoiled child unconsciously was almost killing Ah Chou.
"What's there to be reluctant about? From now on, I will embroider bats on every pair of socks for you," Ah Chou said to Zhong Mingwei in a very generous manner, and tilted his head to ask Zhong Mingwei, "What do you want to eat tonight?"
"I want to eat the stewed mixed fish you mentioned this morning." Zhong Mingwei smiled a little embarrassedly. He hadn't eaten fish since he came to Ningguta. As soon as Achou mentioned the stewed fish in the morning, he started to crave it.
"It's not possible now. Uncle Chen said it will take a few days before we can use it," Ah Chou said, looking up at the kang opposite that was not yet completely dry, and looking at Zhong Mingwei, "Wait two more days, when the kang is completely dry, I will cook it for you, and then I will go buy a big fish."
"No, just buy the small ones," Zhong Mingwei said hurriedly, "the small ones are delicious, the meat is tender and fragrant."
"It's okay. I have money." Ah Chou put his foot back after trimming his nails. He put down the scissors in his hand and looked at Zhong Mingwei. "Besides, Grandma Chen also said that she would pay me my wages. How can it not be enough for fish?"
Zhong Mingwei felt uncomfortable being looked at by Ah Chou, and silently turned his head away. His throat slid up and down a few times, and just as he was about to speak, he heard Ah Chou chuckled and said, "Zhong Mingwei, when I'm with you, all fish taste delicious, but I'm too lazy, and I'm afraid of picking bones when eating fish. Small fish are delicious, but they have many bones, so just think of it as accommodating me, and let's eat big fish from now on, okay?"
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