Ruan Xi was made to laugh by Ruan Yuehua all night, and she laughed for a while while lying on the bed before going to sleep.
Ruan Jie lay beside her, not thinking about anything else, just savoring the taste of chicken.
After laughing, Ruan Xi remembered the business, turned over to face Ruan Jie, and said to her: "By the way, tomorrow afternoon, when you look at the height of the sun and it is halfway down to the west, you go to the road that you must take to go to the Jinguan Brigade to wait for me."
Ruan Jie came back to her senses and thought for a while, "Go to learn?"
Ruan Xi nodded, "Yes, I will take you to find Ling Yao and let him teach us."
Ruan Jie responded, "Okay."
After working at the sewing machine for a day and walking more than ten miles on the mountain road back, Ruan Xi was very tired after not resting when she got home. Besides, her body was used to going to bed early. She yawned after she finished talking and fell asleep quickly.
Ruan Jie had no worries in her mind and fell asleep quickly. She closed her eyes for a while and fell asleep.
The night was quiet, and occasionally a few coughs came from the other room.
In the room at the west end of the main house, Ruan Changgui and Sun Xiaohui were lying side by side on the bed, feeling very angry. They were both very anxious and couldn't even sleep. They looked at the top of the tent and breathed deeply in the night.
After a long moment, Sun Xiaohui spoke up, "I just can't figure it out. What ability does Xiaoxi have to make the old tailor go around in circles? Stand up for her, support her, and even pay her."
Ruan Changgui took a deep breath, "How would I know? If I knew how to coax her, I would have been a tailor with a good life. Why would I work so hard on the construction site every day to earn those few work points?"
Sun Xiaohui hesitated and spoke slowly, "Do you think it's possible... is it because Xiaoxi is pretty?"
With Ruan Xi's looks, she usually dresses neatly, never wears patched clothes, and has two big black braids tied with red ribbons. She can be said to be one of the best in the whole Fengming Mountain.
Ruan Changgui felt something was wrong when he heard this. He frowned and looked at Sun Xiaohui and said, "Don't have any dirty thoughts about me. The old tailor is over 70 years old and Xiaoxi is only 14. What are you talking about?"
Sun Xiaohui muttered softly, "I didn't say anything. You just thought wrongly..."
Ruan Changgui suppressed his anger and said, "Shut your stinky mouth!"
Sun Xiaohui knew that what she said was indeed dirty. Not to mention that the old tailor was too old to do that, even if he was a dozen years younger, he would not have such thoughts with his arrogant personality, so she shut up.
But the more she thought about it, the more she couldn't understand. Since the old tailor was such an arrogant person, he looked down on everyone and had never taken an apprentice seriously, why was he so kind to Ruan Xi?
Was it because she learned the craft well?
Impossible, Ruan Xi was not good at needlework since she was a child.
Sun Xiaohui lay down and took a deep breath. After a while, she said
, "Why don't we let Yuejin give it a try?" Ruan Changgui thought she was talking in her sleep. "Do you think the old tailor will accept it?"
Sun Xiaohui turned her head and said, "How do we know if we don't try? Didn't Xiaoxi just try it at that time? Didn't she succeed this time? Our Yuejin is much smarter than Xiaoxi. Maybe he will be liked by the old tailor more?"
Ruan Changgui didn't want to care. He turned over and said, "First, collect half a basket of eggs."
There were only five old hens in the family. They laid three or four eggs every day, and sometimes only two. Half a basket of eggs was enough to collect for a while. It would take a long time to collect them and become his apprentice.
Sun Xiaohui felt pain in her heart when she thought of half a basket of eggs. Liu Xinghua gave half a basket of eggs to Ruan Xi to eat, which was the fuse that prompted her to decide to split the family. Naturally, she still felt reluctant to do so.
But after a while of pain in her heart, she thought again - you can't catch a wolf without sacrificing a child! She
never thought about this before and thought it was completely impossible, but Ruan Xi has done it now, which shows that the old tailor is not a piece of iron or a pile of stinky stones. As long as it suits his taste
, it will be fine. If Ruan Yuejin can learn from the old tailor, the old tailor will not live for a few more years. Wouldn't his family be relieved in the future? If Ruan Xi can be squeezed away from the old tailor, it will be even more comfortable.
This girl has really made her feel frustrated recently.
I can't keep holding this breath like this, I have to let it out eventually. After
eating meat and laughing all night, I had sweet dreams at night. Ruan Xi was in a good mood when she got up in the morning. Just like a bird in the mountains, she hummed a song while washing and combing her hair, and tied a butterfly button on the end of her braid.
After breakfast, getting ready to go to Jinguan Village, Ruan Xi took out two books from the camphor wood box and put them in her schoolbag - Chinese and mathematics for the first grade. She was afraid that Ruan Jie would take them and not cherish them, so she packed them herself.
Bathed in the morning sunshine, she walked to the old tailor's house without hurrying. The old tailor was making tobacco in the yard.
There were no fashionable paper cigarettes in the mountains, so the men smoked from a pipe, and the tobacco was grown by their families on the edge of the field. They dried the tobacco and crushed it into pieces themselves, put it in a tobacco bag, and after smoking one pot, they dug another pot.
Ruan Xi found a place to put down his schoolbag, went to the old tailor and said, "Master, do you want me to help you?"
The old tailor seriously crushed his tobacco, without looking up, and said, "No, it tastes better if you crush it yourself."
Ruan Xi smiled and said nothing, thinking that he probably wanted to smell the smell while crushing it.
After watching for a while, she thought of something else and asked again: "By the way, Master, I'll leave early this afternoon, is that ok?"
The old tailor still didn't look up, "It's up to you, I don't care."
It's not like he's learning a skill, it's up to her whether she comes or not, it's up to
her. Seeing that he was smoking tobacco seriously, Ruan Xi didn't talk to him anymore. She turned around and went to find work for herself, cleaning the house inside and out, and wiping the floor until it was spotless.
When the old tailor finished, she learned
something from him. The old tailor didn't have a method to teach her, he just taught her whatever he thought of. Only Ruan Xi was not a novice, otherwise she felt that it was really as others said, that it would be difficult to learn any skills from him.
It is not easy to be an apprentice of an old tailor, and it is not a rumor.
At noon, in the main room of the Ruan family.
Ruan Changgui did not come back at noon today, and Sun Xiaohui, Ruan Yuejin and Ruan Yuehua sat at the table to eat. Ruan Yuehua still had a gloomy face, and his mind was full of the chicken that he almost ate last night.
Ruan Yuehua was young and a naughty boy, so Sun Xiaohui didn't care about him.
She told Ruan Yuejin what she had thought about seriously last night, and asked him first: "Yuejin, do you want to be a tailor?"
This was said very suddenly. Ruan Yuejin was stunned for a moment. He looked at Sun Xiaohui and asked, "What do you mean?"
Sun Xiaohui: "What I mean is that if you want to be a tailor, I will collect half a basket of eggs for you to take to the old tailor to become his apprentice. After you learn the craft from him, you will be the only tailor in our Fengming Mountain in the future."
Ruan Yuejin was still a little stunned, "Didn't he already accept Ruan Xi as his apprentice?"
Sun Xiaohui didn't take Ruan Xi seriously at all, "So what if he accepted him? As long as he is willing, it's fine to teach ten or eight more people. Sure. Besides, can Xiaoxi learn it? She can't learn it at all, she can only be a handyman. "
Seeing that Ruan Yuejin didn't say anything, she asked again: "Just tell me whether you want to do it or not?"
Ruan Yuejin was silent for a moment, nodded and said: "I want to do it, but I'm afraid he won't accept me."
Who in this mountain doesn't want to be a tailor? Every day, there is no wind or rain, everyone respects you, you don't have to do hard labor, you can live a very comfortable life with your craft, even a fool knows that being a tailor is a good job, better than being a waiter in the supply and marketing cooperative.
Ruan Yuejin knew the old tailor's personality and character, and he still had a lot of concerns, and felt that this matter was very difficult. But Sun Xiaohui had great confidence in him and said to him, "What are you afraid of? Let's go first and see. Are you not as good as that girl Xiaoxi? After all, she is a girl. Her brain is not as smart as yours. She is inferior in every aspect. What can she do that you can't?"
Ruan Yuejin was brought up by Sun Xiaohui's praise and his self-confidence can be said to be quite strong. He lowered his brows and thought for a while, then looked at Sun Xiaohui and said, "I am indeed better than her in every aspect, but I am afraid that the old tailor will not like me."
Sun Xiaohui said, "How is that possible? My son is so smart and sensible, he has been liked since he was young."
Ruan Yuejin looked into Sun Xiaohui's eyes, and instantly felt that he was the most well-rounded person in the world. He even felt that he would be able to win the favor of the old tailor by walking into the tailor shop, so without hesitation, he nodded and said, "Well, I'll try."
Sun Xiaohui couldn't help but feel happy, "Wait a few more days, I will get all the eggs soon."
Of course, it would not work to rely on the five old hens in her family. She had made up her mind that as long as Ruan Yuejin was willing to go, she would borrow eggs from other people's homes. Borrowing a little from this family and a little from that family, half a basket of eggs will only take a few days.
First give the eggs to Ruan Yuejin to become his apprentice, and she will return them slowly in the future.
After discussing this with Ruan Yuejin, she felt relieved, as if she had seen Ruan Yuejin become a tailor after graduation. She felt motivated, and immediately after dinner, she carried the basket and went out to borrow eggs from various families.
In the afternoon, the sun set in the west.
Ruan Xi saw the right time, said hello to the old tailor, put on her schoolbag and left.
When she walked to the only way to Fengyan Brigade, she saw Ruan Jie squatting on the side of the road picking up stones to play with. She walked lightly to Ruan Jie, stretched out her hand and patted Ruan Jie on the head, and Ruan Jie raised her head in fright.
Seeing that it was Ruan Xi, Ruan Jie smiled and stood up quickly, "Sister, you are here."
Ruan Xi took her forward, "Have you been waiting for me for a long time?"
Ruan Jie said, "No, I came here looking at the sun."
The two sisters walked forward while talking, and Ruan Xi took Ruan Jie to find Ling Yao on several hillsides they often went to.
When they found Ling Yao in the old place, Ruan Xi waved to him from a distance and pulled Ruan Jie to him.
Ling Yao was smiling when he looked at Ruan Xi, and was polite when he looked at Ruan Jie, and greeted her: "Hello."
Ruan Jie and Ling Yao had never met before, let alone spoken. Because Ling Yao was from a big city, she felt a little awkward, so she replied in a restrained way: "Hello too."
Hearing this, Ruan Xi couldn't help but laugh.
Ruan Jie felt even more embarrassed, and patted Ruan Xi lightly, "What are you laughing at?"
Ruan Xi stopped laughing, took out Chinese and math textbooks from her schoolbag, put them on the stone and said: "Let's not waste any more time, let's start now. Let's start with the first grade Chinese and math, please help, Teacher Ling."
Ling Yao said in a gentle voice: "You don't have to call me teacher."
After that, he also went to rummage through his schoolbag and found two or three white lime blocks in it.
He gave Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie a piece of lime each, and put his hand on the stone, "I picked it up in the mountains. There is no paper and pen to use, so just write on this stone. When it is full, you can erase it and write a new one."
Ruan Xi held the lime block in his hand, looked at Ling Yao and smiled, "You are so thoughtful."
It is indeed not possible to study without a pen. Without a pen and paper, you can only find other things to replace it.
Since Ling Yao promised Ruan Xi this, he was serious. He has always done things like this, either don't do it, or do it well, and will not do it perfunctorily.
He, Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie lay down beside the stone together, first took out the Chinese book and opened it, and asked Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie for their opinions, "Then let's start with Chinese. Do you think it's okay?"
Ruan Xi nodded, "Okay."
Ruan Jie didn't have any ideas, and she would do it if Ruan Xi said it was okay.
Ling Yao took the Chinese textbook and looked at it for a while, then looked at Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie and asked, "Twenty-six letters, do you know them?"
Ruan Xi didn't think much, and nodded directly at him, "Yes."
Ruan Jie hesitated for a while and whispered, "I only remember abcdefg, and I can't remember the others."
Ling Yao nodded at her, and then started teaching from the twenty-six letters.
He taught pronunciation first, and planned to teach all the pronunciations well, and then teach the knowledge of initials and finals after Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie could recite and write them. In short, start from scratch, take it step by step, and you can't get fat in one bite.
For the rest of the afternoon, Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie lay on the stone to study. First listen to Ling Yao, then they look at the textbook, take the lime block and write on the stone, write a letter ten times or eight times.
Ruan Xi actually didn't need to learn, but she had to pretend, so she was still very serious.
She was so serious that she relaxed a little when she got home in the evening, but Ruan Jie didn't relax. Whether she was walking or starting to work at home, she was still mumbling letters.
Liu Xinghua was curious about her mumbling, but she didn't hear what she was mumbling, so she asked her: "What are you reciting?"
Ruan Jie came to her senses after hearing the voice and hurriedly said: "Oh, grandma, I'm learning."
Liu Xinghua couldn't understand even more, "Learn what?"
Ruan Jie looked at Ruan Xi, and Ruan Xi explained: "It's just learning to recognize words, knowing more words."
Liu Xinghua understood this, and she nodded in approval, "Knowing more words is a good thing."
Sun Xiaohui happened to be walking by outside and heard the conversation between the three people. She couldn't help but mutter to herself in her heart - the damn girl is really making trouble for nothing. What's the point of knowing so many words?
No matter how many words she knows, even if she knows a lot of words, can those words become a lot of food?
Look at the family in the stilt house who knows a lot of words. Aren't they still so poor that they have to wear straw sandals here ?
She muttered to herself and went into the main room, carefully took out the eggs in the basket in her hand, put them away and put them away.
For the time being, she was focused on her eldest son Ruan Yuejin and had no time to take care of Ruan Jie. After she had collected the eggs, she asked Ruan Yuejin to find the old tailor to become his apprentice. When she had some free time, she would take time to deal with that dead girl.
In order to let Ruan Yuejin become his apprentice, Sun Xiaohui would go out to borrow eggs every day in the next few days. Sometimes there were more, sometimes there were less. Every egg was put away and piled up in layers in the basket.
Ruan Xi did not pay attention to what Sun Xiaohui did, mainly because she did not have the mind and energy to waste on her second mother. She still went to the old tailor's house in the morning every day, and in the afternoon she would find time to meet with Ruan Jie and go to learn from Ling Yao.
Ruan Jie is a slow learner, but fortunately she studies very hard and never slacks off. After
Ling Yao taught them to memorize the twenty-six letters and began to teach them the initials and finals, he also asked them to memorize the multiplication table in mathematics. Whenever she had time, she would recite it in her mouth, from one plus one equals one to ninety-nine equals eighty-one.
No one has asked the old tailor to make clothes these days, so Ruan Xi would leave at a fixed time in the afternoon, looking at the height of the sun.
There was nothing special in the past few days, but today when she picked up her schoolbag, said goodbye and was about to leave, the old tailor suddenly said to her: "You don't have to come tomorrow."
Ruan Xi was stunned when she heard this - what does this mean? He wants her to leave after less than half a month as an apprentice? But the most important and core thing is that he hasn't taught her the patterns and drawing and cutting of different clothes!
Did he have any opinions because she left early? He could have said it out loud!
The old tailor looked at Ruan Xi's expression without any hurry. He slowly took out a receipt and some money from his pocket and handed them to Ruan Xi before continuing, "Go to the commune and get me half a catty of wine. I'm satisfied."
Ruan Xi's body softened and she breathed a sigh of relief - Master! Why are you panting while talking?
She took the wine ticket and money and said, "I know."
The old tailor lay down on the rocking chair and said leisurely, "There is a wine gourd in the cabinet, just use that to beat the wine. There are also a few peach cakes in it. They have been there for a while. If you don't eat them, they will go bad. You can eat them."
Ruan Xi thought about it. It would take four days to go to the commune and back. So she looked at the old tailor and said, "Then I won't be polite."
The old tailor said, "Hmm," "Go ahead."
Ruan Xi took the key to the cabinet to get the wine gourd, and put the peach cakes that the old tailor mentioned into her schoolbag. The peach cakes were wrapped in brown paper, and there were only three pieces left, but it was a luxury in those days.
Ruan Xi took the wine gourd and her schoolbag and walked away. After walking two steps, she turned back.
She stood in front of the old tailor and asked hesitantly: "Master, do you have any wine tickets?"
The old tailor looked at her with his eyes wide open: "What do you want to do?"
Ruan Xi's eyebrows curved, and her words were like sugar: "Lend me one."
The old tailor looked at her for a moment, took a breath, took out another ticket from his pocket, and handed it to her.
Ruan Xi quickly reached out to take it, her smile was bright, and her voice was even sweeter: "Thank you, Master!"
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