Chapter 95 Bamboo Weaving
Old Madam Si watched the beggar spit in the direction of the two children, but ignored him.
Juanjuan pulled Si Jinchen back and ran: "Grandma, he has money, why is he asking others for it?"
"How do you know he is rich?" Old Madam Si looked at her with a smile.
"He has money on him and is singing!" Juanjuan blinked her big eyes.
Mrs. Si originally wanted to let the two children learn a lesson with money, but in the end, the money was not spent, and it seemed that the lesson got better.
"Achen, why didn't you give him the money?"
"I felt sorry for him at first, but Juanjuan said he was rich, so I looked at his hands." Si Jinchen answered honestly.
"Master, what's wrong with his hand?" Jiang Ze was also very curious.
"His hands are not rough at all. They look very smooth and somewhat clean." Si Jinchen repeated what he saw.
Bai Ling was puzzled: "Is there something wrong with this?"
"Sister Bailing, look at your hands, and then look at the hands of the poorer people around you." Si Jinchen said.
Bailing looked down at her hands, which were smooth and clean. She turned her head to look at the people around her and found the problem.
Most of their hands are rough, and in this weather they have frostbite, and some are cracked, and they don't look very clean.
"If he were a real beggar, his hands would be worse than theirs."
Si Jinchen nodded: "Yes! How can there be a beggar with such clean hands?"
"I was wondering why it looked a little weird, turns out he was just pretending." Jiang Ze looked angry.
Madam Si smiled and said, "Some of them are disguised as beggars to deceive people. If you give them a few copper coins per person, they can earn quite a lot in a day."
"It's not good to lie." Juanjuan said seriously.
"He is indeed not a good child, so don't be fooled by superficial phenomena in the future. You must learn to observe carefully." Mrs. Si said with a smile.
"Grandma, did you know from the beginning that he was a liar?" Si Jinchen frowned.
"Yes, but grandma doesn't want to erase your kindness because of this." Madam Si admitted generously.
Si Jinchen didn't quite understand what it meant, but he did learn something today and would not just look at the surface in the future.
If it weren’t for Juanjuan today, he would have given the money to a scammer.
Madam Si didn't need him to understand it now, she just wanted him to remember it, and he would understand it slowly in the future.
"Let's go and see if there's anything fun." She took the hands of the two children and walked forward.
Before they had walked far, they saw the beggar who had just begged for money in front of them limping out from the side.
The clothes on his body were even more torn than before, and there seemed to be wounds on his face.
He walked aside while cursing, "What kind of person is this! He even steals money from beggars!"
When Jiang Ze saw this, he just wanted to say, you deserve it!
Mrs. Si just took a look and took her two children to a handicraft shop.
This store has been open for some time and looks a bit old.
Two old men were sitting in the shop, wearing reading glasses on their faces, weaving something with bamboo.
The light in the store was a little dim, and when a few people came in, they blocked out most of the light.
The two old men looked up and saw customers coming into the store. They put down the bamboo weaving in their hands and asked, "What would you like to buy?"
Juanjuan looked at the various bamboo products displayed here, from small bamboo crabs and insects to large ones such as chairs, tables, lanterns, tissue boxes, and vegetable baskets.
Each one of them opened Juanjuan's eyes. She looked at the two elderly people and said, "Grandpa and grandma, did you make all these?"
The old man smiled and nodded: "Yes! We make these things every day. Do you like any of them?"
"Juanjuan likes it too, that's awesome!" Juanjuan really likes it. There are wind chimes here that make sounds when the wind blows.
"Juanjuan can choose whatever she likes." Old Madam Si saw that she really liked it.
Si Jinchen was also very interested in these things. He didn't know how they turned bamboo sticks into such beautiful items.
The old man looked at them and smiled, "Pick out whatever you like. I can also introduce it to you."
"Grandma, Juanjuan wants this." Juanjuan said, pointing to a wind chime hanging on it.
Mrs. Si looked at the wind chime she was pointing at. It was very simple in shape, woven with bamboo and rope into a unique shape, with a small copper bell hanging at the bottom.
When the wind blows, it makes a clear and pleasant sound, which makes people feel relaxed.
"Boss, we want this wind chime."
The old man smiled and nodded: "I'll get you a new one. This one is a bit troublesome to take off."
He said as he went to the back room to look for new wind chimes.
"Achen, what do you want?" Madam Si looked at him and asked.
"Grandma, I want this little bamboo crab." Si Jinchen wanted to know how these things were woven.
"Okay." Old Man Si nodded with a smile.
While waiting for the old woman, Juanjuan went to her side and asked, "Grandma, what are you weaving?"
The old woman's voice softened when she saw such a cute baby doll: "I'm making a little rabbit, that one."
As she spoke, she pointed to a little bamboo rabbit on the shelf.
"Wow! Grandma is amazing."
The old woman looked at her and smiled: "It's a pity that many people don't like these things now, and no one is willing to learn them."
She sighed with some regret. She and her husband had no children, so this craft might be lost in their family.
"How could that be? There will definitely be a lot of people who like it." Juanjuan said with a smile.
"Only a child like you would like it. Other children like those Western things and don't like these things." The old woman said with a smile.
Juanjuan tilted her head and pointed at a basket and said, "Grandma, if this were made into a lantern, it would be very beautiful."
The old woman looked up at the bamboo weaving she was pointing at, and suddenly felt that what the child said seemed to make sense.
"Chandelier?" The old man who went to look for the wind chimes heard this sentence when he came out.
"Yeah, it will be very beautiful." Juanjuan said with a smile.
The old man looked at what she said and already had an idea of what it would look like as a chandelier in his mind, and it seemed that it would look really nice.
Old Madam Si also looked at what Juanjuan pointed at, and the image of the luster reflected after it turned into a chandelier appeared in her mind.
This feeling is hard to describe, but it is amazing.
Suddenly I had an urge to ask Si Tian to get involved and see if it could be done.
She would have to mention it to him when she got back. If this was really made, it might sell for a lot of money.
She looked down at Juanjuan who was playing with the wind chimes: "Juanjuan, do you like the things here?"
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