Chapter 226 Learning to Embroider
It is said that Liang Xiaole ended his studies on his own initiative and was arranged by Hong Yuanniang to learn embroidery next to Li Qiaoqiao.
Li Qiaoqiao is now the deputy director of the orphanage. In addition to administrative matters, her main job is to hand over the work to the girls in the orphanage. Because the girls here are still young and are now learning embroidery
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Li Qiaoqiao's embroidery is very outstanding. There is a picture of a lady she embroidered hanging in her room. The composition is tight, the stitching is neat, and the lines are extremely smooth. The expressions of the characters are naturally vivid, lively and powerful. Everyone who sees it will praise it.
Those who followed Li Qiaoqiao to learn embroidery include Gu Xiaoru, Gu Xiaoyan, Gu Xiaomei, Gu Xiao'e, Gu Xiaoting, Liang Xiaonan, Liang Xiaochun and several girls of the same age as Liang Xiaonan in Liangjiatun Village, including Liang Xiaole,
Thirteen in total.
Among the thirteen girls, Liang Xiaole is considered the stupidest one.
In her previous life, Liang Xiaole had barely learned how to embroider flowers, let alone embroider them with needlework.
At that time, computer embroidery was already booming, and professional computer embroidery software was used for computer programming to design patterns and stitch sequences, ultimately achieving mass production of embroidery products. Computer embroidery not only perfectly inherited traditional manual embroidery
, and solved the problem that traditional hand embroidery could not complete mass production. Therefore, hand embroidery was rarely seen in Liang Xiaole's previous life.
She couldn't hold an embroidery needle. The small embroidery needle seemed to be in trouble with her. Sometimes it pricked her hand, and sometimes it slipped off the thread and disappeared. She just used it to recognize the thread and find the needle.
I went there for most of the day and still couldn't embroider a single flower or leaf.
"Who invented this line of work?! It's so difficult to embroider!" Liang Xiaole threw away the embroidery support and said discouragedly, blowing on his sore little hands.
"Don't worry, everyone is like this in the beginning. Once you get used to it, it will be fine." Li Qiaoqiao smiled and squatted in front of Liang Xiaole. He stroked her head and comforted her: "Gu Xiaoyan and the others were like this in the beginning too."
Li Qiaoqiao is wearing a lotus-colored gown today. Under the gown is a dark green skirt. Both the gown and the skirt have colorful clouds embroidered on the edges. There is a delicate peony flower on the left chest.
Because Li Qiaoqiao is "married", the signs cannot be confused. Her black hair is tied into a young woman's bun, with a beaded flower hairpin on it, and tassels hanging from it. When she speaks, the tassels sway.
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Li Qiaoqiao has a fair and fair face, soft and thin skin, long and picturesque eyebrows, and twinkling eyes like stars. Now in her 29th year, it is difficult to hide the youthful and lively aura around her.
Liang Xiaole stared straight at Li Qiaoqiao, dumbfounded. It didn't matter what she focused on. She noticed a discordant note on Li Qiaoqiao's face: the small cherry mouth under her straight nose, with the corners of her mouth slightly upward.
Bending, there was a touch of sadness in his smile. Although it was very shallow, Liang Xiaole still caught it.
Liang Xiaole was shocked: It has been three years, how could I forget this beauty?
Li Qiaoqiao is still single. In this time and space, widows are not allowed to remarry. Although she has not consummated her marriage, only a few people in her family know about it. What's more, the wedding has already been held and she is dressed as a "young woman". These alone block her.
The footsteps of matchmakers.
Liang Xiaole only scolded himself for being confused!
The first year was Li Qiaoqiao's adaptation period, and Liang Xiaole didn't think about it; in the next two years, she was busy building a good relationship with her classmates. Sometimes she saw and thought about it, and her mind was occupied by other things, so she just put it aside.
This matter was dropped.
"Lele, are you still worrying about who invented embroidery?!" Li Qiaoqiao saw Liang Xiaole staring at him intently, thinking that she was still waiting for him to answer her question.
When Liang Xiaole heard that she was distracted, she hurriedly smiled and said, "Yes. Sister Qiao, who invented embroidery? Is it so difficult to embroider?!"
In fact, she knew about Chinese embroidery. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu people began to apply embroidery technology to beautify their lives. By the Three Kingdoms period, Su embroidery had developed to a higher level. It is said that Mrs. Zhao during the Three Kingdoms period used her expertise in both painting and embroidery.
, a piece of "painting embroidery" made for Sun Quan was called "the best needlework" by people at the time, so Mrs. Zhao became the originator of "painting embroidery".
There is a ditty in folk songs called "Embroidered Purse", which roughly means: A young woman was at home, and suddenly she heard a dog barking. Someone sent a letter from her husband who was away from home, asking her to embroider a purse to wear. She took it with her.
She went to the salesman with joy and eagerness to buy silk, select threads, fairy tales and beautiful scenery in the world... She almost wanted to embroider all the Chinese culture into her purse to express her love for her husband. When she finished embroidering the purse, the sky was over.
When the light came on, the messenger arrived.
This story is not tortuous, but the emotions are natural, sincere and touching. For thousands of years, Chinese folk embroidery has developed on this basis. But she can't say it, she has to pretend to know nothing. Especially...
It was discovered that my mind had wandered!
"Oh, well, I've heard of a legend:" Li Qiaoqiao stood up and said to all the girls learning embroidery: "There is a smart and beautiful girl in Suzhou who is rushing to make a new dowry before she gets married.
, she accidentally poked a hole in the skirt during the production process. She quickly embroidered a small flower with colorful velvet, which not only covered up the hole, but also looked extra beautiful, which was the icing on the cake. Inspired by this, Suzhou
From then on, people began to like to wear embroidered clothes.
"Embroidery includes Su embroidery, Cantonese embroidery, Hunan embroidery, and Shu embroidery, known as the 'Four Famous Embroideries'. In addition, there are Gu embroidery, Jing embroidery, Ou embroidery, Shandong embroidery, Fujian embroidery, Bian embroidery, Han embroidery, and Miao embroidery, all of which have their own characteristics.
It has a unique style. What I entrust to you is the most famous Su embroidery."
Li Qiaoqiao's words shocked Liang Xiaole: She had never heard of the story Li Qiaoqiao told in her previous life. She didn't expect that Li Qiaoqiao, who was usually gentle and quiet, knew so much.
Liang Xiaole began to doubt whether dropping out of school was a wise move?!
But no matter what, Liang Xiaole is still not interested in embroidery. Perhaps due to the influence of computer embroidery in his previous life, he always feels that it is a waste of time to embroider an ornament by hand, stitch by stitch, and the gain outweighs the gain!
"How about you embroider and I sing for you?" Liang Xiaole said, looking at Li Qiaoqiao with a questioning look. After all, Li Qiaoqiao is now a teacher.
"Then tell me, I'll practice embroidery tomorrow." Li Qiaoqiao said with a smile. She knew that this little cousin was very clever and her disgust was due to the new contact.
"Lele, tell me a long story." When the girls heard that Liang Xiaole was going to sing, they all screamed with joy.
"Isn't it good-looking?! What do you want to hear?" Liang Xiaole asked for everyone's opinions. She has almost told everyone her children's songs (singing children).
"Say "Curium Vat", that one sounds better." Liang Xiaonan suggested.
"Yes, let's talk about "Curium Vat", I like to listen to this the most!"
"Me too, I haven't heard from Lele for a long time."
"I'd like to hear this too."
"…………"
The girls all started shouting.
"Okay, let's just talk about this one, I said it." Liang Xiaole also deliberately cleared his throat, and then said:
"Carrying a heavy load and walking around,
Saw the pot, saw the bowl, and saw the big vat.
I won’t go anywhere else today,
I want to go to Wangjiazhuang.
There is a king in Wangjiazhuang,
There are three older girls besides Yuan Wang.
The eldest girl is blind,
The second girl is blind.
It’s just that the third girl looks good,
Radish flowers grow on the eyeballs.
The eldest girl married a bald old man,
The second girl married a bald man.
The remaining three girls will marry well,
In another life, there is hair and there is light.
Three sons-in-law came to wish me happy birthday.
No need to light a lamp to illuminate the wall red.
The neighbor to the east called on fire,
The neighbor from the west greeted me.
The man sawing the cylinder was delighted at the sight,
Just keep it bright and ‘dang-dang’.”
"Hey, hey, just hit 'dang-dang' hard."
Just as Liang Xiaole finished speaking, he suddenly remembered the sound of "hehe" outside the door, and repeated the last sentence Liang Xiaole said.
You don't need to look outside, just by the sound of "hehe", you know that this person is Fool Lu Xinqiao.
Liang Xiaole felt strange. Usually he couldn't even speak clearly in Xinqiao, Fool Road. When he saw people, he would always say "hey hey hey" sillyly. How could he come up with a children's song well today?! And he learned it quite a bit.
There was no stuttering or procrastination. If it hadn't been for the "hehe" in front of her, it would have been hard for her to imagine that it was said by this fool whom everyone recognized.
"Teacher Li, even a fool can learn to sing?!" Gu Xiaoyan greeted loudly with a smile.
"Teacher Li, the fool has sent you flowers again." Gu Xiaomei also said with a smile.
"Let me see, what 'flowers' were given today?" the girls said and laughed, all looking towards the door.
Liang Xiaole also looked outside the door. He saw Fool Road Xinqiao holding a mud ball in his hand, with a dried weed (Note 1) ear stuck on the mud ball.
There are rumors that fools often give "flowers" to Li Qiaoqiao, and today I saw it, and it turned out to be true.
Liang Xiaole looked back at Li Qiaoqiao and saw that her cheeks were flushed and she seemed to have a shy look on her face.
Lu Xinqiao is eighteen years old this year, and is said to have reached the age to leave the orphanage. However, since Liangjiatun Village has not yet established a social welfare home, he is afraid of disturbing the elderly in a nursing home. Besides, he can play with the children in the orphanage.
The children were piled up in piles, so at the age of eighteen, he had been staying in the orphanage. He could not fully take care of himself, so he was treated as a big child who would never grow up.
Lu Xinqiao walks crookedly and has no straight steps. He says "hehe" to everyone he meets. He can't even speak a complete sentence. He is recognized by everyone as a fool. In orphanages and nursing homes, there are almost no people.
Now that I know his name, whenever he talks about it or meets him, he calls him "idiot" or "idiot". No matter what he does, people will not take him seriously. Even if it is a prank, they will laugh.
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And why does Li Qiaoqiao blush?
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(Urchus: also called Setaria. It is an annual herb with flat and slender leaves, cylindrical inflorescences, and hairy ears, shaped like immature ears of grain.) (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome.
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