When Shen Xiu heard the news that someone had fainted, she walked out of the inn.
There is a small stall set up all year round on the east side of the inn entrance. On the stall are baskets made of wicker, rice buckets and other utensils.
The stall owner was an old lady in her sixties, and it was she who fainted.
When Shen Xiu came out, several men surrounding her were discussing how to send the old lady to the hospital.
"There is only one medical clinic in Huichun Hall nearby, and the doctor at Huichun Hall charges half a tael for a treatment."
When someone said this, others looked at each other, and no one mentioned sending him to the hospital again.
Shen Xiu squeezed in and said, "Please let me have a look."
In her previous life, she suffered from a serious illness when she was in her twenties. As the saying goes, a long-term illness makes a doctor. Since then, she has bought many books on traditional Chinese medicine.
The disease can still be managed.
After everyone heard this, they originally thought that the person coming was a doctor, but unexpectedly it turned out to be a young girl, but they also made way for her.
Shen Xiu came to the old lady, first probed under her nose, then touched her forehead, and then shouted in the direction of the inn: "Man, can you help me make a bowl of brown sugar water?"
The old lady's breath was weak and her face was yellow. She must have fainted from hunger.
After the brown sugar water was brought, Shen Xiu helped the old lady up and fed her half a bowl of sugar water with her own hands.
Her judgment was correct. After half a bowl of brown sugar water was poured down, the old lady woke up slowly.
"Wake up, wake up." Everyone said, "I didn't expect this little girl to actually save someone."
The old lady had just woken up and was still a little dizzy. Shen Xiu helped her to the wall and said, "Madam, you must eat in the morning, otherwise you will easily faint from hunger."
The old lady murmured: "Thank you, little lady."
Shen Xiu glanced at the items on the stall and said, "Auntie, I just want to bring two baskets back to someone. How do you sell these baskets?"
The old lady waved her hand and said, "You can just take the basket if you want. You don't have to pay."
Shen Xiu smiled and said: "How can this be done? This basket is given to the neighbor, not something I want to buy myself." After speaking, he took out ten cents from his purse and said, "These ten cents should be enough!"
The old lady said hurriedly: "My basket only costs three cents each. This is too much money."
However, Shen Xiu couldn't help but give the ten cents to the old lady, "Ma'am, take the money and buy something to eat!"
She knew that the old lady was embarrassed to accept it, so she handed the money to him and left.
Back at the inn, Qian Chen had already come down from upstairs, and happened to witness the scene of her rescuing people. Coincidentally, Li Miao'er was also there.
She asked Shen Xiu curiously: "What did you give the old lady to drink just now?"
Shen Xiudao: "It's sugar water. The elderly are hungry and faint. In this case, drinking sugar water is the most effective."
Li Miaoer smiled and said: "You know so much, you can not only embroider but also treat people's illnesses."
Shen Xiu smiled modestly, then took out two purses from his arms and handed them to Qian Chen. "The purses are ready. Please take a look at them, Brother Qian."
Qian Chen was absent-minded when he came down from upstairs. When he saw the purse Shen Xiu took out, his eyes turned red. He picked up the new purse Shen Xiu made and compared it with the old one, and his nose became sour, "This is it."
The appearance is exactly the same as what Yun Niang did originally."
Yun Niang is his first wife.
When Li Miaoer heard the name, she bit her lip and swallowed what she wanted to say.
Shen Xiu looked at the situation between the two of them. Li Miao'er clearly had a deep love for Qian Chen. Qian Chen may not have any feelings for Li Miao'er, but he just couldn't let go of his wife.
She saw through it without saying anything, and just whispered: "I have already sewn the old purse. If Brother Qian wants to keep this old purse for a longer time, it is best to put it in a box in the future. This way, if it is not exposed to light, it can be kept for a longer time."
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Qian Chen held the new wallet for a long time before he came back to his senses and said, "I understand, just wait for me for a while and I will get the money for you."
After Qian Chen went upstairs, Li Miao'er watched his back disappear at the end of the stairs, and then took Shen Xiu to find another seat to sit down.
"I saw your purse today and I have something to ask you for help."
Shen Xiudao: "Miss Li, do you want me to embroider something using the needlework passed down by Yun's family?"
Li Miaoer sighed and said: "Since you have guessed it, I won't hide it from you. I want you to help embroider a handkerchief, just follow the pattern of this purse. He won't accept anything I embroider, but if
The pattern of the purse is embroidered, so he will probably accept it. As for the wages, I will certainly not treat you badly."
When business came to his door, Shen Xiu naturally did not refuse, so he agreed with Li Miao'er on the time and place of delivery.
Qian Chen came down very quickly this time, and as he promised before, the purse he handed to Shen Xiu contained exactly one and a half taels of silver ingots.
It was the first time that she received so much wages. Shen Xiu suppressed the joy in her heart and took the money from Qian Chen.
"Then I'll leave first without disturbing you two." After Shen Xiu said this, without looking at Li Miao'er's blushing face and Qian Chen's slightly stiff expression, she walked out of the inn with cheerful steps.
Outside the inn, the old lady who fainted just now was ready to close her stall and go home.
Shen Xiu saw that the old lady was having a hard time pushing the cart, so she took the initiative and said, "Auntie, do you want me to take you back?"
The old lady declined a few words, but her hands and feet were too weak to resist. After weighing in her mind, she accepted Shen Xiu's kindness.
On the way, Shen Xiucai learned that the old lady's surname was Cui, known as Aunt Cui. She had never had any children in her life. She had been dependent on her wife in her early years. Last year, her wife also passed away, leaving the old lady alone to make a living by weaving baskets. The baskets were not that good.
If you sell it, the old lady will be hungry and full every day.
Even so, after Shen Xiu sent her home, Aunt Cui would definitely stay with Shen Xiu to eat.
Shen Xiu couldn't refuse, so she stayed and prepared the meal with Aunt Cui.
When Aunt Cui went to the backyard to pick vegetables, Shen Xiu also went with her. Then she saw a lot of dustpans placed in the open space in the backyard, and the dustpans were filled with mulberry leaves.
"Auntie, what are these mulberry leaves used for?" Shen Xiu asked curiously.
Aunt Cui said: "Of course these mulberry leaves are here to feed the silkworm babies. I came out early today, so I didn't take the silkworm babies out of the house."
Silkworm babies, Shen Xiu's eyes lit up after hearing this, "Auntie, can you give me two silkworm babies? I want to take them back and raise them."
Aunt Cui said: "If you want to keep it for fun, just take it."
Shen Xiu smiled and said: "I don't use it for fun, I want to use the silk it spins out to make embroidery thread."
"So you want silk!" Aunt Cui said, "Old lady, I don't have anything else, but I have accumulated a lot of this silk."
Aunt Cui heard that Shen Xiu wanted silk to make embroidery thread, so she took her to her utility room, and then took out a baggage from an old box in the room. The baggage contained milky white with a bit of yellow.
silk.
Shen Xiu knew that this was authentic silk just by looking at the color.
"Auntie, since you have silk, why don't you sell it for money?" Shen Xiu asked, "Isn't this silk more valuable than the basket?"
Aunt Cui sighed, "If it were in the south, of course there would be so much silk that someone would want it, but here, people only recognize cotton, and no one would want this silk. If it weren't for the fact that the craft of raising silkworms has been passed down from generation to generation in my family.
, my old lady won’t be able to raise these silkworm babies anymore. Keeping these silkworm babies now is nothing more than passing time.”
Shen Xiu touched the silk without saying a word. Silk is indeed not as practical as cotton, and the price is also high. But silk is indeed a good thing. The embroidery thread made with it is not only tougher than cotton thread, but also shiny, and the embroidery will appear naturally.
Glossy.
The embroidery she used to make for some distinguished customers was all made of silk embroidery thread. Silk embroidery thread is also silk embroidery thread.
Thinking of this, Shen Xiu asked Aunt Cui, "Auntie, can you sell these silks to me?"
Aunt Cui was a little confused and asked, "What do you want this silk for?"
Shen Xiu smiled and said: "To be honest, I am an embroiderer. I plan to use this silk to make embroidery thread, so I want all this silk."
Aunt Cui refused to accept any money at first, but Shen Xiu insisted on giving money, and finally bought all the silk for twenty cents per pound of silk.
"Auntie, you will raise more silkworm babies in the future, and I will get as much silk as you want." Raising silkworms is too troublesome, and she has no experience in this area and doesn't know how to reel the silk. It's better to get it directly from Aunt Cui.
Buy ready-made silk.
In fact, after she spent money to buy the silk, Aunt Cui had already made this plan, "Don't worry, when the silkworms spin out silk in a few days, I will definitely keep the silk for you."
Shen Xiu was relieved. After eating with Aunt Cui, she saw that it was getting late, so she took the basket and silk and hurried home.
When Mrs. Yang saw that she didn't come back at noon, she left some food for her. Shen Xiu really didn't have much to eat at Cui's house, so she drank a bowl of gruel left in the pot and took the silk to Chang's house.
Although she bought the silk, she was still a little unsure. What if the dyeing method of the silk was different from the cotton thread?
It wasn't until the lady in charge told her that the dyeing method of this silk was similar to that of cotton thread that Shen Xiu felt relieved.
The eldest lady made a lot of dyes last time. Shen Xiu bought some and planned to dye the silk and embroider some handkerchiefs to try out the effect.
Dyeing was very labor-intensive, and it took Shen Xiu an entire afternoon to dye two strands of silk.
She was using the afterglow of dusk to check whether the silk was dyed evenly, when someone pushed open the courtyard door.
Wei Ping came over with an anxious look on his face and said, "Brothers and sisters, have you seen your sister-in-law coming?"
"No." Shen Xiudao, "I've been at home all afternoon and I didn't see my sister-in-law coming over."
Wei Ping's expression became worse and worse, "Your sister-in-law didn't come home at noon, and she threw the bolt to Aunt Chen next door. I asked Aunt Chen, and she said that your sister-in-law went to the county town to buy things. But why?