Zhen Lian of the Red Chamber

The days are so ordinary, and when Zhen Lian has nothing to do, she follows Mrs. Li and watches her weaving. Although her talent is not good, the saying goes: "Talent is not enough, work hard to make it up." I don't believe that I can't learn. meeting!

It is also said: "With a skill in hand, I have the world." You must learn some skills to survive, and what you learned in the previous life is of no use here.You can only learn from scratch!

Seeing that Zhen Lian was watching seriously, Mrs. Li stopped her hands and said to her, "Want to learn?"

Zhen Lian nodded sincerely and replied: "Yes."

Granny Li began to teach Zhen Lian seriously.Slow down the movement of the hands, let Zhen Lian watch how she did it, and then explain it in detail.

Mrs. Li taught it in detail, and gradually Zhen Lian learned more, and Mrs. Li asked Zhen Lian to try it out herself. In this kind of teaching, Zhen Lian can be regarded as an introduction.

Mrs. Li taught her to make shoes again.

The shoes she makes are cloth shoes with thousand layers of soles.She did it again and asked Zhen Lian to do it with her.

The bottom is made first, and the bottom is made of coarse white cloth, which is first pasted together with rice paste layer by layer, with a thickness of five layers, and then dried or dried into a cloth board.Cut the cloth board into pieces of soles, wrap the four sides of each piece of sole with muslin cloth, and glue the two wrapped soles together.

Finally, use a thicker hemp rope to sew the bonded sole along the four sides. The sole is very hard. When sewing, first use a small awl to drill a hole hard, and then use a needle to wear the hemp rope to sew.After sewing the edges, use the fine hemp rope to sew densely and evenly according to the previous method.It took two days to sew the sole alone.

The finished shoe soles should be boiled in hot water, then wrapped tightly with cotton quilts and stuffy, and then flattened with a wooden hammer, shaped and dried in the sun. In this way, dozens of layers of cloth and more than ten layers of cloth are made The composed sole becomes a whole, and the sole is ready!

It took five days to complete the whole sole, and Zhen Lian finally learned that after making a pair of soles, her hands were already riddled with holes!When using an awl and a needle, I can’t use it. I always poke my hand. The awl and needle are sharpened, and a hole is formed when I poke my hand.Zhen Lian's soles were dyed black and red!

Mrs. Li looked at it but smiled: "It's all here, just do more!"

Zhen Lian is extremely angry!

In the spirit of finishing one thing, Zhen Lian summoned up the courage to continue making shoe uppers.

The upper is made after the sole is finished. The outer layer of the upper is made of a kind of black cloth, and the inner layer is made of muslin.Cut the upper first, stick the inner and outer layers together with thin thread to dry, then sew the edges with needles, and finally the sole and upper are stitched together!

After Zhen Lian finished, she didn't want to do it anymore. This was too tiring and troublesome, with too many processes and strict requirements, and she couldn't make one in a day.

In the end, the finished product made by Zhen Lian was thrown into the fire pit by her and burned. Zhen Lian couldn't fit such strange and ugly shoes.

Afterwards, Zhen Lian only gave up making shoes, and Mrs. Li didn't force her, as she would make her hands thicker when making shoes.

Let's learn to weave!If Mrs. Li can embroider, learning embroidery from her is easier than learning how to make shoes!

Zhen Lian thought that Mrs. Li would not be able to, Zhen Lian had never seen her do anything, and their clothes were also the simplest style, without those gorgeous things embroidered.

Besides, ancient embroidery is also a craft that can make money, not everyone can learn it.

After that, Zhen Lian only learned how to weave from Mrs. Li, and all the finished cloths that Mrs. Li wove were sold to Mrs. Li, leaving only some defective products for her own use.Mrs. Li doesn't know many patterns, and the styles are not exquisite. They are just ordinary patterns, and they sell for little money.

After Zhen Lian finished weaving the cloth well and Li Po was satisfied, the weaving cart was handed over to Zhen Lian by Li Po for her to use. Go out and sell.

Zhen Lian saw that Mrs. Li was sitting there basking in the sun every day, but she herself was busy all day long.Feel cheated!Originally, Mrs. Li weaved and sold the cloth, but now she spends the whole day here after finishing the housework, and does not give herself any money for the cloth she weaves. ! "Examples can be written into textbooks!

However, it was too late, Zhen Lian had already gone on this day's road and never looked back!

Not long after the cloth woven by Zhen Lian could be sold, Granny Li taught Zhen Lian how to make nets. Although Zhen Lian knew that she would be sold again after she learned it, she still learned it seriously, and what she learned was her own. !Yeduo does not overwhelm you!Zhen Lian comforted herself like this.

Zhen Lian learned very quickly, and even made up some beautiful and exquisite patterns by herself, which gave Zhen Lian a lot of confidence.

After she had almost mastered the knots that Mrs. Li knew, Zhen Lian also learned embroidery.

Zhen Lian really didn't expect Mrs. Li to really be able to embroider. When she said that she wanted to teach herself, Zhen Lian was very surprised, and then she was full of joy, and followed her seriously.

"Learn this step by step, I will give you the branch line first." Picking up a white line in his hand to demonstrate to Zhen Lian,

"A piece of embroidery thread has to be divided into very thin pieces, and some have to be divided into more than a dozen strands." Holding one end of the thread with both hands, carefully divide it, and after dividing it, she looked at Zhen Lian and said, "Do you understand?"

Zhen Lian nodded: "Understood!" She also picked up a thread in her hand.

It looks simple, but it is difficult to move, the eyes must be carefully fixed, the hands must be flexible, and the silk threads must not be tangled together!Zhen Lian's eyes are dazzled!

I am practicing line division every day, from simple to difficult, from a few strands to more than a dozen strands.

In order not to let herself become short-sighted again, Zhen Lian kept turning her eyes to look into the distance after doing it for a while.

Next was to learn how to draw pictures. Mrs. Li showed Zhen Lian a pattern with a white background, and drew a simple picture of a lotus with white paper. Copy this picture again, and then draw it yourself.

After painting one by one, Zhen Lian learned for another month before she could barely draw.

Then learn to match colors.

Once again, I learned all kinds of acupuncture methods, and I also learned the usage of various needles.

Only then did the embroidery begin.This is the most difficult, and the previous ones are all preparing for this step.

Time passed in this kind of study, and Zhen Lian was already 12 years old before she knew it!

Twelve years old was already a big girl in ancient times, and ordinary people would meet and make a marriage contract at this age, and Ma Lan'er had already started seeing others last year.

The 12-year-old Zhen Lian has become more and more obvious.After Zhen Lian's appearance began to bloom last year, Li Laosan and his wife stopped her from doing housework, and only embroidered and weaved every day.Only Li Laosan and his wife guarded themselves more closely than before.

As early as when Zhen Lian was 7 years old and was able to bolt the gate, Li Laosan added a big copper lock to the gate of the yard and the door of the main room.The gate of the courtyard is locked all the time, and the gate of the main room is only locked at night when sleeping.

The key Li Laosan and his wife never leave.The Li family has never had a ladder, and there are no taller things to step on.

Zhen Lian also found that Li Laosan and his wife never allowed Zhen Lian the opportunity to stand behind them, and they rarely let Zhen Lian get close.

Many times before Zhen Lian came behind them, they would immediately turn around and look at Zhen Lian.After a few times, Zhen Lian knew that the two of them were guarding against Zhen Lian, fearing that she would accidentally assassinate her from behind.

After Zhen Lian found out, she took the opportunity to test it a few times. Every time, no matter how lightly her steps were, she would find out when Zhen Lian came close.

It can be said to be the ultimate prevention!

In the past eight years, except for the time when Ma's Full Moon Wine went out to eat with her, Zhen Lian hasn't gone out once in the next eight years!

Li Laosan often went out, seven or eight times a year, and he went for more than ten days. When he came back, he always looked happy. Zhen Lian guessed that he was going to "do business".

After Li Laosan went out for a long time, Zhen Lian was locked in the room by Mrs. Li when she was sleeping at night, and she would not let Zhen Lian out of her sight during the day.

Mrs. Li likes to stay in the courtyard and doesn't like to go out.Even if she wanted to go out, Li Laosan would always watch her at home.Except for Mrs. Ma and Ma Lan'er who often come to and from the neighborhood, no one comes here, let alone anyone else!

Mrs. Ma likes to walk around when she is free, going to this house today and that house tomorrow.

I always come to see Mrs. Li several times a month, and Zhen Lian likes her very much. Every time she comes, Zhen Lian secretly listens to all kinds of gossip she tells. This is her only source of news. Although these gossips It's not very reliable, but it's always good to listen more.

Zhen Lian and Ma Lan'er have been in close contact over the past few years and have become friends.

Since Zhen Lian couldn't go out, Ma Lan'er would come to Li's house to play with Zhen Lian when she was free, and sometimes she would bring her younger brother Ma Yonghui over.

But since Ma Yonghui was sent to school by Ma's family when he was six years old, he has never been to Li's house again.

Ma Yonghui learned how to read and write in school, and often taught Ma Lan'er.This is cheaper for Zhen Lian. After Ma Lan'er learned the characters, she happily told Zhen Lian.Seeing this, Zhen Lian begged Ma Lan'er to teach her after learning from her younger brother.

Ma Lan'er saw her younger brother teaching her, and wanted to experience the feeling of being a teacher, and liked Zhen Lian, so she agreed.

First teach Zhen Lian the characters I know, and then every time I learn something new, I come to Zhen Lian. The two of them have no pen and ink, so they use tree branches to write and draw on the ground in the yard. One teaches and the other learns.

Although I only know the characters, I will finally lose my blindness in the future!

Zhen Lian has to do housework all day, and then she has to weave and embroider. When Ma Laner comes, she has to teach her how to read.So I didn't have much time to play with Ma Lan'er.

Ma Lan'er didn't mind either. Every time she came here, she would bring the embroidery that her mother asked her to embroider. Lian also learned a lot from her, and her skills improved a lot.

Later, when Zhen Lian was 11 years old, Ma Laner was locked in the house by her family because she was visiting her, so she was not allowed to go out, so she had less contact with her.

In the past two years, Li Laosan has rarely gone out, and only went out three times in two years.But in the last one or two years, I have to go out for a few days, and I only come back after going for a long time, and I haven't bought anything.

When Zhen Lian saw her, she knew that she was asking for a buyer for herself!