"Madam, I only earn one or two pennies to write a letter to others, and I don't earn more than a few hundred dollars every month." Han Ji said with a wry smile.
"Why so little?" Zhang Luoyi was shocked, "It cost me more than one or two cents to buy a handkerchief! Then how did you pay for your previous studies?"
"My mother earned it by doing embroidery work. Her embroidery skills are very good. There is an embroidery workshop in the town. My mother often takes jobs there. Sometimes when a wealthy family holds a wedding and needs a lot of embroidery, my mother will do it. She would embroider day and night, and her body and eyes were damaged like this." When Han Ji said this, he was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that his mother worked really hard to support him in his studies. He thought he could earn Money is actually just a psychological comfort, because if it was just the money he earned, it would be impossible for him to afford to study.
After hearing this, Zhang Luoyi said happily: "I can also do embroidery. When I was a child, my mother specifically asked an old embroiderer who came back from the county to teach me. Then I will also do embroidery to support you in the future."
Han Ji was moved and felt guilty: "It will be very hard..."
"I'm not afraid of hard work!" Zhang Luoyi replied, "I can do what my mother could do for you before." She was full of confidence.
Han Ji immediately hugged her: "Madam, thank you, I will never let you down in the future."
"Okay, isn't this for our future?" Zhang Luoyi heard his words, and her heart felt as sweet as honey. At this time, she didn't know that doing embroidery was not as easy as she imagined. At that time, Zhang's mother felt sorry for her and only let her do embroidery work for half an hour every day. She even embroidered an average purse and had to boast about it, so she thought she was very talented in embroidery.
When Wu Shichu saw Zhang Luoyi holding an embroidery booth and embroidering with a serious face, he was very surprised: "Luoyi, how come you started doing embroidery?"
"I want to do some embroidery work to support my family." Zhang Luoyi immediately replied with a smile, "Just like my mother before, now my husband has to continue studying in the academy, and the family cannot lose income."
"Very good, Han Ji is really lucky to marry you." Wu Shichu said meaningfully, "Unfortunately, my eyesight is not very good, so I can't do such delicate work for a long time, which will only make you more tired. "
"I'm not tired, I'm not tired. For my husband, I don't feel hard at all." Zhang Luoyi shook her head and embroidered again.
Wu Shichu looked at her movements. The embroidery technique was very ordinary, and the movements were quite skillful, but there was no advantage in speed. The embroidered patterns were ordinary, neither vivid nor exquisite, just ordinary ones that are very common in the market. His embroidery work is far inferior to that of the original owner who relied on embroidery to support his family.
However, Wu Shichu would not be so disappointed as to undermine Zhang Luoyi's confidence. Anyway, when she took it to the embroidery shop to sell it, the boss there would definitely find out all the shortcomings of her embroidery work without hesitation.
Zhang Luoyi embroidered enthusiastically for half an hour, but she felt tired from hanging her neck down. After sitting for too long, her lower back began to ache. Her fingers holding the needle became stiff, and her eyes began to sting. She suddenly felt a little uncomfortable. Discouraged, it turned out that embroidery work was not as easy as she thought.
"Are you tired? Get up and move around when you're tired, otherwise your body won't be able to bear it." Wu Shichu's words startled Zhang Luoyi, and then she blushed. She felt tired after doing it for so long, but my husband heard that As I said, my mother-in-law used to do it all day long.
If he stopped so quickly, wouldn't he look useless? So she gritted her teeth and shook her head: "No, I'm not tired, I can continue."
As she spoke, she immediately looked energetic and resumed her embroidery.
Wu Shichu did not continue to persuade her.
However, just after a while, Zhang Luoyi suddenly screamed out, and then covered her index finger in a panic.
"What's wrong?" Wu Shichu walked over and asked her.
"I accidentally pricked my hand." Zhang Luoyi looked up with tears in her eyes and replied. Wu Shichu looked at her fingers and saw blood coming out of her fingers.
"It doesn't matter, I covered it with my handkerchief for a while and it stopped." Wu Shichu said calmly.
When Zhang Luoyi heard her indifferent words, she suddenly felt aggrieved. She worked so hard to do embroidery work, and if she was pricked by a needle, didn't she deserve to be cared for?
After Wu Shichu said that, he stretched out his hands and said, "Look, my ten fingers are all punctured by needles. Just get used to it."
Zhang Luoyi was startled for a moment and looked at Wu Shichu's stretched-out fingers. Sure enough, she saw that her fingers were all scarred. Although the pinholes on her fingers had healed, they still left small holes that looked a little bit... Scary.
Zhang Luoyi was immediately ashamed, ashamed of the grievance she had just felt. Compared with her mother-in-law's numerous scars, her mere pinprick was nothing. Not even worthy of mentioning it!
Zhang Luoyi, who was shocked by the scar on Wu Shichu's hand, immediately threw away all the grievances and squeamishness in her heart, wiped the blood on her finger with a handkerchief, and said: "Such a small wound is really nothing, it's me It’s such a fuss.”
Wu Shichu chuckled lightly and didn't say anything else. When someone is hurt, he will not hesitate to "make a fuss out of a molehill" if someone feels sorry for him. If no one feels sorry for him, then his grievance and sadness will only be seen as "" Pretentious”.
Zhang Luoyi continued to embroider for half an hour, but she couldn't hold on anymore. She was so tired that it was difficult to even raise her head, and her waist was so stiff that it hurt to even stand up.
She wanted to cry again. Why was it so difficult? Obviously embroidery seems easy, but who knows that it is also very difficult until you do it yourself.
Zhang Luoyi suddenly lost confidence in herself. Can she really support her husband's studies by doing embroidery? She had never suffered much hardship since she was a child. The biggest hardship was that she had to learn to wash and cook. She thought that would be very hard and tiring, but she did not expect that there would be even more tiring and difficult work waiting for her.
She was already beginning to regret boasting about Haikou to Han Ji.
"Press your neck and back with your hands. Move slowly. Don't be anxious. It will be bad if you twist your neck or waist." Wu Shichu saw her stiff movements from the side and advised her.
"How about asking Sister-in-law Song to press it for you, so that it can be relieved faster." Wu Shichu suggested, then sighed and said sadly, "I used to do embroidery work for a day and it took me two seconds to stand up. Only when Zhong can fully relax can I walk. At that time, no one could help me massage my neck and back. Now that you have Sister-in-law Song, you are already very happy."
Wu Shichu's words made Zhang Luoyi feel complicated. She didn't think it was great that her mother-in-law did embroidery work for her husband to study until she started doing this work herself.
