The mother-in-law thought for a while and realized that she was confused. She regretted that she had smashed a lot of copper coins into it in vain, and the light made a loud noise.
Just as he was about to go back, the scholar took out a letter.
"Your husband-in-law has come to write a letter to us again. My father has just brought it back and asked me to send it to you, when you happened to be here," the scholar said.
Bai Haitang was overjoyed, took the letter and read it while walking, and then returned to the dyeing workshop with her mother-in-law.
The coins thrown out don't matter, as long as the mother-in-law stops being stupid, she will be satisfied.
"What did Datong say?" Mother-in-law asked anxiously.
"He is preparing for the exam. He is in good health and everything is fine. Let us rest assured." Bai Haitang said.
"You only said these few words in so many words?" the mother-in-law asked with sharp eyes.
"I also told you to take care of yourself. If there is work for Tian Niu and Er Tong, don't be tired." Bai Haitang said.
Although there was a lot of paper, I was talking to Haitang, and Haitang didn't want to feel sore and numb in front of her mother-in-law. She was embarrassed. There were also some strips of cloth in the family book, in various colors.
This was the dyeing cloth of various colors that he could get from the capital brought back from Datong.
The colors are bright and pure. It is worthy of being in the capital. The fabrics in small counties cannot compare with that.
When she took it home and compared it with her own dyed cloth, she found that it was not inferior in any way. Bai Haitang became more confident. What made her happy was that there really was no floral cloth in the capital, and she wanted to develop a dyeing method for floral cloth as soon as possible.
In machine dyeing, Haitang knew that the patterned cloth was a pattern template, but in manual dyeing, she still couldn't figure it out for a while.
"Sister Haitang, why are you so happy today?" Lamei could already see the joy hidden on Haitang's face.
"You are very happy too. Tell me about any happy events." Bai Haitang asked.
"Of course I'm happy if someone gives me something for free. My sister's is in the dyeing shop. We four girls all have something. I didn't expect that Er Tongxin is quite delicate." Lamei said happily.
It turned out that Er Tong had already made four jewelry boxes overnight, one for each person.
Haitang returned to the dyeing workshop and saw the box. The two colleagues really spent a lot of information to make this thing. The carvings were almost the same as those sold in the county. The second colleague mentioned the wintersweet to her, and Haitang probably had an idea.
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But I don’t want to get involved in young people’s love affairs, so I pretend not to know.
"Sister Haitang, you said that the dumb girl has just been here for a day, and the two brothers gave each of us such a beautiful box. Do you have any thoughts about the dumb girl? Normally, after so many years, he has never given us anything." Lamei's little head.
I'm having random thoughts again.
"How are you, mute girl?" Haitang didn't see her when she came back.
Entering the room where the mute girl lived, Haitang saw that the mute girl was drawing with a pen on the box Er Tong gave her.
The painting has been basically completed, using the dyes available in the dyeing shop.
Its box is painted with a landscape of people, with distant mountains connecting to the sky, the sunset, birds rushing to return home, one or two families at the foot of the mountain working in the fields, next to the Willow River Bridge, a magnificent
Pastoral scenes appear on the jewelry box.
Haitang did not disturb the mute girl until she completely stopped writing.
"Is this your hometown?" Haitang asked. The mute girl nodded repeatedly.
There is a painting painted on the whole box, which is completely different from the one without painting. I never expected that this dumb girl can draw, but it is much prettier than the one painted by Datong.
The mute girl gestured to Haitang's box, and Haitang gave it to her, meaning that she wanted to draw one for her. Of course, Haitang agreed.