A country woman's true nature is revealed after two dealings
"Taizi, you're here! Come on in, my mother is waiting inside for you! She's been muttering to herself all morning that it's time for you to hand over the embroidery work." Just as Yang Tao and Lu Dama Liu had arrived at the entrance of "Xiu Jin Ge", a slender young man who was doing aerobics came out from inside and even politely took the embroidery work from Liu's hands. "Who are these two..."
"This is Road Daigne, this is Liu Aunt, they are all from our village." Yang Tao introduced to the young man.
"Road aunt, Liu aunt." The smile on the face of the handsome young man was still that kind of unconditional simplicity, indeed a naive boy. I guess he didn't follow Yang Tao's call because Road Dama is not older than his mother. "Please come in."
The landlady saw that this time, Yang Tao did not come with the pretty girl from last time, but with two neat and tidy rural women. Her face showed a slight difference, but she didn't put on any airs, and hurriedly got up to greet them.
The handsome young man didn't wait for the boss's wife to speak and had already introduced Lu Dama and Liu Shu to her.
"It turned out to be two sisters, please sit down quickly." The boss's wife smiled and instructed, "Mingxuan, hurry up and pour the tea."
"Yes." The oxygen boy called Mingxuan responded, quickly brewed tea and brought it in, giving a cup to Lu Danni, Liu Shu, his own mother, and Yang Tao. "Mother, I'll go ahead first."
Yang Tao remembered that last time, the oxygen boy was listening to her conversation with An Xiang and the boss's wife in the house, and even said a sentence next to him before helping her settle the embroidery work. Now seeing the boy pouring tea and going out, it's not quite like last time, and she immediately thought it was because An Xiang wasn't there.
Beauty is always welcome, this is beyond doubt.
"Boss's wife, thank you for giving us so many embroidery tasks. We've all benefited from it too. This is what was brought back last time, we've all finished doing them. Take a look and see if there's anything that doesn't fit, just say." Road Big Wife said after taking a sip of tea.
"Well, let me take a look." The boss's wife smiled and took over the embroidery, nodding as she looked at it. "No wonder Peach said her aunts were all skilled with their hands, indeed they're not bad, actually better than those few families we had in our shop before."
Yang Tao saw the boss's wife say so, immediately became happy, it seems that no matter what time, there are more good people, this boss's wife only said good things, and even didn't have the idea of finding a small fault to deduct wages.
"That's natural, boss lady. Otherwise, how dare I take so many embroidery jobs back? If the boss lady is satisfied, give us more embroidery jobs and we will do them well." Yang Tao was excited and couldn't help but feel a little proud.
"Hehe, this little girl's mouth." The boss's wife looked at Yang Tao with affection, probably because Yang Tao had triggered her "daughter complex" again. Looking at the situation, if Yang Tao hadn't been sitting far away on a low stool, she would have pinched her face again.
Yang Tao subconsciously touched her own face as she looked at the boss's wife, immediately causing both the boss's wife and Lu Dama Liu to stifle a smile.
"Last time I saw that you were a little kid, and it was your first time coming, didn't know how everyone's life was like, so only gave her some leftover scraps. Now that you've said this, and there are two more sisters following along, and there is work to be done, even if I wanted to give you less work, it wouldn't be good. It's just that I don't know whether the two sisters and your village sisters usually follow their families to work in the fields?"
Yang Tao looked at the boss's wife and felt a bit dizzy. Listening to her words, it was clear that she was supposed to give them embroidery work, but how did it suddenly turn into doing chores?
"Except for the busy farming season, we usually don't go down to the fields. Instead, we stay at home and tidy up, feeding the chickens, ducks and geese." Old Lady Lu seemed a bit puzzled too, so she just told the truth.
"Well, girls, let me take a look at your hands." The boss's wife said, getting up and really going over to examine the hands of Road Danna and Liu Aunt.
"Ah, indeed, you don't do much heavy work." The boss's wife laughed even more happily after finishing reading. "Now I can rest assured, just in time, our store has just received over a dozen pieces of clothing, let's have you embroider them."
Yang Tao seems to have understood something, it turns out that embroidery is not something that anyone can do, no wonder last time the boss's wife only gave her some not-so-good fabric, I think one is because she didn't know how good everyone's embroidery skills were, and two was because she was afraid that the villagers' hands were too rough and would waste the good fabric.
Lu Danni and Liu Shu exchanged a glance, this ready-made embroidery work, they had never done it before, but as long as there were patterns and threads, it shouldn't be too difficult. To say that they were forced to do this work by Wang Shi, every time she collected the embroidery work, she would scrutinize them with a critical eye, after a long time, they also became skilled at it.
"The pattern for the embroidery hasn't been finalized yet, and that family definitely wants something new. I've already sent over several samples, but they were all returned." The mistress sighed as she spoke. "Since you've come from so far away, I won't let you return empty-handed. First, I'll calculate your wages from last time and give them to you, and then have you take some of the shoe covers, pillowcases, and handkerchiefs back to embroider first. The finished clothes will be ready in three to five days. When the pattern is finalized, you can come again. But I don't know if that's convenient for you."
Lu Danni and Liu Shu looked at Yang Tao together, this is convenient or not, it's really up to them.
Yang Tao already knew that Lu Danni and the others were intentionally taking on the task of making clothes, thinking that a pillowcase was worth eight cents, so the clothes must be even more expensive. As long as there's money to be made, it doesn't matter if it's inconvenient, besides, didn't Fengzheng tell her that whenever she wanted to use the carriage, all she had to do was let the coachman know?
"Convenient, convenient." Yang Tao hastily nodded his little head. "We'll come in three days."
"Alright, I really like your work, so I'll just have to trouble you two to run a few more errands." The boss's wife said as she stood up. "You two sisters and Taozi sit down for now, I'll go get your wages and embroidery work."
As expected, the boss's wife came back in a short while and not only gave them their wages in full but also returned the three or four silver coins that Yang Tao had left here.
"Madam, you'd better take this back first. After all, we've taken the embroidery work home with us. You shouldn't worry that we won't return it," said Yang Tao, and was about to hand the three taels of silver back to the madam.
"Taizi, don't be so polite with me. As the saying goes, 'one life, two familiarities', I trust you. And from now on, don't call me Boss Lady anymore, just call me Big Mother. My husband's surname is Liu, so just call me Liu Big Mother." The boss lady said, and then went to look at Road Big Mother and Liu Auntie. "You can just call her Sister-in-law, don't keep calling her Boss Lady, it sounds awkward."
"If Aunt Liu says so, then we'll take it." Road Big Nanny said, and together with the three taels of silver and wages, she took them all in. Willow Aunt held onto the embroidery work. "We won't bother you anymore. We'll come again in three days."
"Alright, let Peach take you to the town for a stroll. Today happens to be market day, just on South Street, not far away." Old Lady Liu smiled and finally couldn't help but pinch Yang Tao's little cheeks. "This girl is too adorable!"
Oh my! Yang Tao suddenly remembered when she was a kindergarten teacher, she loved pinching the cute little faces of her students. It seems that from now on, her own little face will have to get used to being pinched too. But anyway, what's important is that she must be very cute, even if she doesn't know it herself.
Yang Tao was melancholy. Who said that by facing a bowl of water, one could see their own appearance? She had tried it before, but never saw clearly!