"Hey, wait a minute." Ning Mengyao saw that the man turned around and was about to leave after reaching the foot of the mountain, and quickly called out to stop him.
Qiao Tianchang had seen Ning Mengyao standing there before, and stopped when he heard her voice. He looked at her with a pair of calm eyes, filled with doubts.
Touching her nose embarrassedly, Ning Mengyao found that her tone just now was a bit impolite.
"Can your prey sell me a pheasant?" Ning Mengyao walked to Qiao Tianchang and looked up at him.
She hadn't noticed it at the distance just now, but after walking in, Ning Mengyao realized that this man was really tall. Her height of 1.6 meters was like a child in front of this man.
Qiao Tianchang nodded, took out a pheasant from his hand and handed it to Ning Mengyao.
"How much is this?" Ning Mengyao took the pheasant he handed over and asked.
"Fifty cents."
"Oh, okay, wait for me, I'll go back and get the money." He turned around and went into the house, and walked out after a while, holding a handful of coins in his hand.
After putting away the copper plate, Qiao Tianchang turned and left, with a hint of fragrance still lingering on the tip of his nose, and the copper plate in his hand still carried her warm temperature.
Ning Mengyao turned around and went back, started to pack the pheasant she bought, and had chicken and mushrooms for lunch.
Ning Mengyao didn't plan to go outside in the afternoon. After dinner, she was going to embroider her screen. But just as she was about to move the embroidery stand, Yang Xiuer came over with an embroidery basket, which contained embroidery thread, some handkerchiefs, and purses. of.
Seeing her, Ning Mengyao no longer planned to embroider a screen, but turned around and went to the utility room next to her.
When she came out, she held a very small hoe in her hand.
Looking at the things in her hands, Yang Xiuer pouted and complained: "Mengyao, why don't you do embroidery?"
She came here with embroidery work just to steal Ning Mengyao's skills, but now she actually took a hoe to weed the vegetable field in front of the house.
He raised his head and smiled silently at Yang Xiu'er: "Well, there is already a lot of grass in the vegetable field. It needs to be removed."
Yang Xiuer sat down with a stool on one side and put her small basket aside: "What's the hurry? You can mow the weeds at any time. Making money is the most important thing."
Although she didn't know how much Ning Mengyao's embroidery work could be sold for, she had a feeling that it would certainly not be too little.
"No, I'm not in a hurry to use this little money." Ning Mengyao shook her head, ignored Yang Xiuer, and continued what she was doing.
The movement of Yang Xiuer's hand froze slightly. The fingertips of the rough hand holding the needle and thread turned slightly white, and her face became slightly ugly.
In this way, the two of them got along in a strange manner. One was doing embroidery work and looking at Ning Mengyao in the vegetable field from time to time, but the latter didn't even give her a look.
After feeling her gaze many times, Ning Mengyao raised her head and looked at Yang Xiuer, who was staring at her without knowing what she was thinking: "What's the matter?"
Yang Xiuer shook her head in embarrassment, looked down at the embroidery work in her hands, her eyes lit up: "Mengyao, can you help me see how to embroider this place? I can't embroider it well."
What she held in her hand was a silk handkerchief. There were light-colored flowers on the handkerchief, which were very beautiful, but the flowers lacked some aura.
Ning Mengyao put down what she was doing, walked to Yang Xiuer and looked down at the handkerchief in her hand: "Don't use a flat needle here. It's better to embroider it crosswise. You can try it."
"Oh, okay." She said and started to embroider using the method Ning Mengyao said. After finishing some embroidery, she looked at it from a distance and found that the effect was indeed much better than what she had just embroidered.
She immediately nodded with satisfaction, but it was also because this time, Yang Xiuer kept calling Ning Mengyao whenever she didn't understand something, which made her unable to do her own thing well.
Ning Mengyao's eyes flashed with irritation. When Yang Xiu'er called her again, she just raised her head and glanced: "You know what I just said? You are biting off more than you can chew." After saying that, she didn't care who Yang Xiu'er was. expression, just lowered his head and continued to do what he was doing.
Yang Xiuer's expression felt a little ugly for a moment. She felt that Ning Mengyao was too stingy and was unwilling to tell her even such a trivial matter. It was really too much and she regarded her as a good friend in vain.
When she couldn't get what she wanted, Yang Xiuer kept staring at Ning Mengyao, as if she wanted to eat her.
"Mengyao, I just want to ask you about embroidery. Why are you so fierce?" Yang Xiuer looked at Ning Mengyao aggrievedly and muttered in a low voice.