It was noon after this busy work. Ai Anyang was in a particularly good mood. He could settle down in Kyoto and had a job with a pretty good salary. What did he have to worry about?

"Anyang, there's no need to be busy. Just get off work and pack a meal and go home. If you have anything to do in the afternoon, the most precious things for us embroiderers are our hands and eyes. Even using the same movement for a long time will make the cervical and lumbar spine uncomfortable... We do it six times a day Hours, just to extend the time we can be embroiderers..."

A master smiled and patted Ai Anyang on the shoulder, fearing that the little girl would exert too much force just after going to work.

Ai Anyang nodded repeatedly, "Okay, Master Qiu, I will sort out the embroidery thread and fabric and leave. It will only take five minutes."

Everyone has been busy all morning, and the originally tidy desktop has become messy, which is really a headache.

Ai Anyang didn't mess with their things, but just put them in order, so that everyone could be in a good mood when they started working in the afternoon.

After finishing tidying up, she went to the small kitchen. It was said to be a small kitchen, but it was actually a room with partitions on the east side of the house.

Inside the house is the stove, where cooking is done and where various ingredients are stored, while two tables are placed in the entrance cubicle for everyone to sit and eat.

"Is this the new teacher Xiao Ai? I am our kitchen helper Li Mingliang. You can just call me Xiao Li." The comrade who brought the meal said with a smile: "Here, this is the food box prepared for you. From now on, you can go to work when you go to work." Come here with a food box and leave after getting off work."

Li Mingliang laid on the ground a delicate and compact rosewood food box that was 30 centimeters square and 50 centimeters including the handle. The inside of the handle was engraved with the words "Old Kyoto Embroidery Workshop".

The food box has three layers in total, and each layer can fit a specially made stainless steel lunch box with a sealed lid.

The bottom layer, about fifteen centimeters high, contains corn egg custard, and it has a sweet smell.

The upper two floors are both twelve or thirteen centimeters high and divided into three.

In the middle are neatly stacked pancakes, eight braised lion heads and minced pork and cabbage vermicelli.

The top layer is stewed chicken with potatoes, mapo tofu and fried bean sprouts with garlic cloves.

He also handed over a bag of fruit, which weighed about two kilograms.

"Teacher Xiao Ai, you have fruit at noon and milk at night. Only by eating regularly and with balanced nutrition can you embroider with energy...

And our boss also thinks that everyone can have delicious food to eat, and they don’t have to cook when they go home, which saves time and refreshes their spirits, and doesn’t make their hands rough..."

Ai Anyang blinked his eyes and felt that he had had good luck since he stepped into the old Kyoto embroidery workshop.

She smiled and thanked her, then walked home with a heavy food box in one hand and fruit in the other.

It was only a ten-minute journey, and when she got home, several families were cooking in the yard.

Because the place they lived in was relatively small, they occupied the yard and built their own kitchens.

Seeing her carrying something, they all looked around, focusing on the high-end food box.

Aunt Ai was also cooking with her little grandson on her back. When she saw her coming, she smiled and said, "Anyang, let's eat at Aunt Ai's house for lunch. Let's have bacon stewed rice!"

It is said to be bacon stewed rice. In fact, there are very few meat particles in the bacon. It is all held up by mushrooms, bean skins, etc. The rice is also made of several kinds of grains.

Even so, Ai Anyang and his wife couldn't help but fall in love with each other.

Ai Anyang shook his head with a smile, stepped forward and put the food box aside, "Auntie, look after Xiaokang, I will help you cook, don't choke the child." Aunt Ai was not polite to her, so she went to Then he gave in, "Anyang, are you finding a job smoothly? Why have you been out for so long? Are you freezing?

I'll go get you some hot water..."

Ai Anyang hurriedly called to her, "Second aunt, I found a job, helping out at the old Kyoto embroidery workshop on our front street."

At this point, she stepped forward and lowered her voice and said: "I'll give you a salary of a thousand yuan and take care of three meals a day. This food box was given by the old Kyoto embroidery workshop.

The portion is so big that Comrade Jiang and I can't finish it, so I'll share some with you. Anyway, I brought food with me tonight, so it won't be good to have any leftovers. "

Aunt Ai prefers gossip, but she is very tight-lipped about some key family information.

So Ai Anyang is not afraid of her telling her.

Aunt Ai's eyes widened, "Hey, dear, the embroidery workshop is not something ordinary people can enter. Anyang, why did they accept you?"

But when I thought about the thousand-layer-soled shoes my family received in the past, especially those from her, her daughters-in-law, and grandchildren, with flowers embroidered on them, I understood.

"Did the old embroiderers in the village teach you this? Good boy, what is this called? Good people are rewarded. You always help them, and they are willing to let you pass on this craft.

If you can work in an embroidery workshop, you will learn more and more, and you can even open your own shop in the future..."

Ai Anyang smiled and nodded: "I still want to thank my second uncle and my second aunt for bringing me out."

Aunt Ai pushed her aside and said, "You are a noble person now. You can do these rough jobs as little as possible, but you have to take good care of your hands."

Ai Anyang pursed her lips and smiled: "Second aunt is not that exaggerated. There is not much work at home, how can I not help at all?"

Second Aunt Ai said with a smile: "Second Aunt has nothing to do at home. She just takes care of the children, buys groceries, cooks, does laundry and cleans. You took away my work. Doesn't that mean I have nothing to do?"

Ai Anyang tilted his head, leaned over and whispered: "Second aunt, our shop can make a living for people you know, if you have time and want to make some extra money, can I teach you how to do it?"

The crafting fee ranges from one cent to two yuan. "

Uncle Ai and Aunt Ai were both working, and each company had a quota for taking care of their children. After their third son graduated from high school, Aunt Ai retired and gave her job to her third son, who happened to be at home taking care of the children.

Originally, Aunt Ai's salary was not high, and after she retired, she received more than 30 yuan a month. Her confidence at home was not enough.

Nowadays, in addition to cooking, washing, taking care of the children and cleaning for the family, she also takes on some tasks such as gluing matchboxes and medicine bags.

But there are too many people taking on this kind of work, and she can only earn five or eight yuan a month.

What's more, all industries are now facing rectification and transformation, and the sales of match factories are also declining sharply. Aunt Ai didn't get any work last month.

She was preparing to go to a hot pot restaurant with others to go skewers. She had to work hard in the winter. She could make skewers of four to five hundred skewers a day and earn one or two yuan. Only people with a very good relationship could be introduced there.

Hearing what Ai Anyang said, Second Aunt Ai couldn't help but ask: "Anyang, is it easy to hit the collaterals? Can Second Aunt be able to do this job with thick hands and feet? Can you hit one in a day?"

Ai Anyang nodded with a smile: "I will nurse my aunt's hand for two days and remove the calluses on it. It just so happens that we learn a little bit first. It's not difficult to make a knot, but there are many tricks and it takes skill to make it look beautiful... "


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