Educated Youth in the Countryside: She is the Village's Embroidery Queen!-Chapter 86: Haunting Dreams, Unforgettable Longing

Chapter 86: Chapter 86: Haunting Dreams, Unforgettable Longing

"??? "

This move is suffocating, stealing your sister’s money to buy red hair ties and curry favor with the educated youths from another team, just thinking about it makes me angry.

But—

"Educated youths from another team?"

Yi Chichi looked puzzled, "Your brother doesn’t like going out, how did he get involved with educated youths from another team?"

"I find it strange too."

Liu Dongmei looked at Yi Chichi, then at Wang Nan and them, full of confusion, "Our team has so many good educated youths, why didn’t your brother fancy Chichi and them, but instead took a liking to the educated youths from the next team?"

"Thanks for the invite!"

Yi Chichi rolled her eyes, pulled into an inexplicable comparison, "Just talk about the educated youths next door, don’t drag us into it."

Liu Dongmei laughed awkwardly, "It won’t happen next time."

That’s better.

"Did your mom hit your brother?"

"She did!"

Liu Ya grinned, "When my mom was hitting my brother, the stick broke."

That’s a bit harsh.

"How thick was the stick?"

"About as thick as Qiuyu’s arm."

Zhou Qiuyu, who was mentioned, looked at her arm, gasped, holy crap, breaking such a thick stick, Liu Ya’s mom is fierce.

"Is your brother okay?!"

"Not really, he’s lying on the kang now."

His butt was beaten to a pulp, can’t get better.

Everyone instantly turned their gaze to Yi Chichi’s face.

She, who was busy embroidering auspicious clouds with her head down, sensed something was wrong and looked up.

Then—

"Why are you looking at me, I didn’t hit him."

"We didn’t say you hit him, we want to ask why you didn’t go take a look at him."

Lying on the kang unable to get up, it looks serious.

Yi Chichi twitched the corner of her mouth, is she that shameless?

Should she rush to check a stranger’s external injuries?

That’s just insane!

"How about understanding medicine that doesn’t knock on the door, I think you should join the village Paw Patrol!"

They understood everything before, but joining Paw Patrol, this...

"Why join Paw Patrol?"

"A dog meddling with a mouse’s business."

She spoke frankly, Wang Nan and them were left speechless.

If you don’t say, you don’t realize it, but once said, it really seems like it.

Yi Chichi didn’t bother with them, her slender fingers skillfully maneuvered the needle and thread on the fabric.

Straight stitches orderly aligned along the edge, forming a neat border without mismatched colors.

Then came split stitches, shade stitches... flat stitches and so on, the stitches she embroidered were fine, soft, and orderly, her fingertips manipulated them with ease.

Everyone watched her graceful movements, utterly stunned.

"Her thread doesn’t knot."

Liu Huahua spoke as if she had found a new world.

Liu Lan looked at her own embroidered flower, then at Yi Chichi’s, finding nothing to see.

So she curiously asked, "What are you embroidering? Why can’t we see anything?"

Yi Chichi didn’t lift her head, "The thread is too thin, the quality is different, plus I’m using light colors now, it’s normal to not see it."

Once it’s done, it’ll be visible.

"I saw you added thread of other colors."

Liu Xiaocao couldn’t help but chime in, Yi Chichi understood, if she didn’t explain clearly, they’d pester her to death.

"Watch closely!"

She put down the needle and thread, picked up the fabric, held it up to the window, gave a slight flick of her hand, and like ripples, gleaming waves flashed before their eyes.

Wang Nan and them were dumbfounded.

"???"

Yi Chichi remained composed, "See the difference?"

Hearing her words, the stunned crowd finally came to their senses.

Then, collectively, they gasped, instinctively exchanged glances, and burst into chatter.

"Lanlan, did you see?! Did you see it, Chichi’s embroidered wave is absolutely unique, my god, it’s fantastic, it’s exactly like the waves I saw on the pond!"

"Oh my, this is real embroidery, compared to Chichi’s, mine is just like a pile of crap."

"I thought she only made good clothes, who knew her embroidery was top-notch too..."

Wang Nan and them discussed excitedly, while talking, they touched Yi Chichi’s hands, saying touching her hands might make theirs more nimble, not so stiff and rigid.

The longing in their words left Yi Chichi feeling suffocated.

"Calm down, touching my hands won’t make yours any more agile, and also..."

She took a deep breath, corrected with irritation, "I’m not embroidering waves, but auspicious clouds!"

Auspicious clouds, not goddamned waves, neither lotus flowers nor landscape depictions, why waves.

"Hmm? Not waves?"

Liu Lan looked surprised, Yi Chichi affirmed with a sound, "Then what are you embroidering?"

"Auspicious clouds!"

"Whose auspicious clouds look like waves?"

"That’s just because it’s the beginning."

"Then hurry up and embroider, we want to see what it looks like when it’s finished."

It’ll take time, it’s just the beginning, far from done.

Yi Chichi grumbled inwardly, but showed no sign on her face, affirmed again, and reminded Liu Lan, "Study well."

Once learned, we can go to the Friendship Store to make money together.

"...Okay."

Under her repeated reminders, Liu Lan felt immense pressure and dared not resist, could only bury her head in study.

—

As the saying goes, after the Laba Festival, it’s the New Year, year to year, reunion year.

Every household in the village began preparing for the New Year, Yi Chichi and the others were no exception.

On the twentieth, Wen Shi and the others went to hand over the mission pig, and after returning, they started slaughtering the New Year pig without delay.

Yi Chichi and Zhou Qiuyu, being newcomers, weren’t eligible for pork distribution.

But they could pay to buy from families with more pork.

Bai Chen and the others were eligible for distribution, but only got a small amount, half a pound or a pound each.

Pork couldn’t be selected, it was distributed according to height ranking.

Yi Chichi and Zhou Qiuyu squatted by and waited for villagers to distribute pork, looking to see whose pork was good to buy some.

Wen Shi and He Yunsong squatted with them waiting.

The four whispered among themselves.

"Aunt Guihua’s pork looks good, wonder if she would sell."

"Don’t even think about it, they barely have enough for themselves, certainly won’t sell."

"How about Aunt Ma’s?!"

Wen Shi eyed the meat in Aunt Ma’s basin for a few seconds, then turned to ask Yi Chichi, "It’s all lean meat, such meat has no fat for cooking, why buy it?"

He was almost about to write ’Are you rich and bored?’ on his face.

Yi Chichi felt speechless, "That’s pork belly, not completely lean."

"Then you can try talking to Aunt Ma."

Since she didn’t mind Aunt Ma’s lean meat, based on his understanding of the people in the village, Aunt Ma would surely be willing to share some.

Yi Chichi’s eyes lit up, now people disliked pork belly for lacking fat compared to big fatty meat, but she didn’t mind.

She loves eating tenderloin, pig feet, pork belly and such.

Also likes pork liver.

"You all keep squatting, I’ll go find Aunt Ma to buy meat."

Before she finished speaking, she slipped away in a flash.

He Yunsong paused, "I must say, she is fast!"

Wen Shi affirmed with a sound, after all, she single-handedly took down a spy person.

Zhou Qiuyu counted the money in her hand, "I want to buy pig head!"

Upon hearing this, Wen Shi and He Yunsong both turned to look at her, wondering if they had misheard.

"Buy what?"

"Pig head!"

"Do you know how to cook it?"

"No, but it’s delicious!"

She ate pig head meat once when she was young, it was the first meat she tasted in her memory, so fragrant.

Entranced, unforgettable!