"Do you think I don’t want to?" Jian Ming glared at his son, "I’ve already sought out a tailor, and the tailor said that everything else is easy to make, but there are some parts that are purely handmade and require knowledge of extremely difficult embroidery skills to create. How could any sewing machine handle such thick material? Even if it did press through, the needle would break."
He adjusted his clothes and swaggered off in his son’s outfit.
Jian Zhiqing could only sigh and then took another piece to wear, but no matter what, it just didn’t feel as comfortable as that one.
Forget it, next time I see the little girl, I’ll have her help make one. Otherwise, it’ll be common for the father and son to fight over a piece of clothing. Right, the little girl is almost in her third year of junior high school, isn’t she? Next year she’ll attend high school. Time really flies; in the blink of an eye, nearly ten years have passed.
The curriculum of the third year of junior high is much more difficult than that of the second year, and of course, many students stop their education at this point, especially in rural schools like theirs where few go on to high school, let alone university.
Boys are fine; their families can support them to attend high school, but girls often reach the age of eighteen or nineteen by that time, and if they stop going to school, they’re expected to get engaged and then married.
After cleaning up the classroom, Qin Xiangnuan and Qin Xiangyang went home together. Their home was close, so most of the time the siblings walked back together. In fact, over the past few years, Qin Xiangnuan had seldom been on cleaning duty, as her older brother often helped out. Having a brother is really great; in her past life, she didn’t envy Qin Xiangmei for becoming more and more beautiful, nor did she envy Qin Xiangnuan for marrying into an official’s family, but she envied Qin Xiangmei for having a brother who always looked out for her.
"Is it heavy? Come, let brother carry it for you."
Qin Xiangyang asked his sister, naturally taking her backpack from her shoulders.
Qin Xiangnuan let her big brother carry her backpack. There was no helping it; he was so tall, and it wouldn’t matter if he didn’t grow any taller. But she still needed to grow, even though she felt that she might not grow any more. She was almost a head shorter than her big brother. But it was fine, she had managed to surpass the five-foot mark, which wasn’t too short in the village. Plus, with her scholarly aura and her pretty little face, she might not become a great beauty in the future, but a minor one was still within reach. Still, she hoped to grow a little more—even a centimeter would do.
She was thinking about the new embroidery technique that the system had unlocked for her yesterday. The authentic double-sided embroidery that had been lost for a long time was very difficult, and she feared it would take a lot of practice to master. She wondered what else the system would teach her after unlocking double-sided embroidery.
But she faintly felt that double-sided embroidery might be the final level. Once she passed it, maybe the system would be completely unlocked. Of course, she wasn’t the system, and she didn’t know what the system was thinking.
"Sister, be careful!"
Qin Xiangyang grabbed Qin Xiangnuan with one hand. Who knows where that person came from, suddenly running in front of them, nearly causing Qin Xiangnuan to bump into them.
Qin Xiangnuan abruptly gathered her thoughts and, upon seeing the person in front of her, was instantly so angry that her whole body trembled.
Was it him? Was it really him?