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Afterward, Li Jin ate something to fill his stomach and went out to water the vegetable field.
In the past, when Li Jin was not working at the Medical Hall, he could go home and rest for a while before watering the fields.
But now he had to sit for an hour in the Medical hall so he had no time to rest after he came back.
So, Li Jin could only quickly irrigate the fields, otherwise it would get dark soon and wild animals would run down the mountain, making it unsafe.
Qin Mu Wen held the mirror and couldn’t put it down.
At this moment, Xiao An happened to run over to tell Qin Mu Wen something.
He had planned to tell Qin Mu Wen that a fan made of rattan was just a fan’s inner structure, and it must be pasted with oil paper to be considered a real fan.
Xiao An gave the rattan fan to his husband like a treasure, but he didn’t expect it to make his husband laugh.
That’s why he made a special trip to tell A’Wen about it so as not to make the same mistake.
After all, even though A’Wen taught him how to braid the fan bones last time, it seemed that A’Wen didn’t know that he had to paste a layer of oily paper, in the end, to make it useful.
When Xiao An came over, he immediately saw the mirror in Qin Mu Wen’s hand.
His eyes widened in surprise, “This, this mirror is so beautiful!”
Qin Mu Wen smiled with two dimples and directly nodded, “Yeah.”
Seeing this, Xiao An teased, “Your husband gave it to you?! He is so good to you!”
Although these words were mixed with envy, the element of amusement between friends was higher.
Xiao An wanted to see A’Wen’s shy look, so he said that.
After all, A’Wen had a soft personality and would always be shy with just simple words.
But Xiao An soon discovered that he was very wrong.
When Qin Mu Wen heard what Xiao An said, he solemnly nodded and firmly said, “Yes!”
After Xiao An left, on his way back home he suddenly thought, “I always feel that I have forgotten something…”
Xiao An’s family was also considered a big family in the village, with bigger houses and a larger yard than Li Jin’s family.
It wasn’t until Xiao An saw the fan still drying on the windowsill that he remembered that he originally went to A’Wen to tell him about the fan.
Unexpectedly, the exquisite mirror in A’Wen’s hand took him off-topic. Then, it never got back on track.
In the evening, Xiao An’s husband stayed at his place as usual. After the night practice, his big hands gently covered his belly.
“You have such a good relationship with Li Jin’s husband, why don’t you learn from him??”
Xiao An was confused and didn’t know what his husband was talking about, “Learn what? I just learned how to make a fan.”
“Learn to have a baby quickly.”
Xiao An thought he wanted to know about it too, but after trying so hard for so long, he still couldn’t get it, which was really sad.
After such a fuss, Xiao An felt less sleepy.
So he talked to his man, “Have you ever seen a nice-looking bronze mirror that shines brightly and with beautiful patterns carved on the side?”
“There are some in this town, why? You want it? It costs about one or two hundred coins. I’ll go work for a few days and buy one for you.”
Hearing the price, Xiao An was shocked.
That’s how much a small mirror costs! It took him half a month of sewing to just buy a mirror!
And A’Wen’s mirror is more beautiful and refined.
Xiao An thought for a while and then directly asked, “If the carved pattern is that of a crane and it is dyed. How much does it cost??”
The man said, “I have seen people buy dyed mirrors for four to five hundred yuan, but it doesn’t have a crane pattern. “
Hearing the answer, Xiao An sighed in his heart, Li Jin really loves A’Wen so much.
Four to five hundred yuan required him to do needlework for more than a month and a half.
A’Wen’s life finally got better.
After knowing the price, Xiao An simply said, “I don’t want such an expensive thing. The mirror at home is quite good and enough for me.”
After a pause, Xiao An added, “Let’s save some money. If Dalang wants to study, we can also send him to study in the town.”
Dalang is the eldest son of Xiao An’s husband. He is seven years old this year.
Xiao An was a very honest person, and he carefully took care of his husband’s children from his previous wife, that’s why the whole family liked him.
The man said, “Studying is of little use. If we have many children, we can let one of them study in the future.”
Farmers must not have high ambitions and low abilities. If his children didn’t learn to farm, the whole family would have nothing to eat in the future.
“Li Jin is good at studying. Still, he has to carry water and plant vegetables every day.”
Xiao An thought this was also the reason. If there is only one child in the family, it would be too tiring for him to study and take care of the farms.