"No worries, she's tough." Ms. Wu washed her hands and invited Ms. Jiang into the room, pouring her some water.
The two mothers-in-law chatted away.
It wasn't until around noon that Ms. Jiang left, after taking a long walk around the fields.
On her way back, Ms. Jiang thought about the handkerchief Ms. Wu had embroidered that day. The technique is from the Capital City. I'm a native of the Capital City and learned excellent embroidery skills as a child. Even after ten years, I'm still very familiar with that style. Could Ms. Wu also be from the Capital City? Hmm, I should ask her another day.
「In a blink of an eye, it was June.」
The June days were sweltering, a particularly biting kind of heat.
In an era without fans or air conditioners, Gu Qingli felt as if she'd been stripped of a layer of skin by the heat.
Unable to bear it any longer, Gu Qingli pulled Wuqing along, fanning themselves with cattail leaf fans as they headed towards the river to cool down.
