After being busy for several days, the eighth day of the lunar new year arrived. Shen's family originally planned to let Master Xu rest for a day, but Master Xu said that before the New Year, he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to finish his work, and if it froze, he wouldn't be able to start working again. Master Li had more free time, and he volunteered to take a break.

  The window paper was pasted the day before, and as soon as the new bed was finished, they moved into the new house. One by one, Zifeng chose the westernmost room, and Shen Shi chose the easternmost room. They said that the first room on the east side of the hall would be left for Zi Qing. There wasn't much to move anyway. Shen Shi's bed and wardrobe were planned to be put in the guest room, so it was enough to just take the bedding over. The new trunk hadn't been made yet. The main thing was to set up the pot in the kitchen, put away the bowls and chopsticks, and move over some rice, flour, oil, and dried vegetables, etc. Other things wouldn't be moved for now, as there was no place to put them after moving. So this time's move was still quite simple.

  He brought two sons early in the morning and set off a string of firecrackers at the door. Others didn't come, saying they knew Shen's side wasn't ready yet so they wouldn't add to the commotion. The old man and Tian's family came a bit later, and Zeng Ruiqing happened to be home, also followed along to celebrate together.

  Zi Qing didn't expect that Chun Yu's whole family came, and Shen Shi didn't seem to have said anything about inviting guests. Zi Qing was really fed up with this family, they would take advantage of any opportunity to come out and eat for free without doing any work. As soon as the dishes were served, they would grab all the good food onto their own plates, not caring if there were other guests present. And to make matters worse, they even gave 10 cents as a gift this time.

  Zeng Ruixiang was not at home, and the old master and Zeng Ruqing helped put the pot on the stove, invited the kitchen god, Shen Shi started to light a fire to cook, Zhou Shi helped. The old master saw that one table was not enough for seating, so he asked Zeng Ruqing to move the old table and chairs from the wooden house, and set up another table. Anyway, the dining room was big enough. Zi Rong locked the wooden house with his hands.

  The overall cabinet in the kitchen has received consistent praise, being both neat and visually appealing. Originally, Zi Qing wanted Master Li to paint it apple green, but unexpectedly Master Li adjusted it to emerald green. Even Shen Shi didn't expect such a good effect, saying that cooking in such a place would make the dishes taste better by several degrees.

  Ziying saw that everyone on the He family's side was extremely happy for their own family, while the relatives on the Tian family's side were only filled with envy and jealousy. Of course, Old Master was an exception, as he had been helping out all along and was already used to it. Ziying secretly told Zirong about this, and Zirong also found it amusing when he saw their expressions. It's likely that they still don't know the value of these pieces of furniture, which add up to almost two hundred taels of silver. If they knew, they would go crazy - after all, Zeng Rui Xiang only makes eighteen taels of silver in a year!

  After lunch, the old man let Tian and others go back home. Shen sorted out the bedding and He helped Shen make new quilts. The cotton had been fluffed in the previous days. Shen first made two urgent quilts and also re-fluffed the old quilt covers and quilts, combining two into one, this time making all quilt covers.

  After dinner, Shen sent away all the people and boiled several pots of hot water. Everyone took turns bathing, fortunately, Ziying had Xu's apprentice make two wooden buckets, so two people could bathe at the same time, which was much faster. Ziying had never taken such a comfortable bath in her past life, although the soap made from Gleditsia sinensis wasn't very comfortable to use. The bath water flowed down the slope and into a pit outside, just right for fertilizing. Ziying, Shen, and Zixi lay on their new bed, warm and cozy, thinking that when she first arrived, she was actually sleeping in a pigsty, now her environment was like heaven, and it felt incredibly wonderful.

  The weather is getting colder day by day, and Shen's family didn't have much to do outside, so she asked Xu Shifu's apprentice to make two embroidery frames, which were completed in one day. Li Shifu also painted them with oil paint. During this time, Shen went to the city and bought a piece of high-quality white silk satin and many silk threads, saying that she wanted to embroider a screen. Zi Qing felt particularly surprised and asked: "Mother, how much silver does it take to embroider a good screen?"

  "A piece that is one and a half feet wide and three feet long generally costs three taels of silver, while good ones can sell for five taels. A piece that is three feet wide and nine feet long can generally sell for thirty taels of silver, with good ones selling for forty or fifty taels. This is the price for double-sided embroidery; single-sided embroidery is not as expensive."

  "Why didn't you embroider before? If you had, our family would have been rich a long time ago!" Zi Qing really couldn't understand.

  "Silly child, when I first married in, new daughters-in-law have to set rules and do household chores, where's the time for this? The room your grandma lives in is so dark during the day, even if I wanted to sneak around and do some embroidery, it wouldn't work. At night, doing it for a long time would hurt my eyes too. So, I could only glance at it during the day and quickly make a few pouches. But then your grandma saw them and said that the money from selling the pouches also had to be handed over. I realized what she meant when I saw that your aunt didn't do any needlework besides sewing. Not long after, I gave birth to your older brother, and your grandfather was delighted with his first grandson, so he let your grandma help take care of him for a year. Later, when you second brother was born, your grandma lost interest in helping out. With so many children, where would I have the time and energy to secretly do embroidery? This time, seeing that things are quiet at home and I can be my own master, I thought of picking up this skill again, but who knows if I've forgotten it or not?"

  Zi Qing only then remembered when Xiao Jie taught her embroidery and said with a huff: "Let your mother teach you." It turned out to be this kind of thing.

  "Afterwards, you didn't do embroidery anymore, Grandma never mentioned you."

  "How can it be that no one mentions, but the household chores need to be done by someone, you two aunts don't do them, grandma doesn't do them, only us two daughters-in-law do them, and at home we also raise several pigs, it's really exhausting."

  "If grandma knew that the silver earned from one piece of embroidery could buy a big pig, and doing one big piece of embroidery a year could buy ten pigs, wouldn't she be regretful?" Zi Qing said with a sly smile.

  "I just embroidered a few copper coins on the purse and handed it in, she didn't know I could do large pieces of double-sided embroidery either. Besides, she wouldn't even let you two aunts do anything."

  Ziying watched as Shen used a piece of rice paper to carefully draw lines, Shen wanted to embroider a peony that was one and a half feet wide and three feet long, although it's considered tacky but since it's the new year she still wants to put it out, after all it's auspicious.

  Zi Qing watched the embroidery take shape day by day, feeling it was truly amazing. She practiced making pouches with more dedication and finally didn't need to mend socks anymore. Shen Shi said that only when she got used to holding the needle and doing the embroidery would she teach her how to embroider flowers.

  Ziying saw that Shen's family was in a hurry to do needlework, probably because they were afraid of not having enough money for the new year. The new clothes at home had not been made yet, so she took care of household chores with great care, buying vegetables and cooking meals. Generally, she would only buy some meat and bones, but there were also radishes, small white vegetables, and celery in the field. Ziying didn't go out alone either; she always went with Zirong. Besides, since it was cold, the meat could be stored for two days.

  Sometimes the two of them would go to the market, and Ziqing still wanted to find some fruit trees or something. When they saw someone selling chicks, they would buy a few back, but this time there were more roosters than hens. Zixi had already learned how to walk, but wasn't very steady on his feet yet. At night, Ziqing and Zilu would study characters together, and also practice writing simple words with the scraps of paper from Zifu's desk. In short, Shen Shi said that these were the most comfortable days since their marriage.