Xuerou had seen a Purple Vine Mat before.
The mat laid in Grandma Zeng's room was a Purple Vine Mat; the elderly lady's back was afraid of hardness, and she didn't like to sleep on buffalo hides, so Mrs. Zeng specifically picked a set of valuable rattan mats from the market, saying that it was soft to sleep on and made one feel grounded.
Although that mat was good, it was still not even close to the effect of the Black Purple Vine described by Xiao Xian. More importantly, Xuerou had never heard of Xiao Xian weaving mats.
A month before summer vacation, a southerner selling embroidered items came to the gate of Sacred Heart Middle School. The so-called embroidery he sold on his stall (in the summer of 2000, cross-stitch wasn't popular yet).
