Yun Ling and Yun Shenghua both frowned.

Yun Ruoxia was furious. She put her hands on her hips and yelled, "We all live in the same village. Your family has so much land. Would it kill you to share some of it to help the villagers?"

"This is not the same thing. If I were as wealthy as your family, I wouldn't only donate two donkey carts. I would donate all ten. How stingy!"

"Yes, yes, if I were as well-off as your family, I wouldn't just complain about others, I would just slap myself and blame myself for being so ignorant. Tsk tsk tsk, no wonder they all say you..."

Yun Ruoxia didn't say anything more, and only looked at the person standing next to the Wu family.

Feeling uneasy under the gazes from the front and left, Old Lady Lin said anxiously, "You...you...your family has spent so much money to send Chu'er to school and teach her to write, and now you're just helping the villagers write a few words? It's just this once, and for such a small amount, you're still calculating the cost for us. It's not fair. Besides, writing requires a lot of practice to improve. We're just helping Chu'er."

"Thank you and your whole family for saying that you were taking advantage of others."

“Aunt,” Yunling stepped forward and pulled Yun Ruoxia back, “They said it’s just this once, let it go. After today, if anyone tries to take advantage of you under the guise of doing what’s best for you, we’ll charge them copper coins. Isn’t that how money is earned?”

Old Lady Lin choked on her breath. But these words came from her own mouth. If she said no, wouldn't she be contradicting herself?

Seeing how things had developed, the others hurriedly asked Yun Chu to write a few more sheets of red paper so they could use them next time. After all this commotion, it was already dark, and they only stopped after lighting a candle.

Yun Chu's hands were sore and trembling. Yun Ling fed her while complaining, "Sister is just too kind. People like them would just leave as soon as money is mentioned. There's no need to make a fuss."

"Lingniang, do you know what? Today, the master praised me. He said I am a talented person who can understand everything quickly. He invited me to become his disciple and his first disciple. That's the first disciple! Do you think that if he takes on more disciples in the future, I can be called the senior sister?"

"Come, senior sister, please have a meal. How does it taste, senior sister?"

A blush crept onto Yun Chu's face. "Ling Niang, I will definitely work hard and become a female doctor. I will show those who look down on women that we can also make something of ourselves."

This was the first time Yun Chu had said such a thing. Her eyes were brightly lit by the candlelight, as bright as the stars in the sky.

Yunling believed that her elder sister would get what she wanted.

**

Yun Shenghua found some beef tendon for Yun Ling, but Yun Ruoxia, looking at this hard, unyielding piece, found it even harder to associate it with menstruation.

"Ling-jie, there's only one piece, how do you cook it?"

"Don't rush, auntie. You need to soak it until it's soft so it's easier to shred."

Still tearing it into strips?

Well, Yun Ruoxia was completely confused now, so she stopped watching and picked up her basket to go up the mountain to pry open the matsutake mushrooms.

After soaking the beef tendon in the bucket, Yunling took out a charred piece of wood from the stove and drew it on the ground. She imagined in her mind what the panties would look like after being cut in half and laid flat on the ground, and then drew it on the ground.

She adjusted the middle setting higher to ensure comfort, unlike the clothes she wore in the apocalypse, which were neither high nor low and were very uncomfortable.

After sketching out the general shape, Yunling drew it on scrap paper, cut out the shape with scissors, laid it on cotton cloth, and then cut it again. A rough cotton thong was thus created.

Following this method, Yunling cut out the small piece of cloth from the crotch area and placed it together with the briefs.

The next day, after the beef tendon had softened from soaking, Yunling went to find her father, Yun, and said, "Grandpa, I want to cut it into strips, the kind that are very thin."

Old Man Yun scratched his head, realizing this was hard work, and hurriedly ate a few more mouthfuls of porridge before rummaging through the treasure chest in the room to pull out a hammer.

He placed the cow's back tendon on the wooden board and then pounded it with even force. This was a very arduous task, not something that could be accomplished overnight. It required not only strength but also unwavering patience.

The pounding sounds came and went, and Big Black closed his eyes and fell asleep. Little White stretched out his paws, yawned, rested his head on his paws, and closed his eyes as well.

Yunling yawned one after another, which infected her father beside her. The two of them yawned incessantly, like carp opening their mouths to beg for food. Seeing this, her mother put sour fruit candy into their mouths, the sour taste making them shiver.

Three days later, Old Man Yun painstakingly tore open the cow's back tendon. Yun Ling took the tendon he had already torn and continued to tear it until it was as thin as a thread that could pass through the eye of an embroidery needle.

"What are you going to do with all this, you little brat?"

“Grandpa, this is used as elastic thread. It makes clothes more elastic.”

Yunling thought about the briefs again. Instead of using a string to tie them, she would sew pleats on one side with elastic thread to increase elasticity. She had worn a simple pair of briefs that were made of very simple fabric sewn together, with an elastic band sewn onto the back of the briefs. That was all.

These clothes are alright, but they tear easily. Perhaps she could remake them from cotton fabric and use the pleats to achieve the same effect.

Old Man Yun laughed and said, "You always complain about getting dizzy and lightheaded when you're just sticking embroidery needles on, how could you possibly do this?"

"If I can't do it, can't I let someone else do it? As long as there's enough money, what can't be done?"

"You little rascal, you're not that old, but you're quite experienced. Is there some big man hiding in that little body of yours?"

Yunling dared not look her father in the eye this time. They say that the older one gets, the more shrewd and cunning one becomes, and that's certainly true. "Grandpa is right, I am a little adult."

Old Man Yun smiled and said nothing more.

Having obtained the thread, Yunling went to find an embroiderer who could create the folds. She happened to be going to the cloth shop to pick up a bag, so she told the shopkeeper about her needs.

The master didn't mince words and took Yunling and Yunruoxia directly to the inner room where the embroiderers were working. Yunling first drew a rough sketch and then explained it verbally.

Two embroiderers said they didn't know how and didn't try. The others picked up scraps of cloth and tried with ordinary thread. After embroidering two rows, three of them were eliminated. The remaining two barely finished embroidering, but the results were either wrinkled or too loose.

Seeing this, the master tried sticking a needle on. Yunling didn't know needlework, but seeing how fast and slow she moved, sometimes pulling back and sometimes releasing, and how she even hid the end of the thread, she knew that this girl was skilled.

"Young lady, look at this, is it alright?"

Yunling picked up the fabric and gently pulled it in her hand. Although it wasn't sewn with stiffening thread, she could imagine what it would look like with stiffening thread. That was the feeling she wanted.