"Father, Mother, Grandpa, Grandma, I will miss you."

If she weren't afraid to reveal that she could drive, or if she weren't worried about overloading, she would have gone to the train station to see him off.

With nothing to do, Ruan Qiushui tidied up the house, strolled around the supply and marketing cooperative, and then returned to the Hongqi Brigade.

"Third sister-in-law, you're back?"

Zhou Lan was washing vegetables in the yard when she saw Ruan Qiushui return and greeted her.

"Third Aunt, you're finally back! I've missed you so much."

Gu Zhengyang stepped forward and hugged Ruan Qiushui's leg like a kitten.

"Third Aunt, my brother and I went out to play today and found two wild duck eggs. Can I save them for you to eat?"

Gu Zhengming also came over to fawn over him.

"Good boy, good boy, good boy."

Ruan Qiushui patted the two boys on the head and gave each of them a White Rabbit milk candy.

"Alright, let go of your third aunt right now. Can't you see she's carrying something on her back?"

Gu Changshu, with great tact, stepped forward and took Ruan Qiushui's basket.

"Oh my, that's heavy! What are you carrying, Third Sister-in-law?"

Despite his words, Gu Changshu still carried the basket on his back to put it inside Ruan Qiushui's house.

"Fourth brother, these are all gifts and food I brought for everyone. After I distribute them to you, take the rest to the kitchen."

Going out provides a convenient excuse to take out some meat and grain to improve the family's meals.

The fortune Xie Xiuying gave her, if converted into money and goods, would have been enough for the Gu family to live a life of extravagance and waste for decades.

"Third Sister-in-law, what gift did you bring back?"

Gu Xiaoxiao grabbed Ruan Qiushui's hand.

She missed her third sister-in-law who wasn't home yesterday.

"Good stuff, everyone gets a share."

Ruan Qiushui lifted the tattered cloth covering the basket and took out all the gifts she had prepared.

"This is the fabric I bought for my family to make new clothes."

She didn't know the sizes of the clothes her family wore, and she didn't want to have them altered at a factory without permission, fearing they wouldn't fit or look good.

So let them cut it themselves.

"Oh my, what a beautiful floral print fabric."

Gu Xiaoxiao was immediately attracted to the pink and blue floral fabrics that Ruan Qiushui had taken out, and she couldn't put them down.

"Sister-in-law, come and see!"

Gu Xiaoxiao called out to the kitchen, eager to share.

"My God, this fabric is so beautiful."

Zhou Lan wiped her hands on her pants before carefully touching them.

"Third sister-in-law, is this fabric really for making new clothes for us?"

These three sisters-in-law are so generous!

"Third Sister-in-law, where's mine?"

Gu Changshu squeezed through the crowd, looking at Ruan Qiushui expectantly.

“Here, these are the clothes for the men in the family.”

Ruan Qiushui took out black and military green fabrics and handed them to Gu Changshu.

"Let's make pants with black ones and clothes with army green ones."

This is the most popular combination of this era.

"Oh my, if this were made into clothes and I wore them out, so many people would envy me."

Gu Changshu couldn't wait to put the clothes on and go out to show them off to the young men in the brigade.

"Third sister-in-law, this is really too much money. Why don't you save it for Changfeng to make clothes?"

"Yes, yes, we're wasting such nice clothes."

Gu Changjiang and Gu Changshan were flattered; this was the first time they had ever seen such fine fabric.

"Big brother, second brother, Changfeng's clothes have been prepared long ago. These fabrics are for you, so please don't be shy."

"But I can't make clothes, so I'll have to trouble you two sisters-in-law and little sister."

She's good with silver needles, but with embroidery needles? Forget it.

She's just a half-baked designer in name only; she only provides drawings and doesn't participate in the production.

"Of course."

Zhou Lan and the other two readily agreed.

Where can we find someone like Ruan Qiushui who can contribute both money and effort?

"Third sister-in-law, what style of clothes would you like to wear?"

He Chunhua greeted them and said she would cut out the design that evening.

"Sister-in-law, I won't make the clothes. I still have other clothes."

Ruan Qiushui waved her hand in refusal.

It wasn't that I disliked He Chunhua's craftsmanship; it was just that she had so many new clothes that she couldn't wear them all.

Not to mention the things she processed in the factory, even the things Gu Changfeng bought for her when she got married, and the things her parents and grandparents bought for her, couldn't be exchanged for her.

"That won't do."

How come everyone else gets new clothes, but the three old couple doesn't?

"Sister-in-law, I really don't need it. You, my second sister-in-law, and my younger sister can just do your own thing."

"If I ever need more clothes in the future, I'll ask my sister-in-law for help then."

This is indeed the truth, although it sounds a bit like Versailles, and I'm afraid my wives will think I'm showing off if I say it out loud.

"Alright, let me know if you need anything in the future."

Seeing that Ruan Qiushui insisted, He Chunhua said no more.

"Third Sister-in-law, tell me, what styles are popular in the city now?"

Gu Xiaoxiao kept pestering Ruan Qiushui with questions.

The girls in the brigade only wore a few different kinds of clothes, and they weren't pretty at all.

The style that Third Sister-in-law is wearing is still better.

"I'll draw a few designs for you. If you like them, you can make them yourself."

Ruan Qiushui returned to her room, found paper and pen, and drew four sets of women's clothing for Gu Xiaoxiao, and also drew four sets of men's clothing.

"Third Sister-in-law, you're amazing! Is there anything you can't do?"

Gu Xiaoxiao looked on with admiration. Why didn't she have a brain like her third sister-in-law?

"By the way, why are you all home alone? Where are Mom and Dad?"

Why haven't my parents come home yet when it's time to get off work?

"Oh, I forgot to tell you, Third Sister-in-law, Zhao Meimei is getting married to Duan Zhiyu from the educated youth camp today. Mother and the others went to the wedding banquet."

“Yesterday afternoon, Accountant Zhao’s wife, Li Duoxi, came to our house specifically asking that you, Third Sister-in-law, come too.”

Accountant Zhao was so smug that everyone in the brigade knew about it, and they even held an extra banquet that night.

"Duan Zhiyu is really a scoundrel. An Qin has only been dead for a short time, and he has already married Zhao Meimei. I wonder what the people in the village are saying about him behind his back."

Gu Xiaoxiao spat.

Duan Zhiyu's conduct was never good to begin with; even when he was with An Qin, he still flirted with many girls in the brigade.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have gotten together with Zhao Meimei so quickly.

"Xiaoxiao, just stay away from Duan Zhiyu and Zhao Meimei from now on."

Zhao Meimei couldn't possibly be unaware of Duan Zhiyu's style.

Since they know they can still be together, I'm afraid they're both out of their minds; it's better to have less contact.

"Third Sister-in-law, are you putting all that grain in your basket into the kitchen?"

Following Ruan Qiushui's instructions, Gu Changshu carried the basket into the kitchen and took out the items to arrange them.

When he received it, he was overjoyed.

The rice and wheat flour were one thing, but the basket also contained twenty catties of pork, five or six catties of apples, and a five-catty pot of rapeseed oil.

My goodness, so much stuff! I don't know how my sister-in-law, with her small frame, managed to carry all that back.

Fortunately, the basket was big and sturdy enough that it couldn't hold everything.