The child's cry was not because of surprise. A baby of a few months old had no idea what good things had happened to his mother. The little baby just heard the voice of a stranger and cried out.
After the little baby started crying, Zhou Xiuying said "sorry" to Chu Yue embarrassedly, then paced back and forth, gently shaking the child's back, coaxing the child to calm down quickly.
The little baby was very well behaved. He cried for a while and soon stopped. His big eyes were filled with tears as big as beans, and he looked very cute.
Chu Yue looked at the little baby a few more times and noticed that the little baby had the same sallow complexion as Zhou Xiuying.
Out of professional habit, her eyes moved slightly.
After Zhou Xiuying coaxed the child, she turned around to look at Chu Yue, with a look of fear and surprise on her face. She asked softly, "Comrade, you just said five pieces? Are you sure? Do you want so many at once?"
Chu Yue said, "As long as your shirts are well made and you abide by the conditions I set, I will still ask you to make ten more next time."
"Okay, I can do it. Comrade, just leave it to me, I will do my best. When I make shirts, I will close the shop door and not take other jobs. I will make sure that no one else can see the style of your shirts." Zhou Xiuying looked at Chu Yue excitedly and promised seriously.
Chu Yue was very satisfied with what Zhou Xiuying said, and quickly took out the similar fabric she had prepared earlier. Even the details such as the plastic buttons were different from those of ordinary shirts. Chu Yue also found a similar one in the Lingbao space and took it out.
"These are fabrics and buttons. Please keep them. I'll give you fifteen days to pick them up. I'll also pay you a five-dollar deposit first, and the balance will be paid to you later. Do you have any objections?"
"No, no, I have no objection. I'll listen to you." Zhou Xiuying was overjoyed, especially when she took the five dollars from Chu Yue.
According to the general rules of their tailor shop, the tailor receives the cloth as a deposit, but does not require a deposit for the labor fee, which can be paid in full in one lump sum when picking up the clothes.
But she was really short of money. With the five yuan, she could buy milk powder and rice paste for her child. As the child got older, his appetite grew bigger, but her milk supply was getting less and less, and it was not enough. The child often cried with hunger, and she could only let him suck to satisfy his craving.
Whenever the children looked at her with hungry eyes, Zhou Xiuying felt particularly uncomfortable.
Now that she has money, she gets five yuan at first, and another five yuan half a month later. If she makes ten pieces next month, that will be twenty yuan. By then, not to mention milk powder, maybe she can even eat meat.
When Zhou Xiuying looked at Chu Yue, it was as if she was looking at her savior.
Chu Yue was willing to pay a deposit of five dollars because she saw that Zhou Xiuying was living in poverty. Five dollars was nothing to Chu Yue and was enough to help Zhou Xiuying out of her immediate difficulties.
The two of them agreed on all the details. Zhou Xiuying was careful in her work and wrote a receipt for Chu Yue, also including her home address, so that Chu Yue would feel more at ease and not have to worry about her running away with so much fabric.
Before leaving, Chu Yue chatted with Zhou Xiuying, "Have you been eating a lot of carrots recently?"
"...Ah?" Zhou Xiuying was stunned. What does carrots have to do with making clothes?
This topic jumps a bit.
Chu Yue didn't wait for Zhou Xiuying to answer, she looked at her and said, "Carrots contain a lot of carotene, which is a vitamin needed by the human body. It protects eyesight and increases immunity. But if you eat too much, coupled with poor metabolism, the carotene will remain in the body, which will make your skin sallow.
If a pregnant woman is breastfeeding, carotene will be fed to the baby along with breast milk, which may induce lactation jaundice. "
Jaundice is a common disease in infancy. The most direct physiological feature is that the child's whole body turns yellow, especially on the face and eyes, which turn yellow in circles.
Neonatal jaundice is generally harmless, but if it is not treated, it may turn into pathological jaundice, which will affect the child's body.
Just now, when Chu Yue looked at the child behind Zhou Xiuying, she carefully observed the whites of the child's eyes, which had turned slightly yellow.
Zhou Xiuying was very panicked because everything Chu Yue said came true. There was no food at home recently, and her rations were potatoes and carrots. When she couldn't stand the hunger, she would wash a carrot and eat it raw.
When the neighbors saw her, they all said that she looked like she had become darker.
When she was bathing her child, she noticed that the child's skin turned yellow, but she didn't expect it was the influence of breast milk, but because she ate too many carrots.
"...Comrade, what should I do? Please teach me, please teach me." Zhou Xiuying nervously asked Chu Yue for help.
Chu Yue said succinctly, "If you want to take good care of your child, you must first take good care of yourself."
When Zhou Xiuying heard these words, a hint of doubt appeared in her frightened and worried pupils.
In the 1970s, women always put their children first, their husbands second, and their mothers-in-law third...all kinds of relatives and neighbors could be put in between, but it was never their turn.
Always put yourself last.
"Go buy a piece of meat and a fish and eat them by yourself. When you eat the meat and fish, your body will have oil and water, and you will have milk to feed your child. This is the best thing for you and your child."
After leaving these words, Chu Yue walked out of the tailor shop, got on her bicycle and rode away.
Zhou Xiuying was still standing there in a daze, staring blankly at Chu Yue's leaving back, all she could think of was "Buy a piece of meat, buy a fish, and eat it all by yourself."
Is this...really okay?
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Grocery store.
Chu Yue took out the small coal stove that she had used to bake potatoes. Only one of the table legs was burned with the wood taken off the Eight Immortals Table, so there was still a lot of firewood left.
Gradually, she learned how to light the coal stove and no longer needed Ye Zhaodi's help.
The Liupo chili noodles I sold last time have become famous far and wide due to the potato cube tasting.
Some customers couldn't eat spicy food at first, but after eating it a few times, they found it fragrant and crispy and were conquered. The taste was like it was growing on the tip of their heart, and they felt uncomfortable if they didn't eat it once a week.
Ye Zhaodi heard from several customers that they came to their store specifically to buy chili powder, because this chili powder was not available in the supply and marketing cooperative and they were the only one in the whole city.
When Ye Zhaodi saw Chu Yue fiddling with the coal stove, she knew she was going to make something delicious, so she walked over and asked, "Sister Yue, what are you going to sell today?"
Chu Yue said, "Let's not sell it yet, we'll eat it ourselves."
After Chu Yue lit the fire, Ye Zhaodi helped to fan the fire. After burning for a while, the wood turned into charcoal and could be used for barbecue.
Chu Yue took out the mugwort glutinous rice cake that Du Juan had specially reserved for her, and placed a piece on the iron rack over the charcoal fire.
Ye Zhaodi, a local who was born and raised here, had never seen mugwort glutinous rice cakes before. Her big eyes were full of curiosity. "What is this? It smells so good."
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