Chapter 13 Thank You
Yu Hui took out four dollars from her purse and handed over two bills.
The salesperson took a look and gave me a ticket.
Yu Hui took the ticket, put it in her pocket, put the milk powder into her cloth bag, and left the milk powder counter.
The cloth counter was crowded. Yu Hui was standing at the back of the line, standing on tiptoe and looking up at the cloth on the shelves.
"Hurry up, tell me what kind of cloth you want to buy."
"Don't hesitate, just leave if you don't want to buy it."
From time to time, I could hear the salesperson’s angry roar in front of me.
In order to avoid being yelled at when it was her turn later, Yu Hui had already decided in her mind what kind of cloth she wanted to buy and how much she wanted to buy.
She had no interest in the most popular Dacron nowadays. It was cold in winter and hot in summer, but the three boys didn't like pants very much. Summer was coming, so she might as well buy some and make knee-length shorts for them.
You can buy some cotton cloth and make a T-shirt for each child.
Buy more linen cloth. Linen is what you need to wear in summer because it is breathable and cool. It can be used to make short-sleeved shirts and skirts.
She was also planning to make some summer clothes for herself. The original owner's clothes were too rustic and old-fashioned, and she couldn't wear them.
You should also buy some seersucker. It is beautiful, breathable and soft. You can buy pink one to make a beautiful little skirt for Beibei.
After waiting for a long time, it was Yu Hui's turn.
"What do you want?" the salesperson asked impatiently.
Yu Hui immediately said, "I need five feet of pink seersucker, five feet of dark blue Dacron, twenty feet of white cotton, and twenty feet of that light ginger-yellow homespun..."
Homespun cloth is actually linen. Dacron was popular in that era, and people looked down on homespun cloth, but in fact, it was a good thing.
Although it was a little hard at first, it softened after washing it twice.
When people around her heard that she wanted to buy so much cloth, they looked at her twice.
The salesperson remembered what she wanted and looked up and said, "Both seersucker and cotton require fabric coupons. Do you have that many?"
Any cloth containing cotton requires cloth coupons, but Dacron and homespun cloth do not contain cotton, so they do not require cloth coupons.
"Yes." Yu Hui took out the ticket and placed it on the counter. The salesperson took a look at it to confirm it, and also saw that there was quite a bit of money in her purse when she took the ticket out, so he started to cut cloth for her.
After all the cloth was cut for her, the salesperson looked fierce, but he still folded the cloth for her, packed it separately with paper, and tied it with rope before giving it to her.
He collected the cloth coupons and money and issued her a receipt.
Carrying so much cloth together was quite heavy. Yu Hui walked around the store with it and bought another three pounds of apples.
This apple can be steamed and the pulp can be scraped out with a spoon and fed to Beibei to supplement vitamin C.
There were so many things and they were so heavy that Yu Hui couldn't carry them anymore, so she walked to the bus stop opposite the store to wait for the bus to go home.
The bus runs every half an hour, and Yu Hui didn't have to wait long before the bus arrived.
But at this time, there were many people leaving the city, and she took a lot of effort to squeeze into the car, and then stood all the way back carrying her things.
Fortunately, there weren't many stops, only fifteen minutes, otherwise her hand would have been broken.
As soon as she entered the compound, Yu Hui ran into Sun Tieying.
Sun Tieying saw that she bought cloth and apples, and also heard people say in the morning that she went to the grocery store to buy many people. She felt that although Xiao Yu was tough in words, she still listened to her.
As the director of the women's department, my education of her was quite successful.
Look, not only did I buy meat, I also bought apples for the children to eat.
"Are we going into the city?"
Yu Hui hummed, "Well, yesterday, the child's grandmother took away Beibei's milk powder and all the meat in the house while I was away. I asked Sister Yu to help me borrow two milk powder coupons and went into the city to buy milk powder for Beibei."
Although Sun Tieying had also heard about this, but now that Yu Hui said this in front of her, she always felt that this girl was pointing at her, and she felt uncomfortable listening to it.
Even if the child's grandmother took away all the milk powder and meat in the house, it does not change the fact that she abused the child, and no one wronged her.
"I heard you bought a lot of meat this morning. That's right. When people make mistakes, as long as they correct them, it's fine. You should take good care of the children now. That's better than anything else. When Xiao Gu comes back, I'll help you speak up."
Yu Hui smiled and said, "Then thank you in advance."
Sun Tieying: “…”
It was clearly a thank you, so why did it sound so harsh to her ears?
"I have to hurry home to make lunch for the kids, so I'll leave first." Yu Hui said, nodded, and walked past Sun Tieying with her things.
Sun Tieying turned his head to look at her leaving figure, frowned and shook his head.
This Xiao Yu will definitely make mistakes again in the future.
Gu Xixi squatted on the ground while eating rice crusts, watching her eldest and second brothers playing marbles with brother Lixin.
"Xixi, give Brother Lixin another piece of rice crust." Yu Lixin heard Gu Xixi chewing and couldn't help but look up and ask him for more.
Gu Dong had already given him two pieces before, and now the taste of spicy rice crust was still in his mouth, and he wanted to eat more.
Aunt Yu is really amazing. She can even make the rice crust taste like this and let Gu Dong and the others eat it as a snack.
Unlike his mother, who would just scoop the rice crusts and rice into his and his brother's bowls, causing his cheeks to hurt every time they chewed them.
"No more." Gu Xixi said, spreading out her hands. He had eaten the last piece.
"Forget it if there is nothing." Yu Lixin licked his lips, lowered his head and continued to play marbles.
It was Gu Dong's turn to play. Gu Xixi was itching to play, so she said hurriedly, "Brother, let me play, I'll help you..."
He wants to play too.
"I won't let you play it. Last time I asked you to play it, you bounced it away and made me lose one." Gu Dong rejected him mercilessly.
Gu Xi: "I will definitely not fly away, brother, trust me."
"I don't believe you."
"Hmph." Seeing that his elder brother didn't let him play and didn't trust him, Gu Xi turned around sulking and left his butt to his elder brother.
When I turned around, I saw my stepmother carrying something and walking towards me. There were red things in the net bag that looked like apples.
The little foodie's eyes lit up and he ran over, calling for his mother.
"Mother……"
Seeing Gu Xi running towards her, Yu Hui had the same feeling as when she was carrying something back to the orphanage.
Every time she went back to see the children in the orphanage, they ran towards her like this.
"Mom, did you buy apples? I'll help you carry them."
"It's too heavy for you to lift."
"I can lift it." Gu Xixi reached out and grabbed the net bag in her stepmother's hand.
Seeing that he insisted on helping, Yu Hui smiled and let go.
Gu Xixi struggled to carry the apples in both hands and walked back, shouting as she walked: "Big brother, second brother, mom bought some apples."
Yu Lixin was playing marbles when he heard Gu Xi's shout and suddenly played the marbles off-center.
"Gu Dong, Gu Nan, your stepmother is so generous now. She even bought apples for you." He also wanted to eat apples.
Last month, he told his mother that he wanted to eat apples, and his mother told him directly that he wanted to eat jackfruit.
Apples are too expensive, so his mother would only buy two kilograms during Chinese New Year to pay New Year's greetings to grandma to save face.
Gu Dong pretended to be indifferent and snorted, "It was time to buy it."
Seeing Yu Hui still carrying a lot of cloth, Yu Lixin shook his head and said enviously, "Your stepmother is so good to you now. She even bought a lot of cloth. It seems she wants to make clothes for you."
A few days ago he said his shirt was too short and wanted to make a new one, so his mother simply gave him his brother's old shirt that he couldn't wear anymore.
He also said that there were not many cloth coupons left at home and he wanted to save them to make new clothes for the New Year.
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