"What?"
"Cloth." Lu Xuan shook the things in his hand. His clothes were almost all wet, but the cotton cloth in his arms was not wet at all. "The captain went to the county for a meeting, and I went with him. I bought it when I had the chance."
Pure white cotton cloth. Shen Wu thought about the last time she bought that bed sheet, which cost more than ten yuan. This piece of cloth was quite a lot. The package it was wrapped in looked like there were some scraps of cloth with different patterns. "How much is this?"
After asking Chen Wu, she felt that she was really depraved and pitiful!
I can’t bear to buy a piece of cloth now.
Lu Xuan smiled and said, "Homespun cloth, not expensive. With a ticket, it's 2.7 feet wide and 1 foot wide for 25 cents. I also spent 40 cents to buy this pile of scraps. No ticket needed. Thanks to the captain's help and knowing the salesperson, I was able to buy eight feet."
The fabric was fine, but the cheap scraps were rare and usually sold by the salesperson to acquaintances.
This is really thanks to the captain.
The rain was still falling outside. Chen Wu had nothing to do, so she took out the cotton and the cloth and arranged them on the kang.
She suddenly remembered.
She can't do it herself!
She had lived through some poor times in her previous life, but no matter how poor they were then, they would not have forced her to do needlework herself, and she had never engaged in this kind of work when she grew up.
He turned his head and looked at Lu Xuan blankly, "Third brother, I can't do it, can you?"
Girls nowadays usually learn to do some handicrafts, and most of their clothes are homemade. Lu Xuan really didn't expect that his wife couldn't do it. He looked at her pale little face and pitiful eyes.
Lu Xuan frowned slightly, "I don't know either."
His mother only taught his eldest sister.
"Second sister-in-law should be able to do it. She usually makes Pan'er's clothes."
As soon as Lu Xuan finished speaking, Chen Wu gathered the cotton together and stuffed it into the bag.
"I'll go ask my second sister-in-law."
The cotton was light and looked plentiful, and the fabric was also new. Before Shen Wu came out, Lu Xuan stopped her and said, "This will make too much noise. Go ask my second sister-in-law to come over and ask her."
The new cloth was a good thing. Shen Wu thought about it and thought, if she gave it to someone, they might get jealous, or Old Lady Lu might ask her to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
What Lu Xuan said is more reliable.
Chen Wu came out wearing a straw raincoat and knocked on the door next door.
Wang Hua and Lu Lao Er in the room were startled. They quickly put away the peach cakes on the table, wiped their mouths, and then shouted, "Who is it?"
"Second sister-in-law, it's me. I have something to talk to you about."
Wang Hua heard it was Chen Wu and opened the door, "Sister-in-law, what's wrong?"
Chen Wu lowered her voice, "Second sister-in-law, can you do needlework? I want to make something, but I don't know how. Come and show me. If you can do it, I'll trouble you and give you money."
When Wang Hua heard this, she said, "No need for money. We are all family. I will go with you to take a look."
Then he turned his head and looked into the house, "Take care of Pan'er."
Lu Lao Er responded and nodded to Chen Wu outside with a smile.
Wang Hua followed Chen Wu into the house and was shocked when she saw Lu Xuan.
Lu Xuan is the coldest-faced one among the brothers, and what he did in previous years always makes people scared. He didn't even wait for Wang Hua to speak.
Lu Xuan untied the raincoat from Chen Wu and put it on himself, "I'm going out for a while."
Nodded at Wang Hua.
She lowered her head and walked into the rain. It was raining heavily outside. Chen Wu called out, "Third brother, be careful."
His aura was too terrifying. Only after Lu Xuan left did Wang Hua breathe a sigh of relief. "Sister-in-law, aren't you afraid of my third brother?"
"Ah? What are you afraid of? He just looks fierce, but he's a nice guy." Shen Wu took out the cotton again and said, "He bought all this, and this fabric. I asked you, my second sister-in-law, to come here because I wanted to ask if you could help make a small quilt for me."
"This bed is too uncomfortable."
The cotton was pure white, and the cotton cloth was also new. "It's not difficult to do this, I can do it."
In the east wing, the largest room, Li Ping leaned against the window and kicked the man sleeping on the bed. "What is the conspiracy between the second and third families?"
"Why did Wang Hua enter the third brother's room?"
Boss Lu got up after hearing that. Just as he was lying there, he saw Lu Xuan coming out wearing a raincoat. He yawned and said, "It's just a conversation between the sisters-in-law."
"You won't say anything bad about me, will you?" Li Ping frowned.
Boss Lu thought about it seriously and shook his head. "That shouldn't be the case. Second sister-in-law doesn't like to talk, and she doesn't like to say bad things about others. Is it third sister-in-law who said bad things? It's more likely that she said bad things about fourth sister-in-law. They don't get along at all."
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It was really not difficult for Wang Hua to sew a small quilt. She took the scissors, needle and thread, thimble, spread the cotton, threaded the needle and started sewing. It took her more than an hour to sew a small quilt. Lu Xuan bought a lot of cloth and also sewed a quilt cover for her according to Shen Wu's description.
Chen Wu thought it was simple and even followed her to learn a little bit. However, she made Wang Hua's neat stitches deviate and made them look like a centipede crawling.
Wang Hua walked as if she was measuring with a ruler, straight and the distance between the stitches looked the same.
"Second sister-in-law, you're amazing!" Shen Wu gave a thumbs up. "Your work is so meticulous. No one in our family can compare to you."
Wang Hua smiled and said, "As long as you like it."
Shen Wu said, "With these scraps of cloth, can you make me a few masks, sister-in-law?"
As Chen Wu spoke, she took out a pen and paper and drew something that looked like a sunscreen mask, but it was the kind that covered the entire face with only the eyes exposed.
Wang Hua wondered what she wanted this for. Wasn't it a waste of fabric?
"The smoke makes me uncomfortable when I cook. I'm afraid it will damage my face." As she spoke, Chen Wu touched her face, "I want some dark-colored, eye-catching fabrics. You can take them and make something for Pan'er."
Wang Hua didn't want any money, but when she heard that the fabrics were used to make something for Pan'er, she was really moved.
"You said that was easy. How about I go back and make it for you? And send it back to you when it's done?"
Chen Wu was not in a hurry. She had just sold the goods on the black market last time, and she was not planning to go there recently. She just happened to have some fabric on hand, so she didn't have to ask her second sister-in-law for a second time. "Okay, I'm not in a hurry."
Chen Wu picked out a few pieces of dark-colored fabric like black and blue, and said, "Make eight."
He kept four for himself and gave four to Xu Yin.
The rest was given to Wang Hua, who took the cloth back to her room.
Lu Lao Er was entertaining Pan Er in the room when he saw Wang Hua come back. "Why did you take so long? What did my third sister-in-law want to talk to you about?"
"She doesn't know how to sew, so she asked me to help her. She gave me some scraps of cloth, which were hard to buy, so I altered them and made some patterns on Pan'er's clothes."
Lu Lao Er shook his head after hearing this. "I heard that my third brother's wife fainted while going to bed. She can't even do needlework and doesn't act like a woman at all."
"Don't say that. She can read and is planning to teach in the future."
Lu Lao Er shook his head. "You and Lao San both suffered from a lack of education. You believed what she said. Do you really think learning Chinese characters and teaching students is easy? I think she's just lying to Lao San."
Chen Wu didn't know that people next door were saying bad things about her. After the quilt was ready, she rolled on it twice and sighed that it was much softer.
It wasn't until she heard loud shouts and intense knocks on the door that Shen Wu rolled off the kang.
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