Chapter 44: Borrowing a Sewing Machine
But when it came to her, there was nothing at all, let alone a golden finger.
With nothing in hand, the consequences can be as miserable as one can imagine.
Think about the small amount of change in the original owner's pocket. If you use the word "savings" to describe it, it would be a bit of an insult to the word.
That amount of money can only be considered as change, the kind that can't be spent easily.
In addition, although the original owner had dropped out of school to work long ago, most of the money she had earned before was used to support her uncle and aunt.
Especially before coming to the village as an educated youth, the original owner's uncle and aunt took away all the money in her pocket, leaving her with nothing at all. They didn't even leave her a chance to make a living.
After all, the few dollars the original owner has in her pocket now were all saved after she came to the village.
Even though Liu Yingying bullied her and did not give her work points, so that she could not earn money, fortunately, the original owner was very frugal and she basically had no expenses.
This is because she knew in her heart that other educated youth, even if they were at the end of their rope, still had their families to support them.
But Jiang Xian is different. She is alone, and her uncle and aunt are unreliable. She doesn't even have any family. If she gets sick in the future and needs money, there will be no one who can help her.
She was extremely frugal in her life. The educated youth center provided meals, so she had three meals a day there. Even on weekdays, if she wanted to eat something, she had to consider whether the money in her pocket was enough.
Basically, she had never eaten out in a restaurant. She had been in the village for more than a year, and she had never even stepped into the door of the state-owned restaurant in the town. Just imagine how hard her life was.
After Jiang Xianyi recalled the meals at the educated youth camp in the original owner's memory, he couldn't help but shook his head, thinking that the original owner was really not picky about food and could swallow anything.
The educated youth who came with her had to go to the state-owned restaurant to have a meal every few days. After all, the food in the village was so bad. Besides, they were all young and greedy. How could they resist eating cabbages and radishes every day?
There was only the original owner. Every time these educated youth had a dinner together, she would not go when they invited her.
Gradually, these educated youth distanced themselves from her, formed a small team, and ostracized Jiang Xian together.
Jiang Xian felt that compared with these educated youth, she was too out of place.
Eighty percent of the reason why the original owner was able to save the money in her pocket was because she was frugal.
I don't buy new clothes, I don't spend a penny on food, and when my hair grows long, I cut it myself. Basically, there is no place to spend money.
Occasionally, I would spend a few dollars on purchasing some daily necessities, but those were small amounts.
In addition, before the original owner went to the countryside, she had already severed relations with her uncle and aunt in the provincial capital. Now, the two sides have no contact at all, which prevents her uncle and aunt from asking her for money.
Otherwise, the original owner would not even have the few dollars in her pocket left, as they would all be taken away by her uncle and aunt.
Jiang Xian sighed in his heart, the original owner must have been a great person to be able to live like this, it was a pity that she met such a ruthless character like Liu Yingying, which led to her death at a young age.
Jiang Xian ended his meditation, got up from the kang, and took a look at the quilt covering himself. It was an old cotton quilt, which was obviously old. He then compared it with the quilts covered by the educated youth around him. They were so new that it was obvious that they were newly bought before going to the countryside.
Given the attitude of the original owner's uncle and aunt towards her, how could they be willing to spend money to buy her new things? It is estimated that the quilt that the original owner was covering herself with was something that was discarded and was about to be thrown away in the family, otherwise, how could her uncle and aunt be so generous as to give her a quilt.
Nowadays, quilts are in short supply in every household. If you want to make a new one, it will cost a lot of money. Basically, a quilt can be used for more than ten years.
The original owner's bed was still barely usable. Although it was worn out, the quilt cover was washed clean. Although the color had turned a little pale, there was a fresh fragrance when you smelled it. It should be the smell of soap, which was light and pleasant.
It's just a little hard.
It can be seen that the original owner was a girl who loved cleanliness. Jiang Xian folded the quilt and then got off the kang.
I pushed open the door of the bedroom, and outside was the yard of the educated youth center. Because it was working time, there was no one in the center.
She was the only one who had such a big heart that she not only didn't go to work, but also stayed in the educated youth camp. She slept until noon.
I even missed breakfast time.
Jiang Xian took a look at the clock on the wall and saw that the hands had pointed to eight o'clock. Logically speaking, these educated youth should go to work at six in the morning.
She had fallen asleep and missed breakfast, so she was afraid she would be hungry.
Thinking about the food at the educated youth camp, she didn't mind not eating it. It just so happened that she still had some money in her pocket. Apart from the 200 yuan that Lu's father and mother gave her as a gift when she went to Lu's house yesterday, she still had a few yuan left to buy breakfast.
Jiang Xian thought, she was not the original owner, so she would not let herself starve just to save those two dollars.
It is true that she is short of money, but not to that extent.
There is still enough money to go to town for breakfast.
Jiang Xian followed the route remembered by the original owner. Plus, she and Lu Bin had already been to the town yesterday, so she still remembered the way.
There was no bicycle today, so she had to rely on herself and walk there. The distance between the village and the town was not that close. Jiang Xian walked for nearly forty minutes. There was no means of transportation back then, so she could only rely on walking.
Jiang Xian thought that the original owner's physical condition was indeed a little poor. If she had the same physique as in her previous life, walking such a long distance would be a piece of cake.
And now she had only walked for a short time and she was already out of breath.
You still need to exercise more.
Jiang Xian already had a plan in mind, so when she arrived in town, she went straight to the tailor shop, intending to discuss with the owner whether she could use the sewing machine.
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