Chen Chunhua had some scraps of cloth and planned to make a few pairs of underwear for everyone in her family. If they had holes in them every other day, they would look pathetic even if they were worn inside. She could do it while watching a movie, so it wouldn't be a big deal if she could distract herself.
Lin Yulan was also sewing clothes. She had been busy cutting winter clothing pieces these days, hoping to make new winter clothes for each daughter before winter. There were too many people in the family, and she only had time during the slack season and at night, so she had to start now so that she could start stuffing after buying cotton in the fall.
Sanni and Sini were sewing sweaters together. These sweater pieces were brought by Sanni from the local flat knitting machine factory today.
"Sister, did you know that your daughter Dani is going to build a house?" Chen Chunhua asked Lin Yulan while threading the wires into a light bulb.
"You already know everything." Lin Yulan grinned awkwardly, "Dexiang is right. We are the only ones who don't know as his parents."
Chen Chunhua sighed, "Groundbreaking is a big deal. Even if you have many children at home, you still have to pay more attention to them."
"I know. Her father told me this at noon when he came back. I went to see Dani this afternoon and gave her 500 yuan." She and her husband took out all the money and sorted it out at noon. The total amount was 603.5 yuan. Ma Dexiang asked her to give 500 yuan directly to Dani. The original words were,
"Your mother is right. We owe the children a lot, especially the first four. Starting from Wu Ni, they probably really don't think much of our money. Let's slowly make it up to them one by one from the beginning."
"So how much money do they need now?" Chen Chunhua asked. Lin Yulan couldn't really tell. After all, when it comes to building a house, if you have less money, you build a smaller one, and if you have more money, you build a bigger one. It all depends on how big her daughter wants to build. But Dani didn't tell her.
"It should be almost the same." Sanni interrupted without looking up from her work.
"Wuni went to the village yesterday to get some money, and this morning she went to see her eldest sister with a bag. They should only be able to build three rooms. Mom gave them 500, and they have some savings, so they should be able to build enough."
Chen Chunhua leaned in closer and asked quietly, "How much did Wu Ni give?"
Sanni also replied quietly and quickly - "Four thousand."
Lin Yulan beside her took a deep breath. No wonder Ma Dexiang said that the girls behind Wu Ni looked down on the little money they had. It had only been a few years, and they could easily take out 4,000 yuan?
Chen Chunhua did a quick mental calculation. All the profits from the farm over the years had come from her. It wasn't surprising that Wu Ni could come up with 4,000. She should have more than 2,000 left, enough for her sisters' studies and daily expenses.
If what Liang Shengdi heard from Qini was correct, Dani should still have 1,000 yuan, plus the 500 yuan given by Lin Yulan... then the money to build three rooms is about 500 yuan short.
She should be able to take another 1,000 tomorrow. It's not much, so it's not a big problem.
After confirming the amount of money to be paid, Chen Chunhua calmed down and began to chat with the others.
"Sanni, you should give yourself a break once in a while. You can't keep working like a top and make endless money!"
Wang Jingui watched Sanni's fingers flying as she sewed the threshing floor, the continuous cheers from the threshing floor, and the cute little monks in the movie jumping around like frogs. She didn't even think of looking up, and couldn't help but feel a little sorry for the child.
Si Ni was just watching and laughing along with the movie. When Wang Jingui said this, she quickly turned around and glanced at San Ni. Then she felt that she was not serious at all, so she quickly continued sewing and replied to Wang Jingui,
"My third sister would sew until very late every night. After we went to bed, she would go out to find a telephone pole and work under a big light bulb, feeding mosquitoes."
Cai Yinling looked at Lin Yulan disapprovingly, "Sister Yulan, I'm not saying anything about you and Secretary Ma, you two..."
Lin Yulan uttered a cry, her tone full of grievance.
"What Jingui just said is what I tell Sanni every day. Although our family doesn't have much money, at least we can eat our fill now. There's no need to work so hard. But, but she doesn't listen to me..."
Ma Sanni raised her hand and pinched the back of her neck, then rolled her eyes at her mother.
"Can you live just by having enough to eat? Didn't Wu Ni buy the cloth in your hand? It doesn't cost money? The food grown in the fields needs to be eaten, it can't be exchanged for money. So you have to find a job that can make money when you have free time."
Lin Yulan is timid to everyone. She is timid in front of her parents-in-law, in front of her own mother, and even in front of her daughter. She dare not refute Sanni after hearing a few words from her.
Cai Yinling and Wang Jingui shook their heads when they saw this. This mother really has nothing.
Chen Chunhua said casually while doing her work,
"Sanni, do you want to work in the factory? That way you can get a salary every month."
Si Ni nodded vigorously at the side. "Aunt, I've talked to my third sister several times and asked her to work in the factory. She always says that there are no people to do the work in the fields. I said I would switch with her, but she was not happy."
Si Ni also started working in a textile factory at the beginning of this year. Now there are nine girls in the family, some go to work, some go to school, and only San Ni is still working on the farm at home.
Sanni sighed. Did she really not want to? Could she just leave her family's six and a half mu of land to her grandparents, who were almost seventy? Or to her mother, who had given birth to nine children and couldn't lift or carry anything? Or to her father, a village cadre who had to go to town meetings every few days and had to do some work to justify his salary as village secretary?
If someone had to farm the land at home, it would be her.
"Aunt, I just can't sit still. I'm looking for something to do to make money to pass the time. There are enough people in my family working in the factory. If Wu Ni and the others don't want to study anymore, they can come back and work in the factory and get more positions. I'm fine now because I have food to eat and money to spend."
Chen Chunhua sighed inwardly. She knew Sanni's plans to some extent. She seemed aggressive, arguing with her grandparents and trying to manipulate her parents. She didn't care about her own reputation at all, only whether her sisters could live well.
The Ma family wanted to find a live-in son-in-law, but who would be willing to send a boy from a better-off family to be a live-in son-in-law? To put it bluntly, it would be unfair to the girl who stayed at home.
Ma Sanni was adamant about not getting married, saying she wanted to stay at home and find a son-in-law. She then sent all her sisters out of the house, and in the end she became the one in trouble, having a son-in-law forced into her house by Old Lady Ma.
The son-in-law was a foreigner, with a different personality and customs from the locals, and Sanni and him lived in a mess. But the Ma family didn't care, they only cared about whether they could give birth to the next generation.
Not long after Sanni gave birth to the child, her son-in-law ran away. She was too lazy to remarry, so she raised the child in Sihe Village with her parents.
Fortunately, her children are filial, her sisters are united, and she has a good relationship with her nephews and nieces, so she can enjoy her old age.
But Chen Chunhua still feels that Sanni deserves a better life.
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Sanni, a woman like a female eagle
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