Chapter 73 Buying Cloth
Li Ruolan put all five bags of milk powder into the space warehouse. Time stands still here, so the milk powder will not expire if kept here.
"The baby is still six or seven months away from being born. There's still time to take it slow." Li Ruolan said as she straightened her clothes and washed her hands and face.
"Let's go to the department store and buy some materials suitable for making baby clothes. We also need to prepare small clothes and quilts." Li Ruolan said.
The two of them packed up and left the room. Lu Yunxiao and Qin Wan had also come out. The four of them left the guesthouse and took a bus towards the department store.
Everyone in the family had cloth coupons, so as soon as they entered the department store, Li Ruolan and Qin Wan went to look at some pure cotton fabrics suitable for children.
Most of the fabrics at that time were not brightly colored, but were khaki, dark blue, brown, and the brightest color was beige.
As for bright red, they also had it, but it was very expensive, so Li Ruolan and Qin Wan didn't want to be too particular and just picked these colors and asked for some cloth.
Li Ruolan and her family bought the most. After all, she was pregnant with two children, so they had to prepare double portions of everything, and naturally nothing could be less.
After buying the fabric, Qin Wan took Li Ruolan to buy a radio. It was a Red Lantern brand radio that only cost 65 yuan.
Li Ruolan was stunned when she saw the price. She thought the radio would be very expensive, at least hundreds of yuan, but she didn't expect it to be only over 60 yuan.
After giving the tickets and paying the money, the two men were responsible for carrying the things. Li Ruolan and Qin Wan began to walk around. It was not easy to come to the city, so they looked around to see if there was anything they wanted to buy.
They kept shopping until the department store was about to close, then they returned to the guesthouse with their bags and slept there for the night. The next morning, they returned to Victory Brigade.
When the four of them got home, it was time to get off work. When the educated youth from the village saw the four of them coming back with large and small bags, they all wanted to come over to see what they bought.
Li Ruolan smiled and explained: "We just went to the city to check on the baby in my belly, and found out that I was pregnant with two.
So I bought some extra cloth and other things, waiting to make clothes for the children."
When Aunt Guihua and the others heard this, they immediately smiled and congratulated him, "I was wondering if you could tell that your pregnancy was so short and that something was wrong.
I didn't expect that there were two babies in my belly. It seems that I need to buy so many things.
When you come back and have some free time, bring the cloth and other things to my house, and I will make clothes and quilts for the children."
Aunt Wang Er also said, "I will go and help you too. Although you aunts can't help with other things, you can still help make a few small clothes for the children."
Deng Minghao had told her that after Li Ruolan gave birth to the child, he would ask her daughter to help take care of the child, paying her five dollars a month and providing her with a meal at noon.
These five dollars are quite a lot, not to mention it includes a meal, so her little girl can at least have a full meal.
You know, normally at home, the girls can't eat much. Although she feels sorry for her daughters, the laborers can't work if they are not full.
There's nothing you can do about it even though you feel bad. Now Deng Minghao and Li Ruolan are willing to let Wang Xiaoni help take care of the children, and they give her money and food. It's already very good.
Aunt Wang Er decided to save all the money her daughter earned for her, and when she got married, she would give it all as her dowry.
After hearing what they said, everyone realized that the big and small bags were mostly filled with cloth and other things, so they lost interest in looking through them and went home.
The educated youth naturally went their own way. No one else asked about the four people's packages, except Wang Qian, who kept staring at the packages with a shallow eye.
Xia Zhen and Lin Changle had obviously never done heavy work before. They worked hard in the past two days and were exhausted every day.
At this moment, they are asking the old educated youth if there is any lighter work to do, as they really cannot do the work in the fields.
Zhou Shengnan said: "There are some easy jobs, but the work points are not high. It's just cutting grass for pigs, which only gives two work points a day."
Xia Zhen and Lin Changle looked at each other and said, "Two work points is two work points. We don't rely on work points to make a living anyway.
Tomorrow we two will go find the team leader and go get grass for the pigs. I can’t work in the fields for a whole day.”
Lin Changle nodded: "Okay."
When Deng Minghao and Li Ruolan returned home, Deng Minghao asked Li Ruolan to rest first while he started to boil water and cook.
I made some white flour pancakes. A few days ago, I killed an old hen in my space. I ate half of it and had the other half left. Today, I fried it with green peppers and potatoes.
The educated youth center was separated from Li Ruolan's home by a wall, and the aroma of cooking here inevitably spread to the educated youth center.
Before, Li Ruolan and her friends only ate bland soup and rarely ate meat outside the space.
But now Li Ruolan and Qin Wan are both pregnant. In order to nourish their bodies, the two families will cook a meat meal every few days. The educated youth at the educated youth site all know about this.
But these newly arrived educated youth, looking at the wild vegetable dumplings and watery porridge in their hands, then looking at the stir-fried vegetables without oil, and smelling the aroma of the fried chicken next door, almost drooled.
Wang Qian swallowed her saliva and said, "This should be fried chicken, right? It smells really good. It seems that Deng Zhiqing and Li Zhiqing are quite rich."
Zhou Shengnan glanced at Wang Qian with squinted eyes and said, "Li Zhiqing's family eats meat because Li Zhiqing is pregnant with twins, so she needs to eat more good food to replenish her body.
They don’t eat it often, but they made it this time and let you smell it. How do you know that Li Zhiqing’s family is very rich?”
Zheng Fanghua also said: "That's right, we old educated youth live so close to Li Zhiqing and his family, and we rarely smell their family cooking meat.
This is the first time. Does it mean that a pregnant woman is rich if she eats two chopsticks of her own chicken? "
Wang Qian didn't expect that even though Li Ruolan wasn't there, someone would actually speak up for her. She smiled awkwardly and said, "I just said this when I was busy."
Everyone stopped paying attention to her. Smelling the fragrance coming from next door, they also felt that the wild vegetable dumplings in their hands tasted a little better than usual.
In the afternoon, Deng Minghao and Lu Yunxiao also went to work together. Deng Minghao and Shen Yiji Hongjun usually worked together.
Then, inadvertently, Deng Minghao started talking about Zhao Wei.
"The day before yesterday, my wife and Qin Wan went up the mountain to pick mushrooms. They went to the mountain near the cowshed, and at the foot of the mountain, they saw Zhao Wei wandering around the cowshed.
I didn’t know what he was going to do. They were afraid that he might have something to do with the people in the bullpen, so they didn’t dare to look at him any more and ran away quickly. ”
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