Gu Zhinian returned to the sanatorium, made the bed, and holding a pair of scissors in one hand, looked at the fabric on the bed hesitantly, not knowing how to cut it properly.
Wang Yanmei passed by her ward door, took a look, and walked in.
"Girl, what are you doing?"
Gu Zhinian turned around and smiled, "I want to make a swaddle for a newborn baby, but I don't know how to cut it properly."
Wang Yanmei looked at her belly and said, "Oh! Girl! You're pregnant!"
"Yeah." Gu Zhinian pursed his lips and smiled, then lowered his head to touch his belly.
Wang Yanmei glanced at the fabric on the bed and asked, "Sister, how big a quilt do you want?"
Gu Zhinian: "One meter long and one ninety centimeters long. When I give birth and winter comes, I need to make a thicker one."
"Let me help you! Let's spread a sheet on the ground, make sure the ground is flat, and then put the quilt on top and sew it."
Wang Yanmei enthusiastically picked up a large bag of cotton from the corner, which Yun Muye asked Kang Xiaoming to buy.
"That's great, thank you, big sister! I just don't know how to start."
Gu Zhinian took out a bed sheet and spread it on the floor, then smoothed out the fabric. Wang Yanmei was busy talking.
"That's nothing. In the past, when people in our village got married, they would ask me to sew quilts. The quilts I sew have dense and fine stitches. You can't just hire someone to sew a quilt. You have to be a very lucky person."
"What is a completely blessed person?" Gu Zhinian asked curiously.
Wang Yanmei threaded the needle and scratched her hair with the end of the needle. "To be a happy person, the whole family must be healthy, the parents are well, both sons and daughters are born, and the husband and wife are harmonious. This is what a happy person is. Rural people pay a lot of attention to this."
Gu Zhinian smiled bitterly, "Then probably no one will ask me to sew a quilt. I don't have parents."
Wang Yanmei comforted her, "You have a good husband, and you will have a filial child in the future. With a loving mother-in-law and filial children, you will be a very happy person."
Gu Zhinian was so moved by her words that he almost cried, "Thank you, big sister."
"Oh! What's the big deal!" Wang Yanmei looked up and smiled.
With the help of Wang Yanmei, Gu Zhinian gathered cotton and sewed carefully. Wang Yanmei instructed her, and Gu Zhinian sewed very carefully with each stitch, fearing that there would be any unevenness that would make the small glutinous rice balls uncomfortable to use. Thinking of her son's frowns and smiles in her mind, her heart ached. She hadn't seen her son for too long, and she really missed him so much.
From now on, little Tangyuan will use the quilt she sewed stitch by stitch every day. Even if she is not around, her love will always be there. She doesn't know what will happen in the future. Why has Yun Muye been raising his son alone for the past three years? What about her? Why is she not here? Leaving little Tangyuan so young, without a mother's love.
"Sister, what's wrong with you? Why are you crying?"
Gu Zhinian raised her head and wiped her face with her hands. She didn't know when she started crying. She smiled embarrassedly.
"I just cried with happiness when I thought about my son using the quilt I made with my own hands."
Wang Yanmei smiled and said:
"All new mothers are like this. I understand. When I first gave birth to my son, I almost cried while holding him. This is the son I worked so hard to give birth to, a piece of my flesh and blood. What mother wouldn't love her child? When he was little, I loved him so much I couldn't get enough. Now, my son is eight years old, and he makes me so angry every day that I want to beat him up eight times a day."
Gu Zhinian laughed out loud, Yun Muye opened the door and brought two glasses of water to the table.
"Sister Wang, have a glass of water. Thank you."
Wang Yanmei was talking for a long time and was really thirsty. She picked up a glass of water and drank it down in one gulp. After wiping her mouth,
"Oh! You two are so polite. It's no big deal to just make a quilt."
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