Qiu Yuling's time is becoming increasingly tight. The gymnastics team's morning training and the broadcasting room's schedule conflict with each other. Fortunately, the broadcasting room only takes up her time on Tuesdays and Thursdays. If she works harder in her spare time and doesn't fall behind in basic skills, the gymnastics team won't say anything.
When the weekend came, she pretended to go visit her relatives. When she came back, she put two bundles of wool, a bunch of bamboo knitting needles, and a slightly worn knitting book in her flowery handbag.
"Here, my cousin said to knit this one first. If it turns out well, she'll take over the work of her coworkers.
According to this pattern, knit a sweetheart neckline, using the measurements on this piece of paper. The labor cost is 5 cents per ounce of yarn, and more complex patterns are 0.1 cent.
Do you think you can take it?" Qiu Yuling didn't know if there was really such a thing as a price for knitting sweaters; she simply compared it with the price of making clothes at state-owned tailor shops.
In the tailor shop, a jacket costs one dollar and fifty cents, a pair of trousers is about one dollar, and an adult's sweater requires almost two kilograms of wool. Nowadays, one kilogram is actually sixteen taels.
She could earn 1.6 yuan by knitting one piece. The most important thing was that she didn't have to skip classes to do this job. She could do it whenever she was free. As long as she was willing to do it, she would spend money to arrange for everyone in the Qiu family from head to toe.
Don't go back with the remaining scattered threads, which will be considered as helping her invisibly.
Perhaps from the perspective of future generations, her behavior was a bit like Zhou Baopi, but she also had to be cautious, because no one wanted to be Mr. Dongguo.
Qiusha agreed quickly. If it weren't for Qiu Yuling, she wouldn't have found such a good opportunity.
"Such a good job, if Qiusha didn't need it more, I would have wanted to grab it." Yang Huihui was extremely envious. This was much better than her job of moving bricks.
"Yuling, I don't know how to thank you. Don't worry, I won't let you down. Just wait and see."
"Yuling, is there any work that your relatives of yours can do that I can do? I won't talk about money, but you can just give me some meat in exchange for it when you're done." After Yang Huihui expressed her envy, she didn't forget to ask Qiu Yuling for food.
Qiu Yuling gritted her teeth and spread her hands, "No more. Actually, I asked for this job for myself, saying it would subsidize my living expenses, you know!" She had to get through this first.
Otherwise, if any of them becomes a Red Sleeves Soldier, they will fight to death.
Everyone realized it and said, what kind of family is this? They don’t do it themselves, but spend money to find someone to do it. It turns out that they are looking for an excuse to subsidize their niece. No wonder.
Qiusha was so moved that she said she would see him in the future.
"You guys are fine now. We still have to move bricks. Let's go." Normally, Yang Huihui and Zhang Caiyue would not come back on weekdays. Today, Zhang Caiyue sprained her ankle, so she sent her back.
I have to hurry back now, otherwise it would be a shame if I only get two cents.
Qiu Yuling had some important things to do, so she came back to deliver something and followed Yang Huihui out.
The brick factory and the city are in two different directions, and they go their separate ways once you go out.
Whenever Qiu Yuling had free time, she would hang out at the entrances of the machinery factory and the woolen mill, not for any other reason but to see if there were any suitable job openings or recruitment opportunities.
Especially things that require exams have always been her strong point.
It's just that I've made many trips, met a lot of uncles and aunts, and bought a lot of things, but I haven't found any useful information.
As soon as she arrived outside the wool factory, she was greeted by a huge wave of people leaving work. She stood in a corner and waited for a long time before she saw her cheap aunt.
"Aunt Yu, why did you come out so late today? I was thinking I might have strayed from your path without realizing it."
Qiu Yuling met Aunt Yu one time when she was wandering around looking for a house. At that time, she had hypoglycemia and almost fell to the ground. It was Qiu Yuling who caught her quickly.
She even generously fed her two pieces of candy. After the person recovered, Qiu Yuling dived up and carried the woman, who weighed over 100 kilograms, on her back.
No matter what you say, they won't let her down. Not only that, they sent her back to the kang in the room. They also gave Aunt Yu and her two elementary school sons a science lecture with the highest academic qualifications in the room.
He said that in the future, she should not keep all the delicious food at home for herself, but should give more to their mother. He also asked Aunt Yu to carry a pot of sugar water with her every day, because when she felt faint, sugar water was more effective than sugar.
The two little guys were so scared that they hugged Aunt Yu, who had just recovered, and cried, thinking that she was dying.
Qiu Yuling stuffed a piece of candy into each of the two little ones' mouths. After they calmed down, she patiently explained that as long as they watched their mother eat on time every day and arranged their meals and exercise properly, there would be no major problems.
From then on, Aunt Yu regarded Qiu Yuling as her benefactor and asked her to have dinner at her home more than once.
Not only did Qiu Yuling never eat it once, but every time she came back, she would either bring a few taels of brown sugar or a few handfuls of assorted candies. She never came empty-handed.
When he got home, he was very considerate. Once, he moved the big jar of pickled vegetables and did it without hesitation.
If it weren't for that ill-timed fart, she would have looked so majestic.
She was a female student from the countryside, how much money could she have? After a few times, Aunt Yu couldn't stand it anymore and told her to treat her as a relative when she had nowhere to go on weekends, but she was not allowed to bring anything with her, otherwise she would not be allowed to enter the house.
Wang Yimei was very happy to see Qiu Yuling at this moment. Her husband's surname was Yu, and Qiu Yuling called her Aunt Wang at first. She thought that this girl was honest, so she brought her home as a relative, so she asked her to change her name to Aunt Yu.
"Why are you here just now? It's been two weeks since I last saw you. We specially saved some mung bean cakes for the Dragon Boat Festival, but we kept waiting for you and you didn't show up. We just finished eating them the day before yesterday."
"I've been busy at school lately. I'm on the gymnastics team and in the broadcasting room of the Propaganda Department. Sometimes I have to train on weekends, so I haven't had time to go out.
Have you been feeling dizzy lately?"
"I'm not dizzy anymore. I told the kid's father to cut the money to my hometown in half so that my kid and I can have enough to eat. He's also willing to do it."
"Yeah, you're right. Otherwise, if you rely on yourself, Da Mao and Er Mao will fall into your mother's hands and suffer. For the sake of the two children, you have to take care of yourself."
"You came just in time. I caught a big carp yesterday, over three pounds. I'll cook it for you guys when we get home later."
"Oh, what a coincidence! I just happened to bring tofu." Qiu Yuling took out a piece of tofu as big as the opening of an aluminum lunch box from her big shoulder bag.
"So many? Then let's go back. It happens that we don't have work this afternoon, and you don't have to go back to school today. We can still make it in time if we go back early tomorrow."
This was the first time that Qiu Yuling invited them to dinner, and Wang Yimei put a lot of effort into arranging it. Damao and Ermao were also very happy about the arrival of their godsister.
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