After seeing the guests off, Li Qingyun felt a little more relaxed.
The advantage of Gu Tingzhou coming back is that he can help look after the two kids, so she can have some time for herself. The disadvantage is that his eyes always fall on her intentionally or unintentionally, which makes her feel uneasy and she always feels like she has been seen through.
It was still early, so she decided to go to the commune today. There was no meat at home, and Gu Tingzhou was a patient now, so he had to eat something nutritious.
After instructing Erbao on the time to drink milk and how to prepare milk every day, she went out with the basket.
Dabao wanted to follow her, but she cruelly refused, considering that it would be inconvenient to take the child with her to get things from the space, and promised to buy him some big meat buns.
When she ran to the village entrance, Lao Gutou had already set off. She ran a few steps quickly to catch up with them. This time, there were no annoying people, and they arrived at the commune in silence.
There were few people in the supply and marketing cooperative today, so I went straight to the counter to find Caixia, exchanged a few words casually, and gestured to her to talk later.
After waiting in the back alley for a while, Caixia came over.
"Zhao Di, what's the matter?" Caixia asked in a low voice.
"Sister Caixia, I got some special flour here. I'll give you two pounds to make steamed buns for the children at home." Li Qingyun took out two pounds of flour that she had prepared in advance from the basket and handed it to her.
"How can I be so embarrassed?" Caixia said as she opened it and took a look. She was surprised and said, "Such good flour, no, I can't accept it. You can take it back and feed it to the children."
"Why can't I accept this? I have more at home." Li Qingyun pushed it back and asked her to accept it.
"I have something else I'd like to ask you for help with. If you don't accept, I'd be embarrassed to ask for it."
"Tell me what it is, and I'll definitely help if I can."
"Autumn is coming soon, and everyone at home needs to make coats. Can you get cotton now?"
Caixia clapped her hands, what a coincidence.
"You're so lucky to have arrived early. We just received a batch of this year's new cotton yesterday. Do you have a ticket? How much do you want?"
Li Qingyun didn't have any more tickets in her hand. The cotton tickets that Gu Tingzhou had sent her before had been used up by her original body.
"Can I buy it without a ticket? What's the price?"
"If you have a ticket, it's 1.2 yuan per pound. If you don't have a ticket, it's 2 yuan per pound." Caixia thought for a moment and said, "I still have three pounds of cotton tickets here, I can share them with you."
Li Qingyun thought about it and realized that she already had several sets of her original cotton-padded clothes, so she didn't need to make new ones. She also had coats and down jackets in the space. Gu Tingzhou was in the army and had military uniforms and coats, so she didn't have to worry about him.
At home, we have two sets of cotton-padded clothes for each of our two children. Each set contains one pound of cotton, which is four pounds.
I promised my mother-in-law that each of us would receive a cotton-padded jacket weighing two kilograms.
There are six kilograms in total. Considering that it may not be enough or it may need other uses, why not take eight kilograms.
I don’t care about my sister-in-law. She is not great enough to repay evil with kindness.
"Thank you, Sister Caixia. I want eight kilograms. Is that okay?" People always give and take. Caixia probably gave the cotton ticket because of the two kilograms of premium white flour.
"I'll talk to my boss about it. It should be possible. I have tickets for three kilograms. The original price is 3.6 yuan. The remaining five kilograms will be charged at 2 yuan, which is 10 yuan. The total for eight kilograms is 13.6 yuan."
"Okay." Li Qingyun happily counted out fifteen yuan and gave it to her. "Thank you, Sister Caixia, for the ticket for the rest."
Caixia stepped back and said, "Just give it to Fourteen. Didn't you give me such good flour? It's rare to see such good flour once a year. Thank you, sister."
Li Qingyun accepted it without hesitation.
Relationships are built like this, with give and take, there's no need to rush.
After getting eight kilograms of cotton, Li Qingyun secretly took out the things he was going to take back from the space, put them into a basket, covered them with rags, and put them on the ox cart together with a large package of cotton.
There were fewer people riding the ox cart today, and everyone came back quickly after finishing their business, so they returned earlier than last time.
It was not yet eleven o'clock when Li Zhaodi got home.
As usual, Dabao diligently brought water to his mother, his eyes fixed on the basket that Li Qingyun brought back.
"Little greedy cat." Li Qingyun scratched his nose.
"Mom, I smell the big meat buns."
Li Qingyun opened the basket and grabbed two buns for him.
"You and Dad each have one. Take some food first. Mom will make lunch for you."
"Mom wants to eat too." Dabao took one and put it to her mouth.
"Okay, Mom will eat too." Li Qingyun took it and took a bite. Seeing that his mother had also eaten, he happily carried the two buns to the east room to find his father.
Li Qingyun didn't take much this time. He only took some buns, a few ribs, a few pork bones, and two pounds of pork. These were stored in the well and would be enough for a few days.
It was too late to stew the big bones at noon, so I just cooked a pot of eight-treasure porridge and made some buns.
Li Qingyun took out glutinous rice, black rice, peanuts, red dates, lotus seeds, coix seed, red beans and kidney beans, put them into the pot according to the proportion and boiled them together.
I watered the winter vegetables I planted yesterday and washed and hung up the diapers that my second baby had accumulated.
Then he returned to the east room.
"Is Erbao well behaved today?" Li Qingyun asked softly while looking at the sleeping Erbao.
"He's very well behaved. Dabao plays with him very well. He falls asleep after drinking milk."
"That's good."
"Mom, Dad taught me to count today, and now I can count to twenty."
"Really? Dabao is amazing." Li Qingyun looked at the father and son in surprise. She didn't expect that this man was so good at taking care of children.
Dabao immediately began to count, from one to twenty, each one was a good number.
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