When the eldest aunt's family came back, everyone else had already returned. Jiang's second and third uncles also brought their own food from home to eat here. Jiang Mengxue's first and third aunts and two uncles were also there.
My younger sister Jiang Mengran also came home. In the afternoon, Jiang Daqiu rode his bike to the commune bus station to pick her up.
As soon as I got home, I couldn’t help but share the good things I bought with my two sisters.
"Big sister, second sister, look what I brought back. This is the Hundred Flowers Road powder that everyone loves, and the Happiness brand lip balm. It makes your lips look very smooth. Second sister, this is a wedding gift for you. Do you like it?"
This was also the first time Jiang Mengxue used cosmetics of this era. She had never needed to use them before, but she still had to put on makeup on her wedding day.
"I like it. The color of the lip balm is also very good. It feels very smooth when applied, and the color is not too bright, just right." Jiang Mengxue likes it very much. It smells good and has no additives, so it is safe to use.
Jiang Dongmei also agreed: "Little sister can use it herself. If she doesn't dress up when she is young, when will she wait? Now that I have a child, if I dress up, people will criticize me."
Jiang Mengran also wanted to, but she felt embarrassed to be stared at every time she went out. Jiang Mengxue and the others didn't say anything else. It was up to her to like it.
In the evening, when everyone arrived, we started having dinner. At the dinner table, we talked about the house that Jiang Damei and her friends had gone to see.
"How is it? Do you think it's okay?" Jiang Youfu heard that they went to look at houses as soon as he came back, but he didn't go with them. If he went there, others would think of what he was going to do, and if he went, it might even cause trouble, so he just waited for them to come back at home.
"Brother, we all think that house is good, but we don't know how much it costs?" Li Hongjiang calculated his family's savings to see if he could afford it. He really didn't want to ask his uncles for help, as he had already troubled them enough.
This is about his own sister. Jiang Youfu has been talking to several leaders in the team all day today, just to try to lower the price.
"I discussed with a few other people today that if the house remains there, it will just fall into disrepair. The price is 30 yuan. Since you are considered from other villages, the settlement fee for you will be 32 yuan.
The other one you're looking at is more complicated to maintain, so it's essentially a rebuild. It only costs eight dollars. If your brother wants it, you can find someone in the team who has mud bricks ready-made. Spend some money and have it built quickly so you can move in before winter."
The price was far lower than Li Hongjiang and Li Yuhe had expected. They thought that the fifty yuan mentioned at that time might have been the lowest price, but they didn't expect it to be so much lower now. It goes without saying that it was Jiang Youfu's efforts in the middle, but there were not many pretentious words. We have to wait and see the actual actions.
Moreover, the team has had good harvests in recent years and has always wanted to cultivate more land, but unfortunately there are not enough people, so they are very happy for people from other villages to move in.
Jiang Damei was married off from the village, and everyone knew that. They were so happy to have more than a dozen laborers.
"Why buy mud bricks? My family has them, and so does the third brother's family. We are planning to build two more houses next year. But there is no rush. You can just return them to us next year. I will lend them to you first.
And if you don't have anything else to do over there, why don't a few of your family come over and start packing up the house? We have to move in before it gets cold, and there's a lot to prepare for winter."
After the matter was settled, everyone calmed down and quickly finished dinner, as some close relatives would be coming over soon.
Jiang Mengxue didn't let her sisters go anywhere after dinner. She and her sisters were sorting out things in the room, including the clothes they were going to wear for their wedding the next day.
Jiang Mengxue prepared a long velvet dress with the waistline below her chest and the loose hem just above her calves. She wore black tight warm fleece pants inside and the black Lantang leather shoes given by Jiang Dongmei. She wore a red cashmere coat with buttons on the outside and a belt around her waist, which made her look tall and well-proportioned.
Jiang Mengxue put the coat on and showed the effect to the two of them: "How is it? Is it okay?"
Jiang Mengran stared at it with wide eyes, "Sister, I want to make a coat like this in the future. It's so beautiful."
Nowadays, the collars of coats are all buttoned to the top, and V-necks like this are extremely rare.
Jiang Mengxue smiled and nodded: "Okay, I'll make one for you when you get married."
"Oh, sister." Jiang Mengran shyly lay on the kang with her face buried in the quilt.
"Xiaoxue, hey, stop making trouble, someone is coming." Mrs. Jiang, who had just been helping outside, knocked on the door and came in to remind them.
The three of them sat down in a row immediately like children who had done something wrong. Jiang Mengxue folded the clothes and placed them on the kang so that they would be easier to find when they needed to wear them tomorrow.
The people who came were all from families with whom Murakami had a good relationship, and Jiang Mengxue gave each of them a few candies.
"Xiaoxue is getting more and more beautiful. Look at how fair her face is. You can tell she has never been born to enjoy a good life. Sister-in-law is so lucky. From now on, these girls will buy you and your wife more wine and meat than you can eat during the New Year and other festivals." The speaker was a cousin.
Jiang's mother also chatted and laughed with him: "Why? Look at your boys buying you lots of meat, and your daughter-in-law making you new clothes. Who wouldn't say your sons and daughters-in-law are filial? Now you envy those who have daughters. I wish you hadn't had more children."
"We were poor before, so now having ten or eight children wouldn't be too many."
A bunch of old ladies gathered in this room, and it was very lively for a while.
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