Zhang Chunhua's face paled, and she realized she had no reason to refuse.
Both of these tasks are easy and require physical exertion; not only can she do them, but everyone in the village can too.
But who likes to do manual labor? Especially since it's a trivial job that's not visible to the public, something that no one knows she's done. She'd rather be on the dam, at least everyone can see that she's putting in the effort!
"Me, me"
The old village chief waved his hand, signaling that he would stop talking.
Then she looked at Xu Ting, Zhang Xiaocao and the other girls, her expression softening considerably, and announced, "Your sister-in-law Shuiqing said you can go to her place and get a piece of fabric to make short-sleeved shirts, which will make you look more presentable."
Zhang Xiaocao's mother had already told her that she had already received hers in the afternoon, so she didn't need to get another one. However, she still smiled and thanked Shui Qing, saying, "Thank you, Sister-in-law Shui Qing!"
Xu Ting and the others, unaware of this, were initially pleasantly surprised, then quickly looked at Shui Qing and timidly asked, "Sister-in-law Shui Qing, is there any more fabric? Can we take some?"
Shui Qinglang chimed in, "There's plenty, enough for you to wear! Come with me to get them later, and we'll hurry up and finish making them. You should be able to wear them around the second day of the Lunar New Year."
There's plenty of coarse cloth in the mall; you can buy it anytime, as long as you have the money, you can get as much as you want, and she happens to be very rich~ Happy~
Bai Ling came by yesterday and brought Bai Ziqian a lot of good fabric. She only told others that since they had silk fabric, they didn't need the coarse cloth they had stockpiled before, and they would give it to them first.
Despite the rough cloth, Xu Ting, Zhang Xiaocao, and the other girls were still extremely happy.
The girls who didn't work at the herbal medicine shop were overjoyed and even more excited when they heard it was coarse cloth, as this was the first time they had ever been able to wear coarse cloth clothes.
Zhang Chunhua was completely dumbfounded.
How come they have cloth to make clothes even though they're doing the same work? And it's coarse cloth!
She only has two sets of linen clothes, one set from her father and the other from her mother, which were worn out and patched for her. Both sets are covered in patches. A while ago, every household in the village was getting new clothes made, but her family didn't.
God knows how much she wanted a new outfit! If she had known she would get one, she would have agreed no matter what.
Zhang Chunhua watched helplessly as a girl of similar age to her happily followed Shui Qing toward her house, and she was so angry that she almost cried.
The old village chief is bullying people!
Why didn't you say so earlier that there was a fabric collar?
She was assigned physically demanding tasks, even something as simple as cooking porridge or boiling water would have been fine, so she could warm herself up while also getting a full meal.
Zhang the Bald curled his lips, feeling more and more that his daughter was useless, doing hard labor. If she were assigned an easy job, he would switch with her.
Zhang's wife looked on with heartache at the group of people following Shuiqing to collect the fabric. She reached out and twisted Chunhua's waist hard, saying angrily, "I'll teach you to be lazy! I'll teach you to be a coward!"
Otherwise, wouldn't you get your share of the fabric? What an unlucky little brat!
But then I thought about it and realized that it didn't make sense. All the girls going there were girls. Why were other people's girls so lucky?
His face immediately fell, and the joy he felt after a day of delicious food vanished.
Unlike the other families who were overjoyed, the three of them returned to the cold thatched hut with slumped shoulders.
Zhang Xiaogou followed behind, deeply missing the cotton quilt that Sister Shuiqing had given him—a fluffy, soft, and thick quilt that had kept him so warm...
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