"I was thinking of buying you some fabric to make clothes, but unfortunately I don't have any fabric coupons. I'll try again after I get paid next month during the National Day holiday!"
Lin Xue handed the dark blue cloth to Old Mrs. Wang.
It's impossible for her to make her own clothes; she wouldn't know how.
Even with the original owner's memories, Lin Xue didn't want to touch needlework.
Rather than having her do sewing and mending, she would prefer to go hunting in the mountains.
"Why waste that money? If you have cloth coupons, just buy some cloth for yourself and the kids to make clothes. Don't worry about us!"
"We old folks have enough clothes to wear. Your dad just had a new set made last year, so there's no need to waste fabric making new ones for now!"
Grandma Lin stroked the fabric in her hands. Who could truly not like new clothes?
However, in this era, everyone is poor, and no one makes new clothes every year!
"Mother, please accept this as a gift! I don't like to argue about these things, so please don't stand on ceremony with me!"
Lin Xue rummaged through the basket again, took out a half-pound bag of brown sugar, and stuffed it into Old Mrs. Wang's arms.
"Why are you giving me brown sugar, kid?"
Grandma Wang was still admiring the fabric in her arms when she suddenly saw a bag of brown sugar being stuffed into her arms.
"Take this back and make you some tea. I bought a pound in total, but it was packaged separately. You see, I still have half a pack here!"
Lin Xue showed the half-pound of brown sugar she had kept to Old Mrs. Wang.
"Oh, you're so filial, Third Brother's wife! You never forget to bring me things every time you go to town!"
Grandma Wang originally wanted to refuse, but when she thought of what Lin Xue had said a second ago, she swallowed her words of refusal.
Isn't it a good thing that your daughter-in-law is filial to you?
It's better than giving the things to Old Lin's family.
If she refuses all the gifts her third daughter-in-law gives her as a sign of filial piety, and if her third daughter-in-law decides to return them to the Lin family, she'll have nowhere to turn for help.
At least with this brown sugar in my own hands, I can give it to my two children every now and then to sweeten their mouths.
If these two children were sent to Old Lin's house, they probably wouldn't even get to taste anything sweet.
Grandma Wang's gaze swept across Wang Yating and Wang Mancang's faces before she abandoned her intention to refuse.
The third son's wife is right. Since she gave it to him, it must be something she could afford. He shouldn't be pretentious and upset her.
Lin Xue had no idea that in such a short time, Old Mrs. Wang's mind had already gone through countless twists and turns.
There, they took the items out of the basket one by one.
"I bought another pickling jar this time. We'll pickle a lot of sauerkraut this year so we'll have more vegetables to eat in the winter!"
Lin Xue pulled out the large jar from the bottom of the basket.
"Mom, do you know how to pickle mushrooms? You know, those long, thin little mushrooms that grow on the mountain. If you pickle them with some salt and chili, I bet they'll taste just as good as other pickled vegetables, right?"
Lin Xue used to see the female protagonist pickling mushrooms when she read novels.
She really craved this dish back then, but unfortunately she didn't know how to make it and couldn't find the mushrooms mentioned in the book.
Things are different now. The mountains are covered with them, and she can easily find quite a few.
"Of course I can! Why wouldn't I!"
"Your sister-in-law is the best at pickling vegetables in our family. She's been the one who pickles them every year!"
"Go pick some mushrooms later, and I'll have your sister-in-law pickle them for you!"
In previous years, everyone was at work, and only when Grandma Wang had free time would she go up the mountain with a few other women from the village to look for mushrooms or something.
Most of them are dried and kept for winter consumption, and very few are used to make pickled vegetables.
However, pickled mushrooms taste much better than other pickled vegetables.
Pickled mushrooms are often the first thing people eat.
"Alright, I'll go to the scrap yard a couple more times and buy a few more jars so we can pickle a lot more this year!"
"Then we won't have to worry about not having enough vegetables to eat during the winter!"
Lin Xue and Grandma Wang put away all the things she had bought.
Then he took out a smoked rabbit leg from the kitchen: "Mom, I'll go dig up two potatoes in the backyard. Could you wash this rabbit leg and cut it up?"
Lin Xue handed the smoked rabbit leg to Grandma Wang, then took a small basket and went to the backyard.
Grandma Wang knew that the food at Lin Xue's house had been very good lately, and she herself often stayed there to eat.
She felt sorry for the children in the old house, but the old woman knew that it was already a favor that her third son's wife could give her a bite to eat. Even if she was a great hunter, she couldn't support so many people.
She herself would never use the things given by the third brother's family to subsidize the other two families.
There's no reason to shift the responsibility onto the third son's family if they can't even do it themselves.
The third son's wife also frequently sent wild game to the old house; as an elder, she couldn't be biased towards those she favored.
Grandma Wang thought about this and that for a while, and soon she had washed the smoked rabbit legs clean.
She first found a kitchen knife, removed the meat from the rabbit's leg, and cut it into pieces.
She couldn't bear to use the kitchen knife to chop bones, so she washed the axe again and used it to chop rabbit leg bones.
"Grandma, what are we having for dinner today?"
Just as Lin Xue and Grandma Wang finished cooking the rabbit stew with potatoes, Wang Yaqin also came over with her schoolbag.
She was carrying a bag in her arms, which she placed directly on the table after entering the house.
"Yaqin, what are you holding?"
Lin Xue glanced curiously at the package, then went to the kitchen to scoop out corn porridge.
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