Although Yun Qi also wanted to go and see the excitement, she had promised Yun Liping that she would go over and help her tidy up her house, so she could only walk at opposite ends of the street from Si Cheng and the others in front of their houses.
Because Wu Qingquan will be moving into Yun Liping's house after the wedding, Yun Liping's room needs to be tidied up again.
When the house was being built, Uncle Mingwei even had another layer of lime plaster applied to the walls of Yun Liping's room. There was basically nothing to tidy up the house; the main things to do were to clean her kang bed and kang cabinet, as well as re-inspect and re-tie some of her wedding quilts.
"Come on, sisters, help me take these down jackets apart." Yun Liping carried out several down jackets that were starting to leak down everywhere, and the down was even flying in the air as she walked.
Only Yun Qi and Yun Xiaoqian came to help today. Liu Yuqing was taken by her mother to settle her marriage today.
"Can't we wear all these down jackets?" Yun Qi looked at the seven or eight down jackets and felt that the wear and tear from wearing them was too great.
"I was greedy for cheap deals when I bought them, so I bought a lot of promotional items. Who knew last winter would be so long? Wearing them all the time, these down jackets just wore out." Yun Liping was also helpless. If she could turn back time, she would definitely choose to buy those brands with guaranteed quality.
At that time, in order to save a little money and store more supplies, everyone chose to store their goods in other people's warehouses.
"So you're taking all these down feathers apart to make a new down jacket?" Yun Xiaoqian picked up a pair of scissors and began carefully picking at the loose threads. Although the outer fabric would leak down, it could still be used to make other things.
"Do you think I have that kind of skill?" Yun Liping opened the cabinet on the kang (a heated brick bed), rummaged around inside for a while, and then pulled out a rolled-up cloth bag.
"This is the lining I sewed before. I'll stuff the down feathers I took out into it and then sew it into a down comforter." After saying this, Yun Liping proudly opened the cloth bag and spread it out on the kang (a heated brick bed).
"These are the bags we exchanged last time, right? You're going to use them as a blanket?" Yun Qi touched them and felt their texture. "They won't keep you warm at all. You'll feel freezing cold when you cover yourself with them."
“I’m not stupid. This is just the lining. We’ll definitely put a cotton quilt cover on the outside.” Yun Liping took out a new cotton quilt cover from the cabinet. “It will be perfect when we put it in. In winter, we can put a quilt on top of it. It can’t be warmer.”
Yun Qi gave her a thumbs up, "Great idea! This way, it's just as good as a cotton quilt. It makes me want to go back and modify one myself."
Yun Xiaoqian nodded in agreement, "When I get back, I'll collect all the old down feathers from our house. Even if we can't make clothes, we can still make a quilt."
"But when you were storing supplies, didn't your family stock up on extra quilts?" Yun Qi knew that Yun Liping was almost engaged, so it was impossible for the family not to have these things.
When Yun Liping heard Yun Qi's question, her shoulders slumped. "Yes, but they've all been replaced."
Yun Qi and Yun Xiaoqian looked at her with some confusion. Who could possibly take away a bride-to-be's quilt?
“My aunt took all the blankets from my mother a long time ago. I tried to get them back from her a few days ago, but she refused.” Yun Liping felt a little irritated thinking about how her parents had been arguing about this matter this morning.
Now that the sisters are here, they can't help but complain, "Some time ago, Liu Qingying said she was going to get married, right? At that time, my aunt kept pestering our family to change the quilts. At first, my mother refused, but she came to the door every day and even promised that if I got married, she would help collect or change those quilts. At that time, my father thought that we were all family, so he agreed."
"Who knew that Liu Qingying would ruin her own marriage a while ago, and no one has even come to inquire about it lately."
"In that case, she can just return the blankets that were changed to yours before." Yun Xiaoqian thought that since that was the case, it would be fine to change them back, after all, it was agreed beforehand.
"It's not that simple. My aunt is now adamant that Liu Qingying will get married during this period, and she refuses to exchange the quilts no matter what. She even made excuses to break her promise to help us exchange them."
"Wu Auntie wasn't this outrageous before? Although she has some favoritism towards Liu Qingying, she wouldn't be so unreasonable." Yun Qi recalled that over the years in the village, apart from what happened to Liu Qingying, very few people had spoken ill of Li Rongrong.
"Who knew things would change so quickly, especially lately when everyone's been talking about marriage, but many people are just skipping Liu Qingying. The mother and daughter are acting strangely all the time now." Yun Liping, who lives close to the family, has the deepest understanding of the changes in the mother and daughter.
"Doesn't Uncle Wu care?" Yun Qi asked curiously.
"I don't know, but Xiao Yang has been going to my grandpa's for meals a lot lately, and sometimes he even stays there."
Speaking of her little cousin, Yun Liping felt genuinely sorry for him. If her quilt were to be given to Yun Yang for his wedding, she would have no objection whatsoever.
Looking back now, I realize that the mother and daughter definitely wouldn't have given it up to Yunyang.
"Actually, you can go and talk to Uncle Wu. After all, you're still in the same family, and Uncle Wu can make decisions on some things directly," Yun Qi suggested to Yun Liping.
“My dad went there early this morning, I don’t know how he is now.” Yun Liping said, glancing at the gate of the courtyard.
"However, I don't think it will be easy for Liu Qingying to get married these days. After the last incident, the village is definitely avoiding them now, otherwise it wouldn't have been so long since anyone came to propose marriage." Yun Xiaoqian said with some schadenfreude. You know, after that incident, many people suffered a lot of disdain.
"I actually hope she gets married soon, otherwise my uncle's family will fall apart." Yun Liping thought about her large family, and how Liu Qingying's behavior had caused the whole family to be uneasy.
"Didn't Seventh Grandfather write something to them last time? How come they're still causing trouble?" Yun Qi felt that since everything was already written down, shouldn't they be keeping a low profile?
Yun Liping gets angry when she talks about it, "They said that this is just their way of life and it doesn't exceed the agreement by even a little bit."
"Is this someone harboring resentment and wanting to torture themselves to death?" Yun Qi was somewhat surprised; this was someone who kept pushing people's limits.
"Actually, the more they act like this, the harder it will be for them to establish themselves in the village in the future. And does Aunt Wu really want to live with Liu Qingying in the future? Doesn't she think about Uncle Wu and Yunyang?" Yun Xiaoqian felt that even she understood this, so why couldn't Aunt Wu understand it?
Looking at the tattered down feathers in their hands, Yun Qi and Yun Xiaoqian felt a pang of sympathy for Yun Liping.
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