Yang Hui hadn't worked in the fields for a long time, but she was still very skilled and efficient. Because of her, the Lin family's fields were all harvested in one day.
"Let's go home for dinner." At Lin Ye's prompting, Lin Xiaocui took her arm.
Yang Hui refused to go, saying, "I still need to go back and cook for my husband. If I go any later, he'll scold me again!"
When Lu Wanqing heard that Yang Hui was helping with the rice harvest and hadn't come over for dinner, she quickly tied five or six crabs with straw and chased after her to deliver them.
Yang Hui looked at the crabs in her hand, tears welling up in her eyes, "Really, it's not necessary. You don't know my husband, even if I take them back, there won't be any for me!"
Having spent a long time in the village and heard about her family's situation, Lu Wanqing didn't press the matter further. Instead, she took a handful of White Rabbit milk candies from her pocket and gave them to her, saying, "These are for your daughter. He won't take them from you."
Yang Hui's parents have both passed away. Although she still has her older brother and sister-in-law, her sister-in-law treats her like a thief whenever she goes back to her parents' home, so her parents' home is practically nonexistent.
Here, she not only has to take care of her lame father-in-law and alcoholic husband, but also endure their insults for not being able to have a son. Her usual strong demeanor is all an act, for fear that others will look down on her.
She had once argued with Lu Wanqing, but she never expected that Lu Wanqing would chase after her and give her something after she had just helped her harvest some rice. She hadn't felt the warmth of others for a long time.
Yang Hui left while holding back her tears.
After Lu Wanqing returned, she ate with everyone and then tied up about ten more crabs for Luo Hao and Luo Chunlei to take back.
"You all gave up work points to help my family harvest rice, so please don't look down on these crabs!" Lu Wanqing filled a basket with crabs.
Lin Ye was also quite moved. In the past, he could have finished the job by working a few more days without going to work, but now that he is a teacher, he has to be responsible for the children and cannot easily ask for leave.
He calculated that this time the rice harvest yielded forty dan (a unit of weight), and based on the calculation that one hundred jin (a unit of weight) of rice yields eighty jin (a unit of weight) of rice, he could harvest at least three thousand two hundred jin (a unit of weight) of rice.
I never expected that a few people could do so much work in a day; giving them a few crabs is really nothing.
Luo Hao and Luo Chunlei were overjoyed. Their whole family loved eating hairy crabs, and some neighbors were craving them, so they brought Aunt Luo a lot of other good things to exchange for them, such as brown sugar and cloth. She got quite a lot in return, which was another kind of gain!
Lin Xiaocui cannot accept crabs. Her situation is similar to Yang Hui's. Bringing crabs home will only benefit Lin Gou Dan and Wang Xiu Qin.
Lu Wanqing decided to make her a cotton-padded jacket, knowing without even looking that the ones at her home were probably not very good.
Lin Xiaocui was very happy and said with a smile, "Sister-in-law, don't make it too thick."
The little girl loves to look pretty and is afraid that if the fabric is too thick, it will look bulky and unattractive when she wears it.
"Don't worry, I promise I'll make it thin and warm." Lu Wanqing smiled.
She had never designed a cotton-padded jacket before; she made it for Lin Xiaocui as a practice exercise.
After the rice harvest, there was nothing much to do at home before the Lunar New Year, so she and Zhao Xiaolan could focus on making clothes.
A cotton-padded jacket is different from ordinary clothes. It has to have a layer of cotton in the middle. And this cotton can't be added randomly. It needs to be fluffed out by a cotton carding machine to make it loose, soft and thin.
Fortunately, Luo Shen had done it before, and her family had cotton-fluffing equipment, which Lin Ye borrowed.
Lin Ye works during the day and helps Lu Wanqing fluff cotton at night, making the cotton into a thin layer so that it can be used for cutting cotton-padded jackets.
The cotton-padded jackets that Zhao Xiaolan made were both lightweight and warm. When people in the brigade heard about them, they all rushed to have one made for their own children.
Other clothes can be compromised, but a cotton-padded coat is essential for getting through winter. It only costs a few dollars to make one, and you can grit your teeth and take it out.
With the arrival of winter, everyone's enthusiasm for making cotton-padded coats has soared. Hearing that Lu Wanqing's family had dozens of kilograms of high-quality cotton, they placed an order.
After a busy week, she almost forgot about moving the furniture.
Since Lin Ye had the weekend off, she quickly asked him to borrow a tractor from the team and go to the county town.
Lin Ye couldn't drive a tractor, so he borrowed the driver by paying with two packs of cigarettes.
The driver was fine for the time being; he usually loved smoking and was happy to make the trip for them.
Lu Wanqing entrusted Zhao Xiaolan and Xueqiu to Aunt Luo again, and went to the entrusted store with Lin Ye.
The old house in the forest has three bedrooms. Two of the bedrooms need to be occupied. The old canopy beds can be used, but the wardrobes and tables need to be bought. The original ones are too old and will probably fall apart if moved.
The kitchen cabinets need to be replaced, and another room, which will be used as a study, also needs storage cabinets.
They bought eight large pieces of furniture, along with some smaller items like stools and chairs.
Finally, everything was moved out, filling an entire tractor.
On the way home, the driver asked Lin Ye, "You bought so much stuff, it must have cost a lot of money, right?"
There's no other family in the whole brigade that rents out a place as well-off as them.
"I don't know either, my wife manages the money." Lin Ye said honestly, he really hadn't had a chance to ask.
Lu Wanqing smiled and replied, "These are all old furniture pieces, they didn't cost much, only a few dozen yuan in total."
"Tsk tsk, these educated youth from Beijing are really generous!" The driver's eyes widened in astonishment. What did he mean by saying it only cost a few dozen yuan? It was like he was saying the weather was nice today.
He can't even save a few dozen yuan a year!
As Lu Wanqing listened to his rambling, she exchanged a glance with Lin Ye. She was only talking about the price of one piece of furniture. If she knew that this whole truckload of furniture had cost several hundred yuan, she would probably roll her eyes to the heavens.
Just as they were leading the tractor back to the old house, they saw a small group of people coming out of Zhou Changsheng's house in the distance. They were dressed in red silk and cloth, and the suona horns were blaring in the air. It was a very festive scene.
"It seems to be Zhou Changsheng's daughter getting married. After all, she's the captain's daughter. Despite being a used and disgraced woman, she still managed to get married!" the driver scoffed.
While helping Lin Ye unload the furniture from the tractor, it suddenly occurred to him that the man who married Zhou Ling was none other than Lin Ye's cousin.
"Congratulations! I misspoke earlier, please don't take it to heart." He didn't know that Lin Ye and his uncle's family had stopped communicating long ago.
Lin Ye's face darkened, and he said coldly, "What are you saying? What does their family's business have to do with me? Why do you need to congratulate me?"
Seeing that his face had darkened, the driver said nothing more. After the furniture was unloaded, he drove off in his tractor.
At this moment, at Wang Xiuqin's home, she had tidied up the house inside and out, and decorated it with lanterns and colorful decorations, preparing to make wine for her son.
I thought that since we hired a suona band to add to the fun, there would be plenty of people watching, but apart from a few hairless little kids, there wasn't a single adult.
The rice and stew she had specially prepared, and the several large tables she had borrowed, were all rendered useless.
Her best friend, He Shujuan, finally broke off all ties with her when she decided to marry Zhou Ling as her daughter-in-law.
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