Yun Qiao calculated the cost for her: "To make a one-meter-wide quilt, you need at least one-meter-three or one-meter-four width of cloth. Because you have to account for shrinkage and loss of fabric, the length needs to be two meters. So the front and back sides are two meters of one-meter-three x two-meter cloth. Not only is it difficult to collect cloth coupons, but just buying the fabric will cost you more than ten yuan, and that might not even be enough."
"And there's cotton! Where are you going to get eight pounds of cotton? You know, each of us only gets one pound of cotton coupons a year. Are you going to buy cotton coupons from others, or go back to the village and buy them from fellow villagers? One pound of cotton is one yuan, figure it out yourself."
Zheng Jing was dumbfounded when she heard this: "Ah, I thought thirty yuan was enough!"
Yun Qiao: "It's not much, but it's not too little either. It's just enough to make a quilt. Director Jiang is very capable and has a good sense of proportion for you."
Zheng Yujing breathed a sigh of relief: "That's fine. I don't have to pay any money."
Yun Qiao sighed, "But it's so difficult! Cloth and cotton coupons are so hard to come by. I don't even know if you can scrape together the materials for a quilt before winter this year."
Zheng Jing said, "I'll save up slowly. At worst, I can write to my mom and ask her to buy some national tickets and send them to me."
Yun Qiao glanced at her and asked, "Has your mother forgiven you for running away from your marriage?"
Zheng Yujing said angrily, "What do you mean by running away from an engagement? There wasn't even an engagement at all! That was just the old man's wishful thinking, trying to repay a favor. I didn't agree to it."
After a pause, Zheng Jingjing's expression brightened again. "Besides, my mother won't really be mad at me! She wrote to me years ago to make peace! She even said that if she has the chance in the future, she will come to visit me in Northeast China."
Yun Qiao said, "Your mother is still very kind."
"Oh, my mom is such a soft-hearted person, and my dad is really good at brainwashing people. She really thinks I married that old man for me, thinking that after marrying him, I will become the envied wife of an official." Zheng Yujing sighed, "That old man's family is really powerful. If he wasn't already married with three children, there's no way my family could marry into such a family."
"Do you regret it?" Yun Qiao asked her, "Do you regret coming here and suffering so hard just to escape your marriage?"
"I do have some regrets, but if you let me choose again now, I'd still choose to stay here." Zheng Yujing was rarely sober. "My stepmother is not that bad, and her family is much richer than mine. If I marry into a family, I'll have to live under their control for the rest of my life. I can't stand it."
Yun Qiao couldn't help but laugh: "I can see. You're such a spoiled brat, you need to be coaxed every day, but you can't bend down to coax others."
Zheng Jing nodded. "Of course not. Although I'm afraid of hardship and fatigue, I'm still very tough."
"Hard bones?" Yun Qiao curled his lips: "I didn't see that."
Zheng Yujing deliberately snorted and said arrogantly, "The bones are hidden in the flesh, how can I let you see it easily?"
As he was speaking, someone came in to see the doctor.
Zheng Yujing didn't disturb Yun Qiao, but sat quietly beside him and waited.
After Yun Qiao finished examining the patient and escorted him out of the clinic, he spoke: "They say that serious women are the most beautiful. Yun Qiao, you were truly stunning just now!"
She put her arm around Yun Qiao's shoulders and said, "Even a little girl like me is moved by your presence."
Yun Qiao shook his shoulders and shook off Zheng Yujing's arm. "What? Are you not attracted to your Ruan Yuping girl?"
Ruan Yuping was the young educated man who sang Peking opera at the welcome ceremony.
"I'm moved, but I just feel like something's not right when I'm with him." Zheng Jing frowned, distressed, and said, "I find I can't help but spend money on him, leaving me with no money left to buy cakes."
Upon hearing this, Yun Qiao's scumbag detection radar instantly lit up.
"Did he ask you for money?" Yun Qiao's tone unconsciously carried a hint of murderous intent.
Zheng Jing subconsciously shrank back: "No, he didn't ask for it, I wanted to give it to him myself."
"You!" Yun Qiao let out a long breath, not knowing what to say.
"You've only known him for a few days, and you're already spending money on him?"
Zheng Yujing was afraid Yun Qiao would criticize her, so she subconsciously defended herself, "Yun Qiao, you don't know, Ruan Yuzhi's family was extremely poor. He had seven brothers and sisters, and they couldn't afford to raise him when he was young, so they sent him to a drama troupe to make a living. Later, when the movement started, the troupe was defeated, and he was forced to return home. But his family couldn't afford to feed so many mouths, so he had no choice but to sign up to go to the countryside."
Zheng Yujing said emotionally: "He came to the Great Northern Wilderness with nothing. While others bought new daily necessities, he could only use the broken bowls and lunch boxes he brought from his hometown."
"What's wrong with a broken bowl and a broken lunch box?" Yun Qiao glanced at her and said, "The ones I use now are also broken bowls and broken lunch boxes that I brought from Shanghai."
Zheng Yujing was speechless and said weakly, "I just feel sorry for him and feel sorry for him. He didn't want me to spend money anyway."
"I didn't want to at first, but I ended up letting you spend the money anyway." Yun Qiao gritted his teeth and said, "A man with any integrity, no matter how poor or miserable he is, would not have the nerve to ask a woman for help."
Her ex-husband Pan Zhiyuan in her previous life was such a scumbag that he never treated her and her daughter badly in terms of money, let alone living off women!
In comparison, Ruan Yuping is not as good as that scumbag Pan Zhiyuan!
Zheng Yujing shrank back guiltily and muttered in defense, "Ruan Xizhi is also in a difficult situation at the moment. He said he would double my salary after he got it."
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