Chapter 80: I'm angry and I'm here to vent my anger
Li An jumped and clapped his hands: "Great, there is a bullock cart, can I sit on it?"
"Sit down." Li Dachuan carried him up, and several other children also sat up.
“It feels different to ride in your own bullock cart.”
The children looked around and felt around. In the past, they were very nervous when riding in other people's ox carts, but they felt much more comfortable riding in their own rented ox cart.
"I'm going to cut grass for the cow and feed it well." Li Xiaotao said and jumped out of the car.
Li Xiaoan also agreed: "I'll go too, I'll go too."
Several children jumped out of the car in an instant, picked up their backpacks and sickles and went out.
Li Wanyue smiled and looked at Zhao Suying: "Mom, when you have time, you can make a few thick cushions, so that it will be more comfortable to ride in the ox cart."
"That's right." Zhao Suying saw three pieces of fine cotton cloth, in star blue, lilac brown, and light orange.
I asked curiously, "Why did you buy so much cloth? Didn't you just make some clothes?"
"Mom, these are for making bed sheets and quilt covers."
"What is a quilt cover?"
The quilts here do not come with quilt covers. When they get dirty, they need to be taken apart and washed, and then sewn again after washing.
Li Wanyue explained: "It is a quilt cover that is the same size as the quilt. You put clothes on the quilt. If it gets dirty, you can just take off the outer layer of clothes and wash it without taking apart the quilt."
Zhao Suying suddenly realized: "This is indeed novel, but... you don't need such fine material, coarse cloth will do."
Li Wanyue took her arm and said, "Mom, people spend half of their lives sleeping, so they should sleep comfortably. We are not short of money now, and I am thinking of ordering a few new quilts."
Zhao Suying advised: "Don't make the quilt for now. The weather is getting hotter and hotter. If you make the quilt now, it will take up space and it will be easily affected by moisture and mold. Make it in the fall."
Li Wanyue thought about it and decided that it would be a good idea to build a new house and then change the quilt.
She nodded, and Zhao Suying hurriedly moved several pieces of cloth into the house.
Li Wanyue handed two pieces of cloth to Sun Xiuqin. After all, she was the second brother's wife and had behaved well during this period. No matter what her mentality was, at least she did her job.
Sun Xiuqin looked at a piece of coarse cloth and a piece of fine cotton, and instantly burst into joy: "Thank you, little sister."
"As long as Second Sister-in-law works hard, she will definitely have plenty of good things in the future."
"Okay, I'll do it well."
Sun Xiuqin made repeated assurances and went back to her room to make clothes.
Li Wanyue dragged Wang Guixiang to her room and said, "Sister-in-law, when you are free, you can go to your parents' home and ask them to help collect some duck eggs. They are one cent each, and you will get fifty cents for collecting one hundred. Just collect two or three hundred from each family. Also, you can collect green beans at three cents per pound. There is no limit to the amount, and you can get as many as you want. You will also get fifty cents, and we will go and collect them ourselves when the time comes."
She asked and found out that the villagers sold the beans grown on some scattered plots of land for three cents per pound.
She would pay four cents to buy things at the store, but they would charge three cents per pound, which saved them some money and saved them the trouble of carrying things to town.
In fact, she still prefers to cooperate with the shops in the town, which is more worry-free. She lets her sister-in-law's family help collect the goods, and also wants them to make some money through this.
When Wang Guixiang heard this, she thought that collecting things was easy. She just had to shout and collect them at home.
She waved her hand and said, "It's just a conversation. How can I ask for money? If you pay them, it will be too polite to them."
Li Wanyue thought about it and decided to ask her eldest brother for money if it didn't work. She would definitely not refuse the filial piety money given by her son-in-law.
She nodded and said, "Okay, sister-in-law, before you go to your parents' home, get some copper coins from me. When you go to get the mung beans and duck eggs, you can return the extra money or pay the extra money."
"Okay." Wang Guixiang responded. She thought that Li Wanyue only told her, so she probably didn't want the second wife to know.
She asked uncertainly: "Little sister, don't you plan to ask your second sister-in-law to go to her parents' home to collect it?"
Li Wanyue explained: "Second sister-in-law's family won't let them help for now, we'll see how the situation develops later."
My impression is that my second sister-in-law's family is really not good. They always came to borrow money from me and never paid it back.
She could not bother with Sun Xiuqin for the sake of her second brother, but she would not give face to the other party's family. She did not want Sun Xiuqin's family to be involved in this matter to avoid trouble.
Li Wanyue continued, "Don't worry, sister-in-law. Even if sister-in-law finds out, it doesn't matter. Your family is helping me collect it for free, and sister-in-law can't say anything."
Wang Guixiang nodded.
Li Wanyue walked to the main hall and told Li Youshan and his wife alone that the cow was bought but was temporarily told to others that it was rented.
Li Youshan nodded in agreement, deciding not to be too ostentatious at the moment.
Li Wanyue looked at Zhao Suying and said, "Mom, I want Shuangshuang to help me collect green beans and duck eggs in Kaoshan Village. Please go find Shuangshuang's mother and ask her if she is willing to go to Kaoshan Village to tell Shuangshuang."
Zhao Suying said: "Yueyue, you know Shuangshuang's in-laws. Even if you give her money, it won't fall into her hands."
Li Wanyue nodded: "I know, I just wonder if Mrs. Qian would be nicer to Shuangshuang and her daughter if she saw that Shuangshuang could make money? She wouldn't torture them so much."
"You're right. We can give it a try. Maybe Mrs. Qian will treat Shuangshuang and the child better if she sees their value. I'll go now."
In the afternoon, the whole family picked out the sprouting potatoes that could be planted and put them aside, found a suitable place to put the sweet potatoes, and prepared the things needed to plant potatoes the next day.
When Shuangshuang's mother Zhang Mei heard Zhao Suying say that she would get 30 wen for collecting 100 duck eggs or 100 jin of mung beans, and that she could get as many as she wanted, and that it was free, she quickly declined, saying that she could help collect duck eggs, but there was no need to pay for it.
But Zhao Suying insisted that if they didn't want money, she wouldn't let them help.
Zhang Mei had no choice but to agree, and immediately went to Kaoshan Village to inform her daughter.
As soon as I reached the gate of the courtyard, I heard scolding from inside the yard.
Mrs. Qian pointed at Li Shuangshuang's two daughters with her hands on her hips and said, "You two are useless. You can't even wash clothes. You ruined good clothes. It would be better to sell you two so that we can save some food."
"Mother, these clothes were originally made from old clothes that my eldest sister-in-law didn't want. They have been worn for three years and are patched up. No matter how careful you are, they will eventually get damaged after washing. Can you give me some money so that I can buy them some linen to make clothes? I can't leave them without even a replacement, can I?"
"You are such a jinx that you only know how to spend money. My second son is so unlucky to marry you that he can't even give birth to a son. And you still have the nerve to ask for money. Get out of here and stop getting in my way."
"Bang!"
Zhang Mei pushed the door open suddenly, making a loud noise, which scared Mrs. Qian.
Seeing the person coming, she put away her fierce look. Seeing Zhang Mei with empty hands, she snorted coldly: "His relative, where did you get angry and come to our house to vent."
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