Chapter 17 Let her try your skirt
"Sister doesn't eat breakfast?" Li Wenhua asked. Sister naturally refers to Tingting. Li Wenhua has called her that for more than ten years and can't change his words for a while. After he finished speaking, he realized that he was wrong. He glanced at Xiaoxi and found that the other party didn't move his eyebrows.
"Your sister went to bed late last night, let her sleep more." Qin Lan said, and took out a bowl to put steamed buns and fried dough sticks, and put porridge in the pot to heat.
For breakfast, Xiaoxi ate a steamed bun, an egg, and a bowl of porridge. In fact, she felt that she could have eaten a little more. But she was afraid that Qin Lan would think she ate too much, so she stopped at the right time.
After eating, Xiaoxi helped to clean up the dishes. She always felt guilty for not doing anything and eating so much.
Qin Lan, however, felt that she was instantly liberated. She had long wanted to stop doing housework, but no one else in the house did it except her. Now that she was at Xiaoxi, she felt extremely relaxed.
In the morning, Qin Lan took Xiaoxi to the supply and marketing cooperative on the island, where ready-made clothes and cloth were sold. There
were not many ready-made clothes in the supply and marketing cooperative, but there were quite a lot of cloth. Qin Lan herself could not make clothes. In the past, she often bought cloth and asked the tailor or the neighbor's wife Sun to make them. Now that there were more ready-made clothes, she only bought ready-made clothes.
There was a striking white plaid dress hanging in the store. The salesperson saw Qin Lan staring at the dress and said, "Sister Qin, this is a new style that just arrived in the store. It looks great on you. Did you buy it for your daughter Tingting? She will look good in it."
Qin Lan's heart was slightly moved when she heard this, but when she thought of what Li Hongbin said in the morning, she stopped thinking and pushed Xiaoxi next to her and said, "I bought it for her. Let her try it on."
The salesperson smiled and said, "This is your niece from your mother's side. She looks so much like you, Sister Qin. She is really beautiful. She will look good in it." As he spoke, he took down the clothes hanging there and pushed Xiaoxi into the inner room to try on the clothes.
Qin Lan just smiled and said nothing more.
Xiaoxi heard that Qin Lan outside did not say that she was her daughter, but just changed the topic to clothes, and smiled self-deprecatingly.
Xiaoxi braided her hair into two pigtails today, hanging on her shoulders. Her pigtails were short, unlike some girls whose pigtails almost hung down to her waist. That was because Xiaoxi thought it took time to wash her hair every time, and it took time to braid her hair every day. She could have read an extra book with that time.
So she cut her hair while she was in school in town. Because her hair was long, black and of good quality, she sold it for 80 cents. After she went back home, she tricked Wang Juhua into cutting her hair and throwing it away. Wang Juhua scolded her for being a spendthrift and beat her up.
When she came out in a plaid shirt, Xiaoxi with two pigtails looked indescribably pure.
The salesperson kept clicking his tongue: "Clothes make the man. Sister Qin, your niece looks completely different when she puts on this skirt. As expected, your niece looks like your aunt, and you two look like mother and daughter when standing together."
Qin Lan smiled with the corners of her mouth: "Take this dress." She waved a light blue shirt and black pants in her hand: "And this, let's pay for it together."
The salesperson smiled: "Hey, Sister Qin is still straightforward." While quickly counting with an abacus, "A total of 21 yuan. Do you want to bring a pair of shoes?"
Xiaoxi was a little uneasy about the price, and then she found that both of them were focusing on her feet, a pair of black cloth shoes with holes. Xiaoxi couldn't help but take a few steps back.
Qin Lan's face flashed with embarrassment, and she felt that Xiao Xi was too timid, so she smiled at the salesperson and said, "She just came to our house and her shoes broke, so why don't you bring her here to buy new shoes?"
The salesperson smiled in her heart and said that it was she who reminded her to buy shoes, but she praised Qin Lan as a good aunt.
"Do you have sandals for her?" Qin Lan asked.
"Yes." The salesperson hurriedly took out a pair of sandals. White sandals with small wedge heels and butterfly heels. They were a perfect match for Xiao Xi's plaid dress.
In the end, Qin Lan paid a total of 26 yuan.
Xiao Xi had never thought that the two sets of clothes she was going to wear would cost so much money. She felt very uneasy and kept twisting the corners of her clothes.
On the way back, the sun was already very high, and soon he was sweating all over. Xiaoxi was not as comfortable with Qin Lan as with Li Hongbin, and Xiaoxi followed Qin Lan without saying a word. Qin Lan was anxious to go home to see Li Wenting, so she hurried on the way. The two of them were silent all the way.
On the way back, Li Wenting was sitting on the sofa. When she saw Qin Lan and Xiaoxi coming back, she kept staring at Xiaoxi.
When Qin Lan saw Li Wenting, she hurriedly said, "Tingting, have you had breakfast? I've heated up your breakfast in the pot."
"Mom, I don't want to eat." Li Wenting looked listless.
"How can that be possible? You didn't eat last night, so how can you not eat today? Come on, mom will eat with you." Qin Lan said as she took out the steamed buns and pumpkin porridge from the pot and pulled Li Wenting to sit on the chair in front of the dining table.
Li Wenting sipped the porridge in small sips, and Qin Lan smiled with satisfaction.
Suddenly thinking of something, Qin Lan said to Xiaoxi who was about to go upstairs: "Xiaoxi, go wash the clothes you just bought. The clothes outside are dirty and need to be washed before you can wear them."
Xiaoxi, who was called, said OK and continued to go upstairs.
"Mom, you, you bought her new clothes?" Li Wenting put down the spoon and suddenly couldn't eat anymore, "Mom, don't you like me anymore? You don't buy me anything."
Qin Lan said hurriedly, "She has no clothes to wear, and you don't like her wearing your clothes. Of course you have to buy her new clothes. If you want new clothes, I will buy them for you next time."
At this time, Xiaoxi was coming downstairs with a washbasin filled with new clothes.
Li Wenting saw the white plaid dress at a glance, and pulled Qin Lan's arm and shook it, "Mom, I like that dress."
Qin Lan looked helpless and said to Xiaoxi, "Xiaoxi, give the dress to Tingting to try."
Xiaoxi, who was walking towards the yard with the washbasin, stiffened his back, and the thin figure looked so lonely at that moment.
She turned around, took the dress out of the basin and put it on the empty stool next to her, and asked again: "Do you want the shirt and pants? If not, I'll wash them." From beginning to end, she didn't even look at Qin Lan and Li Wenting. After
saying this, Qin Lan also felt that something seemed wrong. She pulled the corner of her mouth and said: "She just tried on the skirt. She doesn't like shirts and pants."
Xiaoxi turned around, left the yard, and went to wash clothes.
Li Wenting curled her lips when she saw this scene. She took the skirt and went to try on clothes.
Qin Lan glanced at Xiaoxi who was washing clothes in the yard under the scorching sun. She didn't know why she felt a little anxious.
When Li Wenting came out wearing a white plaid dress, Qin Lan's attention was focused on Li Wenting again.
If it were the past, Qin Lan would definitely think that their daughter Tingting was beautiful in every way. But now Qin Lan had to admit that Xiaoxi looked better in the same skirt than Tingting. Even the dress that Xiaoxi wore yesterday was better than Tingting's.
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