Chapter 117 New Clothes
"Then you and Mu Dong will move the things away tomorrow morning. I will go to the shop to help Mu Qiu and buy pots and food to send to the farm." Song Yuntang said, and started to wash the pot and cook. "Second brother, help me boil the second pot of medicine. I will cook first."
"good."
Song Jinsheng had been busy for the whole morning, all of which was physical work, and he was really hungry now.
When he came here, he asked the people in the village to go home for dinner, and then return to the village to work after dinner.
He poured the herbs that Song Yuntang had picked out into the pot. Seeing that there was not much water left in the jar, he went out to Mu Dong's house and borrowed a bucket to fetch water.
The first two buckets of water were poured directly into the big pot. The stove under the pot was set up to boil the water, and then two more buckets of water were picked up and poured into the water tank.
"Brother, let's eat first."
Considering that Song Jinsheng had consumed a lot of physical energy today, I cooked a pot of white rice for him at noon, fried two eggs with lard, and stir-fried a bowl of bean sprouts.
The egg soup soaked with the burnt brown rice crust is fragrant.
Song Jinsheng washed his hands and came into the house. He looked at the two poached eggs in the bowl, and then looked at the only poached egg in Song Yuntang's bowl.
"Tang'er, your chickens and ducks have laid eggs with great difficulty. Don't give them all to me. Eat more yourself." As he said this, he picked up one of the eggs and wanted to put it into Song Yuntang's bowl.
Seeing this, Song Yuntang quickly covered his bowl with his hands.
"One is enough for me."
Song Jinsheng couldn't persuade her, so he said, "I'll finish most of the things here for you after dinner. I have to go to the farm. I just got there, so I have to keep an eye on it. I'll come back tomorrow morning."
Song Yuntang listened and looked at him.
"Brother, come to my place to rest tonight. I'll prepare bedding and clothes for you when I'm free in the afternoon, so you don't have to run around so early in the morning and even have a bad night's sleep."
Song Jinsheng shook his head hurriedly, "I can come to your place to rest, but you don't need to prepare bedding and clothes. The expenses have been high recently, so save the money you have for expenses first."
Knowing that Song Jinsheng was saving money for her, Song Yuntang didn't say anything else.
I can just go buy it when I'm done with my work in the afternoon. Since he's helping out here, he might stay over when it gets late, so I must prepare some spare clothes and quilts.
It was the convenience of their brother-sister relationship. If it were someone else, she would definitely not dare to stay at home overnight.
After dinner, Song Jinsheng took a short break and then went to fetch another load of water with a bucket.
The medicine in the pot has been boiled. After the brother and sister scooped out the medicine juice, they continued to boil the next pot.
Song Jinsheng cleaned all the bamboo cans, picked up two loads of water and returned the buckets to Mu Dong's house and went to the farm. There was still a pot of shampoo water left to fill the bamboo cans. There was not much to do, and Song Yuntang could do it alone.
It was already the beginning of the You hour when she finished her work.
The white rice I had at noon was relatively filling. Although I had been busy all afternoon, I didn't feel particularly hungry. I took advantage of the sunset to run to the town and bought some bedding. Thinking that Song Jinsheng's clothes were often patched, I bought him two sets of comfortable fine cotton clothes and a pair of shoes.
The total cost was two hundred and sixty coins.
When he got home, the sun had already set and Song Jinsheng was already waiting at the door. Seeing Song Yuntang coming with a bunch of things, he quickly rubbed his hands on the clothes behind him and stepped forward to take them.
"Tang'er, didn't I tell you not to buy bedding?"
"I can't ask you to sleep on a hard door every day. I also bought you two sets of clothes and a pair of shoes. After you wash up, try them on to see if they fit you. The clothes you are wearing are unwearable. You can just throw them away later."
Song Yuntang said as he opened the gate with the key.
Song Jinsheng turned his head and looked at his sleeves which were full of patches.
From childhood to adulthood, the clothes he wore were all the ones left over from his older brother's outgrown clothes. The only new set of clothes his mother made for him when his older brother got married, just to make him look good. But after he wore it once, his mother took it back, saying that his current clothes were enough and that she would give him new ones when the old ones were worn out.
After a lot of twists and turns, the clothes appeared on my eldest brother during the Chinese New Year.
My mother said that my eldest brother was accompanying my eldest sister-in-law to visit her parents, and it was New Year's Day, so it was not appropriate to ask him to wear old clothes. Anyway, he had been used to picking up his eldest brother's old clothes to wear for so many years, so he acquiesced to the family's practice.
Before, because Zhaozhao was a girl, her mother would occasionally make a new set of clothes for her. Her two younger brothers were much older than her, so they never picked up his old clothes. However, after the eldest brother and he wore them, the clothes were really unwearable. Her mother thought about the two of them and needed to study, so in order to prevent them from being looked down upon by their classmates, she made new clothes for them.
The family's financial situation was limited, and he had never had any bad thoughts about his parents when it came to food and clothing.
But when he saw the two new sets of clothes Song Yuntang bought for him, he still felt a little aggrieved.
He never expected that the first new clothes he could truly own in his life were bought for him by his sister.
"Thank you Tang'er."
When Song Yuntang heard his voice, he paused, as if he sensed his emotions. In order not to embarrass him, he did not look in his direction, but just pretended not to notice anything and said, "Second brother, go to the house and put things away first. I'll go cook."
After saying that, he went straight to the kitchen, washed the rice and cooked a pot of porridge. He picked out two duck eggs from the basket with only five eggs left, boiled them into an omelet, and fried a plate of bean sprouts.
After Song Jinsheng put the clothes and bedding in Song Yuntang's room, he calmed himself down, went to the kitchen to scoop the shampoo water that she had hung in the big pot into a small jar and moved it under the eaves. He then took the bamboo jars and began to fill them one by one and put the lids on them.
About halfway through the process, Song Yuntang's meal was ready.
"Brother, eat first, and then we'll drink together after dinner."
"good."
Song Jinsheng covered the bamboo jars in his hands and piled them together, then stood up, washed his hands, and went to the room to eat.
After the meal, when the two of them drank the remaining medicine, Song Yuntang filled a basin of water and placed it in the toilet, then pushed Song Jinsheng towards the toilet.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry, put on new clothes after washing them so I can see them."
Song Jinsheng smiled helplessly, followed her instructions, washed his hair carefully with shampoo, cleaned his body, and changed into a new set of clothes.
The new clothes are breathable, comfortable and cool. After taking a shower, I just feel relaxed.
Song Yuntang walked around him. The light grey jacket and dark blue trousers looked clean and neat, and they fit him perfectly.
"Clothes make the man, and saddles make the horse. My second brother looks really smart and good in this outfit."
Song Jinsheng scratched his head a little embarrassedly and said, "Mom always says that I am not as good-looking as my elder brother. No matter what I wear, it's the same. Only you say I look good."
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