In this era, shoes were all made by hand. One would buy a sole, cut out the shoe pattern, and sew it with an awl.
Yao Qiyue could understand, but she really couldn't do it. She looked at Wei Hong with admiration.
Wei Hong was in a dilemma and asked speechlessly: "You can't sew at all!"
But when Wei Hong thought about how Yao Qiyue could make money just by writing, she felt relieved: "It doesn't matter if you can't, you can make money!"
Yao Qiyue was not very frank. After all, she didn't know how to do needlework, so of course there was no need for her to force herself to learn these things.
She had no interest in making clothes or shoes.
"Sister Wei Hong, if you know how to make shoes, please make two pairs for each of my three children."
"Don't worry about that. I think their shoes are pretty good."
Wei Hong nodded: "I understand."
"When they have time, come to my house and I'll measure the soles of their shoes."
After the two of them agreed, Wei Hong had too many things to carry, so Yao Qiyue had to accompany her. When Li Hong saw how many things they were carrying, she thought they had moved the supply and marketing cooperative here.
"Aunt Li, I didn't see any milk at the supply and marketing cooperative today, but I have some milk coupons. If anyone in your family has time, please go to the city and check."
The editor exchanged the milk coupons specifically because he knew that Yao Qiyue had a child at home.
Yao Qiuyue kept all these feelings in her heart.
She didn't know that Chen Qingyun had also exchanged his food coupons for many other coupons, including precious coal coupons and cotton coupons.
Li Hong looked at the milk coupons in her hand with a grateful look on her face: "Oh, Auntie, I really trouble you. If it weren't for these things of yours, I don't know what would have happened to my little grandson."
Li Hong's grandson is from her youngest son's family.
Wei Hong had been married for only a few years and she and her husband had no children yet. She used to be an apprentice in the town and her master had many requirements. If she got pregnant, she would lose her job.
Fortunately, they are still young and they have the opportunity to have more babies.
Li Hong naturally noticed her eldest daughter-in-law touching her belly. She sighed in her heart and changed the subject.
"You know the educated youth are building houses on the new housing plot, right? I told your uncle to fix the roof of your shed after they're done there."
"That thatched roof has been there for years. When it rains, it drizzles inside the house."
Yao Qiyue couldn't help laughing when she thought about the leaks in her house when it rained. "Auntie, don't tell me, when it rained we had to search all over the house for basins. It was such a mess."
Li Hong looked at Yao Qiyue's carefree look and smiled helplessly: "Alright, you can still laugh if you're fine. If the child catches a cold, you'll be the one who suffers."
Yao Qiyue immediately put away the playful smile on her face and said, "Auntie, if anyone in the village has time, please ask my uncle to come over and help me fix it."
"Do I need to prepare anything?"
Seeing that Yao Qiyue didn't quite understand the interpersonal relationships in the village, Li Hong patiently explained, "In our own village, we don't need to pay for helping with work."
"But if this work takes a whole day, the host will have to provide a meal at noon."
"Everyone's vegetable gardens are harvesting vegetables now. You can prepare a big pot of stew and some mixed-flour flatbreads."
Yao Qiyue listened attentively and almost took a small notebook to memorize it.
"Aunt Li, isn't it enough to just prepare one dish and a multi-grain pancake?"
Hearing Yao Qiyue's generous words, Li Hong patted her shoulder worriedly: "Auntie knows your family is well-off and can afford to eat so much."
“But you have to know that if they go to your house to help with the work, they also have to go to other houses in the village to help with the work.”
"Your family provides white flour steamed buns for lunch, so other families will be embarrassed to provide steamed buns in the future."
Yao Qiyue immediately realized her mistake and couldn't help but say, "Aunt Li, you think too much. I don't have as much life experience as you do. Please give me more guidance in the future!"
Li Hong felt a little flattered by Yao Qiuyue's praise. No one in her family ever said that she had enough life experience. They all thought what she said was nagging and nagging.
She felt comfortable in her heart, and a smile naturally appeared on her face, making her look a lot softer.
Wei Hong, who watched the whole process, couldn't help but look at Yao Qiyue differently. Her mother-in-law became much more talkative after meeting Yao Qiyue.
She needs to learn more from Yao Qiyue's words and praise her mother-in-law more in the future. Wouldn't her life be better then?
Although Li Hong is not a mean mother-in-law, she enjoys the joy of being the head of the family!
There are many things at home that a daughter-in-law cannot interfere with.
As small as the ownership of a rag at home and the number of steamed buns each person eats for a meal.
Li Hong was in charge of the grain and money distributed in the autumn.
Wei Hong had no objection to her mother-in-law being the housekeeper, but occasionally she also wanted a soap of her own.
Yao Qiyue and Li Hong carefully inquired about the things to pay attention to when hiring helpers, and agreed that Li Hong would go over to help with cooking when the time came.
Only then did she leave the Ji family.
Yao Qiyue did not go home first. She remembered the cigarettes in her pocket and went straight to the village committee where the team leader Ji Ping was.
Ji Ping was just about to go to the educated youth site to see how the people were progressing in building their houses.
As soon as I went out, I saw Yao Qiyue walking towards me.
"What do you want to talk to me about?"
Ji Ping has complicated feelings towards Yao Qiyue and Jiang Ye, a couple, which can be described as love and hate.
The two of them brought honor to Yanjiang Village and were well-known in the city, especially Yao Qiuyue's articles.
On the other hand, the couple was very capable of getting into trouble, and Ji Ping had to deal with things behind them, and every one of them made him feel tired.
Yao Qiyue stretched out a hand towards Ji Ping: "Captain, guess what I have in my hand?"
"You guessed it right, how about I promise not to cause you any trouble in the future?"
Ji Ping had an expression that said, "I don't believe you."
Yao Qiuyue couldn't help laughing when she saw this.
"No matter what you have in your hands, it won't stop you from causing trouble."
Yao Qiyue turned her palm upwards and showed the cigarette to Ji Ping.
Ji Ping: "..."
What do you mean, this is a cigarette?
"You want to bribe me?"
"What do you want from me?"
"You don't get rewarded without merit, do you know?"
"What brand of cigarettes are these?"
Ji Ping went from being excited at the beginning to slowly calming down, and even now he has somewhat accepted the fact that Yao Qiyue had exposed the truth.
During this time, these emotions only stayed in his heart for three seconds. He felt that any longer would be disrespectful to cigarettes.
He felt that if Yao Qiyue gave him the cigarette, he must take it back and keep it as a sacrifice.
From then on, he would only take out one cigarette during festivals and holidays. This box would be enough for him to smoke for two years.
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