Chapter 35 Chapter 35 New Clothes
In the evening, Zhou finally finished making a set of clothes for Yu Li.
Because it took relatively little time to make, there were no patterns embroidered on the clothes, but the stitches were fine and dense, and the style was more exquisite than the clothes worn by the young girls in the village. Yu Li looked very energetic when she wore it.
Just too thin.
Zhou was thinking as she straightened her clothes and sleeves.
You still have to continue to take good care of it.
Yu Li stretched her arms and found that the clothes were a little wide, which was just convenient for her to work. It seemed to her that they fit her very well.
"Mother, it fits perfectly. No need to change it." She said to Zhou. "Thank you, mother. You've worked hard."
Such a set of clothes was made in just one day. It can be seen that apart from cooking, Zhou was busy making clothes all the time.
Zhou smiled and said, "You are going to work in the county town now, so you should dress decently."
As the saying goes, respect the clothes first and then the person. In a place like a county town, unlike in the village, you can't dress too shabby, otherwise some short-sighted people will look down on you or even deliberately trip you up.
Zhou is an experienced person and knows this matter very well.
While Yu Li was trying on clothes, brother and sister Fu Yanhui and Fu Yansheng sat nearby and watched, chewing on some dried peanuts as snacks.
Hearing Zhou's words, Fu Yansheng said in a baby voice: "Brother, my little aunt looks good in her new clothes!"
Fu Yan nodded, agreeing with her sister.
Even children know that new clothes look good.
Zhou couldn't help laughing and teased them, "How pretty is the young aunt?"
"Very pretty!" Fu Yansheng said seriously, "My aunt is the prettiest, as pretty as my uncle."
Fu Yanhui continued to agree with his sister, agreeing with everything his sister said.
Hearing this, even Yu Li couldn't help but look sideways, suspicious of the two children's eyes.
Although she didn't pay much attention to the beauty or ugliness of human beings, she knew that it was extremely rare to see someone with a look like Fu Wenxiao. His eyebrows and eyes were like paintings, and he was noble and handsome. There were very few men who looked so good, or even beautiful.
As for herself, she is so thin that no one with eyes would think she is good-looking.
Seeing that they didn't seem to believe what she said, Fu Yansheng pouted and said in a baby voice, "Little aunt is the best and the most beautiful."
"Yes!" Fu Yanhui continued to repeat herself to her younger sister, "Aunt is the best!"
Well, Zhou finally understood their logic.
Perhaps it was because after Yu Li married into the Fu family, she was not only able to fetch water, chop wood, and split firewood, but also woke up Fu Wenxiao and brought back delicious candies and meat from the county town... In the eyes of the children, she was indeed very capable.
Powerful people are naturally the best looking, just as good looking as Fu Wenxiao.
Oh, nothing wrong.
Zhou touched the two children's heads but did not correct them.
She said to Yu Li, "I will make you two sets of clothes first, and another one tomorrow. For the rest, I will make other styles and embroider some patterns on them. What patterns do you like?"
Yu Li felt that as long as the clothes were wearable, it didn't matter whether they had patterns or not. Somehow, he suddenly thought of the bamboo pattern on Fu Wenxiao's clothes. It looked so good on him, and had a special charm.
"Then let's embroider some bamboo. Bamboo looks beautiful."
Zhou smiled when she heard that. "Okay, I'll embroider bamboo. I'm good at embroidering bamboo and I'll make it beautiful for you."
After Zhou went to the kitchen to cook dinner, Yu Li returned to his room wearing new clothes.
Fu Wenxiao was sitting by the window reading a book. When he heard the sound, he looked up and naturally saw her new clothes.
In the past, she always wore gray coarse linen clothes, which made her look dusty and dirty, and her whole body seemed gray as well, not very eye-catching.
Now, she has put on new clothes, which are mainly green. Although she is still the same person, she looks a little different.
Yu Li saw him looking at her and said, "This is the new dress my mother made for me. Does it look good?"
Although she could make do with everything except food, she was still happy to have new clothes to wear. This fabric was different from the rough linen. It was softer and more breathable, and much more comfortable to wear.
Fu Wenxiao smiled and said, "Yeah, it looks good."
Cyan suits her very well.
It's not that it sets off her as a person, but a certain aura about her, a kind of vigorous vitality, which makes people want to get closer to her.
Yu Li pursed his lips and felt a little happy in his heart.
Well, it turns out that wearing new clothes can make people feel good.
In the original owner's memory, the clothes she wore from childhood to adulthood were all picked up from adults. When the clothes were torn, the adults would alter them to be smaller, mend them, and then give them to her.
Now she has new clothes!
**
The next day, Yu Li still got up very early.
Maybe she didn't have to go so early today. Yu Li got up half an hour late. When she got up, Zhou was already there and was making omelets for her in the kitchen.
Because Yu Li likes egg pancakes very much, Zhou continued to make them for her today.
When Yu Li was ready to go out, Zhou wrapped all the egg pancakes in oil paper and asked her to take them with her on the road.
When we arrived at the entrance of the village, Boss Tu was already there, holding a torch to illuminate the way.
Yu Li shared the egg pancakes made by Zhou with him. Tu ate a piece of the pancake out of courtesy and didn't eat anything else. She looked reluctant to leave. He felt embarrassed to snatch the food from the little girl. Anyway, there would be food to eat when he got to the county town.
On the way, Boss Tu taught Yu Li how to make torches.
They have to walk in the dark, so holding a fire is more convenient and saves money than using a lantern. Of course, they also have to pay attention to safety and not burn anything. Fires are likely to occur when the weather is dry.
"...Next time you walk at night, you can light a torch so you can see the road."
Thinking of something, Boss Tu asked again: "By the way, can you see clearly at night?"
Yu Li shook his head: "I can't see clearly."
Butcher suddenly realized, "Then you should eat more eggs, animal livers and other things. After you kill the pig, you can take some of the offal back home and cook it."
He learned this from a military doctor after he followed General Xuan.
Boss Tu was like this before. He couldn't see in dim places. It was not just him, many soldiers in the barracks were like this.
These soldiers all came from poor families and suffered from such eye diseases, but their conditions later improved a lot.
Yu Li naturally knew about this. She didn't have the conditions before, but now, she has started to kill pigs, so it is quite easy to get some pig livers and the like.
Nowadays, pig offal is called "offal", and people rarely eat it, mainly because offal has a strong smell and is difficult to clean. Also, few people can cook it deliciously, so no one likes to eat it.
My mother-in-law should be able to do it, right?
Yu Li thought seriously, there are so many delicious things in this world, she hopes the food can be delicious, then she will definitely eat more.
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When we arrived at the butcher shop in the county town, Zhang Fu and others had already arrived and were sitting there eating noodles.
Today's breakfast is shredded pork noodles. There is a big pot of shredded pork noodles there. If you want to eat it, just go and get it yourself.
Zhang Yaoping complained: "It's always like this. We make a big pot and we can't finish it. By noon, it's all clumped up. Such a waste of good white flour..."
Of course he didn't mind noodles made from white flour, but he couldn't cook them all in a big pot.
"Uncle Qi, why don't we hire someone to cook for us? This way we don't have to always ask the lady at the bun shop. For convenience, she always makes a big pot, and if we can't finish it, we have to save it for the next meal, which doesn't taste good anymore."
In the past, Zhang Fu would have considered his proposal, but today...
He said calmly: "It's okay, I can finish it."
Zhang Yaoping: “…”
Soon Zhang Yaoping knew what this meant.
After the grown men had eaten their fill, Yu Li ate up all the remaining shredded pork noodles in the pot.
Uncle Luo and Zhang Yaoping looked at her in amazement.
They arrived late yesterday and did not see Yu Li eating several large meat buns by herself, so they did not know how terrible her appetite was.
Several grown men together are no match for her.
"Why do you eat so much? Aren't you bloated?" Zhang Yaoping asked in disbelief. He looked at her body. She was so thin, how could she eat so much?
Yu Li: "No, I'm strong."
Zhang Yaoping was suddenly speechless.
Okay, it’s true that people with great strength eat more, so it’s not surprising.
He asked again in confusion: "You eat so much, why are you still so thin?"
"I'm skinny because of hunger." Yu Li said calmly, "When I was at my mother's house, my grandparents looked down on us because we were girls, saying that we didn't work and didn't need to eat too much."
Hearing this, everyone present couldn't help but frown, especially Zhang Fu and Boss Tu, who were both very angry.
How could there be such a cruel elder? He actually thought that girls don't need to eat too much because they don't work, and starved them to this skinny state.
Moreover, looking at the efficiency with which Yu Li works, it doesn't seem that she doesn't work. She must do a lot. Looking at her hands, you can tell that these are a pair of hands that are often worked. Her fingers are rough and there are thick calluses on the fingertips.
Zhang Yaoping said angrily: "Your grandparents are too much."
She would definitely not refrain from working at her parents' home. It might be that the elders treated her harshly and wanted to deduct her food rations.
The weather has been good in recent years, and taxes are not heavy. People are busy all year round and most of them have surplus food. There is no need to treat the girls in the family so badly, right?
Yu Li nodded in agreement, it was indeed too much.
But she knew that filial piety was important these days, and that one couldn't speak ill of elders in front of outsiders, so she said, "It's not their fault. Our family has to support our two cousins from our eldest uncle's family to study, so we all have to tighten our belts and save money."
Hearing this, everyone present understood.
No wonder, they actually had to support two scholars. For a country family, this was a heavy burden.
Boss Tu's impression of the Yu family became very bad.
He was not very clear about the situation of the Yu family. He only knew that the Yu family had three branches and that the eldest son, Yu, worked as an accountant in the county town. He should have a monthly salary of three taels of silver. Even in the county town, this three taels of silver was a lot of money.
Even if there are two educated people in the family, there is no need to treat the girl in the family badly like this.
Knowing that Yu Li was so thin because of hunger, everyone felt sympathy for him.
Zhang Yaoping said: "Then you should eat more in the future."
He himself was thin, but this was more because he was growing tall and slender. Before he came to work in the butcher's shop, his family was not rich, but it did not let his sisters starve. Some of his sisters had food too. Only those cruel elders who did not treat the girls in their family as human beings would not give them enough food.
Yu Liai nodded after hearing this.
When they went to work, Zhang Yaoping said again: "I originally thought you looked like this. I was wondering how a girl could be so thin, almost losing her shape. She looked ugly. I didn't expect you were starving. When you get better, you won't be so ugly. You should eat more..."
Yu Li looked at him calmly, and because he asked her to eat more, she didn't hit him.
Otherwise, if anyone dared to come up to her and say that she and her sisters were ugly, she would really not be able to help but slap them.
Refer to Chen Jicheng yesterday.
**
The butcher shop slaughtered two more pigs today, making a total of five pigs.
The pigs were driven out of the pigsty in the backyard. When they met Yu Li, they lay on the ground and could not be driven up even by grabbing their tails. It was not until Yu Li gave way that they carefully went around him.
Yu Li picked up a pig by its four hooves, pressed it on the slaughtering stool, stabbed the pig's neck with a knife, and the blood fell into the bucket.
Then the hair is shaved, the belly is gutted and the pork is cut into pieces.
Yu Li quickly finished dealing with one pig and continued to kill the next one.
As she started to kill the third pig, the men over there finally finished dealing with a pig.
When they watched Yu Li working, they felt that butchering pigs was very simple and thought they could do it too. Of course, after they got started, they found that they couldn't do it.
When Yu Li was slaughtering the pig, the pig was as quiet as a chicken and didn't make a sound.
When they slaughtered the pig, the pig howled and struggled so hard that all the neighbors woke up.
Yu Li killed three pigs.
After the pig was slaughtered, the sky began to turn pale.
After a short break, everyone started delivering the goods.
Yu Li was carrying a large bamboo basket filled with nearly 200 kilograms of pork and he lifted it up on his back with ease.
She said to the people in the room, "I'm going to deliver the goods first."
Zhang Fu and the others said goodbye to her and watched her walk out the door with ease. Then he looked at the bamboo basket in his hand and lifted it up. It was really heavy. Uncle Luo almost bent over.
"Ouch, my old waist!" Uncle Luo pounded his waist. "Seeing Li Niang so relaxed, I always felt that I could do it, but when I tried, I found that I couldn't do it."
Zhang Yaoping said immediately, "That's right, I followed Sister Yu's example in shaving pig hair, thinking that I could shave it cleanly with just one stroke of the knife, but I didn't realize that I couldn't shave at all, and the knife almost flew out."
As they talked, they looked at each other and felt that they, as grown men, were not as good as a little girl.
Somewhat ashamed.
**
Yu Li delivered goods to twenty companies today.
After slaughtering three pigs and paying twenty families for their services, he made a total of two hundred and fifty coins.
When Yu Li received her wages, she was very happy and was thinking about what to buy to take home later.
Zhang Fu brought two pairs of diving shoes that he had specially reserved for her, wrapped them in banana leaves, and put them in her backpack.
He said, "Brother Tu told me that you should eat this fish from now on. It will nourish your body and keep your eyes healthy."
The time for slaughtering pigs is early, so she has to get up in the middle of the night, and she cannot afford to be blind.
"I'll give you money..."
"Why do you want money?" Zhang Fu waved his hand. "Offal is not worth much. It's given away as a gift. It doesn't matter who you give it to. You can take it back and cook it."
Yu Li gave up and kept this favor in mind.
On the way back, Yu Li bought some daily necessities in the county town, such as soy sauce, vinegar, and tooth powder, and then went to buy sugar and preserved fruits. He also generously bought osmanthus cakes and white rice cakes at the pastry shop, and went to the braised meat shop to buy some braised meat and a roast chicken...
Now that she has money, she wants to buy and eat what she wants.
After the purchase, Yu Li carried a basket full of things and returned to the village under the scorching midday sun.
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