170: Oh my god, this is totally over
Yu Xiaoye pondered for a moment and said:
"Forget it, there's no point in being afraid. If the enemy comes, we'll fight him with soldiers. If the water comes, we'll block it with earth. Anyway, we already knew that we can't hide forever. Besides, sooner or later, we have to bring my two brothers back, right? I didn't bring them back before because we didn't have much at home and the conditions didn't allow it. Now we have everything we need at home, and it's time."
"Really? Do you really want to bring my two eldest sons back?" Xu Ying panicked. She put down the bucket and nervously pinched the corner of her clothes. "But, I've only been a mother to you, never to two grown boys. I can't get used to having two more sons!"
Yu Xiaoye looked at his mother's nervous and frightened expression and comforted her:
"Mom, it's okay. It's just two more sons, right?"
"Look at the tone of your voice. Two more sons, do you think they're just two more cabbages in the field?"
"If you have two more sons, then I will have two more brothers!"
The mother and daughter couldn't help but start bickering with each other, both feeling a little uncomfortable with the two new people in the family.
Yu Xiaoye turned his head to look at these small courtyards, thinking that there would be two more people in the family in the future. He couldn't believe it. He wondered what it would be like with two more people in the family.
However, what is coming will eventually come, there is no point in being afraid!
Fortunately, the family now has enough supplies, and they can slowly leave the space and survive without the help of the space.
Yu Xiaoye added:
"Mom, don't be nervous. Let's discuss this tonight when Dad comes back and come up with a strategy as soon as possible. I'm going to Director Ma's house to sew a quilt cover first. I'll make it as soon as possible so you can put on a new one."
"Oh, go ahead."
Yu Xiaoye went into the house, found the damaged cloth he had bought on the black market that day, and then left with the cloth.
Xu Ying was left alone at home, still feeling a little nervous.
She covered her chest and looked up at the sky:
"Oh my goodness, this is the end, the world is going to change!"
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Yu Xiaoye took the cloth to Director Ma's house.
To express her gratitude to Director Ma, she also served three grilled fish in a large bowl.
Although she now had relatively more supplies, she didn't dare to take them out. The only thing she had was the grilled fish, which had a barely explainable origin, so she only dared to take out some grilled fish.
When she arrived at Director Ma's house, Director Ma was waiting for her. Seeing a big bowl of grilled fish, he was polite to Yu Xiaoye again.
Then Director Ma dug out a pile of clothes that needed repairing and piled them on the kang.
At that time, everyone's clothes had some patches. No matter how well-off the family was, they would wear patched clothes.
Yu Xiaoye looked at each piece of clothing one by one. Most of them had their cuffs or elbows worn out, and some pants had crotches, but the most common part was the backs of the buttocks.
There are two more items, which are made by altering old adult clothes into small clothes for children.
There's a lot of work anyway.
Director Ma said embarrassedly:
"Girl, I'm really sorry to bother you. I really asked you to do this because I saw that you are good at sewing. To be honest, I envy your craftsmanship so much."
Yu Xiaoye smiled and said politely:
"It's okay, Director Ma, I'll fix it for you in a moment."
Director Ma also laughed:
"You do your own work first. There's no rush for mine. Just sew it up for me when you have time."
Director Ma found two unwanted old clothes, which were torn and small, and asked Yu Xiaoye to use them to cut and mend other clothes. He also poured a cup of hot water for Yu Xiaoye in his own enamel cup and specially added a spoonful of sugar to the water.
Yu Xiaoye drank a cup of sweet sugar water, then started to work, sewing his own quilt cover first.
Sewing the quilt cover is relatively simple. Just make a few straight lines and it will be done in a few minutes. However, if this job is done by hand, it will take her an entire night.
Director Ma had never seen anyone sew a quilt cover like this and found it very novel.
In the 1970s, people in the north had their quilt covers sewn directly onto their quilts. If they wanted to wash them, they had to take them off and then sew them back onto the thick quilt stitch by stitch, which was very troublesome. Therefore, many families did not take off and wash their quilt covers all winter.
But the quilt cover made by Yu Xiaoye is a new type of quilt cover for the 21st century. The four sides are sewn together, leaving a hole. When the time comes, the cotton batting can be stuffed in directly along the hole, and then the hole is simply sewn up, and a few stitches are sewn on the four corners.
Director Ma had never seen anyone sew a quilt cover like this.
Yu Xiaoye said that someone in her hometown did this, and she learned it from them, and it was easier this way.
Director Ma had no doubts. After all, the world is so big, and different places have different customs. It is normal to have different ways of sewing quilt covers.
After finishing the quilt cover, I mended a few pieces of clothes for Director Ma.
Director Ma thought her way of mending clothes was also very unique. When others mend clothes, they would stick a large patch directly on the outside, sew it around with needle and thread, and then pin the patch to the clothes.
However, when Yu Xiaoye mended clothes, he would stick the patch on the inside of the clothes and embroider a beautiful pattern on the outside with thread to cover the scar as much as possible.
Anyway, the colors of clothes at that time were relatively simple. Women's clothes were better, with relatively more color choices, while men's clothes were nothing more than blue, black, gray and yellow. As long as similar thread was used, it would not be easy for people to see the difference when sewing them.
After the embroidery was finished, I took it out and looked at it. I couldn't tell it was a patch at all. The patch blended in perfectly with the clothes, as if there was a beautiful pattern on the clothes.
Director Ma took the clothes that Yu Xiaoye had repaired and praised them highly. She liked them very much. This time she truly experienced what it meant to be dexterous.
In fact, Yu Xiaoye's needlework skills are so outstanding, one reason is that the original owner is very good at needlework, coupled with her own artistic processing, so the amazing effect is achieved.
Both superb technology and artistic talent are indispensable.
Yu Xiaoye was altering a few pieces of clothes for Director Ma when he heard some chattering outside.
Yu Xiaoye stopped pedaling the sewing machine for a moment:
Could it be that the people from the Ninth Company have arrived?
Then I heard Rao Li say with a very proud tone:
"Really? You'll see her superb skills in a moment. I'm not exaggerating, but no one in our company can sew better than her, and I doubt there's anyone in your company either."
Another strange woman's voice was very unconvinced:
"Don't brag. We have an educated youth in our company who is also an expert at needlework. She is good at knitting and embroidering. She can embroider anything and make it look just like the real thing. She can even embroider a bird or a flower without any foundation, and it will look just like the real thing!"
Rao Li was also unconvinced and secretly challenged:
"What's the use of embroidery? It's an antique from hundreds of years ago. Nowadays, being able to make an ordinary piece of clothing fashionable and beautiful is a truly useful skill—"
The voices came from far away.
When Yu Xiaoye heard the conversation between these two fake besties, she felt a chill in her heart:
Oh no, that female educated youth who is good at embroidery that Rao Li’s best friend mentioned, could she be the heroine of the original book?
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