Chapter 33 New Clothes
After lunch, Wang Dadi rushed out.
Xie Shuangbai looked at his back and joked with Cui: "Aunt, my uncle has always been so..." He was about to say "resolute and vigorous" but was afraid that Aunt Cui would not understand, so he changed his words and said: "so... impetuous."
Cui smiled as she sewed, "Your uncle is just impatient. Otherwise he wouldn't be able to sit still at home all day."
"That's right. Don't miss the many things that happen to the hundred households in the village. Village Chief Li of Dashi Village must be very busy."
As far as Xie Shuangbai knew, Dashi Village had a lot more people than their village.
Cui bit off the cotton thread and shook her clothes. "You're talking about Old Li. He's not as busy as him. He's a slow-paced person, unlike your Uncle Wang."
Cui took the clothes and examined them carefully, "Shuang, come here and try them on."
"It's done so quickly!" Xie Shuangbai was surprised.
"This is the inner robe. Your sister-in-law is almost done with the outer robe."
Cui stood up to put it on him, but she was too short to reach it.
Xie Shuangbai quickly took the clothes and said, "Auntie, I can put them on myself. You treat me like a child."
"You're just a kid!"
Cui was also puzzled. Even though she knew Shuang was already sixteen, she still felt that he had not grown up. She smiled and touched his face.
Xie Shuangbai also blushed. Sixteen could be a father in the village.
I can only blame him for having a face that looks too small.
The cherry red robe did not make her look bulky at all. Xie Shuangbai did not add cotton to the hem of the robe. The decision to save cotton actually made the clothes look lighter.
The pants are also in the same color, with thin cotton added, and the top makes him look even slimmer and taller.
Cui looked at him with a smile: "Oh, where did this little immortal come from?"
Li looked up when she heard that and stopped the work in her hands in shock. She apologized in her heart for what she said yesterday. She said that dark red was rustic, but now it seems that she was wrong. It's not the color that is rustic, but the way they look.
The admiring look cannot be suppressed.
The dark red collar wrapped around Xie Shuang's fair neck made people drool.
Xie Shuangbai had no idea what Li was thinking. He just felt like a piece of red velvet cake.
When his fair wrist stretched out from the red robe, the words "red velvet cake" popped up in his mind unconsciously. The visual impact was too strong.
He is a little afraid to wear this dress.
I really want to slap myself twice for designing such a terrible piece of clothing.
Xue also hurried over with her outer robe: "Mother, mine is also healed, let Shuang try it!" Xue looked at Xie Shuangbai excitedly, scaring him so much that he took a step back. He was not unfamiliar with this look, this was how modern fanatical fans chased stars.
He sighed, and he still couldn't escape the clutches of the women.
Cui took the clothes and looked at them. The blue-and-white robe was made very solidly with dense stitching.
The outer robe was also covered with thin cotton because the sleeves of the dark red robe were narrow, making it easy to put on the outer robe.
Xie Shuangbai looked even more handsome in the indigo-colored robe with a few dark red patterns. This was an unexpected color combination, and he looked surprisingly harmonious and handsome in it.
Several people surrounded him and looked at him left and right, making his face turn red.
It reminded him of when he was a child, he would change his cousin's Barbie doll into new clothes and show it to everyone excitedly and proudly.
If Barbie had a soul, her face would probably blush, right?
"Wow, it's so charming!" Cui liked it very much.
"Isn't my brother the most handsome!" Xie Chunmiao looked proud.
"Wow, brother, you...I don't know what to say!" Xie Xiachan also looked at him with starry eyes.
Xie Qiushi covered his mouth and laughed.
The Wang brothers came in from outside and were all stunned to see Xie Shuangbai wearing new clothes.
I looked at myself unconsciously and blushed with shame.
"Frost is just prettier than us rough guys."
Wang Shunyi praised him generously.
Wang Shunfa nodded in agreement.
No matter how thick-skinned Xie Shuangbai was, he couldn't bear it now.
"Okay, Brother Wang, stop teasing me!"
"It's just your clothes... they're too conspicuous, I'm afraid..." Wang Shunyi stammered before Cui shouted:
"What are you afraid of? Who else should tell us what to wear?"
Wang Shunyi didn't dare to say the rest. Mom, I didn't say anything. I'm just afraid of the danger of frost!
Xie Shuangbai thought that there were a few mentally unstable people in the village: "It's okay, Brother Wang, we are all villagers, how can there be any danger?"
He changed the subject and asked, "Why are you back? Where's Uncle Wang?"
"Oh, my dad is harvesting beans, and we were just planning to go over there."
"I'll go with you to take a look."
Harvesting beans will inevitably create a lot of dust, so don't get your clothes dirty.
"Just wear your outer robe. It's cool at night."
Xie Shuangbai nodded, took off his red robe and went to the threshing ground.
There is a threshing ground in every village, where people usually gather to discuss matters or hold meetings.
When Xie Shuangbai arrived, Village Chief Wang was surrounded by a crowd of people.
He was shouting something with a red face, and was so anxious that sweat broke out on his forehead.
The Wang brothers and he hurried over.
"Make way, make way!" The Wang brothers forcibly opened a passage, and Xie Shuangbai was also squeezed.
Finally, they arrived in front of Wang Dadi. Xie Shuangbai asked, "Uncle, what's going on? Why is it so messy?"
"Everyone wants their own grain to be collected, but we can't collect so much." Wang Dadi was also annoyed.
"Didn't we say we'd find a few reliable ones? Why are there so many people here?"
Xie Shuangbai looked at the dense crowd in confusion.
"It's still those nagging people. Oh, forget about them. Let's see how this matter can be resolved first!"
Xie Shuangbai looked around, stood on a high ground, and asked Brother Wang to take the gong and beat it randomly, which made everyone silent.
Everyone looked at him from a high place, and he shouted loudly:
"Everyone, listen to me. Anyone who makes a noise or doesn't raise their hand to speak will not receive any beans."
A scoundrel in the crowd shouted, "If you say you don't want to accept it, then don't accept it. You're not the village chief!"
"Because I'm the one who collects soybeans, I can collect from whoever I want. I won't collect from you."
Xie Shuangbai looked at the man coldly.
The man was so angry that he cursed a few times, then turned around and walked away, cursing as he walked: "Bah, if you don't want it, then don't. Do you think I'm interested in you?"
Now no one in the crowd dared to speak.
An old woman raised her hand tremblingly and asked, "Little Scholar, I heard that the soybean harvest is coming up. Is it still being harvested now?"
Xie Shuangbai turned around and asked Village Chief Wang, "How much did you collect now?"
"I haven't received it yet. I'm just about to take a look at it, so I can't just accept it without checking the quality."
"Uncle is right."
Xie Shuangbai asked again, "How much does it cost to buy a bag of soybeans?"
"If it's 100 jin per bag, it's 20 wen."
“So cheap?”
Xie Shuangbai was really surprised.
"How much do you think soybeans cost? They don't taste good, no one wants them."
He still had a few taels of silver in his hand, and there was no news about the stone mill, so he might as well collect 100 bags first.
Xie Shuangbai turned to the old lady who had just asked the question, "Auntie, I still buy soybeans, but not a lot. As for which store I buy from, it mainly depends on the quality. I will buy from whoever has the best and largest beans. I guarantee that I will be impartial."
After hearing this, everyone seemed relieved and felt that the beans in their own homes were good and big.
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