When Xie Changzheng was young, he spent most of his time in the army. The uniforms were distributed by the army, and all the clothes tickets were sent back to his hometown. He really had no clear idea of how much fabric was needed to make clothes for children and adults.
Xie Changzheng realized that he might have been overwhelmed by the joy of rebirth, so he lost the calmness that he was most proud of in the past.
In fact, when he was reborn back to this era, he should first get familiar with this era again. Only in this way could he better protect his wife and daughter.
“The clothes tickets you have here are only two feet and two inches long. If it’s for a child, you can make a long-sleeved shirt, but if it’s for an adult, the fabric is only enough to make a coat and some small items.”
After listening to Xie Changzheng’s words, the female employee of the supply and marketing cooperative, who was originally a little indifferent, immediately softened her expression.
After all, in all the years she had worked there, she had rarely seen a man, who came to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy fabric for his wife and children.
“Listen to my advice. Either don’t buy the fabric this time and come back when you have enough. Or make clothes for the children first. If both the adults and the children want to buy some new things and you don’t mind the fabric, then use it to make some small vests or small pants. This kind of cotton fabric is very soft and very comfortable to wear next to the skin.”
Even though everyone is poor nowadays, the love of a face is a thing that is loved by everyone, regardless of age or group. Many people would rather the clothes they wear inside are tattered and full of patches, but the outermost piece of clothing must always be neat and decent.
Even in the countryside, people wear old clothes when working in the fields but wear their own clothes with the least patches when going to the market or visiting relatives and friends.
However, such an ordinary thing was difficult to achieve for Xu Chunxiu and her daughter, because their clothes were all old clothes given away by other people in the family, and naturally, they were all full of patches.
Xie Changzheng felt sorry for his daughter, but he also felt guilty toward his wife. He didn’t have the nerve to take all the fabric back to make a new dress for his daughter, but the clothes tickets were indeed limited.
Xie Changzheng thought that the salesperson’s last suggestion was a good one. Once he had collected enough clothes tickets, he could naturally make many new clothes for his daughter and wife.
When Xie Changzheng came out of the supply and marketing cooperative, he already had a big bag of things in his hand. There were no plastic bags these days, so he could only buy a washbasin to hold all the things.
On the way back, Xie Changzheng did not meet another enthusiastic person. He held the basin in one hand and leaned on a crutch in the other, trying to speed up his pace to rush to the hospital.
Fortunately, the hospital was not too far from the supply and marketing cooperative. After about twenty minutes, Xie Changzheng finally returned to his daughter’s ward.
“Mom, this water is so sweet, much better than the water in the well. The tap water in the city is really magical.”
Xie Changzheng walked to the door and stopped subconsciously when he heard his daughter’s clear and sweet voice.
In his memory, his daughter’s voice was always very weak, not much louder than the buzzing of a mosquito, which made Xie Changzheng worry that if he spoke a little louder, his daughter would be scared back. As a result, when facing his daughter, Xie Changzheng always didn’t know how to communicate with her.
But now, just by listening to the voice, Xie Changzheng’s mind emerged with a cute face full of smiles, acting coquettishly toward his mother. Such an intimate attitude was something he had never felt before.
“Silly girl, brown sugar is added here. Isn’t it sweet?”
Xu Chunxiu saw her daughter’s eyes suddenly widen after drinking the brown sugar water. Her frowning brows loosened a lot, but at the same time, she felt more and more guilty.
Because of Xie Changzheng, the Xie family’s conditions had never been bad.
She once saw a table full of cakes and candies that she had not had time to stuff back when her mother-in-law opened the door.
However, these good things had never been their turn. Besides the grandchildren of the Xie family, the one who could enjoy the old lady’s small cooking was Xie Xiuzhu.
Miao Fengmei is a face-loving person. Occasionally, when relatives and neighbors come to visit, she is willing to make tea with brown sugar for those guests.
Often, Xu Chunxiu and her daughter were responsible for this task because boiling water was a hard job, especially in summer. Staying in the hot and stuffy kitchen for a while was enough to make people sweat.
Miao Fengmei was worried that the mother and daughter would drink it secretly, so she engraved a water line on every tea bowl in the house and always watched the mother and daughter finish making the sugar water.
In this way, when the sugar water was in the hands of the guests, once the position of the tea water was lower than the water line, it must be that the mother and daughter drank it secretly on the way from the kitchen to the main room.
Although Xu Chunxiu had never done such a thing, Miao Fengmei was still wary of her and her daughter.
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Aah, when the head of the family teach everyone with words and actions that XCX and XW were to be treated as unruly slaves and the family members were their master… Even without knowing the meaning of “slaves” and “master”, they would treat them as such. With their lack of ability to separate themselves from her (money and authority), they might even gaslighting themselves to follow her lead.