The cannon fodder of fast wear, she chooses to farm

Chapter 3

Mrs. Xu was pulled into a chair by Xu Yin and sat down, and then handed her nephew an orange petal jelly candy wrapped in transparent cellophane. There were about a dozen pieces, which looked like an orange.

Little Douding's eyes lit up.

"Eat!" Xu Yin said with a smile.

He looked at his mother, then at Xu Yin, and timidly stretched out his little paw to take one.

Don't dare to take more, for fear that my aunt will pinch him.

Seeing this, Xu Yin stuffed the whole orange candy into his pocket.

A big bag suddenly bulged out of the small pocket.

Xiao Douding lowered his head for a few glances, then grinned.

"Yinyin, how do you want to mend your pants?"

Mrs. Xu picked up her trousers and looked at them.

Everything else is quite new, except that there is a small hole at the bottom of the trousers, which can be sewed with the same color thread.

There is an obvious wear and tear on the buttocks, which is probably caused by the rough benches in the school.

"Sew or patch?"

Xu Yin didn't want to choose either.

Ask my sister-in-law to cut off the bottom of the trousers by an inch, which just cuts off the tear.

Then close the trousers, and it will become a popular small trousers in later generations.

Then draw two patches of jeans.

"Cut out the same color fabric and stick it on the trousers, and you can have two more pockets by the way."

"Hey, this is not bad. It has an extra layer, which can be used as a pocket and is also resistant to wear and tear."

Mrs. Xu's sewing skills are very good, and she made the patches in two or three strokes.

He quickly sewed it onto the trousers, shook off the thread after sewing, and said in surprise:

"It's just like a new one after it's mended."

And so stylish.

"Really?" Xu Yin herself was quite satisfied.

She has loved painting since she was a child, including children's paintings, Chinese paintings, sketches, sketches...from kindergarten all the way to junior high school graduation.

In the second year of junior high school, the family changed to a three-bedroom apartment, and the decoration of the home was designed by her.

Teachers and classmates all said that she has a talent for design.

With this talent and her later efforts, she won many awards.

She originally wanted to take the CAFA exam, but her parents and teachers said her grades made it a pity to go to the Academy of Fine Arts.

It is obvious that the key prestigious schools can make a breakthrough. If they perform well, Qingbei is not impossible.

But she was very fond of design at that time.

Parents couldn't hold her back, so they had to make a compromise -- she studied industrial design at Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts as an undergraduate.

As a graduate student, she decided to take the costume and fashion design of Donghua University.

Although I wore it before graduation, I have a good grasp of theoretical knowledge, and I often buy some favorite fabrics to practice in my spare time.

In addition to the previous two lives, she was dressed as the daughter of a small tailor in the Republic of China and the youngest daughter of a farmer in ancient times, so sewing is naturally a no-brainer.

Not to mention just cutting a side, cutting and sewing two patches, it is not difficult to make a new pair of trousers on the spot.

But the key is that the original body can't.

Not to mention mending, let her put a needle through it and probably prick a bleeding hole in her finger.

So I can only trouble my sister-in-law.

By the way, open up some new ideas for my sister-in-law:

"Flipped pants are popular in the city now. Girls in our school like them, but I don't think they look good. I still like this kind..."

Xu Yin drew a sketch while talking:

"Sister-in-law, I still have a piece of denim left over from making a coat last year, please make me a pair of pants like this."

"to make!"

Mrs. Xu agreed without saying a word.

Anyway, in this family, sister-in-law's affairs are the top priority.

What's more, just making a pair of trousers is much easier than collecting and chopping firewood.

Xu Yin did intend to make her do less heavy work.

She remembered that her sister-in-law was born prematurely at the end of this year, and died due to heavy bleeding at the same time as she gave birth to her little nephew.

Calculating the time, Bao Buqi is already pregnant.

Even if she is not pregnant, such a sallow and thin person is not conducive to raising a fetus and giving birth to a baby.

But Xu's mother can't see her daughter-in-law at leisure.

Seeing that the firewood was not finished chopping, he hid in the room and didn't know what he was doing. He was so angry that he crossed his hips and cursed in the yard:

"Oh, I see whose daughter-in-law is as lucky as my Xu family, she can hide in the room before noon and be lazy..."

Xu Yin hurriedly coaxed him into the main room: "Mom, my sister-in-law is helping me with something!"

"Shouldn't you just mend your pants? Haven't finished yet? I think she's just being lazy on purpose." Mother Xu said angrily.

"It's finished. I'll let her make me a new pair of pants. Mom, you don't know. The pants I painted are popular in the city now, but it's too expensive to buy ready-made ones. Let's find a tailor to make them. I'll go home I have inquired before that the orders in the hands of the old tailor will be lined up until the end of the year at the earliest, and I am not at ease with the craftsmanship of the apprentices. The fabrics I have finally saved, what should I do if they are broken? It happens that my sister-in-law is good at sewing and can save money. For a salary, the rags can make a pair of shoes..."

Xu's mother looked a lot better when she heard this, but she was still not in a good mood:
"When can't pants and shoes be made, chop the firewood first, I think she is taking the opportunity to hide!"

"Oh, mom, the chopped firewood can last for two months. Let's store the rest until the trousers are finished. Don't let my sister-in-law do heavy work for now. Look at her rough hands. I'm worried about mine. It’s a good material, but it was scooped before it was made into trousers. I still want to wear them to show off in front of my classmates! The ones they spend money on are not as good-looking as the ones I don’t spend money on.”

Mother Xu tapped her forehead with her index finger after hearing what she said:
"You know how to be beautiful! But my mother's good girl is beautiful, and she has the capital of being beautiful! That's fine, let the old man be tired for two days, and the firewood will be cut after the trousers are finished."

"Yeah, and don't let her go to pick up big dung in the village."

Since land parcels are distributed to households, each family only needs to be busy with its own fields and mountains.

The Xu family has a small population, so the land allocated to them is naturally not as much as other families.

After the busy farming season, the whole family does not need to go to the field to serve all day long.

However, those elderly households with five guarantees who lost their husbands and sons during the war years suffered a lot, especially the heavy work of picking manure.

So the cadres of the brigade said that whoever helped the five-guarantee households to pick up the big manure, and at the end of the year the river pond was released to catch fish, would give a few extra catties to the family.

As soon as Mother Xu heard this, she signed up for her daughter-in-law without saying a word.

Anyway, she is not the one who is tired, and she can still earn some seafood for the family by the end of the year, so why not do it.

"It's not a heavy job. It takes three to five days to do it, so it's impossible?" Mother Xu said disapprovingly.

"Oh, that smell is too bad."

Xu Yin pinched her nose and pretended to be disgusted.

"I wanted to say it a long time ago. Every time I come back, the yard smells like that. My new pants are still in her room. Don't smell them before I wear them."

Mother Xu made sense when she heard it, but she still had some regrets:

"If you don't pick it, don't pick it. It's cheaper for her this time. It's just that you will lose a few catties of fish and shrimp during the Chinese New Year. I don't know if you can get a whole piece of your favorite stewed tofu with fat head fish."

"..."

Anyway, under Xu Yin's coaxing moves, Xu's mother finally agreed not to assign heavy work to Mrs. Xu during this period of time.

In addition to daily housework, other tasks wait until the pants are finished.

(End of this chapter)