Break out of the courtyard

After his grandfather Ma Changming promised Zhang Heping a lot of benefits, he finally made his request... help his eldest cousin get some cloth!

Zhang Heping looked at Ma Xiuzhen with a smile on her face and the two rolls of green and white cloth that had not yet been collected on the Tukang, and immediately understood that his mother had betrayed him.

"Grandpa, my eldest cousin is only 16 years old. How can she get married at such a young age!"

"You're not young anymore!" Grandpa Ma Changming looked at his second daughter, Ma Xiuzhen, and said with a smile: "Your mother married your father when she was 16, and gave birth to your eldest sister when she was 17."

"The current marriage age for women is 18!" Zhang Heping said, looking at his eldest cousin Ma Lili, and asked: "First cousin, in which year was you born? In what month?"

"November 1946." Ma Lili looked at her little cousin curiously. The second aunt had just said that her little cousin was in charge of the family.

"15 years old!" Zhang Heping looked at his grandfather Ma Changming's obvious expression, and then looked at his young and ignorant eldest cousin. The topic suddenly changed and he asked:

"Why did my eldest cousin bring me a puppy? There is very little meat in the city. Most people can't eat one meal of meat in a month, let alone feed it to a dog."

Ma Lili looked at the puppy on the bamboo bench and said hesitantly: "Didn't you tell Yong Sheng and the others last time that you wanted to go hunting in the mountains? After much thought, we came up with the idea of ​​giving you a hunting dog..."

"Uncle Xiao Liu and the others said that this puppy is easy to feed. It can eat whatever its owner eats."

"If you don't want it, I..."

Zhang Heping interrupted his eldest cousin with a wave of his hand, and then said to his mother, Ma Xiuzhen: "Mom, take grandpa and my eldest cousin to take a bath and get a haircut first, and take my dad with you."

After finishing speaking, Zhang Heping walked to the sewing machine and sat down. He began to think and stepped on the pedal.

Tailor: Beginner (1%).

Zhang Heping thought in his heart that his uncle's family could not count on him. His eldest cousin Zhang Cuishan was limited by his personality and family, and he did not listen to Zhang Heping's salary arrangement. In the future, he could only be regarded as a close relative with limited help in the future.

Looking at grandpa again, there is no need to mention the etiquette of visiting the house.

Uncle Ma Zhiyi showed his clear sense when discussing the conditions for returning home with Zhang Heping and whether he could give him hunting rifles, bows and arrows.

As for the little local dog that the eldest cousin brought this time, it was only because Zhang Heping, his cousins ​​Ma Yongsheng and Ma Yongli mentioned the idea of ​​going into the mountains to hunt, that they remembered it now...

Zhang Heping thought of Uncle Zhuang's favor and the job problems of his two sisters in three years, so he temporarily suppressed the idea of ​​using his connections to find a job for his eldest cousin. After all, she was only 15 years old. After another three years, she would have just arrived. Marriage age.

However, in the past three years, I have to find something for my eldest cousin Ma Lili to do, which will not only prevent her family from urging marriage, but also allow her to learn a craft and make money.

Then, Zhang Heping thought of Ma Lili's little face. Although her skin was a little darker, she looked good, and she was very similar to her mother, Ma Xiuzhen.

And with her slender figure of over 1.6 meters, plus two big meat bags that are easy to give birth to, if it works well, it will not be difficult to find a potential brother-in-law in the city for her.

In the future, we will find a reliable brother-in-law for each of the two sisters, and let them pull the three brothers-in-law to be their brother-in-laws... It will be very interesting to think about it!

As long as his family can safely survive the next ten years, Zhang Heping's era will come!

After having an idea in his mind, Zhang Heping began to practice with some useless rags and strips of cloth. He pushed and pulled them back under the needle of the sewing machine, turning left and right, and made some bows, small flowers, wavy curls, and slender ones. Strips and other accessories.

In the middle of the journey, Zhang Heping went out for a while, fed some diced rabbits to Laifu, and taught his eldest sister Zhang Zhaodi how to knead dough in preparation for making bedding.

After Zhang Heping mixed the garlic and diced rabbit seasoning and kept it aside, after the water boiled, he poured the diced rabbit in first. After instructing the elder sister on the precautions of fishing out the diced rabbit and covering the bed, Zhang Heping went back to the house and continued to use the sewing machine.

Two hours later, Zhang Heping's tailoring skills had reached the level of proficiency. Just as his mother, Ma Xiuzhen, and the others came back, they invited everyone to eat first.

Zhang Heping didn't let Laifu eat the remaining rabbit bones. He just took a small bowl and scooped some noodle soup from the pot to feed it.

After the meal, Zhang Heping called his eldest cousin and measured her body measurements with a piece of hemp rope. Then he cut cloth on the earthen bed and complained, "Mom, you have been making clothes for so many days, do you know?" I know that without a ruler or chalk, it would be a waste of cloth!”

Ma Xiuzhen and her two sisters wanted to say that you didn't have it either, but they saw Zhang Heping making a few gestures with the hemp rope and skillfully cutting out pieces of fabric of different sizes.

The key is that the areas left after being cut are all very thin and small scraps; unlike what Ma Xiuzhen and the others did, there are pieces of useless cloth of varying sizes here and there, which can only be left for tying. patch.

"Brother, what is such a small piece of cloth used for?"

Zhang Heping glanced at it and replied: "Thickened cuffs."

Zhang Heping took away the cut pieces of fabric, sat down in front of the sewing machine, changed the white thread, and started sewing!

Then, everyone saw Zhang Heping skillfully sewing together pieces of fabric of different sizes, gradually forming a white cotton shirt.

This shirt style is much prettier than the half-finished product sewn by Ma Xiuzhen.

"Cousin, give it a try." Zhang Heping cut off the needle and thread and handed over the newly made clothes.

"Wow!" The second sister, Zhang Pandi, rubbed Zhang Heping's head vigorously a few times and exclaimed, "What's in your little head? You've learned how to make clothes so quickly!"

"Is it difficult to learn?" Zhang Heping asked calmly, with a calm look... I really deserve a beating!

After the eldest cousin Ma Lili happily took off her coat and put on the newly made shirt, Zhang Heping asked: "Can the eldest cousin know how to sew buttons and buttonholes?"

"Yeah!" Ma Lili nodded happily.

"There is still green cloth on the kang, but I don't want to make it for you!" Zhang Heping looked at his astonished cousin, frowned and said, "I feel that if I make another set of green military uniforms for you, it will be like making another set of green military uniforms for you. It's like pushing into a fire pit."

"Think about your mother and second aunt. They used to be from the countryside, but now they lead two completely different lives."

"You are only 15 years old now, and you can still choose your future! Tonight, think carefully about it. If you insist on getting married, the roll of green cloth and the remaining white cloth will be given to you as a dowry." Zhang Heping walked to the kang. He carried the two rolls of cloth onto the long coffee table.

Later, Zhang Heping gave his right wing room to his grandfather to sleep in. He ran to the sink, took the tap water in a small iron bucket, stood in the middle of the yard and took a shower, then went to the right wing room to change into boxers, and then ran to the east wing room. He went to bed on the earthen bed.

On the earthen bed, Ma Xiuzhen asked her son: "You let your cousin choose. She is an ignorant country girl. Besides choosing a wife, what else can she choose?"

"Choose to stay in the city and marry a city man!"

"It's not that easy!"

"I think it's quite easy! Look at Comrade Zhang making money today, but he is lying in the corner without saying a word. Do you think he wants to hide his private money, and then find me a baby mother..."

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