By the time her two younger sisters returned home, Su Xiaoxue had already put water in the water tank and cut grass for the pigs, while her mother was watering the vegetables in the vegetable garden.

Er Ni hadn't even gotten close yet. Seeing the bamboo gate open, she was stunned for a moment, then shouted, "Sister, Mom and Dad, are you back?"

Xiao Ni finally reacted and started calling her parents and elder sister.

Hearing the voice, Su Xiaoxue stood up and looked at her two sisters who were running towards her.

Seeing their excited faces, Su Xiaoxue smiled and said, "Why are you in such a hurry?"

Erni looked at her and said, "Sister, when did you come back?" Then she looked into the house.

Su Xiaoxue replied: "I just came back not long ago. Dad is resting inside."

Xiao Ni also asked quickly, "Sister, how is Dad's illness? Can it be cured? Is it cured?"

Su Xiaoxue patted the dirt on her hands. She had just planted a few cucumber seedlings beside the wall. Soon, there would be a lot of cucumbers to eat. Every year, they planted some fruits and vegetables that were easy to climb and manage on the courtyard wall. They were delicious whether eaten raw or cooked.

She nodded. "Yes, the doctor has already performed surgery on Dad. He said that it is curable. Now he just needs to take medicine and rest. Then he needs to go for a checkup every once in a while to see how he is recovering. It won't take half a year or a year for Dad to fully recover."

"Really?" The two sisters' voices rang out at the same time.

Su Xiaoxue laughed, "Can I still lie to you?"

Xiao Ni happily hugged her elder sister's hand and said, "That's great. Dad will be happy from now on."

When my father fell ill, the one who was most sad was actually himself. It was not because of the pain, but because after he fell ill, he could no longer lift anything. In his eyes, I had gone from being a backbone and pillar of the family to a waste.

The huge gap can naturally be seen by everyone in the family, including the youngest daughter, Xiaoni.

Instead, Erni looked outside again, and then lowered her voice to ask her elder sister, "Eldest sister, um... future sister... is the money given by her brother-in-law used for treatment?"

Erni watched Qin Chi help the family, and she changed her mind from opposing it at first to accepting it later. Now she has followed her sister and changed her mind.

Su Xiaoxue did not hide it from her sister and nodded, “Well, thanks to his help, he spent the money and arranged it. If it weren’t for him this time, it wouldn’t have been so smooth.”

Erni nodded, "Yeah."

However, after a long silence, Erni suddenly asked, "Sister, will you marry him?"

Su Xiaoxue was amused by her sister's question, "Of course!"

"So... did you marry him because he helped Dad?"

"Of course not. I think he's a very good man and suitable to be my husband. He can help my father. I am very grateful to him and will treat him well in the future."

Erni nodded, but didn't ask anything else.

Two days later, on the weekend, Erni got up early in the morning and said she wanted to go to the mountains to pick more mushrooms, dry them, and send them to her future brother-in-law's house.

"They have helped us so much, so doing this little thing is nothing, right?"

However, this time when they went to the mountains, they did not pick many porcini mushrooms. It depends on the situation. If there are a lot of them, then there are a lot. If there are none, then there are none.

Although they didn’t find any porcini mushrooms, they did discover a patch of chicken mushroom flowers!

This thing is also a very delicious mushroom.

When they returned with their bags full, Erni asked her elder sister, "Eldest sister, didn't you say you were going to the city? Why don't you go tomorrow? It's a good opportunity to bring some of this to your future brother-in-law."

Su Xiaoxue was also planning to set up a stall in the city. When she heard her ask, she nodded and said, "Sure. I'll go tomorrow."

These two days, her parents just came back, and she first arranged the household affairs before preparing to go to the city to make money.

Going to the city to sell small items is a very small thing for Su Xiaoxue now, because she has gotten over the anxiety, tension and cowardice she had at the beginning, and now she is extremely strong!

So, that night, Su Xiaoxue went to Xiaofang to borrow a bicycle.

Afraid that Xiaofang's family would disagree, she gave Xiaofang fifty cents and said, "Take this money and consider it as the money I spent on borrowing your bicycle."

When Xiaofang heard this, she pushed him away and said, "What are you talking about? Can I still ask for your money?"

Su Xiaoxue laughed and said, "I borrowed so much money from you so I'm afraid it will delay your family, so I'll give you some compensation for lost work."

"There is no loss of work time. You can borrow the car if you want. It doesn't cost money. If you pay, I won't lend it to you."

Su Xiaoxue didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Okay, okay, then I don't need any money. When I make money, I'll treat you to a delicious meal."

When Xiaofang heard this, her eyes widened, "That's good."

"By the way, this is for you." Su Xiaoxue said, taking out a pair of butterfly hairpins from her pocket.

Xiaofang was surprised, "For me?"

"Well, I bought some of these little gadgets when I went to the city this time. The stall owner said that these gadgets are out of fashion in the city, so he gave them to me at a low price. I thought that our county doesn't have many of these now, so I planned to get some to sell in the city. Now I have a lot more, so I'll give you two."

"Wow..." Xiaofang looked at the beautiful butterfly hairpin in surprise, "How can something this beautiful go out of style?"

Su Xiaoxue laughed, "The fashion in big cities is different from ours. You don't know that in provincial capitals, women dress very fashionably. Many people even perm their hair or cut it short, which looks really good."

Xiaofang has seen this in a movie.

She said expectantly, "I also want to visit the provincial capital. I've never been there in my life. I haven't even been to a county town."

"Then...how about you go with me tomorrow?" Su Xiaoxue asked inquiringly.

Xiaofang's eyes lit up immediately, "Is it okay?"

Su Xiaoxue laughed, "Why not? If you're busy, don't go. If you're free, you can go with me. I'm going to sell hairpins. Let's see if I can make some money."

"Okay, I'll tell my mom then."

Xiaofang's parents are open-minded and kind to her, so as soon as Xiaofang said it, her parents agreed.

This is also the reason why Xiaofang’s family always gives Su Xiaoxue a bicycle every time she comes to borrow one.

Xiaofang also showed her mother the hairpin that Su Xiaoxue gave her and asked her if it was beautiful, which made her mother laugh.

Looking at Xiaofang's mother, Su Xiaoxue found that she could also give Xiaofang's mother a hairpin or a headband or something. This thing is not expensive and it is hers.

So, after returning, Su Xiaoxue looked at the ten headbands and began to think, how to make them more beautiful?

She plans to give one to Xiaofang's mother.

"Sister, what are you thinking about?" Erni finished her work and came in to get ready for bed. She saw her elder sister sitting there in a daze with something in her hand.

She got closer and realized it was a headband.

Su Xiaoxue came back to her senses and responded, "I was thinking, how can I make this thing more beautiful?"

Erni took the headband and said, "This is just a piece of black plastic. It will look good if you wrap it with some cloth like the actresses in the movies. But you have to find a nice-looking cloth."

Second sister's words immediately gave Su Xiaoxue inspiration.

She smiled in surprise and said, "Yes, I can go buy some cloth, wrap it up, and stick some nice things inside."

As she said this, she looked at her sister gratefully, "Er Ni, you are so smart."

Erni felt that she was just speaking casually. She scratched her head and smiled innocently, "Big sister, you are smarter. I hope you can sell all the hairpins quickly tomorrow."

"Ah."

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