Dong Jiahui, the daughter of the Dong family, was kicked out of the house by the Lu family because she had been married for three years and was unable to get pregnant. Dong Jiahui, who felt ashamed, jumped into the river in search of death. Immediately after she was rescued, her soul also changed.

The Dong family’s Jiahui was five miles away from the Shanghe Village. Zhao Donglin’s wife was an educated youth who left her two children to go back to the city. In order to take care of the children, Zhao Donglin, who was about to become a battalion commander, retired to the countryside.

“This damned little bit*h cried and shouted to marry us, to let her marry our Donglin. Now she doesn’t even care about her children and wants to go back to the city!”

For the six-month-old girl, Yingbao, Zhao Donglin wants to give his two children a stepmother. He refused the introduction of 17 or 18 people who were matched with him and finally chose the infertile Dong Jiahui. Zhao Donglin thought that since Dong Jiahui couldn’t have a baby, she would certainly treat Heidan and Yingbao as her own child.

He inquired and found out that Dong Jiahui was a woman with a submissive personality, and such a woman leads a stable life. As long as she treats the children well, he will treat her well for the rest of his life.

On the wedding night, Dong Jiahui finally discovered the secret of the original owner’s infertility. It turned out that she was still a v*rgin!

It's only been 3 years since she was married off to the Lu family, and the daughter's hands have already become thick like this. For these past three years, she could imagine what kind of life she was leading in the Lu Family.

 Chen Guixiang regretted that she didn't find out that there was something wrong with the Lu family. She regretted that she was not able to support her daughter, which caused her daughter to suffer these three years in vain. 

 That day, when her daughter came back with a bag in her back, her daughter's eyes were red and swollen, her hair was dishevelled. She was only in her early twenties; she should have been as bright as a flower, not withered and lifeless.

 She said that the Lu family did not want her anymore, and her dowry was given back by the Lu family the next day.

 Dong Jiahui's three brothers went to Xiaoling Village with their weapons to settle accounts with the Lu family. But Lu’s family was also horrible, and directly claimed that Dong Jiahui had not been pregnant for three years after his marriage. There are three ways to be unfilial: having no sons is the worst. Dong Jiahui was married for three years, but she didn't give birth. In ancient times, it was also the life of repudiation.

 "Stop causing trouble in our Xiaoling village just because there are so many people in your Dong family. If you keep doing this, who would dare to marry your daughter in the future? Given that you are incapable of giving birth, do you really want to see us suffer before you are reconciled?!:

 These words not only made the village cadres of the two villages too embarrassed to take charge but also made the Dong family lay down their arms.

Strictly speaking, what the Lu family said was not unreasonable. After all, Lu Chengyuan is the only male member of the Lu family. Although the wife, who had been married for three years, was driven back in the wrong direction, from an ethical point of view, the heirs of the rural people are the most important thing. If she can not give birth, the Lu family will be extinct. Indeed, hundreds of years from now, who will throw the pots? Who will burn incense papers for them?

 (TN: Throwing a pot means that the deceased will be completely cut off from the surviving people in the world. How many people are still alive? Then how many holes will be drilled in the basin? These holes not only express the sadness of the descendants for the death of the old man, but also show that the old man is full of children and grandchildren throughout his life, and he can walk with peace of mind.)

 "Who said that it must be Jiahui's problem that she was not able to conceive a child? Maybe it will be born in two years, Lu Chengyuan, you are still not a man, and you can't even protect your wife! "

Lu Chengyuan was flushed, hiding in a corner and didn't say anything. His mother, Dong Jiahui's former mother-in-law, spat with her hands on her hips.

 "Bah! Our Lu family is already considered benevolent. If it were not for your Dong family's daughter, my family Chengyuan would not have wasted three years. If I had found another girl, maybe the grandson of the Lu family could carry a pot out and buy soy sauce!:

 The Dong brothers couldn't face it and pulled Dong Jiahui's dowry home with a black face, so the two families broke up completely.

 The two were married without a marriage certificate, and this time, there was no need to get a divorce certificate.

 This incident spread around several villages, those with good hearts were sighing for Dong Jiahui for a while, lamenting that her future is not easy. Those who are not good, begin to sneer behind their backs.

 You should know that when Dong Jiahui married into the Lu family, everyone envied her good life. Her Father-in-law was the secretary of the brigade, there were no sisters-in-law to have a conflict with. When the two Lu family members died in a hundred years, wouldn't the Lu estate be given to the young couple?

 The Lu family only had one son. As long as you can add a grandson to the Lu family, the Lu family can be like a mother. But the life of a person is such that everyone envied Dong Jiahui, who, in the blink of an eye, became unable to give birth to a child abandoned woman.

 Even if they were angry to the point of suffocation, Dong Jiahu being incapable of giving birth was the fact after all. After the fiasco, the Dong family went back home. The family was very careful with Dong Jiahui because of this matter.

 Not to mention her brothers, who adored her since childhood, regardless of what their sisters-in-law thought. They would not say anything unpleasant to her face.

 Her family will not say anything. but they can't control others' mouths. No, the daughter-in-law of her third aunt's neighbor said something unpleasant when she ran through the door with her child. Dong Jiahui was stimulated. Without saying a word, he ran out to jump into the river, the Tongzhou River, which was connected to the river. If she hadn't been caught and rescued, she would have been washed into the river.

 In March, the river was still very cold. Although she was rescued, she still had a high fever. She was feverish all day and night. Finally, the barefoot doctor in the village took half of the wild mountain ginseng dug from the mountain, boiled the ginseng soup and fed it to her. Then the fever subsided.

"Jiahui, listen to your mother's advice. Don't penetrate a bull's horn again. You are still young. You're only twenty-one years old. You're still at a flower-like age. It was not necessarily your fault that you were unable to give birth. You also saw that the wife of the Zhang family was only able to give birth after 6 years of marriage. She held her first baby, and after that, she had one after another, until she reached 5 children."

 This time the level of medical care was limited, unlike any B-ultrasound and color ultrasound that can do various examinations in the future. The old thinking of rural people was that as long as the child is not born, it was the woman's fault.

 But giving birth to a child really depends on luck. Some people get pregnant as soon as they get married, others can't get pregnant, and there are strange things that the wife couldn't give birth because of the man, and when she was married to another man, she could get pregnant. Anyway, Chen Guixiang doesn't believe that her daughter can't give birth to a baby.

 "The Lu family was wrong at first. I thought Lu Chengyuan was a good one. Who knows he's a soft rake? He listens to his mother. It's all his mother's fault. Take care of yourself first. I'll find your sixth aunt in a while. She's a famous matchmaker. Your sixth aunt loves you. She has made a lot of good marriages in her life. She knows all the boys from ten miles and eight villages, your sixth aunt loves you. She will definitely find a good one for you."

 Dong Jiahui has a headache. She can't lift her body. The original owner jumped into the river and hung up. Then she came. After waking up, she has been sorting out the memory left by the original owner. She knows that the original owner was abandoned by her man's family because she was unable to get pregnant after these past 3 years.

 Hey, how can you stand such an identity? It's better to transmigrate as a big girl of the yellow flower.

 (TN: The term "big girl of the yellow flower" refers to unmarried women over the age of 25 above.)

 It's no wonder the original owner had thought of jumping into the river. In the 1970s, having a divorce was a big scandal.

 The original owner was a kind-hearted girl, with a soft personality and a little bit submissive. She was always getting called around by her mother-in-law and other people in the Lu family. In addition, she didn't get pregnant after marriage. The Lu family didn't like her at all.

 The original owner was too soft, and she couldn't have a good life in her mother-in-law's house. Every time her mother asks her if she's doing well, she says the Lu family are very good to her.

 Sometimes the saying, "The poor must have something to hate, and the hateful must have miserable suffering," is very reasonable. People like to bully the weak and are afraid of the strong. But if the original owner behaves better with her mother-in-law, she may not dare treat her like this.

 After the divorce, the original owner was hurt. Her kind of personality was not good and not straightforward, so all she could do was stuff her feelings into her heart.

 Originally, she was walking around thinking about her situation, but she was then stimulated by the outside world. She decided to end her life and felt that there was nothing left to live for.

She could say that such a little thing was really not worth jumping the river for, that a divorce was nothing, since, in the twenty-first century, divorce was not a huge problem, but she was not the original owner, she did not know how painful it was, so she could certainly not feel what the original owner felt.

 "Come on, drink this egg soup. I deliberately added two drops of sesame oil to it to add some fragrance."

 She was in 1975 now. Although it is over, life in the countryside is not easy. Every household has to earn work points. Apart from eating and drinking, this little sesame oil is still squeezed during the Chinese New Year. The three daughters-in-law of the Dong family take turns giving birth to babies. Chen Guixiang is only willing to use sesame oil, brown sugar, and eggs when a few of her daughters-in-law are in confinement.

 Dong Jiahui has no strength in her body, and her stomach has been groaning with a hunger for a long time. She had been smelling this bowl of egg soup since she entered the house, and she had long been greedy.

 Alas, in the 1970s, when there was a shortage of food and clothing, who else in the 21st world could eat egg soup? Dong Jiahui missed those modern delicacies very much.

 But a thoughtful person should not be reborn because of a bowl of egg soup. She is still very uncomfortable.

 Chen Guixiang watched her daughter drink up the bowl of egg soup. Her heart was finally relieved. As long as you ate, then it meant that she was calm.

Seeing her daughter thin like this, she has no meat on her face and her hands are skin and bones. She felt distressed. She looked at her lovingly and said, "You look so thin. There are still some white noodles at home. I remember you loved to eat scallion cakes when you were a child. I'll make them for you in the evening."

 The scallion cake was easy to make. It is just making a paste with the flour and water, brushing a layer of oil on the hot pot, heating it, pouring the flour into the pot along the edge of the pot, wiping the batter evenly with a spatula, and sprinkled with scallions when the batter is semi-dry. When the scallions are heated, they emit a pungent smell of scallions, which is a rare and easy food in rural villages.

 This scallion pancake is best made with white flour. The cornmeal is also delicious but not as soft as white flour. It is said to be delicious, but it is actually a bitter rural life. There is nothing else delicious.

 Dong Jiahui received the memory of the original owner and knew that every family was frugal these days. White flour was only eaten during the Spring Festival. The original owner's mother's family has three daughters-in-law, five nephews and a niece. How can she eat alone?

 "Mom, don't get it for me alone. I'll just eat with everyone."

 When Chen Guixiang heard this, her tears fell again.

 "It's all my fault that I taught you so sincerely since childhood. I always told you that a family should value peace and be filial to their parents in law after marriage. You just listened to your mother's words so much that you suffered so many grievances. In a word, it's still my mother's fault."

 When Chen Guixiang said this, Dong Jiahui's tears flowed unconsciously. It should be the residual feelings of the original owner.

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notlucia: Hello~ This is notlucia! Let me remind you, I do edited mtl, so the translation will not be 100% accurate, and I am not that fluent in English. If you found mistakes, feel free to correct me. No need to be rude about it. Anyways, enjoy reading!

After lying in bed for three days, Dong Jiahui got out of bed today after feeling that she was less weak. When she went out, she could see the full view of the Dong family's courtyard.

There were five mudbrick houses. The main hall was placed in the middle; facing the south, there were two rooms on either side of the main hall. The yard was clean. They also had a well, a pomegranate tree, a peach tree, thatch, and firewood piled up in the corner. On the other hand, there's a small vegetable patch; cabbage, leeks, peppers, garlic, and other vegetables were planted on the ground. Next to the vegetable patch was a chicken pen; there were 3 chickens inside the pen.

The scenery in front of her really looked like a yard from the countryside. This kind of mudbrick house, even in the 21st century, this kind of house was still rare in the countryside. When Dong Jiahui was a child, she traveled with her parents to the revolutionary base and saw similar well-preserved historical sites.

After breakfast in the morning, the Dong family's labor force went to the field. The older children went to school and the young ones were brought by the adults to the field, and Dong Jiahui was left alone in the house.

"That Lu family can be really unethical. The moment Jiahui came back, they immediately took in a new wife to come to their door. The new wife was powerful. Before she agreed, she must be presented with a marriage certificate first. "After the Lu family pulls out the certificate, it will be hard for them to decide if they want a divorce."

 "Hey, this marriage,  how can you think of divorce?  But if Jiahui was not too honest, her in-laws would rule her to death. How much did the new wife of the Lu family spend on the bride price?"

"Because of Jiahui's matter, their family has a bad reputation. They all say that Mrs Lu is too fierce and the new wife has to bear hardships when entering the door. Mrs Lu gritted her teeth and gave 38 yuan as a bride price, 30 eggs and five kilograms of soybean oil. "

 "Yo, that's so generous! When Jiahui entered the door, her bride price was 20 yuan, right."

 "Hey, I pity Jiahui's mother. I guess that Chen Guixiang also knew that the Lu family had taken a new wife into their home. For these two days, she was also busy looking for a husband for Juihui. It's easy to find someone if the girl is pure, but those who have been married are always one layer away."

 "No, it's not. It's either a poor bachelor or a dead wife who is old. If he leaves for other reasons, it's OK. It's also because he can't have children. Nowadays, men marry a wife just to have children. If they can't have children, how can any man want it? Is Chen Guixiang willing to marry her daughter to a stupid one? "

 "So it's a pity, I watched the girl who grew up. Not to mention her appearance, her temper was really good."

 "A woman's life is like this. If she has a good life, she can live a good life. If she has a bad life, she can only suffer all her life."

 "Okay, let's just say a few small talks, you can't say unpleasant words in front of the Dong family, especially Jiahui. She has a tender face and a heavy mind, so she can't listen to this.

 "I know, do you need to remind me of this? I don't have a grudge against her, so why do I have to say something unpleasant in front of her?

 Dong Jiahui was sitting in the courtyard sunbathing when she heard an earful of gossip about the original owner. The sound came from the other end of the courtyard wall of his neighbour's house in the East.

 She didn't fully inherit the memory of the original owner when she crossed. She only remembered some important people and things. She could not remember those little bits of the owner's memories.

 She was not the original owner. Naturally, she didn't care about Lu Chengyuan's looking for a new wife. She only cares about herself, dressed as Dong Jiahui, the identity of the abandoned woman. It is impossible to stay in her mother's house for life without getting married.  Really, her brother and sister-in-law can't accommodate her.

 But the reality is just like what the neighbor said. An abandoned woman is still unable to bear children. What kind of man can you find at this age?

She is not the original owner. It's not a native that can be satisfied with a full stomach in this era. She comes from the twenty-first century, highly educated, idealistic and, in pursuit of her other half, she also has her own aesthetic. She really can't imagine marrying an illiterate man, doesn't love cleanliness, eats and stinks when he opens her mouth. In that way, she might as well jump into the river and die again.

 Dong Jiahui was basking in the sun with worry. When he heard the bell in the main room strike ten times, Dong Jiahui got up and went into the kitchen to see if he could help make a meal.

 When she was a child, her parents were busy. Every summer vacation and winter vacation would send her to her grandmother's house in the countryside. She often helped her grandmother burn a fire, so she could use the old stove in the countryside.

Dong Jiahui looked around the kitchen and found the rice jar with the rice in it and the sweet potatoes stacked in the corner.

 She came to see how the Dong family cooked in the past, and in these past few days, they have always added some sweet potatoes to the rice. These days, eating rice is only available during the New Year and ancestor worship.

 Dong Jiahui had a rural homemade gourd scoop. She copied what they did, half a gourd of rice, and picked six sweet potatoes from the corner of the well to wash. The broken places were cut with a knife. Then she cut it into chunks of spare, panning the rice. She mixed the rice and sweet potatoes together in the pot, added the right amount of water, and covered the pot.

 The preparation work was very smooth. That is, when the fire was lit. After all, it took some time to light the fire because it was not used to the matches of this era.

 After this, the bell rang again, and half an hour had passed.

 After cooking the rice, Dong Jiahui went to the vegetable field again. She picked a cabbage from the field, pinched half a basket of leeks, selected the vegetables and washed them with the water in the well. She did not know how the Dong family usually cooks, so she was afraid that she could not hold it well, so she put the clean dishes in the kitchen and waited for Chen Guixiang to come back to cook.

 At eleven o'clock, Chen Guixiang was the first one to come back from the field. The work from the production team was also time-regulated, from eight o'clock in the morning to 12 noon.

Chen Guixiang came back to see her daughter get up from bed and cook dinner for everyone. She was not only afraid of her daughter's poor health but also happy how her daughter was affectionate and sensible.

 "I was in a hurry to come back. Are you ready to cook?"

 "I'm done with the rice, but I'm not done yet with the food. I washed the food and waited for mom to come back to do it together."

 Chen Guixiang lifted the lid of the pot and nodded with satisfaction when she saw the white rice mixed with sweet potatoes in the pot. She didn't eat much or well.

 "Very good. You've done it all. I can fry it quickly."

 She turned and took out a small bowl of river shrimp from the cabinet. It was cooked shrimp with oil. When she was ready to fry leeks, she put one in.

 In addition to shrimp, she also took a small pottery pot with lard in it. She bought suet and boiled it back. It was full, and only half of the pot was left.

 "The Chinese cabbage is fried with some lard. There is no oil residue at home. If there are bits of oil that can be stir-fried together, it would be mouth-watering."

 Dong Jiahui has seen the power of lard. When she was a child, grandma often made lard noodles for her. She was so small that she could eat a whole bowl every time. Grandma liked to watch her eat and said that every time she saw her eat, everything she ate became more delicious.

 Chen Guixiang stir-fried it while Dong Jiahui was watching the fire, and secretly observing Chen Guixiang's stir-frying techniques. She was ready to follow her and learn, so as not to show their own work in the future.

 The old stove starts cooking very quickly. The pot is hot. The dishes were cooked three and two times faster. The fragrant smell spreads in the air. After cooking, Chen Guixiang takes two eggs from the cabinet, breaks them up, adds some scallion and salt, and directly steams the bowl in the rice pot.

For today's meal, the dishes were grown in our own field, and the shrimp were fished from the river with our own net.

 Dayu village gathers water in front and backs the mountain. It is a very suitable place for survival.

 As the old saying goes, "the mountain dweller lives off the mountain, the shore dweller lives off the sea".  Although the rice is not enough to eat, they could still eat a sumptuous meal from time to time. They can eat river fish and shrimp, which are wild animals living in the mountains.

 (TN: "the mountain dweller lives off the mountain, the shore dweller lives off the sea". It's an idiom. It means making the best use of local resources.

So the most valuable part of the meal was the two eggs. Eggs can be bartered these days. The supply and marketing agency has a special collection of eggs. An egg was five cents. It is the money that rural people can get on their own initiative, in addition to work points, so it is extremely valuable.

 In the memory of the original owner, under the conditions of the Lu family, eating a bowl of white rice and a bowl of scrambled eggs is also an excellent life, which makes the villagers envious. Of course, even if the Lu family has white rice and scrambled eggs, the original owner was not treated well. The original owner couldn't eat it. Otherwise, how could the original owner be skin and bones? In the 1970s, it was a year where everyone didn't have much to eat, so they were skinny. But in this era, her body was considered skinny.

 Tian Niu and Xiaoman were held by the third, wearing thick cotton-padded clothes. They had two lumps of plateau red on their faces. Xiaoman seemed to have caught a cold. Two lines of green snot hung under their noses and they kept sucking it in. It looked like two green vegetable insects.

 "Jiahui is up, are you feeling better?

The person who asked was Dong Jiahui's sister-in-law Zhou Yindi, the wife of Dong Jiahui's older brother Dong Aihua.

 Zhou Yindi gave birth to her nephew Huzi and the Dong family's only daughter, Tian Niu. She has a square face and a very strong temper. She is Chen Guixiang’s most proud wife. She is also the leader outside the family and she is also very neat in handling affairs.

 When the people are all together, they will eat. The men have a big appetite because of working hard. Each person has a large bowl of rice and sweet potatoes. Women's bowls are smaller, and children's bowls are even smaller.

 Chen Guixiang took a spoon and dug a large spoonful of steamed eggs for Tanya and Xiaoman, and also dug a spoonful for Dong Jiahui.

 Chen Guixiang handed the bowl to her husband, Dong Dagui, who shook his head. Naturally, her son and daughter-in-law were too embarrassed to grab the rest of the steamed eggs, so Chen Guixiang scraped the bowl clean and gave it to her youngest grandson, Xiaoman.

 Liu Xiuyun, the second child, was a bit upset because her two sons, Hammer and Jun, were away at school, which meant that the eggs today were given only for the oldest and the third family.

 Her own children did not eat the eggs, not to mention that her sister-in-law, Dong Jiahui, was so big that she had the face to eat them, which made Liu Xiuyun extremely irritated.

 In fact, when Dong Jiahui came back to her mother's house, Liu Xiuyun's heart had some ideas, but she kept suppressing the careful thoughts in her heart.

 At first, she also felt pity for the divorced woman who was driven out by her in-laws. She was sympathetic to her sister-in-law, but when Dong Jiahui jumped into the river and was carried back to die, Liu Xiuyun's sympathy for her reached its peak.

 But everything in this world follows the law of "what goes around comes around, and what comes around comes around", and after this sympathy reaches its peak, it starts to go down a little.

Even if she pretends to be generous for a short time, Liu Xiu cares deeply in her heart. What she thinks is, why can't she, who earns work points in the field all day, could not eat an egg? Dong Jiahui, her husband's sister, has been married once. She not only lies in bed all day and doesn't do anything, but she was also provided with delicious food and drink. Even if you ask all the 16 production brigades of Shengli Commune, there is no such a person.

No one could blame Liu Xiuyun, because everyone’s life is too difficult.

In the past ten years, the movement of “Study Agriculture from Dazhai” has been carried out in rural areas all over the country. Rural areas eat big pots of rice. Every farmer is a member of the community and has to participate in labor to earn work points.

Each production team sets its own work points. Ten work points for doing work for a day, and the approved work points per day were different for each person of different gender and age.

This was an era of rebuilding. The land was barren, productivity was low, and the population was large, so the brigades had to pay for the work after collecting the grain. Only after the work is delivered can the remaining grain be distributed according to the approved work points of each member.

A young wife like Liu Xiuyun can’t do much heavy work, so she will only be paid six or seven worth of work points a day. This is because Dayu village relies on the mountain to draw water. In addition to grain, there are also some mountain goods, fish and shrimp, water chestnuts, etc. that can be exchanged with supply and marketing cooperatives every year.

The most important point is that, at the end of the year, the work points will be deducted from the money for rations, and the rest will go to each person, so every family was living in a tight situation, not to mention eating eggs and meat, it is not easy to eat enough food.

The three hens in the family lay three eggs a day. The Dong family conditions were not bad, and they didn’t sell the eggs for money. In addition to the confinement wife and young children, the family can also occasionally eat eggs and have a large and sumptuous meal.

But the Dong family has more than a dozen mouths. Three eggs a day must not be enough. Liu Xiuyun remembers that she ate eggs a few months ago.

She also knows that from the days when her sister-in-law was saved from jumping into the river, Mother-in-law secretly gave Dong Jiahui a lot of food, be it eggs, white flour, brown sugar. Her treatment towards her was like taking care of a person who was in confinement.

Liu Xiuyun has thoughts in her heart, but she is not stupid. She cannot show them in front of the family. At most, she could go back to their room to talk to her husband.

, so she doesn’t look much different from usual.

The three daughters-in-law of the Dong family are not bad in character. The eldest daughter-in-law Zhou Yindi and the third daughter-in-law Zhao Lijuan were sisters at her mother’s house. They are generous and know how to give in. As for Liu Xiuyun, she is neither big nor small in her mother’s house. The children in the middle are most likely to be ignored by their parents. In addition, the conditions in her mother’s house are not good. She had lived a hard life as a child, starving and suffering from a cold. Therefore, she was more concerned about gains and losses, and she cared more about what to eat and wear.

After Dong Jiahui’s health improved, she helped out at home every day with household chores, washing clothes, cooking, feeding the chickens, and organizing the vegetable patch.

That day, the second nephew came home with a blue nose and a swollen face. There was a big cut on his clothes, and the cotton inside was falling out. Liu Xiuyun looked at it and was furious. His jacket was newly made for the Chinese New Year. He had only been wearing it for more than a month, but it was messed up by Chuízi!”

She took a rolling pin from the kitchen with a black face and chased after Chuízi to beat him up.

“You stinky boy, you were born to collect debts. If I don’t beat you for a day, you feel itchy, right? See if I don’t break your legs!”

Chuízi was seven years old. It is the age where a child hates to stand still. How could he stand obediently waiting for his mother to beat him up? His two legs ran faster than a rabbit. He ran out of the far door in a blink of an eye and made a face at his mother before he left.

Liu Xiuyun patted her chest to catch her breath. She pointed at the Chuízi fiercely and said, “Wait for me, smelly boy. If you have the ability, do not come back today. If you come back, I will let your father smoke you. “

“The holes are too big, and I’m afraid it won’t look good when sewn up.”

If the clothes are broken, you can find another piece of cloth to patch them up. If you have such a big hole, and it is not in a straight line, It is equivalent to pulling a small piece of cloth down.

A few sisters took Chuizi’s clothes and said it was difficult to sew. With this one, it was even more difficult to sew. It is a pity that these new clothes were broken. These days, it is not easy to get a piece of cloth.

Not to mention that each person only has a cloth ticket of 5 feet per year. This cloth ticket is only enough for adults to sew a suit of clothes and trousers. There can be some clothes left for children, but in spring, summer, autumn and winter, they wear long sleeves in spring and autumn, short sleeves in summer and cotton-padded jackets in winter. What can this cloth that measures five feet do?

In addition to cloth tickets, it also costs money to buy cloth. This year, the Dong family only made a new cotton-padded jacket for six children, and none of the adults in the family wanted to buy clothes.

She thought that spring would soon begin in the new year. The cotton-padded clothes should be put away for at most two or three months. As long as the clothes are not broken, they can continue to wear them for next year’s new year.

Even if it becomes smaller for their body, it can be transferred to the younger sister in law, so it is not wasted at all.

It was a good plan. The new clothes could be patched in the blink of an eye. No wonder Liu Xiuyun’s face looked terrible.

When Liu Xiuyun frowned and was at a loss, Dong Jiahui came over with a smile.

“Second sister-in-law, why don’t you let me try.”

“You?”

Liu Xiuyun looked at Dong Jiahui suspiciously, and the other sisters-in-law looked at each other.

“You can mend it?”

Liu Xiuyun was a bit unconvinced, when she married into the Dong family, Dong Jiahui was still in her maidhood. She was not very talkative. Until Dong Jiahui married Lu’s family at the age of eighteen, she never revealed her needlework skills.

“There should be no problem. If my sister-in-law believes in me, then let me try.”

Liu Xiuyun handed the clothes to Dong Jiahui with confidence, and after handing them out, she was unsure and explained, “Don’t try to be a hero if you can’t, I’ll spend money to find a tailor in town.”

Do not spoil the clothes.

“I know, sister-in-law, don’t worry.”

Dong Jiahui heard Liu Xiuyun’s words and did not get angry, since she opened her mouth, she naturally had full assurance.

Her grandmother was from Suzhou, and it is said that she used to be in a very prestigious family in Suzhou, but her family had fallen and fled to the countryside to marry her grandfather during the chaotic times, and her grandmother had a very good hand in Su embroidery, and she taught this skill to Dong Jiahui.

Dong Jiahui took Chuizi’s clothes back to her room. which was originally a miscellaneous room for the family to pile up miscellaneous things. This room was originally a utility room where things were piled up at home. After Dong Jiahui came back, Chen Guixiang asked the family to clean it up and made a bed board for her to make a small bed.

Her parents are both highly educated and her family is considered middle class, and she is the only daughter of the family, so she is said to have been spoiled by her family since childhood.

But people have to learn to adapt to their environment no matter what kind of environment they are in, and this is the case with the living environment in this era. To have a bed to sleep in and a place to shelter from the wind and rain is already a great blessing.

When Dong Jiahui came out with the clothes, everyone was shocked.

“Hey? I really can’t see it. Jiahui, when did you have these crafts?”

Not only was the hole sewn up, but there was no trace of it. If you didn’t know where it was broken in advance, you may not be able to find it if you don’t look for it carefully.

“It’s not much of a craft, but I’ve been thinking about it when I’m not doing anything.”

Dong Jiahui faintly changed the subject, but the Dong family did not think much of it. They all thought it was a skill she learned after marrying the Lu family.

“This skill is more than enough to be a tailor.”

These days, craftsmen are very popular. There are tailors at the cloth sales counter of the supply and marketing agency, who can help make clothes and sew and repair people’s clothes. According to everyone, even if you send this dress to the tailor, the mending effect is not necessarily better than that of Dong Jiahui.

“Jiahui, your sewing skills are progressing fast. I remember when I asked you to mend socks, you couldn’t do it well.”

Zhao Lijuan, the third sister-in-law, was quick to speak. When she said this, she knew it was wrong. She hurried to see Dong Jiahui’s expression for fear of stimulating her.

Before Dong Jiahui got married, she couldn’t even sew a button neatly. Now she is so good at it. So how did she improve so quickly?

“It’s okay, it’s over, I’m not upset at all.”

Seeing the cautious eyes of the crowd, Dong Jiahui smiled and made her attitude clear, but everyone did not believe that she was really not sad anymore, they just thought she was forcing a smile.

Chen Guixiang averted her eyes. She wanted to cry when she thought of her daughter’s suffering in the Lu family.

“All right, since the clothes have been mended, let’s eat.”

She concealed it in the corner of her eye, Chen Guixiang asked everyone to eat, a simple cornflour lump soup. A lump was added together with salty vegetables, making it salty and very appetizing. Even the smallest Xiao Man ate a small bowl.

“Where is Chuizi? It’s already dark and he has still not come back?”

Dong Aimin drank two big bowls of lumpy soup before he realized that his eldest son, Chuizi was not at home.

“Why do you care about him? Are you afraid that he is hungry? “

Because the clothes are mended, Liu Xiuyun’s heart has been half angry, but Chuizi has always been naughty, and he has done a lot of wrong things. Even his mother didn’t have much patience.

“There’s a bowl of soup left in the kitchen. Tell him when he comes back.”

Chen Guixiang knocked on the table and gave an explanation. Every meal at home had the right amount. The number of people at the table was roughly estimated at how much each person ate to ensure that no one went hungry. Chuizi was still not home at mealtime, and he can’t miss a bite of his food. These days, no one has any leftover food, so where else can you go to fill your stomach if you don’t come back for dinner?