Chapter 51: Ga Zi Niang
The next day, just after breakfast, Ga Ziniang came to the door.
Yesterday, when Li Ziyu came back from Aunt Yang's house, she packed up the fabrics and cotton needed to make clothes, and prepared to let her take them away when Gazi Niang came.
Just heard the sound of the door, Li Ziyu thought that it might be Gazi Niang, so she went to open the door herself, but she didn't expect to open the door, which scared her.
In Li Ziyu's mind, Ga Ziniang is also in her early thirties, not very young, but not too old. But now the woman who appeared in front of her was hunched over her waist, and her face was full of wrinkles, and if it weren't for the smart eyes, she would have thought that this was a woman of fifty or sixty years old.
"Aunt Sun?" Li Ziyu called out tentatively.
"Hey, Xiaoyu, right? I heard Yang Liuniang say that you want me to do some work, she asked me to come today, I'm not late, right? Ga Ziniang asked cautiously.
Li Ziyu hurriedly nodded: "It's not too late, it's not too late, Aunt Sun, come in." With that, Li Ziyu grabbed Ga Ziniang's arm and enthusiastically let her into the house.
The two entered the West House, Xiaoshan and they greeted Ga Ziniang politely, and Ga Ziniang measured the size one by one.
Because Xiaohu and Xiaolan's cotton clothes Li Ziyu had already been made, Li Ziyu only handed over the fabric and cotton for the four sisters and brothers to Ga Ziniang first, and said to her: "Aunt Sun, you make our cotton clothes first, and then make us two covers." After these are done, I still want you to make a few pairs of cotton shoes, at least one pair per person, and it will be done before the year, can you finish it alone? ”
"I can do it! I can finish it! Xiaoyu, don't worry, I promise to do it properly for you. When Ga Ziniang heard that there was so much work, her face suddenly burst into laughter. The folds on his face were piled together, which actually gave Li Ziyu a feeling of beauty.
Ga Ziniang left with a thousand thanks, Li Ziyu stood at the gate of the courtyard and looked at her back as she walked away, and sighed secretly in her heart.
Ga Zi Niang and Ga Zi Dad met on the way to escape from the wilderness, and it can be said that Ga Zi Dad is Ga Zi Niang's life-saving benefactor.
At that time, Gazi Niang fell on the road and was dying, and it was Gazi's father who gave her a bite to eat that allowed her to survive. At that time, Gazi's grandmother and grandfather were still alive, and his grandmother was quite dissatisfied with saving such a woman and wasting food.
Later, I figured it out because Ga Zi's father was not young and was still single, so he started thinking about it. Ga Zi Niang had nowhere to go, her relatives all died on the way to escape the famine, and Ga Zi Dad saved himself, so the two became relatives.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he settled down in Yangcaogouzi Village, Gazi's father died of a sudden illness. Grandma Gazi said that Gazi Niang was a mourning star, and she specifically wanted her son's life, so she looked for fault day and night, if her grandson was still young, she would have been kicked out long ago. The family's work, laundry, cooking, chopping firewood, and going to the field are all done by Gazi Niang alone, and she has to do embroidery work at night, and the embroidery money sold by her mother-in-law is confiscated. And that's not all, it's mostly mental torture. Every day when I opened my eyes, Grandma Gazi began to scold, and she didn't stop eating, and Gazi Niang had to wait for everyone to finish eating before she ate a mouthful of leftovers.
In the past few years, the little daughter-in-law who was originally a bright woman has made her mother-in-law no longer look like a person. Later, Grandma Gazi and Grandpa both died of illness one after another, and the situation improved. However, the family also owed a lot of debts for treating the two old men, and the only six acres of land in the family were also in debt.
Without land, Ga Ziniang did embroidery work day and night, using the money from selling embroidery to support the mother and son. As Gazi grew up year by year, the sensible Gazi went around working part-time jobs to earn a few bucks. Mother and son struggled to survive like this. However, after several years of hard work by her mother-in-law, Ga Ziniang's body completely collapsed, her body was extremely weak, and she was often sick. The few money Gazi earned, except for buying some coarse grains, treated his mother's illness. Thanks to Dr. Fu's kindness, he often does not want or asks less for medicine, and Ga Ziniang's body slowly eased up. Ga Ziniang's eyes are tired because she does embroidery day and night, so she can no longer take embroidery to make money, but she can still do the clothes she wears at home because she does not have the meticulousness required for embroidery, so Aunt Yang was the first to recommend Ga Ziniang.
Li Ziyu had just returned to the house when Li Ziyu sent away Ga Ziniang when she heard the door knock again.
Li Ziyu thought that Aunt Yang was looking for a puppet to come, so she asked Xiaoshan to open the door. She hurriedly cleaned up the place in the house, and explained the practice of the puppet in a while.
When she came back from town yesterday, she had changed the old quilt from the East House into a large mattress out of coarse cloth, folded it during the day and spread it again at night. On the first day of last night, the mattresses were laid out, and the younger siblings were very happy, and several small ones rolled on the kang one after another. The kang is still covered with oilcloth during the day, which is convenient for eating. At this time, there were still scraps cut out of the big mattress she had made yesterday on the kang, and the cloth she bought yesterday was also piled up on the floor of the Westinghouse. She has borrowed a rod scale from Aunt Yang's house, and today she wants to weigh each person by pound of cloth and cotton, and when recycling, she also recycles by weight. After all, knowing people and knowing faces but not knowing their hearts, villains first and then gentlemen, everything is explained in a clear place, which can save trouble in the future.
Xiaowen and Xiaowu followed to clean up, and Xiaohu and Xiaolan were also busy with a smile, and their little faces lit up with excitement.
As soon as he cleaned up, he heard the laughter of several women in the yard, and Li Ziyu hurriedly greeted him.
In the courtyard, Aunt Yang was walking in with five women.
Li Ziyu looked at it, except for Aunt Yang, she knew Xiaohua Niang, and she didn't know any of the others.
Li Ziyu hurriedly stepped forward to say hello: "Aunt Yang, auntie, are you here?" Fast into the house. ”
When Aunt Yang saw her come out, she said to her, "Xiaoyu, come on, let me introduce you, you don't know these people very well, right?" ”
Li Ziyu shook her head and said embarrassedly: "Aunts, I look familiar, but I can't get in a position." It's all my fault, I don't go to the village to play, and there are few people who recognize me. ”
A chubby woman in her thirties smiled and said, "No, don't look at our small village, you don't go to the village, where do you know." Won't you know each other in the future? You have to come and go often. ”
Aunt Yang pointed to the woman who spoke and said, "This is Lu Ming's family, so you should call Aunt Lu." Lu Xi, the eldest son of her family, will also repair the house for your family. ”
Li Ziyu affectionately called "Aunt Lu", and also remembered that among the half-grown children who repaired the house that she didn't know at the time, one of them was indeed named Lu Xi.
Aunt Yang pointed to a beautiful daughter-in-law who was only seventeen or eighteen years old and said, "You have to call this sister-in-law, this is the second daughter-in-law of your Uncle He Shixiang's family, called Wu Lanlan, right?" You call it the second sister-in-law. ”
Li Ziyu obediently called her second sister-in-law.
Aunt Yang then introduced the remaining two, the woman who looked generally in her twenties was Zhou Dazhuang's daughter-in-law, named Li Qinqin. There is also a small and delicate person who is about the same age as Wu Lanlan, and is the new daughter-in-law of Wang Ruiqing's second son Wang Chungang named Hu Xiaoxue.
Both of them had just gotten married, and they had heard at home that needlework was very good. According to the generation, Li Ziyu should be called sister-in-law.
Everyone introduced themselves and entered the house together.
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