The other two aunts married in the next village a few years ago, and they came back less, at least Lin He has been here for so long, except for Sanniang and the two children, no other relatives have seen them.

Lin Heniang's side, there are two sons in the family, the eldest son is the eldest uncle in front of him named Huang Dashan, who has been married for many years, the eldest son is twelve years old, the eldest uncle is also a virtuous and filial person, and there is a little uncle at home who is only eight years old, and the life of the family can be said to be happy, plus there are not many children, so the days are very good in the general farmer's family, the Huang family only has a daughter of the Huang family, this looks like winter, Lin He's grandmother wants the eldest son to send something to the daughter's family.

Knowing that his daughter's family has more labor and less labor, it is almost winter again, and the days must be sad, so he packed up some things and sent them, Huang was overjoyed when he saw that the eldest brother was coming, took the things on the eldest brother's shoulders and put them in the yard, and asked Lin He to pour a glass of water for the uncle to drink.

While saying, "Big brother, why did you send such a thing again, I'm tired on the way." ”

The uncle smiled and said, "What's so tired, it's not far away." ”

Lin He poured a glass of water from the house, handed it to his uncle, and called crisply, "Uncle, drink water." ”

The uncle touched Lin He's head and said, "Good." Dabao and Sanya were around the eldest uncle, obviously liking the eldest uncle.

Huang also smiled and asked the eldest brother about some of the situation in the family, "Is my father and mother in good health, is the harvest in the family good this year, has my nephew and niece grown taller, and whether my younger brother is disobedient." ”

Uncle responded one by one, sat for a while and said he was leaving, Huang left him here for lunch before leaving, uncle refused to say that he was in a hurry to go home, there was something to do when he went home.

Huang took out the things in the box, there were about five catties of bacon, ten catties of white flour, two pieces of cloth, and dozens of catties of cornmeal and black noodles, and when he left, he took two hundred big money from his arms and handed it to Huang, Huang refused to ask for it at first, and then Huang Dashan said something, Huang's face darkened, and finally followed.

Huang Dashan still stayed for a while and then went back with the empty frame, Huang looked at the back of the eldest brother walking away before turning around, looking at such a large number of food in the yard, it can not be said that he is not guilty, he has been married for so many years, and he has to be helped by his mother's family every year to survive the winter.

At night, Lin He and Huang embroidered under the oil lamp, the people here do not eat dinner at night, Lin He is very unaccustomed to the first few days of coming, every day when it is time to go to bed, the stomach is hungry and uncomfortable, but the usual meal at home is not full, let alone dinner. After a long time, I got used to eating only two meals a day and going to bed early at night.

Huang said to Lin He, "Erya, tomorrow is the day of the market, you take Sanya and Sanniang to the market to sell these embroideries, and then buy three catties of inferior cotton back, today my uncle sent two pieces of cloth, you can make a thin winter coat for a few of you, this year it seems that winter comes earlier, and it is colder than in previous years, you children are frozen." Lin He answered.

The next morning, Lin He had breakfast, and called Sanya to go to Sanniang's house together to go to the market together, and when he was about to leave, Xiaobao's kid was going to go with him.

Lin He planned to take him there, but Huang disagreed, saying that there were many people in the market, and Xiaobao would run around again, and he couldn't watch it when the time came, Lin He coaxed for a long time and said that he would wait for the two children of the third aunt's family to come and play with him, and promised Xiaobao to make the meat he made for him last time before agreeing, and the meat that Xiaobao said was the pig made by Lin He.

When Lin He and Sanya walked to the door of Sanniang's house, Lin He called "Sanniang", Lin He's Sanniang Zhou came out, Zhou's figure was relatively petite, wearing a purple coarse cloth gown, and the lower body was cyan coarse cloth pants, although it was relatively shabby, but it was very clean, Xiaoshan and Xiaoyun were also clean, and it could be seen that Zhou was a woman who was a good housekeeper. It's a pity, in ancient times, no matter how capable a woman was, if she didn't have a man, her life would be extremely sad.

Zhou also carried a basket in his hand, and while talking to Xiaoshan, "You take your sister to play at home, don't go around." ”

Lin He said to Zhou, "You let Xiaosan take Xiaoyun to my house to play with Xiaobao, Xiaobao is waiting at home, my mother is also at home, and you can watch them." ”

Zhou's eldest son Xiaoshan is also less than five years old, and Xiaoyun has just turned two years old, so he was indeed a little uneasy to leave the two of them alone at home, so he agreed.

Said to Xiaoshan, "Xiaoshan, you and your sister go to Erniang's house to play, and your mother will come back later" Xiaoshan took his sister away, walked past Lin He and Sanya, and called "Sister." ”

Lin He responded and touched their heads and said, "Sister, wait a minute, bring you big buns back to eat." Xiaoshan and Xiaoyun hurriedly responded.

Zhou sneered and said, "Erya, don't spoil them." ”

Zhou knew that Lin He's family was not having a good time, and they had to help their family from time to time, how could he be embarrassed to ask Lin He to break the fee, Lin He knew Sanniang's thoughts, "Sanniang, let's go, don't go, it's going to be dark." ”

Zhou then remembered that it was not too early, and pulled Lin He and Sanya forward quickly.

Wait for a few of them to go to the set, sure enough, it's not early, Zhou quickly took them to the store to hand over the embroidery, Zhou's has ten embroidery, said that the last time to catch the set did not come to this time to send it together, Zhou's ten embroidery got a total of fifty big money, Zhou's embroidery work is also very good.

Lin He's family has a total of twenty-two embroidery jobs, twelve of which are made by the Huang family, one is five yuan, Lin He's has ten, one of them has four yuan, and the others are all three yuan, a total of ninety-one yuan.

The owner of the embroidery shop also praised Lin He and said, "The little girl's craftsmanship is getting better and better, and if everyone embroiders like this in the future, she will charge you four cents." ”

Lin He responded sweetly, "Hey, next time it must be better and better." ”

The boss smiled, and Lin He and Zhou took some embroidery work back with the boss.

When they were about to walk out of the store, they saw the guy from the store carrying a sack out, which seemed to be full of rags, very fragmented.

He said, "The people who collect the rags have not been here for several days, and they are all packed in a sack, and there will be no place to put them tomorrow." ”

Lin He walked over and looked at the rags, and had an idea in his heart, so he walked over and said to the boss, "Boss, how do you sell these rags?" ”

The boss said, "You want to buy it?" ”

Lin He nodded, and the boss smiled and said, "Little girl, if you want it, I'll buy it for you cheaper, and you can give you five cents for this bag." ”

Lin He took out five cents to buy these rags. I also told the boss that I would leave him some rags next time, and she would come back next time to get them.

Zhou didn't know what Lin He was going to do when he bought these rags, and he didn't say much and walked out of the store before asking her what was going on.

Lin He said, "The weather is cold, my mother said that I want to buy three catties of cotton and go back to make a few small winter clothes for us, but how can three catties of cotton make four winter clothes, I want to buy some rags and go back, twist the rags and cotton together, twist them together like a quilt, you can make more cotton clothes, so you can save some money." ”

Then he said, "The last time I came to the set, I saw that other people seemed to do this, I don't know if I can do it, and if I can't do it, I will make these rags into matches, and I won't waste them." Zhou nodded.

Lin He put the sack of rags aside, let Sanya stay there, and then went to buy cotton with Zhou, cotton in this era is really expensive, the best cotton costs eighty wen a catty, that is, high-grade cotton, medium cotton also costs fifty wen a catty, and low-grade cotton is twenty-five wen a catty, that is, the kind of black cotton, which looks particularly bad, but it should still have some warmth effect.

Lin He bought three catties of low-grade cotton and went back. Zhou also wanted to buy some cotton and go back to make winter clothes for the two children, but he was shy in his pocket, and he only had 50 wen that had just been sold for embroidery.

Lin He looked at Zhou's sneering face and knew Zhou's thoughts, "Sanniang, don't worry, I'll go back and try to see if this padded jacket can be clipped, if it's okay, I'll ask my mother to make one for Xiaoshan and Xiaoyun." Zhou nodded happily.