The forty yuan given by Yu Songyuan helped Lin Xue a lot. As soon as she got out of the car, she didn't care about lunch, so she bought meat, fish, kelp, vermicelli, cakes, melon seeds, wine, firecrackers, couplets and other annual loans on the street, and also pulled two blue cloths, one blue cloth, and spent 27 yuan. zuihou, hired a wheelbarrow to push home.

Her return made the whole family feel uplifted, and it began to have a bit of a busy New Year's flavor. The two younger brothers and the three foresters were busy pasting couplets and cleaning. Lin Xue and her mother began to chop meat stuffing and fried dumplings, and made flour and steamed buns, and were busy all night. The next day, he lengthened the cotton clothes of his two younger brothers, and made a new set of clothes for each of them.

On the evening of the thirtieth day, a sumptuous Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was made, allowing the whole family to get together happily. At twelve o'clock in the night, I took my two younger brothers to set off firecrackers together. When he was about to go to bed, he wrapped two small packets of cakes, fruits and peanuts, and put one dollar in each bag to make New Year's money for his two younger brothers. On the morning of the first day of the new year, he took his two younger brothers to pay New Year's greetings to the elders in the village.

Originally, my mother should have done all this. But after Lin Xue went back, her mother didn't care about housework anymore and left it all to her daughter. Since the end of the first day of the first lunar month, I have been playing small cards and gambling with a group of women and old men all day long, playing in the dark and having fun.

In the second year of junior high school, Lin Xue began to go to relatives, but Lin Xue didn't go anywhere. She remade cotton clothes and pants for her two younger brothers, and dismantled, washed and mended the cotton clothes and quilts of the whole family. I also made a pair of cotton shoes for Dada. After retiring, Lin Xue's father couldn't stand Lin Xue's mother's laziness, and the two quarreled when they got together, and when they quarreled, they tore and fought.

On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, an important guest came to the house, the deputy director of the farm branch next to him and his wife, and brought his stupid son to the forest worker's house as a guest. The guest brought a generous gift, in addition to a pack of annual loans, and also gave Lin Xue a tweed coat. When the guests left, Lin Xue made the decision and resolutely returned the gift.

In the evening, a fierce clash broke out between the mother and daughter. My mother said fiercely, "You were born to me, and marriage should be decided by me." If you dare to mess around with a man who doesn't mess around, I'll break your legs, and then hang yourself again, and make you feel uneasy for the rest of your life......"

"You quarreled with your mother? Just because you returned the bride price? ”

"Don't talk nonsense, what bride price? That's wishful thinking, I'm only fifteen years old, and I'm in charge of my own affairs! ”

"It's okay to come back if it doesn't go well. Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, don't go to your heart. Yu Songyuan comforted her. Then he asked her, "You are so risky, what will you do if I suddenly don't come today?" ”

Unexpectedly, Lin Xue said very simply: "You won't, I'm very sure, you always count when you speak!" ”

"I mean just in case, I mean in case I happen to have something at home today and can't come."

"I don't know, I just thought you'd definitely come. In case you don't come, I'll go to the master, and the dormitory in the factory is empty during the Chinese New Year, so I'll live there. ”

Yu Songyuan suddenly stretched out his hand and held her two cold little hands tightly: "Actually, I came here in the morning, and when I found that you didn't come, I also felt bored, so I came here to lie down." ”

"If I don't come here today if something happens at home, how long are you going to lie here?"

"You won't fail to come."

"I mean just in case."

"Then I'll lie down all night until you come."

"How long have you been lying here?"

"More than three hours."

"God, aren't you afraid of freezing to death?" Lin Xue touched his face and touched his cotton clothes again, "Your padded jacket and cotton pants are too thin, aren't they cold?" I'm just a few days away from work, so I'll redo it for you and add some cotton. ”

"I have been practicing martial arts for many years, and I insist on taking cold showers in winter, and it is not cold at all. Aunt Yu Yueyue once forced me to wear a thick cotton jacket, and I sweated violently in the cold weather, and then I followed. ”

"But I think it's so cold here, the wind is like a knife, and it goes straight into my clothes."

Unexpectedly, Yu Songyuan jumped up after hearing her, took her hand and threw her on his back, "Then let's go back and see what good things I bring you." ”

Lin Xue screamed "ah" in fright, hugging his neck tightly. Yu Songyuan's thoughtfulness made her feel as if there was a fire burning in her heart, which was extremely warm.

Back in the dormitory, Yu Songyuan put her down, took out a pair of woolen gloves and a pair of woolen socks and handed them to her: "Try it, see if it fits." I asked Aunt Yu Yueyue and Aunt Wang Feng to weave it for you. ”

Lin Xue held the gloves in her hands, and tears fell down her eyes. She put on gloves, it fit too well, double wool, warm through. Yu Song was far puzzled: "No, a pair of gloves will be moved like this." ”

Lin Xue wanted to speak and stopped. In fact, what Yu Songyuan didn't know was that during the Chinese New Year, she knitted a pair of gloves for each of her two younger brothers, but she didn't have time to knit one for herself.

Yu Songyuan suddenly took out another package and said, "Open it and take a look." ”

Lin Xue opened the package, and inside it turned out to be a new cotton coat with exquisite workmanship, exquisite colors, and satin cloth. She is a tailor and well-informed, and she recognizes the satin fabric as the famous Suzhou embroidery in the south of the Yangtze River. She stroked the watery satin with her little hands, and her mouth snorted cold, exclaiming: "This is too precious!" ”

Yu Songyuan said: "This is what I secretly asked Aunt Yu Yueyue to use her old cotton clothes to change for you." But it was said that it was an old cotton clothes, but in fact, she didn't wear it for a day. ”

"For me?!"

"yes, what's wrong?"

"Anyway, I can't ask for it, and I don't dare to ask for it, such a haode thing is too precious. Let's talk ...... again."

Yu Songyuan laughed and said, "You think too much, right? It's just a set of cotton clothes. Suddenly, seeing that Lin Xue was already in tears, she was frightened, and immediately stroked her little face with both hands and said, "I'm sorry, don't cry, it's a big New Year." As soon as I am happy, I will run the train in my mouth. It must have been something wrong just now.,Otherwise, why would you be crying haode.。 In this way, if you hit me, I have thick skin, and I have to hit me hard to feel pain......"

Lin Xue suddenly burst into tears and laughed again: "Brother Yu, you didn't say anything wrong, I was so happy that I cried." ”

"Little one, you're scaring me. Because you're growing your body, your aunt is a little bigger, but it definitely fits. ”

Lin Xue is smart and clear, this is clearly a gift of love. She gritted her teeth, as if she had made up her mind, and then bowed her head and said, "I will accept the cotton clothes, xiexie you, and also for my aunt xiexie." ”

asked Yu Songyuan again: "You just said that you secretly asked Aunt Yu Yueyue to make clothes for me, what does this mean?" Why do you want to do it secretly? Are you afraid that the family will know? ”

"You don't know, I have three younger sisters, one Yu Ya, one Xiaohui and one Chen Jing, all of whom are difficult to entangle. If I knew that my brother made clothes for a young lady, if he didn't make them for them, he wouldn't kill me. I also have three very beloved baby nieces, these three little men mainly know that the master is so eccentric, and he will definitely be very sad. ”

Lin Xue smiled happily: "I'm really embarrassed to take away their love." ”

Yu Songyuan said: "When they are older, they will understand, there is a kind of love called love." There is a feeling called aiqing. It's completely different from the love I have for them. Seeing Lin Xue blushing and lowering her head, and was carefully trying to fold her cotton clothes, he immediately said, "What are you doing?" I want you to wear it every day. ”

"This is so expensive that I can't afford to wear it. I want to keep ......."

"Keep it for when you get married? Girl, you are a little small, only fifteen years old, and you want to get married, are you ashamed? Besides, after a few years, you won't be able to wear it. ”

"Brother Yu, you hate it, but I really can't bear it. You don't understand, I'm so big, I've never seen such a beautiful thing, and besides, it's you...... ...... for me"

"No, I can't. I want you to wear it to work from tomorrow! When you get married, Brother Yu will buy you more haode, so that you can dress like a princess and dress as the most beautiful bride in Shijie. ”

Before going to bed at night, Lin Xue took out a small package as if she was juggling: "Look at the clothes I made for you, they don't fit." During the Chinese New Year, I secretly did it in the middle of the night. ”

"Do it secretly, and in the middle of the night, weishenme wants to do it secretly? Are you afraid that I won't be able to do it in front of your parents? ”

"I'm only fifteen after all. My mother wanted to sell me to the stupid son of the deputy director of the branch, if she knew that I made clothes for men other than my father and my brother, she wouldn't have to make a good haode year restless. ”

Yu Songyuan picked up a brand new navy blue "card" tunic suit: "This is really what you did?" ”

"yes, try it."

Yu Songyuan put it on, it fit too well, turned left and right, and posed. Lin Xue sighed sincerely: "Wow, Brother Yu, it's so handsome, it's more standard than a hanger." ”

"What hangers?"

"It's the puppet models in the factory, and our jargon says it's clothes racks. Another meaning is that those who have a good figure and look good in whatever clothes they wear are clothes racks. ”

"You made all this for me?" Yu Songyuan picked up a few other clothes and shoes in the package.

"These are the cotton shoes, jerseys, shorts, tank tops and pants I made for you. We'll go take a shower in a minute, and you can try again. ”

"I said girl, this set of 'cards' will cost fourteen or fifteen yuan, you?"

"I'm stupid, I'm in a garment factory." It turned out that during the overtime work a year ago, Master Huang selected a batch of scrapped fabrics and forced the factory director to agree to dispose of them to the four sisters in the cutting group, as New Year's benefits, and each of them only spent three yuan.

"You're so good at crafting, girl, how do you know my size if you don't even measure?"

"I'm a tailor, I'm almost out of school. I'm with you every day, and I have to measure it. ”

After trying it, Yu Songyuan wanted to take it off, but he was reluctant to wear it. Lin Xue Buyi: "I want you to wear it now, wear it every day in the future, and go to school with spirit." ”

The boiler of the school-run textile factory does not stop during the holiday and is in a closed state. There are only two old workers on duty in the factory in turn, and the master surnamed Zhu on duty today, Yu Songyuan and Lin Xue gave him New Year's greetings. "Girl, it's only the tenth year of the new year, and you're here." When Master Zhu saw Lin Xue, he immediately smiled.

Lin Xue said: "Uncle Zhu, I'm here to do something, and I'll go back tomorrow." ”

Master Zhu poked the stove on, and the water boiled for a while.

Master Zhu said, "You can go to the men's hall and wash it." The women's hall is too big, and it will be very cold for a while. The chapel will be cold at first, but it will be warm after a while. The young man is frost-resistant, so let's wash it first. ”

So, Yu Songyuan went to wash it first.

After washing, only Lin Xue was alone holding her cheeks and looking at the stove.

"Where's Master Zhu?"

"He's going out for a while, let's wait for him after taking a shower."

"Then you go wash it, it's not cold in it at all now."

Lin Xue lifted the thick curtain and was about to go in, but said uneasily: "Brother Yu, you can't go away, this furnace is old and inseparable." ”

Yu Songyuan thought she was cowardly, so he said, "Don't worry, I have turned on all the lights, even the lights in the women's hall." I'm just sitting here, safe. ”

Lin Xue walked in at this time.