"Let's go, Mom, come and sit in my dormitory for a while, and we'll go to the cafeteria to eat later."

Tian Aihua led the three mothers to the male dormitory, the dormitory is four high and low beds, but there are four people, the upper bunk is left for everyone to put luggage, and it is time to eat after sitting for a while, Tian Aihua took the meal ticket and took the family to the canteen.

"Mom, you sit with your sister-in-law, and I'll go to cook."

Tian Xiaoya followed Tian Aihua, she had never seen the canteen of a state-owned unit in the 80s, and the colorful plastic tickets were quite interesting.

"Little bud, what do you want to eat?"

"I want to eat fish, and eggs."

"I still have two health care tickets, and I happen to have health dishes today."

Tian Aihua bought a braised fish cube, a chili scrambled egg, a fried sweet potato tip, a roasted eggplant, plus two health vegetables, dried beans and pork.

Tian Xiaoya looked at the oily button meat and couldn't help swallowing her saliva, but in order to lose weight, she ate a few pieces of fish and eggs, and she kept eating vegetables, and she didn't want Tian Aihua to give her the buckle meat.

Zhang Chunlan's eyes swelled with worry, the old girl likes to eat meat the most on weekdays, and the braised pork with buckle meat is her favorite food, why don't you eat a piece today, is it sick?

"Xiao Tian, someone from the family has arrived."

During the rush hour after work, there are many people in the canteen recently, some who know Tian Aihua, and say hello.

"Sister Tang, this is my mother, sister-in-law and sister-in-law."

The woman with her short ear-length hair nodded, "Your little sister is so blessed." ”

If the little girl is chubby, others will praise this girl for being blessed, and Tian Xiaoya is very white, although she is fat, but her face is a cute peach face, with big eyes, a fleshy appearance, and a beautiful eyebrow.

"Xiao Tang, I'll go to the cloth factory in a while, where cheap cloth is sold."

Cheap cloth heads? Hearing the word cheap, Zhang Chunhua was immediately attracted and grabbed the woman in front of her, "Girl, what are you talking about cheap cloth?" ”

The woman surnamed Tang smiled from ear to ear, "Auntie, I'm not a girl anymore, I have two children." ”

"What?" Zhang Chunhua was a little surprised, "I can't see it, I can't see it at all, I can't see it at all." ”

Hearing others call themselves girls and say that they are young, everyone is happy, and the women said a few words to Zhang Chunhua, even if they are cooked, Zhang Chunhua will go to the cloth factory with them for a while.

"My Aihua is thin-skinned and can't speak, but the child has a good character, and our family is also a pure white family, if there is a good girl in the future, Comrade Tang, you can also pay attention to my Aihua."

Tian Aihua lowered his head, and his reddish ears betrayed his shy mood.

After eating, Zhang Chunhua didn't want her son to send it, and went to the cloth factory with a few women she just met.

Now there is an opportunity to buy cloth cheaply and without cloth tickets, how could Zhang Chunhua give up, she has already thought about it, the cloth head is the cloth head, find some colors and colors that are similar, and put them together to be new clothes.

When I arrived at the cloth factory and entered from the small door, the warehouse was crowded with people, and the rags were sold in bags, and they were not allowed to pick or pick up, otherwise the big and good ones would be picked up, and the remaining small rags would be sold to whom.

It's just that there are too many people to squeeze in at all, but this is difficult for Zhang Chunhua and Yang Juan, both of whom are doing farm work, tall and strong, plus Tian Xiaoya and the three of them opened the way forward, and the women with the canning factory quickly squeezed to the front.

"I want two, not five."

Two yuan for a big bag, five bags can do something for the whole family, Zhang Chunhua gritted her teeth and took out a big unity, and several women also bought it in a hurry.

"This is a bag I like."

"What's yours? Did you pay? It's mine. ”

There were also a few women who wanted to fight in order to compete for some rags, Tian Xiaoya couldn't stand such a crowded and noisy environment, and watched Zhang Chunhua pick up there, said hello and got out, and ran to the side of the warehouse to breathe.

"Throw it all out, hurry up, pile it up and take a place in it."

A man commanded several men to throw the rags in the corner of the warehouse onto the flatbed truck and pull them out of the door, Tian Xiaoya followed out, and saw them throw these rags onto the liberation car.

"Hello comrade, I want to ask, don't you want any of these? Is this to be thrown away? ”

The gay man glanced at Tian Xiaoya, "These are unusable rag heads, and many of them have been rained and are ready to be thrown away." ”

Looking at the rag head, Tian Xiaoya felt very familiar, and suddenly she remembered that this was not the rag head on the mop used to go to school when she was a child, it was a long narrow strip, and then tied into a handful, she said how to look familiar.

Rag heads, mops, suddenly her eyes lit up, these rag heads don't cost money, she can use them to make mops, and then sell them.

"Comrade, do you think these rags can be given to me?"

The man looked at Tian Xiaoya strangely, "These rag strips are a waste of needle and thread when put together, what do you want them for?" ”

The idea of making a mop must not be said, Tian Xiaoya thought about it and pinched herself fiercely, and her eyes immediately turned red, "Big brother, I won't tell you, I want this to be a futon." My family is poor, life is not good, the soil kang is padded with straw, this season the straw is damp and moldy, I want to replace the straw with these rag heads, and then stuff some rag heads in the quilt, so that it will not be frozen in winter.

If you're embarrassed, I, can I pay for it? I just have this money, I don't know if it's enough? ”

Tian Xiaoya took out a handful of money, lowered her head, and round tears fell on the back of her hand, looking pitiful and sympathetic.

The man thought about it, and if he lost it, he lost it, this girl was very pitiful, and it was better to use it for her than to lose it.

"Okay, then you drag it away yourself, and if you want to tow it all away today, we will vacate the warehouse."

"Thank you, big brother, thank you, big brother." Tian Xiaoya kept bowing, the man waved his hand, and instructed again, so that Tian Xiaoya must be dragged away today.

Tian Xiaoya saw that her mother and sister-in-law were still inside and didn't come out, and there was a rag head like a hill next to her, so many of them were pulled by a flatbed truck, and it took several trips, what should I do?

She rushed into the crowd, dragged Zhang Chunhua out, and told them that she was going to get the rag head home.

Although the rag head doesn't need money, what are so many rags going to do, each one is narrow and long, and it can't be spelled, but the old girl has to do it, and the mother and daughter can't find a way, so they went out and asked for help from the rags.

It took three pulls to clear all the rags.

In the end, Tian Aihua found someone to get two flatbed trucks, and he and his sister-in-law dragged one by one, and walked home with difficulty.

More than 20 kilometers, the four of them walked for three hours, and after arriving home, Tian Aihua and Yang Juan were so tired that they couldn't move.