Chapter 8: Mending Clothes
After sitting for a while, feeling that her stomach was not so uncomfortable, Xiao Qinghe got up and walked slowly in the house to eat, and September followed behind her, walking around her feet.
"Stupid September, be careful that I step on you."
However, September didn't care whether he would be stepped on or not, and still followed the little master closely.
Xiao Qinghe looked at its dirty appearance, and couldn't help but say, "Mom, let's take a bath for September tomorrow." ”
"What kind of bath do cats take?"
"Why can't cats take a bath? Look at September, so dirty. ”
September squatted on the ground, tilted his little head, and "meowed", completely unaware that the little master was counting it.
"Didn't you think it was dirty at all, and you had to sleep with it."
Xiao Qinghe pouted, of course she was different from her now, the soul in the shell has changed, and the dirty September is not so cute in her eyes.
However, the weather is still very cold, and bathing the cat without taking cold measures will make it sick.
Xiao Qinghe thought for a while and asked, "Mom, who has a hair dryer in the village?" ”
"Do you really want to give September a bath? Your Aunt Fang's family has it. ”
"Of course it has to be washed, I'm afraid it hasn't been bathed since it was born, right? It's also too dirty! ”
Especially thinking that he had been to the rat's nest in September, Xiao Qinghe couldn't bear it even more.
Lin Jing smiled: "What's the use of you washing it?" In a few days, it will stain you again. ”
In a word, Xiao Qinghe was messy in the wind.
It's also oh, she is now in the countryside, not in the villa in the city in the previous life, there are no floor tiles, wallpaper, and dirty things are piled up everywhere, not to mention anything else, as long as you drill into the woodpile in September, you can't see the hair.
Frustrated, he slumped his shoulders, and Xiao Qinghe muttered, "Forget it, don't wash it." ”
I thought in my heart, the system can provide spells like "Whale Swallowing", I wonder if it can provide spells like "Dust Cleansing" mentioned in Xianxia novels? If there is, it will be easy to clean up in the future, and it will be clean in September.
It's a pity that the system doesn't seem to be able to communicate......
September didn't know that he had escaped a "catastrophe" just now, and he was still meowing, following the little master.
It was already dark, so Lin Jing struck a match and lit the kerosene lamp.
Many families in the village already use electricity, but Lin Jing still uses kerosene, which is still cheaper than electricity.
However, Lin Jing is going to ask someone to install the electric lights in the summer, and the lotus flowers will go to school in the second half of the year, and it is always difficult to light the kerosene lamp when doing homework at night, which hurts the eyes.
Under the dim kerosene light, Xiao Qinghe saw that her mother had found one of her pants, and when she looked at the light, she saw that her buttocks had been worn out with several holes.
Then she saw her mother find a piece of rag of fabric, cut a small strip, and sew it into the torn part.
It's really three years of new, three years of old, and another three years of sewing and mending!
She never thought that she would have to wear mending clothes one day.
In her previous life, although she also had a few clothes and pants with holes, they were more of a trendy style, and it was not the same concept as the tattered clothes in front of her.
Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed, Xiao Qinghe said, "Mom, it's so ugly to make up for it like this." ”
Lin Jing said helplessly: "Ugliness can only be settled, otherwise what should I do?" You can't just wear it out, can you? There is no money to buy a new one. ”
"Mom can cut that piece of fabric into a beautiful shape and mend it, so that it looks like a special decoration, not a patch."
Lin Jing's eyes lit up: "Really, I look at the clothes and pants sold in the supply and marketing cooperative, there are good-looking rabbits, kittens or something, what do lotus flowers want?" ”
"Just cut it into a simple pattern like stars and moons."
"Okay, then cut a star!"
Lin Jing cut a five-pointed star the size of a ping-pong ball, walked one side first, then sewed it on the torn pants, shook it open and looked at it, and said with a smile: "It's really much better-looking, mother's lotus flower is so smart!" Well, in a few other places, Mom will also add a star to you. ”
In addition to the buttocks, there were also a few holes in the knees, Lin Jing drew a gourd in the same way, and sewed two five-pointed stars on it, and the originally gray pants suddenly became foreign.
"Lotus, you put on your mother and take a look."
Xiao Qinghe changed into pants, and on the blue lamp grass velvet pants, there were a few large and small five-pointed stars dotted sporadically, and the grade immediately came up.
Lin Jing was very happy: "This doesn't look like old pants anymore!" ”
I really didn't expect that just a few five-pointed stars were sewn up, and the originally ordinary pants completely changed.
Lin Jing happily found out all the clothes and pants that had been mended for her daughter before, and re-sewed them in the mending place. Some sew a flower, some sew a crescent, and make up for a relatively large place, so they sew a rabbit's head, a cat's head, or something.
After some transformation, Xiao Qinghe's clothes were no longer visible, and were replaced by various good-looking patterns.
Lin Jing spread out the clothes one by one, with a little sense of invitation: "Lotus, is it good to sew it well?" ”
Xiao Qinghe squinted his eyes and nodded: "Well, it's very beautiful, thank you Mom!" ”
Lin Jing smiled contentedly.
Her daughter has never worn a new dress since she was a child, and all the clothes are changed from her old clothes, and every time she sees other people's children wearing new clothes, Lin Jing feels very guilty.
Now, through a small decoration, her daughter's clothes have become good-looking, and Lin Jing is very satisfied.
September jumped on the stool and looked down at a dress spread out on it with a large cat's head. It stretched out its furry paws, pressed it on the cat's head, tilted its head and "meowed".
"Stinky September, don't get my clothes dirty!" Xiao Qinghe put it aside and said to his mother, "Mom, find out your clothes and change them." ”
Lin Jing was a little moved, but she still shook her head and refused: "Mom is old, what are you doing in those beautiful clothes?" ”
There was no man in the family, but if there was a man in the village who got closer to her, it would cause a lot of gossip, and if she made her clothes fancy again, she didn't know what to say behind her back.
What a terrible thing to say!
"Mom is not old!"
Mom is not yet thirty years old, and in a few decades, many women of this age are not married, where are they old?
Lin Jing smiled faintly, she is not old, but her heart is old.
She touched her daughter's head and said softly: "Mom doesn't like to dress up, Mom just wants the lotus flowers to be dressed beautifully." ”
Xiao Qinghe will no longer persuade her, now that the family is poor, it is normal for her mother to have no heart to dress up, and when the family is rich in the future, her mother will naturally change her concept, and she believes that that day will not be too far away.