Chapter 18: Memories of Past Lives
Jiang Ruonan didn't know what Lu Zhenjun did when he went back, and he thought about it to go back to appease the child - the child would not think that adults would think about it so much, and for children, the term stepmother has an indescribable deterrent throughout the ages.
But Jiang Ruonan was not worried at all. Although she didn't spend much time together, she saw Lu Zhenjun's firm and upright side. He will not go back on what he has already promised. Of course, it is possible to regret it, but there will also be good results.
Of course, she didn't have time to worry at all.
In a short period of time, making clothes for himself, making clothes for Lu Zhenjun, and making clothes for each of the four babies, even if there is a sewing machine, it is a big challenge for Jiang Ruonan.
After all, after more than half a century, clothes are bought directly, except for clothing designers and clothing factory workers, how many ordinary girls can make clothes themselves? I don't need it at all!
Fortunately, it was her Wang Lan who came, otherwise someone else would have dressed as this Jiang Ruonan, and in this environment, it is not necessary to say that she can really suffocate to death.
For Wang Lan, her childhood was isolated and impoverished in the mountains, and compared with her contemporaries, her childhood was completely unimaginable to them - there was no TV, no cartoons, no toys and snacks, and some were just endless work: cooking, sweeping, laundry, and mending at home, pulling weeds, sowing seeds, planting seedlings, and watering manure in the fields, and even more tiring when it came to farming. The children of the poor are in charge of the family early, which is vividly reflected in the three sisters and brothers of Wang Lan. Sister Wang Lan is not tall, because she did too much farm work when she was young, and carrying food during the busy farming season pressed her spine.
These things, since Wang Lan remembered, have left a deep imprint. Probably when I was a child, I was afraid of being poor and tired, and I was used to seeing my parents quarreling because of lack of money, and I understood the truth of poor couples mourning too early, so later Wang Lan would study hard, work hard to get out of the mountains, and work hard to make money, except for money, there is nothing that can give her enough security.
And when she walked out of the mountains step by step, from the town to the county seat to study, was admitted to a university in a big city, and successfully stayed in the city to work after graduation, those childhood hardships gradually became distant to her, becoming a broken silhouette when she dreamed back at midnight. Because she sat in front of the computer for a long time, without exercise and physical labor, she even gradually became like those people in the city, unable to carry the weight on her shoulders and hands, and the weight she could bear when she was nine years old, but at the age of twenty-nine, she was completely unable to do so. Even if she sometimes wants to do some physical work, she often feels overwhelmed.
After becoming Jiang Ruonan, her most intuitive feeling is that the strength in her body has returned.
How to say it, Jiang Ruonan is indeed relatively weak in this family, after all, he was admitted to university, he is a young intellectual, and he is a representative of cultural people in the village, and almost half of his time is spent studying, of course, his physical strength cannot be compared with the rest of the Jiang family who work in the fields all year round.
But compared to those in later generations, Jiang Ruonan's physical labor is more than enough. It made her feel very satisfied.
The computer technology and stock trading skills she once relied on for a living were useless in this era. But she has a heart that is not afraid of hardship, a pair of hard-working hands, a healthy and hard-working body, and most importantly, the unconditional support and care of her blood relatives, so she can go on firmly.
The whole family, working inside and out, these ordinary rural jobs, Jiang Ruonan is no stranger, not only has the memory of childhood, but also probably some instincts of this body are used to it, Jiang Ruonan works neatly, no computer or mobile phone, he is tired after a busy day, and he falls asleep at night, although such days are hard but fulfilling, Jiang Ruonan is used to it almost immediately.
And when she came back from buying cloth with Lu Zhenjun, at the urging of Jiang's mother, she was ordered not to help the family anymore, and began to be busy cutting cloth and making clothes.
She was very good at sewing and mending, at least in her time, she was very good. When she was studying abroad, her good sewing skills allowed her to maintain a good relationship with her roommates in the dormitory. She helped change the military training uniform during military training, helped change the school uniform when she was in school, or sometimes the clothes or something necessary was torn or marked, and she could help sew it up. In this regard, her roommates once joked that she is the typical representative of a good wife and mother in the 21st century.
But those are just sewing and mending, modifying, for really making cloth into a dress, such the most primitive thing, Wang Lan's own memory goes back to before high school, she is not a nostalgic person, probably the memory of childhood is too hard, poverty and low self-esteem caused by poverty is sometimes a kind of original sin, she always selectively forgets those things that are not good for her.
Before high school, she had never worn the clothes she bought outside. Basically, it is old clothes sent by others, and there are also new clothes, Wang Lan's father learned sewing in the early nineties, and it seemed to be very fashionable at that time, so there was an old-fashioned sewing machine at home, and the new clothes of their three sisters and brothers were made by Wang Lan's father when he bought cloth and came back. But to be honest, it's really ugly, and it can't be compared to those clothes that other people buy in the mall.
In this way, Wang Lan began to learn tailoring, learn to measure size, learn to use a sewing machine, and learn to make clothes for herself and her family in the style outside...... Later, after I went to high school, I was busy with my studies, and I could wear school uniforms all year round, and after I went to college, I had less time to go home, and I earned money again, so what clothes could I not buy? She never made her own clothes again.
But she didn't expect that the technology she thought was useless could still come in handy - she thought it was a little difficult to make clothes at first, but as soon as she got started, the familiarity was not only due to the habits of this body, but also the memories in the depths of her own soul, which made her instantly more confident.
She first cut out her and Lu Zhenjun's new clothes according to Jiang's mother's strong request, and she smiled when she made them, big red with big green, which is a characteristic of the times...... Jiang Mu thought it was good: "This army green is good-looking, and Xiao Lu is a soldier, even if he is in the camp, he can wear it!" ”
Sister Jiang was also envious when she saw it: "No wonder they all say that military uniforms are good-looking, aren't they?" When I wait for the Chinese New Year this year, I will also cut one for your eldest brother. ”
"Don't wait for the Chinese New Year this year, eldest sister, I still have fabrics here, you see, save some use, make a dress for our father and eldest brother, it's definitely okay." Jiang Ruonan smiled, "If I can't do it now, I'll keep it for you." "There is no woman in the countryside today who does not know how to make clothes.