Li Lamei was very surprised, she didn't believe it in her heart, but she knew that Aunt Jiang had a few money in her hand.

In the past few years, Grandma Jiang confiscated the money that Aunt Jiang had made and sold kang mats in winter, saying that she would let Aunt Jiang save up for her own and buy a dowry in the future.

In this area of Lanxi Village, since the early 80s, when free trade was allowed, the villagers began to weave kang mats and sell them at the market to earn pocket money.

It is impossible to find out who taught the art of weaving mats. However, it has indeed brought a certain amount of income to the villagers and improved their lives. This is one of the reasons why more children attend school in Lanxi Village than in other villages.

The mats made by the people of Lanxi Village are divided into two colors: white and floral. The white is woven with white sorghum stalks, and after weaving, it is also fumigated and bleached with sulfur. The flower color is made by cross-braiding the white sorghum stalk skin fumigated with sulfur fumigation and the unfumigated red sorghum stalk skin.

A white mat can be sold for about two to three yuan, and a flower mat can be sold for four to five yuan.

Most of the villagers choose to take off the leaves and skin of the sorghum stalks in the winter when the stalks are flew, cut them into long strips, and then soak the stumbling stalks (soak the broken sorghum stalks into the pond ditch).

The stumbling stumble is to remove the inner stalk of the sorghum stalk after being soaked in water with a long knife.

In winter, the stumbling blocks fished out of the pond are hung with biting ice, and scraping the stumbling blocks has to deal with ice water all day long, which is not a good job.

When I started to weave the mat, although I didn't have to touch the ice water so much, the mat was spread on the cool ground and weaved, in the winter, the weather was cold, there was no stove in the house, people squatted on it, or sat on it, and it was uncomfortable for the waist and legs for a long time, not to mention that if you were not careful, you would cut your hands on the thin skin of the sharp sorghum stalk.

Li Lamei also weaves kang mats every winter to earn pocket money, and naturally has a deep understanding of the suffering.

After hearing her daughter say that her sister-in-law spent money to buy a lot of things, she had a stump in her heart.

Looking at the two enamel basins, I couldn't help but sigh secretly, this is all my sister-in-law's hard-earned money.

I couldn't bear it, I thought about it, and remembered that I wore a crimson striped velvet gown when I got married, which had been stored at the bottom of the wooden box, and I originally wanted to wait for two years, and the eldest girl grew taller, so that the child could take it out and wear it. Now I think it's better to give it to my sister-in-law to wear.

It just so happened that last night, my mother-in-law took out so many good things to help her entertain guests. Sending a piece of clothing can also make your mother-in-law feel better.

Jiang Mi didn't expect her mother to come to this hand.

Looking at the neatly folded new clothes on his hands that exude the smell of camphor, and then look at the patched clothes on his mother and himself, he was a little reluctant to send them to his sister-in-law.

She has already bought a scarf to send to her sister-in-law, and then sent a new dress, is it a loss for her family?

But if you don't send it, you can't explain it to your mother.

Her mother's temperament Jiang Mi knows that people are not short of ambitions, but they are not a person who likes to take advantage of others.

Yes, it can be regarded as adding another fire to the easing of relations between grandma's family and her own family.

The two families are relatives who have broken bones and tendons, and there is no deep hatred, and there is no need to be noisy and laughed at all day long.

Sure enough, Jiang Mi sent the clothes to her grandmother's house, not only was her sister-in-law flattered, but even her grandmother, who had always had a straight face, stared at her triangle eyes in surprise.

This buys scarves and gives clothes? What are you going to do?

"Milk, my mother said that my sister-in-law is good at talking about her mother-in-law's family, and she should dress up beautifully."

So obedient, Jiang Mi came as soon as he opened his mouth.

"This, this is your mother's dress when she got married, right?"

When Grandma Jiang saw the dress, she immediately remembered the day her daughter-in-law had just married and entered the door.