Cui Fenglan changed Shen Xiaoyu's old clothes, and when she saw that she could wear them, she called Shen Xiaoyu to compare them.

Shen Xiaoyu came over to try it on and thought it was very good.

"Auntie, your craftsmanship is so good!" Shen Xiaoyu looked at the clothes on his body, not to mention that he had changed them just right, the stitches were meticulous, and the patterns were embroidered, looking like new.

Cui Fenglan looked at Shen Pomegranate who was dressed appropriately, so she said: "If it is suitable, wear it directly, and Aunt Zizi will also change it for you, and you can wear the two pieces in the future." "Although Shen Xiaoyu is still young, children can grow taller in a few years, and their clothes have to be made bigger, and if they wear their clothes tightly, they will be looked down upon by outsiders.

Shen Xiaoyu touched the jacket on his body and said happily: "Auntie, you can do anything!" ”

Cui Fenglan said with a smile: "It's all taught by my mother, my mother used to be an embroidery girl, and she didn't have a lot of skills, Xiaoyu is a girl's family, and she will be able to sew and mend things in the future." ”

"Can that aunt teach me?" Shen Xiaoyu asked, the craftsmanship of ordinary women is not easy to pass on, and if they have a skill, they will marry into a good family in the future.

Cui Fenglan said: "Okay, Xiaoyu wants to learn, and my aunt will teach you everything in the future!" ”

Shen Xiaoyu is happy, he can learn to write and needlework, and he feels that these two things alone are already much better than most of the firewood girls in the village!

When the family is idle, Shen Xiaoyu ponders what to do, although the family has enough food, but they can't sit and eat empty, even if the spring of the next year begins, they can't put all their hopes in the field, in case there is no food, how long can they eat their food?

"Dad went out to do odd jobs, and I went to the mountains to pick some food that I could eat, but I shouldn't be able to earn much from doing odd jobs." Shen Xiaoyu said, Daddy Shen is not the kind of man who is five big and three thick, he used to be a craftsman, even if he went to do hard work, he would definitely not earn as much as those powerful men.

Father Shen thought about it for a while, and said, "If it doesn't work, I'll make some baskets of futons or something, and it's okay to take out these little things and sell them." "It's come to this point, so I don't have to worry about what to do, I just need to make money. If he hadn't insisted on refusing to change his career, Xiaoyu's mother probably wouldn't have left so early.

Shen Xiaoyu nodded, as long as he had a livelihood.

Cui Fenglan said: "I can do some needlework, embroider some handkerchiefs, or help people make some ready-to-wear work, which should be fine, but the village can't afford to hire people, and we don't have acquaintances in the city, so it's not easy to find a good job." ”

All three sighed, life is like this, there are difficulties at the beginning, but if you don't do anything, you will never be able to go well.

"Auntie, let's go to the city tomorrow and buy some fabrics and embroidery threads, make some purses or something, and we should be able to sell some before the year." Shen Xiaoyu said.

Cui Fenglan thought for a while and said: "If you can buy it, you can buy it, but now the price of cloth and grain is rising...... "The cost of input should be able to save for their family now."

Father Shen didn't come up with any good ideas after thinking about them for a long time, so he finally asked Shen Xiaoyu to go back to the room to sleep first, and wait until he was full of sleep.

Shen Xiaoyu went back to her room, the house was warm, and the quilt was laid out, and she sighed that the stepmother she found for herself was really right.

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Seeing that it was approaching the end of the year, Shen Xiaoyu pondered that he always had to eat some good things during the New Year, except for the "living creatures" that could lay eggs, the rest of the "living creatures" sent by the Qin family had basically been eaten, after all, raising these poultry or something also requires food.

When it was close to dawn, there were some snowflakes in the sky, Shen Xiaoyu listened to the sound of snowflakes falling and squirming outside, and she couldn't sleep until dawn, and she didn't get up until dawn and heard the door of the house next to her.

"Why is Xiaoyu angry so early?" Cui Fenglan was burning a fire on the stove, and Father Shen had already carried a bucket to the well at the entrance of the village to get water.

Shen Xiaoyu squatted over: "I can't sleep a little." ”

Cui Fenglan looked at it and asked with a smile: "Xiaoyu still has something on his mind?" ”

Shen Xiaoyu smacked his lips and said, "Why are we so poor?" Why are some people so rich when they are born? ”

Cui Fenglan smiled: "I also thought about this problem when I was a child, and then I figured it out. ”

Shen Xiaoyu's eyes lit up: "Why?" ”

"It's just nothing." Cui Fenglan said with a smile, there is no reason why she was born so poor.

Shen Xiaoyu smiled dejectedly and said, "In the future, if I want to be rich, our family will raise a lot of chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep, and eat meat every day." ”

Cui Fenglan was smiling, there was movement at the door, Cui Fenglan said: "It's time for your father to come back, he is carrying water and occupying it, you go and help him open the door." ”

Shen Xiaoyu got up and went to open the door and shouted, "Dad, you come back...... Who are you? "When I opened the door, I didn't see Daddy Shen.

Outside the door was the coachman of the Gu family, and said, "You kid doesn't know me anymore, I drove you back yesterday!" ”

Shen Xiaoyu thought about it, remembered who it was, and said, "Uncle, what's wrong, why are you here again?" ”

"My old lady woke up yesterday, and when she woke up, she looked for you around, and I heard that the lord sent you back, but she was unhappy, saying that she was snubbing you, so let the little one run again today, send some things, thank the little girl, you helped her yesterday." As he spoke, the driver asked the little guy in the back to move things inside.

Shen Xiaoyu was stunned, she didn't ask for it yesterday, and she sent it to her home today?!

"Uncle, as I said yesterday, I didn't help the old woman for these things." Shen Xiaoyu said, just looking at the things that the little guy was carrying, big bags and small bags, a lot of things.

The coachman said: "Take it, if you don't accept it, my old lady is afraid that she will not be reconciled, the old lady likes you, if you confiscate it, the old man will also feel uneasy, right?" The coachman said, it doesn't matter if Shen Xiaoyu wants it or not, anyway, he just puts down his things, and it's okay to go back.

Cui Fenglan went to the door to ask, I don't know where these people came from, Shen Xiaoyu told me about yesterday's incident, Cui Fenglan was quite surprised, this is the old lady who saved a big family!

"The Gu family? That's really a rich family! Cui Fenglan said, who in Liaoyang City doesn't know that the Gu family, the pharmacy business is so big, as long as you eat whole grains, you have to get sick, as long as you are sick, you have to buy medicine.

After such a while, the coachman asked people to put everything in order, and did not forget to say to Shen Xiaoyu: "Little girl, our old lady said, you can go to our house to sit when you are free, and her old man will fall in love with you!" ”

"Okay, I'll go see my mother-in-law when I have time." Shen Xiaoyu agreed, and then sent the coachman away.

Cui Fenglan looked at the pile in the yard and said, "We don't seem to have to buy cloth." "There are a few pieces of cloth in that pile, and this Gu family is also sincere, and they give a lot of things, from cloth to food, from pastries to medicinal materials, what is given is real things.

At this time, Daddy Shen came back, and when he saw the things in the yard, he was also surprised, and when he knew what was going on, Daddy Shen smiled: "Our little fish is very lucky, any old lady can pick up the old lady of the Gu family." ”

Shen Xiaoyu didn't care about it, so he quickly ordered everything, put the grain in the cellar and locked it, and the meat was hung directly on the roof to freeze, and the rest was taken to the house.

She didn't know much about medicinal materials, and she didn't know what they were for several packets, Cui Fenglan saw it, so she took it first, and then found someone who knew how to take a look, and the rest was cotton and cloth, which were the main things.

"Yesterday I said that the fabric was expensive, but today I have it!" Shen Xiaoyu was happy, and the cloth he gave was smooth and slippery, it was indeed a good material, and there were several colors, and when the time came, he could pick it out and sell it for some embroidery.

"There is a lot of cotton and fabric, and it is enough for each of you to make a new jacket for the New Year!" Cui Fenglan measured the size of the cloth as she spoke, and finally nodded: "There is still some leftover." ”

Daddy Shen smiled and waved his hand: "Oh, it's nothing if I'm a big man or not, just do it!" ”

Shen Xiaoyu said: "I don't need to make a new one, aunt, you make it yourself, and use the rest that can be used, and keep it for later use if you can't use it." "The jacket on her body has just been changed, and she doesn't care if it's new clothes or not, anyway, the firewood girls in the village must not be able to afford to wear new clothes.

Cui Fenglan heard it: "Then keep it, I don't need new clothes, I can save it." ”

Father Shen said: "Don't, just do what you have to do, when you came to our house, you didn't even have a red hijab." ”

Shen Xiaoyu said directly: "That's it, let them also see, our Shen family is not a shabby household!" She was still holding her breath in her heart, because her family was poor, and many people in the village had to come and step on it!

Cui Fenglan finally nodded, but since she wanted to do it herself, then the two of them would also do it, anyway, there was a lot of fabric, which was enough.

Cui Fenglan cut the appearance during the day, Shen Xiaoyu had also seen his mother cut clothes before, but her mother used kraft hard paper to cut the paper pattern first, but this Cui Fenglan scissors were in hand, and even the paper pattern was useless, a few scissors went down, the shape and size of the two pieces of cloth were exactly the same, and half a point was not bad, which made Shen Xiaoyu very surprised.

"Auntie, your craft, true god!" Shen Xiaoyu gave a thumbs up, making Cui Fenglan smile: "You will do the same in the future, and my aunt will teach you to hide needles and sew clothes first!" ”

Shen Xiaoyu's face was excited, the child was originally very interested in these things, and he thought it was fun to watch anything.

At night, Father Shen was lying on the east side of the kang, and Cui Fenglan was lying on the west side of the kang, Cui Fenglan said: "Xiaoyu is smart, she can understand what I teach today, she is a good child." ”

"She's smart, but she's not very obedient, she used to ask her not to touch my paper work, but she didn't listen, broke the rules, and I'm afraid it will be bad in the future." Father Shen sighed and said, now he can't forget the paper man that Shen Xiaoyu gave to his deceased wife, although he was angry at the time, but after thinking about it carefully, the paste really looks very similar!