Zhou Lanxiang carefully inspected the house again, did not miss anything, confirmed that everything was the same as before, and there was no trace of the arranged mechanism being touched, so she quietly carried the small bamboo basket back to the house.

Each of the oranges was bigger than her fist, round and orange-red, fresh and full, and she knew that they must be sweet and juicy, completely different from what the old lady had bought at the fruit company. She always felt that something was wrong, and she counted the red envelope nervously.

A whole thousand yuan, 100 chapters of brand-new 10 yuan bills, reminded her of the red envelopes given by her grandfather when she was a child, when her grandfather would always go to the credit union to exchange for brand new money for them during the New Year.

She packed the money and oranges into the space, and peeled an orange to eat, it was sweet and juicy, and it was even better than it looked.

She wasn't afraid that the uncle would come to find trouble, nor was she afraid that he would poison him, with his skills, if he really had malicious intentions towards their family, it would be easy and easy to go directly to the door and kill the two of them last night, where would such a complicated method be used.

So this should be a thank you gift.

Anyway, she couldn't go back, so she accepted it honestly, so that he didn't worry about it anymore, and both parties could rest assured that it was best if this matter was in the past.

Since he can come in once, then he may come in again, on the night of the first day of the new year, Zhou Lanxiang put a sketch portrait of the uncle on the pile of firewood where the oranges were put yesterday, last time she said that she painted it and used it to threaten him as a handle, since he kept his promises, then she also had to show her sincerity.

Because the oranges are really delicious, she thought about it, and filled the small bamboo basket, which contained the balls and honey horns that she fried during the New Year, as well as the persimmons sent back by the old lady's son in the autumn.

She still had insomnia at night, but she did not hear any movement in the yard at all, and the next morning she went to see that everything on the firewood pile was gone, but there was a small bamboo basket with oranges in it.

Zhou Lanxiang looked at the small basket of oranges and frowned, she just wanted to exchange gifts once, why did this person have endless postures?

This time she didn't harvest, the small bamboo basket has been put in place, although after the Spring Festival will be the beginning of spring, but in the north from the melting of ice and snow at least more than a month, now the weather is frozen, even if there is cotton wrapped, after a day it will also freeze into ice lumps.

The little bamboo basket sat in place for three days, and on the fourth day it disappeared silently, and the house was completely quiet, and nothing strange appeared.

After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, you can move needlework, Zhou Lanxiang began to make cotton shoes for the old lady, the old lady's legs are not good, there are two big bumps next to the thumb on her feet, you have to make special shoes, otherwise the foot of No. 36 will have to wear No. 42 shoes to wear it.

The year before last, she fell into the pit because the shoes did not fit, her eyes had already been spent, she couldn't do needlework by herself, and it was not so convenient to find someone else to do it.

Since Zhou Lanxiang came, the old lady's clothes from the inside out were all made by herself, and the shoes were changed several times, which fit and were comfortable, and even walking was more energetic than before.

Others are cotton shoes and single shoes a year, Zhou Lanxiang knows that the old lady's feet are squeamish and do not resist tossing, and she also makes cotton shoes for her to wear in the spring, making the old lady happy to show off when she sees people.

Because of her good craftsmanship, the old lady also asked her son to send a sewing ticket, and bought a sewing machine to come back for her to use, this time it was better, the clothes of a family of three were made by themselves, and the old lady's son also wrote back to say that the shirts and pants sent by his mother were borrowed by the eldest sister of the unit to make a look, and asked him if he bought foreign goods in Shanghai foreign trade store!

Mrs. Zhang's niece is good at needlework, and the familiar neighbors around her know it, but the old lady protects her short, and it is easy to let her niece do the work, the old lady said, her Lanlan needlework is good but the work is careful, and the clothes, shoes and socks of their family of three are enough for her to be busy, and she can't do more.

So the people who wanted to ask her to help with needlework stopped thinking, after all, she couldn't speak, and she couldn't even give her some pointers, so they couldn't understand it at all!

But on the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, the National Day Niang still took something to Zhou Lanxiang and wanted to ask her to help make two pairs of shoes, but she was afraid that she would not agree, so she smiled a little embarrassed.

"My sister-in-law's daughter-in-law has found a good partner, and on the twenty-sixth day of the first month, the man is good anywhere, he is from the countryside, and the matchmaker said that it is better to follow the rules of the countryside. That girl went to work after graduating from junior high school, how could she have used needlework! After looking for relatives at home, no one was particularly outstanding in needlework, so I thought of Lanlan! ”

The rules of marriage in the countryside are that the man gives the woman a small part of the bride price on the day of the next small decision, and the woman returns two pairs of shoes to the man. These two pairs of shoes are the key to judging the quality of the woman's line in the man's family, so rural girls pay special attention to these two pairs of shoes.

But there is no such rule in the city now, although the girls still make their own clothes, cotton clothes and sweaters are also made by themselves, but most of the shoes are bought, especially the kind of mille-feuille soles in the countryside, it is too troublesome to paste the uppers with the soles, and it is rare to send a piece of fabric or a shirt for engagement.

The sister-in-law of the National Day sister is from the county next door, although the family is all workers, and the daughter is only an apprentice in the asbestos tile factory, but she is also from the city.

The old lady smiled and congratulated the National Day Niang, "That young man is very promising, right?" Where do you work? ”

As soon as Qing Qingniang said this, her eyes lit up, "That child has been seen in Daping, he is tall, and he is more than half a head taller than Daping!" It is said that he looks very energetic! ”

Da Ping is the younger brother of the National Day Niang, and he is 1.8 meters tall.

"It's good to work, it's only twenty-two and it's a deputy section level! My old Wang has been mixed for most of his life, and the retired family only gave a deputy department to support the façade! ”

That's it, it's not such a good talent, and his family can't be so caught up with the rules of other people's villages.

The National Day lady is real, and she doesn't feel any shame in catching up with the man, "My mother is right, this family affair is difficult to find with a lantern, if it becomes in the future, the most promising of our relatives is this nephew and son-in-law!" We have to do our best to help if we can! ”

"My sister-in-law gave me a message, saying that the young man who is dressed at a glance is paying attention to others, the needlework trap is getting it, and the general second-class craftsmanship must be disgusted, this doesn't I think of Lan Lan coming, this kid's needlework is really good, I haven't seen anything better than her in so many years! In the past, the ginger tailor on Zhengyang Street was not as good as her, and if she took it out, she would definitely have a long face in front of her in-laws! ”

Qingqing Niang praised so sincerely, the old lady was so happy that the folds on her face turned into chrysanthemums, meaning to ask Zhou Lanxiang if she could be busy recently, and if she could, she would give me a favor.

It's a very glorious thing to make shoes for people, and since she asked for it, Zhou Lanxiang couldn't refuse, so she agreed.

The man's shoe size is very large, No. 46, Zhou Lanxiang looked at this size and was stunned for a moment, Han Jin is also a No. 46 shoe.

The old lady was also amazed when she looked at it, and the National Day Niang laughed, "The feet are big and the feet are big, my sister-in-law doesn't know how rare that young man is this big man!" ”

Where is the sister-in-law rare, it is the niece of the sister-in-law's family is rare, it's just hard to say.

The old lady and Guoqing Niang laughed together for a while, and said that she would make the shoes at twenty-four, "I will also go on the day of the marriage, take a good look at the child, my family Daping went once, he was clumsy, and he couldn't say anything when he came back, I was really anxious!" ”

Making two pairs of shoes looks simple, but you have to use paste to paste the jacket, accept the sole, make the upper, roll the edge, and finally sew the upper and sole together.

However, Zhou Lanxiang is fast, and she has something that has been prepared for the old lady to make shoes, and she will make it in two days and hand it over to the National Day Niang.

The day after she finished her shoes, she saw the small bamboo basket on the firewood again, this time it was two, one with a few fresh oranges, and the other empty.

Zhou Lanxiang was a little surprised, did this uncle burn his brain with mercury iodide poisoning? He's an enemy agent, what is he going to do? Risking getting caught and trading snacks with her?