Sister-in-law Xu was pulled to a chair by Xu Yin and sat down, and handed her nephew a gummy orange petal wrapped in transparent cellophane, about a dozen of them, surrounded like an orange.

Little Douding's eyes lit up.

"Let's eat!" Xu Yin said with a smile.

He looked at his mother, then at Xu Yin, and timidly stretched out his little paw and took one.

I didn't dare to take more, for fear that my aunt would pinch him.

Seeing this, Xu Yin stuffed the whole orange candy into his pocket.

A small coat pocket, bulging out of a large bag.

Little Douding glanced down a few times and grinned.

"Yin Yin, how do you want to mend these pants?"

Sister-in-law Xu picked up her pants and looked at them.

Everything else is quite new, but there is a small hole in the hem of the trousers, which can be sewn with the same color thread.

It's that there is an obvious wear on the buttocks, and eighty percent of it is that the bench in the school is too rough to grind.

"Straight sewing or patching?"

Xu Yin didn't want to choose either.

Let my sister-in-law cut off the trouser leg by an inch, so that the tear is just cut off.

If you close the trouser hem again, it will become a popular trouser leg in later generations.

Then two patches of jeans were drawn.

"The fabric of the same color is cut and attached to the pants, and by the way, there are two more pockets."

"Hey, that's good, an extra layer, which can be used as a pocket and is resistant to wear and tear."

Sister-in-law Xu's sewing skills are very good, and she pasted the patches in three or two clicks.

Quickly sewed onto the pants, shook the thread clean after sewing, and said in surprise:

"It's the same as a new one."

And it's so stylish.

"Really?" Xu Yin herself is quite satisfied.

Since she was a child, she has loved to draw, children's painting, Chinese painting, drawing, sketching...... From kindergarten all the way to junior high school graduation.

When I was in the second year of junior high school, I changed my home to a three-bedroom apartment, and the decoration of the home was still designed by her.

Teachers and classmates all said that she had a talent for design.

With this talent and later efforts, she won many awards.

I originally wanted to take the college entrance examination, but my parents and teachers said that her grades were a pity to study in the Academy of Fine Arts.

Obviously, key famous schools can rush to a rush, and if they play well, it is not impossible for Qingbei to do so.

But she was very passionate about design at the time.

Her parents couldn't resist her, so they had to compromise - she studied industrial design at the Academy of Fine Arts of Qing University as an undergraduate.

She was the master of the graduate school and studied fashion and fashion design at Donghua University.

Although I wore it before I graduated, I had a good grasp of theoretical knowledge, and I often bought some favorite fabrics to practice in my spare time.

In addition to the previous two lives, she wore the daughter of a small tailor in the Republic of China and the daughter of an ancient farmer, so sewing is naturally not a problem.

Not to mention just cutting one edge and sewing two patches, it is not difficult to make a new pair of pants on the spot.

But the point is that the original body can't.

Not to mention sewing, let her thread a needle is estimated to pierce the bleeding hole in her finger.

So I can only bother my sister-in-law.

By the way, I will open up some new ideas for my sister-in-law:

"Bell bottoms are popular in the city now, and girls in our school like them, but I don't think they look good, and I still like ......them."

Xu Yin drew a sketch as she spoke:

"Sister-in-law, I still have a piece of labor cloth left over from last year's coat in my hand, you can make me a pair of pants like this."

"Done!"

Sister-in-law Xu agreed without saying a word.

Anyway, in this family, the sister-in-law's affairs are the top priority.

What's more, just making a pair of pants is much easier than picking up firewood and chopping firewood.

Xu Yin does have the intention of letting her do less heavy work.

She remembered that her sister-in-law was born prematurely at the end of this year, and died of hemorrhage while giving birth to her little nephew.

Calculate the time, Bao Buqi is already pregnant at this time.

Even if you are not pregnant, such a yellow face and thin muscles are not conducive to raising a fetus and giving birth to a baby.

But Xu's mother couldn't see her daughter-in-law idle.

Seeing that the firewood was not chopped, he hid in the room and didn't know what he was doing, so he was angry, and scolded in the yard with his waist crossed:

"Ouch, I see whose daughter-in-law has the blessing of my Xu family, and she can hide in the room and be lazy before noon......"

Xu Yin hurriedly coaxed people into the hall: "Mom, my sister-in-law is helping me do something!" ”

"Why don't you just mend your pants? Not done yet? I think she's just deliberately lazy. Mother Xu snorted angrily.

"I'm done, I'm not going to ask her to make me a new pair of pants. Mom, you don't know, now the city can be popular with the kind of pants I painted, but it is too expensive to buy ready-made, find a tailor to do it, I inquired before going home, the orders in the hands of the old tailor will be scheduled until the end of the year at the earliest, and I am not at ease with the apprentice's craft, what about the fabric that I finally saved, what should I do if it is broken. It just so happens that my sister-in-law is good at needlework, and she can save a lot of money, and she can make a pair of shoes with a rag head......"

When Mother Xu heard this, her face looked a lot better, but she was still not angry:

"When can't you make pants and shoes, chop the firewood first, I think she just took the opportunity to be lazy!"

"Oh Mom, the chopped firewood can be used for two months, and the rest will be put away first, and then I will talk about it after I finish making the pants. Don't let my sister-in-law do heavy work for the time being, you look at her rough hands, I'm worried that my good piece of material will be hooked before it is made into pants. I still want to show off in front of my classmates! What they spend money on is not as good as what I don't spend. ”

When Mother Xu heard her say this, her index finger pointed at her forehead:

"You, you know the smelly beauty! But my mother's good daughter, she is beautiful and has the capital to smell and be beautiful! That's okay, let the old family be slack for two days, and then split those firewood when the pants are done. ”

"Well, don't let her go to the village to pick up dung."

Since the land has been contracted to the household, each family only needs to be busy with their own fields and mountains.

The Xu family has a small population, and the fields allocated are naturally not as large as those of other families.

After being busy with farming, there is no need for the whole family to go to the fields all day and night to serve.

But the old people of the five-guarantee households who lost their husbands and sons during the war years were miserable, especially the heavy work of picking dung, where could they do it.

So the cadres of the brigade said that whoever went to help the five guarantee households pick up the dung, and at the end of the year, the river pond would release water to catch fish, and they would give a few catties more to whoever was going to do it.

When Mother Xu heard this, she signed up for her daughter-in-law without saying a word.

Anyway, it's not herself who is tired, and at the end of the year, she can still earn some fresh river food for her family, why not.

"It's not a heavy job, it only takes one turn in three or five days, and this can't be done?" Mother Xu said disapprerovingly.

"Oops, that smells so bad."

Xu Yin pinched her nose and pretended to be disgusted.

"I've wanted to say it for a long time, every time I come back, the yard is full of that smell, and my new pants are still in her room, don't stink before you wear them."

Mother Xu heard that it made sense, but she still had some regrets:

"If you don't pick, don't pick, it's cheap for her this time. It's just that there will be a few catties of fish and shrimp less for the New Year. Your favorite fatty fish stewed tofu, I don't know if you can get a whole one. ”

“……”

Anyway, under Xu Yin's coaxing moves, Xu's mother finally agreed not to assign heavy work to Sister-in-law Xu during this time.

In addition to daily chores, other tasks will be done after the pants are done.