Siheyuan: Space takes me to exchange!

Early in the morning, Li Xiuyuan woke up, tightened the blanket around himself, and felt a little cold.

It seems that I have to make the quilt as soon as possible. Let's do it today and ask my aunt to help me make it. After all, it is almost mid-October and the weather is getting colder day by day.

He had saved up enough cotton tickets long ago, so he could just use defective cloth bought from the space to make a quilt.

He got dressed, then took the toothbrush and towel and walked out of the house... Just as he reached the door, Li Xiuyuan stepped back, sat on a chair in the main room, and covered his face with one hand.

Oh! This is so embarrassing!

It was all because of drinking, and he didn't know how to face Lou Xiao'e.

After a while, when he felt that there was no movement in the yard, he stood up and walked out.

Li Xiuyuan quickly brushed his teeth and washed his face, then packed up and went back to the house. But when he looked up, he saw the deaf old lady standing at the door of her house, looking at Li Xiuyuan...but there was something meaningful in her eyes.

These days, the deaf old lady always looked at Li Xiuyuan with this kind of eyes, making him wonder if the old lady knew something?

However, Li Xiuyuan would not admit it unless he was caught on the spot.

At this time, a voice sounded from behind: "Brother, what are you doing standing there?"

Li Xiuyuan turned his head and saw that it was Green-headed Mao. He always felt that it was a bit strange for him to call him brother, but he was right to call him that. After all, they had fired guns in the same trench.

Li Xiuyuan smiled calmly at Xu Damao, "Nothing. By the way, Damao, I heard that there will be a movie showing in the factory tonight. Is that true?"

Speaking of this, Xu Damao was very proud: "Of course, Director Yang sent a message, and it was a new movie. How about it? Do you want me to save a good seat for you?"

Li Xiuyuan is not interested in movies, but his brothers and sisters love to watch them. "Then leave four seats for me, facing the front, not sideways." He is afraid that some children will squint.

"No problem, I'll save a few seats for you in the front, so go early then."

Li Xiuyuan thanked him and went back to the house.

He doesn't cook and basically eats out every day. Now the weather is not that cold, so he doesn't light the stove. If he cooks by himself, he can't use up one piece of coal, which is a waste, laborious, and dirty.

When he arrived at the factory, Li Xiuyuan first went to find his aunt Li Fengmei, handed her the cloth bag and money, and said, "Aunt, please make me a set of bedding. The weather is getting cold soon, and I don't have a quilt yet!"

Li Fengmei didn't understand: "Where are your old beddings?"

Li Xiuyuan had no choice but to tell the story of someone breaking into his house and using his bedding.

Li Fengmei was so angry after hearing this that she blamed Li Xiuyuan: "Why didn't you tell me earlier? I would have to tear them apart. We have people in our family, how can we be bullied by others?"

Li Fengmei still had a look of disappointment on her face, "You are so tall for nothing!"

Li Xiuyuan touched his nose and listened to his aunt's scolding helplessly.

"Are they still bullying you now?"

"No, they don't dare to do that now. I used to think we were all from the same courtyard, but I didn't expect them to be so arrogant, so I didn't indulge them."

When Li Fengmei heard that Li Xiuyuan had already received compensation by calling the police, she stopped talking and just said, "If they dare to do this again, don't show mercy or try to settle the matter. Hand it over to the government directly."

Li Xiuyuan nodded to indicate that he understood.

After Li Xiuyuan left, Li Fengmei took a leave and went to the department store to buy cotton. The factory supply and marketing cooperative was too small and there was not enough cotton to make a set of bedding. She had to hurry and make the bedding tonight so that Li Xiuyuan could cover himself with a new quilt tonight.

Li Fengmei washed the cotton cloth for bedding at noon. The autumn wind was strong, so she could hang it to dry after get off work in the afternoon.

In the afternoon, Li Xiuyuan did not return to the courtyard, but went directly to the family building. He planned to have dinner at his aunt's house and take Xu Hong and others to see a movie.

"Brother, there's a movie showing at the factory tonight." As soon as Li Xiuyuan arrived, his four younger brothers and sisters surrounded him and shouted excitedly.

Li Xiuyuan touched their heads one by one. Only the older one, Xu Hong, felt a little embarrassed, while the others looked at him happily.

Li Xiuyuan took out a bag of beef jerky from his shoulder bag and handed it to Xu Hong, saying, "Honghong, share it with your brothers and sisters. But don't eat too much, or you'll get a toothache."

"Brother, what is this?" Xu Hong asked.

"Beef jerky."

"Jerky! That's great, we have meat to eat." Several children cheered happily. Old Mrs. Xu glanced at Li Xiuyuan, then went back to the house with a blank expression.

After dinner, Li Fengmei told Li Xiuyuan to go upstairs and take away the bedding when he sent them back.

"Aunt, so fast?"

"Hey! That's nothing. During the Korean War, we sewed dozens of quilts for the volunteer soldiers every day..."

"That girl, you are amazing!"

"My situation is nothing. Back then, Leilei's grandmother stayed up all night to sew cotton-padded clothes for the soldiers. It was only later that I persuaded her to rest because I was afraid that she couldn't handle it."

Li Fengmei spoke as she sewed a quilt, and occasionally wiped her head with the needle in her hand.

"Your uncle also went to the Korean battlefield at that time. They were the ones who suffered the most and were the most tired, but they were also the most remarkable..."

"I still remember that year when his grandmother wiped her tears and said that if she had made more, your uncle would be able to wear the cotton-padded clothes she made and would not be cold when fighting the bad guys..."

Li Xiuyuan fell silent. After listening to his aunt's story, his impression of Old Mrs. Xu changed a lot.