Eating melons and raising children in the period literature

Yang Qingqing came back and filled a large backpack again.

Among them was 9 kilograms of cotton. There were also some fruit candies, peach cakes and other snacks. Most importantly, she took a few sets of warm clothes made of composite fleece from the future.

She bought them according to the sizes of the family members, one set for each person. They were all black, much warmer than the current autumn clothes.

If anyone asked, she had already thought of an excuse: she asked Yao Hongxia's friend in Shanghai to buy it for her. She had no choice whether to believe it or not.

Today's autumn clothes and autumn trousers are really ugly and not very warm. They are not as good as the ones she brought out.

In the end, she only took three pounds of pork belly and didn't take anything else because too much money would not be enough.

"Sister-in-law, look at the cotton I bought. Are they enough? But my sister also said that there will be more after a while. She is leaving some for me. And I also bought a few sets of autumn clothes today, one for you and my second brother, and a few sets for the children. See if Wendan and Wenran have anything they can wear? Give it to them too. It's getting colder now, they need to wear clothes."

Ma Liyue's eyes suddenly moved away from the cotton and stared at the clothes in Yang Qingqing's hands, and she kept groping with her fingers.

What I was thinking was, "How can my sister-in-law be so capable! This is obviously not something from here! I don't know where she got it from, it looks like it's not cheap. And she got so many sets at once. Could she have gone to the black market? She promised not to go there, and it seems like you can't get it on the black market. It seems like 30 is too little, I have to give more, don't miss out on good things because you don't have money."

He said, "This thing is not cheap, right? You didn't do anything wrong, did you? Otherwise, your second brother won't forgive you."

"No, these were sent to them by my friend's relatives. They said they were new models from Haishi and very warm. I saw her wearing them before. So I wondered if I could ask her to help buy them, and I didn't expect it to work. She brought them back! I didn't hold out hope, I just said it casually, but I didn't expect she would actually take it to heart."

"Really? Is he interested in you? Otherwise, how come he would remember something you just said casually?"

"That's impossible! She is a woman."

Yang Qingqing was shocked when she heard this. She didn't want to have another suitor for no reason, so she suddenly had an idea and said

"Oh! To be honest, it's my sister's boyfriend. He's a purchaser at our supply and marketing cooperative. I ran into him when I went out a few days ago. He bought a lot of stuff. I heard he spent a lot of money. He's a regular customer.

I am taking advantage of this! Besides, this one is not cheap. They originally bought it for 55 yuan each. I bought more and they gave me yuan, and yuan for the children. I spent yuan to buy all the ones for my family."

What I was thinking was, "I'm sorry, Sister Hongxia, I'm just borrowing your name. I hope you and Zhao Bowen can have a happy ending. I guess what I said isn't nonsense."

"Okay... I get it. You made a good friend. I've lived in this place for so many years, how come I don't have a friend like this? Is there something wrong with my character?"

Yang Qingqing didn't know whether Ma Liyue was being sarcastic or expressing her sincere feelings. She didn't plan to respond. She couldn't do anything about it anyway, so she changed the subject.

"Second sister-in-law, do you think this cotton is enough to make cotton-padded clothes? If not, make some for Wenjing and the others first. I can make some for myself in a few days."

When Ma Liyue heard what Yang Qingqing said, she did not continue the previous topic, but said

"That's enough. Maybe there will be some left. One pound is enough for each of us adults. The children can make it a little thicker. Six pounds will definitely be enough for several children."

"Okay, but I don't know how to do it. Can you do it, sister-in-law?"

"I haven't done it before, it's okay. I'll talk to my mom tomorrow and ask her to come over tonight and teach us. If it doesn't work, let my mom do it."

Ma Liyue didn’t think there was anything wrong with asking her mother to help with the work. Anyway, she would not let her suffer any loss.

Every time Zhao Xiaohua helped her, Ma Liyue would either buy her something, make delicious food for her, or just give her money directly.

"Okay! How about you, sister-in-law, go cut some meat and go see Auntie! I also bought three pounds of pork belly! We can't always let Auntie help with the work for free!"

Yang Qingqing said as she held up the meat for Ma Liyue to see.

Although Ma Liyue would not let her mother suffer any loss, it was a matter between them after all. She felt particularly relieved when she heard what Yang Qingqing said. After all, she did not want others to think that it was their duty to help her mother.

"Okay, I'll cut it and send it to her. She'll definitely be happy."

"Second sister-in-law, it's been a while, but my second brother hasn't come over. Where has he been?"

I didn't hear about any mission yesterday. Why haven't you come yet?

"He went on a mission this afternoon and didn't even have time to tell me. It was his comrades who came to inform me. Don't worry, it's okay. I asked and they said it was a small mission that would only take three to five days."

"Okay, then let's not wait any longer and eat quickly. I made steamed buns this afternoon with three kinds of fillings. When you were not back just now, I let the children eat one each to fill their stomachs."

"You've worked hard today. You went to the county town and steamed buns. One filling is enough, or steamed buns will do. You went to so much trouble to make so many flavors. You must have spoiled them."

"No problem. I've already prepared some of them in advance. I made one with red bean filling, one with cabbage and black fungus, and one with shredded radish and meat."

Yang Qingqing introduced the steamed buns she made to Ma Liyue. In fact, they were all taken from the space. The real steamed buns she made were all put into the space. The main thing was that there was no stuffing in the steamed buns she made. She didn't want to cook anymore, so she changed the original

I can only say that it’s a good thing that the children were playing outside when she was cooking and didn’t come home, otherwise she wouldn’t have saved herself the trouble.

"Then I'll be in luck."

Ma Liyue picked up a red bean one and gave one to each of Wenjie and the others.

Yang Qingqing would take the red bean paste, mainly because it is handmade with red beans visible, rather than the later machine-made red bean paste. Yang Qingqing likes it very much, so she simply took out a few.

The next night, after Zhao Xiaohua's patient guidance, Ma Liyue and Yang Qingqing both learned how to sew cotton-padded clothes.

So the two of them worked overtime and finally spent five nights to make new cotton-padded clothes for the whole family. They also took apart and washed the old ones.