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The puppy was still too weak. It barely drank two sips of the warm milk that Xie Zhuo had run to the commune to get early in the morning, and then lay motionless in the towel. Xie Zhuo carefully placed it next to the stove.

"Happy doesn't look good," Dabao frowned.

"Yeah," Xie Zhuo nodded. There was nothing he could do about it. He could only rely on the little thing itself.

After Xu Yan finished washing up, he saw the uncle and nephew frowning and squatting beside the puppy, trying every way to get the puppy to eat more.

"How about feeding me with a spoon," Xiaobao suggested, "just like when you fed me the medicine."

Xie Zhuo: “…”

In the end, several people were unable to get the puppy to speak again.

Just when the whole family thought Kai Xin would not survive the winter, it actually made it through. However, its body was still very weak, and it had not grown much, and it was still like a mouse.

But Dabao and Xiaobao were very satisfied with its size, and it was not difficult for them to hold it.

When the weather got warm again, the fields became busy.

When the captain knocked on his broken porcelain basin and called for help at the gate again, Xu Yan was shocked to realize that spring had come.

But the weather is still not very hot, so you still need to wear a sweater.

Dabao and Xiaobao attended school for two days wearing the sweaters knitted by Xu Yan. Many people came to her house to ask her how to knit the sweaters.

There is also someone who likes Dabao and Xiaobao's hats, but she just can't learn how to make them, and the ones she makes are incredibly ugly, so she wants to pay Xu Yan to help her knit.

At the beginning, Xu Yan thought that he had free time and it would not take long to knit a hat, so he agreed.

Unexpectedly, more and more people came to her to knit hats for them, and some even came to her to knit sweaters after seeing the sweater Xie Zhuo was wearing.

"You have such a deft hand," an aunt who had rarely walked around sat in front of Xu Yan, holding a small basket with two balls of yarn wrapped around it.

Xu Yan glanced inside and saw the ball of yarn was tangled in a very fancy way, with threads of all colors. It was also obvious that it had been taken apart and washed many times, and the yarn had become a little frizzy and white.

"The third brother is handsome to begin with. When he wears the sweater you knitted, he doesn't look like the rough guy from our Qingshan Brigade at all. People in the city don't dress as stylishly as he does."

Listening to the aunt's endless praise, Xu Yan was not embarrassed. She smiled and said, "He is tall, so he looks good in anything he wears."

The aunt probably didn't expect that she wasn't modest at all. She paused for a moment and then laughed, "That's right. The third child is really the only one in our team who is as tall as him."

The two chatted for a long time before the aunt turned the conversation to the main topic. She wanted Xu Yan to help her knit one as well.

She is one of those who can never learn no matter how hard she tries.

"Auntie, you are clumsy," the aunt said, "You can do other things, but you will never be able to learn knitting sweaters in your lifetime."

Xu Yan smiled and didn't respond. He picked up a half-knitted hat beside him, lowered his eyes to look at it, and then said, "It's not that I don't want to help. Auntie has seen it too. I have several hats on hand."

The aunt glanced at her hands.

"There was no stove in the commune primary school, and the children were so frozen that they couldn't take their hands out of class," Xu Yan said, "They were waiting for this hat."

The auntie wanted to ask, what does frozen hands have to do with hats?

But I held back and didn't say it out loud.

"Well, why don't you just leave it alone for now? I'm not in a hurry," the aunt said. "You can help me weave it whenever you have time."

Xu Yan had a good winter. It was peaceful and he didn't encounter any strange things.

I didn’t expect that just a few days into spring, someone so shameless would come up to me.

She curled her lips and looked at the aunt, saying softly, "That's fine. Although I have a lot of things to do recently, since the aunt has spoken..."

Before Xu Yan finished speaking, the auntie immediately grinned and said, "I knew you were a straightforward person. I'll come and get it next week."

After she finished speaking, she stood up and was about to leave, without even mentioning how much she would charge for knitting the sweater.

Xu Yan narrowed his eyes.

"Next week is fine," Xu Yan said when the aunt was about to leave the house, "It's an expedited service. Aunt is also an acquaintance, so I'll round it off and give you five dollars."

"Five dollars?" The aunt suddenly stopped, turned to look at her, and her voice became much higher.

"Yes," Xu Yan looked confused, "Could it be that Auntie thinks it's too cheap? Xie Zhuo also said that my price is cheap, knitting a hat is one dollar and twenty-five cents, and a sweater is only five dollars."

"Five dollars, why don't you go rob someone?" The aunt said with a sullen face, "How much is a pound of old wool? You dare to ask for five dollars for knitting a sweater!"

Xu Yan still had a confused and innocent expression on his face, and asked back, "No? How much money do you think is appropriate?"

"We are all from the same team," the auntie said with a sullen face, looking at her, "We all need help sometimes, so it would be a bit too polite to ask for money."

"Oh," Xu Yan replied in a long tone, "Then I need help now. My family is so poor that we can barely make ends meet. Can you give me five dollars so that I can have a full meal? In return, I will help you knit a sweater?"

The aunt picked up the basket and left without looking back.

When Li Aihua came to get her hat, she heard about this and said with emotion, "You have such a good temper."

"Hmm?" Xu Yan handed her the hat he had knitted for Xiao Shuanzi.

"If it were me, I would have just started to scold you," Li Aihua said, "You shameless old thing, you asked me to knit a sweater for her son, how would you maintain your reputation if it got out?"

Xu Yan was stunned. She had not expected this.

At that time, Guang was thinking that instead of helping her knit a sweater, it would be better to go to the fields to help Xie Zhuo work.

"You really can open your mouth like that," Li Aihua said, and was about to give Xu Yan money.

"Hey, sister-in-law," Xu Yan quickly pushed her hand away, "What are you doing?"

Li Aihua chuckled, "You are really skillful, I can't take advantage of you for nothing."

"What are you talking about?" Xu Yan grabbed her hand. "I want to knit it for Xiao Shuanzi. I am happy with it. I will be unhappy if you give me money."

The puppy curled up behind the stove heard its name, slowly crawled out and barked.

"I'm not calling you," Xu Yan said.

Happy shrank back behind the stove again.

"Well," Li Aihua said helplessly, "Even if you don't charge for the labor, you should at least charge for the yarn. Yarn is so expensive."

"It's free, just pack it back quickly," Xu Yan said, "The wool was originally left over from knitting for Dabao and Xiaobao, and they can't be used anymore, so it's just right for Xiaoshuanzi to use, otherwise it would just take up space."

Li Aihua: “…”

Others can’t even buy it, so why would anyone complain that the yarn takes up space?

But Xu Yan told her clearly that she just complained that the wool took up too much space.

Li Aihua didn't give the money away in the end, but she was not the kind of person who would take advantage of others, so she sent Xu Yan hot sauce for several weeks in a row.

There was not much food available at that time, but with the chili sauce sent by Li Aihua, Xu Yan felt he could eat one more bowl of rice.

Later, when the wild vegetables beside the ground stems sprouted, Li Aihua also sent them several times.

Xie Zhuo has been busy and tired recently. After returning home and taking a shower, he fell asleep in less than ten minutes while holding Xu Yan. Occasionally, she would happily call out in the room, but he couldn't hear her.

Xu Yan felt a little distressed.

Although his family was not short of money, he was not lazy at all when working and earned full work points every day. No one knew why.

It was the same tonight. When Xu Yan finished telling stories to the two kids and returned to the house, he was already asleep on the kang. Xu Yan climbed onto the kang quietly and was about to pull the light cord when the man behind him suddenly reached out and pulled him into his arms.

"Not asleep?" Xu Yan looked up at him.

"No," Xie Zhuo rested his head on Xu Yan's shoulder and sniffed gently with his nose against her skin.

Xu Yan felt a little itchy and stepped back a little, "I have to tell you a story to coax you for a while before you can fall asleep?"

Xie Zhuo paused, then laughed, "Then baby, tell me a story. If you can't coax me to sleep, do something else to coax me to sleep."