bookbashuk Chapter 175 Making Dumplings
Chapter 175 Making Dumplings
The matter has been settled.
Xu Sui found Du Mei and told her about it. "Xiao Mei, I've discussed it with your cousin. Why don't you stay here for now? According to the current rate, it usually costs twenty yuan a month to hire someone to help take care of the child. We'll calculate it based on that amount."
"Your expenses for staying here these days will be deducted from your salary. I will give you whatever is left each month after the deduction."
"As long as you help take good care of the children, we'll give you a red envelope every Chinese New Year."
She wouldn't treat people unfairly if they helped her with her work.
Upon hearing this, Du Mei finally felt relieved. She breathed a sigh of relief, smiled, and nodded, "Don't worry, sister-in-law, I will definitely do my best."
She never imagined that one day she would have a job and earn money with her own hands.
She's made up her mind: she'll work as long as she can and save as much money as possible.
Just like Grandma said, a person only has confidence when they have money. Without money, everything is difficult, but with money, you have nothing to worry about.
That day, Du Mei told Old Lady Qin something and then went back to her hometown to get a new letter of introduction.
If you're going to stay in the city for such a long time, you can't do it without a letter of introduction. If someone reports you, you'll be considered a vagrant, and it would be bad if you got arrested.
Today is the weekend, no need to work.
Xu Sui went back into her room and took out the two jars of face cream and two bars of soap that she had bought at the supply and marketing cooperative yesterday. She had bought the face cream with her salary for this month, even though she had already received two months' salary.
I had already planned to buy face cream for her mother once I received my first month's salary, but too many things happened last month.
Her mother was busy dealing with Liu Feng's affairs and taking care of Jinbao at the hospital. She was so busy that she didn't even have time to rest.
So I decided to wait until this month, and buy it for her when her mother has some free time.
As for these two bars of soap, they were a benefit provided by my workplace.
There were three pieces in total. She kept one and planned to give one piece to her parents' family and one piece to her husband's family. The face cream was also given to her mother-in-law and her mother, one jar each.
Qin Yunzhou treated her well, so she couldn't just buy things for her own mother and not for her mother-in-law.
Moreover, the mother-in-law usually takes good care of the couple.
In addition, when she gives birth to her own child, she will inevitably need her mother-in-law's help to take care of her during her postpartum period.
Therefore, this relationship still needs to be maintained.
Xu Sui brought a jar of face cream and a bar of soap to Tian Hua, who was making clothes.
"Mom, I bought this jar of face cream for you. It's winter now, and the cold weather makes your skin dry and cracked. Applying this will be good for your skin. Take it and use it."
"And this bar of soap, it's a benefit from our company. We don't need so many, so we'll give one home."
Tianhua, who was making baby clothes for her daughter-in-law's unborn child, immediately waved her hand and refused when she heard it was face cream. "No, Suisui, Mom is so old, how can I use this? The jar you two gave me when you came back from the army last time, I haven't even used it much yet."
"You should take this back and use it yourself. You're young and handsome, so it's not a waste to put this on the faces of young people like you."
"Mom knows you're filial, and that's enough. You should take it back and use it yourself."
Snow cream isn't cheap; it costs several yuan a jar. Nowadays, everyone is struggling to make ends meet, so ordinary people wouldn't be willing to spend money on this.
What's more, the jar of face cream in her room had only been opened once and was practically brand new.
In the end, Tianhua didn't accept the face cream; she only accepted the bar of soap.
"Come here, Sui Sui, what do you think of this little outfit I'm making for the baby? Isn't it pretty?" The outfit that Tian Hua is making is for Xu Sui's two unborn babies.
Even though the baby is still a few months away from being born, you should still prepare everything in advance so that you won't be caught off guard after the baby is born.
With two more children in the family, we have to prepare double everything, especially children's clothes, which we can't skimp on.
Counting the days, the weather just started to get warm after the baby was born, so thinner clothes would be more suitable.
Newborn babies have delicate skin, so you can't use rough fabrics like the ones adults wear, as they will chafe and irritate their skin.
Fortunately, she has been working at the textile factory these days. Although she is a temporary worker, she has the opportunity to come into contact with the factory's defective fabrics.
You can buy defective fabric at a low price, alter it, and it's still usable, and it's not much worse than the fabric sold by the supply and marketing cooperative.
Some of them are made of good quality material, perfect for making clothes for children.
Xu Sui sat down next to Tian Hua. Following her gaze, she saw a small red bib embroidered with exquisite patterns. It was bright red and very cute.
Her eyes lit up immediately.
"Mom, your cooking is really good, it looks beautiful."
"You didn't embroider this yourself, did you?" Xu Sui touched the pattern on the bodice. The craftsmanship was almost as good as the ones sold in the supply and marketing cooperative.
Tianhua was satisfied with her craftsmanship. She nodded with a smile, "Yes, I embroidered it myself. I started learning embroidery when I was a child and have never stopped all these years. Over time, I've become quite skilled."
"I plan to make two tiger-head hats for the baby in your belly, and a few outfits. If you have any styles you like, just show them to me, and I can make them."
Back in the day, when buying and selling was allowed freely, people would specifically ask her to do embroidery so they could sell it for their weddings.
However, that hasn't been the case in recent years.
Private buying and selling is not allowed; that's called speculation and profiteering, and if someone reports you, that's bad news.
Now I can only do it occasionally in private.
Now that two chubby grandsons are about to be born into the family, she suddenly became excited and wanted to embroider beautiful patterns on the children's clothes, dressing them up to look their best.
Looking at the baby clothes in her mother-in-law's hands, Xu Sui subconsciously touched her belly and smiled.
"Great! I have some more material here, and the quality is pretty good."
"Mom, I'll give it to you later. Could you please make two sets of clothes for the child?"
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After leaving my mother-in-law's place.
Xu Sui then took her things to her parents' house next door.
Now that Liu Feng is no longer in this house, it feels much quieter.
Every time I came here before, someone would secretly roll their eyes and give me a hard time.
This time when I visited again, the situation wasn't the same as before.
With a rare weekend off and one less troublemaker at home, Wang Yinhua was in a much better mood. She specially prepared some flour to make stewed dumplings.
Meat was unavailable, so we could only make vegetarian dumplings: mushrooms, glass noodles, cabbage, or maybe some wood ear mushrooms and other ingredients. In short, during a famine, we made whatever we had.
These days, being able to eat a meal of refined grains is already considered quite good.