She now has a sewing machine and can earn at least five or six yuan per piece of clothing. The only difficulty is that she cannot solve the issue of cloth tickets.
It is still a planned economy. Although it is better than the one-foot or even several-inch cloth stamps per person per year in the first few years, now it does not exceed five feet at most.
At present, except for the newly earned fifteen-foot cloth ticket, she has used up all the fabric she bought before. Every time there is a large rural fair, there is free cloth, but it is always second-rate cloth, and the quality cannot be worn at all.
Department stores do offer free fabrics, and the quality is good, but the prices are too high to be worthwhile.
Chen Lishu thought about it and decided to wait.
"Mom, Yue Min's mother's family sent a message saying that her mother is not in good health. We both want to go over and have a look tomorrow."
After dinner that day, Gu Xingmin came to Li Xiulan and said.
Li Xiulan was sewing her hair, and when she heard what he said, she stopped what she was doing: "What are you doing? Is it serious?"
"It's not clear yet, and the person who sent the message didn't make it very clear. We thought we'd go over and have a look."
"Okay, you two go ahead. I'll tell the team directly tomorrow."
When Gu Xingmin saw Li Xiulan lowering her head to work after she finished speaking, he hesitated for a while and said, "Mom, this old man is sick and Yue Min and I can't go there empty-handed, right?"
Li Xiulan looked up at him, took out the key, turned around and opened the door of the kang cabinet. After a while, she took out two cans.
"Mom, I only have two bottles of cans. Why don't you give me another ten dollars?"
When Li Xiulan heard that he asked for money, her face suddenly became dark: "Isn't it that I don't know what the situation is yet? Let's wait until there is a situation."
Li Xiulan, the in-law of the Liu family, even pinched her eyes without even looking at them. The two children had already agreed upon the marriage, but the lion kept silent. She usually sent messages when she had something to do, but she had a lot of headaches and buttocks. She could give two bottles.
Canned food is great.
"If ten yuan is not enough, five yuan is fine. Two cans are fine for a child. After all, he is an old man on the other end." Gu Xingmin continued to plead.
Li Xiulan rolled her eyes at him and reluctantly handed over five dollars: "Don't tell me if you send me a message in the future. I'll get upset if I hear about the money and the people."
"Chengcheng, just for the last time, write to me in the future and ask Yue Min to go back by herself. In fact, I don't want to bother." Gu Xingmin collected the money and went back to the house with the cans with a smile.
Liu Yuemin was waiting in the room, and she smiled when she saw him come back with two bottles of cans in his hand: "Mom agreed?"
"Can my mother disagree if I take action?"
"Just two cans?"
"Your mother has so many things to do, it would be nice if my mother could get you something."
Liu Yuemin thought about it, but she didn't say anything else. She was only thinking about tomorrow's plan.
The next day, the couple got up early, went out and walked straight towards the town, and soon arrived at Qingshan Garment Factory.
"It's not convenient for me to show up. You can go in by yourself later." Liu Yuemin stopped when she was still some distance away from the garment factory.
"Are you sure this can really work?" Gu Xingmin was a little frightened when things came to pass.
"Definitely. My sister-in-law and the others wanted to buy rag heads, but Liu's surname was not for sale. I don't know what kind of ecstasy soup the third brother and sister gave her. Otherwise, how can we make money by buying rag heads as hair flowers? It costs more than a thousand yuan.
Don’t you want to make money?”
Gu Xingmin thought about it and made up his mind to walk towards the guard room of the garment factory.
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In the evening, when the family was leaving work, they found that Gu Xingmin and his wife had returned. One was sitting at a sewing machine making headdresses, the other was lying down and sleeping in the room, and several children were making clay monkeys in the yard.
"Second daughter-in-law, why didn't you know that you had cooked dinner when you came back so early?" Li Xiulan looked at the pigs squealing in the pig pen and the chickens were so hungry that they were looking for food everywhere, and she felt a fire in her heart.
"Mom, Xingmin and I have just come back not long ago. Besides, I think my cooking is not as delicious as that of my three younger siblings. We are not used to it and it is a waste of food."
"Mom and Dad, you go back to the house and rest first, and I'll go cook." Zhang Qin saw that her mother-in-law didn't look good and said quickly.
Chen Lishu saw Zhang Qin going to the kitchen, and she also went to get pigweed and started chopping food for the pigs and chickens.
After getting busy, it was already dark outside by the time everyone was eating.
"Mom, my sister-in-law, my third brother and my younger sister, I will also start a hairdressing business in the future. If you are free, you can do it for me. I will give you the same price as the third brother and sister, which is also three cents."
"Second sister-in-law, where did you buy the rags? Third sister-in-law is doing a good job in this business, why are you trying to steal your own business?" Gu Xingping asked with a frown.
"My sister-in-law is asking this. The garment factory is not owned by someone named Chen. Besides, the flower business allows your third sister-in-law to do it but not your second sister-in-law. Isn't it the same for everyone who makes money in the same family?"
Gu Xingping couldn't bear to see her triumphant face, so she stood up directly and said, "I'm going back to the room to do my homework." After saying that, she left.
"Second daughter-in-law, you two didn't go back to your parents' house today, why did you go to town?"
Hearing Li Xiulan ask, Liu Yuemin's proud face froze for a moment: "I'm going back to my parents' house. I saw that my mother was fine, so I went to town with Xingmin and bought some rags."
Liu Yuemin's parents' home was in two directions from the town. Even if they were riding bicycles, they would not be able to come back so early, unless they lied just to go to the town.
The two middle-aged men in the same family actually teamed up to deceive her, and Li Xiulan immediately turned blue with anger.
She could figure it out, and Chen Lishu naturally thought of it too. The way she looked at Liu Yuemin was a little different.
"Boy, don't pretend to be dead in the house and get out of here!" Li Xiulan roared angrily. Gu Xingmin didn't dare to delay, so he pulled on his shoes and came out.
"How dare you play tricks on your mother, why don't you go to your mother-in-law's house? You two are stupid? Give me your things and money quickly. Why did my mother give birth to such a wasteful thing like you?"
"Mom, you misunderstood. We happened to catch a car going to town at my parents' house, so we took a ride." When Liu Yuemin saw that her mother-in-law was really angry, she quickly made amends for the two of them.
Gu Xingmin understood and nodded immediately: "Mom, there really is a car. We will take the car and come back."
The two of them had no choice but to sulk themselves if they didn't acknowledge Li Xiulan.
After a while, Liu Yuemin saw that everyone had calmed down, so she took her things and went to the sewing machine again.
"Second sister-in-law, I'm going to use the sewing machine soon." Chen Lishu said coldly.
"You can use it later. If it doesn't conflict with my use now, just let me know when you use it." Liu Yuemin pretended not to understand, sat down next to the sewing machine and started to work.
Although Liu Yuemin said so, she ended up occupying the sewing machine all night. It wasn't until she felt sleepy that she got up, packed her things and went back to sleep.
"The sewing machine was obviously bought by you, third sister-in-law, and she is too thick-skinned." Gu Xingping had been in Chen Lishu's house, and when she saw Liu Yuemin leaving, she couldn't help but complain.