Chapter 5

Buy cloth? Make clothes?

These words are unfamiliar yet fresh to Qianlin.

Since he followed his mother to the compound, little Qianlin has been left at the home of Deputy Headman Yang. Even when his mother went to the market, she would not take him with her.

And this time, his mother actually wanted to take him to buy cloth.

Qianlin’s eyes opened wide and round, his dark pupils full of anticipation.

Ning He caught this cute little look, and she smiled and pinched his little face.

“Linbao is so cute!”

Ning He likes children, and she likes the sensible and cute little Qianlin even more.

She unconsciously hugged Xiao Qianlin tighter and carried him out of the house.

Qianlin hurriedly called Ninghe: “Mom, you need to bring cloth coupons to buy cloth!”

Ning He stopped in his tracks. For a moment he was not used to this era where tickets were needed to buy everything.

Where did the original owner put the bill?

Ning He had no impression! She turned her head to look at Qian Lin, her eyes rolled around, and she quickly came up with an idea.

She put Qianlin down, squatted in front of him, and said to him mysteriously, “Linbao, can you help mommy get the cloth coupons? Mommy will test whether Linbao will get the wrong ones.”

The original owner must have put all these bills together. Letting Qianlin take the cloth coupons can not only let him know where the original owner put them, but also test Qianlin. After all, Qianlin in the book is a genius and adorable baby!

“Okay, Mom, wait for me here!” Qianlin turned around and ran into the room without hesitation.

After a while, Qianlin came out holding an iron box. He opened the lid in front of Ninghe, and the box was full of banknotes.

There are food coupons, oil coupons, coal coupons, meat coupons, vegetable coupons, etc.

Qianlin accurately took out a few cloth coupons from the numerous bills and handed them to Ninghe.

“Mom, can you see if Qianlin got it right?” Qianlin looked at Ninghe expectantly.

* Ning He looked at the bills that Qian Lin picked out. Yes, they were all cloth coupons.

The units of cloth coupons are generally 1 inch, 2 inches, half a foot, 1 foot, 2 feet, 5 feet, 10 feet, etc.

Fabric was in short supply in that era, and cloth coupons were even rarer. Many people could only buy one new piece of clothing a year, but the original person actually had cloth coupons from so many units!

She would rather keep it than take one out to make clothes for Qianlin!

Ning He exclaimed, and rubbed Qian Lin’s little head with joy: “Wow, Lin Bao got them all right! Lin Bao is awesome!”

Qianlin’s face turned red when Ninghe praised him, and he lowered his head shyly.

Ning He smiled secretly. She took out a piece of each bill and dug out dozens of dollars from the iron box. Her eyes lit up as if she had seen a treasure. It seemed that her original self was not such a spendthrift person.

He also knew to save some money. Although a few dozen dollars is not much, it can at least solve Ninghe’s urgent needs now.

You have to know that in this era of extremely low prices, having a few dozen dollars on hand makes you a wealthy person.

You can’t rush to make more and more money. In addition to saving money, you also have to know how to make money.

There is still a long time to go, Ning He thought about making plans slowly in the future.

She closed the iron box and put it back into the house.

After doing all this, she took Qianlin’s hand, and the two of them, one big and one small, walked out of the yard side by side.

As soon as they went out, they heard a quarrel coming from next door.

“I don’t care. I just want to eat a whole egg. Why should I always leave half for He Qianlin? He has a father and a mother. Let his mother cook for him!”

“You are so rebellious! Why do you, a child, eat so many eggs? This basket of eggs at home was given by your uncle He. What’s wrong with giving half of them to Qianlin?”

Zhao Lan, the wife of Deputy Captain Yang next door, was in the yard, yelling at Junzi.

Junzi was hit by Zhao Lan’s whip and jumped up and down.

“Woo woo, I want to eat the whole thing! I won’t leave any for He Qianlin and I won’t give it to him!” Junzi snatched half an egg from the table and stuffed it into his mouth in front of Zhao Lan.

Zhao Lan was stunned and was about to hit Junzi with a feather duster: “You little bastard! Your sisters only ate half an egg, you loser! You ate two days’ worth of food in one go, I’ll beat you to death!”

Ning He’s face tensed up, and he quickly said, “Sister-in-law!”

Zhao Lan paused holding the feather duster, and when she turned around, she saw Ning He holding Qian Lin’s hand, standing at her door.

She quickly put her hands behind her back and smiled awkwardly: “Um, Xiao Ning, are you going out?”

Ning He smiled and nodded at Zhao Lan: “Go out and buy some cloth.”

Zhao Lan felt sorry for it, walked to the door, and took Qianlin’s hand enthusiastically: “Then go ahead, just leave Qianlin at my house.”

Junzi got anxious when he heard this. He swallowed the egg in his mouth and protested dissatisfiedly: “No, I hate He Qianlin! I don’t want him to come to my house!”

Zhao Lan slapped Junzi on the head: “You deserve a beating, you little brat!”

Ning He smiled and explained: “I’m going to take Qianlin to buy cloth, so I won’t bother my sister-in-law today.”

Zhao Lan thought Ning He had heard the conversation between mother and son and was embarrassed to leave Qian Lin at her house.

She quickly explained: “Xiao Ning, don’t listen to the nonsense of this brat. Qianlin is a very good child. I like him here. Your man, oh, it’s Captain He. He gave my man a basket of eggs. I will cook another one now. You can rest assured to leave Qianlin here with me and let him stay here to eat eggs!”

When Junzi heard about eggs, he became greedy and said quickly, “I want some too. I want more eggs!”

Zhao Lan really wanted to slap this greedy little girl to death!

“Go wherever you want to cool down!”

Ning He interrupted with a smile: “I want to make a dress for Qianlin, and I want Qianlin to go with me to choose the style.”

Zhao Lan was stunned for a moment, wondering if she had heard it wrongly: “Making clothes for Qianlin?”

Ning He nodded: “In the past, I always thought about myself and ignored Qianlin. During this time in the compound, I have reflected on myself and will not ignore Qianlin anymore.”

Zhao Lan was so shocked that she was speechless. The sun rose from the west?

Zhao Lan had seen Ning He’s indifference towards Qian Lin before.

When the mother and son first came to the compound, Ning He ran out every day with money and bills.

He came back carrying lots of bags and locked himself in the house. Not to mention sharing things with his neighbors or making friends, he didn’t even say hello when he met them.

Has Captain He’s wife figured it out?

Zhao Lan smiled and said, “Xiao Ning, it’s good for you to think so. We women want to marry a good man, take care of our husbands and have children! If you get along well with Captain He, your life will not be bad!”

Zhao Lan is a rural woman with traditional ideas. She has never been to school and can’t read or write, but she can see that He Shaochuan is a good man.

Her man and He Shaochuan are colleagues and brothers, and she knows a little about He Shaochuan’s past.

When Zhao Lan first saw Ning He, her first impression was that she was beautiful, but that was all she was beautiful.

Because the original body has nothing good except being beautiful.