Chapter 42

“What?”

“Cloth.” Lu Xuan shook the things in his hands. His clothes were almost soaked, but the cotton cloth in his arms was not stained with water at all. “The captain went to the county for a meeting, and I followed him. I bought it when I had the chance.”

Pure white cotton cloth, Shen Wu thought of the last time she bought that sheet, it cost more than ten yuan. This piece of cloth is quite a lot. There seemed to be some scraps of cloth with different patterns in the package. “How much does it cost?”

After asking, Shen Wu felt that she was really depraved and pitiful!

Now she couldn’t bear to buy a piece of cloth.

Lu Xuan smiled and said, “Home cloth, not expensive, with a ticket, it’s 2.5 yuan for 2.7 feet wide and 1 foot wide, and I spent 40 yuan to buy this pile of scraps. No ticket, thanks to the captain, I know the salesperson, and I bought eight feet.”

The cloth was okay, and the cheap scraps were also rare things. Generally, they were sold to acquaintances by the salesperson.

This was really thanks to the captain.

The rain was still falling outside, and Shen Wu had nothing to do, so she took out the cotton and the cloth and placed them on the kang.

She suddenly remembered.

She can’t do it herself!

She had lived through some poor days in her previous life, but no matter how poor they were, they would not let her do needlework by herself, and she had never engaged in this kind of work when she grew up. She

turned her head and looked at Lu Xuan blankly, “Third brother, I can’t do it, can you?”

Girls nowadays usually learn to do some handicrafts, and most of the clothes are homemade. Lu Xuan really didn’t expect that his wife couldn’t do it. Looking at her pale little face and pitiful eyes.

Lu Xuan frowned slightly, “I can’t do it either.”

His mother only taught his eldest sister.

“Second sister-in-law should be able to do it. She makes Pan’er’s clothes on weekdays.”

As soon as Lu Xuan finished speaking, Shen Wu gathered the cotton together and stuffed it into the bag.

“I’ll go ask my second sister-in-law.”

The cotton was light and looked plentiful, and the fabric was new. Before Shen Wu came out, Lu Xuan stopped her and said, “It would make too much noise. Go ask my second sister-in-law to come over and ask her.”

New fabric was a good thing. Shen Wu thought about it. If she took it out, someone might get jealous, or Old Lady Lu might ask her to give it to the public for safekeeping.

Lu Xuan’s words were more reliable.

Shen Wu came out wearing a straw raincoat and knocked on the door next door.

Wang Hua and Lu Laoer in the room were startled. They quickly put away the peach cakes on the table, wiped their mouths and shouted, “Who is it?”

“Second sister-in-law, it’s me. I have something to ask you.”

Wang Hua heard that it was Shen Wu and opened the door, “Sister-in-law, what’s wrong?”

Shen Wu lowered her voice, “Second sister-in-law, can you do needlework? I want to make something, but I can’t. Come and show me. If you can do it, I’ll trouble you and give you money.”

When Wang Hua heard this, “No need for money, we are all family. I will go with you to see.”

Then he turned his head and looked into the house, “Take care of Pan’er.”

Lu Laoer responded and nodded to Shen Wu outside with a smile.

Wang Hua followed Shen Wu into the house and was startled when she saw Lu Xuan.

Lu Xuan was the coldest among the brothers, and what he did in the past few years was always scary. He didn’t wait for Wang Hua to speak.

Lu Xuan untied the raincoat on Shen Wu and put it on himself, “I’m going out for a while.”

He nodded at Wang Hua.

She lowered her head and walked into the rain. It was raining heavily outside. Shen Wu shouted, “Third brother, be careful.”

His aura was too terrifying. Wang Hua breathed a sigh of relief after Lu Xuan left, “Sister-in-law, aren’t you afraid of third brother?”

“Ah? What is there to be afraid of? He just looks fierce, but he’s a good person.” Shen Wu took out the cotton again, “These were all bought by him, and this cloth. I invited you, second sister-in-law, just to ask if you can help make a small quilt to put under my body.”

“This bed is too uncomfortable.”

The white cotton and cotton cloth were also new. “It’s not difficult to make this. I can do it.”

In the east wing, which is the largest room on this side, Li Ping lay on the window and kicked the man sleeping on the bed, “What is the conspiracy between the second and third families?”

“Why did Wang Hua get into the third brother’s room?”

Lu Lao Da got up after hearing the words. Just as he was lying there, he saw Lu Xuan coming out wearing a raincoat. He yawned, “Just sisters-in-law talking.”

“You won’t say bad things about me?” Li Ping frowned.

Boss Lu thought about it seriously and shook his head, “It shouldn’t be. The second sister-in-law doesn’t like to talk, and she doesn’t like to say bad things about others. The third sister-in-law said bad things? It’s more likely that she said bad things about the fourth sister-in-law. The two of them don’t get along with each other.”

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It was really not difficult for Wang Hua to sew a small quilt. She took the scissors, needle and thread, thimble, spread cotton, and threaded the needle. A small quilt was sewn in more than an hour. Lu Xuan bought a lot of cloth and sewed a quilt cover for her according to Shen Wu’s description.

Shen Wu thought it was simple and followed her to learn a little in the middle. However, Wang Hua’s originally neat stitches were deviated, and they were like a centipede crawling.

Wang Hua’s stitches were as if measured with a ruler, straight, and the distance between the stitches looked the same.

“Sister-in-law, you are amazing!” Shen Wu gave a thumbs up, “Your work is so meticulous, no one in our family can compare to you.”

Wang Hua smiled, “I’m glad you like it.”

Shen Wu said, “Sister-in-law, can you make me a few masks with these scraps of cloth?”

Shen Wu said, taking a pen and paper to draw something that looked like a sunscreen mask, but it was the kind that covered the entire face with only the eyes exposed.

Wang Hua wondered what she wanted this for, wasn’t it a waste of cloth?

“The smoke made me uncomfortable when I was cooking, and I’m afraid it would damage my face.” Shen Wu touched her face as she said, “I want a few dark-colored, some eye-catching fabrics, take them away and make something for Pan’er.”

Wang Hua didn’t want money, but when she heard that these fabrics were used to make something for Pan’er, she was really moved.

“You said that one is easy, how about I go back and make it for you? I’ll send it back to you when it’s done?”

Shen Wu was not in a hurry. She had just sold the goods on the black market last time, and she didn’t plan to go recently. It was just that she happened to have some cloth on hand, so she didn’t have to ask her second sister-in-law for the second time. “Okay, I’m not in a hurry.”

Shen Wu picked out a few pieces of dark-colored cloth such as black and blue, “Make eight.”

She kept four for herself and gave four to Xu Yin.

The rest were given to Wang Hua, who took the cloth back to her room.

Lu Laoer was teasing Pan’er in the room, and saw Wang Hua coming back, “You’ve taken so long to come back, what did the third sister-in-law want to see you about?”

“She can’t do needlework, so she asked me to help her. She gave me some scraps of cloth, which are not easy to buy. I’ll modify them for Pan’er and make some patterns on the clothes.”

Lu Laoer shook his head after hearing this, “I heard that the third sister-in-law fainted after going to the ground. She can’t do needlework at all. She doesn’t look like a woman.”

“Don’t say that. She can read and is going to be a teacher in the future.”

Lu Lao Er shook his head, “You and Lao San are both suffering from lack of education. You believed what she said. Do you really think it’s easy to learn characters and teach students? I think it’s better to lie to Lao San.”

Shen Wu didn’t know that the neighbors were talking bad about her. After the quilt was ready, she fell on it and rolled around twice. She sighed that it was much softer.

It was not until there were loud shouts and tight knocks on the door outside that Shen Wu rolled down from the kang-