Chapter 25
Shen Yuzhen looked at the floral cloth and felt happy.
Growing up, no matter in winter or summer, the clothes she wore were made of old coarse cloth that her mother twisted into strips of cotton velvet and spun into thread every year. She then asked her grandma to help pull the machine and woven it on her loom in her house.
Basically they are all single navy blue or black.
Moreover, when Grandma Fang was laying cotton on the fabric just now, she touched it quietly. The fabric was fine, soft, and extremely comfortable. It was completely different from what she usually wore. And with this bright color, let alone
Her family is rare even in the village.
She liked it very much, whether it was the soft fabric, the bright colors, or the little pink flowers, she liked them all.
Shen Yuzhen was extremely careful when looking at her third brother today. She was really protecting him all the time. Until she saw Grandma Fang finishing the stitches on the coat piece and preparing to sew, she couldn't help but be stunned.
I saw Grandma Fang folding the piece of cloth into a large piece. The cloth that seemed quite big at first suddenly became much smaller.
"Grandma, if there are so many stitches on the coat, it must be too small." Shen Yuzhen reminded anxiously.
"No, I measured it according to Xiao Xiu's clothes. This coat will only be too big or too small." Grandma Fang smiled and rubbed the needle on her hair. Just as she was about to continue sewing, she suddenly realized something and raised her head.
Seeing Shen Yuzhen looking stiff and looking a little bad.
"Yuzhen, here is this coat. Yulin refused to go to school and had to pull it on Xiaoxiu. I persuaded Xiaoxiu to agree to it when she went to school with Yulin. Otherwise, I wouldn't make it for her. I will change it in another year.
If you have enough cotton for the new year, grandma will make it for you when you have some spare money, eh?" Grandma Fang quickly comforted Shen Yuzhen, fearing that she would feel uncomfortable.
It is also true that the food in the cafeteria is not enough to satisfy her needs. After Fang Youshun received her monthly allowance, she almost immediately bought food, allowing her to secretly cook food for the adults and children at home to fill their stomachs at night. Otherwise, if she had some spare money,
It was impossible for her to just make new clothes for Shen Yuxiu.
"Isn't Yulin already in school well now? It doesn't matter even if Xiaoxiu is not made, right?" Shen Yuzhen still wanted to fight for it: "Grandma, look, what a pity it is to sew such a large piece of fabric, just use the original size
After sewing it up, after I wear it smaller, the small sleeves will look the same again. Isn't this the case in previous years?"
Grandma Fang was originally a little uncomfortable because she didn't expect Shen Yuzhen to say this, but she never expected that Shen Yuzhen would say this. She suddenly became a little unhappy and did not agree with what Shen Yuzhen said at all.
"This is what I promised Xiao Xiu, and I have to do what I promised, otherwise Xiao Xiu will not trust me as a grandma in the future." Grandma Fang was sewing a cotton-padded jacket, and her tone was a little light.
"What can she do if she doesn't believe it? She is still so young and has forgotten about it for a while." Shen Yuzhen retorted nonchalantly: "The fabric is so big, and there are so many stitches to wear it for her. What a waste."
"It can't be wasted. I sewed so much on this dress so that I can still wear it next year by letting go of some small sleeves. If I let go a little bit of fabric a year, the small sleeves can be worn for many years." Grandma Fang became a little annoyed after listening to Shen Yuzhen's words.
He raised his head and asked her: "Besides, why do you have to wear clothes that are too small and have small sleeves? Why can't she wear a new dress? Doesn't it mean that what she looked like in previous years must be what she looks like every year in the future?"
Shen Yuzhen was stunned for a while when asked, and then said after a while: "But aren't all the children in the village like this? The older children have finished dressing, and the younger children have to wear them."
"Everyone in the village is like this, do you have to be like this? Does Xiaoxiu have to be like this? Are those people your family?" Grandma Fang was a little impatient with her entanglement, and her eyes became sharper.
Grandma Fang was a little angry. She was angry that for a piece of clothing, this child could ignore that Xiao Xiu might have lost trust in her as a grandma, and ignore how sad Xiao Xiu might be because she did not fulfill her promise.
If Shen Yuzhen was only a three-year-old child today, she would not be so angry. But Shen Yuzhen is already twelve years old this year, will be thirteen soon, and will be engaged in two years, but she is still so ignorant.
Shen Yuzhen had never seen Grandma Fang like this before. She was frightened for a moment and sat there in a daze, not daring to say a word.
"Mom, Yuzhen is still young..." Seeing that Shen Yuzhen was a little frightened, Fang Yan quickly opened her mouth to adjust the atmosphere, but she was sprayed mercilessly by Grandma Fang.
"Why is it so small? Have you forgotten what you were doing when you were as old as her? I have taught you since you were a child that only the eldest can wear our clothes after the younger ones have finished wearing them." Grandma Fang sprayed Fang Yan.
He was not polite at all: "No matter how difficult it was for our family in the past, I made you brothers and sisters wear old clothes all the time and didn't even make a new one for you? You haven't made a new one for Xiaoxiu in so many years.
, you don’t feel bad at all?”
Fang Yan was so speechless that she didn't dare to refute a word, and she couldn't refute either.
Yes, her family used to have a difficult time, but when grandma Fang made clothes for her and her brother, she would just cut the fabric into a larger size as she does now, and sew a lot for them to wear at first, and then every year
Let it go a little bit until they are outgrown, and the clothes are too worn out to be repaired. Therefore, she and her brothers always only wear their own clothes and will not wear anyone else's old clothes.
But when it was her turn to be a mother, she didn't like the trouble of always taking out the seams, so she simply made a big one that could be worn, and then wore the big one with the small one. She was really not as good as Grandma Fang in doing this.
Damn it.
"I've told you before that you can't just make new clothes for the older ones and not the younger ones. It's easy for the children to have independent temperaments. Look at it now..." Fang Yan didn't dare to reply. Grandma Fang felt so anxious in her heart.
The tone was still there, but when she saw her daughter's head lowering lower and lower as she spoke, she held it back again.
In front of the children, she had to save some face for her daughter, the mother-in-law, otherwise Fang Yan might not even have any dignity in front of the children.
Grandma Fang took a deep breath, suppressed the fire in her heart, angrily picked up the needle and thread and sewed the cotton-padded jacket again.
Seeing that Grandma Fang finally stopped talking, Fang Yan breathed a sigh of relief and continued to make the cotton-padded jacket in her hand in silence.
She felt that since she found her biological father, her mother's temper had become worse and worse.
Shen Yuzhen saw that even her own mother was being scolded, so she did not dare to say anything, but she felt extremely aggrieved.
After the new house was built, she also wanted to move there. After all, the house had glass windows and white plaster on the walls, making the house spacious and bright.
But her parents didn't ask her to move here, and grandma and grandpa didn't invite her. She really couldn't find an excuse to move here. Originally, when she looked at this flower coat today, the grievances in her heart dissipated a little, but
Who would have thought that this was not made for her at all.
Yes, her clothes are always made of small sleeves for her to wear. But the clothes in front of her are all made of coarse cloth. How can they be as fine and beautiful as the one in Grandma Fang’s hand?
Why should I give it to Xiaoxiu when I have such good fabric for the first time at home?
Chapter completed!