The Su family reached a consensus that the fact that Nie Xiaoqing was the landlord's daughter would never be spread.
In the evening, Li Xiu'e went to her eldest son's house and had a heart-to-heart talk with Nie Xiaoqing. She also talked about many things that happened when Xiao Meng was a child.
"You, live in peace," she held Nie Xiaoqing's hand. "Although you and Xiaomeng are not married yet, I already regard you as my daughter."
Nie Xiaoqing's eyes were red and she could hardly help but call out, "Mother..."
"Hey!" Li Xiu'e smiled happily and patted the back of her hand repeatedly with joy.
Zhang Guilan deliberately pretended to be disgusted, "Mom, you love the new and hate the old. When you have a new daughter-in-law, you forget about the old. You have never said such heartfelt words to me."
"Oh, why do I get tired of the old?"
"Haha, mother, I'm kidding you," Zhang Guilan said, "It's getting late. You should go back to bed quickly. Jinbao still needs you to take care of him."
Hearing her mention Jinbao, Li Xiu'e nodded, "Yes, I have to go back and wash Jinbao. Guilan, take good care of Xiaoqing."
"Don't worry, mother."
Before leaving, Li Xiu'e specially told her grandchildren: "You are not allowed to bully your little aunt, or I will ask your father to spank you."
After grandma left, Dagouzi stared at Nie Xiaoqing. His two younger brothers also gathered around Nie Xiaoqing curiously and asked their mother, "Is she really our aunt? The daughter-in-law of our uncle?"
"Yes, isn't my little aunt pretty?"
Ergouzi was the first to say: "Beautiful!"
His younger brother immediately said: "Auntie is beautiful, I like her."
Zhang Guilan smiled and said, "Did you hear that? My youngest son said he likes you. You will become a member of our family from now on. There is no way you can escape."
Nie Xiaoqing's delicate face showed a shy and simple smile, "Sister-in-law, thank you."
"As a family, please don't say thank you."
The two chatted some more. Nie Xiaoqing saw a hole in Dagouzi's clothes and couldn't help but said to him: "Take off your clothes and let me mend it for you?"
"Oh, why don't you mend it for him? Why bother? His clothes will be torn after mending them."
"I still need to make up for it." Nie Xiaoqing found a box of needlework from his luggage bag.
She sat by the bed and said to Dagouzi: "Take it off and give it to me."
The big dog looked at his mother.
Zhang Guilan smiled and said: "Your little aunt feels sorry for you and wants to mend your clothes. You can take them off and mend them for her."
After listening to what his mother said, Dagouzi took off his clothes and handed them to the little aunt who was meeting him for the first time.
Nie Xiaoqing's fingers are very beautiful, long and thin. She is skillful in mending clothes, not only fast, but also her stitches are neat and beautiful.
After she finished mending, Zhang Guilan took the clothes and looked down for a while, and couldn't help but praise: "The mending is really good, it looks better than mine. Xiaoqing, your hands are really skillful. You usually make clothes, right?"
Nie Xiaoqing nodded, "Well, I used to help others when I was in the village..."
Although she is not popular, people in the village know that she is handy and often ask her to help make clothes for their children near the end of the year.
"Mom, can you let auntie make Jinbao's clothes? Your clothes don't look good, and the sleeves are one long and one short."
After Ergouzi said this, he stood up and compared the sleeves of his clothes, "Auntie, look, the sleeves on the right side of the clothes made by my mother are longer than the left ones, and the threads are also crooked."
"You brat, it's good if you have something to wear, but you still think you don't like this or that!"
Zhang Guilan patted the second child on the head.
Ergouzi ouched, rubbed his head and said, "I don't dislike it, I just want Jinbao's clothes to be beautiful!
I am a boy, so I can wear whatever clothes I want. Jinbao is a girl, so she needs to dress beautifully and cannot wear clothes with sleeves that are one long and one short."
Dagouzi also said at this time: "Mom, let my little aunt do it. Make a long skirt for Jinbao..."
Su Daqiang used eggs to exchange for cloth at a supply and marketing cooperative. It was light blue floral cotton cloth.
Zhang Guilan felt that the material was very soft and a bit cold to the touch. She knew it was good stuff, but she didn't dare to cut it with the scissors for fear of damaging the fabric.
She still keeps this cloth in her closet and is wondering if she should spend money to find a tailor to make it.
Now that she heard her sons say this, although she also wanted to ask Xiaoqing to help, she felt embarrassed, "Your little aunt just came to our house, how can you let people do work as soon as you come..."
Nie Xiaoqing hurriedly said: "Sister-in-law, let me do it. Jinbao is so cute. I feel happy just thinking about making her a skirt."
"You really think so?"
"Of course it's true! Besides, little girls' skirts are the simplest. I'll go and measure Jin Bao tomorrow."
Zhang Guilan smiled and said: "Okay, I'll trouble you to make clothes."
"I have already called you sister-in-law. Just now you said that we are a family. If you are a family, you don't have to be so polite. This is what I should do."
After hearing what Nie Xiaoqing said, Zhang Guilan fell in love with her even more. She felt that Xiaomeng had found a treasure. He could marry such a capable and hard-working girl. The most important thing was that she had such a good personality.
The next day, it was still dark.
Nie Xiaoqing tiptoed out of bed and walked out the door quietly, fearing to wake up other people in the room.
When she got to the house next door, she was very busy chopping wood and lighting a fire to cook. By the time everyone else got up, she had already made breakfast.
"Oh! Look at you kid, what are you doing? You don't need to cook this meal."
Li Xiu'e looked at the neat pile of firewood placed next to the stove, "Did you chop all this firewood?"
"Well, mom, hurry up and eat. I saw flour in the cabinet, so I rolled out the noodles."
"Noodles? What time did you get up?"
Not only Li Xiu'e, but everyone else was also very surprised. Rolling out noodles is not an easy task. It also takes several hours to knead the noodles and wake them up.
Zhao Fengzhu saw the breakfast she made and thought to herself: These noodles look delicious!
You can see the toughness at first glance.
Seeing the second sister-in-law staring at the noodles and unable to stop swallowing her saliva, Nie Xiaoqing said: "It doesn't take long. Eat it quickly. If you don't eat the noodles, they will become lumpy."
As she spoke, she filled a bowl of noodles and handed it to Zhao Fengzhu, "Second sister-in-law, you are heavy, you eat first."
"This...I..."
Zhao Fengzhu was a little afraid to answer and turned to look at her mother-in-law.
"Xiaoqing handed it to you, you can take it away." When Li Xiu'e said this, she couldn't help but think of what Hua Hua had said to herself.
He said that he had to separate the family before because he felt that Uncle Su's family and Second Uncle Su's family were used to using the money Uncle Su sent home, which was too natural, so whether it was rice or noodles, they had to be clearly separated from them.
Especially the second aunt...
She doesn't know how to be grateful.
Now that the family has been divided, the second aunt is embarrassed to eat the rice at home anymore. If she agrees to eat it at this time, she will remember the kindness of people.
Li Xiu'e also hoped that the second child's family would live well, and as Hua Hua said, she didn't care about the food anymore.
Everything is happy when the family is harmonious, money can be earned, rice can be bought, and harmony in the family is not easy to come by.
Sure enough, just like what Hua Hua said, Zhao Fengzhu had a moved expression on her face, "Thank you, mother. When Erzhuang divides the money, I will also ask him to buy a few kilograms of noodles and come back to honor you."