Stepmother Reborn: Dad, my mom hasn't hit me for three days

The next day, Zhang Xiuhua woke up and began to pour out the water in the sweet potato bucket, add some more water to the bucket, and filter it again.

After finishing the sweet potatoes, she fed Zhuzhu milk powder and asked Yaoyao and Jilin to clean the house.

After feeding her milk powder, Zhuzhu held on to a chair and practiced walking. Zhang Xiuhua began to prepare cooking.

In the afternoon, Xu Chunying brought the statistical list.

She was stunned. "So many?"

Aren't there only about a hundred households in the whole village? Why does every household need so many quilts? Adding up, there are three hundred quilts.

Xu Chunying said happily, "The price of quilts is so low. Everyone wants to take this opportunity to buy more."

Seeing Zhang Xiuhua's bad face, he hesitated and asked, "Can so many be transported here?"

Zhang Xiuhua collected her thoughts and nodded, "Yes!"

She was thinking about how to get so many quilts last night. After much thought, she decided it would be better to find a secluded, uninhabited house and put the quilts directly in there.

She actually knew a place like this.

There is an adobe house on the mountain. No one lives there. I heard that it was built by villagers to wait for bears to be hunted. After the bears were hunted, the house was not demolished. If you encounter a rainstorm on the mountain, you can hide in it.

But even if the adobe house was filled to capacity, it couldn't hold three hundred quilts.

Or should she just put it in the open space outside the adobe house?

The weather has been dry recently and it hasn't rained, so I don't have to worry about the quilt getting wet. At most, the surface is a little dirty. But it doesn't matter, just wipe it and wash it and it will be clean.

She made up her mind and asked Xu Chunying to help collect the money.

Xu Chunying was in a dilemma. "The villagers are a little worried. They want to see the samples first."

There is a difference between quilts. If the quilt is made of rotten cotton or waste cotton, then buying a quilt for 20 yuan is just a bargain, not a good deal.

Zhang Xiuhua nodded, "Okay. I'll go there this afternoon."

Xu Chunying breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that she agreed.

When Zhang Xiuhua was riding her bicycle, she looked back several times to make sure that no one was following her. She then found a place where no one would notice her and took out the quilt. In order to prevent others from noticing something unusual, she even took out a transparent plastic bag from her space, which was specially used to store quilts.

This thing is also very useful. She wants to use it to paste curtains so that the cold wind will not blow in through the window gaps. In fact, thirty years later, people in Northeast China will build greenhouses outside their houses, but that requires stainless steel pipes. She can't get them, and can't get them. So she just made a simple board to cover the gaps.

After leaving the commune, she brought back a quilt and went to her sister-in-law's house first.

Xu Chunying heard the bicycle bell and hurried over.

Zhang Xiuhua took off the bag.

After washing her hands, Xu Chunying wiped them on her bib and felt the thickness of the quilt. "Not bad! The fluffed cotton feels soft."

Zhang Xiuhua indicated that she could take a pair of scissors and take apart the quilt. After a closer look, she said, "They are all the same. The quilt cover, quilt lining, and cotton are all the same!"

This quilt was handmade by Zhang Xiuhua herself. She bought long-staple cotton from Xinjiang, which is of good quality and affordable. She made several quilts at a time and used them herself. As for the guest rooms, some have soybean quilts and some have down quilts.

Xu Chunying was not polite and really picked the thread apart, revealing the cotton inside, and dug out the core. The surface was smooth, the fluff was full, and the color was bright white. It was obviously the good cotton that had just been produced this year.

She was so happy that her face beamed with joy and she went to find the team leader with her quilt in her hand.

Zhang Xiuhua also followed over to see everyone's reaction.

The brigade cadres were discussing something. When they saw Xu Chunying coming, they hurriedly called her in and asked, "Is this the quilt?"

"Yes! Look quickly, this quilt is in good condition." Xu Chunying said happily.

We are all farmers, even if we have never grown cotton, we know what good cotton is. This is indeed good quality.

But the captain was a little worried about the huge amount of money. "How about this? We can't transport so much at once. We might as well take it in batches. Xiuhua, let's take 50 quilts first. What do you think?"

Zhang Xiuhua was secretly happy. This was a great move as it could also save time.

She nodded and agreed, "Okay! Just do as the team says!"

The captain got the confirmation and quickly went to several families to pay. Each family bought one quilt first, and if the quality was good, they could continue to buy. Those who were not in a hurry could wait and see, and then make a decision after seeing the quality of the quilts they received.

The villagers thought that the captain's approach was safe and had no objections.

That night, Zhang Xiuhua received the money.

At three o'clock in the morning of the next day, it was the weekend and the students were on holiday. She woke Youcai up and asked him to go with her to get the quilt.

Youcai was half asleep, his mind was still confused, "Why did you ask me to go?"

"I don't know the way! You lead me." Zhang Xiuhua certainly didn't think so. But Youcai was the oldest in the family and the one with the lowest IQ. She was afraid that Baolin's little mouth would not be able to hide the truth.

Look for Jidong? That kid is too smart, he will probably figure out something is wrong. Look for Yaoyao? That kid is too honest, and at five years old, too young. It would be terrible if he got lost and couldn't find his way home.

Youcai was finally fooled by Zhang Xiuhua, whose condition was to give him a Gala fruit.

Youcai chewed on a Gala fruit and tightened his coat, "It's so cold."

Zhang Xiuhua smiled and said, "When we get there, if there are blankets, you can stay there. I will go back to the village and call someone to get them."

Youcai said "hmm", his mind was a little confused, "Why put the quilt in the house on the mountain?"

"That place is quite secretive. We have to do this kind of thing secretly. If we get caught, we will all be in trouble."

Youcai suddenly understood and looked like he was being taught a lesson.

The two men held flashlights, took one step forward and one step back, listened to the chirping of various insects, and finally reached the cabin.

The door of this room was a mountain fence that opened easily. There was nothing inside, at most some dead branches. But now it was filled with quilts.

These quilts are neatly folded, like red bricks magnified several times.

Youcai felt that everything in front of him was too unreal, and subconsciously reached out to pinch it. It was soft and it was indeed a quilt.

He suddenly became alert, all his sleepiness disappeared, and he turned around in surprise, "Aunt Zhang, there are so many quilts."

Zhang Xiuhua was a little amused and patted his head. "I'll go call your uncle and aunt. Ask them to bring someone over to pull the quilt. You just stand over here and watch."

Youcai nodded.

But seeing how dark it was all around him, he was a little scared, so he called Zhang Xiuhua, "Aunt Zhang, I'll go. There's a flashlight to light the way, so I won't be scared."

It was pitch dark, and the branches all around looked like ghosts. It was too scary. He should go back to the village and call for help.

Zhang Xiuhua saw that he was scared, so she couldn't stop him. "Okay. I'll do as you say!"

Afraid that he would be scared, she stuffed another lollipop into his mouth, "This is for your sweet mouth!"

Youcai took a lick and was like, wow, it's really sweet, just like candy. It's delicious!

He quickly ran down the mountain, holding a flashlight and sucking on a lollipop, and ran all the way to his mother's uncle's house and knocked on their door. The family next door had a dog and screamed heartbreakingly.

In fact, Li Jiandang and Xu Chunying had not slept yet.

They were not busy with work, but they tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, fearing that Zhang Xiuhua would run away with the money.

You have to know that fifty quilts cost one thousand yuan, which was definitely a huge sum of money in that era. If Zhang Xiuhua ran away with the money, they would become criminals.

The couple discussed it over and over again, "Why don't we let Xiuhua take us with her. After all, we are her elder brother and sister-in-law. She won't trust others, so she has to trust us."

Li Jiandang was also afraid. Zhang Xiuhua had just married and they didn't know her well, so they had no place to express their feelings. It was natural for them to be suspicious, which was human nature.

The couple decided to go look for Xiuhua early tomorrow morning.

But before they could fall asleep, they heard someone knocking on the door and they were immediately awakened.

They pricked up their ears, it was Youcai's voice. The couple felt bad, could it be that their bad words came true? Xiuhua ran away with her three children, and Youcai found out that she was missing, so he came to her house specially?

The couple didn't even put on their shoes. They just got off the kang in their clothes and ran to the door to open it. "What happened to Youcai?"

"Aunt Zhang asked me to come here and tell you to go to the thatched house on the mountain. There are quilts there."

Li Jiandang and Xu Chunying looked at each other and both breathed a sigh of relief. Heaven and hell were just like this.