"You made up all of this?"
At noon, Xu Xiuxiu came back from work and asked in surprise when she saw several delicate straw baskets on the kang in the room.
Straw weaving is a job that most people can do for the country people. The only difference is whether it is refined or rough. Xu Xiuxiu can also weave a little basket, but she thinks that her level is far from good. Not as high as the river.
She thought about it carefully. In the ten years since she married into the Jiang family, her husband did not seem to have been exposed to such light work. Every day he was either going to the ground to earn work points or fetching water and chopping wood for the family. She thought, maybe it was I haven't given my husband this opportunity before.
"Well, I pondered for a while. Maybe no one would like to buy an ordinary straw basket at the market, so I wondered if I could make something for it. Look at this pair of fruit pots with 囍 characters, maybe there will be some Those in the city who are about to have a wedding find it rare."
Jiang Liu received Yuanshen's memory. Naturally, he came up with such a way to make money because he was sure that Yuanshen knew a little about straw weaving. The exposure aroused suspicion from the other's relatives.
"nice!"
Xu Xiuxiu nodded heavily, and looked over and over at the extraordinarily delicate small fruit plate with the Chinese character 囍.
I don’t know how Jiangliu is woven. In addition to weaving the red-stained thatch into the fruit plate to form the word 囍, the pattern of the straw weaving is also different from what we usually see. A row of braids made of thick thatch , several rows of delicate spiral patterns, the surface of the fruit plate has delicate texture undulations, and all the thatch is treated extremely well without any roughness.
Although it was just a fruit plate woven from the most worthless thatch, Xu Xiuxiu thought it looked better than the expensive enamel cups sold in the supply and marketing cooperative.
She couldn't put it down a little, and carefully scrutinized the 囍 character on the fruit plate. When she married the Jiang family, she only brought a quilt as a dowry in addition to the clothes on her body. At that time, life in the countryside was also hard. There were two tables of drinks, and a red paper cut 囍 character was pasted on the door. Without blowing and beating, the wedding was over.
For today's women, marriage is really a once-in-a-lifetime event, and Xu Xiuxiu is not complaining. When she thinks back to her wedding, she always feels a little regretful.
Especially now, seeing this pair of exquisite straw fruit bowls, she couldn't help but think how happy the newlyweds who will have them will be in the future.
"Good-looking, then let's keep this pair of fruit bowls. When we married you before, we didn't give you anything, and made you and I suffer for so many years."
Jiang Liu originally planned to sell the pair of fruit plates, but when he saw Xu Xiuxiu's liked expression, he immediately changed his mind.
"No, no, no, I don't need such a beautiful thing at home."
Hearing her husband's words, Xu Xiuxiu felt a little sweet, but she still refused without thinking.
This pair of fruit plates is so beautiful, there will definitely be young men and women who are about to get married, and now the family is short of money, Jiang Liu needs to make up for his body, and the hospital still owes so much money, compared with these two things, Her likes are the most worthless.
"Why don't you need a pair of fruit plates at home to encourage us to make more money, buy a lot of fruit candy cubes and melon seeds to fill the fruit plate, besides, I have now studied how to weave thatch more It's beautiful, it's just a pair of fruit bowls, I can make up more."
As the body functions gradually merged with the brain, Jiang Liu's weaving movements became smoother and smoother. His words were not adulterated. With such a fruit plate, he could weave five or six times a day.
"I don't have any ambitions. If I can eat enough and pay off my debts, I'm satisfied."
Xu Xiuxiu didn't dare to imagine what a fairy life would be like with a fruit plate full of melon seeds and candy cubes at home. Listening to her husband's description, she couldn't help but put on a longing and a smile on her face, but she still said that she was simple and more polite. Practical words.
"I'm going to cook lunch for you first."
Xu Xiuxiu put down the fruit plate in her hand and turned around to go to the kitchen to cook. The utility room that was allocated to them had been converted into a kitchen, and now the young couple's three meals are completed on their own stoves.
"No, I've already cooked it and kept it warm in the pot. Just bring the food."
Perhaps it was an unhappy childhood. Jiang Liu especially yearned for the ordinary life of a husband and wife sharing weal and woe, and helping each other with each other. Compared with the vigorous and earth-shattering love, he felt that the former was more reliable and down-to-earth.
Now, due to special reasons, he can't get Xu Xiuxiu to change the job in the field. She is a woman, and she is engaged in a labor intensity similar to that of a man. When she comes back, she has to cook, cook, wash and clean, while Jiang Liu is resting comfortably at home. , doing the relatively simple straw weaving work, he felt that he was too bad, so Jiang Liu simply contracted the family's three meals.
"How can you, a big man, go to the kitchen?"
Xu Xiuxiu was a little moved and a little embarrassed. Her education from childhood to adulthood told her that the kitchen is a woman's territory, and a good woman should not let her man cook.
"Why can't I go there? There are so many bachelors in the village, so they still have to cook by themselves. Besides, if I don't find something to do, I'll be exhausted. I'll leave the cooking to me in the future."
Jiang Liu waved his hand, a little unconcerned.
What kind of gentleman is far away from the kitchen? It's a broken idea passed down by the older generation. In his last life, he ran away. He was not the only one who carried the family's cooking banner. Besides, he never said that he was a gentleman. , he is a real villain who lives at the bottom of the society and is magnanimous.
When Xu Xiuxiu came to the kitchen, she saw the food kept in the pot with the residual temperature of the stove.
A pot of sweet potato porridge, a bowl of fried cabbage, and a boiled egg cut in half.
Looking at these meals, Xu Xiuxiu couldn't hold back and wiped her eyes with her sleeves.
The women in the village all said that her life was hard, especially after the Jiang family split up, they didn't get anything and they shared a lot of debt.
But Xu Xiuxiu really felt that she had lived for more than 20 years, except when her mother was still alive, at this moment, she was very happy.
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"Liuzi, come here, I've reserved a place for you."
"Everyone let go, give Liu Zi the hand, and bring up his basket."
Today is a good day to go to the market in the middle of the month. The commune members who need to go to the market to exchange supplies gathered in the commune early in the morning, waiting for the commune truck driver to take them to the market.
Red Star Commune has a total of six production teams, and the entire production team shares one truck. On weekdays, everyone treats this fixed asset very carefully. Except for the transportation of goods, this big truck can only be used on market days two days a month.
Jiang Liu carried a large bamboo basket, which contained all kinds of straw woven products he had made. The bamboo basket was covered with cloth, but it was impossible to see what was inside.
When he came, there were already a lot of people waiting in the commune's drying yard. When some of the commune members from the third team saw him coming, they enthusiastically helped him put the bamboo basket in the pocket of the truck, and then squeezed out a seat for him to sit.
There are a lot of people going to the market today. The trucks are already full of people and goods. Many people who came earlier than Jiang Liu have not yet taken their seats. No one stood up against his name.
However, this privilege will not be available until the market. Everyone is looking for vacancies, and then they will take out the vegetables, fruits or other agricultural products from their own plots in exchange for the items they need. Jiang Liu has not adapted to this kind of looting for a while. After taking a step, I can only put my things in a small corner that is temporarily unoccupied.
He spread the cloth originally covered on the bamboo basket on the ground, and then laid out the straw fabrics in the bamboo basket one by one.
When counting the goods, he found that he had two more items, and the extra ones were the pair of xi-shaped fruit plates that he said he would keep at home.
At this time, Jiang Liu recalled that when he went out in the morning, Xiuxiu offered to help him pack the goods, and the pair of fruit plates with 囍 character was probably stuffed by the other party at that time.
Although he liked it so much, he still took out the pair of fruit bowls. Jiang Liu couldn't help but sigh that the family was still a little poor now, and at the same time, he was a little moved, and he secretly scolded the original pig's brain.
"Mom, look at this pair of fruit bowls, they're so beautiful. There's even a xi character made of red straw. I'm going to use this fruit bowl to hold candy apples on my wedding day."
When Jiang Liu was moved, the business came to the door.
A young woman in a Lenin suit stood in front of his booth, picked up the pair of swastika fruit plates and couldn't put it down.
"Didn't you tell me to buy you an enamel cup before?"
The young woman was probably followed by her mother. The other party was carrying a pair of roosters and a basket of eggs. Jiang Liu thought about the young woman's words. The mother and daughter probably came to the market to prepare things for the wedding banquet.
"But many people have enamel cups. It's the first time I've seen such a fresh and rare fruit plate. Mom, look at this straw box with a small button. The peonies on it are so beautiful. I can use It's for my vanishing cream and clam oil, which I want too."
Every woman's body is sealed with a shopaholic, and the woman who was originally attracted by the 囍 fruit plate was suddenly attracted by a small square box with a peony pattern and refused to let go.
Looking at the dress of the young woman, you can see that the family conditions are very good, and it is a big event like marriage. The other's mother finally agreed to her request and bought back what she liked.
Because it is a worthless thatched thing, even if it has a craftsmanship bonus, it is destined that its price will not be higher than the rare enamel products of this era, perhaps because the price is lower than the price in my heart, the other party picked several more pieces Items, after the mother and daughter left, Jiang Liu's goods suddenly decreased by a quarter.
Maybe Jiang Liu's straw woven products are really rare, or maybe the behavior of the mother and daughter just now attracted a crowd of curious people. Before the end of the market, the last straw woven box on Jiang Liu's booth was also bought.
He spent half a month collecting thatch flowers, drying and dyeing them, and thinking about weaving patterns. In the end, he got four jin and seven taels of food coupons, three-foot cloth coupons, two industrial coupons, a pair of pig ears and sixteen dollars.
The original body is working hard in the field, and the work points earned every year are only fifty or sixty yuan in money except for the food that is exchanged.
Jiang Liu realized that his deal might really go on.