Li Baozhu felt very uncomfortable after being robbed of her job by her sister-in-law. She didn't know where to put her empty hands.
Although they are a family, to be honest, they are not that close.
The eldest sister-in-law is usually very close to her mother-in-law, and she hardly talks to her insignificant younger sibling.
Li Baozhu is very concerned about what her family thinks of her.
The more you care about it, the more restrained you are, and the more you will be looked down upon by others.
She didn't feel happy that someone was doing her work for her. Instead, she felt that she was even more useless.
"Second sister-in-law, do you have time now? If so, help me mend these shoes, let's go out?"
Su Ruyi said.
Li Baozhu turned around quickly and responded: "Okay, okay!"
Dan'er asked other children to help carry her, and the two women entered Li Baozhu's house.
The house where Li Baozhu lives has only one big bed, and she usually sleeps with her two children.
It's crude and poorly lit.
However, the bed was clean and tidy, and the whole house felt clean and tidy.
"Brother and sister, please sit down."
Li Baozhu greeted nervously, squatting down and pulling out an old wooden box from under the bed.
The wooden box contains valuable things, including unused cloth, two hairpins that she brought with her when she got married, and a wedding dress in earthy red.
What everyone wears on weekdays is not put in the box, but is folded and placed on the bedside, so this small box is still more than half empty.
She took out the needle and thread from the box, picked up Su Ruyi's tattered shoes and looked at them twice. Then she dug out a piece of tattered clothing at the end of the bed and cut out a small piece of cloth.
"Why don't these shoes look as good as before after they've been patched up? Brother and sister, why don't you just make do with them?"
Li Baozhu was worried that his craftsmanship was not good.
"What else is more beautiful? Just don't show your toes."
Su Ruyi thought to herself, hurry up and earn money, there are too many places to spend money.
Li Baozhu pursed her lips, put on needle and thread, and began to sew.
Su Ruyi sat on the edge of the bed with one foot bare and waited.
He secretly looked at Li Baozhu.
Li Baozhu has an ordinary appearance and a gentle temperament, but he is definitely not inferior to others in work. He can do everything and is quick with his hands and feet.
But in the hearts of the Lu family, Li Baozhu's image seems to have always been that of "a wife who can't do anything, far worse than Liu Cuier."
Even Su Ruyi just let nature take its course and felt this way.
After thinking about it, I realized that Li Baozhu had never done less work than Liu Cuier, but everyone seemed to be selectively blind.
In the final analysis, it is Li Baozhu's character who suffers the disadvantage. When he does the same number of things, the one who is eloquent and has a flamboyant personality will always attract more attention.
The remaining one is often reduced to running around.
Therefore, people should still learn to fight for opportunities for themselves, and cannot always wait for their abilities to be discovered by the other party.
"Brother and sister, is there something dirty on my face?"
Li Baozhu felt Su Ruyi staring at her. She was not used to this feeling of being watched, so she raised her elbow to wipe her face.
"No, I just found that you, second sister-in-law, are really capable."
Li Baozhu blushed again and lowered her head to mend her shoes.
"The younger siblings are joking, just mending their shoes. Is there anything else I can or can't do..."
"Second sister-in-law, how is your family doing?"
Su Ruyi asked.
The second sister-in-law is really very temperamental. Even though she is the mother of an eight-year-old child, she still blushes and is shy at every turn, which is a bit weird.
This made Su Ruyi want to know what her original family was like.
"My mother's family..." Li Baozhu looked a little pale, as if he didn't know how to speak.
"They must be doing well..."
The sound from behind was so quiet that I couldn't even hear it.
Su Ruyi didn't ask further questions. It could be seen that Li Baozhu's natal family had done a lot of harm to her.
She recalled that when the original owner married into the Lu family four years ago, Li Baozhu was already the Lu family's wife.
It seems that Li Baozhu has not had any contact with her natal family in the past four years.
The original owner had such a arrogant character that he would not look directly at Li Baozhu, let alone talk to her in private.
What kind of situation Li Baozhu's natal family is like, I'm afraid only the Zhang family besides Li Baozhu herself knows.
"Brother and sister, okay, you give it a try."
"Just call me Ruyi."
Su Ruyi said that she called her second sister-in-law because of her seniority, but she always felt that calling her younger sister-in-law was because of birth status.
"Then...ok, I'll call you Ruyi from now on..."
Su Ruyi took the shoe, and the hole in the tip of the shoe was sewn up with a small square piece of cloth of the same color. The stitches were fine, the threads were smooth, and the sewing was very good.
“Second sister-in-law’s handiwork is so good!”
Su Ruyi praised, put her shoes on her feet, stood up and pulled Li Baozhu up too.
"Come on, let's go and beg some seeds from someone else's house!"
Li Baozhu hurriedly packed up the needles and threads and put them back into the small box under the bed.
He patted his clothes and pants and put his hands together on his head, as if he was going to town.
Su Ruyi looked amused and distressed, and reached out to hold Li Baozhu's arm.
It seemed that Li Baozhu was so close to someone for the first time, and his body became stiff.
After the two of them went out, Li Baozhu said that he wanted to tell his mother-in-law.
Su Ruyi pulled her arm and shouted to Zhang's house: "Mom, my second sister-in-law and I are going out for a walk!"
Zhang was probably angry with her, and no one in the room responded.
Su Ruyi took Li Baozhu and left.
Li Baozhu was really an honest person. When her mother-in-law didn't agree, she couldn't let go. She always felt that she wasn't allowed.
"I'd better go ask mom, maybe there's something going on at home."
Li Baozhu also wanted to go to her mother-in-law's house.
"It's raining so hard today. There's nothing we can do. Let's go."
The two of them had a hard time walking on the muddy dirt track.
Su Ruyi thought about going to get the seeds while everyone was in the room. Normally, people would leave early and come back late, so they might not be willing to talk to her.
The first family wanted to go to Lao Luo's house next door, but Li Baozhu held them back and refused to let them go.
Su Ruyi just remembered that the Luo family had a feud with their Lu family.
The Lu family initially raised not only hens but also a rooster.
The rooster was fed well at home, but this rooster was also a bitch and flew to Lao Luo's house next door.
The old Luo family was also unkind. When they saw a big rooster appearing out of thin air in their yard, although they guessed it was from next door, they kept silent and grabbed the rooster by its neck, twisted it and hid it.
The Lu family looked around everywhere, and when they asked about the person next door, they swore they couldn't see it.
Unexpectedly, they smelled meat in the middle of the night. The Lu family followed the smell of meat and found out that what was stewed in the Luo family's pot must be their own big rooster.
But they refused to admit it, and there were two grown men guarding the door to prevent him from entering. The Luo family were all women, and they eventually left empty-handed and disgraced.
This feud was forged, and when the two families met, they would always greet each other by rolling their eyes.
"The Luo family is so bad. In the past, when all the men in the family were here, when we hunted game in the mountains, we would bring a bowl of meat to them while we cooked and ate it. I didn't expect that they would be such people!"
Li Baozhu gritted his teeth and accused him warmly.
