Zhou Xiaoyun’s Happy Life

Chapter 114 Knitting a scarf

The weather is getting colder, and students going to school are wearing thick sweaters and cotton-padded jackets.

Zhao Yuzhen was worried that the sweaters on the children were still old, especially Dabao, who couldn't even put on the sweater. The one knitted last year now only reached a little below the belly button. Just barely wearable.

 Xiaobao and Erya picked up their brother and sister's old sweaters to wear, and were in no hurry to buy new ones.

And Zhou Xiaoyun’s winter sweaters from previous years were all leftovers from Zhou Xiaoxia’s, but this year Zhou Xiaoyun has grown very quickly and is not much shorter than Zhou Xiaoxia. Zhou Xiaoyun couldn't wear the sweater that Zhou Xiaoxia couldn't wear, so she had to leave it to the younger Erya to pick up Zhou Xiaoxia's old sweater.

 So Zhou Xiaoyun also lacked sweaters.

Zhao Yuzhen found Zhou Guoqiang’s old sweater, sorted out the threads and dismantled it into a pile of wool, and used the old wool to knit Dabao’s sweater again.

  Zhao Yuzhen knits sweaters very quickly. She keeps the long knitting needle and yarn ball in her hands all day long. She knitted a sweater for Dabao in about a week. Dabao was so happy that he didn't even want to wear a cotton-padded jacket.

Zhao Yuzhen made a serious face and ordered Dabao to put on his cotton-padded jacket immediately, or else he would give Xiaobao a new sweater to wear.

Dabao glanced at Xiaobao, expecting him to be disobedient, and grinned, scaring Xiaobao so much that he hid behind Zhou Xiaoyun.

Dabao had to wear a cotton-padded jacket. Who wants to wear a bulky cotton-padded jacket? It is inconvenient to move my hands and feet.

 When Zhou Xiaoyun arrived, there were no old sweaters that could be dismantled and rewoven, so Zhao Yuzhen went to buy more than a pound of new yarn.

 Bright red has always been the favorite of mothers, but Zhou Xiaoyun dislikes this rich color the most. She insists on going to the market with her mother to choose the color.

 Zhao Yuzhen has become very accustomed to Zhou Xiaoyun's occasional stubbornness. Thinking about it, after her family built a house two years ago, she also insisted on choosing door curtains by herself. After it was done, Zhao Yuzhen had to admit that Zhou Xiaoyun did have a good vision. Her husband Zhou Guoqiang said that it was Zhou Xiaoyun's own initiative to take Zhou Xiaoyun to the county mall to buy new clothes!

No matter what her daughter is, Zhao Yuzhen couldn’t help but feel proud: It’s better for us to be the eldest. Look, even though she is young, she is very independent and discerning!

Zhou Xiaoyun took advantage of eleven o'clock after school to go to find her parents in the market. Zhao Yuzhen gave Zhou Guoqiang instructions and took Zhou Xiaoyun to the woolen yarn stall in the nearby market.

The owner of the stall is a middle-aged woman in her forties. Her husband’s surname is Song. The second in line is called Sister-in-law Song. She is very familiar with Zhao Yuzhen, who has been selling pork in the vegetable market for a long time.

The second sister-in-law Song exchanged a few words with Zhao Yuzhen, then glanced at Zhou Xiaoyun who was standing aside and immediately started praising her: "Second sister-in-law of the Zhou family, I'm not the only person who can say this with a sweet mouth. Your eldest daughter has grown so much in the past two years. It’s so fast, she looks like a little girl from a distance. Oh, Qi Qi’s eyebrows are so handsome, she will be a beautiful girl in the future.”

Zhao Yuzhen beamed. She was even happier when people praised her children than herself: "Look at what you said, you are almost praising my eldest daughter to the sky. I didn't come to chat with you today. I wanted to buy some wool from your stall. Da Ya knitted a sweater to wear at the end of the year. Let’s see what nice colors it comes in.”

Seeing the business coming, Second Sister-in-law Song became even more energetic and kept introducing her: "My stall has the most complete range of wool colors. They have all kinds of colors, and the colors are very neat. You and I are so familiar, I will definitely give you Your lowest price. Look how bright the red is.”

　　Song’s second sister-in-law picked up a piece of red wool, and Zhou Xiaoyun shook her head like a rattle. She couldn’t even listen to others blowing it, and she didn’t like the color red anyway.

Although Zhao Yuzhen liked the color, Zhou Xiaoyun looked disgusted, so she kept silent and followed Zhou Xiaoyun to see it by himself.

Zhou Xiaoyun looked carefully and saw that there were not many types of wool on the stall. Some of the plush knitted sweaters were warm and soft, but the prices were too expensive. Most of them are ordinary and much cheaper.

Zhou Xiaoyun chose light purple wool. Zhao Yuzhen thought it was pretty good, so she bought more than a kilogram. It was estimated that it would be enough to give Zhou Xiaoyun a sweater. Maybe there would be some left over to make a few pairs of gloves for the children going to school. .

When Zhao Yuzhen put her things into the bag and was about to leave, Zhou Xiaoyun suddenly pulled the corner of her clothes and whispered in Zhao Yuzhen's ear: "Mom, I really like that kind of plush wool. Buy some and knit it for me." A scarf! My neck feels cold when I go to school every day.”

Zhao Yuzhen hesitated for a moment and then nodded.

 Now is no different than in the past two years, life for doing business is much easier, and the economy has greatly improved. Zhao Yuzhen wasn't stingy enough to weigh a dime for a long time. Although she knew that the kind of wool Zhou Xiaoyun mentioned was twice as expensive as the one on hand, Zhao Yuzhen still agreed.

Zhou Xiaoyun had already spotted a light blue woolen yarn with long plush texture, and asked Sister-in-law Song to bring two pieces over.

Sister-in-law Song didn’t expect that she would be able to do a big business even after quitting the market. She smiled from ear to ear and was extremely enthusiastic.

 Zhao Yuzhen paid again, and both mother and daughter went back to the market happily.

Zhou Guoqiang had almost finished cleaning up, and Erya and his family of four were going home chatting and laughing.

 After lunch, Zhou Xiaoyun took a small stool and sat at the door, winding the yarn ball with Zhao Yuzhen.

The warm sunshine was very comfortable on my body. After a while, Xiaobao and Erya gathered around with small stools to join in the fun.

Zhou Xiaoyun’s main task is to hold the wool on both hands, while Zhao Yuzhen shakes her hands up and down quickly to wind out large **** of wool.

Erya found it interesting and had to hold on to the fuss.

Zhao Yuzhen usually loves Erya the most, but she can't be trusted to do this work because she will mess up the knitting and not be able to sort it out later.

Erya resisted in vain and had to beg and beg beside her sister. Zhou Xiaoyun couldn't control her, so she carefully transferred the wool in her hand to Erya's hand.

Erya sat on the stool and didn't move around and didn't mess up the wool. Zhou Xiaoyun touched her head and praised Erya vigorously. Erya was already proud, but she still pretended not to care on her face, which was really annoying. People laugh.

Zhou Xiaoyun called on Xiaobao to hold up the yarn, and then wound two pieces of light blue yarn into yarn balls.

Zhao Yuzhen knitted a sweater for Zhou Xiaoyun, thinking that Zhou Xiaoyun had grown so much in the past two years that she might as well knit it big enough to wear it for two years.

Zhou Xiaoyun is actually quite good at knitting sweaters, but he can't show it off at this time.

 She pretended to be interested in "learning" while Zhao Yuzhen was knitting a sweater, and soon "learned" how to start and close the stitches and the simplest flat knitting method.

Anyway, scarves are the simplest and easiest to knit. They are long and have no patterns. You just need to start knitting the stitches and keep knitting them down until the length is almost the same, then tighten the stitches.

 After Zhou Xiaoyun finished his homework in the evening, he picked up the bamboo sweater needles and wool **** and knitted a scarf.

The scarf was knitted in less than two days, and there was still some wool left. Zhou Xiaoyun simply knitted a narrower and shorter scarf for his sister Erya. The two sisters wore the same light blue scarf, which made Zhou Xiaoxia jealous.

 (End of this chapter)