Chapter 31 Lend a Helping Hand 3

She specially selected the wood from the disintegrated bed at the scrap collection station, and only one leg was missing after it was assembled.

Feng Qingxue assembled a coffee table and placed it on the corner of the bed where the leg was missing. This corner of the bed was a few centimeters higher, but it was acceptable.

Feng Qingxue had no idea how to make doors and windows.

"Let's do it this way for now. Anyway, there is nothing in our house that people covet now." Feng Qingxue clapped her hands and looked at the sky. She was busy all afternoon and it was almost dark.

Qingyun walked around the bed, "Sister, we have a bed, it would be nice if we had a quilt."

In the past, she and her sister also had a quilt. Although it was old, her sister always washed the quilt inside and outside cleanly, and beat the cotton until it was loose and soft. However, when they were kicked out of the house, it was occupied by the second sister-in-law.

The second sister-in-law was the worst, bad and domineering.

The eldest sister-in-law was not a good person either. She took away her sister's clothes and shoes.

Feng Qingxue placed the cooked rice soup on the coffee table, and only half of the tabletop supporting the bed was used.

"Sister will find a way to get two new quilts, come and drink the rice soup."

A thick layer of rice oil formed on the surface of the soup, and Feng Qingxue and her sister drank it up, and each ate half a black-faced steamed bun.

After dinner, Feng Qingxue took two pounds of sorghum flour mixed with black flour and took Qingyun to find Feng Erhu, an old carpenter in the production team.

Feng Erhu was Feng's father's sworn brother. He was honest and loyal, but also shrewd. Asking him would make people think that he came to help out of Feng's father's kindness, but what was the truth? The most important thing was that he was very tight-lipped, so Feng Qingxue asked him to make doors and windows, and promised to give him three pounds of sweet potato flour as wages after the completion.

Feng Erhu agreed without saying a word.

A total of five pounds of noodles, enough for his family to drink porridge for three or four days.

Feng Erhu did not ask Feng Qingxue where he got the food from. The world was very difficult, and who didn't have some secrets? Besides, Feng Qingxue and her sister had a hard life, otherwise they wouldn't go out to beg for food every day.

The next morning, Feng Erhu came with his eldest son Feng Dazhu and took the tools borrowed from the production team.

Seeing a bed with missing legs in the room, and everything was cleaned up, Feng Erhu's eyes flashed with surprise, and then he restrained it and took it for granted. Everyone knew that Feng Qingxue was famous for her love of cleanliness.

Feng Dazhu had already married and had children, but he was as honest as his father. As soon as he came in, he and Feng Erhu buried their heads in work.

Seeing that they came so early, Feng Qingxue guessed that they might not have had breakfast, so she used the remaining sweet potatoes that the original owner and Qingyun had shared with a little brown rice and corn grits to make some thick porridge.

"Uncle, you and Brother Dazhu will get busy after dinner." Feng Qingxue filled two bowls of rice and asked Qingyun to take two steamed buns.

One was made of corn flour, and the other was made of wheat bran mixed with sweet potato flour.

These, of course, were all what she brought back yesterday.

Because Qingyun believed every word she said, she brought back more food.

The types of steamed bread and flower rolls she brought back were different, to show that they were from different families.

When he looked up and saw such thick rice and such steamed bread as big as half a fist, Feng Erhu waved his hands quickly, "No, no, you have paid us wages, how can we eat your and Qingyun's rations? This is a good thing that we can't eat during the New Year."

Continuous natural disasters have led to extreme shortages of supplies, and the people have not eaten such good food for a long time.

Feng Erhu has a skill and is busy in the production team. He gets more work points throughout the year, and the food is better than other families. Even so, their family did not eat pure flour steamed bread during the New Year.