Era: Retired from the army at the beginning and returned home - Chapter 25 Want to buy cotton gauze

Lying down~~his eyes were blurred and he was feeling sleepy~~, before he knew it, Luo Cheng fell asleep. I don’t know how long it had passed, but he could feel someone entering the room. Every once in a while, it seemed like someone was approaching his face. , Luo Cheng opened his eyes in confusion, almost frightened, his little sister Luo Shishi stared at him very closely.

“Brother, you’re awake. Mom is eating. You can eat later.”

Seeing that Luo Cheng woke up, Luo Shishi said with a somewhat embarrassed expression. Of course, her embarrassed look was definitely not because she was talking about eating. She clearly had something to tell him but was embarrassed.

“Oh, Shishi, are you okay? If you have anything, please tell me.”

“Um~Um, brother, are you going to the city tomorrow?”

“Yes, I’m going to ask about work. Do you want to go with me?”

In response to his sister’s inquiry, Luo Cheng nodded, thinking that maybe his sister also wanted to go to the city with him to see more. However, he was on business and it seemed inconvenient to take his sister to the city.

“No, brother, don’t you have cloth tickets? Can you buy me a piece of cotton gauze?”

Luo Shishi couldn’t help but say, her sallow face made Luo Cheng feel a little blushing. There’s nothing shameful about buying a piece of cotton gauze.

Luo Cheng did have cloth tickets, but not much. He was not in a hurry now. Before, he had thought that when the weather got cold, he would buy cloth or see if there were any finished cotton-padded clothes or something like that. But now that the little sister wants a piece of cotton, he just needs to buy it for her first. Although he doesn’t have the deep brother-sister relationship with the suddenly extra sister, he can feel the feelings his sisters have for him. It’s a very real brother-sister relationship.

“Buy cotton gauze, right? What kind do you want and how big is it?”

To be honest, Luo Cheng has never bought this thing. In later generations, he would buy things on the spot, but in this era, most people bought their own cloth to make clothes. Women basically have to learn needlework, and even men have to be good at it if they want to live alone.

“It’s about as wide as this, five feet in length is fine.”

Luo Shishi made a gesture with her hands, one hand under her neck and the other on her waist. The unit of measurement for cloth is the foot, and this is how it is calculated on the cloth ticket.

Luo Chengbu originally knew what his sister Luo Shishi wanted him to buy cotton gauze for, so he thought she had nothing to wear and wanted him to buy some cloth for her to make her own clothes.

But with such a gesture and the amount of cloth required, Luo Cheng, no matter how stupid he was, understood what he was buying it for.

People in this era don’t wear bras because, firstly, they have nowhere to buy them, and secondly, they can’t afford them. But not wearing a bra does not mean not wearing anything else, otherwise the crime rate will increase a lot.

Breast wrapping is a characteristic of this era, which is to wrap the cloth around the chest and back twice. If it needs to be wrapped three times, it can be said that this woman’s future children will definitely have no shortage of food and drink.

“Okay, no problem, I will remember it every day when I go to town.”

“Brother, I want it too. I also want a five-foot one. Brother, do you have enough cloth tickets?”

As soon as Luo Cheng agreed, Luo Xiaoyu’s head popped out of the wooden partition door. She had been eavesdropping. Because she was older, she was more shy about this matter. Luo Shishi even asked Luo Cheng to buy cotton gauze, which was her instigation. The little girl didn’t have any bad intentions, she was just trying to encourage her younger sister.

“Okay, I have enough tickets to buy them both for you two.”

Luo Cheng said with a smile that the army gave him a set of cloth tickets that were slightly more than adult clothes. Twenty feet of cloth, two breast wraps can be used at most half, or even that much, but it depends on the situation. He didn’t buy any cloth either.

It’s true that Luo Shishi didn’t wear a bra. Luo Cheng didn’t pay special attention to it, but Luo Xiaoyu did.

The quality of cotton gauze these days is very average. Luo Xiaoyu brought it to her mother for use, and it was quite torn, but you couldn’t see it under her clothes.

Here in Longyang Town, the Luo family is actually quite good. In Luo Cheng’s eyes, it may not be as good as some pig nests in later generations. At least it still has brick walls. But compared with the people nearby, the house is better than those houses built with wooden planks. The wooden planks are not insulated and are prone to problems over time.

In terms of clothing, the clothes of the Luo Cheng family were indeed relatively shabby and thin, but some of the jokes in later cross talk were actually true in this era.

Three years of new life and three years of old life, three more years of sewing and mending. In some poor places and families, they really have exhausted all their strength just to live, and many people are just trying to live. If there are a lot of people in the family, when the baby is small at first, the clothes of the adults are changed into smaller sizes for the children. But as the children grow up, the smaller clothes cannot be changed into larger sizes. But in this way, the smaller clothes will not be wasted, and the cloth pieces will not be wasted. I cut them all off and patched them into other clothes that were still wearable.

If there are many children at home, it really depends on whether they have clothes to wear or not. Whoever goes out gets dressed. It was cold and covered with straw instead of quilt.

In later generations, there must be some ill-intentioned people who heard this and stopped dozing off and became more energetic. They thought that if they were in this era, they would definitely go and see those poor girls who had no clothes to wear, and then send warmth.

But the reality is that it is really unattractive, malnourished, even if it is not black and white, it is very thin and very dirty. Even if a girl like this is old enough, if future generations see her like this, if she still only uses her lower body to think about problems, Luo Cheng can only admire her for being “perverted”.

Luo Xiaoyu was also very happy to hear that his eldest brother Luo Cheng agreed. In fact, she could make do with it, and it would be fine if her bra was worn out, but it was really difficult for rural people in the past two years, and Luo Shishi was just growing up in the past two years. When she had to go out, she usually only had to go out. I can wear one more piece of clothing on my body. I was afraid that my clothes would be too see-through and be seen by outsiders.

And because I was sensible, I never mentioned this matter to my parents. It is true that the family has no money or cloth tickets at all, and if they have money, they will go to the pigeon market to buy some food first.

After agreeing to buy something, my mother came to ask them to eat soon.

It was barking, not shouting. The distance between the two rooms was very close, and you could hear it if you shouted. But in this era, it was okay to shout for people, but not for food. Partition walls have ears. Today at noon, there were many people eating outside. Normally, they would eat at home behind closed doors.

It is a bad behavior to be heard when shouting for food. These days, in rural areas, people say they need to eat two meals a day, but everyone knows what their situation is. People in the city also talk about having three meals a day, but really no one can have three meals a day.

As for Luo Cheng’s family, if Luo Cheng hadn’t returned from the army and had two sparse meals a day, he might not have been able to hold on. Before the food is distributed in the brigade, we will have to eat one sparse meal a day, as long as we can hang on to it.

The quality of cotton gauze and cotton cloth in this era is not good, and it is easy to wear and tear. Buy cotton gauze because it has better air permeability.