Gu Xiaobei had been quite busy these days, knitting when worn out from translating articles, and even tutoring Chen Gang and Dadong at noon.
On Saturday noon, she filled a cloth bag with two pounds of rice and slipped it into Chen Gang's schoolbag to be taken back to his fourth sister-in-law after school.
After the children had gone to school, Gu Xiaobei decided it was a good day to wash and dismantle the quilts. The quilts at her home did not have covers, they were all stitched together directly. After a few months of fumbling around, Gu Xiaobei became adept at repairing them.
Repairing quilts was a technical job. Those who led thrifty lives would reuse the cotton threads torn off and use them the second time for stitching. However, Gu Xiaobei was not the kind who lived thrifty--the threads she pulled off were so messy, she couldn't untangle them at all.
Gu Xiaobei was sitting on the small bed, back to the door, unthreading the quilt.
