"I think your brother’s outfit looks pretty good. Just get me a set like that."
That outfit was made by Gu Lingling with Grandma Yao a few days ago, from corduroy fabric, resembling a modern tracksuit.
The main issue was Yao Jingsong’s constant antics, causing perfectly good clothes to either tear or get scuffed in no time.
Gu Lingling simply made him a loose-fitting tracksuit to see how he would manage to ruin it!
Unexpectedly, he cherished it and immediately showed it off to Yang Yunhai.
"Huh?" Gu Lingling thought Yang Yunhai would ask for something else. She didn’t expect him to like those clothes. "Sure, I’ll measure you first, but honestly, I can’t accept these things."
Not to mention the bicycle vouchers, even the industrial vouchers and cloth tickets—well, the cloth tickets could be used to make clothes for Yang Yunhai, but those industrial vouchers and bicycle vouchers were too valuable.
"If you don’t want these tickets, I might as well tear them up since they’re about to expire," Yang Yunhai said coldly, with a frosty expression.
Seeing Gu Lingling’s puzzled expression, the usually calm and collected Yang Yunhai felt a strange urge to get angry, yet he couldn’t pinpoint the reason for his anger.
Was it simply because Gu Lingling refused these tickets?
But who was Yang Yunhai? Even though he felt the urge to get angry, his face remained composed as he stuffed the tickets into the still-dazed Gu Lingling’s hands. "Your choice, throw them away if you don’t want them."
"Hey..." Gu Lingling wanted to catch up, but Yang Yunhai had already walked off with those bottles and jars.
What a waste, how unfortunate.
"This money is from Brother Yunhai for you." At their next meeting, Liu Yating handed the money to Gu Lingling. "You know how to make clothes?"
Liu Yating hadn’t seen the tracksuit that Yao Jingsong wore.
Seeing the money, Gu Lingling felt dizzy, thinking Yang Yunhai had forgotten this matter.
She hadn’t planned on taking Yang Yunhai’s money, as those tickets were priceless.
But she couldn’t explain this to Liu Yating, so she reluctantly accepted the money, planning to tuck it inside the clothes to return it to Yang Yunhai once they were finished.
Later, Gu Lingling followed Yang Yunhai’s directions to Director Zhao’s place and purchased a lightweight bicycle.
Because on that day, after she returned with supplies from the army, Yao Zhenjiang’s bicycle once again met its glitchy demise.
This time the issue was more severe. Yao Zhenjiang fiddled with it for a long time but couldn’t fix it—it needed a new chain, which wasn’t available locally and had to be ordered from the manufacturer.
Forget about the cost; the hassle of going back and forth was exhausting.
Gu Lingling gritted her teeth and brought back a new bicycle for Yao Zhenjiang the next day, startling him.
Indeed, it gave the old couple quite a shock.
Their granddaughter silently bringing home a bicycle was akin to an ordinary modern family’s daughter suddenly rolling up with a Rolls-Royce Phantom. How could it not be startling?
Learning the bicycle ticket came from Yang Yunhai, Yao Zhenjiang and his wife felt they couldn’t accept it. They already owed Yang Yunhai enough and taking more would be too much.
But Gu Lingling was also helpless; if they didn’t take it, she’d have to toss it, which was a massive waste.
As for the money Gu Lingling used to buy the bicycle, it came from her savings over the years. When she counted her little treasury, she herself was shocked.
And Wang Meili and Gu Juan hadn’t found out!