Soon, the twelfth lunar month arrived, and the weather grew gradually colder. Yuanchun took out twenty yuan and bought Qian Hongmei and her two daughters each a new padded cotton jacket and a new pair of cotton shoes.
Ma Xiangling watched with a mix of envy, jealousy, and resentment, and whined coquettishly to her mother, "Mom, the cotton jacket I made last year is old and not warm anymore. Buy me a woolen overcoat! I heard the department store just got a shipment of woolen overcoats, and they look so pretty."
*Slap, slap...*
Chapter 475