Chapter 105: Pig Killing

"I don't have a boyfriend yet..." Ji Yanyu said weakly.

"Why do you keep the love letters given to you? Why are you changing clothes like crazy in the middle of the night? Do you think you are putting on a fashion show?"

Xu Yao glanced down at the scraps of paper scattered all over the floor, picked up one and said with disdain.

"The handwriting reflects the person. This calligraphy looks OK at first glance, but if you look closely, the picture has form but no character. I guess it's just a showpiece. Am I right?"

Ji Yanyu's lips twitched, "He looks OK, and he's not bad at studying..."

"How good-looking are you? Can you compare with your two brothers?" Xu Yao asked.

Ji Yanyu was silent.

Ji Changyu and Ji Bai were the best-looking people of the opposite sex she had ever seen.

"Does being a good student mean being in the top few in the grade? Can you compare with Xiaobai?" Xu Yao asked again.

Ji Bai is the top student in the whole grade, with a huge gap between them. Of course, he can't compare to him.

Even my eldest brother Ji Changyu was top of his grade in high school. If he had been unable to take the college entrance examination at that time, his grades would have been enough to get him into Peking University or Tsinghua University.

Ji Yanyu was silent again.

Xu Yao smiled. "Don't you always say that you should find a partner based on your father and your elder brother's standards? I haven't met my father-in-law, but I think he must be an extremely outstanding person."

"Compared to them, what advantages or potential does your current partner have? Since he has nothing, why do you want to waste your precious youth on such a person?"

The question hit home, and Ji Yanyu's silence was deafening.

"I'm sorry, I know I was wrong. I will reject him when I go to school tomorrow."

She apologized promptly. After all, she was a girl who grew up in an environment of love. After she figured it out, she didn't feel awkward anymore. She quickly acted coquettishly, saying that her back hurt and asked Ji's mother to rub it for her.

While rubbing Xu Yao's back, Ji's mother secretly gave her a thumbs up. The latter shrugged and took the little boy back to the house.

The Dragon Boat Festival happens to be on Monday, which makes for a two-day holiday along with Sunday.

Those working in the office have holidays, but front-line workers do not have holidays at this time. However, all employees are given four salted duck eggs and two rice dumplings.

In addition to the welfare benefits provided by the factory, the street office also distributed rice dumplings and pastry coupons to city residents.

It’s not free, but the price is much cheaper than buying it at the supply and marketing cooperative.

Early in the morning on Sunday, Ji's mother and a few aunts went to the street office to get eight rice dumplings and two pounds of mung bean cakes, and another one with two pounds of fat and lean pork belly.

Ji Changyu is in another street office so his share is not counted, and Xu Jiaan is too young to have his share.

These eight rice dumplings and two kilograms of mung bean cakes are the share of Ji's mother, Xu Yao, Ji Bai and Ji Yanyu.

"Take all the money your company gave you back to your mother's house. They can't get the rice dumplings and green bean cakes, so we'll keep half for ourselves and give the other half to them. I bought these two pounds of meat from someone else with a little extra money, and I can't buy more. See if you need anything else and I'll go get it ready."

Ji's mother divided half of the things she brought back, repacked them, looked up and asked Xu Yao.

Ji Yanyu, who was sitting and eating breakfast, raised her eyes slowly.

Didn't say anything.

Since the new sister-in-law came in, the food at home has improved a lot. We have meat every few days. All the meat is brought back by my sister-in-law from her parents' home.

Xu Yao took out the salted eggs and rice dumplings distributed by the winery from the package and said, "There is no shortage of eggs in the countryside. These are enough."

Seeing that Ji's mother was about to pretend again, she quickly said that her father had a city hukou and their unit was going to distribute something. Ji's mother looked a little dazed.

She almost forgot about her father-in-law.

Before taking Xu Jiaan back to her mother's home, Xu Yao gave Ji's mother thirty yuan as living expenses for the two of them this quarter.

The latter refused to accept it, but was later persuaded by Xu Yao to accept it.

Ten dollars was not a small sum in those days, and Ji's mother was unwilling to accept any more.

Because Xu Jiaan had to go to the Children's Palace for classes, Xu Yao asked Ji's mother to take him there and did not take Xu Jiaan back to her parents' home.

Liu Mei, who was sitting at the door looking forward to it, saw Xu Yao early and a big smile immediately broke out on her face.

He glanced back and was stunned when he didn't see his grandson.

"Why didn't you bring An An here?"

"He's taking classes at the Children's Palace, learning car models. I'll bring him over next week to play with them."

Liu Mei no longer felt regretful. Studying was more important, so she called Xu Gang out into the room.

"I made a bet with your brother yesterday. Since you have a day off tomorrow, you must come today. I plucked the chickens and put them in the water."

Hearing their conversation, Xu Gang rubbed his face, feeling that it wasn't so bad anymore, and went out to greet them.

Xu Weidong thought about it, then followed him out with his hands behind his back.

"Brother."

When Xu Yao saw the man, she greeted him with a smile, and then handed the thing in her hand to Xu Gang.

Ignoring someone's coughing as if he had tuberculosis, he walked straight into the house.

"Xu Yao! Why didn't you open your mouth? You didn't even call for help when you saw me?" Xu Weidong couldn't help but get angry.

What terrible things they were, each one made him angrier than the last.

"Oh, Dad." Xu Yao tilted her head with a fake smile.

He got what he wanted, but the lukewarm attitude made Xu Weidong even more upset.

Seeing that he was upset, Xu Yao felt relieved.

He turned around and started chatting with Liu Mei and Xu Gang.

Xu Gang had already confessed to his family about Yu Qiuhe's matter. When he heard Xu Yao asking about their progress, Xu Gang said.

"I was just about to tell you. Qiu He's mother is sick, and she wants to go home to visit her family. She asked me to lend her money for her mother's medical treatment, but I don't know how much money to lend her."

Xu Yao frowned, "How much did she ask you for?"

It's not that she was overthinking it. Why would a girl who had been single for several years and finally had the policy relaxed and had the hope of returning to the city look for a country man at this critical juncture?

If she didn't want to go back to the city, why didn't she marry a local earlier? At least there would be someone to share the heavy farm work with her.

The key point is that Xu Gang has dark skin and is not handsome enough to make people fall in love at first sight and give up their firm ideals.

"She didn't say it directly, but she said her mother was very ill and her family was in financial difficulty. When she was a child, her father fell from the upstairs and died, and her grandmother and uncles robbed them of their property. Anyway, it was very tragic."

Liu Mei sighed and said, "Qiu He's mother is your future mother-in-law, we should help her if we can, and give her less betrothal gifts when the time comes."

"Don't rush to borrow money." Xu Yao said without thinking, "Let's not talk about far away places. In our village, there is a female educated youth who abandoned her husband and child and returned to the city? The mother-child relationship is not strong. Besides, Yu Qiuhe and Big Brother haven't even got their marriage certificate. Do you know where her hometown is?"

It is unrealistic to ask Xu Gang not to lend money to Yu Qiuhe.

What if Yu Qiuhe is a good person and she has wronged him, wouldn’t that break up Xu Gang’s marriage?

Xu Gang shook his head, looking conflicted.

He obviously wanted to borrow money, but was afraid that his hard-earned money would be taken away by her, just like Xu Yao said.

Xu Yao smiled.

"When she goes back to visit her family, she needs to ask the brigade to issue a note with her hometown address on it. You can write it down. If she lives nearby, you can borrow more and ask her to write an IOU. If she lives far away, you don't need to write an IOU. Just borrow about ten or twenty yuan."

To put it bluntly, serious illnesses cannot be cured, but minor illnesses don’t cost much. ”