Chapter 2 Save 100 Yuan for Tian Jing
Chen Yin was not willing to argue with Gu Yuehuai in the first place. When she heard her asking for such a high price, she widened her eyes and shouted in a high voice: "What? Ten dollars? Why don't you just go and rob it!"
Everyone around also gasped, and Huang Fengying secretly smacked her lips in amazement.
In 1972, the average annual income of their Dalaozi Production Brigade was less than 40 yuan. They were not city dwellers who ate commercial grain, and they could not earn many work points or a few kilograms of wheat after working hard all year round.
Ten yuan, not many families in the Dalaozi Production Brigade could afford it.
Gu Yuehuai glanced at Chen Yin obscurely and said word by word: "I said ten dollars is already too little. Not to mention the medical expenses, look at my head, I need at least three stitches!"
"Three needles and my face will be disfigured. How can I get married?"
She paused, then smiled: "How about this, you ask your brother to marry me, and I won't have to worry about my face getting disfigured when I find a husband, and I can forget about the ten dollars!"
Chen Yin's expression suddenly changed. She looked at Gu Yuehuai with disgust and spat fiercely: "Pooh!"
"Gu Yuehuai, I thought you were greedy for money, but it turns out you were planning this! And you have a disfigured face. With your face, you can't get married even if you didn't have a disfigured face. Which young man in our team doesn't avoid you?"
"Okay! Ten dollars, right? I'll give you ten dollars, and from now on you'll just get out of here, don't come to my house again, and don't even think about pestering my brother anymore!"
After saying this, Chen Yin turned around angrily.
Gu Yuehuai looked at her back and said quietly, "Don't forget three pounds of wheat flour and a bar of soap."
Chen Yin staggered, turned her head and glared at Gu Yuehuai. She felt sick and went back to the house. With trembling hands, she opened the small box where her brother hid his money and counted out ten yuan from it, both in small amounts and in whole amounts.
After a while, Chen Yin came out of the house, walking with a breeze.
She looked at Gu Yuehuai with disgust, then raised her chin high and threw a handful of change in her hand at Gu Yuehuai, which then fluttered down to the ground.
When the surrounding brigade members saw Chen Yin take out ten yuan, their eyes were filled with envy. They were indeed a model worker family in their Dalaozi Production Brigade, with four members of the family working and two of them were production team leaders.
Chen Yin said happily, "You don't want money? You shameless bastard! You are only fit to kneel down and pick up money!"
As she spoke, she threw a small cloth bag in her hand heavily to the ground. The bag was not tied tightly, and the not-particularly-white wheat flour inside was scattered all over the ground, which made the surrounding villagers feel heartbroken.
This is fine grain!
Chen Yin chuckled, put her hands on her hips and said, "You all eat white rice anyway, so it doesn't matter how you eat it."
"I've returned your things and given you the money. Don't come to my house again! If you want to be my sister-in-law, wait until your next life!"
Gu Yuehuai's eyelashes trembled, and frost froze in his eyes.
Her mind was a little confused, as if she had returned to her previous life.
"Gu Yuehuai, you are an ugly bastard! A toad wants to eat swan meat!"
"Don't dream too much. Find someone to marry while you're still young, otherwise how will you get married when you're old and still so ugly? Don't rely on my brother again."
"I'm telling you, my brother already has someone he likes. Do you know who he likes? Haha, your neighbor, Tian Jing! He's already saving up for a betrothal gift, just like the people in the city, saving up a hundred yuan for Sister Tian Jing! And there are four big items!"
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It was the same situation, but her state of mind was different from her previous life.
On this day in her previous life, she came to Chen Yin as usual, working like a slave for her, just asking her to say a few good words for her so that Chen Yuesheng would see her feelings and marry her.
But what she didn't expect was that Chen Yin, who had always treated her with contempt but never said anything harsh to her, suddenly turned hostile for some reason and insulted her in every way she could, even pushing her down and breaking her head.
She didn't pay attention to her injuries and returned home in a daze. She didn't receive timely treatment and bandage, which resulted in disfigurement.
Later she realized that it was Chen Yuesheng who asked her to do this. She didn't care about it before and just thought it was unnecessary, but she suddenly cared about it because he had a woman he wanted to marry and she was afraid that she would ruin his reputation and cause Tian Jing to misunderstand her.
Tian Jing...
Thinking of this person, the hatred in Gu Yuehuai's eyes almost solidified into substance.
She closed her eyes, hiding the expression in them, and when she opened them again, she was calm.
Gu Yuehuai raised his eyes to stare at the smug Chen Yin, raised his hand to point at the wheat noodles on the ground and said, "Director Huang, Chen Yin is wasting food. I guess her family has too much food. I ask the team to stop giving her family food and save it to distribute to other members!"
In the 1970s, no one in the countryside had enough to eat, so anything food was extremely precious and could not be wasted.
Hearing this, Chen Yin shuddered and was horrified.
She straightened her back and said hurriedly, "Aunt! It's obvious that Gu Yuehuai didn't hold the grain bag securely. What does it have to do with me? She is slandering people with empty words! Aunt, fellow villagers, you can't listen to her nonsense!"
"The public has sharp eyes. Whether I didn't hold it firmly or you threw it on purpose, everyone saw it. Just because I have a bad reputation, will the kind and honest public side with you?"
"No! Not at all. The masses seek truth from facts and have a high level of consciousness. Can they be the same as you?"
Gu Yuehuai seriously praised the people around her, and as she spoke, the villagers all puffed out their chests and agreed with her.
"That's right! It was clearly Chen Yin who threw away the grain bag, and she even framed Gu Yuehuai and had him arrested!"
"We must report this to the Party Secretary. Our team cannot encourage this trend of wasting food!"
"Director Huang, please tell me clearly, should Chen Yin be taken to the brigade for education?!"
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The crowd was very excited, as if if they didn't take Chen Yin away for education, they would not be able to demonstrate their understanding and high level of consciousness.
Chen Yin was so frightened that her legs went limp. She felt ashamed and angry, and tears welled up in her eyes.
How could she have imagined that she just wanted to humiliate Gu Yuehuai and asked her to pick up the wheat flour bit by bit, but with just a few words, she turned the situation around and ended up humiliating herself.
What's wrong with you guys?
This is Gu Yuehuai! The daughter of the Gu family, the worst-known family in the Dalaozi Production Brigade!
Why did they help Gu Yuehuai and not her?
Gu Yuehuai only took one look at Chen Yin and knew what she was thinking.
It is now 1972. Although Dalaozi Village is not a remote mountain village, it is also short of supplies, has barren land, a sparse population, and difficult conditions. The villagers often cannot even fill their stomachs, so they hope to exchange their good reputation for some food.
In this day and age, many people are willing to sacrifice their own relatives for the sake of having enough food to eat.
What's more, nowadays' masses are extremely inflated both in thought and action. Sometimes, reciting a few propaganda slogans or doing something to help others can make people feel satisfied from the bottom of their hearts.
No matter what her reputation was in the past, at least now, at this moment, she is the weak but reasonable party!
Gu Yuehuai pulled the corners of his lips and smiled: "The villagers are all good comrades with high awareness!"
Huang Fengying saw that Yue Huai was clear and logical, and his words were pleasant to the ears, so the disgust in her heart couldn't help but ease a little.
When I looked at her again, her obese body and dark skin were not as disgusting as before. Instead, her words and actions revealed a kind of magnanimity and uprightness, which surprised people.
Huang Fengying raised her arm and shouted, "Take Chen Yin to the brigade!"
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