Chapter 304 Can You Lend Me Fifty Yuan?
Yu Hui took the 120-yuan wool coat in such a domineering manner.
Gu Huai held his daughter in one hand and held his new clothes in the other, feeling warm in his heart.
Then Yu Hui went to buy more than ten boxes of vanishing cream and a few packs of cigarettes, all of which she wanted to take back home.
The vanishing cream was for my sister-in-law and Gu Qiuyu and the others, and the cigarettes were for my brother Gu Huai and the others.
The felt hat looked quite warm, so I bought one for Gu Binbin and Gu Yang.
I bought a red butterfly plastic hairpin for Gu Qiuyue, Gu Qiuyu and Gu Qiuye.
I didn’t buy sugar and biscuits for now. I’ll buy them next time I go into town. Biscuits will get damp if they are kept for a long time.
I waited in line for a long time in front of the cloth stall before I bought the cloth I wanted.
While queuing up to buy cloth, Gu Hongmei also queued up to buy cotton.
After buying things and coming out of the state-owned store, I put the things in the car first.
"Brother-in-law..."
Gu Huai was putting things into the trunk when he heard a familiar voice.
When he turned his head, he saw his former brother-in-law Lin Zhongbao.
Lin Zhongbao was unsure at first, but when he saw the person who turned around was really his brother-in-law, he laughed and said, "Brother-in-law, it really is you."
The three Gu Dong brothers wrinkled their noses when they saw their uncle Lin Zhongbao. They disliked their uncle the most because he always liked to tease them, making them cry and then calling them stingy.
"Is there something wrong?" Gu Huai asked in a cold voice.
Lin Zhongbao glanced at the almost full trunk and said, "Brother-in-law, are you guys out shopping for New Year's goods?"
You buy so much. You must be rich if you get promoted.
"He is..." Gu Hongmei asked Yu Hui in a low voice.
Yu Hui: "Well, probably your ex-sister-in-law's younger brother."
The only person who can call Gu Huai brother-in-law is his ex-wife's younger brother.
Gu Hongmei frowned, "Why do you look so scoundrel-like and don't look like a good person?"
Yu Hui looked at Lin Zhongbao carefully. He had triangular eyes, a pointed chin and monkey-like face. He definitely didn't look like a good person.
Lin Siyu is a beauty. They are from the same mother, so why is there such a big difference between them?
Gu Huai didn't say anything. Lin Zhongbao felt a little embarrassed after being left out. He coughed twice to ease the awkwardness. He looked at Yu Hui and Gu Hongmei standing by the car, then looked at Gu Hongmei and said, "Brother-in-law, this is the new sister-in-law, right?"
Gu Hongmei's eyes widened and she quickly waved her hands, "I'm not, I'm his biological sister."
Lin Zhongbao was embarrassed again, "It turns out to be my sister, hello sister."
Gu Hongmei took a step back and thought: "I'm not your sister, whose sister should I be friends with? Who knows who's younger?"
"This is my new sister-in-law. She looks so young and beautiful." Lin Zhongbao looked at the young girl with fair skin, bright eyes and white teeth. She was completely different from the country girl her mother had described.
Gu Huai is so lucky that he can find such a young and beautiful wife after divorcing his sister.
Yu Hui's eyes twitched. He called Gu Huai brother-in-law and also called himself sister-in-law. This way of addressing him was really novel.
"What do you want?" Gu Huai asked, wanting to send the man away quickly.
Lin Zhongbao scratched his head and whispered, "Brother-in-law, can we talk for a moment?"
Gu Huai closed the trunk and walked a few steps forward, and Lin Zhongbao followed him.
"Speak." Gu Huai didn't want to say a single extra word to the people from the Lin family.
"Brother-in-law, our factory has not been doing well these past few months. We haven't received last month's salary yet, and they said this month's salary won't be paid until the new year. The New Year is almost here, and we need to buy New Year's goods and visit relatives and friends, so we can't be without money."
"Look, can you lend me fifty dollars? I'll pay you back when I get my salary." Lin Zhongbao promised.
Gu Huai stared at Lin Zhongbao for a few seconds, then shook his head and said, "I don't have any money. My salary is in my wife's hands."
Lin Zhongbao: "Then see if you can get fifty dollars from your sister-in-law to lend me."
"No." Gu Huai refused coldly.
Lin Zhongbao held his head in distress and said, "Brother-in-law, I beg you, please lend me at least fifty yuan, otherwise our family will really have no money for the New Year."
"During the years that your mother helped take care of the children at my house, I gave her thirty yuan every month, not counting living expenses. Your family won't be short of fifty yuan for the New Year's money."
Gu Huai was certain that Lin Zhongbao did not come to him to borrow money because he was short of money for the New Year. As for why he wanted to borrow money from him, Gu Huai did not know and did not want to know.
"I am in need of it. Brother-in-law, please help me out for the sake of our past friendship." He really needed the fifty yuan. If he couldn't pay it back, he wouldn't be able to celebrate the New Year.
Gu Huai looked at him coldly and said, "I don't remember any affection between us. All I remember is that you all were lying on me and sucking my blood."
After saying that, Gu Huai turned and left.
Lin Zhongbao shouted from behind, but he didn't turn around.
Lin Zhongbao stood there for about a minute, stomped his feet, turned around and left.
"What did he say to you?" Yu Hui asked Gu Huai curiously.
Gu Huai locked the car door and said, "I didn't agree to borrow money."
"Oh." Yu Hui nodded.
The Lin family still has the nerve to ask Gu Huai to borrow money. They are so shameless.
When it was time for dinner, the family went straight to the state-owned restaurant.
When Chef Zhu saw Yu Hui coming, he took out the newspaper she had appeared in and pointed at the person on it, asking if it was her.
After getting a positive answer, he also said that he would go to the noodle shop she opened to eat noodles in the future. Yu Hui asked him to go after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
After lunch, the family took a car back home.
Yu Hui and Gu Hongmei spent two days making cotton-padded clothes for the three elderly people.
After more than a month of treatment, Bao Pandi's feet can finally touch the ground, but he still needs to use a cane to walk, and his feet still hurt after walking for a long time.
On January 24th, Gu Dong and his classmates had their final exams. Yu Hui fried dough sticks for him and boiled two eggs. She then arranged them in the shape of 100 on a plate before letting him eat.
After eating fried dough sticks and eggs, Gu Dong walked into the examination room with full confidence.
Two days later, I returned home with full marks in math and 89 in Chinese, feeling very proud.
"I'm third in the class." Gu Dong said proudly with a pout.
His progress was so great that the teacher praised him and rewarded him with a pencil, encouraging his classmates to learn from him.
Yu Hui looked at Gu Dong's report card and pinched his chubby little face. "Great! Tell me, what reward do you want?"
Gu Dong thought about it carefully and said, "I want to eat goose stewed in an iron pot."
Yu Hui: "Okay, let's have goose stewed in an iron pot tomorrow."
"Yu, Li, Xin!" Qian Lan's angry voice came from next door.
Gu Xixi tilted her head and asked, "Did Brother Lixin not do well in the exam again?"
Every time Brother Lixin didn’t do well in the exam, Aunt Qian would yell at him like this.
Gu Dong nodded, "Math 58, Chinese 57."
Not only did I fail the exam again, I even regressed.
Gu Nan and Gu Xixi silently prayed for Yu Lixin in their hearts, hoping that he would not be beaten too badly.
When Qian Lan yelled, Yu Lixin ran out of the house like a flash of lightning.
Qian Lan picked up a broom and was about to chase him, but Bao Pandi stopped her, "What are you doing? You want to hit or kill me just because I didn't do well on the test."
"He didn't just fail the exam, his grades have dropped again! If we don't keep a tight rein on him, who knows how badly his grades will get." Qian Lan was really angry.
Bao Pandi: "Li Xin is not good at studying, don't blame him."
"Who else can I blame if not him?" Qian Lan asked.
"It's your fault." Bao Pandi pointed at her.
"Blame me?" Qian Lan raised her voice a few notches because she was too speechless.
"If not you, who else can I blame?" Bao Pandi glared at her and said, "Lixin's poor academic performance is due to you, his mother. Look at Jianshe, he takes after Yu Qiang. He's been smart since he was young and has good grades."
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