Kong Wanwan's confinement lasted from December to January of the following year, which was considered a confinement period that spanned the entire New Year.
However, during this period of confinement, her liver was damaged and she was angry every day. She quarreled with Du Wenli constantly, and her temper became even more irritable and bad.
Sometimes when Fan Huifang and Ke Xiaoli were free, they wanted to go next door to play with her daughter, but when they walked to her door, they heard quarreling coming from her house.
Both of them were immediately discouraged and didn't want to go in anymore.
Early the next morning in 1973, Du Wenli was scolded by Kong Wanwan and ran to Shen Xiaobei to borrow a hen.
Because Kong Wanwan had very little milk, not enough for her baby, she wanted to kill a hen to supplement her milk.
"Xiaobei, just borrow one! You already have six hens, so one less shouldn't be a big deal!"
"Oh, you say it so lightly!"
"A hen lays one egg a day, which means 365 eggs a year. And you're saying it's okay to raise one less? These hens are my little treasury. If I don't lend them to you, go borrow from someone else!"
"Xiaobei, if you won't lend it to us, how can others possibly lend it to us? You know Kong Wanwan has never been very popular in the team!"
"Please lend me one if I owe you a favor. Otherwise, Niuniu won't have enough milk to drink every day and will cry all night long. It really makes me sad!"
Du Wenli gave his daughter a nickname, Niuniu.
Thinking of this little girl who would never be reincarnated and whom he delivered with his own hands, Shen Xiaobei still couldn't be cold-blooded after all.
Her expression relaxed a little.
But he still said coldly: "Okay, then for the sake of poor Niuniu, I'll sell you one! Lending it? That's impossible. I've never heard of anyone borrowing a live chicken from anyone!"
"Sell? But we don't have much money right now. You know the food we distributed last time was so little that it wouldn't be enough for Wanwan and I to eat next year."
"Whether you adults have enough food to eat is your own business. Don't tell me about it!"
"Anyway, you can either pay for it or exchange it for food. It's up to you! I'm not running a charity. Even if I were, I wouldn't do it to people I don't like!"
"Besides, when I delivered Kong Wanwan last time, I didn't even ask you for the delivery fee. I was already very generous to you! Don't even think about pushing your luck and touching my hens!"
"Okay, since you've said that, I'll bring some food over and trade it with you!"
Seeing Shen Xiaobei's firm attitude, Du Wenli knew it would be difficult to persuade her, so he gritted his teeth and had to turn around and go back to get the rice.
Shen Xiaobei charged the usual market price, not more, but not less either.
He first weighed the hen and converted it into money, then weighed the rice that Du Wenli brought. Only after he had weighed enough weight did he give him the hen.
Du Wenli felt really painful when he had to exchange a hen for so much white rice.
Holding the hen, he looked as if his family had just suffered a disaster. His brows were tightly furrowed and he turned back with a sad and depressed look on his face.
One morning a few days later, Shen Xiaobei came back from his stall at the commune and received two letters at Ye Zhicheng's agency store.
The letter was naturally sent by Duan Xichuan.
As for the other letter, judging from the mailing address, it was actually sent by the original owner's father.
Shen Xiaobei hurriedly opened and read the letter sent by the original owner's father.
The original owner's father only wrote a few words in the letter, asking her why she didn't write a letter home for more than half a year, and asked him, as a father, to take the initiative to write to her and ask her, implying that the original owner was unfilial.
Then I asked her if she would come back for the New Year.
And then, it was gone.
After reading this short letter, Shen Xiaobei smiled lightly.
From the memories she received, the original owner's father actually loved her in his heart, but he was not good at expressing his feelings for her.
The original owner was also not a very expressive person, so the relationship between father and daughter seemed rather distant.
In addition, the stepmother gave birth to two more children and didn't like the original owner very much. She was always lukewarm towards her, which caused the father's love for the original owner to be somewhat affected.
However, the fact that the father wrote this letter to ask the original owner shows that he still cares about his daughter.
It’s just that the tone of this letter is a bit stiff and unpleasant.
After reading the letter, Shen Xiaobei planned to write back to the original owner's father tomorrow.
She told him that the production team had been very busy for the past six months and had only recently had some free time. She had been planning to write to him in the next few days.
Then, she told him that she didn't want to go back home for the New Year this year, so as to save some travel expenses and go back next year.
Shen Xiaobei was not mentally prepared to get along with the original owner's family. It was not that she was afraid of being exposed, but she was worried that her family would wonder why her temperament was so different from before?
This is easy for her to explain.
It's impossible for a city girl to live in an unfamiliar rural area for more than a year, learn how to grow crops, and change her temperament.
She thought that even if she had to deal with the original owner's family in the future, she hoped that it would be when she was better and stronger in all aspects.
When she met them at that time, she should have been more relaxed and at ease, and the original owner's family should have spontaneously shown her some respect.
Instead of having to spend too much time dealing with them, or openly competing with them, you have to win their superficial respect.
She doesn't care about this kind of superficial, hypocritical, forced respect from them.
So the idea of going back to the original owner's house to take a look was put on hold for now, and Shen Xiaobei wanted to make plans later.
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