As soon as Yan Shuhua appeared in the supply and marketing cooperative, many people were looking at her. After all, her escape from Huang Dachuan's clutches had caused a sensation in the whole village. Most of those people looked at her with sarcasm and ridicule, and only a few showed sympathy.
Yan Shuhua and Shen Hongmei were orphans and widows, and there was no man to support them at home, so naturally there were many troubles. Even though Shen Hongmei was a strong-willed person, she was probably afraid of Huang Dachuan, so she just married her daughter to a paralyzed man.
Although the family was poor, Yan Shuhua was good-looking and could have been expected to marry a man who could support the family. But now she married a paralyzed man, how could the family survive?
So, some people said that Shen Hongmei's behavior in this matter was not well thought out, and that a good girl's future was ruined in this way.
Among those eyes looking at Yan Shuhua, there was a trace of Shen Mengmeng's. Her eyes were very complicated, but there was no sympathy.
Shen Mengmeng had two long braids, wore a plaid coat common in this era, a pair of white shoes, and carried rice and soy sauce in her hands. She was a little bit unbelievable when she saw the meat in Yan Shuhua's hand, and asked one more question: "Shuhua, where did you get the meat ticket?"
The person in front of him named Shen Mengmeng is the village chief's niece. After Yan Shuhua was reborn, it took him a long time to slowly sort out all these relationships. The village chief's son was so arrogant and domineering, so the village chief's niece would not be much better, after all, she has some Huang family blood.
Yan Shuhua was searching her memory, so she didn't answer Shen Mengmeng's question in time. The latter thought that she was guilty and said, "Shuhua, I heard that you are engaged to a paralytic. Are you just coveting the money from his family?"
Regardless of whether she searched her memory or not, the woman's words were full of sarcasm. Yan Shuhua was not a pushover. She raised her face and gave her a fake smile: "At least she still has some meat tickets at home for me to keep." While saying this, she proudly weighed the meat in her hand.
In that era of material scarcity, it was not easy to get a meat ticket.
Shen Mengmeng's mother had arranged a marriage for her some time ago, but the man was only good at earning work points, and only got seven points, so she was not very satisfied. Now seeing that Yan Shuhua had found a paralyzed man and even had a sex ticket, she felt even more unbalanced.
"Shuhua, which family are you looking for? This is not a sex ticket that ordinary people can get." Shen Mengmeng was sharp-eyed and saw that she had several sex tickets in her hand.
"Didn't you just say that you're paralyzed?" Yan Shuhua took out a few cloth coupons from his pocket while saying this, counting them with his saliva dripping from his mouth: "I was just thinking of buying some new clothes for my mother."
Having meat coupons was already a big deal, but there were even cloth coupons. Shen Mengmeng's smile froze instantly, but she had no idea what the background of the family she was looking for was, so she could only cater to them: "Shuhua, I'm just kidding you, are you angry?"
One second he was speaking in a sarcastic tone, and the next second he was holding her hands as if they were good sisters. As the saying goes, you shouldn't hit someone who smiles at you. Yan Shuhua also got warm with her: "No, am I such a stingy person?"
Yan Shuhua thought that there were patients at home. She had to go back to cook and continue to tinker with her rehabilitation equipment. Shen Mengmeng held her hand and didn't let her go.
"Shuhua, since you are engaged, you should not miss Dagang anymore, right?" Shen Mengmeng reminded him, but unexpectedly, Yan Shuhua just chuckled and said, "Don't worry, I am not interested in him."
Li Dagang is a strong man, a rare laborer in the village who can earn ten work points alone. Moreover, his father is a teacher and his mother is a salesperson in the supply and marketing cooperative. His conditions are quite good. Everyone in the village is vying to marry their daughters off. But Yan Shuhua actually said that she doesn't like him? Shen Mengmeng felt that Yan Shuhua was a bit arrogant. The two of them, mother and daughter, have been relying on the sympathy of others to survive for the past few years. Now, she keeps saying that she doesn't care about Li Dagang?
"Dagang is still thinking about you."
Seeing her calling him Dagang all the time, Yan Shuhua couldn't understand it and murmured, "Who is Dagang?" Then he finally found some memories of this man in his mind.
To put it bluntly, he was just an object of pursuit of Yan Shuhua in his previous life, but Li Dagang's family background was better than Yan Shuhua's. Not just better, but much better.
When Shen Mengmeng heard Yan Shuhua's words, "Who is Dagang?", her face suddenly turned cold, and the coldness in her eyes towards Yan Shuhua became even stronger... This woman is really shameless! Thinking that she must not let this proud Yan Shuhua go like this, Shen Mengmeng glanced at the sales counter of the supply and marketing cooperative, and happened to see a woman's figure, and a trace of evil suddenly flashed in her eyes.
Yan Shuhua naturally noticed the change in her expression, but he didn't want to care about her and just wanted to go back quickly.
Anyway, Yan Shuhua was used to seeing other people pointing fingers at her, so she didn't think it was a big deal. In any case, not long after arriving here, she had completely understood what it felt like to be coldly looked down upon and ridiculed by others, so she set a goal for herself in her mind, which was to make good money and let Shen Hongmei live a good life.
Yan Shuhua weighed the piece of meat and prepared to leave, but unexpectedly a middle-aged woman chased him out: "Yan Shuhua, wait a minute."
The middle-aged woman was wearing the clothes of a salesperson in a supply and marketing cooperative. She was holding a feather duster in her hand and her hair was pinned to the side with a hairpin. She spoke very loudly and with her sarcastic face, she did not look like a kind person.
Her name is Zhang Caixia. She is Li Dagang's mother and also a senior salesperson in the supply and marketing cooperative. In that era when earning work points did not guarantee enough food and clothing, being able to sit down and work for more than 20 yuan a month was equivalent to a white-collar worker in the 21st century.
Yan Shuhua stopped and turned around. Just as he was about to ask her, she spoke first: "What are you holding in your hand?"
"Meat." Is there something wrong with this lady's eyes? Can't she see such obvious meat?
"This is funny." Zhang Caixia put the feather duster aside and crossed her arms over her chest. "I remember your mother asked me to borrow food coupons last time. Now you have meat coupons. Tell me, where did you get that meat coupon?"
The menacing posture and aggressive tone made people feel uncomfortable. Yan Shuhua said casually, "From my fiancé's family."