On the other side, Zhang Caixia was sitting in the yard picking vegetables. She was unhappy to see that their family was getting better and better. When she saw Li Dagang going out to work, she said, "Dagang, Mom has picked a good date for you. You're getting married next month!"

Li Dagang: "Whatever you want!" He said and left with his back.

Zhang Caixia pointed at her son's back and yelled at her husband: "Li Pingshu, look at your son's attitude towards me now. Does he really regard me as his mother?"

Li Pingshu put his bicycle at the door and went in without saying anything. Zhang Caixia was really annoyed to see that her husband and son both had such tempers: "I think both of you have been seduced by that woman. You only think about her!"

"Can't you talk less? You talk every day!" Li Pingshu, who has a good temper, was annoyed by what he said.

"I'll tell you what I'll tell you!"

Zhang Caixia felt that she really couldn't stand staying at home any longer and was so angry that she went to work at the supply and marketing cooperative. As a result, everyone in the supply and marketing cooperative was discussing Yan Shuhua's affairs. When someone heard that Yan Shuhua's mother had fallen in love with Li Dagang in the past, they kept criticizing Zhang Caixia for not knowing how to judge people.

"Don't you know how to judge people? That Yan Shuhua in their family looks like a vixen. What will happen if our Dagang marries her? If you like her, let your son marry her, but don't involve my Dagang!" Zhang Caixia snorted and said with an arrogant attitude. Her colleagues who worked with her didn't want to pay any attention to her.

When Shen Hongmei came to buy groceries this time, everyone said to her cheerfully: "Hey, Hongmei, you finally got out of the house. We haven't seen you out buying groceries for a long time."

"I'm here to buy meat today." In the past, Shen Hongmei always watched Zhang Caixia buy meat, but now the situation has really changed. As soon as Shen Hongmei stood next to the meat stall, Zhang Caixia's eyes were about to burst into flames.

"How much are you weighing today?" the salesperson asked her. Shen Hongmei wanted to take a half-pound meat ticket, but after thinking for a while, she took out two more and handed them over, "One pound!"

"Hey, Hongmei, is there money at home?"

"My Shuhua has people visiting her every day, and she also sells herbs and other things."

"You are so lucky." The salesperson came over and said, "Hongmei, I'll cut some more for you. Tomorrow I'll go to your house and ask Shuhua to prescribe some herbs for me. My waist hurts when the weather is cold. Can you ask her to take a look at it?"

"It's done, it's done."

Shen Hongmei used the skin care products that Yan Shuhua prepared himself. Her skin was already very good. Now she was wearing new clothes. She looked like a completely different person. Everyone praised her: "Hongmei, this person seems to be getting older as he grows older. Why do you seem to be getting younger as you grow older?"

"Hard days are over, good days are here, isn't this person getting younger and younger?" Shen Hongmei walked to Zhang Caixia's vegetable shop carrying a pound of meat tied with straw. Seeing that the vegetables were quite fresh, she grabbed a handful and asked, "Caixia, how much do you sell these vegetables for?"

"I won't sell them to you." Zhang Caixia didn't even look at her and moved all the vegetables to her side. Shen Hongmei muttered, "If I remember correctly, these vegetables are not yours. You are not a salaried person. What are you capable of? You said you wouldn't sell them to me."

"Yes, I get paid for this job. I work in a state-owned enterprise, and I've been converted to a regular employee. In the future, I can pass this job on to my daughter-in-law." Zhang Caixia has a stable job.

"What a good mother-in-law, she found such a good job for your daughter-in-law so quickly." Zhang Caixia said, "Look, there are so many people buying vegetables at other stalls, but no one is selling here. Have you ever thought about why?"

Zhang Caixia ignored her.

"If you change your temper, people will come to buy groceries for you, right? Why do you have to be so mean to others? Is that interesting?"

Zhang Caixia was so angry that she dropped the things in her hands on the stall, pointed at her and cursed: "Shen Hongmei, you see that your Yan Shuhua is selling herbs very well, so you come here to criticize me, right? Who do you think you are?"

"Caixia, you said we were both from the same street and I came to buy something from you, and you still blamed me."

"I won't sell you!"

Shen Hongmei flipped through the vegetables again and saw a lot of rotten leaves. She threw them back and snorted, "They are all rotten. If you don't sell them to me, I won't buy them!"

Zhang Caixia came out from behind the stall and stopped her: "You picked all my vegetables and ruined them. Pay for it!"

Shen Hongmei continued to hum, "Which eye of yours saw that I spoiled your vegetables? I'm not nosy enough to pick your vegetables. Besides, they were already rotten, and you still have the nerve to say that I spoiled them."

"No, if you pick the bad ones, you have to buy them!" Zhang Caixia insisted, "If you don't buy them, I won't let you go back today."

"Oh, I won't buy it."

"You...Shen Hongmei!" Zhang Caixia raised her hand and slapped her. Shen Hongmei was beaten badly. No one had ever dared to slap her in her life, but this woman slapped her so hard without saying a word. Could she even swallow this?

Don't even think about it! So she stood up without saying anything and beat her up. The two of them started fighting right inside the supply and marketing cooperative.

"Stop fighting, stop fighting!"

The colleagues at the supply and marketing cooperative really couldn’t stop them no matter how hard they tried. Finally, the store manager came and yelled, “What are you doing! This is for other people to buy things, not for you two to fight.”

The store manager wore a blue apron and gray clothes. He was fat and round, had short hair, and looked very energetic. He was in his fifties but didn't look old.

Zhang Caixia's arrogance immediately subsided when she saw the store manager coming: "Manager, I..."

"Comrade Zhang Caixia! You are an old comrade. Have you forgotten the slogan of our supply and marketing cooperative? How can you conflict with customers?"

Without waiting for Zhang Caixia to explain, Shen Hongmei quickly interrupted: "Manager, she had a lot of vegetables on the table, and then I thought those vegetables were rotten, so I didn't want them anymore, but she insisted that I was the one who rotted those vegetables. She is simply slandering me. Why don't you go and see for yourself."