"Are you still trying to quibble? These vegetable leaves look like they were left over from last night, but you insist on saying they belonged to someone else. And you're still making up stories like this!" The store manager had long wanted to find and talk about this Zhang Caixia, as it was always her stall that had problems.

"Manager, you can't speak for an outsider." Zhang Caixia usually has a good relationship with the manager, so how come they suddenly have a falling out?

"Who am I speaking for? I always speak for reason. Do you think what I said is wrong?" The store manager glanced at Shen Hongmei, who was beaten and covered in mud. She wanted to say something to Shen Hongmei, but then she remembered that she didn't work under her after all, and she was a member of the people. She couldn't say anything and could only tell her to leave quickly.

Shen Hongmei really refused to give in this time. She just didn't want to leave no matter what. "Manager, look, she beat me up like this for no reason. You can't just let me leave like that. Doesn't she have to compensate me for something?"

Zhang Caixia was still angry at this time. When she heard the word "compensation", she suddenly jumped out and bared her teeth: "You are still thinking that I will compensate you, you are dreaming."

This time, the store manager saw Zhang Caixia's true face: "Look at you, you can be so fierce in front of me, if you are in front of others, you will be even more fierce. Now I finally know why you can't sell anything every time. It's because of you being like this. You don't treat customers as guests at all."

"Manager..." Zhang Caixia was at a loss for words. "Manager, don't believe her. You said this woman..."

"I have reported this matter to my superiors. If there is any responsibility, you have to bear it yourself!" The store manager said this directly.

When Zhang Caixia heard the manager's words, she felt as if she was going to be fired. How could she not have this job? She only worked eight hours a day and could get a salary of about 40 yuan a month, which was a really good job for many people! But today, because of Shen Hongmei's constant trouble, she was about to lose her job.

Zhang Caixia immediately bowed her head and admitted her mistake: "Manager, you can't do this. I have worked in our supply and marketing cooperative for more than ten years. You say..."

"You know you've been doing this for more than ten years!"

Shen Hongmei saw Zhang Caixia being called in and scolded by the store manager. Seeing her begging for mercy in front of the store manager, she snorted and turned away.

Shen Hongmei went back, and she had been cursing Zhang Caixia all the way. But after she got home, she stopped cursing and held her waist, saying, "I can't do it anymore at my age. I feel sore all over my back just by walking all the way."

Yan Shuhua saw that she was covered in mud, and even the meat in her hands was dirty: "Mom, what's wrong with you? Who bullied you?"

"You said that now that I'm working at the supply and marketing cooperative, who can bully me?" Zhang Caixia poured herself a glass of water and drank it up in one gulp.

Yan Shuhua: "Could it be Zhang Caixia again?"

"Who else besides her?"

Yan Shuhua really couldn't bear to see her mother being bullied like this, so she immediately rolled up her sleeves and said she was going to avenge her mother.

"Oh, don't go." Shen Hongmei didn't want Yan Shuhua to cause trouble again. Yan Shuhua was unhappy, "Mom, look at how she bullied you. Why shouldn't I go? Am I going to watch my own mother being bullied to the point where she dares not raise her head?"

Shen Hongmei was very happy that Yan Shuhua argued for her like this. She felt that she had raised this good daughter in vain. She said, "Oh, it's okay. Zhang Caixia might lose her job."

"No job?"

"Yeah, it's probably really gone." Shen Hongmei thought that the store manager also disliked Zhang Caixia.

Yan Shuhua was really silent. If Zhang Caixia really didn't have a job, it would be a huge loss. After all, it was a state-owned job, and she got a high salary every month without being too tired.

"I just argued with her today, and she suddenly rushed up to me and beat me up. Then the store manager saw it, and he criticized her and said something. He probably wanted to fire her."

If Zhang Caixia was really fired from the supply and marketing cooperative, she would definitely hate their family to death.

"Mom, next time you go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy things, can you try not to buy things at her stall? Then this kind of thing won't happen?" Doesn't her mother understand that if you can't afford to provoke her, you can afford to avoid her.

"Well, I just wanted to buy something from her. I just picked up two leaves and she said something wrong. I picked up all her leaves and they were all broken. Isn't this ridiculous? I didn't provoke anyone."

Yan Shuhua thought it was useless to say more, as things had already happened, so he patted her and said, "Mom, go take a shower, it's dirty."

"Cook this piece of meat for Jinchu." Shen Hongmei was still thinking about the meat, Yan Shuhua took the meat away, "Jinchu needs to eat light food these two days, I will cook it for you."

"I'm fine. I'll wait until the New Year to eat it. You see, we'll have something to eat once we kill the pig at the end of the year. Let Jinchu nourish his body first. Isn't he getting ready to walk now? There won't be any bones when we go there today. I'll weigh some bones and meat and come back to make soup for him later." Shen Hongmei raised her hand and tapped her old waist as she spoke.

Xiao Jinchu came out with a cane. Shen Hongmei was about to go into the house when she saw him. She was very happy to see him like this: "Jinchu, you can stand up now."

"Yes." Xiao Jinchu took to heart what Shen Hongmei said just now. She left everything for him to eat and didn't ask him to do any work. She really treated him as her own son.

Shen Hongmei looked the tall and handsome boy up and down and was very pleased: "Seeing that you can recover so well, I am really happy for your mother."

As long as Yan Shuhua and Xiao Jinchu were together in the future, her life would not be lived in vain. What would a little suffering mean? How could one not suffer in this world?

When Xiao Jinchu saw Yan Shuhua, she was busy getting medicine for others during the day, and yet she still had to apply medicine and massage herself at night. He was afraid that she would be tired, so he asked her to stop doing it, but Yan Shuhua insisted. After all, he was almost well now, and all he needed was this finishing touch. He couldn't give up halfway and had to keep going.

The two people were finally getting ready to lie on the bed and chat, but who would have thought that they would have a restless night.