"This is an important moment for my second brother, and you're only willing to give him twenty yuan?"
She slowly crumpled the twenty-yuan note into a ball in her palm.
Then he let go and unfolded it.
Su Qingzhi's gaze was cold.
"one hundred?"
He suddenly stood up.
"Do you think I'm a sucker?! It can't be that expensive! Twenty yuan is already a lot, more than enough to buy a decent set of fabric! Don't try to fool me!"
"One hundred? Do you think that's fabric made of gold?!"
The sound echoed in the room.
After she finished speaking in a fit of anger, she glared at Su Qingzhi for a long time without saying another word.
"Whether it's enough or not, Mom knows better than I do. Twenty is fine, I'll do it. Then the people of Qingshan Village will see how grand my brother's wedding will be!"
Su Qingzhi remained calm and composed.
"Then you'll just have to wait and see. Anyway, this is all you've given me, and this is all I can do."
She paused, then her tone suddenly became lighter.
She waved the banknotes in her hand, glanced calmly at the people opposite her, and then slowly turned and left the kitchen.
Standing there, motionless.
The only sound in the kitchen was the rustling of the wind through the wooden windows.
Her expression was somewhat blank; her lips moved, but she couldn't utter a sound.
"Did I lose too completely in that instant?"
The image of Shen Zhiyu wearing tattered clothes flashed through my mind.
The scene of standing beside Liu Yuelan during the wedding ceremony.
There were also the village chief and Chen Chunxiang's disdainful looks, and the rumors circulating in the village...
She was on the verge of a breakdown!
She held onto the stove with both hands, her forehead slightly sweaty.
"How could Zhang's mother be so stingy!" "The groom doesn't even have a decent outfit!" "She doesn't even care about the bride's dignity; is she deliberately trying to embarrass the groom?"
"Stop! Come back here!"
He chased after her angrily and finally caught up with Su Qingzhi.
She took a deep breath, frowned, and pulled out a stack of slightly curled banknotes from her pocket.
Her eyes welled up with tears from her heartache.
But he gritted his teeth and counted out the eighty-yuan bills one by one.
Her hands trembled slightly, and her eyes held a complex expression as she handed over the money.
"Here you go! That's a hundred dollars! You have to buy the most expensive one!"
She stared intently into Su Qingzhi's eyes.
"The materials must be the best! The styles must be the latest! If even a little bit is wasted..."
She couldn't continue, and stomped her foot in anger, her face turning red. "I...I'll beat you to death!"
Perhaps her movements were too large, or perhaps she was too anxious, causing her hand to tremble.
The banknotes were blown away by the wind and scattered on the ground, drifting everywhere.
However, Su Qingzhi did not bend down to pick it up.
Instead, she clutched her lower abdomen, frowned in pain, and said, "Mom, my stomach hurts, I can't bend over..."
"Don't let it get blown away by the wind."
In reality, she was overjoyed.
Since you want to make me run errands and also want to see me scrambling to pick up the money?
I'm so sorry, not a chance!
Of course, I understand why she did that!
But he couldn't really tear her apart right now, so he could only angrily frown, squat down, grit his teeth, and pick up the banknotes on the ground one by one that made his heart ache.
Finally, she stood up, stuffed the banknotes back into Su Qingzhi's hand, and urged her coldly, "Stop dawdling and hurry up!"
Unexpectedly, Su Qingzhi's stomach pain and leg soreness disappeared, and her complexion immediately relaxed.
She deftly stuffed the banknotes into her pocket, patted it, and said with a confident smile, "Don't worry, Mom, I'll definitely buy the best!"
After saying that, she turned around and strode towards the town.
But as soon as they stepped out of the village...
She quietly took a detour and went around to the edge of the mountain behind the village.
After finding a quiet corner, she looked around to make sure no one was watching, and then whispered a few words to herself.
The next moment, she opened her personal space.
A moment later, she found a set of clothes in a corner of a storeroom inside the space.
It was a navy blue suit.
The fabric of the clothes looks very sturdy.
Judging from the style, it resembles the kind of attire that was very popular among veteran cadres in the 1970s.
It looks almost brand new, with only slight wear and tear around the collar.
This is probably an old item that someone has treasured for many years.
Even by today's standards, this outfit would be worth no more than sixty or seventy yuan on the market.
Su Qingzhi neatly collected the clothes that had been drying into the basket, carefully folded them, and then put them into the room.
After finishing her chores, she took advantage of the early hour, picked up her small bamboo basket, and headed towards the mountains outside the village.
The mountain air is fresh, and birds are singing.
Su Qingzhi walked along the familiar path for a short while before finding several tender wild vegetables.
She took out a small knife from her bosom, deftly dug up the wild vegetables, cleaned them, and put them into a bamboo basket.
Looking at her harvest, a smile involuntarily crept onto her face as she began her journey home.
I sat in the yard early, picking vegetables, and looked up when I heard footsteps.
Seeing that it was Su Qingzhi who had returned, she immediately stood up, brushing the dirt off her apron as she urged, "Did you buy the clothes? Let me see them!"
"Mom, with me in charge, what are you worried about?"
Su Qingzhi smiled and responded with a hint of smugness, while taking out a neatly folded bundle of clothes from the bamboo basket.
She stuffed the clothes into her arms, her face full of confidence.
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