Chapter 6 Chapter 6 Oh my God, please strike down with thunder...
When Shen Shaoyuan stopped to talk, Shen Moer carried a thin bamboo basket to the front to get food.
Ding Shouchang was an experienced accountant and he could move the beads on the abacus very quickly. In a short while, he had not only calculated the grain for Shen Laoer's family, but also for Shen Laosan's and Shen Laoqi's families. He knew clearly what should be reduced and what should be supplemented.
Chen Moer took out a patched burlap bag from the bamboo basket. Seeing that she looked weak, Zhou Peijun helped her put the food into her bag.
A few pounds of rice were placed at the bottom, corn cobs that had just been dried a while ago were piled on top, and the remaining potatoes were placed directly in the bamboo basket.
The food may not seem like much, but if it's just for two people, it's actually quite a lot. If you calculate it per capita, it might be a little more than most families.
Looking at the bulging sack, Shen Moer smiled with satisfaction.
Such a small amount of food was naturally insignificant to her in the past. However, the situation was stronger than people now. Although their family still had a treasure house, it only stored some dry food, which would be eaten up soon. They dared not touch the things in the treasure house, and could not exchange them for food. Therefore, the father and daughter still had to rely on the brigade to distribute food for their future meals.
These grains are important wealth to their family.
You know what, this feeling is quite fresh.
Compared to Shen Moer's good mood, Cao Mei, who watched her own food go into other people's pockets, felt so distressed as if a piece of meat was cut from her body.
Shen Lingling and Shen Jianshe's faces were not looking good either. Shen Lingling glanced at Shen Moli and inexplicably felt that this cousin who had always been inconspicuous seemed to be a little different today.
However, Shen Lingling didn't care too much. She knew the personalities of Uncle Seventh and Shen Moli. Perhaps they were really desperate because of the food shortage at home, otherwise how would they dare to say anything?
"My mother didn't know the situation either. She didn't know your family was out of food." Shen Lingling suppressed her emotions and said in a gentle voice, "We are all family. If you have any difficulties, just come home and tell us. If there is anything, we can discuss it among our family and solve it. There is no need to make Brother Peijun and the others worry about it."
Things have come to this point, and the grain has been returned anyway, so Shen Lingling doesn't mind saying something nicer.
Sure enough, after hearing her words, Zhou Peijun, Ding Shouchang and others' expressions relaxed a lot.
Shen Lingling was feeling a little proud when the surroundings suddenly became quiet. Then she heard, "Shen Laoqi, what are you talking about? You, you, you, are you going to exchange the house back with your nephews?!"
What?!
Shen Lingling suspected that she was hallucinating, and turned her head in disbelief to look in the direction where Shen Shaoyuan was standing, muttering: "Second brother, did I hear it wrong?"
Shen Jianshe also looked confused: "Why did I hear that Uncle Qi wanted to move houses?"
Chen Moer moved the sacks and bamboo baskets to the side so as not to block the people behind. After she finished packing, she said, "You heard me right. My family is going to exchange the house with you. The house we live in now has a lot of broken tiles. It's okay on sunny days, but when it rains, the house is like a water curtain cave and it's completely uninhabitable. Cousin, didn't you just tell you that I'm in trouble? This is the biggest difficulty my family is facing right now."
Shen Lingling really wanted to say that I was just being polite. Who would take polite words seriously these days?
But in an occasion like today, if she dared to say that, her reputation would be ruined.
Shen Lingling forced a smile and said, "Everyone lives well, why do we have to move around? Since the house is leaking, it would be wise to fix it while the weather is fine."
Shen Moer shook her head, her expression full of resentment and sadness, and a little grievance: "The two blue brick and tile houses that my grandfather left to my father did not have these problems. Hey, the house where my family lives now has half of the wall covered with yellow mud. If it rains again like it did a while ago, the wall might collapse."
Shen Jianshe couldn't help but interrupt: "That's because your family hasn't properly repaired the house. If you repair it, there won't be these problems."
Shen Moer raised her head, looked at him with clear eyes, and said, "My family also wants to renovate it, but we don't have the money!"
Shen Jianshe felt his scalp tingling for some reason. Could this mean that he wanted to borrow money from him? !
He said hurriedly, "It's really not easy to make money in the countryside. No one can save much money these days. If you really can't make it, you can borrow some money from the team first and pay it back when the work points are settled. Repairing the house is a serious matter, and the team leader will definitely agree."
Shen Moer nodded, seeming to agree with his proposal. Shen Jianshe secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but just as he was halfway through his breath, he heard Shen Moer speak again: "My family doesn't earn many work points, and it's definitely not enough to repair the house. Moreover, I really don't understand, my family clearly has two large blue brick and tile houses, why do we have to live in such a broken mud house, why do we have to work so hard to save money to repair the house?"
Shen Moer looked at Shen Jianshe: "Cousin, you guys are bullying us on purpose, you bully us orphans and widows and have no one to help us, so you took away my house."
Shen Jianshe was taking a breath when he choked and started coughing violently.
Shen Lingling's face changed even more. For a moment, she no longer cared about her attitude as a teacher. Even her tone suddenly rose, and her voice was sharp and sharp: "Chen Moer, what nonsense are you talking about! It was Uncle Qi who agreed to change rooms at the beginning. How can this be considered bullying you?!"
Shen Moer looked frightened, pursed her lips, as if she was trying very hard to muster up her courage, and said hesitantly: "But exchanging two blue brick and tile houses for a broken mud house, isn't that bullying? So, cousin, you give me the job, I will teach, and you go to work, is this okay?"
Shen Lingling looked at Shen Moer in shock, wondering if this person was possessed by evil spirits, otherwise how could she dare to say such a bold statement? !
Not only did she want to exchange the house back, she even coveted her job as a private teacher!
It's worth mentioning that in this era when most people are illiterate and primary school education is divided into junior primary school and senior primary school, it is actually completely possible for Shen Moli, a junior high school student, to teach in a private primary school.
A house and a job... It was hard for Shen Lingling not to have conspiracy theories and suspect that the father and daughter might just be attracted to her job.
Maybe they mentioned the house on purpose and then forced her family to exchange the house for the job. After all, this is completely possible and completely feasible.
Shen Lingling felt her temples throbbing and her heart pounding. She couldn't help but take a step forward and subconsciously reached out to grab Shen Moer.
At this moment, Shen Moer suddenly took two steps back for some reason, shouting "Dad" in panic.
Then, before Shen Lingling could react, Shen Shaoyuan, who was not far away, had already nimbly bypassed the crowd and rushed over: "Mo'er, Mo'er, don't be afraid, Dad is coming, Dad is coming!"
He rushed over to block in front of Shen Moer, looking at Shen Lingling's expression which was extremely distressed: "Lingling, how could you do this?! It's fine if you bully me, but are you going to bully Moer too?! She lost her mother when she was young, and suffered so much with a useless father like me, she even almost starved to death, and you actually still want to bully her, I really misjudged you!"
"Oh my god, it's all because of me. I can't even keep the house left by my parents, and I can't protect my only child. What's the point of me living? Oh my god, please send some thunder down. You don't have to kill these heartless people. Just kill a useless person like me!"
Shen Lingling: “………………”
She tried to explain: "Uncle Qi, you misunderstood. I didn't bully Mo'er. I just wanted to reason with her."
Shen Shaoyuan looked at her and nodded sadly: "I know, you want to reason with her, just like your uncle and your father reasoned with me and asked me to give up the house for my nephews to get married."
Shen Lingling: “…………………………”
I continued to try to explain: "Uncle Qi, it's not like that. The house has nothing to do with me. It's my eldest brother who lives there..."
Shen Shaoyuan nodded: "Yes, your eldest brother lives in that house, so your house is vacant, and it's just right for your second brother and you to each take half of the room."
Shen Lingling: "I, no, I, didn't..."
She suddenly realized that the more she spoke, the more mistakes she made, and she couldn't explain herself clearly at all.
Shen Jianshe originally wanted to join in, but when he heard Shen Shaoyuan drag him in, he immediately shut up and even stepped back with the bag of grain.
Actually, what Uncle Qi said was not entirely unreasonable. Although the eldest brother lived in that house, he and Shen Lingling also benefited from it.
Of the two remaining rooms in the house, one was occupied by his parents, and the other was just half a room for him and his sister.
It was precisely because of his half-brick and tiled house that he was able to get married and start a family successfully a few years ago.
Even though it's only half a room, that row of houses were built early and no one cared about the size of the room at that time, so each room was very large and half a room was equivalent to one room in other houses.
At this time, Cao Mei, who had been standing by and watching the show, suddenly spoke up: "If you ask me, borrowing some food from brothers is nothing. I paid it back not long after borrowing it! It's not like the first and second wives, who borrowed other people's houses for nearly 20 years! My family has never done such a wicked thing. My family has always done things uprightly. Only those blind and deaf people would gossip about my family behind their backs!"
In fact, it was not that her family did not want to fight for the house, but when they "borrowed the house" in the first place, her children were still young and not old enough to get married. Without a legitimate reason, the first and second wives were naturally happy not to give it to her family.
Because of this incident, Cao Mei has been very unhappy over the years.
The first and second wives got the advantage, but her family didn't. Doesn't this mean that her family suffered a loss?
Cao Mei was already feeling resentful, and with today's incident, she was also unhappy. With such a good opportunity, she would definitely take advantage of it and say a few sarcastic words.
The members were queuing up to distribute grain while watching the excitement in Old Shen's family. They were enjoying the show very much when they were suddenly annoyed by Cao Mei's words.
So you want to take this opportunity to whitewash yourself for stealing food?
The enthusiastic and righteous Aunt Chen was the first to disagree: "Let's put it this way. You are borrowing food from others. You are robbing! Don't be so arrogant."
"That's right. If Mo'er hadn't fainted from hunger in the field, and if Old Seven Shen hadn't been provoked to ask you for food, would you have been able to spit out the meat you had eaten?"
"Ah, it's really not easy for this father and daughter. The old Shen family is really going too far. Although Shen Laoqi and the previous ones are not born of the same mother and there is a little gap between them, they can't bully others like this!"
"I think Lingling is a nice girl, but I didn't expect she would bully others. Mo'er is already pitiful enough, please don't scare her."
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Taking advantage of the fact that there were so many people talking, the aunties from the eighth production team started to speak up.
This father and daughter are too soft-hearted, they need to help them a little.
Shen Lingling felt like she had no words to say. She was really regretful now. She should have let her second brother come alone. Why did she have to get involved?
Unfortunately, it was too late to regret. Shen Lingling opened her mouth and finally said, "These are all decided by the elders. I don't know. Uncle Qi, if you have anything to say, please go to my uncle and my father."
After saying that, he squeezed out of the crowd without looking back.
When Shen Jianshe saw Shen Lingling leave, he also hurriedly left with the food.
When Cao Mei saw the brother and sister running away, she rolled her eyes and hurried away as well. When the two grandchildren saw their grandmother leaving, they hurriedly followed.
All of a sudden, everyone from the second and third rooms left.
Shen Shaoyuan was not in a hurry at all. He kept thanking the members who helped him. Seeing that the captain was a little free, he hurried over and said, "Brother Mancang, you have to make the decision for me. It's really difficult for me. We are orphans and widows. Now we can only rely on the country and the organization!"
Zhou Mancang: “???”
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