At the Jia family, Jia Zhang took a cornmeal steamed bread, took a bite, her face full of disgust, and took a big mouthful of cornmeal porridge before swallowing it.
Qin Huairu was also eating the steamed bread absentmindedly, with a worried look on her face.
Looking at their appearance, if you didn’t know them well you would think they couldn’t make ends meet and were starving to death.
Actually, I just felt that the food was bad and the cornmeal made my throat ache.
In the past, their family often ate fine grains, and the worst they could eat was steamed buns made of two kinds of flour. There was quite a bit of oil and water in the lunch box that He Yuzhu brought, and they could also eat some meat from time to time.
But now, we only eat cornmeal all day long, and we can’t even eat fine grains, let alone oil and water.
Jia Zhang took a few more bites of the steamed bread and couldn't stand it anymore. She threw my head on the table and said, "Qin Huairu, I'm not saying anything bad about you, but what are we eating now? It's human food!
"It's fine for an old lady like me, but look at me, if a child eats this, will he be full? Will he get enough nutrition?"
He pointed at Bang Geng who was slurping porridge and said, "Look, Bang Geng has lost weight. He hasn't had any oily food for a month. If he continues like this, the child will be ruined!"
She spoke with great passion, but what she actually meant was that she wanted to eat fine grains and meat.
Everyone at the table was eating, but she was the only one complaining and throwing away the steamed bun. If she was really as miserable as she said, how could she bear to throw away the steamed bun?
The things they are eating now are what Qin Huairu usually eats. Jia Zhang and Banggeng eat the lunch boxes brought back by He Yuzhu, as well as fine grains. Every time the food arrives, Banggeng eats less than her. Even Xiaodang and Huaihua don't get a share every day.
Otherwise, where did she get so fat in that era of food and clothing shortage?
If I didn't know that they were a single-income family, I would have thought they were former wealthy landlords.
Qin Huairu drank a mouthful of porridge calmly, "It's different now than before. Shazhu can't bring a lunch box with him. Where can I get fine grains? With the quota we have, we can't afford it.
"In the past, you always complained that the food given by an old man was dirty. Now, it's okay. He won't give it to you anymore. With my salary, I can only eat cornmeal. Don't expect to eat well."
Jia Zhang was suddenly speechless.
Indeed, she had relied on He Yuzhu, a sucker, to support her so that she had no worries about food and drink. So, she was quite repulsive to Yi Zhonghai's advances and even looked down on the old man.
But now, with both families cut off from financial support, their true colors were revealed and they returned to their normal living standards.
Jia Zhang rolled her eyes and said, "Why don't you take some time to go back to your parents' home, bring your cousin over, and try to match her up with Sha Zhu."
Qin Huairu rolled her eyes. "Last time I told him to let my cousin go on a blind date with someone else, and now he's going to him again. Isn't this a slap in his face? Oh, when he was on a blind date with me, someone said a few words to him and he ran away, stood me up, and then he went on a blind date with someone else, but the other person didn't like him, and now he's looking for me again.
"Besides, my uncle is already helping him find a partner, and he's from the city. If I tell him this again, he may not listen. My cousin's mind is full of Li Qinghe right now, so she may not agree."
Speaking of this, she didn't understand how the situation had developed into this. She had tied He Yuzhu up tightly before, so how come the rope suddenly broke?
In the past, she could maintain her relationship with He Yuzhu by cleaning the house. But ever since He Yuzhu acknowledged Yi Zhonghai as her godparents, I don't know if it was intentional or not, but Yi Zhonghai directly let a lady take over this job, and he always stayed at He Yuzhu's house after work.
She could no longer enter He Yuzhu's house without restraint, and after the incident on the day of the family reunion banquet when Bang Geng broke into the house and stole things, Yi Zhonghai never helped their family again.
The family's surplus food was used to help the truly needy families in the institution, such as Liu Cuzi's family and Aunt Wang's family.
Thinking of this, she looked angrily at Jia Zhang, whose eyes were rolling around in front of her, wondering what bad ideas she was thinking of.
If she hadn't instigated Bang Geng, it wouldn't have come to this.
How could she know that Jia Zhang was thinking about where to get some food, and Li Qinghe was naturally in her plan. She had never forgotten the one thousand yuan that Yi Zhonghai paid as compensation.
"Qin Huairu, if you have no choice, just introduce your cousin to Li Qinghe. If he wants to date your cousin, he must give us benefits. We have to get half of the thousand yuan!" Jia Zhang slammed the table and said hatefully.
"Five hundred dollars?"
Qin Huairu looked at her in disbelief. Is this old hag crazy?
Do you know what you are talking about? Five hundred yuan! That is five hundred yuan, not five yuan!
Do you know what the concept is?
How much does it cost to marry a wife these days?
If he really took out 500 yuan to marry a wife and spread the word that he could choose any girl of marriageable age in the area, how could a country girl like Qin Jingru get her turn?
How dare you say that! You just asked for 500 yuan.
Jia Zhang didn't think there was anything wrong with that. "Why not? He got the money for free anyway, so what's wrong with giving us half? If he doesn't agree, you can continue to sabotage me!"
Qin Huairu sighed helplessly, this old hag is crazy.
If this happened to me, I wouldn't agree to it. Why should I give away 500 yuan to a country girl? It's not just money for the wedding, but also money for the matchmaker.
Moreover, even if Qin Jingru knew about this, she would not agree, and the relationship could not be established.
Jia Zhang said without any self-awareness: "I don't care about that. If he doesn't give them to me, I'll just tear them apart! Oh, and there's Sha Zhu, talk to him too. These two can eventually become one."
"Are you going to introduce two people to Jingru at the same time?" Qin Huairu couldn't believe her ears.
People these days are very reserved, how could they be so wild? If people knew about this, it would break the backbone of the Jia and Qin families.
"Humph, what's wrong with that? You have to see more before getting married. Otherwise, how can you know if it's good or not?"
Qin Huairu was silent for a moment. Why didn't she have such a mother? Otherwise, would she not have married into the Jia family and suffered such torture?
Then he quickly shook his head, this was not something a human would do, "Mom, please stop messing around. If anything happens, I can't protect you."
Jia Zhang was not afraid at all. "This is our family's business. No one has any right to interfere. Just introduce them. I'll see who dares to talk too much."
Even if others don't like the idea of introducing someone to someone, they can just talk about it. No one has the right to interfere.
Qin Huairu didn't say anything, she really didn't know what to say.
Jia Zhang picked up the steamed bread, put it in her mouth and started to chew it. She didn't want to eat it, but she had to because there was nothing else to eat.
Halfway through the meal, she suddenly said mysteriously, "I saw a woman enter Xu Damao's house this afternoon."
Qin Huairu was stunned, "Lou Xiao'e?"
Jia Zhang sneered: "If it was her, I would not say anything to you. It is because it is not her that I said it. In my opinion, Xu Damao is having an affair."
Qin Huairu nodded thoughtfully.
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