Chapter 38 (Previous chapter unlocked)

Jian Lu accidentally walked into the scarf scene and saw two lesbians wearing exactly the same scarves standing in front of her, both looking a little unnatural.

In this day and age, it is actually quite normal to wear the same clothes. There are only a few colors of clothes and pants, and the styles are almost the same. It would be strange if you dressed differently. If you are not careful, you will be labeled as petty bourgeois. It is better to be simple and frugal.

However, the beautiful lesbian with oval-shaped face obviously didn't think so. When she found that the person next to her was wearing the same scarf as herself, she glanced at him and quickly looked away, with undisguised disgust in her eyes. She reached out to touch her own scarf and pulled it off with force.

He looked at Jian Lu with burning eyes, "Comrade, can you return the scarves here?"

Jian Lu:?

"Comrade, the items sold by the supply and marketing cooperative are not returnable or exchangeable unless there are quality issues." Jian Lu tried her best to be a good salesperson.

"Forget it." The oval-faced woman held the scarf in her hand and turned to leave. "It's just annoying to see that I'm wearing the same scarf as others. I feel that this scarf doesn't look good anymore. It would be better if you could just sell one like this."

As soon as these words were spoken, the round-faced female comrade next to him froze.

Jian Lu smiled at the oval-faced lesbian and said, "You can go to the department store in the city to buy it. There are unique things there."

She couldn't stand the fact that this guy was obviously disliking round-faced lesbians. They all spent money to buy scarves, so why mock them when they have the same scarf? Is it really necessary?

"It's just that the things there are much more expensive, but the ones in our supply and marketing cooperative are of good quality and low price. The same scarf looks good in different ways on different people."

"You..." The oval-faced lesbian was teased by these words. She wanted to say something but didn't dare to open her mouth.

After all, you can't afford to offend the salesperson at the supply and marketing cooperative.

"Forget it, I'll just buy this red hair tie and vanishing cream, I want the jasmine scented ones, you settle the bill for me." The lesbian had to keep the teasing to herself, but still had to talk nicely to the salesperson to settle the bill.

Jian Lu watched the lesbian's face turn blue and red, and just hurriedly collected the money.

After the person walked away, she looked at the round-faced female comrade. Although this person's appearance was not as beautiful as the oval-faced one just now, her facial features were also very distinctive, especially her face which was friendly and easy-going. There was an indescribable comfort, like a spring breeze on her face. Unlike the person just now, her sarcasm was written all over her face.

"Comrade, this scarf looks really good on you." Jian Lu took the thirty-six cents she handed over and cut three feet of cloth for her.

"I'm sure I can't compare to others when I wear it." The round-faced comrade was a little unimpressed by what the oval-faced comrade said. She didn't expect that the salesperson in the supply and marketing cooperative was so eloquent. She was very happy to hear it.

"But this was bought for me by my husband. We have been married for seven years and this is the first time he has given me something."

It was actually so commemorative. Jian Lu thought of the harsh words of the oval-faced comrade just now and became even angrier. She took the opportunity to praise her harshly.

"My name is Cai Xiujuan, thank you so much for coming today." After thanking Jian Lu twice, Cai Xiujuan left holding the three-foot cloth.

After a small incident, Jian Lu dawdled for a while and finally it was time to get off work. After Li Jihong and Sun Qiuyue brought the goods back, the three of them put the things into the warehouse and then packed up and left.

Today, Captain Cheng's troops had a mission and said they would not be back for dinner. Jian Lu was happy to be free and easy, and went back to her room to make seafood shrimp cakes for dinner.

More than twenty small white shrimps are shelled, leaving only the crystal shrimp meat, pounded into a paste with a pestle, mixed with flour and evenly mixed, and then put a spoonful of it into the hot iron pan. Soon, more than twenty seafood shrimp cakes are ready.

She ate six herself, and asked Dunzi to deliver a few to the Liang and Xu families. She kept the rest for Cheng Zheng as a midnight snack.

After finishing dinner, Jian Lu washed her hands and then had more work to do.

The clothes she was going to make for her third sister were already done, and she was going to get some seafood specialties for them and her mother-in-law. It just so happened that a fellow villager from Cheng Zheng's group was going to go home to visit relatives in a while, and the place was not far from the Xingmin Industrial Brigade, so they could go and get the things themselves. Although people living on the islands are not that interested in seafood, after all, they eat it every day, but it's different in the inland areas. If you eat it occasionally, you will miss it again.

It is definitely not realistic to send someone to work, so Jian Lu plans to make shrimp sauce with half a bucket of small white shrimps. However, the first step is a big project. With so many small white shrimps, it is better to wait for the tool man to come back and stir them.

She had just mashed a small amount and her hands were already sore.

......

Cheng Zheng, the man who made shrimp paste, had just returned to his family's yard when he saw Dunzi holding something in his hands, his mouth full of oil.

"Uncle Cheng."

"Dunzi, what do you want to eat?"

"The shrimp cakes made by Aunt Lulu are so delicious! Aunt Lulu said she left some for you, waiting for you to go back and eat them." Dunzi even wanted to stretch out his little hand for Uncle Cheng to smell it.

Cheng Zheng took a step back and said, "As long as you like it, your Aunt Lulu's cooking is delicious."

Back in the house, Cheng Zheng pushed open the half-open door. There was no one in the living room, and he could only hear some rustling noises in the kitchen.

The daughter-in-law was so focused on her busy schedule in the kitchen that she didn't notice the man had returned home.

"What are you busy with?"

Suddenly hearing the noise, Jian Lu was startled and turned around to scold, "You scared me."

Cheng Zheng put one hand on his wife's waist and leaned forward to look. He saw a bowl of shrimps on the stove, all with shells and heads removed, and a pestle next to them.

"What is this for?"

Jian Lu reached out and picked up a shrimp cake from the plate on the other side and fed it to Cheng Zheng, "Try this first."

The shrimp cake is thin, with a mixture of white flour and light pink shrimp meat. It looks beautiful, and the chopped green onions sprinkled in the middle add a touch of bright color.

When you take a bite, the sweetness of the shrimp is wrapped in the aroma of the flour. "Delicious."

Cheng Zheng reached out to take the shrimp cake and finished it in two or three bites. "No wonder Dunzi's hands are covered with oil."

Jian Lu looked at him and her eyes drifted towards his hands, as if to say, You're almost the same.

"These are left for you. Eat them and help me with my work."

Cheng Zheng leaned against the stove and ate shrimp cakes one bite after another. He had dinner in the cafeteria today, but when he came back to eat what his wife made, he ate seven more without realizing it.

"What's it for?" He was quite curious about what the pot of shrimp was for.

Cheng Zheng has discovered these days that his wife is very capable. He doesn't know what's going on in her head, but she is so smart to have so many ideas.

"Make shrimp sauce, and send some to your mother and my third sister. We'll keep some for noodles, rice, and scrambled eggs."

Cheng Zheng has never eaten this thing, shrimp sauce?

But whether he knows it or not, he should just listen to his wife.

He immediately rolled up his sleeves, held the pestle in his hand and started mashing the shrimps.

Jian Lu was preparing on the side, and from time to time she looked at the progress of the man beside her. This man was really strong, and after a while, the shrimp paste had already begun to take shape. Jian Lu silently gave him a title in her heart - human meat grinder.

The crystal clear and slightly pink shrimp puree lay limp in the basin, extremely soft and dense. Cheng Zheng completed his task successfully and handed the basin to Jian Lu.

"Captain Cheng, you've worked hard~" Jian Lu symbolically pinched and massaged the man's strong arms, and let him rest.

Jian Lu added salt to the shrimp paste and mixed it evenly. She then found some gauze to cover the paste, tied a rope to the gauze at the mouth of the basin, and put it on the cupboard. The next step was to wait for it to ferment naturally.

Cheng Zheng couldn't understand it. He knew nothing about cooking. "What's this for?"

"It takes half a month to eat. Otherwise, would you dare to eat it raw?"

For the next half month, Jian Lu uncovered the gauze and stirred it with chopsticks every day, allowing it to ferment naturally under sufficient sunlight.

Later, she also started to slack off and instructed Cheng Zheng to go ahead. Watching the shrimp sauce gradually turn red, Jian Lu tasted it and found it was really good.

Although due to the simple conditions, it is not as good as those made in later generations, the fresh and sweet taste is still there.

"Try it." He dipped some shrimp sauce with chopsticks and gave it to Cheng Zheng. His eyes lit up instantly when he saw him take a bite.

Jian Lu knows, right!

That night, Jian Lu packaged the shrimp sauce into the infusion bottles that Cheng Zheng had found in advance from the health hospital, which had been washed and hung out to dry for a while.

The four largest infusion bottles can hold about 200 ml of shrimp sauce and are to be sent to Jane's three sisters and mother-in-law, Aunt Wang.

The transparent soft infusion bottle is filled with red shrimp sauce, and it looks pretty good.

"Put the others in small bottles. I'm going to give one bottle to Xiuhui and Yuhe... Hey, don't move. I'm going to take this bottle to the supply and marketing cooperative. I can mix it with rice at noon."

At this moment, Cheng Zheng's hands are not hands, and his feet are not feet. He cannot move on his own, otherwise Jian Lu's plan will be disrupted. He can only follow orders.

"We're going to keep the rest for home?"

"Well, we'll eat this." Jian Lu plugged the seven IV bottles, put the remaining shrimp paste in the basin into a small glass bottle, and went out with two IV bottles. "I'll be back after I deliver them to them."

Cheng Zheng was resting at home, looking at the bottle of shrimp sauce on the table. He couldn't help but scoop out a little to taste it. It was indeed fresh, with a salty taste that was very tempting.

Not long after, Jian Lu came home and saw Cheng Zheng "cheating".

"Captain Cheng, you're still eating it secretly?! It's best not to eat this shrimp sauce directly, it's better to add it to cooking."

Cheng Zheng said openly, "Isn't this just for eating? It tastes really good. Wife, how did you come up with this idea?"

Jian Lu wanted to say that she learned it from the Internet, but she couldn't say that, so she just said, "I forgot who told me that, maybe some fisherman told me that. Why do you care so much? It's fine as long as it tastes good."

"Yes, it's delicious." Cheng Zheng was so hungry that he started planning tomorrow's breakfast. "Shall I use this scrambled eggs for tomorrow's breakfast?"

"Okay." Jian Lu was also pleased. "By the way, when I went downstairs just now, I heard from Chief of Staff Xu that Sister Yuhe is expected to give birth and the due date is approaching."

Cheng Zheng sat up straight, thinking that Xu Lang was going to be a father again soon, and some thoughts came to his mind.

"What's wrong with you?" Jian Lu found that this person seemed to be thinking about something.

After spending some time together, Jian Lu discovered Cheng Zheng's habit: whenever he was thinking about something, he would slightly bend his fingers and point them downwards.

Look, it’s on the table right now.

Could it be that when this person heard that Xu Lang was going to be a father, he was also moved?

This person is indeed not young anymore. In this era, many people of this age already have several children, but she does not want to be a mother so soon and is not prepared at all.

She wanted to talk to Cheng Zheng and give her some buffer time.

"You are not..."

"Lulu, let's not have a baby so soon."

Jian Lu: “…?”

You are so different, worthy of being me.

"Really?" Jian Lu was very happy. "I think so too."

"Well, we haven't had much time to enjoy our happy life together yet, so let's not have a baby so soon."

Jian Lu: ???

Don't think that she didn't understand this man's little thoughts. The abacus beads were even broken on his face.

But no matter what, it suits her perfectly!

"Then you should be more aware of yourself at night."

Cheng Zheng understood, "I'll go to the health hospital and get some more family planning supplies."

Jian Lu: ???

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After the shrimp sauce was ready, Jian Lu packed the clothes and shrimp sauce separately and asked Cheng Zheng to take them to the army and give them to Cheng Zheng's comrade who was going back home to visit his relatives.

The person is tomorrow's train ticket, just in time for the trip.

Jian Lu took a small bag of shrimp paste to the supply and marketing cooperative.

The salty shrimp sauce tastes good. Several people tried it with rice and it tasted great.

Li Jihong gave Jian Lu a thumbs up, "Lulu, your cooking skills are amazing."

"It's so delicious! I don't even need to eat any vegetables." Qiu Sifeng stuffed rice in his mouth, eating so much that his cheeks bulged.

Sun Qiufeng was the calmest, but he couldn't hide the surprise in his eyes, "Comrade Jian Lu, can you tell me how you made this shrimp sauce? I want to make it for Lanlan to try, she will definitely like it."

"Okay." Jian Lu didn't hide her knowledge, and she had learned it online before. She returned to the counter and ate with everyone, explaining the steps of making shrimp sauce.

"I'll take note of it. It's not that difficult to listen to."

Jian Lu nodded, "It's not difficult. Shrimp is delicious. As long as the ingredients are good, it will taste good no matter how you cook it."

After lunch, the four of them got busy selling goods again.

Today, several workers wearing blue work clothes from the garment factory came in. She sold some clam oil and talked to Li Jihong in a low voice.

"Sister Jihong, what's going on today? So many workers from the garment factory came to buy clam oil."

"The weather has been bad recently, and the workers in the garment factory have to use their hands frequently. I heard that the factory has given them subsidies to buy some hand wipes."

"Oh, so that's how it is. This state-owned factory is different. The benefits are quite good." Jian Lu turned around and continued to work at the daily necessities counter. Looking at a female comrade in blue work clothes with "Garment Factory" written on her chest, she suddenly remembered something!

"Sister-in-law Jihong!"

Li Jihong heard Jian Lu's anxious voice and thought something serious had happened. "What happened?"

"Do you still remember?" Jian Lu searched her memory from a few months ago, "A batch of silk scarves from Shanghai arrived a while ago, there were two yellow ones."

"Well, what's the matter? Something wrong with the scarf?"

"No." Jian Lu finally remembered who bought the two scarves. To be precise, they were bought by one person, but they appeared on the necks of two lesbians. "I sold both of them. The first one was bought by the couple, and the second one was bought by the man alone. I was puzzled at the time. This man actually bought two identical scarves for his wife, even the color was the same. Logically, no matter how much he liked it, he should change the color. But I didn't think much about it at the time."

"Maybe they like it." Li Jihong thought it was a bit strange, but it was also normal. Nowadays, everyone has some problems.

"But, I saw those two scarves being worn by two female comrades a while ago. They came to our supply and marketing cooperative to buy things separately and bumped into each other."

"Ah?" Li Jihong finally realized something was wrong. "It's normal for a gay man to give a scarf to his wife, but for another lesbian..."

"Maybe he bought it for someone else?" Jian Lu had some guesses in her mind, but it was hard to say. Could it be that he really bought it on behalf of someone else?

But the man’s wife obviously didn’t know the second woman. If she really had a relationship with him and could buy the scarf for him, it would be easy for people to misunderstand her if she told others about it.

"You think this person can buy a scarf for someone who is not related to him?"

Jian Lu really couldn't explain it, she just felt that there was something strange about this matter, but there was no evidence, and she couldn't just make assumptions.

The two were talking when a man in garment factory work clothes walked in.

Jian Lu was excited, but she didn't expect that the devil would appear as soon as she mentioned him. She pulled Li Jihong's clothes under the counter.

He whispered, "That's him."

"Oh, he's the workshop manager of the garment factory." Li Jihong recognized him, a round-faced man in his thirties. He was not very tall, but he walked with the airs of a leader.

"Comrade, get me some vanishing cream. I want the Friendship brand, the newest scent, the jasmine scent."

Men are very familiar with buying things for women, and even know the brands and flavors. Jian Lu pursed her lips and asked tentatively, "Comrade, are you buying it for your wife? You are really considerate."

The man was obviously stunned for a moment, and then he paused for a moment and said perfunctorily, "Uh, um, can you help me get it? How much is it?"

"Five dollars." Jian Lu put the vanishing cream on the counter, took the big reunion note the man handed over, and gave him five dollars in change.

Li Jihong saw this and said with a smile, "You bought such expensive things just like that. Comrade, your wife must be very happy to get them. My husband never wants to buy these things for me. Your wife is really lucky."

Liu Santong, the workshop manager of the garment factory, didn't know why the salesperson at the supply and marketing cooperative was so enthusiastic today, and his face froze.

Then, the young and beautiful saleswoman in front of me spoke again, "Who isn't? My husband won't buy anything for me. If I mention that I want to buy some vanishing cream, she'll say I'm a spendthrift. You really know how to love your wife."

Liu Santong's face became hotter and hotter as he listened, but he didn't dare to say anything. He just nodded and left in a hurry.

After everyone left, Jian Lu and Li Jihong looked at each other and found that there was indeed a problem!

However, Cheng Zheng, who was about to pick up Jian Lu from get off work, paused as he walked to the door of the supply and marketing cooperative.

When did I say she was a spendthrift? When did I not allow her to buy face cream?

Team leader Cheng said it was very unfair!

"You're here? I'll be there soon." Jian Lu saw Cheng Zheng standing at the door and waved to him.

"Alright, alright, go now." Li Jihong urged Jian Lu to leave, "I'll take these things and not delay you youngsters."

Jian Lu blushed, but she didn't think it was a big deal. He was just picking her up from get off work.

"Oh, Comrade Jian Lu is so lucky that Captain Cheng comes to pick you up from get off work every day. Tsk tsk, hurry up and talk to my man tomorrow and let him learn from you." Qiu Sifeng looked at the backs of Cheng Zheng and Jian Lu as they left, feeling a little sour.

"Si Feng, if your man really came to pick you up, would you think he was not right and want to send him back?"

"That's true. Why should we accept these old gentlemen? We are not immature and don't know the way. It's just that newlyweds don't know their limits."

Sun Qiuyue was packing her bag and preparing to leave. "People are so affectionate, you can't be envious of them."

......

Jian Lu and Cheng Zheng, who were in a good relationship, were walking home. Cheng Zheng came over from home and brought her a coconut. It was really comfortable for Jian Lu to drink cool coconut juice when she got off work.

However, today she was unusually silent and was busy thinking about something.

"What's wrong?" Cheng Zheng immediately realized something was wrong. In the past, his wife had a lot to say. "Nothing happened in your supply and marketing cooperative today?"

That's not right. Before, Jian Lu could even talk about something as simple as them having lunch at the supply and marketing cooperative.

Could it be that he has been wronged?

"No." Jian Lu was indeed worried about something. She looked up and asked Cheng Zheng, "Let me ask you, would you buy scarves for other lesbians?"

Cheng Zheng: “…?”

"What are you talking about? Of course not." Cheng Zheng did not hesitate for a second and firmly defended his position.

"What if a lesbian you know asks you to buy her a scarf? Just to help her out."

Cheng Zheng still had a serious face and a firm attitude, "Let her ask someone else. I have a wife now, and it's not appropriate to spread this matter."

"Yeah." Jian Lu felt that this man seemed to have opened the door to a new world after getting married. Now he would give such a perfect answer. "Captain Cheng, tell me the truth, have you ever secretly asked Political Commissar Liang for tutoring?"

Tutoring?

Cheng Zheng was puzzled, "What are you tutoring for?"

"Like a love guide or something like that."

"I've never heard of this kind of thing." Cheng Zheng thought about it carefully in his mind, "Is it a book from the Soviet Union?"

"Hahahahaha." Jian Lu finally couldn't help herself. She thought that Captain Cheng was so serious and adorable. She laughed so hard that it looked like a flower branch was shaking. "Forget it. You're good the way you are."

When they got back to the family compound, they just walked to the third floor. Cheng Zheng took out the key to open the door and turned around and said, "I bought you a good thing."

Hmm? Another surprise?

Jian Lu was very interested. "What good stuff?"

"Look for yourself." Cheng Zheng unlocked the door and pushed open the door. Jian Lu was surprised to see the 28-bar motorcycle parked in the room.

The shiny new black bicycle was tall and big, with big wheels and a tall body, and looked very impressive.

"Did you buy a bicycle?" Jian Lu couldn't help but touch it. It felt smooth, worthy of being the most important means of transportation in this era.

Cheng Zheng was relieved to see that she liked it. "Well, I saved and borrowed some industrial coupons to bring back a bicycle for someone else. It's a Phoenix brand bicycle. This brand is good. I heard from my comrades that many people bought this."

"It's really good." Jian Lu immediately wanted to ride her bike downstairs for a ride. The sunshine, beach and breeze on the bike had a unique romantic feeling of this era.

Cheng Zheng picked up the bicycle, and the two of them walked outside the family yard. Jian Lu pedaled the bicycle back and forth skillfully, looking carefree and unrestrained.

"Am I still the stingy man who won't let you spend money to buy face cream?" Cheng Zheng, who was standing next to Jian Lu and watching her ride back and forth a few times, felt a little proud. This 28-bar bicycle could finally clear his grievances.

Jian Lu was stunned. At first, she didn't understand what the man was talking about. Later, she gradually figured it out. "Hey, did you hear that?"

"Yes." Cheng Zheng smiled. He found Jian Lu's complaining voice funny. He said it as if it was true. "My wife won't buy anything for me... Is this how you ruin my reputation?"

Jian Lu grinned at everyone, and seeing that there was no one around, she put her hands on the man's arm, swayed a few times, and said coquettishly, "I did that just to deceive that man. This man is probably problematic, and I'm sorry for his wife. Our team leader Cheng is such a broad-minded person, he will definitely not take such a small matter to heart, right?"

Seeing his wife smiling and coquettishly, Cheng Zheng's heart softened. He reached out and scratched her nose, "You are really good at talking."

He was at a loss.

With her big baby, a 28-bar bike, Jian Lu became the only one on the island who owns a car. She rides a bike to and from get off work, feeling carefree and relaxed, and facing the sea breeze. She always feels that her baby is as good as a BMW.

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Three days later, Jian Lu finally met the round-faced woman again at the supply and marketing cooperative. She was Cai Xiujuan, the wife of Liu Santong, the workshop director of the garment factory.

This time, people came to buy buttons.

"Comrade, do you remember me?" Cai Xiujuan had a good impression of this pretty salesperson. After all, she spoke for her last time. "I bought three feet of cloth last time to make a pair of pants for my man, but I forgot to buy the buttons. I'll pick two black ones."

Jian Lu took out a bag of various buttons and placed them on the glass cabinet for her to choose from.

Cai Xiujuan has some signs of her age, but she is very kind when she smiles. She is someone who is friendly and easy to like.

Thinking of Liu Santong's actions last time, Jian Lu couldn't help but talk to him, "Remember, you are so good to your man that you think so much about making pants for him."

"What's the big deal? It's been so many years." Cai Xiujuan didn't wear the yellow scarf today. Maybe she was hit hard by the oval-faced female comrade last time. She locked the yellow scarf in the cupboard when she got home and never took it out again. "I made all the clothes and pants for our old Liu by myself. By the way, Comrade Jian, when will your supply and marketing cooperative deliver red cloth again? I'm waiting to make a set for my daughter. Little girls like red. I haven't made new clothes for the child for two years. This year, she has grown a lot. It's time to make a new one."

"It should be available at the beginning of next month. Come and have a look then." Jian Lu helped her choose buttons. She picked out a round black button with a hollow center and a diamond-shaped black button and put them on the glass counter. She then said, "By the way, your family has a good relationship. Last time your husband came to us to buy vanishing cream. Did you like the smell?"

She thought about it and secretly reminded herself that it would be best if this didn't happen.

Cai Xiujuan paused while selecting buttons and looked up at Jian Lu. A look of doubt flashed across her eyes before she regained her composure in an instant. "Ah, the vanishing cream... is... quite good. I like it very much."

He spoke each sentence haltingly.

Jian Lu understood it in her mind, she could only remind him to this extent.

"You want these two buttons?"

"yes."

Jian Lu took the two cents, handed over the two black round buttons, and stared at Cai Xiujuan's leaving back in a daze.

Li Jihong heard the conversation between the two and said, "It looks like something is going on."

"Comrade Jian Lu, what's the point of your words?" Qiu Sifeng also understood, "What can we do about divorce in this day and age? Just get along."

Sun Qiuyue disagreed. "We have to make do with it. We have to make a scene once. At least we have to make Liu Santong admit his fault."

Jian Lu didn't know what would happen, but it was obvious from what the three natives of the 1970s around her said that no one would get divorced.

Over the next half month, Jian Lu paid special attention. She found that Cai Xiujuan had not come to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy anything. Instead, the workshop director and the oval-faced female comrade came several times respectively. Every time, the workshop director would come to buy something, and the oval-faced female comrade would appear soon after.

Jian Lu was secretly shocked. These two people were really brave.

But then I thought, other people really wouldn't notice it. Who would know what Liu Santong bought at the supply and marketing cooperative? Only the salespersons at the supply and marketing cooperative knew it, but the salespeople often rotated around the counters and saw many customers every day. Basically, they wouldn't pay attention to what each person bought each time.

If it wasn't for the scarf that bumped into her that day, Jian Lu would have suddenly figured out the matter and would never have paid any attention to it.

The oval-faced lesbian came over still wearing the yellow silk scarf, and everywhere she went was filled with the faint scent of jasmine from the vanishing cream. This person must have applied a lot of it every time, so the scent was particularly strong.

Sister Jihong made special inquiries and found out that the oval-faced woman was called He Xiaojuan, also a worker in the garment factory. Her husband died in an accident a few years ago, and she became a widow at a young age.

Now it seems that the workshop manager and the young widow were really having an affair.

Could it be that Cai Xiujuan really wanted to tolerate her man being with He Qingjuan? Or was it all a misunderstanding? It couldn't be a coincidence every time, right?

Qiu Sifeng watched for half a month, and then looked at Jian Lu with a smirk on his face, "Comrade Jian, see, it's useless for you to say anything. We just have to live our lives as we should."

"That's something I can't help but say." Li Jihong looked at Qiu Sifeng and asked, "If your man is having an affair, would you be willing to keep it a secret?"

"Let's just keep it a secret. As long as he gives the household allowance on time every month, the three of us will have food to eat and clothes to wear, isn't that enough?"

It was difficult for Jian Lu to communicate with such feudal ideas, but Qiu Sifeng really said it lightly, and that was what people thought in their hearts.

It was late in the afternoon and business was slow. There were no customers in the supply and marketing cooperative, so the four sales clerks started chatting idly.

Sun Qiuyue felt something was wrong when she heard what Qiu Sifeng said. "Sifeng, aren't you feeling frustrated? I would say that you should at least let him know that you know about this, and then you should ask him to make some promises. As the book says, a prodigal son who returns home is worth more than gold."

"Guarantee? Guarantee is useless." Qiu Sifeng frowned and began to educate Sun Qiuyue, "I don't have a high level of education. I only know a few words. As for me, I just believe in one thing: having money, tickets, food to eat and clothes to wear is enough."

"You are really..."

For the first time, Jian Lu got anxious when she saw Sun Qiuyue's world-weary and indifferent face.

"Alright, alright, all of you guys should keep your mouth shut. They have problems, so what's the point of us getting into a quarrel?" Li Jihong hurried out to smooth things over.

"Then who started this conversation?" Qiu Sifeng leaned his hands on the glass counter, his eyes wandering from Sun Qiuyue to Li Jihong's red face, and finally locked onto Jian Lu, "It was Comrade Jian who brought it up. Blame her."

Jian Lu: “…?”

She shouldn't have started this!

"Comrade Xiao Jian, tell me, if it were you, what would you do?" Qiu Sifeng was determined not to let this person get away. She didn't believe that Jian Lu could come up with any clever ideas.

Jian Lu was sitting behind the glass counter with her chin in her hand, looking at the three people on her right. "If my man dared to go out and mess around, I would investigate it thoroughly and would definitely write a report to the army first, and then write a report to the Revolutionary Committee. The crime of hooliganism is very serious now, so I would kick him and divorce him in the end."

Oh my goodness!

Qiu Sifeng almost choked on her own saliva. "Comrade Xiao Jian, what are you talking about! Reporting your man? And getting a divorce? You are really crazy."

Not only Qiu Sifeng, but also Sun Qiuyue, who had just disagreed with Qiu Sifeng, looked at Jian Lu with shock.

"Lulu, you look so weak, but you have such a strong personality." Li Jihong was the one who behaved the calmest.

"Sister Jihong, are you being too stubborn? You're crazy." Qiu Sifeng looked at Jian Lu and shook her head. She really felt that there was something wrong with this person. How could she be so cruel to her own man? And how could a divorced woman live?

This guy is really scary.

At this moment, Qiu Sifeng only thinks Jian Lu is scary, but soon, he will find out there is something else scary.

The next morning, it was time for the supply and marketing cooperative to deliver new fabrics. After hearing how cruelly Jian Lu treated her man yesterday, Qiu Sifeng did not dare to suggest that she write on the small blackboard today. She went there with the chalk herself.

Liu Santong came to the supply and marketing cooperative again in a grand manner. His little lover pestered him to buy cloth to make clothes, saying that she was short of red cloth in her closet and she had to buy a whole set of clothes and trousers. He went home and rummaged through the drawers and cabinets for the cloth coupons. He finally found the ten-foot-long cloth coupons that his wife had hidden so carefully, and he put them all in his pocket.

"Comrade, I want ten feet of red cloth."

Jian Lu watched this man come again and recalled what Cai Xiujuan said last week. Was Liu Santong buying cloth today for his daughter? Or for someone else?

Ten feet of red cloth cost two yuan and one cent in total. Liu Santong took the cloth and left.

The supply and marketing cooperative was still bustling with people, and the new fabrics that arrived in the morning were sold out quickly.

Three days later, in the supply and marketing cooperative, the four of them took advantage of the fact that there were not many people around to chat again.

As we were talking, we saw two comrades pushing and shoving each other towards the supply and marketing cooperative.

Jian Lu looked closely and saw that the female comrade was Cai Xiujuan. She was dragging a man named Liu Santong into the house with an angry look on her face.

"Come on, let's go and talk to see if you bought the cloth for that vixen! Ask the salesperson at the supply and marketing cooperative if you bought any!"

"Xiujuan, what are you doing? There are so many people outside, do you still have any shame?"

The two quarreled loudly, and soon the quarrel spread to the supply and marketing cooperative. Cai Xiujuan pushed Liu Santong to the cloth counter and glared at him, "Now tell me in front of the salesmen in the supply and marketing cooperative whether you have the ten-foot cloth coupons and whether you have come to buy cloth?"

The people standing behind the glass counter were stunned. What was going on?

The most shocked person was Qiu Sifeng. Why was Cai Xiujuan so arrogant while Liu Santong was so timid and didn't even dare to say a harsh word?

Are there any other couples like this in the world?

"Comrade Cai, what's going on?" Li Jihong was the oldest salesperson in the supply and marketing cooperative. He was the first to react and immediately stepped forward and asked, "There are so many people here. Let's talk it out."

"Yes, yes, we're just arguing over a misunderstanding. We won't disturb your business." Liu Santong's face turned pale and he pulled his wife's sleeve and was about to walk out.

But he was not as strong as Cai Xiujuan, and was pushed away and almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, he was able to stabilize himself by holding on to the glass counter beside him.

"Cai Xiujuan! You have to make trouble today, don't you?" Liu Santong was pushed out of his temper, and the guilt and remorse he had before disappeared, replaced by anger, the anger of being embarrassed in public.

"Yes! I'm going to make trouble!" Cai Xiujuan was even angrier than him, her voice even louder, "Liu Santong, do you think I don't know the ugly things you did? I endured it for the sake of our family, thinking that one day you would figure out who is the one in your house. But now, the cloth coupons I bought for my daughter-in-law, how long has she been thinking about buying new clothes! You actually used them to buy cloth for that bastard! I'm not celebrating today, and neither should anyone!"

As she spoke, Cai Xiujuan grabbed Liu Santong's collar with one hand, tearing his work clothes out of shape, and slapped him in the face with the other hand, slapping him four times on both sides.