Seeing that Zhao Youcai didn't want to give it, Li Shulan felt disappointed:
"Sure enough, you lied to me. You said you loved me and our child. Jindong was implicated by us, but you don't want to make amends at all. Go away. I don't want to see you anymore."
After saying that, he pushed Zhao Youcai out.
Seeing that Li Shulan really wanted to drive him away, Zhao Youcai panicked and quickly took out all the money he had on him, leaving a few dollars for himself and giving the remaining 30 dollars to Li Shulan.
"Shulan, don't be angry, I was wrong."
After taking the money, Li Shulan still felt awkward and didn't want to pay attention to Zhao Youcai, but she also felt that he was an eyesore standing there. She tried to tone down her voice and sound gentler:
"It's late at night and it's not safe to walk at night. You should go back now."
Zhao Youcai saw that Li Shulan still cared about him and thought, this is true love. Even if she was angry, she still worried that he would be unsafe on the way home late.
Unlike Ma Xiulan, she never asks whether her parents come home late or not.
After Zhao Youcai left, Li Shulan lay in bed, thinking about everything and unable to sleep. She couldn't live like this, poor and without hope.
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Ma Xiulan got the wooden bracelet, which still had the body odor of Old Lady Wang on it.
Old Mrs. Wang always had a body odor but didn't like to take a bath. In the past 10 years, probably because she was afraid of exposing her paralysis, she didn't dare let Ma Xiu Lan wash her body. Every time she would wait for her three daughters to come and give her a simple wash.
Ma Xiulan thought about it and decided to put the wooden bracelet on top of the cabinet in her room to dissipate the smell.
Then she started to prepare the chili sauce. This time she also planned to make a beef sauce. She cut the beef into small pieces and set aside. Then she heated the oil, added the chopped garlic, and after stir-frying it until fragrant, she added the diced mushrooms and kept stir-frying until the mushrooms were half dry. Then she added the diced beef and kept stir-frying until the water was almost dry.
The aroma of beef was already wafting in the air. Zhao Xingguo and Zhou Anan, who were studying in the house, could no longer sit still and ran out.
Zhao Xingguo: "Mom, this smells so good!"
Zhou Anan looked at the pot and started to imagine how to eat it.
"I'll knead the dough and roll out some noodles. Then how about we make some sauce to pour over the noodles?"
Ma Xiulan looked at Zhou Anan's greedy look and smiled:
"Okay, I'll roll the noodles in a bit. Just study hard. The college entrance exam is on the 21st of next month. There are only about 20 days left. You should study hard."
Zhou Anan blushed: "Then after the college entrance examination, I will cook for you."
Zhao Xingguo was worried. In order to prepare for the college entrance examination, his mother improved their meals and took care of all the housework. However, he had put down his studies for too many years, and even with Xingmin's guidance, he still found it difficult.
He was afraid that failing the exam would disappoint his mother, so he immediately decided not to sleep tonight and stay up late to study hard.
Ma Xiu Lan stared at the pot and didn't see Zhao Xingguo's expression, but she had been asking around these past few days to see if there were any high school teachers living nearby.
Because sometimes she saw her three children encountering difficult problems and there was no result after several discussions, so she thought she needed to ask the teacher.
Liang Cui'e from next door was so angry when she saw her grandson crying because of greed again. Who could stand the neighbor cooking like this every day? If she targeted Ma Xiu Lan, it would confirm her idea of coveting the Zhang family's house.
Both of her sons asked her to endure it, but who could endure it? Not only her grandson wanted to eat it, she wanted to eat it too.
Ma Xiu Lan heard the commotion next door and thought that the kitchen had to be built immediately, as cooking in the shed was not an option.
After going to the night market tomorrow, I will go find my younger brother and ask him to introduce some brothers to build a kitchen. I will also see how things are going with Bai Zhihua.
The next day, she arrived at the black market early and found several people waiting there, all of whom hadn't bought anything the day before.
Seeing Ma Xiu Lan coming, they all took out the cans or porcelain jars they had brought with them from their vegetable baskets.
Ma Xiulan put the heavy backpack on the ground, took out three sealed basins from it, and smiled at everyone:
"Today I've prepared a new product, mushroom beef sauce, which costs one yuan per pound. Everyone can try it for free."
An older woman clapped her hands and said, "I was wondering, how come besides the aroma of chili, there's also a hint of meat? Hurry up and give me a bite of your steamed buns. If they're delicious, I'll buy two pounds."
When others heard the price, they were a little discouraged.
This piece of beef is only one pound. Although the beef cubes in this sauce are very large, there are also ingredients such as mushrooms and peppers. The beef in it is definitely less than one pound. Wouldn't it be better to buy a pound of beef for one dollar and stew it?
Although I thought so, seeing how much the older sister enjoyed the meal just now, and how she praised it highly after eating, and immediately bought two kilograms, made others feel itchy as well.
Zhang Yuejin, who was in the crowd, was the first to speak: "Sister, can you make it cheaper? You can buy a pound of beef for one dollar."
Ma Xiulan smiled and said, "My beef sauce uses a lot of beef, and you can eat it with noodles, pancakes, or even vegetables. For the same amount of money, you can only eat beef for one meal, and if it's not cooked well, it will be wasted. But if you buy my delicious beef sauce, you can eat it for many meals."
When Zhang Yuejin heard what Ma Xiulan said, it seemed to be true: "Then I'll try it. If it's really as delicious as you say, then I'll buy a pound."
“It must be delicious.”
Yesterday, her family's Xingguo, Xingmin and Anan had this sauce, and each of them had an extra bowl of noodles.
Zhang Yuejin tasted it and found it was indeed fragrant and delicious. And just as Ma Xiulan said, for the same dollar, he could eat it many times, which was equivalent to having meat every meal. He quickly bought a pound.
Others who were waiting and watching, those who had money bought mushroom beef sauce, but they lived a tight life. After tasting the beef sauce, they finally bought ordinary chili sauce for 30 cents per pound.
A bunch of people were queuing up to buy something, and suddenly a voice came from a few meters away: "Delicious chili sauce, 2 catties for 50 cents, 5 catties for 1 yuan."
Most of the people gathered around Ma Xiu Lan were attracted by the shouting from the other side.
After all, it's cheap. It's not easy to make money these days, so people spend money frugally.
Ma Xiulan glanced at the person competing with her, it turned out to be her?
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