Chapter 163: The Grace of Raising
Something happened?
Seeing her performance, Yi Chichi frowned, and when she came back, he whispered, "Did something happen or did someone bully you?"
It would have been better if she hadn't said this, but as soon as she said it, Ge Sujuan's eyes turned red.
"Don't cry, please don't cry, if you have something to say, just say it. I'm really afraid that you will cry."
The last time Wang Nan wanted to borrow money, her eyes also turned red. This time, Ge Sujuan's eyes turned red again. People who know her won't think much about it, but if people who don't know her see this scene, they might think she is bullying others, and then spread weird rumors.
"My reputation is important, please don't ruin it!"
Ge Sujuan's uneasiness and embarrassment disappeared because of her words, and a feeling of being at a loss whether to laugh or cry arose.
“No one bullies me.”
Yi Chichi understood immediately, "That means something has happened."
She hummed, and after a long pause she managed to say, "Chi Chi, do you still have food coupons?"
Yi Chichi, "..."
She didn't have many national food coupons left.
She really couldn't get used to eating coarse grains. Qin Jiu was young and had a thin throat, and eating coarse grains for a long time was not good for his health.
My grandpa and his family are old, and it will take several years for them to survive until the reform and opening up, so we have to do our best to take care of them before then.
Therefore, over the course of this year, most of the food coupons I had were used up.
The rest has to be saved for a rainy day.
It cannot be loaned out and it is impossible to loan it out.
"Feel sorry!"
Ge Sujuan sighed, "You haven't done anything wrong to me, why are you apologizing?"
In fact, I was mentally prepared, after all, Yi Chichi is quite particular about food.
No matter how many food coupons we have, they can't sustain her consumption like this.
"Can you lend me some money? I'll go ask Guan Mingyue to borrow the food coupons."
There is no problem in borrowing money. She knows Ge Sujuan's character well. Like Wang Nan, it is impossible for her not to pay it back.
The same goes for Zhou Qiuyu, but although this girl is the youngest, she has the toughest temper.
Never rely on others for work that you can do yourself.
She is willing to endure any hardship she can endure, and is willing to help others within her ability when they ask her for help, but asking others for help is like asking her for her life.
This personality cannot be said to be bad, but it is not very good either.
Because bitterness is something that you consume more and more the more you eat it. Once you get used to suffering, it will accompany you all the time.
Fortunately, Ge Sujuan is different from her.
This girl has her own little thoughts, but she is not a bad person and is capable.
"How much?"
"twenty."
"Are you in a hurry?"
“No hurry.”
"I'll give it to you when I get home tonight."
With her words, Ge Sujuan finally let go of the worry in her heart. Without Yi Chichi asking, she took the initiative to explain what the matter was about borrowing money and food coupons.
Ge Sujuan is from Guizhou Province. Her family conditions are not very good, but they are not very bad either.
Because she was the third child, with an older brother, two older sisters and a younger brother, she became the one who was ignored and neglected.
She had no share of the delicious food, and neither did she get any new clothes.
There are many children in the family, and she had nowhere to go after the school was closed. Her mother was displeased with her every day, but she didn't beat or scold her, but she would blame her indirectly.
In addition, my eldest brother is getting married and my second sister also has a partner.
Her parents wanted to vacate the room where she and her second sister lived to make it into a new home for her eldest brother and his wife. As for her second sister, she could live in the staff dormitory.
Her second sister was very capable and found a job for herself.
Although it is a temporary job, there is hope of becoming a regular employee if you work hard.
My younger brothers and sisters are still young, so they can sleep with their parents or set up a bed on the small balcony.
But she is difficult to arrange.
So she voluntarily went to the countryside.
In the first year after she arrived, her family still missed her and she also missed her family, so writing letters and sending things were still normal.
But ever since her elder brother and second sister got married, she had little contact with her family, and the rare times they contacted her were to ask her for money and things.
It made her seem like she was not coming to the countryside, but was a formal worker in a factory with a stable job.
No matter how much expectations and fantasies you have about your loved ones, they will all disappear with each letter asking for money and things.
Hearing this, Yi Chichi wondered, "Then why do you still borrow money and tickets to send back?"
"There's really nothing we can do this time."
She rubbed her face, looked up at Yi Chichi with mixed emotions in her eyes, "My mother is gone, and my father's hand was broken by a machine while he was at work."
“My brother…”
Taking a deep breath, she suppressed her grief and anger and said with a choked voice, "I was caught."
"??? Because of what?"
"My sister-in-law..."
She seemed a little embarrassed to speak, and Yi Chichi knew what was going on, "You don't have to say it."
"Um."
Nodding, she said, "My ex-sister-in-law abandoned the child and ran away, my second sister got married, and my eldest brother was arrested again. Now my father is the only one left to take care of the child."
"If you are disabled, the factory should provide subsidies."
“It’s all gone.”
At this point, she said, "My dad wants to use his connections to get me back to take his job."
Originally, her father was going to leave the job to his younger brother. The eldest brother already had a job and didn't need his parents to worry about him.
Yi nodded slowly, this was indeed a good idea.
Life in the countryside is not easy, but it’s actually not that bad in villages near the mountains.
If she really went back, given the current situation of the Ge family, Ge Sujuan might not live as well as she would in Kaoshantun.
One person is taking care of four children, one of whom is still a baby.
But these are not the main point. The main point is, “This is actually not easy to do.”
“It’s really hard to handle.”
"My father is a fitter, a skilled worker. If they really send me back, I won't be able to take over his job. I'll have to change jobs, which means my salary will drop and I won't be able to support the family... Besides, my second sister doesn't want to. She wants my father to sell his job to her brother-in-law..."
When talking about Ge Erjie, Ge Sujuan's voice was tinged with anger.
From this we can judge that the relationship between these two sisters can no longer be said to be bad, but is almost like enemies.
She did not comment on this, but asked, "What about you? What are your plans?"
"My father wrote to me this time, asking me for 200 yuan and 50 kilograms of national food coupons, and threatened that if I didn't give them to him, he would cut off all ties with me."
At this point, she laughed, and Yi Chichi was shocked by her calm tone.
"I don't have that much money, nor can I afford that many food coupons, so I can only do as he wishes. After all, they gave birth to me and raised me, so the 20 yuan and 20 kilograms of food coupons are my way of repaying them for their kindness in raising me over the years."
Yi Chichi didn't know what to say and could only comfort her and pat her.
"It will be fine, we will all be fine, the future is bright, don't lose heart, you can still be wonderful alone."
"Yes, from today on, I will live completely for myself."
She smiled with relief, "Chi Chi, thank you for listening to me. I'll go talk to Mingyue about borrowing the food coupons first."
"good."
A few minutes after she left, Uncle Yaozi came back, smiling, and took out an oil-paper bag from his arms and handed it to her, "Eat it while it's hot."
Yi Chichi reached out to take it and opened the hot oil paper package. Inside was a fragrant pig's trotter, and he was immediately surprised.
"Where did it come from?"
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