Chapter 301: A beating to teach them a lesson?
The food allowance is 45 jin per person per month, with coarse grains, rice and flour accounting for one third each, 1.5 jin of peanut oil per person per month, and 3 jin of soybeans per person per month.
After deducting the food expenses, the actual salary will be about 14 yuan less.
Even so, I can still save sixty or seventy yuan a month. Considering the current consumption level, this income is really not low.
But He Yunsong sent all the money and tickets without even saying a word, leaving Zhang Xin with only a few dollars. She really couldn't blame her for being angry.
"His uncle's leg was broken and he needed surgery to amputate it. His family was extremely poor and they had no other choice but to call him."
Yi Chichi sighed, it was all because of poverty.
If there was any way, it wouldn't have happened to He Yunsong.
But no matter how you look at it, He Yunsong is not in the right.
His mistake was that he did not discuss it with Zhang Xin.
So, “Need money urgently?”
Zhang Xin knew as soon as she heard it that Yi Chi Chi wanted to support her, so she quickly waved her hand and said, "I have money."
She and her grandfather both had salaries, and their expenses were not much before they got married, so they saved a lot.
"Besides, my grandfather and I are going to get paid soon."
The implication is: I have no use for you.
Yi Chichi didn't know what to say. He couldn't speak for Lao He. There was no reason for it.
So I could only laugh dryly and ask, "So what are you going to do?"
"I have no idea."
She said with some distress, "What Lao He did made me really angry, but he was trying to save people. I think it's unnecessary to quarrel with him. After all, we are not in dire straits yet."
"Don't make a fuss. I'm feeling frustrated again."
This is really grinding.
The two looked at each other, and Zhang Xin asked her, "Chi, if you encounter this kind of problem, what would you do?"
Yi Chichi was so nervous.
She really had no sense of empathy in this matter and could not come up with an effective solution.
After all, she is the one in charge of the financial power of their family, and she knows everything. Those who don't hand over the money will make their own small account book for her to review.
She has to look at it.
Let her give advice...
What should I do if things keep getting worse?
"How about letting my old Wen give him a good beating to teach him a lesson?"
Zhang Xin was speechless. What a bad idea.
"If you don't feel sorry for your old Wen, I still feel sorry for my old He."
Waving her hands, she said with an annoyed look, "Let's not talk about this anymore. I'll just walk around by myself and that'll be enough."
What could Yi Chichi do but listen to her.
In the end, she stood up and didn't leave, but urged, "Let's go."
"???"
Yi Chichi was confused and pointed at himself, "You called me?"
Didn't you say take a walk? "Yeah, let's go for a walk."
OK.
"Where are you going?"
"Go to the beach and get some coconuts to stew the chicken."
Yi Chichi's eyes lit up, "Where did the chicken come from?"
"I bought it at the vegetable market. Don't you know that the vegetable market is selling chicken today?"
She shook her head in frustration, she knew nothing, she was so exhausted from being smelled that she couldn't get up in the morning.
"Are there any left now?"
If there is one, she will go and get one.
Zhang Xin sighed at her expectant gaze, and Yi Chichi suddenly felt as bitter as if he had eaten Coptis chinensis.
"Okay, don't be sad. When we get the coconut back, I'll give you half of the chicken."
"Forget it. Your chicken isn't that big."
It's not even enough for the three of them to eat, and if they give her half, what will they eat?
"Coconuts are fine."
Zhang Xin didn't say anything, but she made up her mind that when Coconut was brought back, even if she wasn't given half a chicken, she would at least bring a bowl of chicken soup to her and Lao Wen in the evening.
Yi Chichi had no idea what she was thinking. He thought that since they were going to the beach, he might as well bring a bucket with him.
"See if there's any seafood to pick up on the beach."
"Okay."
So, the two of them went to the beach with the bucket.
I thought there wouldn't be many people at the beach at this time, but when I got there I found there were quite a lot of people.
Two children passed by cheering, and then a group of half-grown children came by.
One of them, a boy wearing an ill-fitting shorts and barefoot, and covered in black, ran over and turned back to look at them.
Then he rushed back and stood in front of Zhang Xin, speaking in dialect.
Yi Chi didn't understand for a long time, and all his attention was on his teeth.
The skin color is too dark, which makes the teeth look too white, the kind that is shiny white, and the whole face is exposed when the mouth is opened.
The two spoke in dialect for several minutes, and then Zhang Xin pulled Yi Chichi like a chicken with blood injected, "Let's go, let's follow little brother to pick up fruits."
"Hmm? Picking up fruit? Where?"
"Fruit forest."
Yi Chichi was confused, "Is there a fruit forest nearby?"
"Over the mountain."
Pointing to the mountains in the distance, Zhang Xin said excitedly, "There are many varieties of fruits over there. In addition to lychees, there is also a small green wild fruit that is also delicious."
Yi Chichi became interested, "Can I pick whatever I want?"
I don’t know if the young boy understood or not, but he spoke in dialect as soon as he opened his mouth.
Zhang Xin, who knew that she couldn't understand the local dialect, kindly translated for her. "The little girl said that these were all wild fruits, which adults don't like to eat, so the children picked them up and took them home to eat."
That is indeed possible.
I don’t know what they are.
With this expectation, Yi Chichi followed the two people quickly all the way.
After more than half an hour, we arrived at our destination.
Then she saw all kinds of wild fruits growing in abundance.
It is a real wild fruit.
Because the islands today have not yet formed large-scale fruit-growing areas, there are no lemons, durian, sapodillas, mangosteens, etc. that are famous in later generations.
But there are also many local fruits. Lychees and longans have a history of thousands of years, and so do mangoes.
There is a record in “A Record of the Western Regions of the Great Tang Dynasty” that “Ambrosia fruit is a rare treasure in the world”, which is referring to mango.
May and June are the seasons when lychees and mangoes mature in large quantities.
Even though fruits such as lychees, mangoes and bananas in this area have not yet been grown on a large scale, the yield is very optimistic.
When Zhang Xin saw these fruits, he was like a cat seeing a mouse, his eyes sparkling with excitement.
“There are so many fruits.”
She rubbed her hands, said something to the little brother, then took Yi Chichi and led the boy straight to the banana tree.
"I'll give it to you at a later time. This is delicious and very sweet."
He quickly broke off a banana and gave it to Yi Chichi, then broke off one for himself and started eating it on the spot.
“It’s a bit bitter.”
Yi Chichi took a bite and gave his evaluation.
Zhang Xin hummed, "It's not ripe yet. Cut it and keep it in a few days, then it will become delicious."
However, Yi Chichi had no interest in plantains. No matter whether they were plantains or bananas, the taste was a bit strange to her.
So, after eating one, she broke off a few more and then dived into the embrace of lychees and mangoes.
These are all unoptimized varieties. Compared with the better-tasting varieties of later generations, the lychees and mangoes here taste worse.
However, if something is ownerless and is not worth the money, don't throw it away.
Of course, she wasn't greedy and only picked a little before stopping.
The main reason is that the weather is hot, and in the era when there were no refrigerators, these fruits could not be kept for long. It would be a waste if you picked too many and didn't eat them quickly and they rotted and went bad.
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