Lin Guoqing sent Lin Yulan out. Standing at the door, Lin Yulan asked his brother curiously,
"From the way Mom sounded, what are you going to do with the remaining half of the mushrooms?"
Lin Guoqing hesitated for a long time, then thought that the person in front of him was his biological sister and she was trustworthy, so he told the truth in her ear.
Lin Yulan immediately opened her eyes wide, covered her mouth and looked around. Fortunately, it was time to go home and cook and eat, and no one was hanging around outside.
"Are you crazy? What if you get caught?"
Lin Guoqing chuckled, "We just sell some vegetables, nothing else. We pick mushrooms and dig bamboo shoots from the mountains ourselves, so it can't be considered speculation."
Lin Guoqing didn't say that he was picking vegetables to sell first, for fear of scaring his sister. He just said that he sold whatever he could dig up in the mountains. It was a business with no capital investment, just some effort.
"That's a small black market over there, selling all sorts of stuff. There's even a guy selling food coupons. If he gets caught, he'll probably be in trouble..."
"What if that happens? What are you going to do with Chunhua and the others? You have four children, the oldest is only 8 years old! Are you forcing her to jump into the river?"
Lin Guoqing touched his nose and said softly, "Chunhua asked me to go..."
Lin Yulan: ...
"Sister, Chunhua said that in this world, the brave will die of overeating, while the timid will die of starvation. You also said that I have four children in my family, and the little food distributed by the village is not enough?" Lin Guoqing stroked his hair as he said this, feeling a little irritated.
"At the end of the year, Chunhua and I only have about 40 yuan in work points, and we have to ask people to buy tickets and food. And our eldest daughter's tuition and books for one semester are 6 yuan, which is 12 yuan a year. In the second half of the year, our second daughter will also go to school, and the tuition alone will cost 24 yuan for the two of us.
If we don't find another way out, our whole family will be left starving!"
Lin Yulan moved her lips for a moment, and finally managed to utter, "...Shuying is already 8 years old and can work...Girls don't need to study so much..."
As a result, Lin Guoqing shut her up with a look, his eyes were full of disapproval of his own sister.
"Sister, our grandma was so stingy back then, but she still paid for both of us to finish elementary school, didn't she? You graduated from elementary school, and I graduated from elementary school too. She didn't have any education, but she never said that you didn't need to go to school because you were a girl, right?
My father once said that if you hadn't been educated, the old lady from my brother-in-law's family wouldn't have liked you. But you..."
Lin Guoqing said with a bit of disappointment, "You are considered an educated intellectual. Didn't your teacher teach you about gender equality in class? How can you say that girls don't need to study?!"
Lin Yulan was a little irritated by what her brother said, but she still wanted to defend herself.
"Didn't you say your family doesn't have enough money..."
"Even if the money is not enough, we can't let our eldest daughter drop out of school! Either none of them go, or all of them go!" Lin Guoqing thought of his nieces and felt a little headache.
"Sister, I'm not saying this, but you and your husband have already had so many children, that's enough. You might as well use that little money to send someone to school. Maybe he'll become successful in the future. If you don't have a son, then you don't have a son. Can you force someone to die just because they don't have a son?"
"You have a son yourself, so of course you say that!" Speaking of her son, Lin Yulan became even more unhappy. She turned around and walked away with a stern face.
"Alright, alright, I won't talk to you anymore. I have to go back to cook. Whatever your family does is your own business. I can't interfere. Just be careful."
Then she walked back with the basket in one hand and her belly in the other.
"This baby must be a son, it must be..."
Lin Guoqing watched his sister walk away and sighed helplessly. Just like Lin Yulan said, that was already their family's business. It was useless for him to say more. He could only help her make a wish when worshipping the Kitchen God every day, wishing that his sister would have a son this time and stop having children.
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Chen Chunhua began to boil lard. The aroma filled the entire room. Liang Shengdi and several children couldn't help but stick to the kitchen door, swallowing their saliva.
Lin Guoqing saw this scene when he came back from outside. He held his forehead helplessly and moved people away one by one.
"Danny, have you done your homework today? Why don't you go and do it?"
"Second brother, third brother, have you touched the eggs today? No? Then why don't you take your brother there quickly? It's getting dark now. Be careful not to get shit on your hands in the dark!"
"Mom... take Xiaomei and sit further away. Chunhua is blocked here and can't move around to get something... I'll definitely call you when dinner is over, and you'll be the first one to be called!"
After finally getting everyone out of the way, he sneaked in again and stood beside Shen Chunhua, shaking his head.
"What a luxury... such a luxury... It's not even a festival, but people are actually eating pork!"
"It's a gift, are you going to just leave it there and wait for it to go bad? Besides..." Chen Chunhua gave him a blank look, then thought of the seven yuan and forty-one cents. "Didn't you make so much money yesterday? You could have bought five or six kilograms of pork with it. Why are you so upset?"
Talking about last night, Lin Guoqing kept laughing. He finally had time to show off about it.
"You don't know, last night I caught a five-step snake in the mountains..."
Chen Chunhua was so scared that she almost overturned the pot. After she carefully poured the lard into the clay pot and put the pot in place, she finally had time to hit Lin Guoqing several times.
"I've already told you! Don't go into Mount Tai. The snakes are frozen. If they weren't frozen, they would bite you to death at this time... You damn ghost!!!"
The most aggressive snake that just woke up from hibernation was the five-step snake. Chen Chunhua broke out in a cold sweat just thinking about it, and she was really angry when she talked about it.
"Don't be anxious, don't be anxious, don't be anxious! Oh my ancestors..."
Seeing that her punches were endless and there was no way to dodge them, Lin Guoqing quickly reached out and grabbed both of her hands and held them in his arms. Chen Chunhua couldn't break free and could only look at him angrily.
"Look! Didn't I hit the snake because I was sure it wasn't awake? And I hit it multiple times, making sure it was completely cool before I caught it! I didn't dare put it in my arms after I caught it, for fear it would wake up and bite me. You see how careful I was!"
Chen Chunhua suddenly grasped a key point, "...then where did you put it?"
Lin Guoqing: "...I took off my underwear..."
Chen Chunhua blinked, and suddenly couldn't hold it in anymore. She looked at Lin Guoqing and laughed out loud. She said, why did Lin Guoqing have to go back to his room and lock the door when he came back in the morning? It turned out that he went to put on his underwear.
Lin Guoqing touched his nose awkwardly. This was something he would remember for the rest of his life. He had been feeling embarrassed since last night.
"Stop laughing. Are you going to listen or not? If not, I'm leaving."
Chen Chunhua touched her ribs which hurt from laughing and nodded quickly.
"Listen, listen, and then what?"
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