"Dad, I'm back."
"Oh my, my Lingling is here. She's grown taller. She's really grown up now."
Qiu Jianshe rubbed his hands, not knowing how to express his excitement. His daughter has grown up now, and she can no longer be carried on his neck or shoulders like she was when she was little.
"Why don't you go to the bottom lane first? You're just standing here, didn't you notice that I'm holding something in my hand? How can you be so dull?" Unable to bear his indifferent look, Li Qingmei elbowed him.
"Dad, come and sit here. I bought some waders for you and mom. Try them on for size."
Qiu Yuling took out a pair of fleece-lined work shoes and asked Qiu Jianshe to put them on.
"This, how can I wear this? Let Dashu wear it. I have shoes." Qiu Jianshe took a look and said he was not interested. He didn't need it.
Is Qiu Yuling the kind of child who spoils her parents? She'll confront both her mother and father, regardless of their good intentions.
"This is my gift to you as a filial piety. No one else is allowed to give it to me. If you don't want to wear it, I will remember it. From now on, I will not buy your share. This will save me money and effort. I will ask you to do me a favor later." How could her third brother not be prepared?
"Dad said the wrong thing. My Lingling baby is now more powerful than your mother. It's not that Dad doesn't love her, I'm just afraid that she will be ruined."
As he spoke, his face was full of smiles, his wrinkled face, and his eyes were flattering. Qiu Yuling's heart softened immediately.
"Please sit over here and wear them. My second brother came over before he went on a mission and gave me a lot of tickets. They expired when I didn't use them, so I bought them all and brought them back. It's not really my filial piety. There's also my second brother's share. I also bought some for my third brother, but I didn't have time to take them out."
In fact, the second brother’s ticket was only enough to buy one pair, and the rest were restored one to one by her and ordered through the system, exactly the same as those in the department store.
The kid is the same way.
"You're still changing your socks? My feet haven't been washed yet. Wait a minute, Dad will go wash my feet. I'll put on new socks and new shoes later."
Qiu Jianshe didn't dare to refuse for ruining his socks anymore. When he saw that they were all new, he went to get some water to soak his feet without saying a word.
"Third brother, then you try this pair."
Qiu Dashu was already waiting on the side, and he put on his clothes quickly without his sister reminding him.
"That's just right."
Li Qingmei also put down her things and came over to take a look. "They look great. Take them off and wear them during the New Year. I'll also put a pair of insoles inside for you to keep them from getting damaged.
Where's mine? I have one too."
Wow, her mother has improved. Qiu Yuling took out another pair of women's shoes from her bag and handed them to her mother.
"I just burned my feet last night, so I won't try to imitate your father and make a fool of myself. I'll try it now."
For a moment, the three of them were immersed in the joy of getting new shoes. It was then that Li Qingmei realized her daughter hadn't paid for anything for her. "Where's yours? You only have ours, and nothing for yourself?"
"Well, I don't like wearing those. I like wearing old cloth shoes. Mom, can you make me a pair of new cotton shoes in the next two days? I want the kind with laces."
"You kid, you don't have enough tickets? Then don't buy me a pair of clothes. I'll buy you a pair of clothes. Why would I need to wear such nice clothes when I'm working in the fields..."
"Really not, I really want to wear my mother's brand." She can wear as many of these old cloth shoes as she wants. I'm afraid that if she misses this opportunity, she may never see them again.
Li Qingmei didn't believe what the girl said at all. Who doesn't owe a pair of Liberation Shoes at this time? Adults and children all love them, but she is the only one who can do it with her mouth.
But these three pairs of feet were much bigger than Qiu Yuling's feet, so they couldn't distribute them even if they wanted to. Moreover, they had no tickets, so even if they wanted to buy the shoes for their daughter now, they couldn't.
"No, Mom and Dad, look at the socks on my feet. There are two new pairs of socks that are also mine. These socks are tighter. I really don't like them. Otherwise, wouldn't these three pairs of socks be enough to buy a pair of shoes?"
When the atmosphere became wrong, Qiu Yuling secretly cried out, "Oh no! She had made a mistake of taking things for granted."
Just like the story that people often tell later about the mother who always says she doesn’t like fish every time she eats it, everyone else knows what’s going on, and this act of self-sacrifice is a real letdown.
No, I have to find some time to go out and make up for it, otherwise none of them will feel comfortable wearing it.
Just do it.
The next day, Qiu Yuling took Xiaohui out.
Her mother didn't ask any further questions. After all, there were only a few of her classmates' homes, so where else could she go?
Qiu Yuling was always very careful when making fakes. She didn't take out the exact same shoes, but went to the supply and marketing cooperative first to check out the styles they were selling.
Because she pulled the cloth first and then wanted to look at the shoes, the salesperson, although lazy, still brought them to her.
"Comrade, do you have a smaller size for these shoes?"
"No more, only 37 left. Do you want one? There are only two pairs left."
"Thank you, they are a little too big." She handed the shoes back and simultaneously placed an order for a pair of identical ones in the system mall. Before she even left the supply and marketing cooperative, the things were already packed in her bag.
Her cloth coupons were the few left over from the ones Qiu Dahe had given her, all of which were one or two feet long.
She tore it into corduroy to make shoe uppers.
Now I have no more tickets, but I still have plenty of cash.
Since they were all out, she simply went to take a look at the principal and his wife. After thinking for a while, she found two pieces of defective cloth similar to the one she had just seen them secretly tampering with in the supply and marketing cooperative.
This is the gift for visiting the door.
"Little Gray, walk."
They say an old horse knows the way, and her little grey horse also has this ability to find the way. She gathered the reins and rode away.
It was cold this time and Qiu Yuling didn't want to climb the wall, so she arrived at the school gate and started shouting for the principal and Teacher Meng at the top of her lungs.
"Hey, here it comes, here it comes."
"Hello, Teacher Meng." Qiu Yuling smiled with her eyes curved.
"Yuling is here. Are you cold? Come inside quickly. When is your day off?"
"It's not cold. I'm wearing warm clothes. I've been on vacation for a while, but something delayed me and I just got back yesterday."
“…”
The two men first went to the pasture to tie up the donkey, but they didn't see the old principal come out along the way.
"Mr. Meng, is the principal out?"
"No, this winter, I've been sick twice in a row, and now I'm still lying on the kang in confinement after giving birth."
"Ah? Is it serious?"
"It's okay. It's an old problem. It will be fine after sex. It's nothing serious."
Qiu Yuling lifted the door curtain and saw the principal, wearing his clothes, trying to get up.
"Just lean on him like this and don't get up. Besides, I'm not a stranger." Although she was worried, after seeing that he looked okay, Qiu Yuling made a little joke.
"It's okay, I'll get up. My bones hurt from lying like this all the time."
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