Maybe her aunt was indeed well-off, or maybe she was reluctant to leave her elder sister as she was about to go on a long journey, and in the end, all of this turned into tangible love and the desire to do something for Qiu Yuling.
However, after the person concerned sincerely refused, the red coat was replaced with seven feet of blue cloth and five feet of white cloth.
Only after Qiu's mother repeatedly assured her that she would make Qiu Yuling a pair of overalls and a white shirt like the one in the painting did Li Qingju give up.
Of course, none of Qiu's mother's 20 cents were spent. Her sister refused to give in and said that her uncle had sent back a lot of tickets and money. Originally, Qiu's mother did not have enough money to buy so much meat, but her sister took the initiative to contribute a few meat tickets to get it.
When they were going back, my aunt had separated from them in the town. Mother Qiu, carrying a basket on her back and holding Qiu Yuling's hand, went over and found that Uncle Qiu Wu had been waiting there for a long time.
After knocking on the pipe, Uncle Qiu Wu moved the backpack a little. There was no place for him to sit, but Qiu Yuling could carry it on the beam on the other side of the donkey cart.
Qiu Yuling felt sorry for the donkey and refused it sternly.
"Lingling is a school-going kid after all, that's why she's different." Uncle Qiu Wu praised her happily, and with a "bang", he drove the donkey cart away.
Qiu Yuling walked all the way back with her mother. For the first time, her mother felt that it was really tiring for her daughter to go to and from school four times every day. She thought of bringing some food back for her daughter and letting her rest at school at noon.
Qiu Yuling didn't know yet, and even if she knew, she wouldn't resist too much. She had already achieved primitive accumulation and no longer had to be obsessed with walking to earn energy like she did when she was penniless.
What's more, the weather was getting hotter and she had other ideas.
Later, after Qiu's mother and father discussed it, Qiu Yuling immediately agreed as soon as it was mentioned.
After all, Uncle Qiu Wuye had four legs and wheels, so he arrived much earlier than them. When they arrived, Uncle Qiu Wuye was already smoking a pipe under the old locust tree opposite.
After thanking her fifth uncle, Qiu's mother picked up the backpack and took her daughter home.
Although it is not summer yet, the weather is still getting hot. Mother Qiu plans to go home and fry the meat into sauce and store it in a clay pot. She can just cut some vegetables and use it directly on the day.
Qiu Yuling carried her own small backpack and went out to pull weeds for the birds with mouths in the backyard.
She was actually quite lazy. Aside from the top layer, which she had picked with her own hands, the rest was usually smuggled from the space farm. Sometimes, when no one was around, she would find a nest of sedge grass or red willows and slip into the space.
She did the same thing today as usual.
Otherwise, why do people say that it is easy for Ma and Li to make money? Look how easy it is for her to make money now. Nowadays, money makes money. Crops are constantly ripening, livestock are constantly being slaughtered, and fruits and vegetables are constantly being harvested. She only needs to tap the touchpad on time and spend a few points to harvest or plant.
She doesn't even have to worry about sales. She can sell directly to the system mall, and there is no risk of it going on the black market.
After taking a shower and quickly eating a bowl of fried noodles, she came out. This is how she maintains her picky eater image.
Qiu Yuling fed the pigs, sheep, and chickens and collected eggs before her father and her eldest and third brothers finally arrived.
But everyone had a tall pile of grass on their backs.
As usual, Mr. Qiu stacked up the fruits that had been dried earlier, and continued to turn over and dry the newly picked fruits.
He also took out a handful of green apricots from his pocket, which made Qiu Yuling's face turn pale with jealousy.
"Today's meal is especially delicious." Qiu Dashu said with emotion.
Because Qiu's mother had fried meat sauce, the edge of the pot was covered with oil. Just this little bit of oil could elevate the dish to a higher level. It shows how hard life was in those days.
After hearing Qiu Yuling's joke, Mother Qiu rarely refrained from scolding. She only asked them how many times they had not even had a full meal and how they had forgotten the days of eating bran and tree bark.
They are used to working in this area and have long taken measures to survive by relying on groundwater and diverting water from the Yellow River. There are many areas that usually rely on the weather for their livelihood, but many entire production teams have to migrate uprooted during the three-year drought.
Qiu Yuling knew, of course. Back when she was studying history, they talked about boiling belts and eating rubber soles. Now she had experienced it firsthand. This family didn't care about eating these things because she came with the golden finger.
Those little tricks that she now thinks are full of loopholes, if it weren't for Mr. and Mrs. Qiu repeatedly discussing and concluding that they were hidden by people in the black market and identified by them as saboteurs, she really couldn't stand the detailed questioning.
However, no matter how incredible the track the family deduced, they never doubted Qiu Yuling's uniqueness and the incredible existence of [Zhi Fu Bao Farm].
In their eyes, Qiu Yuling was still as quiet as she was when she was little. Fortunately, she went to school and not only became smarter, but also became stronger. As for her picky eating, this child had always eaten cat food since she was a child.
In the eyes of Mr. and Mrs. Qiu and all her brothers, it seemed that every change or difference in Qiu Yuling was justified by her growth.
Even though my daughter is a good slingshot shooter, I only feel proud of her and lament that she has only brothers and no sisters, so she doesn't know what girls are like.
After dinner, it was time to go to bed. Qiu Yuling listened to her father's snoring, brainwashing herself and treating it as a lullaby.
But it really didn't work. The quieter the night got, the louder the snoring became. Qiu Yuling had no choice but to sit up holding the quilt.
Mother Qiu forced herself to open her eyes, and in the starlight, she saw her little daughter with a face full of resentment. She kicked Father Qiu awake and sent him to the main room.
Separated by a wall, it can only be said that it is slightly better than being right next to the ear.
Although Qiu Yuling was often rebellious, her parents had already worked all day and she couldn't bear to let her mother take care of her emotions late at night, so she had to lie back down with her pillow in her arms.
For the first time, Qiu's mother felt that her daughter's request for a room of her own was not excessive.
Soon the Qiu family started to build the house in full swing.
Mother Qiu followed the crowd and shamelessly bought 50 kilograms of coarse grains on credit from the team based on the number of people. The team was not well-off, and that day Uncle Qiu Wu went to the brigade to buy grain on credit from the commune.
The three rooms that the Qiu family has now were built by Qiu's father and mother after the family split up. At that time, conditions were limited, so they just made do with what they had.
Now that the three sons are growing older day by day, after much discussion, they decided to add four more rooms, giving each of the four children one room without any favoritism.
Father Qiu and his two sons had already laid the foundation early on. Now that they wanted to add another house, they were still a little short of soil, so they borrowed soil from a relative in the same village. After work, Father Qiu would go to the relative's house to "repay his debt."
After everything was ready, they called on the villagers for help. With everyone adding fuel to the fire, in just three days, only the doors and windows of the Qiu family's house were left.
Mr. Qiu Wu hasn't finished building this one yet, so there's no need to rush. Father Qiu has taken his son to help the neighbors, as they are not the only family that needs to add to their house.
By the way, Li Xiaojuan’s father also came out with his two children and temporarily lived in a dilapidated house left by a family that had lost its family a few years ago. After fattening up the piglets, he also planned to build his own house.
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