Li Qingmei was tired of chasing after him, and only after she repeatedly promised not to fight did Qiu Yuling stop. "Come here, mother, I want to talk to you nicely."
I've sworn to my grandmother, so Li Qingmei won't do anything weird, right? Qiu Yuling thought for a moment and let Wan Jin go. He almost tripped both her and her mother.
Qiu Yuling sat over, but her mother didn't react at all. As soon as she lowered her shoulders, Li Qingmei grabbed her and pressed her on her legs, slapping her three times.
"You even swore with your mother that you wouldn't hit me, so why did you hit me?" Qiu Yuling also believed her lies.
"I swore on your grandma's oath. Your dad's not here, so no one objects."
Qiu Yuling: ...It's still possible! Thank her on behalf of her mother-in-law.
"Tell me, today it's just the two of us. Tell me once and for all how you did it."
"...Every time I go over there, I tell them my dad is waiting for me and sent me to buy something. They usually believe me. After all, I'm not sent by an adult, so where would I get the money?"
"Well, where did you get the money? You can't afford this with your meager possessions."
"Hey, I broke open my share of the little goldfish."
"What?" A sharp voice pierced the sky. Li Qingmei didn't care about anything else and went to the cellar in a rage. Sure enough, two were missing. This girl was sensible and only took her own share.
No, what's the point of being sensible?! This bastard deserves a beating. Why is she so lax? It turns out she stole something. I was thinking of giving her more money to make up for her share. It's not good to let that little girl support the whole family on her own...
Li Qingmei was really angry. Not only was she panting, but tears were also coming out. Qiu Yuling had a lot of offensive words ready to say, but seeing her like this, she felt it difficult to speak.
I changed my words and comforted her calmly, "Mom, you also said that everyone should have a share. I am willing to give my share to supplement the family expenses. As for the future, I have hands and feet and can study, so it will be better.
The problem is that we are short of everything, we don’t have enough to eat or wear, and we have to save and save until the whole family becomes pale and thin, with dull minds. Then when the time comes, we have to spend money on medicine and buying a wife, right?
"......How much money is left?" Li Qingmei was tired. This girl was too opinionated and kept talking. If she didn't say anything, it would be fine, but once she did, she would have to convince her.
"How much is left is my business. You don't have to worry about it. I'll take care of it myself. Just trust me, okay?"
Damn it, I don't want my share anymore. "Okay, but it won't count as your share. It's considered a public share. The rest will be redistributed later. No matter how much is left, it will be divided equally among the four of you brothers and sisters."
What she didn't say was that if she ate, drank and used it all, she would accept it. For their poor family, they just had to make ends meet first. They wouldn't save for the well-being of their descendants if they didn't have the means.
"Don't be too generous. Buy what you should buy and don't mess around with what you shouldn't buy. You took two, so you're not too old. Keep a record of it. If you need anything later, I can tell them."
Qiu Yuling breathed a sigh of relief. She had finally communicated with the leader and reached a consensus!
Her mother even conceded that she had bought them from the underworld, and she didn't even need to make up the so-called distant connections. She only needed to take things out of the space in the future, and Qiu's mother would make the rest reasonable and legal.
After the two of them finished muttering, Mother Qiu suppressed her worries, stirred the oil residue in the pot, and asked again, unwilling to give up, "Did you exchange the two small fish? How much did you exchange them for?"
"I exchanged them all. I exchanged more than dad did. Two for fifteen hundred yuan." Li Qingmei, who was troubled to spend even two cents, felt her chest pounding uncontrollably when she thought of her daughter carrying so much money.
"Give this much money to me and I'll give it to you regularly. I'll also let your eldest brother follow me in the future."
Well, she's back to the beginning again. She has never really been to the black market, and she doesn't even know which way the door to that place opens. Now she has to pay money and control people, so how can she have room to operate? All the preparations before, wasn't it in vain?
"No, you don't have to redistribute it. I just took my share. How, where and when I spend it are all my own business. You are not allowed to interfere, and you are not allowed to let others supervise me." Qiu Yuling started to act like a spoiled child.
She also understood that such a huge sum of money could easily make adults feel uneasy, but Qiu's mother's conditions did not apply to her.
After a tug of war between the two, Qiu Yuling kept 500 yuan and handed over 1,000 yuan. Qiu's mother decided that she and her husband would give her another 1,000 yuan, which would be fair to all the children. So let it be. She was so tired!
Qiu Yuling was also tired. If she just wanted to be comfortable, she could just let it go. After all, she would not lack anything.
Because they live together day and night, she really considers herself a member of this family.
Li Qingmei sent her daughter back to study. After all, she had skipped a grade. Although she didn't say it on her face, it was definitely more difficult for her to learn than the older children. So after work, she didn't cut grass and came back directly to prepare meals.
She scooped the boiled lard into a clay pot, mixed the lard residue with cabbage, vermicelli, radish, onion, ginger, garlic... to make dumpling filling. She also kneaded the dough in the stall, and when she thought it was about time, she called the daughter who was memorizing her lessons out to make dumplings.
Qiu Yuling rolled the dough while she pinched the dumplings. The two of them worked together seamlessly. Just as they finished pinching the last dumpling, Qiu Jianshe and Qiu Dashan also came in.
"Wash your hands and eat." Without Qiu Dashu's surprise and support, the others ate whatever was available. Even if it was a rare meal, their eyes lit up but they didn't say much.
At this point, Li Qingmei seemed to have tacitly accepted that Qiu Yuling was capable of managing her household. She bought and prepared everything for her, and she wasn't surprised to see her. However, she would occasionally hesitate to speak, and would look for opportunities to pull her daughter over and whisper in her ear.
Qiu Yuling also got two flowery cotton jackets this year, one thin and one thick. She put on the cotton-padded jackets on her feet as soon as November arrived.
When she returned from delivering a coat to her grandmother, she also brought back a rabbit fur vest and a pair of sheepskin boots. Qiu Yuling tried them on and found them a little too big, perhaps because they were specially made to be larger.
The vest was fine; it could be worn if it was too big or too small, but the boots were not. Mother Qiu worked by the kerosene lamp for two more nights, and on the third day, she padded the boots with a pair of thick felt insoles.
Qiu Yuling didn't have a mirror, so she waited until late at night when everyone was asleep, put on this outfit, and ran to the farm hut to take a good look at herself.
It is covered with fur from head to toe, like a little hunter, and looks very nice.
"Yuling, you have a lot of rabbits. Do you have any extra furs? I went back and told my grandma about it. She asked me to ask. She wants to exchange some rabbit furs with you..." Wang Aihong, who had not been with her for a long time, stopped her on the way home from school in the afternoon and asked hesitantly.
"I'll go back and ask my mother if there's anything left." Qiu Yuling had already taught her skills to her family. Her mother asked her to focus on her studies, so she now has to worry less about housework.
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