The next day, when Xuemei was about to get off work, she saw Li Deliang coming in with a happy face.
"Xuemei, do you still have malted milk?" Li Deliang asked.
"Uncle Li, malted milk is not sold by me. It is bought by my neighbor, Sister Zhang. But malted milk is a rare thing and it will be gone in two days once it arrives. Uncle Li, if you need it urgently, go to the county town tomorrow to see if it is still available?" Xuemei replied.
"If that's all gone, then get me a pound of White Rabbit milk candy! I should still have some, right? Also, a box of mung bean cakes and a pound of fruit candy. Here's a pound of candy tickets." Li Deliang asked.
"Yes, Uncle Li, what good news happened today that makes you so happy and generous!" Xuemei asked casually while weighing things.
"Hahaha, your uncle has a grandson. He went to the police station to register his household registration today!" Li Deliang smiled from ear to ear.
Xuemei felt a little strange at first, then thought for a moment, maybe Li Deliang's wife had given birth, but wasn't she only seven months pregnant? How could she have given birth?
Although Xuemei was curious, she didn't ask. After weighing the items, she said to Li Deliang, "Uncle, congratulations! These things you just bought are worth three yuan, fifty-five cents, and a pound of sugar coupons!"
"Okay, I'll give you the money and a piece of wedding candy!" After paying, Li Deliang took out a White Rabbit milk candy from the things he had just bought and put it on the counter.
After dinner in the evening, Xuemei asked while clearing the table, "Mom, has Li Deliang's wife given birth yet?"
"No, why are you asking her suddenly?" Liu's mother said unhappily.
"I met Li Deliang at the supply and marketing cooperative today. He said he had a grandson and became a grandfather. I thought he was so happy that he called his son his grandson!" Xuemei explained.
"Sister, he is not wrong this time. His grandson was born to his eldest daughter outside!" Qing Ya interrupted.
"Li Fen, I saw her when I went down the mountain yesterday. She didn't go out of town, so how come she has a child? Is she married?" Xuemei guessed.
Mother Liu looked at Xuemei, then said to Ruirui and Feifei, "Ruirui, Feifei, go back to your room and do your homework or read. Close the door!"
After Ruirui and Feifei entered the room, Qingya whispered, "Everyone in the village says that Li Fen probably didn't go out of town last year. She might have found a place to hide and give birth. Someone saw the Li family's child, and he looked a lot like Li Fen. Li Fen even smelled of milk. Her family even told everyone they found the child. They really think the villagers are fools."
Mother Liu glared at Qingya and said, "You are so young, don't act like the gossipy women in the village!"
"Mom, there are still a few people in the village who don't know about it. Besides, they took the child to the commune openly today." Qing Ya retorted.
"Qingya, mom wants you to stop talking nonsense outside. You are still young and don't know that girls are treated very harshly in other places!" Xuemei explained.
"Your elder sister is right. Although the world is not like before, it is always much harsher on us women. In the future, you should try to have less contact with Li Deliang's youngest daughter. I feel that their family is rotten from the root. If the top beam is crooked, the bottom beam will also be crooked!" Liu's mother said seriously.
"Mom, I know. Ever since Li Li's mother was caught cheating last year, she has become gloomy and I have been hiding from her at school!" Qing Ya replied.
"I'm glad you understand. You should go back to your room and review. You will have the entrance exam in two weeks after the summer harvest!" Liu's mother ordered.
"Mom is right, Qingya, mark the parts you don't understand and I will teach you later!" Xuemei also added.
After hearing this, Qingya returned to her room with a worried look on her face.
Xuemei then asked, "Then isn't Li Fen afraid of being arrested by the Revolutionary Committee?"
Father Liu then stood up from his seat and said, "Xuemei, you're still too naive. How could that old-timer Li Deliang not have thought of this? Maybe they've already arranged it. If someone reports it, they'll say that her daughter married someone from another place and the other person is dead."
I'm sure she's already contacted someone, and there's also her wife's family to help. You should also pay more attention when you work in the future. There are so many tricks in these twists and turns! You and Han Chen still have a lot to learn."
"It's okay, I have you and mom, I'm not afraid!" Xuemei said, holding one arm each of Liu's father and mother.
"That's true. If you encounter any problems at work in the future, tell me and your father. We have more experience than you!" said Liu's mother.
"That's right. As the saying goes, three cobblers are better than one Zhuge Liang," Liu's father also said.
"You are a cobbler, aren't Xuemei and I? Cobbler, the table is cleared, you should go and wash the dishes!" Liu's mother joked.
"Okay, I'm a cobbler, and now the cobbler is going to work!" Father Liu also said with a smile.
Xuemei also laughed when she heard this.
This year, the village has two more tractors, so the summer harvest will be two or three days faster than in previous years. However, Han Chen and Mingwu drove the tractors to other villages to help.
Han Chen went to other villages to help, and he gained something every day. Today was the third day of helping. He got fifty cents on the first day and five eggs on the second day.
Xuemei had taken advantage of Qingya's absence to rest up today, planning to make something delicious for her to eat at school tomorrow. After finishing her meal early in the morning, Xuemei, Ruirui, and Feifei each took some steamed potatoes and their tools and headed up the mountain, not planning to return for lunch.
Qingya also wanted to follow, but Xuemei refused and asked Qingya to review and memorize quietly at home alone, as the entrance examination would be in about ten days.
Xuemei and her two siblings were lucky today and found a lot of shiitake mushrooms, which must have grown in the past few days. There are fewer people going up the mountain recently, so Xuemei and her two siblings picked a full basket of shiitake mushrooms.
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