Chapter 36: Settlement of Accounts
Li Fengyue frowned, "What do you know? You only know the money that Dad sent. If he really wanted to, he wouldn't have left us and run away to a foreign country. You bought you off with a little favor, you are so useless."
Li Fengxing was unhappy. She acted coquettishly towards her mother and said, "Mom, look at my sister. What's wrong with what I said? Look, my sister is working, and my father will send money back. The food supply will also increase every month. How many people envy us."
Li Fengxing is very satisfied with her current stable life. She is already sixteen years old. If she finds an opportunity and a job, her life will be even better. So she really doesn't understand why her sister is determined to leave here in such a hurry.
He Nianzhu has a soft personality. When the man is around, she listens to the man. When the man is gone, she listens to her eldest daughter in everything. In response to the youngest daughter's questions, she just smiled and said, "Xiaoxing, listen to your sister. She won't harm us."
Seeing that her sister still looked unconvinced, Li Fengyue carefully closed the courtyard door to avoid any accidents, and then pulled her mother and sister into the inner room.
"Mom, Xiaoxing, I'll tell you the truth. It was Uncle Li who asked me to prepare early. He is well-informed and may have known something in advance."
Speaking of Uncle Li, Li Fengyue's eyes flickered. She didn't expect that her old friend would still be kind to them after their father abandoned them.
"Sister, what do you mean? Don't scare me." Li Fengxing became a little scared when he heard his sister say that, afraid that his stable life would be disrupted.
He Nianzhu held her eldest daughter's hand tightly and said nervously, "Xiaoyue, what did your Uncle Li say? He..."
"Mom, don't be afraid. Uncle Li just asked us if we want to leave with him." Li Fengyue was still hesitating. She wanted to sell all the bills, cash out some of the money, and take her mother and sister to Shanghai. She thought that bigger cities would be safer, but Jiang Xinbai's words just now interrupted her delusion. It seemed that the safest thing was to follow Uncle Li.
"Leaving? Where is Uncle Li going?" Li Fengxing stared at his sister closely.
"Hong Kong." Li Fengyue uttered these two words softly, and then looked at her mother and sister seriously, "Mom, Xiaoxing, this matter is very serious, you must not let the news leak out."
Li Fengxing covered her mouth tightly and nodded heavily, but soon seemed to remember something, "Sister, if we leave, what about the things that Dad sent us?"
Li Fengyue rolled her eyes. "Come on, you're still thinking about the things Dad sent you. Don't you think about how long it's been since he sent you money?"
"Half a year." He Nianzhu sighed. She was counting the days. At this point, she had already figured out that her husband completely ignored the three of them.
"Sister, why didn't father take us with him when he went abroad? He took second mother Fengming and the others with him, so why didn't he take us?" Li Fengxing felt a little aggrieved and angry. According to the ancestral system, she and her sister were the legitimate daughters of the family, and the others were illegitimate daughters.
Li Fengyue looked at her mother carefully, then said, "Okay, Xiaoxing, there's no point in talking about this now. I'll assign you tasks now. Starting tomorrow, Mom, you and Xiaoxing take the cloth coupons to buy cloth, and I'll go buy sugar and oil."
"Then," Li Fengyue paused and looked at her mother, "Mom, Uncle Li can help us buy the boat tickets, but we may have to pay for it ourselves. Do you have any money?"
She calculated all her family assets, which amounted to only about two thousand yuan. However, this money was valuable in mainland China, but not in Hong Kong, so she didn't know whether Uncle Li would accept it or not.
Although He Nianzhu was weak, she was not stupid. She pursed her lips and said, "I also hid some large yellow croaker. Why don't you take them out and give them to your Uncle Li? We can only rely on him."
Li Fengyue didn't expect her mother to have hidden money, and it was the most valuable yellow croaker. She immediately breathed a sigh of relief, as she had finally collected enough money for the boat ticket.
"Mom, tell me the truth, do you have anything left?" Li Fengyue stared at her mother, and then explained: "Mom, I'm not thinking about your money, but we probably won't be back for a long, long time, so..."
Li Fengxing also looked at his mother eagerly, thinking that having money is better than having no money.
He Nianzhu sighed, "Yes, there are, but some things can't be taken out now, I..."
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The first thing Jiang Xinbai did when she got home was to count her property. Her husband received a salary of twenty-five yuan last month. He paid ten yuan for food, leaving fifteen yuan. Adding what was left at home, she only had twenty-five or twenty-six yuan left in total.
Think about it, I still owe my second sister's family a hundred yuan and two feet of cloth coupons, and this time I have to owe dozens of yuan more. I don't know if my brother-in-law will have any objection.
At night, after listening to his wife's words, Yang Jinsheng touched his chin, thinking about something, and then pointed to the opposite side, "How about I borrow some from my parents? It's not good to owe my second sister so much."
Jiang Xinbai was a little tempted, but soon shook his head, "Forget it, forget it. If my elder and second sisters-in-law find out about it, they'll have another fight. There's already a lot going on. My second sister won't mind, so I'll just be thick-skinned and lend it to them for a while."
Soon, Li Fengyue prepared everything Jiang Xinbai and the others wanted. Taking advantage of the dark and windy night, they exchanged money and goods, and everyone was very satisfied in the end.
Jiang Xinbai poked her husband's hand and said, "Go home quickly. I'm freezing." Then they carefully carried a lot of things and hurried home.
"Mom, sister-in-law, second sister-in-law, please come out quickly." Jiang Xinbai knocked on the doors one by one as soon as he got home.
"What's wrong? Xinbai, are you feeling unwell? Oh, Jinsheng, hurry up and take Xinbai to the hospital. Don't hurt my eldest grandson." Sun Erni became worried when she heard Jiang Xinbai's impatient voice, and she nervously blurted out a lot of words as soon as the door opened.
"Oh, Mom, I'm fine. Come and see what we brought back." Jiang Xinbai turned his body to the side, revealing the cotton cloth piled on the ground behind him.
"This, this is cotton cloth, third sister-in-law, where did you get it?" Li Huifen touched a roll of navy blue cloth with both hands, and she knew it was good material by the color.
Jiang Xinbai sat down slowly, took a sip of water, and then slowly said, "Of course I bought it with money. I borrowed eight feet of cloth coupons from my eldest sister-in-law and second sister-in-law each. If you are willing, you can just use the cloth this time, but we have to pay for the cloth."
Li Huifen curled her lips, "How can I miss yours? Tell me, how much is one foot?"
"Originally, the supply and marketing cooperative sold them at 50 cents a foot. To thank my elder sister-in-law and second sister-in-law for their help, I thought I'd just go with 35 cents. I'll make up the rest of the difference myself." Jiang Xinbai didn't lie. Li Fengyue did sell them at 50 cents a foot, and she had to add the hard work fee, so she would have to make up even more. But as she said, it was a way to thank my elder sister-in-law and the others.
When Li Huifen and Su Qiuyan heard this, their eyes lit up and they said with a smile, "That's great, we should start choosing."
"Hey, we agreed in advance that I will give you eight feet each, no more." Jiang Xinbai got thirty-five feet of the sixty feet of cloth, and the total cost was fifty-three yuan and fifty cents, including the ticket money. There were also ten kilograms of oil and twelve kilograms of sugar, and she took half of them. Here, including the ticket, the total cost was twelve yuan and eighty cents, a total of sixty-six yuan and thirty cents.
I gave my second sister sixteen yuan and thirty cents, and the remaining fifty was borrowed. In this way, I owed my second sister a full one hundred and fifty yuan, which was really a huge sum of money.
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