Chapter 85: Get Money for Being Brave
After sending Tuanan away, Huang Ling sent her parents back to Changzhou.
She redecorated the small room for Xiaoting, with pink sheets and quilt covers, and a pink tablecloth on the table.
The small attic is still preserved so that Tunan and Pengfei will have a place to sleep when they come.
With fewer people around, the room suddenly felt more spacious.
It took some time to get the cement.
One weekend after getting it, Zhou Huaiyi and Ma Zhiqiang came to help repair the road, and the two children came to eat and study, so Huang Ling and Song Ying went to the state-owned grocery store to buy vegetables early in the morning.
"You bought the meat again, Yiming gave me some white wine and sugar, and Zhang A'mei gave me a few eggs symbolically. Don't argue with me about the rest of the dishes." Song Ying said, holding Huang Ling's hand.
This is something that benefits the entire alley, so everyone gave something to show their support.
"Okay, then buy it. I heard your letter of praise on the radio yesterday. I almost didn't recognize the voice coming from the radio! How could it be so beautiful!"
Song Ying clapped her hands and said, "You only say nice things, don't you? You've been asking me to study and practice, and do some miscellaneous things, so I haven't been broadcasting yet. I only started broadcasting yesterday. Anyway, whether I broadcast or not, it's more comfortable than the workshop."
"I didn't just say the nice thing, it's really nice!"
"But I think you've really changed since your divorce! You're always jumping around in the factory!"
"What?! What do you mean by jumping and walking? Hahahaha! Didn't you hear what they said about me?! Luckily I prepared for it beforehand, otherwise I would have been drowned in spit! But it's okay, I'll listen once and then I'll fight back!"
Huang Ling didn't say the second half of the sentence, "If you confront me once, I'll get money! If you confront me once or twice, I can buy a pound of meat!"
When they arrived at the state-owned store, they heard a quarrel in the house.
An aunt pointed at the egg salesperson angrily and said:
"You bully us old people with poor eyesight and give us stinky eggs and bad eggs. If I hadn't looked at them in the sun at the door, I would have taken them home to know that you would have denied them!"
"Old comrade, we are not responsible after you leave the counter! It's your fault for not looking carefully at the counter!" The salesperson crossed his arms and rolled his eyes.
"I haven't even left the store yet!"
"Hey! You stepped out!"
"You are so unreasonable!"
Auntie was so angry that her hair was all messed up. She wiped it away gracefully and said in a serious tone:
"If you do that, I'll have to find your manager."
"Go ahead and look for it! It's the same even if you look for it. How would I know that the eggs in your hand are sold by me? Maybe you prepared rotten eggs at the door to replace them! And no one saw it!"
"You're actually turning the tables!" Auntie was astonished.
Huang Ling thought, the person delivering money is here.
Sometimes I really don't want to do something righteous, but I can't help but be paid!
"I saw it." Huang Ling stepped forward and said.
The aunt and the salesperson both looked at her.
"Didn't you say no one saw it? I saw it. The aunt took the eggs from you and looked at them in the sun at the door, and then immediately came into the store to find you." Huang Ling said it as if it were true.
Song Ying didn't see it! But she understood! She immediately took over the role:
"I saw that, too."
The salesperson didn't know how to respond.
Auntie held Huang Ling's hand and said, "Comrades, that's great. You have to help me testify!"
"Anyway, I don't admit it! You are lying! You are in the same group!" The salesperson reacted quite quickly.
"That means you are being unreasonable." Huang Ling smiled.
She saw a cracked egg in the egg box at a glance, picked it up, but her hand loosened and it fell to the ground.
The other onlookers saw that the egg was rotten, and anyone with a discerning eye could tell.
"Oops, my hand slipped. I paid for this egg. Sorry! Hey, it looks like it's bad! Is it right? Look everyone!"
Someone responded: "So when they put the products on display, they really don't pick out the bad ones! They just wait for people to buy them!"
"Yes, there are more, hey, quite a lot!" Song Ying also stepped forward to pick it up.
The salesperson pushed her hand away.
Huang Ling sneered: "It doesn't matter if you don't admit it, we just lost a few eggs, but I will report you for replacing the good eggs and selling the bad eggs to the people. You are speculating and selling national resources!"
The salesperson was startled and said sternly, "You are talking nonsense!"
"You won't feel comfortable whether it's true or false!"
“…” The salesperson pursed his lips and said nothing.
"Also, even if the eggs are rotten, I think Auntie would be reluctant to throw them away. If she eats them, she'll get sick. Didn't you say we're in cahoots? Then I can prove that she ate the eggs she bought from you in one day. You should prepare to go to the police station and explain the situation!"
The salesperson glared at Huang Ling angrily and said, "Give it to me!"
The aunt handed over all the eggs and said, "I don't want them anymore. Give me back my money. Who knows how long the unbroken ones have been stored? Who would dare to buy them?"
"Refund it if you want!" The salesperson found the money and handed it over.
Auntie pulled Huang Ling aside and said, "Thank you, comrade!"
"You're welcome, Auntie. I just can't stand them bullying others!" Huang Ling replied with a smile.
【Diaodiaodiao system received: 25 cents!】
Well, I made some twenty-five cents. I didn't curse much, I just talked to him about reason, so it wasn't much.
The two of them bought some vegetables and went back home to work busily.
"Brother Ma, Director Zhou, Engineer Lin, thank you for your hard work!" Huang Ling greeted them.
Huailan and Xiaoting were very affectionate. They stood aside and chatted in low voices.
Pengfei was already helping out. He was wearing the old work clothes and rain boots given to him by Lin Wufeng.
"Oh my God! Pengfei, you still look like a decent person... Lin Dongzhe!!" Song Ying's gentle voice towards Pengfei turned into a lion's roar.
Ren Pengfei is really working, while Lin Dongzhe is making things worse.
"You guys keep busy, I'll go deal with the saboteurs!" Song Ying stuffed the vegetables she bought into Huang Ling's hands and began to roll up her sleeves.
Lin Dongzhe turned around and ran, and bumped into Zhuang Tunan, who was holding two enamel cups in one hand and one enamel cup in the other.
They both retracted their feet at the same time and let out an "Ah!"
There was half a cup of water left, and the other half was on Tunan's pants.
Tunan handed him a cup and poured the water from the cup in his left hand into his cup, saying, "Give it to Uncle Lin!"
Then he prepared to turn around and go back to the house to refill the water.
Huang Ling called out to him, "Tunan, stop pouring water and give the uncles some orange soda!"
"Auntie, is there any orange soda for me?" Lin Dongzhe made a 180-degree turn.
"You can't be left out! Come and help!" Tuanan called him.
"Okay!"
"Xiaoting, come here and get a bottle for your Aunt Zhou!" Huang Ling waved at Xiaoting.
After everything was arranged, Huang Ling and Song Ying started cooking.
Song Ying was stewing bone soup in the kitchen, while Huang Ling set up a table in the yard, preparing to chop meat for making wontons.
Zhou Huailan also came to help. Although she was not very good at cooking, she could still do things like washing and picking vegetables.
After finishing all these, she went on to learn how to make wontons and quickly mastered it.
"This is much easier than cooking." She laughed and was very happy wrapping.
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