Xie Sufen hit her daughter on the head with the end of her chopsticks. "What are you talking about? This is pig food, everyone eats this. I think you're going to behave like a capitalist!"
Xie Sufen felt more and more that she could no longer ignore her daughter.
She quickly hugged her head and looked at her mother with a resentful face. The sweet potato, corn and wild vegetables were stewed together, and there was sand visible to the naked eye in it. To call it pig food was to flatter the teacup rice.
Seeing her mother eating happily, Ji Xia began to wonder if her mother had a masochistic constitution. Was it necessary for her family to live like this given their financial situation?
Ji Xia took a bite and couldn't eat any more. She was not the type of person who needed to eat diet meals before. The training tasks in the army were very heavy, and the diet was absolutely scientific and reasonable. Besides, the whole grains were too rough. She was afraid that she would accidentally break her teeth. In those days, there was no such thing as dental implants.
"Mom, I still have quite a bit of money. I'll give you some. And this food, how about I give it to someone who needs it, and I'll go buy you something delicious?"
Ji Xia wanted to smuggle food into the space. After doing physical work all morning, she urgently needed replenishment.
Xie Sufen knew that she had made the right decision to send her daughter to the water conservancy project. She rolled her eyes at her daughter and said, "Just do your job well. If you dare to make trouble again, I will break your legs. Do you know what your reputation is like in the production team now?"
"What reputation? Who is gossiping about me behind my back again? Don't they want to eat the food I brought back last time?" Ji Xia got angry when he heard it.
"There are those who are grateful and those who are ungrateful in this world. Can you still control everyone's mouths? People are grateful to you, but you stay away from home all day and don't work. If you want to marry into a good family in the future, you can just dream about it!" Xie Sufen said unhappily.
Ji Xia poured all the slimming rice in her bowl into Xie Sufen's. Since that was the case, she didn't bother pretending anymore. She just took out a meat bun and chewed it while saying, "Oh, Mom, you still want to marry me off in this life? Just dream on! I won't marry anyone. I want you and my dad to support me for the rest of my life."
I've never seen anyone talk about being a parasite so openly.
Xie Sufen was so angry that she fainted. She picked up the chopsticks and was about to hit her daughter again, "You dare say another word!"
"I'm about to say, I don't want to dig anymore. I'll go talk to the captain and get you an excavator. It'll take forever to dig by hand!"
Sure enough, Ji Xia's words about borrowing an excavator immediately diverted Xie Sufen's attention. She didn't really mean to hit her daughter, so she put away her chopsticks and asked, "How did you get the ability to borrow an excavator?"
Ji Xia said, "My friend in the army has an excavator. Last time, I told him that if we were to build water conservancy projects here, I could lend him the excavator, and he agreed."
When Xie Sufen heard that he was from the army, she had no doubt at all. She could distrust Ji Jianguo, but she would also distrust the soldiers.
After getting Xie Sufen's approval, Ji Xia went to tell Yang Muchun, "Master Muchun, are you smoking?"
Yang Muchun had finished his meal and was leaning against a tree stump smoking a pipe. When he saw Ji Xia coming over, he was extremely enthusiastic and asked, "I told you not to go to work, why are you still here?"
Ji Xia squatted down and said, "My mother insisted that I come, saying that someone reported me for not going to work."
Obviously, Yang Muchun also knew who was reporting her. There was an educated youth next to her. Ji Fang was with the educated youth. She originally worked in the health center, but the director's son was a spy and the director was investigated. Ji Fang had been in love with the director's son, and with Qin Xiao's care, she was directly fired.
In order to earn food, she had to come and work.
Ji Can was kept by Ji Fang. Even though she knew that Ji Can was not from the Ji family, Ji Fang had always liked her niece because of her deep affection for her second brother Ji Tongping.
"As for reporting something, don't I have you and Uncle Chang Geng? What are you worried about?" Yang Muchun took a puff of his cigarette. "Go back quickly. Your family doesn't need food, and it's cold. You can handle this job."
"It's okay!" Ji Xia said, "Master Mu Chun, when digging this artificial lake, did everyone work together, or were the tasks divided?"
"What's wrong with the tasks assigned by the commune?"
"Nothing. I knew someone in the army who agreed to lend our team an excavator. I'm going to borrow that, along with a tractor. That way, we can get it done much faster."
As soon as Ji Xia opened his mouth, everyone around him gathered around. These people had never heard of what an excavator was, and they all asked for advice, looking at Ji Xia as if he were a god.
Ji Fang blinked, and a gentle voice stood out among the crowd, overwhelming the others. "Xia Xia, is this person you're talking about reliable? I've never even heard of an excavator. If you're not sure about something, don't talk about it casually. Otherwise, everyone will rely on you, but in the end it will be in vain."
She smiled, revealing eight white teeth and a pair of dimples on her face, which fluttered the hearts of the young men watching her. "I'm not saying you can't get it. I'm just worried you'll get cheated. You mean well. I'm also reminding you that excavators are something no one has ever heard of. How can they be so easy to get? If they existed, the commune would have arranged for them long ago."
Waiting for you to take the spotlight!
"It's better to just work quietly!" She blinked and smiled again, "Xia Xia, tell me, are you trying to take this opportunity to slack off?"
Ji Hongmei was cheering on the sidelines, "Why are you going to borrow an excavator? You'll be gone for half the day, so you won't be able to work today. This is a great contribution to the production team. As long as you come, you don't even have to ask, and the production team will give you full work points."
Yang Muchun said dissatisfiedly, "I asked Xia Xia to go, why are you guys talking nonsense here?"
Xie Sufen also came over when she heard the commotion. Seeing her daughter being bullied, she was not the type to let anyone bully her without Old Lady Ji's suppression. "We were a family before, and I won't say anything if you act like your aunt in front of Xia Xia. Now we are not a family anymore, so just say less. What happens to us is none of your business. You should worry about whether you will starve to death!"
The Ji family now has no rice left, so they asked the production team for an advance on food, and then slowly pay it back when they are able to work and earn work points.
Ji Fang looked aggrieved. "Sister-in-law, my elder sister and I are kind-hearted. Xia Xia is so old now, and her every word and action is being watched by others. We are also worried that she will have a bad reputation."
"Why does she have a bad reputation? She's not secretly dating anyone, nor has she divorced her husband and abandoned her children, and she hasn't done anything shameless. If you just say less to her, her reputation will naturally not be too bad." Xie Sufen got angry.
Ji Chan lowered his head, pouting, his heart full of hatred.
Ji Xia listened from the side and felt deeply that her mother was really strong in fighting spirit. Ji Fang was almost crying with anger. On the one hand, she was secretly in love with the son of the director of the health center in the city, and on the other hand, she was hooking up with the educated youth in the production team, hoping to get close to someone with a powerful family background.
This time, she was investigated for her love affair and was almost labeled a spy. The image that Ji Fang had worked so hard to build collapsed completely.
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