"Being... being cheated?"
Li Ailan's words made everyone in the Li family look at her in surprise as if they were struck by lightning.
Li Fuman even brought out the dignity of the head of the family, "What exactly happened? Tell me everything. If you tell even a single lie, I will kick you out immediately. I don't want you as my granddaughter anymore!"
Li Ailan already felt that she had been wronged, and after hearing what Li Fuman said, she cried even harder, with tears and snot streaming down her face.
"I didn't want to either. I... I went to the city... People told me that I couldn't buy food without food coupons, and asked me to exchange money for food coupons from them." Li Ailan said while sobbing.
"So you switched with them?" Li Fuman said.
Li Ailan neither nodded nor shook her head, but the look on her face made everyone feel that this was the case.
She exchanged her money for food coupons.
"What happened after that?" Li Fuman continued to ask, suppressing his anger.
"After that, he...he gave me a grain coupon, but when I took it to the supply and marketing cooperative, they said it was a manure coupon. Not only did they not give me any food, they kicked me out."
"Manure tickets? You can't even tell the difference between manure and grain? How did you attend the literacy class?" Li Fuman was almost mad at Li Ailan.
The people in power at that time were afraid that these poor people had no money, could not afford to go to school, and would become illiterate, so they arranged for many teachers to come to the countryside to give lectures and arrange literacy classes.
Their names and basic common vocabulary were taught by teachers in literacy classes. Even a three-year-old wouldn't mistake a manure ticket for a grain ticket. How could Li Ailan be so stupid? And she was Li Fuman's granddaughter?!
"How could I know that person would lie to me? How could I know..." Li Ailan cried so hard that she almost died. She felt extremely wronged.
If it weren't for that damn liar, how could she not have bought even a pound of food?
"You think you're right. Why aren't others as stupid as you?" Li Fuman was at a loss for words to describe his granddaughter.
"Got the shit ticket?" He stretched out his hand towards Li Ailan.
Li Ailan handed the crumpled manure ticket to Li Fuman.
Li Fuman looked at the words "Special manure ticket for Dandelion Production Team" written on it. One manure ticket was worth 0.1 centimeter.
"How much did you pay for this manure ticket?" Li Fuman asked.
"Four dollars and eighty, no... no, five dollars!"
When she went there, Li Ailan couldn't help but bought five ice creams for ten cents.
When she came back, she was hungry and thirsty, so she bought five more ice creams and all her money was gone.
"Li Ailan, you still dare to lie! If you exchange five dollars, what will you use to buy food? Did you pick up this manure ticket to fool me?" Li Fuman slammed the dining table again.
He could tolerate his granddaughter being useless, but he couldn't tolerate her doing something wrong and then lying.
Even Old Lady Li didn't give Li Ailan a good look. "Why are you crying? Your grandfather asked you a question, and you didn't answer? If you don't say anything, not only will your grandfather be rude to you, I will be rude to you too. Do you know how much you can buy with five dollars? You little bastard, you are really crazy!"
Li Ailan was so frightened that she told the truth: "Grandma, I didn't mean to do that. I spent four yuan and eighty cents on my food coupons, and I had twenty cents left... I bought some ice cream with the twenty cents left."
As soon as these words were spoken, there was no silence in the entire Li family.
Huang Yu and Zhao Meixia no longer care about whether she is a sister-in-law or not.
Huang Yu: "Grandpa, Ailan is so unreasonable. She went out to buy food and caused so much trouble!"
Zhao Meixia: "This person needs to be taught a lesson, otherwise everyone will end up like her, taking the Li family's money and spending it recklessly!"
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