"How should I know? I just want to save a little bit, so it counts! With the money saved, we can buy more food. Isn't this for the good of this family?"
Jin Yan felt very aggrieved.
She also wanted to buy the food, but was it her fault that she refused to lower the price?
"How long has that little girl been gone?" Hu Zhong asked.
He knew that now was not the time to complain. The best way was to get the person back and then apologize to him.
"I've been gone for a long time!" Jin Yan replied weakly.
"You..." Hu Zhong was shaking with anger, "Did she say when she would come again?"
"No... I didn't say anything. I just carried my things and left!" Jin Yan answered truthfully.
Things have come to this point, even if Hu Zhong is stupid, he knows that his wife has offended someone, and the little girl will probably never come again.
He didn't know where the person was, and it was impossible for him to look for him in the county town every day. A good opportunity was ruined just like that.
He failed to retain the people, and he even invited his colleagues to dinner. With so many strong laborers, each of them would need at least two or three taels of grain for a meal? Four people would need more than a kilogram of grain. How could he afford it?
Besides, if he couldn’t keep anyone, what would be the use of borrowing more food coupons?
"What do you think we should do now? There are colleagues waiting for dinner outside. Are we going to let them go?" Hu Zhong said unhappily and threw the problem to Jin Yan.
"Then let them go! Just say... just say that there is no coal at home and the coal coupons for this month have been used up. If you want to use coal, you have to exchange it with industrial coupons. What do you think?" Jin Yan looked at Hu Zhong.
"Just do as you say. Go and talk to them."
Hu Zhong couldn't bring himself to say such an embarrassing thing.
Besides, this was a stupid thing done by Jin Yan, and it had nothing to do with him.
Jin Yan walked out and said to Hu Zhong's other four colleagues with an embarrassed look on her face, "I'm so sorry. I was just about to cook, but we ran out of coal. How about...how about I treat you guys to dinner another day?"
The four colleagues looked at each other.
Obviously a little unhappy.
It was Hu Zhong who suggested inviting everyone to dinner.
They were not willing to go at first, but Hu Zhong said that his relatives in the countryside had sent some fine grains to improve everyone's meals. Now that they were here, they were asked to leave before they even had time to sit down.
This is really not a decent thing to do.
One of Hu Zhong's colleagues stood up and left without saying a word.
The remaining few felt embarrassed and left.
As soon as they left, the first one to leave said to everyone, "Hu Zhong's wife is lying. The day before yesterday, I heard Hu Zhong say that his family had too many coal coupons this month and wanted to find someone to exchange them for cloth coupons. But today, there are no coal coupons left."
Everyone was not stupid. After hearing this, they knew that the other party did not really want to treat them to a meal.
In fact, they didn't intend to take advantage. Each of them brought two taels of food coupons and had money prepared.
But I didn't expect Hu Zhong to do this.
"Oh, I never thought that Hu Zhong is this kind of person!" The colleague shook his head with a look of disgust.
"Oh, isn't Kang Quan nearby? Why don't we go to his house for a quick meal? We won't eat for free. We've already prepared the tickets and money, and it won't take us so long to walk around and find a restaurant. I'm starving!"
One of the colleagues suggested it, and the others wanted to refuse at first, but they were really hungry.
So I agreed.
The four people went to Kang Quan's home. Kang Quan's wife, who was the woman who caught up with Li Jinfeng and did business with Li Jinfeng, warmly entertained these colleagues.
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