Chapter 23 Watching



Xu Haonan looked outside the house. It was already evening. It turned out that they had been studying for the entire afternoon without realizing it. They were so immersed in it that they could not feel the passage of time.

Learning is such a wonderful thing.

"Excuse me, is Comrade Shen Zhizhu at home?"

"I'm here, I'm here. Thank you for your hard work. I'll have to trouble a few comrades to help move it into the house. A place has been reserved. Husband, come and give me a hand."

When the supply and marketing cooperative's vehicle arrived in the village, it was so eye-catching, with so many things placed on it that everyone stopped cooking and plowing the fields.

Everyone followed behind the car, curious about whose family had gotten rich and bought so many things; it wasn't even Chinese New Year yet.

So, they followed all the way to the door of Shen Zhizhu's house. Shen Zhizhu opened the fence and let not only the salesmen in, but also the villagers in to see.

"Xiaozhu, did you get rich? Or is there something happy happening? Why are you buying so many things?"

"I think that's a sewing machine. This thing is not cheap. It looks like that wild boar must have sold for a lot of money."

Shen Zhizhu knew that the fact that her husband had hunted an adult wild boar could not be kept secret in the village. Not to mention a wild boar, even if it was a normal domesticated pig, it could be sold for a lot of money.

She was worried that everyone would know about it and come to borrow money from them, especially her aunt's family. For the time being, she just wanted to make the clothes well and study with Xu Haonan in the evening.

Don't want to disturb them by causing any mess.

What's more, I met Shen Aiqiu and Du Manjun today, and saw the change that the supply and marketing cooperative gave me. I don't know what they will say when I come back.

So before she left, she told the salesperson to make as much of a scene as possible when they came to deliver the goods to the village. The salesperson said they would do their job with confidence.

"Well, I did sell a lot, but I bought a whole truckload of stuff, and that's about it. If I have to pay back the rest, I'll have nothing left."

Shen Zhizhu sighed to the aunts, as if his family was so poor that they could barely make ends meet. Some people found it hard to believe.

"That's too much. The wild boar must have been worth at least 300 bucks. How can you just spend it all?"

"Hey, my man spent a lot of money in the family in order to marry me. I couldn't even bear to buy pants to wear. I couldn't stand it and sewed two for him. My aunts know that we don't have any elders to help us in our little family, so we have to make new arrangements to buy them ourselves."

Shen Zhizhu was the type who told lies without thinking. He had just put two hundred yuan into the purse at home that morning.

[I don’t care. If you don’t have a penny on you, then you have no money.]

While working, Xu Haonan kept his attention on Shen Zhizhu. When he heard that Shen Zhizhu was reluctant to buy pants and even the ones he was wearing were made by his wife, he slipped, but it wasn't to that extent.

The man who was moving things together looked over subconsciously with a curious look in his eyes.

What Xu Haonan was wearing today was made by Shen Zhizhu himself. He felt a little embarrassed when he felt the gaze coming from him, but luckily his skin was dark so nothing could be seen.

"Oh my, who was so wasteful to buy so many things? It turned out to be Xiaozhu. Look at the situation, did you get rich? Really, you didn't even inform your aunt so that she could come and help you move."

Shen Ai Qiu came with her mother Li Chunlan. Before they entered the yard, the voice reached Shen Zhizhu's ears.

These days, my aunt and her family found that it was too expensive to always buy food from outside, and half of the original 600 yuan had been spent.

So I decided to run a vegetable garden to reduce one expense.

When Shen Ai Qiu came back from the city in the morning, she exaggerated what happened in the supply and marketing cooperative. The mother and daughter discussed it and decided that in the evening, when they saw the supply and marketing cooperative's truck coming to deliver goods, they would go and see if there was anything good that they could bring back.

If they go too early, they probably won't have anything good to offer them.

"So it's Aunt and Sister Ai Qiu. Are you here to add some new things to our little home? It's been a month since I got married. Has Aunt finally thought of buying some dowry for Xiao Zhu?"

She deliberately acted like she was expecting a higher status, like a child wanting support from her family, which made the aunties around her feel distressed.

"It's really a sin. She married a housewife and received a dowry of 600 yuan, but she didn't even prepare any dowry. I've never seen such a person."

Li Chunlan and Shen Aiqiu were furious. They hadn't said anything yet, and this little bastard Shen Zhizhu was talking nonsense!

Shen Zhizhu saw that the two were silent and continued to perform. She lowered her head and sighed, looking disappointed.

"I know. It's okay. My cousin also said this this morning that once a woman is married, she is no longer married. Xiaozhu has come to terms with it."

Seeing that Shen Zhizhu was no longer bothering with the dowry issue, the two of them felt a little relieved.

"Did you spend all the money from the boar sale?"

"Yeah, it's all gone."

When Li Chunlan heard that all the money was spent, she felt so distressed that her facial features wrinkled. People who didn't know would have thought that it was her money that was spent. Shen Aiqiu was indeed pretending to be innocent.

"That's not right, sister. This morning at the supply and marketing cooperative, I clearly saw the salesperson give you a lot of change. There should be some left over. You should be the same, sister. My mother just cares about you. She has no other intentions. We are all family. Why are you still on guard against us?"

Li Chunlan then remembered that Shen Ai Qiu had told her that after Shen Zhizhu bought everything, there was still a lot left after the salesperson deducted the cost of the things they bought.

She thought about it and came up with a plan.

"I heard you bought a sewing machine? Why would you buy that? It's so expensive. If you want to make clothes, why don't you just sew them yourself? You bought a machine instead. It's such a waste."

So, you take out the remaining money and I will keep it for you, so that you young people won't know how hard it is to make money and spend it as soon as you have a little money. You are the same, I am not saying anything bad about you, but your husband risked his life to kill a wild boar and you just spent it all, you are such a spendthrift. "

"Can you learn more from your sister Ai Qiu?"

The abacus beads bounced onto her face. This family is so shameless.

"Why should we let you manage our family's money? I'm afraid that you are like a Pixiu's pocket, where money only goes in but not out. Ah Zhu is so good, why does he want to learn from your man? He charges 20 yuan for a bracelet and lets a man buy a clip for him in public. My Ah Zhu can't let him become bad."

All the things had been moved down and put away. Xu Haonan stood beside Shen Zhizhu and looked back at Li Chunlan.


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