Li Qiumei walked over and saw the man reaching out and pushing the older sister.
“Don’t leave yet!
I earned this money by carrying cement with great effort.
It's not for you to spend recklessly."
Everyone was staring at the two of them.
The man explained, “This is my wife, the doctor has checked her out.
It's a broken left leg.
She didn't believe it and insisted that the doctor examine her again.
You said you wanted to see where else you were injured?
Otherwise she wouldn't live for more than a month.
The doctor has already said that I have to pay for another check-up out of my own pocket.
If you don't trust their hospital's examination.
Just go to the provincial capital for a checkup yourself."
When the others heard this, they all began to comfort the older sister.
"It takes a hundred days to heal a broken bone. It's not going to heal that easily.
Don’t scare yourself.”
The eldest sister opened her mouth: "I, I just want to..."
The man interrupted her.
"I think you're just scared to death, and you're thinking about all sorts of things all day long.
Go back to the ward and lie down! Don't wander around!"
Li Qiumei touched her empty pockets and swallowed what she was about to say.
If you don't have money, you can't do anything.
Early the next morning, Qian Jinshu got ready and dressed.
I came to the park early to look for Li Qiumei.
Seeing his anxious look, Li Qiumei couldn't help but laugh.
Just as I was about to mock him, I saw the old lady coming over.
A few people chatted for a while.
The master who wanted to sell the quota has not been in the factory these days.
I went back to my hometown for something.
He said he would be back next week.
Qian Jinshu felt a little lost.
Li Qiumei stuffed five dollars into the old lady's hand.
She told the old lady to notify her when the master came back.
Seeing the old lady's hurried assurance, Qian Jinshu smiled and sent her away.
When she returned home for lunch at noon, Li Qiumei reached out to Qian Jinshu.
"Qian Jinshu, return the money quickly!"
Qian Jinshu smiled: "We two are husband and wife, why would we return it no matter what?
Besides, I'm not working now, so how can I have money?"
Li Qiumei glared at him and said, "Don't give me that!
Didn’t your mother give you money?
If you don't return it to me.
Then tomorrow I will go and ask the old lady to return my money."
Qian Jinshu quickly took out his wallet and said, "No, no, no! There's no way I can get this money back."
He opened his wallet and found several ten-dollar bills inside.
"Hmph." Chen Cuizhen has always been generous in giving money to buy books.
Qian Jinshu took out a note and gave it to Li Qiumei, then quickly put the wallet into his trouser pocket.
"Qiumei, doesn't that old lady go to the park to exercise every day?
You have to keep an eye on her.
To prevent her from leaking the news to others.
By then, the price might go up again.”
Li Qiumei's eyes rolled.
“Then give me another 40 dollars, and I’ll find a way to deal with the old lady.
Did you know?
After you left this morning, I heard a few old ladies from the cement factory trying to figure out whether this story was true or not."
Qian Jinshu was shocked: "Really?"
Li Qiumei felt no guilt at all about the lies she made up.
"Of course, when have I ever lied to you?"
Qian Jinshu simply gave all the fifty yuan in his wallet to Li Qiumei.
"Then you should go find that old lady and finalize the matter."
Li Qiumei put the money into her trouser pocket while agreeing to Qian Jinshu.
"Don't worry! As long as this quota is real.
I will definitely get it for you."
The next morning, Li Qiumei went to the chicken coop to pick up eggs.
She wanted to give it to the old lady.
When she reached the courtyard wall, Li Qiumei discovered that the chicken coop door was still locked by her mother-in-law.
Oh my god! This damn old woman is so cautious about thieves.
Over the years, the chickens from the surrounding neighbors.
Once you enter the Qian family’s gate, don’t even think about getting out alive.
Every time she ate chicken, Li Qiumei never dared to ask whether it was a domestic chicken or a pheasant.
It’s better to pretend that you don’t know.
Just as she was about to call Qian Jinshu over, she saw her mother-in-law coming over with the key.
There are only four eggs in the hen's nest.
For the first time ever, the mother-in-law took out six more rice cups from the locked rice cabinet and gave them to her.
Li Qiumei went out carrying the ten eggs.
Wu Meiping stretched her neck and stared at the basket in her hand.
Seeing this, Chen Cuizhen scolded Wu Meiping: "What are you looking at?
Why don’t you go to the vegetable market and help your dad and others sell vegetables!
All he does is slack off day after day."
Wu Meiping hurried out of the door.
She caught up with Li Qiumei breathlessly: "Sister-in-law, where are you going?"
Li Qiumei deliberately shook the basket in her hand.
"Go to work.
There was an old lady in the park who wanted to buy eggs.
My mother asked me to sell her what I had at home."
Wu Meiping chuckled and said, "That's what I said.
How could your mother-in-law bear to let you give away the eggs at home?"
"Sister-in-law, how many eggs did you pick up from the chicken coop just now?"
"Four."
Wu Meiping suddenly became excited.
“I said that damn old woman wronged me.
They still don't believe it.
There are seven or eight hens at home, and they lay five eggs every day.
The old woman forgot to lock the chicken coop door yesterday and only picked up four eggs.
My son is so naughty that he actually brought the door lock home to play with it.
In the evening, I went to the kitchen to boil eggs for my son.
I swear to God, the eggs I boiled were really given to me by my sister-in-law.
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