Old Mrs. Yuan smiled and said, "I'm out of soy sauce at home, so I want to borrow yours for a while. I'll return it to you tomorrow."
Borrow soy sauce?
Li Shuping looked at the kind-hearted old lady with a smile. If someone had asked her to borrow soy sauce or salt in the past, she would have immediately agreed and said, "What's the point of returning it? It's just some soy sauce. Just use it."
But now...
"Okay, I'll get it for you." Li Shuping turned and went into the kitchen.
The smile on Mrs. Li's face froze, and she didn't even say, "A little soy sauce is nothing."
Li Shuping took the soy sauce and handed it to Aunt Yuan. This soy sauce was newly made by her. It was a full bottle. She used some for cooking and there was still nine full bottles left.
"Thank you, Shuping. I'll pour some into the noodles and return it to you." Old Mrs. Yuan took the soy sauce bottle and walked away with a hunched back.
Chun Bao's mother sighed, looked at Old Lady Yuan who was carrying a bottle of wine home, and cursed, "She let that old woman take advantage of her again."
Chunbao laughed, "Mom, your family didn't take advantage of our family, why are you angry?"
Chun Bao's mother fiercely grabbed the green onion in her hand and said, "Seeing this shameless person taking advantage, I feel so happy."
When their family first moved in, Aunt Yuan was the first to greet them. She was always the kindest to them, and they thought she was a good person.
I didn't expect her to be such a smiling tiger. I didn't know how much she took advantage of me.
Chun Bao's mother looked at Li Shuping's back as she walked into the kitchen and felt that she was just like herself in the past, but she would be even more miserable than herself.
Because she was obviously thin-skinned, and she knew how much Aunt Yuan would take advantage of her and how long she would be bullied by the people in this compound before she turned into a shrew.
Being a friendly and generous person in this compound means being bullied to death. Only by becoming a shrew and letting others know that you are easy to mess with can you survive.
This is how Chunbao's mother came to be. She used to have such a good temper, but now she curses three times a day, and the words she uses are always the same. Even her facial expression has changed.
Aunt Yuan took the soy sauce bottle and went into her kitchen. Her daughter-in-law Huang Qionghua was cooking noodles. "Hurry up and hand me the soy sauce bottle."
Huang Qionghua's eyes lit up, and she handed over the half-empty bottle of soy sauce, "You actually managed to borrow it."
Aunt Yuan unplugged the soy sauce bottle, took over her own soy sauce bottle, and poured the borrowed soy sauce into the bottle.
"It's obvious that Li Shuping is someone who doesn't have the nerve to refuse. She lent it to me as soon as I asked." Although she didn't say she had to pay it back, even if she didn't say it, she would have asked if she wanted to pay it back.
Huang Qionghua looked at her own soy sauce bottle, which was almost full, and said, "Mom, that's enough. If you pour too much, I'll tell my family."
“Fill it up, fill it up. Li Shuping is obviously a shy person. Even if she poured too much, she wouldn’t have the nerve to say anything. She can only suffer in silence.” This kind of advantage is the easiest to take, and it can be taken for a long time.
The soy sauce bottle was full, and Huang Qionghua took it from her mother-in-law, smiling, "We don't need to buy soy sauce this month. Mom, you can ask her to borrow oil in a few days, and our family will save money on oil this month."
"Okay." Aunt Yuan put the cork back into the soy sauce bottle and said, "I'll go return the soy sauce first."
After the dishes were cooked, Li Shuping brought out the steamed rice from the pot.
"Shuping, thank you for the soy sauce. I've put it on the counter for you." Old Mrs. Yuan stood at the kitchen door and put the soy sauce bottle on the counter.
Li Shuping took a look and said while holding the food, "Just leave it there."
Lin Xiaoyu came to the kitchen to serve the dishes and met Aunt Yuan and called out again, "Grandma Yuan."
"Mom, do you have scrambled eggs with green onions?" Lin Xiaoyu's eyes lit up when she saw the golden scrambled eggs.
Li Shuping: "You love scrambled eggs with green onions, right? Mom made this especially for you. I went shopping late today and didn't buy any meat. I'll make you some sweet and sour pork tomorrow."
She remembered that sweet and sour pork was her daughter's favorite, but everyone else in the family liked sweet and sour dishes, so she had never made it.
Lin Xiaoyu: "Thank you, Mom."
Thinking back to when she once thought her mother was partial, Lin Xiaoyu felt that she had no conscience. How could her mother be partial? Her mother remembered what she liked to eat.
The mother and daughter had stir-fried cabbage, green onions and eggs for dinner, which they ate with steamed rice that was just right.
However, the Lin family in Yard 18 was still holding a family meeting.
Lin Yongnian: "Now that your mother is at home in a bad mood, we still have to solve the problem of eating at home. I suggest that from today on, the eldest daughter-in-law and the second daughter-in-law take turns cooking every day."
Zhang Jiao had never cooked since she married into the Lin family. Now when she heard that she and Liu Qin would take turns cooking, she was very happy.
But no matter how happy they were, they had to eat as a family of three, so they could always eat out every day.
It was all her mother-in-law's fault for making trouble, forcing them to come home from a hard day's work and have to cook.
"Cooking is no problem, but who will buy the groceries?" Liu Qin asked.
"My second son's wife, you are at the supply and marketing cooperative, so it is convenient for you to buy vegetables. From now on, you will go to work every day and bring the vegetables back from the supply and marketing cooperative." Lin Yongnian said as a matter of course.
Liu Qin curled her lips. Why? Because she worked in the supply and marketing cooperative and had to buy vegetables for her every day.
"How is the money for buying groceries calculated?" Lin Jianshe asked the question. Since he asked his wife to buy groceries, he naturally had to ask how the money was calculated.
Lin Yongnian rolled his eyes at Lin Jianshe. Why was he haggling over such a small amount of money for vegetables? Both he and Liu Qin were paid by salary, so what would happen if they paid for the vegetables?
"I'll pay for the food in the future, but I'm out of money right now. This month, you two brothers will share the food expenses. Starting next month, I'll be the one paying for it."
Zhang Jiao: "Dad, where's your money?"
Liu Qin: "Brother, they have one more child."
The two spoke almost at the same time. Zhang Jiao looked at her sister-in-law speechlessly, "Junjun is only three years old. How much food can he eat from you? You are fussy about a child."
She had never seen such a stingy person.
Liu Qin rolled her eyes. "Since you're talking about a stall, it has to be shared. Your family already has one more person, and I have to help buy groceries every day."
Logically speaking, she should be given some money for her hard-earned money for buying groceries.
Lin Yongnian frowned, "What do you mean your family and my family? We are all one family!"
He didn't expect that a small issue like buying vegetables or paying for vegetables could cause a conflict.
Liu Qin turned her face away, feeling that she was being tricked.
"Dad, where's your money?" Lin Guodong asked with a frown. Logically speaking, his parents were divorced and there should be money, but his father didn't have any money.
Lin Yongnian said vaguely: "Is your mother asking the second son for the transfer money from work? I gave it all to your mother."
Lin Guodong and Zhang Jiao's faces turned black instantly. They gave the second son's wife so much dowry and car money, but they even helped the second son pay for a job transfer!
Zhang Jiao couldn't help but say, "Dad, when I married Guodong, you gave me 400 yuan as a betrothal gift and 20 yuan as a car fare. Guodong's job was recruiting workers in a machinery factory, and he interviewed and got the job by himself. Your mother didn't help. You gave Liu Qin 888 yuan as a betrothal gift, 200 yuan as a car bonus, and gave Lao Er money for a job transfer..."
Lin Jianshe felt relieved after hearing this, so he interrupted her and said, "My dad is willing, what's it to you? That's all my dad's money, and it's not yours, so don't be too possessive of other people's money."
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