"Good morning, Comrade Shuping. You're back from buying vegetables at the supply and marketing cooperative."
Li Shuping had just sat down in the yard with her vegetable basket when she heard someone greeting her good morning. She looked in the direction of the voice and saw an old man with a shaved head standing in front of the gutter, brushing his teeth with a ladle, grinning at her.
This old man was none other than Cui Juanzi’s man Zhu Wuyong.
Li Shuping looked at him in confusion, and left without saying hello to him.
It was quite strange that someone who usually never even nodded to her suddenly greeted her and smiled so hard that his teeth showed.
Cui Juanzi came out of the kitchen and was about to call her youngest son to get up, when she saw the old man staring at Li Shuping's back.
Li Shuping wore a light blue shirt and black pants today. The shirt was fitted at the waist, making her waist look very slim.
Cui Juanzi's face darkened. A divorced woman was still restless, dressing up gorgeously early in the morning to seduce men.
"Come inside and watch."
Zhu Wuyong was not at all timid and flustered as if he had been caught. Instead, he turned his head and looked at Cui Juanzi with disdain, "She is a woman of similar age. Look at her, then look at you."
Other people's waist of Li Shuping is called a waist, and her body is called an ingot, but hers can only be called a bucket and a millstone.
"..." Cui Juanzi gritted her teeth in anger, but did not dare to flare up. She just lowered her head to look at her waist and belly which had no waist at all, then raised her head and glared at Room No. 5.
"Did that classmate named Zhang Tiejun bother you?" Li Shuping asked while peeling an egg.
Lin Xiaoyu drank some millet porridge and shook her head, saying, "No, he even dropped out of school."
"Drop out of school?"
Li Shuping remembered that in his previous life, he was in love with Xiaoyu and took Xiaoyu to skip classes and drop out of school. That was when he and Xiaoyu were in the third year of high school.
Lin Xiaoyu nodded and said, "I dropped out. I've dropped out of school for many days."
It's a good thing that Zhang Tiejun dropped out of school. After he dropped out of school, he would have fewer opportunities to contact Xiaoyu.
Like in her previous life, she was coaxed by Zhang Tiejun into making friends, and the risk was greatly reduced.
"Why did you withdraw?"
"I don't know." Lin Xiaoyu drank the porridge with a weak look.
Li Shuping: "He must have done something bad and got expelled from school. If you see him next time, stay away from him."
"Yeah, I know."
Having already witnessed how terrifying Zhang Tiejun is, she will definitely stay away from him if she meets him again.
In the afternoon, Li Shuping went to the furniture factory to find Wang's mother's son-in-law He Shuai and ordered twelve long tables, twenty-four long benches, and thirty wooden trays for the dumplings.
"Sister Li."
When Li Shuping was going home, Zhou Cuilan called her when she passed by the alley.
She responded with a smile, and Zhou Cuilan kept pointing at the place where she had set up her stall before and winking at her.
There was another dumpling stall at the same place where she had originally set up her stall. It should have just been set up and the stall hadn't even started yet. The person setting up the table was a young woman she didn't know.
"The one who set up the stall is Wu Mingxiang from your courtyard. She just set up the stall today. The one who set up the stall is her sister. Wu Mingxiang is going home to get something."
Li Shuping was surprised. Could it be Wu Mingxiang?
She often said behind people's back that setting up a stall was shameful and that she would rather starve to death than do so.
"Sister Li, are you still selling these dumplings? I see you are quite capable now, why don't you set up the stalls quickly, or else all the orders will be snatched up by others. Your former stall owner, Wu Mingxiang, has taken the stall, so you can set up the stall next to mine."
Zhou Cuilan pointed to the seat next to her. She was worried about Li Shuping.
"Why not? But I'm not selling here. I'm setting up a shop on the street in front. I'm building a kitchen now. I should be able to open in ten days or half a month."
“…”
Zhou Cuilan was stunned for three seconds, then gave a thumbs up with admiration, "You are worthy of it, Sister Li. You opened a shop without making any noise, and directly jumped from a dumpling stall to a dumpling restaurant. Those hooligans who smashed your stall must have paid you a lot of money, right?"
Li Shuping just smiled and said nothing.
Zhou Cuilan: "I knew it."
She must have lost a lot of money, otherwise Sister Li would not have been able to upgrade her dumpling stall into a dumpling restaurant.
"Tell me when your restaurant opens, and I'll go to support you. I won't tell anyone else yet. When your dumpling restaurant opens, let those who laugh at you get slapped in the face."
Ever since Li Shuping's dumpling stall was smashed, many jealous people in Lihua Lane have been laughing at her, saying that she will definitely behave herself in the future and will not dare to set up a stall again.
A divorced old woman who is still estranged from her two sons and has a daughter, cannot set up a stall to make money. In the future, she will either go back to her ex-husband's son in tears to beg him, or take her daughter to find an old widower to marry.
When the dumpling shop opens, I'll ask these people to take a good look.
Li Shuping smiled and said yes.
She chatted with Zhou Cuilan for a few words and then walked into Lihua Lane. When she reached the door, she met Wu Mingxiang who was walking out with a stove in her hand.
Seeing Li Shuping's eyes evading, Wu Mingxiang straightened her chest quickly. Anyone can set up a stall now, and it's not just Li Shuping who can set up a stall to sell dumplings, so she has nothing to be timid about.
"I heard that you set up a stall in the alley to sell dumplings?" Li Shuping asked.
Wu Mingxiang paused, raised her chin and looked at her directly, and said in a very aggressive tone: "Why? Can you, Li Shuping, run a dumpling stall alone?"
Li Shuping: "Not really. Didn't you say before that setting up a stall was too embarrassing? You would rather starve to death than do such a shameful thing? Why, have you starved to death before?"
“……”Wu Mingxiang choked.
A wheat-colored face with black and red, red and white, just like a color palette, it is very beautiful.
Li Shuping walked into the yard with a mocking smile. Wu Mingxiang turned her head and glared at her fiercely, then hurried to set up the stall with the stove in hand.
In the afternoon, Zhang Jiao passed by the alley after get off work and saw from afar that her mother-in-law Li Shuping seemed to have set up a stall again at the place where she used to set up a stall, but there were not many people.
I thought it was my mother-in-law setting up the dumpling stall again, but when I got closer, I found that it was two young female comrades, so I looked at her and went home.
Wu Mingxiang's stall lasted until eight o'clock in the evening, and she and her sister carried the cart back home.
In order to set up a stall, her sister would sleep directly at her house at night, since her husband was not at home anyway.
Although their business was not as good as Li Shuping's before, the two of them sat together in the evening to count the money and found that they actually made more than two yuan.
Everyone in Courtyard No. 23 also knew that Wu Mingxiang was selling dumplings at a stall, and the next day they all made fun of her for what she had said before.
Wu Mingxiang tried not to say anything, but when she really couldn't help it she would argue with others, saying that they were just sour grapes because they couldn't eat them, completely forgetting that she was also a sour grape in the past.
After breakfast, Li Shuping packed up a little, put on the shirt and skirt she had bought earlier, her high-heeled leather shoes, and carried a blue cloth bag she had made in the garment factory.
She was going to the Commerce Bureau today to apply for a business license, but before going, she had to go to the Street Office to ask Director Zhao to write a letter of introduction.
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