The curly-haired woman blushed and pointed at Li Shuping and cursed, "Bullshit, you said it was me who bumped into you. It was me who bumped into you. I saw that you were in the same group as the little hooligan, so I helped him speak up."
Li Shuping turned her head to look at Qin Ye, then turned back to continue speaking, "I don't even know this kid, how could I be in cahoots with him? I just couldn't bear to see the injustice, so I said what I saw, and gave the kid justice."
Qin Ye: "..."
She didn't know him, but he did know her. She was the new neighbor who moved into Room 5.
"I think you are the one who is talking nonsense. You are so shameless, your asshole is black, your heart, liver, spleen, kidneys and lungs are all rotten, and you are wrongly bullying a child."
Li Shuping cursed without even taking a breath, with her hands on her hips looking at the curly-haired woman whose face turned pale and blue, with an expression that said, "Do you think you're the only one who can curse?"
"You..." The curly-haired woman pointed at Li Shuping's nose and was so angry that she couldn't speak.
After a long while, she gnashed her teeth and stamped her feet, saying, "I just stepped on dog shit. I consider myself unlucky."
She was about to leave, but Li Shuping came forward and grabbed her sleeve.
"What are you doing?"
Li Shuping: "Didn't you see that the child fell down after being hit by you and his hands were scratched? Pay for the medical expenses before you leave."
Curly-haired woman: “…”
She was also asked to pay for the medical expenses.
"If you don't want to pay, let's go to the Public Security Bureau and talk to them."
The curly-haired woman was so angry that she was about to smoke. She took out fifty cents from her exquisite little purse and threw it on the ground.
Li Shuping: "There was a pool of blood on the ground."
The curly-haired woman was so angry that she wanted to hit someone. She took out two bills from her bag and threw them on the ground, "Let's put these away."
Li Shuping felt that it was almost done, but...
"Pick it up, who are you insulting if you throw it on the ground? It was still the old society, and the bourgeoisie threw money on the ground to pay beggars."
"..." The curly-haired woman choked, bent down to pick up the money on the ground, put it into Li Shuping's hand, turned her head and left.
Li Shuping sneered, took two yuan and fifty cents, walked to Qin Ye who had stood up, and handed him the money, "Kid, take the money and go to the hospital to get some medicine and bandage it."
"Thank you, thank you, auntie." Qin Ye lowered his head and his voice was a little choked.
Li Shuping patted his arm lovingly, then turned and left.
Qin Ye looked up at her leaving back and clenched the two dollars and fifty cents in his hand.
Li Shuping rode her bike to the supply and marketing cooperative and bought 20 kilograms of flour. She and her child had already bought all the food they were entitled to, and the food they bought was expensive, costing 2.2 yuan per kilogram.
Riding a tricycle to the gate of the compound, Li Shuping got off the tricycle first and moved the things on the tricycle into the house one by one.
The neighbors watched her moving pots, pans, and tables, and were curious about what she was going to do with all these things.
Now that the things have been moved, it's time to move the car into the yard.
At the threshold of the courtyard gate, Li Shuping first raised the front of the car and pushed it into the door. She was about to turn around and go out to lift the truck bed and push it in when she saw Chunbao's mother, who was cursing in the yard when the first person came in, lifting the truck bed with both hands.
She quickly pushed the handlebars forward, and the entire tricycle moved into the yard.
"Thank you." She smiled and thanked him. She didn't expect that this female neighbor looked fierce but was actually a kind-hearted person.
"You're welcome." Chunbao's mother waved her hand, picked up the basket on the ground, and walked into the yard.
She couldn't stand the people in Yard 23 and didn't want to have anything to do with these neighbors, but Li Shuping was to her liking, so she was willing to interact with such a person.
Li Shuping looked at the eggs in the basket and asked in a low voice: "Did you collect these eggs in the countryside?"
Chunbao's mother was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "Yes, my daughter is not in good health and needs to supplement her nutrition, so I went to Sandao Village to collect some."
Li Shuping nodded. She was going to Sandao Village to collect some eggs in the afternoon.
The two chatted for a few minutes at the door and then separated. Li Shuping parked the tricycle at her door and locked it with a chain.
Seeing that she also brought back a tricycle, the neighbors in Yard 23 became even more curious.
After lunch, Li Shuping went out again on her tricycle.
Sam Dao Tsuen
Sun Chaoying was weeding in her own private plot when she saw a stranger riding a tricycle into the village. She straightened up and asked, "Hey, who are you? Which relative are you visiting?"
Li Shuping stepped on the brakes, her eyes lit up when she saw the green chives in the field. She got out of the car and walked to the edge of the field. "Fellow villager, I'm from the city. I'm not anyone's relative. I just wanted to come to your village to collect some eggs."
Sandao Village is on the edge of the city, close to the city. In recent years, policies have been relaxed, and many city dwellers have come to the village to buy vegetables and grain. The villagers are no longer surprised, and the village cadres have turned a blind eye.
"How much do you want? My family has saved up more than 40." He came here intending to take the money to the supply and marketing cooperative to exchange for salt and soy sauce. Since someone is here to collect it, it must be more cost-effective than taking it to the supply and marketing cooperative.
Li Shuping thought about it and prepared a small amount to test the waters. "I want all 40. Can you sell your leeks? Give me ten kilograms."
"Sell it. One cent a pound is fine. Eggs are four cents each." She was worried that the leeks were growing one after another and she couldn't eat them all.
"OK."
Sun Chaoying returned home, and Li Shuping was waiting by the vegetable field. Not long after, she saw her coming over with a basket, a scale and a sickle.
Li Shuping was counting eggs, while Sun Chaoying was bending over and cutting leeks in the field.
There were forty eggs, no more, no less, and after Sun Chaoying finished cutting the leeks, she weighed them and found they weighed eleven pounds. She asked Li Shuping to give her ten cents, but she still gave her ten and a half cents.
Sun Chaoying thought Li Shuping was an open-minded person, and said that she would come to her next time if she wanted to buy eggs and leeks.
"Dad, why are you always like this? That's our rent for next month. If we can't pay the rent, where will we live next month?"
Li Shuping had just walked past the gate of the compound while pushing the cart when she heard the boy's angry shout. She tilted her head and thought the voice sounded familiar.
She took the eggs and leeks from the cart and put them on the ground first. She pushed the cart into the yard in two steps, put the eggs and leeks on the cart, and pushed the cart inside.
Look, Chunbao’s mother is standing outside her house, looking at Room 1, asking with her eyes, what’s going on?
Seeing this, Chunbao's mother walked up to her and said, "Old Qin in Room 1 is a drunkard. He beat people when he was drunk and made his wife run away. He also lost his job because of drinking. His son Qin Ye was raised by him. He has been supporting the family since he was 14 years old. I pity him. Now that Qin Ye is not at home, Old Qin, the drunkard, stole the rent money Qin Ye saved and bought all the alcohol."
Although Qin Ye had a bad reputation in No. 23 Courtyard and even in Lihua Lane, and everyone said he was a gangster, Chunbao knew that the boy was not a bad guy. However, he had no choice but to make himself ruthless and muddleheaded in order to survive.
In a situation like his family's, if he was weak, he would be bullied to death.
Li Shuping frowned when she heard this. How could he be a man like this? As a man, instead of supporting a family and raising children well, he had to let his underage children support him and even hindered the children.
Qin Ye looked at his father who ignored him and just drank from the bottle. He couldn't stand it anymore and ran out.
Seeing Li Shuping, he was startled at first, then he lowered his head and ran out.
Li Shuping was startled when she saw him. She didn't expect that he was her neighbor who lived in the same courtyard.
She turned her head to look at Qin Ye's back, glanced at the gray rag wrapped around her right hand, and frowned. It was obvious that the child did not go to the hospital.
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