"Then are you going to say hello?" Tian Hao was unsure of Shen Subai's intention. Could it be that Brother Shen looked down on Xie Yunshu's divorced status?
Chen Subai lowered his eyes and turned to walk to the other side: "When she takes over the canteen, she will have time to say hello. Let's go eat first. I have things to do later."
Tian Hao said "oh" and asked casually: "The New Year is almost here, what are you busy with? Aunt Lian urged you to go back to Jingbei, but you didn't go back. Aren't you afraid that she will be angry?"
"She'll be even angrier if I go back." Shen Subai said carelessly, having already walked a long way.
"Hey, Brother Chen, you don't have to walk so fast even though you have long legs!" Tian Hao hurriedly followed, looking back at Xie Yunshu and his sister who were already packing up, and suddenly realized a problem.
Just now Brother Chen said that he had contracted the canteen and had time to say hello. How could he be sure that Xie Yunshu would definitely contract the canteen?
The stock exchange was not so busy at this time. Some people had already started to leave, and they were still chatting about tomorrow's things as they walked: "I heard that 100 stocks will be issued tomorrow, and in two days this place will be closed before the New Year. If you want to buy, you have to wait until after the New Year."
"The last two days, there were only 200 sticks a day. With so few people tomorrow, won't people go crazy trying to buy them? Looks like you can forget about lunch, or even breakfast."
"What's the big deal about being hungry? Making money is the bottom line. Wait for the stock to go up and make a lot of money this time!"
Xie Yunshu didn't understand what was going up in stocks and selling stocks. In her dreams, she seemed to pay no attention to love affairs and didn't pay much attention to stocks. However, she remembered that the Haicheng Stock Exchange seemed to be very large in 1990. It was really crowded at that time. There was also a stock called Niu that made many people rich.
Of course, if you make money you must lose money, and a few years later she even heard of people jumping off buildings because of their stocks.
Xie Yunshu rode a tricycle, and Xie Mingcheng followed behind on a bicycle. When passing by the department store, Xie Mingcheng's heart moved. He thought of the woolen coat again, but it was a pity that he did not have the ability to make money at all.
However, Xie Yunshu was still thinking about selling food: "Mingcheng, we have to get up early tomorrow. We don't want to make this much money. Did you hear what they said just now? They come to line up at six in the morning and they have to go hungry. We can definitely make some money if we bring steamed dumplings to sell!"
Making steamed dumplings is a hassle. You have to steam them one by one. If you want to make enough to sell, it is not as easy as getting up at five or six o'clock. You have to get up in the middle of the night.
Xie Mingcheng thought for a moment and said, "Then I'll prepare the meat filling tonight, ask Aunt Zhao to help knead the dough, and start wrapping the dumplings at around 2 a.m. Sister, you don't have to get up so early, after all, there are only two pots in total."
When Xie Yunshu thought about how such a capable husband in China earned five yuan, she was full of energy: "I will go home to catch up on my sleep after work. I won't sleep at night. When will I not sleep after these two days?"
Xie Mingcheng knew that his sister was a person of firm principles, so he didn't say anything else. He thought to himself that he should do more and she should do less.
When Li Fenlan came home and was knitting a sweater, she stood up quickly when she saw the siblings coming back: "Drink some hot water first, then eat. It's already past one o'clock, and we haven't had a hot meal yet!"
She didn't rush to ask whether the food was sold out, nor did she ask how much money was earned.
But Xie Yunshu was excited. She took two big gulps of the cold and warm water, then frowned and took out all the money in her pocket: "Mom, don't feel bad about the money for the down jacket, your daughter will earn it back soon!"
When she spoke, her expression was high and her eyes were bright, her pretty face was full of vitality: "Don't worry, spend boldly!"
Li Fenlan was amused by her and took some food from the pot to heat it up. "Okay, you two should eat quickly. You can take a good rest and watch some TV later."
After dinner, Xie Yunshu prepared to go to sleep first, as he still had to fight in the evening.
Xie Mingcheng sat on the stool and read a book for a while. When Xie Yunshu fell asleep, he moved his eyes to the packaging bag of the new down jacket, picked it up and whispered to Li Fenlan: "Mom, I'm going to go out for a while. Please keep your voice down and don't wake me up."
Li Fenlan was still knitting a sweater. She looked at Xie Mingcheng curiously and asked, "What are you doing?"
Then her eyes fell on the bag of the down jacket in his hand. It is said that no one knows a child better than his mother. Li Fenlan quickly guessed what he was going to do. She moved her lips and sighed, "Yun Shu will be angry again when she wakes up, and..."
She wanted to say that her son's cotton-padded jacket was indeed too old...
Xie Mingcheng pursed his lips and smiled: "After the New Year, it will be warmer. It would be a waste for me to buy such expensive clothes. It won't be too late to buy them after I finish my college entrance examination and earn money myself."
After the university entrance exam, he would have two months to do odd jobs. He would try his luck and find that he would be able to earn money if he worked hard.
Li Fenlan looked at the sweater in her hand, then looked at Xie Yunshu who was sleeping in the inner room, knowing that her daughter had a really hard time during this period. Even if she worked hard to earn money, she would spend it all on herself and Mingcheng.
I didn’t buy anything…
She thought about it and took out her down jacket: "You can return mine too."
Xie Mingcheng shook his head: "Mom, I'll just return it. If you return this one, my sister will be so angry that she'll blow the roof off the house."
Li Fenlan hesitated because of her daughter's temper: "Yes..."
"This one is too expensive. I'll return it and buy two more clothes." Xie Mingcheng smiled. He touched the soft and thick cotton coat in his hand and felt that this winter was not cold at all.
Li Fenlan didn't say anything, but she knitted faster. Both children were sensible. The only bad thing was that they had such an incompetent mother and a short-lived father...
Xie Mingcheng took the down jacket worth more than 200 yuan to the department store to return it. The salesperson was very upset and spoke harshly. However, Xie Mingcheng knew that what he did was not good, so he did not say anything and took the scolding. Then he went to the woolen coat store and bought the light gray woolen coat for 180 yuan.
The little girl who was selling woolen coats was delighted and gave her scarf to Xie Mingcheng as a gift.
When she came back from the department store, Xie Yunshu had already gotten up and was mixing the meat stuffing. She didn't even raise her eyelids when she saw Xie Mingcheng coming back: "Where have you been? Go upstairs and call Aunt Zhao and ask her if she has time to help me. If it's not for nothing, I'll give her a raise."
Xie Mingcheng didn't dare to mention returning the clothes. He lowered his head, hummed, put the bag by the door, and turned to go upstairs.
Xie Yunshu stopped working in the house. She took a look at the bag, bit her lip, and cursed in a low voice, "What a waste! It's not like she has no clothes to wear, but she insisted on returning the down jacket to buy her one. She really deserves a beating!"
After so many years of being siblings, she knew what this brat had done every time he took a breath! But making money was important now, so she would settle the accounts after these two days!
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