Li Fenlan carefully glanced at her face and said, "Yun Shu?"
Just now, Xie Yunshu woke up and asked Mingcheng where he was going. When Li Fenlan said he was going to the department store, she guessed what he was going to do in a few seconds. She searched the room and found that the bag containing the down jacket had also been taken away.
"Mom, it's okay." Xie Yunshu smiled at her, but the knife that chopped the meat became faster, and the clanging sounds made Li Fenlan frightened.
It’s over, the son will definitely be beaten by his daughter.
Li Fenlan wanted to persuade her, but when she saw Xie Yunshu's dark face, she shut up again. Forget it, she was too old to care about the siblings' affairs. Besides, Mingcheng was so old that it was nothing to get beaten up, she would just pretend she didn't know...
Aunt Zhao upstairs had finished her work and was at home watching her elder daughter and helping her younger daughter with her homework.
She had two girls in total. In this era, people would laugh at her for not having a son. Her parents-in-law scolded her for losing money every day and even divided the family property so that they would not be allowed to go back. But Lao Zhao accepted the decision. Although he felt bad, he was really good to his daughter.
If you want to go to school, you have to bite the bullet.
The eldest daughter, Zhao Xiaoyun, is also in high school this year. She is in the same school as Xie Mingcheng, but she has always done well in science. My daughter is in the first year of high school and is also a good student, so there is no need for adults to worry about her.
Even the little girls are very sensible and know how to study hard. They all know that the only way out is to get into college. Otherwise, they can only find a man to marry and raise children in the future...
It was very difficult to support a student with 40 yuan a month, and even a penny had to be spent carefully. Before Xie Yunshu asked her to help, Aunt Zhao actually shamelessly wanted to borrow money from someone. The tuition for the children had to be paid after the Chinese New Year, and it cost several hundred yuan. In addition to the usual textbook and living expenses, the burden was overwhelming, so Xiaoyun had always said that she would not go to college.
But how could she bear to spend the money when her child's grades were so good? It was definitely impossible for her to borrow money from her parents-in-law. But everyone in this building was poor, so who could give her dozens of dollars at once?
I'm afraid I would have to think for a long time about even ten dollars, fearing that she won't be able to pay it back.
So when Xie Yunshu came to her for help and said he would pay her 40 yuan a month, Aunt Zhao almost cried with joy. Life is like this, adding icing on the cake may be forgotten in a flash, but helping someone in need is unforgettable.
Although Yun Shu had always said that she was only paid what she deserved, she couldn't be so heartless as to think that she deserved it. Not to mention 40 yuan, even if it was 10 yuan, which young wife in this tube building wouldn't rush to do it? Not to mention that she only helped with cooking during the day, and sometimes if there were leftovers, she would be asked to take them home to eat.
Aunt Zhao was extremely grateful that when Old Xie got into trouble, she did not fall into the well, but felt sorry for Yunshu and her brother, and sent her ten yuan. Although Yunshu paid the money back in the first month of her job, she remembered it in her heart.
When Xie Mingcheng came in and said he wanted to steam the buns, Aunt Zhao put on her coat and followed him downstairs without saying anything: "What salary increase? I'm already getting paid! Yun Shu didn't let me work these past two days, and I feel bad inside."
She only gets 40 yuan a month as salary, so how could she ask for a raise just for working at night? She doesn't have the face to ask for the money.
Xie Mingcheng was not a good talker. He pursed his lips and said, "Aunt Zhao, my sister has the final say on this matter."
If she says she will give it to me, she will definitely give it to me. It's not just empty talk.
Zhao Xiaoyun, who was behind him, also stood up quickly: "Mom, I'm fine anyway, why don't I go and help?"
Children from poor families grow up early. Not to mention Da Ni, even the two girls, Xiao Ni and Xiao Ni, are good at cooking and don't need adults to watch over them at all. Aunt Zhao thought that if there were more people, they could finish the work early, so Yun Shu could rest for a while, so she agreed: "Then you can come with me."
With the addition of Aunt Zhao and Xiaoyun, the work speed really picked up quickly. Before seven o'clock in the evening, almost several hundred small buns were wrapped and neatly placed on the table in the newly rented yard. They looked very nice.
Xie Yunshu stretched lazily: "Then I don't have to get up so early tomorrow. I can get up at around four o'clock to light the fire and steam the buns, and I can set out to sell them at around six o'clock."
The small buns cook quickly, about ten minutes to make a pot, and with two large pots together, these buns can be made in four pots.
Aunt Zhao waved her hand and said, "You are not needed. Just get up at six and take the buns out to sell. I will come over at four to light the fire."
When she came to help today, she kept refusing and said she didn't want money, but Xie Yunshu still stuffed two dollars into her pocket and said that if she didn't want money, she wouldn't be asked to work in the future. Neighbors can help with other things, but she can't help with money-making things.
In the end, Aunt Zhao still took the money. She knew that Yunshu had made a lot of money during this period, otherwise she would not be willing to buy such expensive clothes. She felt relieved to take the money. However, Aunt Zhao made up her mind that she would work hard with Yunshu and her life would definitely be good in the future.
They were busy at the tube building until very late, and Lu Zhixing in the Haicheng staff quarters had not yet rested at home.
Zhou Xinyue watched Lu Zhixing put a new vest on Xiaowei, and asked with restrained temper: "Didn't you say you had no money?"
Lu Zhixing was getting more and more disappointed with her: "Xiaowei is your son. He only has a thin sweater on in such a cold day. Your closet is full of coats and cotton clothes. Why haven't you ever thought of buying clothes for your child?"
What's more, she asked for a down jacket worth 200 yuan, while her monthly salary is only more than 40 yuan!
Zhou Xinyue bit her lip, feeling unwilling: "Why can Xie Yunshu buy it but I can't? Brother Zhixing, you've already divorced her, and you still want to give her the money, then what am I?"
"Have you forgotten how we got married?"
Lu Zhixing couldn't understand her thoughts at all. He had clearly said that he would give her money, but she threatened to die in exchange for marrying him: "Besides, if it weren't for you, how could Yunshu have lost her job at the packaging factory? We owe her this!"
Zhou Xinyue didn't buy the clothes she had wanted for a long time, and was humiliated by Xie Yunshu. Now she is being blamed by Lu Zhixing when she returns home. How can she swallow this anger?
"Lu Zhixing, you were the one who put Xie Yunshu in the psychiatric department. What does it have to do with me? Anyway, if you don't give me money, none of us can have a good New Year!" Zhou Xinyue had learned how to act like a spoiled child a long time ago, but she had been pretending for her own purposes.
Now that she has married into the Lu family, she can't even get Lu Zhixing's salary. How can she still be in the mood to pretend? "Go ask other men, whose money is not given to their wives? You don't want to give me the little money in your hand, do you want to keep it for Xie Yunshu? It seems that Xie Yunshu served you very well before, and you still miss him now!"
Lu Zhixing didn't expect her to say such shameless words, and his face turned red with anger: "You have no idea what you are talking about!"
This home was not only deserted but also in a mess. He could not stay there for even a minute, so he rode his bicycle to the hospital in the wind, leaving Zhou Xinyue's house to make a fuss!
Zhou Xinyue went crazy again. She looked at Xiaowei, then frantically pulled the thick vest towards him and slapped him: "Why do you, little bastard, deserve to wear new clothes? Take it off!"
Xiaowei was beaten so hard that he could hardly stand up. He tried his best to hide inside the house: "Mom, I don't want to wear it anymore. Please stop beating me."
Zhou Xinyue was full of anger, she was used to using Xiaowei as a punching bag. This year she was very careful and gentle to Lu Zhixing, but in the end she got nothing after marrying him!
Xiaowei didn't dare to cry but it was too painful. He knelt down and begged for mercy: "Mom, I was wrong."
He shouldn't eat, shouldn't wear new clothes...
But Lu Zhixing was not at home. Zhou Xinyue had gone completely crazy. She simply threw the child in a thin sweater out the door: "Get out! Xie Yunshu is fighting with me, and you dare to fight with me! Get out!"
But in the coldest month of the year, if such a young child was locked outside in a thin sweater all night, he would freeze to death...
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