Chapter 9: Marrying for a city hukou?
"If you don't marry Liang Kun, you can get a city hukou. Do you want to be a temporary worker for the rest of your life?" Su Xiumei knew that the girl from the countryside was ignorant and had no vision. She was disappointed and angry. "I finally see clearly that you are not destined to enjoy this blessing. I tell you, even if you kneel down and beg me, I will not let you marry Liang Kun. There is no room for you in our family."
"I don't care about your city hukou, nor do I care about entering your house." Su Jiaojiao was not angry. She gave her a smile that could make her angry to death. "Take your time to choose. You will find a daughter-in-law that you are satisfied with."
Liang Kun’s wife is definitely not an easy person to deal with.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have stopped communicating with each other.
"Su Jiaojiao, you said it yourself. I won't care about your business anymore." Su Xiumei was furious and slammed the door. Xu Yuxiang pointed a finger at Su Jiaojiao. She wanted to say something but didn't. She followed Su Xiumei to the next room cursing.
Feng Yuefen came up to her with a forced smile: "Mom, Xiumei, come home and have dinner. This is the dish that Cuicui cooked."
"Cuicui is a good child." Su Xiumei's expression softened, and she said meaningfully, "Once you've found a job, go live with your aunt. You don't have to live in the dormitory. You can work in the garment factory first, and when the meat processing factory recruits, I'll find a way to recruit you there."
Feng Yuefen's eyes lit up, and she tried to refuse: "How can I do this?"
"They are all my nieces. I like whoever is well-behaved." Su Xiumei simply opened up and said frankly, "I originally liked Cuicui. It was Liang Kun who was ignorant and actually fell in love with that shameless Su Jiaojiao. Now that she has fallen out with me, naturally she has nothing to do with it. I can still make the decision on Liang Kun's marriage."
Su Cuicui blushed.
If she could marry Liang Kun, she would be able to become a city dweller like her aunt.
People like my aunt are the ones who have truly made a name for themselves.
"Cui Cui, come and serve the meal to your aunt." Feng Yuefen was delighted. Why did all the good things fall into the family of her uncle next door? Cuicui in their family was also a good girl. Except for not being as good-looking as Su Jiaojiao, how else could she compare to her?
"Jiaojiao, how can you talk to your aunt like that?" Chen Guilan was also angry. "No matter what, they are your elders. We are all family. We should talk things over nicely."
"A family?" Su Jiaojiao looked at Chen Guilan and said seriously, "Mom, you'll know from now on that they don't treat us as a family."
In Xu Yuxiang's eyes, a woman who did not give birth to a son for the family was an outsider.
Moreover, you will always be an outsider.
"Jiao Jiao, why do you say that?" Chen Guilan was stunned for a moment and hesitated, "Did you hear some gossip outside?"
No one knows a girl better than her mother.
My daughter wasn't like this before.
"Whose gossip is this?" Su Jiaojiao felt that her mother must know about her father's affairs. In this regard, women's intuition is the most accurate.
"Nothing." Chen Guilan's eyes dimmed immediately, and she forced a smile. "I ran into your cousin in the fields this morning. She said you didn't sleep all night. Go to bed now."
Su Jiaojiao was indeed tired.
When he returned to the house, he threw himself on the kang and fell into a deep sleep.
Somehow, I dreamed of Qin Xiuming.
"Jingjiao, we've come this far, each with our own hardships. Now that I know my own life story, I'll definitely give it a try. What's more, I've always treated you as my sister all these years, so don't overthink it."
"Qin Xiuming, in order to climb up the social ladder, you even deny what you said." The love letters he wrote to her became a joke.
"Jiao Jiao, what are you talking about? We've only been exchanging letters for three years. At best, we're just pen pals. I haven't touched you. Now that I have a girlfriend, we naturally have to avoid suspicion."
"Okay, let's never meet again."
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"Jingjiao, did you have a nightmare?" Chen Guilan's voice suddenly rang in her ears, and Su Jingjiao finally woke up. She grabbed Chen Guilan's hand, sat up, and forced a smile, "Mom, I'm fine."
"I see you bought three pieces of cloth. What are you going to do with them?" Chen Guilan didn't think much about it. She took the cloth from the sewing machine, spread it on the kang and looked at it. "You want to make clothes?"
These three pieces of fabric are all brightly colored yarns with good texture.
A pink piece, a light blue piece, and a floral piece with black flowers on an orange background.
"I want to make these three pieces of cloth into headbands and take them to the city to sell." These three pieces of cloth can easily make two or three hundred headbands, each costing thirty or four cents, and I can earn about one hundred yuan. This inconspicuous, low-cost business is the most profitable.
The important thing is that she can take these hair flowers to school and sell them.
This is much more convenient than selling seafood.
The only bicycle in the house was taken away by Su Houli, so it was impossible for her to go to her second uncle's house to borrow a bicycle every time.
When my second uncle is free, he makes tofu at home and sells it, which also requires a bicycle.
"Jiaojiao, I'll figure out the tuition." Chen Guilan felt a pang of sadness. "Don't worry about it. I'll go borrow some money from my second uncle. I'll pay it back in the fall after we sell the grain."
"Mom, don't think that way. I have hands and feet, and I can make money myself." Su Jiaojiao didn't want to say more. She unfolded the cloth and gestured, "Let's start cutting it tonight. I've bought the rubber bands. The finished products will be ready tomorrow. The day after tomorrow is the Jiaoxian market, so it's a good time to sell them there."
The market was very active in the 1990s.
As long as you use your brain, it's no problem to earn enough money for tuition.
You can’t borrow money from my second uncle’s family.
"Okay, I've already bought it, let's try it." Chen Guilan is very clever and could make clothes before she got married. She made all the clothes for Su Jiaojiao when she was a child. Making a hair flower is just a piece of cake for her. She has a sewing machine at home, so making a hair flower is not a problem for her.
In the evening, the mother and daughter went to the beach together.
Including the conchs caught by Chen Guilan, Su Jiaojiao only collected 17 kilograms of conchs. The tide was not as good as last night.
Aunt Wang is a famous conch-catching expert in the village, and she caught eight kilograms.
The two of them together weigh just over two kilograms.
Sure enough, the next day when Su Jiaojiao arrived at the morning market, she offered 18 jin of conchs for three yuan a jin. No one bargained, and they were sold out in less than half an hour.
In less than two hours, Su Jiaojiao came back and Chen Guilan told her that the price for collecting conches at the village entrance in the morning was two dollars and fifty cents.
Su Jiaojiao immediately realized that she had sold too cheaply at the morning market. She had originally calculated that she could make 18 yuan, but based on the cost price of 2.5 yuan, she only made 9 yuan this time.
But one thing is one thing, so she paid Aunt Wang and the others two dollars and fifty cents.
Doing business means there will be gains and losses, and what matters is credit.
The less you earn, the better.
Xu Yuxiang was very dissatisfied with Su Jiaojiao selling conchs at the morning market. Standing in the yard, she cursed: "You sleep at home in broad daylight instead of working in the fields. You only know how to do things that no one can see. I've never seen any girl in the village selling goods in the morning. You must be out to pick up men!"
"Mom, we didn't get back until one in the middle of the night last night, and Jiaojiao went to the morning market to sell conchs at five in the morning. I asked her to get some sleep and rest for a while. It's not like what you said." Chen Guilan couldn't stand it any longer and went to explain to Xu Yuxiang, "Mom, she just wanted to make some extra money."
"What kind of money are you making?" Xu Yuxiang was furious. "If you want to make money, go work in a factory. Cuicui already works in a garment factory and earns two or three hundred yuan a month. Why can't your Jiaojiao do the same? Why do you have to go out and make a few bucks selling your smiles?"
"Mom, Jiaojiao still has to go to school." Chen Guilan was a little angry after hearing this, but she still explained patiently, "Besides, the morning market is not what you said..."
My daughter was just selling conches to earn some tuition money.
How did it become a joke...
"Why isn't it what I said?" Xu Yuxiang had gone out to inquire and heard that Su Jiaojiao made at least twenty yuan yesterday, but when she came back she didn't mention the money at all. She must be feeling guilty. The more she thought about it, the angrier she got. She shouted at the top of her voice, "Guilan, tell me, how much did she make yesterday? How much did she make today?"
He didn't even tell her to give the money he earned to her for safekeeping.
This is why she was angry.
Su Jiaojiao was woken up just as she was falling asleep. She heard everything the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law said clearly. In her previous life, she had worked hard in the imperial capital for many years and thought she had developed a stable personality. But now she really couldn't stand it anymore. She simply picked up the beer bottle with the candle on it from the windowsill, opened the window and threw it into the yard: "How much money I make is none of your business!"
The beer bottle thudded to the ground.
Broken in two.
Xu Yuxiang was startled.
He stood there in a daze, speechless for a long time.
This damn girl is crazy!
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