Xia Qingmei smiled, her eyes crinkling: "Don't worry, my brother will come to pick me up." From that expression, it was clear her brother doted on her.
Bling, who also has an older brother, understands him very well.
"That's good. When you come, don't try to hide it. Just be open and say you're my cousin. If anyone asks, just say you're here to see me," Bu Ling instructed.
"I understand, cousin~" Xia Qingmei said teasingly.
Bling didn't reply: "Let's go, I still have to go to work."
In the evening, Xia Qingmei walked into the courtyard with a chicken on each side, a duck in her right hand, and a basket of eggs slung over her arm.
Mr. Wu and his colleagues were just getting off work and heading home when they saw this unfamiliar face. As the head of the management office, Mr. Wu naturally had to ask, "Young lady, who are you looking for?"
"Grandpa, I'm looking for my cousin, Buling."
"Xiao Bu has a cousin?" The one who asked was Wang's second son. Looking at what Xia Qingmei was holding, he swallowed hard. "Cousin Xiao Bu, what's this?"
“I couldn’t come to see my cousin empty-handed, so I brought some local specialties. These are the only things we can bring out in our rural village.”
Unsurprisingly, Xia Qingmei's arrival caused a huge uproar in the courtyard, or rather, the things Xia Qingmei brought caused a huge uproar. After Xia Qingmei left...
People from the compound took turns visiting Buling's house, all saying the same thing: they wanted to exchange something with her cousin. Buling didn't agree immediately, saying she couldn't make the decision and that they should go to her cousin themselves.
She could understand everyone's situation. She was lucky; she received two catties of meat coupons a month. Others, like Grandpa Wu, a long-time employee of the machine factory, only received half a catty of meat coupons a month.
Not to mention Brother Wu, who tightens screws, he's lucky if he gets a pound in half a year. And then there are eggs, which are a rare commodity in the city. Apart from the black market, you can only buy them with egg coupons. Even Bu Ling only gets one egg coupon a month, and she works in a company with good benefits.
But these things are good in the countryside. Even if pork is scarce, there's chicken, duck, fish, and other meats—they're not picky.
They'd had this thought before, but they couldn't find a way in, and they were afraid of being scammed by strangers. Now it's all right, Buling has a cousin from the countryside. And who is Buling? She's one of their own in the compound, so her cousin is one of their own too.
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