Chapter 35: Lin Family’s Melon
The Shen family has enough food, but the Lin family doesn’t. The Lin family has a small population, so they get less centimeters and even less food. And no one knows how long this little food will last.
When life was tough, Lin Chen went to find Sun Taohua.
Sun Taohua also remembered food but not punishment. Lin Chen easily said goodbye to what Shen Ruoqing had said to her last time. She continued to look for dandelions to sell for money to support Lin Chen every day. When Lin Chen revealed that he had no food, Sun Taohua stole half of the newly distributed food from home and gave it to Lin Chen.
Now half of the food in the house is missing, how could the Sun family not notice it?
Sun Taohua was immediately caught by her family and beaten before she admitted that she had "lent" the food to Lin Chen.
Now the entire Sun family is heading towards the Lin family in a threatening manner!
Shen Xue told Shen Ruoqing about this gossip. People in the village who had nothing to do had already gone to watch the fun. Shen Xue asked, "Aunt, do you want to go and watch this fun?"
Shen Ruoqing was eating melon seeds, and she grabbed a handful and gave it to Shen Xue, who was so happy that she was beyond measure. In the whole family, only her aunt had snacks to eat. She said, "Go, why not? Let's go and watch the fun."
Shen Ruoqing took Shen Xue and rushed to the Lin family. When they arrived there, there was already a circle of people surrounding them. It took a lot of effort for them to squeeze through the crowd to the front. It seemed that the Sun family had already had a quarrel with the Lin family.
"Jiang Wenjing, do you have any shame at all? If you can't even afford to eat, then stop supporting Lin Chen's schooling! How dare you come to our house to ask for food? You damn girl, just give it to others when they ask you for it!" As she said that, Old Lady Sun pinched Sun Taohua hard, causing her to scream.
"Auntie Sun, we have already said that this grain was lent to me by Taohua out of her kindness. We did not take your grain for nothing." Jiang Wenjing, Lin Chen's mother, said somewhat unnaturally.
She said that Sun Taohua's act of secretly giving food to their family was Sun Taohua's initiative to lend it to their family. She couldn't let this girl implicate her son.
"Then we won't lend it to you. Give the grain back to us! Sun Taohua took the grain from home secretly, and her family didn't know anything about it! Give the grain back to us quickly, and we'll forget about it." After all, Lin Chen was the only high school student in the village, and Grandma Sun thought that she couldn't offend him too much.
Actually, the Sun family also knew about Sun Taohua sneaking in with Lin Chen, but they thought that Lin Chen was a high school student after all, and might get a government job in the future, so they turned a blind eye. But the situation is different now. In this day and age, food is enough to kill people, and it is life-saving. How can we give it away?
"This food... the food has been used to pay tuition, but don't worry, Aunt Sun. If there is any surplus food at home, I will return it to your family as soon as possible." Jiang Wenjing said.
"How can I afford so much food for tuition? Jiang Wenjing, are you kidding me? I don't care, you must return this food to me today!"
"Taohua, I thought you really wanted to help me, but I didn't expect you to bring people to my house to embarrass me." Lin Chen looked at Sun Taohua with a sad face.
Sun Taohua was anxious: "No, Brother Chen, I really want to help you, Grandma, I lent this food to Brother Chen, at most I will eat less in the future, let's not ask him to pay it back, okay?"
“Pah—”
Old Lady Sun slapped Sun Taohua in the face and said, "Do you have any say in this? Why do you lend the food from your home to others?" She turned to Jiang Wenjing and said, "It was the children who were confused and sent the wrong food. Don't mind it. This food is our Sun family's life-saving food. Please return it to us."
At this time, the team leader Tang Jiandang finally arrived.
"What exactly is going on? Tell us everything clearly."
After everyone talked a lot, Captain Tang finally knew the whole story.
"How about this, Sister Jiang, just give as much food as you have at home. After all, Taohua is still a child, and it's not good to secretly take food from home."
Jiang Wenjing showed an embarrassment: "But we really don't have any surplus food at home. If you, the captain, ask us to take out the remaining food, isn't that the same as asking us to die?"
"Then our Sun family will be better off? If you don't return the food, won't our Sun family also die?"
At this moment, the quarrel broke out again.
Lin Chen felt very embarrassed. As an intellectual, when had he ever experienced such a scene? He accidentally saw Shen Ruoqing eating melon seeds in the crowd, and he felt even more embarrassed. She saw him in such an embarrassing state.
It's all Shen Ruoqing's fault. If it was Shen Ruoqing who gave him food, Old Lady Shen would definitely not have come to his house to ask for it.
Sun Taohua is far inferior to Shen Ruoqing. First of all, Shen Ruoqing looks better than Sun Taohua. On the other hand, Shen Ruoqing is more favored than Sun Taohua at home and can give him more. Although Sun Taohua has made a lot of money by digging dandelions recently, it is almost winter now, and there are no wild vegetables on the mountain. Dandelions are becoming less and less, and Sun Taohua has almost nothing to give to Lin Chen. In this comparison, Shen Ruoqing is still better.
With the mediation of Captain Tang, Jiang Wenjing finally returned half of the grain to Old Lady Sun, and the other half was written as an IOU.
After watching enough of the show, everyone slowly left.
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Shen Ruoqing thought it was boring, so he turned around and walked a few steps, then was stopped by Lin Chen.
"Lin Chen, what's the matter?"
"Wei Shuangshuang and I are not what you think. We are just ordinary classmates. Ruoqing, please stop throwing a tantrum, okay?"
"Well, I believe you are just ordinary classmates." No one would believe you.
Lin Chen was delighted: "Then you are not angry anymore?"
"Why should I be angry? Who you date is your business, and it has nothing to do with me." Shen Ruoqing put her hands on her hips and said, "If anyone is angry, I'm afraid it's Sun Taohua who will be angry, right?"
Lin Chen sighed: "Ruoqing, I know you are still blaming me. Actually, I have you in my heart. But you are still too young now, and I have been working hard for the future. Why can't you forgive me?"
"Don't say such disgusting things. I'm afraid I'll vomit my lunch." Shen Ruoqing pretended to vomit. "Lin Chen, don't you still understand? You are you, I am me, you go your way, I go mine, we have nothing to do with each other. Could it be that you have a change of heart and want to return all the food coupons I had before? I calculated, if all of them are converted into money, it would be at least more than 50 yuan. Just give me 50 yuan, and we will have nothing to do with each other from now on."
The previous chapter was blocked, so I'll just read it (end of this chapter)