"Since you said so, I certainly can't open the door. We all know whether what I said is true or not. Lu Zhenping has been in the army for so many years. He saves his allowance to the family every month. From one
or two yuan as a soldier at the beginning, to more than ten yuan later, and now, he has saved it for more than one or two months, and even one or two years. How much money can a countryman spend if he eats meat every day? Mother, if we really calculate it, we can't afford it. You should go back!"
Shen Meng stood behind the door with her arms folded, shouting outside. She looked through the crack of the door and saw a group of people watching!
She didn't go out at this time, otherwise there would be another argument.
"You, you are really outrageous. You dare to frame me like this. You are bullying me to death every day. When will you come back, old man? Can I, a person with such a miserable life, see you for a year? My dear, my mother~ah!"
Liu Sanjin sat on the ground and began to sing and cry. The ups and downs of her voice made Shen Meng laugh.
She had seen such scenes in videos when she was young. This was the first time she had seen such a true and close scene.
"Dad, mother, why did you leave so early? You left me alone~ to suffer in this world~ my dear mother~!"
She sat on the ground and kicked her legs back and forth, slapping her thighs with her hands.
Shen Meng was amazed. She was so hard that her thighs must have turned red.
She cried so hard that her nose and tears flowed, and the villagers around her who were going to work couldn't help but give her some advice.
But she was crying so hard that the advice from others made her even more unbridled.
"Don't try to persuade me. I have a miserable life. I have to deal with such a spendthrift. In all these years, when have I ever lost my temper with her? When she married me, I treated her as my daughter, but she treated me like this. I have been here for a long time, but she didn't even open the door for me. Oh my God, when will this miserable life end~!"
"You are not allowed to enter because you want to beat me to death. You said you treat me as your daughter. There is no overnight grudge between me and my own mother. Besides, it is just a piece of straw from your private plot. You can't use your daughter as you want. You are here, both alive and dead. What on earth do you want to do?"
"You...I...this..." Liu Sanjin didn't expect Shen Meng to suddenly open the door. A few words made her speechless, and she didn't know what to say.
Looking at Liu Sanjin's blushing face, Shen Meng wiped her dry eyes aggrievedly.
"Mom, what are you doing? I don't understand. You can't live a good life. Why are you so troubled? Your sons and daughters-in-law are filial to you, your father-in-law can still go out to work, and Zhenping still supports you. There is no old lady in the village who lives a better life than you in your later years. What are you not satisfied with? You have to take advantage of our eldest family. Can you be kind and let us go? "
As soon as these words came out, the villagers who had just advised her felt uncomfortable. The elderly left with their hoes on their shoulders. They worked so hard to earn work points just to have a full meal for themselves and their children. Old
Mrs. Lu lived a very carefree life. If she followed Zhenping's wife's words, who knows how much money she had hidden!
When the family was divided, Mrs. Lu gave the eldest wife more than 60 yuan at once. Some families may not be able to earn so much money in a year, but she just raised her hand and took it out. At that time, I just thought she was fair.
Haha! Fairness? I'm afraid she is just fooling Shen Meng, this idiot.
Here I am still advising her that I am so poor, I might as well earn some work points and add some food to the family.
The people who were surrounding her left one after another. Even the people who were holding Liu Sanjin showed disdain, clapped their hands, and walked away.
Seeing that most people had left, Shen Meng didn't bother with her anymore, rolled his eyes, turned around and went home.
Liu Sanjin sat on the ground, not knowing whether to cry or walk. She was extremely embarrassed.
When Shen Meng returned to the room, Lu Mingkai was still asleep. She hurried back to the kitchen and put a big pot of kelp and soybean stewed pig's trotters in the pot. She also put cornmeal steamed buns and some cabbage vermicelli on the wall. Lu Mingyang had mentioned it several times, but she didn't find a chance to take it from the space.
As soon as she covered the pot, she saw Lu Mingkai standing at the door with bare legs and cloth shoes.
Shen Meng: “.......”
“Mom, what delicious food did you make? I just saw you put something in the pot. Can we eat it now?”
“......It will be raw after a while. Mom will take Xiaokai back to dress him. It’s a cold day. Don’t let him get frozen.”
Shen Meng wiped the apron around her waist twice, walked out quickly, hugged Lu Mingkai and rushed into the house. The little guy was lying on her shoulder and asked,
“Mom, I can dress myself. You can light the fire!”
What fire? I didn’t even light it!!!
After dressing Lu Mingkai, she went back to the kitchen and smiled at him, saying, "Oh, look, the fire is out. Hehe, wait a minute. It's almost time for your brother and sister to get out of school. I'll light the fire and heat it up. I've made some pig's trotter soup. I've also put in a lot of old kelp. It's the best for nourishing the body. Eat more at night, little Kai."
Lu Mingkai snorted and nodded vigorously with his teeth bared. He liked his mother's cooking the most. It was so delicious that he wanted to swallow it with his tongue.
In a hurry today, Shen Meng didn't have time to give Uncle Guai money for the ox cart, nor did she thank him for helping her work. Shen Meng simply held Lu Mingkai in her arms, put in a handful of fruit candies, locked the door, and went directly to Uncle Guai's house.
Uncle Guai's home was not far from hers. When she arrived, Uncle Guai's wife was pounding sesame seeds with a mortar at the door. The aroma of the fried sesame seeds made people drool.
"Auntie, are you busy?"
Zhu Juying glanced at her, "What? Didn't you see?"
Her tone was very aggressive. Shen Meng guessed that she must know that Uncle Guai was helping her with work. She could earn five work points in the morning. One work point was 20 cents, and a whole morning was one dollar. In the countryside, one dollar of work points was not just labor red, but also included vegetables, fruits, cloth coupons, grain and sugar coupons, kerosene coupons, etc., all of which came from work points.
A family may work hard for a year but still not be able to have a few full meals. Some families do not eat at night and go to bed as soon as it gets dark. When they fall asleep, they are not hungry.
If they work for nothing for a whole morning, wouldn't they be angry?
"Auntie, this morning, thanks to Uncle Guai's help, we were able to harvest the rice from our family's private plot so quickly. You don't know, there are several big holes in the roof of my mother's adobe house. My father is sick, and it has been cloudy these few days. I am really afraid that if there is a heavy rain, my father will... Uncle Guai saw me and my eldest brother working, asked a few questions, and also rolled up his sleeves to help. He is really a kind-hearted person. He delayed Guai. "I've been waiting for Uncle Guai all morning. I feel bad. This is for my kids to give me some sweets. Auntie, please don't be polite. And this is for Uncle Guai. He helped my family today and delayed the work of the team. I didn't think too much about it. Please don't bother with me!"
In addition to giving Zhu Juying a handful of fruit candies, Shen Meng also gave her a piece of 50 cents, which was Uncle Guai's salary. In addition, there was also a ticket for eight kilograms of cotton.
Zhu Juying's hands were shaking when she took it.
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