Chapter 79 Chapter 79 Daily life during the slack season.
Mu Zhuo was naturally no match for the two.
Although he was laughing so hard that his stomach was cramping, he was very stubborn and said, "Jealous, you two are just jealous!"
Wen Chen said in a calm tone, "You're overthinking."
He simply felt that this guy's cocky look was a bit annoying.
Dong Qie was indeed very jealous. He shouted, "Blind date! I want to go on a blind date! I'll meet the one this month, get married next month, and become a father the month after that."
The arrangement was quite smooth and beautiful.
Mu Zhuo leaned against the wall at the head of the bed, his feet dangling, "I've met you so many times but I still haven't seen you succeed."
Let’s not say seven or eight times, there must have been four or five times, but none of them worked, which is also amazing.
Dong Qie has the spirit of never giving up, "Just wait and see what I can do next time. I will definitely succeed next time!"
Mu Zhuo
I don't believe it. "When you become a father, you might as well expect my child to call you godfather. This may come faster."
Dong Qie's thoughts jumped quickly, and his thoughts subconsciously followed Mu Zhuo. He looked very interested, "Hey, this is good, it's a deal then."
Mu Zhuo clapped his hands, palms facing upwards, and stretched them towards Dong Qie, "Then as a godfather, don't you have any way to show your appreciation? For example, if you don't have any cloth coupons or meat coupons that you can use for the time being, please give some to me, the biological father of the child, and I will send them back to the child."
His family is not short of money, but they don't have enough tickets.
The next second, Dong Qie's eyes widened, feeling betrayed, "Fuck you, your feelings are waiting for me here."
Wen Zhan, who was sitting nearby, chuckled, looking as if he had nothing to do with the matter and was concentrating on watching the show.
Dong Qie tried to shift the blame to someone else, "Why don't you just take Lao Wen's place?"
Mu Zhuo: "After the money was collected, he gave me the tickets for the three major items."
Dong Qie, who just remembered this, sighed and said, "Forget about it."
Wen Chen silently replied, "Old Mu gave more than outsiders."
It was only after he returned that he counted the stack of money that Lao Mu had stuffed into his pocket. The total amount was at least twenty more than the market price.
Dong Qie's eyes lit up, and he said in a serious tone, "How much do you want to exchange? Let me see if it's worthwhile. If it's not, I won't do it."
Mu Zhuo leaned forward and punched Dong Qie on the shoulder. “Are you a brother? You still want to make money from me at this time?”
Dong Qie hissed loudly, raised his hand to rub his shoulder, and grinned, "It was just a joke, you bastard, you are so cruel."
Mu Zhuo: "Why are you pretending? I didn't even try hard."
Dong Qie's expression was very exaggerated, his facial features were all distorted, "You haven't even used enough strength yet?! I feel like my bones are about to break, I'm really hurt, you have to compensate me, let me think about it, I'll give you ten or eight dollars first!"
Wen Chen commented seriously, "It's a bit exaggerated, as if his eyelids were cramping, and he looked like he had a stroke."
Dong Qie patted his face, "Really?"
Mu Zhuo laughed, "I'm not her little sister. If she hits me with all her strength, it's possible that it will crack. I'll let you try it when I have a chance."
When Dong Qie heard this, his expression immediately returned to normal. He moved his chair to sit in front of the bed and asked, "Is that a call from my younger sister?"
Mu Zhuodi emphasized countless times, "My little sister."
Dong Qie looked like a good brother, "What do you mean yours and mine? With our relationship, your sister is my sister!"
Mu Zhuo pretended to hit him again.
Dong Qie stepped aside quickly, and continued, "Next time our little sister calls, let me pick up the phone. I want to ask in person."
Dong Qie moved to a different seat and sat next to Wen Chen. He then continued, "Honestly, are you two teaming up to deceive me? Is our little sister really that fierce? I just don't believe it."
God knows how frightened he was when Lao Wen returned to the team and said that the little girl could kick a wild boar weighing more than 300 kilograms away with one kick and create a big hole. His jaw almost dropped to the ground.
Especially later, after seeing the family photos brought by Lao Mu, he really felt that these two people were deceiving him, and he had sufficient evidence.
Look at the little girl, so well-behaved and cute, her smile is like the little sun, not at all like the big and strong Old Mu, how could he be so fierce!
Before his younger brother was born, he fantasized about having a sister like this, who would be sweet every day and call him "brother" left and right. It was beautiful just thinking about it.
Hey, listen to what these two people said to him.
It is said that the little girl is very good at kicking gay men in the crotch.
It is said that the little girl could easily grab a middle-aged man and throw him to the ground.
It is said that the little girl can kill a wild boar by herself.
…………
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Balabala.
Anyway, he felt that none of what he said was true.
It’s more unreal than what I heard before, that the little girl could publish articles at the age of eight or nine.
In response to Dong Qie's question, Mu Zhuo just raised his chin and gave him a nonchalant look, "Okay, I'll let you ask next time. If there's a chance, I really want you to try it yourself."
As soon as Mu Zhuo said this, Dong Qie subconsciously closed his legs. He didn't know why, but he just felt it was safer if he kept his legs together.
Some people say they don't believe, but their bodies are quite honest.
Wen Zhuan glanced at him and raised the corner of his mouth, "Promising."
Mu Zhuo laughed loudly.
Dong Qie punched everyone.
While the three of them were making a fuss here, on the other side, there was the Red Star Commune.
Mu Mian had no idea that her heroic deeds were being brought up again and again. She was squeezed in the grain station with Comrade Liu Shuangcui to buy flour.
There was rice today, so Mu Mian bought some. Not much, just three pounds. These days every household has a limited amount of food, so she wanted to buy more, but no one would sell her any.
Many people were having a day off on Sunday, and the small grain station was packed with people. When Mu Mian squeezed out after buying her food, her ponytail was a little crooked.
Liu Shuangcui followed closely behind, "Let's find another time to buy next time. It's so crowded. I don't know who stepped on my foot just now. It hurts so much."
Mu Mian took the flour from her mother's hand, raised her eyelids, and said weakly: "It can't be me? I think I stepped on something just now."
Nie Sihui burst out laughing.
Liu Shuangcui: “………………”
Liu Shuangcui silently moved her painful toes and secretly decided that next time something like this happened, she would stay away from her daughter.
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When the mother and her two children arrived home, it was time for dinner.
Zhao Meihua looked at the three people, "What did the doctor say?"
Mu Mian smiled and said, "Yes, I called my eldest brother!"
Zhao Meihua smiled so hard that her eyes wrinkled together, and she couldn't close her mouth, "Okay, okay."
The addition of a new member to the family is undoubtedly a very happy thing, and the whole family is happy during this period.
However, no matter how happy you are, the baby won't pop out all of a sudden, and life still has to go on as usual.
After the autumn harvest, the next thing to do is to deliver and distribute the grain, and then the villagers will be completely idle.
The school's busy farming season holiday was over, and the students returned to the classroom. Nie Sihui continued to teach. Although she was pregnant, she was fine except that she could not stand the smell of fish. She ate everything with relish.
Mu Mian was not idle either. He took two days off and took the old lady to visit Heping Commune.
The baby of her cousin in Zhengyang was already one month old, but it was the autumn harvest time and she had no time to go and see him.
Mu Ergu's family conditions were considered quite good in Heping Commune. Zhuang Lingxiu was well taken care of during her pregnancy, and the baby weighed nearly seven kilograms when he was born, which was really big.
After raising the baby for more than a month, the baby looked stronger and plump. The old lady smiled radiantly as she held her first great-grandchild in her arms, and happily gave the child a big red envelope.
After returning from Heping Commune, Mu Mian immediately plunged into the ocean of high school knowledge because the school was about to have midterm exams.
She would read and study when she had nothing to do, and she completed the exam smoothly.
During that period, she made a joke when she went to school, but it was not hers, but Shi Xiaolian's.
The two of them didn't go to school regularly, so naturally they had never met their classmates, but they took exams together.
As a result, on the day of the exam, as soon as Shi Xiaolian walked in, she was mistaken for a primary school student. A female classmate asked her lovingly, "Little sister, who are you looking for?"
Shi Xiaolian was so laughing that she was shaking with laughter. She was shorter than her peers. In addition, people started school late these days, and high school students were generally around fifteen years old.
From a visual perspective, Shi Xiaolian looks much shorter than others, so it's no wonder that people mistake her for a little sister looking for her older brothers or sisters.
However, through this incident, they did get to know some interesting classmates.
The results came out very quickly and both of them passed with high scores.
There was still some time left before the next exam, and as soon as it was over, Mu Mian put his high school textbooks aside and put making money on the agenda.
As early as the end of September, the third publishing house to which she had submitted her manuscript sent her a reply.
Mu Mian also submitted three paintings, but received a letter rejecting one of them.
The total amount is five dollars.
Two or three dollars per copy is still quite profitable, and this is just the beginning. If the cooperation goes well in the later stage, the publishing house may send the whole book over.
If you illustrate an entire book, the royalties are relatively higher than for a single illustration.
As for Shanghai Publishing House, since we have been cooperating since 1963, the editor had already revealed it in the last reply. It is estimated that next time we may consider cooperating on the whole book, and he also urged us to complete the comic book.
Mu Mian naturally did not forget about the comic book, and with these two approaches in hand, his days were quite fulfilling and busy.
The weather is also getting colder.
In early December, when Mu Mian went to the post office to mail his drawings and new picture books, he received a package from Mu Zhuo.
To be precise, the package was not sent by Mu Zhuo, but by Wen Zhan to his teacher.
What Mu Zhuo sent back were tickets, which were placed in an envelope. It was a thick stack, containing everything from industrial tickets to food tickets to cloth tickets.
At dusk, the family sat on the kang.
Liu Shuangcui counted them and said in a slightly surprised tone, "Where did he get so many tickets?"
Mu Mian shook the letter paper. "It says on it that a small part of it was exchanged with Brother Dong, and some of it was the allowance from the previous holiday."
While Mu Mian was reading the letter, Liu Shuangcui and Nie Sihui, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, sorted the tickets into categories. Some of them had date restrictions, so they had to use those with the nearest dates first, otherwise they would become invalid after the expiration date.
Mu Mian didn't bother to check the ticket, but took the package next to him and took a look.
The package was divided into two, one containing several pounds of cotton and some cloth.
The cloth was gray and looked very old at first glance, as if it had been washed many times, but it was actually quite soft, comfortable and low-key, and there were some dried fish and other sundries on it.
The other one was similar, without the cloth and with a little more dried fish, and the letter said it was for them.
It's really polite of you to even pay me for running errands.
Since the other party was so polite, Mu Mian, the errand girl, of course completed the task successfully. She avoided people and delivered the things to Teacher Yang.
After a few days, heavy snow fell, and the villagers completely entered the hibernation mode. The leisure time always passed very quickly.
In the blink of an eye, it was the spring of 1968.
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