Zhou Yongfu asked everyone to calm down, wanting to resolve the matter quickly so as not to delay their meal and afternoon work.
"Alright, Liu Zhiqing, Jiang Zhiqing, since you've both read the list, return it quickly and don't delay everyone's meals or work. You can't get away with it, or I'll have no choice but to send you two to the commune."
Liu Kang looked at Zhou Yongfu, speechless. Jiang Zhaodi looked at Zhou Yongtao aggrievedly, pinching her throat and trying to say in a delicate voice, "Captain, it's not that I don't want to pay it back, it's that I really can't come up with so much money."
Zhou Yongfu ignored her and said directly and impartially, "Why borrow money when you don't have it? Liu Zhiqing, yours is 90.6 yuan, and Jiang Zhiqing, yours is 104.38 yuan. Write to your family and ask them to send the money back."
"I disagree with the captain. I know their families too well. I want to suck their blood. There's no way I'm going to send them money."
Seeing that Liu Kang and Jiang Zhaodi did not refute Jiang Qingwu, Zhou Yongfu knew that what Jiang Qingwu said was true. Damn it, what's going on every day? These two don't earn much, but they have a lot of trouble every day.
"Captain, since they won't actively pay me back, let's send the aunts to their place to search and return the money they have now to me. The rest can be returned to me with the food and money they were given."
Jiang Qingwu guessed that each of them had no more than 50 yuan on them, and that was something they had hidden away from their families, otherwise it would have been taken away long ago.
Jiang Qingwu wanted to drain all the money they had, and also to ask for the food they were given in a few days. Naturally, they would have to find a way to deal with the food shortage. As for the way, the only thing Liu Kang could think of was to let Jiang Zhaodi pay something in exchange for food.
As for Jiang Zhaodi, at this stage she should still be deeply in love with Liu Kang, and she would agree to anything Liu Kang asked her to do in order to win his heart.
Zhou Yongfu agreed to Jiang Qingwu's plan and was about to call for someone to search their money when Liu Kang stopped him in time. "Wait a minute, Captain. I only have 50 yuan on me, and a few food coupons and cloth coupons. I'll return them all to Jiang Zhiqing. I'll use work points to offset the remaining 40.6 yuan."
Jiang Qingwu asked Zhou Yunzhou to take the money and bills that Liu Kang returned, then looked at Jiang Zhaodi. "What about you? If you don't return it, I won't be polite."
Seeing that Liu Kang had already paid back, Jiang Zhaodi could only take out all the money she had, which totaled 39.46. "It's all here. I really don't have any more."
It was also Zhou Yunzhou who received the money. Jiang Qingwu saw him count it and nod, then he said directly to Jiang Zhaodi, "Pay me the remaining 64.92 as soon as possible. You know very well that your work points don't cover that much money. If your work points can't cover the debt, I will still go to the commune to sue you."
"Captain, please ask the brigade accountant to write down the money they each owe me and return it all to me when the grain is distributed. If their work points are not enough, I also demand that it be returned to me on the day of distribution. After all, I am not someone who does good deeds without leaving a name. I still have a family and a son to support."
After the problem was solved, everyone went back to eat. Zhou Yunzhou and Jiang Qingwu took the son from Aunt Zhang's arms and went back to continue eating.
"Eat quickly, it won't taste good if it gets cold." At this time, it was Zhou Yunzhou who held his son and Jiang Qingwu who fed him.
The fragrance of their food spread for miles. The children in the fields were clamoring for meat, and the men in the fields complained that their women were stingy and were reluctant to put any meat in the food.
"Yunzhou, Aunt Zhang is working next door today. Go give Aunt Zhang some meat buns for her children. Aunt Zhang and Sister Xiulan helped just now."
After hearing what Jiang Qingwu said, Zhou Yunzhou took his son and the meat buns to Aunt Zhang. Aunt Zhang said she didn't want anything. Flour and meat were so expensive now, so how could she accept other people's things?
Seeing that she refused to accept it, Zhou Yunzhou stuffed the meat bun into her son's hand and asked him to give it to the children at home. Then he took Little Sun back home to eat.
The two of them were eating and chatting here, and they didn't know or care about the reactions of the Zhou family in the field far away.
The aroma of the food that Jiang Qingwu brought had already spread far away. A gust of hot wind brought the aroma to the noses of everyone in the field. Looking at their own brown rice and wild vegetable porridge, the fragrance was so tempting that it made people drool.
The two sons of Zhou Yunfeng's family were clamoring for meat, and even his third daughter followed her two brothers in crying. Zhou Yunfeng's wife had no choice but to let the three of them go and talk to their grandparents.
"Grandpa, grandma, we want to eat meat, we want to eat meat." Goudan cried to Mrs. Zhou and Old Man Zhou.
Gousheng and Sanya followed suit and started making a fuss. Old Man Zhou and Mrs. Zhou had always loved their two grandsons, and they were also quite nice to Sanya among their granddaughters. But when they saw them crying, they felt so distressed that they started cursing Zhou Yunzhou and his wife.
"What a damned thing! He eats all the food in the fields without even sending a bite of meat to his parents. It's really a waste of time to raise him. I should have strangled him to death long ago to see if he would still have the life to eat meat."
Here, Mrs. Zhou coaxed her two grandsons to scold Zhou Yunzhou non-stop, but she knew that Zhou Yunzhou had a cruel heart and did not dare to provoke him in person. He would not beat her and the old man, but every time he scolded him, her sons except the third son would be beaten. After thinking about it, she was sure that it was Zhou Yunzhou's doing.
After repeating this several times, over time, neither Mrs. Zhou nor Old Man Zhou dared to provoke Zhou Yunzhou, and even if they scolded him, they would do so behind his back.
Seeing the child making a fuss, Zhou Yunfeng wanted to instigate Old Lady Zhou to go to Zhou Yunzhou and make trouble, asking for meat for his child. "Mom, my fifth brother's wife is so rich. It's a bit unreasonable for the two of them to eat so much meat without giving you and Dad a bite."
His wife, Sun Erni, immediately echoed her husband's words sweetly, "Yes, mother, if it were me and my husband, even if we didn't eat it, we wouldn't miss out on a bite from our parents."
Old Mrs. Zhou has always been more fond of Zhou Laoer and his wife, but she was still afraid of Zhou Yunzhou, so she didn't rush to ask for meat. She just said that the matter needed to be considered carefully, and promised to give money tomorrow to let Zhou Laoer buy a few pounds of meat for the family to eat.
No matter what their plans were, Zhou Yunzhou and Jiang Qingwu would not let them get what they wanted. If they insisted on causing trouble, then they would just break off the relationship. They had never loved Zhou Yunzhou anyway. He had worked hard for the Zhou family for so many years to earn work points, which was considered a repayment for the kindness of Old Lady Zhou in giving birth to him.
Jiang Qingwu came directly to the fields from the town today and did not bring him any water. The water he brought in the morning was finished, but fortunately Aunt Zhang brought more water and poured some for Zhou Yunzhou.
Jiang Qingwu put watermelon and apple in her backpack. Zhou Yunzhou left an apple for Jiang Qingwu and told her to go home quickly because the field was too hot. Little Sun might have been crying because of the heat.
When they reached the edge of the field allocated to the Zhou family, Jiang Qingwu saw Zhou Laosan's wife and her two children resting by the field. In fact, Zhang Cuihua came here to get some peace and quiet. She couldn't stand Old Lady Zhou constantly scolding Zhou Yunzhou and Jiang Qingwu for being heartless. How did they treat Zhou Yunzhou? Everyone in the village saw it, so how could she have the nerve to blame others for not giving her parents meat to eat?
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