Chapter 417: Showing Off - The Sickly Young Girl Eating Watermelons in the Courtyard

Zhang Mengyun had been well behaved for the past week, but today he suddenly started to show off.

After Lin's mother and father brought back the things in the grain and supplementary food books, they saw Zhang Mengyun talking to himself in front of the faucet.

As I was talking, I forgot to wash the clothes in the basin in front of me.

Next to her was Jiang Li, who was also washing clothes, but she was very silent.

Jiang Li went to queue at two stations early last night and didn't sleep much the whole night. She just came back from taking over the shift with Aunt Gu.

In fact, if Aunt Gu didn't need Jiang Li to come back to wash clothes and do housework, and if she didn't feel uneasy about Jiang Li taking the food, she would not have gone to take over the shift.

At this moment, the fatigue from not having a night of rest instantly filled my heart. I was so tired that someone was talking in my ears.

On the surface, he seemed very silent, and his mood gradually became irritable.

Anyway, this is what Lin's father and mother saw when they came back. Zhang Mengyun showed off without caring about Jiang Li's life or death.

Yes, it is showing off without caring about other people's lives.

"Oh my! Brother Jianhua is so good to me. He even lets me manage the finances of the family."

"He said he didn't need any pocket money and that he wanted to give me his monthly salary."

Zhang Mengyun's face was full of shyness, and she kept talking, "How can I bear to see my brother Jianhua suffer? My brother Jianhua is the best, so I decided to give him five yuan pocket money every month."

"He's a man, how can he not socialize outside? Oh! Isn't five dollars a little too little?"

The next second, she looked at Jiang Li, "Does your man give you all his wages? How much pocket money do you give him?"

Zhang Mengyun's face was full of smiles, and she looked very proud. She had heard Wang Qiaomei talk about the situation of the Gu family before. Of course, she also knew that the Gu family was not headed by Jiang Li at all, and there was also a mother-in-law above her!

She said this was all intentional.

Of course she has to show off in front of people who are not as good as her!

Lin's father and mother heard all this as soon as they entered the door. Although the two of them wanted to hide themselves, they were still seen by them.

Jiang Li didn't want to waste time talking to anyone. She knew Zhang Mengyun's purpose. Seeing the food bags on Lin's father and mother's backs, she said in a slightly cold tone, "Comrade Zhang, the food station is distributing food today. Don't you need to go to collect the food?"

"..." Zhang Mengyun's face was a little distorted.

"What? What food?" She didn't know, she knew nothing.

Lin's father and mother were also somewhat shocked. How could there be people who didn't know that they had to collect food rations every month?

"Don't you know that we in this city have to collect food every month?"

"I..." Zhang Mengyun's eyes were filled with panic. She didn't know!

The other three people present were somewhat speechless at this point.

This was a situation they had not thought of.

Jiang Li no longer wanted to care about it. She just wanted to finish washing the clothes quickly and then finish the housework so that she could have some free time to have a good rest.

"Tell me the truth now! How can you stop talking halfway?"

Seeing that the fire had not yet reached them, Mr. and Mrs. Lin quickly ran away.

The two of them walked so fast that they didn't look like old people at all.

"This... I don't know what to say. There are actually people who don't know that people in the city have to collect food every month." Lin's mother found it a little magical.

How can they survive without food?

"Didn't your daughter say that? She just returned to the city not long ago, so I guess she doesn't need to pick it up before then."

“…”Well, that might actually be the case.

Jiang Li ignored her and Zhang Mengyun kept pestering her.

"Go ahead, go ahead."

Jiang Li was suddenly pushed away and glared at her unhappily, "How else can you get food? Isn't it just taking the food book to get it?" Jiang Li directly hid the supplementary food.

She also has a bit of a temper, so she takes revenge a little.

Afterwards, if she comes back to question me again, it would be easy to make an excuse by just saying that I forgot about it!

When Zhang Mengyun heard about the grain book, she panicked again. She had obtained a marriage certificate, but her household registration had not been transferred!

Her food supply is still at the Zhang family, she doesn't have it in her hands!

Although the food relationship of Jin Jianhua was transferred, it was still in the hands of the Jin family, and the Jin family had no intention of giving it to them.

So now it’s not a question of whether to get food or not, but that she has no food at all!!!

Zhang Mengyun was completely stunned.

Jiang Li didn't care about that. She quickly quickened her movements, quickly finished rubbing the clothes in her hands, and left with the basin.

"Eh..." Zhang Mengyun reacted and wanted to call someone, but he couldn't remember his name.

After a while, Jiang Li went back to her room.

Now Zhang Mengyun is the only one left in the whole yard.

She now feels like the sky is falling and she really wants to cry.

Why is there so much going on in this city?

Her thoughts were in a mess and she couldn't sort them out, and finally she just gave up.

I didn't feel like washing the clothes, so I just rubbed them twice and hung them up to dry.

The Zhang family, it was only when the eldest and second eldest Zhang went to collect food today that they discovered that Zhang Mengyun’s food book was still in their hands.

When they thought about how they had to buy grain at a high price because of Zhang Mengyun, they didn't want to let it go so easily.

When they saw the rations, they helped to collect them without thinking.

Anyway, their father said that Zhang Mengyun must suffer enough before she will learn to cherish, and they are helping her.

After the two brothers returned, they also told Zhang's mother.

"Forget it, just take it!"

"Mom, you don't have to send the food to her. When she remembers it, she can come and ask for it and you can give it to her."

"Yeah." Zhang's mother was also hurt by Zhang Mengyun's previous behavior.

She didn't even think about the lives of her family members. The food in the city was so scarce, even if there was no food at home, she could just take some. But she took it all away and didn't care about the lives of other people in the family.

She couldn't afford such a cold-hearted lady...

The Jin family is completely different; they planned this all.

Jin Jianhua had never thought of bringing food supplies from the beginning. He knew that Zhang Mengyun still had some money. He planned to make Zhang Mengyun short of money as soon as possible and go back to beg the Zhang family. It would be best if they could quickly restore the relationship, which would be more beneficial to him.

Such a complicated relationship caused Jin Jianhua to subconsciously ignore that today was the day to collect rations.

In the afternoon, after get off work, Jin Jianhua returned home and saw Zhang Mengyun, who was very nervous.

"Yunyun, what's wrong?"

"Brother Jianhua~" Zhang Mengyun was about to cry.

Zhang Mengyun was going to look for someone at noon, but when he arrived at the factory gate, he couldn't get in at all.

Unrelated personnel were not allowed to enter the factory at all. Zhang Mengyun was blocked at the door. She was so angry that she couldn't help but stomped her feet on the spot and left.

The guard looked at her leaving back, seeming to be hesitant to speak, with another sentence unsaid: Do you need... help calling?

Forget it, just leave!