035: I’m so worried
Yu Xiaoye touched the two dollars and sixty cents in his pocket and wanted to splurge a little and treat his parents to a decent meal.
But then I thought again, if I went to a state-owned restaurant to buy a meal, I would not only need money, but also food coupons.
She now has some food coupons in her hand, which were given to her by Manager Zhou yesterday. The quantity is not large, and once they are used up, they will be gone, so she doesn't want to spend them unless it is absolutely necessary.
Considering that they now have a yacht, there is a kitchen in the yacht cabin, and they should be able to cook in the kitchen.
So in order to save money and food coupons, Yu Xiaoye decided to buy some vegetables at the market and cook some hot meals for himself.
The two went to the vegetable market again.
At this time, the vegetable market has been closing down one after another, and there are not many vegetables left, or even that many.
I came to a vegetable store and saw a stall at the door. The stall was full of vegetables that had been there for the whole winter and were no longer fresh.
The carrots and potatoes were all wilted, the cabbage had rotted away, leaving only the cabbage heart, the radishes had wilted, and the onions, ginger, and garlic were all so ugly that they didn't even look like onions, ginger, or garlic.
In later times, even if this kind of vegetable was given to their family for free, they would not want it.
But the situation was different at that time, and apart from these vegetables, there was really nothing else to buy. I could only barely buy two carrots, five potatoes, a cabbage heart that looked pretty good, a scallion, a piece of ginger, and a few garlic cloves that others had left over, spending only 15 cents in total.
The vegetable-selling lady was a kindhearted person. She looked at the two urban poor with sympathy. They looked pitiful. Look at the ragged clothes on the mother and daughter. They were so poor that they didn't even dare to buy more vegetables, yet they chose this time to buy cheap goods. I wonder what their family situation is like.
The vegetable seller simply picked up a dozen rotten cabbage leaves on the stall and handed them all to the mother and daughter.
The mother and daughter looked at the cabbage leaves that were one-third rotten and were stunned for a moment, not knowing what it meant.
The aunt raised the cabbage leaves in her hand and said proudly:
"Here, girl, don't be shy. Go home and cut up these leaves. Cut off the rotten ones and you can still eat them."
The mother and daughter then realized, oh, they were being given alms!
Xu Ying was stunned.
Yu Xiaoye was the quickest to react. He quickly stretched out his hands and took the vegetable leaves handed to him by the aunt with a grateful look on his face.
"Thank you, Auntie. May you live a peaceful life!"
"Oh, girl, you are so sweet. Next time you have nothing to eat, come to my place again."
"Thanks----"
Yu Xiaoye walked away with Xu Ying, holding the rotten cabbage leaves with a little embarrassment.
After turning a corner, Yu Xiaoye quietly looked back and found that the vegetable seller could not see them, so he threw the cabbage leaves on the side of the road.
Just thrown away, and then picked up by someone else.
Xu Ying turned her head to look at the cabbage leaves that were picked up, and couldn't help but sigh:
"We have been reduced to the point where people give us rotten vegetable leaves."
After a pause, he changed his tone and said very movedly:
"The leaves are a little rotten, but the vegetable seller is really kind-hearted."
The mother and daughter walked towards the hospital with mixed feelings.
When they reached a remote and deserted place, Yu Xiaoye stopped and said:
"Mom, go back to the hospital first. Dad must be worried because he hasn't seen us for a long time. Go back and tell him you're safe. I'll bring the carrots and potatoes back to the space yacht and cook them together with the tuna. I'll go to the hospital to find you when they're done."
"Okay, then you should come over earlier. I'll go back and tell your dad first. It's really inconvenient to go out these days without cell phones."
The mother and daughter parted ways, and Xu Ying went back alone first.
Before I even reached the hospital entrance, I heard Yu Jiahui shouting from afar:
"Why did you come back alone? Where's our daughter? Where's our Xiaoye? Where are they? Where did you take them?!"
When Xu Ying heard Yu Jiahui's angry tone, as if she had harmed her own daughter, Xu Ying was unhappy at the time and couldn't help but want to say a few words. But when she looked up and saw the old man leaning on a stick with one hand and the other hand hung up, walking as if he had sequelae of cerebral thrombosis, Xu Ying swallowed the words back into her stomach.
Xu Ying quickened his pace and stepped forward to explain:
"Why are you in such a hurry? Xiaoye went to buy food."
Yu Jiahui was about to jump up and down, leaning on his stick:
"How can I not be anxious? Where have you two been this morning? I haven't seen you and there's no phone to contact you. I've been so worried all morning! I thought you two—"
Yu Jiahui looked around, lowered his voice, and said through gritted teeth:
"I thought you two were really captured by the militia. I was so anxious that the injury to my old waist got worse!"
Xu Ying reached out and held Yu Jia's arm:
"It's okay, don't worry about it. Xiaoye went back to the yacht to cook for us. Come over when the meal is ready."
"So what did you two do all morning?"
Xu Ying told Yu Jiahui what happened that morning.
Talk as we walk.
I had just finished speaking when I returned to the ward.
Yu Jiahui heard that his wife and daughter caught two fish from the sea and actually sold the fish this morning, earning a total of nine yuan and fifty cents. Yu Jiahui couldn't believe that this mother and daughter were so capable.
Xu Ying helped Yu Jiahui lie down on the hospital bed, and sat on the camp bed next to him, sighing with relief:
"Hubby—no, Lao Yu, our Xiao Ye has really grown up. I used to treat her like a child, always thinking she was still a little baby who loved to eat candy and act coquettishly, but after these two days, I realized that she has grown up all of a sudden."
As she spoke, the old mother's eyes actually turned slightly red.
Xu Ying rubbed his eyes and sighed:
"I've lived a long life, and in the end, I realized that as a mother, I'm not as good as my 18-year-old daughter."
Yu Jiahui remained calm, but had an expression of agreement on his face. Only Xu Ying could say this; Yu Jiahui would never dare to say it out loud.
Yu Jiahui also followed his wife's sentiments and said:
"I won't say anything else, I just feel sorry for our daughter. You said it was so hard for her to get into university.
During my high school years, I got up early and went to bed late every day. I never saw the sun at both ends of the day. I turned off the lights and went to bed at eleven or twelve o'clock in the evening, and had to get up at five or six o'clock in the morning.
During the days of the college entrance examination, we both couldn't sleep all night and were almost suffering from nervous breakdown.
Finally I finished the exam and saw the results. I scored 678 points and was admitted to a key university. Don’t you think it was easy? My wonderful life has just begun.
Who would have thought that a yacht would take us back to the 1970s? Bang! It was all in vain!
"Stop talking! The more you talk, the angrier I get. If I had known, I would have let her play every day. Why would I bother going to university?"
"That's right, if I had known earlier, I would have let her be a poor student. Forget it, now that things have come to this, let's not say anything more."
The old couple felt sorry for their daughter and complained for a while, but finally they were too hungry to speak and shut up.
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