Li Qiuhua glanced at Shen Zhihuan and smiled at the cloth salesman, "Comrade, could you please buy seven feet each of the pink and light yellow printed cloth, another seven feet of the white seersucker, and seven feet each of the black plain cotton and twill cotton?"
"Oh! We need to get another ten feet of white cotton cloth."
My daughter has grown up, so I need to sew two new undershirts for her.
The salesperson was very efficient. After Shen Zhihuan gave the money and the ticket, he put the cut fabrics into the backpack behind Li Qiuhua.
Then there was Xiao Weidong's White Rabbit candy, and the oil, salt, sauce and vinegar at home...
Looking at her two children happily selecting various daily necessities, Li Qiuhua suddenly came to her senses.
She lived in fear for half her life, but what was the result?
Her children had to eat coarse food and could not even have meat.
Without Li Qiuhua's obstruction, Shen Zhihuan became more unscrupulous in buying things.
Malted milk, shortbread, canned food...
If the backpack wasn’t so small, Shen Zhihuan would probably keep buying.
After leaving the department store, Shen Zhihuan led Li Qiuhua and Xiao Weidong directly to the state-owned hotel.
It was lunchtime and the state-owned restaurant was very crowded and noisy.
After finding a place to accommodate Li Qiuhua and Xiao Weidong, Shen Zhihuan walked towards the counter.
Three bowls of shredded pork noodles and a plate of fragrant braised pork were soon served on the table.
The braised pork has alternating layers of fat and lean meat, and you can tell at first glance that it is top-quality pork belly.
These days, fatty meat is more popular than lean meat.
Fat can not only be used to extract oil, which is also useful for eating, but the key is that after the oil is extracted, it can also be used to cook dishes.
Looking at the fragrant shredded pork noodles and braised pork in front of him, Xiao Weidong couldn't help swallowing.
"Eat quickly! It won't taste good if the noodles clump together." Shen Zhihuan used chopsticks to mix the shredded pork noodles in front of Xiao Weidong, picked up a few pieces of braised pork, and pushed them in front of him.
"Yeah!" Xiao Weidong nodded happily, grabbed the chopsticks beside him and started eating.
"Mom, you eat too!" Shen Zhihuan picked up several pieces of braised pork with his chopsticks and put them into Li Qiuhua's bowl.
"Mom doesn't like it, you guys eat more..." Li Qiuhua picked up the braised pork in the bowl and was about to put it into Shen Zhihuan's bowl.
"Mom..." Shen Zhihuan moved his bowl away. "Mom, our lives will get better and better. You don't have to worry about me and Xiao Weidong anymore. Eat whatever you want. We can afford it."
As Shen Zhihuan spoke, he put a few pieces of braised pork into the bowls of Li Qiuhua and Xiao Weidong.
"Don't just focus on mother and Dongzi, eat too!" Li Qiuhua nodded with satisfaction and picked up a few pieces of braised pork from the plate and put them into Shen Zhihuan's bowl.
"Third sister, eat more!" Little Weidong also stood on tiptoe and picked up a piece of braised pork and put it into Shen Zhihuan's bowl.
"Okay! Let's all eat more." Shen Zhihuan smiled and picked up a piece of braised pork and put it into his mouth.
A simple plate of braised pork made the family of three extremely satisfied.
Putting down his bowl and chopsticks, Shen Zhihuan went to the counter and packed six large meat buns.
When we went there, we took a ox cart. When we came back, there was no ox cart available, so we had to walk.
Li Qiuhua and Xiao Weidong, the two main forces working in the fields every day, were fine, but Shen Zhihuan, a frail and sickly person, was in a miserable situation.
He had not had a good rest to begin with, and had been busy in the county town for most of the day. Now, under the scorching sun, Shen Zhihuan felt dizzy and his eyes were blurry.
After walking and resting along the way, when Shen Zhihuan and his family of three returned to the production team, the sun had already set.
In order not to attract the attention of the villagers, the family of three deliberately took a detour to the path on the side of the mountain, but unfortunately they ran into Li Zhaodi who was coming down the mountain picking wild vegetables.
Li Zhaodi had that loud mouth and could tell people about even the most trivial things. If she discovered something, it would spread throughout the production team and even the entire Panshi Village in no time.
"Mother Zhihuan, how many good things did your family buy that you only came back so late?" Li Zhaodi glanced at the backpack behind Li Qiuhua.
"Her aunt really knows how to joke. If my family had money to buy nice things, would we still have the shameless attitude to ask her uncle to borrow the coarse-grain flour from the production team?" Li Qiuhua, feeling nervous, forced a smile.
In Li Zhaodi's eyes, that was an expression of extreme shame.
After all, there were only a few families in the entire Panshi Village who could bring the famine to the production team.
Yes, every family has times when they are short of money, but who doesn’t have brothers, sisters, uncles, and nephews? Borrowing a little from anyone is better than owing money to the production team.
If you borrow money from your brothers and sisters, uncles and nephews, it will never become known to everyone.
However, considering the old, weak and sick people in the Shen family, only a fool would be willing to lend them money and food.
Only his family member Wang Tiezhu was kind-hearted and willing to lend grain from the production team to his family.
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Li Zhaodi looked up and down with disdain at Shen Zhihuan, who had his head hung and was exhausted.
"Mother Zhihuan, I'm not saying anything bad about you, but your Zhihuan is old enough now, it's time for her to learn to work in the fields. Look at all the girls in the village, they all go to the fields to pull grass and earn work points when they are only three or five years old."
Li Zhaodi's face was full of disgust, and she was about to point at Shen Zhihuan's forehead and call her a waste.
Shen Zhihuan rolled his eyes slightly.
Her family didn't owe the production team the miscellaneous grains and flour, so why should she worry? Li Qiuhua's face changed slightly, "My Zhihuan is weak..."
"Weak body?" Li Zhaodi sneered, "You stay in the house all day and don't see the sun. It would be strange if you can get better."
"If you let her work in the fields with the others for ten days or half a month, she might..."
"Mom, look, is that Aunt Gao? Doesn't her family live in the north of the village? Why is she going there?" Shen Zhihuan pointed towards the east end of the village.
Li Zhaodi's face turned dark.
"Mother Zhihuan, I have something else to do, so I'll go back first!" After saying this, Li Zhaodi rushed out.
That speed is comparable to the speed of light! "You!" Li Qiuhua poked Shen Zhihuan's forehead with a smile.
It has been more than 20 years since Gao Xiuxiu and Wang Tiezhu had been together, and they both have their own families.
But as soon as Li Zhaodi saw Gao Xiuxiu, she became like a black-eyed chicken.
We must fight to the death.
Especially after Gao Xiuxiu's man died, Li Zhaodi guarded against Gao Xiuxiu like a thief, for fear that Gao Xiuxiu would secretly hook up with his team leader.
Even if the production team held a meeting on weekdays, she would be on high alert, for fear that the two of them would rekindle their affair and get together again.
"Who told her to gossip?" Shen Zhihuan smiled and took Li Qiuhua's arm.
If Li Zhaodi can talk nonsense, why can't she just tell a few truths?
The original owner was often bullied by her classmates because of her weak body and dull personality. The old warehouse behind the school was her secret base where she licked her wounds alone.
That time, she went as usual, but accidentally saw Wang Tiezhu and Gao Xiuxiu fighting.
According to their proficiency...
Who would believe that a woman who had not been in love for more than ten or twenty years would be so naive? Only Li Zhaodi, with her trumpet mouth, thought her defense was impregnable.
(End of this chapter)