The Li family was also a little hesitant about wanting to share her mother-in-law's achievements.
Back then, He Ruixue was playing in the yard. Several boys saw that she was pretty and pestered her to play with them. She didn't want to, so a group of kids pushed her to the ground and a fight broke out.
After hearing about this, Grandma Wang Taozhi gathered a group of people from the village. They didn't beat anyone, but went to spread rumors about those families, mixing some truth with some falsehood, trying to be as outrageous as possible.
She didn't let go of the factory or the streets. After she was done, she just ran back to the village with her men, causing a lot of trouble to several families.
Rumors are terrible. Once they spread, not only did the children lose face in school, but their parents also suffered a lot of gossip.
People who work in a factory care about face and reputation. If more people talk about it, their leaders' impression of them will decline. They will think that they have too many family matters and even their promotion will be affected. The loss is quite heavy.
After this incident, the news spread among the neighbors. He Ruixue's mother was an unreasonable and unreasonable person. Who would dare to mess with her again?
The aroma of bacon was overbearing. Old Li's family didn't retreat. He held the bowl to her chest and pushed the door open to come in. "I just want two pieces of meat. Just pity the child. My grandson hasn't eaten meat for a month. His face is yellow from hunger. He doesn't even have the energy to cry. Oh, it makes me feel sad when I see it."
Wang Taozhi couldn't bear it and sneered, "Oh! You still feel sorry for the child. Your granddaughter hasn't tasted meat for half a year, and you don't take it seriously."
Old Li curled his lips and said matter-of-factly, "How can a granddaughter and a grandson be compared?"
"Yeah, how can other people's children compare to your own? Your granddaughter is your biological child, and you don't seem to feel any pity for her. Do you expect me to pity your grandchild? Don't take yourself too seriously."
After she finished speaking, she slammed the door shut. The other families were also watching silently, but when they saw that Old Li's family had hit a snag, they all withdrew their heads and stopped paying attention.
If they had known that they would not be able to get the meat, they would not have been able to talk to this family in the yard. When they were really provoked, Wang Taozhi not only talked but also instructed He Chunsheng to take action. He was tall and strong, and his stick was scary.
When the steamed eggs and fried bacon were served, Wang Taozhi kept talking, "I don't know the character of the people in this courtyard. This time, the Li family came to me to exchange tofu, and then the Wang family will come to me to exchange radishes, and the Qian family will come to me to exchange pickled vegetables for meat. They are all taking advantage of others and can't stand seeing other people's families eating good food!"
Nowadays, people have developed a keen sense of smell for meat due to the long-term lack of oil and water.
In the same yard, it is difficult to hide what you want to eat from others.
But once this gap is opened, the rest of the people will pounce on it like jackals to share the benefits.
Don't say it's impolite. Propriety, righteousness, integrity and shame are things that can only be obtained when you have enough food and clothing.
What's wrong with being thick-skinned if you can get the meat? What if you really get it?
The bacon is fried with thinly sliced bamboo shoots. The sizzling aroma of oil and meat mixed together makes people's stomachs full of appetite.
Wang Taozhi was afraid of wasting the oil and water at the bottom of the pot, so she put the cold stewed sauerkraut on the table back into the pot. Dots of oil appeared on the top, which made people more appetizing.
In my eldest brother’s family, food is not divided into separate portions. You can take as much as you want to eat, but the children who eat meat will fight with each other, so Wang Taozhi is usually the one who divides the food.
She picked up the bacon and put a piece on each person's plate, two pieces for Lu Lan, and finally placed the plate with the remaining four or five pieces of meat in front of He Ruixue, "Okay, let's eat."
After receiving the order, several people who couldn't wait any longer started to move.
The meat was divided, but everyone got a share of the egg custard. He Xiaotuan felt sorry for his wife and scooped two large spoonfuls into her bowl. Lu Lan felt more and more embarrassed and wanted to bury her head in the pot.
Afterwards, he wiped the egg custard on his spoon onto his steamed bread, took a big bite, and blushed. "Auntie, thank you so much for letting Lu Lan have a good meal. I'm not very capable. If I could pass the electrician certification exam sooner and get a higher level, our family would have more income."
The daughter-in-law won’t have to suffer with her.
"Yeah, what were you doing earlier? Big brother told you to study hard, but you insisted on going out to play with your friends."
He Ruixue, who was never very polite, snorted, "But you have a conscience. Take her to the hospital in a few days and find a better doctor. She can't have any problems with her stomach."
After saying that, she put the remaining meat in her bowl and pushed the plate with the soup in front of her eldest brother. "It's too greasy, you eat it."
He Chunsheng was not surprised. His sister has always been a bit "sentimental" and insisted that drinking water would make her fat.
She doesn't even have any weight on her body, but she keeps complaining about getting fat. Fat is such a good thing, but she just despises it.
He didn't even bother to say anything. He took the plate, lowered his head, scraped the greasy juice off the steamed bread and ate it clean. It looked like he didn't even need to wash it.
He Ruixue's pickiness seemed not to have ended yet. She separated the lean parts of several pieces of bacon with chopsticks and threw all the fat into Wang Taozhi's bowl.
He was still complaining, "How can I eat this fat?"
Wang Taozhi lowered her head and ate up all the fat meat mixed with pickled cabbage. What her younger sister disdained was a rare enjoyment for her. The meat was juicy and her mouth was full of fragrance.
"Fat meat is delicious. Lean bacon is tough and salty. What's the point of eating it?"
"Oh, you don't understand."
"Yes, I don't understand. You don't even know how to enjoy your blessings. I'll boil one egg for you every day from now on."
She accepted the meat and eggs that her sister brought back with a clear conscience. The family had long lost count of how much meat and fish her sister-in-law had eaten at home.
He Ruixue didn't refuse. "Let's cook two, one for Lu Lan and one for me, so you don't have to accuse me of eating hers."
"Let me tell you what's wrong. Your nephew is about to have a child, and you're about to become an aunt, yet you're still so ignorant. Look at the girl who lives in Old Sun's house behind you. She's about the same age as you, and she lives a life worse than even the farmhands of the landlord's family."
It’s really enough to call her a grandmother. She is only seventeen.
"Why don't you compare me with his son? I at least got into high school, and he's barely smarter than a moron, yet the whole family still supports him."
"No need to compare, the Sun family kid can't even eat or wear as much as you."
The Sun family, she remembered that the heroine of the novel she traveled through was a member of the Sun family.
She is the third child in the family. She is not well fed and clothed, and her family is planning to marry her off to a fat and bloated factory director in exchange for a dowry.
After Sun Lai Di was reborn, she took the initiative to meet the male protagonist who was on a blind date. She rescued the male protagonist's children who were being bullied by several older children, quickly established a relationship with the male protagonist, and followed him to join the army.
The book says that she was reborn in 1969, on her eighteenth birthday, which seems to be less than a year.
"Isn't that the grandson I've been waiting for after having three daughters? He's just like the landlords of the old days, who have to be waited on by others. Ha, he's not destined to be rich, but he puts on airs. I don't think that kid will have a future."
Wang Taozhi's tone was also sarcastic, and it was obvious that she also looked down on that family's behavior.
While they were talking, the plates on the table were already empty. No one else had the time to talk and they were all busy eating.
Only after the soup bowls were completely empty did they hold their stomachs and sigh with satisfaction.
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