Tang Huan walked behind and moved back home step by step. As soon as he entered the yard, he went back to the house to change into a pair of slippers. The slippers were also made of plastic, but they were slightly better than sandals.
Xing Cui was picking vegetables in the yard. Seeing Tang Huan walking, she guessed that her feet hurt. "Xiao Huan, don't wear sandals anymore. Mom will go to the state-owned mall tomorrow to see if there are any leather shoes and buy you a pair."
Tang Huan, who was putting on slippers, heard her mother-in-law's words and quickly shouted outside: "No need, Mom. I'll buy them myself on Sunday."
Leather shoes are so expensive!
When Tang Huan bought clothes, he also wanted to buy some small leather shoes to match them, but in the end he couldn't bear to do so, so he bought sandals.
"There are still a few days until Sunday! Don't worry, Mom will buy it for you." After saying this, she was afraid that Tang Huan didn't trust her taste, so she added: "Don't worry, it will definitely look good!"
Tang Huan wasn't worried about whether it looked good or not, she was worried about it being too expensive!
Seeing that persuasion was unsuccessful, Tang Huan had to make another request: "Mom, just buy me a pair of white sneakers, no need to buy leather shoes."
At least sneakers are cheaper than leather shoes.
The old couple were so kind to her that she was overwhelmed and didn't know how to repay them.
"I'll see tomorrow." Xing Cui didn't agree outright, but said something ambiguous.
The tomatoes in the vegetable garden have been growing well these days. Xing Cui picked quite a few, went to the kitchen to wash two, and called Tang Huan out to eat.
Their family habit was to wait until everyone was home before dinner, and Old Meng hadn't even gotten home from work yet. Xing Cui was worried that Tang Huan was starving. Learning at school was the most demanding aspect of the brain, and when you're doing that, you get hungry faster.
Tang Huan never refused food. He took a tomato and sat under the grape trellis with his mother-in-law to talk about what happened at school.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law sat under the grape trellis, eating and chatting. Meng Zeyan came out of the house, glanced at the two of them, ran to the kitchen to wash a tomato, and then sat under the grape trellis.
Tang Huan was sharing with her mother-in-law the classmate she had met, and she was so happy that she didn't even bother to eat the tomatoes.
As soon as Meng Zeyan sat down, Tang Huan seemed to have been turned off. She immediately became less talkative and started eating tomatoes one bite after another, listening to her mother-in-law talking to her.
Meng Zeyan took out the meal ticket and tuition receipt from his pocket and put them on the table. "The school has a cafeteria at noon and breakfast. The cafeteria only accepts meal tickets."
Xing Cuixian reached out and took a stack of meal tickets, and also unfolded the tuition receipts to take a look.
After reading it, I sighed: "Back then, you only paid three dollars a semester to go to school, but now it's seven dollars!"
Now is a good time to pay back the money. Tang Huan stood up and trotted back to the room. He took out two dollars from the box, which, together with the ten dollars he had on him, was exactly twelve.
After taking the money and running back to the grape trellis, Tang Huan quickly put the money in front of Meng Zeyan, then sat down opposite him, "Brother, this is the tuition money and the meal ticket money, thank you for sending me to school."
Meng Zeyan and Xing Cui were both curious about where Tang Huan was running to?
Seeing her take out the money, Xing Cui immediately became unhappy and said, "Xiao Huan, why do you always calculate so much? Our family doesn't need your little money, so just put it away and save it for yourself!"
If you do this again next time, I will be angry~"
Meng Zeyan placed the money in front of him next to Tang Huan and explained to her, "Keep this money for yourself! Your mother-in-law paid for the tuition and meal tickets."
He knew that Tang Huan felt it was inappropriate to spend his money, and his original intention was just to help his parents, so he could consider this money as a gift to the old couple.
Xing Cui glanced at Meng Zeyan and nodded in the affirmative.
Tang Huan wanted to give the money to her mother-in-law, but when he remembered what she had just said, he didn't say anything, for fear of upsetting Xing Cui.
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