Chapter 52 Partnership
According to her own ideas, it would be best for her to build a house with Tang Mingli and live their own life behind closed doors.
When the time comes, I can have another baby. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have two in three years?
But it is clearly not yet time.
She talked about this with Han Youran on the way back from shopping, and Han Youran had this intention.
It normally takes one or two hours to cook for 19 people. If they were to cook separately, it would be impossible for them to wait until the old educated youths finished cooking before they could start cooking. They would have to buy new pots, bowls, pans, firewood, oil and salt.
Although it is a considerable expense, Jiang Xiurong does not care about the small amount of money. He just needs to choose his partners carefully.
In her mind, Han Youran and Xia Zhizhi are both good candidates. After all, they both seem to be rich and can eat together. Xia Zhizhi is a little weak, but no other problems have been found so far, so she can be considered.
Of course Wang Lizhen also had money, but Jiang Xiurong felt that she was a bit nosy when she spoke and was not very satisfied with her.
Jiang Xiurong wanted to call Tang Mingli, but it was not appropriate to call him just a gay. If he called him Cui Zijin, it would be obvious that Wang Lizhen was in cahoots with him. Then everyone would be called Wang Lizhen, and only Liu Lin would be left, and it would not be appropriate to leave him alone.
Now that all the female educated youth have been brought along, should we call the remaining four new male educated youth or not? If we call them, there will be more than ten people, which will be unpleasant.
It was really a headache. In her previous life, Tang Mingli had always been the one who came up with ideas. She had gotten used to it and didn't have to take care of anything or worry about anything. Now Tang Mingli was polite yet distant to her.
As she thought about it, she felt a little angry and a little aggrieved. Although she knew that Tang Mingli was not to blame, after all, they had only known each other for a few days in their lives, she just couldn't help feeling aggrieved and sad.
She glared at Tang Mingli secretly. Tang Mingli turned around to look at her. Seeing her resentful eyes, he panicked and didn't know what to do. He could only shake his head awkwardly and turned his head back.
Jiang Xiurong...
Just wait for me!
She thought that in the future she would make Tang Mingli kneel twice on the box, on the washboard, on the stool, and on the table, and only then would the grievance in her heart disappear.
Han Youran was more outgoing and said directly, "There are too many people in our educated youth camp, and it's troublesome to cook for them all together. Comrade Jiang Xiurong and I discussed it and decided to split up and start our own business."
"But if you separate it out for cooking, you'll have to buy another set of pots, pans, oil, salt, etc."
She glanced at the new educated youth and said, "If you want to join us, we can share the money equally. Otherwise, join the old educated youth and discuss it with us. Give us a definite answer, and then we can pool our money and tickets."
Xia Zhizhi naturally wanted to join in, and was the first to say, "Count me in."
Wang Lizhen thought the steamed buns made by the abandoned old educated youth were not tasty, so she also pulled Cui Zijin to join in.
Tang Mingli was short of money and didn't plan to speak, but Jiang Xiurong asked him quietly: "Where is Tang Zhiqing? Come with us."
He wanted to refuse, after all, a penny can't kill a hero, but looking at Jiang Xiurong's eyes, he felt that something bad would happen if he refused, so he nodded reluctantly.
In the end, the two pairs of male and female protagonists and their two female supporting roles were separated and lived separately.
The faces of several old educated youth looked a little unhappy.
Li Mao tried to smooth things over: "It's better to separate them. Although it's lively with more people, it's really hard to separate them. Although we cook separately, we live together like a family."
Jiang Xiurong had already bought the iron pot and oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, all for RMB 3.50 per person. But because she also paid for the tickets, everyone agreed to give her an extra RMB 1 per person.
The others promptly paid her.
Only Tang Mingli searched all his pockets for 50 cents, 20 cents, 10 cents, 5 cents, 2 cents, and 1 cent. After counting twice, he found only 4.3 yuan.
Cui Zijin was thinking about lending him some.
He thought for a moment, then went back to the house and took out another twenty-three cents from the side pocket of the bag he was carrying.
He kept three points for himself and gave the rest to Jiang Xiurong, adding up to 4.5 yuan.
Jiang Xiurong felt sad in her heart and eyes, but she tried her best to act as if nothing had happened. She took the money and said with a smile, "Looking at the stack of money, I know that Tang Zhiqing is a particularly neat and clean comrade."
Regardless of how powerful he will be in the future, Tang Mingli is currently just a young man of eighteen or nineteen.
Seeing that everyone paid their money happily, I was the only one who fumbled around for a long time. Although I didn't show it on my face, I felt a little uncomfortable inside.
Hearing Jiang Xiurong say this, I felt relieved for some reason, and the corners of my mouth rose uncontrollably.
Xia Zhizhi, who had just taken out a wrinkled four and a half yuan from her pocket, was hit in the knee by an arrow.
With the idea that she couldn't let the male lead have an easy life if she didn't have a good life, she pouted and leaned over to look at the money in Jiang Xiurong's hand.
I sighed and said, "Tang Zhiqing is really good at organizing his money. He must take good care of it. Unlike me, I just put it in my pocket and make it wrinkled. It's so embarrassing."
Jiang Xiurong couldn't wait to feel sorry for Tang Mingli in her heart. In addition, although she was the oldest among those present before her rebirth, she was well protected and had always been simple in character, so she didn't hear the hidden meaning in her words.
Tang Mingli had some ambiguous feelings towards Jiang Xiurong. Hearing Xia Zhizhi say this, although it seemed like she was complimenting him, he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart. He couldn't tell where he was uncomfortable, but he just felt that this female comrade was not very pleasing to the eye.
There were two stoves in the kitchen, one was being used by the old educated youth and the other was empty. Tang Mingli cleaned the pot and carried it to the stove.
Everyone shared a large water tank, and seeing that it was only half full of water, Cui Zijin went out with a bucket to fetch water.
Jiang Xiurong suggested that everyone put all the food together and she would keep it, distributing food according to everyone's appetite at each meal. Her original intention was to secretly subsidize Tang Mingli.
Although Tang Mingli was over 1.80 meters tall at this moment, he was very thin, with sunken cheeks. He only relied on his skeleton to hold up his clothes. Jiang Xiurong felt distressed when she saw him.
Everyone agreed. The other four people didn't care about that little food at all and wanted to eat fine grains every meal. Tang Mingli naturally had no objection.
There were six of us in total. After some discussion, we decided to form groups of three. The female comrades would be responsible for cooking, and the male comrades would be responsible for fetching firewood and water for the day.
Xia Zhizhi and Wang Lizhen, one is sickly and the other is pretentious, probably cannot cook properly.
Han Youran and Jiang Xiurong discussed it, and finally Jiang Xiurong and Tang Mingli took care of Xia Zhizhi for one day, and Cui Zijin and Han Youran took care of Wang Lizhen for one day.
The private plots at the educated youth sites were planted by the old educated youth, and they could not just pick the ready-made ones with a lick of their shamelessness, so they negotiated with the old educated youth and decided to give them one cent for every basket they picked.
If it’s not enough, go to the villagers’ homes to exchange some.
The vegetables in the private plot were planted according to the needs of eight educated youth. It was summer now and it was the season for producing vegetables. Even if there were extra vegetables, it would definitely not be enough for 11 more people.