Zhao Youcai’s monthly salary is more than 60 yuan, but due to the nature of his work, he pays a lot for overtime, so Zhao Youcai can earn about 100 yuan per month.
Such a salary is considered a high salary in a forest area. Wang Meilan used to give Zhao Youcai ten yuan as pocket money every month, and Zhao Youcai usually asked for three or two yuan for various reasons.
Wang Meilan really didn't care about him at that time, until the money stuffing in the cotton jacket and trousers was revealed, Zhao Youcai's monthly pocket money was deducted to only five yuan.
But as Wang Meilan said just now, Yongan Forest Farm issues meal stamps to employees every month, and the meal stamps can be used as money in the forest farm canteen and forest farm shops.
And with Zhao Youcai's status as the master chef of the canteen, he can save 40 cents in meal tickets every day, which is equivalent to 12 yuan in a month.
Although this cannot be discounted, Zhao Youcai can take the meal ticket to the forest farm store to buy the salt, sugar, sauce and vinegar he needs at home, and then bring these items back to report to Wang Meilan.
Once before, when Zhao Youcai was repaying Wang Meilan's account, he asked for five yuan, but Wang Meilan only gave him two yuan. Zhao Youcai refused, and Wang Meilan just said, "Don't think I don't know what's going on." Zhao Youcai then said
The money is in my pocket.
But if you don’t spend it, you won’t spend it. Who can bear it if more than half of your monthly pocket money is cut off?
Zhao Youcai walked into the house with the kitchen knife in hand, but he didn't react until he entered the house. He turned around and threw the kitchen knife on the cutting board. Then he turned around and said to Wang Meilan, "Why did you give me three yuan less?"
One word after another, the grief, anger and helplessness in Zhao Youcai's heart were revealed.
Wang Meilan said expressionlessly: "Didn't I tell you just now? Our family uses money for everything now. You don't spend anything a day. Two yuan a month is enough. Don't worry.
, I will leave an extra ten yuan for you in my pocket. If you want any gifts, just keep the ten yuan and pay it out."
"Then our family doesn't have money?" Zhao Youcai mustered up the courage to confront Wang Meilan.
Today, he will not give in! If it were for other reasons, that would be fine, but if Wang Meilan says that her family has no money, no one in the entire forest will believe it!
"How can I have money now?" Wang Meilan said, reaching out to pull up and push the kang cabinet door, and then took out the small cloth bag where she usually hides money from the quilt, opened it in twos and twos, and showed it to Zhao Youcai
He looked at it and said, "Look, this is only about 150 yuan. What is this enough for? You said this is just in case of an emergency. You don't even have enough money to cross the river."
Wang Meilan really wasn't lying. She really only had this little money left on hand. First she built a house, and then she bought gold and silver jewelry. She really spent almost all the cash at home.
Of course, without the money to cross the river, it would not be a problem. Zhao Jun still has a lot of money in his hand, but Mrs. Lao Jiang gave her the money from selling the bile of three bears.
Zhao Jun will not touch this money easily. Even if he does, he will make up for it. After all, the old man is quite old, so the money must be kept for her in case of emergency needs.
When Zhao Youcai saw that there was indeed no money at home, he couldn't help but be stunned, and then said in surprise: "You have to spend so much money?"
Although Zhao Youcai doesn't care about money, he knows that just last year, the cash that came into Wang Meilan's hands, whether it was the income from selling mountain goods or the money from his own small treasury that was confiscated, totaled more than 10,000 yuan.
Over the years, the couple has saved a lot, but how come they only have about 100 yuan left at once?
However, Zhao Youcai then thought about it and realized that Zhao Jun's five large tile-roofed houses could be called the most luxurious houses in the ten miles and eight villages, costing about 15,000 yuan from the inside out.
Including Wang Meilan's set of gold jewelry, it's more than 20,000. This woman and her son usually spend money lavishly...
Zhao Youcai got angry when he thought of this. He thought that you two spend money like water. You dare to buy gold jewelry for five to six thousand yuan. If you come here, you will have to cut off more than half of your five yuan pocket money. How can this be reasonable?
"Bah!" As soon as Zhao Youcai finished his words, Wang Meilan slapped the table hard, pointed at Zhao Youcai and shouted: "Why do you want me to spend money? Then your son won't get married? You can't build a house for your son.
...Huh?"
Wang Meilan suddenly noticed that Zhao Youcai's eyes fell on her wrist, where she was wearing a bright, big gold bracelet!
Although Zhao Youcai didn't speak, his eyes spoke for themselves.
But this time, Wang Meilan did not cover the bracelet with her sleeves. She just raised her head and asked, "What are you looking at? Do you think you bought this for me?"
"Ah?" Zhao Youcai was confused for a moment. He couldn't bear it anymore and muttered in a low voice: "This is not bought for you, how can it be bought for me?"
"This is for your old Zhao family!" Wang Meilan said to Zhao Youcai very seriously: "Don't think this thing is in my hands now. In the future, it will be passed on to your daughter-in-law. If the daughter-in-law passes it to her grandson's wife, it will not be the same."
If you leave your old Zhao family, can it be mine?"
Zhao Youcai was stunned. How could he still be so nagging like this?
Seeing that Zhao Youcai stopped talking, Wang Meilan raised her hand, and while shaking her arm, the gold bracelet circled around her wrist, and then said: "This is just for the time being... I will wear it first, otherwise you, a gentleman, can't wear it. Let's talk about it later."
You can’t even wear it!”
What you say makes sense.
Zhao Youcai was unable to refute for a moment.
"What are you looking at?" Wang Meilan rolled her eyes at Zhao Youcai, then raised her hand to point to the outer room and said, "Hurry up and cook."
Zhao Youcai blinked twice and came out of the back room helplessly. But when he just arrived at the door, he suddenly remembered something and turned around hurriedly and asked Wang Meilan: "Don't we still have some bear bile in our house? Can't we sell it?"
Got the money?"
"Ah!" Wang Meilan nodded and said: "You can only make money by selling it, but haven't you sold it yet?"
Zhao Youcai hurriedly asked: "Where is the businessman Baoyu's uncle knows?"
After saying this, Zhao Youcai added: "Just leave it to the pass."
Wang Meilan looked at Zhao Youcai and asked without answering: "You didn't say that it's up to us and the two of us to take care of this matter, don't you?"
Zhao Youcai: "..."
……
At this time, Ma Ling, who had just returned from Zhao Jun's house, was also cutting vegetables and cooking in her outhouse.
Today, her family also has cabbage and potatoes, but her family cooks them for stir-fry. I saw the girl put the washed cabbage leaves on the cutting board, then inserted the razor blade horizontally into the cabbage box, then grabbed the upper part of the leaf and tore it apart, like this
If you cut it again, the cabbage sticks that are divided into two parts will be thin. If you fry them in the pan, the cabbage sticks and cabbage leaves will be cooked together.
Wang Cuihua stood at the door of the room, leaning against the door frame, holding her little naughty child in her mouth, and said to Ma Ling: "My daughter, you are such a good future wife. My eldest daughter is a blessed person."
"Yes." Ma Dafu, who was looking at the soda bottle in the room, answered: "Your uncle is great, your feet can heal so fast, it's not all thanks to the badger oil they gave you." "Yeah." Wang Cuihua nodded, and said with a smile: "My eldest daughter is lucky. You will marry a good family, and mom will be relieved. In two years, your brother will also have a certain relationship, and your father and I will
This life will be... huh?"
Speaking of this, Wang Cuihua glanced at the west room, and then asked Ma Dafu, who was wondering how to fasten the soda bottle cap in the east room: "Where did the old pimple go?"
Northeastern people call the youngest child in the family Lao Geda. When Wang Cuihua asked this, she was naturally talking about Ma Yang.
When asked by Wang Cuihua, Ma Dafu was also stunned. He said: "Don't ask me, I just came back."
When Wang Cuihua turned to look at Ma Ling, she heard Ma Ling say: "We came back from the fields together. I don't know where he went."
"Where's the harp gone again?" Wang Cuihua muttered, and then shouted to Ma Dafu in the back room: "Go find him, don't let him play with the two boys from the old Li family."
There are several families with the surname Li in this village, and there are also several young men from the old Li family, but I am afraid that the only one who can make people so defensive is Li Ruhai.
"Hey!" Ma Dafu also knew the seriousness of the problem and hurriedly got off the kang, put on his shoes and walked out.
Seeing Ma Dafu leave the house, Wang Cuihua said to Ma Ling: "If he fights with Li Ruhai again, I will ask your father to beat him to death!"
Ma Ling frowned and didn't dare to say anything.
Because she knew that her mother's "fighting" just now was just right, and her brother would not learn anything good if he and Li Ruhai were put together.
When Ma Dafu came out of his home, it was already dark. He looked left and right at the door of his courtyard, and they asked him to find it. Where could he find it in such a big village?
But at this moment, he vaguely heard someone talking behind the big willow tree on the right front.
Ma Dafu was startled, then tiptoed towards there.
This big willow tree is the one where Zhao Jun usually comes to find Ma Ling and hides there.
At this time, behind the willow tree, Li Ruhai and Ma Yang were whispering, and they heard Ma Yang say: "You should leave quickly. If my parents see me playing with you, they will have to beat me."
"Ah? Because of something?" Li Ruhai was unhappy when he heard this and said, "Why did I, Li Ruhai, get into your family? I also told you what happened to your family?"
"It's not that." Ma Yang glanced left and right, but how did he know that his father was behind him at this moment.
Ma Yang, who thought there was no one around, whispered: "The other day I went to the small shop with you, and those ladies and aunts were chatting with you, saying that Wang Dalong was in some village and had broken shoes, etc., but I didn't understand.
”
Speaking of this, Ma Yang's voice became much softer and he only said: "The next morning when I was having dinner, I asked my sister on the dining table what broken shoes meant, and my dad put a big mouth next to me and asked me whether
I even lost my job."
"Hahaha..." Li Ruhai couldn't hold back his joy, but Ma Yang scolded him and warned: "Keep your voice down, don't let anyone hear you."
These days, there are no messy things to pollute the minds of young people. Therefore, those who understand the affairs of men and women naturally understand, and those who do not understand really do not understand.
Ma Yang is one of those who really don’t understand.
But he felt that Li Ruhai knew something, and he felt a little embarrassed if he didn't understand it. So, instead of asking Li Ruhai, he came back to ask his relatives. But he didn't expect that the last question he received was a beating.
The more children are kept from knowing some things, the more curious they will be. Ma Yang looked at Li Ruhai and asked, "What do you mean by breaking shoes?"
"Haha..."
Amid Li Ruhai's laughter, Ma Dafu on the other side of the tree clenched his fists tightly!
But when Ma Dafu was about to show up, he heard Li Ruhai say: "If you don't know this, it's a mistake. You will know it when you grow up."
At this point, before Ma Yang could ask further questions, Li Ruhai asked: "Huh? I remember you told me that your parents never hit you when you eat."
"Yeah." Ma Yang nodded: "I don't know what's going on this time. My mother used to say that you can't hit a dog when it's eating."
"Ah?" Li Ruhai was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "Ha! Did your mother scold you?"
"No way..." When asked by Li Ruhai, Ma Yang was a little unsure, but after thinking about it, he said firmly: "No way! She called me a dog, so who is she? Who is my father?"
”
On the other side of the big tree, Ma Dafu’s face turned dark.
At this time, Li Ruhai laughed and said, "I'll teach you a trick. If you do it well, they won't dare to hit you in the future."
When Ma Yang heard this, his eyes lit up and he asked: "What's the trick?"
After asking, Ma Yang curled his lips and said with a smile: "You can pull it off, you still get beaten when you leave home. I heard that not only your parents beat you, but sometimes your eldest brother also beats you."
"Ha!" Li Ruhai raised his head disdainfully and said, "They don't dare to do it now."
"Really? False?" Ma Yang said: "Are you bragging?"
"What are you bragging about?" Li Ruhai said: "Do you know why I went to the forest farm this time? My family doesn't agree, so why don't I go too?"
Hearing what Li Ruhai said, Ma Yang's eyes lit up and he quickly asked: "What's the trick? You tell me, I'll listen."
The child was in a very urgent mood at this time. He usually received a lot of beatings, and he even received one this morning.
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"Cry!" Li Ruhai said: "If I hit you, you will cry!"
"Nonsense!" Ma Yang said angrily: "If I beat you, won't you cry?"
"No." Li Ruhai said: "If they want to beat you, you will cry endlessly. If you cry for them all night and keep them awake, will they still dare to beat you?"
At this point, Li Ruhai said again: "This is what I used. I didn't cry for two hours before my parents agreed. Otherwise, why don't you let me go!"
"This..." Ma Yang thought for a while, then gritted his teeth and said, "Then if they hit me again, I will try too!"
On the other side of the big tree, Ma Dafu turned around and quietly walked home.
When Ma Dafu arrived home, Ma Ling had fried the vegetables, put the plate on the plate, and was waiting for them to come back for dinner.
Seeing Ma Dafu coming back alone, Wang Cuihua asked: "Why did you come back by yourself? Where is the old man?"
Ma Dafu tilted his chin out of the window and said, "I'm chatting with Li Ruhai. I'll be back soon."
"What?" Wang Cuihua became anxious when she heard this, pointed at Ma Dafu and said: "You won't drag him back?"
"What are you dragging?" Ma Dafu asked, "You are leaving him outside to make him scream and scream, so that the neighbors don't laugh at you?"
Wang Cuihua frowned and gritted her teeth. She was obviously very angry. She sat on the kang and said, "Look, I won't beat him when he comes back!"
After Wang Cuihua finished speaking, she saw Ma Dafu go to the big cabinet, squat down and pull out a triangle belt from the bottom of the cabinet.
Seeing this, Wang Cuihua hurriedly said: "You want to hit him with this? Isn't that right?"
After all, she is her biological mother, even if a tiger is poisonous, it will not eat its own child!
"Ha!" Ma Dafu sneered, casually rolled up the triangle belt, stuffed it into the shoulder bag hanging on the wall, and then said to Wang Cuihua: "When that kid comes back, give him a few blows first. If he dares to call out,
