"What? Going to a restaurant? How many days have you been there?" Li Qinghua said in surprise, "How is your family, Mr. Xu, so rich?"
"What kind of money do you have? He has used up all the food stamps and gas stamps that were just issued this month. My daughter is so stupid that she just eats and drinks with her father and doesn't care about me. I am eating potatoes at home, and their father
The two women live happily by themselves..."
Lin Yulan clapped her thighs and cried bitterly, "I know what he wants to do. He just wants to make me angry and force me to divorce him!"
Li Qinghua comforted her for a while, then suddenly changed the blame, "It's the Su family's fault, isn't it just a team-up? We are all neighbors, is it necessary to make such an embarrassment? Let's just forget that the second son of the Su family is ignorant.
, Master Su is also fooling around, and it’s hurting you, Sister Yulan!”
Hearing someone looking at her, Lin Yulan wiped away her tears and said in an angry tone, "That's right, I really don't understand what kind of grudge that old Su has against me. He wants to harm me like this, make me lose face, and be despised by my husband."
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"Maybe I'm proud of having a daughter!"
Li Qinghua's tone was full of contempt, "Don't Sister Hongmei say that Jinbao is a lucky star all the time? I think Master Su is getting carried away."
When the matter of Lucky Star was mentioned, Lin Yulan became angry.
"What lucky star? It's a girl's movie, I don't know where the rumor came from!"
She couldn't stand Su Jianmin and Bai Lu, and most of all she couldn't stand that they just gave birth to a cheap daughter and were so blind.
"What are you so proud of? It seems like no one can give birth to a daughter. If she is born, she will be a loser!"
Seeing Lin Yulan gritting her teeth as she spoke, Li Qinghua added more jealously: "No, you didn't see how proud Su Jianmin was when he went to celebrate the New Year with his daughter yesterday. I almost vomited..."
"He took Jinbao to celebrate the New Year?"
"Yeah, I'm wearing a new bright red dress! I don't know how ostentatious it is."
Li Qinghua lowered her voice and said: "I just saw that his sons were dressed in rags and reminded me that it would be too wasteful to make new clothes for the babies. As a result, Master Su's family, big and small, was like eating gunpowder."
scold me."
"What?" Lin Yulan asked with a frown, "What did they scold you for?"
"They scolded me for being nosy, and also said that my swallows go to their house every day to beg for food. It's so bullying." After Li Qinghua finished speaking, she shed tears of grievance, as if she had been greatly wronged.
Lin Yulan was furious when she heard this, "I've never seen such a person before. Why didn't you fight back then?"
"I'm embarrassed, but Yanzi did eat a few bites of potatoes at Master Su's house before, eh..."
"Isn't it just a few bites of potatoes? Who can't afford potatoes?"
Lin Yulan clicked her tongue twice and raised her voice deliberately, "Then the old Su family deserves to be poor for the rest of their lives. The kid only eats a few bites of his potatoes and remembers it so clearly."
"My sister, don't be so loud!" Li Qinghua said hurriedly in fright.
"We are so confident, why can't we speak louder?" Lin Yulan said as she stood up and walked out, "This matter clearly shows that the Su family bullied you and let everyone judge..."
Li Qinghua hurriedly pulled her back.
"Sister, I beg you, I don't dare to offend Master Su anymore. He has a good relationship with Director Zhang. If Director Zhang is angry with me, Dali and I will never be able to survive in the factory again."
She spoke anxiously and sincerely, for fear that Lin Yulan would make things worse.
"Director Zhang?" Lin Yulan was stunned for a moment, then held back her breath.
"Hey, Sister Yulan, why do you think our lives are so miserable? We are all from the countryside, and we are all married to a useless man. We live a miserable and frustrating life, and we have to worry about being made trouble by the little workshop supervisor!"
Lin Yulan thought about Xu Qiang turning a blind eye to her like air these days, and wiped her tears, "Your family Dali at least loves you, unlike my Qiangzi, hey..."
"Don't worry, your boss Xu will be angry for a while. When he makes trouble for a while and spends all his food stamps and money, won't he be begging you to cook for him? Sister Yulan, don't worry."
Being comforted by Li Qinghua, Lin Yulan's depressed mood improved a lot.
As if they had made close friends, the two women chatted together whenever they could, and made wild complaints about Su Jianmin, Bai Lu, and their ill-bred sons, especially Su Xiaosi.
"That Su Xiaosi was the worst. When I went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy New Year's goods, he threw fruit cores on my head. If he hadn't been so angry, I wouldn't have thought of the bad idea of jumping in line!"
After Lin Yulan finished speaking, Li Qinghua immediately told her story.
"Such a big firecracker, and he threw it at my feet. It scared me so much that I almost had a heart attack! I chased him just to educate him and tell him that it was dangerous, but I accidentally tore my pants.
Now everyone in the building is laughing at me, I’m really embarrassed to see people.”
Lin Yulan was so angry that she couldn't help but say, "That little bastard is really too much!"
The two of them scolded Su Xiaosi again.
After about a week, everyone almost forgot about the big hole in Li Qinghua's crotch.
Li Qinghua went to the public sink to wash vegetables and found that no one was joking about her anymore. They were all talking about her children going to elementary school.
"In the past, it was stipulated that you could go to school at the age of eight. Now it seems that you can go to first grade at the age of seven. Ask Director Zhang. His son is also in first grade this year. It should be clearer." The women gathered around and washed vegetables.
chat.
"My son already went to school to register yesterday and is in the same class as Master Su's fourth grader."
"Qinghua, how old is your swallow?" one of the people asked, "in two years, he should be in primary school soon, right?"
Li Qinghua said with a smile: "I am now five years old. If I can go to elementary school at seven years old, I will be able to go to school in two years."
She talked and laughed with everyone, but never went to see Lin Yulan again.
And Lin Yulan didn't go to Li Qinghua because Xu Qiang was at home for dinner.
The reason why Xu Qiang no longer takes his daughter out to eat is because he spent all the food stamps he borrowed from the factory for a month in advance and really had nothing to eat.
He made peace with his wife on an empty stomach.
Lin Yulan asked him for food stamps for the next month, only to be told that they were gone.
"What? You've even used up all the food stamps for next month?" Lin Yulan was shocked.
"I didn't expect it to be used up so quickly," Xu Qiang made an excuse and said, "The food in the restaurant is so delicious. I also feel that our family is very beautiful and pitiful. We have never eaten anything good since we were young, so I brought
She went to eat a few more meals."
"Then you can't borrow food stamps from the factory in advance for next month? You've spent all the food stamps and wages. What do you want us to eat after that?"
Xu Qiang glanced at the ground, "Didn't I stock up on a lot of potatoes last year? Just eat potatoes and you can survive a month."
The family ate potatoes for half a month, and all except the sprouted potatoes were eaten. Lin Yulan had to borrow food from others.
During the Chinese New Year, everyone eats with open stomachs, but once the New Year is over, everyone is in dire straits again.
Lin Yulan walked from the first floor to the fourth floor, knocking on doors and borrowing from dozens of houses, but no one was willing to lend her food.
"I'm sorry," Li Qinghua said. Why did Li Qinghua learn that Lin Yulan came to borrow food? "Sister Yulan, you also know that my family's Dali is a junior worker and his salary is very low. My family still eats wild vegetables and mixed bean porridge every day."