The uncle kept silent. If he could keep silent outside, he would never speak.
Besides, Mom doesn't live with them anymore. As for Dad's pension, it's actually not much. Dad got sick and died and spent almost all of it. He knows how much money Mom has in her hands.
As for Zhang Aimei, she always felt that her mother had private money. Why was this woman so suspicious? He heard these words and his ears became calluses.
Zhang Cuifang was packing her things. When she heard Zhang Aimei muttering like this, she felt very unhappy. When did she use her mother's money?
"Sister-in-law, we have no shame in using our mother's pension money. Our mother is so old, so the money should be left to her to buy some food and clothing for her elderly family!" Zhang Cuifang said very forcefully. In this case, where did she go before?
Dare you tell Zhang Aimei, but she doesn’t know where she got the courage today. Maybe it’s because she has money in her pocket and she has enough confidence.
"You..." Zhang Aimei was so angry after hearing this! She took a breath in her heart and was speechless. She cursed in her heart, "Zhang Cuifen, who are you? How dare you behave in front of me."
Huh! Just wait and see, one day you will be too poor to take the blame and come to beg us.
Grandma walked out of the hut and shouted that dinner was ready.
Wu Yinghua was not happy at all when her eldest son and the others came back today. They were so heartless when they left. It was impossible for them to come back to see her today. The two of them probably came back for the crops in the fields.
Looking at the food on the dinner table, there are three simple dishes and one soup, all vegetables, fried potatoes, fried green vegetables, fried green peppers and pickles, and a bowl of shepherd's purse egg soup.
The uncle and aunt saw the food on the table and had no appetite at all.
"Hey, brothers and sisters! You are not having a good life these days!" Zhang Aimei said hypocritically, feeling distressed.
"Mom, I don't want to eat it. It's all vegetables, no meat!" Ling Jiabao looked disgusted when he saw the food on the table.
Grandma still loved her grandson very much. She hurriedly fished eggs from the shepherd's purse and egg soup, piled a small bowl, and coaxed Ling Jiabao: "Jiabao, come and eat eggs, grandma will feed you!"
Ling Jiabao shook his head in disgust, "No, no eggs!" After saying that, he overturned the bowl.
Grandma was so angry! Her hands were shaking. She sighed helplessly, put all the eggs on the table into her own bowl, and finished eating in silence.
"Hey, Mom, don't be angry. This child has liked eating meat since he was a child. It's not like you don't know it." After Zhang Aimei finished speaking, she disliked lunch again.
"Mom, aunt and the others went to town to buy sandwich buns. My brother loves sandwich buns the most!" Ling Chunxia said slurred words with rice in her mouth.
The dinner table was very quiet for a while. Zhang Cuifen held Mingming in her arms and fed her, pretending that she didn't hear anything.
Ling Guoqiang ate in silence. He was very disappointed with his elder brother and sister-in-law. When they left, they gave the rice to others and did not lend him a bag.
People in the village say he has a good temper, but he is also a person who can hold grudges.
Ling Xiaowei is already deaf and blind. After dinner, she has a lot of things to do when she returns home.
"Mom, I want to eat sandwich buns, I want to eat steamed buns... Yeah, yeah... I want..." Ling Jiabao is also a four or five-year-old child, but at this moment, he is acting like a three-year-old child, starting to roll around.
, grabbed Zhang Aimei’s hand, crying and fussing.
Zhang Aimei was helpless, so she said to Zhang Cuifen: "Sister-in-law, if you buy a bun, just give it to your child. It's just a bun. Why hide it?"
Zhang Cuifen pretended not to hear and said to Mingming: "Mingming, eat quickly, little friend, you should eat more vegetables, this will be smart."
Obviously obedient, he took a big mouthful of shredded potatoes and rice and said vaguely: "Mom, the food is delicious!"
"Grandma, I want to eat steamed buns!" Ling Jiabao realized that it was useless to argue with his mother, so he started arguing with his grandmother.
Normally, grandma loves him the most and gives him whatever he wants.
"Grandma..." Ling Jiabao took grandma's arm and shook it hard.
"What kind of buns! Grandma doesn't have any!" Wu Yinghua really didn't see the buns, and she didn't want to ask Xiaowei and Cuifen. She understood now that this child was used to it.
"Grandma, I saw Ling Xiaowei hiding!" Ling Chunxia pointed at Ling Xiaowei and said.
Ling Xiaowei ignored Ling Chunxia, finished the last mouthful of rice, and then said to Zhang Aimei: "Auntie, why didn't you bring some sandwich buns to grandma to try when you came back? Grandma has never eaten them. How could you change the buns?
Where’s my cousin!”
Zhang Aimei's face changed and she became very ugly. This time they came back empty-handed, but now that this little girl said it herself, she felt particularly shameless.
She had nowhere to vent her anger, so she immediately vented it on Ling Chunxia, saying fiercely: "I'll eat your food, what nonsense are you talking about!"
Ling Chunxia was so violent that she immediately bit her head and ate obediently. There was still a tear in her eyes because she really smelled the smell of steamed buns.
The meal was almost done, and the aunt finally told her the purpose of her visit.
"We are back this time, and we need your help with something." Zhang Aimei started to ask for help, and her tone became gentle.
The scene was quiet for a while, Ling Guoqiang didn't bite, Zhang Cuifen didn't say a word, and grandma was also silent.
The smile on Zhang Aimei's face gradually disappeared.
She nudged Ling Guowei with her elbow and asked Ling Guowei to speak.
Ling Guowei was a little reluctant, but after being forced, he still spoke. After being a teacher for decades, his tone was still that of a teacher, "What about this! It's like this. Didn't we go to the town, but we are still in the village?"
There are several acres of land, and there is wheat in this field. It is not convenient for us to come back to cut our wheat today. You can help me cut it, harvest it, thresh the wheat, and put it in my hut. We will plant it.
We don’t want the wheat in Fourth Brother’s field. We will give it to you in exchange for the wages for cutting the wheat!”
What these words say makes people want to join them so much!
These two people are really thick-skinned when they exchange one acre of wheat for the wages of four acres of wheat harvesting. Let’s not talk about how much money this acre of wheat can be sold for. They just harvest, thresh, and dry the wheat.
Bag, how long will it take to do these things and how tiring will they be?
When they go to the city, does it become more expensive? They can't do this work on their own time.
Zhang Cuifen was a little excited. After harvesting an acre of wheat, she could sell it for about a hundred yuan, right? But then she thought about it, harvesting wheat is only a matter of these few days. If she puts her time on harvesting wheat, then...
I don’t have time to make hairpins.
"Don't do it!" Zhang Cuifen blurted out as soon as the thought flashed in her mind.
Both Zhang Aimei and Ling Guowei were shocked that Zhang Cuifen actually rejected them.