Hard times have room

Chapter 69 Episode [-]
After school that day, Pauline looked at the basket that was about to be empty and was speechless. There were only seven sweet potatoes left, and it wouldn't be more than two days.

In the evening, Pauline told the story directly at the dinner table: "Mom and Dad, we are running out of food at home, there are only seven sweet potatoes left, I made two in the evening, and there are five more, and I will save another day. amount."

Hearing this, Wang Jiandang and Su Hongying lost the ease at the beginning of dinner, and both looked at each other with solemn expressions.

"This, it's really not good. I'll go and get some softness from my mother, and borrow some or buy some from her." Wang Jiandang said Ai Ai during the period. With his mother's good housekeeping, there must be food at home, although according to his mother's character After a series of events this month, it is unlikely to be willing, but it will always be known after a try.

"Yiniang wants to have a strong temper. If you go there, you will be blind, and you will make her look down on it. The day after tomorrow will be the fifteenth big episode. Go to the episode and watch it. It's not long after I have potatoes. Maybe someone is in a hurry for money. Exchange food for money, if you really can't buy food, you can only go to the old lady's to serve soft."

Su Hongying knew that Mrs. Wang's temperament had to be used to being strong. If she tried to be strong, it would be fruitless to go to the biggest one. Now, it is better to go to Daji and try her luck if you go to ask the old lady.

"Mom, it's better for me to go. I just didn't have class that day, so you don't need to take time off. Go to work. I'll definitely go there early in the morning to squat and guard. As soon as I see someone with food for sale, I'll go up and ask, as long as the price is not the same. Too exaggerated, I will definitely win.”

As soon as Pauline heard what her mother said, she knew how to take out the things in her own space. Of course, the premise was that her parents were not present and did not participate, otherwise it would definitely be revealed.

Su Hongying thought for a while, her daughter is not an ignorant person, and it is no problem to give it to her, and her daughter has always had better luck than their husband and wife, maybe she will just catch up with someone selling food when she goes.

"Okay, it's up to you to go. It just so happened that your dad and I took leave the day before yesterday. The team has been busy fetching water and scouring the ground to catch insects these days. If we ask for leave again, others should have opinions."

On the fifteenth day, Pauline got up early in the morning. The last sweet potato in the family was killed last night. In the morning, Su Hongying cooked pure wild vegetable soup. The taste was a bit bitter and salty.

It seems that if we can't buy food at the fair today, we have to find an excuse to take out the food in the space to save the emergency, otherwise the family of three would really have to borrow food from the villagers to live.

This is not good. One is that other families are not rich. If you borrow it, isn’t it embarrassing? Not only does this kind of thing owe people’s favor, but when you pay it back, you have to pay back a few taels. When it is really difficult to survive, no one is willing to borrow food.

As for spending money to buy, let alone, one is that the people in the village are too familiar, and you are not good at bargaining, and the other is that you are involved too much. Now you go to his house to buy food, and when the real difficulty strikes, his family will Will he come to the house to make trouble, or will he hate you?

It's better to go directly to the Jishang to buy the things that other villagers put out for sale. The money and the goods are both paid. Anyway, there will always be people selling things at the Jishang. It depends on the price and whether it is suitable or not.

"You take this money. You don't care about food. You can buy everything that can fill your stomach. If you have meat and bones that don't need a ticket, you can also buy some back. Then we will make bone soup to make up for it."

Before going out, Su Hongying went to Baolin and stuffed a bunch of odds and ends in her hand. This was the money to buy food for her. It added up to five yuan and eighty-five cents. The change is here. As long as the price is not exaggerated, the money can buy 100 yuan Pounds of sweet potatoes are more than enough.

Some time ago, a dozen or [-] people helped to make mud bricks, move bricks, and build the house. It took about ten days, and the labor cost was about ten yuan.

Then I asked the cripple Wang from the village to make the windows and doors and split some wooden boards. The wood was provided by myself, but the labor was not cheap, and I asked for two yuan.

Deductions like lumber and straw add up to about five bucks.

Without the addition of the yard and the fence, the house cost more than ten yuan, which looks very cheap, but the house can be repaired because it owes others a favor, and these will be repaid in the future.

I don't want to pay back the favor in the future, just now, apart from the five yuan and eighty-five cents that just bought the food for my daughter, she still has 100 yuan in her hand, and she can't help spending this money. The savings are a few bucks, a dozen bucks, and a lot of money. Seeing the rapid decrease in savings during this period, Su Hongying’s heart is bleeding, but she can’t help but spend it. It's good to divide the food for the past two months.

"Okay, I must spend it well, Mom, if you buy bones, how much will you buy back?"

"Why don't you buy more, hang the unfinished ones to air dry, and chop them down in a few days to make a soup to rinse the vegetables. The soup made with bones must have oil, which is delicious and saves food. Besides, this paragraph You and my dad are working so hard, you have to eat some delicious tonic, anyway, these bones are cheap, only seven or eight cents a pound, buy more!"

For this little bit of bone, Pauline did everything she could, even pulling her mother's arm to act like a spoiled child.

You know, because of her past life memories, Paulin has a cold temperament since she was a child. She usually has few expressions and is not clingy at all. It is too difficult to ask her to act coquettishly.

Now that this trick is used, Su Hongying can't stand it. This girl is like this. If she can't agree, why not buy more bones?

"Go, go, buy, buy, if there are too many things too heavy, don't be stubborn, just sit under the big tree next to the market and wait. When we get off work, I'll ask your dad to pick you up. "

"Mom, don't worry, you don't know me yet. It's hard to bear. If there are too many things, I will definitely wait for my dad to pick them up."

"Mom, the bell is about to ring, hurry up, I know everything else, and besides, the market is next to Chenjiazhuang, I know this place, it's still the primary school there, it's definitely fine, and other aunts in the village will also be here today. Going to the market, I'll just go with them."

After her mother agreed, Pauline hurriedly asked her mother to go out. She was afraid that her mother would become more and more uneasy as she talked, and what should she do when she wanted to go with her.

After her mother went out, Paulin tidied up the dining table and soaked the bowl with cold water. When she came back, she could rinse it with water. After all, she didn't have many bowls at this time. They will be cleaned before the next meal, and another is that her food is so bad at this time, there is no oily smell at all, there is really nothing to wash, just soak it and rinse it.

Afterwards, Baolin looked around the house. After confirming that no one passed by, she closed the doors and windows, took out the cosmetics in the space, and started to make up herself. Without putting on makeup and changing her face a little, Pauline is sure that she will buy everything on the set, so she will be able to inquire about the aunts in the village, and it will be spread everywhere.

(End of this chapter)