Reborn back to 1984

Chapter 63

Continuing to quarrel would definitely hurt feelings. Zhang Xiuqing disagreed with her mother's attitude towards money, but she understood her mother's hard work, so she changed the subject and said, "Mom, I haven't had dinner yet. Do you have anything to eat at home?"

If Zhang Xiuqing uttered this sentence before the busy season, she would be scolded by Shen Heying. Even the family next door could recite the scolding words: "I know how to eat all day long, but I don't know how to earn money. This family is poor because of you." ……Why are you staring? I’ve raised you so much, I can’t say you anymore… You have hands and feet, you don’t know how to go to the kitchen by yourself, and you don’t have to be afraid if I serve you like a servant Lightning struck?"

Now that Zhang Xiuqing is not what it used to be, it can be said that the Zhang family's success today is due to the eldest daughter.As the family earns a hundred yuan a day, the debts are paid off, and life gets better day by day, Zhang Xiuqing's status also rises imperceptibly. How can Shen Heying scold her?Immediately turned around and walked into the kitchen: "I didn't know that you came back today, and I didn't prepare dinner for you, so I'll make an egg pancake, just eat some!"

Zhang Lingen wasn't hungry at all, on the contrary he was full, but he didn't ask Shen Heying to do less.The farm family is poor, and they are full of porridge and rice. Egg pancakes are a rare delicacy. If he doesn't eat them, he can give them to Xiuhong and Xiaofeng.

Zhang Xiuqing was flattered, and hurriedly followed in: "No need, Mom, you've been tired all day, go and have a rest, I'll do it myself!"

"Why, do you think my cooking is not delicious?" Shen Heying said with a stern face, "Even if it is not delicious, you have to eat it for me! You drove all day today, and you can't even eat it when you get home." There is no stuttering, if I sit and enjoy the cool breeze, your father will definitely scold me again."

Zhang Xiuqing denied it: "How is that possible?" As he spoke, he scooped two bowls of warm water into the iron soup pot with a spoon, took one bowl out for Zhang Lingen, and drank the other bowl by himself.

Shen Heying glanced in the direction of the door with resentment, and said, "How is it impossible?"

Zhang Xiuqing had no choice but to put on a shameless look, flattering her mother: "Mom, you are too modest! Who in our family doesn't know that you are the best cook, the whole village can count it? It's been a long time since I said it. I haven’t even eaten the egg pancakes sold by my mother. I’m lucky today! Mom, thank you for your hard work. When I make a lot of money in the future, I’ll buy you gold earrings to wear..."

"I don't care for things that can neither be eaten nor worn!" Shen Heying said, her face turned cloudy unknowingly: "I don't expect you to make a lot of money, as long as you can be like this in the future, If I earn 100 yuan a day, I will be satisfied!"

One hundred a day, thirty-six thousand five hundred a year. There are five members of the Zhang family, with an average income of seven thousand three hundred.In the 80s, their family was considered a high-income family, but in the 21st century, this amount of money is not enough to buy an underground parking space, Zhang Xiuqing secretly sighed: "Mom, don't worry, our family will not be poor anymore, The days will get better and better, there will be gold earrings, and new houses..."

"Then you have to save it up. If you earn a lot and spend a lot like you, when will you be able to build a new house?" Shen Heying said with a dissatisfied face: "By the way, how much did you spend on your trip to Shanghai this time? Couldn’t the things in those boxes be used to make head flowers? You monster, why did you buy so much? If you can’t sell them, wouldn’t you have to lose money? Your father is a wooden man, so don’t stop him ... If I had known that you guys don't take money seriously, I shouldn't have given you so much money... Xiuqing, listen to your mother, don't mess around, and return the goods if it doesn't work! If you can get a little back, it's better than Nothing to return to..."

Zhang Xiuqing couldn't help crying and laughing, and had no choice but to lift Shao Han out to keep her ears quiet, and said half-truthfully, "Mom, let me tell you the truth, don't look at those boxes, which are worth 100 yuan. If you don't believe me, I will show you the purchase order later, it is clearly written on it... Also, this business is not mine alone, I only took out 100 yuan, Shao Han took 1000 yuan, I can’t make up my mind whether to return the product or not. If you don’t believe me, wait a while and look through Dad’s pockets, he still has more than 200 yuan left unused.”

Shen Heying knew that Zhang Xiuqing never lied, she was qualified to control her children, but she was not qualified to dictate to Shao Han, so she had no choice but to give up her idea of ​​returning the product, and lowered her head to spread the egg pancake.While spreading the stall, he told Zhang Xiuqing to save some snacks tomorrow, so that people with dirty hands and feet would not take things along with them.

So far, this matter has been prevaricated by Zhang Xiuqing, but it also reminded her that the mother must be filial, but the financial power must be in her own hands, otherwise, according to Shen Heying's money-loving temperament, she must Don’t do this, don’t touch that, don’t spend the money you earn, and whoever spends it is in a hurry... To put it nicely, it’s thrifty, and to put it bluntly, it’s a miser.

She didn't want to take all the money from Shen Heying's hands and manage it herself, but she couldn't hand over all the money she earned with her own hands to her mother in the future.In today's situation, Zhang Xiuqing didn't want to see her again.

After coaxing the mother, then coaxing the younger sister.Zhang Xiuhong's temperament seems to be weak, but in fact she is strong. Blind persuasion has no effect. Zhang Xiuqing decided to use aggressive methods: "Xiuhong, mom doesn't want to buy you a schoolbag because she doesn't believe that you can get into college. Don't blame her. , who told us that there have been no female college students in our village? Speaking of which, it’s all my fault. If I didn’t fail the college entrance examination, my mother wouldn’t be like this..."

Zhang Xiuhong immediately exploded when she heard it, rushed into the stove, and shouted at Shen Heying: "Mom, I will definitely become the first female college student in the village, just wait and see..."

"You little monster, I'm going to be called deaf by you..." Now that the debts are paid off, and the days are getting better and better, Shen Heying is ashamed to do what she did before, and strongly opposes her second daughter's continuing to study. What's more, this For a period of time, the second child went out with her early and returned home late every day, and the whole person was blacked out. He had both credit and hard work, so he said angrily: "If you can really go to college, I'll go to the street to buy it. Twelve strings of [-] sounds, one string for two hours, one for a day and one night... And, no matter what you want to do in the future, I promise not to fart a single one!"

"Okay, this is what you said! Dad, sister, Xiaofeng, you all testify to me, if mom repudiates the debt, I will ask you to settle the score..."

"Don't worry, mom has no other advantages, just keep her word..." Shen Heying put two golden egg pancakes on a plate and brought them out: "But what if you don't pass the exam?"

Zhang Xiuhong flushed with excitement: "If I don't pass the exam, I will work all day and night from now on, and all the money I earn will be handed over to you, and I won't keep any money..."

"Who wants you to work all day and all night? I'm like a landlady..."

Zhang Xiuhong was about to say, "You are no different from a landlady!" Zhang Xiuqing saw that something was wrong, so she quickly interrupted and said in a joking tone: "Mom, you are not a landlady, you are a housekeeper, and our whole family is under your care..."

Zhang Xiaofeng raised his head and said to Zhang Xiuhong: "Sister, let me exchange with you. From tomorrow, I will go out with my mother to hunt snails, and you stay at home to collect snails and yellow snails... This way you will have time to prepare for your homework! "

Zhang Xiuhong finally stopped the tears falling again, quickly wiped it with the back of her hand, and said with a smile: "Okay, when my sister is admitted to university and holds a good job, I will definitely buy you a lot of delicious and fun things." , and buy you new clothes, new leather shoes..."

Shen Heying curled her lips, and under Zhang Lingen's stare, those shocking words came to her lips, and she swallowed them back.

Zhang Xiuqing came out with five pairs of bamboo chopsticks and five empty bowls.Zhang Lingen refused to eat, and turned to take a shower on the well platform. Shen Heying shouted at his back: "The well water is too cold, don't flush it directly, add some hot water in it! Really, I am so old, and I have to worry about it... ..."

Zhang Xiuqing divided the two omelet pancakes into four portions, first she took one portion for Shen Heying, then she took one portion for herself, and divided the remaining two portions between Zhang Xiuhong and Zhang Xiaofeng.

Shen Heying immediately felt distressed.If I knew that Zhang Lingen would not eat it, it would be enough to spread out an egg pancake, which was a waste of food.

However, the cake has already been spread, and it would be a waste not to eat it. Shen Heying gave Zhang Lingen a hard look, and while eating, she cursed inwardly: "This wooden man spends a lot of money if he has a little money. If there is a shortage of food one day, it's up to you." what to do?"

After eating, they each washed up. That night, Zhang Xiuqing had a good night's sleep.At 05:30 the next morning, she was woken up by Zhang Xiuhong.She rubbed her eyes, got up quickly, dressed, washed, and ate porridge as fast as she could. Just as she put down the porridge bowl, two girls around Zhang Xiuqing's age came in pushing and pushing.

The Zhang sisters hurried forward to say hello, and the two found a shady place and sat down.

Zhang Xiuqing took a small rattan basket, walked into the living room, opened the carton, put two bags of hairnets, two bags of hair clips, two bags of buttons, four rolls of forging belts with a width of about four centimeters, and two rolls of width of two points. Five centimeters of forged belts were placed in rattan baskets.Going back to the house, I took a pen and a blank homework book.Then go back to the yard, divide the above things into two, and record one copy for each person in the notebook.

After the two little girls confirmed that there was no problem, they each signed their names.

Each roll of the forging belt is [-] centimeters, and each bow needs to use a wide forging belt of [-] centimeters and a narrow forging belt of [-] centimeters.Because this thing is more expensive, once the size is wrong, it will cause losses. Zhang Xiuqing told them not to rush to make it, but to work with two people, one to measure, the other to cut, and then start sewing after all the forging belts are cut.

Sewing machines were still a luxury at that time, and many people were reluctant to throw away their torn clothes, so they could only mend them with needles and threads, so the country girls basically knew how to sew and mend. Zhang Xiuqing only taught them once, and they learned it.

Zhang Xiuqing didn't dare to be careless, so she stood by and watched for a while, and after emphasizing the quality again, she returned to the living room, set aside an empty cardboard box, and put hairpins for them.

Since the color of the forging belts of the two collars is different, the hairpins they make are naturally different, and they are not afraid of being confused when they are put together.

At five minutes to six, a dozen or so little girls flooded into the yard. Zhang Xiuhong hurried over to help. One of the two sisters was in charge of distributing things, and the other was in charge of recording. They were extremely busy.

On this day, in the yard of Zhang’s family and under the wild bayberry tree in front of the door, there were full of older girls and younger daughters-in-law. Zhang Xiuhong counted 27 people in total.In the morning Zhang Xiuqing made vegetable flatbreads, and in the afternoon he cooked mung bean soup with wild mung beans. All the people who came to work were elated.

At about three or four o'clock, women's scolding and children's cries suddenly came from the west, creating a commotion.A few young daughters-in-law who liked to watch the excitement quickly dropped their work and ran towards the direction of the sound. Others were not in the mood to work and guessed what happened.

About half an hour later, the young daughters-in-law who watched the excitement walked back to Zhang Xiuqing's house, and everyone understood the reason. It turned out that Zhang Liumao had gone to the ditch next door to steal wild rice, but he suffered retribution. After taking a bite, Shi Dongsheng's mother, Song Caiying, happened to pass by, and everyone caught the stolen goods on the spot.

Although Zhang Liumao's ancestor was reincarnated as a thief, and he patronized all the houses except the village head's house in the entire Xindong Village, Song Caiying couldn't do anything about it, so she hurried to the village to call for help.His mother-in-law was so angry and cursed, she had no choice but to go to the village head's house to borrow a bicycle, and called a few uncles and brothers to help, and planned to send Zhang Liumao to the county people's hospital...

After hearing the news, everyone said something to me, and this one said: "Good will be rewarded with good, and evil will be rewarded with evil. It's not that there will be no reward, and the time has not yet come..." The other said: "Man is doing it, and the sky is watching." , the bad guys will be punished sooner or later..." Everyone gloated, but no one sympathized with him.

It is absolutely amazing to be a human being to this extent!
In the evening, a little girl whose home was far away and needed to go back to make dinner stood up, and made an inventory by herself before asking Zhang Xiuqing to go over and do the inventory.

The little girl came late and left early, and she made eighty of them.After Zhang Xiuqing checked that the quantity was correct, she opened the homework book, found the page where she received the things she used, wrote down the quantity of the finished product, and calculated how much she should be paid, and settled it on the spot.After the little girl got her wages, she signed for confirmation in the book according to Zhang Xiuqing's request.

After that, people went home one after another, and Zhang Xiuqing settled the bills one by one, without a penny in arrears.

At about seven or eight o'clock, Zhang Xiuqing was washing dishes on the well platform, when Grandma Li from the next door rushed in with a big cattail fan: "I heard that Liu Mao came back from the hospital, Heying, do you know?"

Shen Heying had already heard about Zhang Liumao's great feat of stealing wild rice from a neighbor's house and being bitten by a Chi Lian snake, so he asked casually, "I'm back so soon, are you all right?" The county people’s hospital charges are quite expensive, I’m afraid it cost a lot of money, right?”

"It didn't cost a penny!" Grandma slapped her thigh hard with a big cattail fan: "I heard that as soon as they arrived, the hospital arranged for emergency treatment. After Liu Mao lay on the operating table, he heard the doctor told him to go home The mother-in-law went to pay the fee, and asked how much should I pay? The doctor replied that I would pay 50 yuan first. Grandpa used to be a Fang doctor, and I heard that he can cure snake bites... I am going to watch the excitement, will you go?"

(End of this chapter)