Dressed Like a Pretty Daughter-in-law From the 1970s

Chapter 11 Who is that?

The little girl also spoke with a milky voice, which was very rare.

Zhixia chuckled and nodded: "Okay, sister, I'll go and have a look with you."

 Children from poor families have already become masters of their own business. If this is true, when I was that old, I was probably still arguing with my parents about having good food and good clothes.

A little boy of six or seven years old was sitting on the stone, and next to him was a little girl of two or three years old, holding a sweet potato and chewing it. She took a bite herself, but she had to let her little brother take a bite. She was not happy if the bite was too small, and said seriously and angrily: "I didn't bite it."

The little brother reluctantly took another bite, and then the little girl took a bite by herself with a smile, tasting it carefully, her pair of grape-like dark and watery eyes narrowed together, which was also very painful.

There are several kinds of dried wild vegetables placed on the linen bag. Walnuts, pine nuts, melon seeds, and dried mushrooms have also been cleaned and piled up in piles. There are also more than twenty small fish frozen in weight!

"Sister, only cabbage and potatoes are edible now, and the rest are dried vegetables. Our dried wild vegetables are picked and dried when they are the tenderest. You go home, soak them in hot water, chop them and make porridge, and sprinkle some salt on them. They're delicious. My brother caught them from the ice in the river early in the morning. Look, they're fresh..." The little girl who came over from Zhixia was talking loudly.

The little boy stood up, rubbed his hands and nodded shyly: "Sister, we picked these from the mountain. If you want them, it only costs two yuan."

"Sister, you take these two dollars with you. One fish is worth less than a dime, and the rest is free. Moreover, we will deliver it to your door, saving you a dime on the oxcart." The little girl stopped her words quickly. , added with a smile in a different way.

 “Yes, these are free, a sack!” The little girl eating sweet potatoes also stood up, raised her neck, and said sweetly.

Facing the three little guys, knowing that Xia's affection is hard to resist, and that two dollars is indeed very cheap, he took out a deposit of fifty cents, and when they were delivered to his door, he would give them the remaining dollar and a half.

"Hey," as soon as he took out the money, he was pushed back by an aunt, "You three kids are really cheating, aren't you? You picked up free things in the fields and rivers and you dare to ask for two yuan, bah, one An egg is only four cents, and it turns out that the evil-minded brats are really evil and they are just exploiting us!”

The three children stood together holding hands tightly, their heads drooped, not as smart as before.

"There are wild vegetables everywhere in the spring, and we carry mountain products home in sacks. The fish in the river are so tight that there is no need to buy them. It only costs two yuan for a little effort. Tsk tsk, you guys are just bullying me." Children in the city don’t know how to live, they just open their mouths to..."

 The people around also nodded and said in disapproval, "These three children are not very old. They must have been taught by adults. They are too thoughtful."

“No, that’s not the case. My father went hunting in the mountains and didn’t teach us at all…”

"How old are you? No one knows who to sell to and how to sell it? The people living in the cowshed are full of evil intentions, and the babies they give birth to are crooked. I'll tell you that your village chief has a kind heart and is unwilling to fight. They just live in a cowshed and pick up dung, what kind of transformation is that?”

Everyone was chattering away, the two girls had already started wiping away tears, and the little boy was clenching his fists and looking at everyone with red eyes.

“Hey, you have the guts to do it, why don’t you want us to say a few words? Look at those eyes, like a wolf’s cub...”

An Zhixia took a deep breath and stepped forward, put fifty cents into the little girl's hand, smiled and rubbed her hair and said, "My sister agreed to buy it, why are you crying?"

“Sister, I’m sorry, we, we shouldn’t have asked for your money,” the little girl cried until she was out of breath.

 People around started to say that An Zhixia people are stupid and have too much money. If they don’t set boundaries with these little brats, they have low ideological consciousness and are too noisy.

But An Zhixia didn't seem to hear it. Instead, her voice rose slightly and she said word by word: "Why shouldn't you take it? You picked these dry goods one by one, cleaned them and dried them. You also risked your lives to break the ice and catch the fish." of.

 The supply and marketing cooperative still recycles these, why can’t I have them? "

"Oh, Xiao An, educated youth," the aunt just pulled her clothes and said eagerly: "If you are short of these, tell aunt, she has plenty at home, eggplants, beans, radishes, bracken, dried bamboo shoots, eight yuan I’ll keep you in a sack! If you want to eat fish, I’ll ask your uncle to catch it. Two fish are a dime, very cheap!”

An Zhixia was stunned for a moment, looked sideways, and suddenly sneered: "Aunt Guihua, in order to compete for business with her children, is it very unethical to use someone else's identity as a basis?"

“I,” Aunt Guihua said quickly when she saw that the people around her looked at her differently, “I was worried that you would suffer a loss and be deceived. I advised you with good intentions. Why don’t you know the hearts of good people? Besides, my price is much cheaper than theirs.

You kids from the city don’t live a smart life and spend money lavishly. Don’t eat chaffy vegetables after the New Year. "

"That's not a worry for Aunt Guihua," Zhixia said politely, then patted the little boy on the shoulder and said in a softer tone: "Next time, you are not allowed to go fishing by yourself. You have to let an adult of your family accompany you. You can deliver it to my door later, don’t worry, I still have a lot of things to buy.”

 The little boy nodded vigorously, and the tears in his eyes were squeezed out.

He quickly wiped two handfuls, squatted down and put things into bags with his two sisters.

"You, you," Aunt Guihua pointed at An Zhixia unwillingly and said bitterly: "Do you know who they are, so you dare to stand up for them! The organization lets them live in the cowshed, that means they have made a mistake, and they must Live a hard life and reflect on it. If you buy their things, you will join them and live in the bullpen together!"

"Aunt Guihua, you are wrong. I support the organization's decision. They go to the mountains to pick wild products and go down to the river to fish. They are all earned through hard work. They are transforming. When I buy their things, it is an affirmation of their labor. "An Zhixia hugged her chest and said with a half-smile: "We can't let people do dirty and tiring work and not let them fill their stomachs, can you look at how thin these children have become? "We can't exploit people by letting the horses run away."

　　Everyone followed her words and looked at the three children. It was already the middle of the twelfth lunar month. The children's cotton-padded clothes looked thin and not warm at first glance. Their little faces were chapped and black from the cold, and their hands were red and swollen, worse than those of adults. If it were their own child, they wouldn't know how distressed they would be. Then he looked at his eyes that were extraordinarily big because of his thinness, then he shut his mouth and left in a murmur.

"Who is that?" Qi Yunlan and Chen Sike stood far away, asking with twinkling eyes: "Why did I hear something black and white?"

 (End of this chapter)