Seventy-year-old book: The villain Zaizai’s best mother

Zhang Lezi and Tian Meizhen came back from work together. When they saw this scene, they naturally wanted to say something.

Leprosy Wife: "Oh, my eldest sister is really different. She is much more lively now."

Tian Meizhen said calmly: "You are still so...lively at such a young age?" Why are you pretending to be young?

Zhang Laizi stared at Xia Mingshuang's back with complicated eyes.

This woman doesn't look at him squarely every time she sees him. Humph, she looks down on him so much. How aloof do you think she is?

Gu Yulian said that she climbed into Gu Yunshan's bed.

Huh, she pretends to be more noble and chaste every day. Now that Gu Yunshan is not at home, she must be lonely staying alone in the empty room.

After lunch, the three of them, Da Zhuang, had to go to work in the production team, while Xia Mingshuang was putting things away at home.

She was not in a hurry to make chicken cakes for Zhang Danping, but was busy sewing cotton-padded clothes for the other three children.

Although the quality of the newly purchased fabrics is poor, they are large enough to be used by several children.

Although Er Zhuang looks quiet, he actually does a lot of activity running around with his eldest brother, so his clothes are naturally worn out. His cotton coat doesn't need to be redone, but there are a lot of areas that need to be mended.

Miaomiao's clothes were neat and clean, and not too damaged. She only needed to sew the patches on her elbows and knees.

However, Miao Miao is a girl after all, and she can no longer dress sloppily and gray like before. She always has to dress up a little.

Xia Mingshuang wanted to make a shirt for her to wear under a cotton-padded coat, which was both warm and hygienic. The little girl could wash the shirt regularly to keep the cotton-padded coat clean.

If Xia Mingshuang is not good at this, he can only find someone else to do it.

She didn't look for outsiders. In the afternoon, she took the measured measurements and cut fabrics to her parents' house in Xiajiagou by bicycle, and asked her younger sister to help make them.

Minghui makes clothes quickly and looks good, but it's easier than herself. Even if the younger sister doesn't want to be paid, Xia Mingshuang will still be able to repay her in the future.

After returning home, she was busy chopping stuffing to make steamed buns.

After dinner, I made the noodles. Now I cut the half a pound of meat into dices and boiled a handful of vermicelli.

Vegetables were sourced locally, and whatever was edible in the garden was used. If we didn’t have enough lentils from our own house, we scraped together some from the three eldest parents’ families, filling a large pot.

Pick and wash the lentils, blanch them in a pot of boiling water, take them out, drain and mince them.

There were more vegetables and less meat, so in order to make the children enjoy the food, she boiled another spoonful of peanut oil.

Although there are no seasonings such as chicken essence and stock to enhance the freshness, people rarely eat meat at this time and there is no oil or water in their stomachs. It is a great pleasure to add a small spoonful of vegetable oil to the stews, not to mention she still has half a catty of meat.

When Xia Mingshuang mixed the stuffing, the little Zaizai kept sniffing and chanting: "It smells good, it smells good."

Seeing the cute expression on his face, Xia Mingshuang was particularly enthusiastic about cooking.

She mixed the stuffing and made the dough, then took it out and kneaded it on the board.

Xiao Zaizai took the initiative to come over to help, spreading his fleshy little hands, "Mom, I'll wash it off."

Xia Mingshuang laughed and took a piece of dough to make buns for him.

Mother and son were making buns at home, while Erzhuang was discussing things with Dazhuang in the field.

Now is the season for breaking corn, and it takes two days to pick up a crop of cotton, so most of the members of the commune gathered to break corn and dig corn stalks.

Er Zhuang broke off the corn for a while and came to Dazhuang and whispered: "Brother, have you thought of something?"

Da Zhuang: "Huh?"

Er Zhuang: "The bicycle is at our house now. What if Uncle Er and others come to borrow it all day long? Should we borrow it?"

Da Zhuang: "Mom, I can borrow it if I want."

Erzhuang: "What if I don't want to borrow it, but I have to?"

Da Zhuang frowned slightly, "What do you mean?"

If you don’t want to borrow it, don’t borrow it. Why do you have to borrow it?

The two strong ghost spirits have read too much gossip in the village and know a lot of the adults' thoughts.

He explained to Da Zhuang.

His deskmate was from the Yangshuling brigade, and his family finally scraped together money to buy a bicycle. The whole family cherished it as much as they cherished it, but people in the village borrowed it all day long, either this way or that way. They are all from the same village. They look up but don't look down. They have to deal with heaven and earth, and they are embarrassed not to borrow them when they ask.

People in the village are basically like this. If someone comes to borrow something, they will basically borrow it unless they don't have it. If they don't borrow it, they will be called stingy. This can easily lead to a bad reputation, and everyone is basically embarrassed to refuse.

This is a problem. Those who are grateful are okay. They know how to take care of someone else's bicycle after borrowing it. If something goes wrong, they will take the initiative to pay for it or help others fix it.

But there are always a few people who are ungrateful and annoying. They borrow your bicycle and don't take good care of it. Not only do they leave the chain and fenders covered in mud without cleaning it, but they may also encounter potholes on the gravel road. Without getting off, he just rides over and wears out the tires. If he goes too far, he may even puncture the tires.

If something goes wrong, they won't fix it and just send it back. If you don't like it, they'll say you're stingy and the bike isn't strong. Instead of lending it to him when it was already broken, they say you're blackmailing him instead.

This is the situation at his classmate's house, because this bicycle made him angry and offended many people.

Those commune members in the village who hate others and laugh at others have given his parents a bad reputation. They all say that his family became famous after they bought a bicycle. They don't take the big guys seriously, and they are stingy and look down on others. Category.

In the end, his father was so angry that he smashed his bicycle on impulse so that no one would ride it or borrow it from him.

Da Zhuang was speechless when he heard this, "Is it really a smash?"

Tell him what kind of bicycle he smashed? I won’t borrow it, whatever they say, what can I do?

Er Zhuang nodded, "Isn't it? It's really a smash."

But the bicycle is your own, it costs 160 yuan, and you have to go through a lot of trouble to get the bicycle ticket. How distressing is it to lose it?

It was finally repaired and sold to relatives in the city at a loss.

Erzhuang: "Brother, even if we fight to death and don't lend it to others, it's hard not to refuse if some people lend it to us, right? Third grandma, accountant, captain, grandpa, second grandpa, etc., it's hard not to refuse." .”

Da Zhuang: "None of them are that kind of people."

Erzhuang: "Even if they are not, but if there are too many people using them, will the bicycles break easily? Among other things, the tires are easy to break and the chain is easy to fall off."

Da Zhuang really hadn't thought about this. He felt that he had someone to lend him, so he would do his best to help.

However, the bicycle is too expensive and the ticket is extremely hard to come by, costing 162 yuan.

They go to work to earn work points, and each work point only costs five cents, or ten and fifty cents. They don't make much money throughout the year.

162 yuan is really some people’s entire savings over several years.

Da Zhuang also looked serious.

As a result, when they returned home at night, they saw several women of different ages standing in the yard, including aunts and sisters-in-law, arguing and chattering.

The three children stood behind the screen wall and listened. Sure enough, they wanted to borrow bicycles.

Xia Mingshuang stood there with a smile on his face, "Sorry, everyone wants to borrow it, but there is only one bicycle."

Several women shouted, "I came to borrow it first!"

"Obviously I came first!"

Da Zhuang frowned and strode in.

Without waiting for Dazhuang to say something like "We don't lend out bicycles for free", Erzhuang rushed to say: "Mom, my third wife said that she wants to use the bicycle tomorrow."

Xia Mingshuang was stunned, Zhao Juying? She didn't know how to ride a bicycle, and Zhao Juying wanted to borrow it... Xia Mingshuang looked at Da Zhuang's stern little face and suddenly understood, this child... She smiled.