Small Shop Owner in the 1960s

"Why, why don't you give it to me, I am also a child." Xu Hong yelled dissatisfied from the side.

Li Jing's face also turned into a pig liver color. In the past few days, she has been thinking about dividing the meat in her hometown. In the past this time, meat would be delivered from my hometown. Although she will cut a catty of meat for a month or two and come back to improve her food, but every one catty of meat, there are many children in the family, and there is no enough food. She is expecting a few catties of meat from her hometown at this time of the year, so that she can cook a meal of braised pork, and the whole family will relieve their greed.

Unexpectedly, this meat is coming, the amount is not much, and the old lady will not let them eat.

If you don't get it, you won't be given food, and the one who returns Xu Ling is from the public school. Why, that's her daughter, she's become a father-in-law.

Liu Qiao ignored Xu Hong's yelling. Seeing Li Jing's face was upset, he sighed, "This can't be done. In previous years, our family had the most meat in the village. When Mom is happy, I will definitely let you send more. Come here. But this year yours is gone, Da Ya’s is gone, Meizi’s share is also halved. There is also no meat for Mom and Ersao. Our family actually doesn’t share much."

"That's not to say that you can't eat if you don't get it." That was what Li Jing was angry about. Isn't this obviously worried that she and the child will grab food? Even if the meat is cut, she didn't eat much, and she gave it to Jiansheng and the children. Especially the two-and-a-half-old kid, who has a lot of appetite, eats more than Jiansheng.

Liu Qiao said, "Oh, my mother is also angry. This year, Erya and Siya have divided a few catties of meat, which is more than our family's meat, but this meat is not given to our family. It is given to Xugui's family in the front house. Mom will ask for it. They won't give it. You say you're not angry."

Speaking of this, Liu Qiao felt pain in his heart. That's a few catties of meat, and there are a few pieces of good fat.

Liu Qiao thinks it’s okay to eat meat or not, it’s the same to eat more and less. But the fat can be made from lard. This lard will last for a while.

For people who don't have any oil and water in their stomachs all the year round, this lard is more expensive than meat essence.

In fact, this good meat is supposedly not Erya's turn, but several families in the village are fighting for this piece of meat, so Xu Gensheng simply distributed the meat to Erya who had left the village.

This is Erya picking up cheap.

Li Jing heard Liu Qiao say that Xu Nannan had divided a lot of meat, and then thought about the less meat that she had killed at home, and that she was still being angry by the old lady, and her heart felt as if she had eaten a fly.

Especially the fact that she is now turning into a non-agricultural status is also because Nan Nan has lost it. I really feel that this child is the nemesis of her mother.

Once the child is well, she is definitely not good as a mother. Otherwise, when the child was in the country, she had been doing well, and when the child came to the county seat, she would be unlucky. So she and this child are natural enemies, each other!

Naturally, Liu Qiao and Xu Jianping ate here at noon.

Li Jing was not willing to cut the meat, so he cut a few pieces of fat and stewed a pot of Chinese cabbage.

When Liu Qiao saw this dish, he didn't say anything. When he was at home, he didn't eat as much as this one.

After a while, Xu Jiansheng also came back. He was very happy to see his brother and his sister-in-law coming over. When he saw that there was only a pot of Chinese cabbage on the table, his face suddenly became dark.

It's just that Xu Jianping and Liu Qiao were here, so he couldn't say anything. He gave her two yuan and asked her to go back to the mine canteen to buy some meat and vegetables.

She didn't share much meat, and the old lady wouldn't let her eat it, so she had to pay back money to buy meat and vegetables for her uncle and sister-in-law to eat. Li Jing sighed and felt uncomfortable.

Now that the problem of turning farmers into non-compliance is getting worse, she doesn't have the confidence to object to Xu Jiansheng's face, so she can only endure the pain in her heart and take the money to buy vegetables.

Upon seeing this, Xu Hong's eyes slipped, and hurriedly followed, "Auntie, I'll go with you. Help you serve food."

When Li Jing and Xu Hong left, Xu Jianping said, "Brother, what are you doing with the expense, this dish is not unacceptable."

Liu Qiao also said, "Yeah, what we eat at home is not as good as this. Big brother doesn't know, the situation at home is not as good as before. Other people's homes are getting more and more prosperous, but what we have now is worse in the village. Yes. Mom has to clean the toilet every day. The wind comes and rains. She has been a strong person all her life. Now she makes her stink all day, so she wipes her tears when she comes back."

Xu Jianping really didn't know that his wife had been so sad in the village, and his heart began to feel uncomfortable and sour.

"You go back and tell your mom that we will go back early this year for the Chinese New Year. By the way, I will bring back what is missing at home."

"Mom won't worry you, and let me say nothing. Big brother should go back and ask Mom by himself." Liu Qiao said embarrassedly on his face, and he didn't want to say more.

No matter how much her sister-in-law said, she couldn't say a word like the old lady in the family. Anyway, let the eldest brother remember these.

Xu Jianping wanted to talk to Xu Jiansheng more, but remembered that on the way, his wife had confessed to her, so she could not speak too much, so she could only endure it, looking outside, wondering what Li Jing would bring from the cafeteria. Meat dishes are back.

"Auntie, how can you do this? Even if I don't eat it, I won't let the uncle and auntie eat it. This is too much." On the way to the cafeteria, Xu Hong said to Li Jing unconvinced.

Li Jing was holding two rice bowls, and when she heard this, she was furious.

Angry with the old lady, also angry with Xu Nannan. I feel that my life is hard, so I have such a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. Make her difficult to be a man in the middle.

"Auntie, you will eat something on the road later, and make a good supplement." Xu Hong commented again.

Li Jing swallowed, "Your uncle will say."

"Uncle doesn't care about these things, and people who don't go to the cafeteria, how do you know how many dishes are served in the cafeteria."

"Well, let's take a look later."

Although I didn't agree directly, I was already moved.

Every time there are meat dishes at home, they are always for the children to eat more. In front of Xu Jiansheng, even if she wanted to eat, she had to take it easy. It's not that Xu Jiansheng wouldn't let her eat, but that she didn't dare to eat so as not to destroy her image as a good wife and mother.

At this time, there are many people eating in the cafeteria, and the workers each carry their own rice bowls and cook vegetables.

When the two entered the canteen, they smelled a fragrant smell. They all swallowed their saliva.

"Auntie, give me a rice bowl. I will cook pork and stew vermicelli, or else only vermicelli will be left later." Xu Hong said enthusiastically. Although there are meat dishes in the cafeteria of the mine, the quantity is not large. Those who come late can't even drink the broth.

Li Jing was also staring at the fish sticks next to him. Upon hearing this, she handed Xu Hong a army-green enamel rice bowl and gave her 50 cents. He carried the rice bowl and went to the fish sticks stall. mouth. She likes to eat this kind of fried food.

This kind of cooked dish is still very expensive, because it is deep-fried and mixed with flour, 30 cents per serving, this one is only five or six. There are so many people in the family, one serving is definitely not enough, two servings are required.

Plus the money and food stamps for the pork stewed vermicelli over there, you can cut a pound of meat.

Oh my god, if you buy meat and stew it yourself, you can cook a big pot.

Li Jing began to regret it. She had already stewed the meat they had sent, so she didn't need to spend any extra money.

After biting his teeth and buying two fish sticks, Xu Hong came over with a rice bowl. It's just that her eyes have been staring at a table.

"What are you looking at, go back to eat soon."

Li Jing said in a bad mood.

Xu Hong pulled her and pointed to a table near the corner, "Auntie, see if they are Er Ya and Si Ya, and Uncle Xu Gui in the front room."

When Li Jing heard Xu Nannan's name, her hairs exploded. She gritted her teeth and looked over, and she saw her two daughters and Xu Gui sitting and eating.

Three people occupy a table with several rice bowls on the table. There was pork stewed vermicelli in the rice bowl, and she could see a lot of meat on it even if she looked so far away. There are piles of fried fish sticks. These are the two best dishes in the cafeteria today. They didn't see any vegetarian dishes at the dinner table.

These two dead girls, she just had a pain for the two dishes, and she was too tight. These two girls are generous, and brought an outsider here to eat and drink spicy food.

"Hong Hong, let's go and have a look."

Li Jing walked over with the rice bowl angrily.

Here Xu Guizheng was not eating the meat and vegetables that Xu Nannan bought, thinking that he was only sending some meat over, so Nan Nan was so expensive, and when his wife knew it, he had to talk about him again.

And it is not easy for the two children to live in the city. Nan Nan is still a temporary worker, and his salary seems to be low. He still needs to raise this child. He eats two children as an adult, and he feels ashamed to say that.

Originally planned to eat some vegetarian dishes, who knew that the boy Nan Nan was so polite, and he took two large bowls of meat and vegetables.

"Uncle, you can eat it." Xu Nannan urged.

"Hey, uncle knows, you guys eat too." Xu gave the two children some vegetables and started to eat too.

I bought it all, let's eat it, the child's heart. Xu Gui comforted himself, his stomach groaned a long time ago, waiting to eat some oily water.

"Nannan, Xiaoman, what are you doing?!"

After Xu Gui took a bite, Li Jing suddenly stood at the table and yelled. He almost choked in surprise.

Li Jing looked at him and said, "Brother Xugui, why are you here. You don't go to sit at home, and what do you eat in the cafeteria. The food in this cafeteria is not cheap. Nannan's salary is not high. How much to eat."

This was ironic, and Xu Gui's face was a little red.

Upon seeing this, Xu Nannan stood up angrily, and said with a cold face, "What's your business? When I was in the village with Xiaoman, it was your uncle and aunt Osmanthus taking care of us. Your uncle is my elder and Xiaoman's elders, and we are happy to respect you. Elder, what's up?"

"Your parents are still there. I didn't see you respectful, but I respected outsiders." Li Jing smiled angrily.

Seeing the noise here, the people eating next to him also looked over.

Xu Gui was worried that things would get a big deal, and Xu Nannan would have difficulty doing things in the mine in the future, and persuaded, "Forget Nannan,"

Xu Nannan hadn't spoken yet, but Li Jing was reluctant.

"Forget it, this thing is endless. I raised her so much, and didn't even eat her a bite of rice, but she still respects outsiders."

Xu Nannan is not a person who is afraid of things, "When did you raise me, if you didn’t say that you were my mother, I thought I had no parents. From the time I was sensible, I served my family, washed, chopped wood and burned, ten When I’m old, I’ll earn work points and eat one meal a day. Why didn’t I see my mother at that time. When it’s good, I came to find my daughter?”

Seeing that things were all like this, Xu Gui stood up and said, "Li Jing, when the child was wronged, you and Xu Jiansheng didn't care. Now that the child is promising, he ran out."

Aunt Liao in the cafeteria saw Xu Nannan arguing with her, and came to ask about the situation. It was Li Jing, and he said, "Li Jing, what are you doing? I almost hurt Nan Nan last time. This time, I still quarreled with her in front of everyone."

Although Xu Nannan didn't say anything, Xu Nannan took Xu Xiaoman to live in the singles dormitory. It was obvious that the family was on the side of the mine worker's house. She never went back to live. Everyone guessed that Xu Nannan was at odds with her parents.

Seeing Li Jing making such a fuss now, sister-in-law Liao can't stand it anymore.

Xu Hong immediately helped Li Jing, "Er Ya and Si Ya are the daughters of my auntie. My auntie is in charge of the child. Can you control it?"

"She is not my mother, and our registered permanent residence is not at home anymore. They also wrote a letter of guarantee. From now on, regardless of whether my sister and I live or die, they will only care about the children of my second uncle and third uncle." Xu Xiaoman shouted aside. Tears also flowed out of grievances.

The fact that Xu Jiansheng and his wife raise a nephew and niece is not news. Not many people know about Xu Nannan's account transfer. Hearing this, everyone began to talk.

How come all the daughters' accounts in Director Xu's house have been transferred out of the house.

Sister-in-law Liao mocked, "This is so funny, I don't even recognize the child, and I want my daughters to be filial. What kind of reason is this?"

Although filial piety is what children should do. But the problem is that Li Jing is still so young, and Xu Nannan and Xu Xiaoman are here at an age. Moreover, the two children are no longer in the family, and now they are still running in front of the two children for benefits. This matter also makes everyone look down on it.

After being exposed, Li Jing's face was a little hot and panicked.

"Xu Nannan, don't regret it, your dad and I won't care about you in the future!" Li Jing angrily threw a word, and left with a rice bowl.

Xu Hong was also about to leave with the rice bowl. Seeing the meat dishes on the table, he wanted to take it away. Xu Nannan slapped him and slapped his paw back.

Xu Hong became angry from embarrassment, "Er Ah, wait, I'll go back and talk to the uncle." She also ran out angrily holding the rice bowl.

The troublemaker left, and everyone did not watch. On the other hand, they secretly discussed the matter just now, and they speculated about the grievances of Xu Jiansheng's family.

Xu Gui also felt uncomfortable, "Nannan, what can you do about this. Will the people in the mine say anything."

"Uncle Gui, it's okay, at most it's just talking and talking. I'm not wrong about this, I'm not afraid to talk about it. You eat quickly, the dishes are cold."

On the other side, Li Jing returned home angrily.

Li Jing put the rice bowl on the table, and Xu Jiansheng greeted the brother and brother-in-law to eat. The two of them were not polite, and started eating with the children, holding the bowls and chopsticks.

Several people were eating fragrant, and Li Jing suddenly cried.

"What's wrong?" Xu Jianping looked at his sister-in-law a little unhappy. I think my sister-in-law cried because she watched them eat meat dishes.

This is too stingy. I don't want to think about how hard they are at home. What's wrong with coming to have a meat dish.

Xu Jiansheng also inevitably thought so, and said sternly, "Eating, why are you crying?"

"I'm wronged, so I won't let me cry. That dead girl Nan Nan is really mad at me."

Xu Jiansheng frowned, "Why did you mention her again?" Now that he mentioned this girl, Xu Jiansheng had a headache.

At this time, Xu Hong also came back with a rice bowl. It's just that the meat in the noodles is obviously missing a few pieces. Putting down the basin, she complained, "Uncle, don't you know? Just now, my aunt and I were in the cafeteria, Er Ya and Si Ya were inviting Uncle Xu Gui in the front room for dinner. Two large pots of meat dishes, compared to Let’s have a lot. Just the three of them. Are you done eating? The auntie couldn’t see it, so she said a few words, they were arrogant, saying that the auntie didn’t care about them, and that the hukou was not at home anymore, the auntie I'm not qualified to control them. With so many people in the cafeteria, the auntie's face has been completely ashamed."

Xu Jianping said, "Xu Gui must have come to deliver meat to Erya."

Liu Qiao was a little bit lost. The old lady was still planning to let Xu Jiansheng and his wife take back the meat from Xu Gui's family as parents when they waited for the New Year. It looks hopeless now.

She sighed, "Er Ya and Si Ya are too ignorant, let alone you, they are not so good to Mom. Mom pulls them so big, and I didn't see anything for Mom to eat."

"Milk has long said that they are white-eyed wolves, and they are really right." Xu Hong said.

Xu Jiansheng took a sip of wine in silence, "Forget it, eat."

Li Jing wiped her tears, "Just leave it alone?"

"Why? It's all like this. Everyone knows that her registered permanent residence is no longer in our house. My parents asked me to write a guarantee and didn't let me care about them. What am I going to do now?"

The others choked upon hearing this.

The old lady's letter of guarantee at the time was because she felt that the two children would definitely have a bad life in the future, and she was worried that Xu Jiansheng would take care of the two children. I don't think that today has become a curse that binds Xu Jiansheng.

Everyone had a dull meal, and Liu Qiao and Xu Jianping didn't wait much. It's the end of the year, rushing home to work.

Xu Meizi went to see off her parents for a while.

After leaving the city, Liu Qiao followed Xu Jianping with a heavy heart. On the way, he also ran into Xu Gui returning home.

Xu Gui carried a cloth bag in his hand. The bag was so bulging that it seemed to be rectangular.

Xu Gui looked at the two of them, snorted, and walked home carrying the lunch box and humming a little tune.