Wu Shufen patted her shoulder happily: "Your father and I don't want your filial piety. As long as you live well, we will be relieved."
She thought that no matter what they said in the past, this girl was as stubborn as a cow and would never admit her mistakes. Her third uncle said that she had changed, and it seemed that she had really changed.
The mother and daughter chatted for a while before lying down and falling asleep.
The next day, as soon as the loudspeaker sounded, Lin Lan and Wu Shufen made sweet potato porridge, chopped the salted vegetables into fine pieces, and fried them with last night's twice-cooked pork.
After the two Lin brothers finished eating, they left in a hurry.
Lin Lan sent them to the entrance of the alley, and the brothers whispered to her to be careful when doing business. They also said that they would go back and find a puppy for her, and then they left with the bamboo basket.
Lin Lan returned home and saw that Wu Shufen had washed the pots and dishes, fed the pigs, and put the chickens in the vegetable patch in the backyard to eat bugs.
Xiaodouzi was holding a wooden stick and prying earthworms out of the soil, saying that he wanted to feed the chickens.
Lin Lan picked up the bamboo pole on his back and held the sharpened sickle: "Mom, I'm going to work."
"Okay." Wu Shufen came out of the house holding the mosquito net, "I'm watching the little beans at home, don't panic and cut them slowly."
Xiaodouzi nodded: "Mom, squat down."
"Hey!" Lin Lan felt that life was different when she had a mother. She no longer had a cold pot and a cold stove when she came home. She had food to eat and hot water to wash her face. "Mom, when you go to the department store, is it lively?"
Xiaodouzi took Lin Lan's hand and nodded happily: "It's fun, grandma bought a lot of things."
Lin Lan felt that the box containing ice should be a refrigerator: "The department stores in the city are incomparable to the ones in our town. When we make money, we will also buy a TV set for the show and a box to contain ice."
Zou Zhonggui hid in the bamboo forest at the corner of Niubei Mountain. When he saw Lin Lan walking to the foot of the mountain, his eyes widened and he murmured, "No wonder Liu Jinbao is obsessed with it. That short-lived ghost Yang Lao Yao is not lucky!"
Lin Lan rubbed his head: "Is the department store fun?"
"Exit the storage room and cross the ditch and turn left. The second stone bridge is facing that house."
Liu Jinbao looked at him with a smile: "I will go to your house to give it to you tonight."
Xiaodouzi ran over happily when she saw her coming back: "Grandma, mom is back."
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Zou Zhonggui walked around the Second Lexing Team and went to the storage room of the Lexing Brigade. As soon as he arrived at the door, he saw Liu Jinbao holding a fire tong and digging in the enamel basin.
Wu Shufen smiled and nodded: "It's lively. It's much livelier than in the town. There are so many things on the shelves that I can't even see them.
Zou Zhonggui nodded, grabbed a handful of peanuts and put them in his pocket, took a piece of roasted sweet potato and left the storage room, heading towards Lin Lan's house.
When I opened the courtyard door, I saw mosquito nets and clothes drying in the courtyard.
Lin Lan held his little hand: "Has Xiaodouzi behaved today?"
Lin Lan put down the bamboo pole on her back and felt a malicious gaze looking at her. She looked up suddenly and saw someone walking past the bamboo forest.
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Lin Lan sent the cow grass back to the cowshed, then went back to put the mugwort and mulberry leaves into the basket and returned home.
Lin Lan shook his head: "It's okay, maybe I'm too sensitive."
Xiaodouzi took out a mint candy from his pocket and put it into her mouth with a smile: "Grandma, grandma, we went to the department store together."
Wu Shufen smiled and put the money back into her hand: "Mom, I don't want it now. Give it to me when you make a lot of money."
Lin Lan held the sickle tightly and chased toward the bamboo forest. She saw a tall man wearing gray clothes hurriedly walking towards the second team.
"No, I went to cut fish grass this morning and I didn't see anyone coming." Old Chen looked at her worriedly, "What's wrong?"
Lin Lan entered the house and saw Wu Shufen with her apron tied around her waist busy in front of the stove. She hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Mom, please take a rest and let me come."
Remembering that there wasn't even a thermos bottle in the house, he called Xiaodouzi and went to the old lady's house, and the three of them went out to the street together.
Wu Shufen shook her head cheerfully: "If you want to buy that thing, you might as well build a few big tile-roofed houses. Besides, we don't have the tickets, and we can't buy it even if we have money."
"Go for it!"
Wu Shufen smiled and said: "The food is ready, go wash your face and eat."
Liu Jinbao looked up and saw Zou Zhonggui and smiled: "Old Zhao from the storage room went to have a banquet. I got some peanuts and the sweet potatoes were just roasted, so you came!"
Zou Zhonggui nodded cheerfully: "Deal!"
Suddenly, she thought that when she was looking for a quilt in the cabinet that day, she seemed to see a switchblade. She decided to go back and look for it, find it and take it with her.
Zou Zhonggui nodded: "I can go, but you have to give me half of the money first. You can't go empty-handed for the first time!"
Liu Jinbao thought for a moment: "I'll give you half first, and then I'll give you the rest after the job is done."
Seeing that she couldn't sit still for a moment, Lin Lan went over to take the mosquito net from her hand, touched a few dollars and put it in her hand: "It's a rare time for you to come here to talk to your third uncle and go shopping, let me go."
Come back and wash it again."
Lin Lan carried the bamboo basket on her back to the fish pond and saw Lao Chen standing on the ridge of the field spreading grass to feed the fish.
After crossing the canal, we walked to the second stone bridge, took a look at the yard facing the stone bridge, remembered the location and walked straight away.
Lin Lan turned around and went to the fish pond: "Uncle Chen, did you see a tall man wearing gray clothes coming here?"
She thought of what Liu Jinbao, a slut, had said that day: I don’t believe you carry a knife with you at all times. She thought that she should get a knife and carry it with her just in case.
When the two of them passed by each other, Lao Chen whispered: "Xiao Lin, if it's convenient, can you give me a jar of porridge for that day? I'll pay for it!"
The grain given to him by the brigade this time was obtained from someone unknown. It had more chaff than rice. His stomach felt uncomfortable after eating it.
"I'll give it to you tomorrow morning." Lin Lan replied in a low voice and walked straight towards the foot of the mountain.
"Okay, let me go and see where Yang Laoya lives."
"What are you doing?" Lin Lan squatted down and asked.
There are also a lot of people buying things, and some people buy TV sets for showing shows and ice boxes, saying that they can be filled with meat and vegetables just by plugging in the electricity, and they won’t go bad for a long time.”
She returned to the foot of the mountain and started mowing the grass, but she felt a little uneasy.
"You can eat a lot if you stay in the custody room!" Liu Jinbao put some peanuts in front of him, "Have you ever seen that stinky bitch in Niubei Mountain?"
Wu Shufen sent her to the entrance of the hospital, then turned back to boil hot water and soak the mosquito net with soap locust.
Zou Zhonggui walked in with a smile: "Liu San, you are living a good life in your little life!"
Lin Lan smiled and nodded: "Okay! You go for a walk on the street, I'm off to work."
Lin Lan smiled and said: "Maybe when we make money, we can buy it without a ticket."
Wu Shufen nodded and shook her head: "It doesn't matter whether it requires tickets or not, even if I have money, I won't be willing to buy them."
Lin Lan helped bring the scooped food to the table: "If you don't have money now, don't think about it. You can decide whether to buy it or not when you have money."
The three of them sat down around the small wooden table. Wu Shufen scooped the egg custard into a small bean bowl and said, "My good grandson, eat more egg custard and grow taller."