"Sister, I am willing to go to the town." As long as she can go to school, she is willing to go anywhere.
"Sister, can I go to town too?" Chen Lifei on the side suddenly asked.
"It's not enough for your second sister to cause trouble, why are you joining in the fun?" Wu Chunmei scolded unhappily.
When Chen Lifei heard Wu Chunmei's words, she immediately looked at Chen Lishu with aggrieved eyes.
Chen Lishu smiled at her: "If you want to go, I'll wait until next year when you go to junior high school, and my eldest sister will help you."
The matter was settled like this. The two sisters agreed to go to town early the next morning, and Chen Lishu got up and returned to Gu's house.
Everyone went to work on the team. Chen Lishu thought for a while and took her basket and knife to dig wild vegetables in the mountains.
The end of May is when wild vegetables are growing vigorously. It didn't take long for Chen Lishu to dig up a basket of wormwood and even find two bushes of oil mushrooms among the dead leaves in the forest.
Back home, she went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy meat and prepare dumplings for dinner.
"Third sister-in-law." Zhang Xiaoju was sitting at the counter knitting a sweater. When she saw her coming in, she stood up with a smile.
"I went to the mountains to dig some weeds, and I happened to come over to buy some meat to make dumplings at home."
As soon as Zhang Xiaoju heard that there were dumplings to eat, she immediately laughed happily: "Sister-in-law, you are good at making dumplings, and they will definitely be delicious."
As Zhang Xiaoju said, she went to take a knife and cut off a piece of pork belly. After putting it on the scale, she did not accept the money handed over by Chen Lishu: "Sister-in-law, you are responsible for making the dumplings. I will pay for the meat."
"That's okay." Chen Lishu didn't argue, she took the meat with a smile and turned around to go home.
After arriving home, Chen Lishu mixed the noodles first. After the noodles were mixed, she set them aside and covered them with gauze to rest. Then she washed the spinach and ran it through boiling water, then filtered out the water and set aside.
Chen Lishu washed the meat she bought and chopped it into minced meat. Then she chopped the radishes and poured them into the minced meat. Then she added seasonings and prepared it for later use.
She was already very agile. In one afternoon, Chen Lishu made nearly 300 dumplings in total. Even though the iron pot at home was big, she still had to cook them in two batches.
"Third aunt, what delicious food did you cook?" Gu Song came back from school and ran straight into the kitchen when he saw Chen Lishu. With his third aunt at home, there would definitely be something delicious. Sure enough, when he saw the pot boiling
When I was eating the fat dumplings, I almost jumped up with joy.
"I'll set the table!" He said and couldn't wait to set up the table.
By the time Chen Lishu and Gu Song brought seven plates of dumplings to the table, everyone in the Gu family happened to be back from work.
"Sister-in-law, you made dumplings!" Gu Xingye was as surprised as Gu Song. Looking at the white and fat dumplings, Gu Xingye couldn't wait to pick one into his mouth, but Li Xiulan, who came in next, slapped her on the back of the head unceremoniously.
He slapped me in the face and said, "I'm going to be a father, but I'm still so frizzy."
When Chen Lishu heard her words, her eyes fell on Zhang Xiaoju's belly and she was surprised: "Fourth brother, are you pregnant?"
Zhang Xiaoju smiled and touched her belly, which was not yet pregnant: "It's just three months old."
"Congratulations to the fourth brother and sister-in-law."
"Third brother and sister, you have been married for two or three years. Why haven't I seen any movement in your stomach? Is there something wrong with you?" Liu Yuemin couldn't help but said.
Li Xiulan looked a little unhappy when she heard what she said: "The couple only got together a few times a year before. Lishu has only been here for a long time. It's up to you to get water, wash hands, and eat."
For the sake of the dumplings, Liu Yuemin didn't say anything, and quickly filled a basin with water, and the family sat around the table and started eating dinner.
After dinner, Chen Lishu and Zhang Qin cleaned up the kitchen together. When everything was put away, it was getting dark.
Tomorrow we will get up early to work in the fields, so the family will take a rest early.
The next day, Chen Lishu got up with everyone. Breakfast was made by Zhang Qin and Zhang Xiaoju, including cornmeal pancakes and rice porridge with shredded mustard greens.
After breakfast, those who went to work went to work, and those who went to work went to work. Chen Lishu returned to her parents' home and asked Chen Liyuan to go to town with her.
"Sister, I thought about it for a long time yesterday and decided not to take the high school entrance examination."
When the two sisters were walking to town, Chen Liyuan said, "I want to take the technical secondary school entrance examination."
Chen Lishu was shocked: "Why?"
Chen Liyuan bit her lower lip: "I can't let you continue to support me, eldest sister. The technical secondary school will provide monthly subsidies, and in just two years I will be able to make money to support my family."
She knew that Wu Chunmei had never wanted them to read so many books. The reason why they were able to study until now was thanks to Chen Lishu, but there were still several younger sisters waiting for her. She couldn't be so selfish. She had to grow up quickly and work hard to make money to provide relief to her family.
She must bear the burden that in the future she can provide for her younger sisters like Chen Lishu, so that they can have more opportunities.
"How old are you? It's not your turn to think about money."
Chen Lishu looked at her well-behaved and sensible look, and at the same time she was pleased and couldn't help but persuade her: "Don't think now that technical secondary schools can get short-term rewards, but you will know when you get a job. Compared with those of junior colleges and undergraduates,
, you will suffer a lot.”
"Sister, as long as I don't go back to the countryside, I will be very satisfied with my monthly salary and being able to help my family like you."
Judging from her attitude, Chen Lishu knew that it would be useless to say anything now, and she did not force her to do anything. She just said, "We are not in a hurry. We still have more than a month. You can think about it slowly."
After a long while, Chen Liyuan nodded.
The two of them walked to the town. It was almost nine o'clock when they arrived. Chen Lishu did not take Chen Liyuan directly to the No. 2 Middle School. Instead, she went to the department store to buy some in-demand goods from Nan Haitao.
Nan Haitao was frowning at the woman opposite him, with a hint of imperceptible impatience flashing through his narrow eyes.
"Manager Nan, I know that you provide the fabric for making underwear. For Director Zhou's sake, no matter how accommodating you are, I don't want all of it. Just give me part of it."
Nan Haitao chuckled and said: "I think you may have some misunderstanding. I know the underwear you are talking about, but I really don't have anything to do with fabrics here."
When Liu Xiaoting saw him denying it again, the smile on her face froze: "How much do you sell to the other party, how about I give you a little more?"
As the price of chemical fiber products became less and less, the price of 'fake collars' also continued to drop. Not many people bought the three yuan price some time ago, so she had no choice but to lower the price to two yuan.
Who would have known that her price had just been reduced, and another batch of "fake collars" were also made very quickly, the same price was only 2.9 yuan, and they grabbed a lot of business.
"If it were true, I would definitely give it to you for Director Zhou's sake, but unfortunately I don't have it." After Nan Haitao finished speaking, he looked at her with a troubled face.
Liu Xiaoting saw that he really didn't intend to cooperate with her, so she could only stand up with a helpless smile: "I'm bothering Manager Nan."
Chen Lishu stood at the door of Nan Haitao's office. Just as she was about to raise her hand to knock on the door, the door was suddenly opened from the inside. The two people inside and outside the door looked at each other and were startled at the same time.
"Sister Xiaoting." Chen Lishu smiled and greeted her first.