When the eldest, second and third sons heard someone calling them, they looked up in confusion and found that they were children from the village, most of whom were boys of six or seven years old. He was waving his arms and calling the three of them very happily.
That happy tone inexplicably gave others an illusion, and a trace of confusion flashed in the eyes of the three little children thought: Did they have a good relationship before?
And these five or six little boys didn’t mind the attitude of the three little children towards them at all. They had accepted Lin Chuxia’s invitation to come and play with the three little.
This morning, according to the usual time, they didn’t need to do anything at home. Instead of just hanging out and playing, Lin Chuxia came over with a bag of fragrant potato chips. As soon as she opened it, the rich aroma filled everywhere.
It immediately attracted the attention of five or six little boys. After each of them got three slices, she said that if they play with her three children and take care of them until she comes back from the supply and marketing cooperative in town, the rest of this pack will be given to them, but they can’t tell the three children about this.
The first reaction in the minds of the six little boys was: taking care of children?
Anyone who is younger than them thinks it is inappropriate to play with them. However, when they put a piece of potato chip in their mouth, it tasted delicious and they licked their fingers after eating it. It was delicious! ! !
So, after eating breakfast, they quickly put down their bowls and chopsticks and came out.
“Let’s play together. Let’s play the game of ‘Fight the Japs’ together.” Playing with them means adding three children to the game while they are playing. Isn’t that simple?
However, the three Xie sons had been bullied by the children in the village before, so when they saw the little boys in front of them now, even though they had not been bullied by these people before, they still felt lingering fears.
Thinking that these people wanted to play with them, and the second and third son were younger, they would suffer a lot if they got into a fight, so the eldest son shook his head, “No need.”
The eyes of the six little boys who were rejected were widened. They were reluctantly playing with them, but they were rejected?, if they weren’t waiting for the half-pack of crispy potato chips from Lin Chuxia, they would have already turned around and left.
“Don’t like it? How about playing catch a villain?” Since you don’t like playing the ‘beat the devil’ game, then change it to another one, it doesn’t matter.
“No need!” Dazai didn’t know if there was something wrong with their brains, that’s why he insisted on pulling them to play.
“Throwing sandbags?” Why is this Dazai so difficult to handle? Wrinkling his face, he continued to change games.
Seeing Dazai shaking his head again, another little boy’s eyes lit up when he saw the marble in the Sanzai’s hand, “What is that?”
Sanzai was looked at brightly by six six or seven-year-old boys. Subconsciously, he shrank his body and hid behind Erzai.
Erzai, who was watched by all the little boys, pursed his lips and replied, “It’s marbles.”
“Okay, let’s play with this!” He clapped his hands and stepped forward crisply and cheerfully greeted the three children to play marbles together.
Originally, the three of them were a little wary and scared. Soon, because of the nervousness of playing marbles, they completely forgot about their wariness and fear. They held their hands and looked at the marbles nervously, but they couldn’t hit… You must miss it, oh yeah! It’s my turn.
At this time, Lin Chuxia walked out of the door and headed towards the open space in the big square where the village meeting was held. Because the tractor was placed there, when Lin Chuxia arrived, many people in the village were already waiting there.
Seeing Lin Chuxia, several neighbors also raised their voices and greeted Lin Chuxia: “Jingming’s wife, are you going to the town too? What are you going to buy?”
Lin Chuxia looked a little shy, as if embarrassed to say like that, “I am going to buy a few pieces of cloth to make a few clothes for the three children, all of there clothes are tattered and torn, and also they have to go barefoot all day long, so buy a pair of rubber slippers. Auntie, are you also going to the supply and marketing cooperative ? then can you take me with you ?…”
It was rare for someone to take the initiative to speak. So Lin Chuxia started talking. As she would be living in the village, so she couldn’t be bored at home all the time.
The smile she raised was a bit shy, but her bright and beautiful face was filled with shyness. At first glance, she looked like a girl with a good personality, but they didn’t know why those Xie family members insisted on causing trouble for her.
“Hey, come on, come next to me, the tractors will be crowded soon…” The aunt was very enthusiastic and waved her over. She always felt that a shy little daughter-in-law like Lin Chuxia would not be able to compete with them. When the time comes, she can’t even climb onto the tractor.
“Thank you, Auntie.” Lin Chuxia penetrated towards the middle-aged woman’s side. Standing next to her were aunties of the same age. Even though Lin Chuxia smiled shyly, she was actually very eloquent. She became so familiar with these aunts that they started chatting about village gossip…
When she was led onto the tractor, Lin Chuxia looked at them with a grateful expression. Several aunts raised their heads and chests proudly, thinking that they had done something for others and were very proud of their good deeds.
As the tractor slowly headed towards the town, it was not like the cement road in later generations. The yellow mud gravel road was still full of potholes in some places, shaking so hard that Lin Chuxia was about to vomit.
When she arrived at the town, Lin Chuxia retched several times as soon as she got off the car. “I can’t do it anymore, I can’t do it anymore. I haven’t been on a tractor for a long time. I don’t dare to come to the market town next time.”
The additional words after that were successful. It made some people who wanted to talk nonsense about whether Lin Chuxia was pregnant shut their mouths. Although they were joking, some jokes should not be said.
Lin Chuxia followed the aunts towards the supply and marketing cooperative. They sell all things at the supply and marketing cooperative these days, so there was no need to go shopping on other places… Oh, there was another place, a butcher shop.
After arriving at the supply and marketing cooperative, the memory of the original owner said she had only been there a few times. Therefore, when Lin Chuxia stepped into the supply and marketing cooperative, she looked around curiously.
It’s nothing special, just very contemporary.
Without wandering around, Lin Chuxia came to the counter and said, “Give me three pieces of cloth, black, dark blue and reddish brown.”
The salesperson standing in front of the counter had a very ordinary attitude. She didn’t do anything, but asked lightly: “Do you have a cloth ticket?”
“Of course, also bring me slippers of size 22, size 24, size 26.” Lin Chuxia was not dissatisfied with her attitude, but said very straightforwardly that if she wanted to buy something, she would just buy it.
In less than two minutes, she bought everything she wanted, without giving her a chance to change or choose. There was only one type of slippers for children, so she just asked her to get it.
Seeing that the other aunts were still arguing with the salesperson, Lin Chuxia packed three pieces of cloth and rubber slippers in a cloth bag and went to the butcher stall with her meat tickets.
When she arrived, many people were gathered around to buy meat. Lin Chuxia saw that everyone had bought fat meat. If it was at least half fat, fat meat would account for the majority.
After all, people in this era eat less meat and less oil and water, so everyone thinks that for the same weight of pork, fat meat is the most cost-effective, but most pork guys will cut it into half fat and lean for you.
After waiting for a while, Lin Chuxia came to the pork stall and said, “Cut me three and a half kilograms of fat and lean pork, with more lean meat.”
As soon as this request came out, the pork guy and the people next to him looked at Lin Chuxia in surprise, thinking that Lin Chuxia didn’t understand, so he kindly reminded the young girl, “Fat meat is the most delicious.”
“There are still so many uncles and aunts who haven’t bought it yet. By the way, in this case, the pig with the leaned meat is the most delicious .” Also can you give me two pieces of pork bones?” Lin Chuxia smiled sweetly and shyly, a little embarrassed.
“Okay!” The pork guy didn’t care about the pork bones without meat. He used to take them back to the dogs to eat.
As for the ribs…oh, these days, pork guys don’t cut the ribs specially, but cut them with other meats and sell them. Otherwise, no one is willing to buy them. Who the hell comes to buy pork and only buys bones?
“Uncle, I don’t take advantage of you. Give me one or two ounces less meat, and give me the pig bones and pig’s offal instead okay?” Lin Chuxia looked cheerful like a silly elder sister.
“Huh? No, no one wants these, so you can just take them.” Seeing how generous the little girl was, the porky man directly waved his hand and gave it to her.
“No, no, how can it be? Doesn’t this make you lose money? How about this, half of one tael? Even if no one wants it, but I take it, so I have to pay the bill, right??” Lin Chuxia also waved her hands, not wanting to leave any excuses.
Moreover, for Lin Chuxia, one tael of meat is not much. There are about seven or eight pork bones here. Once frozen in the supermarket, it can be used to make soup for several times. If the pig’soffal are cleaned, it will be very fragrant when fried.
In the eyes of others, this little girl had noble thoughts and was a good comrade. In the end, the butcher man cut one tael in half and took it, while Lin Chuxia took the rest away.
When putting it in the bag, first put the pork at the bottom, then the pork bones, and finally the pig offal. The smell of pig offal came to her nose, and Lin Chuxia nodded with great satisfaction.
Carrying the bag, she headed towards where the tractor was parked. At this moment, one or two people were waiting there, and they all looked at her, wondering what she had bought with such a big bag.
“Didn’t I say that? I bought some clothes and shoes for my children. I originally planned to buy pork, but I saw that pig bones and pig meat are good and cheap, so got them…” Lin Chuxia looked cheerful and didn’t seem to have any precautions. She answered towards the aunt.
The aunt even opened it to take a look, but the smell of pig waste was too bad. She was wearing clean clothes today to go shopping at the supply and marketing cooperative! Immediately, she looked disgusted, and still tried to persuade Lin Chuxia with earnest words, “Didn’t Jingming send his salary allowance back every month? Why are you still buying this ?”
“It’s not like you don’t know about his uncle’s family. If there is any salary subsidy sent back they take it all away…” After finally bringing up the topic, Lin Chuxia felt happy in her heart, but she pretended to sigh in distress and had a frown on her face, Like she didn’t know what to do.
