Traveling through the 1970s: The young wife loves to make trouble

Chapter 39 It's worth getting beaten

"I miss you so much!" The eldest sister looked around and saw that no one was paying attention to them before continuing, "My daughter-in-law has had a hard time with her pregnancy. She eats pork every day but doesn't seem to gain any weight. I'm so worried!"

"Someone told me that buying a chicken and making soup for her would help her get more nutrition, so I came here to take a look."

"I walked around here twice, but didn't see anyone selling chickens. I thought I couldn't come here in vain, so I might as well buy a duck. But no one was selling ducks either." As the elder sister said this, her frown relaxed and she grabbed Tao Qiuyi's hand.

"Sister, I met you today and bought your mushrooms. It shows that we are destined to be together. If you catch a pheasant next time, can you sell one to me?"

Seeing her elder sister's expectant eyes, Tao Qiuyi agreed without thinking too much. "Okay."

"That's great, sister. You are such a good person. You are my timely help." The elder sister happily told her home address and her family members' workplaces.

"I live in the residential compound next to the meat processing plant. Sister, if you catch any pheasants, just send them to my house. My son and daughter-in-law both work at the meat processing plant. If you want to buy meat, don't go to the supply and marketing cooperative, come directly to me."

"If you find more mushrooms and wood ear mushrooms, bring them over too. I'll buy them from you at a price above the market price. You don't have to worry about having too many mushrooms and wood ear mushrooms to sell. There aren't many fresh vegetables in winter, and mushrooms and wood ear mushrooms are very rare."

"Big sister, your family can't eat too much, but there are many people in our family compound. Big sister will help you sell it."

Tao Qiuyi knew that people in that period were very simple and enthusiastic, but...was this elder sister too enthusiastic?
He used the back door to buy meat for her and also helped her sell mushrooms and black fungus. He was so enthusiastic.

But, is it still possible to do business like this?

Tao Qiuyi thought about it and felt that this was a very good way.

The most important thing is that the eldest sister said that her son and daughter-in-law both work in the meat processing plant, so it will be convenient for her to buy meat in the future.

The ring space can be used for storage, so she can stock up on more meat for the winter.

So, Tao Qiuyi immediately said, "Okay, big sister, don't worry, I'll go to the mountains when I get home today. If I'm lucky, I can bring you a pheasant tomorrow."

This is just an excuse. She still needs luck to get into the mountains. Where would she put her face?

"Okay, okay, I won't do anything tomorrow and will wait for you at the gate of the family compound." The elder sister was so happy that she couldn't stop smiling after solving the depression that had been accumulating in her heart.

The steps I took when leaving were a little unsteady.

Tao Qiuyi put the straw back into the backpack, put the basket on his back and started shopping.

By the time we walked out of the black market, it was already dawn.

She found an empty alley, entered the ring space, washed off the makeup on her face, restored her original appearance, and went to the state-owned restaurant to buy ten big buns.

While eating, he walked towards the supply and marketing cooperative, thinking about spending the various bills he had collected from the Huang family and Huang Lingyu.

At the supply and marketing cooperative, Tao Qiuyi didn't spend all her coupons, but she bought quite a few things: a festively patterned quilt, a bolt of pure white cotton cloth, a pound of fruit candy, two pounds of White Rabbit candy, a pound of egg cake, four pounds of noodles, a pair of yellow rubber shoes, and eight pairs of socks of varying lengths.

He put the quilt in the backpack, quietly put the other things in the ring space, and then went home.

From a distance, I saw two half-grown children standing at the door of the Wei family.

"Sister-in-law, you are finally back." Li Zi saw Tao Qiuyi first and ran towards her.

"You haven't seen me for just a short while, and Lizi misses me so much!" Tao Qiuyi joked with a smile. Seeing the little girl lowering her head, she looked as if she had suffered a great injustice.

"What's wrong?" Tao Qiuyi immediately realized something was wrong. "Sister-in-law... wuwuwu..." The sobbing voice of sister-in-law came out, and Li Zi started to cry in grievance.

"Why are you still crying? You're being bullied..." The little girl lowered her head and cried. Tao Qiuyi simply reached out and lifted her face. Seeing the obvious slap marks on her face, he instantly became angry. "Who hit you?"

"Third Uncle." Xiao Huai answered from the side. There were also obvious slap marks on the boy's face.

"He also hit you in the face?" Tao Qiuyi narrowed his pupils slightly.

Xiao Huai nodded slightly.

"Uncle San scolded us for being ungrateful and only knowing how to eat. He said it would be better to raise a dog than a dog because dogs are obedient, but we just waste food." Li Zi complained while crying.

"Xiao Huai said we worked and earned work points, but didn't eat for free. Then he hit Xiao Huai. I ran over to stop him, and he hit me again."

"You have the nerve to call you ungrateful? It seems Wei Lao San has truly lost all respect." Tao Qiuyi chuckled in anger. "Really? A respectable person wouldn't bully my two children while I'm away. It seems the lesson I taught him yesterday wasn't enough."

Li Zi and Xiao Huai lowered their heads at the same time.

I felt that I had failed to live up to my sister-in-law's advice and had not completed the tasks assigned to me.

Tao Qiuyi didn't ask the reason, but took out a small glass bottle, which contained the upgraded ointment she made in the ring space last night, intending to give it to Wei Jingyuan.

First, she wiped away the tears on Li Zi's face with the back of her hand, then opened the bottle cap. A pleasant fragrance wafted out of the bottle. Tao Qiuyi scooped some ointment with her fingers and gently applied it on Li Zi's beaten face.

Rub the wound on the other side of your face from yesterday as well, rubbing it slowly with your fingertips.

You first smell the fragrance of the pear, then feel a cool and comfortable feeling on your face, and the pain disappears.

"Sister-in-law." This was the second time sister-in-law applied medicine to her. Li Zi was so moved that she wanted to cry again.

When her parents were alive, every time she got hurt, her mother would weep with heartache. If the wound wasn't bleeding, she would rub it and tell her it would heal with rest. If it was bleeding, she would find some spider webs in the corner of the house and stick them on the wound to stop the bleeding. She never applied medicine to her because there was no medicine at home.

This is how she and Xiao Huai grew up.

"Don't cry! Your tears will wash away the medicine you just put on your face. I have to apply it on you again." Tao Qiuyi put the small glass bottle in Lizi's hand and said, "Xiao Huai can't see the wound on his face. Please help him wipe it."

"Oh, okay." Li Zi blinked, tried hard to hold back her tears, and helped Xiao Huai apply the medicine with a serious look.

Xiao Huai's eyes flashed, but he didn't say anything, letting Li Zi apply medicine on his face.

After applying the medicine, Li Zi returned the small glass bottle to Tao Qiuyi.

Taking the small glass bottle and putting it into the space, Tao Qiuyi looked at Xiao Huai and said, "Xiao Huai, you did the right thing by refuting your Third Uncle today. It's worth the beating. At least it lets him know that you are not someone who will just accept things passively."

"People are like this. The more you go along with them, the more they think you're easy to bully. If you go against them, they won't dare to mess with you anymore."

"Bullying the weak and fearing the strong is the root of human nature."

"Xiao Huai, don't think that if you refute the words of your elders, you are wrong or unfilial. Respecting elders is a traditional virtue, but some elders don't deserve it."

When Xiao Huai talked back to his elders, he didn't get scolded or beaten. Instead, he was praised for doing the right thing. There was a gleam in his eyes, and some of the concepts that he had been instilled with since childhood collapsed in his heart.

(End of this chapter)