Rebirth 78: Hunting for Treasure in the Mountains, Spoiling My Wife and Daughter to the Heavens

"Does your dad have a stomach problem?"

"Yeah, it's an old problem, something I picked up while I was away from home those years."

Lu Weiguo asked casually and followed Zhao Jiaying to the supply and marketing cooperative near the county committee.

Due to the special circumstances in Northeast China, there are generally two sets of leadership: the county party committee and the forestry department.

This time, we went to the forestry supply and marketing cooperative.

Back then, forestry was known as the "big boss of the forests."

The treatment is good, the rank is high, even half a rank higher than the local county party committee.

The supplies at the supply and marketing cooperative are much more complete than those at the county supply and marketing cooperative.

The supply and marketing cooperative they entered was much larger than the one Yuan Mengjie worked at.

Although the people here all wear the same green forestry uniforms, the wire overhead that carries documents never stops moving.

"I didn't want to come here. There are too many people. Look at what you want! You made so much money from just a few fish. Instead of buying your wife and kids something nice to eat!"

As soon as Zhao Jiaying entered the room, she began to flirt with Lu Weiguo.

After selling hazel mushrooms, I had a little over seven yuan left. The second time, I gave Liu Dazhuang ten yuan.

There are twenty yuan left.

However, he gave all the money to Li Xiulian, and besides the twenty yuan, he only had a few small bills in his pocket.

Do you have any cloth coupons or industrial coupons?

Looking at the dazzling array of items, Lu Weiguo's mind began to race.

"Yes, but they're very expensive!"

Zhao Jiaying raised a cunning and sinister glint in her eyes.

At that moment, it seemed as if Lu Weiguo was the lamb to the slaughter.

"Oh? How much? Sell me some."

"Money? No money needed, trade teeth! Right! You know how to hunt, right? Trade tiger teeth!"

"Pooh!"

Lu Weiguo almost spat a mouthful of phlegm onto Zhao Jiaying's face.

"Are you crazy? Tiger teeth? You might as well pull them out. Do I look like Wu Song (a legendary hero)?"

Zhao Jiaying knew she was asking for too much and stuck out her tongue sheepishly.

"Everyone says that stuff wards off evil spirits, so I was thinking of giving my nephew a gift. I don't have a tiger tooth, but a wolf tooth will do. You keep bragging about how you can hunt, but you can't even catch a wolf, can you?"

Look at this supply and marketing cooperative. A wolf pelt sells for fifty yuan. They buy and they sell. Others can do it, but you can't?

A man should never be told he can't do it!

"Wolf Fang? No problem, but I used a lot of tickets."

"Those are minor matters, but you can't go back on your word once you've promised me."

"Mission accomplished!"

In later times, a typical garment required six to seven feet of cloth, and a set of trousers would require at least eight feet.

But now, there aren't so many rules about clothes; even scraps can be used.

A ready-made garment is perfectly adequate if it is within seven feet in size.

After some calculation, Lu Weiguo determined that he needed seven feet of cloth to make new clothes for Li Xiulian, but since the two children were still small, three feet of cloth would be enough.

The total is ten feet of cloth.

Door and window frames can be custom-made from wood, nails, wire, glass, etc., but an industrial invoice is required for purchase.

I swindled a lot of old clothes from Li Xiuhe before, enough for the little girls in the Liu family to wear.

But there weren't any washbasins specifically for women yet.

After some calculations, I bought ten feet of cloth, woodworking supplies, a water basin for Liu Ermei, and a special water basin for my own child.

The two of them bought a lot of things, and the twenty yuan they had just earned was reduced to less than three yuan!

"This money really doesn't last long!"

Seeing that Lu Weiguo hadn't bought anything for her, Zhao Jiaying felt embarrassed to buy her favorite orange soda.

Instead, he spent his own money to buy a bag of White Rabbit milk candy for Lu Weiguo's two children.

"Stop complaining about being poor. You earn more in one day than many people earn in a month."

Lu Weiguo nodded.

That's not wrong, it's just that he was too harsh on his family before.

I declined the invitation to have dinner at the Zhao family's house.

Lu Weiguo, laden with bags and bundles, drove the oxcart back to his mother-in-law's house.

They hadn't gone inside; they had just tied the things they bought to the oxcart.

A Shanghai-brand sedan parked precisely in front of the mother-in-law's house.

Lu Weiguo glanced up and saw that it was an old Phoenix brand car from the early 1960s, only the brand had been changed.

At first, he didn't realize that he was going to take his wife and children home that afternoon.

Even in the middle of the day, we should at least feed the old ox some grass.

He didn't believe he could do something like wanting a horse to run without feeding it.

But when the bespectacled man who got off the bus called out Li Xiulian's name affectionately...

Lu Weiguo immediately guessed who this person was.

"Xiulian, are you home? I'm going to Fendou Village to work today. Come back with me. I specially brought my cousin's car."

A brand new Shanghai-brand car! There isn't a single one like it in the entire county!

Zhang Dexing adjusted his glasses with his index finger, opened his coat, and instead of going inside, leaned against the car door with his legs crossed.

To be honest, this scene really does have the air of those young noblemen from Hong Kong and Taiwan movies of that era.

It only resembles the form but lacks the spirit.

Lu Weiguo fed the old ox without saying a word.

He actually understood why Zhang Dexing didn't go inside.

If his show-off father drove a car back to the village...

Let alone entering the village, he would have to be greeted by the entire village at the entrance.

"Hey, isn't this Comrade Zhang? My goodness, this car is so impressive! You're always thinking of my sister."

Li Xiulian didn't respond; instead, Li Xiuhe came out first.

"Sis, it's nothing, we're old classmates after all. Anyway, we're not in a hurry, why don't you get in the car and have a seat?"

Li Xiuhe said with a fawning expression, "That's not good."

Although she said she refused, she didn't hesitate at all and went straight into the back door that Zhang Dexing had opened.

I stroked the genuine leather seat, looking at it from the left and right.

This appearance satisfied all of Zhang Dexing's vanity.

If he hadn't wanted to keep up the act, Zhang Dexing would probably have groaned with pleasure right now.

Li Guangrong and Wang Diange also came out at this moment, cigarettes dangling from their lips.

Seeing the car, who would notice Lu Weiguo standing next to the haystack?

They all chatted enthusiastically with Zhang Dexing.

"As expected of a cadre, the unit provides such a nice car, making the entrance quite impressive."

"Others don't get this treatment; it was specially arranged for me by my cousin."

"Wow, that's a really high-ranking official! Even though it's our first meeting, I already felt you were quite something!"

"This must be my brother-in-law. When I bring Xiulian back next time, let's have a good drink together."

"..."

At this moment, the neighbors nearby were all eavesdropping through their door cracks.

If I hadn't known that the Li family's youngest daughter had married a man from the countryside...

Everyone probably thought Zhang Dexing was the Li family's son-in-law.

"By the way, where's Xiulian? Come back to the village with me; it won't be a hard ride back."

Especially those two children, in this freezing weather, let them experience what it's like to live a life sheltered from the wind and rain.

"Her?"

When Li Xiulian was mentioned, Wang Diangui, who was still trying to get on Zhang Dexing's good side, awkwardly stubbed out his cigarette.

"She's packing her things. My brother-in-law is here too; we're planning to pick him up today."

"So what if your brother-in-law comes! He's just a peasant. Let me tell you, Xiulian and the kids can ride in a car?"

"That country bumpkin can't ride in my car, it's not that I'm stingy, it's just that there are too many people riding, and it's uncomfortable."