90s Little Struggle

Chapter 118 Goal
Wu Julan stroked her hair a few times with a needle, and began to sew the quilt cover. When she heard that her eldest daughter wanted to spend money again, she subconsciously refuted.

In her opinion, it is very simple and smooth to remove the quilt cover when washing, and then sew a clean quilt cover.

It's not worth buying a quilt cover for this, isn't that a waste of money?
But when she heard her daughter say it was for college use, she swallowed her objection.

If the family had no money before, she would not be willing to spend this wronged money.

Now that the family has a bit of wealth, she is still reluctant to part with herself, but she doesn't want her daughters to be disliked when they are away.

So she laughed and joked: "It seems that your grades are very good, so you are so confident about going to college. When you come back with the college admission letter, I will definitely prepare new bedspreads for you two sisters."

Thinking of her sister's grades, Xiao Fang forced a smile on her face.

Xiao Hong thought to herself: I can go to a technical school even if I can't pass the university entrance exam.

But now the technical school is not well-known, and not many people know about it, like Wu Julan, who has never heard of it.

Besides, she could still be ready to do business.

Opening a clothing store is her goal.

It's a pity that the wholesale market won't open until the end of 92. It's only the beginning of 91. I can also do other businesses first to accumulate funds. It's best to take advantage of the cheap housing prices and buy my own storefront.

In her dream memory, the house price is not high now, but after 98, the house price will increase several times.

Xiao Hong also clenched her fist confidently: "Mom, I will remember, and I will remind you when the time comes."

The second sister-in-law Zhao and the others also came out today. She came to drop by and gossip: "Youzhen is also lucky, and all the money in the family has been returned to the bank."

"Those who lack great virtue even steal our flour, how is your family doing?"

They sell noodles in the store, and they take home the rest of the meat, except for a bag of flour. Who knew that the thief would not let it go.

When she knew that their family had lost pickled pork legs, she also slapped her thighs with distress: "These people who kill thousands of dollars, they are lazy to eat and drink. Now that they have stolen so much, they can eat and drink like a big one."

Wu Julan also agreed with distress.

Soon, two police officers came to the door, asked about the situation, and registered their stolen money and items, and then asked them to write their names on the bottom and leave to go to the next house.

As soon as they left, the owner of the shop came to inquire about the situation, and asked when their house would open.

After tidying up the room and washing the changed sheets, Xiao Hong went to the kitchen to have a look.

The rice noodles in their house are all packed in large porcelain jars. I don’t know if they think it’s troublesome to pour them out, or they think that they have already carried a lot of meat at her house. The rice noodles in the kitchen are still there, and even the oil jars are still there.

It was already past four o'clock in the afternoon, and she put all the dishes brought from home on the side.

Now in winter there are only Chinese cabbage, green vegetables, celery and spinach.

Fortunately, they also brought a piece of bacon from home, so that they would not eat all vegetarian dishes on the first day back to town.

Zhao Feifei asked: "What shall we have for dinner?"

"Just use bacon to stew a radish, then stir-fry a vegetable, and after the chicken is repaired, then stir-fry a chicken offal with chili." Even though Xiao Hong likes to eat bacon, she has been eating bacon and fish at home for several days. Want to change the taste: "I'll go to Aunt Liu's house first to see if there is any fresh meat in her house."

Aunt Liu is the one who sells pork in the vegetable market. Their pig heads and trotters, as well as the fresh meat for making dumplings, are all bought from Aunt Liu, so the two have a good relationship.

When Wu Julan heard that she was going to Liu's house, she brought two cleaned ducks and put them in the basket: "Take these, and she must accept them."

For those who celebrate the New Year, generally friendly people will not come to the door empty-handed, so she specially asked her man to repair it and bring it out in the morning.

Xiao Hong responded, and she came to Liu's house on a bicycle. There were several guests in Liu's house, talking and laughing, and the kitchen smoke was already rising.

Aunt Liu smiled when she saw Xiao Hong. This is a big customer of their family. She pulled her and said affectionately: "You are back, and you will stay at Auntie's house to eat tonight."

"Happy New Year, Auntie," Xiao Hong handed her the basket: "My mother is still waiting for me to buy meat and go back to cook. She has been thinking about you, knowing that you like duck, so she asked me to bring it to you."

This duck still belongs to Grandma Zhao's family, and she said it was for her granddaughters, but now it is used by her mother as a favor.

Aunt Liu smiled even more. She refused after a while before accepting it. Knowing that she came to buy meat, she took her to the next door and lifted the towel covering the pork: "We only opened today. Business is not good these days. Are there still more than half of the pigs that have not been sold?"

"But fortunately, the weather is cold now, and we can continue to sell tomorrow."

She is also used to it. The pork business will be better after the first month of the new year.

The main reason is that everyone bought the new year's goods before the year, and there were not many customers in the pre-market on the eighth day of the new year.

Even if the bought meat is gone, a lot of money has been spent during the Chinese New Year, and relatives who are away this month have also eaten a lot of meat. Everyone is reluctant to go to the vegetable market to buy vegetables and sell meat.

Xiao Hong ordered ten catties of pork belly, and then bought the pig's head and four pig's trotters.

Aunt Liu took the money for the pork belly and said with a smile, "I'll take the money for the pig's head and trotters for your mother."

Seeing Xiao Hong's refusal, she made a straight face on purpose: "If you don't accept it, then I'm embarrassed to accept your duck for nothing."

"Besides, even if you don't come today, I will go to your house."

Hearing her talk about this, Xiao Hong could only thank her, and then asked her to help tie the pork pig's head in a snakeskin bag to the back of the bicycle.

During the period, Aunt Liu's eldest sister also came out to help and smiled kindly at Xiao Hong.

After Xiao Hong left on her bicycle, she followed Aunt Liu to the kitchen to help light the fire, and inquired about the news by the way: "What does this girl's house do? Buy so much meat at once?"

"The owner of the shop sells lo-mei and dumplings," Aunt Liu knew what she was thinking when she heard what her eldest sister said: "But she is still in high school, she wants to go to college in the future, you should find another one for Qin Wei ?”

Sister Liu also married in Houzhai Town, but they now opened a labor insurance shop in the city, selling a variety of things, and the business is not bad.

They have two sons and a daughter. The eldest did not graduate from junior high school, so he started a business with them.

But now many people look for a partner for their daughters, just look at the man's education background and whether he has a solid job.

There are also some people who look down on business.

Of course, the conditions are too poor, or they are rushing to ask for a bride price, and they don't like it.

Therefore, when Sister Liu heard what her younger sister said, it seemed that she was raising the woman's worth, and her son was not worthy, so she was not happy: "What's the matter with going to college? How much does it cost to go to work after graduating from college?"

(End of this chapter)