The happiness of rebirth is knocking on the door

Chapter 8

After buying tofu, Zhang Meiying went to prepare fried dough sticks.The dough she made before was ready, so she put some oil on the corner of the chopping board, fearing that the rolling pin would stick to the flour after being oiled, so she found a glass bottle and washed it, and used it to roll out the dough.

This time, I used rapeseed oil squeezed at home to fry the fritters. It was not as transparent and clear as the oil sold in supermarkets in later generations, and white foam formed when it was heated up.Because the firewood was burning, the smoke rose in the stove at this time, and Li Xiaohong coughed from the smoke.

"Go out, there is too much smoke in the room, so you don't need to guard so dryly."

Being regarded as a glutton by her mother, Li Xiaohong rolled her eyes behind her mother's back, but it has been so many years since she cooked with firewood, she is really uncomfortable

Yes, just go out obediently.

Li Zhijun went out to talk with others, and after a while everyone knew that he was back, and the children from the neighbor's house came one by one, watching anxiously at the door of Li Xiaohong's house.Li Xiaohong gave them two pieces of candy alone, and they all broke up with a bang.

Li Xiaohong heard a neighbor ask: "Brother, how much will a catty of public grain be collected this autumn?"

"The quota hasn't been set yet, so we can only talk about it when the time comes. Besides, different townships require different withdrawals, and the prices may vary somewhat." This is the voice of Li Zhijun.

"It's not easy for us to grow some land. It would be great if the price was raised higher than last year."

"Who says it's not, but this year's weather is good, the crops are growing well, and the public rations paid by then can be given a premium."

"It would be nice if we could do that."

After a while, Li Zhijun came back.He held the little girls in his lap, one on each side, and asked if they were obeying at home.

Li Xiaolu quickly said: "I'm obedient." Then she looked at Li Zhijun with her dark eyes, and then turned her head to look at Li Xiaohong. Seeing that everyone was silent, she looked puzzled.

So obviously coming to praise my look pleases the other two.Li Xiaohong rubbed her hair and said, "Lu Lu is really good."

"Ah."

"I heard that you skipped a grade? My daughter is amazing, so smart. People say that my nephew is like an uncle. It seems to be true."

Li Xiaohong didn't want to mention this matter again, so she said to Li Zhijun, "By the way, Dad, I want you to buy some books for me. I don't know if you will go on a business trip."

"what book?"

"A copy of "Children's Learning Qionglin", a copy of "Guanzhi of Ancient Chinese Words", a copy of "Dictionary of Commonly Used Words in Ancient Chinese Words", and a Dictionary of Appreciation of Tang Poetry and Song Ci."

"It takes so much."

"We are learning Tang poetry, and the teacher asked me to memorize more, as well as ancient prose, and I will learn it gradually in the future. Anyway, I have time now, so it is good to memorize more. I heard that laying a good foundation is very good for composition. "

Chinese parents have always hoped that their sons will become dragons and their daughters will become phoenixes. Li Xiaohong knows that as long as it is learning, parents can only be happy.

"Can you read so many books?"

"I can read slowly, and the books are not bad, so I have to read these books over and over again."

"That's true. But I haven't been back from a business trip for a long time, and I won't go out again this year."

"Then what should I do? If it doesn't work, let my second uncle buy it for me."

"That's fine, I'll pay the money to your sister-in-law later."

"Ok."

"Reading is a good thing, but you can't throw it aside after you buy it."

"No, Dad, don't worry."

At this time, Zhang Meiying also fried the deep-fried dough sticks, made another egg soup, and asked the three of them to come out for dinner.

During this period of time, there was nothing delicious at home, every day there were sprouts of cabbage, radish, and sometimes fried sweet potato stalks, which made Li Xiaohong's stomach water with pantothenic acid.

When I saw the deep-fried fried dough sticks today, they were golden and golden, and when I took a bite, they were soft and crispy, leaving a fragrance on my lips and teeth.Knowing that eating too much is not good, I still ate a round belly with my sister.

After eating, she was too full to hold her stomach and strolled in the yard, and her younger sister also followed behind her.

Zhang Meiying cleaned up the dishes and saw Li Xiaohong playing with her younger sister. Li Zhijun gave Zhang Meiying a wink, and the couple went to the main room to talk.

After turning around for a while, Li Xiaolu probably felt bored, so he took a sandbag and threw his sister. After avoiding it a few times, Li Xiaohong deliberately pretended to be hit by her, looking frustrated, and shouted, "Ouch, I was hit!"

And once Li Xiaohong hit Li Xiaohong, they all giggled triumphantly.The two were running and playing, and the sandbag was thrown towards the window. Li Xiaohong went to pick up the sandbag, and vaguely heard her mother's excited words, talking about guarantees and so on.

She suddenly thought that such a thing happened when she was a child.Dad is good at making friends. Once he guaranteed someone to borrow money from the bank, but that person lost money and ran away. Li Zhijun acted as a guarantor and paid back part of the money for the person.

Even if people in rural areas borrow money, they always ask relatives and friends for a turnaround. There are very few people like banks who borrow money. Li Zhi's position as the deputy director of the Army Grain Department was also removed, and the work was transferred from the current township to another more remote township.

Thinking about it, it was around this time. The atmosphere at home was a bit strange, but the children didn't care about it. They went out to play when they had time to go home after finishing their homework. They didn't know the specific situation at home.

Parents should have had conflicts over this, but they wouldn't say such things in front of their children, and I didn't worry about family affairs before, and it was only after a long time that I accidentally heard some reasons from my mother.

This time, I must find a way to prevent my father from guaranteeing that person again, which will affect the life of the family, and we must not let the parents of the family hurt their peace for outsiders.

She opened the door and went in, pretending to be casual and asked: "How did I hear who borrowed money? Our family doesn't have enough money, so we can't lend it to others."

"Go, go, you kid, don't meddle in the adult's business, just take care of your own business."

"I manage my own affairs very well. Although I am young, I just know that I can't lend money to others. What if I don't pay it back?" Li Xiaohong replied casually while pretending to be a child, while looking at her mother's eyes from the corner of her eye. complexion.

Zhang Meiying really looked unhappy.

Thinking about it, for a mother, a guarantee sounds like a very serious matter. It is not a relative or a place, and most people are willing to do this for others.

"You see, even children know that it's not good to borrow money."

"Xiaohong, go out and play with your sister." Li Zhijun urged her to go out.He turned back and said:
"This is not a matter of borrowing money, we are just guaranteeing it."

Seeing her parents talking, Li Xiaohong insisted on not leaving.

She knew that her father was a very forthright person who loved to make friends and was loyal to others, but she was also relatively easy to trust others, so she agreed to his friend's request to vouch for him.Later, after the accident, for a long time, my father was in a low mood and hesitated to do anything.

Seeing that she doesn't go out, maybe my father is anxious and thinks that a child doesn't understand anything, maybe he is talking about the excitement, no longer shy away, just communicate with his mother.

"Will the guarantee work?"

"What's the guarantee? How long do you think Lao Wang and I have been friends with? He is good and capable, so it's not a problem at all."

"What's a guarantee, Dad?"

"Guarantee means that someone borrows money, and we guarantee for him that he can pay back."

"Then why did he ask you for a guarantee? Does he have no relatives?"

"That's not because your father and I have some reputation, so we can guarantee it if we have a regular job."

Speaking of this, Li Zhijun was also a little thoughtful.Yes, why did the other party want him to guarantee? It’s not because he has a formal job, and he can run away as a monk but can’t run away from the temple.But Lao Wang has known each other for a long time, so there will be no problem?
"I read in the newspaper that there was a person who guarantied for others, and the person who borrowed the money ran away, but the guarantor had to pay back the money for him." After Li Xiaohong finished speaking, she pretended to be ignorant and asked, "Dad, it's not that person." Borrowing money, why does the guarantor have to pay back the money?"

Zhang Meiying was completely moved by this: "Look, Honghong has already said that the guarantor has to pay back the money for someone else. It's okay if nothing happens, but what if something happens? Shall we also pay back the money for him? It's hard to earn some money Hard-earned money, such a big risk, I don’t agree with anything about it.”

"You know Lao Wang, he's really nice, he's already talked about this, how can I refuse him."

"It's good, it's good, but it's not that he can't live anymore. We can help if there is any emergency. But listen to you, he needs a loan from the bank, and it's not a small amount. We can't get involved in it."

Li Zhijun's heart was shaken by his wife and daughter's disapproval.Before this, he really didn't expect such serious consequences.It was also because he was moved by the prospect that Lao Wang said that day, and he was an old acquaintance, that he wanted to vouch for him.

"Honghong, do you really read such a newspaper?" Li Zhijun didn't doubt his daughter, he just wanted to find evidence for himself to strengthen his shaken heart.

"Of course. I read it in the "** Daily" that my uncle gave me. I was just about to wait for you, Dad, to come back and ask you what's going on. If the person who borrowed the money doesn't repay it, the guarantor must repay it."

"Where's the newspaper? Let me read it."

This is totally nonsense, where can I find newspapers for you?Li Xiaohong complained secretly.

On the face, he wrinkled his small face seriously and said: "After I practiced the big characters, I sold the newspaper to the junk collector. Where can I find it?"

"You said that there would be such a big risk in guaranteeing? I don't think Lao Wang is that kind of person." Li Zhijun still didn't hesitate. It's embarrassing not to agree to someone's request for the matter in front of him.

"Old Wang is not that kind of person, but he borrowed so much money at once, he was not afraid of [-] yuan, just in case. To put it bluntly, what if he lost money for his work? Will he lose money honestly? Ah, you Do you think I don't care about the life and death of our three mothers because I didn't give birth to you a son?" Zhang Meiying said with a sob.

"I'm not that kind of person." Li Zhijun was in a hurry, and explained by grabbing Zhang Meiying's shoulders with both hands.

Seeing this, Li Xiaohong knew that the matter had basically settled down, and her mother would definitely be able to take care of her father.

While the two were staring at each other affectionately, she secretly closed the door and came out. Through the crack of the door, she heard her mother say, "I know you have a good heart", and then her voice was covered by something.

After coming out, I was glad that my sister didn't go in to make trouble just now.Turning her head, it turned out that it wasn't that she didn't make trouble, but that the little guy was chasing his little lamb.

She stretched out her hand and pulled the lamb's tail. The lamb screamed "bleat" and jumped away.But she was still very excited, and she was sweating profusely after running behind the lamb.

This is my home, my relatives who are connected by blood, and I must take good care of them in this life.

(End of this chapter)