Chapter 30 What Book to Read, Just Find a Good Husband's Family and Marry
Tang Huai couldn't lie down after lying down for two days.
With her current family situation, she dare not be idle for too long.
But Zhong Mumu told her not to work in the fields within a week.
She couldn't stay idle, and she didn't dare to work. If she fell ill, she didn't have the money to treat it.
So she went to chop a bamboo pole and came back.
Cut bamboo whips at the door of your house.
Tang Li was helping her, and asked with some slurred words: "Sister, what do you use bamboo for?"
"Does Tang Li like buns?" Tang Huai glanced at Tang Li and asked with a smile.
"Is it the one you bought for me last time?"
"yes."
Tang Li swallowed, "I like it!"
"Sister, I'll make you better-tasting buns, okay?" This morning, she went to the entrance of the village to buy pig's knuckles and two catties of pork belly.
The pig's feet are already simmering, and the aroma is wafting all over the room.
The pork belly is still in the bowl, and the flour I bought last time is already fermenting.
She wants to make Xiaolongbao!
In her previous life, when she went to work in the county town, she went to a restaurant to wash dishes. Later, the business was not good, the restaurant closed down, and she lost her job.
Then, introduced by a colleague I met in the hotel, I entered a craft workshop to work.
This craft workshop uses bamboo whips to weave all kinds of vegetable baskets, betels, dustpans, small fruit plates, baskets, etc...
Now she wants to use bamboo whips, weave a few small bamboo baskets, and steam Xiaolongbao.
A little girl at Tang Li's age is happy as long as she eats, and her intelligence is a little weaker than that of her peers, like an eight or nine-year-old child who only wants to eat.
Hearing that there are Xiaolongbao to eat, she was so happy that she wanted to spin around on the ground.
"Tang Huai, what are you doing?" Su Linfang came to Tang Huai's house with a smile on his face.
Standing under the eaves of the door, she glanced at the bamboo whip on the ground.
"Weaving a small cage," Tang Huai said.
"You know how to weave small cages? What do you weave small cages for?"
Tang Huai didn't answer Su Linfang, but raised his head and gave Su Linfang a sweet smile: "Second aunt, do you have anything to do with me?"
Su Linfang is better at life than Yang Hongxing. Although she looks down on Liu Xiaoyu and often takes advantage of Liu Xiaoyu, she will be soft first and then hard.
She knelt down in front of Tang Huai, feeling embarrassed, "Brother Zhidong already has a girl he likes, but he hasn't worked for a whole year and has no income, and your second uncle and I have no money... oh How can I marry a daughter-in-law without any money? That girl is so handsome and has a good personality. But the girl said that even if there is no wedding banquet, she still needs to add a few sets of bright red clothes to celebrate the festival. The money for the clothes... Not like this, Tang Huai, your family sold a pig a few days ago, and you have some money on hand, why don't you lend me a few hundred yuan first, and then pay you back when Brother Zhidong is free?"
With a shy and embarrassed expression on Tang Huai's face, she looked at Su Linfang resentfully, with a somewhat reserved look, "Second Auntie, Tang Li and I relied on that money to pay our tuition fees, and I lent it to you. There is no money to pay tuition.”
This era is not like the later modern era, where there is a nine-year free obligation, and children do not have to pay tuition fees from the first grade to the junior high school.
Tuition fees are still quite expensive in this era. The tuition fee for the first year of junior high school is about 300 yuan, and Tang Li's tuition fee is about 120 yuan.
If I borrow a few hundred yuan from Su Linfang to ask for a wife, and pay her and Tang Li's tuition fees, the family will have no living expenses left.
Moreover, before school starts, public food must be paid——
Besides, can I get back the money lent to Su Linfang?
Tang Huai would not be so stupid if he lived again.
Whether Tang Zhidong can get a wife, whether the girl is handsome or not, and whether she can buy red clothes, what does it have to do with her?
Su Linfang smiled, "The tuition fee doesn't need to be so much. You took 1,200 and lent me 500. I still have 700, which is enough to pay the tuition fee."
Tang Huai shook his head lightly, with a troubled expression on his face, "Second Auntie, seven hundred yuan is not enough, and I have to pay the public grain. My family has a field, but after my father fell ill, the field has been left uncultivated and there is no food. Harvest, this year I can only use money to pay the public grain, and the public grain costs are several hundred yuan. If I borrow five hundred from you, I will have no money to pay the public grain.”
This payment of public grain is the same as the payment of taxes in the later world. As long as the land is allocated, regardless of whether it is cultivated or not, it must be paid.
There are two ways to pay the public grain, if there is grain, pay grain, if there is no grain, pay money, and pay once a year.
"Oh, your family is like this. What books do you and Tang Li still study?" Su Linfang patted his thigh and said, "You are a girl's family again. What do you do with so many books? Why don't you go to the county to work and make money?" Look at Aling in our village. After finishing high school, she couldn’t get into university. In the end, she had to go to a restaurant to wash dishes. Tang Huai, you don’t need to look at your education background when you go to a restaurant to wash dishes. I can do a dishwashing job for you, and the salary will definitely be higher than that of A Ling."
"Second aunt, I don't want to wash dishes in a restaurant." In my previous life, I was so afraid of washing.
"Okay, if you don't want to wash the dishes, you can serve the dishes. It's also good to be a waiter. I'll ask you to introduce it to you."
"Second Aunt, you misunderstood me. I want to study and not work."
"What books are you reading?" Su Linfang raised his voice, "What's the use of reading so many books? You come back from college to farm a lot. Why waste that money!"
"..." Tang Huai said nothing.
Su Linfang glanced at Tang Li, and said: "You can forget about studying, but Tang Li will be exempted? Tang Li is not flexible. She only finished the first grade at the age of eleven. She has been in school for so long and she has not passed the pass. She is an idiot. Girl, she's clumsy, what's the use of reading more books, can she be successful in the future like her? Tang Huai, listen to my second aunt, I really can't let Tang Li study anymore, it's a waste of money! She was originally a You idiot, and you can't walk normally, just find a good wife and marry her."
These words had already made Tang Huai's face darken.
But she lowered her head, Su Linfang couldn't see.
Su Linfang was still talking endlessly: "The second stupid fool in the village has a good family background. Although he is also a fool, he is strong and knows how to do farm work. Look how rich his family's fields are plowed by him. The peanut and rice harvests are abundant. If Tang Li marries him, she will definitely not be hungry. He will also catch birds and frogs. If Tang Li marries, she will be lucky and can often eat meat."
"Second auntie, Tang Li is still young." Tang Huai said flatly, Tang Li was only eleven years old.
"What's the small thing? Get married early, raise her for three to five years, and then you can have children."
"Tang Li and I are going to study." Tang Huai raised his head and looked at Su Linfang calmly, "Second Aunt, I don't have any money with me to lend you."
Su Linfang was already angry, but she refrained from sending it out to Tang Huai. She forced a smile, "How could you have no money? You didn't spend the money for selling pigs at all."
"I saved it."
"Deposited in the bank?"
Tang Huai did not answer, but sharpened the bamboo whip.
Su Linfang asked again: "Do you have a passbook?"
"If you deposit money in the bank, you will have a passbook."