Early the next morning, after eating authentic fried buns and curry beef soup, at 7:47, Qi Shufang arrived at the door of the First Department Store in advance.

After about three or four minutes, a car stopped not far from Qi Shufang, Li Yang and Mu Xuexun walked down from the car, the mother and daughter came to the door with a smile, and when they saw her, Mu Xuexun said in surprise, "Sister Shufang, why did you come so early?" I thought my mother and I came early enough. ”

Qi Shufang said with a smile: "This shows that everyone has a sense of time and is unwilling to be late." ”

Mu Xuexun kept nodding.

Qi Shufang took a look, and suddenly found that compared with when she was at home yesterday, Mu Xuexun was now dressed very plain and ordinary, very ordinary and very common and rustic dark blue cardigan, black pants, fat and big, empty, not showing her figure at all, wearing clumsy black-framed glasses on the bridge of her nose, the original beauty is now only three points left.

After being physically and mentally traumatized, it will leave sequelae after all, right?

Qi Shufang sighed in her heart.

Mu Xuexun patted the canvas satchel embroidered with a red five-pointed star in army green, "Grandpa, grandmother, uncle, aunt, aunt, cousin, cousin, they gave me a lot of tickets and industrial coupons, Sister Shufang, buy whatever you like." After saying this, she scratched her head, "What you fancy must be within the scope of these tickets, and I can't help anything if it is out of range." ”

"What's so embarrassing about this?" Although tickets and industrial coupons are not money, many things cannot be bought without tickets and industrial coupons, and Qi Shufang's cheeks are not thick enough to accept them calmly.

Li Yang smiled: "What's so embarrassing? The tickets and industrial coupons that can be taken out to buy things for Xuexun are all surplus at home. It's like the family has already bought a sewing machine and a radio, even if there are sewing tickets and radio tickets, there is no need to spend money to buy them, such tickets are basically given away. Moreover, her maternal grandfather alone had more than 30 industrial coupons a month, while others had more than 20 or 30 coupons, and as few as six or seven, so much that they could not be used up. ”

In this way, Li Lao's monthly salary is more than 300 yuan? What level does it have to reach? I can't see Li Lao's identity at all, he and Granny Qi live in an old building with their children and grandchildren, and Granny Qi often visits thrift stores, and the accommodation conditions are far inferior to Mu Xuexun's mother and daughter. Looking at it this way, the status of the Mu family must not be higher than that of Li Lao?

I can't imagine.

Qi Shufang stopped her speculation and thought about what to buy.

With extra tickets and generous industrial vouchers, her shopping heart is ready to move.

The thousand yuan that Mu Xuexun sent her was spent, she bought a house, and it cost a lot of money to buy things for Professor Jin and others, and an ordinary eighty percent new cotton clothes cost thirty or forty yuan, and the old sweater is not cheap, not to mention the clothes and bedding for four people all year round, so far Qi Shufang has spent four or five hundred yuan.

However, Qi Shufang likes to turn money into physical objects, and is particularly bold when there are enough tickets and industrial vouchers. Money can be earned again, but physical goods are necessities of life.

The opportunity must not be lost, and it will not come again, and there may not be enough tickets and industrial vouchers for your own use in the future.

The tickets and industrial coupons were bought by Mu Xuexun, and Qi Shufang paid for the things herself.

Li Yang and Mu Xuexun wanted to give her money, but Qi Shufang didn't accept it.

First of all, she spent 145 yuan to buy a Shanghai brand 114 four-speaker radio, which is said to be close to the international level, which can not only relieve boredom, but also listen to songs played by radio stations and listen to national current affairs news, the latter point is the most important. Every day, when she doesn't hear anything outside the window, Qi Shufang feels bored.

Then, Qi Shufang spent 123 yuan and 6 cents to buy a military cotton jacket and a pair of military cotton pants for He Father and He Jianguo. She had already found that He Jianguo's cotton clothes were old and hard, the cotton inside was condensed into lumps, hard, definitely not warm, and He Jianguo's cotton clothes were estimated to be about the same, but she had never had the opportunity to buy new ones, because she needed cloth tickets and cotton tickets, she only had three inches of cloth tickets every month, and she had never seen cotton tickets.

Then, she spent more than 30 yuan to buy two wide and thick quilt cores, and pulled some cotton cloth to prepare for the quilt, and also bought herself ten catties of silk cotton that did not need tickets and industrial coupons to make silk jackets or silk quilts.

In the end, I bought an electric iron, a steel pot and two iron pots, and the pot only needed an industrial voucher and no ticket.

It's a pity that I don't even have an industrial voucher.

Li Yang saw it in his eyes and nodded secretly, although Qi Shufang bought a lot of things, but every one of them was a necessity of life, she didn't buy things indiscriminately, and she didn't use tickets and industrial coupons without restraint, and she didn't spend a penny of her mother and daughter, on the other hand, the things her daughter bought were messy, and they didn't matter to the family, but she was happy.

Mu Xuexun ran to the clock counter and bought a mechanical alarm clock, which is the first generation of the alarm clock series in domestic clocks, also known as horseshoe watches.

The first department store is already done and there is nothing to buy.

Mu Xuexun agreed, handed over the horseshoe watch to the driver and sent it to the car, and then held Qi Shufang with one hand and her mother with the other, and walked towards the door.

Li Yang didn't pay attention to the other party's appearance, and avoided it, but the middle-aged woman stared at her, and suddenly said: "Yo, isn't this Li Yang? When did you go back to Shanghai? With such a big movement, why didn't there be any rumors at all? I knew that you were in Shanghai, so I came to visit with our family Lao Zhou, but we haven't seen each other for many years." ”

She opened her mouth with a sharp voice, and her voice was very high-pitched, which made Qi Shufang feel very uncomfortable in her ears.

Li Yang, who was originally looking at his daughter's smiling face that had not been easy to unfold, listened to these words, his brows wrinkled at a very fast speed and then let go, and said with a faint smile: "Miao Hui, long time no see." ”

"yes, I haven't seen you for a long time, it's been twenty years in a blink of an eye. Miao Hui looked at her, then at Mu Xuexun and Qi Shufang, with a hypocritical smile on her face, "These two are your daughters, right? They have grown so big, when you left Shanghai, they were not born, right? Which is the eldest daughter? Which is the younger daughter? You have been gone for 20 years, and you don't correspond with me, I occasionally see your mother, ask your mother, your mother doesn't say, only that you have both children and daughters." ”

She is not ugly, willow eyebrows, Danfeng eyes, a straight nose and a small mouth, fair skin, and good maintenance, although her figure is blessed, but there are not many wrinkles on her face, only the corners of her eyes show a little trace of time, it can be seen that she must be a beauty when she is young. People are beautiful, but the tone and attitude of the speech are very unfriendly.

Mu Xue's eyes blinked after looking for her glasses, and her heart was filled with disgust, all the people who had a bad attitude towards her mother were bad people, all of them! Mother has always been kind to others, and her smile at this time was both detached and polite, with coldness in her eyes, you could see that the woman named Miao Hui in front of her was not her mother's friend.

Qi Shufang silently observed the situation in front of her and said nothing.

Li Yang did not answer Miao Hui, nor did he say that he only had one daughter, but said to Mu Xuexun and Qi Shufang: "Shufang, Xuexun, come, meet your Aunt Miao, she is my old classmate, and she is more capable than me." ”

"Aunt Miao. Mu Xuexun and Qi Shufang spoke at the same time, looking very respectful, and only they knew what they thought in their hearts.

"Hey!" Miao Hui agreed, her eyes stared at Qi Shufang tightly, although Qi Shufang's dress was relatively ordinary, but she was well-dressed, and her face was exposed, her beauty was exposed, unlike Mu Xuexun who hid her beauty, "Li Yang, this kid is really handsome, but he doesn't look like you, and he doesn't look like Brother Mu." ”

She looked at Li Yang, whose face hadn't even changed, in disappointment, and couldn't help but repeat it in an accentuated tone.

"Miao Hui, you're here to buy something, right?"

Miao Hui was a little inexplicable, nodded, and before she could speak, Li Yang continued: "Since you are here to buy something, go in quickly, we won't bother you." We've bought our stuff and it's time to go. ”

"Wait!" Miao Hui called out to her.

Li Yang finally frowned, and said unhappily: "We have something urgent, may I ask if you have anything to say now?"

"I can't call you if I don't have words?" Miao Hui said unhappily, took out a handkerchief from his pocket, covered his mouth, and smiled with his eyebrows, "We are all old acquaintances, shouldn't we talk about the past?" Li Yang, I haven't seen you for 20 years, why have you put up a big cadre? Does Brother Mu know? He hates extravagance the most. ”

Li Yang had a calm face: "How am I now, I don't bother you." He took his daughter and walked out.

Miao Hui still wanted to stop her, but Driver Zhao, who was carrying a large bag and a small bag, stepped forward, blocked behind Li Yang's mother and daughter and Qi Shufang, and sneered: "Comrade Xue Meiling, as the revolutionary companion of the cadres, how can you do something in front of the public to block the road and prevent people from leaving? Know how to be polite, Comrade Li has urgent matters to do, and I don't have time to talk to you." ”

"You...... Are you ......" Miao Hui looked at Driver Zhao for a moment, and her face suddenly changed color.

Driver Zhao smiled coldly: "That's right, it's me!"

Miao Hui didn't say a word, and hurriedly turned around and entered the department store.

Qi Shufang let go of her mental power and felt a little strange when she saw this scene, as if Driver Zhao knew Miao Hui, and called her Xue Meiling, not Miao Hui? What's going on? The names of Xue Meiling and Miao Hui are too far apart, right?

Just feeling puzzled, Li Yang turned his head sideways and explained to his daughter, and said, "Xue Xun, we still have to live in Shanghai for a while, and when we meet Miao Hui in the future, you have to stay away from her, don't be taken by her." ”

"I know, Mom. Mu Xuexun was very obedient, and then wondered why she stayed away from Miao Hui.

Li Yang thought for a while and said, "There's nothing that can't be said." Miao Hui is 20 years younger than Lao Zhou, married in 40 years, Lao Zhou already had a wife and children before that, because they have a common ideal, a common goal, so they formed a revolutionary partner during the Anti-Japanese War, and their revolutionary feelings are highly praised. However, the ex-wife who was left in his hometown by Lao Zhou died depressed after learning the information, and his son didn't know where he went, anyway, Lao Zhou has been ignoring it, never returned home, and never looked for that son. Speaking of which, Lao Zhou's parents were both supported by his ex-wife. This kind of thing is very common, most of them are upward and downward, under their heroic deeds, I am not qualified to speak, but I just can't get used to this kind of thing, so my popularity has not been very good. Miao Hui and I grew up together and went to school together, and our relationship was originally very good, but later parted ways because of this incident. ”

Although everyone said that they were all heroes, they were all heroes who rescued the people from fire and water, and their exploits could not be erased with their private lives, but Li Yang just felt disgusted, extremely disgusted. The most ridiculous thing is that many people praise this kind of unkind and unjust revolutionary feelings towards their ex-wives, as if the so-called love can override a qiē morality.

Li Yang changed the topic and said sternly: "Shufang, Xiao Xun, you two have remembered for me, no matter what happens in the future, you should not do such immoral things." ”

"Mom, don't worry! I won't do such a thing. ”

"Aunt Li, don't worry, I won't either. Qi Shufang especially admired Li Yang's words, saying these words in this era can be said to be like a shock.

Driver Zhao was carrying something beside him and said: "Why didn't Comrade Li tell Xiao Xun about other things Miao Hui had done?" Xiao Xun, let me tell you, this Miao Hui is bad, she was divorced twice at that time, the first marriage was introduced by others, she belonged to the married couple, and she divorced in less than two years, she thought that the person's family was poor, and there was no way for her to squander, in fact, that person was originally quite rich, and after marrying her, he gradually fell into despair. In the second marriage, the man also had a wife and children, and he divorced Miao Hui and married her, but the man's family did not accept her, and divorced again within a few years. Later, I ran to the revolutionary base area, regardless of my friendship with your mother, and set my eyes on your father, Comrade Lao Mu, but Comrade Lao Mu ignored her, and then turned his head to focus on Lao Zhou. I have been in the army for many years with your father and Lao Zhou, and later I drove for your father, I can't understand how a person like Lao Zhou who abandoned his wife can have revolutionary feelings worthy of praise. ”

At that time, many people praised them for their courage in breaking through the feudal shackles, but he couldn't understand it in a daze, and felt that Lao Zhou's wife who was left at home was very pitiful, but unfortunately few people echoed him except Lao Mu and a few others.

Lao Zhou's ex-wife and her son are really pitiful, one dead and one missing, the place where they live is an important military base, in the second half of 48 years, the biggest encirclement and suppression war broke out there, which was the Huaihai Campaign.

When Mu Xuexun heard this, her eyes widened, "It's really bad!" Can she not know the process of the Huaihai Battle?

Qi Shufang was also taken aback, she didn't expect Miao Hui to be this kind of person.

In fact, she has seen this history, there are quite a lot of such cases, and there are many people like Miao Hui, just like Li Yang said, the upward and downward effects, but this kind of revolutionary feelings are highly praised.

This Lao Zhou has the same name as Lao Zhou, who sells houses, and his character is very different.

"Lao Zhao, what are you doing with the child, it's all Chen Guzi's rotten sesame seeds. You have to pay attention in the future, don't mention it in front of outsiders, your mouth is not less troublesome, if you didn't speak straight, how could Lao Zhou pick out the mistake in the first place. Li Yang's cheeks were flushed with a faint flush, although he was over half a hundred years old, he was still radiant and had an elegant temperament.

Driver Zhao said seriously: "The lesson of the previous car is the teacher of the future, and there is no need to hide some things." Only by knowing the past can we know whose character is good and whose character is bad. ”

"Uncle Zhao is right, Mom, you can sue me if you have anything. "I've been through such painful things, what else can't I listen to?" "Mom, I like to hear you talk about the past, and in the future, you can tell me everything about the past, so that I can distinguish the character of everyone around me." ”

"Okay. Li Yang agreed, he really has to teach his daughter well, what kind of people in the same class as his own family are not? Many of them use their current benevolent eyebrows to cover up their former hateful faces.

Mu Xuexun clapped her hands happily.

"Uncle Zhao, so to speak, Lao Zhou is from the vicinity of our Gupeng City?" Qi Shufang asked, no wonder when she heard Miao Hui speak just now, there were always a few words of Shanghainese mixed with the dialect of Gupeng City.

Driver Zhao said: "It's not near your Gupeng City, he is from Gupeng City, his family used to be very rich, and his family wealth was brought out by him to support the anti-Japanese war, and his wife, children and parents stayed at home." In fact, he also participated in the Huaihai Battle at that time, and he was very similar to the one named Dayu, who had gone to Gupeng City and never entered the house. I heard that his wife was still alive at that time, and he had never been divorced, and Miao Hui didn't allow him to go home, so he didn't go back, and he didn't even pay tribute to his biological parents. Now you see how close Shanghai is to your Gupeng City, much closer than Shanghai to Beijing, but Lao Zhou was stunned that he never went back to Gupeng to find his son, but ran to Beijing every year. ”

It's so cool!

Qi Shufang sighed, "I heard Uncle Zhao call Comrade Miao Xue Meiling just now, what's going on?"

Driver Zhao said disapprehantly: "Oh, you ask this? What don't you understand, Miao Hui has changed her name." She changed her name several times, she was called Xue Meiling before she got married for the first time, Xue Aihong after the divorce and before the second marriage, and after this marriage, she changed her name to Li Mingyu, and when she met Lao Zhou, she changed her name to Miao Hui, and she has not changed it until now. ”

Mu Xuexun asked: "Uncle Zhao, is it true that the son born by his ex-wife can't be found?" She understands the pain of being displaced outside, and believes that the child is the same, he disappeared before liberation, I am afraid that there will be more than one luck!

"I can't find it, I was in Gupeng, I went to Zhou's house to look for it, it was a ruin, and the neighbors said that the child had been missing for a long time. ”

Li Yang interrupted him: "Okay, okay, it's useless to talk about this matter, let's go shopping for two hundred and ten hundred." ”

"Hey!" Driver Zhao listened and didn't mention it again.

After visiting 200 and 1000, I walked into the music bookstore, fashion store, food store and Lantang leather shoe store on this road, and finally took a car to the old Huaiguo and women's products store on Huaihai Road.

The clothes in the fashion store are very beautiful and fashionable, but unfortunately they are too advanced for the dress of Gupeng City.

When he came out to go shopping, Li Yang certainly had what he needed, but he didn't have the corresponding tickets, so it can be seen that although there are many tickets and industrial coupons in Mu Xuexun's satchel, they are not so complete. Mu Xuexun bought books at the music bookstore, and then bought some electronic originals, which are only available in the state-run thrift store on Xiangyang Road.

When visiting the bookstore, Qi Shufang also bought a lot of books, and some of the leader's poetry and quotations were also bought and put at home to support the façade.

Since bookstores can be put out, then it is allowed to save zài, and no matter how much you buy, it will not cause trouble.

Li Yang asked her why she bought so many books, Qi Shufang smiled: "My cultural background is too low, my knowledge reserve is not enough, I want to continue to study and learn, there is no end to learning, there is no harm in reading more." The door to the college entrance examination will only open after seven years, and she can't say that she is preparing for the college entrance examination, so she can only use such an excuse.

Li Yang said approvingly: "It's really good that you have this kind of thought, there are many things in the book that you can't learn in life, and Xue Xun's father often asks Xue Xun's brothers and sisters to read more books and newspapers." ”

Mu Xuexun nodded on the side: "I like to read books on mechanical design, and I can assemble the radio myself!"

I didn't see it, but she was actually proficient in mechanics. Qi Shufang admired it very much and gave a thumbs up, she also studied high school cultural courses with the help of He Jianguo, and Mu Xuexun had already entered the actual combat stage.

After buying these things, Qi Shufang thought of the parents of the original owner, whether to buy them for Father He or not, it was a bit unfair to them, but their patriarchal attitude was too hateful, and it was difficult to describe it in the word patriarchy, and their approach reached the point of madness, every time they wanted to scavenge their own things and then subsidize his son, as if their daughter was not biological. If you send the things you bought for them, I'm afraid they will also be occupied by the brother of the original owner, and at the same time, it is very likely that you will gain an inch.

To say that Qi's father and Qi's mother, no matter what, they have the grace of nurturing the original owner, since Qi Shufang has replaced the original owner, it is impossible to ignore them, and she will not shirk her obligations because of the hateful behavior of the second elder. As for Qi Shude, Qi Shufang is really annoying him, and always takes it for granted that his sister's is his own, and he is shameless to the extreme.

Before going to work, when I went home from Shanghai, the news still reached the ears of Qi's father and mother, leaving aside Aunt Ma, who had been staring at Sandan'er, some people in the production team reported the news, after all, there is no impermeable wall in the world.

Qi's father, Qi mother and Qi Shude came to make a fuss, and before they arrived at the door, they called He Father and He Jianjun to bump into each other, and they returned home.

Qi Shufang didn't know it at the time, but only heard about it later.

Another time happened after Qi Shufang went to work, Qi Shude instigated his parents to find his sister and asked her to give up the job opportunity to his wife, which was the same as Uncle He Qi and Aunt He Qi's plan to let Lin Xuan give up the job opportunity to his son.

They planned to do so, but unfortunately they never found the opportunity, until a few days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Qi Shufang gave her mother's family a festival gift, and they arrogantly asked Qi Shufang to explain to the unit that they wanted to give up the job opportunity to their sister-in-law, and that face was extremely hateful. Qi Shufang laughed angrily at the time, didn't bother to talk to them, threw down the ritual, turned around and left. Later, He Jianguo returned, even though they knew that He Jianguo and Qi Shufang had bought a house in the city, they didn't dare to come to harass them again.

Forget it, buy something just in case, save others from saying that they are filial to their father-in-law and not their father-in-law, and if you don't give them the things you buy, it depends on their appearance and their own mood.

Although Father He is not his own father, and he is good to his family because of He Jianguo, he has always done his duty as an elder, and the money is spent on him, Qi Shufang is not distressed, but Qi Shufang feels a little unhappy when he spends less than forty yuan in a thrift store to buy a pair of pants and gowns for Qi's father and mother that can be covered over cotton clothes.

Lin Lin finally came down, and four or five hundred yuan was spent like flowing water.

At this time, there is really not much money left in Qi Shufang's hand.

It is a pain for a shy person to look at the dazzling array of goods.

Mu Xuexun said with a smile: "Sister Shufang, you don't have enough money in your hand, I have it here, and I can receive a lot of New Year's money every year." Speaking of this, she quickly covered her mouth, pressing New Year's money is an old custom, and she can't say it.

"No need, Xue Xun, I still have some money in my hand, but I've already bought all the things I should buy, and I won't buy those things that are not necessary. Qi Shufang tried hard to pull her eyes back from the goods in the thrift store, turned her face and smiled at Mu Xue, and suddenly saw a figure in the crowd, and couldn't help but shout, "Lin Xuan!"

The man turned his head and looked around for a moment, and when he saw Qi Shufang, he took three steps and two steps to the front, and said in surprise: "Aren't you Comrade Shufang, the lover of Brother Jianfeng's classmate, why are you here?"

"I wanted to ask why you're here. Lin Xuan, when did you come to Shanghai?

Lin Xuan shook his head and said, "It's been a long time." Moreover, my parents and I moved to Shanghai to settle down, not to play. ”

Uncle He Qi and Aunt He Qi came to their door every day to grab the sky and land, which affected their family life and that of their neighbors, everyone was embarrassed to complain, so they persuaded her to return to her biological parents, she didn't want to go back, and her parents couldn't stand the harassment of Uncle He Qi and his wife, so her father asked someone to transfer him here. They can't afford to mess with, they can afford to hide!

"Comrade Shufang, don't tell them that we have moved to Shanghai, I am afraid that they will come to our house again to harass my father and my mother, and they will not give up until they achieve their goal. Lin Xuan explained the reason for moving to Shanghai and immediately begged her to keep it a secret.

Qi Shufang sighed and said, "Don't worry, I won't sue them." ”

When they were patriarchal, they abandoned their daughters, and now when their daughters have grown up and want to recognize each other, but their daughters do not want to recognize each other, they come to harass them every day, so that their daughters and their adoptive parents and their families are unbearable and have since left their homes.

Lin Xuan thanked happily, Qi Shufang didn't help Uncle He Qi and Aunt He Qi at that time, she remembered it in her heart.

Qi Shufang said with concern: "You live in Shanghai, how is your work?" Lin Xuan used to be a waiter in a state-run hotel, which was a very bullish profession, and he was very proud, and he heard Huo's father say that Lin's father and Lin's mother are dual-income workers, since they moved to Shanghai, their previous jobs will naturally be wasted, unless they have a relationship and can be transferred.

"I asked a lot of people to help, and I only transferred my dad here to continue working, my mom's job and my job are gone, and I'm looking for a job. Lin Xuan's face showed a hint of loneliness, she not only lost her job, but also lost her family.

Qi Shufang didn't know what words to use to comfort, so she had to pat her on the shoulder, "Work hard, you will definitely find a good job." ”

"Well, I will work hard, I still want to earn money and be filial to my parents!" Lin Xuan nodded, "Comrade Shufang, I'm going home, and we'll talk again when we have a chance in the future." ”

"Goodbye. ”

Lin Xuan didn't tell herself the address, and Qi Shufang didn't ask, maybe she didn't want to tell herself from her hometown from the beginning, worried about leaking it to Uncle He Qi and Aunt He Qi.

After Lin Xuan left, he gradually disappeared into the sea of people, and Mu Xuexun asked curiously: "Sister Shufang, what's the matter?" The family is willing to give up their original job and move to other places, how bold it is to make up their minds. I was confused, what was that lesbian worried about, was she worried that someone was looking for her?"

"Well, it's a long story. ”

"Then you'll make a long story short. ”

Seeing that Mu Xuexun was so curious, Qi Shufang sorted out her language and told Lin Xuan's life experience.

"Her own father and mother are really shameless, how can there be such a father and mother in the world? It is so bad that her family has to leave their hometown and make a living in other places. Mu Xuexun was filled with righteous indignation and scolded Uncle He Qi and Aunt He Qi a few words, "Sister Shufang, when you go home, you have to teach them a lesson." ”

"Silly girl!" Li Yang touched her head, "It's difficult for a Qing official to cut off family affairs, you are embarrassed Shufang." ”

Mu Xuexun looked at Qi Shufang, "Sister Shufang, are you embarrassed?"

Qi Shufang smiled: "Yes, I am very embarrassed, I can't do it, after all, I don't have any reason to teach them, I can only hate what they do from the bottom of my heart." Giving birth to grace and nurturing grace, each person has his own opinion. I have heard of people who have been abandoned by their biological parents, but when they grow up, their biological parents come to him and ask him to provide for him, and he immediately recognizes his biological parents and leaves, abandoning his adoptive parents on the grounds that blood is thicker than water. There are also many people who think like Lin Xuan, thinking that giving birth is not as good as raising grace. However, the former is scolded for being ungrateful to his adoptive parents and is a white-eyed wolf, and the latter will also be scolded by those who are considered to be more virtuous than nurturing. Therefore, this kind of thing depends on the thoughts of the parties, and no matter how you choose, you will be burdened with an infamy. I think the reason why Lin Xuan's adoptive parents took her away was because they didn't want her to fall into gossip. ”

After hearing this, Mu Xuexun couldn't help but be very frustrated, "What you said is really speechless. Is there no way to have the best of both worlds in the face of such a situation?"

Qi Shufang shook her head.

Everyone's thoughts are different, some feel that the grace is greater than the grace, and some feel that the grace is greater than the grace, the two sides have their own opinions, no matter what the parties do, they will eventually be blamed by one of the parties.

Because of knowing Lin Xuan's story, Mu Xuexun was a little listless next, and Qi Shufang ended her shopping trip.

The things she bought can be wrapped into two large packages, and she can bear the weight completely, but Li Yang and Mu Xuexun are not at ease, so they invited her to lunch, and made an appointment to have a chance to get together again, and had the opportunity to go to Beijing to eat Quanjude's roast duck and Donglaishun's mutton together, Mu Xuexun reluctantly asked Driver Zhao to send her to the train station first, and asked Driver Zhao to help send things on the train.

Before getting off the bus, Li Yang gave Qi Shufang a spare butterfly brand sewing ticket from her home, telling her that it was more cost-effective to buy fabric to make clothes by herself, and that a piece of clothing could save several yuan, but the ticket stated that it could only be picked up in the Shanghai department store system. Qi Shufang hesitated for a moment but accepted it, which indicated that it would be invalid from October 1, 1970 to September 30, 1971, and that she could have saved up money to buy the sewing machine and transport it to the train to take home before it was invalidated.

Qi Shufang has saved a lot of fabrics in her hands, and she really needs a sewing machine, she doesn't know how to use it, she can learn it, and she carefully calculated it according to Li Yang's words, it is indeed more cost-effective to buy cloth to make clothes by herself.

When my colleague saw the huge two packages, he was surprised and said, "Shufang, you buy so many things?"

Ou Mingxiang poked the package that Qi Shufang put on his bed, it was soft, patted it, it was still soft, and the touch was the same as his own quilt, "It's cotton, right?"

Qi Shufang stacked two iron pots that could not be packed together and put them under the bed with the steel pot, and nodded: "While I was resting, I visited a friend who lived in Shanghai, and she had extra cotton tickets and industrial vouchers in her hand, so I spent my own money to buy two quilt cores and a few pots. "The iron and the radio are wrapped in cotton clothes, so I don't need to go into details.

Everyone listened to it and was so envious.

Because unless you get married or give birth, it is difficult to have the opportunity to receive cotton tickets, and industrial coupons are paid according to wages, which is not difficult to get.

Ou Mingxiang smiled: "There are so many things, how can you take them home after work?"

There are so many things just to buy, as well as things such as rattan boxes and enamel basin hot water bottles that Qi Shufang brought to work, all of which were brought to the car to work and home after work.

"What are you afraid of? can't we share a little for Shufang and help her send her back?" He Shengnan glanced at her.

After listening to this, everyone enthusiastically said that they could also help, and it was free time after work anyway.

Although Qi Shufang could bear the weight of everything, it was really difficult to take the bits and pieces of things if she thought about it carefully, so she didn't push away the kindness of her colleagues, and thanked them repeatedly.

He Shengnan said with great interest: "Shufang, who is the gay man who sent things to the car for you?

Hearing her ask about Driver Zhao, for fear of being misunderstood, Qi Shufang hurriedly shook her head and replied, "No, no, it's my friend's driver." My friend is a girl, and her mother was shopping with us today, and when she saw that I couldn't get anything, her mother asked the driver to help put her on the train, and they sat in the car. ”

"Car, car?" everyone asked in unison, and when they saw Qi Shufang nodding, they all exclaimed in surprise, with an incredulous expression, "Shufang, your friend is so amazing!"

Only high-ranking cadres are equipped with cars, and if family members can also ride, then the status of the head of the family is even higher.

This is clear to all.

"I really didn't expect it, Shufang, you are just a blockbuster. There was an instant silence in the carriage, and after a few minutes, He Shengnan was the first to quip.

"Yes, Shufang, you have such a powerful friend, why haven't I heard you say it?" Ou Mingxiang said.

Qi Shufang smiled lightly: "They are powerful because they have the ability, why should I mention them? Besides, I am in Gupeng City, I have to work and live on my own, they live in Shanghai, they are very powerful, but they will not let me be promoted and raised for personal gain, and I don't want to ask them to do so. ”

He Shengnan quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

When Sister Wang heard about this, she called Qi Shufang over, and after asking clearly, she said with a smile: "If you can be firm in your heart and work hard and seriously, I will be relieved." She was really afraid that Qi Shufang would use the power of others to improve her work level, although her friend was in Shanghai, but to achieve such a high position, how could she not have a few friends from all over the world.

Qi Shufang keenly found that after this incident, her colleagues' attitude towards her was much warmer than before, and her work was smoother than before.

With so much help from the Mu family, Qi Shufang's gratitude was like a surging river.

How do you reciprocate?

There is no shortage of money, power, and the Mu family, these are all things that they don't have, and the only thing they can get their hands on is the ability to hunt. So, after discussing with He Jianguo, who was fiddling with the radio, Qi Shufang packed most of the dried game and sent it to the Li family and the Mu family. These gamed meats are made by pickling and then exposed to the sun, which has dried thoroughly, which saves time to make zuò.

In another month, the weather will be cold, although Qi Shufang inherited the sewing skills of the original owner, but the original owner has never made a cotton jacket made of silk fabric, she went to ask Ye Cuicui where the tailor can make cotton clothes.

"Do you have cotton?" asked Ye Cuicui in surprise.

"No, no. Qi Shufang shook her head, "How can cotton be so easy to buy?" I bought some silk cotton, and I want to make cotton clothes for silk cotton, and I wear a sweater inside, which should be able to survive the winter." At first, she wanted to buy cotton to make satin cotton jackets, but the cotton tickets in Mu Xuexun's hand were only enough to buy two military cotton clothes and two quilt cores.

Silk cotton is more comfortable than cotton and has more benefits to the human body, making it a good choice.

"Is that so? Silk cotton is expensive, isn't it?"

"Within the acceptable range, a cotton coat doesn't need much silk cotton anyway. ”

"That's right, a pound of silk cotton can make a padded jacket. Ye Cuicui told her the address of the tailor, "Tailor Zhang is the best tailor in our neighborhood, he used to be an apprentice in the old Shanghai tailor shop, and he can make both new and old styles of clothes, of course, he now makes new clothes, and old clothes are not allowed." ”

Qi Shufang remembered the address, and the next day she held silk cotton, satin, and cotton cloth, and knocked on the door of the tailor's house.