Knowing that the eldest daughter-in-law went to the city and didn't borrow a penny, Qin Jinlian was so angry that she scolded, "What an elm head, she doesn't know if she doesn't borrow it, she doesn't know if she will leave, and she actually came back empty-handed......"

Du Juan's left ear went in and out of her right ear, and she didn't speak until Qin Jinlian finished scolding.

"Mom, I still want to borrow money from you, ten or twenty yuan is fine, do you think it's convenient to have on hand?"

"I don't have any money, I have bought a gold necklace for Lizhen."

Du Juan looked at Yang Lizhen, and before she could speak, Yang Lizhen blocked her words with a smile.

"Sister-in-law, don't ask me to borrow it, I'm also so poor, my mother asked me to raise money to buy a watch for my brother's partner, but I can't get it."

Hearing this, Du Juan didn't say anything, and turned around and left dejectedly.

Qin Jinlian stared at her back, and muttered Shen Mingzhu in her mouth, "Dead Nizi, squeeze the money so tightly, it's okay to slam the door and kill her......"

Yang Lizhen continued to eat melon seeds without worrying about it.

When she got home, Du Juan found a small notebook, brought a pen, and went out with Shen Chaobei, going door to door to borrow money from people in the village.

The popularity of the two in the village is good, not to mention that they don't borrow much, this family borrows three yuan, and that family borrows five yuan.

Although every family was not rich in this era, they could still take out three or five yuan.

It wasn't until dark that Du Juan and Shen Chaobei returned home exhausted.

The scattered banknotes on the kang table were piled up into a small mountain, and several pages were densely written on the small book, all of which were the amount of money borrowed by each family.

Du Juan counted the borrowed money according to the account book, a total of sixty-eight yuan.

It's not much, but it's barely enough to support a small stall.

After dinner and sleeping with their daughter, the couple sat cross-legged on the kang and whispered about going to the market tomorrow to buy steamers, eggs, flour, sugar, oil, and so on.

Considering the economic level of the countryside, Shen Mingzhu taught Du Juan's chicken cake the method of steaming, not baking.

There is no need to buy an oven and charcoal for steaming, you only need to use a large iron pot for cooking rice, burn firewood, and steam the steamer on the shelf like steamed buns, and the cost will be relatively low.

While the two were talking, there was a knock on the door outside.

Shen Chaobei opened the door and found that it was his father, Shen Jianguo.

It was too late, Shen Jianguo didn't go into the house, and stuffed twenty yuan to Shen Chaobei at the door and left.

Shen Jianguo walked on the front foot, and Shen Xiangnan came to the south on the back foot, and also stuffed Shen Chaobei with twenty yuan.

Forty yuan is placed on the kang table, husband and wife, you look at me and I look at you.

"Mother, what should I do with this money?" Shen Chaobei asked.

"Collect it first, keep it on the account, and pay it back later." Du Juan clapped his hands and said.

So, the couple recorded Shen Jianguo and Shen Xiangnan at the back of the notebook.

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After breakfast the next day, Du Juan and Shen Chaobei were preparing to go out to the market with the eldest girl, and Yang Lizhen came to the door angrily.

Shen Xiangnan hurriedly followed behind Yang Lizhen, wanting to drag Yang Lizhen back, but was pushed away by Yang Lizhen.

"Big brother and sister-in-law, did Xiang Nan get you twenty yuan yesterday?"

"I borrowed the money from someone and was going to send it back to my parents' house, please return it to me."

Only then did the couple understand that the twenty yuan that Shen Xiangnan sent last night was quietly taken from home, and Yang Lizhen found out in the morning, so she came to the door and wanted to get the money back.

The husband and wife are both good people, and immediately returned the twenty yuan to Yang Lizhen.

This scene was seen by many villagers who rushed to gather early, and it didn't take half a day for the matter to spread in the village.

After Qin Jinlian learned about this, she scolded Shen Xiangnan fiercely, telling him not to make Yang Lizhen angry again in the future, so as not to anger the eldest grandson in her belly.

Although they returned the money to Yang Lizhen, Shen Chaobei and Du Juan were always worried, worried that the twenty yuan given by Shen Jianguo was also "stolen", and they didn't dare to use it in the market, but only dared to use the sixty-eight yuan borrowed from the villagers.

I picked and searched carefully, but I barely bought all the guys I wanted to use for the steamed chicken cake.

Yang Lizhen, since she bought the gold necklace, has worn it every day to go out to visit the door.

Within two days, the whole village knew about Qin Jinlian buying a gold necklace for her second daughter-in-law.

The thin golden chain was worn around the neck, and the young daughters-in-law in the village were all so hot that they couldn't do it.

But for Qin Jinlian's treatment of her two daughters-in-law favoritism, the people in the village privately talked about it.

Some people say that she is eccentric, they are all her own sons, and she treats the eldest as grass and the second as a treasure.

There are also those who laugh at her stupidity, the boss is loyal to her duty, the eldest daughter-in-law is diligent and virtuous and can still run the house, she doesn't rely on it, but follows the second child with soft ears, and the second daughter-in-law is lazy and has a lot of heart, and she will have to suffer in the future.

Qin Jinlian didn't know that the people in the village were gossiping about her, and she was very happy every day.

is either busy embroidering small clothes for the unborn eldest grandson, or changing patterns to make food to supplement Yang Lizhen's nutrition, so that Yang Lizhen can give birth to a white and chubby grandson.

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This morning, before dawn, Qin Jinlian was woken up by a fragrance.

"Mom, who's going to get up so early to make breakfast?"

Qin Jinlian turned on the electric light, stared at the dark sky outside the window, sniffed and nagged.

Shen Jianguo turned over, squinted his eyes and said, "It seems that the eldest couple is going to the market today, and they are probably going to the stall." ”

As soon as she heard this, Qin Jinlian didn't even sleep, put on her clothes and went out.

On the north side of the house, Shen Jianguo carried the burden of chicken cakes, Du Juan carried the sleeping girl with a flower strap, and the family of three was ready to go out to the early gathering.

After the separation, Qin Jinlian refused to help the couple take their daughter, they could only take their daughter wherever they went.

As soon as they stepped out of the hospital, the couple bumped into Qin Jinlian, who came over with a bamboo basket.

"Facing north, bring me your steamed chicken cake, it just so happens that I don't make breakfast in the morning."

Qin Jinlian said lightly, she didn't think that this chicken cake was made by the couple by borrowing money from the whole village, and it was ready to be sold at the market for money.

Shen Chaobei was very embarrassed.

Qin Jinlian is his own mother, and his mother asked him to order chicken cakes, but if he doesn't give it, he can't give it, give it, a pound of chicken cake is a piece of five cents.

He also counted on the money he earned from selling chicken cakes and paid off the village's debts earlier.

Du Juan and her husband had the same idea, and politely refused, "Mom, a pound of chicken cake sells for five cents a piece, how much do you want to weigh?" ”

Qin Jinlian immediately pulled down her old face, "Why did I eat a little chicken cake from you?" You also asked me for money, are you out of sight? ”

Xu was awakened by Qin Jinlian's shouting, and the big girl on her back let out two faint chirps, and her small body arched back and forth in the strap.

Du Juan patted her daughter with her backhand while continuing to fight with Qin Jinlian.

"Mom, it's not that we value money, Chaobei and I owe a debt to the whole village, so we expect the chicken cake to be sold to pay off the debt. If they are all like you, this point, that point also needs to be pointed, then how can we do this business? ”

(End of chapter)