Chapter 24 - 024. It’s not very easy to happily become a dad!
Ever since Dai Weiguo became a scoundrel like Chen Shimei, Liu Shouren hadn’t seen his younger sister so happy before. Just for her rare smile, Liu Shouren felt he should ignore the bit of reluctance in his heart. It’s only six pounds of grain coupons and three dollars, right? Although those things at home couldn’t be exposed yet, the confidence this gave Liu Shouren wasn’t lacking in the slightest.
The future is promising; what’s a little temporary hardship?
The siblings were thinking about giving Lianshan, who wasn’t officially part of the family yet but had been marked as her man early on in her heart, a good meal. Another was contemplating doing a good deed to the end, as a way of repaying Lianshan for saving his sister twice. Neither of them cared much about those thirty meat buns, and after returning, they generously invited everyone to eat them as lunch.
But they remained calm; Wang Jianguo and the Lian family brothers couldn’t stay calm, could they?
These are white flour meat buns, each costing ten cents and requiring two ounces of grain coupons.
Relatives, these thirty meat buns cost three dollars plus six pounds of grain coupons! That’s enough to buy a sack of potatoes or a hundred pounds of cornmeal, isn’t it? And they ate them all in one go?
Wang Jianguo shook his head, saying he couldn’t bring himself to eat them!
Under the persistent persuasion of the Liu siblings and Lianshan and Lian Hai, he gingerly tasted one like it was a rare delicacy. He carefully wrapped up the remaining four buns, placing them like treasures in his waist pouch, saving them to honor his parents and let his two kids taste some meat when he returned home.
Though he was reluctant to eat them, Lianshan and Lian Hai were in no mood to eat. The child was severely injured, and even in a daze, he kept crying in pain. The distressed father, Lian Hai, felt as if his heart was being scratched by a cat, aching with worry. He wished that time would pass quickly and that the damned bus would come soon so he could take his son to the provincial city for medical treatment! Whatever debts to be incurred are secondary, as long as the child is cured without any lasting complications, he’d be eternally grateful.
At twenty-six and still unmarried, Lianshan treated his nephew, niece, and little grandnephew as if they were his own children. Seeing a well-child hurt like this, he too felt upset. To make matters worse, he already owed over a hundred bucks to the team and now another two hundred was added, it’s nothing short of a snowballing disaster! The worry in his heart made him want to find a deserted place to cry, so where would he have the appetite for buns?
"Lianshan bro, Lian Hai, look, I’ve already bought them, why don’t you give me some face and eat a bit? Otherwise, in this hot weather, won’t they spoil by the afternoon? Dig in, as people need food like iron, eat well to better take care of the child, getting all worked up won’t solve issues." Though not a spark now, Shuzhen had already claimed this silly man as her own, didn’t she? Full of love and care, how could she allow him to neglect his health over anxiety and self-starvation!