Chapter 51 - 051 Change of Household Registration One More Time
The next morning, Mr. Li got up early, and Li Xianglu made some simple porridge. She brought back a basket of red dates from Mr. Lan’s house the day before, which she used with cornmeal and white flour to make red date steamed buns, and the grandfather and granddaughter had a simple meal and then started walking towards the team gate.
At that time, the production team’s mule cart was already waiting there early, and on the mule cart besides Li Dafu there was his wife Li Erfu, while Ge Sanmei’s face was so dark it looked like water could drip from it.
Li Xianglu cheerfully went up and greeted, "Uncle." She glanced at Ge Sanmei who was looking at her but didn’t talk; instead, she carefully helped Mr. Li onto the mule cart.
Ge Sanmei stared wide-eyed in disbelief. She had heard some stories before, now Xiang was supposedly living well, she bought new clothes at the county’s market, and at the neighboring Jishui Team tailor Xue made her four pairs of pants, floral shirts, and they had meat every meal at home. She almost laughed out loud; in this era, if someone said their family had saved up five or six hundred yuan she might believe it, like her maternal family who had high work points, one work point being 0.2 yuan, a strong laborer could earn at least 2000 work points a year, turning into four hundred yuan. After deducting the money for food exchange, a family with many strong laborers could easily save a few hundred yuan a year. But their Li Family Village Production Team, having less land, relatively had lower work points allocations, only five points per work point, even for a strong laborer reaching full work points it was merely hundred yuan a year; all the money was usually used in exchange for food, who would dare to keep it to buy things, wouldn’t that just be asking to starve!
Thus, she didn’t believe believing after Li Huai Ren gave Xiang six hundred yuan he could still afford to buy her food and necessities. She always thought others envied her for having an extra six hundred yuan and three hundred kilograms of fine flour, but when she actually saw her own daughter in front of her who had grown even without having to look closely, her heart soured even more.
Xiang was dressed in a fitted grey turnover collar coat, with the collar of a floral shirt inside peeking out, wearing fitted black pants which were different from the usual loose waist and leg design, the calves were rather narrow, and her originally sallow cheeks were now plumped and rosy.
Xiang, living better off at someone else’s house, did not even think about her own parents, nor did she come back to visit, truly an ungrateful wolf. Thinking this, she couldn’t stop rolling her eyes.
Li Xianglu and Mr. Li sat inside the mule cart, but they could clearly see Ge Sanmei’s expressions, they couldn’t help but sneer coldly. This Ge Sanmei, really don’t know what she was made of, at such times she could still scorn others openly with her eyes!
Three hundred kilograms of food, six hundred yuan, had already cleanly severed kinship ties. She couldn’t be bothered to bicker with such a person, and nonchalantly took out a book from her shoulder bag and started reading it on the swaying mule cart.