Chapter 108 - 105: Police Visit, 300 Monthly Tickets for Additional Release
Li Xianglu’s Shanghai incident hadn’t settled down even by the twelfth lunar month.
During this time, Ge Sanmei wanted to make a fuss, but on her way, she was discovered by Liu Aidang who scolded her back home, and just like that, the matter was dropped. To Li Xianglu, who learned about this later, the gifts she had sent seemed well worth it, almost like protection money, and she felt Liu Aidang’s support was very strong.
Then, Qu Yeyu lent her red clothing to Li Sanwang from the village accounting family for his granddaughter’s wedding.
Instantly, it caused a sensation all over again; the color of the dress was so bright it dazzled the eyes, making Sanwang’s granddaughter the center of attention, and making Li Xianglu, who had purchased the red clothing in Shanghai, the talk of the town for a while.
Unexpectedly, girls who were getting married in the surrounding villages all wanted to borrow the dress, causing Qu Yeyu endless headaches. She hadn’t worn it much herself, and continuously lending it out just didn’t seem right.
The most interesting thing was that Qu Yeyu’s aunt thought of making money by renting the dress out, charging one yuan per day. If twenty people got married, that would be twenty yuan, which made Li Xianglu, hearing of it later, burst into laughter, immediately thinking of wedding dress rentals from her past life. Qu Yeyu’s aunt was truly ingenious.
By the end of the twelfth lunar month, the food and New Year’s goods were all prepared. Grandpa Li had his quota and bought everything, including melon seeds, peanuts, and candies, as he had enough money.
The team butchered four sheep and two pigs, distributing some meat to each household. Grandpa Li spent four yuan buying pig trotters back, as Li Xianglu had been clamoring several times to eat pig trotters to ’fatten up’ certain parts of her body.
On the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, as each household was cleaning and dusting off their ceilings for the New Year, an unfamiliar jeep arrived at the Li Family Village Production Team.