Let’s Squander A Billion First!

Chapter 1432: Chapter 1432: Memories of the Seventies (7)

Ling Mei faced the confusion of the people around her, equally bewildered: ”I... I don’t know.”

The fabric coupons Ling Mei gave to Chuzheng could only exchange for a little bit.

Ling Mei snatched the cloth bundle back: ”I’m leaving first.”

”Meizi...”

”Hey, Meizi, don’t go!!”

A group of women followed, chasing after her.

Ling Mei ran quickly, soon leaving that group of women behind.

”Sis.”

Ling Mei arrived at the entrance of the Ling family courtyard, panting heavily.

Chuzheng was just pushing a bicycle inside.

”Sis, did you take the wrong one?” Ling Mei pointed at the cloth bundle: ”The fabric coupons I gave you can’t buy these.”

Chuzheng’s gaze was cold and indifferent, without any fluctuation: ”I didn’t take the wrong one, it’s a gift for you.”

”Gift?”

Ling Mei’s eyes widened.

Chuzheng nodded.

Ling Mei immediately shook her head: ”I can’t accept this, it’s too valuable...”

Ling Mei handed the cloth bundle back to Chuzheng.

”Take it or leave it, if you don’t want it, throw it away.”

Once something is given, it’s like water spilled, how could it be taken back!

Chuzheng pushed her bicycle inside, closing the door on Ling Mei.

Ling Mei was hopping anxiously outside.

”Meizi, what are you doing here?”

Zhang Xiaoping, holding farming tools, returned, suspiciously staring at Ling Mei.

”What did you just say you can’t accept?”

She had heard Ling Mei shouting from afar.

”N-nothing.” Ling Mei lowered her head, trying to leave.

Zhang Xiaoping had already seen the items sticking out of the cloth bundle in Ling Mei’s hand. Although she hadn’t heard clearly what Ling Mei said she couldn’t accept, she was holding this.

Such a large bundle of cloth?

The material looked different from regular fabric.

”Where did this fabric come from?”

”I have something to do, I need to leave.”

Ling Mei tried to run, but Zhang Xiaoping grabbed her.

Ling Mei was just a young girl, and Zhang Xiaoping, having done farm work for years, had a strong grip as expected.

”Why are you running, who gave you this? Is this what you said you couldn’t accept?”

There are only a few people in her family... who could give this little girl so much cloth?

Zhang Xiaoping was suspicious, but with potential gain before her, she couldn’t let Ling Mei run away.

”Did someone from my family give it to you?”

Zhang Xiaoping bluffed Ling Mei.

”N-no.” Ling Mei stuttered nervously, shaking her head anxiously.

She didn’t know where her sister got these from, but she definitely couldn’t let Zhang Xiaoping find out.

”If not, why are you nervous? Who gave it to you!”

”...”

Cre-eaak—

The courtyard gate was pulled open, and Zhang Xiaoping’s hand, holding Ling Mei’s wrist, was hit by something, causing her to abruptly pull back.

A familiar yet unfamiliar voice sounded in her ears.

”I gave it.”

Chuzheng pulled Ling Mei over to her side.

Zhang Xiaoping, clutching her arm, looked at her incredulously: ”What did you say?”

So much fabric, she gave it?

Where did she get so many fabric coupons?

”Still not leaving?” Chuzheng glanced at Ling Mei.

”Sis...”

”Go.”

Ling Mei looked at Zhang Xiaoping, then quickly hugged the items and ran off.

Zhang Xiaoping wanted to stop Ling Mei, but Chuzheng blocked her.

Zhang Xiaoping pointed at Ling Mei’s retreating figure, questioning: ”You gave it to her, where did you get so many fabric coupons?”

Chuzheng’s tone was indifferent: ”None of your business.”

Zhang Xiaoping seemed to have forgotten this morning, about Chuzheng with the knife, now standing with the stance of a rural shrew: ”How is it none of my business, you eat and drink from my home, how is it not my business!”

Zhang Xiaoping loudly shouted: ”Tell me, where did you get so much fabric? Did you steal it?”

Zhang Xiaoping knew her family didn’t have that many fabric coupons, so it was possible she stole them from someone else.

Chuzheng knew that with people like this, no matter what you said, it wouldn’t have any effect.

She directly turned to enter the house, and as expected, Zhang Xiaoping cursed and chased after her inside.

Chuzheng walked to where the knife was placed in the yard, and when Zhang Xiaoping saw her draw the knife, her face changed, freezing in place, not daring to make a sound.

”Mind your own business less.” Or else this is the consequence.

Chuzheng ’clang’ chopped the knife into the wood next to her.

The blade sank three inches into the wood, terrifying Zhang Xiaoping until her face paled even more.

Chuzheng arrogantly went inside the house, leaving Zhang Xiaoping to catch her breath for a while before recovering.

This damn girl...

Why is she so terrifying?

Just then, Zhang Xiaoping noticed the bicycle parked in the yard, her eyes lit up again.

How is there a bicycle?

”Mom, I’m back.”

Ling Jiaojiao came in from outside, also noticing the bicycle parked in the yard first.

Ling Jiaojiao’s face lit up with joy: ”Mom, did Dad buy me a bicycle?”

Ling Jiaojiao had wanted a bicycle before and had been pestering Ling Shu for a long time.

Ling Shu didn’t have that much money to buy a bicycle, so he naturally refused her.

Now that she suddenly saw a bicycle, Ling Jiaojiao thought it was something Ling Shu bought for her.

Ling Jiaojiao thought to herself, after being bullied so much by that brat Ling Chuzheng, Dad surely bought it to make her happy.

Zhang Xiaoping didn’t know where the bicycle came from either, she said: ”It was here when I came back...”

”Then it must be Dad who bought it!”

Ling Jiaojiao delightedly ran over, wanting to try it out, but found that it was locked.

But thinking she’d be able to ride it soon, Ling Jiaojiao wasn’t in a hurry, inspecting the bicycle.

”It’s really nice.”

”Mom, come and see.”

This bicycle looked better than any Ling Jiaojiao had seen before.

Zhang Xiaoping looked at it for a while: ”How much would this cost? Where did your dad get so much money?”

The money they owed to Second Aunt Ling hadn’t even been paid back yet.

Zhang Xiaoping, even though she was uneducated, knew a bicycle wasn’t cheap, and only two or three people in the village had one.

And those were second-hand, old and ugly.

But even so, many in the village were envious.

”We’ll find out when Dad gets back.” Ling Jiaojiao, washing away her previous gloom, was now glowing with happiness.

Zhang Xiaoping grumbled for quite a while, thinking Ling Shu was spending money recklessly.

Ling Jiaojiao persuaded her for quite a while before Zhang Xiaoping’s expression softened.

Zhang Xiaoping took Ling Jiaojiao aside: ”Jiaojiao, go look for Ling Mei in a bit.”

”Why look for her?”

Ling Jiaojiao now only had the bicycle on her mind, wanting to ride it around for a spin.

Zhang Xiaoping recounted earlier events to Ling Jiaojiao.

”Where did she get the fabric coupons to trade for so much fabric?” Ling Jiaojiao was astonished.

”I don’t know, but we have to get this fabric back, to make new clothes for you and your brother. I saw quite some, and it’s good material.”

Zhang Xiaoping’s greed was evident.

Upon hearing it would be used for making new clothes for herself, Ling Jiaojiao agreed instantly.

”Alright, I’ll go ask once Dad gets back and I’ve taken a ride.”

Ling Jiaojiao waited eagerly for Ling Shu by the door, sprinting up to him as soon as she saw him coming from a distance, taking the items from his hands.

”Dad.”

”Yes.” Ling Shu was curious why Ling Jiaojiao was so diligent today, even running out to help him with things.

Because of the house issue, Ling Jiaojiao hadn’t spoken to him for days.

”Jiaojiao, what’s up?”

Ling Jiaojiao pulled Ling Shu into the yard, pointing to the bicycle parked beside the eaves: ”Dad, please unlock it.”