ebookland Chapter 147: Young People Don’t Know Sorrow
Chapter 147: Young People Don’t Know Sorrow
Yes, Lin Shu just wanted to eat alone.
Why should we share the food we bought with our own money with others?
This kind of habit is extremely undesirable. We must never forget the principle of repaying kindness with gratitude.
"Come and get it the day after tomorrow morning. You must pay a deposit of twenty taels of silver first."
Shopkeeper Yuan said this, stretching out his chubby palm, a smug look in his eyes.
"The money Dad gives me must be of guaranteed quality and quantity," Lin Shu emphasized.
"Don't worry, I, Yuan, will never make any mistakes when I do things."
Shopkeeper Yuan took the deposit of twenty taels of silver, licked the brush twice and wrote the contract.
Lin Shu took it, blew it dry, folded it carefully and put it in her arms.
Baozi came over with the food bowl in his mouth, but was intercepted by Lin Hongqing, causing Baozi to grit his teeth in dissatisfaction.
"Be good, Baozi, you have to walk in the middle so that you won't be targeted.
Look at how fat you are, be careful or you will become someone else's meat in the pot." Lin Shu comforted him.
Baozi’s shape is too unusual, so he can’t be shown in public anymore.
She glanced at the two in the space and saw the wet rat directing the black cub to chase chickens and rabbits on the pasture.
The whole ranch was as lively as a market, with everyone humming and chasing each other, it was really lively.
[Black cub is like a rat in hot water, go back to your nest. ]
The two were so scared that they slammed the brakes and looked around but didn't see anyone.
Just as he was about to raise his foot to do something bad, Lin Shu yelled again.
【Go back to your nest! 】
'whoosh~'
The two cubs now understood the truth and ran back to the bamboo house in fear.
They hid back in Heizi's den together, huddled their heads and covered their ears, pretending to be stupid.
[Wait for me, I'll deal with you two when I come back. ]
The happy mood was suddenly ruined by the two naughty ones.
After a while, Lin Shu's bad mood disappeared.
...
The carefree children were playing snowball fights and making snowmen on the street.
'whoosh~'
A ball of snow came straight towards Lin Shu's face. She tilted her head slightly, scooped it up with her right hand and threw it.
"Swoosh~" Return along the snowy route.
“Pah~ Ouch!”
The little kid playing in the snow on the roadside couldn't dodge in time and fell into the snow pile with a thud.
"Hahaha~"
Lin Shu pointed at the little brat, put her hands on her waist and laughed exaggeratedly.
[The little thing is not that big, yet he wants to attack her by surprise. ]
【This time you will suffer the consequences! 】
The little brat crawled out of the snow pile and looked angrily at a kid who was laughing wildly.
"Big brother, second brother, hit him."
"Tsk, you act like you don't have older brothers." Lin Shu made a childish face and shouted.
"Big brother, second brother, third brother, fourth brother, smash him."
"Okay, just wait and see!"
Lin Hongqing had long wanted to hit the troublemaker back. How could he miss such a good opportunity?
The four brothers fired double dragon cannons at the three people opposite.
They were beaten back step by step and finally ran away.
Ran.
"You little bastard, if you can't win, just run away. Fight again if you have the temper!"
Lin Shu jumped up and shouted, and her smug little expression made everyone laugh.
This little episode made the whole family feel much more relaxed.
"Little sister, let's play snowball fights when we get back later!" Lin Hongqing said with lingering feelings.
"Okay, there are so many of us, it will definitely be fun."
Lin Shu agreed immediately. She hadn't had a relaxing time for a long time.
...
It was almost dusk when the family came out of the grocery store.
Lin Hongyi weighed the backpack, and his eyes dimmed when he thought of the things in it.
The boy's heart became heavier and he sighed.
“Dad, things are too expensive nowadays.
Coarse salt and brown sugar both cost one hundred cents each, the price of lamp oil also increased dramatically, and even the cheapest needles and thread increased to twenty cents.
I’m afraid that life will become increasingly difficult in the future, as we don’t even know what the price of food will be.”
“In times of famine, it’s good enough to be able to buy things.
Moving forward, the most frightening thing is that even if you have money you won’t be able to buy anything, that’s really difficult.” Lin Erzhuang said with deep emotion.
"So, our family needs to stock up more supplies now. Who knows where the next destination will be." Lin Shu said quietly.
She wanted to buy more salt and sugar, but it seemed like she couldn't buy too much at once.
Starting tomorrow, the family will have to act separately.
Two more stoves, charcoal, pots, pans, firewood, and other things that were obviously needed were purchased.
A meal of noodles cost more than 300 wen, and the one who was most heartbroken was Mrs. Wu.
When she found out about the high prices of the things she bought, Mrs. Wu felt a little discouraged.
In the end, I decided to buy some food and cook it myself.
It not only provides heating, but also provides food and drink for the whole family.
...
When the family returned to the inn with all their belongings, the restless children were already playing on the street.
The tall and thin Wu Youqian regarded himself as the eldest and bullied the other kids with his three younger siblings.
When the twins saw someone playing with snowballs, they quickly ran upstairs to put their things down.
"Mom, let's go play for a while and come back later."
The twins rushed downstairs like monkeys and quickly joined the losing team.
"Little sister, come too!"
Lin Shu shook her head. There were too many people and she was not interested in joining.
"You guys play, I'm going up."
She walked up the stairs slowly, and Baozi followed behind her, looking back every few steps.
It looked like it really wanted to join the battle, but in the end it chose to follow its master.
The quiet evening seemed lively because of the joining of a group of children.
Cheers and screams, without any worries in life.
Add some joy to this miserable life.
Some adults and children, attracted by the laughter, came out of their homes to watch.
"Haha, this street hasn't been this lively for a long time."
"Yeah, I almost forgot what joy is."
"Young people really don't know worries. It's great to be young."
Everyone was filled with emotion and grabbed a handful of snow to join the battle.
For a moment, the whole street was filled with flying snowballs.
Regardless of knowing each other or not, everyone will throw a few balls of snow, and the scene is even more lively than the Water-Splashing Festival.
Seeing a ball of snow flying over, Lin Shu immediately lowered her head and closed the window.
The biting cold wind blew into the house through the leaky window.
There was no ready-made window paper, so I had to use old sheets to cover the windows.
Straw mats and felts were laid out on the kang, which was not big enough to accommodate only five sleeping bags.
There were three more sleeping bags, which had to be placed in the corner.
Fortunately, the floor is wooden, otherwise it would have been cold all night.
Two newly bought stoves were placed in the corridor for cooking porridge and making pancakes.
Several women who had been doing needlework in the house for half a day heard the noise and came out to see what was happening.
“Sister-in-law, this is the stove you bought, it’s great.
Lend it to my family to cook some porridge later, which will be just right for a meal with the remaining steamed buns." Mrs. Wu said naturally.
"Okay! You can use it when you're done, but we don't have much firewood left."
Mrs. Wu kicked the firewood in the basket on her back and smiled harmlessly.
"Hey, why don't you buy some more firewood? It takes a lot to heat the kang at night." Mrs. Wu said with a frown.
"The firewood the third brother and his family bought is only enough for heating the kang. Otherwise, why don't you make fewer pancakes?"
Wu's eyes darkened, her face gloomy and she didn't bother to pay attention.