sbdcsierra Chapter 119 The Sharp-Tongued Mother of the Female Supporting Character in the 1980s
Chapter 119 The Sharp-Tongued Mother of the Female Supporting Character in the 1980s
"Little Stone! Grandma's good grandson, you're finally awake."
Grandma Huang, who had recovered, burst into tears of joy upon hearing her grandson's voice.
Then, trembling, he ran over, knelt down, and kept wiping the water droplets from Little Stone's face.
"small stone!"
Hearing the crying, Little Stone's mother suddenly brightened up.
She turned her head and saw that Little Stone had opened his eyes, so she hurriedly ran and scrambled over to him.
"Little Stone, let Mommy take a look. Is anything bothering you? You silly child, you've worried Mommy to death."
Little Stone's mother couldn't stop crying as soon as she finished speaking.
After crying, Little Stone felt weak all over and looked pitifully at his mother.
"Mom, I'm a little cold."
Upon hearing this, Little Stone's mother quickly took off her coat and covered him with it, then carefully picked him up.
Just as they were about to leave, they saw Si Yan standing to the side, and Xiao Shitou's mother thanked her tearfully.
"Siyan, thank you. I will remember your kindness for the rest of my life."
"No need, you should take Little Stone home first and change his clothes quickly."
After Si Yan finished speaking, she walked home. There were still two pots of dried tofu in the kitchen.
Grandma Huang ran up to Si Yan and thanked her repeatedly, saying she would definitely thank her properly. After saying that, she strode past Si Yan and ran home with her daughter-in-law.
Si Yan went home, took the dried tofu out of the brine, drained it, put it in the wooden box she sold, closed the lid, and carried it on her back.
It's around 9:30 in the morning now. It takes about an hour to walk to the county. I'll arrive just in time for lunch.
Upon arriving in the county town, Si Yan placed the wooden box at the usual spot, gently lifted the lid, and an enticing aroma instantly filled the air.
"It smells so good, Auntie, what are you selling?"
A ten-year-old girl was strolling through the market with her mother when she was suddenly drawn to the fragrance emanating from Si Yan's wooden box. Unable to resist her curiosity, she went up to ask her about it.
"Good child, Auntie is selling dried tofu, would you like to try some?"
The little girl was very tempted, but her mother didn't agree, so she didn't dare to eat it.
The little girl could only reach out and tug at her mother, her eyes pleading.
Seeing her mother nod in agreement, the little girl immediately took the bamboo skewer Si Yan handed her and started tasting it.
The little girl's eyes lit up after taking her first bite.
"It's delicious, Mom, it's so delicious, you should try some."
The little girl then handed the bamboo skewer to her mother's mouth.
"Hmm, not bad. How much is it?"
"Fifty cents for half a pound."
Si Yan said with a smile.
"Why is it so expensive?"
The little girl's mother asked in surprise.
"This dried tofu is made with my secret recipe. It even contains white sugar, which costs seven or eight cents a pound."
Hearing that there was sugar inside, the little girl's mother accepted the price, but only bought five cents' worth.
There were quite a few people at the market. Even though Si Yan's food wasn't cheap, it smelled so good that many people were willing to spend 50 cents.
Si Yan's dried bean curd was sold out after lunchtime. Just as she was about to leave, someone called out to her.
It turned out that the mother of the little girl who was the first to buy dried tofu had come back.
"Boss, do you still have dried tofu?"
"They're all gone, they just sold out. What happened?"
The little girl's mother looked regretful and could only sigh helplessly.
"Oh, I should have bought more. My mom has never had a good appetite, but she ate two bowls of rice with your dried tofu for lunch today."
Si Yan smiled faintly after hearing this.
"It's okay, I've been selling here lately, at the same time every day. You can come back to buy tomorrow."
"Really?"
The woman happily agreed and turned to go home.
Si Yan hadn't brought any food, so she sat down at a wonton stall in the nearby market.
She ordered two liang (approximately 100 grams) of wontons and ate them contentedly.
This restaurant sells wontons at reasonable prices, and the portions are generous.
After finishing her meal, Si Yan planned to visit Chu Xia. Chu Xia had forgotten to take the canned fruit that her uncle had given her when she left, so Si Yan brought it for her.
These are all things that young girls like, but I don't eat them myself, so it's a waste to leave them anywhere. I might as well give them all to Chuxia.
But Si Yan didn't expect that Chu Xia was currently facing some trouble.
"Wang Chuxia, you cheated!"
Xu Jiajia said sarcastically.
It turns out that the math teacher gave a short test in the previous class, and Wang Chuxia was the only one in the class who answered all the questions correctly.
Xu Jiajia is also a student repeating a year of high school, but she considers herself different from Wang Chuxia.
She repeated a year because she was dissatisfied with her grades and wanted to get into a better school, unlike poor students like Wang Chuxia.
"Xu Jiajia, the math teacher gave me a question on the spot. How can I cheat?"
Chu Xia said calmly, putting down her textbook and looking up at Xu Jiajia coldly.
"In the time you've spent questioning, how many math problems could you have solved? Aren't you bored?"
"You! You're the one who's being ridiculous. I don't believe you could suddenly become this amazing."
Xu Jiajia rolled her eyes and snorted coldly.
"Excuse me, I need to get to the cafeteria for lunch."
Chu Xia reached out and pushed Xu Jiajia, who was blocking her way, and walked towards the cafeteria with the lunchbox from her desk drawer.
I hadn't gone far when I heard a shout from behind.
“Chuxia, Wang Chuxia, wait a minute.”
When Chu Xia heard the sound, she turned around and saw a girl with a round face and eyes that looked like crescent moons when she smiled running over.
"you are?"
Chu Xia was very confused, as she didn't seem to know her.
"Hello early summer, my name is Song You. I came from out of town to repeat my senior year at the county's No. 1 High School. I was really impressed by how you confronted people earlier."
"No, I'm just stating the facts."
Chu Xia's eyes flickered with a moment of awkwardness; this was the first person to praise her so directly.
"Can I eat with you in the cafeteria? I don't know anyone here, is that okay?"
Song You looked at Chu Xia pitifully.
"Let's go, or we won't get any good seats."
This was the first time I'd encountered such an enthusiastic person in early summer, and I didn't know how to handle it.
However, Chu Xia didn't sense any malice, and perhaps she could make some good friends at school this time.
Along the way, Song You chattered away with Chu Xia about her experiences at her previous school.
When they arrived at the cafeteria and got their food, the two found a seat and Song You leaned close to Chu Xia and whispered a few words to her.
"The food in your cafeteria is terrible in early summer. At least the cafeterias in Shenzhen serve meat."
Chu Xia paused for a moment after hearing this.
"Eat meat? Even city people here can't eat meat every day."
"Oh, Shenzhen was selected as a special economic zone last year, and they abolished rationing for meat. Don't you have that here yet?"
Song You's first day in An County is today. Her father was sent to work in An County, so she transferred schools with him.
She could have stayed, but she wasn't happy during her three years at Shenzhen High School, so Song You herself wanted to change her environment.
“You said it was Shenzhen, but I believe it should be soon here too. My uncle said that the requirements for tickets and permits haven’t been as strict lately.”
In early summer, I took a bite of the stir-fried shredded potatoes. Although there was no meat, the shredded potatoes were stir-fried with pork, so they were quite delicious.
After finishing her meal, Chu Xia prepared to go to her dormitory to rest for a while.
When Song You and Chu Xia chatted, they discovered that they were actually roommates.
"So the empty lower bunk was yours? Why didn't you put the blankets and sheets on beforehand?"
Chu Xia asked curiously.
“I forgot. I almost overslept this morning too. When I was in school, my mother would always wake me up. Now that I’m in An County, I have to rely on myself.”
Song You explained with an awkward laugh, but not wanting Chu Xia to think she was unreliable, she added another sentence.
"But from now on, I will definitely get up on time, and I will not be late or leave early. I made a promise to my mother."
Song You said with a smug look on her face.
However, she was quickly proven wrong. On the second day of school, she was defeated. If Chu Xia hadn't pulled her back, she might have been punished by the teacher for being late within a week of school starting.
But that's a story for another time. Right now, she and Chu Xia are standing at the dormitory door, staring at each other.
"Excuse me, whose things are these? Please take them away, I need to make my bed."
Looking at the several woven bags piled on the bed, Song You asked a few questions with a smile.
However, apart from Chu Xia and Song You, the dormitory was already full of six people, all of whom were lying on bunk beds.
They all clearly heard Song You's words, but no one responded.
Song You looked aggrieved and could only go forward and take the woven bags herself.
Chu Xia saw this and went over to help.
But when Xia and the others took their things down, Xu Jiajia from the upper bunk spoke up.
"Early Summer, you're so kind-hearted, you help with everything."
"I'm happy, can you take care of it?"
Chu Xia replied coldly, but her hands didn't stop moving as she helped Song You carry all the bags off the bed to the floor.
"Be gentle, be gentle! I have canned fruit inside. Can you country bumpkins afford to pay for it if you break it?"
A girl in a blue plaid shirt said sarcastically from a shop against the wall on the right.
Si Yan had just arrived at the door of Chu Xia's dormitory when she heard these words.
Following the sound, Si Yan saw the girl looking at Chu Xia with a mocking expression. She paused for a moment and called out.
"It's early summer, and Mom has brought you canned fruit."
Chu Xia looked over in surprise when she heard her mother's voice.
She was so happy that she didn't see the embarrassed look on the face of the girl in the blue plaid shirt behind her when she heard what Si Yan said.
"Mom, why are you here?"
Chu Xia happily went to greet her.
"Mom was selling things at the market today, and she brought you the canned fruit you left at home."
"Oh, so he's just a small-time speculator."
The girl in the blue plaid shirt suddenly spoke up with a mocking remark.
Chu Xia was furious when she heard this and wanted to retort, but Si Yan pulled her back and gently shook her head.
The woman in blue was even more smug.
However, Si Yan is not the type to suffer injustice.
"Young comrade, I advise you to eat less salt, so you won't have so much free time. The country allows these things, so why is your thinking still stuck in the past? Has the national education system overlooked you?"
Seeing Si Yan's aura, the woman in blue dared not speak. Some people are like that; they will bully you if you are weak, but once you fight back, they will not dare to provoke you again.
To put it bluntly, it means bullying the weak and fearing the strong.
Si Yan scoffed and ignored the woman in blue.
She left after handing the things to Chu Xia.
However, as soon as she stepped out of the school gate, Si Yan's expression instantly turned icy cold.
She just saw that the black lines behind Chu Xia had been altered again. Although it wasn't successful, it meant that the female lead had finally noticed something was wrong.
Si Yan preferred seeing Wang Baozhu living in constant fear to a one-off deal.