Wear It with Space - Chapter 8

The salesperson knew what was going on as soon as she saw Shen Ling entering the store carrying the baggage. She asked skillfully: “Should I pay after selling it or pay now?”

Shen Ling said, “Pay now.” Although the price will be higher than the current price after selling, it is better to get the money early in order to be out of line. After all, now with her identity, she is in conflict with outsiders, and it is always her who suffers in the end.

A full bag of clothes finally sold for more than two hundred yuan, almost worth the savings of the family.

Walking out of the store, Shen Ling couldn’t help being a little excited. He saw a state-owned canteen nearby and bought four meat buns for a dollar.

Back home, Zheng Hao was playing in the yard.

Shen Ling went into the house to find three envelopes, and put the money in it into the space together with the two hundred dollars that he had just gotten today. There is no safe space in the house.

After that, Shen Ling sold clothes two more times, earning another 300 yuan. But sitting in the air every day is not the answer. She wanted to find a job, but she couldn’t worry about Zheng Hao, so she had to put it aside for now.

This day Mrs. Xu brought An Rui over to visit, and the two children went hand in hand to the next room to play the house. Mrs. Xu hesitated and said: “A Yun, I have something to ask you to help.” She said, took out a veil from her arms, opened the veil, and inside was a grandmother inlaid with it. Green gold ring.

“Earlier, I thought I was in a bad mood, so I secretly hid my jewelry. This ring was left to me by my grandmother and told me to pass it on to my daughter. But now our family even has a problem with food. What do you need these things for?” She wrapped the ring in a veil and gave it to Shen Ling. “You can ask the student from Lao Lin to see if he can help me change it into money or food.”

Shen Ling originally wanted to reject it, but when he heard the word grain, he swallowed the words from his lips and thought for a while and said: “Okay, I’ll help you ask. Just how much money and grain do you want to exchange for this thing?”

Mrs. Xu said, “I heard from my grandmother that this thing was almost worth five hundred taels of silver in the Qing Dynasty. Now, as long as someone pays two hundred yuan or two hundred catties of grain, I will sell it.” After she finished speaking, she pulled Chen Yun’s. The hand said again, “I will leave this to you. You know our family’s situation. Once someone knows that I still have these things in my hands, our old man Xu will have to peel off his skin even if he doesn’t die.”

Shen Ling nodded and said: “I know.” The pair of blue and white porcelain vases that Chen Yun had married over was smashed to pieces by those people when they first ransacked the house. They still yelled at the broken old ones, let alone such valuables. Old antique. Once someone knows, confiscation is still a trivial matter, and I am most afraid that they will hold people back, and no one can bear the repeated criticism.

After Mrs. Xu left, Shen Ling held the ring and looked at it for a long time. Although she didn’t understand jewelry, she could see that it was a good thing. If such jewels are obtained for later generations, it will not be a problem to sell them for millions. This is also the reason why Shen Ling accepted the ring. After all, the opportunity is rare.

When she was still Chunni, she bought all the grains for the last dollar or two she had on hand. There are now more than 20 catties of white flour, more than 200 catties of cornmeal, 300 catties of corn, more than 200 catties of mung beans, and more than 200 catties of soybeans.

These grains were saved to eat, and Shen Ling felt that it was enough to last two to three years. What’s more, she and Zheng Hao still have food stamps to receive every month, and two of them can receive 30 kilograms of food. Although these grains also contain sorghum and sweet potatoes, they can still fill the stomach.

Shen Ling weighed it over, and felt that it was not cost-effective to give all cash or grain, and finally decided to give Mrs. Xu one hundred yuan in cash and one hundred catties of grain.

Because she promised Mrs. Xu to help her ask the imaginary student, Shen Ling went out the next day and sold the last batch of unused clothes for less than fifty yuan.

There are not many eggs in the space. She is going to the vegetable market to see if there are any eggs.

Probably because she went out early this time, there were still many people in line in front of several vegetable stalls in the vegetable market, and Shen Ling came to the egg stall with several people in front. She stood behind an old lady, calculating how many eggs to buy.

Suddenly, she was photographed. Shen Ling looked back and saw a woman about her age smiled: “I just looked at you from a distance, thinking about the current situation in your family, but I think it’s impossible. you.”

Her eyes are like a pair of searchlights, sweeping Shen Ling from head to toe, before Shen Ling speaks again: “I thought that after you, Lao Lin, you don’t know how sad your days are!” The implication is to say. You can even eat eggs.

Chen Yun didn’t seem to have such a person in his memory, so Shen Ling hesitated: “This comrade, do you recognize me?”

The woman couldn’t help but sighed twice: “It’s really a noble person who forgets things! You don’t remember, my name is Qin Tiemei, I am Lao Lin’s elementary school classmate, and my son has studied calligraphy with your Lao Lin for several days.

Shen Ling thought for a while. There seemed to be such a person in Chen Yun’s memory that she had never seen her visit since Lao Lin’s accident.

“Remember?”

Shen Ling smiled faintly: “I remembered. I haven’t been in contact for many years, it is inevitable that I am a little strange.”

With these words hiding the needle in the cotton, Qin Tiemei lifted the basket in her hand uncomfortably, and asked for words: “Are you here to buy eggs too?”

Shen Ling said, “Buy it for grandson to eat.”

“After Lao Lin is gone, your life will be difficult, right?”

There is no one who came up to ask people like this. If it was the original Chen Yun, I would be annoyed by these words, but Shen Ling knew that some people talked in this style, so she said calmly: “It’s not easy.”

“Actually, you’d better find a job in this situation.” Qin Tiemei looked like she was thinking of her.

Shen Ling said: “How can a job be so easy to find?”

Qin Tiemei tentatively said, “I know a lot of people. If you really want to find a job, I can help you introduce it. As long as it’s done, you can pay me a little introduction fee.”

“Okay, that’s okay. But I still have a four-year-old child in my family. It’s best to be closer to home or bring the child when I work.” Shen Ling said.

The two were talking, and the people in front of them bought the eggs one by one, and soon it was Shen Ling’s turn. She paid a dollar for two catties of eggs, nodded with Qin Tiemei, and walked out of the vegetable market.

When Qin Tiemei came back two days later, she brought a matchbox job to Shen Ling. Shen Ling took out two dollars as an introduction fee, and began to make matchboxes at home from then on.

When Mrs. Xu brought An Rui to visit again, Shen Ling handed her one hundred yuan and one hundred catties of grain. Mrs. Xu saw that there were two catties of white flour in the 100 catties of grain, and repeatedly thanked Shen Ling, and at the same time returned her ten dollars owed to Shen Ling.

Shen Ling was supposed to stop this matter, but after half a month, Mrs. Xu brought a woman in her forties to look for her.

Mrs. Xu said with some embarrassment: “This is my sister-in-law. There is a sick child in the family who wants to eat some fine grains. I wonder if the student from Lao Lin will help make some fine grains. Both white noodles and dried noodles will do. .”

Shen Ling’s face showed a look of embarrassment, “I can’t be the master. You also know that in this world, once or twice is OK, if there are too many, it will inevitably be targeted.”

Mrs. Xu said, “I also know your embarrassment. I didn’t want to speak, so I can’t hold her from asking repeatedly.”

Mrs. Xu’s sister-in-law said, “I promise that I will not say anything about it, and I only ask you to help me this time.” She took out an inconspicuous wooden box from her arms and opened it a pair of crystal clear. A white jade bracelet and a pair of gold earrings.

“This white jade bracelet is just a little thank you to Sister Chen.” Mrs. Xu’s sister-in-law said, “The pair of gold earrings can be replaced with fine grains or fine grain noodles.”

Shen Ling naturally refused to take it at first, but couldn’t hold back the woman who kept crying and begging, saying how sickly the children at home couldn’t eat the whole grains, and just wanted something easy to digest.

In the end, Shen Ling still agreed to the woman’s request, only to make it clear that this was the last time. She wasn’t afraid of being discovered, but she didn’t have too much money and food in her hands. She would tighten her belt when she came back so many times. In the final analysis, her main purpose in this world is still to do tasks. If her greed affects her points, then the gain will not be worth the loss.

Two days later, Shen Ling took the initiative to go to Xu’s house without waiting for Mrs. Xu to come over.

Xu’s house is a two-story Western-style building with grape trellis in front of the building and various flowers and plants in the garden. But because it was winter, it looked sluggish.

When Shen Ling walked in, there were still some traces of trampling left in the garden, and the doors and windows on the first floor were closed tightly.

She shouted inside: “Chun Li, Chun Li, are you at home?” Chun Li is Mrs. Xu’s name.

After two or three minutes, Mrs. Xu who heard the sound opened the door, “It’s Ayun, please come in!”

Mrs. Xu let Shen Ling into the empty living room. When she was about to start pouring tea, Shen Ling said: “Don’t be polite to me, An Rui, why this kid hasn’t come to my house these days.”

Mrs. Xu said, “An Rui was upstairs, and only then did I think of her parents. She cried for a long time, and she was already asleep.” An Rui’s parents are Mrs. Xu’s son and daughter-in-law and Chen Yun’s daughter-in-law. Was sent to other provinces.

Shen Ling thought of Zheng Hao, the little guy probably was because his parents were young when they left home, but he rarely mentioned his parents, but his grandmother was the eldest and the grandmother was short.

She threw these clutters aside, put some food and two catties of flour that she took out of the space on the table, and said, “After the student from Lao Lin heard about this, she tried to get it for you. Some foods like steamed bread, bread, cakes, etc.”

Mrs. Xu was overjoyed when she saw those things, “There are bread and cakes, Ayun, thank you so much. My nephew has been sick for so many days and has been wanting to eat these things. I really don’t know how to thank you.”

When Shen Ling took out the food from the space, she was still a little uncertain whether the other party would want these things. Now that Mrs. Xu said this, she only knew that things that were common in later generations are so precious in this era.

After coming home from Xu’s house, Zheng Hao rushed over as soon as Shen Ling entered the house. He has eaten well recently, not only has his face improved, but he also has meat on his body. The weight of more than 30 kilograms suddenly fell on Shen Ling, and she really couldn’t bear it.

But now that Zheng Hao’s face has returned to normal, it’s time to put exercise on the agenda.