Chapter 1545 - 1544: Can You Let Me Finish What I’m Saying

Chapter 1545: Chapter 1544: Can You Let Me Finish What I’m Saying

Chapter 1544: Can You Let Me Finish?

It has to be said, Xiangjiang people have a misunderstanding about the mainland, thinking that rural areas are places where people can’t get enough food or clothing, always wearing headscarves and patched clothes.

Little do they know, the worst times in the mainland were during the three years of disaster in the sixties. Besides that, life wasn’t as they imagined.

Because the countryside was a collective system, even if villagers had ten or eight children, the production team would distribute food. Adults received four hundred jin of grain, and children received three hundred jin, plus there were work points salary and lots of miscellaneous grains, ensuring there was enough to raise children.

However, teenagers eat a lot, and families with many children often find that fine grains are not enough. Since they eat little meat, they consume more grain, with rural folks having an average daily consumption of one jin and two taels of rice.

When fine grains aren’t enough, miscellaneous grains have to make up the difference. However, if a family has more laborers, they also receive work points salary, meaning families with enough labor don’t need to eat miscellaneous grains. Sweet potatoes and taros are usually fed to pigs.

Furthermore, Hai Xue’s family has two elders and no children, only adopted Hai Xue, so they live relatively well-off. Not only can they receive their own food ration and work points salary, but they also get money at the end of the year.

Therefore, the eggs laid by the family’s chickens are reserved for Hai Xue and not sold. Every year, Hai Xue has a few new outfits. This is what Gua Xiaofeng is most jealous of Hai Xue.

"Uh, even if she’s well-fed and clothed, how can she look like she’s only in her thirties when she’s already forty-eight?"

Second Aunt Qu protested. She was forty years old, living comfortably, and only appeared slightly younger compared to her peers.

Old Sir Ou became dissatisfied: "Why are you all getting caught up in such trivial things?"

He turned to Ou Pengfei: "Pengfei, do you know why she refuses to come home?"

Ou Jiayi suddenly chimed in: "Could it be she wants Grandpa and Grandma to personally fetch her home?"

Everyone looked at each other: There might be a possibility. But isn’t this strategy misplaced?

Everyone turned to Ou Pengfei.

Ou Pengfei sighed and recounted the ordeals Hai Xue had encountered.

"Think about it, they hadn’t even entered Xiangjiang yet, almost got attacked at the station—then, our family’s car went to pick them up, using an ill person, and the car had been tampered with! If it weren’t for my future sister-in-law’s skill and vigilance, they could’ve been violated at the station, and even if they escaped the station, they wouldn’t have escaped the threat from our Ou Family—"

Grandma interrupted him: "How can you say such things, child? How could our Ou Family possibly harm your elder aunt?"

Others chimed in one after another:

"Exactly, we went through so much to find Xuexue, how could we secretly send people to kill her?"

"That’s right, if we didn’t want her back, why would we look for her?"

"Yes, even if she returned to compete for inheritance, we wouldn’t do anything to her."

"Even if someone tried to harm elder aunt, it wasn’t us, the Ou Family."

"Exactly, why would she pin the crime on our Ou Family?"

"..."

Ou Pengfei was annoyed, shouting: "Can you let me finish my words?"

The noises subsided.

Finally, Ou Pengfei said: "You don’t believe it’s our Ou Family trying to harm elder aunt, but wasn’t driver Old man Fu sick? Why send him out?

The car came from our Ou Family, right? Why send the oldest car to pick them up? You say they were chased and trapped, trying to kill them has nothing to do with us, but can anyone believe it?"