Chapter 65: Being Chained Since I was a Child
"Uncle Jiang, just take it. I know you are here to help, but don't forget that you haven't gone out to make money in the past two days. Besides, even if you don't need it, Uncle Chen does."
"this……"
Uncle Jiang was in a dilemma, because Ye Lin was right, he didn't need it, because he could just follow Ye Lin, but it was different from Lao Chen who came with him.
"Old Jiang, I can't ask for this money." Uncle Chen shook his head at Uncle Jiang.
Uncle Chen Ye Lin learned a little bit from Uncle Jiang that he was a building restorer, but in recent years, he has been basically idle at home. Although the employer still pays him a salary, it is only two-thirds of the original salary.
There's nothing they can do about it, because there's nothing they've been able to fix in the past few years.
At the same time, Uncle Chen is also a scholar, and scholars are relatively pedantic. Ye Lin knows better than anyone else that, especially in this era, he is, to put it bluntly, fake and noble.
"Yeah." Uncle Jiang nodded, then turned back to Ye Lin and said, "I really can't take this money, you'd better take it back."
"Uncle Jiang..."
"Okay Ye Lin, that's it."
"But if you don't accept it, I won't feel sorry for you!"
Hearing what Ye Lin said, Uncle Jiang frowned, thought for a moment and said: "Okay Ye Lin, I see that your family has been eating white flour steamed buns these two days, so that means you don't eat whole grains, can you
They give us coarse grains. Of course, we don’t ask for them for free, we pay for them.”
"That's okay." Uncle Chen also nodded beside him.
Although Uncle Chen is pedantic, he is very persistent in food. Besides, he doesn't want it for free, but pays for it, so there is no problem.
"no problem."
Before Ye Lin could speak, Li Ran said something first, and then turned back to Ye Qi and said, "Go and take out our grain book, and then go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy coarse grains."
"Mom, my brother has already bought our whole grains."
"Uh!" Li Ran was stunned for a moment and asked, "When did it happen?"
"it's been a while."
Li Ran glanced at Ye Lin, who nodded with a wry smile. He bought all the coarse grains at home for the past two months and gave them to Chen Jing in two installments.
"Teacher Li, forget it." Uncle Jiang still didn't understand what was going on and said quickly.
"Wait a minute, I'll get you some coarse grains."
After saying that, Ye Lin ran out because he thought of one person, that is Grandma Liu. Because of their family's financial support, Grandma Liu basically did not use the grain book, so there should be a lot of coarse grains in Grandma Liu's food book that had not been touched.
Moreover, last time Grandma Liu told Ye Lin to buy the grain from the grain book and give it to whoever needed it, but Ye Lin forgot about it when he got busy.
When Ye Lin came to the middle courtyard, Grandma Liu was sunbathing in the yard.
"Grandma, I'm here."
"Oh, it's my eldest grandson! Come and sit here quickly." Grandma Liu patted a chair next to her.
"Grandma, I won't sit down. That's it. Let me get the food book. Don't you still have a lot of food in your food book that you haven't bought? I want to buy it and give it to those in need."
"Ah! This is a good thing, grandson, just wait, grandma will get it for you right now."
"Um."
Although the old lady has lived alone all her life, she is very willing to help others. Whether they are people in the courtyard or outside, they will help her if they can. Of course, that was before, but now she can only take care of herself.
Can't help others.
I can't help others in action, but I can do it in other places, such as food. Sometimes the old man would rather take one less bite than see the children in the courtyard who don't have enough to eat.
Grandma Liu came out of the house quickly, handed the grain book to Ye Lin and said: "Grandson, here, go and buy all the grain."
"Well, I understand, grandma. Oh, by the way, my mother makes a lot of dinner, so you don't need to make dinner. I will bring it to you later."
"No, I'm not very hungry at night. I'll just make some porridge later."
"Grandma, it's all done. Don't bother me again. That's it. I'll bring it to you in a minute." After saying that, Ye Lin ran away.
Seeing Ye Lin's back, Grandma Liu smiled and shook her head. There were dozens of children in the whole courtyard, and her favorite was Ye Lin, not even Ye Qi. Of course, it might be because she brought up Ye Lin.
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But this is not right. Ye Qi was also brought up by Grandma Liu. At that time, Li Ran had to go to work, and there was no one to take care of Ye Qi and Ye Lin. Grandma Liu took the initiative to take care of him and Ye Qi.
Both of them were still young at that time. Although Ye Lin was sensible, he didn't want to stay in one place all the time. He always wanted to run out and play. Ye Qi was the same.
Although Grandma Liu was in better health at that time, she couldn't see the two children running east and west. So she had no choice but to tie their legs with ropes and tie them to the pillars in the yard.
Ye Qi may not remember it, but Ye Lin remembered it clearly, but he didn't blame Grandma Liu because he knew that Grandma Liu was also doing it for their own good.
Ye Lin did not go home, but went directly to the supply and marketing cooperative with his grain book.
The aunties from the supply and marketing cooperative all knew Ye Lin. When they saw him coming, they greeted him and asked: "You idiot, why are you here? Do you want to buy something?"
"Yes, I'm here to buy food."
"Buying food? Haven't you already bought all the food?"
Everyone lives on the same street, and they all know each other, and they all know more or less what their families are like, not to mention that they are doing this job, so of course they know that the Ye Lin family has no food to buy this month.
"I bought it for Grandma Liu. This is the food book." Ye Lin handed over the food book.
The aunt took the grain book and looked at it, frowned and said, "You idiot, how much do you want to buy for Grandma Liu?"
“I bought everything except white noodles.”
"Uh, wait a minute, I'll go tell the director."
Not long after the aunt entered, the director came out with the grain book. When he saw Ye Lin, he said: "You idiot, do you want to buy all the coarse grains in the grain book?"
"Yes, I bought them all."
"You're such a fool. I bought five kilograms of coarse grains every month for the first eight months. It was supposed that I would have ten kilograms left every month. But according to the latest quota, there are only ten kilograms of coarse grains every month. So before
I can only give another five pounds per month for eight months."
Before the new ration, each person had fifteen kilograms of coarse grains and three kilograms of fine grains per month. Grandma Liu bought three kilograms of fine grains and five kilograms of coarse grains every month, plus some donations from the Ye Lin family, which was enough for Grandma Liu to eat.
Chapter completed!