Chapter 4: The Salted Fish Taking Advantage of a Crisis

Sihe Academy

Cao Weiguo brings a pot of cornmeal porridge out of the kitchen.

Corn buns, pickled vegetables, and cornmeal porridge are his dinner.

"Zhuzi, why are you only back now."

Shazhu walks into the backyard humming a tune, and Qin Huairu snatches the lunch box.

"Hey, Qin Jie, why are you snatching it?"

Shazhu says, but there is no anger on his face.

Qin Huairu is pitiful: "I'm in a hurry, my family has run out of food, and the children are crying from hunger."

Looking at Qin Huairu's appearance, Shazhu feels a pang of heartache, feeling he has made a big mistake.

Shazhu says hurriedly: "Qin Jie, don't worry, I still have some cornmeal at home, I'll bring it to you in a while."

Qin Huairu wipes the corner of her eye and says with a crying face: "Zhuzi, can you lend me 10 yuan."

"10 yuan!"

Shazhu is surprised: "Qin Jie, what do you need so much money for?"

In this era, the minimum monthly ration standard for one person is 5 yuan.

Shazhu is a cook in the rolling mill canteen.

He became an 8th-grade cook two years earlier than Cao Weiguo.

Now his monthly salary is thirty-seven yuan and five jiao.

Qin Huairu looks miserable: "Hey, I borrowed 10 yuan from Cao Weiguo, and he urged me to pay the debt today."

"What!"

"Qin Jie, your family's life is so bitter, and he still has the heart to urge for debt!"

"I think he's just bullying people!"

"Taking advantage of a crisis!"

"Kicking someone when they're down!"

Shazhu's anger rises, and he heads straight for Cao Weiguo's house with his bull-like eyes wide open.

"Cao Weiguo! Cao Weiguo! Get out here!"

Shazhu has a strong voice, and the whole courtyard can hear him.

Cao Weiguo opens the door, only to see Shazhu standing in front of the house, furious.

"Cao Weiguo, you bastard!"

"You clearly aren't short of money, yet you urge Qin Jie for debt. Isn't this bullying people!"

"A grown man, bullying a woman, aren't you ashamed!"

Cao Weiguo glances at Qin Huairu, who is pretending to be pitiful, and then looks at Shazhu with contempt.

"Borrowing money and paying it back is only right and proper!"

"Is there something wrong with me asking for my own money back?"

Shazhu waves his hand and shouts arrogantly: ===== CHAPTER 6 =====