Chapter 50: Chapter 50: Buying Pork on Behalf of Others
Su Xiaoxiao dodged to the side, and Sun Miao couldn’t stop in time and gloriously fell flat on her face, ending up with a mouthful of dirt.
"Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey, shut your mouth, just shut your mouth."
She spat out the dirt, hysterically yelling, but it was clearly too late.
The heroic deeds of the village secretary’s son and Old Wu’s second had already spread to most of the village through the loudspeaker.
Just then, a few aunts returning from work happened to pass by.
All of them looked at Sun Miao with gossip-filled and strange eyes.
Someone whispered, "I really didn’t expect the village secretary’s precious son’s taste is quite unique. Just wonder if it’s the eldest or the third?"
"Exactly, this man with a man thing is the first time I’ve heard. Tsk, truly an eye-opener."
An enthusiastic aunt saw Sun Miao on the spot and eagerly came over, full of gossip, "Miao Miao, is what the loudspeaker said just now true? I wonder if it’s talking about your big brother or third brother?"
Sun Miao’s face turned dark; who asks such things in front of people?
"What nonsense are you all talking about? There’s no such thing happening, whoever spreads it more, I’m not done with you."
Several aunts, hearing her say that, immediately lost interest and turned away.
Even from a distance, you could still hear them whispering.
"Ptooey, doing shameless things and won’t let people talk about it."
"Who do you think it is? The eldest or the third?"
"I guess it’s the third; the eldest is always tangled up with the widow from the neighboring village, probably not into this."
They laughed uproariously as they spoke.
Listening to their discussion, Sun Miao’s face grew darker.
She snatched the loudspeaker from Su Xiaoxiao’s hand and with a bang, smashed it onto the ground, stomping on it repeatedly.
"I’ll let you spread rumors, I’ll let you spread rumors."
Sun Miao treated the loudspeaker as if it were Su Xiaoxiao, wishing to vent all her anger onto it.
Su Xiaoxiao raised an eyebrow and watched her, only after she stomped the loudspeaker into pieces that she calmly reached out a hand to her.
"This loudspeaker, I just bought it, twenty bucks, pay up."
Sun Miao pushed her away: "Why pay? You were spreading nonsense. Serves you right."
After saying this, she turned and left.
As Sun Miao turned away, Su Xiaoxiao calmly pulled out a second loudspeaker from her arms.
No problem, she could have as many loudspeakers as she wanted.
"Attention, everyone, I didn’t make it clear just now, the matter of our village secretary’s..."
Sun Miao had taken only a few steps when she heard the familiar loudspeaker voice behind her and veins popped on her forehead.
Gritting her teeth, she turned back: "Su Xiaoxiao, what exactly are you trying to do?"
She said, reaching out to grab the loudspeaker from Su Xiaoxiao’s hand, only to find the loudspeaker seemed to vanish like a magic trick.
Su Xiaoxiao smiled sweetly at her: "Are you planning to buy the broken loudspeaker earlier, or should I make this matter known far and wide?"
Seeing her biting her lip without speaking, Su Xiaoxiao continued raising the stakes, "Oh, besides this, I also know an even more amusing thing about your eldest brother and Widow Wang from the neighboring village..."
"Stop talking, I’ll pay the money."
To salvage the reputation of both her brother and brother, Sun Miao bit her lip and took out twenty bucks from her pocket and threw it to her.
"Here’s your money, don’t spread any more nonsense."
After saying this, she angrily turned and left.
Su Xiaoxiao gleefully tucked the money into her pocket, earning twenty bucks in just a short time.
Both loudspeakers were bought from the mall, each costing 100 gold coins, and she got a rebate of 2000 gold coins from selling them.
Feeling wonderful, she headed home, only to be enthusiastically surrounded by several neighbor aunts and sisters as soon as she reached the door.
"Xiaoxiao, you finally came back."
"We’ve been waiting for you for quite a while."
Thinking they wanted gossip about Sun Wenbing, Su Xiaoxiao was ready to brag about Sun Wenbing, but unexpectedly, Aunt Liu started first.
"Xiaoxiao, everyone heard you can get pork without coupons, so we were hoping you’d help us out."
Upon hearing they came to bring her business, Su Xiaoxiao immediately beamed with joy: "No problem, everyone come here to register first, and I’ll bring it next time I go to the meat joint factory."
Delivery wasn’t convenient like in modern times, there was no way to courier fresh items.
People who wanted to buy something could only rely on others to bring it back.
Having heard Su Xiaoxiao would go next door to buy meat for them, everyone felt a little embarrassed.
On top of the original meat price, they all gave her an extra two cents as a tip.
Su Xiaoxiao roughly calculated, she unexpectedly got orders for eighteen pounds of meat.
Instantly in a great mood, even just taking the rebates earns quite a bit.
She noted it all down, carried the small notebook home, and looked up to see her mom Liu Cuilan standing at the door.
Seeing her enter, Liu Cuilan couldn’t help but grumble: "Others ask you to carry things, you just carry them? It’s not like our family is short of that two cents, carrying it back all the way so heavy? Plus, paying for the train ticket."
Of course, Su Xiaoxiao couldn’t mention how selling the items gives her a full return, only smiling gently to comfort Liu Cuilan: "Mom, isn’t this also for our family’s sake? You see, because of dad’s situation, many people in the village have opinions about our family, just the right opportunity to restore our family’s reputation."
Hearing her daughter say this, Liu Cuilan suddenly fell silent.
Affected by that dead man’s influence, their entire family couldn’t hold their heads high in the village, even the two young brothers often got bullied at school.
Finally, she sighed: "If you can’t carry them, have Old Five go with you."
Old Five was short, so boarding the train could save a ticket.
"Mom, don’t worry, these things are no problem for me."
Early the next morning, Su Xiaoxiao boarded the bus to the city.
The bus was still crowded, the smell of buns and fried dough, mixed with the sour stench of smelly feet, and the chicken and duck smell blended together, making Su Xiaoxiao almost vomit.
She swore that today she must get her bike back; she couldn’t bear the bus for another minute.
Finally reaching the department store, she saw from afar that the entrance was already crowded.
The announcement was posted at nine, but it was a little past eight and the scene was already a sea of people.
Su Xiaoxiao gnawed on a cornbread she brought from home and patiently waited.
The door of the department store was finally pushed open from the inside, and a tall male comrade came out with two sheets of red paper, carefully posting them on the bulletin board.
"It’s the written exam list!"
Someone shouted, causing a stir as the crowd surged forward.
Su Xiaoxiao almost had her shoes knocked off, seeing she finally squeezed to the front of the bulletin board, she was sadly squeezed out before she could take a glance.
Su Xiaoxiao: "..."
She gritted her teeth, rolled up her sleeves ready to cram back inside, when out of the corner of her eye she spotted a familiar figure.