Chapter 47 Qin Huairu Borrows Food
After buying the firewood, Li Shengli was no longer anxious. This firewood plus the coal supply for everyone should be enough for this winter.

A week passed like this. This Sunday, Li Shengli got up very early. He took this month's food coupons and exchanged the coarse grain coupons with his third uncle for some fine grain coupons. Yan Bugui exchanged all his fine grain coupons for coarse grain coupons every month, and sometimes he would let his son go to the countryside to exchange the coarse grain coupons for sweet potatoes.

Li Shengli has no shortage of food coupons, but these coupons are time-limited, so Li Shengli usually exchanges some of the coarse grain coupons for fine grain coupons, and all the excess food coupons except for the prepared reserve grain in the house are disposed of.

Li Shengli went to the grain store and bought six kilograms of white flour and ten kilograms of corn flour. To be honest, even after so much time had passed, Li Shengli still couldn't get used to eating corn flour. Fortunately, he was a cook and there was no shortage of food in the steel mill canteen. Every month, the coarse grain coupons could be exchanged for fine grain coupons and meat coupons.

Looking at the bag of grain in Li Shengli's hand, Qin Huairu, who was about to go to the toilet, her eyes suddenly lit up. He is a cook as expected, and he has no shortage of food. There must be more than ten kilograms of grain in the bag. It's the middle of the month and he still buys so much food. He must have some food stored at home.

Li Shengli did not see Qin Huairu. If he had seen her, he would have thought, "Oh no, the widow Qin is targeting me."

After going to the toilet, Qin Huairu returned to the courtyard. When passing by Li Shengli's house, Qin Huairu turned her head and stretched her neck as if she wanted to see something from Li Shengli's house.

"Mom, I just saw Li Shengli's family in the front yard carrying two bags back home. They looked like food." Qin Huairu returned home, closed the door, and looked very cautious.

"What do you look like? You're like a thief." Jia Zhang was sewing the soles of shoes. After hearing Qin Huairu's words, she lowered her head and looked at Qin Huairu through the gap above her glasses.

"Mom, is this the point? The point is that Li Shengli seemed to have brought back two bags of food." Qin Huairu sat down next to the table.

"So what? That kid can still deliver it to you." Jia Zhang said indifferently.

"I can go and borrow some. We all live in the same compound, so he can't refuse to help." Qin Huairu also knew that Li Shengli was not Sha Zhu who would not send food to her family. If he borrowed and returned the food a few times and their relationship improved, wouldn't he be just like Sha Zhu?

"If you want to go, you go. I won't go. I still want to save my face. No one has enough food right now. I don't think he will lend you food." Jia Zhang rolled her eyes.

"Okay, I'll go. We can't let the children starve for the sake of them." Qin Huairu knew what Jia Zhang was going to say. Having been married for so long, how could she not know Jia Zhang's character?

At noon, Li Shengli mixed some white flour with a little corn flour and steamed some steamed buns, fried two dishes, and drank two glasses of wine with the dishes.

Li Shengli clicked his lips, thinking that his life was pretty comfortable.

After dinner, Li Shengli started reading a book. Without any entertainment activities, he decided to learn some more skills to make his life better.

I was reading a book when there was a knock on the door.

Li Shengli wondered who came to see him. It didn't look like the third uncle. Yan Bugui should be fishing by the river at this time.

"Qin Huairu? What's the matter?" When he opened the door, there stood a person who was beyond Li Shengli's expectations.

Li Shengli asked but no one opened the door. If this widow entered his house, it would be like dirt falling out of his pants - it would be shit at least.

"Victory, why don't you invite me in?" Qin Huairu smiled brightly.

"No, it's not convenient." Li Shengli stretched out his hand and opened his five fingers to refuse Qin Huairu, "If you have anything to say, tell me." "Okay, I won't go in." Qin Huairu had expected that Li Shengli would not let her in, "Sister asked you to come this time because I need your help with something."

"You say." Li Shengli said in a calm voice. Qin Huairu was too slow.

"You also know that my sister just gave birth to a baby." Qin Huairu lowered her head and said with red eyes, while secretly looking at Li Shengli.

Li Shengli listened to Qin Huairu's words without saying a word, wanting to see what Qin Huairu would say next. Looking at Qin Huairu's actions, Li Shengli immediately realized that she was targeting him, and he didn't know whether she came to borrow food or wanted to take a special meal from him.

"Sister, I really have no other choice. There is really no food at home." Seeing that Li Shengli didn't say anything, Qin Huairu continued in a crying voice.

Lee Seung-ri was a little annoyed. To be honest, Lee Seung-ri was a somewhat patriarchal man. He couldn't stand seeing women crying in front of him. He would feel annoyed if a woman he hated cried in front of him.

Li Shengli turned his eyes and looked towards the yard, and found that someone was looking at this side. Qin Huairu came at a good time. If he didn't lend the food, his reputation in the yard would be ruined.

Li Shengli suddenly came up with an idea. He went back home and took a cloth bag and filled it with two kilograms of corn flour.

"Qin Huairu, I don't have enough food. Here are two kilograms of corn flour I'll lend you this month. Remember to exchange it next month." Li Shengli walked to the door and handed the bag to Qin Huairu, then he deliberately said loudly. Other people in the yard should have heard it.

It's okay to borrow food, but you have to return it. If Qin Huairu doesn't return it, that's even better. You can have a very legitimate reason to refuse her in the future. If she returns it, it's also okay to refuse. If others see you lending her food, they will come to borrow food too.

"Thank you, Shengli, for helping me. How about I help you clean up the house in the future?" Qin Huairu found all kinds of reasons to build a good relationship with Li Shengli. It would be even better if Li Shengli and Sha Zhu had a sense of competition.

"No need, Qin Huairu, it's better for our two families to be farther away from each other." Li Shengli was unmoved. If an ordinary bachelor heard Zao Le, he would be lost. But Li Shengli would not buy it.

"Then tell me if you need it." Qin Huairu didn't care about what Li Shengli said. There must be a second one if there is one. After all this, a small Li Shengli could not be defeated.

"Give me the cloth bag and food together next month." Li Shengli ignored Qin Huairu and said lightly, closing the door and continuing to read his book.

Qin Huairu returned home carrying the cloth bag.

"You actually borrowed it." Jia Zhang was a little surprised. When did Li Shengli become so easy to talk to?

"I can definitely borrow it, but these have to be returned." Qin Huairu poured the corn flour in the bag into the jar.

"Return, just this little bit of corn flour?" Jia Zhang opened her mouth wide.

"The relationship between our two families is not that good, so we must pay it back. Now the main thing is to build a good relationship with Li Shengli's family. Maybe we can get the small stove back later." Qin Huairu's eyes were full of confidence. The life as a fitter in the past few months made Qin Huairu realize that she was not cut out for this job.

After listening to Qin Huairu's words, Jia Zhang lowered her head and thought for a while. This is what makes sense.

(End of this chapter)