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Chapter 1106 80 Little Stutterer Pork Shop 1

Lingyao was awakened by a knock on the door.

Accompanied by a series of accented shouts.

"Jiang girl, Jiang girl, why aren't you up yet? If you don't get up soon, you'll miss your meat meal!"

Lingyao rolled out of bed and opened the door.

Outside the door, a middle-aged woman with two braids was anxiously clapping her hands and peeking out. When she saw Lingyao come out, she immediately shrank back, seemingly wary of her.

Lingyao glanced at her and asked, "What are you doing?"

"Didn't you tell me to come and call you at this time? The Chen family's butcher shop is open for business today. I just came from that butcher shop, and the line is really long. You'd better hurry up."

As the middle-aged woman spoke, she prepared to grab Lingyao's hand and drag her away.

Lingyao stepped aside.

"You go first, I'll come over in a bit."

After saying that, Lingyao closed the door, ignoring how confused the people outside were.

"I'll be going now, I'll go make room for you, hurry up!"

The aunt outside the door shouted a few more times before hurrying away.

Lingyao turned around and met the eyes of the little boy sitting on the small wooden stool in the room, who was timidly looking at her with his small black hands clenched together.

Wait, whose child is this?!

......

The original owner's name was Jiang Lingyao. She was born when the Jiang family couple were working away from home. Later, because she lost her job, did not have a city household registration, and did not have a residence certificate, she was sent back to the village as a vagrant.

A few years after returning to the village, my mother died during childbirth while giving birth to my younger brother, Jiang Jianping.

Later, famine struck every household, and Jiang's father also froze to death on the mountain while risking his life to find something to eat.

When he was discovered coming down the mountain, he was already hard.

Jiang Lingyao was only fourteen at that time.

Jiang Jianping was even younger, only four or five years old.

After their father passed away, the two siblings relied almost entirely on scraps of food picked up from the villagers to make a living.

Jiang Lingyao started going up the mountain with everyone when she was fourteen to clear land and earn work points in exchange for food.

Clearing land is no easy task. Some rocks are even bigger than Jiang Lingyao herself. She was exhausted after a day's work and didn't do as much as others.

Jiang Lingyao's work points weren't enough to support her alone.

Therefore, Jiang Lingyao's feelings towards her younger brother are very complicated.

At first, the two relied on each other, as she wanted to earn work points to exchange for food to support her younger brother.

In the years that followed, her thinking changed amidst extreme material deprivation.

She despised Jiang Jianping as a burden, and only cared about getting enough to eat herself. As for Jiang Jianping, he either ate her leftovers or had to go from house to house begging for food.

At first, some villagers disapproved of her behavior and advised her to treat Jiang Jianping better.

“No matter what, Jiang Jianping is the only son of your Jiang family. You have to leave an heir for your father.”

"Leave him an heir? He's the only child, so what am I? If my deadbeat father couldn't raise him, he shouldn't have had him. He's my son, why should I raise him? Get lost! If you can't stand it, take this little burden back with you!"

Back then, every household ate wild vegetables with sweet potatoes. Grain was distributed according to the number of people in each household, and there was no extra grain. There was no spare grain to feed a child.

She's still someone else's child.

So those who came to persuade Jiang Lingyao shut up.

Occasionally, people would take pity on Jiang Jianping and give him a couple of bites of food when he begged at his doorstep.

That's how Jiang Jianping has managed to grow up safely to this day.

Jiang Lingyao was gossiped about and scorned by the villagers because of her relationship with Jiang Jianping. At first, she either kept quiet or retorted.

After being talked about so much, she would immediately start fighting with anyone who dared to bring it up in front of her!

Her verbal skills were even better than those of the most outspoken aunties in the villages.

Gradually, no one dared to speak ill of her to her face anymore, and people would avoid her whenever they saw her.

The person who just came to see Jiang Lingyao was Aunt Wang, the only person in the village with whom she had a decent relationship.

The reason why Aunt Wang and Jiang Lingyao are on good terms is because there are benefits to be had by following Jiang Lingyao.

For example, Jiang Lingyao would buy meat every time the stuttering boy from the Chen family set up a meat stall.

Although she said she was buying meat, Jiang Lingyao was actually just going to get meat on credit. As for the money she owed for the meat and the meat coupons, she had no way of getting it back.

This kind of credit is no different from eating for free; it's just a fig leaf to cover up the truth.

It was because that little stutterer had no one at home and couldn't speak clearly that not only Jiang Lingyao, but also many of the village bullies and hooligans liked to go there to "buy meat on credit".

And every time Aunt Wang went with Jiang Lingyao, she could easily get a small piece of meat.

It's only about the size of a palm.

Don't underestimate this small amount of meat. These days, even a piece of meat the size of your palm needs to be finely chopped and divided into several meals over several days.

......

After reading the message, Ling Yao looked at Jiang Jianping, who was dressed in tattered clothes and ill-fitting ripped jeans, with his buttocks barely covered, and almost facepalmed.

Okay, this time he's really become the village bully.

Jiang Jianping noticed Ling Yao staring at him and timidly took a few steps back.

"I just finished steaming the sweet potato porridge."

This year was better than the previous years when people were starving. Each family received more grain and ration coupons, and the economy was recovering.

Jiang Lingyao was no longer so resistant to her younger brother who was a burden on her, and she still gave him food, but Jiang Jianping had to help with cooking, laundry and other chores at home.

He's too young to go out and work like Jiang Lingyao, but Jiang Lingyao won't support him for nothing.

Jiang Lingyao went to work in the morning and went straight to sleep when she got back. Before going to sleep, she told Jiang Jianping to prepare lunch.

Unexpectedly, before lunchtime even began, Aunt Wang knocked on the door first.

Lingyao tossed Jiang Jianping a sentence: "You eat first."

I quickly packed my clothes and went out.

Actually, there weren't many clothes to sort through; they were mostly old clothes that others didn't want, some with holes, and some with sleeves that were different lengths.

Lingyao picked out a slightly better one, a faded one with two holes in the cuffs, and went out wearing it.

Sigh, I've never been this poor!

Lingyao rushed to the meat stall based on her memory.

Sure enough, a long queue could be seen from afar.

As soon as Lingyao arrived, Aunt Wang, who had been standing in the line for a long time, waved vigorously at him.

"Jiang family girl, Jiang family girl, here! Over here!"

Lingyao saw her and walked over.

Wang Cuicui came to queue up today without even bringing money or tickets. Now that she saw Lingyao coming over, she felt a little relieved.

She was afraid that the Jiang family girl wouldn't come today, leaving her to wait in line for nothing, without any money or tickets to buy meat, and making everyone laugh.

Fortunately, the person did arrive.

"Why are you only arriving now? All the good meat has been bought up."

Lingyao thought to herself, "Damn it! Are people who freeload so brazenly these days?"

Not only do they eat other people's meat for free, but they also want to eat the best.