Stepmother Reborn: Dad, my mom hasn't hit me for three days

"Hey, Ergou! Why are you here?"

Zhang Xiuhua hurriedly invited the person in and closed the door. "Don't you have food to eat? I'll bake sweet potatoes for you now."

Ergou stored a lot of food at her house, all of which she picked up from the farm, including sweet potatoes, corn, peanuts, soybeans, and so on.

Ergou's face turned red from the heat in the room. He shook his head and said, "Aunt Zhang, I've eaten. I want to come over and get ten kilograms of sweet potatoes."

Zhang Xiuhua's eyes widened. "What are you going to do with so much food? Do your parents know?"

Ergou rubbed his hands to warm them up, then said, "I want to exchange two pieces of clothes with others. I'm so cold."

Zhang Xiuhua touched his clothes and found that the cotton inside had already clumped into pieces. Last year, she sold the cotton and every household stuffed new cotton into their children's winter clothes. But Ergou's stepmother didn't have the heart to do so.

"Then I'll get it for you." Zhang Xiuhua went to the utility room to get food.

Ergou carried the sweet potato and went out in the snow. After the people had gone far away, Zhang Xiuhua suddenly remembered, where can he go to change clothes in this icy and snowy weather? The black market is in the town. If he walks there with his small body, he will freeze to death!

But if you think about it carefully, Ergou is eleven years old, not a three-year-old child, so he is definitely not that stupid.

But no matter how much she comforted him, she couldn't help but worry in her heart.

Fortunately, Ergou came back an hour later, but he didn't get any new clothes, but two sickles.

He cried, "Aunt Zhang, I was cheated. They gave me this. Can I exchange it for money?"

Zhang Xiuhua looked left and right. It looked like a sickle, but not like the sickles used in the Northeast. The place where the wheat was cut was in a semicircular arc.

She nodded, "Yes, I can. This can be used to harvest wheat. Can I trade with you?!"

Ergou narrowed his eyes and smiled, "Okay! I want to change cotton."

Zhang Xiuhua nodded, took some cotton out of her cotton quilt and stuffed it into his clothes. She also brought him two pairs of insoles, both wool, which he stuffed into his shoes to keep his feet from getting cold.

After Ergou put it on, he stamped his feet and grinned.

In the following days, Zhang Xiuhua always received things from Ergou, most of which were iron products, such as knives, iron forks, hoes and other items.

Zhang Xiuhua kept what she could use for herself and gave food to Ergou. Seeing him fill his food bag, his satisfied expression amused the children. Zhang Xiuhua didn't find it funny, she just felt sad.

Baolin asked Ergou, "Why did you exchange so much food? Doesn't your father let you eat enough?"

Every household in the Northeast can eat enough. After all, this is a large grain-growing country, so there is definitely enough food. It’s just a matter of whether the food is good or not.

Ergou smiled shyly, "No. I am very useful."

A few days later, Ergou carried the food away and came back with a watch.

Zhang Xiuhua didn't recognize the letters on it. Ergou asked her if she wanted the watch.

The watch was very expensive at that time, and Zhang Xiuhua didn't plan to keep it. She had a better mobile phone in her space, but it was a pity that she couldn't take it out.

I have a clock at home, which is enough. There is really no need to buy such a delicate mechanical watch.

So she agreed to deliver tofu to the town and sold the watch.

Ergou thanked her.

Zhang Xiuhua took the watch to find Zhou Pandi and asked her to sell it when she delivered tofu tomorrow.

Zhou Pandi took the watch and was a little surprised. "Where did it come from?"

Zhang Xiuhua did not hide it from him and told him about Ergou exchanging things with others.

Zhou Pandi frowned, "Ergou is still young, he can be replaced, don't get involved."

Her serious expression scared Zhang Xiuhua, "What's wrong?"

“It’s a Soviet brand.”

At that time, China and the Soviet Union were at odds, and many people who went to the Soviet Union to study were investigated. Ergou was a child, unemployed, and young, so he had nothing to do with them exchanging food, but Zhang Xiuhua was an adult, and her husband was a soldier. If she was involved, Li Jianguo would be implicated.

Zhang Xiuhua knew what was good for her, and after thinking for a while, she said, "Then we can't sell it, to avoid unnecessary trouble."

Although the ten-year catastrophe has ended, the hostility between China and the Soviet Union continued for a long time.

She thought that she could sell it for a good price after the reform and opening up in two years.

"It's also good to keep it as a souvenir." Zhou Pandi glanced at the brand, "This watch is of good quality."

Zhang Xiuhua nodded, intending to put the watch into the space, estimated the price, and quoted Ergou, "Eighty yuan."

This watch is second-hand, so it can't be priced the same as a new one.

Ergou's eyes lit up and he nodded quickly, "Okay!"

Zhang Xiuhua hesitated whether to persuade Ergou. If the kid was caught, she would definitely be implicated if she helped him sell things, so she asked him if he still wanted to go and exchange things.

Ergou shook his head, "No need. The food has been replaced."

He put the money with Zhang Xiuhua and asked her to help keep it.

Zhang Xiuhua took a small notebook and asked him to record the account in it. She was afraid that if time went on, she would make mistakes.

Ergou took note of the account and left.

Maybe because he had money in hand, Ergou was in a much better mood. He saw Youcai and a few others doing their homework, so he asked him if he could come over to do his homework.

"Sure." Zhang Xiuhua agreed immediately. The room was warm and spacious, so one more person wouldn't be too much.

So Ergou went home and got some food, and he ate and did his homework here during the day.

When he encountered a question he didn't know how to answer, he would ask Youcai or the two educated youth.

Zhou Pandi and Zhang Xiuhua said privately that Ergou was mentally strong and would definitely have a bright future.

Zhang Xiuhua was a little surprised because Baolin told her that Xiangxiang said Ergou stole something.

There is something strange about Xiangxiang, and Zhang Xiuhua thinks that this child might be reincarnated. After all, if she could be reincarnated, why couldn't Xiangxiang be reincarnated?

But now that Ergou hasn't stolen anything, she thinks the kid might have changed for the better.

But isn’t the judgment that someone has potential a bit of a change?

"How to say?"

Zhou Pandi pointed to her face and said, "He is very shameless. At such a young age, he knows how to show weakness to achieve his goals. We are both eleven years old, but Youcai only knows how to eat, while this child already knows how to plan for himself."

Zhang Xiuhua thought about it carefully, it was true. Ergou knew that she felt sorry for the child who was not loved by his father and mother, so he was always well-behaved in front of her. In fact, she didn't hate children playing tricks. She even hoped that the six children in the family could be as smart as Ergou. Unfortunately, except for Jidong, the other children only cared about eating!

But if you think about it carefully, Ergou and Jidong are sensible because they have suffered hardships. Rather than letting them be sensible, Zhang Xiuhua still hopes that the children can grow up without worries.

One month before the Chinese New Year, Zhang Xiuhua delivered the gift box to the supply and marketing cooperative.

Maybe because the price was too high, the sales of the supply and marketing cooperative were not ideal. At the beginning, only one order was sold a day, and the sales volume started to pick up as the Chinese New Year approached.

In the end, only four of the fifty gift boxes were left. The director of the supply and marketing cooperative did not rush to return them, but continued to sell them. After all, he might be able to sell them after visiting relatives on the second day of the Chinese New Year.

The captain breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that he didn't have to retreat.

New Year, New Beginning. Zhang Xiuhua's life continued to be ordinary.

Just after the Chinese New Year, Baolin urged Zhang Xiuhua to bring back a male rabbit as soon as possible. She really didn't want to crawl out from the warm quilt to feed the rabbit. It was too hard!