Chapter 52: Li Lijuan Goes Begging (Part 2)

Just the thought of her hard-earned fair skin getting tanned again made Li Lijuan very upset.

On the contrary, looking at Zhao Xiulan, she couldn’t help but feel like Zhao Xiulan’s skin seemed smoother and fairer.

It must be because Zhao Xiulan hadn’t been doing manual labor these past few days.

Hehe, she used begging as an excuse to avoid working and keep herself fair. Wouldn’t it make it easier for her to seduce Liu Jianguo in the future?

Liu Jianguo was the son of the team leader, so the Liu family had a better life than many others. While others couldn’t eat their fill, the brigade leader’s family definitely could. Sometimes they even had meat or other good things.

Let alone anything else, just look at the team leader’s daughter, Liu Lanlan, who was very fat. Despite being only 162 centimetres tall, she weighed over 160 pounds, with fat shaking all over her body.

In this day and age, most families couldn’t eat their fill, and most people were thin from hunger. Only the team leader’s family could fatten their daughter like a pig.

This indirectly showed that the brigade leader’s family had a good diet. If someone married into that family, wouldn’t it be a life of comfort? No worries about food and drink, and most importantly, with the team leader’s connections, they could even choose to do light work or not work at all.

Li Lijuan couldn’t stand to see Zhao Xiulan doing well.

Why should she be liked by Liu Jianguo and have the chance to marry into the team leader’s family?

If anyone were to marry into that family, it should be her!

How could Zhao Xiulan be worthy of someone like him? She didn’t know what Liu Jianguo saw in her.

When Zhao Xiulan heard Li Lijuan’s words, she sneered and said to Li Lijuan, “In that case, how about we switch roles? If you think begging is not difficult and better than working at home, then you go beg, and I’ll do the housework.

“If you can beg as much food as I can, I don’t mind letting you take over the begging in the county town from now on. You can do whatever you want. But if you can’t beg anything, then you’ll have to do housework obediently at home in the future and stop complaining about being tired.”

Li Lijuan stared at Zhao Xiulan, caught a glimpse of the smile at the corner of her mouth, and felt that Zhao Xiulan was up to no good.

Could it be that she was deliberately provoking her?

After thinking about it, Li Lijuan decided to agree.

What’s so difficult about begging?

If Zhao Xiulan could do it, why couldn’t she?

“Fine, I’ll go beg tomorrow, and you do the housework.”

“Deal, no problem.”

After agreeing with Li Lijuan, Zhao Xiulan went to prepare dinner. She steamed a few sweet potatoes for dinner and made some porridge.

Sorghum flour was something Zhao Weiguo wanted to keep for Ma Yumei, after all, Ma Yumei was pregnant and there weren’t many other good things at home to help her nourish her body. Zhao Xiulan saw the pleading look on Zhao Weiguo’s face and agreed to it.

It was just some coarse grains. If Ma Yumei ate them, she ate them. The most important thing was to leave a considerate and sensible image in Zhao Weiguo’s heart.

She had sweated a lot these past two days and hadn’t bathed for two days. In the evening, Zhao Xiulan heated some water and took a bath. She felt much more comfortable after washing.

Before going to bed, Zhao Xiulan called Zhao Xiu Zhu into the room and gave her an egg to eat.

Since she wouldn’t be going to the county town tomorrow and wouldn’t have the excuse to beg for food to feed the child, she could only give her something now while she still could.

As usual, Zhao Xiulan applied a facial mask and did facial care before going to sleep.

The next morning, Li Lijuan also confidently prepared to go to the county town to beg for food.

Because she was going to the county town, Li Lijuan dressed up, tidied her hair, and wore her best and newest clothes.

(End of Chapter 52)