Educated Youth in the Countryside: She is the Village's Embroidery Queen!-Chapter 107: Living Independently After the Family Split

Chapter 107: Chapter 107: Living Independently After the Family Split

The tickets Wen Shi and the others prepared were very thorough, except for the four major items, all the other tickets were ready.

Mainly for rice, flour, grain, oil, tobacco, and alcohol, followed by candies and pastries.

There were also daily industrial tickets, soap, tea, meat tickets, and so on.

Yi Chichi took a look and noticed that some tickets had expiration dates and needed to be used before April.

Otherwise, they would expire and be void.

"I’ll make a trip to the county before spring planting."

"You can just go to the commune, it’s closer."

Yi Chichi agreed verbally, but in her heart, she was determined to go to the county.

Relationships need maintenance, especially now when she had tickets in hand, making it easier to buy certain goods without worrying about tickets.

But once the tickets were used up, they were gone. For specific goods that required tickets, unless you knew someone to buy the defective goods, you couldn’t get them.

Therefore, maintaining a good relationship with Aunt Du, who worked at the department store in the county, was crucial.

The old man relaxed seeing this and was just about to speak when Yi Chichi urgently said, "By the way, did the captain say what you guys would do during spring planting?"

"We’re not sure yet, we’ll see how the captain arranges it then."

They wouldn’t be allowed to be too relaxed, after all, appearances needed to be maintained.

But secretly, they would be taken care of.

"Xiao Jiu..."

The old man sighed as he patted Qin Jiu’s head, "It’s just that our Xiao Jiu is pitiful."

"I’m not pitiful!"

Qin Jiu snuggled his small body into his great-grandfather’s arms with deep affection, wrapping his little hands around his arm as if to comfort him like a little adult, "Being with you, Grandpa, makes me a happy child."

"Right, our Xiao Jiu is not pitiful at all."

At least his parents were only missing, at least he was with his great-grandfather, and he still had this aunt.

Two adults could surely take care of one child.

"When the work is too important and great-grandfather can’t care for you, you go to the team clinic to find Auntie."

She would spend most of the year in the team clinic, with some time spent working on the fields.

It was work that no one could escape.

Peasant doctors were busy as farmers, and only in their spare time were they doctors.

Qin Jiu was surprised, "But Auntie, you said we don’t know each other outside."

"It’s okay, once Auntie is established at the team clinic, you can go openly and aboveboard."

People generally show more kindness to children, except for those utterly irredeemable.

In the Red Flag Brigade, she couldn’t take this risk.

Kao Shan Village didn’t matter much.

With captain Grandpa Liu and others overseeing Kao Shan Village, the village’s character was relatively good.

There were oddballs, but none to an irredeemable extent.

Most importantly, the captain and others could suppress them.

"Auntie will communicate with the captain and the others."

She winked at Qin Jiu, and the child grinned.

After chatting leisurely with the elderly and the young, reminding them to take care of themselves and to notify her if anything came up, Yi Chichi took her leave.

While avoiding people and walking behind the houses, just before reaching Liu Xiaocao’s home, she heard Liu Xiaocao’s mother’s deafening objection, "I don’t agree. Where is there a rule for an unmarried girl to live independently?"

Was Liu Xiaocao determined to live separately as an independent household?

Yi Chichi’s eyes lit up, and she quickly ran forward, where there was still a crowded scene at the door.

Bai Chen and the others stood on the outer edge, tip-toeing to look inside. She quietly sneaked over, "What’s the situation now?"

"No agreement yet, Xiaocao has to wait. Where did you come from?"

Bai Chen turned his head swiftly to look at her, with a peculiar expression. They had checked before coming that Yi Chichi was not there.

Originally, they thought she was inside because the rumors said she was the first to find out Liu Xiaocao was looking to end it all and stopped her.

They had always thought she was inside, but this person suddenly appeared.

"I had a stomach ache and went to the restroom."

Yi Chichi answered without a flush and urged again, "And then?"

"Xiaocao said she wants to split the family and live independently. Whoever wants to marry a fool can do it; anyway, she won’t. If they dare force her, she’ll keep looking to end it, and if they can watch her around the clock, let them."

Once someone makes up their mind, they have a kind of unstoppable momentum.

Liu Xiaocao was in such a state now; she didn’t want to gamble her later life on her parents’ love for her.

So her attitude was very firm.

Yi Chichi smiled, "Looks like she’ll get what she wants."

Aunt Lanhua tutted, "I say Big Mouth is too indulgent with Xiaocao. If it were my own Dongdong and she was this stubborn with me, I’d have to break her legs."

Liu Dong, who was originally standing by watching the commotion, never expected his mother to drag the topic to herself.

He immediately rolled his eyes in exasperation, "I say, mom, can’t you stop yapping all day? Breaking my legs, I just ask, would you marry me off to a fool for my brother?"

This was a good question, and Yi Chichi and the others perked up their ears.

Their gaze also fell on Aunt Lanhua.

She furrowed her brow and pondered for a moment, then said with a toothache expression, "I might marry you off for a high dowry, but I’d definitely have your dad investigate and scrutinize the match. A fool wouldn’t do as it’d ruin your life."

Guessing she felt she was being quite reasonable, she added, "A married daughter is like spilled water, your father and I will eventually rely on your brother in our later years."

"You, we can’t count on."

She spoke earnestly, and Liu Dong was too tired to argue with her, "Mom, you’d better remember what you said today."

"Why, would you hold a grudge against me after I raised you?"

Aunt Lanhua glared at her with stern eyebrows, and Liu Dong replied with a stoic face, "I don’t hold a grudge; I just can’t stand you sometimes."

"You troublesome girl..."

Aunt Lanhua raised her hand as if to hit, and Liu Dong quickly hid behind Yi Chichi, "Be careful not to hit Yi Zhqing, she’s not as tough-skinned as I am. If you hurt her, you’ll be in big trouble."

Yi Chichi sighed, wondering why she was dragged into this.

Just as she was about to say something to mediate, Aunt Lanhua withdrew her hand and snorted with a smile, "You’re just a stubborn old girl, the only one who dares defy me."

Liu Dong, ever the unyielding one, was ready to retort when she caught a glimpse of the captain and others coming out.

"They’re out, they’re out."

She exclaimed excitedly.

Yi Chichi and the others turned their heads swiftly, seeing the crowd part and Liu Xiaocao emerge, clutching a flimsy cloth bundle as she walked with the captain and others.

"How was it resolved?"

Someone couldn’t help but ask out of curiosity.

The captain sighed and was about to respond when Big Mouth shouted, "Don’t forget what you promised."

"I won’t, once everything is settled you can just consider me dead, and I’ll consider you both dead as well."

Liu Xiaocao’s voice was calm, her gaze equally calm, so much so that there was not a ripple or gleam, a state of heart like dead ashes.

Yi Chichi and the others fell silent; there was more to this story.

Upon inquiry, as expected, while Liu Xiaocao succeeded in setting up a separate household, she had to provide 100 lbs of grain and 30 yuan per year for the next ten years as a support payment.

After ten consecutive years, she would have repaid Big Mouth and his wife’s debt of raising her.

Knowing this result, the crowd was in an uproar.