The 1970s: Military Family Beauty

Chapter 25 What Face Do You Want

Jiang Zhaohui was thinking about the new small cabinet in the house. After school in the afternoon, he didn't play outside, so he hurried back home and asked as soon as he entered the door: "Sister, where is the cabinet in our room?"

"It's washed but not dry yet. It needs to be aired out. It can't be used." Jiang Furong was so tired that she collapsed on the bed and almost fell asleep. She couldn't even speak complete sentences.

After the carpenter left, she used a brush dipped in laundry detergent to scrub several repaired old furniture top to bottom, inside and out. She used too much force and now she can't lift her arms and her speech is affected.

In fact, Carpenter Lu also said that if the surfaces of these old furniture were polished with sandpaper and then painted, they would look like new.

She also wanted to do it neatly, but her parents might not have the budget for it, so she could only use her own energy to turn waste into treasure.

Jiang Zhaohui was already very satisfied. He kept squatting and standing up, touching the small cabinet, and was extremely happy: "Sister, this cabinet has two doors. The left door is for you, and the right door is for me. We can put our books on it, okay?"

"Okay." Jiang Furong didn't care about the distribution, she just wanted to sleep: "You go cook, I'll take a nap."

Jiang Zhaohui hung his schoolbag behind the door and said cheerfully, "Okay! I'll make some fried rice."

The half-cooked rice for lunch was really too much, and the three of us only ate less than one-third of it. For dinner, we just needed to stir-fry the leftovers, and it would be enough for two people.

Jiang Chaohui hummed a song while cooking dinner. The house was still quiet. Her mother had not yet gotten off work, her younger brother had not come back from playing with his classmates, and her elder sister had fallen asleep. She continued to admire her small cabinet.

God knows how much she envied her parents' room because it had a big wardrobe that could hold a lot of things, including clothes and quilts. There was also a small drawer with a lock where she could lock up delicious food. She could only smell the fragrance through the gap between the drawers.

Now she has her own closet where she can store her clothes.

Jiang Zhaohui pulled his own clothes out of the pile in the corner against the wall and gestured to put them into the grid: "Ah, it can only hold small clothes, not cotton coats and trousers."

"Where does this come from?" Hu Xiuqing's voice suddenly appeared at the bedroom door.

Jiang Zhaohui screamed in fright and jumped up from the ground. The clothes in his hands fell to the ground. He hurriedly picked them up and said, "My sister brought them back. Ah! Mom, dinner is ready. I'll go call Qingqing to come back for dinner."

As soon as Jiang Chaohui saw Hu Xiuqing's stern face, he subconsciously wanted to run away.

Hu Xiuqing walked over, squatted down suspiciously, and opened the cabinet door: "Where did your sister get it?"

Jiang Furong had already sat up in shock at Jiang Zhaohui's scream: "What's wrong? What's wrong? Did you prick your hand? I told you not to lie down on that chair yet. You need to put some plywood on it."

Hu Xiuqing stood up and suddenly felt dizzy. She bent down with one hand covering her head and the other hand holding the edge of the bed. She was speechless for a long time.

Jiang Furong regained consciousness and realized that Hu Xiuqing had overexerted himself from squatting. It was a brief dizziness, nothing serious, so she remained silent, got out of bed and put on her shoes. She briefly explained the origin of the small cabinet, "I asked the commander's family for this."

Hu Xiuqing couldn't believe her ears: "What? You asked them for something?"

"Ah."

"You dare to ask for things from others?"

"Their family doesn't want it anyway, and I just happen to need it, so I can just ask her for it."

"Shameless! Go ask others for things!" Hu Xiuqing held on to the bed frame and barely stood up. The dizziness had not yet subsided, but he was already gritting his teeth in anger.

Jiang Furong quickly stepped back, not wanting to get into another argument with Hu Xiuqing. Firstly, she'd been busy all day, moving things and cleaning furniture, and clearly didn't have the strength to fight. Secondly, she was going to the provincial capital tomorrow and was worried she wouldn't have enough money for the fare. She even wanted to ask Hu Xiuqing for another dollar as a backup.

If she choked Hu Xiuqing with her words now, let alone asking for money, it would be hard to say whether she would have food to eat tonight.

This is actually the best of both worlds. One does not have to find someone to dispose of the garbage, and the other does not have to find a way to spend money to buy furniture. What's the point of talking about shamelessness?

The truth is this, it is not feasible to reason with the furious Hu Xiuqing, so Jiang Furong chose to save the country in a roundabout way: "My father is not at home, I can't wait for him to come back to ask for it."

Hu Xiuqing was almost furious: "Your dad wouldn't beg for things like a beggar! How dare you let your dad ask for things? You shameless thing!"

As he said that, he kicked the small cabinet.

The door panel of the small cabinet was thin, and with a click, the kick cracked the right door panel.

Jiang Chaohui was peeking in the living room. She was already extremely nervous. Hu Xiuqing's kick was like a kick in the body, which made her so heartbroken that she cried. She cried silently and didn't dare to say a word.

"You said you can't have it, so I'll send it back!" Jiang Furong started to bluff again: "It's dark now, so she can't see that the cabinet door is cracked."

She discovered that when reasoning was useless, she had to find a powerful backer for herself, and borrowing the power of a powerful person was particularly useful with Hu Xiuqing.

Hu Xiuqing was frightened again: "Send it back? Will they still want it?"

There is a clear shoe print on the small door panel, and a piece of it has been cut into the crack. Can't you see it because you are blind?

Jiang Furong threw the question back: "It's hard to say! There are benches and backrests in the backyard. Do you want to send them back as well?"

Hu Xiuqing was stunned: "What? You want so much more!"

I ran to the patio and saw, besides the broken furniture, a large aluminum basin filled with black water without bubbles. "What's in this?"

Jiang Furong came over and explained, "Blanket and mosquito net."

She didn't have time to wash, nor did she have the energy to do so.

The blanket became extremely heavy when wet and could not be twisted out at all.

Hu Xiuqing looked at the bench and curled her lips, then looked at the backrest stool with prosthetic limbs and curled her lips again: "It's just a pile of junk, and you still have the nerve to ask for it!"

Although he was unhappy, he didn't call him shameless anymore.

Jiang Furong rolled her eyes in her heart. She didn't like junk things, but she didn't have money to buy new ones. If she didn't have money, she would have to think about the things that happened to her.

Hu Xiuqing frowned and picked up the mosquito net soaked in water to take a look, shaking her head: "It's so dirty, how much detergent would it cost!"

Jiang Furong tried her best to keep her voice level, "There's only one small quilt in the small dark room, and it won't be enough for grandma when she comes."

When she slept in the small dark room, she used half of the blanket and half of the cover, and she couldn't sleep well at all.

If she had enough money in her pocket, she would definitely go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy new ones. The green military quilts and white cotton battings on the counter looked soft and fluffy. Zhang Haiyan said that they were all made of this year's new cotton balls.

Hu Xiuqing said nothing.

There was a mattress and a ten-pound quilt in the wardrobe, but she just didn't want to take them out and use them.

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