These days, although resources aren’t as scarce as they were a decade ago, they’re still not easy to co by.
The food in the Fishern District is quite poor, with the little good oil and fat in the big canteen reserved for the sailors at sea.
Saozi can only manage the household on the ager wages their n bring ho, barely scraping by.
Who would willingly buy at, such a rare item?
At most, they might eat so fish!
Apart from so saozi from the city with slightly better family conditions, who might buy a little every now and then, the poor saozi from the countryside like us...
With kids at ho and having to support parents and siblings back in the village, every cent of the husband’s wages must be stretched.
at is sothing you’d only eat during festivals for a sense of occasion throughout the year.
Usually, they eat vegetables grown in their garden, saving as much as possible, with white rice soup as the staple, and at most indulging in stead buns made of white flour.
But this new little saozi next door casually gives sausages and cured at as a greeting gift. That’s way too generous!
Look at how fat and firm the at is, how plump the sausages are. The richness can almost be slled through the air.
If it were her, she’d definitely hide the at to eat it herself rather than give it away. It’s truly wasteful.
Yang i, feeling both envious and pained, couldn’t stop swallowing and wished she could grab the sausages and cured at and eat them raw herself.
Little Wu and Dong Hu were also shocked to see Nianyang take out sausages and cured at for them. Little Wu imdiately waved his hand, saying,
"No, no, saozi, please take the at back and enjoy it for yourself. This is too precious. We were only helping on Manager Li’s orders to carry your luggage—that’s our duty."
Dong Hu looked at the at, swallowed silently, and resolutely said,
"That’s right. You are our saozi, and we can’t take advantage of you, or Manager Li would be angry. Saozi, this is too much burden for us!"
Nianyang, seeing these two honest young sailors, couldn’t help but laugh,
"This is my little token for you. Look how serious you are—I’m your saozi, so what’s wrong with giving you so at? Do you really see Arrogant as that stingy, unwilling to spare even a bit of at for his subordinates?"
A bit of at?
Is this a bit?
Little Wu and Dong Hu looked at the solid sausages and cured at, speechless, realizing how poverty had constrained their imagination.
Clearly, their manager usually lived as frugally as anyone else, so how could their saozi be so extravagant? Could it be that at ho, Li Ye is being supported by saozi?
Little Wu and Dong Hu felt they might have stumbled upon so amazing discovery.
"Alright, don’t refuse anymore. Just listen to and take it, or else you aren’t treating as your saozi."
With Nianyang having said this, Little Wu and Dong Hu had no choice but to reluctantly accept the gift, thinking that in these tis, giving away at to others truly signified generosity.
Their saozi seed like a little rich woman; the manager sure was lucky!
"Thank you, saozi. Our Manager will be back in a couple of days. Just settle in here, and if you need anything, just call us. We’ll be at your service without hesitation!"
After sending off the enthusiastic duo, Nianyang turned back, ready to unlock the door with the key, when Yang i called out to her,
"Hey, little saozi, are you Manager Li’s fiancée?"
Nianyang had noticed earlier that Yang i had been peeping at her. She really disliked Yang i’s shifty-eyed gaze, which seed full of ill intentions.
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