CHAPTER 32: CHAPTER 031 SHE REALLY IS LUCKY

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Dragging her silly daughter who was unaware of her foolishness again, Lin Ximei hurriedly left the scene.

Due to Zhou Daxiang’s angry roar, many people in the hallway were peeping at them with curious eyes; her thick-skinned face couldn’t stand it anymore. She had no choice but to take her precious daughter home first and revisit after Zhou Daxiang and her family had calmed down a bit.

Of course, before leaving the hospital, she made sure to pay the emergency fee and a week’s hospitalization fee. The Lin Family had to cover these costs, but losing nearly two hundred silver pieces at once meant a significant portion of their savings was depleted, and she definitely had to discuss it with her husband.

Even if she didn’t mention it, she estimated that people in the same courtyard would tell him. Thinking of her husband’s increasingly cold and distressed face made her feel even more disheartened.

Could it really be that she had spoiled her precious daughter too much?

Lin Ximei’s internal struggle was set aside, and after the mother and daughter left, the emergency room doors fully opened. A hospital bed was pushed out, on which Chen Xiufang, drenched in sweat, her clothes soaked, hair messy and sticking to her face, her complexion pale and ghastly, eyes tightly shut, lay. Next to her arm was a small bundle of baby swaddling, the baby’s tiny face red and wrinkled, like a little old man.

"Xiufang!" Li Jianfeng, seeing his unconscious wife and child, tightened inside and quietly bent over the hospital bed to call out.

"Comrade, don’t block the way. Also, both the mother and child are fine, the mother has just passed out due to exhaustion, let her wake up naturally!" The older head nurse stopped Li Jianfeng, speaking rather gently.

"Thank you, thank you, Comrade!"

Zhou Daxiang also spoke kind words nearby, looking at the sweetly sleeping baby, her face shifted from the earlier stern expression to a smile as she apologized to the nurses. If they weren’t still on the move, she really wanted to go hug her precious grandson.

At this time, the Li family’s mother and son, in contrast to their earlier tragedy, were all smiles as they followed the hospital bed to the ward. At this time, many still gave birth at their own homes, so there weren’t many mothers in the eight beds of the maternity ward, and each one who was there had special reasons, each wearing light smiles, even somewhat sad.

On the contrary, the Li family’s mother and son wore smiles. Then, Li Jianfeng, hearing about the need to pay silver, suddenly slapped his head and told his mother that he would go home to fetch the silver and asked if she needed anything else. They spoke in hushed tones, worrying about waking the sleeping mother and child.

Li Jianfeng, seeing the obvious sadness on the faces of the three other mothers in the distance, suppressed the discomfort in his heart and silently endured.

After all, in the current hospital, not to mention a private room, there weren’t even available better double or quad rooms!

Qingyun Town was just a small commune, really lacking good medical facilities, so the patients were all ordinary folks! Thus, many people couldn’t even pay for medical costs, let alone hospitalization fees.

On the other side, Zhang Shanni followed Xie Jingchen to the supply and marketing cooperative, her big eyes curiously examining the displays inside. To her, everything she saw was like antiques—items differing by four decades from her era; she couldn’t imagine them at all!

The fabrics had just a few colors—gray, black, blue, red—and even their quality looked very rough, far worse compared to what she had in her space!

After looking around, Zhang Shanni felt that nothing here caught her eye. How troublesome!

Eventually, when she spotted some sanitary napkin, she suddenly remembered that her menstrual period, following the original body’s cycle, was due in a few days!

Thinking about how, if she didn’t buy some today, when her period comes, blood would stream heavily from her lower body...

Oh my gosh, stop, stop! That image is too horrifying... She couldn’t even dare to imagine it!

At first, Xie Jingchen was wondering why the little girl wasn’t surveying her surroundings anymore. Following her gaze, his heart tightened and his ears heated up. Hastily, he said, "Little girl, choose some yourself, I’ll wait for you outside." After speaking, he thrust the paper silver he was holding into her hands, then rushed out in a hurry.

"..." Seeing her husband’s hurried actions, and where his final glance lingered, even the usually thick-skinned Zhang Shanni blushed, unable to hide the flush on her face with her dark complexion!

Although she wanted Xie Jingchen to leave for a bit so she could swap out the items, she hadn’t intended to use that kind of reason to shake him off!

Considering she had traveled from the future, no matter how thin-skinned she became, she shouldn’t feel embarrassed so easily. It could only be blamed on her body being too sensitive. As soon as she felt the peculiar embarrassment, her face heated up instantly, making herself, a grown woman in her thirties, act like a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl!

Looking at the paper silver and tickets forcibly stuffed into her hands, Xie Jingchen had not only given her all of the twenty-plus pieces of paper silver from selling wild goods, but also brought out the only fifty-odd pieces of paper silver he had! The pile of tickets that came with it, which included cloth tickets, shoe tickets, soap tickets, match tickets, cotton thread tickets, sugar tickets, cigarette tickets, and liquor tickets, was truly eye-opening!

Seeing some elderly men and women around her eyeing her enviously, Zhang Shanni instinctively clutched the silver banknotes tightly, not daring to attract more attention, and discretely stuffed them into her trouser pocket. In fact, she used the pocket to place them into Space. Once in the Space, even without looking, her heart knew what those items were, which made shopping with the tickets more convenient.

No wonder historical records said the first thirty years of the new Foundation were hard years. Everything used, everything eaten, all required tickets. Even going out required a ’travel pass’. Luckily, her rebirth happened at the very end of the seventies, and she was about to enter the eighties!

Truly, she should celebrate!

Zhang Shanni clenched her hand, her spirit locked on the paper silver and tickets in the Space, her heart moved.

She didn’t know how much paper silver Xie Jingchen brought back from the military, but as soon as he returned, he almost took out all the paper silver he had on him to ’buy’ her!

Judging from the thickness of the paper silver he initially presented, Zhang Shanni figured it couldn’t be more than five hundred pieces. Plus, considering he was back to get married, he definitely needed to spare some silver for his parents to manage the wedding! Thus, the fifty-odd pieces he now gave her must be all he could currently utilize!

Despite having been reborn for less than a single day, her hands possessed a hundred pieces already! In the late seventies, this was absolutely a considerable sum! Moreover, the tickets she held were scarce!

Looking at these tickets, the likes of sugar, cigarette, liquor, and soap tickets were quite rare, and even cloth tickets numbered several sheets, though measured by the yard. Though these were only a few yards each, the advantage was that these tickets were nationally usable! It seems that these tickets were likely exchanged by Xie Jingchen with his comrades in the military before he returned.

Clearly, Xie Jingchen was indeed a good choice for a husband; at least he remembered to get some fabric for his new wife! Cloth tickets were always in short supply, especially these nationally usable ones!

Indeed, her character luck was not bad! Reborn to meet a responsible good man, a rational mother-in-law, and a very father-like father-in-law, even Xiao Yi to Xiao Qi were all sensible and adorable children. Meeting such a family, she was indeed lucky!

Regarding the ambiguous hints from her mother-in-law that her co-wives weren’t very reliable, in Zhang Shanni’s eyes, that really wasn’t a big problem!

Having come from the future, she was very clear-headed. No matter whether those co-wives were easy to get along with or not, she only acknowledged one thing: Zhang Shanni married Xie Jingchen, not the Xie Family. If the co-wives were good, everyone would be happy; if the co-wives were terrible, was she supposed to cower and seek peace?

Tsk, Zhang Shanni was neither a brainless white lotus nor an easy target to bully!

If they wanted to oppress her, then it’s "Watch the drama while riding a donkey—watch and see!"