Reborn as a Superpower Girl in the 80s

Chapter 25: Chapter 25 I Can’t Understand What Others Are Saying Chapter 25: Chapter 25 I Can’t Understand What Others Are Saying Luo Qiao nodded in agreement and replied, “Yes, there’s a shortage of everything, so I sold some herbs and bought a few daily necessities.”

Zhao Xiaomei said, “What all did you buy? Let the Second Sister take a look.”

Without waiting, she eagerly made her way into the house and, upon seeing the shoes on the kang and the enamel washbasin on the floor, her eyes glittered.

Wow, are these new Jiefang shoes?

Zhao Xiaomei picked them up and felt them for a while, then said, “Luo Qiao, our feet are pretty much the same size. Could you lend these shoes to the Second Sister for a few days?”

Luo Qiao replied with a smile that wasn’t quite a smile, “I haven’t even worn these shoes yet. Besides, our shoe sizes aren’t the same; I wear size thirty-six, and you can’t fit into them.”

Zhao Xiaomei, after looking for a long while and apparently lost in thought, said, “It’s fine, I wear size thirty-seven, my feet are slim so I can definitely squeeze into them.”

She seemed deaf to what others were saying, absorbed in her own world.

Then she looked at the enamel washbasin on the ground and said, “This enamel washbasin is so pretty. Can’t we take turns using it, Luo Qiao? I really love the color of this basin.”

When purchasing it, the supply and sales cooperative had only two kinds: one was the big red double happiness pattern used for weddings, and the other was this blue kind with a pattern of two fish at the bottom. Luo Qiao had no choice but to choose the blue one.

Faced with such shamelessness, Luo Qiao was speechless, “These items are personal belongings. It’s disgusting to share them like that.”

Just then, footsteps were heard in the courtyard, and in came Zhao Xiaotao. Luo Qiao thought to herself that there must be someone in cahoots.

Before Luo Qiao could agree, Zhao Xiaomei hugged the items and left the courtyard, “Sister, why did you come over?”

Zhao Xiaotao replied, “Mom sent me to ask if Luo Qiao needs any vegetable seeds.”

Luo Qiao snorted internally. Zhao Xiaotao was clever indeed, her excuse sounded much more reliable than Zhao Xiaomei’s.

Luo Qiao didn’t want to continue the pointless conversation and waste her time, “I don’t need the seeds, Auntie Gao from the brigade leader’s house has already helped me find some. If there’s nothing else, you should head back. I need to go out and dig up some wild vegetables.”

Zhao Xiaotao was now staring intently at the things in her younger sister’s arms. Zhao Xiaomei had noticed her older sister’s gaze, but since she was the one who took the items, she couldn’t afford to give them away to her.

With a quick thought, Zhao Xiaomei said, “Alright, we won’t bother you then. I’ll borrow these items for now, and I’ll return them to you later.”

By this time, Luo Qiao could hear the people from the slope earlier coming down, so she raised her voice and said, “Zhao Family Second Sister, that won’t do. When I came to the village, I hardly brought anything with me, and this is the only pair of shoes I have.

That’s why I didn’t work today and went to town to buy these new shoes. I can’t just lend them to you before I’ve even worn them myself. We’re not close relatives or anything, do you really have the nerve to take the belongings of an orphan girl like me?”

Zhao Xiaomei became somewhat anxious and retorted, “Don’t be so stingy, I’m just borrowing them to wear, not keeping them. You’re being so petty about it.”

As Luo Qiao heard the people arriving at the front gate, her voice grew even louder, “I’m not being stingy. It’s only because I managed to find these medicinal herbs that I could afford these items. I don’t even have spare clothes, which is why I went to buy them.

I’ll need to wear the shoes for work tomorrow. What will I wear if I lend them to you? Plus, the size is too small for you, and I can’t lend you the washbasin either. When I arrived at the village, I had nothing.

All this time, I’ve been using a bowl borrowed from Auntie Gao to wash my face. I gritted my teeth to buy this basin. So it’s not that I’m stingy; these items are necessities. I really can’t lend them to you.”