CHAPTER 332: CHAPTER 333: SPENDTHRIFT GIRL 4

These days, although resources aren’t as scarce as they were a decade ago, they’re still not easy to come by.

The food in the Fishermen 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 meager wages their men bring home, barely scraping by.

Who would willingly buy meat, such a rare item?

At most, they might eat some fish!

Apart from some 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 home and having to support parents and siblings back in the village, every cent of the husband’s wages must be stretched.

Meat is something 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 steamed buns made of white flour.

But this new little saozi next door casually gives sausages and cured meat as a greeting gift. That’s way too generous!

Look at how fat and firm the meat is, how plump the sausages are. The richness can almost be smelled through the air.

If it were her, she’d definitely hide the meat to eat it herself rather than give it away. It’s truly wasteful.

Yang Mei, feeling both envious and pained, couldn’t stop swallowing and wished she could grab the sausages and cured meat and eat them raw herself.

Little Wu and Dong Hu were also shocked to see Nianyang take out sausages and cured meat for them. Little Wu immediately waved his hand, saying,

"No, no, saozi, please take the meat 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 meat, 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 some meat? Do you really see Arrogant as that stingy, unwilling to spare even a bit of meat for his subordinates?"

A bit of meat?

Is this a bit?

Little Wu and Dong Hu looked at the solid sausages and cured meat, 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 home, Li Ye is being supported by saozi?

Little Wu and Dong Hu felt they might have stumbled upon some amazing discovery.

"Alright, don’t refuse anymore. Just listen to me and take it, or else you aren’t treating me 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 times, giving away meat to others truly signified generosity.

Their saozi seemed 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 Mei called out to her,

"Hey, little saozi, are you Manager Li’s fiancée?"

Nianyang had noticed earlier that Yang Mei had been peeping at her. She really disliked Yang Mei’s shifty-eyed gaze, which seemed full of ill intentions.

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