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Relatives who love small bargains

Half a month later I was wearing a new coat, but the planned coat had become a short blouse.

By Ebrahim mohammadiePublished 3 years ago 3 min read
Relatives who love small bargains
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LONG LONG AGO, when I was a little kid, the ready-made garment industry was not that developed. My uncle brought me a beautiful red intimate material from abroad at that time, and when my mother was about to take it to the tailor to make it, my aunt saw it and said, she knew a tailor from Shanghai with better skills.

Half a month later I was wearing a new coat, but the planned coat had become a short blouse. My aunt said the tailor had run out. Mom had doubts, but couldn't ask any more questions.

I ran into my cousin during the New Year's Day parade and she was wearing a beautiful red skirt that looked so much like my red blouse.

My mother was angry and asked my aunt to reason with me, but she insisted that she had bought the material separately.

As, an elementary school student, the next day I carried a school bag to my aunt's unit, found the union office, and asked which was the union president's aunt.

Auntie was surprised and asked me what this little one was looking for her, I took out a photo of my aunt and uncle and I and said, "You know my aunt, right? Auntie said, "Yes, I do.

Then I said sweetly, "Auntie President, can you help me talk to my aunt and ask him to return the clothes my aunt stole from me? That Japanese material, it's so expensive. Even if I know that he is heartbroken my cousin, has made it into a garment, but the ideology and morality taught, this is not good ah.

President aunt froze.

I said sweetly again: President aunt does not help me, I will go to the family compound every day to cry in front of your house oh.

Not long after my aunt came, the opening is you, child, how so do not know how to do it, your mother told you to come, right? I did not answer, is crying, crying, crying, crying on the most half an hour, and the whole staff building are alarmed.

The next day, my aunt brought three hundred dollars to my mother, with a lot of complaints. I then carried my school bag and proceeded to my aunt's unit to smile sweetly and cry greatly.

Crying that year, my aunt did not have a year-end bonus.

My father, of course, wanted to beat me, but I told him, really do it, your sister's year-end bonus may also be gone oh. The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you are doing.

Of course, the reality is never as beautiful as the story, you think my aunt has since washed her hands, that would be wrong.

A few years later, she came to our house to play and found my father's gold ring placed on the bed (forgive the era of large plate finger vicious style), and persuaded me to "borrow" away, said to give my aunt to do a look. My mother was angry and bitter, my father's old line: what can I do, that is my sister.

So on New Year's Eve, the whole family gathering, the elders asked me, what are your New Year's wishes this year? I said out loud, I hope my aunt now stole my father's gold ring and asked me to borrow five hundred dollars' pocket money back to me. Wow, the scene that effect. Aunt hoarse, said the ring is borrowed, I did not borrow money ah. I cried bitterly and said, elders also want to cheat the younger generation of money, you have no face.

After the New Year's Eve haunted so a set. The ring returned, I fabricated five hundred dollars borrowed, and naturally no news. The only good thing is that the aunt did not board our door again.

Friends, who think I've gone too far: repaying a grievance with virtue, how to repay virtue? She's poor and she's right, huh? The first thing you need to do is to see my mother aggravated if you don't tear your face off early. The price of the clothes was 300 yuan in the early 80s, and the ten-gram gold ring was 2,000 yuan in the mid-80s when my aunt's monthly salary was less than 200 yuan.

With this method, my family at least maintain cleanliness until now, and my father never again made the mistake of "that is my X, ah you ask me to do". The whole family is still happy and harmonious.

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