Chapter 104 - 104 104 Playing with Fire

Chapter 104: Chapter 104 Playing with Fire Chapter 104: Chapter 104 Playing with Fire “Go ahead, I came early and already bought meat, a full half-pound of it!”

To buy meat, you needed a meat coupon, and for an average family in the city, being able to buy a half-pound of meat once a week was a cause for joy.

The reason?

Aside from the monthly ration provided by one’s unit, getting a few extra meat coupons was not easy.

Kang Li smiled and turned away from the older sister who had spoken to her, lining up at the back of the queue for meat.

Fortunately, the clerks at each window were quick enough that it only took about forty minutes to buy all the vegetables, fresh pork, chicken legs, and a frozen belt fish she needed for the day.

In modern times, with a forty-minute shopping trip to the supermarket, you wouldn’t know how much you could buy. However, in that era, being able to purchase all of Kang Li’s groceries in forty minutes at the vegetable supply point was really not a long time.

to the admiring glances that fell upon her as she carried her basket of

she wore a simple, slightly loose braid, a white short-sleeve shirt paired with a black knee-length A-line skirt, the fabric of both the shirt and skirt was of fine and smooth quality. Tucked into the skirt, her slender waist was accentuated, her walk reminiscent of a fragile willow in

her often pallid complexion, not to mention her thinness. While

that were supposed to be plump

changed in the slightest. Kang Li didn’t want to appear too delicate, so she used the unique charm emanating from her bones to cover up the frailty as much as possible, to avoid

the expression she wore daily and, when viewed from the front, the sense of frailty was really not too apparent. But her silhouette still

Kang Li’s knowledge, some people in the courtyard had already begun using “the sickly one” as her

chose to bring

into the ear of the woman next to her: “It was Director

the organization to find a partner for Professor Luo,

“Who knows.”

it, Professor Luo already has two sons and a daughter. If the new wife is sickly, it means she’s unlikely to conceive; that way, wouldn’t you worry less about her being

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