Chapter 136: My brother-in-law works as a minor official in the post office
Ye Xiaomei's scalp went numb. Everyone was standing there obediently, but the looks they gave Ye Xiaomei were too chilling.
Most of them dared not speak out, but the person in charge of the inspection kindly muttered:
"Xiao Zhang, aren't you making it difficult for me?"
"What's so difficult about it? It doesn't take up too much of your time." Zhang Changjiang was half leaning on the counter, shaking his legs. Wang Ermaizi, who had suffered a stroke in the north of the village, was no different.
Ye Xiaomei had a mental struggle, but still stepped forward:
"Uncle, I want to check if there is any letter for me."
Ye Xiaomei introduced herself. The uncle looked at Zhang Changjiang and had no choice but to flip through the delivery list and look for the names one by one. He looked through them several times but couldn't find Ye Xiaomei's name:
"No, Comrade Ye Xiaomei, I have checked all the letters related to Plum Blossom Village in the past month."
Zhang Changjiang on the side raised his chin proudly. He finally did something to help Ye Xiaomei. Look, she still called herself a hooligan?
Ye Xiaomei muttered with a sad face, "Impossible."
Zhang Changjiang quickly became alert: "Look for it a few more times. If you can't find it, I won't leave."
The uncle's forehead was sweating after seeing this wave of rogue tricks: "I really don't have it. I have looked for it several times. Comrade Ye Xiaomei, please tell me where your letter was sent from."
"Chaocheng." Ye Xiaomei replied decisively.
"Then why don't you ask Chaocheng whether the letter has been sent out? The Chaocheng Post Office has records of all of them."
After the uncle said this, Ye Xiaomei thought that this was indeed a solution: "Thank you, uncle. I'm really sorry for delaying your work."
After saying this, Ye Xiaomei left the post office.
According to this, Wang Lan had no chance to intercept her admission letter. Did Chaocheng School miss the letter? Or was it lost on the way? Just check and you will know.
Ye Xiaomei must investigate thoroughly.
"Ye Xiaomei, you are so cruel. Have you forgotten who helped you just now?" Zhang Changjiang shouted when he saw the girl coming out and about to leave.
Ye Xiaomei turned around and said reluctantly, "Thank you."
"That's good enough. If you have any problems in the future, tell me. I took the photo of this." Zhang Changjiang waved at Ye Xiaomei's back.
Today is the ninth day of the first lunar month. The sixteenth and seventeenth days of the first lunar month are the start of the new semester and it is time to go back to school. Ye Xiaomei is not sure if she will have a chance to figure out the situation in a few days.
When I got home, it was already dark.
Wang Lan was getting anxious: "Child, your father and I went to visit relatives these past two days and asked you to go with us, but you didn't want to. Why did you come back alone only now?"
Ye Xiaomei didn't argue back. She even felt a little guilty for wrongly blaming her mother-in-law. "I know, Mom. I'll come back earlier next time."
"Tomorrow, your eldest sister will come to visit relatives, so don't go out. She said she brought some supplements for you." Wang Lan said while eating.
"Okay." Ye Xiaomei felt that it wouldn't be too late to wait another day.
Ma Kaiqu, who had been silent the whole time, looked unhappy: "That girl still remembers to come back to visit relatives. She came once the year before last, and just said a few words to Xiao Chen before leaving without even eating. It has been more than two years since she came. Tell her not to come again, and just treat her parents as if they are dead."
Ye Xiaomei didn't understand what was going on, so she simply didn't interrupt.
Wang Lan glared at Ma Kaiqu and said, "What are you talking about? Why are you so angry when your own daughter comes back for a meal? Besides, she hasn't been back for two years. Didn't she come when Qijun and Xiaomei got married in August?"
Ye Xiaomei buried her head in eating, thinking that these things had nothing to do with her anyway.
"Mom and Dad, I'm done eating. You guys take your time." Ye Xiaomei got up and went back to her room. She could hear the noise coming from the main room through the window.
The next day, Wang Lan prepared firecrackers early in the morning to welcome her elder sister and brother-in-law who were getting married, and also prepared a table of dishes.
It was just past ten o'clock when the two arrived.
"You came here by bus, right? Come on, sit in Xiao Chen's room." Wang Lan went up to greet him. Ma Kaiqu's face was very long, and he didn't respond until Ma Qijun and his wife went up to him and called him Dad.
The first time Ye Xiaomei met her brother-in-law, he was wearing a black space suit, which was rare in the countryside, with a white shirt collar showing through it. Although he was almost thirty years old, his face was very clean-cut and elegant.
Ye Xiaomei walked forward and symbolically said hello before going to the kitchen to help add firewood. She was then called out by Ma Kaiqu:
"Go and take a rest. Dad will do the rough work."
Ye Xiaomei felt warm in her heart. As soon as she walked out the door, she saw that Ma Qihong's face was not right. She strode into the kitchen:
"Mom, you two are so used to your younger brother and sister. You won't be too tired to burn firewood. Besides, Xiao Chen finally came here, can't you stay and talk with him?"
Ye Xiaomei heard it, but she ignored it and went back to the house.
Ma Kaiqu's voice suddenly became a little higher: "If you have the guts, then let your parents-in-law treat you like this. Xiaomei is my daughter-in-law, so you should treat her like a daughter-in-law. When you were still married, weren't you hungry and had nothing to do? Now that you're married, you've been so tired that you don't even have time to visit me and your mother for several years."
Ye Xiaomei heard that her father-in-law was angry because her eldest sister had taken the initiative to marry this brother-in-law named Chen.
Ye Xiaomei subconsciously looked through the window at her brother-in-law who was sitting in the main room drinking tea. He looked very unhappy.
"Okay, Old Ma, stop talking." Wang Lan knocked the edge of the pot with a spatula and turned to comfort her daughter.
Who would have thought that Ma Qihong was also angry: "When you have something to do, you go to me. When you have nothing to do, you say that I don't come to see you. Now that reform and opening up are developing so fast, if you are not careful, you will have to resign. Have you ever considered me?"
"What do you want? Tell me clearly." Ma Kaiqu had a bad temper. Even Ye Xiaomei had never seen him so angry.
"Old Ma, what are you doing? Your daughter just got home, can't you control your bad temper?" Wang Lan stood in the middle, the spatula in her hand still smoking.
"What's the matter? You came to me to ask about your daughter-in-law's schooling. You take advantage of Xiao Chen's job in a government agency, right? When you need me, I'm your daughter, but when you don't, I'm an ungrateful person. Don't you think this is too unfair to me?"
Ma Qihong was very excited when he said this and didn't notice that Ye Xiaomei was suddenly startled in the window of the new house.
"Qihong, what are you talking about?" Wang Lan's expression suddenly changed.
"Let's go, Ah Hong!" The man in the main room finally couldn't stand it anymore, put the things on the table, got up and left.
Ma Qihong glared at her father fiercely, then her eyes softened when she looked at Wang Lan:
"Mom, when you marry a chicken, you follow the chicken; when you marry a dog, you follow the dog. I have to focus on my own peaceful life. I'm leaving now. I'll come to see you when I have time."
Ye Xiaomei didn't know what Ma Qihong meant by that. Why did the matter of her going to school fall on her head? Could it be that her mother-in-law wanted her to stop the lobbyists last time?
"Qihong, you're just like your dad. You finally came here to set off firecrackers and haven't even had your meal." Wang Lan chased after him.
Ma Kaiqu sighed and sat on his saddle, head bowed and sighed: "What a sin."
The lunch was terrible. Wang Lan didn't say anything, Ma Kaiqu just drank alone, and even Ye Xiaomei felt the air was depressing:
"Mom and Dad, don't be angry. You still have to eat when it's time to eat."
Ma Kaiqu, who had been suppressed for a long time, paused and said, "How can I not be angry? At that time, Xiao Chen was a sent-down youth, and he hooked up with your elder sister. It's nothing, after all, the sent-down youth are all from the city. Later, he returned to the city and became a minor official in the post office. It's not bad, right? At least his life must be good. But I just found out that your sister found a married man. Do you think I am angry?"
Ye Xiaomei gasped. In fact, the eldest sister Ma Qihong was very beautiful. Perhaps she inherited the genes of the Ma family. She had a slender and graceful body, and her height was also on point. The eldest sister was at least 1.7 meters tall.
How did she find a married man?
Wang Lan glanced at Ye Xiaomei warily and poked the man with her elbow: "Drink your wine, you talk too much nonsense."
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