Chapter 66 The days ahead are getting better and better
After a long while, Ye Xiaomei finally stopped laughing. When she looked up, she realized that she was laughing until tears came out.
Ma Qijun's mouth twitched a few times: "Then laugh, I'll go pick up Xiao Ya." How could this girl think that being scolded was a happy thing? She was simply gloating over other's misfortune.
Ye Xiaomei finally returned to normal. Looking at Ma Qijun's helpless expression, she felt that there was a big word written on his forehead - unfair!
"I'll go, I've already said I'll go. Didn't you say you have to listen to me about the injured leg?" Ye Xiaomei gradually accumulated the courage given by the man, and she slowly became less timid.
Before Ma Qijun could say anything, Ye Xiaomei ran away.
"Mom, Brother Ma's legs and feet are not very strong, so I'd better go." Ye Xiaomei didn't want her mother-in-law to always scold Brother Ma, so she decided to say hello first.
Zhao Mei, who was sitting at the square table in the main hall, had no idea how much she had chatted with her in-laws about family matters. Her eyes lit up and the two of them held hands, like sisters who had been separated for many years.
"What did you say?" Wang Lan stood up in a hurry and asked, "What did you call me just now?"
Ye Xiaomei was stunned for a moment, then looked at her mother-in-law’s reaction and whispered, “Call me, call me mom.” What’s wrong?
Wang Lan slapped her thigh and laughed loudly: "It's nothing, it's nothing. When you called me mom, I felt really excited. By the way, you wait..."
As he spoke, he pulled out a handkerchief from his pocket, unwrapped it layer by layer, and took out two fifty-dollar bills: "Here, here, for changing your story."
Ye Xiaomei looked at the two bills that were stuffed into her mouth in a daze.
Wang Lan saw that the child was very naive and did not react at first glance: "This is custom. I, as your mother-in-law, have not raised you for a single day. You call me mother, so I am taking advantage of your mother-in-law. You can buy whatever you want with this hundred yuan."
Ye Xiaomei then understood that the fee her grandmother mentioned today for changing her words was actually this way of saying something.
"Take it, Xiaomei. This is the rule passed down from generation to generation in our village." Zhao Mei saw it and was very happy. Her daughter was luckier than her. She married into a family where her parents-in-law loved her husband and cherished him.
"Here, here." Wang Lan stuffed it into her pocket and said cheerfully, "Your dad has gone to see your second master off. He will be back tomorrow. Remember to change your words when the time comes. Your dad will also have to pay you for changing your words."
"..." Ye Xiaomei's heart was pounding. She felt that she must have done something good in her previous life, otherwise how could she be so lucky to marry into the Ma family.
"Don't just stand there, ride my bike." After Wang Lan finished her instructions, she turned around and went back to the table, filling her teacup first:
"Where were we talking about just now? Didn't we say that I'm ten years older than you and you have to call me elder sister..."
Ye Xiaomei was dumbfounded. They had been chatting for the entire afternoon, how come they still had something to talk about?
With a puzzled look on her face, Ye Xiaomei pushed the bicycle out of the door. When she reached the foot of the mountain, she chained the bicycle to a tree trunk and had to rely on her legs to climb the mountain.
Children in the countryside are relatively independent. They walk back and forth on this mountain road with their schoolbags on their backs, rain or shine, spring, summer, autumn or winter.
At this moment, the sun has set and more children are coming down the mountain.
Ye Xiaomei didn't dare to be distracted for a moment, otherwise she would miss it. Xiaoya went back to the Ye family and would inevitably be ridiculed by her grandmother and aunt. At least they saw Ye Xiaoya walking with her head down halfway up the mountain.
Ye Xiaomei didn't say it directly, but just asked her to let her and her mother stay in her new home for two days. The young Ye Xiaoya didn't think much about it, but was overjoyed and curious about what her sister's new home was like.
As soon as she got home, Ye Xiaoya was excited. She had never seen those furniture and the soft, spring-equipped Simmons mattress before.
I was jumping around on the bed, sweating all over, and I fell asleep halfway through my meal out of exhaustion.
Wang Lan cleaned the room and held a small family meeting before turning off the lights, mainly to plan how to renovate the mud houses in the watermelon field tomorrow.
All in all, it will cost at least three to five hundred yuan.
The more Zhao Mei listened, the more uneasy she felt. She was using someone else's land, so she couldn't ask them to pay for it. She herself was penniless. She didn't sleep a wink that night.
Ye Xiaomei guessed it, and crawled out of the man's arms in the middle of the night. She dragged her tired body and supported her knees to get down to the ground to put on her shoes.
Hey... she felt so good during the ordeal that she almost went to heaven,
After all the torture, I felt so miserable that I couldn't even use my legs.
"Mom? I know you're not asleep." Ye Xiaomei moved to the bedside.
Zhao Mei turned over and said, "Yes, Mom is not at ease. Although the Ma family is very good to us, we can't pretend to be ignorant."
"Mom, aren't you just worried about money? Yesterday, mother-in-law gave me a passbook, and I have 1,000 yuan as a gift. In total, I have 1,100 yuan. It would cost at most 200 yuan to buy bricks, but after we build this new house, there will be a lot of bricks left over that can be used. At least I can save 50 or 60 yuan on bricks."
Ye Xiaomei then stuffed the prepared 1,000 yuan into her mother's pocket and said, "Take this. You have raised me up so much, and when I get married, I can only repay you with 1,000 yuan. This is far from enough."
"Oh, that won't do." Zhao Mei lifted the quilt and sat up, then stuffed the money into her daughter's hand:
"The Qi army no longer has any allowances, and there is no good income, so this money must be kept for you to live on."
"Mom, we have discussed our future life." Ye Xiaomei told Zhao Mei about her plan, and Zhao Mei's heart gradually calmed down after hearing it.
"It seems that Qijun can indeed do something easy and make some money."
Ye Xiaomei became more and more excited as she spoke: "Mom, that's not all. I also plan to build a bigger yard in the watermelon field to build a shed to raise rabbits, and I can graze sheep at the foot of the mountain. These are all money-making projects. Moreover, I plan to go to school after I make the money."
"What? You can still go to school after you get married?" Zhao Mei felt that her daughter was so strange at the moment. She had never had such an outrageous idea before.
"Mom, look how surprised you are. I asked Huihui, and there is an anti-blindness class in the county, which will be offered soon. I will go to night school then. Huihui also said that now that the college entrance examination has been resumed, I will have the opportunity to take the exam as long as I work hard enough." Ye Xiaomei was full of longing for her future life.
"You...are you dreaming?" Zhao Mei was so scared that she quickly touched her daughter's forehead, and then touched her own forehead for comparison:
"Mom knows you've wanted to go to school since you were little, but doesn't the college entrance exam only work after you finish high school? You've never been to a school for a day."
"It doesn't matter. I can finish night school and take the adult high school entrance exam, and then I can get the qualification to take the exam. Although I have never been to school, I have always liked to ask knowledgeable people since I was a child, and I have learned a lot."
The night was dark. Although Zhao Mei could not see her daughter's expression, every word she said was full of passion, and even she was infected:
"Well, just try your best. How do you know if it will work if you don't try?"
"Mom is right. When the time comes, you can herd sheep in the watermelon field. Xiaoya will be able to meet you at the foot of the mountain after school." Ye Xiaomei paced back and forth in the room in the dark, her eyes as bright as stars:
"When the time comes, the three of us will be able to make money on our own, and we won't have to worry about anyone's opinion. Little girl's tuition will be even easier."
Zhao Mei was filled with longing and nodded vigorously: "Yes, no need to look at anyone's face."
Who would have thought that the mother and daughter would send Xiaoya up the mountain the next day, but Zhao Mei changed her mind as soon as she entered the mud house.
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