Lin Xue took the enamel cup, took a sip, and pretended not to care and asked, "Are you familiar with Jiang Baizhou's wife?"
These words? This tone?
Gu Siyi immediately raised his hand and swore, "I swear to God, the first time I met Song Jiayu was in the hospital. I told you before, the nurses on the first floor were surprised that the cart had become a spirit. I laughed at Lao Jiang for a long time about how he would never be able to beat his wife again."
"Hehe, sometimes it seems that you and Jiang Baizhou are closer than I am." Lin Xue's words had a sour taste. To be honest, in her first year of technical secondary school, she was dating Gu Siyi and was introduced to the good brother she always talked about. When she saw Jiang Baizhou for the first time, her eyes fell on Jiang Baizhou twice, and then on her boyfriend Gu Siyi twice, and an indescribable feeling came over her.
Later, after graduating from junior college, the two got married. She followed Gu Siyi to Songshan County and saw clearly that these two good brothers were indeed good brothers.
"How is that possible? Between my good brother and you, I will definitely choose you, wife. I just want you to have a female comrade to talk to in the compound. Since you married me and came to Tianwen Lane with me, you smile much less than when you were studying in secondary school." Gu Siyi said sorry to his good brother in his heart, while his face showed concern for his wife.
Lin Xue was indeed very tired, but not from work. She liked her current job as a technician, which allowed her to work with design drafts and large or delicate equipment. This allowed her to further realize her dream of contributing to the country.
But her heart was tired. In Songshan County, the only person she knew was Gu Siyi.
In this small courtyard No. 14, her mother-in-law could not understand her, and she could not understand her mother-in-law either. As long as Gu Siyi was not around, the gap between them was wider than the river.
The people in the courtyard use very harsh words when they curse, have unclean living habits, and like to explore other people's private lives. The smallest things will be treated as jokes and become the focus of people's attention for several days.
Their eyes will fall on you, and when they see you make a move, they will talk to each other without concealing their voices, and say, "See, I'm not wrong, that's how you behave. You are a city dweller, a sophisticated person, different from ordinary people like them."
My mother-in-law is urging me to have a grandchild, thinking that if I give birth to a child, he or she will be able to integrate into the life here.
But Lin Xue discovered that no, several snow mountains had formed in her heart. Sometimes she was anxious, sometimes she was cold, and sometimes she wanted to cry for no reason. She didn't know what was going on, but she knew that there was something wrong with her body and mind.
Her husband saw all this and tried to find ways to help her.
Lin Xue smiled. Her beautiful face made her smile like a blooming crape myrtle. She said, "Gu Siyi, if one day I want to leave—"
"No, I won't let you go. Bah, that's not right. What I mean is, we go together, as a family." Gu Siyi held Lin Xue's white hands.
Sometimes she is playful and naughty, and still looks like a boy in her twenties, but her eyes are sincere, warm, and full of love.
Lin Xue was amazed by the love expressed in those eyes at first, and she was still amazed at that moment. She hugged Gu Siyi and said, "Okay, let's go together as a family. I will try to get in touch with Song Jiayu, but if we don't get along, there's nothing I can do."
How could Gu Siyi force the person he had loved for five years? He touched the corner of Lin Xue's mouth lightly and said, "Of course, you are the most important thing. How about we take a break tomorrow and have a good day in Songshan County?"
Lin Xue withdrew her hand and turned her head: "No, I have a lot of things to do in the project I'm following."
Gu Siyi said regretfully: "Okay."
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That night, except for Song Jiayu, who took a four-hour cooking class in her dream and slept until dawn, everyone else in the courtyard did not sleep well.
Because in the second half of the night, the Qian family members, who had taken the anti-diarrhea medicine and felt better, were beating the naughty child.
Qian Youcai's howling voice echoed for a long time.
It almost became a rumor in Tianwen Lane again.
But Qian Youcai's act of giving his whole family chin bean powder because of constipation became a laughing stock in several courtyards.
A group of parents with children at home began to discipline their children. For a while, Song Jiayu did not hear the children's laughter and noise in the courtyard.
"You don't know, I'm afraid of my Baba now. He learned bad things from Qian Youcai before. He was just a bad boy, but now he has learned bad things. It will cost the lives of the whole family. The Qian family went to the hospital to get new medicine. Zhou Ying and Qian Zhuangshi even missed a few days of work in the factory." Xiong Cuihua looked worried.
Even after a day or two, the foul smell from the night before yesterday still seemed to be lingering in the courtyard of No. 14.
Song Jiayu threw two wild berries into her mouth. The wild berry vines that had been planted and were full of fruits were growing vigorously under the infusion of wood energy once a day. She couldn't wait to pick the ripe wild berries and tasted two of them. They were sweet and sour and tasted good. She would give Jiang Baizhou a few when he came back in the evening.
"Don't worry about your little bully. He's such a well-behaved child. Money can never corrupt him. Aunt Cuihua, is there any other gossip these days?" Song Jiayu's mission today was to get some gossip from Aunt Cuihua.
"Our hospital has been the biggest gossip these days. Wait, it's true. I heard something, but I don't know if it's true or not." Xiong Cuihua was in high spirits.
Song Jiayu became interested and urged people to speak quickly.
"In the compound on our neighboring street, the feud between the Chang and Wen families started way back in their father's generation. Even Chang and Wen have been fighting since they were young, now they're both in their forties. Last time, Old Li said he saw them tripping each other up at the factory. The funny thing is, their son and daughter are falling in love."
"Hey, someone in Tianwen Lane spotted Old Chang's son and Old Wen's daughter dating. As soon as this came out, Old Wen beat up Old Chang, and Old Chang beat up Little Chang. It's said they're like Romeo and Juliet."
Song Jiayu: ???
She was now even more curious about Comrade Xiong Cuihua's knowledge of Romeo and Juliet, and asked, "Aunt Cuihua, shouldn't you know about the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl?"
"I don't know much about the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, but I heard about Romeo and Juliet from my daughter Chunchun. At home, she just keeps repeating all these strange names and stories. I think there is no such name in our Songshan County!" Xiong Cuihua loves her children and she is also a good mother. At least her eldest daughter Li Chun, who is fifteen years old, is as close to her as a sister and they can talk about anything.
Song Jiayu: "Aunt Cuihua, Romeo and Juliet are foreign names."
Later, she read the two names to Aunt Cuihua in pure English.
"So that's how it is. I was wondering why it was so strange." Xiong Cuihua was relieved.
It was 1960, and the difficult decade that followed had not yet arrived. People read foreign books and no one cared, not to mention that Russian was taught in schools at that time.
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