"I miss my elder sister so much, and so do my friends. If only my elder sister could stay at home for a few days, I would be fine."
Song Jiayu reached out and tapped her younger brother's forehead. Even Song Tianshun said, "Why don't you tell me not to get married?"
"Don't I understand?" Song Beiwang thought to himself. If he had known that his elder sister would have such a hard time after leaving home, he would not have let her get married. He then said firmly, "I can support her for the rest of her life."
Thanking her younger brother very much for his kindness, Song Jiayu grabbed a handful of candy and a handful of melon seeds and asked her two younger brothers to share them. Then she went to the box in the inner room and took out two pairs of army green Liberation shoes. They were the sizes of her two younger brothers' feet. She had specially chosen them as the system reward last time.
Compared to clothes, my two younger brothers have more problems with their shoes. The soles of their shoes are worn out, there are holes in the insteps, and there are big holes in their shoes. These are all common things.
Last time, I took advantage of the wedding to give Song's father and mother new fabrics to make clothes. This time, I took advantage of my pity for my two younger brothers who came to visit me and gave them two pairs of Liberation Shoes.
"Sister, this is too expensive. I can't accept it." Song Tianshun refused.
"Tsk, you don't want it but I do. It's a token of my love for you, big sister. Why shouldn't I want it?" Song Beiwang tried on the new shoes.
Compared to Song Beiwang, Song Jiayu was more worried about Tianshun. This kid had a personality similar to Song's father, a giving type. She raised an eyebrow and said, "Tianshun, if you don't want them, you can't return these shoes. Only your size can wear them. If you don't want them, I'll throw them away."
"I, I want it, thank you, sister." Song Tianshun was blocked by his sister and couldn't refuse.
Seeing that both of her younger brothers had changed into new shoes, Song Jiayu told them not to take them off either. Instead, they put their old shoes in the basket and put them on directly. She also walked to the chicken coop and picked out a plump hen. "I have two chickens, and today is the day to pluck one. Tianshun, go kill the chicken. And Beiwang, go outside and boil some water so we can pluck the chickens later."
The two younger brothers went there obediently. Song Beiwang turned around and asked, "Sister, what are you doing?"
"Of course I'm going to prepare some food for you, isn't that okay?"
The latter question carried a hint of threat. Song Beiwang shrank his head and quickly responded, "Okay! You're really awesome!"
After being talked back at, Song Jiayu smiled. She wasn't just sitting there doing nothing.
I cut off the long fresh chives, then took out the leftover lard and fried meat slices from yesterday. There were also potatoes, eggplants, cucumbers, and green onions left at home that I bought yesterday.
She had a plan: stew potatoes and chicken pieces together to make braised chicken, mix lard, leeks and eggs into the filling, roll out some dough to make dumplings, stir-fry the remaining meat slices with green onions, then stir-fry eggplant and smashed cucumber, and simmer a few bowls of rice.
Of course, she asked her two younger brothers to wash the vegetables. She stayed in the main room, took the chopping board down from the wall and placed it on the table. She wielded the knife with great skill, chopping the chicken, cutting the vegetables, and even preparing the dough.
The three siblings made dumplings together.
Song Beiwang was envious. "Sister, if I hadn't known we were going to make dumplings, I would have just wrapped the filling in some dough and fried it. It would have been delicious too."
Song Jiayu put the dumplings aside and said, "What's there that you don't like to eat? By the way, Tianshun, what's wrong with you? Isn't studying your strong point? How could you be so obsessed with it?"
She asked while they were making dumplings and the atmosphere was good.
Song Tianshun lowered his eyes, and Song Beiwang spoke for him, "It's just that going to college costs a lot of money. Our mom and dad are both cutting back on food and clothing at home. My aunt brings this up at home every day, and my second brother is worried and annoyed."
"As for the money, even if your family is really broke, don't we still have your brother-in-law? Who wouldn't lend money to a brother-in-law who's in college? You just feel bad about it, but you can pay it back to your family after you graduate and get a job. It's a pity that you're thinking too much before the college entrance examination." Song Jiayu consoled her.
"I want to go to a technical secondary school." Song Tianshun opened his mouth.
This startled Song Jiayu. Although she cursed in her heart, she remained calm on the surface and asked calmly, "Can you tell me why? I remember you originally wanted to apply to Beilin University."
"I want to start working early." Song Tianshun continued.
Can't this gourd with the sawed-off mouth say a little more?
Song Jiayu: "If you think it's better to start working early to make money, you don't have to. There are technicians in the compound who just graduated from a technical secondary school. They entered the factory as 16th-level technicians with a salary of 37 yuan. After one year, they were promoted to 15th-level technical employees with a salary of 42.5 yuan.
If you graduate from university and enter the factory, you will be a level 14 technician with a salary of 48.5 yuan. After a year, you will become a level 13 technician with a salary of 55 yuan.
Technical secondary school takes three years, and university takes four years, which is a one-year difference in total. But if you work in a factory, it will take at least four or five years to get from level 16 to level 13. Listen to me, it's not worth it, just go to university."
Song Tianshun quickly calculated the numbers in his mind. The difference would be 12.5 yuan a month, which would amount to several hundred yuan after four or five years. His previous ideas were indeed naive.
"Sister, I was wrong." Song Tianshun is a person who corrects his mistakes as soon as he realizes them.
By noon, not every household could smell the aroma of meat, but most families had some meat dishes to eat.
Song Jiayu was caught in the middle, and only the chicken made her jealous.
The potatoes and chicken pieces were stewed together for a long time, and the aroma drifted throughout the courtyard and out of the courtyard.
Li Jiababa sat on the doorstep of his house. From the moment he smelled the chicken, he stopped looking for the children to play with and ran back home to watch over them, drooling several times.
Xiong Cuihua looked at her little son and wanted to laugh, but was afraid of hurting the child's feelings. She just muttered in her heart that the family finally had the chance to eat fish, but it was overshadowed by the smell of chicken.
When Jiang Baizhou returned home, the first thing he smelled was the fragrance coming from the house. He didn't have a big appetite, so even though Chef Xu's dishes were delicious, he couldn't remember the taste for long.
But how can the dishes cooked by my wife be the same?
When I walked into the main hall, I found that both my brothers-in-law had arrived, so I hurried to greet them.
When chatting with Song Tianshun, he talked more about mechanics and numbers. When chatting with Song Beiwang, he talked more about fun things in the county. Jiang Baizhou put a lot of thought into dealing with his two brothers-in-law. He couldn't let his brothers-in-law take their wives back to her parents' home. The night was long, and without his wives, how could he live?
“The food is ready!”
Following Song Jiayu's words, today's dining table was filled with a plate of braised chicken with potatoes, a plate of dumplings, a plate of stir-fried meat with green onions, a plate of smashed cucumbers, and a plate of stir-fried eggplant.
"As usual, Jiang Baizhou, you give that bowl to our parents. I promised Li Ba this small bowl. I accepted the copper coins he gave me, so I can't go back on my word."
"I'll go now. By the way, Tianshun and Beiwang should come with me to identify the people." Jiang Baizhou said, and Song Tianshun and Song Beiwang followed him.
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