Chapter 142 Cousin, please introduce me to someone

"My uncle is the captain of the second team of Qingshan Brigade. Which team is our cousin in? Do you need me to tell her?" asked Sarin.

The Qingshan Brigade was too large, so it was divided into two teams, Team One and Team Two.

Lin Shuyin waved her hands, "Don't worry about her."

Sarin, "Okay, if you have any questions, just tell me."

Lin Shuyin nodded.

Lin Jianshe said, "Sister, I wrote a letter to Mom."

Lin Shuyin, "What did you say?"

Lin Jianshe, "I said if other cousins ​​want to go to the countryside, they should go to other places, not to our place."

My eldest uncle, my second uncle and my two aunts have many children. It is impossible for all of them to find jobs. If they can't find jobs, they have to go to the countryside. What if they all go to the countryside and end up here... So he has to explain it clearly.

Just like his sister said, the motherland is so big, he might as well go to other places to work in the countryside, Heilongjiang Province or Lin Province, they are all good places, you don't have to work in the fields in the winter, or the eastern part of Mongolia Province, that's fine.

Don’t go to Hohhot in large numbers.

Lin Shuyin smiled, "Okay, I'll listen to you if you tell me."

Actually, this matter was not proposed by Lin's mother, but it is also related to Lin's mother. She went to her parents' home and talked about my second daughter and my youngest son.

Although everyone knows about Lin Shuyin and Lin Jianshe's situation even without Lin's mother saying it, your mentioning of it is like a reminder.

Finally, when Zhang Hongying went to the countryside, Zhang's father and mother thought, hey, aren't my eldest niece and nephew in Hohhot?

One is in the army, and the other went to the countryside. I heard that they both got married, and their partners were also in the army, who were both battalion commanders and cadres.

The second son of their family went to the countryside in Hohhot, and he might be taken care of. Maybe he can find a son-in-law who is a soldier.

The relatives of the Lin family all thought that the daughter-in-law that Lin Jianshe found was introduced by his sister Lin Shuyin.

It was decided to send Zhang Hongying to Hohhot.

Lin Shuyin and Lin Jianshe didn't know what kind of personality this cousin Zhang Hongying had. They didn't meet her often, and it was many years ago.

They have been in Hohhot for five years.

But as Shen Guannan said, most people are polite to unfamiliar relatives and friends, and will only bother relatives when there is a huge problem that cannot be solved.

But Lin Shuyin got it wrong.

Zhang Hongying does not belong to the majority of people, she belongs to the minority.

Because a week later, she came back again.

Lin Shuyin arrived at the entrance of the unit and asked, "Hongying, what can I do for you?"

"It's okay, cousin, I came to see you." Zhang Hongying smiled shyly.

Lin Shuyin, "Oh, I thought you were busy." He just wanted to play with her when he had nothing to do.

Zhang Hongying took a look inside and said, "Cousin, won't you invite me in to sit down? I don't even know what the commander of the army looks like."

This time, Sun Miaomiao came with Zhang Hongying.

Lin Shuyin smiled, "Hongying, the troops cannot just let anyone in."

Zhang Hongying, "Okay then, cousin, are you free now? We are not familiar with the city, and we would like you to take us around."

Lin Shuyin nodded, "Okay, I just need to buy some wool, wait for me to go back and tell your brother-in-law."

She wants to knit a sweater for her daughter.

She also wanted to see what medicine the girl was selling. Were they familiar with it? What was there to be familiar with in the city? There were only a few places. You could ask anyone on the street and they would know.

Zhang Hongying smiled, "Okay, cousin."

Lin Shuyin went back and said something, then went to the city with Zhang Hongying and others. The three of them talked as they walked.

Zhang Hongying asked, "Cousin, how did you get to know your brother-in-law?"

Lin Shuyin: "Well, we were in the same unit, so we got to know each other."

Zhang Hongying covered her mouth and laughed, "Is it your brother-in-law who is pursuing you?"

Lin Shuyin, "Yeah, he pursued me."

Sun Miaomiao joked, "Sister Shuyin, Hongying said she also wants to find a soldier as a partner, can you introduce one to her?"

Zhang Hongying exclaimed, "Miaomiao, stop talking nonsense."

Lin Shuyin understood, and she smiled, "You have to stay alone in an empty room when you go to see a soldier. They can't go home once a year."

Zhang Hongying was stunned when she heard this. "Ah, cousin, why are you staying alone in an empty room? Aren't you following the army?"

Lin Shuyin, "Only those who have reached a certain level can follow the army, and most of them stay at home."

In fact, there are only a few people who follow the army when they reach a certain level. Most of them stay at home to take care of their children and parents-in-law. It is not easy to be a military wife.

Zhang Hongying, "Does it have to be a battalion commander like my brother-in-law?"

Lin Shuyin nodded. Sun Miaomiao said, "Sister Shuyin, please introduce a battalion commander to Hongying."

Lin Shuyin, “............” What are these two girls thinking.

"The battalion commanders are all married, in their thirties, and have two children."

Her family's Guannan is not young anymore, he is already thirty years old.

Zhang Hongying said awkwardly, "Cousin, Miaomiao was just joking with you."

Lin Shuyin, "How old are you? Why are you in such a hurry to find a partner? What if there is a chance to return to the city in the future?"

There are still two years before the college entrance examination resumes.

These two are only 18 years old this year, and will be 20 in two years, which is the prime of their lives.

Sun Miaomiao, "Sister Shuyin, there is no chance for us to go back to the city. We can't go back to the city without a job. We might as well find someone to marry."

For example, you can find a soldier, so that you can live in the family compound and don’t have to live in the countryside.

Lin Shuyin, "Didn't you just go to the countryside?"

It's not spring yet, and the work in the fields hasn't even started, and these two are already predicting bad news?

Sun Miaomiao, "Yes, when we first went to the countryside, we couldn't stand the rural life. The female educated youth who lived with us even had fleas on her head."

Lin Shuyin's eyes widened, "!"

She immediately distanced herself from her.

This thing is contagious.

Zhang Hongying, "Yes, cousin, we have to light the fire and heat the kang when we sleep, and cook our own meals."

Lin Shuyin, "Of course it's the same. When you were at home, your mother would light the fire and cook for you. Now you must cook for yourself."

Zhang Hongying, "But cousin, I don't know how to use that earthenware stove."

Lin Shuyin, "Practice makes perfect. You will get it after using it a few times."

Zhang Hongying and Sun Miaomiao looked at each other. Sun Miaomiao said, "Sister Shuyin, you have never lived in the countryside, so you don't know how troublesome it is to light a fire on the stove."

Lin Shuyin shrugged, "What should we do? Unless you don't eat, you still have to learn it."

Yes, she has never lived in the countryside, she is lucky.

In her previous life, her family was rich. After traveling through time, she encountered a good system. Her work problems were solved and she no longer had to go to the countryside. She also met a good man and got married, and he no longer had to cook for her often.

Sun Miaomiao sighed, and she exchanged a glance with Zhang Hongying, her eyes conveying, "Your cousin doesn't understand us at all."

Zhang Hongying didn't know what to say. It was true that her cousin didn't understand them at all and only spoke according to her own ideas.

She had no idea how difficult living conditions were in the countryside.

I had to change the subject, "Cousin, Brother Jianshe is in the Sanhe Brigade, right?"

Lin Shuyin, "He's not here right now. He's in the army, taking care of the kids."

Zhang Hongying: "Oh, my cousin's wife is also in the art troupe, right?"

"OK."

Sun Miaomiao, "Sister Shuyin, are there any unmarried gay men in your art troupe?"

Lin Shuyin thought that maybe Zhang Hongying was not looking for a partner, but the girl heard Zhang Hongying say that her cousin was in the army, so she wanted to act as a matchmaker.

"Yes, but they are all new recruits, and their monthly allowance is six yuan."

Only six bucks a month, forget it.

Sun Miaomiao wilted. Lin Shuyin was right.

Sun Miaomiao really wanted Lin Shuyin to act as a bridge. If there was a way, who would be willing to suffer in this rural area?

The three of them chatted as they arrived at the department store.

Lin Shuyin bought some wool yarn, and Zhang Hongying liked a piece of fabric, corduroy, but she had no cloth coupons and not much money either. She asked Lin Shuyin, "Cousin, do you have any extra cloth coupons? I forgot to bring them."

I don’t believe that I forgot to bring Lin Shuyin.

She said, "I forgot to bring it. I didn't bring it either. I only brought the wool ticket. You can come over next time."

Zhang Hongying: "Okay." Without money and tickets, she had no choice but to give up.

Sun Miaomiao didn't have much cash on her. This was actually the second time the two of them had come to the department store. They had gone shopping there the last time they came to the city and bought some daily necessities.

The three of them walked around the department store and only Lin Shuyin bought some wool.

Coming out of the department store, Zhang Hongying said, "Cousin, I'm a little hungry. Why don't we go to the state-owned hotel for dinner?"

Lin Shuyin refused, "Oh my god, it's such a waste of money to eat in a state-owned hotel, and I don't have any food coupons with me. You guys eat, I'll go back to the army to eat."

Zhang Hongying said awkwardly, "Then let's go back and eat as well."

After walking for a while, they went their separate ways.

Sun Miaomiao watched Lin Shuyin leave and said, "Hongying, your cousin is not very good. You haven't seen your cousin for several years. You came here from the countryside, but she didn't even invite you to dinner."

"It feels like a tight squeeze."

"You've come all this way to see her."

Zhang Hongying also thought, "Who knows? Maybe he doesn't want to get involved with a poor relative like me."

Sun Miaomiao was indignant. "She was reluctant to introduce a guy to me. All the battalion commanders were married in their thirties. How did she find an unmarried battalion commander?"

"It's gone here."

Zhang Hongying was embarrassed, "Miaomiao, do we really have to find a partner?"

Sun Miaomiao, "Of course. If we don't find a partner, we have no other way to leave the village. Do you plan to stay in the countryside forever?"

Zhang Hongying, "Where can I find it?"

They had no contact with city people at all, and even if they did, they would not marry an educated youth who went to the countryside as their daughter-in-law.

The only way might be as Sun Miaomiao said, to ask her cousin to introduce her, but her cousin was reluctant and obviously didn't want to introduce her.

Sun Miaomiao, "I don't know where to look. In this village, there are only farmers and educated youth. There is no future for any of them."

After this incident, Zhang Hongying never looked for Lin Shuyin again.

A month passed.

In May, Lin Shuyin received a letter from her mother.

The letter said that if there was a suitable person in the military camp, one could be introduced to Zhang Hongying.

Lin Shuyin took the letter and showed it to Lin Jianshe, "I think Mom is out of her mind."

Although Lin's mother expressed it in a tactful way in the letter, that was the meaning. She asked her to introduce a partner to Zhang Hongying, a soldier, and his position should not be too low.

Lin Jianshe, "Sister, it must be Zhang Hongying who wrote a letter to her family and then my uncle told my mother."

Lin Shuyin, "I know, but she can just handle this matter. Why bother writing to me?"

Lin Jianshe, "Sister, if you don't want to go back, I'll go back for you. Tell mom."

"It doesn't work if you say it. Didn't you say it last time? If it worked, she wouldn't have written me this letter. I'll write it to her."

Lin Shuyin wrote a letter to her mother as soon as she got home. She didn't express herself in a roundabout way, but told her mother directly not to cause trouble for her.

Half a month later, Lin's mother received the letter and felt aggrieved.

She showed it to Lin's father, "Look at what your daughter said. Why am I causing trouble for her? I just said that if there is a suitable one, please introduce it to Hongying."

"She's not someone else's cousin."

Father Lin read the letter and said, "I told you not to care, but you insisted on doing so. What does your sister-in-law mean? She doesn't want a soldier, she wants a son-in-law who is a battalion commander like Guannan."

"I've become the battalion commander now. Are you still short of a date? Family members and female soldiers from the art troupe are all vying to be introduced."

Lin's mother still felt aggrieved. "Why don't you just say it's nothing and let it go? You're still accusing me of causing trouble for her."

Father Lin, "Why don't you just make trouble for her? Helping your son is enough, why don't you get someone from your mother's side to come over?"

"Besides, Jianshe is our biological son, and he and Shuyin are biological siblings. Jianshe is the one who takes care of Shuyin's baby and takes care of her during the confinement period. What is your niece doing? Why should she need Shuyin to introduce her to a partner?"

"Besides, when it comes to matchmaking, if the two people you introduce hit it off and live a happy life together, that's fine. But if they don't live a good life together, it's Shuyin's fault."

"Look at your sister-in-law. She must be very nervous right now."

Lin's mother asked, "What is she talking about?"

Father Lin, "Cricket won't find a date for us. He said the one he found for the battalion commander doesn't like us anymore. I know what these relatives are saying."

The fifth son of his family found a partner with the son of the factory director.

It's hard to find a job these days. His nephew didn't have one, so his younger brother found him and wanted to ask him to help see if he could get a job in a textile factory, even as a temporary worker.

He refused, and then I got angry and stopped associating with him. He didn't even come to visit during the Chinese New Year this year.

Really, his own son has gone to the countryside, what does his nephew matter?

Lin's mother said, "She dares to cricket!"

Although she said that, Lin's mother felt that what her boss said was right. Her sister-in-law was very likely to have crickets, and she was having crickets with her eldest sister-in-law.

Father Lin said, "Don't write to Shuyin about this anymore. It's hard to take care of all the relatives. If you take care of one, you have to take care of the others as well."

"knew."

"I'll write to Shuyin and tell her."

So half a month later, Lin Shuyin received another letter from her mother. In addition to the letter, there were two bottles of bean paste and two pieces of children's clothes for Siyu.

Shen Guannan saw that his daughter-in-law's face had eased, and asked with a smile, "What did mom say?"

Lin Shuyin gave the letter to Shen Guannan, "She told me not to worry about it. She was just talking."

After reading the letter, Shen Guannan said, "Mom is apologizing to you."

Lin Shuyin: "That's what I mean."

Shen Guannan, "Wife, your cousin is not a very good person. She even wrote a letter to her family about this matter."

Lin Shuyin snorted, "Who knows what she's thinking? She went to the countryside to receive training and re-education from the poor and middle peasants. She's not here to date. Besides, she's only 18 years old. Why is she in such a hurry?"

"I didn't get married until I was 19, either."

Shen Guannan smiled, "Yes, Deputy Captain Lin also got married at the age of 19."