It was rare for Lin Aili to meet someone who could make clothes just like she did when she was young, and was so good at it.
After chatting amiably with Shen Xiaobei and Wang Yishan for a while, she told Shen Xiaobei the specific location of her home and told her that if she needed to use the sewing machine in the future, she could go to her home anytime during the day.
Anyway, she is usually alone at home during the day, so I can chat with her and discuss clothes-making experiences with her.
Everyone had finished their meal and were carrying their lunch boxes on their way back. Wang Yishan smiled and asked Shen Xiaobei for credit: "How is it? I helped you solve the sewing machine problem. Shouldn't you thank me properly?"
"You almost sold me out just now, and I'm thanking you?"
"What do you mean by almost selling you out? This is called saving the country in a roundabout way. Do you understand? Look, didn't we achieve our goal smoothly in the end?"
"And it was accomplished successfully? That's called a near miss, okay? Don't ever use me as a roundabout way to save the country again. You nearly scared me half to death!"
"Tsk, did that scare you half to death? I wonder what made Deputy Battalion Commander Duan take a liking to you?"
"Hey, Wang Yishan, you're such a bad mouth! I don't know how Captain Chen took a liking to you. Look at you, lying in bed all day, so lazy! You're the laziest person in the entire compound!"
"Why do you have to be so diligent? If you're so diligent, will your deputy battalion commander Duan give you a model worker certificate? Let me tell you, my husband Chen loves lazy women like me. Other women can't even envy me!"
"What a self-righteous woman!"
"Is it bad for women to be self-righteous? Tsk!"
After Wang Yishan said something to Shen Xiaobei in a cheerful mood, she twisted her waist in an exaggerated manner and walked into the room first.
Shen Xiaobei pouted angrily, and facing her charming back, he cursed unhappily: “What a stinky woman!”
After cursing, I couldn't help but laugh out loud.
She didn't expect that she and Wang Yishan would soon become neighbors who could tease and mock each other. This feeling seemed pretty good!
At least, it added a touch of fun to the monotonous military life.
In the afternoon, Wang Yishan came over on her own initiative and asked Shen Xiaobei to measure her size. Then, she urged her to start work immediately and draw a few autumn clothing designs for her so that she could take a look first.
If she was satisfied, she would immediately pay half of the deposit, and then go to the county town to buy the materials tomorrow, and then she would start making it.
As the relationship grew closer, Wang Yishan took the initiative to tell Shen Xiaobei about her family situation.
She was born into a capitalist family in a big city.
Her family was well off and she had no worries about food and clothing. Moreover, she used to often go to Western restaurants to eat Western food and drink coffee, living the life of a capitalist lady.
However, a family like hers was naturally classified as a family of bad background in that era.
Although she came from a wealthy family, was beautiful, and had a respectable job, no one dared to marry her.
Later, by chance, she met Chen Guohua, who was then the deputy company commander and had returned home from the army to visit his family.
Chen Guohua fell in love with her at first sight. He didn't care about her bad background and applied for marriage with the army several times. After a lot of trouble, the higher-ups finally agreed to their marriage.
But her marriage to Chen Guohua was not based on love.
What she was thinking about more was that if a woman like her, who had a bad background and whom no one dared to marry, could marry an officer in the army, it would be beneficial for her entire family to hold their head up high in society and have slightly more harmonious interpersonal relationships.
That's why she chose to get married.
Of course, although she was not very attracted to Chen Guohua at the beginning, she did not dislike him either. She still had a little bit of good feelings towards him, but it was not so strong that she particularly wanted to marry him.
But at that time, she was still a little too optimistic.
Although she married Chen Guohua, they lived apart after marriage, and she still lived in the big house in her parents' home.
The people at her workplace, her neighbors, and everyone who knew her not only continued to exclude and treat her and her entire family coldly, but sometimes even treated them worse than before.
Upon seeing this, her family members all tried to persuade her, and even used both soft and hard tactics to force her to join the army, as they thought that this would improve their family's reputation and situation.
It was under such difficult circumstances that she brought her son to join the army.
After joining the army, she has been unable to adjust her mentality, so until now, she has been living like a salted fish.
Apart from taking care of her son during the day and having sex with her husband at night, she had no interest in doing anything else, nor in interacting with the people in the compound.
She spends her days taking it one day at a time. After all, she is not short of money.
After listening to Wang Yishan’s experience, Shen Xiaobei felt very sad.
It turns out that life is not easy for everyone. Some people, despite their seemingly lazy and leisurely appearance, actually hide some pain and unhappiness.
"Shanshan, how come you were so enthusiastic chatting with me and Sister Junxia yesterday, and just now with Teacher Lin at noon? You don't act like a lazy person at all!"
"This is all because of you! I've never seen a woman like you who lives like a ball of fire! I'm burned by your fire, do you understand? Madam Duan!"
"How can I not feel that I am living like a ball of fire?"
"You're not living life to the fullest! As soon as you arrived, you and your husband built a kitchen, planted a vegetable garden, and even made a cloth wardrobe. And yet you're so bored that you even bothered to make one for someone else. Look at all the women in this compound. Who lives as enthusiastically as you do?"
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