Chapter 27 Second update will be next time
Ye Yu felt that his mentality was old. According to the folk theorem of making up for what he lacked, he would be infected by the vitality of a young girl like Wang Xiaomei, who had the same vigor as the red hairband tied on her braids.
Wang Xiaomei is not very old either, the same age as Ye Baoguo.
Ye Yu treated her as a little kid like Wang Er, Mao Wang San Hai. Besides, Wang Xiaomei herself was under 18 years old, and her mouth also understood her mother's——
It's really sweet.
"Cousin, you're so beautiful. Your skin is the whitest I've ever seen. And you smell so sweet. Do you use any vanishing cream? What brand is it? It works so well."
Wang Xiaomei is not only good at chatting, but also good at getting information from chatting. She asked a lot of questions during the chat, but her method was not annoying.
Ye Yu answered intermittently, but as he was answering, he realized that something was a little wrong.
Most of Wang Xiaomei's questions were about the old city, which was not surprising, as many rural people had a curiosity and yearning for the city. However, she hardly asked about what the city was like, and asked less about the supply and marketing cooperatives and snow cream. She had to give an introduction and focus on who the eldest and second cousins of the Ye family married.
After learning that my eldest cousin had married a worker, I inquired about many issues concerning factories and workers' children, as well as my second cousin's blind date, and I wished I could be there in person.
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"You want to marry in Yanjing?"
Ye Yu asked directly, and Wang Xiaomei's face was as shy as a cooked crab, but she was not as reserved or shy as people nowadays, and she answered loudly.
"I'm afraid it's a bit difficult." Ye Yu talked about the current situation of single men and women in the city, and said that it will become more and more difficult in the future. The value of single workers, regardless of gender, will rise sharply.
A very realistic thing to say is that judging from her background alone, Wang Xiaomei's personal competitiveness is not as good as that of city girls.
If Wang Xiaomei married into the city, she would still have a rural household registration before finding a job and changing her household registration. She would not be able to receive commercial grain, and the family would have one more person to feed. In this era of food and clothing shortages, who would be happy with that?
Unless you meet an old bachelor or someone with bad intentions, but in that case it is better not to get married.
Wang Xiaomei's shame subsided.
Ye Yu said: "If you rely on the mountain, the mountain will fall; if you rely on the wall, the wall will collapse. If you want to enter the city, it is best to rely on your own ability. Only when you have the ability can you have a say and live more freely."
Wang Xiaomei still didn't quite understand what he said, only half of it, bit her lip and asked:
“But hasn’t the college entrance examination been suspended?”
Her previous plan was to get into high school or Yenching University, marry into the capital like her third aunt, and live a happy life wearing a red Bugela dress, brogues, Shanghai brand vanishing cream, and Feixia lipstick.
She had heard all these things from watching open-air movies in town, or from her roommates who worked in the supply and marketing cooperative.
This dream is really fashionable.
The fashion here refers to bugela dresses, brogues, Shanghai brand vanishing cream... It's a pity that I was not born in the city. No, it is definitely not a good thing to appear in the city dressed like this now.
Ye Yu asked back, "Do you want to marry a 40- or 50-year-old divorced man, or a lame, blind, or widower?"
"No, no, no." Wang Xiaomei shook her head violently. Her girlish heart was severely hit at this moment.
Ye Yu: "Aren't you a good student? If you study hard, there will always be opportunities."
There are still ten years before the next round of college entrance examinations. Wang Xiaomei is almost 16 years old now, which means she will only be 26 years old in ten years. However, many people in this era already have children at the age of 26, so it is very likely that she will be married by then.
However, it does not mean that you cannot take the college entrance examination.
Okay, it's still a little difficult.
By then, Wang Xiaomei will not be young anymore. She may have children and a family. Taking the college entrance examination may not be just her business... This is also the dilemma faced by many people who know the situation.
Given the limitations of the times, Ye Yu had no better advice. The most he could offer was this: "Even if you don't take the university entrance exam, the city still has academic requirements for recruitment. Opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared. Study hard and you won't go wrong."
"Did you hear that? Your cousin is a high school student. It's definitely a good idea to learn from her." Grandpa Wang spoke respectfully, but the first sentence sounded somewhat familiar.
And there is Grandma Wang to help out:
"Yes, yes, yes."
"Xiao Yu, you're going back to Yanjing for the holidays this year, right? Let me go with you to broaden my horizons."
Ye Yu: “…”
This means you haven't given up at all.
At this time, on Wang Xiaomei's left, a young girl who was also wearing a floral cotton jacket and a red hairband took half a step forward. She looked about four or five points similar to Wang Xiaomei, but gave people a completely different feeling.
One is like a fiery red wooden brocade, eye-catching and dazzling; the other is like a silent stone, with a very low sense of presence.
Only when Wang Xiaomei asked the factory workers, Ye Yu asked Wang Xiaomei if she wanted to marry to Yanjing, and when Grandma Wang proposed to take Wang Xiaomei to Beijing, did the other party's breathing slip for a few seconds and his heartbeat also quickened.
She is quite lively inside, completely different from her calm and taciturn appearance, which is why Ye Yu noticed her.
The girl's name is Li Mudan, a name that is completely different from her personality. She is the daughter of Wang Pandi who married into the next village, and is also Ye Yu's cousin.
People always say that daughters are filial to their fathers, but Wang Xiaomei and Li Mudan are mostly filial to their mothers.
Ye Yu probably understood what her mother meant by her second aunt Wang Pandidi as a silent person. She knew that Li Mudan and Wang Xiaomei probably both wanted to marry into the city.
But Li Mudan kept struggling with it and couldn't find a solution in the end.
Ye Yu pretended not to know. Although Grandma Wang and the others could not hear people's breathing and heartbeats like her, they were close to Li Mudan and it was impossible for them not to know the purpose of Li Mudan's visit today. She was just pretending to be confused.
She doesn't seek trouble.
Ye Yu did not agree to Wang Xiaomei's request to go to Beijing, and she was not able to fall into the various traps set by Grandma Wang.
Grandma Wang and her husband muttered to themselves, "This granddaughter is quite rude and hard to talk to. As expected of Lai Di's daughter, her bad temper is just like her mother's."
After chatting for so long, dinner is almost ready.
The Ye family has always been quite casual when eating, and there is no rule of "no talking while eating". Once the dishes are served, at most they will wait for Ye Hongjun to pick up some, and then how much he grabs depends on his hand speed.
But Grandma Wang’s house is different.
Perhaps because of the large population, the Wang family actually implemented a separate dining system.
The person who distributed the food was Grandma Wang, one of the oldest members of the family; the first group to divide the family was the two older generations, and the middle-aged laborers, Wang Chuangen, Wang Dahu, and Wang Erhu; Liu Hongmei, Wang Xiaomei, and the younger generations followed closely behind; the remaining Wang Dahu's wife and Li Mudan were at the very end.
The further you go, the larger the portions and the more varieties of food you get, and you may not always be able to eat enough later on.
For example, scrambled eggs with leeks are only available in the first tier, egg drop soup is almost the same for the first and second tiers, and the ones behind can only have half a bowl and two spoonfuls at most, cabbage vermicelli, pumpkin and even sweet potato multi-grain cakes are almost the same.
Ye Yu was originally supposed to be in the third echelon, and even at the end like her granddaughter Liu Mudan. However, as a distinguished guest who came from afar and was visiting for the first time, she was placed in the first echelon by Grandma Wang and enjoyed the best treatment.
The egg drop soup is really delicious, the eggs are smooth and tender, and the onions grown in our own fields are very fragrant. Chives are similar to onions and are a perfect match with eggs.
How long had Ye Yu not eaten scrambled eggs with chives? It smelled delicious, and tasted even better. He practiced the healthy habit of chewing each mouthful twenty times, not for health reasons, but simply to make the flavor linger in his mouth a little longer.
The other dishes were also good. The cabbage vermicelli didn’t have much oil in it, but it tasted original.
This cabbage is quite sweet, with a refreshing taste.
Although it is also a sweet potato and multi-grain cake, it tastes better and is more appetizing, probably because food is relatively abundant in the countryside and the quantity is different.
Ye Yu remembered what Grandma Wang said before dinner: "This is Xiao Yu's first time at Grandma's house. We don't have anything else, but there are plenty of sweet potatoes. Eat as much as you want."
"Dele!"
So after Ye Yu had eaten the multi-grain cake clean, he patted his belly and said, "Grandma, I'm not full. I'm hungry. Eat, eat!"
Others who saw Ye Yu’s eating amount and speed for the first time: “…” How can he eat so much?
Reflexively looked at her belly.
Very flat.
Grandma Wang twitched her lips. She couldn't say what she had said again. Besides, she now saw clearly that Ye Yu was just like her mother, stubborn and not easy to mess with. She was even more shameless than her mother. She had no choice but to ask her granddaughter-in-law to cook some more sweet potatoes.
"I eat a lot, I can come by myself, grandma."
"No, no, no, how can we let guests take action? Big brother, second brother and wife, hurry up."
Ye Yu could only sit down again. She really didn't have the habit of visiting other people's homes, but she really felt it was not good to trouble her two cousins-in-law. It was not easy to be a wife these days. She had to work a lot but eat the least.
The only thing left was roasted sweet potatoes, and it was impossible to ask Grandma Wang to treat anything else.
But Ye Yu didn't mind and ate with all her heart. By the end, Grandma Wang and Grandpa Wang were not only twitching their lips, but their whole faces were full of restlessness, as if they couldn't wait to send this big eater Wang back to the educated youth site.
Isn't this too much to eat?
Originally, because Ye Yu was capable and had a decent personality, he was thinking about spending more time with her and inviting her to live in his home, which would also add an extra young labor force.
Who can afford this?
No wonder Wang Lai Di asked her to go to the countryside. Maybe she couldn’t afford the commercial grain in the city?
If it weren't for the fact that she was attracted by the waistcoat, Grandma Wang might have really kicked Ye Yu out. Now she could only keep trying to gather her strength and silently recite "waistcoat", "waistcoat", "waistcoat".
I don’t know how many times he recited it, but Ye Yu finally felt full.
The meal was quite enjoyable, especially my grandparents and aunt, whose expressions were very appetizing.
Cough cough.
When Ye Yu left, in addition to the fertilized eggs, he also bought a lot of fresh vegetables, as well as a large amount of sweet potatoes, potatoes and pumpkins. Only then did Grandma Wang and the others' expressions return to normal.
"Come and visit us next time--" As soon as she went out, the usual polite words for entertaining guests came out of her mouth. Liu Hongmei seemed to be able to feel the deadly gaze behind her.
Ye Yu is mischievous:
"Next time, for sure."
“…”
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