Chapter 27 Second update will be next time

Ye Yu felt that his mentality was old. According to the folk theorem of replenishing what is lacking, he could be infected with some vitality by being close to a young girl like Wang Xiaomei, whose vitality was as strong as the red hair rope tied on her braid.

Wang Xiaomei is not very old either, the same age as Ye Baoguo.

Ye Yu treated her like a small fry like Wang Ermao and Wang Sanhai. Moreover, Wang Xiaomei herself was a minor under the age of 18, and her mouth also understood her mother——

It's really sweet.

"Cousin, you are so beautiful. Your skin is the whitest I have ever seen. I can smell your sweet fragrance. Do you use 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 noticed something was a little bit 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 little about the supply and marketing cooperatives and vanishing cream. She kept giving an introduction and focusing on who the eldest and second cousins ​​of the Ye family married.

After learning that my eldest cousin married a worker, I inquired about many issues related to factories and workers' children, as well as my second cousin's blind date, and I wished I could be there in person.

???

"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 timid or shy as people nowadays, and she answered loudly.

"I'm afraid it will be 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, both men and women, 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 she found a job and changed her connections. 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 about 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 retreated in shame.

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, you still have to rely on your own ability. Only when you have ability can you have a say and live more freely."

Wang Xiaomei still didn't quite understand what was said, only half of it, bit her lip and asked:

“But didn’t the college entrance examination stop?”

Her previous plan was to be admitted to high school or Yenching University, marry to the capital like her third aunt, and live a happy life wearing a red Bugela dress, brogues, Shanghai brand face cream, and Feixia lipstick.

She had learned all these things from watching open-air movies in town, or from hearing about them from her roommates who worked in the supply and marketing cooperative.

This dream is really fashionable.

Fashion here refers to bouclé dresses, brogues, and 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 dress like this in the city now.

Ye Yu asked back: "Do you want to marry a 40-50 year old second-married man, or a lame, blind, widower?"

"No, no, no." Wang Xiaomei shook her head violently. Her girlish heart was severely hit at this moment.

Ye Yu: "You are a good student, aren't you? If you study hard, you will always have opportunities."

There are still ten years before the next round of college entrance examinations. Wang Xiaomei is now a little short of 16 years old, 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 her business alone... This is also the dilemma faced by many people who are in the know.

Due to the limitations of the times, Ye Yu had no better suggestions. At most, he advised: "Even if you don't go to college, the city has academic restrictions when recruiting people. Opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared. It's right to study hard."

"Did you hear that? Your cousin is a high school student. It would be a good idea for you to learn from her." Grandma Wang spoke with dignity, but the first sentence sounded somewhat familiar.

There is also Grandma Wang's supporting role:

“Yes, yes, yes.”

"Xiao Yu, you are 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 headband took a half 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; the other is like a silent stone, with a very low sense of presence.

Only when Wang Xiaomei inquired about the factory children, 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 a little.

She is quite lively inside, which is completely different from her cold and taciturn appearance, which is why Ye Yu took notice of 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.

It is said 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 Pandi, a silent person. She knew that Li Mudan and Wang Xiaomei probably both wanted to marry into the city.

But Li Mudan was always entangled and couldn't get out of it 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 could not have been unaware of the purpose of Li Mudan's visit today. She was just pretending to be confused.

She doesn't ask for trouble.

Ye Yu did not agree to Wang Xiaomei's request to go to Beijing. She was not able to fall into the various traps set by Grandma Wang.

Grandma Wang and her husband muttered in their hearts: "This granddaughter is quite rude and hard to talk to. She is worthy of being born by Lai Di. Her bad temper is just like her mother's."

After chatting for so long, dinner is almost ready.

The Ye family has always been more casual about 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 take a bite, and then how much they can grab depends on their hand speed.

But Grandma Wang’s house is different.

Perhaps because of the large population, the Wang family actually implemented the system of separate dining.

The person who distributed the food was Grandma Wang, one of the oldest people in the family; the first group to distribute the food was the two elders and the able-bodied 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.

As you progress, the portions and types of food get bigger, 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, the egg drop soup is almost the same for the first and second tiers, and the latter ones have at most half a bowl and two spoonfuls of noodles, and the cabbage vermicelli pumpkin and even sweet potato mixed grain pancakes are almost the same.

Ye Yu should have been in the third echelon, and was even placed at the end like her granddaughter Liu Mudan. However, as a distinguished guest who had come 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 green onions grown in my own fields are very fragrant. Similar to green onions, there are also leeks, which are a perfect match with eggs.

How long has it been since Ye Yu had fried leeks and eggs? It smells really good and tastes even better. He actually follows the healthy eating method of chewing each mouthful of food twenty times, not for health reasons, but simply to make the taste stay in his mouth a little longer.

The other dishes were also good. The cabbage vermicelli didn’t have much oil in it, but it still tasted original.

This cabbage is quite sweet and refreshing.

Although it is also a sweet potato and mixed-grain pancake, it tastes better and more appetizing, probably because food is more abundant in the countryside and the quantity is different.

Ye Yu remembered what Grandma Wang said before the meal: "This is Xiao Yu's first time visiting Grandma's house. There is nothing else in the house, but there are plenty of sweet potatoes. Eat as much as you want."

"Dele!"

So after Ye Yu had eaten the mixed-grain biscuits in her hand clean, she patted her belly and said, "Grandma, I'm not full. I'm hungry. Eat more!"

Others who saw Ye Yu’s appetite 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 it again. Besides, she now saw clearly that Ye Yu was just like her mother, with a stubborn temper and even more shameless than her mother. She had no choice but to ask her grandson's wife to cook more sweet potatoes.

"I eat a lot, I can do it myself, grandma."

"No, no, no, no, how can we let the guests take action? Big brother, second brother and wife, hurry up."

Ye Yu could only sit down again. She really didn't want to disturb other people's habits. She just felt that it was not nice to trouble her two cousins-in-law. It was not easy to be a wife these days. She had to do a lot but eat the least.

The next thing to be served was only roasted sweet potatoes. It was impossible to ask Grandma Wang to treat us to anything else.

But Ye Yu didn't mind and ate with his belly full. By the end, Grandma Wang was not only twitching her lips, but her whole face was eager, as if she couldn't wait to send this big eater back to the educated youth site.

Isn't this too much to eat?

Originally, because Ye Yu was capable and had a reasonable personality, he was thinking about spending more time with her. Inviting her to live at home would also provide him with an extra source of young and strong labor.

Who can afford to support this?

No wonder Wang Lai Di sent her to the countryside. Maybe the commercial food in the city couldn't support her?

If it weren't for the waistcoat, Granny Wang might have really forced Ye Yu to go out. Now she could only keep praying in secret, silently repeating "waistcoat", "waistcoat", "waistcoat".

I don't know how many times I recited it, but Ye Yu finally ate his fill.

The meal was quite enjoyable, especially the expressions of my grandma, uncle and aunt, which made them look 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 she stepped out of the door, the usual polite words came out of her mouth. Liu Hongmei seemed to be able to feel the deadly gaze behind her.

Ye Yu promotes narrow:

"Next time, for sure."

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