Chapter 52 Chapter 52 I bought some paper and cut it up to compensate her.
This wedding night was what Qin Zhanwu had been thinking about day and night, but at this moment, he was lying in bed with the girl he loved sleeping next to him, and he couldn't sleep.
Su Yan didn't like Qin Zhanwu, or rather, she only liked him a little bit. Qin Zhanwu thought he didn't care about this, but he probably overestimated himself.
The next morning, Qin Zhanwu woke up early. He prepared breakfast and was about to wake Su Yan up when he saw her yawning and trying to peel off the wedding character pasted on the window. There was a spot that was pasted too high, so she took a stool and stepped on it.
Qin Zhanwu hurried over to support her: "You just put it on yesterday, why are you taking it off today?"
Su Yan pointed at the wedding character on another window and told Qin Zhanwu to take it down. "The wedding is already over, yet you still have it there, sticking it everywhere. How ugly is that?"
Qin Zhanwu listened without saying anything, nor did he remove the wedding characters. He took the stool back and put it away. "It looks pretty nice to me. Who doesn't put up wedding decorations for three to five months? Some even put them up for a year or two."
As he said that, he walked to the kitchen and brought out steamed buns and millet porridge: "It's time to eat."
Su Yan washed up and sat down. She saw Qin Zhanwu, completely absorbed in his food, not saying a word. She knew that the red paper-cuts sold in stores at the time were crude and simple. Qin Zhanwu had bought red paper and scissors and had someone else cut the paper-cut window decorations for the wedding.
But Su Yan felt that sticking three or five stickers would be enough as a token of appreciation. There was no need to stick them on every window. If they were so densely packed, it would make her feel like she had claustrophobia.
After dinner, the two of them went to work or school, and brought wedding candies, melon seeds, peanuts, etc., and distributed them to the offices on every floor.
Everyone praised Su Yan for being lucky: "Yingzi is really lucky. Every time she encounters a key issue, she can meet a noble person. When she was in college, an old secretary wrote a guarantee document for her. Now she is married, and she is married to Deputy Head Qin."
Some who were familiar with Su Yan asked directly, "I heard that the army is now implementing a policy of rejuvenating its cadres, and Deputy Regimental Commander Qin is a candidate for training. After graduation, he will definitely be promoted. In a few years, Yingzi, you will be a leader's family member."
Su Yan just smiled and didn't answer. Only Sister Wang pulled her aside, advising her, "Give birth to a child while you're still in Jiangzhou, where the medical facilities are good. I heard the conditions in the garrison area are poor, and giving birth there would be painful."
Su Yan smiled and patted Sister Wang's hand: "Don't worry, I'm ready."
Sister Wang nodded, and the two of them walked upstairs, where they saw Ming Fan crying in the director's office. Sister Wang hurried in: "Ming Fan, I've already told you that your job transfer has procedures, and we can't make an exception. If you have the ability, ask the Municipal Party Committee to issue the documents."
Ming Fan saw Sister Wang and didn't dare to say a word: "Director Wang, you don't know how difficult our family is..."
Sister Wang waved her hands impatiently. "Your family is struggling, but whose isn't? Everyone's struggling right now. You want to be a salesperson, that's fine. We've got someone to arrange for you, and we can let you go. Your file is already prepared. But you want your brother to take your job. How can that be possible? Not only don't we have such a policy, even if there were a policy where brothers could replace their sisters, you've already been transferred, and there's no position left. What's there for you to replace?"
Ming Fan originally came to ask for help, but when he talked about the sad things at home, he started crying. Provoked by Sister Wang, he said, "Director Wang, this is what you said. If I bring the documents from the Municipal Party Committee, you must not make excuses anymore." After saying that, he flicked his braid and left.
Sister Wang frowned. "That's outrageous. Using the backdoor is fine, but they're making such a big fuss about it, as if it's some glorious thing."
After working for a few days, Qin Zhanwu seemed to remember the incident of removing the wedding window paper-cuts, and he had nothing to say to Su Yan when he returned home every day.
Because Su Yan now moved to the military academy, Lu Yingzi's sister-in-law couldn't find her, so she took a leave of absence and waited for her at the door of the machinery factory.
As soon as she saw Su Yan, she grabbed her hand and said, "Yingzi, I beg you, you are a college graduate and an educated person, please don't argue with me, who has never been educated. I was a little greedy, thinking of you as a person with a high salary and a pension, so I stole things from your house and stole food. It's my fault. I will apologize to you, okay?"
Su Yan was puzzled by her words and pulled her aside: "Old lady, you have stolen everything and spent all your money, so why do you want to ask me for money again?"
Lu Yingzi's sister-in-law cried, "Yingzi, my brother was arrested by the police. They said he was a robber and stole things. If not for my sake, please also for your two nephews and nieces. Please don't leave them without an uncle, okay?"
Su Yan looked at her without any sympathy. She said perfunctorily, "I'll go back and call to find out what's going on."
Seeing Su Yan relax, she waved towards the tree over there, and saw Yan Zi running over and hugging Su Yan's legs: "Aunt, Aunt, please let my uncle go!"
Su Yan squatted down and saw that she was wearing a tattered woolen hat, her chest was covered with dried snot, and her face was red from the cold. Su Yan took a handkerchief to wipe her nose and asked, "Why are you so dirty? Little girl, you should pay attention to hygiene, okay?"
Yan Zi nodded, then shook her head: "Aunt, can you give Mom some food? I want to eat the braised pork you made. Can you make braised pork for Mom too? Aunt, I want to eat the noodles made by Uncle Qin. Can you take me to eat noodles?"
Su Yan handed her the handkerchief and stood up. Without answering, she said to Lu Yingzi's sister-in-law, "Take the child home. I don't know why the police arrested them. I'll go back and ask what's going on."
Lu Yingzi's sister-in-law agreed repeatedly and looked at Su Yan flatteringly: "Yingzi, sister-in-law, I did not do it well. You can hit me and scold me, but I won't dare to do it again. Yanzi's uncle is in jail, and we don't know what to do as a family."
Su Yan shook her head: "You'd better take good care of the two children, or they will resent you in the future."
Sister-in-law Lu Yingzi pushed Yan Zi over and said, "Yingzi, Yan Zi hasn't eaten anything for two or three days. She's been eating at the bottom of her cousins' bowls every day. Take Yan Zi back with you. She misses you. It's okay for us adults to be hungry. Yan Zi is your niece after all. Can you pity her?"
Su Yan smiled, thinking that this person was both absurd and funny. Seeing her smile, Yan Zi ran over and hugged Su Yan again: "Auntie, Auntie, I'm so hungry. Take me to eat noodles, and I will honor you in the future."
Su Yan absolutely didn't believe such words could be uttered by a child; they were probably taught by an adult. However, her humanitarian spirit was limited, and she only gave alms to a few individuals. She squatted down and said to Yan Zi, "At your uncle's house, your aunt asked you, and you said you wanted to follow your mother. A person's words must be kept. Once you make a choice, you must accept the consequences of it. If you choose to follow your mother, you must stay with her. If you change your mind midway, your aunt will not accept it."
These words were a little profound to Yan Zi. Choice? Result? She turned her head to look at her mother: "Mom, Auntie doesn't agree that I go back to eat."
Lu Yingzi's sister-in-law smiled cautiously: "Yingzi, anything wrong is my fault. It's my fault for not raising the child well. Yanzi is only five years old. She is young, so just say whatever you want. Don't bother with a child."
Su Yan stood up, not wanting to say anything more. "I was really inconsiderate when I thought about raising two children before. Children naturally say whatever is on their mind, and naturally, when she said she hated her aunt, she was also speaking from the heart. I am a soft-hearted person, but I am not foolish enough to raise a child who hates me. You don't have to come to me anymore. How you are doing is really none of my business."
Yan Zi was young and didn't understand what Su Yan said. She knew from her expression and tone that she didn't want her anymore. She burst into tears, "Auntie, Auntie, I was wrong."
Sister-in-law Lu Yingzi smiled and said, "Yingzi, you are blood relatives. Just treat it as a good deed on a snowy day and have pity on us, okay?"
Su Yan sighed, ignored the two people's crying, rode her bicycle out of the machinery factory, and when she got home, Qin Zhanwu had not returned yet. She searched the kitchen and saw that there were not many vegetables left, so she had to take her lunch box to the cafeteria to get some food.
Passing by the basketball court, I saw Qin Zhanwu and his classmates playing basketball. It must have been very hot, as Qin Zhanwu stood off to the side, wearing only a white shirt with all three buttons undone, chatting animatedly with the people next to him. On one side of the playground, another man in a military uniform was swaying and playing the accordion.
Su Yan stood there watching for a while, and Qin Zhanwu saw her. He ran over and saw that she was holding a lunch box. "Why are you going to the cafeteria to get food? Those steamed buns are not nutritious."
Su Yan smiled and said, "I don't want to cook, and I can't cook well."
Qin Zhanwu cursed, "You're just lazy!" and went back to the court to get his coat, which caused the other classmates to jeer: "Zhanwu, come on, you're saying your wife won't sit down because of a look from you, and won't eat because of a scolding. I think you're bragging too much. If your wife just looked at you, you'd stop playing and run back home."
Su Yan heard it and smiled, and Qin Zhanwu said, "Don't listen to their nonsense."
After returning home and changing his shoes, Qin Zhanwu was about to go to the kitchen, and Su Yan teased him: "Deputy Captain Qin, I want to sit for a while, can you approve it?"
Qin Zhanwu was taking the apron at the door and rolled his eyes: "You need an application form to apply, and you applied verbally, so it will definitely not be approved. Just stand there!"
Su Yan smiled and said, "You're quite into the role." She took out the newly bought red paper and a pair of scissors. Recalling the handicraft classes she had taken before, she cut several pieces of paper before she finally cut out the rough outline of the Chinese character for "囍". However, the size was not right. It was short and fat and definitely not beautiful.
After a while, Qin Zhanwu came out with a plate of scrambled eggs and saw a pile of red paper on the table: "It's time to eat. Why did you buy so much red paper? Isn't there still some in the drawer?"
Su Yan dug out the wedding character she had cut from a pile of paper and handed it to him: "Isn't it because I took down someone's wedding character a few days ago and threw it away? Naturally, I bought some paper and cut it myself to compensate them."
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