After two classes in the morning, Zhou Chengning asked for leave from the principal and asked two other Chinese teachers to help substitute for him.
There are three Chinese teachers in their middle school, and he has the most classes. One of the Chinese teachers is Teacher Liu, who has lunch with him at noon.
There are not many teachers in the school, and there are no clear groups. The teachers who are less busy will also serve as physical education teachers. There is no system for taking leave, and you just have to ask the principal for approval and give it to the director of the accounting office.
During lunch, Teacher Liu asked Teacher Zhou if there was anything going on at home.
After all, he has been working here for four or five years. Occasionally, he would ask the teacher to substitute for him when he had something to do, but Teacher Zhou had never taken a leave.
It's quite strange to suddenly have to take a day off.
Zhou Chengning heard Teacher Liu ask, "Tomorrow I will accompany my wife to the county town to mail packages and letters."
"You have to wait early for the bus to the county town. There is only one bus for the whole town every day. If you don't get there early, there will be no seats." Teacher Sun has experience in taking buses.
Zhou Chengning hadn't thought about this yet, but when Teacher Sun told him about it, he hurriedly asked, "How early do I need to get on the 8 o'clock bus to get a seat?"
"At least an hour, sometimes there are people sitting there when you go at 6:30. You don't have to go too early, an hour is enough, after all, the car door won't open that early. But many times the car is there, and the driver hasn't arrived yet, but the seats are already full."
Zhou Chengning: "Okay, thank you Teacher Sun for reminding me. My wife and I will leave early tomorrow."
Teacher Wang sighed, "Teacher Zhou, there are not many husbands as considerate as you."
"My wife had just given birth a few months ago and was feeling weak, so I went with her."
When talking about the baby who was only a few months old, several teachers understood each other tacitly. Teacher Liu said: "It is right to be considerate to your loved ones. After all, giving birth to a child is like walking through the gates of hell."
Teacher Zhou's wife gave birth to a son, and they all knew about it, but they never asked about the full moon banquet, and Teacher Zhou himself never mentioned it. I guess Teacher Zhou's wife didn't welcome Teacher Zhou's relatives and friends to come for the banquet.
With Teacher Zhou's personality, it's obvious that he has no status in the family.
"Yes, mothers work very hard... It is not allowed now. We don't want children in the future. Two is enough."
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I was busy for most of the day yesterday, steaming steamed buns. The buns were vegetarian, pickled mustard greens buns, and mushroom and vegetable buns. The steamed brown sugar buns were eaten by Gua Gua as soon as they came out of the steamer.
The couple got up at around five in the morning, took Gua Gua out of bed and took him to his grandmother's house.
Niu Niu was still sleeping, so they left quickly while he was still sleeping. The crying of a two or three month old baby was so heartbreaking for his parents. Gua Gua didn't know that his parents were going to the county town, so she was fine at first, but when Xu Xiangjuan really wanted to leave, she followed them.
Xu Xiangjuan: "Guagua, you can eat as much steamed buns as you want from grandpa and grandma today. Follow grandpa to peel chestnuts. When you are done, mom will come back to reward you."
"Where's Mommy?" For a little girl who follows her mother around all day, she gets nervous when her mother is not around.
"Mom has something to do. She needs to go mail something to her uncle. There's no room for Guagua in the car. Can you bring Guagua with you next time? Guagua will stay at grandpa and grandma's house, and mom will come back to make delicious food for Guagua."
After finally persuading Gua Gua to stay at his grandparents' house, Xu Xiangjuan hurried out and bolted the yard door.
Zhou Chengning waited patiently outside the courtyard gate with his things in his hands, but he didn't dare go in, for fear of making his mother-in-law angry early in the morning.
When the two men arrived at the bus parking lot, it was not yet seven o'clock and the bus was already full.
"Auntie, can you give us this seat?"
The old lady had a good temper and she picked up the bamboo basket next to her and put it on her legs.
The bamboo basket was covered with cloth, and judging from the gaps on the side, it should be some mountain products, either taken to sell at stalls in the county town or brought back for family members.
"Please sit down." Seeing that the seat was vacant, Xu Xiangjuan asked Zhou Chengning to sit down.
Of course Zhou Chengning couldn't sit alone, so she asked her lover who had just given birth to a child to stand beside her, "You should sit and I'll stand."
"You are such a big person standing here. Aren't you deliberately blocking the way? If you are allowed to sit, just sit down."
"Just sit down, young man. It would be fine if the young lady sat on your lap." The old lady said.
After hearing the old lady's suggestion, Zhou Chengning sat down. Xu Xiangjuan felt that what the old lady said was indeed a good idea, so she asked Zhou Chengning to give her the three packages and she sat on his lap.
There were three packages, two to be sent out, one was their food rations, and the other was the steamed buns she made. Putting them together, she could fill her arms.
The space was not spacious to begin with, and it was even more crowded now. Zhou Chengning hugged Xu Xiangjuan's waist, fearing that she would get bumped.
Zhou Chengning and Xu Xiangjuan both look young, so sitting like this would attract a lot of attention, and it would not be a good idea for their partners to sit like this.
"Are the young lady and boy also going to the county town to sell things?" The old lady next to them started chatting with Xu Xiangjuan.
"Auntie, please don't laugh at me. I'm not a grown-up girl. I'm already a mother of two children. We went to the city to send something to my brother and his wife."
"Oh my, I can't tell at all. How old are they? Are they already parents of two children?"
"I'm 24, he's 28, and our oldest child is over three years old."
When Zhou Chengning heard Xu Xiangjuan's words, he felt satisfied. He had a lover and two children, which was great.
"They look like 17 or 18-year-old girls or boys."
It turned out to be a young couple. Since they were a young couple, no one paid too much attention to them and each closed their eyes and took a nap.
The conductor came first. Even though Xu Xiangjuan was sitting on Zhou Chengning's lap, he still charged 10 cents. The amount he charged depended on the number of people in the car.
A lot of people came later, and the car was packed full. The driver came last, and it was a little after 8:10 when he started the car.
The road is not very flat now. The car started to shake after only a few minutes of stability. The smell in the car was also bad. Some people even made vomiting sounds, but no one was surprised.
Xu Xiangjuan was leaning on Zhou Chengning with her eyes closed. She couldn't stand the smell in the car. The window couldn't be opened, it was suffocating.
Zhou Chengning felt equally uncomfortable. He hugged his lover who was leaning against him, with his face against her neck, relying on the faint fragrance of her body to block out the foreign smells in the car.
It took more than an hour for the car to arrive at the county town. "Auntie, let's wait for some people to disperse before going down. Are you in a hurry?"
"Don't worry, people will go down quickly."
When it was almost empty, Xu Xiangjuan grabbed Zhou Chengning's hand and got out of the car. She had been sitting all the way, and her steel legs must have been numb from sitting.
Zhou Chengning got out of the car and took a while to tell Xu Xiangjuan that they could leave.
The station where the car stopped was not as orderly as it was later, and the environment was not very good, with dust flying everywhere, so the two of them walked away quickly.
Xu Xiangjuan remembers the location of the post office, which has not changed in more than ten years.
After sending the package and letter, she took Zhou Chengning to the department store.
Zhou Chengning was not familiar with the county town. Although he went to high school in the county town, he stayed in school every day and did not go out. He had no money to go out, and life was tight. He spent every penny very carefully, so he was not familiar with any place in the county town where things were sold.
He had never even been to the supply and marketing cooperative in town, so he could only follow Xu Xiangjuan in the city. However, he did not doubt why his lover was so familiar with the city.
Xu Xiangjuan was afraid of spending money lavishly, so she wanted to buy everything in the department store and took some 20-yuan bills and a few cents in coins with her.
Both husband and wife deliberately wore more decent clothes today. Although they were still too simple in Xu Xiangjuan's eyes, they were clean and tidy at least so as not to be looked down upon.
At that time, the salesperson did not have any sales volume to compete for and was not very enthusiastic, so Xu Xiangjuan slowly took Zhou Chengning and the other person to "see the world."
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Reborn ten years ago, Xu Tingyou met her legendary ex-husband again, from whom she had been divorced for many years.
It was said that after the divorce, her ex-husband retired to the mountains. Although it was in the 21st century, after being married for five years, she knew that her ex-husband was the type to retire to the mountains...
Her ex-husband would get up early every day to practice Tai Chi, would focus on calligraphy and painting in the morning when insects were chirping and birds were singing, and would make tea and drink it when the sun was setting over the mountain...You could also see the dark green mountains in the distance from their home.
What was she doing at this time before her rebirth?
Going to work, working overtime, and going home from get off work, I secretly sighed as I watched my husband, who was as carefree as a wandering wanderer, saying: If you have money, you can do whatever you want.
After more than ten years of ups and downs in the workplace, Xu Tingyou was reborn as a rookie in the workplace who had experienced the hardships of society. He thought: Money really can do whatever you want! !
No matter how difficult life is, there are always people working hard, persevering and passionate about it.
Restrained and polite male protagonist with a sage-like temperament x a worldly and sophisticated female protagonist
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