"Okay, I won't laugh at you. These must all be cute photos of you when you were little, right?"
"Hehe, just look through the photo album yourself!"
An Qingbai felt a tickle in his heart, glanced at his fiancée, and flipped through the photo album.
I laughed when I saw the picture of Zhizhi with snot bubbles when she was very young.
"So cute! Zhizhi, you've been so pretty since you were little! Even with snot bubbles running down your nose, you're still pretty!"
Zhuang Zhimeng, held in An Qingbai's arms, also looked at the photo album.
“My dad took this photo secretly. He thought it was funny and kept it.”
An Qingbai flipped through the pages again.
"Haha, this is when you were still wearing open-crotch pants, right? You were so cute back then! I loved it!"
"Yeah, my parents told me I wore open-crotch pants until I was one year old! Qingbai, how long will you keep wearing them?"
“I remember when I was little, I only wore open-crotch pants in the summer, until I was four or five years old! Later, I became ashamed and stopped wearing them.”
An Qingbai continued flipping through the photo album, which was full of photos of Zhizhi from childhood to adulthood.
Suddenly, a photograph fell out from the gap.
Zhuang Zhimeng saw this and quickly covered Qingbai's eyes with her hand.
An Qingbai smiled and took Zhizhi's hand down, then kissed it on his lips.
"Sweetie, let me see!"
"Haha, go ahead and watch if you want!"
An Qingbai picked up the photo and almost burst out laughing on the bed.
The photo shows Zhizhi with her hair tied in a topknot, her face covered in messy lipstick, and a bright smile.
"Hahaha! I'm dying of laughter, Zhizhi, how can you be so funny?"
Zhuang Zhimeng held the photo in her hand and couldn't help but smile.
"Haha, I used to watch my mom put on lipstick when I was little, and I wanted to try it myself."
One day, when my mom wasn't home, I secretly applied it myself.
As a result, my mom came back early, so I sped up, which only made things worse, and that's how it ended up.
Actually, this photo isn't complete. In the bottom part, I'm wearing my mom's leather shoes, and they're huge.
An Qingbai took the photo into his hands and couldn't resist kissing his fiancée on the lips.
"Zhizhi, please give me this photo. I want to keep it as a treasure. Your smile is so funny."
Zhuang Zhimeng nodded.
"Okay then, make sure you keep it safe! There's only one photo like this!"
"I will definitely keep it safe."
Zhuang Zhimeng glanced at her watch.
"Brother Qingbai, we should go to the kitchen to make lunch."
"Okay, go cook."
An Qingbai had always assumed he would cook at home, but after looking around, he couldn't find the kitchen.
"Zhizhi, where's the kitchen?"
"Brother Qingbai, the kitchens are all shared now, they're in the hallway!"
This is also why I dislike apartment buildings; there's no privacy at all, and everyone can know what you're doing.
"Okay, then we won't live in buildings like this anymore."
"Okay, let's go cook. I'll get some meat and make a few dishes."
"I also bought braised beef and peanuts at the grocery store. We can just stir-fry a few hot dishes."
"That's perfect. Slice a plate of red sausage, that'll be another cold dish. Make three more hot dishes, and six dishes should be enough."
It's so cold today, how about we make dumpling soup for lunch?
"Okay, I'll do as you say."
Zhuang Zhimeng brought An Qingbai to the communal kitchen, only to run into their neighbor, Aunt Chen, who was cooking.
Chen Lizhu couldn't believe it when she saw Zhuang Zhimeng. She looked at her several times before confirming that it was indeed Hao Caiyun's daughter, Zhuang Zhimeng, and immediately asked her.
"Zhimeng? What are you doing at home? Weren't you sent to the countryside?"
"Oh, it's Aunt Chen. I've come back to see my parents."
Chen Lizhu thought of the place where Zhuang Zhimeng was sent to the countryside and began to laugh.
"I heard that the places you went to in the countryside were extremely poor, and people often didn't have enough to eat. Is that true?"
Zhimeng, have you started dating anyone? Your brother Qi wrote to say he's planning to go on a date!
As Chen Lizhu spoke, she saw An Qingbai.
"Zhimeng, who is this? Is he a relative of yours?"
Zhuang Zhimeng shook her head.
"No, he is my fiancé."
"Fiancé? So you're already engaged?"
"Yes! We're getting married soon!"
"Where is he from?"
"They were locals from the place where I was sent to work in the countryside."
Chen Lizhu started laughing again.
"Hehe, I never expected it! Zhimeng, you actually married into the village!"
Zhuang Zhimeng ignored Aunt Chen and instead asked An Qingbai.
"Brother Qingbai, how tall are you again?"
An Qingbai lowered his head to chop vegetables, deliberately cooperating with Zhizhi to tell her in a resounding voice.
"1.85 meters tall."
"Oh, by the way, Aunt Chen, if I remember correctly, your son is less than 1.7 meters tall, right? He's not even as tall as me, is he?"
Chen Lizhu was speechless.
Zhuang Zhimeng then asked An Qingbai.
"Brother Qingbai, you get paid as a tractor driver in the brigade, right?"
I haven't asked you how much money you make; I just told you to keep it for your own spending money. How much is your salary?
An Qingbai smiled and glanced at Zhuang Zhimeng.
"Without work points, it's ten yuan a month, and twenty yuan during the busy farming season."
"Oh, that's quite a lot. Aunt Chen, how much does your son earn a month now?"
"Look at me, I forgot, he was a sent-down youth like me, so he couldn't get a salary, he only got work points. How many work points does he have now?"
Chen Lizhu was about to refute, but found that she had no way to argue. Her son had written to her a few days ago asking for money! How could he possibly have a salary?
My son also said that we can only earn seven work points a day.
"I..."
Zhuang Zhimeng did not give Chen Lizhu a chance to speak again.
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