Jiang Mengxue felt that she did not deserve it. In her opinion, this was a fair deal. Although she felt a little sympathetic, it was impossible for her to help for free. She felt inexplicably guilty.
After completing the transaction, Jiang Mengxue exited the trading platform. It was already very late, and her sister was still at home, so Jiang Mengxue didn't want to stay in the space for too long.
The next morning, Jiang Mengran got up early and washed up, planning to make breakfast so that her sister could sleep a little longer. However, since she didn't know what her sister usually ate, she boiled some water first.
Jiang Mengxue woke up when she heard the noise outside. Remembering that her sister was still at home, she quickly got up, dressed and washed.
"Why are you up so early? You don't have to go to work. Just wait for me to get up and make breakfast."
"Sister, I'm used to getting up early, and I can't sleep when it's time. I haven't cooked yet, so I just boiled a pot of water. What are you eating in the morning?"
Jiang Mengxue lifted the lid of the pot and found that the water had already boiled, so she opened the cabinet door against the wall.
"The food is all here. Make some millet porridge, steam some sausages, cut some pickles, and steam some steamed buns."
After asking her sister to cook, Jiang Mengxue took the washbasin, towel, toothpaste and toothbrush to the well to wash.
When the weather is cold, everyone puts a bucket at home to dump waste water, but Jiang Mengxue finds it troublesome and has to dump it every day. Anyway, her house is next to the well, and there is a sewer here, so she usually goes directly to the sewer to wash.
Aunt Liu was cooking in the corridor. When she heard the noise next door, she came out with a basin in her hand.
"Xiao Jiang, get up. Is your sister here? I heard her knocking on the door last night."
Jiang Mengxue rinsed her mouth, spit out the foam in her mouth, and hummed.
"I'm off today. I came here after get off work yesterday. I have to go to work tomorrow, so I have to go back in the afternoon."
Aunt Liu put the vegetable bowl on the table and came over to lift the lid to get some water.
Even though the weather is quite cold now, the well water is much warmer than the river water outside.
After it snows, the temperature will drop to dozens of degrees below zero, and the well water may be frozen. At that time, every household will have to boil snow water for water.
"By the way, Xiao Jiang, do you know where your sister works? It's quite far from here."
"Train station ticket seller, it usually takes more than 20 minutes to get here." Jiang Mengxue didn't care much. Everyone in the neighborhood knew each other. Her sister was also in the city, so it was normal for the neighbors to be curious. Besides, there was nothing to hide.
"Aunt Liu, you're busy, I'm done washing."
Aunt Liu responded by nodding and saying, "Hey, let's go back. I have to go cook and wake up the kids."
When Jiang Mengxue returned to the house, she saw that her sister was very busy, sweeping here and wiping there.
Jiang Mengxue looked around to see if her house was really so dirty that even her sister couldn't stand it.
But not really. Although she doesn't clean much on a daily basis, there are rags on the table and she will wipe it whenever she comes across them. Apart from some dust on the floor, she never throws garbage around.
"That's enough. It's not that dirty. Sit down and take a rest. Why can't you stay idle?"
Jiang Mengran put down the broom and smiled, a little shy: "I have nothing to do, sister, if you need me to do anything, I have nothing to do at home anyway."
Jiang Mengxue thought for a moment and said, "When the sun comes out, take the dried radishes out to dry in the sun. There are quite a few sweet potatoes in the cellar. I can cut some and dry them in the sun to make dried sweet potatoes."
These sweet potatoes were picked out by Jiang Mengxue from the space. They were relatively large sweet potatoes. She wanted to make some sweet potato snacks by steaming and drying them three times, which she could eat as snacks when it was cold in winter and she had nothing to do.
"Okay, sister, I understand."
Jiang Mengxue was worried that it was unsafe for her sister to go down to the cellar alone, so she helped her pull all the sweet potatoes up before going to work.
The two baskets pulled up weighed almost 80 kilograms, and after drying, there wasn't much left.
There's a lot of sandy land here, so the main crops are sweet potatoes, potatoes, peanuts, and soybeans. In winter, they not only dry the sweet potatoes, but also make vermicelli noodles and press peanut and soybean oil.
However, in order to fill their stomachs or save trouble, people dry the sweet potatoes until they are hard, so that they can increase the feeling of fullness when eating them.
But Jiang Mengxue really couldn't get used to it. Every time she chewed it, it felt like her teeth were pulled out and she couldn't bite it.
Jiang Mengran started to get busy after dinner, while Jiang Mengxue went to work with her bag.
As soon as I walked out the door, Aunt Liu from next door followed me with a basket.
"Doctor Xiao Jiang has gone to work. I also need to go shopping. Let's go together."
Jiang Mengxue didn't care, the vegetable market was indeed in the same direction as her work.
However, Aunt Liu was asking about Jiang Mengran along the way.
"Xiao Jiang, has your sister found a partner? Do you want me to introduce one to you?"
Jiang Mengxue finally realized what was happening. She was saying, "Why is Aunt Liu so enthusiastic today? She even wants to follow me to work."
"Which family does Aunt Liu want to introduce? Do I know them?"
Aunt Liu couldn't have brought up this matter for no reason. Someone must have mentioned it to her.
As expected, Aunt Liu nodded and said, "Let's get to know each other. We're from the same courtyard, just the Li family across from you.
He has only one son, named Li Qijun, who now works with his father in a machinery factory. His father is a fourth-level electrician and earns a lot of money every month.
Li Qijun is currently learning electricianship from his father. As long as he succeeds, he'll have a promising future. You mentioned earlier that you wanted your sister to find someone from a simple family. Your family only has one son, so isn't that simple?
Li Baoguo, who lives next door to us, is his uncle. They have only one son, and they both treasure him dearly. If the two of them can get together, your Aunt Li can stay at home to help them take care of the child.
It’s like having two fathers-in-law earning money for them. Don’t let the young couple have an easy life in the future.”
Although everyone lived in the same courtyard, Jiang Mengxue didn't know these people well.
She goes out early and comes back late every day, and occasionally she would meet Aunt Li to chat and say hello, but it was definitely not often. As for her father Li Qijun, she had basically never met him.
He was well-proportioned and not short, but he seemed a bit dull and didn't look like someone who could take on any responsibility.
But Jiang Mengxue couldn't say this directly.
"Aunt Liu, it's really hard for me to give you a direct reply on this matter. After all, I'm the older sister, and I can't directly arrange my younger sister's marriage.
So, I'll ask her after get off work. If she's willing, I'll bring it up again. If not, forget it. After all, free love is still popular these days."
Aunt Liu didn't mind: "Of course, of course. This matter still needs the approval of the person involved. Then you can ask after get off work today and get back to me then."
Jiang Mengxue was just messing around at work now. From the moment she started work, she'd already been thinking about what to eat after get off work. She even brought a few medical books to read, since no one would be coming to the office anyway.
Because of their incident, the doctors in several neighboring offices are busier than usual.
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