Jiang Mengxue pretended to be shy and lowered her head: "I went home a few days ago and my elders introduced him to a soldier. We thought he was a good match, so we started dating. If it's a good match, we'll get married during his vacation."
Director Chen said with some regret: "I was just thinking of introducing my son to you, but I didn't expect you to find him so quickly."
Jiang Mengxue's mouth twitched: "Director Chen, please stop joking. Everyone in the hospital knows that your son is still in high school."
Director Chen just smiled and said: "Not to mention me, even the young doctors in the hospital will be disappointed.
So, work is important, but life's major events are even more important. Your vacation this month ends at the end of the month, so the first will count as next month. You can come back to work on the second. As for how to arrange things later, it's up to Director Ma. Is that okay with you?
Jiang Mengxue was very satisfied: "That's very satisfying, thank you Director Chen, I will report to the obstetrics and gynecology department on time on the second day.
Director, please sign my marriage certificate as it might be needed soon."
Director Chen did not refuse and signed and stamped the document directly.
After saying goodbye to Director Chen, Jiang Mengxue walked out of the hospital with satisfaction. She didn't expect that the two-day holiday had made her so reluctant to go home that she didn't want to go to work.
After leaving the hospital, she didn't know where to go. Gu Qingbei probably hadn't finished his work yet, and she didn't know where he was at the moment.
Thinking about the promise I made to my sister to let her come to the city, since Jiang Mengxue asked her to come, it was of course impossible to let her stay at home to do the laundry and cooking.
She only has a junior high school education, so as long as she has connections, at least she won't be held back by her academic qualifications.
However, Jiang Mengxue had never experienced finding a job before. As she walked along the roadside factories, there was no news at all.
Now even if there are work indicators, they are digested internally and the news will not be spread outside at all. By the time you hear that everyone has started working,
Jiang Mengxue planned to ask her colleagues when she got to work, perhaps someone had indicators to sell.
I went to the market to buy some vegetables, potatoes and bean sprouts, and took out a small piece of pork fat from the space. Vegetables are always more fragrant when fried with animal oil.
It was just past two o'clock when she returned to the yard. It was too early to cook, so she put the grits porridge in the pot and simmered it on low heat. She planned to keep Xu Dashan and others for dinner today, hoping that they could help to finish the project.
She took out the wool she had prepared in advance, several bundles of dark gray wool, and planned to knit a sweater and trousers for Gu Qingbei, which could be worn under his coat when it got too cold in a while.
Aunt Liu next door was sitting at the front gate sewing shoe soles. Jiang Mengxue took the wool and asked Aunt Liu to help her hold it while she rolled the wool into a ball.
"Dr. Jiang, did you buy this yarn at the department store? The color looks really nice, and it feels really good. It's not cheap, is it?"
Luckily, Jiang Mengxue had asked at the department store before, otherwise she wouldn't have known how to answer: "That's right, this little bit of wool costs 23 yuan per pound, and the cheaper ones cost more than 10 yuan per pound, which is more expensive than making a cotton-padded jacket."
Aunt Liu was shocked when she heard this. It was such a valuable thing. Her family couldn't bear to buy even a pound of it even if they gritted their teeth. It was a month's food and vegetable money for the family. She couldn't bear to spend the family's living expenses for a month on just a pound of wool.
As the two talked, they finished winding the yarn in a short while. Jiang Mengxue often did handicrafts when she was in college, so she was very fast once she got the hang of it.
Aunt Liu felt like she could see afterimages, and said in surprise, "I didn't expect Dr. Jiang to have such skills. At your speed, you can knit a sweater in just two days."
Jiang Mengxue smiled and said, "Maybe I have good hands-on skills. I can get the hang of it after just a few simple lessons." It shouldn't be difficult for a doctor to learn to knit sweaters.
When Gu Qingbei came back at around four o'clock in the afternoon, Jiang Mengxue had already finished knitting a piece.
Jiang Mengxue said something to Aunt Liu and got up and followed her home.
Gu Qingbei looked at the short length of yarn that had already been woven and asked, "I didn't expect you to have such a skill. Look at the color. Is this for me?"
Jiang Mengxue raised her eyebrows. This guy was really confident: "How do you know it's for you? Can't you tell me it's for my dad?"
"Oh? So is it for me or for my father-in-law?"
Jiang Mengxue underestimated the thickness of his skin.
"You are so familiar with people. Who is your father-in-law? You call him that so smoothly."
"Of course he's my father-in-law. Don't even think about going back on your word. I've already submitted my marriage report, and it'll be approved in a few days. Then you'll be my legitimate daughter-in-law. Then I'll stop calling you father-in-law and just call you dad."
Jiang Mengxue was convinced, or rather, he was really the best.
"This is for you, please stop talking about it. If you keep talking about it, my dad will become your dad."
It was time for dinner, and several aunts were picking vegetables at the door to prepare cooking. Jiang Mengxue and the others also went home.
Jiang Mengxue made pancakes with dough, Gu Qingbei peeled potatoes and cooked vegetables, and told Xu Dashan that she would cook for them tonight so that they wouldn't have to go home to eat. Jiang Mengxue also wanted them to cook faster.
Jiang Mengxue had cooked the porridge in advance. She had originally planned to cook white rice porridge, but it was fine for the two of them to eat better in private, and since there were renovation workers around, she couldn't do that, so Jiang Mengxue cooked corn grits porridge, which was also very good.
The batter is made by mixing a little white flour, corn flour and sorghum flour together, and making it a little thicker. Scoop a spoonful of it onto the griddle, and then spread it flat with a special scraper. A thin pancake will be ready in a few seconds.
In a short while, a pot of pancakes was ready, and the vegetables were fried in a few strokes. Although there was no meat, the vegetables were fried with animal oil and were very fragrant.
Jiang Mengxue was not very good at dealing with grown men, so the food was brought out by Gu Qingbei, who also brought out his own portion to eat with them.
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