Chapter 97: Not Allowing Him to Go Back to His Room to Sleep

"Didn't you learn rePubLlc of chlnA in junior high school?" His wife spoke fluent and authentic English, which surprised Zhai Ximo's young and handsome face.

He slowly raised his eyes and looked at his wife's normal face. He was extremely shocked and secretly sighed that she was a rare woman among her peers.

I never thought that the daughter of Lao Wang, a family as poor as his, could actually read the English printed on stamps.

Wang Ziru couldn't help laughing when she saw this. She burst out laughing. She didn't expect that the man couldn't read the capitalized 'rePubLlc'. She laughed so hard that she was out of breath. "What a simple word! You should have learned it when you were in junior high school."

"No, I haven't learned it. Alas, I have forgotten it." Zhai Ximo's face was a little stiff. He really couldn't read the word. What's more ridiculous is that he didn't know the Chinese meaning of the word.

But he thought it might be related to stamps.

Just when the two were embarrassed, Baoer seemed to have discovered something and exclaimed, "Mom, you can read!"

"Read it to me again. It sounds good." The boy stomped his feet in joy as if he was listening to a foreign language.

Wang Ziru glanced at the man with a smile, then read it to her son twice, and taught her son to read it twice.

Zhai Ximo silently picked up the bowl of kelp and scallion soup and drank half of it in big gulps to cover up his embarrassment.

"Don't be in a hurry. Learn slowly. English is an easy language to learn. Mommy will teach you a few English sentences every day in the future." Wang Ziru sat opposite the father and son, reached out and stroked her son's little face to comfort him.

Zhai Ximo realized it later and asked, "Did you learn a lot from others when you stayed in the county town for a while?"

The "other person" he mentioned was not someone else, but Wang Ziru's ex-fiancé.

Thinking of this, Zhai Ximo felt a surge of sadness in his heart.

But he didn't dare to think about it too deeply.

I still can't compare with others. I can't even read a few words on the stamp, and I'm too embarrassed to ask my wife for help.

After Wang Ziru finished laughing, she felt that the man's pride was playing tricks on her and she was about to get jealous. She said calmly, "I was young at that time and I learned everything quickly. I didn't expect that I still remember it now. Oh, it shows that I am smart."

A glimmer of surprise flashed across the man's eyes. He didn't expect to have picked up a treasure.

After a pause, he said, "When you get to the army, you should spend more time educating your son."

After dinner, the curious baby Baoer wanted to study the airmail stamps he had obtained.

So he ran back to the house, found the airmail envelope his father had bought and all the stamps. The little boy already remembered where to put the stamps, but he still didn't understand why they were needed.

While washing the dishes, Zhai Ximo taught his son to read the line of traditional Chinese characters on the stamp over and over again.

But the kid seemed to have noticed that he didn't recognize the row of English words below, so every time he finished reading the traditional Chinese characters above, he would deliberately ask him how to read the line of English printed next to the numbers below.

"What a nemesis!" Zhai Ximo sighed in his heart as he brushed the brush.

Baoer was very happy to see that he could stump his father every time. He turned around and asked his mother. His mother could always recite the answer in a smooth voice, and the little guy found it very interesting.

After the dishes were washed and the kitchen was tidied, the man regained his composure and said, "Anyway, your English is pretty good. You learned it in middle school, but you still remember it so clearly?"

The reason why he thought this was what women learned in their junior high school English textbooks.

This is because in the late 1970s, few girls from the countryside could go to high school.

They went to Cangnan County High School, which was in the county seat, so to attend high school one needed both a quota and the family had to be wealthy enough to pay the tuition.

Like their Zhai family, the eldest and second brothers did not graduate from elementary school, but he finished junior high school. So in the past two years, when the army had quotas for further studies in military academies, he seized the rare opportunity without hesitation.

After graduating from military school, he also mastered relatively systematic military command capabilities.

Only then will he be promoted to group leader.

Zhai Ximo felt that his son must read more and have a high level of education so that he would have a chance to succeed in the future.

Wang Ziru didn't explain, but nodded in agreement with the man, not wanting to hurt his fragile heart.

In her previous life, she was a PhD student in gynecology. She had to read foreign medical journals and books, and submit English papers with clinical pictures every year.

What are these English words?

The eldest and second oldest sons of the Zhai family were in the main room, with their hands folded in the same position. From time to time they could hear the laughter of Baoer and their mother coming from the stove room at the back of the house. The two brothers had a lot on their mind but they didn't know who to tell.

That night, Zhai Ximo got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet. When he passed the dark main room, he found that his elder brother had not gone back to the west room to sleep.

Instead, he propped up a door panel in the main room, spread a tattered quilt on it, and slept on the door panel.

He sensed his elder brother's aura and guessed it was him.

"Brother, why don't you go back to your room to sleep in such a cold day?" Zhai Ximo came back from the toilet and walked over to ask.

Zhai Qingsong lay on his back on the makeshift bed, one arm resting on his forehead, and said in a muffled voice: "Your sister-in-law said that she didn't get the compensation money, so she won't let me go back to sleep."

"..." Zhai Ximo looked at his elder brother with a serious expression, which gradually became gloomy.

The eldest sister-in-law took advantage of her honest brother and actually used this excuse to not allow him to sleep on the bed in the room.

Zhai Ximo looked deeply outside the main hall, "Sister-in-law, why don't you just get a divorce, marry a man who can make money, and live a good life!"

"Stop talking."

In the eyes of his younger brother, Zhai Qingsong's frightened look showed no dignity at all.

After returning to the house and lying down, Zhai Ximo seemed to have woken up his wife, so he asked, "Tell me, if Big Brother and Liu Xiangqin really get divorced, can he still find a suitable woman?"

"Did you just go outside and run into brother in the middle of the night?" Wang Ziru carefully turned sideways and hugged the man.

"Well, Liu Xiangqin asked my eldest brother to come out and not let him go back to his room to sleep."

The women in the village are really capable of doing such things.

It's stupid to think you can control a man by not allowing him to sleep in your bed.

"Oh! Don't worry about it. It's just a couple's business. They quarrel at the head of the bed and make up at the foot of the bed. We shouldn't say anything. They can do whatever they want. Everyone has his own way to go..." Wang Ziru yawned, feeling very sleepy.

She wanted to see what Liu Xiangqin was going to do this time.

The next morning, as soon as Baoer opened his eyes, he urged his parents to go back to his grandmother's house in Longwang Village as soon as possible.

Zhai Ximo took the child out of the quilt. The child's face was full of bright smiles, which made people feel very happy.

When I took Baoer to the toilet in the yard, my eldest brother had already gotten up. He was also busy doing something in the yard early in the morning.

Zhai Ximo ran into his second brother Zhai Jiahao, who was squatting under the eaves rinsing his mouth with an enamel pot in his hand. He suddenly remembered that his brother-in-law was getting married, and he needed to ask his second brother to go to Longwang Village to help make some furniture for the dowry.

"Second brother! You don't have any other carpentry work recently, right?"

Zhai Jiahao's mouth was covered with toothpaste foam. He looked up and glared at the third brother unhappily, "Why, can you still help me find a job?"

"Well, Uncle Baoer is getting married, but the bride's dowry hasn't been prepared yet..."

Uncle Baoer? Isn't he the idiot who came to their house yesterday?

Zhai Jiahao originally wanted to find an opportunity to teach that kid a lesson, but he heard the third brother say that the dowry for his brother-in-law's wedding had not been prepared yet!

Isn’t this just a carpentry job that comes right to your doorstep!

Zhai Jiahao seemed to smell the scent of wages. He couldn't wait for Zhai Ximo to finish speaking and stood up quickly. "When are you going to do it?"

"Well, the specific time has not been decided yet. I heard that the wood is still hanging at the girl's uncle's house. If you have time in the next two days, come with us to Longwang Village to ask clearly?"

"Let's do it today! Anyway, I have nothing else to do at home! I have already built the terraced fields, and I am just waiting to plant the rice..."

Zhai Jiahao rushed into the house excitedly, apparently to tell Xu Ping the good news.

In the stove room of the newly built brick and tile house opposite, Liu Xiangqin was cooking. When she heard that the third brother had asked the second brother to do carpentry work on behalf of his brother-in-law, she felt very jealous. She stood at the door of the stove room and looked at the man who was busy in the yard with resentful eyes.

"You are the poorest person in this family! You can't make any money, and you can't even get compensation. It's a sin for you to be alive!"

Zhai Qingsong was hunched over, struggling to clean up the cow dung in the cowshed with one hand. He slowly turned his head and looked at his wife standing at the door of the stove room. His eyes suddenly turned red.

"What are you still standing there for? If you don't eat, then Zhaodi and I won't eat either?"

Forcing the man to ask the third brother for compensation.

Zhai Qingsong murmured a few times, and when he heard the third child leading the children out of the toilet, he silently withdrew his gaze and continued to clean up the cow dung.

The calf was divided between the two families.

During the day, Xu Pingqiao usually went out to graze, and he was the only one who had to do chores like cleaning the cowshed.

Zhai Ximo, holding the child, opened the door and walked out of the toilet. Naturally, he also heard the words that his sister-in-law had just deliberately said to his brother.

He led the child straight back to the house without paying any attention to Liu Xiangqin.

Liu Xiangqin thought that the third brother would accept the challenge, but she didn't expect him to...

"No! I have to think of a way to make the third brother spit out some money." Turning around and chasing to the stove room, Liu Xiangqin said to herself.

Eat breakfast.

Wang Ziru asked her husband to chop some grass to feed the chickens, as there was nothing else at home to bring back to her parents' home.

The family of three had to return to Longwang Village empty-handed.

The villagers watched Wang Ziru return to her parents' home with her family.

But today seemed a little different. Zhai Jiahao and his wife led their children and followed the third child to the village entrance.

"Jiahao, are you two brothers going to meet up in town?" an old lady asked.

Zhai Jiahao nodded, "Yes! The third brother and I went to Longwang Village to do some carpentry work, and the three of them went to the town to buy some things."

"Oh, that's great! We are gathering again today."

The carpentry work in the next village had just been completed, and Zhai Jiahao heard that the Wang family had asked him to make wedding furniture. How could he stay at home?

The couple was extremely happy, usually for weddings here, even if it was just a few simple pieces of furniture, it would take at least twenty days and twenty workers, and they could earn a lot of money from that.

When we arrived at the town, fellow villagers from dozens of villages nearby came to the town one after another.

Many villagers still carry mountain products on their backs and sell them on the streets.

"Mom, can we buy some buns and take them to grandma's house to eat?" Baoer thought of the meat buns he had eaten last time.

Wang Ziru saw Xu Ping also leading two maids, so she said, "Second sister-in-law, there is a rice cake seller in front. Let's go buy some rice cakes for the children as snacks."

"Hey, we don't have the money to buy those toys!"

Xu Ping smiled and said she didn't want to buy it.

She turned her back and made eyes at the two maids, signaling them to follow closely behind the aunt and get some benefits.

When we arrived at the rice cake shop, there were already a few customers sitting inside. They were drinking soy milk and eating round rice cakes as big as their palms with chopsticks, enjoying them heartily.

When the children saw the plump white rice cakes just out of the oven in the store, they all drooled.

"Children, the steamed rice cakes in our shop are delicious. You will definitely like them! Ask your mothers to buy one to try." The proprietress was strong and muscular, with a rosy face and a white apron tied around her chest. She was busy in the cramped shop.

Zhai Xiaofeng and Zhai Xiaoya, the two sisters, stood on tiptoe beside the table at the entrance of the store, staring at the white flour rice cakes in the steamer. Zhai Xiaoya turned around and looked at Baoer again, "Baoer, do you want to eat it? It smells delicious."

Baoer knows that her two cousins ​​want to eat rice cakes, but her aunt doesn't seem to want to buy them.

The boy was also smart. He turned around and looked at his mother, pretending to want to eat, and said carefully: "Mom, I don't want to eat rice cakes anymore. Let's go to grandma's house. Grandma will fry wild vegetable cakes for me."