After all, a newly painted house cannot be lived in. Now it is cold and the paint dries slowly. They will move into the new house next week. The days in mid-November are particularly cold. No one goes up the mountain anymore. There is nothing much on the mountain at this time.
Although it is cold, housewives are busy. Zhao Guihua makes pickles and kimchi, which are well received by everyone. There are few dishes in winter, so everyone can only make the few vegetables delicious in different ways.
Zhao Guihua uses radish and cabbage to make pickles and kimchi, which are available in every household, so it is not difficult to learn how to make them.
Look, all the old ladies in the compound followed suit to learn, even Chef Li came over. Although he is a chef, he really doesn't know how to cook this. People nowadays are not like those in later generations who can search for recipes on the Internet.
I won't say it's authentic, but at least you know what to put in the recipe.
It is not like that now. The cooking skills are very dependent on inheritance. Without a master, you don't even know what ingredients are in a dish, let alone other things. Chef Li also tasted the kimchi made by Zhao Guihua, as well as some pickled vegetables.
He thought it was pretty good.
There are fewer dishes in winter, so it is important to enrich the table.
Fortunately, Zhao Guihua is willing to teach everyone, and Chef Li also came to learn. After all, there is a difference between professionals and non-professionals. Zhao Guihua can cook it, and she thinks the taste is pretty good.
After Chef Li learned it, he figured it out and added and subtracted some ingredients. He felt that the taste of the dish was better than Zhao Guihua's.
However, Chef Li did not tell his neighbors. As a chef, it is very taboo to teach others. Generally, it takes several years for an apprentice to start to master the skills under his guidance. If Yang Lixin was not his son-in-law, he would not have learned so much.
Although Zhao Guihua was the first to teach everyone how to make kimchi, each family would add or subtract some ingredients based on their own taste and what they have, so he felt that there was no need to explain his own recipe.
However, although he thought he didn't need to tell everyone, he still secretly told Zhao Guihua. This must be said, he learned the dishes from Zhao Guihua, and after the adjustment, it was better, so he naturally told Zhao Guihua, which is the virtue of a chef.
It is basic cooking practice for him not to tell his neighbors after he made adjustments to make the food taste better. If he told others, what is the point of being a chef?
Let's put one thing at a time.
Zhao Guihua didn't care about these things. They were unimportant little things. She just wanted to enrich the winter dinner table.
This man is made of iron and steel, and eating is more important than anything else to him.
The old ladies in the courtyard learned how to make pickles from Zhao Guihua, and then made pickled cabbage with Aunt Wang. In previous years, the pickled cabbage would have been ready by this time, but this year it was a month late. Who would have thought that they had been running to the suburbs and mountains for a while?
Otherwise, we always hear the saying "beat roe deer with a stick, scoop fish with a ladle, and pheasants fly into the rice pot" in places with abundant resources. They have already felt deeply after just going to the mountains in the suburbs. There are many good things in the mountains. The mountain that Zhao Guihua and his friends went to is not a deep mountain or old forest, but there are many good things.
The female comrades who don't work have more time than the average person. In the autumn, they go up the mountain every other day and always get something. It's really wonderful.
Zhao Guihua's family has both mountain products and dried vegetables, in short, a lot of things.
At her age, what she enjoys most is to stock up on food. Seeing her house full of food makes her happier than anything else. However, because she went up the mountain too much in autumn, she delayed pickling sauerkraut. In previous years, she could have eaten it at this time, but this year she just started to work on it.
But fortunately, this only takes one day.
Everyone picked similar days to work, and every weekend, the yard was bustling with activity. Everyone was working on "big things." There were so many things to do that there was no time to do anything else.
This isn't just the case in their compound, it's the same in the whole area. Every family would stock up on vegetables.
In addition, the supply is obviously limited this year, so people are naturally busy, as no one wants to go hungry.
It was a really hot and exciting atmosphere.
Even the newly moved Zhang San and Pan Pan joined in the work. Pan Pan's mother came over to help for two days and learned how to make pickles from Zhao Guihua. She left happily, only sighing that her daughter's compound was really harmonious. Rumors are harmful.
This was a huge misunderstanding, and no one explained it to her.
Compared to this new couple, the other young couple did nothing.
Chen Yuan and Tao Yuye did not work like everyone else, and their home had almost nothing prepared.
They didn't know that many people in the compound were talking about them. If they didn't live a good life, they would always be talked about. Chen Yuan was not happy when everyone talked about him and his wife. He was used to living in a building, but he was not used to the current life at all. He was very angry every day.
Eating and drinking are fine, since he has a wife with him, but the thing he is most uncomfortable with is going to the toilet.
Don't listen to the later generations who say how valuable and good the Siheyuan is, but at that time, it was really just like that. Even in the early 1990s, if it had not been renovated, it would not be as comfortable as a building. After all, the north needs heating.
Not yet, everyone burns coal briquettes, but by that time, the buildings will have centralized heating. The compound doesn't have that, and there are no water, electricity, or toilets, which makes people uncomfortable. So, if it wasn't renovated, it wouldn't have been that comfortable in the early 1990s, let alone now.
What Chen Yuan hated most was going to the toilet. If he had to go to the alley at night, he would have to go. It was not comfortable in the chilly weather. It would be even more troublesome when the weather gets colder. In short, he was a million times uncomfortable.
I have a gloomy face every day. I can't sleep in on weekends because people start working in the yard early in the morning and the yard is full of noise.
Chen Yuan patted the bed in disgust and cursed, "Damn it, no wonder none of these guys can live a good life. They are just busy working and getting poorer. They are all a bunch of poor bastards."
Tao Yuye sat up and said, "Does our family really not store vegetables?"
His family didn't buy anything, and her husband said that if they needed anything, they could go home and get it. Tao Yuye agreed with this, because her parents-in-law were both capable people and their family was quite wealthy. They didn't need anything, but when they lived in a day when there was nothing at home, it was inconvenient to run back and forth all the time.
Besides, if you don't buy some coal briquettes in the winter, you will freeze to death.
"We have to buy coal briquettes, too."
Chen Yuan turned over and cursed, "What are you mumbling about so early in the morning? You are waiting. If there is anything missing at home, go home and get it. Can my parents refuse? Don't bother me with such trivial matters in the future. Why would I look for you?"
Tao Yuye bit her lip and said, "How can a woman like me do this job of making coal briquettes?"
Chen Yuan: "You can't do this or that. You can't do anything. Why should I look for you? You should understand clearly that I am marrying up to you with my conditions. Do you think I should take care of you? If you can't take good care of me, go back to your parents' home. Our Chen family doesn't want such a useless daughter-in-law."
Tao Yuye's eyes turned red.
But Chen Yuan didn't care about her tearful look, he pulled the quilt up and said, "I'll sleep for a while, you can do whatever you want."
Tao Yuye looked at the young master's appearance of this man and knew that this was all because of the Chen family's spoiled behavior. After all, the Chen family was well-off.
She bit her lip and endured it.
How could I not bear this? If I married into an ordinary family, how could my life be as good as it is now? I could get a house as soon as I got married, and I could ask my husband's family for anything the family needed, and I could save my salary quietly. I didn't have to worry about supporting the family at all.
Although her husband's salary is not handed over, her parents-in-law can give her 20 yuan of living expenses every month, compared with those who have to pay living expenses. Tao Yuye feels that her choice is not wrong at all, and she is really glad for her choice.
Apart from anything else, she just knew that the living monthly expenses of the banker were fifteen yuan.
Thinking of this, Tao Yuye felt much better. She stood up and started to pack up. Since her husband refused to buy coal briquettes, she had to ask someone else for help. The first person she targeted was the bachelor Bai Fendou.
She felt that it was not feasible to ask someone else for help.
Tao Yuye came to the front yard, ready to speak. Her idea was good, but as soon as she walked to the door, she saw a big padlock hanging on Bai Fendou's house.
No one is at home so early in the morning?
The smile on her face suddenly fell. She stared at him uncertainly for a while, pursed her lips and turned her head. When she turned her head, she was shocked to see Aunt Zhou standing at the door and peeking at her.
Tao Yuye patted her chest and said, "Auntie Zhou, what are you doing? You are scaring people to death. What are you looking at here for no reason?"
Aunt Zhou didn't lie: "Let me see you. What do you want to do with Bai Fendou? Did your husband allow you to come? Didn't you two have a quarrel before?"
Aunt Zhou asked three questions in a row.
Tao Yuye pursed her lips again, forced a smile, and said, "I..."
She rolled her eyes and said, "Auntie Zhou, is your Zhou Qun at home? I want to ask him for help."
Aunt Zhou immediately became alert and asked, "What help?"
She said that Tao Yuye was also a thoughtful person. She said, "My Zhou Qun went to the river to fish with his uncle Zhuang and uncle Li. If you have anything to say, tell me and I will help you convey it when the time comes."
Tao Yuye didn't need to say much. If no one was at home, why would she help? Then she heard that Zhuang Laonian and Chef Li were not at home either, which meant that these two people couldn't help either.
She responded perfunctorily, "I want to ask about Coal Ball."
Aunt Zhou: "Wang Zhaodi buys all the coal briquettes for my family."
Wang Zhaodi is such a capable girl that even a mean person like Aunt Zhou thinks she is a very good person who works hard and never complains. She has no shortcomings except that she can eat a lot. But what kind of shortcoming is being able to eat?
Being able to eat is a blessing.
His family doesn't need food for one person, anyway... Zhou Qun and Jiang Lu won't give her the money, so of course she hopes Wang Zhaodi will stay, there's so much work for her to do. There's a shortage of food this year, but the things his family has saved for the winter this year are twice as much as last year.
This is still a "shortage" this year. If it weren't for the shortage, his house would definitely be better.
This man feeds the chickens, sweeps the floor, empties the spittoon, washes clothes and cooks early in the morning. Occasionally, he has to go up the mountains and down the river with Zhao Guihua and the others. His family has eaten fish several times this year!
It’s free! Wang Zhaodi fished for it! Not to mention, the house is spotless.
Anyway, Aunt Zhou likes Wang Zhaodi. She also came from the countryside and likes such a diligent girl.
She said proudly: "My aunt Wang Zhaodi is really incapable of doing anything."
Tao Yuye immediately asked: "Is Zhaodi at home?"
She said, "I'm not familiar with this place. I want her to take me there. Is that okay?"
Of course, she wouldn't directly say that she wanted Wang Zhaodi to carry coal briquettes for her.
But even if she didn't say it, Aunt Zhou could see it.
Who is Aunt Zhou? She is a master at taking advantage. She is the only one who schemes against others, but no one schemes against her. She learned this when she was young. If she didn't know how to do it, she would have learned it by watching. This is what Aunt Su did.
I have to say, after seeing Aunt Su's various operations, she felt that other people were quite inadequate, just like Tao Yuye now, who looked like a smart person, but who didn't understand these little tricks.
Aunt Zhou smiled wryly and said, "What's so familiar about going to a supply point? Just go out and ask, and someone will give you directions. My daughter Zhaodi has to accompany Jiang Lu to a prenatal checkup soon. She doesn't have the time to hang around with you."
It's been quite a while and Jiang Lu is getting pregnant. Her pregnancy is not as obvious as Mingmei's, but you can tell at first glance that she is pregnant.
Naturally, Tao Yuye couldn't say "Don't accompany me for the prenatal check-up, come with me to move the coal briquettes", and no one would pay attention to her. She just felt that nothing went well this morning.
Aunt Zhou saw that she looked unhappy and said, "What's wrong with you? You can't find anyone to help you with the work, so you feel unhappy, right? Let me tell you, you can't rely on others. You don't even know each other, and you're asking others to do the work right away. Isn't that a bit unfair? Don't think you're so important that everyone has to help you. Why? Besides, why don't you ask your own man to do the work? What's the point of staring at other people's families all day long?"
Aunt Zhou looked down on those who lived better than her family. Although the new couple did not fight as much as her son and daughter-in-law, their family was well-off, so it was obvious at a glance that they were rich and did not fit in with the others in the compound.
Aunt Zhou felt that this was definitely a threat to their family's status as the richest person in the compound, and she couldn't stand it. She was looking for a reason to make trouble even when there was no chance. Not to mention that the opportunity was right in front of her.
She said cheerfully, "My daughter Zhaodi is a hard-working person, but as her godmother, I will not watch my goddaughter being schemed against. Being hard-working does not mean that you have to work for other people. Some people should have some dignity."
Tao Yuye was so angry, but she didn't want to argue with a shrew.
People like this are like dog-skin plasters, it's disgusting to touch them.
She took a deep breath and said, "Auntie Zhou, I think you have some misunderstandings about me. I won't argue with you."
Zhuang Zhixi came out of the house and saw the two people talking to each other. He went to the sink to get some water. Aunt Zhou asked, "Xiao Zhuang, is your wife going for a prenatal checkup today?"
Tao Yuye turned around and saw Zhuang Zhixi.
She knew that Zhuang Zhixi was transferred from the infirmary, and she was able to come because of his transfer. And he had a good relationship with her aunt. She immediately said, "Brother Zhuang, good morning. I haven't come to say hello to you in a while. What a coincidence, we live in the same compound. By the way, my aunt was talking about you a few days ago. She said that I moved to your compound and I have to find you if I have anything."
She couldn't find anyone to work for her, so she could only take whoever she could get.
It was clear that he wanted Zhuang Zhixi's help.
Zhuang Zhixi was a smart man and he immediately understood what Tao Yuye meant. No matter who Tao Yuye was, it had nothing to do with him. But if she wanted to plot against her, sorry, that's not possible!
He smiled and said, "You must have heard it wrong. Doctor Wang would definitely not let you come to me if you have any problems. I met Doctor Wang in the cafeteria yesterday. She also said that my wife is in advanced stages of pregnancy and asked me to take good care of her and not to meddle in other people's messy affairs."
He raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Besides, I'm so handsome. If you look for me, your man will be jealous. I won't do anything that would destroy the harmony of someone else's family."
After he took the water, he smiled at the two of them and turned back to the house.
Who knows who you are? He has a good relationship with Doctor Wang, but not with you, Tao Yuye.
You still want to use Doctor Wang to pressure others, what a piece of rubbish.
Tao Yuye was very unhappy and her face turned even darker. She was used to being flattered. Before she got married, the men in the factory surrounded her like the moon surrounded by stars. Now that she was married, there was almost no one around.
But even so, it was still easy for her to find someone to help her in the factory. After all, she was the daughter-in-law of the logistics director, and she was also good-looking. She was very popular. But she didn't expect that she would have no status in the factory after returning.
Not only her, but even Chen Yuan, it seemed like no one gave him face.
This made Tao Yuye very unhappy. She liked the feeling of being praised. Why didn't these people flatter her, flatter her, and take the initiative to help her do this or that? She frowned tightly, feeling uncomfortable.
In fact, this is because Tao Yuye did not see the reality clearly.
As for the people in their yard, they really didn't expect him to be of any help.
Take Zhuang Zhixi for example. He was in the Propaganda Department, and the Director of Logistics had no control over him. Besides, he couldn't be transferred to the Logistics Department. What reason did he have to flatter the daughter-in-law of the Director of Logistics?
As for Bai Fendou and Wang Xiangxiu, they were both transferred out because of mistakes. They were already cleaning toilets. As a logistics director, what else could you ask them to do? Make them go to the toilet more and add burden to the toilet? It's so funny.
As for whether they could use this relationship to transfer them to do better work, even a fool would know that it was impossible. Both of them were considered to be somewhat famous in the city. If it weren't for the fact that employees could not be fired easily now, the leaders would probably want to fire them and transfer them to do better work.
The logistics director was happy, but the factory leaders were not.
So they won't flatter at all.
The other one is Zhou Qun. Well, this guy is also well-known. He is an electrician and has nothing to do with logistics. Even if he does, it would be difficult for him to be promoted because of the problems he encountered in the exam. So, forget it.
No need.
There are also some, such as Zhuang Laonian and other workshop workers, riveters and welders, who have nothing to do with logistics, and such skilled workers will not be transferred to logistics. Wang Xiangxiu was transferred because her skills were really not good enough. It is impossible for others to be transferred there as long as they can explain it.
The only people who might flatter them are the two cooks in the courtyard, who are in charge of logistics.
However, Li is a skilled chef who cooks for the leaders and has contacts with the factory leaders. They are not afraid of you, the logistics director. Yang Lixin is really afraid, but he follows his father-in-law, so he doesn't have to think too much.
So after all the calculations, no one would try to curry favor with the leader, which led to a huge gap in Tao Yuye's position here.
She went home feeling depressed, and was annoyed when she saw Chen Yuan still sleeping.
She didn't like Chen Yuan that much, but who could blame Chen Yuan for having a good family?
She touched her belly, hoping to have a child soon.
If she had a child, she would have a firm foothold in the Chen family and could also stay in her husband's family to take care of the baby.
She has been married for a month, why is there still no news?
There are a few pregnant women in their yard. When someone gives birth to a son, she will go and sit with him to welcome the baby boy! Tao Yuye was thinking about a thousand things, but no one paid attention to her.
Zhuang Zhixi didn't mention it after he went back. His wife was pregnant for more than seven months. Her legs were swollen and she looked a little haggard and not very energetic. Even though Mingmei was usually a very optimistic person, she looked unhappy.
Zhuang Zhixi: "Awake?"
It's normal for pregnant women to sleep in.
Mingmei hummed softly, she pulled over a cushion, leaned against the headboard and sat up, she complained coquettishly: "The baby kicked me last night, I didn't sleep well."
She added: "My calves are also a little uncomfortable."
Zhuang Zhixi: "Let me rub it for you."
Mingmei nodded gently. Zhuang Zhixi sat on the bed, put her legs on his legs, rubbed them gently, and said, "Is this comfortable?"
He looked at his wife sideways and said, "Being pregnant is so hard. It's so hard. Let's not have another baby in the future."
Mingmei felt sympathetic: "Yeah."
She actually likes children, but she knows her own situation. Mingmei knows how much suffering this pregnancy is. When she sees other people getting pregnant and giving birth, it seems that the baby is born in just a few days. It seems that it is not difficult at all and very easy. But when it is her turn, she realizes that it is not easy at all.
This is really a suffering.
At this moment, she was also glad that she didn't end up like in her dream. If she had an accident on the bus like in her dream, she would have felt ten thousand times worse than she was now. She was so careful now, but it was still very uncomfortable.
In fact, Mingmei was considered to be in pretty good condition. She didn't have much of a reaction during her pregnancy. She wasn't like Jiang Lu who vomited all over the place. In that respect, she was fine, but she also suffered all the other common discomforts.
She didn't know that her legs would swell so badly during pregnancy, and it would be very uncomfortable to sleep after her belly got bigger.
She gently leaned on Zhuang Zhixi's shoulder and said, "My mother is a big liar."
Zhuang Zhixi: "What?"
He held his wife in his arms carefully.
Mingmei: "My mom said giving birth is easy, but it's obviously not easy at all."
Zhuang Zhixi laughed silently. He put his arm around Mingmei's shoulders and said, "Maybe... Mingmei and your brother are both good kids. When your mom had you, you were both very well behaved. So your mom thought it was easy to have children. But our two kids are a little naughty, so you don't think it's that easy. Don't you think so?"
Mingmei smiled coquettishly and said, "You are really good at coaxing people."
Zhuang Zhixi: "I can coax you, but I'm too lazy to coax others."
Mingmei's smile widened a little and she said, "Slippery tongue."
Zhuang Zhixi: "That's only for you."
Mingmei felt much better. She said, "You are kind to me."
"What do you mean by count? I am just treating you well. When I saw you, I thought you were so pretty and you instantly touched my heart. Of course I will treat you well as my beloved wife."
Everyone has his own aesthetics and preferences. When Zhuang Zhixi saw Mingmei for the first time, he felt his heart was about to jump out of his chest. She was exactly the type he liked. This was probably love at first sight.
He pinched Mingmei's feet and said, "Our Xiaomei is holding on. In two or three months, the baby will be born and everything will be fine."
Mingmei hugged Zhuang Zhixi and grumbled.
Zhuang Zhixi laughed and said, "Come, lie down for a while. I'll get you an egg."
Mingmei: "Okay."
She said, "By the way, Zhixi brother, can you go out with me today? I want to get my hair cut."
Zhuang Zhixi felt distressed: "You have to cut it short now?"
He likes long hair, especially when the two of them are doing this or that, she lies on her stomach with her long hair scattered on her back...
However, Zhuang Zhixi also knew that Mingmei would suffer if she didn't cut her hair short during the pregnancy, so he said, "Okay, I'll take you out later."
"good."
Zhuang Zhixi: "Let's eat at Donglaishun for lunch."
He said, "It's so cold, let's have some hot pot to warm ourselves up."
Mingmei: "Okay."
The temptation of hot pot is very great. Mingmei, who was just feeling lazy, got up and prepared to wash up.
Zhuang Zhixi: "There's hot water in the kettle."
Mingmei: "Okay."
The couple went out together and told Zhao Guihua that they would not be back for dinner. Zhao Guihua glanced at them and said, "Go ahead."
Although eating out is very expensive, Zhao Guihua doesn't care about that.
She also knew that the young couple had money, so they could spend it as they pleased, since it would not be a loss as long as they put it into their pockets.
The couple went to get their hair cut together. Zhuang Zhixi watched his wife's long hair change to short hair with bangs. He felt that she looked younger. Like a little girl. If it weren't for her big belly, you would say she was a little girl of 16 or 17, which would be normal.
Mingmei is not the skinny type. Her oval face makes her look blessed and pretty.
Zhuang Zhixi: "My dear wife, why did I marry you?"
Mingmei said sincerely: "You are good-looking and sweet-mouthed."
Zhuang Zhixi thought about it and realized that it was true. Who said that men can't make a living by relying on their looks? Obviously, they can.
He laughed, put his arm around his wife, and said, "Come on, let's go eat together."
Pulling her woolen hat down, Mingmei said: "Your friend is very considerate. I just feel so cold when my long hair becomes short."
Frozen scalp.
Zhuang Zhixi: "That's right, this is how we should be as human beings."
He smiled and led his wife out.
Although it is cold now, there are still many people on the streets on Sunday.
Zhuang Zhixi: "Let me tell you... Hey, hey, hey, look, it's all in vain."
Bai Fendou was pushing a cart with coal briquettes on it, and there was a woman beside him. With his sharp eyes, Zhuang Zhixi recognized her at a glance: "This is Bai Fendou's classmate Guan Guiling."
Mingmei looked at him and said, "I know, he's from our unit."
Oh yes, the bus station.
At this time, Bai Fendou was with Guan Guiling, and the two walked side by side.
Guan Guiling smiled and said, "Fendou, thank you so much. If it weren't for you, I don't know what I would have done. You know, my ex-husband couldn't do heavy work. Since he got sick, I have to do all the work. This year is great because I have you."
She doesn't talk about love, only friendship.
"I often hear people say that friendship during school days is the purest. I didn't understand it at all at that time, but since I met you again, I understand it. Thank you."
Bai Fendou's face flushed, and he said happily: "Look at you, why are you saying this? If you are polite to me, you are treating me as an outsider. There is really no need for that between us."
He looked at Guan Guiling and saw that although she was wearing an old cotton-padded jacket, she still looked quite charming. The corners of his mouth curled higher and he worked harder. He said, "The coal you bought is definitely not enough, but don't worry, I'll go get some firewood for you. Don't use coal briquettes when you cook, use firewood instead, it can save a lot."
Guan Guiling: "I know, you are so nice."
Bai Fendou smiled naively.
He said, "You should be careful too. Don't do this or that. You have just gotten pregnant, so you have to be careful."
Guan Guiling nodded and said, "I know."
She sighed softly and said, "Actually, I don't really want this child."
Bai Fendou was excited: "Don't do anything stupid. It's God's arrangement that you can have a child. Don't do anything stupid."
Guan Guiling sobbed softly and said, "He and I are divorced. How can I raise this child? I already have four children. It's too hard for me to have five. If I hadn't drunk a little on the night of the divorce, we wouldn't be together... woo woo."
Bai Fendou: "Don't cry, don't cry, it breaks my heart."
Guan Guiling sobbed and said, "He was in poor health and we had not had that for a long time. He was a good man and did not want to drag me down, so he was determined to divorce. Obviously, it had been a long time since we had been pregnant, but who would have thought that just that one time, I would get pregnant. I only found out after the divorce. I hesitated for several times and wanted to abort the baby, but I couldn't bear to do it. After all, it's a life."
Bai Fendou: "Yes, yes, you can't do that."
"But how can we afford to support him?" Guan Guiling covered her face.
He looked at Guan Guiling's sobbing face, and excitedly said loudly: "Let's get married, I will support you, and I will raise your son as my own son!"
Guan Guiling was startled, then immediately waved her hands and shook her head vigorously: "No, no, I'm not worthy of you. I have five children. When we divorced, we agreed that the children would stay with me. After all, I took over his job. And that's my own child... But how can I bear to drag you down. You were my dream when I was a girl."
Bai Fendou was even more excited. He directly held Guan Guiling's hand and said, "I am willing. I am really willing. Even if you bring a child with you, I am willing! You know that I can't have children. Maybe this is a chance that God has given me out of pity. Can you give me this chance?"
Guan Guiling: "You don't dislike me...?"
"No! I miss you!"
Guan Guiling: "Woo woo, I knew it, I knew you were very good..."
The two of them were walking on the street, oblivious to the people around them.
Zhuang Zhixi and the others were across the street and couldn't hear what the couple was saying, but even though they didn't know what they were saying, just by looking at them moving their hands and feet, they felt that their conversation was very explosive.
Zhuang Zhixi: "Are they doing this?"
Mingmei: "It looks like it might be. I heard at work that Guan Guiling is pregnant."
Zhuang Zhixi: “…”
After a long while, he said, "She really is looking for someone to raise a child. No wonder she was said to have five children. It turns out she is pregnant with another one. I thought she counted her man as one child."
Mingmei hit him: "What are you talking about."
He sighed, "You said that Guan Guiling is good at calculating. Although Bai Doumu is not good enough, he can work and raise children. If she feels lonely, she can still look for her ex-husband. Her ex-husband is just in poor health, not bad in that aspect. She has considered both aspects. She is so cunning. Two men at once."
Mingmei: "You mean..."
She only thought about how to trick Bai Fendou into raising a child, but she never thought that she could still have an affair with her ex-husband.
But after hearing what Zhuang Zhixi said, it seemed that it was absolutely correct.
Mingmei: "Isn't this too immoral? Does she want to hold two husbands hostage?"
Zhuang Zhixi: "I think so. Otherwise, why would Guan Guiling be pregnant?"
As they were talking, they saw Bai Fendou and Guan Guiling pushing the cart away happily, but now Bai Fendou's steps were even faster, as if they had discussed some happy event.
Zhuang Zhixi: "I think even if Bai Fendou raised Guan Guiling's children, it would be in vain. She has her own biological father. Moreover, the biological father and mother still have feelings for each other, and they will inevitably interact with each other. Then what is the stepfather? Even if I have never seen these children, I know that things are definitely not simple."
Mingmei was numb. She just didn't understand why Bai Fendou was so "lucky" and always encountered such things.
Zhuang Zhixi shrugged, "Maybe he doesn't know himself well. He hasn't figured out that he is no longer a man, but he still uses the original requirements to explain things. Even if his mind is a little clearer, he is still confused. Look at what he asked for when he was looking for a widow. He hopes that the woman has a job in the city and hopes that the woman has a boy, but the boy cannot be old and cannot remember things, so that he can be the biological father... If this is true, why would people look for him? Oh, wait, let me sort it out, let me sort this out. Guan Guiling's pregnancy is for Bai Fendou's request, right?"
At this moment, Zhuang Zhixi started to speculate on conspiracy theories.
Although Guan Guiling has a job, she has an ex-husband and four children, so it is not easy to support them. Moreover, Guan Guiling's children are not so young that they don't know who their biological father is. She has so many children. If Bai Fendou follows her idea.
I'm really not happy about it.
Because he has to support the whole family.
So Guan Guiling is pregnant, she is pregnant with a child in her belly, which is a bad deduction for others, but it is a plus for Bai Fendou, because Bai Fendou cannot have children, he wants a child, a child who does not remember anything.
So Guan Guiling meets the requirements as she has a job and children.
Plus she used some honey trap, so it's easy to imagine that Bai Fendou might really take on the burden of Guan Guiling's family for Guan Guiling and her unborn child. And who knows, Guan Guiling might even have her eyes on Bai Fendou's house.
He has two rooms by himself, which is pretty good.
Oh~ Zhuang Zhixi didn't want to make malicious assumptions about others, but when something was extremely outrageous and totally out of character, it was naturally impossible to think about it in a normal way.
Zhuang Zhixi: "I think Guan Guiling got pregnant just to get Bai Fendou to help her."
Mingmei wanted to say that it was not the case, but she was not new to the world. Take Wang Xiangxiu for example, if her family did not have so many children, all of them sons, would she have lived like that? She thought about it and said, "If the conditions are not good, you really can't have more children."
Especially for single-income families, once something happens, it will be a devastating blow.
"Okay, let's go and leave them alone."
Mingmei: "Oh my, you are not righteous at all."
Zhuang Zhixi: "Hehe, because I know Bai Fendou. When he's angry, his father won't listen to him. We are nothing but neighbors. Don't take yourself too seriously, because people won't take you seriously either. Believe it or not, if I say something bad about Guan Guiling now, Bai Fendou will definitely turn against me. He might even take revenge. That's the way he thinks. He'll either let this woman cheat him or that woman cheat him."
Mingmei: “Yes.”
The couple analyzed the situation carefully, but did not want to meddle in other people's business.
How should I put it? If this happened to Zhang San, yes, the new neighbor Zhang San, Zhuang Zhixi would have to talk to him. It's not a matter of how long they have known each other, but that this person is willing to listen to others.
Even if it’s Zhou Qun…Oh, forget about Zhou Qun.
There is no way he would have anything to do with any woman even if he died.
Although both of them have lost certain functions, Zhou Qun is obviously more realistic than Bai Fendou.
Anyway, if it were someone else, Zhuang Zhixi might say it, but Bai Fendou, he wouldn’t.
Because Bai Fendou's personality is like this, he can't tell the difference between good and bad.
If that's the case, no one is willing to tell the truth. Why? To cause trouble for yourself? That's unnecessary.
But their guess turned out to be correct. In the evening of that day, a new piece of news came from their compound: Bai Fendou was going to get married.
Yes, you heard it right, Bai Fendou is getting married.
Zhuang Zhixi: “It is indeed so.”
The reason why I feel so excited today is probably because of the wedding.
He was shocked, and so were the others.
Who could have thought that Bai Fendou was actually going to get married?
Although he hadn't returned to the company to file an application, Bai Fendou was already overjoyed. He went door to door to notify everyone, saying, "I plan to file an application to get a marriage certificate tomorrow. We'll hold a wedding banquet in our courtyard, so you guys must come."
His excitement really shocked everyone.
Bai Fendou came all the way to the banker's house and said with a smile: "My buddy is getting married."
He glanced at Zhuang Zhixi and said, "I've thought about it. I don't have much burden on my own. I must be decent at that time. The scene will definitely not be worse than your wedding. Come early and help me."
Zhuang Zhixi: “…Okay.”
He smiled and said, "You made the decision pretty quickly."
Bai Fendou said proudly: "Well, actually I'm not in a hurry, but my girlfriend is. She's afraid that I'll change my mind and no longer like her, so she wants to get married early. I'm telling you, bro, there will be no shortage of women who like me given my conditions. Some people don't have life experience and don't know what a good man is, but those who know that I'm a good man are happy to be with me. I'm still very popular among women."
Zhuang family: “…”
What bullshit are you talking about.
Do you believe what you said? It's outrageous.
He continued with a smile and said, "My wife is pregnant. When the time comes, Xiaozhuang, please tell my wife what to be careful about during pregnancy. I'm worried about her." In fact, there is no need at all, as he has given birth to so many children, but it does not stop him from showing off.
Zhuang family: “…”
What bullshit are you talking about.
Bai Fendou: "Our two children will have the surname Bai, and my Bai family will have a new member next year. I believe if my father knew about this, he would be very happy for me." In fact, he had not discussed this matter with Guan Guiling, but of course the child born after they got married should have the surname Bai.
A son is better, but a daughter can be married off as a son-in-law.
Just like Li Fang.
Zhuang family; "..."
What bullshit are you talking about.
Everyone was numb and couldn't respond to what he said.
Bai Fendou: "In his life, a man must always have a woman who admires him by his side, only then can he be happy."
Zhuang family: “…”
Ah... I can't listen to this anymore.
This is no longer a lie. The problem is that now they can no longer keep up with Bai Fendou's train of thought.
Bai Fendou showed off and happily went out, skipping the Su family, who were not qualified to attend his wedding. Just as he was about to leave, Wang Xiangxiu opened the door, and the two looked at each other. Wang Xiangxiu hesitated for a moment and said, "Bai Fendou."
Bai Fendou: "What are you doing?"
He sneered: "What? Still want to plot against me?"
Wang Xiangxiu tightened her lips and said, "I didn't. I just want to advise you to be more cautious. Marriage is a major event in life. Don't be deceived."
Others didn't want to cause trouble and were unwilling to say more to Bai Fendou.
But Wang Xiangxiu thought about it and felt that she should say something.
In the past, she was the one who felt sorry for Bai Fendou.
But, Bai Fendou heard this, smiled coldly and said, "Lie? If you don't lie, how can others lie? Wang Xiangxiu, I know you are jealous, but you shouldn't come to provoke my marriage. And you shouldn't say that my girlfriend is a liar. I know what she is like better than you. What's the matter? You kept hanging on to me before, and now you feel regretful? I tell you, even if I don't find another one, I won't look at you again. Forget about your provocative words, no one will believe them."
Wang Xiangxiu explained: "I am not..."
"You are not what you are, I know you better than you do, get out of here, I'm going to start a new life, and your Su family will never have a good life, bah!"
Bai Fendou walked away with a swagger, sneering.
Don't think he doesn't know about Wang Xiangxiu. She definitely wants to get back together with him. But he has someone better. How could he still be interested in a liar like Wang Xiangxiu? She is nothing.
But, man, he is really charming.
Bai Fendou strode towards the backyard.
Wang Xiangxiu took a deep breath, clenched her fists, turned around and walked into the house.
As soon as she entered the door, she saw Tonglai standing in the outer room looking at her. Wang Xiangxiu brought her son into the room and saw Jinlai and Yinlai also sticking to the window. They must have seen it.
Wang Xiangxiu: "Mom doesn't want to have anything to do with Bai Fendou. I don't want to remarry. And I won't remarry to Bai Fendou. Our two families have a grudge, and I'm not crazy. I wanted to remind him not to be deceived, but he has a deep prejudice against our family, so he misunderstood."
Jin Lai: "Mom, why do you care about him? Let him die. What does it have to do with our family?"
Wang Xiangxiu: "Your grandma killed Grandpa Bai."
She said seriously, "Didn't mom tell you the whole story? Your grandma harmed Bai Fendou's father. Although your grandma was not a good person, she also harmed your father and your aunt, and even more so me. I no longer considered her a family member and hated her to death. But in the eyes of outsiders, she is still your grandma after all. We are sorry to the Bai family, and I always want to do something. Neither you nor I, your mother, have the ability to help the Bai family, so I thought it would be good to remind him. Even if he doesn't listen, at least I have reminded him, and I have a clear conscience."
The three children nodded silently.
But soon, Jin said, "I don't have such a grandma. What kind of person is she? She made me lose my father. She didn't even give us money when we were sick! She obviously has so much money, obviously so much. She keeps saying that we are her favorite grandchildren, but in fact, she only loves herself the most! - Such a person is not my grandma, this damn old hag!"
Wang Xiangxiu did not stop her son from scolding the old man, but she also said: "Don't say this outside. Outsiders will think you are unfilial."
Jin Lai: "Fuck him! Filial piety! Who would want to be filial to a person like that?"
Wang Xiangxiu: "Okay, don't talk about this."
She said, "How do you feel?"
Jin Lai's leg was actually almost healed, but it was his mother's concern that made her insist on letting him rest.
Jin Lai rolled his eyes: "I'm still not feeling well."
If he is not feeling well, his mother has to prepare delicious food, hehe.
Wang Xiangxiu said quickly: "Why don't you lie down for a while? Where are you? Lie down quickly."
Yin Lai: “Oh.”
He looked much weaker, perhaps because he was seriously injured, and he spoke less.
"Have a good rest. Tomorrow morning, Mom will make you some egg soup."
Several children's eyes lit up and they were happy: "That's great."
The food they eat now is not as good as before.
Recently, my mouth has really become less lively.
"Mom, I, cough cough..." Yinlai started coughing and said, "I don't need to take medicine..."
Wang Xiangxiu's face changed and she said, "No, you have to eat! Mom is still waiting for you to get better. Mom will never give up on you."
"Wang Xiangxiu, Wang Xiangxiu, are you home?"
Wang Xiangxiu came out immediately after hearing the voice. When she saw that it was Chen Yuan, Chen Yuan raised his eyebrows and said with a bit of arrogance, "Do you want to make money?"
Wang Xiangxiu's expression suddenly changed, she said with a frown, "What do you mean! I'm not that kind of person!"
Chen Yuan said meaningfully: "What do you think I mean? I just want to ask if you will take the job of doing the laundry."
He smiled ambiguously, with his hands in his pockets: "What's the matter? Misunderstanding? You can think about it more. You are worthy of being Gou Lanxiang's daughter-in-law. You can even think about that aspect of normal things. Tsk tsk!"
Wang Xiangxiu stared at Chen Yuan and saw something fishy in his eyes. She knew that this guy was probably the one who came up with the idea of doing laundry.
Although she is not shrewd, she has been dealing with men for some years and knows that men say one thing but do another. Some things are obvious without saying anything. She sees things clearly. Although Chen Yuan said that he asked her to wash clothes, this situation... is obvious at a glance.
She said coldly, "I can wash the clothes. If there are not many clothes, you can just give me an egg."
She was determined not to take any money or a high price.
If you ask for a high price, it's not certain who will be the seller in the end.
Chen Yuan: "Oh, you don't ask for much, but they are all good."
He stepped forward and said, "I heard there is other work?"
Wang Xiangxiu retreated instantly, this time she was as cold as ice: "Get lost!"
Chen Yuan: "You are boring now, why are you pretending..."
Wang Xiangxiu: "Get out of here!"
She knew that this person had bad intentions, so she pushed him out of the door with force and said coldly, "Get away from me, who the hell do you think you are!"
Bang! The door closed.
She clenched her fists tightly and whispered angrily: "I will never do that again, never again!"
She tried to breathe in and out. But she didn't notice that Jinlai in the room also clenched his fists. He was older than his two younger brothers and understood adults better. What he said just now was unclear, Yinlai felt uncomfortable and drowsy, and Tonglai was still young and didn't understand much, but as the eldest brother, he understood.
This rubbish came to bully his mother!
Jin Lai knew that his mother was innocent.
The gossips others say are all slander.
His mother is innocent. The public security comrades have released his mother, which proves that his mother is innocent. I didn't expect that someone would still bully their family. Jin Lai gritted his teeth in hatred, but soon, he showed a smile.
Haha, isn't this guy rich?
It happens to be cheap for them.
By then, his family will be able to buy eggs and meat.
He smiled subtly, and felt his hands itching...
As for Chen Yuan, he didn't know that he was being targeted by the petty thief Jin Lai. Although Jin Lai had learned a big lesson this time, the lesson he learned was a little different from that of Yin Lai. Yin Lai was seriously injured and was brought back from the gates of hell. He is still injured and very weak.
He was young and was really scared.
Jinlai was not as seriously injured as Yinlai, and he is almost recovered now.
Plus, he's a little older and more opinionated, so his personality really hasn't changed much.
And so, he just happened to set his sights on Chen Yuan.
This man actually dared to come to his house and bully his mother. As the man of the family, he couldn't let it go. Besides, Jin Lai also thought about it. There was no old shrew in this family. The young couple wanted to save face, so they might not beat him even if they caught him.
So he doesn't have to worry too much.
Jin Lai began to think about how to start...
He has to wait for two days, preferably when the salary is collected, because there will be more money at that time.
It's not easy for his mother to support the family alone, he has to think of a way.
Although he had never stolen money before, he had always stolen things, but he thought it would be better to start with the money now. All the money looked the same, who would dare to say it was his? Jin Lai was happy with his calculations, but Chen Yuan didn't know that he was being targeted, and he returned to the backyard unwillingly. To be honest, he didn't fancy Wang Xiangxiu's kind of stuff. He liked innocent girls, and he didn't fancy this kind of girl at all.
I don't know if it's clean or not.
It's not that he has a buddy who heard about Wang Xiangxiu's situation and asked him to help test it out.
I didn't expect Wang Xiangxiu to be so good at pretending.
He didn't believe that Wang Xiangxiu was a decent person. There was more than one person in the factory who had had sex with her.
Damn, he's such a good pretender!
Women always play hard to get.
(End of this chapter)
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