Zhao Guihua had a bad morning, and the whole family got up in a hurry. Now, after the party, they all went back to their rooms.
It was the coldest time of the year, and the house was freezing cold. The stove at home went out in the morning. Zhuang Zhixi came into the house and squatted down to poke the stove, and said, "It's not warm in the house, so you should wear more clothes."
Zhuang Zhixi is the third son of Zhao Guihua and Zhuang Laonian.
Just now, the young couple heard the noise and hurriedly put on their clothes and went out. They were not wearing much. After he finished speaking, no one responded. He looked up and saw that his wife was still in a daze. He coughed and called, "Mingmei?"
At this moment, Mingmei seemed to be awakened suddenly. She looked at Zhuang Zhixi with her big watery eyes and asked blankly, "You called me?"
Zhuang Zhixi raised his eyebrows: "Why are you so distracted?"
Mingmei blinked innocently and said, "No."
Zhuang Zhixi looked at Mingmei deeply, smiled, lowered his head and poked the stove a few more times, added some coal briquettes, turned around and prepared to go out. When he reached the door, he looked back at her as if he had thought of something, but in the end he said nothing and left.
Mingmei watched Zhuang Zhixi leave, breathed a sigh of relief, and started picking her fingers. She didn't care about this newly married man at all. Instead, her mind was full of her mother-in-law who had just hit her head and fainted.
Others don’t know what happened to her mother-in-law Zhao Guihua, but she knows!
Mingmei knows everything. She has had this "problem" since she was a child.
She would "dream".
Other people just dream, but Mingmei's dream is not. She has been able to dream about other people's "Book of Life" since she was a child. It is not necessarily complete, but she can dream about people who are important to her. That is why she was tired on the wedding night, her waist was sore, her legs were weak, and she did not sleep well. She had a strange dream all night and woke up early in the morning.
That night, she dreamed of her mother-in-law.
It is said that her mother-in-law came back from fifty years later. She has witnessed the changes of the times and felt the development of society. After being reborn, she wants to stand at the forefront of the times, work hard, and lead the whole family to glory.
Mingmei was amazed. Her mother-in-law is a centenarian. That's really amazing!
She lowered her head and scratched her fingers harder, she was extremely shocked. After all, rebirth was really hard to understand and very shocking. Otherwise, she wouldn't be in such a trance until now.
Mingmei has a lot of experience in dreaming, but she has no experience in facing the reborn party.
What to do next? When Zhuang Zhixi came back, he saw his young wife with her head down like a pitiful kitten, picking her fingers. He came to her and saw that her fingers were almost bald from scratching them, so he reached out and held her hand.
Mingmei: “Yeah.”
Her face suddenly turned red. Even though the two of them got married and had their wedding night, they didn't spend a long time together. They decided to get married the third time they met. So, the young couple really didn't have any emotional foundation.
But everyone is like this now. Some people decide to go ahead after just one meeting. If you talk for a long time, that would be considered hooliganism.
Zhuang Zhixi held Mingmei's hand and sat beside her. He said, "My family is not a kind person, but it's not difficult to get along with them. If you feel wronged, tell me and I'll help you."
Mingmei looked up immediately, realizing instantly that he had misunderstood the reason why she was in a daze. However, these words always sounded good, so she smiled with her big watery eyes curved and asked crisply, "Really?"
Zhuang Zhixi laughed and nodded: "Of course it's true."
He held his wife's hand and said, "I'll warm up some hot water. Come out and brush your teeth and wash your face."
Although the two of them didn't know each other very well, they had "deep communication" and were still intimate. Zhuang Zhixi handed the cotton jacket to his wife and said, "Come on, after you wash up, I'll introduce you to the situation in our courtyard."
Mingmei pursed her lips and nodded, agreeing.
Since I'm going to live in this courtyard, I still have to get to know my neighbors. After all, we'll have a long time to live together.
The young couple came out to wash together. It was quite late. Basically, people who should go to work or school went to school. There were not many people at the sink. The young couple were brushing their teeth side by side when they saw the eldest sister-in-law, Leung Mei-fen, hurried back with breakfast.
Liang Meifen glanced at the kettle beside the sink and smiled unnaturally.
Their courtyards are not like buildings. Each family has its own water pipes and toilets. Their water pipes are connected to the courtyard and are not divided into households. There is one front and one back yard. Each family draws water from the courtyard. The sink in the middle of the courtyard is also used for brushing teeth, washing face, washing hair and washing clothes.
The monthly water bill is shared by each household based on the number of people, so there are always a lot of people here early in the morning. Everyone is quick to make decisions. In this case, there is no one who would bring a kettle to exchange the water.
There is no such thing in winter. Don’t coal briquettes for boiling water cost money? Liang Meifen walked in and said with a smile: "This young couple has a really good relationship. They even use hot water to wash their faces in the morning."
Subtext: What a waste.
Although the third brother's wife had just married into the family, it did not prevent her, the eldest sister-in-law, from being nice in front of her mother-in-law. Besides, she had greatly offended her mother-in-law recently. If she could make her mother-in-law focus her attention a little, it would be good for her.
Liang Meifen had a good idea, but after she finished speaking, she saw that no one responded. Her parents-in-law were not in the outer room at all, and even her husband was not there. Instead, her two children heard her voice and ran out, shouting, "Mom, mom, eat fried fruit!"
No one paid attention to her words. When the two children cried, the parents-in-law came out. Zhao Guihua called them in a sharp voice: "Third brother, third brother's wife, come and eat!"
Zhao Guihua's loud voice could be heard throughout the yard. The young couple hurried in. Mingmei rubbed her hands and said, "It's really cold."
Her parents lived in a building, and she was not used to the life in the courtyard. She had to wash outside in the early morning, which was very cold. But since she was married, Mingmei didn't say anything bad to dislike her.
Mingmei was washing outside and rubbing her hands because she was cold, while the two children at home were rubbing their hands because they were greedy.
"Grandma, do you want to eat?"
"Milk, it smells so good."
Zhao Guihua: "What are you all standing there for? Each person gets a bowl of tofu pudding, a tea egg, and the same goes for fried fruit. Eat it. If the children can't finish it, give it to the old man."
For breakfast like this, you don’t need to separate it, just start eating.
When the two children heard that they were also "people", they whined with joy, like puppies.
Zhao Guihua didn't care about that and took her portion. She took a sip of tofu pudding and hummed with satisfaction. Things these days are really mellow. Then she started to crack tea eggs. Everyone had their own portion, and Mingmei started eating right away.
No matter what kind of family they are from, this breakfast is the best.
Her family was well-off, so she could still hold back while eating, but the kids couldn't. They ate voraciously. This made Zhao Guihua scold her, "No one is trying to snatch the food from you. Eat slowly. If you choke, don't expect me to buy you more!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the child hurried to slow down, but he really couldn't help it and he couldn't slow down any further.
Zhao Guihua knew that this was because he had no money.
Zhao Guihua herself was the same. She didn't feel greedy, but she couldn't resist the aroma of the fried fruit. It was a loss. However, Zhao Guihua was "savvy" and an adult after all, so she was not like a child.
At this time, no one in the family was talking; everyone was staring at breakfast.
Mingmei was the same. She drank tofu pudding and glanced at the family.
The leader was naturally not someone else, but her parents-in-law. Her father-in-law, Zhuang Haoren, was less than 50 years old this year. He was a fifth-level riveter at the Qianjin Machinery Factory, earning 55.5 yuan, which was a high-income group. And because the name Zhuang Haoren was not very pleasant to pronounce, it was said that whether it was the workers in the machinery factory or the neighbors, they were used to calling him by his nickname: Zhuang Laonianer.
As the saying goes, there are only wrong names, not wrong nicknames.
Her father-in-law is an honest, shy and timid man. It is said that no matter what happens at home, it is always her mother-in-law who takes the lead.
Her mother-in-law is more lively. Her name is Zhao Guihua. Although she has no job, she is in charge of the household. She is also a very fierce old woman among the neighbors. It is said that she is not easy to mess with and never suffers any loss.
When the two families first met, her mother hesitated for a while because of her mother-in-law Zhao Guihua's personality, but she finally agreed.
There are three children in the Zhuang family. The one present is the eldest brother Zhuang Zhiyuan, the second brother Zhuang Zhixin who is married out, and her husband Zhuang Zhixi is the third brother.
Zhuang Zhiyuan and her older brother Mingcheng were high school classmates. After graduation, they both went to work as train attendants at the railway station, so they were pretty good friends. It was also because of this that she and Zhuang Zhixi got together.
Zhuang Zhiyuan has been married for several years. His wife is his elder sister-in-law Liang Meifen. Mingmei took a peek at her elder sister-in-law and felt that she was a calculating person. Liang Meifen used to have a job. She worked as a female worker in a spinning mill. She and Zhuang Zhiyuan were from a dual-income family. You know, dual-income families are very respectable and easy to live. However, a month ago, when she and Zhuang Zhixi were preparing for their wedding, this elder sister-in-law quietly dropped a bomb out of nowhere.
She didn't tell anyone from her husband's family and secretly gave her job to her younger brother from her natal family.
This incident caused a big stir in the Zhuang family, and also had a great impact on the marriage of Zhuang Zhixi and Mingmei. If the date had not been set, Mingmei's family would have wanted to cancel the marriage. They felt that their daughter's sister-in-law was not a good person who could do such a thing.
After all, if the family is not divided, my daughter and her husband are both working, and my eldest sister-in-law has only one worker in her family of four. It is obvious that she wants to take advantage of her.
Mingmei's mother saw it very clearly and was very unhappy.
In the end, it was only after Zhao Guihua repeatedly assured the couple that she would not let them suffer any loss that Mingmei's mother reluctantly agreed. Of course, it was not entirely because of Zhao Guihua's promise. It was mainly because Mingmei's wedding date had been set, and breaking off the marriage would always be bad for her reputation.
Another thing is that Mingmei is really anxious to get married.
They just let it go reluctantly. I heard that the dealer had several fights over this matter, but the matter was done and now Priscilla Chan is a housewife at home.
Zhuang Zhiyuan and Liang Meifen have two children, a boy and a girl. The six-year-old brother is Hutou, whose full name is Zhuang Yang. It must be said that his family's naming is outrageous. This name always feels weird.
The little girl is four years old. Her full name is Zhuang Xue and her nickname is Xiaoyanzi.
This is the eldest's family. The second child, Zhuang Zhixin, fell in love freely and was forced to marry a soldier despite her parents' disapproval. She followed the army. It is said that she can only come back once a year. She has a pair of twin boys.
As for her husband Zhuang Zhixi, like his father Zhuang Laonian, he also works at the Qianjin Machinery Factory, but he is not a technical worker. He is responsible for getting medicine and collecting fees at the factory clinic, and his salary is 28.5 yuan.
Although Mingmei just got married, she has a mother who is very knowledgeable, so Mingmei knows everything about this family.
She looked at this and that with her big eyes, nodded, and slurped the tofu pudding. Finally, her gaze fell on her mother-in-law again. She was reborn fifty years ago... She had to please this kind of big shot no matter what.
Mingmei smiled flatteringly and said to Zhao Guihua: "Mom, after dinner, let's take a walk together."
Zhuang Zhixi was eating happily, but when he heard this, he looked up in confusion. What?
Wife, why don't you ask me out?
(End of this chapter)
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