As expected, she didn't catch any fish. On the way home, felt a little lonely. Only Zhao Guihua kept muttering along the way: "It's not that I can't catch any fish, but today is Chinese New Year, and I can't bear to see them become a meal for everyone right away."
This is just bullshitting.
Zhuang Laonian might even play along and say with a smile: "I know you are good. There is nothing in this world that you cannot learn. Isn't fishing a piece of cake? You just don't want to, not that you can't."
Zhao Guihua nodded slightly and said, "Old man, you still understand me."
Zhuang Laonian smiled naively and said, "Of course, you are my wife, and we have been in love for decades."
Zhuang Zhiyuan: “…”
His brother actually looks a bit like his father, right?
This is really a tradition of flattery.
But his father only flatters his mother, while his younger brother is an indiscriminate flatterer.
Although they didn't catch any fish, it was already noon, so Zhao Guihua chose to take the bus home. Although she was bragging, she sighed in her heart that she had lost out. When the family returned home, they saw Zhou Li and Aunt Su sitting at the door of their respective homes.
Seeing that they had no catch, Mrs. Zhou Li laughed like a wild duck; Aunt Su pursed her lips and smiled without saying anything. How could Zhao Guihua not know what these two guys were thinking? She snorted, picked up the fishing rod, and strode home. Even if they didn't catch any fish, they were not without fish at home.
We had fish for lunch today.
Burn two! Humph! Zhao Guihua went home unhappy, and Zhou Li finally went home "reassured". She just wanted to see if Zhao Guihua, the old pious woman, could really catch fish. As expected, she didn't catch any.
Zhou Li's heart was filled with two words: happy! She felt happy when others were not doing well. She walked into the house humming a little tune, but when she saw her daughter-in-law, her cheerful face suddenly drooped and she said, "You are useless. You cheated me out of the 30 cents for the check-up fee even though you are not pregnant."
Jiang Lu's dry retching turned out to be a false alarm. She was not pregnant at all.
Jiang Lu made lunch with a bitter face, and she felt more and more depressed. Why did she get better after taking all these medicines? Could it be that she was really infertile? Jiang Lu's mind was in a mess, and she felt deeply sorry for Zhou Qun.
"You can't refuse the folk remedy I told you last time. If you don't want to give birth, just give up the place."
Jiang Luhuo raised his head and said quickly, "Mom, I will give birth to a son. I will definitely give Zhou Qun a son. Believe me. I will eat any folk remedies and anything else."
She paused and said, "I just drank black dog blood yesterday morning to see if it works. If it does, then there's no need for folk remedies. Black dog blood doesn't work in one day, what do you think?"
Zhou Li glared at him and said, "How dare you talk back to me!"
She scolded, "Who the hell are you to bargain with me? No matter what time it is, a woman who can't give birth to a child is useless. My Zhou Qun is a handsome man, a pillar of the factory. For your sake, he endured not having a child and never said a bad word about you. Now you refuse to do a little thing for him? What's the matter? Are you disgusted by boy's urine? Do you know that for a child, drinking urine is the smallest thing in the world?"
Jiang Lu's eyes were red, and she whispered, "I know, Mom, I know, I know Zhou Qun has been very good to me, and I am the one who has let him down. I will listen to you, I will listen to you in everything..."
Zhou Lishi: "That's more like it!"
She said, "Do you think you can get this boy's urine just by chance? I have to do it with the kids in the yard. Even so, I can still say it directly. If people know that you drink urine, I won't be embarrassed. Fortunately, there are many boys in our yard."
Zhou Qun came out from the inner room at the right time and said, "Mom, Jiang Lu has agreed, so don't talk about this. It makes her feel uncomfortable. Jiang Lu doesn't want to think about these things either."
Zhou Li snorted, "He's protecting her again."
Zhou Qun said righteously: "This is my wife. If I don't protect her, how can I watch her suffer? Mom, don't push Jiang Lu too hard."
Zhou Li became more and more unhappy. She threw her hands and said, "I'm going to the toilet."
Just went out.
Jiang Lu couldn't bear the pain, and threw herself into Zhou Qun's arms, whispering: "Brother Qun, you are so nice, you are really good to me, I know."
Zhou Qun patted her on the back gently and said, "If I don't treat you well, who else can I treat well?"
He whispered, "Mom is old and anxious to have a grandchild. Can you understand that?"
Jiang Lu nodded vigorously: "I can, I am very capable, I also want a son."
Zhou Qun: "Then let's listen to her. Although she is old and a little ignorant, her starting point is for our own good. We don't have any better way. Let's give it a try, just treat it as a test, okay?"
Jiang Lu: "Okay, I'll listen to you."
On the other hand, Zhou Qun was completely devoted to Jiang Lu, while Zhou Li went to the public toilet cursing. She was old and went to the toilet more often. However, she did not come out to use the toilet, but to make room for her son.
She cursed in a low voice: "This little bitch can't give birth, so let my Xiaoqun give birth outside."
She was mumbling to herself when she saw Mingmei coming out of the toilet. She looked Mingmei up and down. She was not the type who was very thin, but she was not the type who was easy to give birth to like Wang Xiangxiu. This young wife had been married for some time.
She stopped and asked, "Hey, old man, let me ask you, are you pregnant? You don't look like someone who is easy to have children."
Mingmei: “???”
She looked at the old lady in confusion, not knowing what hysteria she had, but this was not the first time. On the first day of her marriage, a stranger jumped out to lecture someone and seek a sense of existence, which showed that this person was a fool with a confused mind.
Bad and vicious.
Mingmei blinked, then realized what the old lady was asking, and said crisply, "None of your business, you should just take care of your own land."
She turned around and left without even greeting people like Zhou Li.
Zhou Li was so angry that she trembled: "You, you, you, how dare you talk to me like that, you little bitch? You have a vicious heart."
Mingmei stopped and turned back: "I have a vicious heart? I think the only one who can say this is a vicious person, right? If you are mentally ill, go to a mental hospital and don't try to make a name for yourself in the yard all day. I tell you, I, Mingmei, will not fall for your nonsense. Who do you think you are? A little bitch? I think you are an old bitch. You are not young at all and still shameless, what a piece of shit! If you are not smart, take medicine. Do you think I am afraid of you if you come out and make a scene? Bah!"
Mingmei looked around and found that there was no one around. She was not polite and started to scold him. Really, how dare you quarrel with her? She met more shrews on the bus every day than Zhou Li had fought in her life. How dare you quarrel with her? If she hadn't just married and wanted to maintain her image, she would have scolded this old guy long ago. He was really out of his mind.
"Why don't you go and see your lunatic? Your own home isn't enough for you to dance with? And you're going to your neighbor's place to act like a big shot? Get out of here, you rubbish, you psycho, you unlucky old shameless man!" Mingmei kept on talking, snorted heavily, and said, "Get away from me when you see me next time, or I'll be rude to you!"
Mingmei finished her angry speech and turned around to see her man Zhuang Zhixi leaning against the door at the gate, who gave her a thumbs up with great joy.
Mingmei… Mingmei blushed all of a sudden. She bit her lip, ran over innocently, took Zhuang Zhixi's arm and said, "Let's go home."
She said coquettishly: "You didn't see anything just now, right?"
Zhuang Zhixi didn't cooperate at all and said with a smile: "No, I didn't fall behind at all."
Mingmei shook him and said, "Even if you don't see it, I'm still my gentle self, right?"
Zhuang Zhixi burst out laughing, and uttered a long "oh" without saying anything more. Mingmei pinched him, and Zhuang Zhixi laughed even harder, dodging and saying, "Yes, yes, yes, I didn't see anything, and I didn't hear anything."
Mingmei nodded: "I am still the gentle and lovely me."
Zhuang Zhixi: “Pfft.”
Mingmei: "What do you mean? Are you making fun of me?"
Zhuang Zhixi raised his eyebrows: "How is it possible that I am so willing to do this?"
He pinched Mingmei's cheek and said, "I think you're good like this. At least I don't have to worry about you being bullied."
Mingmei: “…”
Bully?
Bully her? She was never the one who was bullied since she was a child.
Mingmei winked at Zhuang Zhixi, who laughed. He approached Mingmei mysteriously and said, "Do you think the old witch will come over to cause trouble?"
Mingmei spread her hands: "How should I know? I don't know her, but I'm not afraid of her."
Zhuang Zhixi: "Then do you want to make a bet?"
Mingmei blinked, she pushed Zhuang Zhixi away and went to wash her hands in the yard. She realized that this man must be trying to make a bet with her about something. She knew it all, but she knew him very well.
She immediately figured it out, washed her hands, splashed water on his face, and said crisply: "No gambling!"
"Hey, stop shaking the water off. It's cold."
Mingmei smiled and said, "Humph, I want you to plot against me."
The two of them walked in together, and Mingmei came forward: "Mom, is there anything I can do?"
Zhao Guihua looked up at her and said, "No."
Mingmei said "oh" and sat down happily. It was good not to have to work.
Zhao Guihua: "What were you guys doing outside just now?"
When she asked casually, Liang Meifen suddenly became happy and thought: Let you show your affection, let you show it, mother-in-law, scold her, scold her as much as you can! Liang Meifen really wanted to watch the fun right away.
Mingmei: "Well, let's bet on whether Aunt Zhou will come to our house. Just now, Aunt Zhou blocked me at the door of the toilet, and I scolded her without any hesitation. So Brother Zhixi wants to bet with me whether she will come to our house to cause trouble. But I won't bet with him, hehe."
Zhao Guihua: "Then she definitely won't come to the house."
Mingmei's eyes lit up and she asked, "Why?"
Zhao Guihua looked at her deeply and said, "Because I'm at home."
Mingmei understood immediately and said, "Then I know, because she can't argue with you, and she can't start a fight."
Zhao Guihua nodded: "That's the truth."
She said: "We have this tacit understanding among the people in our courtyard. We may quarrel, but we won't really fight. If we do, it will be ugly."
When Mingmei heard this, she shook her head and said, "That's not right. Aunt Zhou's efforts have been in vain."
"Isn't that an elder fighting against a younger one? Besides, who doesn't have a weak spot? Zhou Qun is Aunt Zhou's life. And it was Bai Fendou who started it first, so Aunt Zhou is fighting back."
Mingmei uttered a soft "oh" to indicate that she understood, and said with emotion: "If she hits me, should I fight back?"
Zhao Guihua: “…”
She said faintly, "Can't you push her away without leaving any traces and teach her a lesson quietly? You're not an expert? You can't even do this?"
Mingmei: “…”
She pursed her lips and said nothing.
There's no way to say this.
However, Leung Mei-fen looked at her mother-in-law in shock. Her mother-in-law was indeed a black-hearted person. She actually instigated her younger brother and sister-in-law to beat people.
Liang Meifen instantly turned into a coward, fearing that her mother-in-law would ask her to do something again. How cruel she was.
"Okay, the fish will be ready soon, let's get ready to eat."
Zhao Guihua put cornmeal pancakes on the side of the pot. Although these cornmeal pancakes are not as delicious as steamed buns, they are great for fish pot. They taste very good. The whole family quickly devoured them.
When the Su family smelled the smell of stewed fish, Tonglai put down his chopsticks immediately and shouted unhappily: "I want to eat fish, I want to eat fish too. His family has fish, why doesn't my family have fish?"
Wang Xiangxiu: "Mom, didn't you say that his family didn't catch any fish?"
Aunt Su sat at the door waiting, but she was different from Aunt Zhou. Aunt Zhou wanted to watch the fun, but she was different. She wanted to see if there was any advantage she could take. In the past, when she encountered such a situation, she would say more good things, complain, and play the victim. She could get some benefits from Zhao Guihua.
But recently, this has disappeared and Zhao Guihua is in a hurry all day long.
She didn't have much chance, so she wanted to see if she could catch any fish today, but Zhao Guihua obviously didn't catch any fish when she came back. Naturally, she didn't mention anything. But now... his family is stewing fish?
Aunt Su: "Who knows, maybe he already had it, or maybe it just fell today."
She looked at everyone at the time and saw nothing gained, so she probably thought it was the former.
"I want to eat, I want to eat..."
Tonglai took advantage of his young age, lay down on the ground, and began to kick his legs: "I want to eat!"
Jinlai and Yinlai also looked at their mother eagerly. Wang Xiangxiu sighed and said, "I'll go over and try."
She got up and went out, and knocked at the door of Zhuang's house. Zhuang Zhixi got up and opened the door, but although he opened the door, he held the door with one hand and put the other hand directly on the door frame, not giving anyone a chance to come in, and it was not possible to see clearly when looking inside. Who made Zhuang Zhixi tall?
As soon as he saw the person at the door, he asked in confusion, "Sister Su, is there something wrong?"
Wang Xiangxiu showed a pitiful expression and said, "Xiao Zhuang, are you having dinner at home?"
She looked at him with a smile and said, "The fish you cooked is so delicious. My son Tonglai smelled the smell and cried and rolled on the ground. Can you give me a bite? The children are really pitiful. It's my mother's fault. They don't have much nutrition. Just give us a little bit, so we can get a taste of it. I will definitely return it to you when I buy fish next time."
Zhuang Zhixi raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Sister Su, look at what you are saying. It's just a small amount of fish. Why are you still asking for it back?"
Wang Xiangxiu was delighted and was about to thank him when she heard Zhuang Zhixi say, "But you know, I have a big family, eight of us. Let alone the fish meat, I ate all the fish soup with the bread. I even started to chew on the fish bones. I'll share it with you. I really don't have any left."
Wang Xiangxiu's face suddenly turned ugly, and she was a little dissatisfied with Zhuang Zhixi's refusal. She took the initiative to ask for it? How could he not give anything at all? Is there any neighbor who would do this? He didn't know how to sympathize with the poor.
She frowned, forced a smile and said, "Are you kidding my sister-in-law? The child is still crying at home..."
Zhuang Zhixi smiled and said, "Actually, I don't think Sister Su needs to be embarrassed. The child just cried because he didn't get beaten enough. You can just beat him a few more times."
Wang Xiangxiu's face turned completely dark, and she was extremely surprised.
Zhuang Zhixi: "Sister-in-law, is there anything else? If not, I'll continue chewing the fish bone."
Wang Xiangxiu resisted the urge to curse, forced a smile, and said, "Well, forget it."
As soon as she turned around, the door clicked shut, without a trace of restraint. Wang Xiangxiu's face was extremely dark, and she walked in with heavy steps. The Su family was waiting for her to have fish, and when they heard her come back, they immediately got up and said, "Eat fish!"
Looking again, there was nothing.
Tonglai: "Wow... wow wow, I want to eat fish..."
Aunt Su: "Didn't I give it to you?"
Wang Xiangxiu sighed and said, "No, Zhuang Zhixi doesn't buy my tricks at all."
The child was still crying, and she shouted at him, "Alright, are you done yet? Our family is in this environment. We are so poor that we can't afford fish. No one will pity you even if you cry to death! Cry, cry, cry, just cry! If you want to eat so much, why don't you go and be someone else's child? Am I not good enough for you as your mother? I worry about you all day long, and you never make me worry at all. Don't you think about it? Can a family like us afford such good food? Really!"
Her voice was so loud that Bai Fendou came over quickly. He knocked on the door and asked, "Sister Xiu, what's wrong?"
Wang Xiangxiu opened the door and rubbed her eyes, which immediately turned red. She said, "The children are greedy, it's okay, I scolded them."
Bai Fendou looked at the three children and then at Wang Xiangxiu, and his heart softened. He said, "Look at you. Your children want to eat good food. What's wrong with that? You are only hurting yourself by scolding them like this, right?"
He comforted Wang Xiangxiu softly and wished he could go into the house immediately.
Wang Xiangxiu wiped away her tears and said, "Of course I know, but this is the situation at home. What can I do?"
Bai Fendou gritted his teeth and said, "Well, I'll go to the river this afternoon and take a look. Isn't it fish? I don't believe I can't catch any."
Jin Lai immediately said: "I want to go too."
Bai Fendou: "Okay, okay, I'll take you three along. Uncle Fendou will take you fishing."
Wang Xiangxiu bit her lip. She actually wanted Bai Fendou to give her the money or buy it for her directly. But when she heard Bai Fendou say that, she thought about the fact that he had lost 15 yuan twice recently, during the Chinese New Year and when he bought a car. She probably didn't have much money left.
She sighed in her heart and said, "Well, be careful."
"Don't worry about that."
Bai Fendou calmed the Su family down, but he didn't know that other families were leaning on the windows to watch the fun. Jiang Lu leaned on the door and taunted in a low voice: "You plotted against my Zhou Qun, you deserve to be cheated by the widow."
As for the Zhuang family, Zhuang Zhixi and Mingmei leaned on the window to watch the excitement. Mingmei sighed: "This is the first time I have seen such a person. He is so wholehearted and cares about other people's children. What kind of spirit is this."
Zhao Guihua: "What spirit? You lack spirit, you are as stupid as a donkey."
Zhao Guihua: "You two come back for dinner."
Mingmei: "Okay, okay."
She quickly picked up a piece of fish with chopsticks and said, "It smells so good."
Zhuang Zhiyuan sighed: "Luckily it was me who went over to deal with the person just now. If it were me, I would be embarrassed not to give it."
Liang Meifen immediately looked at Zhuang Zhiyuan warily. Zhuang Zhiyuan asked, "What are you doing?"
Liang Meifen said seriously: "Don't associate with Wang Xiangxiu!"
But don't blame her, except Bai Fendou, all the women are the same. Jiang Lu was also looking at Zhou Qun, staring at her intently.
Zhuang Zhiyuan: "...Who do you think I am? Besides, Sister Su has done nothing wrong. Don't destroy her innocence."
"Oh."
"Oh."
"Oh."
Just these words from him caused several people in the room to laugh. Zhuang Zhiyuan: "..."
It turns out that you female comrades and I have different opinions.
Zhuang Zhixi was happy and didn't want to get involved in this matter. However, if anyone wanted to take advantage of him, don't even think about it. He, Zhuang Zhixi, was not someone who could be taken advantage of.
Zhao Guihua: "Tomorrow when you go back to your parents' home, I will prepare a fish and a pound of meat for each of you. That's all. If you want more, you can use your own private money. If you don't want to increase it, it's up to you."
Mingmei: “I know.”
Liang Meifen wanted to say something but stopped herself. Since Mingmei didn't say anything, she didn't dare to object and shut up again in dismay.
Zhao Guihua: "Mingmei, are you going to work?"
Mingmei: "On the fourth day of the New Year, I will go to work as usual on the fourth day of the New Year."
Zhao Guihua nodded and said, "You go to work earlier than the others, so will you come back for lunch?"
Mingmei shook her head: "No, it's too troublesome. I'll just eat the same thing in the company cafeteria."
Zhao Guihua: "Okay."
She explained: "Mingmei is at work and won't eat at home. Big brother and daughter-in-law, you cook at home. I have to go fishing these few days."
Liang Meifen: “…”
Just because of your poor level?
It's a waste of bus money to go out.
However, Liang Meifen didn't dare to say it out loud, so she nodded and said, "Okay."
When it comes to work, she doesn't compare with others. She never complains no matter how much she does. She is very down-to-earth. Zhao Guihua also knows that this is Liang Meifen's advantage. If you let Mingmei do more work, she will definitely cheat. But Mingmei is not so stingy about money and has a cheerful personality, which is also her advantage.
These two daughters-in-law have their own advantages and disadvantages.
Zhao Guihua didn't care much. She wanted to control it in her last life, but failed. She didn't want to control it in this life. After all, she herself had her own shortcomings. Not to mention others. Zhao Guihua didn't lose her temper at home, and the harmony in the family soared.
In the afternoon, the whole family gets together to play small cards. This kind of small cards is not poker. The playing method is a bit similar to the current mahjong. In the early years, people often played it in some teahouses and cart shops. This thing is not presentable and is just entertainment for ordinary people.
Rich people don’t play this, they play mahjong seriously.
But now the control is strict, whether it is mahjong or small cards, no one plays it anymore. If you are caught, you will definitely be criticized and educated. This game is somewhat related to "gambling", but the whole family plays together, not for money, just for fun, and no one cares about it quietly.
After all, this thing is not as difficult to handle as mahjong. If you really encounter something, just throw it into the stove and it will burn instantly. So ordinary people still play it secretly at home.
It was like this in his family, the two kids were out running around, and the adults were secretly playing cards at home, just for fun. Although it was just for fun, the more they played, the more addicted they became, and it was late for dinner.
If the two daughters-in-law had not had to go back to their parents' homes the next day, they would have wanted to fight until dawn.
Mingmei lost miserably, and she said in a low voice, "Fortunately I didn't play for money, otherwise I would have lost a lot."
Zhuang Zhixi: "It's okay, your man is very capable, I can win it all back."
Mingmei smiled coquettishly, and Zhuang Zhixi's heart melted.
However, because they went to bed late at night, they were not very energetic the next morning and went back to her parents' home a little depressed. This made the mother-in-law remind the young couple indirectly that they should not take advantage of their youth to make a fuss and not know "moderation", which made Mingmei embarrassed again.
I swear to God, she really didn't sleep late last night because of this.
But her mother ignored her explanation and refused to believe it, which made Mingmei feel very wronged.
Mingmei's mother didn't care what her daughter thought. She looked through the gifts her daughter brought back and nodded, thinking they were okay.
She asked, "Did your mother-in-law prepare all this?"
Mingmei shook her head. She and her mother were very honest: "My mother-in-law prepared the fish and meat, and I bought the remaining two snacks myself. You know, our family is not divided, it's better than being divided. My mother-in-law can't prepare more for us."
Mingmei picked up two items prepared by her mother-in-law and bought two more for herself since she had money anyway.
Mingmei's mother nodded: "That's right."
She still understands this principle. The young couple pays 10 yuan a month, and they are said to eat well. It is already subsidized by the old couple. Mingmei's mother cannot fail to calculate the account. After all, the poverty line in this city is 5 yuan per capita.
Ten dollars for the two of them is really not much.
She said, "Your father brought a few pounds of large white pears before the New Year. You can take some home and eat them secretly."
The mother whispered, "Don't give it to your mother-in-law, eat it yourself, otherwise your mother-in-law will give it all to the children, and what will you eat?"
Mingmei laughed, took her mother's arm and said, "I know. I know that my mother loves me the most."
"If I don't love you, who else will I love? You are my child."
Mingmei: "Hehe."
She was happily eating in the kitchen, then she remembered something and said, "Mom, can you give me some tea? My husband's family doesn't have any tickets, so I haven't bought any."
Mingmei's mother's mouth twitched: "...Are you starting to dig into your mother's family to support your husband's family?"
Mingmei shook her head: "No, I know how much we have at home. Besides, my efforts have been rewarded. My husband's family has been eating well recently, and I don't have to work, hehe."
She counted the meals of the past few days with her mother, and said, "I don't need to do any work, my sister-in-law takes care of it all."
Mingmei's mother nodded: "You are just a lazy guy."
Mingmei laughed softly and looked at her mother innocently. Mingmei's mother said, "Okay, I got it. I'll give you some when you leave. It's all thanks to our family."
Akemi smiled.
This tea is indeed hard to buy, the ration is very strict, and basically what you buy is broken tea, you can't get it without a ticket. But this thing is not a rare thing in Mingmei's family. Mingmei has an uncle who works in a tea garden.
If you do something and make a living from it, then you can't avoid it.
Mingmei's father worked for a transportation company and often went to the south to deliver goods. He would often bring back some things, such as his family's tea tickets, which he would secretly sell to others every time and he never used them himself.
"I'll give you some broken tea, and then some good tea. Don't give the good tea to others, keep it for yourself, we don't have much at home." The tea we serve now is only broken tea. This is hard to buy even if you have money.
Mingmei: "I see. Uncle Zhang is doing well there, right? Are they considered workers in the tea garden?"
Mingmei’s mother: “Of course, they are skilled workers, and their wages are not low.”
Mingmei sighed: "It's a little strange to think that a martial arts master would grow tea."
Mingmei's mother: "Don't mutter nonsense, what martial arts master, don't say that, we are all working people."
Mingmei: "Okay, okay."
Uncle Zhang is Uncle Mingmei's senior brother, and his kung fu is better than her uncle's.
"Oh, by the way, Mom, I seem to have done something good again, but I don't know if my salary will increase. On the first day of the new year, I went to the movies with Brother Zhixi..." She was talking excitedly, and Mingmei's mother's face became more and more gloomy. She slapped her daughter heavily and said, "Be quiet from now on!"
Mingmei: "???"
Innocent and wronged.
Mingmei's mother: "How come you don't know the danger, you damn kid? And if you dare not listen to me and transfer to another unit, I will break your legs!"
Mingmei muttered softly, "Didn't you say you would ignore me once I got married?"
Mingmei's mother: "You are no longer my daughter if you get married? You are my daughter, so I can control you at any time. If you want to kill yourself, I can still break your legs even if you get married."
Mingmei's mother remembers that last time her daughter caught a thief, they were impressed by her skills and wanted to transfer her there. Mingmei's mother disagreed a thousand times, it was too dangerous, it would be good for a young girl to be a ticket seller, the benefits were good, and the job was decent.
If he goes to work in law enforcement, it will be very hard and dangerous. As a mother, I will definitely not agree with it.
She grabbed Mingmei's ears and said, "Remember this. If you dare to do anything to me, I will not be polite to you."
Mingmei: "Hey, hey, hey, I know, I know, mom, please don't do anything. I don't want to go, really, really, please believe me."
Mingmei's mother looked into Mingmei's eyes and said, "I barely believe you."
Mingmei: "Huh!"
She really didn't want to be transferred, mainly because she felt that she was good at martial arts, but not at anything else, and that kind of unit that required brains was not suitable for her. She was just a reckless woman.
It's roughly equivalent to a reckless woman and a reckless man.
It's okay to use force and to have an argument with uncivilized passengers on the bus, but you can't be a public security officer.
Besides, she said so last time, but not this time. She rubbed her ears and came out to complain to Zhuang Zhixi: "Didn't you hear me calling? Why didn't you come to save me?"
Zhuang Zhixi: "...I can't afford to offend your mother, so how dare I offend my mother-in-law? If I offend my mother-in-law, it would be worse than offending my wife."
Mingmei: “Hehe.”
Zhuang Zhixi: "I'll give you a good massage when I get home, okay?"
Mingmei: "Huh, it's too late."
Zhuang Zhixi: "Punish me to serve you a hundred times."
Mingmei's face flushed instantly, and she muttered, "Zhuang Zhixi, do you have any shame? You served me a hundred times? Are you sure I took advantage of you? It's obviously you who took advantage. How can there be such a person as you."
Zhuang Zhixi suppressed his laughter and said innocently, "Look at you, you misunderstood me, didn't you? When I say serve, I mean serve tea and pour water. What did you think of that?"
He smiled evilly and said, "Are you thinking of those scenes that cannot be described?"
Mingmei kicked without hesitation! Mingmei's father saw it from a distance and smiled: My daughter didn't suffer any loss, very good! Mingcheng also smiled: My sister didn't suffer any loss, not bad.
Mingmei's mother also saw it in the kitchen, still smiling: beating is love and scolding is care, the young couple has a good relationship, happy.
Probably because Zhuang Zhixi was kicked, his father-in-law and mother-in-law looked quite good today, and Zhuang Zhixi had a very pleasant time at Yue's house. Before leaving, Zhuang Zhixi looked at Mingmei's bulging bag and said, "Why do you look like you're buying goods when you return to your mother's house?"
Mingmei looked up: "Then don't eat it."
Zhuang Zhixi immediately corrected his attitude: "I was wrong, you can scold me."
Mingmei raised her lips, and the couple rode back. Mingmei hummed softly, and Zhuang Zhixi said, "Wife, your parents are the least son-discriminating parents I have ever seen."
Mingmei: "Isn't your mother also not biased towards boys? I think she treats Hutou and Xiaoyanzi equally well."
Zhuang Zhixi shook his head: "My mother used to favor boys over girls. There are three children in my family, and my second sister is not treated as well as me and my brother. But as we grew up, my mother changed a lot and is not so favoring boys over girls. Especially after you came into the family, my eldest brother's family used to have two children, Hu Tou was much more favored than Xiao Yanzi. But I think my mother has treated them equally recently, and is very nice to Xiao Yanzi. Maybe people's concepts change as they get older. But my parents used to favor boys over girls, but it was not as obvious as in other families. They were much better than in other families. My sister insisted on marrying that soldier and going to the island to follow the army. My mother was particularly unhappy, but she still felt sorry for my sister and prepared pocket money for her."
Mingmei probably knew the reason in her heart. Her mother-in-law had changed because she had been influenced by more than 50 years of life and was no longer like a traditional old woman. She was knowledgeable, had a different perspective, and had different thoughts.
But Mingmei would not say anything at all, she said: "It's good to be able to change."
She was curious: "That's not right. In your courtyard, doesn't Chef Li's family only have one daughter? Then they must be good to their daughter."
Zhuang Zhixi: "I mean they are the least biased towards boys. Chef Li and Aunt Wang actually wanted to have a son, they just couldn't. If they had a son, they would definitely treat Sister Li Fang differently. I know Aunt Wang a little bit, she's probably the same as my mom used to be. As for Uncle Li... he definitely loves his son more. You can tell by his attitude towards his grandson now. It's not that they don't favor boys over girls, it's that they don't have the opportunity to favor boys over girls."
This further proves that Mingmei's parents are really good.
Zhuang Zhixi: "You are a lucky girl."
Mingmei smiled proudly and said, "Of course, I have always been very lucky. My parents said that I was a lucky child when I was young."
Zhuang Zhixi: "...I really said you were fat, but you're still panting."
Mingmei: “Huh.”
She reached out to attack Zhuang Zhixi, and Zhuang Zhixi said: "Oh, I'm riding a bike, don't pinch me~"
Mingmei laughed, hugged his waist, put her little face on his back, and said, "You have to keep me blessed forever."
Zhuang Zhixi raised the corner of his mouth: "Of course!"
He felt the warmth of his wife and pedaled the bike with extra energy. The young couple returned home and as soon as they entered the yard, they were surprised to find that they were having another meeting!
Are the meetings in their courtyard too frequent? Mingmei was deeply puzzled.
Every household in the yard is here.
Aunt Wang was presiding over the meeting. When she saw them coming back, she didn't say much. She just continued the previous topic and said, "During the New Year, the city's public security was a little lax. Some scoundrels took advantage of everyone's relaxed vigilance and broke into houses and picked locks. However, due to limited manpower, it is impossible to take care of every place. Therefore, the street hopes that each street will organize a joint team defense, with one person from each family, to form two shifts to patrol at night to ensure our own safety."
"When will the patrol end?" someone asked.
Aunt Wang: "We will analyze the specific situation. If there are no accidents, it will be the first month of the year."
“It’s been so long!”
"Yes, we will be back to work in two days. The patrol personnel at night will not be able to handle it. What time will the patrol end?"
Aunt Wang: "Two in the morning, tentatively scheduled for nine to two in the evening, five hours."
This was said, and everyone started to talk about it. Everyone was unhappy. This time was too long, both in terms of patrol time and duration. It was barely bearable now during the holiday, but what about when we go back to work?
Also, Wang Xiangxiu shouted: "I don't even have a man at home, how can I patrol?"
"You can ask the Bai family to send two people, so that there will be one to replace your family."
“Hahahahahaha…”
Everyone laughed meaningfully, and Wang Xiangxiu scolded, "Nonsense! You are so wicked."
"How is that immoral? You two families are almost one family."
"yes!"
Wang Xiangxiu: "You are bullying a woman like me."
Aunt Wang: "Alright, alright, let's get down to business."
"It's taking too long. I can't bear it. Aunt Wang, can you go to the street office to negotiate again? If we patrol like this, it will definitely delay our work in the factory. If something goes wrong, it will be a big problem. We can't delay our work because of this."
"Yes, yes!"
No one seemed happy. No one wanted to go out on patrol in such a cold weather.
Zhuang Zhixi was not happy either, and he followed suit: "Auntie Wang, let alone patrolling every day, we can't handle it even if we patrol every other day. Can you think of a solution?"
Needless to say, it's him.
His father is old, and his elder brother has to go on business trips every month. He can't let a female comrade go with him, right?
He is the most suitable person, so he is now trying his best to get a more suitable allocation plan: "It's not that we can't go, but we have to consider the reality. Everyone does have to go to work. It's not that we don't want to maintain law and order, but the work does not allow it. What if something goes wrong because the patrol is not in the mood!"
"that is!"
Aunt Wang saw that everyone had objections and knew that it would be difficult to implement this plan. She sighed and said, "I'll go to the street office and ask again."
Worried! Zhuang Zhixi and Mingmei's eyes met, and Mingmei blinked: Could it be related to her catching a thief?
(End of this chapter)
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