Gu Qingqing asked a few questions and took him downstairs to wait for the results. When they met some military wives she was familiar with, she smiled and chatted with them.
I don't know how the conversation ended up turning to parenting, but Gu Qingqing listened very seriously.
After waiting for half an hour, all the papers were graded. Zhou Damao and Zhang Ta were both assigned to the fourth grade, and Shen Sui was assigned to the fifth grade.
Many of the new officers and soldiers stationed on the island are older than the first batch, and their children have also received education in primary schools for children of different families, with some in their teens already in the fourth grade.
After passing this exam, I was assigned to the same class with Shen Sui.
They had to adapt to the class today. Gu Qingqing sent him to the classroom door again and rubbed his head: "Sister will pick you up at noon to eat at home. Study hard."
"Yeah." Shen Sui looked up at her: "I want to eat the chive egg pancakes made by my sister."
Gu Qingqing's eyes curved, hoping that the child would be able to speak so much next time. She nodded vigorously and said cheerfully, "No problem, sister, put two more eggs in. Eating more melons will make you smarter."
The corners of Shen Sui's mouth raised slightly, then quickly returned to normal.
Watching him enter the classroom, she couldn't help laughing when she thought of what Chu Dai said last night about raising a son.
It's a bit like that. I can't help but worry that his lonely personality might make him unpopular and be excluded.
As she was thinking, she went downstairs again, and met someone she didn't want to see at the stairs.
"Sister Qingqing." Yu Ruan was also stunned for a moment, then said in a sweet voice: "Are you here to send the children to school as well?"
"Yeah." Gu Qingqing nodded casually and tried to pass by her, but was blocked by her.
Her eyebrows knitted slightly, she was a little dissatisfied: "Do you have anything else to do, Comrade Yu Ruan?"
Yu Ruan felt a little aggrieved, "Sister Qingqing, is there some misunderstanding between us? Or did I do something wrong to make you unhappy?"
"No." Gu Qingqing was somewhat helpless: "Can you please move aside first? My sister-in-law is coming down from upstairs."
Yu Ruan glanced at her sisters-in-law who were blocked on the stairs. She stepped back, waited for them to come down, and then pulled Gu Qingqing to the other side to talk.
The sisters-in-law couldn't help but look at him a few more times out of curiosity.
Gu Qingqing watched her holding her wrist, trying to pull it away but unable to, and she didn't know where Yu Ruan got so much strength from.
She sighed, "Comrade Yu Ruan, if you have anything to say, just tell me directly."
"Sister Qingqing," Yu Ruan thought again and again, trying to find out the truth: "Did my sister-in-law tell you something? That's why you are so cold to me."
"No." Gu Qingqing said without hesitation: "I just don't like chatting with people casually, unless they are acquaintances."
"Is that so?" Yu Ruan didn't know whether she believed it or not. She let go of her hand and said to Gu Qingqing, "Then I want to know, Sister Qingqing, why do you want to break up my marriage? I shouldn't have hindered you in any way."
There was no one here, so Yu Ruan didn't hold back and wanted to find out what was going on.
Gu Qingqing used the same words again: "You are talking about Jiefang, right? He is a comrade-in-arms with my husband. He once said that he wanted to find an ordinary country woman. It doesn't matter if she is illiterate or not, as long as she is straightforward and aggressive. He feels pressured by women who are too educated."
Yu Ruan frowned and stared at her expression, trying to tell whether it was true or false. Are there really such men in this world who don't want to find a cultured wife?
She had seen Chen Jiefang once from afar. He had an ordinary appearance, but his spirit was very attractive. He didn't have any other advantages.
But he is the deputy company commander of the second company.
This is also what Yu Ruan likes.
She came from an ordinary family and only attended junior high school. The city girls didn't like her at all. If she didn't want to marry someone from the country, she could only find someone in the army. Although the conditions on the island were a bit difficult, at least her brother could help her a little.
Moreover, no tickets are required to buy oil, rice and noodles on the island. Her brother Yu Cheng receives an allowance of 80 yuan a month, so Chen Jiefang also gets 60 to 70 yuan.
You know, workers in the city only earn about twenty yuan a month. If she marries Chen Jiefang, won't all the money be hers? !
Seeing her eyes flickering, Gu Qingqing didn't know what she was planning, but she didn't want to see her again at all. Subconsciously, she disliked this person.
She said hello to Yu Ruan and left without caring whether she heard it or not.
Now I don’t have to go to classes, so I have the freedom to do whatever I want at any time without having to rush. I can sleep in every day from now on.
I feel happy just thinking about it.
The sky was blue, clear and bright, with one or two birds occasionally flying across the sky.
She walked along the North District trail, looking up at the sky from time to time, or at the tall palm trees on the roadside, which alleviated her bad mood.
When I got home, Xu Nian was already waiting at the door with a bag of pecans in his hand.
"Qingqing." She couldn't move around easily now, so she just moved away lazily and waited for her little sister to come over.
"Hey!" Gu Qingqing saw her and ran over with a smile on her face. She took the hickory nuts from her hand and helped her walk inside: "You will be giving birth in two or three months, right? Brother Zhao, are you comfortable with you coming out alone?"
"Isn't your son, Sui, going to school today? I sent him some pecans. I heard they can help with the brain. I don't know if that's true or not."
Xu Nian followed her inside and couldn't help but smile when he saw her cautious look.
"Your brother Zhao said that you need to go out more before giving birth. He specifically asked the female military doctor. Don't worry."
Gu Qingqing finally felt relieved and helped her to sit down at the stone table in the yard. "Wait for me for a moment. I'll go get you a cup of hot water."
"Add sugar." Xu Nian smiled and didn't bother to be polite with her.
"Of course!" Gu Qingqing said with a hearty laugh, "I soaked some pickled radishes, and I'll give them to you to try. You can see whether Aunt Yu's cooking is better or mine."
During the time Xu Nian was in the Construction Corps, the foods he ate the most were potatoes, sweet potatoes, taro, and long-life radishes. He was really fed up with eating them.
At that time, Sun Shufen often soaked some sour radishes, which was considered an appetizer.
Gu Qingqing came out of the kitchen with an enamel cup and a small bowl of sour radish strips.
The things that grow best in this piece of land in the backyard are radishes, cabbages and peppers; other things are not as good.
Xu Nian couldn't help herself when she smelled the sour smell in the air, and smoked one cigarette after another. The two women ate while chatting.
"Today I sent Ah Sui to school, and Yu Ruan stopped me and asked me if I had any opinions about her." Gu Qingqing still felt annoyed when she thought about this.
Xu Nian chuckled and slowly bit the crunchy carrot strips. "So what do you say?"
"I said no." Gu Qingqing sighed: "It probably means that she felt that Sister Taozi said something bad about her in front of me, so I ruined her marriage with Brother Jiefang."
"If you don't take action, you will harm Chen Jiefang." Xu Nian shook his head: "Women like her are not something that ordinary people can afford to offend. I guess Bai Tao has not had an easy time recently."
Gu Qingqing paused while biting the radish strips. She hesitated: "Should I go see her?"
"It's up to you." Xu Nian reminded, "Yu Ruan must have reported you to her brother. She might even say that you ruined her marriage and instigated Bai Tao to resign so that she wouldn't take over. Yu Cheng is under your Captain Chu. He sees you every day. If he has a grudge against you, it will affect the work of men."
Gu Qingqing scratched her head in distress, "What should I do? It was Yu Ruan who sent Xiaoyang to school today. I suspect that the Yu family is now under her control."
"Puff..." Xu Nian couldn't help laughing, leaning forward and backward, holding the edge of the table tightly with her hands. She said with a smile: "You really think Bai Tao is a fool. Even rabbits bite when they are angry. I bet you that she must be brewing something, so she just let Yu Ruan do what she wanted during this period of time."
Gu Qingqing didn't believe it and shook her head, "Sister Taozi's personality is the same as yours before, soft. You are only acting like this now that you are pregnant..."
Before she finished her words, Xu Nian added with a smile: "Your sister Taozi is pregnant now, and she has an older child at home. Can she let Yu Ruan do whatever she wants?"
Gu Qingqing thought about it and agreed.
"Then I don't care?"
"Of course." Xu Nian took a sip of sugar water to moisten her throat and said, "If you are just good friends, you can still stand up for her. Her man and your man are in a subordinate and superior relationship, and there is also Yu Ruan who is interfering. You, just wait and see."
"Okay." Gu Qingqing thought for a moment and said without hesitation: "Let's do this for now. You stay here for lunch. I have to pick up Ah Sui later. Now is the perfect time to prepare dinner. Since you are a pregnant woman, I will let you enjoy the treatment of ordering food in a state-owned hotel."
Xu Nian looked at the empty bowl of radishes and said, "Okay, give me some more."
"Okay, I've prepared several pots of it, just thinking that you'd like it. You can just take one pot home and ask Chu Dai to tell Brother Zhao not to go to the cafeteria for lunch and come over to eat instead."
"I'll do whatever you say." Xu Nian looked at her eagerly as she went into the kitchen to get the sour radish strips.
It was around ten o'clock, approaching eleven. Gu Qingqing went to the backyard with a basket to pick vegetables. Xu Nian, with her big belly, held a bowl and ate sour radishes while talking to her, "Qingqing, do you think peppers can be made sour?"
Gu Qingqing squatted beside the vegetable patch and couldn't help looking up at her. She said helplessly, "How about I make you a sauerkraut fish at noon? Sea fish has few bones and tender meat, it should be delicious."
"Great! I never thought that the girl who used to knock out a group of wounded soldiers with a pot of soup would become a chef. Who could have thought of that? Even Uncle Yu would be dumbfounded here." She teased.
Gu Qingqing snorted and said with a smile: "Sister Anian, I find that your personality has really changed a lot. Brother Zhao must have taken good care of you during this period of time." The wild fruits in the military restricted area were almost picked up.
"Isn't it the same with your Captain Chu?" Xu Nian didn't let her go either: "You're treated so well even though you're not pregnant yet. If you were pregnant, I don't know how your Captain Chu would treat you." He probably feared that if he held it in his mouth, it would melt, and if he held it in his palm, it would break.
Gu Qingqing then remembered what she had said to Chu Dai last night, and that she had to go to the clinic at noon.
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