Chapter 109 Chapter 109 Peach Color Oolong
Ning Shichun felt that since he and Jia Jia were together, they could get married soon as the two families agreed.
But soon, he came back to work in the evening with a sad face, sighing as he helped prepare things for the stall in the evening and the dough for making bread tomorrow.
"How did the talk go?" Zhao Ruyue really couldn't help but gossip. It was really what the two of them had done, and it was quite sensational.
Ning Shichun didn't finish his words, and sighed again and again: "Ah... Third Aunt, why is it so difficult to get married? Alas... Jia Jia's parents don't agree because my father is in jail and my family has no money, but why does my mother disagree? Didn't she always say that she was looking forward to my marriage and taking care of my children? Alas..."
But when he took Jia Jia's family back to discuss it, his mother's expression did not show that she was looking forward to his marriage.
Zhao Ruyue asked: "What did your mother say?"
You wouldn't be so fierce as to say everything you said yesterday when you had the argument with Sun Haisheng's mother, right in front of the girl, right?
"She didn't say anything else. She just kept saying that Jiajia and I were still young and there was no need to rush into marriage. She should wait until I had saved up some money for a few more years."
Zhao Ruyue thought, it seems that her sister-in-law also knows what is important and understands what to say and what not to say.
It seems that Xiaochun really likes Jiajia now, and there is a high probability that their relationship will succeed.
Xiaochun is a simple boy who learns everything from his uncle. He may listen to his wife in the future. If the sister-in-law offends her daughter-in-law, she will suffer in the future.
The reason why he said that was probably because he wanted to take the opportunity to ask for the bride price.
Sure enough, Ning Shichun said, "Jia Jia's father asked for a betrothal gift of 38,888 yuan, and my mother said that the most our family could give was 8,888 yuan, and then the discussion ended."
Zhao Ruyue felt that Ning Shichun's marriage still had some work to do.
"What do you think?"
"I don't have money for the bride price right now, and my family really doesn't have money. If Jiajia's parents really want 38,000 yuan before they are willing to let her marry me, I can only make money first and let Jiajia wait for me for a few more years."
Ning Shichun stopped what he was doing and counted on his fingers: "I've calculated that if I eat three meals a day in the store and don't spend my salary, I can save 4,000 yuan a year."
Ning Shiqiu, who was listening nearby, exclaimed, "Wouldn't it take almost ten years to save up 38,000 yuan? And you can't get sick, buy clothes, or buy anything else. You two have been in love for ten years, so you must buy things for your partner regularly, right?"
Ning Shixia had a new question after hearing what her brother said: "Do you have to buy things for your partner when you are dating? Then I won't date anymore. I don't want to spend money on others."
"This is based on my current salary. When I am no longer an apprentice, my salary can be increased. It won't take that long," Ning Shichun said with a smile. "Xiao Xia, don't worry. You are a girl, so you don't need to buy it for your partner. When you date someone in the future, you can ask your partner to buy it for you."
Ning Shixia also felt that this was not possible: "I don't want others' things for free, so wouldn't I owe them a favor?"
"That can't be calculated that way..." But Ning Shichun couldn't figure out how to explain it.
He always felt that what he said was not comprehensive, and he himself only had a vague understanding of love, so it would be better not to teach him anything.
All I can say is the universal words to fool children: "You will understand when you grow up."
The children didn't like to hear this. Ning Shixia made a face and ran out to play with his friends.
Speaking of salary increase, Zhao Ruyue remembered what Ning Shaoming discussed with her.
She also felt that it was quite good that Ning Shichun did not think about borrowing money when faced with the problem of the bride price, but instead thought about making money on his own first.
I simply told Ning Shichun about the salary increase in advance: "When your uncle and I went to the city before, you worked alone in the store. Do you think you can handle it?"
Ning Shichun nodded: "Uncle San also asked me, I think it's okay, Aunt San, is your store in the county town ready for opening? Uncle San wants to go there to help?"
Zhao Ruyue said, "Not so fast yet, but it is also related to the branch in the county. After a while, it will be renovated. Your uncle must go to check it every now and then, otherwise the workers might mess up."
In fact, Zhao Ruyue also has to go to the county town every day, so it’s not a bad idea to go there a while earlier to take a look.
But there are too many men in the decoration industry. They always think that women know nothing. When they see that the owner is a woman, they subconsciously look down on her and always want to fool her. Communication is very difficult. It is better to let Ning Shaoming go.
She continued, "I guess he will be too busy to take care of the store in town. By then, you will have to take charge of the store. He said that if you can handle it on your own, he will give you a raise. After the store in the county is ready, he will go there, and you will have gained experience. He will also let you take charge of the store in town before you open your own store, and your salary will be raised again by then."
Ning Shichun heard this and swept away the frustration of the marriage setback. He repeatedly said that he would definitely try his best: "I will tell Jiajia the good news tomorrow!"
But after calming down, he felt that the only things he was good at were boiled and fried rice noodles, as well as Dorayaki, hot dog buns and cup cakes that had been sold in the store for a long time, and he was a little worried that he would not be able to do well in other things.
"After Uncle San bought the oven, I still don't make the new bread and cakes very well. If they are not as delicious as before, it will definitely affect the business of the store."
"Don't worry about that. Before the county store opens, your uncle will be the one doing the work." Zhao Ruyue and Ning Shaoming had already thought of a solution. "After the county store opens, the bread and other things in the town store will be made in the county first before we have money to buy a second oven and you learn how to make those breads. Then, Master Zheng will help transport them back. They won't be made in the town for the time being."
"Then I'll be fine." If it was just cooking and frying the rice noodles, he was very confident that he could do it well.
Ning Shaoming came in from outside and knew that Zhao Ruyue had told Ning Shichun about this matter. He thought that today is worse than tomorrow: "How about I go and deal with the house renovation tomorrow?"
Zhao Ruyue said: "Shouldn't you give Xiaochun some time to recover first?"
Ning Shichun felt that he didn't need any buffer time and he didn't know that they had bought the store in the county. He thought he had to pay rent regardless of whether the store was open or not, so it would be better to open it earlier.
"The shops in the county town have rents. Isn't it a waste to just leave them empty? If we renovate and open the shop earlier, we can earn back the rent earlier."
Since he said so, Zhao Ruyue did not object: "Okay, this month is almost over, so starting next month, should I give Xiaochun a raise?" She looked at Ning Shaoming as she spoke.
"Well, let's raise it to 800 first." Ning Shaoming did not set the price casually. He went to the county town and saw that most chefs' salaries were about the same, and that was even for those with several years of service.
Ning Shichun thought happily that he would go to talk to Sun Jiajia about this tomorrow.
At this time, Sun Jiajia was living in a friend's house. When her parents were discussing the bride price with Ning Shichun's family, she did not stand on her parents' side. When she came back, they were angry and did not let her in.
Sun Jiajia has experienced this kind of situation before. From childhood to adulthood, she can't remember how many times she has been locked outside the door.
The first and second time she cried and admitted her mistakes, but later she realized that crying, admitting her mistakes, apologizing, or even kneeling down were useless, so she left some of her some of her things at her good friend's house.
Her best friend's father died early, and she lives with her mother, so it wouldn't be inconvenient for Sun Jiajia to live with them.
Later, when she was locked up outside, she simply went to sleep at her friend's house. At first, her mother would nervously come out to look for her.
After finding out that she was going to her friend's house, even her mother stopped looking for her.
When she returned the next day, everything at home was as if nothing had happened and everyone was doing their normal business as usual. No one thought about how the person who was thrown out of the house and locked outside felt.
"Jia Jia, are you really going to marry Ning Shichun?" This friend didn't finish junior high school and went out into society. She dyed her hair red and was often the subject of discussion in the town.
She felt it was a pity that Sun Jiajia was with Ning Shichun: "I should have introduced Xiaoliang to you earlier."
"He's my boyfriend Lei's subordinate. But I was worried that you would think that I found someone prestigious and introduced my boyfriend's subordinate to you. You would feel uncomfortable and it would affect our relationship, so I didn't introduce him to you.
If I had known that you would choose a chef like Ning Shichun who is ordinary and not cool at all, I would not have cared about all that. Even though Xiaoliang is only Lei Ge's subordinate, the other people under Lei Ge are also his good brothers. If a group of people go out, no one dares to mess with them. You have no idea how majestic that scene is!
Moreover, Brother Lei has opened a hair salon now, and Xiao Liang works in the salon. His monthly salary plus commission is over a thousand yuan. He does his partner's hair for free. The money saved from doing hair is not small if you calculate it carefully. Look at my hairstyle, I didn't spend any money! ”
Sun Jiajia looked at her big red waves, which were indeed pretty, but Sun Jiajia didn't like to mess with her hair and felt that it didn't suit her, just like Xiao Liang, the man she wanted to introduce to her.
"Lili, thank you for thinking of me. I know you are doing this for my own good, but I still like Shichun more. He is very nice to me and always thinks of me when he has something delicious."
"You, you only know how to eat every day, be careful not to become a fat woman!" Lili poked her forehead in disapproval, "I heard that Ning Shichun works for his uncle and only gets a few hundred yuan a month, what's the use of that little money?
If you don't like Xiaoliang, I can introduce you to someone else.
I also know someone who runs a billiard hall, but that guy doesn't get along well with Brother Lei. I'm worried that if they start a fight, we two will become women of different bosses and will be on opposite sides. ”
Sun Jiajia could count the number of times she had been to the county town on one hand. She didn't know what Lili usually did in the county town, and she couldn't understand why a hair salon owner would quarrel with a billiard hall owner.
But listening to Lili's words, I always felt that Lili's life was quite turbulent, while I just wanted a stable home.
Sun Jiajia still shook her head. Lili mentioned several more, as if it was her responsibility to introduce her to a man she thought was better, and she would not give up until she agreed.
When Lili introduced them, Sun Jiajia also found out why the man who opened the hair salon had a bad relationship with the man who owned the billiard hall. It turned out that the man who owned the billiard hall had snatched the girl from the man who opened the hair salon, and they later broke up. The man who owned the hair salon felt that the man who owned the billiard hall did not cherish the girl.
Lili said: "That girl is Lei Ge's first love. Lei Ge has never forgotten her, but I don't care. Now I am Lei Ge's object. When his men see me in the county, they have to respectfully call me sister-in-law."
She thinks it's cool.
When Sun Jiajia rejected the person introduced by Lili, she also listened to a lot of love, hatred and vengeance of various messy "forces" in the county.
I feel that the relationships between those men and women are a mess, but Lili seems to be immersed in them and thinks that kind of life is interesting.
But after hearing those things, Sun Jiajia became even more determined to marry Ning Shichun.
She saw that after she had been rejecting him for a long time, Lili still didn't give up and wanted to introduce her to other people.
She simply took a strong dose of medicine and told Lili something that she had not intended to tell anyone: "I have slept with Shi Chun, I am already his, and I have no choice but to marry him."
Lili's endless chatter suddenly stopped, and it took her a while to find her voice again: "You, you are so bold!"
She now feels that although Jia Jia looks like a good girl, she is quite wild at heart. She is indeed her good friend and is as cool as herself!
"I have no choice. You don't know what kind of person my father found for me. That person is not as good as Shi Chun in any other way except that he is richer than Shi Chun."
But Lili's focus is no longer on Sun Jiajia's partner, and she no longer thinks about introducing her to other people.
She sneaked out to check and confirmed that her mother was not there, then locked the door and ran back to the bed and lay down again: "Before you were stupid, I was embarrassed to discuss this with you, but I didn't expect you to be so fierce!"
Lili became a little shy as she spoke: "Actually, Brother Lei is the first and only person who has me. He celebrated my birthday on my 18th birthday. The TV and DVD player in my room were given to me by Brother Lei at that time. I was so touched that day that I gave him my first time. So even if he can't forget his first love, I still want to marry him. When did you marry that, that one in your family?"
"Just last night..."
"What!" Lili sat up suddenly from the bed again, "Aren't you menstruating? Why did you let him touch you? I tell you, this is not okay. It's easy to get sick!"
Sun Jiajia was stunned: "Ah? Is it that serious? I really don't know. I don't feel uncomfortable anywhere now."
"It's okay as long as you don't feel uncomfortable now. Don't do this in the future. Don't let him have sex with you when you have your period. Got it?"
Sun Jiajia was still frightened: "I know, I won't do it again in the future."
Lili took out a box of discs from her bag: "I just happen to have a TV and a DVD player in my room, so I'll show you something good. You've never experienced it before, and I'm embarrassed to bring you to watch it, so you can only watch it secretly in your room when my mom is not around."
Sun Jiajia wondered: “Do you want to watch a movie?” What’s there to be embarrassed about watching a movie together?
When Lili put the disc in, Sun Jiajia didn't think anything of it at first, she just felt very bored.
She totally couldn't understand how anyone could make such a boring movie, just two people talking in a room, speaking Japanese, which she couldn't understand a word.
The man is still so ugly, but the woman is quite pretty.
Just when she wanted to ask Lili whether she should go find Ning Shichun and ask him to help borrow some movie discs from his third uncle's house, the two people on TV started kissing, and the man was taking off the woman's clothes and rubbing her breasts.
The two people slowly took off their clothes and started eating each other's urinary area.
Sun Jiajia suddenly covered her eyes: "This, this, this..."
Lili pulled her hand down: "Hey, why are you shy? It's not like you haven't experienced making a baby before, why are you still shy!"
Sun Jiajia was dumbfounded. She had never experienced this before.
That night, she slept with Ning Shichun in each other's arms all night, and she really thought that this was considered sleeping together.
Is this really the way to make a child?
When Sun Jiajia saw what was happening behind her, her voice trembled a little: "Lili, is that woman in pain? Why is she screaming in pain?"
It turns out that giving birth to a child is so painful. No wonder I always heard elders say that having a child is not easy. It hurts so much, so it must be difficult.
"She doesn't feel any pain, she feels very comfortable," when Lili heard her ask this, she began to wonder whether she had really experienced this or whether she said that because she thought it was too annoying that she always introduced potential partners to her.
"Haven't you experienced this before? Why do you still feel pain... Oh, I see, is this the first time for both of you, and Ning Shichun's technique is not good enough, so he hurt you?
Wait a minute, I'll get you another disc and you can take it and watch it with him. If you follow the instructions, it won't hurt. In fact, it will be a little painful the first few times, but it will pass if you bear with it. ”
Sun Jiajia's face had turned red like a shrimp, and she said hurriedly, "No, no, just keep it for yourself."
Lili stuffed it into her hand without further ado: "Why not? His technique is not good, and you will be the one who will suffer in the future. Take it, take it, don't be polite to me!"
Sun Jiajia hesitated for a moment, but still accepted it.
She thought of Ning Shichun's behavior last night. It seemed like he didn't know how to give birth to a child.
But after accepting it, how to show him the disc became a problem.
Ning Shichun helped prepare the things for the stall and the dough, and finally found time to go see her.
Ning Shichun knew that Sun Jiajia's good friend Lili had always disliked him, but he didn't take it to heart because he knew that Lili was very good to her girlfriend and often took her in.
Ning Shichun knew that if he wanted to see Sun Jiajia at this time, he had to go directly to Lili's house.
But it was strange today. Lili seemed less hostile to him, but she looked at them with a very strange and meaningful look.
Without waiting for Ning Shichun to ask, Sun Jiajia quickly pulled Ning Shichun to the riverside, where there were fewer people and it was more suitable for talking.
Ning Shichun put the matter behind him and talked to Sun Jiajia about his salary increase.
Sun Jiajia was also very happy: "Then I will go to the store to help tomorrow."
She felt that she had made the right choice. No matter how good the people introduced by Lili were, they were not as down-to-earth as Ning Shichun.
Ning Shichun hesitated and said, "But my third aunt said that you can't do any work when you're a guest at home."
"It's okay. Do we still need to be so clear about the separation between us now?"
Ning Shichun thought about last night and blushed again: "Okay, it seems that we don't need to be so clear. In my heart, we are already a family."
"That's right," Sun Jiajia continued, "You have to handle all the work in the kitchen by yourself tomorrow. I can't help you with the work in the kitchen. I can only help you do what I can outside. This way, when you open your own store in the future, I can also help you."
What Sun Jiajia said was completely consistent with Ning Shichun's enjoyment of the future.
He immediately shook Sun Jiajia's hand excitedly and said, "Okay! Let's work hard together! Tomorrow my third uncle and third aunt will go to the county town to find someone to repair the shop in the county town. If you don't know anything when you go there, just ask my sister. Danping has a good temper. I will talk to her and ask her to guide you."
Sun Jiajia went when she said she would. She didn't care what others thought of her, whether they said she was giving away money or that she was thick-skinned. Only she knew that what she did was much better than working hard at home and not getting any recognition.
At least among Ning Shichun's family, except for his mother, no one else looked down on her.
When his third aunt saw her going to help, she asked her if she had had breakfast, and without waiting for her answer, asked Ning Shichun to cook her a bowl of rice noodles.
He also asked her: "Can you ask him to cook mutton rice noodles for you?"
"Okay, thank you, Aunt San." Sun Jiajia agreed shamelessly.
She is not picky about food. She eats a bowl of boiled rice noodles in the morning. In her family, this is a treat only her father and her brother can have. At home, she can only drink corn porridge with a little rice and pickles.
Even so, if she drank one more bowl, her grandmother would glare at her.
"Don't be polite, just treat this place as your own home," Zhao Ruyue said to the kitchen, "Xiaochun, I see Jiajia's lips are a little pale, give Jiajia more meat, eat more meat to replenish qi and blood."
Ning Shichun's voice came from the kitchen: "Okay, Third Aunt, I got it."
Sun Jiajia smiled and didn't just stand there waiting. She very attentively helped to clean up the dishes and chopsticks that the guests had finished eating on the table: "Where should we put these after we clean them up?"
Zhao Ruyue was just about to tell her not to do all these and just sit and wait.
Then Ning Shichun said, "Aunt San, please let Jia Jia do it. We have already agreed that if we learn it in advance, we won't be so busy when we open the store in the future."
After he said that, Zhao Ruyue didn't stop him. She pointed to the place where the dishes were placed to Sun Jiajia, went back to the back room, and told him what had just happened.
Then he said, "I think Xiaochun has grown a lot with Jiajia, and has become more responsible. He has already started to think about opening a store."
Ning Shaoming was also relieved after hearing this: "If he can really grow up, I will be relieved. I don't know if he can figure it out. After he really opens a store, the betrothal gifts will not be a problem at all."
In fact, Ning Shaoming could have reminded Ning Shichun, but he always felt that it was not a good deal to rush for something. It was always not as good as if he wanted to do it from the bottom of his heart to teach and urge others to do it.
Zhao Ruyue said: "They are both under 20 years old, so let's take it slow."
Ning Shaoming: "They are not children anymore. When we were there, some people's children were crawling all over the floor."
Zhao Ruyue was thinking in her heart: In ten years, when your son and daughter grow up, there will be a lot of them who still look like children at thirty, let alone twenty!
She gave him a heads-up in advance, in case his urging for marriage failed if his daughter didn't want to get married in this lifetime: "Times are progressing, you can't always look at young people with the eyes of the older generation. In the past, our parents' generation could have children at will, so what if it's our turn?"
"Yeah, after all, it's still my eldest brother who is guilty!"
"Last time my sister-in-law went to see him, she came back and asked when the verdict was. I didn't even have time to ask."
"That incident involves many people, and it's an interprovincial case, so it won't be resolved quickly. We have to wait. However, the goods that Big Brother has have never been sold, so it shouldn't involve drug trafficking. In addition, he has a good attitude towards confessing his guilt and has provided some clues, so his life should be saved."
As they were talking, they heard Ning Shiqiu shout, "Mom and Dad, Aunt Zheng is here!"
“Here it comes!”
Ning Shaoming walked out carrying Zhao Ruyue's bag, which contained tools such as a tape measure.
They had to measure the house first to know approximately how much material to buy and then negotiate the price with the workers.
When they arrived at the place, Ning Shaoming measured the dimensions while Zhao Ruyue took notes in a notebook.
As she took notes, she drew a simple floor plan on another blank space.
After measuring all four houses, they immediately went to look for workers.
There is no labor market in the county town, and many laborers work on the roadside near the wholesale market.
Since no one asked them to work, they helped people load and unload goods in the wholesale market. Some people also drove tricycles and waited to help transport goods.
However, there are not always so many people coming to the wholesale market to purchase and need help moving things.
Like Zhao Ruyue's own family, they always chartered a car, and many of the things they bought were not heavy.
The driver would help with moving things, and since she and Ning Shaoming were both quite strong, two people were enough each time, and there was no need to hire anyone.
As soon as the two arrived at the place where laborers gathered near the wholesale market, they wanted to take a good look first, but a group of laborers surrounded them and asked them if they were looking for work. Then they shouted prices one after another, and the prices tended to get lower and lower.
However, they did not hire people to do the work just for the lowest price. In the end, they found a couple who said they could break down walls, lay bricks, paint walls, install and repair doors and windows, lay floor tiles, etc.
The most important thing is that they actually hired someone to take photos of all the work they had done and made a booklet for people looking for odd jobs, and the prices were also within a normal range.
Zhao Ruyue felt that they were quite dedicated to their work and were not the kind of people who just worked from day to day, so she chose them.
When they arrived at the place, Zhao Ruyue first turned off the power, and then temporarily moved all the wires near the wall that needed to be demolished to the other wall that was not to be demolished.
Then let them break down the wall.
There happened to be two houses whose walls needed to be demolished, and they thought that the man would be responsible for demolishing the walls. Unexpectedly, the couple of workers, after asking clearly where the walls needed to be demolished and checking, each took turns with a hammer, and started work at the same time.
The two rooms that needed to have their walls demolished were the ones that only had kitchens but no toilets. One was going to be used as a bakery, and the other as a rice noodle shop.
There are two rooms with toilets but no kitchens. One is used as Zhao Ruyue's repair shop and the other is rented to Ji Huixuan.
There is no need to keep the small room, just demolish it. The kitchen at the back is too small and not enough, so it should also be demolished.
After the kitchen wall was demolished, a suitable new one had to be rebuilt. There is also a difference between the kitchen of a bakery and that of a rice noodle shop.
The kitchen of a bakery is bigger, so it needs a big window for people to see inside. The kitchen of a rice noodle shop does not need such a big window, as long as it is big enough to serve the dishes.
Trim the broken bricks and use a cement scraper to trim the usable bricks so they can be reused.
Zhao Ruyue looked at what the couple knew. It was not that each of them knew a little and were responsible for different tasks, so their combined knowledge would be that much. Instead, the couple could do everything, but one of them could also work independently.
Just let them be responsible for a store each and tell them carefully what to do. This way they only need to be responsible for their own store and it is less likely to make a mess.
The cement, sand and bricks for building the wall had been prepared long ago and were all piled up in the house.
When the couple was working, Zhao Ruyue and Ning Shaoming didn't just stand there with their hands in their pockets and watch. They also had to help repair the bricks that were still usable after being broken down, mix cement, assist them, and carry cement to the side to make it easier for them to build the wall.
After a morning, the small rooms and kitchens of the two houses were demolished and rebuilt, and the construction waste was also cleaned up.
The newly built walls still need to dry, and the two decoration masters began to repair the doors and windows. Only after they modified or replaced the doors and windows that needed repair could they clean the other walls. After leveling the walls, they scraped the cement and then the whitewash.
While the two masters were repairing the doors and windows, Zhao Ruyue also started to deal with the water and electricity.
She did the plumbing and electrical work herself, and was worried that she might not do a good job, but then she thought that the decoration market is not very standardized now, and maybe other people's skills are not as good as hers.
Many people in the county town are renovating their homes, and they still use exposed pipes and wires for water and electricity, so the resulting things may not necessarily be to her liking.
She also has an electrician's certificate, which she obtained by herself, not bought. The certificate market is not standardized now, so the people you find may not have it, and even if they do, they may not have obtained it themselves.
Besides, this is your own house. As long as you pay attention to safety, no one will blame you no matter what you do. If you make a mistake, you can just correct it. It is such a good opportunity to practice. If you miss this opportunity, you will miss it forever.
Zhao Ruyue gritted her teeth and went up herself.
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