Chapter 140 Chapter 140 Wasteland
Ning Shixia skillfully disinfected and applied medicine to the wounds on Ning Danjie's body.
Ning Danjie saw that Ning Shixia treated the injury so skillfully, as if she had done it many times, and thought that she was doing the same as herself.
"Xiao Xia, will your uncle and aunt hit you too?"
Ning Shixia asked in confusion: "No, my parents never hit me, why are you suddenly asking this?"
Ning Shixia has a good memory and can remember things from an early age. She still remembers that she was once too naughty and her father was so angry that he raised his hand to slap her, but in the end he couldn't bring himself to hit her.
So she simply couldn't understand why her second uncle and his wife beat her just because her second sister was not selected as one of the first batch of Young Pioneers in her class.
The teacher clearly said that every student will have the opportunity to be selected in the future. It doesn't mean that they will not be able to become Young Pioneers in the future. So why hit people?
"Your parents never beat you, so why are you so skilled in treating injuries?"
"I was too naughty before, running and climbing everywhere, sometimes I would accidentally bump my body and get bruises. I saw my family applying medicine on me, so I learned how to do it. Later, I applied medicine on myself."
Ning Danjie looked sad: "Your parents are really good to you. My parents were also very good to me before, but ever since my father got sick, even though he recovered, they always quarreled."
She really wanted to live in Xiaoxia's house for a while like Sister Danping.
Unfortunately, it was not possible. Her parents hated Xiaoxia's family. If they found out that she came to play with Xiaoxia, she might get beaten up again, let alone live in Xiaoxia's house.
Ning Shixia did not feel complacent about her words. Instead, she did not continue the topic and shifted the subject to other people's affairs.
"I heard that my uncle and aunt have been arguing a lot lately and are planning on getting a divorce. Your parents are already much better off than my uncle and aunt because they are not planning on getting a divorce."
For a child, parents' divorce is like the sky falling. Ning Danping felt that what Ning Shixia said made sense. She comforted herself that at least she was much better off than those classmates from single-parent families.
Some of her classmates' families were like hers and Xiao Xia's. Their parents lived in harmony with each other and were very kind to them. Their clothes were very clean and tidy every day, and they would buy some new stationery and new toys to bring to school from time to time.
Later, after their parents divorced, those classmates' clothes became dirty and sometimes they didn't change for several days.
If someone's parents remarry, he or she will become a little cabbage that no one loves or cares for.
So they are also particularly afraid of their parents' divorce.
Ning Shixia applied medicine to all the wounds on Ning Danjie's body and gave her all the iodine, cotton swabs and ointments he brought with him.
"Sister Danjie, take these medicines back and hide them secretly, and apply them on yourself. You need to apply the medicine three times a day on your injuries to heal quickly. You can't come to me three times a day. It would be terrible if your parents found out."
Ning Danjie wanted to decline, but when she heard Ning Shixia's words, she swallowed the words that had yet to be said: "Thank you, Xiaoxia."
"You're welcome. It's just some medicine. I have more at home."
Ning Danjie went back with the comic book that Ning Shixia had lent her. After her mother beat her yesterday, she seemed to regret it. She hugged her and wiped her tears, and promised to let her go out and play.
When her mother asked her where she wanted to go for fun, Ning Danjie said she wanted to go to the bookstore to read.
Originally, Ye Jing thought that if the place Ning Danjie wanted to go was not far from home, she would take her there personally.
The bookstore that Ning Danjie chose was indeed not far from their home, but children of this age would forget about eating and sleeping once they entered the bookstore, so they would have to wait for a long time.
If you don’t want to wait that long, there is a solution. You can buy the books your child wants to read and let him read them at home.
But Ye Jing was even more reluctant to spend money. It was not easy for her family to pay for the house now. They had to spend every penny carefully.
Her mother-in-law was sick and couldn't recognize people, and they had a falling out with her husband's family. Sometimes life was hard at home, and Ye Jing had to go back to her parents' home to get some food so that she could have a better life that month.
Her sister-in-law was unhappy because she went back so often. Her mother also told her, explicitly or implicitly, to live a good life in her husband's family. Now that she was married, she should not go back to her parents' home all the time, as it would have a bad influence.
Every time at this time, Ye Jing would think of how good her mother-in-law was. In the past, her mother-in-law gave her family so many things every now and then, but she had never said a word of disdain for them!
Ye Jing was not well off, and she didn't want to spend money buying books for her child, nor did she want to spend so much time with her child in the bookstore.
Although Ning Danjie is a child, children tend to be more perceptive.
She noticed that her mother didn't want to go with her, and said considerately that she was already a big child and didn't need anyone at home to accompany her. She could go to the bookstore alone. Anyway, the bookstore was not far from home, and there were many students like her who were there to read books, so nothing would happen.
Ye Jing thought about it and agreed. Otherwise, even if Ning Danjie could go out to play, she couldn't go out for too long, let alone come to Ning Shixia's house to find her alone. The distance between the two houses was quite far.
Ning Danping came out with an empty schoolbag, and when she went back she took the books and the things Ning Shixia gave her. When Ye Jing saw her coming home, she looked up and glanced at her and continued to work on her handicrafts, without even thinking of checking her schoolbag.
The manual work she is doing now is part-time work from a factory in the county industrial park.
The main job is to sew sequins on clothes according to the patterns printed on them. You can get between five and fifteen yuan for each piece depending on the difficulty of the pattern.
When Ye Jing doesn’t have many classes on weekdays, she can sew about two pieces a day, and she can sew more on Saturdays and Sundays.
But she used to earn dozens of yuan in tuition fees for each class, and now she is not very satisfied with this part-time job that many women in the county are satisfied with. She always feels that it takes too much time and earns too little money.
Ning Danjie returned to her room, hid the snacks, milk, comic books and medicine that Ning Shixia gave her, then carefully left the room and walked into the living room.
When her parents were around, she was not allowed to stay in her room or lock the door except when doing homework.
At the beginning, Ning Danjie resisted once. When she was angry with them, she ran into the room angrily and locked the door.
That time, her parents took turns kicking the door of her room from outside. Since then, the door lock of her room has been broken and has never been repaired, so it is equivalent to having no lock.
Ning Danjie was still bothered by the beating she received yesterday, but when she saw her mother looking worried and sighing, she suddenly became upset.
She felt a little sorry for her mother, thinking that it was not easy for her mother to take care of her father and work hard to earn money to support the family. It was really wrong for her to still hold a grudge against them.
Ning Danjie felt very ashamed that she had ever hated her parents and even spoke ill of them to others. She thought she was very immature.
She walked up to Ye Jing and asked, "Mom, I also want to learn how to do this. Can you teach me? Once I learn it, I can make money with you and reduce some of the burden on the family."
When Ye Jing heard her daughter's words, she was delighted. She felt that sewing and mending were things that girls should know, and it was just right for her to learn it. After teaching her daughter, she would be able to work much easier.
Unfortunately, the deadline given by the factory this time was too close and the construction period was too tight. She needs to rush the work now, so she can only wait until the next time the construction period given by the factory is not as short as this time, and then slowly teach her.
Ye Jing sighed regretfully, "I don't need you here, don't come and make trouble!"
Her tone was not nice, and Ning Danjie was sensitive and delicate. She felt very sad that she wanted to help with good intentions but was not praised but instead was disliked.
I had to go back to my room and pretend to do my homework, but in fact I had my back to the door. My tears were falling down, hitting the book and wetting several pages.
On the other side, Ning Shixia also returned to the house. Ning Danping asked her, "What were you doing with Danjie outside? Why didn't you ask her to come in?"
Ning Shixia made a gesture to seal her mouth: "I promised Sister Danjie to keep it a secret, so I can't tell you."
"Okay." Ning Danping tried to hold back her laughter. In fact, the two children were sitting at the door and talking, so she didn't notice how loud her voice was.
They were sitting in the living room and heard a lot without eavesdropping on purpose, but the two children wanted to keep it a secret and the adults were happy to cooperate.
Ning Danping was about to say something else when Zhao Ruyue's cell phone rang.
Since her store started selling mobile phones, she also replaced the PHS used by her family with mobile phones.
Zhao Ruyue took a look and saw that it was a call from her sister-in-law Chen Fangni.
After picking up the call, Chen Fangni chatted with Zhao Ruyue for a few words before getting to the point: "Are you free to go back to town this Saturday?"
"This Saturday?" Zhao Ruyue thought about it, but couldn't remember what special day it was.
She walked to the calendar and looked through it. When she saw the lunar date, she remembered that it was her mother's birthday.
He immediately said, "Of course, Shaoming and I will bring a cake back. If your family needs anything else, just tell us and we can bring it back together."
Chen Fangni said, "There's nothing else. Just bring the cake back. Your brother and I will buy the rest."
She and Zhao Hongfa were just thinking that the brothers and sisters hadn't been able to get together for a long time since the Chinese New Year.
Moreover, after Zhao Ruyue's family moved to the county town, the opportunities to see each other became much fewer than before. They and the elderly also missed her two children very much, so they might as well take this opportunity to get together.
Chen Fangni was afraid that Zhao Ruyue would say she wanted to buy something else, so she hurriedly said, "I still need to call Zhao Ruyuan to ask if she can come back. I'll hang up first."
Zhao Ruyue was thinking about her mother's birthday, so she couldn't just bring a cake.
He also dragged Ning Danping to accompany him to the clothing section of the department store in the county town, bought new clothes for both his parents, and also bought a pair of shoes and a gold necklace for his mother.
I originally wanted to buy her a gold bracelet, but if she bought it, should her eldest sister and her third sister also buy one?
If they also bought it, her third sister would be fine, as her lobster business was doing well, so she could definitely afford a gold bracelet.
But my third sister has three children to raise and the pressure is not small. There is no need for her to spend such extra money just to be consistent with me.
Not to mention the eldest sister, who also has to raise three children, but her family is not well off and the pressure is even greater than that of the third sister's family.
The three of them were all married daughters, and were easily compared to each other. So Zhao Ruyue simply bought a gold necklace that was not easily seen by others, and gave it to her mother privately when the time came.
I also reminded the elderly that they should just wear it for fun or just look at it for pleasure, and not let others know.
Zhao Ruyuan was discussing something with her husband, and both of them had troubled expressions on their faces.
After receiving a call from her sister-in-law, Zhao Ruyuan looked at her husband, and her husband winked at her.
In fact, he didn't need to signal, Zhao Ruyuan would definitely go back for her mother's birthday celebration, so she told her sister-in-law the date she would return.
After she hung up the phone, her husband came over and said, "We were discussing that matter, and the sister-in-law just happened to call. Isn't this fate? It seems that God also agrees. Otherwise, the sister-in-law usually calls you at night. Why did she call you at this time?"
"Don't tell me these feudal superstitious things. I need to think about that matter again. I can't let my sister down!"
Her husband came over and massaged her shoulders: "Okay, think about it carefully. In fact, if you think about it carefully, you will know that it is not a bad thing. My sister helped us before, and I will definitely not cheat her."
Zhao Ruyuan pushed him away in disgust: "Stop it! You said you wouldn't cheat my sister, but everyone in our area knows that the land is a wasteland now!"
"That's not necessarily the case. What if..."
"Shut up and don't talk! Let me think about it."
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