Chapter 91 Chapter 91 Comrade, I want to report my husband! …
Ning Danping had saved money for so long, but could only afford one.
Zhao Ruyue remembered that electronic equipment in Yangcheng and Pengcheng were not that expensive.
But she was also worried that she might have remembered it wrong again, so she had to ask the people over there first.
Zhao Ruyue said to Ning Danping, "Don't buy it yet. I'm going to go out and make a phone call. You can go to the second floor of Xinhua Bookstore and read some books while I wait for you."
"Okay." Ning Danping was not worried that her Third Aunt would suddenly stop her from buying it.
Because she often heard Xiaoqiu and Xiaoxia say that their parents never went back on their words.
Zhao Ruyue called Fan Xiaorong several times and had memorized her phone number.
After all, few people have telephones nowadays, and there are only a few phone numbers that are frequently called.
Moreover, the area code can be checked at the place where the call is made, so there is no need to remember it. The number that needs to be written down only has a few digits, which is very easy to remember.
After Fan Xiaorong went to Guangzhou to live with her aunt, she found a job assembling some electronic equipment in an electronics factory.
After she settled down in Yangcheng and got a stable job, she quickly sent the money for her hospital stay back to Zhao Ruyue.
Later, I kept in touch with Zhao Ruyue.
It’s just that Fan Xiaorong has lost contact with her father’s family, and her father’s family also lives in the town.
Fan Xiaorong was worried that if someone knew about her phone call to Zhao Ruyue and it got to the ears of her father's family, Zhao Ruyue might be harassed by her father's family.
Later, he only sent letters to Zhao Ruyue, and the sender used a code name she made up herself instead of her real name.
Now Fan Xiaorong writes one or two letters to Zhao Ruyue almost every month, telling her about her own recent situation and asking how Zhao Ruyue and Ning Shaoming are doing recently.
Sometimes she would also mention the troubles she encountered.
Zhao Ruyue was quite concerned about her mental condition. After reading the letter, if she felt that something was not clearly explained in the letter, she would go to the county town to call her and talk to her.
The phone number Fan Xiaorong gave was the phone number of her factory. After calling, tell the other end who you are looking for, then hang up and wait for the person who answers the phone to go to the workshop to find that person.
You can wait for the person you are looking for to call you back, or call again yourself after five minutes.
Zhao Ruyue made the call from a public telephone booth and told the person on the other end that she would call back in a few minutes.
Then I waited five minutes and called again, and the person who answered the phone was Fan Xiaorong.
"Sister Ruyue, why did you call me suddenly? Is it because of my hometown..."
Zhao Ruyue hurriedly explained: "It's not about your hometown, I just have something I want to ask you."
Fan Xiaorong was worried when she was called over, but when she heard Zhao Ruyue's words, her heart instantly relaxed: "That's good, go ahead and ask me, I will tell you everything I know."
"I just want to ask how much an MP3 player costs in Guangzhou. I have a niece who wants to buy an MP3 player, but the only store that sells it in my hometown is Xinhua Bookstore, and the price is very high. The cheapest one costs 388 yuan, and she said that this is the discounted price."
"It's like this in my hometown. After all, it's not the place of production, and my hometown is quite remote. Many things are so popular in Guangzhou and Shenzhen that they are sold everywhere, but they are just available in my hometown. They take the old models and say they are the latest models. Many people don't even read the relevant news and just believe whatever the merchants say."
The workshop that Fan Xiaorong has moved to happens to be the one that assembles MP3s. When she chats with her co-workers, they often talk about how much these things sell for in their respective hometowns.
When Zhao Ruyue asked, she answered immediately:
"The factory price of the MP3 produced by our factory is only a few dozen yuan, but the branded ones are a bit more expensive. I heard that the factory price is generally more than one hundred yuan. Three hundred and eighty-eight can buy an MP4 that can download videos to watch."
Zhao Ruyue asked in confusion: "Isn't your factory mainly engaged in OEM assembly? Do you also have your own finished products for sale?"
"The ones we make and sell are considered second-rate brands outside, and they're not as well-priced as the branded ones. But they're all from the same factory, and the materials used are not much different. Sister, if your niece isn't in a hurry, I can buy one for her at the employee price and send it back.
If you buy our own brand, the shipping fee plus the cost of buying the MP3 should not exceed two hundred. ”
"Then I'll go ask her and give you a reply later?"
"Okay, it's almost my turn to eat, I'll wait for you here."
"Okay, okay, I'll call back in five minutes at the latest." Zhao Ruyue hung up the phone and walked quickly towards Xinhua Bookstore.
Fortunately, this telephone booth is not far from Xinhua Bookstore, and it only takes one minute to walk there.
The Xinhua Bookstore in the county town is not very big, and you can see the whole place at a glance after going upstairs.
Ning Danping was reading a copy of Yilin in the magazine area. When she heard someone approaching, she looked up and saw that it was Zhao Ruyue. She put down the magazine and stood up: "Aunt San, are you done with your call?"
"Well, I just called my friend who works in Yangcheng. She works in a factory that makes MP3 players. The MP3 players there are cheaper. I want to ask you, do you want to buy one today, or can you wait?"
Ning Danping couldn't help but frown when she heard this. Before the holiday, she told several classmates that she would come to the county town to buy MP3s this week.
She was worried that others would laugh at her if she failed to buy it back.
However, Zhao Ruyue's next words made her change her mind instantly.
"If you can wait, my friend can buy one for you at the factory price and send it back. The postage and the cost of buying the MP3 player together should not exceed two hundred."
When Ning Danping heard the price, she thought, let people laugh at her, what’s the big deal if people laugh at her? It won't lose any meat.
She worked so hard for so long and only saved a little over four hundred yuan. Now she could save half of the money at once, so it was worth waiting.
"Aunt San, I can wait!"
"Then I'll call and tell them. Once you've made a decision, you can't go back on your word."
Ning Danping immediately assured her: "I will definitely not regret it!"
Zhao Ruyue immediately went downstairs to call Fan Xiaorong, so as not to make her wait too long and delay her meal.
After the call, she took Ning Danping to send the money. Worried that the money might not be enough, she asked Ning Danping to send two hundred yuan.
Zhao Ruyue said to Ning Danping, "If there is still some money left after buying things, it will be troublesome for people to return it. You should think of the extra money as a reward for asking for help. Is that okay with you?"
Ning Danping quickly shook her head and said, "I have no objection."
She was already very satisfied that others helped her save more than a hundred yuan.
After sending the money, it was almost four o'clock. Zhao Ruyue originally wanted to invite Zhao Ruyu to dinner and ask her about the prices of shops and houses in the county town.
But buying a shop and a house is different from going to night school to learn a skill. Zhao Ruyue doesn't want too many people to know that her family is going to buy a shop and a house.
Although Ning Danping would not necessarily go out and talk nonsense, she is just a child and it is easy for her to show something strange when others mention similar things.
Maybe the adults noticed it, but she herself might not have realized that she was noticed.
It is safer not to let her know a secret than to let her know it and then ask her to keep it.
If you want to keep something secret, of course the fewer people who know about it the better.
This time, Zhao Ruyue did not invite her cousin to have dinner together, but only took Ning Danping to the newly opened supermarket in the county town for a stroll.
After buying some snacks for her and the two children at home, I went straight home.
Zhao Ruyue took Ning Danping to buy things in the county town, and Ning Shaoming was not idle at home either.
He used the excuse of taking his children to the market to look around the market to see which van driver was more reliable.
Although we had thought about taking the car of the relative who drives a van to pick up passengers when we discussed it before, relatives may not be reliable.
It has been said on TV that many cases are committed by acquaintances, so he has to be careful.
They rarely took the van to the county town before, and had little contact with the relative, so Ning Shaoming decided to observe the person himself for a few days.
If he observes that his relative is not as reliable as others, he will not choose his relative's car just for the sake of relationship.
There were not many people at the market in the afternoon, and there were few cars in the town. Apart from the buses, there were only a few vans picking up passengers.
The market is very large and usually many children come here to play, some throwing sandbags, some playing hopscotch, some skipping rope, and some playing badminton. It is not uncommon to see parents here too.
Ning Shaoming doesn't seem out of place here at all.
The two children played with skateboards for a while, and then other children came over and wanted to play too.
They gave their skateboards to others to play with, and then went to play other people's badminton. They also pulled Ning Shaoming to join them, saying that they wanted to have a competition, with three out of five games.
Ning Shaoming saw that the van parked on the roadside was almost full of passengers and would not return to town so soon after taking the passengers to the county town, so he agreed.
It's almost his turn to play.
He saw his sister-in-law Wang Haiyan passing by and greeted her.
Wang Haiyan didn't know what she was thinking. They were not far away from each other and Ning Shaoming's voice was loud, but she seemed to be immersed in her own world and couldn't extricate herself. She seemed to be unable to hear any sounds from the outside and had no reaction at all.
After Wang Haiyan left, some acquaintances joked with Ning Shaoming: "Did you offend your sister-in-law? You said hello to her, but she ignored you."
This acquaintance was farther away from Ning Shaoming just now. What he meant was that even he heard it, so it was impossible for Wang Haiyan not to have heard it.
Ning Shaoming really thought about whether he had offended his sister-in-law in some way recently.
But apart from the matter that his elder brother owed money and he was unwilling to help, Ning Shaoming couldn't think of anything else that had happened recently that would offend Wang Haiyan.
Regarding the matter of his eldest brother, because he was willing to let his nephew help out in his store, providing three meals and paying a salary, his eldest sister-in-law was afraid of offending him and Zhao Ruyue and causing Ning Shichun to lose his job. Even though she resented them for not paying directly, she did not dare to show it.
There must be something else.
"No, I'm busy with the store all day long. How can I have time to go back to the old house and offend people?" Ning Shaoming thought for a while and confirmed that there was nothing going on at home or in the old house recently. He could only say, "Maybe something happened at her mother's house."
This little episode passed quickly and Ning Shaoming didn't take it to heart.
When Zhao Ruyue came back in the evening, she kept Ning Danping at home for dinner and a bath before letting her go home.
There is no shower head in the old house. In the summer, when taking a shower, one usually squats under the faucet in the bathroom and rinses directly with cold water. If one wants to take a warm shower, one has to boil water by oneself, carry it to the bathroom, add cold water to it, and then use a cup to scoop water and splash it on one's body.
Obviously, these two methods are not suitable for Ning Danping, whose menstrual period has not yet completely ended.
After Ning Danping came home from taking a shower, Zhao Ruyue walked from the store to the yard and found that Ning Danping had washed all the clothes that their two children had taken off.
"This child is too polite." Zhao Ruyue was thinking that when she sees Ning Danping tomorrow, she will tell her that she doesn't need to help with the laundry.
Ning Danping had just returned home and ran to their house crying again.
Zhao Ruyue was shocked to see her crying like that, and thought that her private savings had been discovered and confiscated by Wang Haiyan.
When asked by the narrator, Ning Danping said no, "I don't know what's wrong with my mother. As soon as I got home, she scolded me for not coming home during the holidays. But she also agreed to my going to the county town today, and she scolded me again when I got home."
There were also some words involving her third uncle and aunt, and other even more unpleasant words, which Ning Danping was too embarrassed to say out loud.
"My mom told me not to go home, and I thought she was joking, but she was serious and put all my things in a bag and threw them out."
Ning Shaoming asked: "Where's your brother? Didn't he stop it?"
"My brother doesn't know about this yet. He met a friend on the way and went to his friend's house to play. He didn't go home with me."
While Ning Danping was speaking, Ning Shichun, who had just returned home, was also scolded. Ning Da and Huang Xiuhua came out to stop Wang Haiyan twice but failed to stop her. Even the old couple were scolded.
Wang Haiyan used to be very concerned about her reputation, but today she seemed to not care at all what her neighbors thought of her and she even cursed in front of them.
The scolding was so severe that even Huang Xiuhua, who rarely lost in a quarrel, couldn't withstand it.
Not long after, Ning Shichun also had a bitter face and took his luggage to seek refuge with his third uncle and aunt.
Ning Da and Huang Xiuhua went back to the house and closed the door, ignoring Wang Haiyan.
After listening to Ning Shichun's complaints, even though they had known each other for nearly twenty years, Zhao Ruyue and Ning Shaoming could not understand Wang Haiyan's sudden behavior this time.
Ning Shaoxian returned home at night and didn't see his son and daughter, so he didn't ask any questions. Wang Haiyan didn't talk to him, but he didn't care.
Ever since she found out that he was in debt, this woman has never given him a good look. Cursing the heavens and the earth is her normal behavior. Ning Shaoxian doesn't want to be scolded himself.
As long as she was at home doing laundry, cooking and housework, he would pretend not to hear anything.
Ning Shaoxian walked to the kitchen with unsteady steps, ate something simple, threw the bowl away and lay down on the bed.
Wang Haiyan peeked inside through the window and saw what looked like a skinny mantis lying on the bed.
Ning Shaoming hadn't seen Ning Shaoxian since he left the old house that day. If he saw him at this time, he would definitely be frightened by his appearance.
Afraid of being discovered while peeping, Wang Haiyan only took a quick look and quickly left the window and went to sleep in her daughter's room.
She slept in her daughter's room this week, and Ning Shaoxian got used to it. He didn't care if she didn't come back to her room at night.
It was dark, and everyone in the town went to bed early. Every household turned off the lights, and the streets fell into silence. The chirping of insects and croaking of frogs in the summer nights were particularly noticeable.
With a creak, the door of the room was opened.
In another dark room, Wang Haiyan heard the sound and quickly stood up, squatted carefully, and then leaned on the door to listen to the noise outside.
The moon outside was very round and bright, shining through the patio. Wang Haiyan could vaguely see the situation outside through the gap under the wooden door.
She saw Ning Shaoxian leave in a hurry, forgetting to close the door of the room and the main door.
I gritted my teeth and decided to follow him quietly to see if he was doing anything shameful outside since he always went out in the middle of the night.
Wang Haiyan also knew that the wooden door at home would make noises when opened and closed, so she left the window open and climbed out through it.
She followed Ning Shaoxian all the way to the land temple where few people usually came.
Ning Shaoxian went into the land temple and took out a pack of matches and a pack of something she couldn't understand.
He carefully opened the package, poured a little bit of the stuff out onto another piece of paper, rolled the paper into a roll, lit it with a match, and inhaled it with an intoxicated look on his face.
Someone would come to the town to show movies every once in a while. Before the movies, they would play some anti-drug films, and someone would also preach anti-drug knowledge.
Seeing this, Wang Haiyan had no idea what Ning Shaoxian was doing!
She was furious today and drove all her children away because she found out that Ning Shaoxian always sneaked out in the middle of the night. She thought he was in debt and yet he dared to have an affair. She wanted to catch him in the act tonight, but she was worried that the children would find out and it would have a bad impact.
I didn't expect that what this bastard did was worse than having an affair!
Wang Haiyan even began to doubt whether Ning Shaoxian’s so-called debt was real.
She was so scared that she was shaking all over. She covered her mouth and felt like she was bitten by several mosquitoes. She dared not move, for fear that she would scream if she moved.
Anti-drug films have all said that drug addicts are likely to lose their humanity and become ungrateful to their relatives.
If she were discovered, the consequences would be more tragic than she could imagine.
Wang Haiyan squatted in that corner until Ning Shaoxian had left for a long time. Only then did she dare to move her stiff body and crawl away from the spot.
When I got home and lay back on my daughter's bed, my heart, pounding wildly, couldn't calm down at all.
Countless thoughts flashed through her mind and she didn't sleep a wink all night.
Wang Haiyan got up as soon as it was a little light.
She simply tidied herself up, took a look at her and Ning Shaoxian's room, and walked out without hesitation.
Ning Shaoxian has been very lazy recently. He used to go to the fields to do some farm work, but recently he has been slow even in eating. No matter how Wang Haiyan scolds him, it's useless.
As soon as Wang Haiyan walked out of the house, she walked straight towards the town government.
The town government compound not only houses the offices of township leaders, but also the police station and fire department. These units do not have separate places in the town.
Halfway through the walk, she met a neighbor who greeted her, but she was lost in thought and didn't notice.
That neighbor was different from Ning Shaoming. Even though she didn't get a response, she was still very persistent. She pulled Wang Haiyan and greeted her again, and insisted on chatting with her for a few more words.
Wang Haiyan was brought out of her thoughts only when someone pulled her back, and she gathered her spirits to deal with the person.
After the conversation, the neighbor finally left. Wang Haiyan stood there and shuddered, suddenly realizing that it was not okay for her to go to the town government like this.
What if people knew that she was the one who reported her husband, how would others look at her in the future?
Will her in-laws and children blame her?
Wang Haiyan didn't dare to gamble. Her parents-in-law blamed her, but she didn't care much because they had separated the family business anyway.
But she was afraid that her children would blame her and there would be no one to take care of her in her old age.
Seeing that her two children have grown up and will soon be able to earn money for the family, she doesn’t want to lose everything as her good days are still ahead.
Wang Haiyan thought about it and immediately turned around and went home. When she met acquaintances on the way, she took the initiative to say hello.
Someone saw her going towards the market and coming back, so they asked her, "Why are you back again?"
Wang Haiyan was hoping that more people would ask her questions, so she answered loudly, "I just woke up and was still groggy when I went out. I even forgot to bring money. Now I have to go home quickly to get money, otherwise the meat will be taken away by others."
"It's not a festival, why do we need to buy meat?" Usually the locals would wait for the pork sellers to push their carts and go from street to street selling their meat, and then buy some for themselves. They would go to the market only if they wanted to buy a lot of meat.
"I heard someone introduced a girl to my brother. I have to go back to my parents' home to ask about the situation. I can't go back empty-handed."
"Oh, your brother is already in his twenties, isn't he? He's not married yet?"
Wang Haiyan: "The girl the matchmaker introduced this time is very good, it should be soon."
"Then go quickly, don't delay."
Similar conversations were repeated several times along the way. When Wang Haiyan arrived home, everyone on the street knew that she was going back to her parents' home.
Wang Haiyan went home to get the money, went to her sister-in-law's pork stall at the market, bought a few pounds of good meat, and went back to her parents' home.
Then I left my mother's house, quietly ran to the highway service area, and waited for the bus going to the city passing through the county town.
After getting off the bus in the county town, Wang Haiyan didn't care about the money and found a tricycle to pick up passengers and went straight to the nearest police station.
As soon as she entered, she grabbed a female police officer who looked easy to talk to and pulled her aside, scaring people so much that they thought she was going to attack the police.
Fortunately, I heard her trembling voice whispering, "Comrade! Comrade, I want to report it! I want to report my husband for taking drugs! You guys go and arrest him quickly, or my family will be destroyed by that bastard!"
A few days later.
Zhao Ruyue heard the sirens in the town again. She was wondering, it wasn’t a festival, was someone gambling again?
After a while, Zhao Silian ran into the store with sweat on her forehead and said to her breathlessly: "Aunt Ruyue, Xiaoqiu and Xiaoxia's uncle has been arrested by the police!"
"Ah?" Zhao Ruyue was unable to digest what she said for a moment.
"Really, I saw it with my own eyes!"
Zhao Silian thought she didn’t believe it, and began to describe in detail what she saw: “When the police car came, it was quiet, without making any sound, and it went around to the back door of my house and stopped.
Then several policemen got out of the car, entered from the back door of my house and went out from the front door. My dad was scared to death and thought they were there to arrest him.
What a pity that he was not captured together.
After the police left the front door of my house, they split into two teams. One team went around to the back door of Xiaoqiu's uncle's house and guarded it, while the other team rushed in through the front door and quickly arrested Xiaoqiu's uncle and took him away!
When I arrived, Xiaoqiu's aunt was sitting at the door crying. By the way, his grandparents asked me to come and tell you to go to the old house as soon as possible. ”
At the same time, Ning Shaode in the county town also received a call from home.
On the phone, his mother cried and said, "Your elder brother is in trouble, please come back quickly, remember to come back immediately!"
When Ning Shaode heard his mother mention his eldest brother, he couldn't help but think of the three thousand yuan she had borrowed for his eldest brother.
He replied impatiently: "Got it."
Then he hung up the phone directly, but did not ask for leave to go home immediately.
Instead, he finished his physical education class step by step, and then took his time to ask for leave for the next day.
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