Chapter 32 Father Doesn't Allow
The four members of the Lin family said goodbye after dinner.
Father Lin even asked Lin Yi to take the tricycle away, saying that he would ride it back and return it to Old Wei.
Fang Mingche thought that this was an attempt to cut off his way to set up a tea stall.
He must be setting up a tricycle stall now. The car is both a means of transportation and a stall.
Fortunately, he had asked Ah Yan about his father-in-law's attitude towards their stall in the morning, and gave up the idea of renting a car from the Wei family.
In the afternoon, he successfully bought tickets at the black market.
Don't say it, BJ is different from small places. The black market where my cousin worked didn't have such a rich variety of tickets.
Common ones such as food stamps and stamps are not difficult to find.
Tickets for tricycles are not easy to exchange. The tickets for cars must be bicycle tickets.
Yanyan was surprised as she waved goodbye to her grandma, grandpa and uncle. "Dad, why is mom gone too?"
Fang Mingche said, "Mom is your mother during the day, and she goes back to be your daughter to grandma and grandpa at night."
Yanyan was still confused, but she didn't ask any more questions when her father carried her to the kitchen.
Fang Mingche put her on a clean chopping board with her back against the wall. In this way, her short legs were all on the chopping board, with only her feet hanging in the air.
"Don't move, be careful not to fall. Otherwise, I'll put you on the ground?"
"I won't move." Yanyan promised quickly. She could see clearly what her father was doing from a higher place.
Fang Mingche knew that she would not say one thing and do another, so he started to boil hot water to wash the dishes and pots.
Her father-in-law didn't even want Ayan to stay to help, which was a complete retreat to the position of being a guest.
After cleaning up, he wiped his hands and touched the water in the tin pot.
It's hot!
"Okay, brush your teeth, wash your face, and then soak your feet."
After placing his daughter on a small stool to soak her feet, Fang Mingche filled the salt water bottle for her.
It would be warm to sleep like this.
Lin Yan rode her bicycle to take her mother home. Lin Yi drove his father to the doorstep and returned the tricycle to the Wei family.
When leaving, Fang Mingche asked him to bring a bag of rock sugar to the Wei family as a thank you gift for spending the day.
Lin Yan said, "Remember to give the rock sugar to Aunt Wei."
Otherwise, this kid might steal it from her.
Lin Yi said, "I know."
Father Lin said to Lin Yan, "Come in with me."
Lin Yan followed him in, and he said directly, "I don't agree with you setting up a stall in the square. Either take over my job, or wait for the street office to arrange a job for you. In the end, this matter must be implemented by the street office, and they can't avoid it."
The slight delay now is just to let those who have connections solve the problem first.
Lin Yan said, "Dad, I know you are thinking about me. But we can't just share the good times and not the bad times."
"I can't set up a stall!"
"Dad, you said you would let us remarry after Mingche gets admitted to university. But what if he gets admitted and I don't? His academic qualifications are higher than mine."
Father Lin said, "Didn't he fail the first two times?"
"He was just perfunctory before. I guess he probably knew that I couldn't get into a better school in BJ. After all, I went to the countryside after junior high school and haven't touched a book for seven years."
Father Lin said, "Isn't your love stronger than gold? What are you afraid of?"
"He didn't meet many women before. Besides, girls in the countryside are not allowed to go to school. They just study for one or two years and learn a few words. It's okay as long as they don't act blind. At that time, it was rare to see girls who graduated from junior high school around him. But now he has come to BJ. If he gets into college in the future, he will have the opportunity to meet female college students. If I wait for him to get into college and then pick fruits, the fruits may not still be mine."
Lin's mother said, "Don't we still have Yanyan?"
"I abandoned my husband and daughter in order to return to the city. It's reasonable for him to not remarry me after he gets into college."
After much persuasion, Lin's father still said, "You should also prepare for the college entrance examination. Your mother will retire soon, and you won't have to do housework in the future. If the street office doesn't arrange a job for you, just focus on reviewing. But you must not set up a stall! We would rather not take advantage of his admission to college than let you follow him to set up a tea stall." If he
is always thinking about making money, how can he study well?
Since the money has been prepared, he should focus on reviewing.
Fang Mingche soaked his daughter's feet in the new home, then carried her to the bed and took off her coat and pants.
"Daddy will go get some water, you just lie down in bed and don't move. If you get hot, you'll run away!"
"Oh."
Fang Mingche came back with the water. He took the college entrance examination papers from the previous two years from the desk and sat on the bed to read through them.
He sat sideways, just blocking the light. It would not affect Yanyan's sleep.
There was a hot saline bottle wrapped in a pillowcase under Yanyan's feet, and she fell asleep behind her father with a sense of security.
After Fang Mingche watched for more than an hour, he felt sleepy.
He turned on the light directly on the bed, and then fell asleep with his already warm daughter in his arms.
The next morning, Yanyan woke up and pushed her father, "Pee--"
Fang Mingche quickly got up and put on his military coat. He wrapped his daughter in a thick cotton jacket and let her solve it in the wooden toilet.
There is no way, nowadays there is no toilet in the bungalows. If you want to go to the toilet, you have to go to the public toilet. Not
to mention residential houses, the Forbidden City didn't have toilets before, and they all relied on toilets. It was only after the reconstruction that there were toilets.
This is really worse than the countryside!
In order to collect farm manure, every household in the countryside has its own toilet.
Just to flush the toilet less, he had to work harder so that he could buy a building in the future.
The building was built later and had a toilet in the first place.
As for buying a courtyard house while the price was low, that was not within his current ability.
People in later generations said that courtyard houses cost 10,000 yuan each, but they were all far away from the city.
It was impossible to buy a courtyard house here, two kilometers away from Tiananmen Square.
Let's set a small goal first: buy a building first.
Then talk about the courtyard house.
After finishing all the morning affairs, Fang Mingche washed his hands and steamed eggs for his daughter.
Yanyan said, "Meat." She saw her father making crispy whistles yesterday.
Fang Mingche said, "You are quite good at eating."
He took out the crispy whistles that he made yesterday from the cupboard and scooped a little on the steamed eggs.
The white fat melted as soon as it was put on.
He made crispy whistles by putting the white fat separately. There was only a little fat in the bowl for the crispy whistles.
Yanyan took a small spoon by herself and sat aside to eat the steamed eggs.
Watching her father boil water and cook noodles.
"Do you want some noodles?"
"Yes!"
Fang Mingche picked some more green leaves, washed them and threw them into the pot.
This was quite a luxury in the middle of winter. The green vegetables shipped from other places were very expensive.
But he didn't want to let his mouth suffer.
By the time he picked up the noodles, Yanyan had finished a small bowl of steamed egg.
She was not naughty at all when eating, and was very active.
Fang Mingche washed the mini porcelain bowl for her, picked some noodles, crispy noodles and vegetables and gave them to her, and shared some of the noodle soup with her.
"Eat this with a fork."
He saw small bowls, chopsticks, forks and spoons on the black market yesterday. He and Ayan thought they were cute, so they bought a whole set for their daughter.
Fang Mingche put some chili peppers in the bowl and mixed them well, then he started to eat.
After eating and washing the bowls and chopsticks, he looked outside.
"Your mother hasn't shown up yet, probably because your grandpa has locked her up.
Dear readers, if you feel that Chapter 31 is a lot of repetition, you can go back and read Chapter 30. Sorry, I changed it on the Codeword app and forgot to copy and paste it here.
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