Chapter 35
Wang Mengmei was so surprised that she almost couldn't stop talking.
"She had a baby?"
Is Sun Yan crazy?
Jian Feng: "To be exact, the child was not adopted. Sun Yan said that she and Xu Jianguo had the child. Isn't this family planning? They kept the child in their hometown. The child is just over two years old."
Wang Mengmei's mouth was so full of surprise that a tea leaf egg could fit in it: "She, she, she, she..."
How dare she!
Jian Feng looked exhausted. "It was said that in 1993, Taocheng was given a yellow card for family planning. The inspection was particularly strict that year. Sun Yan ran away to the countryside to hide and gave birth to her second child. She didn't dare to bring the child to the city, so she kept the child in her hometown and registered him under the household registration of Xu Jianguo's brother."
The policy in Xu Jianguo's hometown is that if the first child is a daughter, you can have another one after five years.
Sun Yan then simply kept the child in Xu Jianguo's hometown, treating him as Xu Jianguo's brother's son, thinking that she would bring the child to the city after a few years when the policy was relaxed.
Wang Mengmei couldn't understand: "What does she want to do now? The factory street is still in charge!"
Family planning slogans are all over the streets. It is a little more relaxed than in 1993, but it is not foolproof.
Jian Feng: "She said Xu Yanan was not a good student and was disobedient, so she wanted to raise her son from scratch."
Sun Yan's words were convincing, but Jian Feng felt that she didn't really care about Xu Yanan's grades. She only cared that she finally had an excuse to bring her beloved son out of the country.
Wang Mengmei stood up from her chair: "Having more children than allowed will result in a fine!"
If this kind of household registration trick is discovered, there will still be punishment.
The fine is a minor matter; the main thing is that you will lose your job!
Jian Feng: "That's what I just said."
Sun Yan already has no job. If Xu Jianguo loses his job too, will the whole family be left to starve?
But Sun Yan didn't care. When Jian Feng said that, she directly said that it was her family's business and Jian Feng had nothing to do with it.
Jian Feng came back angrily.
Wang Mengmei: "Xu Jianguo didn't say a word?"
This is his job.
Jian Feng didn't say anything, but Wang Mengmei understood that what he meant was that Xu Jianguo's words didn't count. Given his temper, he most likely didn't say anything.
Wang Mengmei lay down on the bed and could not help but say, "Today, Xiaoli specifically told me about Xu Yanan. She is just a classmate, but she still cares about her so much. What do you think Sun Yan is thinking? She is not satisfied with her daughter's efforts. She hurt her daughter's heart like this. Will she regret it in the future?"
They are both parents. No matter how Sun Yan talked about Xu Yanan in public over the years, everyone still thought she was just a strict mother and didn't expect to suddenly have a son.
What a huge blow this was to Xu Yanan!
And Xu Jianguo had no idea at all and just let his wife do whatever she said.
What's the point of making our lives such a mess?
Jian Li got the news the next day and was devastated.
Her head is full of the same thoughts as her mother.
What on earth does Sun Yan want?
This never happened at this time in my previous life.
Later, the factory went bankrupt, Xu Jianguo and Sun Yan sold their house and moved away, and lost contact with several of their childhood friends.
So Jian Li didn't know how Sun Yan later saved her little son, nor did she know what happened to Xu Yanan later.
But in this life, it was just a change in performance, and Xu Yanan's life took a turn here!
I don’t know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing.
Wang Mengmei was afraid that her daughter would not be able to accept it, so she gently advised her: "Xu Yanan's family situation is very complicated, so don't get involved."
If you bring a child back with you for no reason, the factory will definitely come to investigate.
In addition, Sun Yan kept saying that she wanted to raise her son, so he must stay in the city to go to school. To go to school, you need a household registration. It is unknown whether Sun Yan insisted on transferring the child's household registration to the city, or lied and said that the child was from her eldest brother's family.
In short, there is no peace during this period.
Jian Li thought for a moment and said, "Can I bring food to Xu Yanan?"
Wang Mengmei: "...Why do you still remember this?"
Jian Li scratched her head and said, "Xu Yanan still needs to recover from her illness."
Wang Mengmei didn't know what to say. After thinking for a while, she decided to ask Jian Feng to call Xu Jianguo out for dinner, and when he left, she brought him some side dishes and buns.
I just don’t know how many bites Xu Yanan can eat.
*****
As soon as the winter vacation arrived, the family yard was immediately occupied by the children.
After the snow began, the courtyard was filled with the sounds of children's laughter from morning till night.
Jian Li either stays in the restaurant or at Xia Liu's house every day.
Aunt Li Lijuan's house has heating.
Jian Li recalled that in her previous life, she and Xia Liu played well together when she was young, but later they gradually drifted apart. One of the big factors for this was that adolescents always feel inferior about the idea that "you have something that I don't."
Xia Liu's father was a technician in the factory, so he was assigned a good house. Although the area was similar to Jian Li's house, Xia Liu's house had a separate bathroom and heating.
Compared with our own, the factory said that the oldest buildings would be rebuilt, but in the end it was empty talk. Later, the next best thing was to provide heating to a few old buildings, but it didn't work either.
Even after Jian Li had finished college for several years, Wang Mengmei and Jian Feng were still living in an old tube-shaped building without heating.
By the time Jian Li finally bought her own house, her parents were already trapped in poverty.
When Wang Mengmei went to live with her in her previous life, the thing she said most often was that she couldn't get used to it.
Fast-paced life, neighbors who don't say hello to each other, and convenient homes.
Wang Mengmei and Jian Feng lived together for a while, but she could not stand Jian Li's lavish spending. In the end, they would always have a few quarrels, and then the two would go back with a lot of bags.
After returning home, he boasted to his neighbors that his daughter had bought a house in a big city, and then continued to live a tight life.
Poverty has imprisoned them in the family compound. Even when life gets better, they still can't leave.
Thinking of this, Jian Li always talked about how comfortable it was to have heating in Li Lijuan's house when she returned home.
"Mom, let's buy a house with heating when the time comes."
Wang Mengmei: “Of course.”
Most of her fond thoughts about the house came from her envy of Li Lijuan's family.
The man Li Lijuan married was well educated and had a nice house. Wang Mengmei was not jealous, but she often thought it would be nice if her family was the same as his.
There is a separate bathroom and a small bedroom for the couple, with heating...
The more Wang Mengmei thought about it, the more motivated she became.
She used to think it would take her at least three years to buy a house, but now that she has opened a small restaurant and with her husband's salary, Wang Mengmei feels that this time can be shortened.
…
In the blink of an eye, it's Xiaonian.
The New Year atmosphere is getting stronger at this time, and many people in the family compound have begun to prepare New Year goods. The vegetable market is crowded from morning to night.
Wang Mengmei's business is getting better.
Friends and relatives who are working outside have all come back at this time. If they want to get together, a small restaurant is the most convenient place.
Wang Liming also came back to celebrate the New Year.
The next day after Wang Liming came back, he came to see Jian Feng, carrying a box of salted fish and dried shrimps bought from the south.
"Brother Feng, let's get together tonight."
Wang Liming was wearing new clothes, and his hair was straightened with hair gel, giving him a Shanghai style. It was obvious that he was doing well in society, and his eyebrows and eyes were red.
Jian Feng really wanted to agree, but unfortunately, this was his busiest time at this job.
During the New Year holidays, whether it is a restaurant or a food stall, it is the peak sales period. The phone of the grain and oil store is full of orders from morning to night.
After delivering the goods, Jian Feng went to the factory to pick up more goods. He was so busy during this period that he fell asleep as soon as he got home.
"Can I wait two days?"
Jian Feng still has four days left before his holiday, from the 27th of Lunar New Year to the 5th of Lunar New Year.
The owner of the grain and oil store was from Zhejiang. On the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month, the family had a holiday. He drove the store's car and took his wife and children back to his hometown to celebrate the New Year.
Wang Liming said cheerfully: "Why not?"
He left after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, so he had free time during this period.
The two chatted for a few words, and Jian Feng was in a hurry to go to work, so he left in a hurry.
Seeing that Jian Feng was busy, Wang Liming called Liu Xiangdong, Xu Jianguo and Zhao Xiaopeng to have a drink together in the evening.
Zhao Xiaopeng: "Why don't we go to my sister-in-law's place?"
Liu Xiangdong had a stiff face and didn't say anything, and Xu Jianguo said it was okay.
Wang Liming smiled and grabbed the three of them: "Why are you going? My sister-in-law is very busy. Just eat at my house. I brought back some ham."
Wang Liming was no fool. He sensitively noticed that the relationship between his childhood friends was no longer the same as before. Besides, it would be embarrassing if he went to Wang Mengmei's place and she didn't charge him for his sake.
Leaving the three of them at home, Xue Fang cooked a few dishes in the evening, heated up some wine, ate a few bites, and then took her daughter back into the house.
Zhao Xiaopeng was very enthusiastic and kept asking Wang Liming how things were going in the south and whether he was making money working on the construction site.
Wang Liming has been a man of many talents since he was young. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "It must be better there than here."
The real estate industry in the south started fast, especially in Shenzhen and Shanghai. Wang Liming saw many houses in Shenzhen being sold for hundreds of thousands of yuan on the construction site, and he told his childhood friends about this news, hinting at the huge potential of the real estate industry.
Wang Liming: "I want to save some money and buy a house when I have money."
Zhao Xiaopeng was a little drunk, his eyes were a little dazed: "Isn't it enough to have a house to live in? I think cars are worth spending money on."
Zhao Xiaopeng has a cousin who works in car repair. Zhao Xiaopeng has been eager to do the same thing with his cousin.
Wang Liming didn't argue with the drunkard and agreed, "That's right."
There are more and more cars now, and it is indeed a way to make money.
Xu Jianguo remained silent throughout the whole process and just sat there eating peanuts.
Liu Xiangdong drank one glass of wine after another, and soon, maybe he was drunk, his eyes suddenly turned red and he started to act crazy.
In both his words, Jian Feng felt sorry for him.
Zhao Xiaopeng gave him a few words of advice, but Liu Xiangdong was so angry that he wanted to throw the cup.
"We've been brothers for so many years, and you stand with him instead of me!"
"I knew it, you all despise me! Seeing Jian Feng making money, you all go after him."
Zhao Xiaopeng looked unhappy: "If you are drunk, go back to sleep."
Liu Xiangdong's eyes widened and he reached out to throw something.
Wang Liming quickly stopped him and said, "Brother Dong, Brother Dong, my daughter is sleeping in the room."
Liu Xiangdong finally calmed down, and he fell asleep with his arms buried in his chest. Xu Jianguo next door got drunk again and started crying.
Wang Liming was overwhelmed and went to persuade Xu Jianguo again.
Xu Jianguo didn't say anything, he just kept drinking glass after glass until he passed out.
Zhao Xiaopeng impatiently asked Wang Liming to sit down: "Don't bother with him."
Xu Jianguo was about to lose his job, so he was unhappy.
After Wang Liming came back, he heard about Xu Jianguo's second child, but when he heard that Xu Jianguo was going to lose his job, he was stunned.
"Why am I going to lose my job?"
Zhao Xiaopeng took a bite of peanuts and said, "His wife insisted on registering the child. Originally, the factory was willing to let her off the hook, as long as they taught the child at home, and it didn't matter whether they called them mom or dad."
But Sun Yan didn't agree.
Sun Yan was determined to claim the man back and would persist in doing so no matter who tried to persuade her.
Anyway, her son had already been born, and the factory could not force her to have an abortion. Sun Yan was determined to make her son call her mother.
In this case, the factory can only follow the regulations.
The Family Planning Commission fined him and the factory fired Xu Jianguo.
Wang Liming frowned: "What's the point of this?"
Being fired is no better than buying out your seniority. You don’t even have the money to buy back your seniority, which means that everything you’ve earned in the cotton textile factory over the years is gone.
Zhao Xiaopeng looked down on Xu Jianguo. Among his five childhood friends, only Xu Jianguo was so cowardly that it made people feel annoyed just to see him.
The big bosses let the women control them and dare not say a word. They just work like an old ox. What a use!
Even now that things have come to this, I still only dare to cry in front of my brothers.
It's still the same after crying.
Wang Liming sighed: "How could it be like this?"
It's been a year since he left, but the people around him have changed so much.
Zhao Xiaopeng chuckled: "You haven't had dinner with Brother Feng yet, Brother Feng has changed a lot."
Zhao Xiaopeng is sour and sour.
"Brother Feng and his wife may be tired now. Have you visited my sister-in-law's restaurant? It is always full from morning till night. Brother Feng is busy driving a car to deliver goods for others, and he is so busy that he doesn't even have time to drink with his brothers."
Zhao Xiaopeng calculated in his mind that the couple could earn at least two to three thousand yuan a month.
What bad luck they had!
Don’t be fooled by the way Liu Xiangdong pointed at Jian Feng and scolded him just now, in fact, Zhao Xiaopeng was looking at Liu Xiangdong seriously.
Liu Xiangdong saw that Jian Feng and his wife were getting together, so he wanted to break the ice with Jian Feng.
But he felt that Jian Feng had let him down, and wanted Jian Feng to lower his head. Just when Wang Liming came back for the New Year, he deliberately brought up this matter, letting Wang Liming act as a middleman.
Zhao Xiaopeng glanced at Wang Liming and thought that Liu Xiangdong was also a brainless person.
After all these years, he still couldn't realize that Wang Liming was actually the smartest one among the five.
He bet a hundred dollars that Wang Liming would never take his advice.
Sure enough, Wang Liming and he sent Liu Xiangdong and Xu Jianguo home separately in the end, but he never mentioned the idea of having dinner with Jian Feng during the Chinese New Year.
After Wang Liming sent the guests away, he cleared away everything on the table when he got home and opened the window to get rid of the smell.
Then I packed my clothes, took the tag and quietly went to the bathhouse. Only when I got to the bathhouse did I see the tag hanging on the door.
【Opening hours: 10 am to 6 pm. 】
There was no choice but to take the clothes back.
Xue Fang took a short nap in the house and when she woke up she ran into Wang Liming who had just returned from outside.
"…What have you been doing?"
Wang Liming: "I want to take a bath. Why is the bathhouse closed?"
Xue Fang said with a smile: "I forgot to tell you that the bathhouse is only open for eight hours a year. But even if it is open, you should not go there. The water is not hot. You will catch a cold after taking a bath."
Wang Liming was convinced: "It's the middle of July, and the bathhouse is still closed at night."
Xue Fang boiled two pots of water for him and said, "Stay indoors for now, and go to a bathhouse outside tomorrow to take a bath."
Wang Liming wiped her body and washed her hair with hot water, while Xue Fang poured water for her from a kettle.
Wang Liming told him what happened when they were drinking just now.
Xue Fang: "Don't go tell Brother Feng."
Wang Liming spat out a mouthful of water: "Am I such a fool?"
Liu Xiangdong treated him as a bridge, but he was unwilling.
Last night, after he and his wife finished what they were supposed to do, they chatted the whole night.
Xue Fang told Liu Xiangdong everything he had done since the old lady was diagnosed with the disease.
Wang Liming: "I'll be free in a few days, so I'll go and bury the old lady."
When the old lady was alive, she treated all of them as her own sons.
Wang Liming sighed: "Good people don't live long."
How could such a nice old lady just leave like that? He didn't even see her once.
Xue Fang: "It's time to go check it out. I'll prepare something for you."
Wang Liming: "Don't worry, I'll go back to your parents' home with you tomorrow."
He had been away for a whole year, and Xue Fang had to take care of the children at home, and she needed help from her parents. It was reasonable for her to go to her mother-in-law's house to show her appreciation.
Xue Fang: "Didn't you say you wanted to ask Brother Feng if they would go with you after the New Year?"
Yes, Wang Liming came back mentally prepared and wanted to help the kids.
He did well there this year, and if he went back after the Chinese New Year, he could earn at least 4,000 to 5,000 yuan a month. Although he spent more in the south, the money he saved was still unimaginable for people back home.
Wang Liming originally planned to ask Jian Feng if he was willing to go. Among his childhood friends, Jian Feng was the most practical and steady.
But now seeing that Jian Feng's family seemed to be living well, Wang Liming knew that he didn't need to ask for it.
Compared with the other childhood friends, Wang Liming was a little hesitant.
"I'll ask Jianguo later."
Among these people, Xu Jianguo really has no ideas, but he has one good point: he does things without wasting energy.
In addition, Xu Jianguo has lost his job now, so Wang Liming feels that he can also open his mouth.
Xue Fang pursed her lips into a line and said, "You said yes, but don't worry about him. He's not the boss."
Wang Liming rubbed his face: "I know."
*****
During the Ramadan month, the happiest people are the children.
The streets were full of children, buying firecrackers, food and drinks, and some of them were generous enough to buy pistols and dolls.
Jian Li started answering the phone on the 20th of February.
The person who called was none other than Wang Shuai.
Wang Shuai called every day, urging Jian Li to go back.
"Sister, we agreed to do business! I got 89 points in math on the final exam this year!"
Wang Shuai finally has three fewer red lanterns this semester.
He learned mathematics on his own initiative, but his sister Wang Yunyun forced him to learn Chinese.
I also passed the science exam, which was beyond the expectations of my whole family.
Wang Shuai kept chattering on the phone: "Shitou and the others kept asking me if they could buy this or sell that. I didn't understand, so I asked people, including my mom and dad, and the final exam actually had biology-related questions!"
Knowledge entered my mind in a despicable way.jpg
It was such an accident that he actually lost a red lantern.
Because he only failed three other subjects in this year's final exam, Wang Shuai had a rare good year.
Not only was he not beaten, he was also free.
His parents don't care so much, Wang Shuai is eagerly waiting for Jian Li to come back and take him to make money.
Jian Li sneezed, happily indicating that what she said was no longer valid.
"My parents are busy, I can't go back."
The main reason is that she is rich now and doesn't care about the little money she can make as a middleman.
Wang Shuai was shocked and accused Jian Li of "breaking her promise" on the phone.
"Ahhh you lied to me again!"
Jian Li covered the receiver and said quickly into the phone: "If I don't go back, you won't be able to do it yourself!"
"It's almost the New Year, you won't buy things from the city and resell them in the countryside! Toys, firecrackers, bubble gum. Go to the city and find a wholesale place, buy a little of everything, and then go from village to village to sell them, go and collect them!"
"Or you can ask your sister to open a stall to write couplets, or you can make some food at home and sell it at the market."
"You do it yourself, and you don't have to share it with others!"
Wang Shuai immediately had an idea.
Jian Li shuddered after hanging up the phone.
She really doesn't want to go out in this weather. Is there anything happier than staying in bed? Nothing!
It was not until the 27th of December that Jian Feng had his day off. He could not bear to see Jian Li staying in bed all the time, so he dug out his concubine.
"Come on, your mom is busy, let's go buy New Year's goods!"
In a corner of the room was a pile of New Year goods given by his boss. The grain and oil shop had mostly rice, flour, grain and oil. Although Jian Feng was told not to receive any holiday allowance, the boss still generously gave Jian Feng more than ten kilograms of dried mushrooms, dried shiitake mushrooms, dried vermicelli, black fungus and kelp.
First of all, you don’t need to buy dry goods this year.
There is no need to buy groceries. Wang Mengmei runs a restaurant and she can just set aside some food in the last two days, which is enough for the family of three to eat until after the New Year.
What I want to buy are couplets, window decorations, lanterns, and melon seeds and candies...
Jian Li wrapped herself up like a little bear and sat in the back seat of Jian Feng's car.
He held a candied haws in his hand, and then asked Jian Feng to pay for whatever he liked.
I bought about ten pounds of melon seeds and a few different kinds of candies.
This was the first time Jian Feng spent money so generously.
Jian Li pointed at the shrimp vendor at the market and said, "Dad, I want to eat shrimp!"
Seven or eight bucks per pound, more expensive than meat, but Jian Feng still bought five pounds.
After shopping and putting the things back home, Jian Feng took his daughter to the department store.
"Dad, what are you buying here?"
Jian Feng touched her head and said, "Buy a color TV."
This saves my daughter from having to watch black and white TV at home.
Jian Li was excited: "Can I buy a plasma TV?"
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