Chapter 15 I Still Don't Believe Her
Han Jianwu went home and said nothing, and gave all the money and bills to Huo Qingqing.
Huo Qingqing nodded. "Not a penny less. How did you get the money back so quickly?"
Han Jianwu said, "They were ready. They gave it to me as soon as I got there. I burned the IOU and came back."
Huo Qingqing, "Is it that simple?"
Han Jianwu raised his eyebrows, "What else do you want?"
Huo Qingqing began to plan how to use the money and tickets. She gave Han Jianwu twenty yuan and a few tickets and said, "These are for you. Buy a few boxes of better cigarettes. Don't smoke dry tobacco and low-quality cigarettes in the future. They are bad for your health." His job requires concentration, and he basically relies on smoking to stay awake when driving his car.
Han Jianwu doesn't smoke at home. After Huo Qingqing said this, he lowered his head and smelled himself, "Do I smell like cigarettes?"
Huo Qingqing said seriously, "Yes, it's very big." Actually, it's not that bad.
Han Jianwu said, "I want to find a way to quit smoking. Tobacco has no difference between good tobacco, bad tobacco, and dry tobacco. All tobacco has a smell."
Huo Qingqing, "If you don't smoke, what will you do if you get sleepy while driving? How about we buy some tea leaves, and you can make a big cup of tea to drink every day?"
Han Jianwu sneered and said, "I smoke and drink tea every day." What can I say after hearing his sneer? I feel helpless, lost and angry.
Sure enough, there were other reasons why Huo Qingqing suddenly didn't go back to the city. She said he believed her because her child was young, but her choice to stay really had nothing to do with him. They lived under the same roof, except that they didn't sleep in the same bed, and they ate, drank, defecated, urinated, and slept together. How could she not know that he drank tea?
Huo Qingqing was stunned for a few seconds and said, "But there is no tea at home, and I didn't see you making tea!"
Han Jianwu said, "The breeder made a big pot of tea every day, and I drank it for free."
Huo Qingqing understood the emotions in Han Jianwu's tone and eyes. She said, "No wonder. Don't drink the strong tea made by that old man in the future. I'll go to the agency store to buy some good tea."
Han Jianwu said, "Why are you in such a hurry? I'm going to the commune to get fertilizer tomorrow, and I'll buy some at the supply and marketing cooperative. There's a lot of tea there, and I can buy cheap and delicious tea."
Huo Qingqing, "Really? Then take some meat coupons and buy two kilograms of meat."
The money and tickets Han Jianwu has now were all advanced payments from the production team. The few kilograms of food tickets he received when the family was divided could only be used to buy food, and he had no money left. Although the family has been divided now, the production team will only distribute the money according to work points at the end of the year.
Han Jianwu said, "Why don't we buy meat yet? Isn't your mother coming? We can buy meat later."
Huo Qingqing waved her hand and said, "No need, just buy what you need. I'll buy it when my mother comes." She married Han Jianwu less than a year after she went to the countryside. Before that, the Han family had a big pot and a big stove, but Huo Qingqing would not spend money on them. She would eat whatever they ate. She would secretly buy some canned food, biscuits, milk powder and other things and hide them in her room. She would eat them alone when no one was around. When she had a child, she would give them to the three of them. She would never give them to Han Jianwu anyway.
It was a rainy day and most of the educated youth were on vacation. Lin Anan and Song Xiaoyue came to visit Huo Qingqing, and only then did Huo Qingqing learn that Zhang Guohua had been transferred to the commune's farm. The commune had several large farms with many educated youth. The conditions there were much better than those of the educated youth in the brigades and production teams. However, those were the ones who had entered the farms in large numbers when they first went to the countryside. Very few were transferred there from other brigades.
Huo Qingqing frowned, "How did he do it?"
Lin Anan said, "I don't know the details, but he was transferred there through the formal procedures. That bitch Gao Yunxia was so happy that she made it seem like Zhang Guohua was going to work as a cadre in the commune."
Song Xiaoyue said, "Forget about her! She will have nothing to do with the farm after Zhang Guohua goes to the commune. Let's wait and see if you don't believe me!" That man is very cunning and can even bring a dead person back to life with his mouth. He must have given gifts to the leaders of the Youth Educated Students Management Office of the commune, otherwise, how could he have been transferred there so smoothly?
Lin Anan smiled and said, "I heard that most of the girls on the farm are from several key high schools in Xijing City, and many of them come from wealthy families."
Huo Qingqing said, "There aren't many girls who come from good families and are stupid."
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"What are your plans?" Huo Qingqing asked.
Lin Anan shook her head. "It's just a matter of doing one's job. I don't have any other ideas. Thinking too much will give me a headache. Let's just take it one step at a time!"
Song Xiaoyue, "I wrote a letter to my family, asking if they can give me a chance to join the army at the end of the year. I want to join the army. It's a waste of life to stay here. I have no problem joining the army and enduring the hardships."
Lin Anan, "Then why do you say that the countryside is useless? It can even make you go to the army to endure hardships!"
Song Xiaoyue, "Okay, okay, the countryside is great, it's so great, why don't you just find a man to marry here, and you can keep Qingqing company."
Lin Anan, "If you can't speak, just say less." She was talking about something that was not relevant.
Huo Qingqing smiled and said, "It doesn't matter! In fact, there's nothing wrong with marrying a rural man. Look at me, I'm pretty good, and I don't have to work in the fields."
Lin Anan, "That's because you married Han Jianwu. Try marrying another man and see if you can live like this."
Huo Qingqing, "That's right."
Lin Anan and Song Xiaoyue sat for a while and were about to leave, saying that several people from the educated youth site would be returning to the city for job recruitment recently, and they had to go back to attend their farewell ceremony, so they asked Huo Qingqing if she wanted to go.
Huo Qingqing said, "I won't go. I can't go anywhere with my family. Take me and the others back to the city and say take care. By the way, you two can also look at the high school textbooks when you have time. The policies are changing now, so if the college entrance examination is resumed one day, you can be prepared."
Lin Anan said, "You said so too? Liang Jianjun's father came to see him a few days ago and brought him a lot of high school textbooks for him to read, also saying that he would not be in a rush if the college entrance examination was resumed one day. Do you think the college entrance examination will be resumed?"
Song Xiaoyue, "Who can say that?"
Huo Qingqing, "I definitely will."
"Why are you so sure?"
Huo Qingqing, "This year's situation shows something! If the country wants to develop, it must select talents through the college entrance examination!"
"That's true. Okay, we'll write a letter and ask our family to send us our high school textbooks. What if the college entrance examination is really resumed?"
"Even if the college entrance examination is not resumed, reading more books will be useful."
Song Xiaoyue, "Qingqing, if the college entrance examination is resumed, will you take it?"
Huo Qingqing, "Of course." She not only wanted to take the exam, but also wanted to apply to the best medical university in the provincial capital.
"What about that baby and Han Jianwu?"
"We'll talk about it later! After all, there's still no sign of it right now!"
Huo Qingqing took the two children to send Lin Anan and Song Xiaoyue off. As soon as she arrived at the front yard, she heard a commotion in Beiwuli. She asked her third sister-in-law and found out that Han's mother fainted because her eldest sister-in-law's son's girlfriend failed again.
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