"Hello, Comrade Wang Shuning, I am the person you are meeting today. My name is Chang Zhen." While speaking, Chang Zhen stretched out his hand to motion Wang Shuning to sit opposite him.
Wang Shuning pulled away the bench and sat down, and couldn't help asking, "How did you recognize me?"
Chang Zhen smiled and explained, "Aunt Hai showed my mother your photo when she introduced you to me. I was there at the time."
Wang Shuning nodded awkwardly. She didn't see the man's photo, but the man saw hers instead. This showed how eager Song's mother was to marry her off.
Judging from the way he just stood up, his height is close to 1.8 meters but not quite, and he looks neither ugly nor handsome, just normal.
The clothes look new, and the hair is swept to the left and right and looks very loose. It must have been combed many times in advance, which shows that the other party attaches great importance to this blind date.
The fact that he could recognize himself at a glance meant that he had looked at the photo carefully and left an impression on him.
Chang Zhen looked at Wang Shuning and asked, "When Aunt Hai introduced you, she said that you still have four years before you can be transferred back. How much will you earn as a teacher on the island? When your mother retires and gives you the job after four years, how much will you earn?"
Wang Shuning's heart sank three centimeters, he looked up at the other person with a raised eyebrow, "The income is okay, barely enough to support myself."
Chang Zhen: "I heard that you get paid quite well as a teacher on the island. It's a bit chaotic there, so there should be some subsidies, right?"
Wang Shuning crossed his legs and said, "I spend a lot. I have at least eight new sets of clothes every year. I have to eat white rice with one meat, one vegetable and one soup. I can't be without biscuits, cakes and fruits. I basically spend all my salary."
Chang Zhen frowned, "Eight sets of clothes a year is a bit too much, isn't it? Eating meat every meal is bad for your health and will easily make you fat. Girls should eat more vegetarian food. If you can't save money, you can send your salary back to my mother every month."
Wang Shuning: "Clothes fade and wrinkle easily after being worn for too long, so you need to buy new ones. You need to eat a combination of meat and vegetables. If you are afraid of gaining weight, you can run and exercise regularly to lose weight. Have you been giving your salary to your mother for all these years?"
Chang Zhen nodded. "My mother doesn't work. She cooks and does housework at home. When we get married and have children, we can just let her take care of them. We just need to make money."
Wang Shuning had already silently given the other party a cross in his heart.
All wages have to be handed over, and it’s not like a seven or eight-year-old child who can’t manage himself. You can imagine that the other party’s mother must be very strong.
She complains that she spends too much, and after getting married, she has to lower her quality of life and send her salary back to her mother-in-law to manage. She is such a sucker.
Wang Shuning was too lazy to continue wasting time and words, so he said directly: "I don't think we are suitable."
Chang Zhen was stunned for a moment. "I have a very high salary. I am a team leader in a cotton mill. My monthly salary plus bonus is 45 yuan."
Wang Shuning: "It's only enough for my living expenses for one month. If you marry me, I'm afraid you won't even be able to raise a child."
Chang Zhen: "Can't you save some money?"
Wang Shuning shook his head, "No."
Chang Zhen stood up with his right hand on the table and said, "Forget it." With such huge expenses, it was obvious that the little daughter who was spoiled by her family might not be able to handle it.
After the other party left, Wang Shuning walked out of the state-owned hotel. He did not plan to go home immediately, but went to the used bookstall.
The bookstall owner saw her and said, "You haven't been here for several months. There are many new books in the store, and they are all on the shelves."
Wang Shuning asked: "Boss, do you have any books on Chinese herbal medicine categories and planting techniques?"
The bookstall owner was surprised. Before, customers only bought novels and comic books. Why was there such a big change?
He thought for a moment and then said uncertainly, "It seems like there are some. They are all old books collected. They should be in the pile of books over there. Look for them yourself."
Wang Shuning walked to the pile of books in the corner, bent down and looked at the titles of the books from the side.
This time when she comes back, she plans to buy some Chinese herbal medicine seeds in Beijing and plant them in the space to see if they can survive.
Wang Shuning saw a book about Chinese herbal medicine at the bottom, rolled up his sleeves and started moving it.
Directory of Chinese herbal medicines.
The pages are a little yellowed, but the printed words are clear, and there are illustrations of each herb.
Wang Shuning put it on a shelf aside and continued looking.
There are seven books in total, the pages are yellowed, and the inner pages of two of them are slightly damaged.
When she returned home with her books at noon, Song's mother was standing in the yard waiting for her.
Seeing her little daughter coming back, Song Guiying hurriedly came up to her and asked eagerly, "How was it? Did you like it?"
Wang Shuning shook his head. "I didn't like him. The conditions were good, but not only did he have to give his salary to his mother, he also asked me to send my salary back to her for her to manage. He's a typical mama's boy. If the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is not good in the future, his whole family will bully me."
Song Guiying frowned, "This Chang Zhen is an only child. Even if he is taken care of by his mother, everything will be his in the future. Team leader of the cotton spinning mill, you will never have to worry about lack of cloth in the future."
Wang Shuning disagreed even more. "She works in a cotton mill and yet she still complains about how many clothes I buy. This shows how stingy she is. I absolutely cannot marry her."
Seeing her little daughter's disgusted look, Song's mother advised: "You are not in Beijing, so you have to find a mother-in-law who doesn't work and stays at home, otherwise there will be no one to take care of the child."
Wang Shuning wiped the dust off the book with a rag and said, "Mom, it's not like you'll get pregnant right after you get married. I'm only at home for three months a year, so it's still unknown whether I can get pregnant. You're thinking too much."
Song's mother: "Mom, this is called preparing for a rainy day."
Wang Shuning turned her head and looked at her: "Mom, I think it's better to find a family with a working family. If I really get pregnant, the worst that can happen is that my mother-in-law will sell her job and go home to take care of the baby."
It is so hard to find a job these days, and asking people to quit their jobs and go home to take care of the children will increase the cost for men, which will definitely stop many people from doing so.
Mother Song was stunned, then realized that this was a good idea.
The next second, she sat down in annoyance, "Why didn't I think of this? If this is the case, then those blind dates I arranged for you will not be qualified, right?"
Wang Shuning raised his eyebrows: "You also arranged other blind dates for me?"
Mother Song nodded, and hurried back to her room to take out a piece of paper with more than 20 names written on it. "I originally thought that I would pick one a day, and there would always be one I liked. Now it seems that most of them will have to be discarded."
Wang Shuning took a step back and saw Song's mother picking up a pen to tick off those names. She took a deep breath and said righteously, "Mom, the human wave tactic is too tiring. I think we should hit the target with one strike. I will tell you my requirements for my future husband. I will go only when you find a match. Otherwise, if I go on blind dates too frequently, it will be bad for my reputation if it gets out."
Song Guiying stopped writing and looked up at her little daughter, "What do you want?" Since she could pass this test, her conditions must be good.
My little daughter hasn’t had contact with many men, what can she ask for?
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