Lin Ye was tall and had good eyesight. When he saw Lu Wanqing pouting from afar, his joyful mood was immediately overshadowed by a gloom.
Could it be that someone bullied her while he was away?
Lin Ye ran a few steps to Lu Wanqing's side, cupped her face in his hands, and looked down to examine her. "Wife, who bullied you?"
Lu Wanqing's eyes immediately welled up with tears. He himself had gotten into a fight and suffered a loss, yet he had to come over to comfort him. Judging from his expression, he didn't seem happy at all, so the interview probably wouldn't go well either.
She grabbed Lin Ye's hand and said in a muffled voice, "I'm fine, but you're covered in mud. Did you really get into a fight?"
Lin Ye looked down at himself and realized that there were indeed many mud stains on his clothes. "It wasn't a fight. When I came back, I passed by the Zhou family's house, and Zhou Tianbao insisted that I, as a teacher, had come here dishonorably and must have gotten in through connections. I argued with him, and he tried to hit me with a carrying pole, so I pushed him into the field."
"Then where did the mud get on your clothes?"
"When Zhou Tianbao's wife saw that her husband had been wronged, she instructed her son to dig mud from the field and throw it at me. He was just a little kid, and I couldn't hit him, so I ended up throwing him into the field too before leaving," Lin Ye said nonchalantly.
She even proudly showed off her coat, saying, "I took it off beforehand to avoid getting it dirty, and it didn't get dirty at all during the fight."
Lu Wanqing then stopped crying and smiled, playfully punching his hard chest.
She pondered Lin Ye's words, then suddenly realized something, and smiled, saying, "What did you just say? Zhou Tianbao said that it's not honorable for you to come as a teacher? In other words, you passed the interview."
Lin Ye patted her head and nodded. "Wife, I'm a proud people's teacher now. Minister Zhang interviewed me personally."
It turns out that Zhou Tianbao ranked fourth in the written test, barely securing an interview opportunity.
To everyone's surprise, during his interview, he couldn't even coordinate some basic motor skills, let alone play professional sports like basketball.
When asked to give an introduction, he did a messy and disorganized job, focusing only on being the captain's son, which made the interviewers shake their heads repeatedly.
During the interview, Lin Ye remained calm and composed, answered questions fluently, demonstrated excellent physical coordination, and made every basket with his dribbling skills, earning unanimous approval from the interviewers.
After he finished, Zhang Wei patted him on the shoulder and told him to work hard in the future and that he could start work after the National Day holiday.
Just because Zhang Wei patted him on the shoulder, Zhou Tianbao assumed that Zhang Wei had gotten the job through connections and became very dissatisfied with him. When he got home, he deliberately picked a fight with Lin Ye when Lin Ye passed by.
After listening to Lin Ye recount his story from beginning to end, Lu Wanqing grabbed one of his arms and shook it vigorously, her joy overflowing: "A-Ye will be a teacher from now on."
When Elaine Chao saw this, she copied him, grabbing his other arm and shaking it, exclaiming, "You're going to be a teacher!"
Snowballs followed them, running in circles around their feet, incredibly excited.
"Come on, let's cook something nice for lunch to celebrate." Lin Ye took Lu Wanqing and her mother's hands and walked towards the stove.
At this point, the rice in the small pot was almost cooked, and the lid of the steamer was making a "thump-thump" sound.
Lu Wanqing thought to herself, if only she had prepared the dishes, Lin Ye could have eaten them when he got back.
Lin Ye didn't mind at all. He moved chairs for them to sit under the eaves and started cooking by himself.
The neighbors next door were also cooking: two vegetable dishes and some vegetable dumplings with a little flour added. They were almost out of rice and had to eat it sparingly, waiting for the harvest and the distribution of grain.
"Old Lin, did you hear that? Lin Ye really became a teacher. Ever since the family split up, that kid Lin Ye has really risen to prominence. He's even cultivated his own plot of land, started raising crabs, and now he's a teacher. That's government pay, he'll be making at least ten yuan a month!"
After Wang Xiuqin finished speaking, she clicked her tongue a few times.
Lin Jianguo lit a fire while smoking his pipe, his eyes narrowing with impatience. "You only see the benefits he gets, but you don't see how hard he works. He earns ten work points every day, manages his own plot of land, and rents several acres from other people. Are you as hardworking as him?"
"Forget about hard work, he was just lucky! If I had known, I would have introduced my cousin to him last year." Wang Xiuqin regretted it a little.
Last year, my cousin came to visit and was a little smitten with Lin Ye because of his handsome appearance.
But Wang Xiuqin kept telling her that Lin Ye was irritable and that his mother was a madwoman, so he shouldn't have married her. She said that if she had known he would end up like this, she should have brought the two of them together.
If the two of them really get together, Lin Ye might be able to spend a few dollars on her every month once he starts earning a salary.
Unlike that Lu Wanqing, who is stingy and you can't get a single penny out of her.
"I think you're dreaming!" Wang Xiuqin stuck out her butt, and Lin Jianguo knew what she was going to do. He glared at her and said, "Your cousin is lazy and good-for-nothing. She's not even that pretty, but she thinks she's a beauty. She's picky about everyone. She's already twenty-two and still not married! Compared to Lu Wanqing, she's like heaven and earth."
Hearing him say that, Wang Xiuqin was very unhappy. She banged the spatula on the pot, making a clanging sound, and shouted angrily into the house, "Gou Dan, you come out here!"
Lin Gou Dan was exhausted after a long morning; his bones felt like they were falling apart. He was lying in bed when he reluctantly got up and moved to the kitchen. "Mom, why did you call me again?"
"You said last time that you had a way to get a share of the ancestral home, is that reliable?" Wang Xiuqin lowered her voice and glanced furtively at the west end.
Lin Gou Dan immediately perked up; he figured things were going to work out between him and Zhou Ling.
"Mom, let's just forget about it. You saw Lin Ye and the others' attitude. How can you possibly fight against Lu Wanqing?" Lin Gou Dan deliberately provoked, "Last time, before I even finished speaking, you blurted out and went to find them, only to be ridiculed!"
“This time, speak properly, and I’ll try to listen to you all.” Wang Xiuqin patted his head.
You little rascal, you've learned how to outsmart her!
"When I married Zhou Ling, she had her father make things difficult for Lin Ye, and in the end, we had to get half of the house," Lin Gou Dan said boldly.
Wang Xiuqin's face was constantly changing, clearly showing that she was suppressing the idea of Lin Gou Dan marrying Zhou Ling.
Thinking about it carefully, although Zhou Ling is a down-on-her-luck person, fortunately her father is the team leader. If she can get half of the house, that would be a huge bargain!
The brigade headquarters' ancestral home is a brick house with three rooms, plus a kitchen and toilet. If it were to be rebuilt, it would cost at least 1,000 yuan.
She could never have saved up enough money to build it herself in her lifetime.
The Xu family married Zhou Ling, but they were still kicked out. Gou Dan married her, but when he was unhappy, he kicked her out just the same way!
Therefore, she did not reject Gou Dan's suggestion, but tacitly agreed to it.
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