Chapter 37 Chapter 37 Another Time Traveler
Jiang Qiuyue looked around the house carefully, took out some candy from her bag and gave it to Xiao Zhou, but Xiao Zhou only took one.
"Sister-in-law, are you satisfied with the house?" Xiao Zhou looked at Jiang Qiuyue with a smile, "Take a look around the house. If you have any questions, just tell me and I will definitely help you solve them."
Jiang Qiuyue said that it was no problem. The house was open from north to south and was a side unit. It was pressed against the neighboring house on the west and the road on the east, so her yard would be a little bigger.
"Okay, how about I take you out to familiarize yourself with the route?" Just as Xiao Zhou finished speaking, Chen Guowei also came in.
Jiang Qiuyue saw that it was getting late. Xiao Zhou and his friends had been busy for most of the day, so she felt embarrassed to ask someone to lead the way. Anyway, there was still a long way to go, so she had plenty of time to learn about the situation nearby.
She and Chen Guowei walked out of the house together, "Don't bother, just give me directions and let me know where the supply and marketing cooperative and the canteen are."
Xiao Zhou ran to the door actively, and the crowd immediately made way for him. "Sister-in-law, walk all the way to the end, turn right and walk a short distance, and you will see the supply and marketing cooperative. It is quite close. Walk south from the supply and marketing cooperative, and you will see the sign of the canteen."
Jiang Qiuyue smiled and said thank you. Seeing that there were many curious eyes at the door, she kept a faint smile. She looked at Chen Guowei and said, "Brother Chen, please help me run a trip. I want to treat everyone to dinner tomorrow night. I don't know who will be there. Please notify them for me."
Chen Guowei said yes and told Jiang Qiuyue to go back to her own business.
As soon as Jiang Qiuyue returned to the house, some little warriors immediately praised Jiang Qiuyue for being so gentle, and all of them were envious of Lin Zhengrong.
"Sister-in-law is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. How did Deputy Head Lin say the word 'simple'?"
"I think Deputy Head Lin said this on purpose because he was afraid that others would miss his wife."
Xiao Zhou nodded immediately, "I think so too, but sister-in-law..." Forget it, he decided not to say anything. His sister-in-law is gentle and kind now, but she was not like this when she was catching hooligans at the train station.
Someone standing next to Chen Guowei took a punch from him. "You all have nothing to do after eating, so why are you all running around here? What's the point of standing here?"
Just as he finished speaking, a girl from Jiang Qiuyue's house came out. She was dressed neatly and had a pretty face. She smiled and greeted him, "Captain Chen, is it Deputy Commander Lin's family that is here?"
"Yes." Chen Guowei nodded, "You will be neighbors from now on."
Bai Xiuxiu looked towards the yard next door, the smile on her face was a little stiff. When she turned to look at Chen Guowei, she smiled warmly again, "That's great. I'll go back and tell my aunt."
Chen Guowei looked at Bai Xiuxiu's figure and sighed that it was not easy for her either. The little girl had lost her parents and came from her hometown to help her uncle and aunt take care of the children. She was usually busy with work and her aunt had nothing to do but relax.
But this is the Bai family's business. He and Lao Bai are just ordinary comrades-in-arms. It is not his turn to meddle in other people's business.
After Chen Guowei left with his people, Jiang Qiuyue cleaned up the room. The two children wanted to help, so she gave each of them a small cloth and asked them to wipe the furniture.
She had just been busy for a while when she heard someone knocking on the door. Learning it was her next-door neighbor, Jiang Qiuyue went over and opened the door.
The person who came was a girl of about eighteen or nineteen years old, and Jiang Qiuyue asked her what she wanted.
The first time she saw Jiang Qiuyue, Bai Xiuxiu was speechless. Before this, she was considered the best girl in the family compound.
She thought Lin Zhengrong's wife was a dark and ugly country woman, but she didn't expect Jiang Qiuyue to be whiter than her and taller, not at all like the description in the book.
That’s right, Bai Xiu Xiu also traveled through time and space in a book. She became the heroine of the book and came to help her uncle and aunt take care of the children. Not long after, Lin Zhengrong moved in with his children.
Because she often helped Lin Zhengrong take care of the children, her uncle and aunt helped her to become the stepmother of Lin Zhengrong's two children.
Bai Xiuxiu had traveled through time a while ago. She had met Lin Zhengrong before. The tall and handsome man made her fall in love with him at first sight. So no matter how hard it was at her uncle's house, she gritted her teeth and persevered, waiting for Lin Zhengrong to move in with the children.
It turns out that Jiang Qiuyue did not die and joined the army. Why is the plot different from the book?
Jiang Qiuyue was also looking at the girl in front of her, a pretty girl. "Girl, what can I do for you?" she asked again.
"Oh, I... I'm the niece of this family, my name is Bai Xiu Xiu." Bai Xiu Xiu came back to her senses, but her mind was a little confused at the moment, "I heard that you are a new neighbor, my aunt asked me to bring you some dates."
She handed over the winnowing basket with some dried dates on it.
Jiang Qiuyue felt a little familiar when she heard the name "Bai Xiu Xiu". After Bai Xiu Xiu left, she suddenly thought, isn't this the heroine in the book?
No wonder Bai Xiu Xiu was stunned when she saw her. According to the plot in the book, she should have been dead.
Thinking of this, Jiang Qiuyue's heart beat faster.
Bai Xiuxiu in the book is very capable after traveling through time. Not only can she take care of children, but she can also work. She works very hard in all aspects. It is not an exaggeration to say that she is the contemporary king of papers. However, Bai Xiuxiu actually does not like children. She takes care of children in the Bai family so that she can have a good springboard to contact people in the army. Later, she became the stepmother of Lin Beibei and Lin Zhengrong.
Bai Xiu Xiu is a person who can go to extremes to achieve her goals.
Jiang Qiuyue thought about it and realized that she and Bai Xiuxiu were completely different people. They both wanted to live a good life, but Jiang Qiuyue would not force herself to do things she didn't like.
Even if she leaves Lin Zhengrong, she will choose the person and job she likes. She has died once, and nothing is more important than being happy. There is no need to force herself to die again.
However, everyone has their own difficulties. She is not Bai Xiu Xiu, so it is not easy for her to judge Bai Xiu Xiu's decision.
Forget it, now that it’s here, just make the best of it. What if Bai Xiu Xiu sees that she is still alive and well and changes her target? Then maybe they can still become friends.
After all, her arrival has led to different endings for many characters in the book.
After making the bedding, it was already late. Jiang Qiuyue didn't plan to cook and took her two children to the cafeteria to get food.
As soon as she walked out of the door, many people looked at her. She was a stranger and so beautiful. Many people were guessing who she was.
On the way to the canteen, Jiang Qiuyue passed by the supply and marketing cooperative. She went to ask what time it opened in the morning and then went to the canteen to buy vegetables.
As soon as she entered the cafeteria, Jiang Qiuyue felt all kinds of stares. She told herself that it would be fine after a while.
"Comrade, I want a serving of stir-fried pork with green beans, and another serving of bean sprouts." Jiang Qiuyue spoke softly, and the chef who served the food stopped shaking his hands and asked her if she was here to visit relatives.
Jiang Qiuyue smiled and said no, "I'm here to follow the army."
Hearing that Jiang Qiuyue was here to join the army, someone nearby asked whose family she was from. Everyone looked over curiously. Fortunately, Chen Guowei also came to get food and took Jiang Qiuyue out of the cafeteria.
"You just arrived today, and everyone is new to you. Don't take it too seriously. After a while, everyone will be familiar with you." Chen Guowei held a lunch box in his hand and was going back to the dormitory. "I have already talked to everyone. There will be about seven or eight people. You don't need to prepare anything special. Everyone has a good relationship with Zhengrong, so just be casual."
Chen Guowei saw Jiang Qiuyue coming to get food, and thought that Jiang Qiuyue should also come to the cafeteria to buy food tomorrow. He has been eating the food in the cafeteria for several years. It is always the same dishes, and the taste is very ordinary. He does not have much expectation.
Jiang Qiuyue smiled and said, "Then I'll wait for you tomorrow."
After bringing the two children home, Jiang Qiuyue sat down to eat together. But as soon as she started eating, she frowned.
"Mom, the food in the cafeteria isn't as delicious as the ones you cook." Lin Beibei showed her disgust after taking just one bite.
After the family split up, Lin Beibei has been eating the meals cooked by her mother, and now she has become a very picky eater.
Lin Nannan nodded in agreement.
Jiang Qiuyue thought so too, but still said, "It won't be too bad. You still have to finish it and don't waste food."
She was very tired today, so after dinner she took a shower and went to bed.
At the Bai family next door, Bai Xiuxiu was mending clothes for her cousins, while her aunt Zhao Shufen sat beside her and ate sunflower seeds. "I heard that Deputy Head Lin's lover looks like a vixen. Did you see her during the day? Is she really that coquettish?"
Bai Xiuxiu frowned when she heard this. Although Lin Zhengrong's lover was still alive, which was a great shock to her, Jiang Qiuyue was polite and gentle to her when they met today.
What she had been looking forward to was not achieved. She even suspected that she had remembered the plot wrongly. Now she heard her aunt indiscriminately saying bad things about her, and her tone became a little aggressive. "She is a decent person, but she is a little prettier. I think those people are jealous of her."
"Hey Xiuxiu, are you crazy?" Zhao Shufen put down the melon seeds in her hand before she heard Bai Xiuxiu's tone. "What they said was very convincing. They said she was twisting and turning and wanted to seduce all the men. Could they be wrong?"
"She's pretty, too. I think she's probably a vixen. Otherwise, everyone is just trying to get by these days. Who would wear new clothes like her?"
Bai Xiu Xiu and her aunt couldn't get along, so she simply stopped talking. She didn't know where her future would lie, so she simply put down her needlework and said she was going to bed.
Before she traveled through time, she was a college student from a small county town. She spent the first half of her life thinking that as long as she worked hard, she could change her fate through the college entrance examination. So she worked very hard and became the top scorer in her middle school's college entrance examination, and finally went to a 985 university.
From freshman to sophomore year, Bai Xiu Xiu worked part-time except for attending classes. As a result, something happened while working part-time and she died in this era.
Watching the hard work of the popular publicity, thinking that she had become the heroine in the book again, Bai Xiuxiu thought that as long as she continued to work hard, her life would definitely get better. So she was very diligent in everything she did, and she was very tolerant. Her aunt, who was reluctant to accept her at first, could not leave her now.
Until today, when she saw Lin Zhengrong's original wife coming, Bai Xiuxiu slowly realized that her hope was gone.
She had secretly fallen in love with Lin Zhengrong, but she thought that Lin Zhengrong's first wife was dead, so she had such thoughts. She has morals and does not want to become the ultimate in period literature.
But Bai Xiuxiu was at a loss about the future, as she would soon be 20 years old. Although her aunt was reluctant, her uncle said that he could find a partner for her.
She lay on the bed, unable to straighten her legs. She slowly curled up her body, took a few deep breaths, and told herself to cheer up and not give up her life like this.
Since life doesn't follow the path in the book, then she can just arrange it herself, Bai Xiu Xiu told herself.
That night, Bai Xiu Xiu thought a lot and hardly slept, while Jiang Qiu Yue next door slept until dawn.
Jiang Qiuyue got up only because she was thinking about going to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy meat, otherwise she would have turned over and continued to sleep.
"Mom, where are you going?" Lin Beibei heard the noise and rubbed his eyes. When he tried to get up, his mother held his shoulders.
"Mom will go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy meat for you. You go to sleep well and take your sister to wash up later. If you are hungry, eat some dried sweet potatoes first." Jiang Qiuyue patted her son's shoulder, tucked his back corners, and then tiptoed out with a bamboo basket.
She had inquired yesterday that the supply and marketing cooperative opened at 7 a.m., so if she wanted to buy good meat, she had to go early. Before coming, Jiang Qiuyue asked someone to buy ten kilograms of meat coupons, fearing that it would be inconvenient to buy meat in the family compound.
As soon as Jiang Qiuyue went out, she met Bai Xiu Xiu. As soon as the two of them met, they both had something on their minds, so they naturally looked away.
After a while, Jiang Qiuyue took the initiative to ask, "Are you going to buy groceries too?"
"Yes, my aunt asked me to buy some fatty meat because we have no lard at home." Bai Xiuxiu felt a little guilty when she saw Jiang Qiuyue being so kind to her. "Sister-in-law, are you going to buy some meat too?"
Jiang Qiuyue said, "Isn't it time to treat my male comrades to dinner today? I'm afraid I'll be late and there won't be any meat."
Bai Xiuxiu was surprised to hear that Jiang Qiuyue really wanted to buy meat. She didn't expect that someone like Jiang Qiuyue could cook.
Perhaps because she felt embarrassed, Bai Xiuxiu took the initiative to say, "Sister-in-law has just arrived at the family compound and may not know the situation here. A person can only buy two kilograms of meat at most. I only want to buy one kilogram of lard. If you need it, I can buy you another kilogram."
Hearing Bai Xiu Xiu taking the initiative to show goodwill, Jiang Qiuyue thought that Bai Xiu Xiu seemed pretty good at the moment and did not show any hostility towards her.
She smiled and said yes, and handed over the meat ticket and money. "Many people came to my house today, and I really want to buy more meat. Since you asked, I won't be polite with you. Please buy me a pound of pork belly later."
The two of them hurried all the way to the door of the supply and marketing cooperative. It was still early, but there were already several people queuing.
Half an hour later, the supply and marketing cooperative opened its doors. By then, more than twenty people had lined up behind Jiang Qiuyue. Supplies were tight now, and if you came too late, you wouldn't be able to buy meat. The conditions in the military compound were much better than in Taohua Village. People couldn't eat meat every day, but they could still buy meat once every seven or ten days.
Fortunately, Jiang Qiuyue had prepared in advance. She bought a pound of large shanks, half a pound of lean meat, and half a pound of fat meat. Together with the pound of pork belly that Bai Xiuxiu helped buy, it was considered quite good. Ordinary people might not be able to buy that much during the Chinese New Year.
Jiang Qiuyue bought another carp and some vegetables. Today, all the guests invited were Lin Zhengrong's friends, so she had to leave a good impression on them.
In the end, I got two bottles of two-pot soup. Not only was my basket full, but I also had some vegetables in my hands.
Bai Xiuxiu was curious when she saw how generous Jiang Qiuyue was. Everyone she came into contact with was very frugal, but Jiang Qiuyue was not.
Considering that Jiang Qiuyue died from abuse in the book, could it be that Jiang Qiuyue has also changed?
Thinking of this possibility, Bai Xiu Xiu secretly looked at Jiang Qiuyue several times, but she couldn't see anything wrong.
Before she reached the door of her house, she saw Jiang Qiuyue's two children jogging towards her. She subconsciously took a step back, but Jiang Qiuyue squatted down with a smile and kissed the two children.