As night fell, Zeng Wenjuan washed and dressed and quickly ran back to her room. She sat beside the dressing table and applied the ointment, spreading it on her face with both hands, while saying to Zhao Jianguo: "It's so cold in winter. If you don't put something on your face, your skin will dry out immediately."
"Apply more. Your face will smell nice and fragrant." Zhao Jianguo casually put the book in his hand on the bedside table, and then said to Zeng Wenjuan.
Zeng Wenjuan turned her head to look at Zhao Jianguo in a coquettish manner, then turned back to look in the mirror. When she was checking whether the ointment on her face was evenly applied, she saw the cashmere coat hanging on the closet door.
"What is this? Where did it come from?" Zeng Wenjuan stood up from her chair, picked up her woolen coat, walked up to Zhao Jianguo and asked.
"I bought this for you. Try it on and see if it fits you. If it doesn't, I'll find a way to alter it. It's spring now and the weather will be warmer during the Chinese New Year. It's just right for you to wear this." Zhao Jianguo said with a smile on his face, looking at Zeng Wenjuan.
"You really don't know how to live. This dress looks very expensive. Men should not have money and spend it lavishly. You don't know at all that food and daily necessities are expensive." Although Zeng Wenjuan said this, her hands did not slow down at all. She put the clothes on directly and looked at herself in the mirror again and again.
Zeng Wenjuan looked at herself in the mirror, and the smile on her beautiful face widened. She turned to look at Zhao Jianguo and asked, "Does this dress look good on me? Does it look rustic? It looks like a bumpkin coming to the city and looking around."
"It looks good. You look good in anything. I'm particularly addicted to clothes of this color. Come next autumn, it will also look good if you wear a skirt or something underneath. Now that winter is approaching, pair it with a pair of wide and loose bloomers. I'll buy you a pair of high heels then, and you'll look great in them." Zhao Jianguo commented with a smile on his face.
"Okay, you make a very reasonable point. I'm afraid you have someone in your mind who dresses like this?" Zeng Wenjuan immediately put away her smile and looked at Zhao Jianguo seriously.
"Wife, you are really wronging me. How could I do that? I saw someone wearing this before and I took note of it. At that time, I was thinking how good it would look if you wore it like this." Zhao Jianguo had a strong desire to survive and explained immediately.
"Then where did you get the money? You stay at home every day and never go out, how did you buy it?" Zeng Wenjuan believed Zhao Jianguo. They had known each other for so many years, and she could still tell that he was not lying.
Zhao Jianguo took out a wallet from the drawer of the bedside table next to him, took out the money and bills from it and gave them to Zeng Wenjuan. He smiled and said, "Although I send money home every month, I'll keep all the money I got today. I have some money on me. I asked Liang Huai to help me buy this dress. His wife has connections in her family."
After hearing what Zhao Jianguo said, she walked towards him expressionlessly, took the money and counted it, then looked at Zhao Jianguo and said: "I will keep all this money. You wouldn't... hide any of it secretly, would you?"
"Absolutely no more. All the cash on me is there. The passbook is in the gap of the wardrobe. You can take it out and have a look, and then put it back when the time comes." Zhao Jianguo pointed to the wardrobe and said to Zeng Wenjuan with a smile.
Although Zeng Wenjuan also had money on her, she was very happy when she heard what Zhao Jianguo said. She quickly walked to the closet and soon found a mechanism under the board where the clothes were piled. After she removed the board, she saw a drawer. She opened the drawer and took out the passbook inside.
"Tens, hundreds, thousands... huh? Tens, hundreds, thousands." Zeng Wenjuan opened the numbers on the branches and was a little shocked. She counted them again in disbelief. It was indeed a four-digit number. She immediately walked to Zhao Jianguo and sat beside the bed. She asked him: "You have saved a thousand yuan after all these years. Where did it come from?"
Zeng Wenjuan knew that Zhao Jianguo had sent all his money back home over the years. Where did he get so much money to save? This was probably something that a farmer couldn't save even if he didn't eat or drink for his entire life.
"I saved this money before I got married. I didn't bring it home with me then. And I never had the chance to give it to you afterwards. So I kept it here, saving a little bit every month. Slowly, I saved more than a thousand yuan." Zhao Jianguo answered in an orderly manner.
"With so much money, why not buy something big for your home?" Zeng Wenjuan looked at Zhao Jianguo and asked tentatively.
"What do you want to buy?" Zhao Jianguo naturally agreed when he heard Zeng Wenjuan's words, and immediately asked him what he wanted to buy. He also wanted to find a way to get the ticket.
"I have some savings, why don't we buy a color TV? It's just right for watching TV when we are at home." Zeng Wenjuan held Zhao Jianguo's hand and said to him with bright eyes.
She had seen color TVs in the supply and marketing cooperative before. Every day, the most popular TV shows were played. No matter men, women, old or young, as long as they had free time, they would go there to sit and chat and watch TV.
"If you want to buy a color TV, then I'm afraid a lot of people from the family compound will come to your house to watch the fun. Won't you find them annoying?" As far as he knew, no one in the family compound had bought a color TV. There were no more than ten black-and-white TVs.
"What's the big deal? Just come. We finally bought a TV at home, so we have to show it off. It will be more lively at home during the New Year. It saves Goudan from running out with these naughty kids every day." Zeng Wenjuan said as she calculated in her mind whether her savings, plus Zhao Jianguo's savings, could afford a TV.
"Okay, let's buy a TV." Seeing Zeng Wenjuan so happy, Zhao Jianguo agreed immediately. Money is meant to be spent. If his wife is happy and has fun, he will be happy too. The happiness of the whole family is the most important thing.
Zeng Wenjuan carefully took off her cashmere coat and hung it on the hanger. She hung the clothes in the closet and arranged them carefully, fearing that they would be damaged in the slightest.
After doing all this, she closed the closet door and immediately flew to the bed. It was so cold that day. Even though she was wearing a woolen coat, her ankles were still cold.
"But what should we do with the tickets we had before? We can't buy TV without TV tickets, not to mention that there are so many people queuing up every day, when will it be our turn?" Zeng Wenjuan sat on the bed. She took out a hand cream from the bedside table and sat on the bed to wipe her hands.
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