Chapter 72: Military Family, Old Lady Luo Boasts

Lin Xiuzhi stamped her feet and said, "It's getting colder day by day. If it snows, my ears will be frozen to pieces."

White air came out of her mouth as she spoke. When she opened the door, she found a package at the door.

"Old man, look, there is a package here. Is it sent back by Brother Yan?"

Lin Xiuzhi happily took the things back to the house. Jiang's father squinted his eyes and looked at them for a long time. After a closer look, he saw that it was indeed something. "It was sent by Xingyan."

They opened the package and found a brand new military coat, some canned meat, and a letter to Chu Sangning. When Jiang's father saw the letter, he immediately smiled.

"You little brat, you're so clingy." He didn't even write a letter to me. It's not even half a month since I returned to the army, but I'm already sending things home.

In Jiang's father's opinion, the real purpose was not to send the wine, but to send the things.

"This is a letter for Chu Zhiqing, please pass it on." Father Jiang handed the letter to Lin Xiuzhi.

Chu Sangning took a lazy nap, and when he woke up he found a letter next to him. It was written by Jiang Xingyan. It might be because soldiers had to go through many checkpoints to send letters.

Jiang Xingyan did not write anything about love, but said that his leg injury had healed, and the army was going to promote him. If they got married in the future, Chu Sangning could come and join the army.

Chu Sangning blushed when she saw this. He was so shameless that he wanted to take her home right after he met the guy.

Finally, he asked the captain to write a letter of introduction, asking Chu Sangning if he could come to the army to visit him in his spare time.

"The political commissar's wife was very happy to know that I have someone I like. Sang Ning, I want to take you to meet them."

It was just a very ordinary sentence, but it made Chu Sangning sigh for a long time.

I really wanted to join the army.

After dinner, Chu Sangning also followed the rest of the Jiang family to work in the fields. The others had been working for more than an hour, and the three members of the Luo family were late for sex.

The scorer's face immediately changed when he saw this. He held up a loud speaker and shouted, showing no mercy to Mrs. Luo, "Luo's, you three are late again this week. You are late six days a week. What are you doing? Do you want to work?"

Old Mrs. Luo is in high spirits now. Her son has found a job in the county. I heard that the benefits are very good and the salary is high.

After working for a week, she went to the county town and bought herself a big flowered shirt. Old Mrs. Luo was reluctant to wear it out and showed it off in the village for several days.

As for the scorer's words, they went in one ear and out the other. He thought his son had made it big, so why should he do any work? He worked himself to death every day, but the work points he earned were not even enough to buy a bag of salt.

If her son hadn't warned her not to tell anyone, Old Lady Luo would have boasted about it to everyone in the village. So what if Jiang Xingyan from the Jiang family was a soldier? Her son was working in the city.

Old Mrs. Luo was also curious. What kind of job is it that you don’t have to go to work every two or three days? You only have to go one or two days a week, and you get paid dozens of dollars. No wonder everyone wants to go to the city. The salary in the city is really high.

"Oh, it's cold. I made a bowl of egg custard for Yiping at home before coming here. If it's okay, just deduct my work points." Old Mrs. Luo waved her hand casually, signaling the scorer to deduct points according to the rules.

The scorer didn't know what was wrong with that crazy old lady Luo, so he still wrote "unemployed" after the names of the three of them.

On the contrary, the people who were watching the excitement, when they heard Mrs. Luo's excuse, all of them squinted their eyes and laughed, "You are from the Luo family, just brag, you also say chicken and egg custard, don't you only have those two chickens at home?"

"Can it lay eggs every day?" People are not even full nowadays, let alone chickens. A chicken that can lay an egg every two days is considered a proud chicken.

"I can't ask someone to buy it for me?" Mrs. Luo finally managed to hold her head high, so she pointed at her neighbor and said, "If you don't believe me, ask yourself if I bought it or not."

Old Mrs. Luo felt sorry for her son going to work in the county town, so she rewarded her family's great contributor every now and then. In order to eat eggs, Zhao Jiayun also found ways to praise himself.

Luo Yiping didn't take any credit for it. "Mom, Jiayun helped a lot with this work. I'll steam an egg for her in the future."

Old Mrs. Luo grumbled and was unwilling, pouting: "What can a woman do to help? She wants to eat eggs every day."

Luo Yiping now had a lot of money in his hands. He and Zhao Jiayun each took half. Every time they went to the county town, they could earn at least fifty or sixty yuan. He would give ten yuan to his mother when he came back and keep the rest.

Because Zhao Jiayun helped him make money and the job was very easy, Luo Yiping now looked at her with new eyes and listened to her in everything.

Seeing Zhao Jiayun sitting there with aggrieved face, Luo Yiping twitched his head irritably: "Mom, now that I am your son and can make money, let me be filial to you. Let's eat eggs, Jiayun eats, you eat too. If it's not enough, ask the neighbors to buy some."

Under the persuasion of her son, Mrs. Luo made up her mind to buy a dozen eggs from her neighbors.

The Luo family's neighbor nodded and praised Mrs. Luo vigorously: "Oh, it's incredible. I bought so many that I can smell the smell of eggs in my house every day."

"I am half buried in the earth, and I feel like vomiting after eating so many eggs recently." Old Mrs. Luo was too boastful and couldn't control her mouth and blurted out.

Everyone was shocked. Mrs. Luo, who had always been stingy, was willing to spend money to buy eggs and eat them. She even vomited the eggs.

People thought she was bragging, but after carefully observing her recent mental state, they found that she was really different. Her face was radiant, as if she had made some money.

"Aunt Luo, what good thing happened to you?"

"Yes, we are from the same village. There is nothing to hide. Could it be that your daughter-in-law is pregnant?"

There were all kinds of guesses, and Old Mrs. Luo just shook her head. Just when her boss was about to speak out, Zhao Jiayun beside her quietly tugged at her mother-in-law's sleeve.

Her face was full of annoyance, and I knew that Old Lady Luo couldn't keep secrets and always wanted to show off. Fortunately, I was here to watch over her.

If this gets out...their good days will be over.

"Mom, have you forgotten what Yiping said? We need to keep a low profile. What if someone gets jealous and takes over Yiping's job?"

When Zhao Jiayun said this, Old Lady Luo nodded seriously, muttering, "Yes, yes, yes, Yiping doesn't allow me to say it, yes, I can't say it."

No matter what the villagers asked, Old Lady Luo was like someone who had taken a mute drug and said nothing. She felt suffocated when they asked her too many questions, and it was really uncomfortable to have no one to talk to.

"Old sister, I..." The matchmaker from Changxing Village teased as she squeezed up to Old Lady Luo and nudged her waist with her elbow, "We are all family. I was the one who arranged your Yiping's marriage. Didn't you tell me?"

Mrs. Luo recalled that the matchmaker had given her son a gift when he got married. She smiled and lowered her voice: "You are not an outsider. I tell you, don't tell anyone else."