??187 Chapter 187
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Xu Shengwei and Xu Shengya's lifelong affairs are indeed what Zhou Yun is most worried about recently. As she grows older, she hopes that her children will get married and have someone to rely on. Xiaoya's words make sense, and she has to deal with his brother first.
Therefore, Xu Shengwei became the focus of attention.
Xu Shengjie had no objection to this. After all, he had been through the same thing himself, and he used his experience as a person who had been through it to comfort his brother.
"Your sister-in-law and I got married through a blind date. Aren't we living a good life now?"
When Zhou Yun heard his grandson speaking for him, he thought it was good that someone knew about it!
"Xiao Wei, listen to what your brother says. Your eldest brother is an experienced person. Look at how happy your eldest brother and his wife are now. Our Shanshan is also smart. Grandma will not harm you."
Xu Shengwei was attacked by his grandmother and elder brother together and he simply couldn't stand it. He turned around to look at his sister, Xu Shengya, who was eating the food with a gloating look on her face. The curve of her mouth was impossible to ignore.
Xu Shengya winked at him and gave her second brother a piece of braised tofu. "Second brother, just listen to grandma and big brother. They are all doing this for your own good."
Xu Shengwei felt bitter in his heart. What kind of world is this? With the idea that if I don't live well, you won't live well either, he simply dragged his sister into the water, "Grandma, please arrange a blind date for Xiaoya as well. We are the same age, don't forget about her!"
"You!" Xu Shengya glared at her second brother. He was too much. But she had already made an agreement with her grandmother and eldest brother. "I want to find a partner myself. Don't worry about it. Grandma and eldest brother both agree."
Xu Shengwei looked at his grandmother and elder brother, and they both nodded.
"Why?" This is blatant discrimination, Xu Shengwei said righteously, "Then I will find a partner myself, I won't go on blind dates."
Xu Shengjie was serving rice to his wife. He had just put the bowl on the table when he heard his brother's boast. He calmly asked, "Can you find someone?"
Xu Shengwei: Uh?
Xu Shengjie then added, "If you spend every day playing table tennis without your grandma's help, how can you find a partner?"
Xu Shengwei opened his mouth and was about to refute, but he found that he couldn't refute!
Shanshan watched her uncle being urged to get married with such gusto that she even forgot to eat. She tugged at her mother's clothes and asked, "Mom, is my second uncle getting married?"
"It's still early." Liang Baozhen answered casually. It's just the beginning. But that's not right. What if it can be done after just one blind date?
She thought back to herself and Xu Shengjie, how they got together after just one blind date.
Shanshan obviously remembered that when she went back to Damian Village during the winter vacation, she heard her grandmother say that Grandma Lai was her parents' benefactor and introduced them to each other. The two got married after they met once.
Shanshan doesn't understand what marriage means. It means being together and doing everything together.
And there is another benefit of getting married, you can eat candy! Sweet wedding candy! Thinking of this, she looked at her uncle with a strange look in her eyes.
"Uncle, are you getting married? I want to eat wedding candy."
Xu Shengwei was very tired and didn't want to pay attention to Shanshan. He gave Shanshan a meaningful and fierce look. Shanshan accepted it and happily concluded that her uncle was getting married! She would soon have wedding candy!
At night, Shanshan went to her room obediently to sleep. She slept soundly thinking about the wedding candy she was about to eat. Liang Baozhen returned to her room only after seeing that her daughter had fallen asleep.
In the room, Xu Shengjie had just finished his work and changed into his pajamas and lay down.
He has been busy with the paging station issue recently, and it has basically been completed. The paging station will be opened in the second half of the year.
That's why I have time to care about my brother's life.
"I noticed that when you were young, you didn't want to find a partner or get married, but now that you're older, you start urging your brother to do it, and you even make sense out of it."
Liang Baozhen was also lying on the bed. She had not joined in the discussion at the dinner table just now, letting them argue on their own.
However, Xu Shengjie's performance was still unexpected. She had heard her grandmother and Aunt Fengxia say many times that this man was unwilling to get married at first, but now he sounded as if he was particularly willing to do so.
"What is this called? I won't know until I experience it myself." Xu Shengjie didn't have high expectations for his younger brother. If he didn't want to study, it was up to him. If he wanted to play table tennis, that was also up to him. However, starting a family had to be put on the agenda.
"What about Xiaoya? Are you going to urge her?"
"Xiaoya, find someone by yourself. It's good for a little girl to love freely. There's no need for her to go on blind dates." Xu Shengjie felt that Xiaoya was independent and could meet many people at school, so there was no need to push her too much.
"Indeed, we should love freely. Free love is good." Liang Baozhen sighed, feeling that she was at a disadvantage. "I have never loved freely, ah."
"What do you mean?" Xu Shengjie felt that this person seemed to be hinting at something, so he took his wife's hand and rubbed it, "Who else do you want to have a free love with? It's not the surname He, right?"
"What's his last name? Who is he?" Liang Baozhen sighed casually, but she didn't know that the air actually began to smell sour. But who's last name is He?
"You forgot about that?" Xu Shengjie leaned close to her ear and read out word by word, "Comrade Liang Baozhen, you are like a swallow in the sky, flying into my heart.
How come you don’t remember this? This is the love poem that classmate He wrote for you.”
Xu Shengjie emphasized the word "love poem" and Liang Baozhen seemed to smell a sour smell in the air. She remembered it now, "It's so old news from many years ago. Why are you still talking about it? Besides, why do you remember the poem someone wrote to me so clearly?"
"Hey, you're blaming me? What's the point of such a sour poem? It's boring!"
"Not strong enough? Not strong enough. How can you still remember it so clearly after all these years? Not missing a word. Comrade Xu Shengjie, I didn't expect that you, a tall and strong man, have such a small mind." Liang Baozhen found that this man was quite jealous, so she teased him with a smile. It was actually quite funny to see him looking sour and unwilling to admit it.
Xu Shengjie glanced at his wife and found that she was like a little fox, taking pleasure in his misfortune and making fun of him.
"You dare to make fun of me?" He spoke threateningly, and his head moved closer and closer until he swallowed all the words his wife said when she was making fun of him.
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In the second half of her first grade, Xu Yunshan became a glorious Young Pioneer.
I usually envy my classmates who can wear red scarves. Some of them even have three stripes on their sleeves, which looks really impressive. Shanshan also thinks so. Every time she sees the bright red scarves on other people's necks, she is filled with envy.
On the day we became young pioneers, the sky was clear with white clouds. The little radishes gathered in the playground. A class monitor represented all the first-grade students to go to the school podium and read the oath of joining the Young Pioneers.
The sunlight was dazzling. Shanshan could not hear anything except the chattering above. She was staring at the red scarf in the teacher's hand, a pile of red scarves, so bright red.
At the end of the ceremony, the teacher handed the red scarves to the first row and passed them down one by one. Shanshan stood in the middle and excitedly took one from the student in front of her, and then passed the rest to the students behind her.
Holding a thin red scarf in her hand, she smiled so hard that her eyes curved into crescents. From then on, she was a Young Pioneer!
How to tie a red scarf has become a science. Back in class, everyone tied the red scarf around their necks in all sorts of shapes. Some people simply tied it into a bow, while others tied it into a tight knot.
During the class meeting, the head teacher, Ms. Yang, demonstrated it to everyone. She looked at the students and said, "I will pick a student and let her tie a red scarf to show everyone. Who is willing?"
"I!"
"I!"
"Me, me, me!" Shanshan raised her hand the highest and her voice was the loudest.
Teacher Yang looked at the extremely enthusiastic students at the moment, and recalled the evasive looks they got when he wanted to ask someone to recite an ancient poem. It was so depressing.
"Xu Yunshan, come up and bring a stool."
Shanshan took the stool and strode to the podium with her head held high. She sat down obediently and looked at Teacher Yang sitting opposite her, holding her red scarf in both hands.
"Students, take a look. You will all be Young Pioneers in the future. You will have to wear a red scarf every day when you come to school. Don't forget. How do you tie a red scarf? Take your red scarf in your hands and follow me."
Shanshan couldn't see anything at the moment. She could only feel Teacher Yang speaking softly and gesturing around her neck with his hands. After a while, she heard Teacher Yang say, "Okay, the red scarf is tied. Have you learned it?"
“I have learned it.”
"no!"
The class of more than 40 people was noisy. Some said they had learned it, while others said they had not. Teacher Yang was already used to it. Facing so many little sparrows, she untied the red scarf on Shanshan's neck, demonstrated it to everyone again, and guided everyone to tie it for themselves.
After two or three instructions, finally, all the elementary school students in the class tied red scarves, and every little head could see a bright red color when they looked down.
Shanshan was particularly excited when she went home from school that day. She felt that her red scarf seemed to be flying when she ran.
"Dad, look! I'm a Young Pioneer now." Shanshan pulled her red scarf to show her father.
Xu Shengjie took a look at the young lady and thought, what a good fellow, she looked quite energetic.
"You became a Young Pioneer? Are you happy?"
Shanshan climbed onto the back seat of her father's bicycle, hugged her father's waist and started to go home. "I'm so happy. I used to envy my classmates' red scarves. Now I have one too. Hehe."
When she got home, she put down her schoolbag and the first thing she did was to show her red scarf to everyone in the family. She didn't eat until she had shown it off. After dinner, she went to show it to her friends in the alley.
On this day, a primary school student with a red mark on his neck could be seen running and jumping everywhere in Kasuga Alley.
After playing for a long time, Shanshan was urged by her mother to go to bed. "You have to go to school tomorrow. Go brush your teeth, wash your face, feet, and butt, and go to bed."
Shanshan can do everything by herself now and her mother doesn’t need to worry about her. Liang Baozhen went to brush her teeth and wash her face by herself. When she was done, she saw that the child was indeed dressed up, but why was the red scarf still tied around his neck?
"Take off your red scarf before going to bed, and put it back on tomorrow."
"Got it." Shanshan returned to the room and admired herself in front of the mirror again. Then she was ready to take off her red scarf. However, just as she was about to pull up a corner of the scarf, she suddenly remembered.
Oh no! She doesn’t know how to tie a red scarf!
Teacher Yang taught the whole class, but she was the only one who was dazed at the time and didn't hear anything, nor did she see what Teacher Yang did.
Now everyone in the class knows how to tie a red scarf except me?
Shanshan curled her lips downwards, feeling somewhat sad. How did she become a backward person?
She couldn't take off the red scarf, because if she did, she wouldn't be able to tie it again tomorrow. She changed into her pajamas, still with the red scarf tied around her neck, and slept like that.
When she got up the next day, she changed her clothes and went out of the house to wash up. Liang Baozhen saw that the girl had tied a red scarf on her neck early in the morning and was chatting and laughing with her father.
"Look how active you are. The first thing you do when you wake up in the morning is to tie your red scarf."
Shanshan was too embarrassed to say that she had slept with it tied all night, so she pretended she knew nothing.
"That's pretty good." Xu Shengjie knows his daughter well. "Shanshan not wearing it for one night is progress."
Shanshan: "...what did you say? I didn't hear you."
When she got to school, Shanshan found out that her deskmate Jiajia had learned how to tie a red scarf, and she breathed a sigh of relief.
She finally didn't have to sleep with her red scarf tied around her neck.
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Accompanied by the joy of wearing a red scarf, time came to midsummer, and Shanshan finally ushered in her long-awaited summer vacation. She also bid farewell to the first grade and became a quasi-second-grade elementary school student.
I put my summer homework aside and had fun. But just two days into my play, the piano class at the Children's Palace started.
Shanshan had forgotten what she had said before about her interest in the piano, and it was only when her mother reminded her that she remembered it.
"Mom, can I not go?"
"Didn't you say you wanted to learn to play the piano? Mom has already signed you up."
"Did I say that?" Shanshan didn't know why she had to go to class during the summer vacation. Shanshan really wanted to ask herself why she said she wanted to learn the piano!
Isn't this just digging a hole for yourself?
"You've already signed up, go give it a try. If you're interested, see if you want to learn more. If you don't want to learn later, you can stop going after the summer class ends."
"Well, this isn't six days a week, is it?"
"What are you thinking? You want to go to the Children's Palace but the teachers don't want you to."
Shanshan could only squeeze out some time during her playtime during the summer vacation to learn to play the piano. It was wonderful to watch others play the piano, but once she started playing, she realized how hard it was. It was so boring and not even as fun as reciting poems.
The only surprise is hearing the sound of piano keys being pressed.
During this period, Shanshan became interested in dance classes and pestered her mother to sign her up for one. She thought the dancing girls were so pretty, spinning and jumping on the stage like beautiful little birds.
Seeing her daughter's enthusiasm, Liang Baozhen was willing to let her try everything. After all, children can know what they like by trying everything.
When Xu Shengjie heard that Shanshan had signed up for piano and dance classes, he comforted her by saying that his daughter would be amazing in the future. She could play a piece of piano music and dance beautifully. She would be so amazing. Her old father would be so proud!
As a result, the old father's expectations did not last long, and Shanshan's dancing career ended just one month after it began.
His short dancing career ended with a broken muscle.
Shanshan went to her father with tears in her eyes to complain that she felt so much pain on her body, "Dad, the dance teacher is so scary. She wants me to bend my legs like this, like this."
She gestured with her hands, imitating the dance teacher's work of stretching the students' legs and bones. The older students even had to do the splits. It was so scary!!!
No one ever told me that I would have to go through so much torture before I could dance beautifully on the stage.
pain!
It hurts so much!
Tears as big as beans fell from Shanshan's eyes. She put her hands around her father's neck and said, "Dad, I'm in so much pain. It hurts so much to bend my legs. The teacher also said we have to do splits later."
Shanshan cried as she spoke, and she continued with grievance, "It's terrible. I'd rather go back to school."
"Okay, okay, then we won't go to learn." Xu Shengjie patted the lady's back gently and coaxed her, "If it hurts so much, you won't learn to dance. We won't go."
"You really don't want to go?" Liang Baozhen looked at her daughter sobbing and thought that the dance class still had one month to go. "Shanshan, don't you really want to try again?"
"No, Mom. Shanshan doesn't want to learn dancing anymore because her legs hurt."
"If your legs hurt, you won't go." Liang Baozhen also coaxed her daughter and said to Xu Shengjie, "It seems that Shanshan is not good at dancing. I also heard from their dance teacher that Shanshan's muscles are relatively stiff."
"I'd better learn to play the piano. Playing the piano is good. It's less painful and doesn't require bending your legs." Xu Shengjie is open-minded and thinks it's okay to learn either.
"I don't want to learn piano anymore because my fingers hurt." Shanshan feels so wronged now. She feels pain all over her body. It's such a good summer vacation, why are her hands and legs in such trouble?
The more she thought about it, the more aggrieved she felt. Shanshan was so pitiful!
I hugged my father and cried until his shirt was wet. After I calmed down, my mother took me back.
"You don't want to learn piano or dancing anymore?"
"Well, I won't learn it anymore."
"You little girl, you don't know how to persevere." Liang Baozhen was helpless. She felt that the girl had a long way to go in the future and didn't know what she would be interested in. She gave up too quickly. "We still have to learn to persevere, okay?"
"I know." Shanshan sniffed, "I'm very persistent when I don't give up."
Liang Baozhen: "..."
It seems to make some sense, but at the same time, I feel like something is not right.
Thanks to her timely giving up, Shanshan had a wonderful month in the second half of the summer vacation.
Everyone in the family is very happy. Xu Shengya also has a summer vacation. This is the advantage of being a teacher, having both winter and summer vacations.
Only Xu Shengwei was extremely depressed because he was going on a blind date today.
Grandma Zhou Yun asked someone to introduce her to a blind date, a textile factory worker named He Siqi. However, she was not working in the workshop, but in an office. She was highly educated, having passed the entrance exam to a technical secondary school after finishing junior high school, and later was assigned to work in the textile factory.
"Grandma, don't blame me if it doesn't work." Xu Shengwei had given his grandmother a vaccination in advance. He was just going to go through the motions, have a meal with the girl, and forget about it afterwards.
Anyway, getting the job done decently is considered completing the mission.
"You kid, you're already saying something unlucky before you even set off. You don't have any confidence at all."
Shanshan was having dinner. She was going back to the Yueya Hutong compound to play with Chuchu today. Liang Baozhen dropped her off on her way to work.
"Uncle, you can't give up on yourself. You have to keep working hard!" As soon as she finished speaking, she looked at her mother in surprise, "Mom, I just used an idiom."
"Not bad, not bad. Our Shanshan uses it very well." Liang Baozhen encouraged the child.
Xu Shengjie spoke with a bit of fatherly pride, "Shanshan, try another one."
"Hmm..." Shanshan searched for the knowledge she had stored in her head. She searched and searched, but she only saw 1+1=2, and it is noon when the harvest is at its peak. We should cherish our food. Where are the idioms? Where are the four-character idioms?
Found it! Shanshan suddenly had an idea and looked at her second uncle, "Second uncle is going to the blind date happily."
Xu Shengjie: "...Is this an idiom?"
Xu Shengwei: "...Why am I happy?"
After Shanshan's excitement, everyone went out happily, each to their own destination.
Liang Baozhen took her daughter out, Xu Shengya accompanied her grandmother to buy things, Xu Shengjie had to take care of the paging station, and before leaving, he patted the shoulder of his younger brother who was about to go on a blind date.
"Have a good blind date and try to have a successful one."
Xu Shengwei really wanted to say that this was not your time to march and fight, but thinking of his elder brother's happy life, he could not say anything in rebuttal. He just said yes and set off on his bike.
Anyway, there is no rule that blind dates must be successful. After today, he will still be a glorious single man!
Liang Baozhen rode her bicycle and took her daughter to Yueya Hutong, and handed her over to Cheng Caili.
"Sister Caili, Shanshan is going to trouble you today. I'll pick her up after get off work."
"Why are you being so polite? Shanshan is also my half-girlfriend. Just go to work without worry. Our Chuchu is waiting for her."
"Okay, let Chuchu come to our place next time."
Liang Baozhen was holding the handlebars of the bicycle and was about to leave when she was stopped by Cheng Caili.
"Wait a minute, I have something to tell you!"
Seeing her mysterious look, Liang Baozhen knew there must be some gossip!
"Who and what?"
"Sister Hua is pregnant."
"Ah? That's great..." Liang Baozhen didn't expect such news. Her first reaction was surprise, but she realized in a flash, "No, we have family planning now. How can she give birth?"
Liu Nianhua has two children. The propaganda of family planning is overwhelming now, and many places are still forcing it to be implemented. In short, it is a battle of wits and courage.
"I was worried at first. Did she have to hide in the countryside to give birth? Going to the countryside is actually dangerous. If she was discovered, she would have to have an abortion. Later I heard that she and Zhou Qingdang could have one child in this situation."
"Can you have a baby?"
"Yes, she is a second marriage and has a child, but Zhou Qingdang is a first marriage and has no children. He can have one child, but no matter whether it is a boy or a girl, he is not allowed to have another one."
Liang Baozhen had not understood the policy in detail, and it turned out that this was the case.
On the day of her wedding banquet, Liu Nianhua mentioned to Liang Baozhen and Cheng Caili that she wanted to have a child. At that time, they both advised her to think it over carefully and not lose her job. She didn't expect that their policy allowed her to have a child in her situation.
"This really made Luo Hongmei's mouth twisted with anger. Both of her children were granddaughters, and she wanted her daughter-in-law to give birth to a son. But now the family planning policy is getting stricter and stricter, and she is scared."
"She really needs to stop worrying. What's wrong with being a girl? I think her two granddaughters are very well behaved." Liang Baozhen almost forgot the time while talking to Cheng Caili. She looked at her watch and knew she had to go. "Sister Caili, I'm leaving first. We'll talk next time."
"Okay, go ahead and don't delay anything."
"Goodbye, Mom." Shanshan, who was squatting on the ground playing with Chuchu, waved to her mother.
"Listen to your auntie. Goodbye."
Liang Baozhen rode her bicycle to the TV station. Today she had to record a program for the day after tomorrow at noon. As soon as she arrived at the station, she took over the script and prepared. There was a lot of news today, including economic, livelihood, and crime...
One piece of news caught Liang Baozhen's attention.
During the official recording, Liang Baozhen, wearing a red suit and a white shirt, sat in front of the camera, raised the corners of her mouth in an appropriate arc, and slowly reported the news:
"Recently, an economic crime case at the National Cotton Factory in our city was solved. Three years ago, Chen Siming, the son of Chen Yong, the former director of the National Cotton Factory, was arrested by the public security authorities for allegedly secretly changing the orders of the National Cotton Factory and making huge profits from it. He will be sentenced in the near future."
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Thanks to the cuties who irrigated the nutrient solution: 1 bottle of This Rain Keeps Falling; 1 bottle of Qianmohongchen; 1 bottle of Yushu;
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