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"Really?" Song Chunhua finally reacted after hearing this. She turned around and looked at her daughter with a look of joy on her face. "Is he really sure?"
"Yes!" Liang Baoying's voice was trembling. She just heard the man say this on the phone. She confirmed it three times in a row before she felt relieved.
However, the phone bill was too expensive, so the two of them only talked for one minute. Neither of them was rich, so how could they afford to talk for a long time with a rocking stick? Song Jianguo said that he would come back to talk in detail when he was not so busy at work in a while.
"Zhigao! Liang Zhigao!" Song Chunhua ran outside in small steps. The man did heavy labor in the fields every day and had to take a nap at noon. But she couldn't care less at the moment and rushed back into the house to wake him up.
"What's the matter?" Liang Zhigao slept quickly and woke up quickly, thinking that something big had happened at home.
"Baoying said that Jianguo is going to pick her and Mengmeng up in the city!"
Wow! Liang Zhigao turned over and got out of bed, and his sleepiness disappeared instantly. This is a good thing! The lady no longer needs to be talked about behind her back.
Liang Baozhen felt relieved after hearing this. She took her elder sister's hand and went to stand in front of the chicken coop. "Brother-in-law, has the house really been approved? The soda factory really cares about new employees."
"They say it's almost ready. We'll just have to wait for the announcement soon, and then we can move in. Mengmeng is almost at elementary school age, so it's perfect."
"Sister, this is great! You three can be together from now on!" Liang Baozhen was happy for her elder sister as she looked at the smile in her elder sister's eyes. And also for Meng Meng. The little girl kept saying that she missed her dad.
"We can see each other often in the future. The National Cotton Mill and the Soda Factory are not too far apart."
"Okay!" Liang Baoying held her sister's hand, trembling and excited.
Song Chunhua has been having trouble sleeping lately, often tossing and turning at night worrying about the eldest daughter. What if Song Jianguo is really so heartless as to abandon them?
Now that she finally heard the definite answer, she breathed a sigh of relief, "Stop making trouble and go eat. It's already so late. I left some dumplings and wild vegetable soup for you."
"Why!"
When the daughter Meng Meng saw her mother coming back, she took the towel she used to wash her face every morning, wet it with cold water, and excitedly ran to the kitchen door and called her mother, "Mom, wipe your face."
"Hey, my dear." Liang Baoying picked up the girl and reached out to wipe her face and neck with a towel. She was still very hot even with a straw hat on. Her face and neck were covered with sweat, and her skin was sunburned.
After wiping it clean, he kissed his daughter's cheek. Ever since Song Jianguo left, Meng Meng had been visibly depressed for a long time, and sometimes she even called for her dad in her dreams.
"We'll be able to be with Daddy soon."
"Really?" Mengmeng blinked her eyes. She hadn't seen her father for a long time. Last time, her father said that she would be able to see him after she drank Beibingyang soda, but it had been a long time since she finished drinking it, and her father still hadn't come.
"Yes, Mommy won't lie to you."
"Sister, eat the dumplings first. The dumpling skin rolled by mom is the most delicious." Liang Baozhen brought the dumplings over, helped her elder sister take the towel away, and brought Mengmeng down as well.
"We can't learn mom's craftsmanship."
"You two sisters, please stop flattering me. What's the big deal? Every family knows how to make rolled dumpling skins."
Liang Baozhen put her hands on Song Chunhua's shoulders and put her chin on her shoulders. "Really, Mom, your cooking skills are amazing. It tastes better than the ones in state-owned restaurants."
"You are such a sweet talker!" Song Chunhua patted the girl's head, then thought she was a hindrance and kicked her out.
"Hahaha, Mom, Baozhen didn't tell a single lie." Liang Baoying ate pork and cabbage dumplings while standing at the entrance of the kitchen, eating them bite by bite, feeding Mengmeng a bite from time to time, and couldn't help but praise, "It's delicious!"
"By the way, Baozhen, did you get motion sickness when you came back? If you feel uncomfortable, take some orange peels with you." Liang Baoying is prone to motion sickness, so she always carries orange peels with her whenever she takes a car.
"No, maybe it's because I haven't been back for too long. Xu Shengjie said I was so excited that I didn't mind the stench on the bus."
Liang Baoying concealed the smile in her eyes and focused on eating the dumplings first, and finally drank the wild vegetable soup, and then she felt refreshed.
In the afternoon, Liang Baozhen and Xu Shengjie finally waited for Liang Baojun to come back before leaving. He came back to the house in a hurry, sweating all over, and gave everyone some popsicles as soon as he entered the door.
The most common popsicle you can buy in town is one cent each.
Through a popsicle, Liang Baojun's status in the heart of his younger sister Liang Baoling rose to a higher level. "Second brother, you are the best."
"I won't be the best tomorrow." He is very self-aware.
"Second brother, why did you come back just now?" Liang Baozhen peeled off the wrapper of the popsicle, took a bite into her mouth, and spoke incoherently.
"I just ran into Xu Zhiqing on the way back."
Xu Shuping also took the college entrance examination. She failed the exam at the end of last year, but she did not get discouraged. She actively read books and reviewed, and took the college entrance examination this year.
Now that the college entrance examination has just ended, Xu Shuping has received good news: her family has been rehabilitated!
The family members returned to the city one after another, and finally got rid of the labels of "bad elements" and "stinking ninths" and could return to the city with their heads held high.
Liang Baojun happened to catch up with her on his way back to the village as he was about to go to the commune to borrow a phone. He saw Xu Shuping with a happy face and after asking her he learned that her family had been rehabilitated.
"So what's going on with you guys now?" Liang Baozhen muttered in a low voice, and no one else heard it.
"What else can it be? Her family has been rehabilitated and assigned a family compound to move back to the city. She will either rely on the college entrance examination to return or wait for her family to find a job for her to return to the city. In any case, she will definitely return to the city in the next few months." Liang Baojun said nonchalantly.
Liang Baozhen understood what was going on, and looked at her second brother with a hint of sympathy in her eyes, "Hey, second brother, don't be too sad."
"Why should I be sad?" Liang Baojun threw the popsicle in his mouth to the ground, his eyes were firm and a smile was on his lips, "Can't I marry a city girl?"
"That's not impossible, but what if Xu Zhiqing forgets about you?" Liang Baozhen looked like she was enjoying the show and kept teasing him, "When you return to the city, you'll see that the men there are doing a good job and looking good, but they forget about you the moment they turn around~"
"Come on, there are people in the city who have better jobs than me, but there are really no people who look better than me..." Liang Baojun was talking, and suddenly saw his brother-in-law Xu Shengjie beside him. He added, "At most, there are people who are almost as good."
Xu Shengjie took a look at his brother-in-law and felt satisfied in his heart. His brother-in-law still had good taste.
Liang Baozhen and Xu Shengjie hurried back to the city, and rushed back to Yueya Hutong under the stars. At the entrance of the alley, Xu Shengya was playing with a group of children.
"Xiaoya, Xiaowei hasn't come back yet?"
"No, I guess it will take a while."
Xu Shengwei is still training in the Children's Palace table tennis team, and his hard work makes other children in the palace amazed.
Fang Zhibin slapped the picture card hard, and it turned over, and he didn't forget to scold Xu Shengwei, "It's been a long time since he played with us."
"We won't call him next time. This guy is useless!" Zhou Long sat down on the ground, venting his dissatisfaction with his friend.
Not playing with everyone is a "big sin" and you will be scolded thousands of times if you are caught.
"Xiaohu, come over here and help us jump rope." Song Xinhe called out to Zhou Hu who was playing with picture cards on the other side.
The girls want to play skipping rope, but no one wants to hold the rope and they want to jump by themselves. There is a cypress tree at the entrance of the alley, they can hold one side, but what about the other side?
They set their sights on Xiaohu because he was the most deceitful child in the orphanage.
"No, I'm playing too." Zhou Hu was eagerly waiting for his turn to take pictures, but the other brothers were too strong and it was never his turn. Even when it was finally his turn, he failed at the first try, and then there was another long wait.
Xu Shengya trotted over and said, "Xiao Hu, it's not your turn now anyway, come over and help us. When it's your turn, you can come over."
Xiaohu looked up, thinking whether this method would work. It seemed that it was possible. He clapped his hands and was about to stand up when he was pulled back by someone.
"Xiao Hu, don't go. Let the girls hold the rubber bands themselves. We can't go and do hard labor for nothing." Fang Zhibin refused on his behalf.
"Fang Zhibin." Xu Shengya frowned and looked at him, thinking that this man was really bad. "Xiaohu has agreed, why did you come out to interfere? You are really annoying."
"Xu Shengya, why am I annoying? I'm just telling the truth." Fang Zhibin stuck out his tongue at her, looking smug.
"Hmph!" Xu Shengya was too lazy to pay attention to him. This man was so annoying. He didn't have the revolutionary friendship of helping each other among friends at all. It was a pity that this man was a good brother of her second brother. The little girl hurried back with her two braids swinging.
Facing the little sisters who were waiting for her, she smiled and said, "Let me hold the rubber band first, and you guys jump."
She put the rubber band on her calf, and tied a knot behind the cypress tree with the other end. Song Xinhe led Song Xinmiao and Qin Xiaoyue to skip the rubber band one by one, chanting, "Little ball, kick with your feet, Malan blooms twenty-one..."
Fang Zhibin looked over there. The girls had already started dancing. Xu Shengya had her back to him, holding a rubber band and watching Song Xinhe and the others dancing.
"Binzi, it's your turn." Xiaolong called him back to his senses.
"Oh." Fang Zhibin took a casual shot, but failed. The picture lay quietly, with no movement at all.
"Hahaha, it's my turn!" Zhou Long was happy. It was a rare opportunity for Fang Zhibin to make a mistake, so he had to seize the opportunity.
Fang Zhibin turned his head to take another look and saw Xu Shengya's two braids hanging down behind her back, as if she was sulking.
"Hello."
Xu Shengya felt her braid being pulled. She reached out to protect it and turned around to see that it was the annoying Fang Zhibin!
She immediately turned her head back and ignored him.
"Hey, Xu Shengya." Fang Zhibin saw that she had a serious face and seemed to be really angry, so he immediately wanted to push her away, "I just lost the card game, let me help you hold the rubber band."
"No need." Xu Shengya was a strong-willed person. She didn't want this person to help her hold the rubber band.
"Hey, why are you being so polite? Come on, Song Xinhe, let me support you guys, you guys dance."
"Great!" Song Xinhe was so happy to see a free laborer that she immediately asked Xu Shengya to change people, "Xiaoya, come on, switch with him."
Xu Shengya was left with no choice but to agree to switch places with Fang Zhibin.
"Hold on well then, don't fall over."
"Okay, I guarantee you'll be satisfied!" Fang Zhibin heaved a sigh of relief when the crisis was resolved.
Liang Baozhen watched a group of children playing for a while and couldn't help but join the skipping rope team. She jumped a few times and took a few pictures of the pictures after she had enough fun. It must be said that these games were still fun when she was a child.
"Xu Shengjie~" She was tired from playing, but she didn't forget to remind him, "Do you want to practice for the sports meet at the end of the month? Remember my bicycle ticket!"
"Do I still need to practice?" Xu Shengjie was confident of getting first place.
"You can show off all you want, I don't care. If you don't get the reward, you owe me a bicycle ticket."
"Is this still what I owe you?"
"Of course you can win, but you lost the game because you were too arrogant. You must owe her. When Shanshan grows up, the bicycle at home won't be big enough for her to ride."
"That's definitely not enough. Just wait, I'll win you a bicycle ticket." In the dim moonlight, Xu Shengjie was extremely confident.
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①From the classic skipping rope jingle
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