◎Third update◎
Zhou Guoping thought about it for a moment and felt that it should be impossible. Liu Nianhua stayed in the yard all day long and never went out of the front door or the back door. How could he have noticed it? Perhaps some rumors had been passed in.
No matter what, we have to keep people stable.
"Opinion?" Liu Nianhua raised her eyelids, half leaning against the head of the bed and looking at the man, the man who had slept in the same bed with her for more than ten years. She really wanted to ask, who did she give the scarf to?
But when the words came to my lips, I couldn't bring myself to ask.
His throat was itchy, and Liu Nianhua's voice was a little choked up. "It's Baozhen's birthday next door, and Xiao Xu gave her a very beautiful hairpin. Next month is my birthday, and I want a silk scarf."
"So that's what happened!" Zhou Guoping felt relieved. It seemed that she was just in a bad mood. Thinking about it carefully, he realized that he had not given Liu Nianhua many gifts since they got married. He saw that she had been with him for more than ten years, had given birth to two sons, and had been hardworking and willing to do housework. So it was okay to buy her a scarf.
"Okay, I'll go to the supply and marketing cooperative tomorrow to buy it. There's a Peach Blossom brand scarf for three yuan! It's expensive, but if you like it, I'll buy it no matter how expensive it is."
Three yuan? Liu Nianhua thought of the ten-yuan Lihua silk scarf and shuddered.
"Okay, go cook me a bowl of noodles quickly. My stomach is rumbling." Zhou Guoping sat down at the dining table, waiting for dinner.
"I'm tired and want to take a nap. If you want to eat, just cook for yourself." Liu Nianhua replied coldly.
"You..." Zhou Guoping wanted to make trouble, but he felt guilty, so he had to go to the stove to cook noodles by himself.
Aunt Luo, who lived in the east wing, came out for a stroll after dinner and happened to make a joke.
"Xiao Zhou, why are you cooking noodles here? Where is Nianhua?"
Zhou Guoping put on a friendly smile and picked up noodles in the pot with a pair of chopsticks. "Our Nianhua cut her hand while cutting vegetables today. I let her rest."
"Wow, you really love your wife! Old Yao in our family doesn't have your kind of insight." Luo Hongmei laughed a few times. Her voice was loud, which attracted many people who were chatting in the yard to look over. "Sun Zhiqiang, if you were as caring as Xiao Zhou, how could you have been single for so many years?"
"That's right." Zhou Jun also followed suit, "Sun Zhiqiang, go learn from Xiao Zhou. He is well-known in our hospital for loving his wife."
Sun Zhiqiang has been single for many years and has never found a wife. He is preparing to look for a partner recently. Zhou Guoping's family is well-known for being a good family. How can he compare to them?
"Forget it. I can't learn how to be like Guoping. I have my own abilities."
Zhou Guoping was beaming as he listened to the compliments from everyone in the courtyard. He only looked up at the sign on the door that read "Five-Good Family" and straightened his back even more!
"You guys are joking. Nianhua and I have been through so many ups and downs for so many years, how can I not be nice to her?" Zhou Guoping walked to the middle of the yard, mixing noodles with one hand, and chatted with everyone. "No matter how tired I am at work, it doesn't matter. I just don't want my wife and children to suffer. Nianhua follows me, and I hope she can live a good life!"
"Listen!" Qian Jingjing was moved by Zhou Guoping's words. What a good person he is. "Xu Hai, learn more from Brother Zhou."
Xu Hai smiled innocently. He and Qian Jingjing remarried after their divorces. They had been together for less than three years and their lives were going well. He nodded and said, "Yes, I'm learning."
Aunt Li also spoke up, shouting to everyone, "Xiao Zhou is a good man in our courtyard. He is always very kind to Nianhua. You male comrades should all follow Xiao Zhou's example and not let him down!"
Many comrades cheered for what he said. There were many people living in the courtyard, so it was noisy, but it was fun to have a group of people chatting together.
The atmosphere suddenly became heated, but only one person spoke, and his voice was a little cold.
The widow Chen Yulian lazily lay on the recliner, her eyes half-full, "You can't learn everything. It would be bad if you learn something bad."
"Chen Yulian, listen to what you are saying?" Luo Hongmei was not used to this person, who flirted with people all day long, like a foxy woman. Of course, the most important thing was that many years ago, she introduced a partner to the newly widowed Chen Yulian, but she ruthlessly rejected him, which was a huge loss of face.
"You're probably missing a man and you're jealous of Nianhua, right? If you really can't find one, how about I introduce you to someone?"
"Then I don't need them, Aunt Luo, what are these things you introduced?" Chen Yulian spoke impolitely, but her tone was so soft that it was hard to tell whether it was a fist or cotton.
"you!"
Seeing that the two were about to quarrel, everyone tried to stop them.
"Chen Yulian, what do you mean?" Luo Hongmei breathed out through her nose, her eyes rolled up, and she whined, "You deserve to have no man..."
"Hongmei, what are you talking about?" Zhang Rong stopped her and pulled Luo Hongmei's hand aside. "How can you say such unpleasant things to neighbors?"
"Am I wrong?" Luo Hongmei became more and more excited as she spoke, and she shouted at the top of her voice, "Look at her seductive look, who doesn't know that she has a man outside? She doesn't work all day, eats meat, and wears dacron, and she's not ashamed at all."
Chen Yulian was still lying there lazily, as if she had no reaction to Luo Hongmei's words. She just opened her red lips and snorted coldly, "Am I eating your meat and wearing your clothes?"
Then he closed his eyes, too lazy to pay attention to her.
Zhou Guoping saw that Luo Hongmei and Chen Yulian had stolen the spotlight, so he quickly spoke up to smooth things over, "Auntie Luo, Chen Yulian, please stop arguing. These are just small matters. Don't ruin the relationship."
After eating a few bites of noodles, Zhou Guoping was about to take the bowl back to wash it when he suddenly saw his wife Liu Nianhua coming out and standing behind him.
"Nianhua, how did you get out? You cut your hand, I just..." In front of everyone, Zhou Guoping showed concern for his daughter-in-law.
"Look at Xiao Zhou, how much he cares about Nianhua." The more Luo Hongmei looked at Zhou Guoping, the more she felt that he was a good guy. She said to Liu Nianhua, who was looking a little pale behind him, "Nianhua, you are lucky to have found a good man... unlike some people."
Luo Hongmei was hinting at something, but this person didn't even open his eyes, and just leaned back in the recliner leisurely. Liu Nianhua spoke first, "Auntie Luo, you are joking."
Then he looked at Zhou Guoping and said silently, "Didn't you ask me to get up and cook for you? My hand doesn't hurt that much now, so why did you go and cook the noodles yourself?"
"Nianhua, why are you asked to cook?" Luo Hongmei heard everything clearly and spoke before Zhou Guoping, "Xiao Zhou, don't you say it? The human body cut a hole for you so that you can rest well. How considerate."
"Auntie Luo, how could this be possible?" Liu Nianhua forced a bitter smile, which made his already pale face look even more lonely. "Guoping said that this minor injury is not a serious injury at all, and asked me to hurry up and cook for him."
As soon as Liu Nianhua finished speaking, the whole courtyard fell silent. Why...why are the couple saying different things?
Zhou Guoping's face turned pale and blue in the night. Looking at the curious eyes of his neighbors, his lips trembled and he suddenly didn't know what to say. What happened to Liu Nianhua today?
Turning his head to look over, she was fine, even smiling at him, and didn't look like a daughter-in-law who was going to quarrel or cause trouble. He had seen many fierce daughters-in-law who could make a big fuss when they got angry, but he didn't like that kind of woman, she was not like a woman, and Liu Nianhua was the best, she had never lost her temper in her life and never quarreled with anyone.
"This...this, Nianhua misheard. I said stop cooking, but she definitely didn't hear it clearly, haha." Zhou Guoping said a few perfunctorily, holding the bowl and pulling her back to the house with one hand.
The neighbors in the yard were left looking at each other in bewilderment.
"What's going on?" After the couple left, the courtyard resumed its whispering atmosphere.
"I feel like something is wrong with Xiao Zhou and his wife today."
"Yes, Xiao Zhou just said that he sympathized with Nianhua's injury and asked her to have a good rest. It has only been a short time, and Nianhua said that Xiao Zhou insisted that she get up to cook. Isn't this a sabotage?"
“Maybe I heard it wrong.”
Chen Yulian then slowly opened her eyes and sneered. She had beautiful eyebrows and eyes, and her smile was somewhat charming. "You believe everything he says? You are really considerate of his wife. You can still bring a bowl out to show off in front of everyone and brag about how good you are?"
"Hey, could it be that Zhou Guoping said one thing in front of Nianhua, and another thing in front of us?"
"That's too much! Xiao Zhou has been our neighbor for so many years, how could he be such a person!"
Listening to everyone chattering after they had nothing to do after eating, Chen Yulian had a hint of sarcasm on her face. She just wanted to sigh that everyone knows how to pretend.
......
When the hospital was bustling with activity, Xu Shengjie and Liang Baozhen were not there.
Today, the two of them went to the bathhouse to take a bath with the bath tickets issued by the factory.
One of the employee benefits of the National Cotton Mill is two shower tickets per month. It's okay in the summer, as you won't get cold easily when you take a shower, and you can take a quick shower at home. But it's different when the temperature drops. If you're not careful, you'll catch a cold when you take a shower, and it's hard to heat the water no matter how much.
Today, the two of them took their bathing tickets and went to Songhuakou Bathhouse, which is closest to Yueya Hutong, to take a bath.
It is comfortable to take a bath in the bathhouse. It makes you clean and warm, and your whole body feels hot. Liang Baozhen has fair skin, and if you take a bath for a little longer, your skin will turn red. When she came out, her long hair was tied up behind her and fixed with a chopstick. Her little face was red and she looked refreshed.
Xu Shengjie washed quickly. He was used to taking combat showers when he was a soldier, and he had no habit of soaking in baths. After a while, he came out and waited at the door of the bathhouse for a while.
"Are you cold?"
Liang Baozhen was wearing a thin cotton jacket, looking energetic and shaking her head. "It's not cold. Touch me, my hands are warm."
Xu Shengjie looked around. It was pitch black and no one was paying attention to this place. Then he reached out and touched his wife's warm hand, which was like a small heater.
"Don't be careless. It's easy to catch a cold in this weather."
"I know, I know." Liang Baozhen went home a while ago, and her mother Song Chunhua nagged her several times, saying that the temperature had dropped and she should remember to wear more clothes. But here she was, being nagged by Xu Shengjie again.
"By the way, I have something to tell you." After getting home from get off work today, Liang Baozhen was busy eating and preparing to go to the bathhouse to take a bath. She hadn't told Xu Shengjie the important news yet.
"What's that?"
"Director Xue told me something today. He asked me if I was interested in becoming a broadcaster."
"Announcer?" Xu Shengjie stopped and recalled the voice that came out of the loud speaker in the factory every noon. It was the voice of a female comrade reading newspapers and books. If it was his wife...
"He asked you to change your job?"
"Yeah!" Liang Baozhen recalled what Xue Lijun said in the afternoon. "He said that this job is much easier than working in the workshop. It mainly involves writing some manuscripts and preparing for the 20-minute broadcast every day at noon. The other thing is to notify the factory of various things. Overall, it is relatively easy. The key is that the salary is not low. I directly get the salary of a second-level worker, but there is no room for increase. The salary of a second-level worker has reached its limit."
Xu Shengjie listened to this and remembered that his wife worked in the workshop and often had sore arms after returning home. The workload in the workshop is heavy these days, and when she becomes a regular employee, she will have to work in three shifts. The workers' salary and benefits are good, but not too easy. It would be a good thing if she could change to an easier job.
"What do you think about this? Do you want to go?"
Liang Baozhen nodded, "I want to go."
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