◎Second update◎
When Liang Baojun returned home after finishing his work, he saw Liang Baozhen standing in the yard in a daze.
"Why did you come back suddenly?" In the past, the third sister would ask someone to inform her family when she returned home.
Liang Baojun would find a way to prepare some delicious food so that his sister would not be allowed to go back to her parents' home and drink corn porridge.
After a closer look, I have to say that it is better not to dig for food in the fields. Baozhen has become much whiter and her skin is better after living in the city for more than half a year. She looks energetic.
"I missed you guys, so I came back." Liang Baozhen didn't say that she came back just to give Baoling her sudden love. It was more important to take care of her elder sister at this moment. "Brother, do you know where my elder sister and brother-in-law went?"
"I don't know. I was busy painting the walls at the Youth Institute today." He also earned work points by helping to repair the houses at the Youth Institute. The team leader gave him seven work points. Although he went to the black market from time to time to trade and his wallet was getting fatter, he couldn't help but participate in the labor. Such members who were not active in labor would be disgraced.
"I'll go talk to my parents first!" Liang Baoling rushed out of the yard, swinging her two braids, and went straight to her third aunt's house.
The third aunt's daughter-in-law gave birth to a child, and Liang Zhigao and Song Chunhua came to visit. When they heard that Baozhen had returned, they immediately went home. After all, she usually had to go back in the afternoon.
It was almost two months since they last saw each other, and Song Chunhua felt that her daughter was becoming more and more beautiful. After hearing her plans for the little daughter's studies, her mother thought it made sense.
"Baoling, you have to study hard in the future. What palace?"
Liang Baozhen added, "The Youth Palace."
"Oh, yes, we can't go to the Children's Palace, but we can still study. You were born in a good time. I couldn't study before. I looked at others who studied textbooks and envied them."
Liang Baoling listened from the side, pouted and muttered, "What is there to envy?"
Although the voice was small, Song Chunhua had sharp ears. "What are you talking about?"
"Nothing!" Liang Baojun raised his head and chest and coaxed his mother, "I will definitely study hard and work hard."
"You are aware of this. Just listen to your sister. Read more books and go fishing less. Also, work on your poor handwriting." Song Chunhua went to the kitchen again, opened the lid, and heated up the porridge she had made at noon. "Please bring some food with you on your way back."
"Baozhen looks like her sister now." Liang Baojun looked at the mother and her two daughters busy in the kitchen and talked to Liang Zhigao, "Dad, look at Baozhen, isn't she exactly like mom when she was young?"
Liang Zhigao held a pack of Daqianmen in his hand, which was a gift from his daughter. It tasted much better than dry tobacco, but of course it was also much more expensive. He only had two hobbies, smoking a cigarette and drinking a glass of wine, but Baozhen said that he couldn't smoke one cigarette after another, he had to be careful about the amount.
"You worry more than your mother." Liang Zhigao smiled, with wrinkles on his face.
The family was talking in the house when Liang Baojun went to the village to look for someone. His eldest sister and brother-in-law went out today without leaving any instructions, so he didn't see them.
When Liang Baojun returned home after a detour, he found that his elder sister and brother-in-law had already returned home.
However, everyone in the main room had a solemn look on their faces. Liang Zhigao was sitting on a bench, holding a cigarette in his left hand but not smoking. Song Chunhua was holding her chest as if she was in pain, and Baozhen and Baoling were comforting her.
My eldest sister and brother-in-law stood in front of several people, their mouths tightly shut and their heads lowered, as if they were standing as punishment.
"What's wrong?"
No one answered him.
Only Liang Baoling quietly moved to the second brother's side, tugged at his clothes, and whispered, "Eldest sister and brother-in-law are getting divorced."
Not only Liang Baojun, but everyone in the Liang family was shocked by the news. Divorce?
Liang Zhigao looked at Song Jianguo with a sullen face, "Jianguo, you should know in your heart how Baoying has treated you since she married you. I have a clear conscience about how our Liang family has treated you. Now you actually want to trick my daughter into getting a divorce!"
Liang Zhigao almost shouted the word "divorce"!
There is no divorce in Damian Village. Only widows whose husbands have died have a hard life. Many people gossip about them and stare at them. They are the target of gossip among the villagers.
"Song Jianguo, how can you be so mean! Divorce, you actually want to divorce Baoying!" Song Chunhua was so angry that her head hurt and her heart ached. Is this what a human being can say? She pointed at her eldest son-in-law and shouted at the top of her lungs!
Liang Baoying looked at her angry parents with tears in her eyes. She supported her mother and cried, "Mom, Jianguo and I are not really divorced. I just want him to go back to the city first and come back to pick me and Mengmeng up when he settles down."
"You are confused! Baoying!" Song Chunhua grabbed the girl's shoulders, trying to wake her up. "Do you know what kind of life a divorced woman lives? He said divorce and he divorced? He patted his butt and went back to the city. What will happen to you and Mengmeng in the future! What will we do!"
"Mom..." Liang Baoying clenched her hands tightly, looking at her excited mother, feeling sad, "It's okay, just get through it."
Song Jianguo's face turned pale. He felt upset. He knew he had let down the Liang family. He knelt on the ground and said, "Dad, Mom, Baoying and I talked about this. I came up with the idea. Don't worry. I will settle down as soon as possible after I return to the city and bring her and Mengmeng to the city!"
Liang Baozhen felt very upset when she heard her parents scolding and her elder sister and brother-in-law crying. How did things turn out like this?
"Brother-in-law, didn't I tell you? You still have to take the college entrance examination! You will recover soon, why do you still want a divorce?" Liang Baozhen didn't know why he changed his mind.
"College entrance exam? Go to university?" Song Jianguo looked at Liang Baozhen and felt that she was relaxed. "I don't want to count on something that doesn't exist. Now there is a ready-made opportunity in front of me. If I don't seize it, who knows what will happen in the future!"
Last time, Song's parents had told him that it was difficult to find a job quota to sell jobs. It was easy for no one to be willing to sell jobs. If you miss this opportunity, you will never have it again.
If I don't go back to the city with the help of a job now, if the college entrance examination is not resumed in the future or I fail the exam after it is resumed, then there will be no hope forever.
He felt a chill down his spine just thinking about the fact that he would have to stay in Damian Village for the rest of his life.
"Bullshit! You bastard! You are enjoying yourself back in the city, but have you ever thought about how many people in the village will look down on my sister and Mengmeng in the future?" Liang Baojun grabbed Song Jianguo by the collar and punched him.
Song Jianguo did not dodge or evade, but prepared to take the punch with a sad face, but Liang Baoying suddenly rushed out and stopped her brother.
"Baojun, don't do anything!" Liang Baoying knew that everyone in her family was doing this for her own good.
She felt more uncomfortable about this than anyone else, but she had to do it.
"Dad, Mom, I know you're worried about me, but Jianguo is a city dweller, and it's been hard for me to work in the countryside these years. It would be fine if I could never go back, and live a peaceful life. But if someone can really go back, how can I stop thinking about it?"
Liang Baoying spoke for a while, as if she had made up her mind. "Jianguo is right. Are we going to let Mengmeng work in the fields like us? If she can go to the city, she can go to a good elementary school and see more things. I don't want her to be like us."
The room was quiet and silent. Liang Baoying's tears fell in strings. She spoke slowly but her voice was a little hoarse. After she finished speaking, she looked at her mother Song Chunhua and held her hand. "Mom, I'm sorry for making you worry. But I'm a mother now. I can tell good from bad and make decisions."
Song Chunhua had tears in her eyes. She was speechless for a moment as she looked at this grown-up and opinionated young lady.
"You will regret it later! Don't come crying to me!"
Song Chunhua pushed the children away and hurried out of the main room to her own room.
Song Jianguo and Liang Baoying did quarrel several times. Most of the time, Song Jianguo begged and persuaded his wife to agree to a divorce. Liang Baoying couldn't make up her mind, but last night, Song Jianguo knelt down in front of her and cried about the hardships he had suffered over the years. She finally couldn't bear it.
The two of them went out early this morning to get a letter of certification from the team leader. The team leader naturally did not expect that the eldest daughter of the Liang family and her husband were going to divorce. In fact, occasionally there would be a couple in the village making trouble and shouting that they were done, but they would be fine in a few days. At most, the team leader would ask the team headquarters or the commune to do some ideological work.
But today is different. He knows Song Jianguo's situation. If an educated youth wants to divorce at this time, doesn't that mean he will abandon his wife and daughter and return to the city alone?
It's no wonder he was alert, as this kind of situation had already happened in the brigade next door. A woman married an educated youth, and now that educated youth's family got a job quota, but she just ran away because the two of them didn't even get a marriage certificate when they got married!
For many years in the village, holding a wedding banquet was considered a formality to announce everyone's marriage, but no one was conscious of getting a marriage certificate, which gave some people an opportunity to take advantage of it.
The educated youth ran away overnight, took a train southward for home, and left behind only a farewell letter in which he said he was sorry to his wife, but there was nothing he could do.
Yesterday, the female comrade was so heartbroken that she jumped into a well. Fortunately, her family found her in time and saved her life.
But the situation seems to be different for Liang Baoying. She is actually willing?!
The team leader Wang Dali came to their house in person, ready to persuade them again that divorce was not a good thing and that they should live a good life.
"Uncle Liang, what's going on in your family? Baoying and Jianguo came to me today and said they wanted a divorce certificate. How can I do that?"
As soon as he entered the house, Wang Dali felt the low pressure of the Liang family looming. Song Chunhua and several girls from the Liang family were not there. Liang Zhigao lit a cigarette and took a puff, his dark face full of worry.
"Hey, Dali, I've made you laugh. Let's talk about this at home. You go back first." Liang Zhigao sighed, feeling miserable. How could he tell outsiders about a fake divorce? It sounded ridiculous!
Liang Baozhen and her younger sister coaxed Song Chunhua back into the house. This matter made their old mother very angry. She was furious and anxious, and her eyes were pounding. She was so angry that she didn't even eat dinner and refused to speak to Baoying.
"Mom, even if you are angry with me, just eat your meal. Don't go hungry." Liang Baoying knew that she was really angry with her mother this time. She tried to hand the meal to Song Chunhua, but was stopped.
Song Chunhua stiffened her neck and spoke coldly. She had a quick temper, but she was always protective of her family and rarely got angry like this. "You're grown up now and have your own ideas. You want to get a divorce without even saying hello. Do you still have me as your mother? Go away. I won't care about you anymore. Do you want to do whatever you want!"
"Mom..." Liang Baoying bit her lip and looked at Song Chunhua with tearful eyes, her heart was broken.
"Forget it, sister, let mom rest for a while, we will go out and talk."
Liang Baozhen helped Liang Baoying outside. Song Chunhua was so angry that her head hurt. She felt better after taking a packet of headache powder. Liang Baoling acted funny and amused her, and finally persuaded her mother to eat a few bites of food.
After the two sisters were busy for a while, they asked Song Chunhua to go to sleep first and closed the door. Liang Baozhen asked Baoling to take Mengmeng away. The younger sister thought of herself as a little adult and always wanted to participate in family affairs, but her elder sister did not give her this opportunity.
After leaving, looking back every few steps, Liang Baozhen and Liang Baoying went to the kitchen door and sat on the pony.
"Sister, have you really thought about the divorce?"
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