◎Second update◎
Since Liang Baozhen did not have to apply for a dormitory, the entire reporting process was much simpler. When she reported to the Academic Affairs Office, she happened to meet several freshmen from the Chinese Department. There were several gay men and women who were older than her, and there was even a gay man who was nearly 40 years old.
At the end of last year and this year, the registration requirements for the college entrance examination were relaxed, and there were almost no restrictions. This has led to a huge age gap among students in the school, which is quite a spectacle.
After completing the reporting process, Liang Baozhen and Xu Shengjie strolled around the campus, looking at the numerous trees, flowers and plants, and the teaching buildings, their hearts filled with anticipation.
"Let's go back. Grandma and the others are waiting for us to have dinner." We are going to the state-owned hotel for dinner today. Liang Baozhen is so greedy.
"good."
When he passed by the Chinese Department desk again, Zhang Haiping had adjusted his mentality, at least nothing could be seen on the surface.
"We'll go home first. Sorry to trouble you today." Liang Baozhen had a few candies on her and she gave some to the three of them.
"Thank you, Comrade Liang Baozhen. See you at the beginning of the semester."
"Okay, see you at the start of school."
Xu Shengjie did not participate in the conversation. He just nodded and signaled to the three people. He glanced at Zhang Haiping and was satisfied to see that he looked calm.
After Liang Baozhen and Xu Shengjie left, Yuan Jing peeled off the candy wrapper and put the sweet orange candy into her mouth. She couldn't help but sigh, "Comrade Liang Baozhen's man is so handsome."
Ouyang nodded in agreement, "He's still a soldier!!"
Not only them, most people have admiration for soldiers and have a natural yearning for the green military uniform.
Only Zhang Haiping continued to feel sad as he watched them leave, remembering his "love" which lasted less than five minutes.
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Zhou Yun took Xu Shengwei and Xu Shengya out of the house, while Shanshan was lying in the stroller driven by her father. The family gathered outside a state-owned hotel. Xu Shengwei and Xu Shengya even changed into their most beautiful clothes to have dinner, and they attached great importance to the occasion as if it were Chinese New Year.
"Oh, Shanshan is awake." Liang Baozhen hadn't seen her daughter for the whole morning and missed her very much. She picked up the daughter who was looking around curiously and smiled at her.
The child looked at his mother, then at his father, and made some babbling sounds.
"Sister-in-law, Shanshan is so happy! It's her first time in a state-owned hotel, she must want to eat too." Xu Shengya walked beside her sister-in-law and held her little niece's hand.
"Yes, Shanshan wants to eat too."
The mother ruthlessly revealed the truth and tapped her little girl's nose, "I just can't eat it."
Xu Shengwei took half a day off today because he had been training with the Children's Palace table tennis team. However, after six months of hard training, his technical skills have improved a lot.
Even the coach praised him for his good comprehension and aggressive style of play.
"What do you want to eat?" Zhou Yun came out today with enough food coupons and money. Good things kept happening in his family. His great-grandson was born, his granddaughter-in-law was admitted to university, his granddaughter was successfully admitted to a key high school, and his grandson also focused on training seriously. There were so many good things that it was hard to count.
Zhou Yun, who is usually frugal, was willing to spend a lot of money on a meal to celebrate.
"Meat!" Xu Shengwei and Xu Shengya said in unison.
Zhou Yun's face was full of wrinkles as he smiled. The two little ones were really eager to eat the meat without any hesitation.
Steamed yellow croaker, braised pork, deep-fried pork slices, halved pork offal, three-fresh soup, and a bowl of white flour steamed buns. The food in the state-owned hotel is authentic, the portions are absolutely not fake, and each dish is full.
Zhou Yun ordered the food and paid for the meal at the counter, then returned to his seat with the receipt from the waiter. Xu Shengya walked with her grandmother, smelling the delicious aroma wafting from the table next to her and couldn't help swallowing her saliva.
"Look how greedy you are." Zhou Yun couldn't remember the last time he came to the state-owned hotel to eat. It seemed that he hadn't been here since something happened at home.
Liang Baozhen knew that her grandmother was frugal, so she immediately made a promise, "Grandma, we will come here often in the future."
It will be much more convenient to eat when it is open.
"How can I be so wasteful?" Zhou Yun shook his head repeatedly. "You youngsters can come and have a bite from time to time, but I'm old and it's too much for me to eat once."
There was a table full of dishes, but Zhou Yun hardly touched the meat. He urged others to eat, picking up some for Xiao Wei, then for Xiao Ya, and asking his eldest grandson and his grandson's wife to eat more.
Xu Shengjie had sharp eyes and said to his sister, "Xiaoya, give grandma some more meat."
"good."
Xu Shengya was also ruthless. She immediately picked up a piece of braised pork with chopsticks and put it into grandma's bowl, completely ignoring Zhou Yun's refusal. Liang Baozhen also picked out several pieces of fat braised pork for grandma, and Zhou Yun's bowl was immediately filled with food.
"What are you doing? I can eat by myself." It was a rare opportunity to have a good meal, and Zhou Yun just wanted the children to eat well.
"Grandma, please eat quickly. We can't eat so much."
"Grandma, if you don't eat, I won't eat either." Xu Shengya used her trump card and persuaded Zhou Yun to pick up the chopsticks.
Liang Baozhen held her daughter in her arms and teased her. She had drunk milk powder before coming out, so she wasn't hungry at the moment. But the little girl seemed to feel hungry when she smelled the food on the table.
"Shanshan, be good. We need to grow up a little more before we can eat it."
Shanshan was held in her mother's arms, smelling the fragrance that filled her nose, and her little mouth smacked, looking aggrieved. Liang Baozhen laughed at this, "Look at your daughter, she's so greedy."
Xu Shengjie finished eating first, and then he held his daughter in his arms and hugged her, "She is indeed a greedy cat."
After dinner, the family walked slowly back home and digested the food on the way. The weather was good today, with blue sky, white clouds, lush grass and singing birds. Except that it was a little hot, there was nothing wrong with it.
It was half an hour later when Liang Baozhen returned to the compound. As soon as she entered the compound, she heard someone arguing.
"Dowry? You still want a dowry?" Luo Hongmei's signature hoarse voice echoed in the yard.
The voice that answered her was so sweet that Liang Baozhen had never heard it before.
"Why don't you want a dowry? I've married into your family and have given birth to a child, and you still want to ask for it?"
"Sister Hua, what happened?" Liang Baozhen asked Xu Shengjie to take the child home first. He was not interested in these things anyway. Instead, Zhou Yun and the two children followed them eagerly.
Liu Nianhua was at home today and witnessed the whole process. He knew everything clearly. "Yao Haoyu and the widow Wang are getting married."
It turned out that Li Dazhui's affair brought up the old relationship between Yao Haoyu and Widow Wang. Because the two had extramarital affairs, they were taken away for ideological transformation. However, considering that the child was still young and their situation was not as serious as the fact that Li Dazhui and his wife were still married and had extramarital affairs, they just insisted that it was an accidental incident when they were dating and they couldn't help themselves. Now they have been criticized and educated and have been sent back.
Things had developed to this point, and Luo Hongmei's family had no choice but to let their son marry Widow Wang, and they had to acknowledge their granddaughter as well.
Let alone her granddaughter, even her own cousin's daughter, Luo Hongmei didn't care much. But now, her son, who was treated like a treasure, suddenly has a wife and a child. Luo Hongmei cried for several times and felt very sad.
Widow Wang was a ruthless character. If anyone dared not to marry her or bring the child into the house, she would go to the Revolutionary Committee to complain again! She said that Yao Haoyu had raped her, which was a serious crime. Being a hooligan would lead to imprisonment, so Luo Hongmei had no choice but to admit it.
Just take him home, Luo Hongmei adjusted her mentality and thought of him as adding a helper to the family, but she never expected that this man actually wanted a dowry.
"Our family is willing to accept you, so just be happy! How dare you ask for a dowry? Pah!"
Widow Wang looked good and spoke in a sweet voice. She blocked Luo Hongmei's question with just a few words, "Yao Haoyu insisted on getting into my bed, but now you don't acknowledge me? If you don't want to give me the betrothal gift, forget it. I'll go to the Revolutionary Committee and explain the situation."
"You!" Luo Hongmei was pinched in the soft spot, and she immediately stopped. What else could she do? It was all her son's fault.
She looked around at the busy people, some washing dishes, some hanging clothes, all listening attentively, knowing that family shame should not be made public.
Luo Hongmei held her breath and pulled her daughter-in-law, Widow Wang, into the house. "Let's talk inside! What are you arguing about outside?"
After Luo Hongmei led her new wife into the house and slammed the door, everyone in the yard began to whisper.
"Does Luo Hongmei really want to welcome that widow Wang into the family?"
"What else can we do? The child is already five months old."
Liang Baozhen didn't care about Luo Hongmei's family affairs, but she felt sorry for the child. She was only one month older than Shanshan, but she had been tortured so many times. Moreover, Luo Hongmei was a grandmother whose preference for boys over girls was clearly written on her face. She didn't know how her life would be like in the future.
After returning home, Liang Baozhen took the sleepy girl in her arms. As soon as she touched the child's butt, she found something was wrong; it was warm.
"Shanshan seems to have pooped!"
"Really?"
Xu Shengjie's thoughts were not as careful as his wife's. After checking, he found that his daughter had really defecated secretly. "No wonder she didn't respond when I teased her just now. Her little face was wrinkled. She was really exerting herself."
"Change the diaper now."
There were several diapers for Shanshan hanging in the Xu family's yard. Zhou Yun felt sorry for the child, so he made them from the softest old clothes at home. He especially sewed old quilt covers on the side that touched the buttocks so that it was not uncomfortable to wear.
Xu Shengjie was washing diapers at the sink. In the room, Shanshan was held in her grandmother's arms and Liang Baozhen was washing her butt.
Shanshan's face was facing outside and she could see her father rubbing the diaper.
"Shanshan, did you see that? Daddy is washing your diapers." Zhou Yun pointed at Xu Shengjie and Shanshan in front of him and spoke.
"Hey, why did Shanshan poop secretly? Shanshan has become smelly!" Xu Shengwei looked at his niece and teased her deliberately, "What should we do if Shanshan becomes smelly in the future?"
Shanshan: “…”
Shanshan didn't understand, Shanshan knew nothing.
Liang Baozhen tested the water temperature and poured a little water onto the girl's buttocks. Seeing that she accepted it well, she began to wash her buttocks. After hearing Xu Shengwei's words, she spoke, "Shanshan, tell your uncle that we don't stink, right? Your buttocks will smell good after we wash them."
"e!"
Shanshan made some babbling sounds again, and Liang Baozhen always felt that the girl was answering her!
My daughter-in-law can’t really be a genius!
However, little Shanshan still has no sense of shame, and she doesn't know if this incident will be brought up by her family in the future. The diapers hanging outside are evidence of this, and they will be well preserved by her grandmother.
After dinner, the courtyard became lively again. Each household washed their dishes and gathered together to talk. Only Luo Hongmei did not come out. She seemed to be angry. Instead, the new daughter-in-law, Widow Wang, had already come out with her daughter in her arms to talk to everyone.
Even though she spoke toughly to Luo Hongmei and even outspoken this big mouth, she was actually very polite to the neighbors in the yard.
"I'm new here. If there's anything I haven't done well, please feel free to tell me." He then distributed candies to each household, smiling sweetly.
Even though this person had a bad reputation before and had caused trouble with Li Dazhu and Yao Haoyu, now after all, people didn't say anything and could only respond with a few polite words.
No matter what, superficial peace must be maintained.
A few days later, Liang Baozhen heard Aunt Zhang and Aunt Li chatting again, saying that Widow Wang finally took 50 yuan from Luo Hongmei as a betrothal gift. Luo Hongmei was so angry that she lay in bed for a whole day and almost died.
"Then she's pretty powerful." After all, besides Yao Haoyu, the only one who could get money from Luo Hongmei was the widow Wang.
"No, I think Luo Hongmei has met her nemesis this time. Wang Xiaocui is very polite when she speaks, but she is soft and hard to Luo Hongmei. I don't think Luo Hongmei can resist it at all."
The author has something to say:
Shanshan: My mother’s filter for me is as thick as a city wall~
Grandma: Dedicated to collecting evidence of Shanshan’s dark history
Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution: 1 bottle for Mu Ni Ge Da Chen Chen Ya; 2 bottles for a bowl of rice;
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