Chapter 53 Chapter 53

The next day, Shen Moer went to work at school. As soon as she entered the office, Shen Lingling generously gave her two oranges, and then said in a seemingly casual but actually boastful tone: "My aunt introduced me to a guy. After we met, we felt that he was quite suitable. We have already decided that he is a technician in a textile factory. These oranges are from him."

The oranges looked good. Shen Moer took them and gave one directly to Cheng Tao, who was pretending to prepare for class but actually watching the show. Cheng Tao waved his hands and said, "Teacher Shen Lingling gave it to me yesterday."

Shen Moer threw the orange into his hands: "Isn't that from yesterday?"

Then he broke the orange in half with both hands. Shen Moer ate it and said, "Wow, it's quite sweet."

This reaction was not what Shen Lingling expected. Shen Lingling secretly looked at Shen Moer and repeated, "My target is a technician in the textile factory. It seems that someone in his family knows Section Chief Xu of the kiln factory's publicity department."

Shen Moer raised her eyebrows slightly and understood. It seemed that Shen Lingling should know that she and Zhang Junliang had met before. No wonder, before she and Fu Mingze confirmed their relationship, others were talking behind their backs, but Shen Lingling said something like "Love is free and feelings can't be measured by money". Maybe she had already or was preparing to go on a blind date with Zhang Junliang at that time.

Shen Moer sincerely wished: "Then I wish you a happy marriage."

Shen Lingling: "..."

It felt like a fist hitting cotton.

When Shen Lingling and Zhang Junliang went on a blind date, their elders were accompanying them. On her side, her eldest aunt Shen Xianghong accompanied her, and on Zhang Junliang's side, his mother accompanied him. At that time, Zhang Junliang openly told her about his relationship with Shen Moer, and then Zhang's mother directly said that their family didn't like Shen Moer.

At that time, Zhang Junliang's expression was as if he was hesitant to speak. Shen Lingling guessed that as a cultured and well-educated person, he might feel embarrassed to say so bluntly that his family did not like Shen Moer.

Shen Lingling never thought about the possibility that Shen Moer did not like Zhang Junliang. After all, Zhang Junliang was good-looking and gentle, and most importantly, he was a technician in a textile factory. With such conditions, it was completely possible for him to find a formal worker in a state-owned factory, and it was not impossible for him to find a female comrade with the status of a cadre.

To be honest, Shen Lingling actually felt that it was a bit too high for her to find such a target.

But Zhang Junliang said that he did not care about the woman's job or status, but cared more about her character and personality. He just liked her gentleness and kindness.

Shen Lingling looked at Shen Moer and thought that she might be trying to hold on. After all, the technicians at the cotton spinning factory didn't like her, so she could only find a poor educated youth. She certainly didn't want anyone to know about this shameful thing, right?

Shen Moer ignored Shen Lingling, took out two small bags of cakes from the provincial capital from her bag and gave them to Cheng Tao and Shen Lingling, and then discussed the provincial capital competition with Cheng Tao.

Hearing that there were hundreds of students from across the province participating in the competition, Cheng Tao comforted Shen Moer: "After all, winning two awards in the city is already a pleasant surprise. It doesn't matter whether you can win an award in the province. Of course, winning an award is a pleasant surprise."

Cheng Tao meant well, probably because he was afraid that the competition would be too fierce and she would be too disappointed if she didn't win an award. Shen Moer smiled and said, "Yeah, I know." She

originally went there with the idea of ​​seeing the world, and Maomao and Zhou Zhaodi had only studied for a few months, so it was normal that they couldn't win an award in the provincial competition. Shen Moer had a good mentality and really didn't think she had to win an award.

What's more, the people from the provincial organizers had also told them that as long as they entered the finals, they would at least be awarded an excellent award.

Maomao and Zhou Zhaodi must be very happy to win an excellent award, after all, children don't understand the value of any award.

Shen Moer felt that it was fine as long as it didn't dampen their enthusiasm for learning.

Cheng Tao asked when she and Fu Mingze would hold a wedding banquet. As a colleague and an educated youth, he would definitely go to the wedding banquet. Shen Moer told him about the plan she and Fu Mingze had discussed.

During this time, Shen Lingling pretended to prepare for class and listened with her ears tilted. When Shen Moer looked over, she pretended to be very busy.

After school in the morning, when Shen Moer came out, she happened to see Zhou Zhaodi, so she stopped her and asked her about her situation after returning home.

"She didn't beat me, she just scolded me a few words. Last time, the team leader came to our house to find grandpa and said that if I beat or scolded the children again, the family's work points would be deducted. She stopped beating me, but scolded me as well. But it doesn't matter if she scolds me, I won't lose a piece of meat. It doesn't matter if I do more work, as long as I can go to school and paint, I'm happy to do more work."

Zhou Zhaodi said with bright eyes: "Teacher Shen, as long as I study hard and paint hard, I will live a good life in the future, right?"

Shen Moer touched her head and nodded affirmatively: "Yes, yes, absolutely."

Zhou Zhaodi smiled happily immediately.

The master and the apprentice chatted for a while, and when they left the school gate, there was no one in the school. Children get hungry quickly, and they are already crying for hunger before the end of school. When the bell rang, most of them ran away.

Shen Moer sent Zhou Zhaodi home first, but when they came to a fork in the road not far from Zhou Zhaodi's home, Zhou Zhaodi suddenly pulled her and hid in an inconspicuous corner nearby.

Zhou Zhaodi whispered in a low voice: "Teacher Shen, it's Teacher Shen Lingling!"

Shen Moer was a little confused: "Huh?"

Zhou Zhaodi said again: "And Zhang Dianchang."

Shen Moer took a long time to react before she realized who "Zhang Dianchang" was.

It seems that Zhang Zhiqiang is a bit obsessed with power. The chief of the educated youth center is actually mainly responsible for communication and liaison, but he does often emphasize his identity as the chief. Look, even primary school students are familiar with it.

Shen Moer quietly poked her head out, and sure enough, under the pomelo tree not far ahead, Shen Lingling and Zhang Zhiqiang were confronting each other. Zhang Zhiqiang's face was dark red, and his emotions were obviously very excited.

"...We haven't established a relationship, but I thought there should be a tacit understanding between us. I have done so much work for you and given you so many things. I have been pursuing you and you have never refused. I thought you wanted to test me for a while. How could you, how could you do this?!" Zhang Zhiqiang's voice was on the verge of collapse.

"No, Zhang Zhiqing, you praised me before for being kind, brave and having a strong will, and I also think you are kind and generous. We are members and educated youth of the same brigade, and we are like-minded revolutionary comrades. I don't deny this. You helped me and gave me things, and I thought you did it out of friendship between revolutionary comrades, and I also gave you gifts in return. How can you say that we have a tacit understanding to be in a relationship? How is this possible? My family will not allow me and the educated youth to be in a relationship." Shen Lingling said softly but firmly.

"You, you, you gave me gifts in return..."

Zhang Zhiqiang was speechless for a long time. He had given Shen Lingling hairbands, handkerchiefs, candies and even cakes. Shen Lingling did give him a gift in return once, which was two cucumbers picked from her private plot. The value of the gifts was completely incomparable. But Zhang Zhiqiang was a man who cared about his reputation. He couldn't tell her what the gift was in return and how she could dare to bring it up and say such words.

After stuttering for a long time, he finally blurted out: "What do you mean

you are not allowed to find a partner with the educated youth? You are discriminating!" After thinking for a while, he asked with a glimmer of hope: "Comrade Lingling, did your family force you to do that? Your family did not allow you to find a partner with the educated youth, so they forced you to find a partner in the textile factory?"

Shen Lingling said softly: "Zhang Zhiqing, you also said that my partner is from the textile factory. He is not an ordinary worker, but a skilled worker. As a revolutionary comrade, I found such an excellent partner, you should be happy for me."

Zhang Zhiqiang: "..."

After a long silence, he suddenly broke down and yelled: "No, I won't!" While yelling, he turned and ran away.

Shen Lingling watched him run away, then sneered and scolded: "Psychopath." Then he walked in another direction.

Seeing Shen Lingling walking away, Zhou Zhaodi suddenly sighed and said, "Captain Zhang seems a little pitiful."

Shen Moli: "..."

You little student, not only did you secretly watch this excitement, but you also commented on it?

"I told you long ago that Zhang Zhiqiang was being too sentimental. Tsk tsk tsk, he lost his wife and his soldiers. It's so tragic." Wang Qiutong suddenly came out from behind the broken jar in the opposite corner and ran happily to Shen Moer, "Moer, you're back, that's great!"

Shen Moer was curious: "How did you get out from there?"

Wang Qiutong chuckled and said in a low voice: "Zhang Zhiqiang's face has been ugly since the news came out in the evening of the day before yesterday. He has been like eating gunpowder these two days. I guessed that he had to find Shen Lingling. I saw him coming towards the school angrily before, so I followed him quietly." Wang

Qiutong glanced at Zhou Zhaodi who was looking at her curiously with her head tilted up, and said, "Keep it a secret for your sister!"

Zhou Zhaodi covered her mouth with her hand, smiled and nodded.

Wang Qiutong took out two candies from her pocket and stuffed them into Zhou Zhaodi's pocket: "Be good."

Seeing Wang Qiutong's face full of satisfaction, Shen Moer actually wanted to remind her: You are easy to get beaten if you do this. If it were in our Daliang, I'm afraid the grass on your grave would be three feet high.

But in the end, Shen Moer still said: "Let's go, let's send Zhaodi back first. I brought you some cakes from the provincial capital. You can come with me to get some."

Wang Qiutong was surprised: "Moer, you are so nice!"

Since the wedding banquet was going to be held next, Shen Shaoyuan postponed the date originally set for moving into the new house and simply set it on the same day as Shen Moer and their wedding day, which was considered a double happiness.

Before that, the family still needed to buy a lot of things.

Originally, they had not planned to build a bed. In order to maintain their image of poverty, they were going to move the bed they were using to make do with it. But since it was a wedding, they had to build a new bed. They could build one or two, so they just built two.

Shen Shaoyuan wanted to build a dressing table for his daughter, but due to their "poverty" and the current situation, they could not build a dressing table, which was not very practical and even had a bit of petty bourgeoisie. In the end, they built a more practical five-drawer cabinet.

In addition to the eight-immortal table, benches, and wooden benches for dining, the cabinets for the bedroom, and some small items, such as a washbasin rack for hanging washbasins and towels, etc., they used up all their wood quotas in a short time, and even owed some to the brigade.

But the good thing is that, under the pretext of marriage, all the furniture that should be purchased was purchased at once.

It is not surprising that you have to make furniture for a wedding even if you have to tighten your belt.

Then there are some daily necessities, quilts, quilt covers, washbasins, thermoses, bowls and chopsticks, towels, toothbrushes, soaps... a bunch of miscellaneous things, but most of these were prepared by Fu Mingze. Before Shen Moer took the time to buy them, he sent them to her, saying that he borrowed some money from Zheng Jiamin and Bao Ge.

He refused to take the money even if she gave it to him, saying that he would find a way to pay it back. Seeing his firm attitude, Shen Moer had to let it go. Anyway, they will live together after marriage, and they will pay off the foreign debt together.

While busy preparing her trousseau, Shen Moer also found time to embroider an embroidery piece. It was still a peony pattern, the style that Concubine Cao liked the most, but this time it was a complete pattern. After finishing the embroidery, Shen Moer found a time to mail it.

Between work, embroidery, and preparing her trousseau, Shen Moer was extremely busy.

Fu Mingze was also very busy. It was already more time-consuming to prepare those miscellaneous items, and he also had to go to work and help set up a test field for the village.

So even though they were in the same village, Shen Moer actually didn't see Fu Mingze many times during this period. Every time they met, they just said a few words in a hurry, and then they each had their own things to do.

Compared to Shen Moer who was very careful and cautious about buying things that would attract attention, Shen Lingling was much more high-profile. Almost every time the Zhang family sent something, they wanted to make a big fuss so that the whole village would know.

Zhang Junliang's family was short of housing, so the two families finally agreed that after marriage, Zhang Junliang and Shen Lingling would live in Yangliu Brigade.

Shen Lingling now lives alone in half of a large green brick and tile house, and this half will continue to be "lent" to the couple in the future.

Shen Laoer and his wife are both smart people. It is not reasonable for them to pay for half of the green brick and tile house when their daughter gets married. It is said to be a loan, but it is actually a rental. They will charge the couple ten yuan in rent every year.

Of course, in addition to the rent, the couple felt that letting a skilled worker son-in-law live in their home would definitely bring them other benefits.

They would eat from the same pot, and if the son-in-law bought some delicious dishes, they would definitely have a share, right? Living in their home, they would be seen every day, and the son-in-law would have to show his appreciation during festivals, right? As for

skilled workers, they could not spend all their monthly salary of more than ten yuan, and any savings would be a huge income for them as rural people.

Because the couple were going to live in Yangliu Brigade, the furniture and household items purchased by the Zhang family were gradually moved into Shen Lingling's house.

Actually, if you count them carefully, there aren't many big items. Shen Lingling's room already had a bed, a desk, a chair, and a box. The Zhang family sent a five-drawer cabinet, two rattan boxes, thermos bottles, spittoons, and the like.

Oh, and the most valuable thing, a radio that is 80% to 90% new.

Zhang Junliang has a bicycle, and when he and Shen Lingling settled down, he gave Shen Lingling a watch. With this radio, it's like three turns and one sound plus two turns and one sound.

Even if it's not brand new, Shen Laoer and his wife feel very proud.

No girl in the village gets married with so many things.

Take Shen Moer for example. Her family does have a second-hand bicycle, but that was bought by Shen Laoqi himself. Fu Mingze is so poor that he has to fight with others to buy a few towels. How can they expect him to buy three and turn them over for the rest of his life?

In addition, Shen Laoer and his wife actually have an ulterior motive.

Shen Lingling and his wife can't live in Yangliu Brigade forever. When Zhang Junliang allocates a house, they will definitely move out. When they move to the new house, they can't take away the things in the house. Most of the things will belong to the Shen family.

Therefore, the second Shen family did not think that there was anything wrong with finding a worker son-in-law and having to live with him at home. Instead, they were very happy.

As for what the Zhang family was thinking, they did not consider it at all.

Time passed unknowingly, and Shen Moer spent her eighteenth birthday in a busy manner.

There was no big celebration, just calling Fu Mingze, and the family of three had dinner together. Shen Shaoyuan was responsible for frying a round poached egg like a full moon, and Fu Mingze was responsible for cooking a bowl of longevity noodles.

Every year before, Shen Shaoyuan cooked longevity noodles himself, but from this time on, Shen Shaoyuan just gave instructions by the stove and handed over the job of cooking longevity noodles to Fu Mingze.

After her birthday, Shen Moer reached the legal age for marriage.

Early in the morning, Fu Mingze knocked on the door of the Shen family courtyard. Shen Shaoyuan opened the door with a dark face and stared at him: "What are you doing here so early?"

Fu Mingze smiled as warm as spring breeze: "Go to register and get the marriage certificate today, go early to get a good start."

Shen Shaoyuan: "..."

Although he will be a formal son-in-law soon, this pretty boy is really annoying!