"It's good enough that the country waives tuition, but they also give us cars? What are we thinking?" Qian Wenwen rolled her eyes. Her sisters-in-law are so naive.
Xu Li suddenly spoke up: "So, how did Sister Shiyue buy the car?"
The sisters-in-law in the room were standing, sitting, playing cards, knitting sweaters, or mending shoe soles. They looked at each other, with confusion in their silence.
Wang Yan said, "Maybe it was bought by Shi Yue's family?"
"Impossible!" The sister-in-law who was knitting the sweater shook her head. "My family's Lao Yang has a fellow villager who works in the repair camp, and we go to his house for dinner from time to time. One time, it happened that sister-in-law Jiang Shiyue invited the entire battalion to dinner. Note, it was the entire battalion! Think about the thousands of officers and soldiers! They were slaughtering pigs and sheep, and the table was full of delicious dishes. We all took advantage of it and ate to our heart's content!
Of course, people chatted during meals! They just gossiped a little. Jiang Shiyue's wife had been sent to the countryside to work as a sent-down youth. I heard she was the only one left at home. The money she used to buy meat came from her business.
Another sister-in-law, standing against the wall and cracking melon seeds, nodded. "Yes! I've heard about that, too. One of my fellow villagers married into the compound over there, but she's not from the repair camp. I heard from my fellow villagers that this sister-in-law Jiang Shiyue is very interesting. She used to be a spendthrift, causing Captain Chen to be heavily in debt, and the sisters-in-law and children in the family compound who offended her were constantly scolding her. But this summer, she suddenly turned over a new leaf. She sold all her clothes to compensate the other sisters-in-law. She also went to work in a garment factory. She took the money she earned from work and bought pigs and sheep in the nearby village to treat the entire camp to a meal.
She would also design her own clothes and have the sisters-in-law in the family compound make them for her. This way, the sisters-in-law made a lot of money with her.”
"Yeah." The sister-in-law who was knitting excitedly pulled out her sweater needle and gestured in the air twice. "You see, the conditions here are pretty good, right? But the TVs upstairs in our family building probably don't even have as many as those in the repair camp. The sisters-in-law over there always speak highly of Sister Jiang Shiyue."
“…”
Xu Li, who had asked the initial question, had been listening attentively, her eyes flickering occasionally. After everyone had spilled their guts about Jiang Shiyue, she spoke softly, "But, if you say she started earning money in May, how could she go from being heavily in debt to being able to buy a car in just seven or eight months? And she's a university student! She's been attending classes since September, right?"
Qian Wenwen said, "Huh?" "Oh, right! How did she make so much money in just half a year?"
"Didn't she say she could design clothes?"
"That's not that impressive! Forget designing clothes. Just ask a small garment factory if they can make a profit of over 100,000 yuan in half a year."
"Where did Jiang Shiyue get the money? It couldn't be from illegal sources, right?"
The room was silent for a moment because of these words.
Wang Yan tried to smooth things over, "How is that possible? All of us military wives have passed the political review. Since Jiang Shiyue is already a military wife, her background must be impeccable. Otherwise, she wouldn't even be able to pass Captain Chen's test. Oh! In my opinion, no matter how rich Shiyue is, that's her business. What does it have to do with us? Why are you all gossiping about how much money she has? Sister Wenwen, did your boyfriend fly away today? My husband, Lao Zhang, left this morning and hasn't come back yet!"
"I flew. But today I'm flying a transport plane, so it's not a big deal. I'll be back in the evening!"
“…”
The topic changed at this point.
No one noticed the flash of disappointment in Xu Li's eyes.
***
In the evening, Chen Shanhe went to the brigade headquarters for a meeting.
Jiang Shiyue sat cross-legged on the sofa, looking at Yangyang playing games in front of the TV, and sighed in boredom.
She has been busy ever since she traveled through time. When she finally had some free time, she found that she was not as happy as she had imagined, but rather a little bored.
The first two days after returning from winter vacation were quite comfortable. I slept until I woke up naturally every day, took Yangyang to the city to eat delicious food, or went to see Chen Dingguo and Wu Xiu'e, and stayed with Chen Shanhe until midnight.
But after the novelty of the past few days wore off, Jiang Shiyue was too lazy to drive so long every day.
Chen Shanhe can't always be with her, as he has training and flight missions.
I can only come back to accompany her when I am free.
Only Yangyang remains loyal to her and follows her wherever she goes.
But just follow.
Yangyang still speaks very little, and it is still a passive skill. He only replies but does not speak actively.
And Yangyang spends most of his time reading books or tinkering with parts.
He seemed to like studying mobile phones. He brought back some parts from Huacheng and tinkered with them every day.
The parts in the mobile phone were small and broken, and Jiang Shiyue couldn't understand them.
However, Chen Shanhe once seemed very interested in what he saw. He squatted next to Yangyang and watched for a long time, asking Yangyang a few questions from time to time.
At first, Yangyang answered patiently, but later, probably because his train of thought was often interrupted, he kicked Chen Shanhe out.
Then Chen Shanhe brought back a lot of books from somewhere, more than half of which were foreign books.
The books are all about radio.
Yangyang was immediately interested and put down the parts book in his hand to study. However, Yangyang's knowledge base only contained Chinese characters, so he had to start from scratch to learn English.
So Yangyang started reading the English dictionary again.
But English is different from Chinese. Chinese is Yangyang's mother tongue, and once he learns to recognize characters, he can understand books. But for English, he still needs to learn grammar and structure from scratch.
So Jiang Shiyue opened an English cram school at home, and the students were Yangyang and Chen Shanhe.
Chen Shanhe's English is okay, but just okay. He can't compare with Jiang Shiyue, who has a professional level 8.
Yangyang has the ability to remember everything he sees, and Chen Shanhe himself is at level four or above, so both of them can learn with twice the result with half the effort.
Apart from being an English teacher, Jiang Shiyue is now a typical lifesaver.
When the family cooks occasionally, it is Chen Shanhe who cooks. If Chen Shanhe goes out on a mission, she will ask people in the team to bring her meals.
Occasionally, when she was too busy to take care of him, Wu Xiu'e would call her and ask her to go out for dinner.
But I don’t know when the comfort turned into boredom.
Yangyang always plays games when he's tired of studying. But he's never seen a better game, and he's also very happy playing the black and white Tetris.
But Jiang Shiyue has played King of Glory before, so it should be at least a single-player game at the level of Snake, right?
Even when watching TV, it's 4K Blu-ray.
Even though Jiang Shiyue has been able to adapt well to the pace of life in this era, he still has no interest in these backward entertainments.
I don't want to watch a black and white TV with only two channels.
What can I do?
After Chen Shanhe finished calling the roll, he went home. Yangyang had already taken a shower and gone to bed, leaving Jiang Shiyue half-lying on the sofa, sighing.
Chen Shanhe hung his hat behind the door and asked with a smile while unbuttoning his clothes, "What's going on?"
"boring!"
Chen Shanhe, wearing a gray thermal suit, sat on the edge of the sofa, his arm resting on the back of the sofa. He leaned over and pecked Jiang Shiyue on the lips. "Are you blaming me for coming back late? Do you miss me?"
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