It can be said that everyone enjoyed the meal to their heart's content.
Even after the meal was over, everyone was still reluctant to leave.
So we started chatting about family matters.
Mr. Hua glanced at Qiao Mai, then smiled and looked at Shen Qingyun, asking, "Have you approved their report?"
Shen Qingyun was obviously stunned for a moment before he reacted. He looked at Qiao Mai, smiled and shook his head: "You have to ask our instructor about this matter. Anyway, I haven't seen anyone submit a marriage report to us."
Qi Feng also smiled and added: "Don't ask me, I haven't seen it either."
Several people sang in unison and immediately made Qiao Mai blush. But these people were not nominated, so she couldn't explain even if she wanted to.
Li Fang couldn't stand it anymore, so she put her arm around her shoulders and said to Shen Qingyun and the others, "Captain, instructor, my sister-in-law is shy, please don't say that to her. She just came back and hasn't started working yet. My brother said that he and my sister-in-law will go to the battalion headquarters to submit the marriage application tomorrow."
As soon as the sister-in-law said this, it immediately caused a burst of good-natured laughter from everyone.
Qiao Mai's face turned red, and he quickly broke free from Li Fang's hand on his shoulder and slapped her.
"Who is your sister-in-law? You are the one who talks too much!"
Li Fang was not angry either, she just kept laughing at her. The more Qiao Mai laughed, the more embarrassed she became. At the end of the laughter, the little girl was so angry that she wanted to stand up and leave.
Yin Xiaoman grabbed her.
Then he gave Li Fang a glare and said, "Stop teasing her. She'll cry if you do."
Li Fang nodded repeatedly, but still couldn't control her laughter. It can be seen that she really likes Qiao Mai to be her sister-in-law.
Yin Xiaoman pulled Qiao Mai back to sit next to her, and then asked, "When are you going to get married? Where will you live after marriage?"
People at this time had simple weddings without any ceremony.
At most, on the wedding night after get off work, we would invite everyone to sit in the new house and give them some peanuts, candies, etc. If a leader says a few words to you, it would be very face-saving.
So, where you live is a more important thing than when to get married.
Hearing Yin Xiaoman's question, everyone turned their attention to Qiao Mai, and Mr. Hua asked directly, "You will still live with your parents after marriage, right?"
If Qiao Mai had married someone else, Mr. Hua might not have asked this question. But the relationship between Li Hai and Mr. and Mrs. Qiao...there is no problem of discord between father-in-law and son-in-law at all.
Now the three members of the Qiao family live in the house, and no one disturbs them.
However, Li Hai currently lives in the same dormitory with Chen Gong.
In this case, the easiest way is naturally for Li Hai to move over and live directly in Qiao Mai's current room.
It doesn't bother anyone and it saves a lot of trouble.
But what no one expected was that Qiao Mai shook his head.
"I have discussed it with Li Hai, and I will move into his room when the time comes. He has also informed Engineer Chen, and Engineer Chen said it's no problem."
Seeing everyone's puzzled looks, Qiao Mai explained, "My parents sometimes have to work overtime when they come home at night.
They both have trouble sleeping, and if one of them works overtime, the other one can't sleep either. If I move out, I can use that room as a study. They can go to that room when they work overtime, and the other person can also have a good rest. ”
Hearing her say this, Mr. Hua immediately nodded in understanding.
For people like them who overuse their brains, insomnia can be said to be a big problem surrounding everyone.
Especially when you are working and thinking too much and are too excited, it is difficult to fall asleep even in a very quiet situation. Not to mention that there were people busy working next to them with the lights on.
It is really important to have a quiet environment at this time.
The senior engineers in the expert group said that only Engineer Qiao and his family lived with their children, and they had indeed ignored this issue in the past.
Now hearing Qiao Mai bring it up, Mr. Hua was the first to agree.
"It's better to move out. If you move out, your parents won't interfere with each other anymore."
But at this time, Ning Gong spoke.
"Xiao Chen agreed? Then, what if his two children go back to live there in the future?"
Mr. Hua was obviously stunned by these words.
"Xiao Chen's children? Don't Xiao Chen's children live with their grandfather?"
Yin Xiaoman knew that the Little Chen the two elders were talking about was Chen Gong, also known as Chen Mingli, the father of Chen Mingshi.
She glanced at Ning Gong and saw the confusion in the old man's eyes, so she knew that he might not understand the situation either.
I explained a few words to Mr. Hua on his behalf.
“Mr. Chen’s children did live with Mr. Chen before, but I heard from Dabao yesterday that they sometimes go to Mr. Chen’s place to stay for two days.
I guess the kids would miss their dad too, running back and forth between the two places, right? ”
At first, Master Chen and Engineer Chen ignored him and did nothing else to care about the child except giving him money.
Not only did he fail to fulfill his responsibilities as a father, but he also caused a big fuss about his mother-in-law's family, who almost tortured his two children to death.
The old man was completely disappointed with his son and immediately proposed to take his two grandsons away from the island, but was finally persuaded by Qi Feng.
For this purpose, he was asked to exchange jobs with Cui Yan and go to the mountains to raise bees.
The old man was strong-willed and had almost no contact with Mr. Chen since that incident. Not only did she ignore him, she also moved her child out to live with him in the staff dormitory instead of living with him.
Logically speaking, the three of them, a family of three, came to seek refuge with Mr. Chen and should live in the same house.
But with things like this, no one can ask the old man to go back and live there.
There was no choice but to readjust the dormitory.
The old man was given an extra dormitory, and half of Mr. Chen's house was taken back, so the bachelor Li Hai moved into the room that was originally reserved for Mr. Chen.
Mr. Chen has no objection to these.
He was born to be a scholar and researcher.
Apart from knowledge, I am actually very indifferent to things around me.
In the past, I felt more responsibility than affection towards my wife, children, and parents, and now towards my father and children...
You can ask him to pay for support, no problem. Every month when your salary is paid, you can take it all without keeping a single cent.
But if you want to find love or affection from him, it will be much more difficult than asking for money.
So, whether his father moved out or Li Hai moved in, it didn't make much difference to him.
People who have little contact with him don’t know about these things, but because her brother lives with that person, Li Fang knows them clearly.
At this moment, when she heard Yin Xiaoman say, "Maybe the child will miss his father too," she burst into laughter out of anger.
"What do you mean little kid missing his dad? Xiaoman, you are wrong."
Having said that, she looked at the other people at the table, hesitated for a moment, and seemed to regret having spoken too quickly.
But after thinking about it again, she explained: "I'm not saying bad things about people behind their backs. In fact, if you really want to talk about it, it's not anyone else's fault. It's just that my brother is too soft-hearted."
Hearing her say this, everyone found it very strange and looked at her with puzzled eyes.
Li Fang bit her lower lip, glanced at Qiao Mai again, and then said in a desperate tone: "Well, now that we've come to this, I won't hide it. Qiao Mai, you must know about this after you marry my brother. The main reason is that my brother is too thin-skinned, and he can't handle this matter at all."
Then, Li Fang told the story of what happened.
It turns out that although Mr. Chen usually keeps to himself and doesn't even interact with his family, he is actually a very close friend of his on this island.
In his thirties, he is in the prime of life. His wife died, and although he had two children, they are now being raised by his father.
The old man has his own salary and is tough. Judging from his attitude, not only do they not need him to take care of them now, but the old man and two children don't seem to want to live with him in the future.
He had a high salary, no burden, and was still in his prime... A bachelor like him was a very good choice even when there were few women on the island.
So it didn't take long for him to be noticed by Zhang Xiaozhi, a military worker who worked at the breeding farm.
Zhang Xiaozhi is not very old, only about twenty-five or twenty-six years old. She is the surviving relative of a martyr. After she joined the army, her husband unfortunately died while on a mission.
Normally, in her situation, she should have taken the pension and returned home, but it happened that the island was recruiting military workers.
She had raised pigs in a production team in her hometown before. When she knew that the island was recruiting breeders, she signed up for the assessment and was selected to come to Zhongshan Island.
Not long after Zhang Xiaozhi arrived on the island, she fell in love with Chen Gong. But she couldn't communicate with Mr. Chen, so she set her sights on the two children, Chen Mingli and Chen Mingshi.
Although Master Chen raises the twins, he spends most of his time in the mountains. Sometimes they didn’t come back for lunch, so I bought them meal tickets and let them eat in the cafeteria.
Mr. Chen couldn't even take care of them.
So, the twins are now the two most neglected children on the island. Chen Mingshi was better off. He followed Dabao to pick fruits every day and had the fruits delivered to him by the camp. At least he had something to do. Chen Mingli was completely free-range.
Zhang Xiaozhi showed a little affection for her, and the two of them naturally became much closer.
"Because she went to Engineer Chen's dormitory quite often recently, under the pretext of cooking for Chen Mingli. And every time she went, she went during work hours. Engineer Chen and my brother were not at home, so it was just her and that girl, so no one could say anything to her. Engineer Chen didn't chase her away either. I guess Zhang Xiaozhi thought there was a possibility between her and Engineer Chen."
Speaking of this, Li Fang curled her lips.
"I guess she wanted to kick my brother out so she could move in and make room for him, so she later persuaded the two kids to go and sleep with their dad.
When Mr. Chen gets busy, he sometimes doesn't come home all night and doesn't even go back to the dormitory. The two children couldn't even get into his room.
But with Zhang Xiaozhi's prodding and coaxing, Chen Mingli would always refuse to leave and would just wait for her father there. Chen Mingshi had no choice but to stay there with her. Once again, my brother couldn't stand it anymore and asked them to go to his room.
There was a bunk bed in his room, so he let the two children sleep on the lower bed and he slept on the upper bed.
I originally wanted to fool around like this for one night, and then talk to Mr. Chen and have him either give the kids the keys or tell them when to come.
As a result, they became addicted to sleeping with each other. Now they go to my brother's house every few days, climb into bed with him, and refuse to leave. ”
At this point, Li Fang clenched her fists in anger.
"I have had several arguments with my brother about this, and he also talked to Engineer Chen, but it was useless. It was useless for Engineer Chen to take those two little things. They also went to find my brother after giving him the keys, and they refused to leave after entering the house."
"Then you won't stop your brother from opening the door?" Yin Xiaoman finally couldn't help but ask.
She thought this was simply unbelievable! Regardless of whether someone instigated them or not, these two children were completely ruined by such a father!
If you don't want to raise them or teach them, why did you give birth to them in the first place? !
Isn't this just cultivating two disasters?
"Otherwise, I'll have a fight with my brother!" Li Fang raised her hand angrily, obviously wanting to slam it on the table. But when he looked at the person sitting at the table, he lowered his head again in embarrassment.
She slapped her legs hard. "He is a thin-skinned man who can't stand a crying child. He didn't open the door and Chen Mingli was crying outside, so he opened the door again."
At this point, Li Fang turned to look at Qiao Mai and said, "Sister-in-law, I'm telling you, you can't indulge my brother in the future. He needs someone to supervise him because of his temper. Otherwise, you don't know what he might do that you can't even imagine!"
Her words made Qiao Mai's face turn ugly.
"I'm going to talk to Zhang Xiaozhi tomorrow." Shen Qingyun was the first to stand up.
Qi Feng looked at him and was about to speak out to stop him, but Mr. Hua waved his hand at him first.
"Don't worry about this. You can't do anything about it. What evidence do you have to prove that it was that woman who did it? What can you do if she doesn't admit it? I'll go and talk to Chen Sixing.
Before installing the outside, first fix the inside. How can I trust him with my work if he can’t even handle the household chores? ”
When Mr. Hua said this, everyone agreed.
For someone like Mr. Chen who is devoted to learning and technology, it is useless to tell him anything else.
If you tell him not to work, he will definitely take it seriously.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
