Jiang Jun returned to the dormitory, but did not rush to read. Instead, he took out a pen and paper to draw a sketch.
I drew a wardrobe, then a dining table, and also designed an embroidery pattern for the door curtain on the wardrobe. Then I thought of it and drew the design of the handbag and bow I wanted to make.
Before I knew it, I had been painting for a whole day.
Until Chen Zhenbao brought Li Caixia and knocked on the door: "Teacher Xiao Jiang, I brought you some local specialties."
Jiang Jun was surprised to see Li Caixia: "Why do you run out every day? Don't you have to go to school?"
Li Caixia blushed and said, "School hasn't started yet. Brother Bao said you were staying here, so I wanted to come over and help out. I grew up in the countryside, so I know how to kill chickens and fish."
Chen Zhenbao held up the two-foot-long grass carp in his hand and said, "My comrade brought it back. I'm going to borrow your stove and pot to cook it. Xiaoxia knows how to cook."
Jiang Jun's nameless fire began to burn again. She and Chen Yuanwu had both filed a marriage report, but they hadn't even cooked a meal together yet, and Chen Zhenbao actually brought Li Caixia to her place to arrange a dinner!
It makes her angry just thinking about it. From childhood to adulthood, Li Caixia has only cooked a few meals for her!
Now that I go to her house to cook, she actually gets to eat for free!
No, she has to sabotage it!
"The gas tank is new, and the pot is big enough, but there's not enough seasoning. There's only salt, soy sauce, vinegar, onions, garlic, etc. Oh, and there aren't enough bowls and chopsticks either. There are only two lunch boxes."
When Chen Zhenbao heard Jiang Yun didn't refuse, he immediately said, "What else do you need? I'll go buy it now!"
As long as he could get them to stay for dinner, he would run errands no matter what Jiang Jun said.
Jiang Jun looked at Li Caixia and for some reason suddenly remembered that Jiang Yuan never ate fish so Li Caixia only made vegetarian food. "Li Caixia, you can cook fish, right? Then make me some fish head tofu soup, braised fish with garlic sprouts, or fish cubes with black bean sauce!"
She was a little emotional, with a hint of anger, and her words sounded like orders.
Unexpectedly, Li Caixia was very happy to hear this and said repeatedly, "These dishes are all my specialties. I'll go clean the fish now. Brother Bao, you go buy the seasonings and tofu. I'll bring the rice back from the cafeteria."
Chen Zhenbao was also happy. This recipe was even better than he had imagined! He carefully asked about the items he wanted to buy, wrote them down carefully, and then turned and ran.
Li Caixia followed Jiang Jun into the house, took a kitchen knife and cutting board, picked up the grass carp on the ground, and walked to the kitchen to clean the fish.
Jiang Jun stood in the room in a daze, his right hand on his waist, biting the nail of his left thumb, wondering how he would cause trouble next.
Li Caixia came in carrying a large basin full of processed fish chunks, her words full of flattery and caution: "It's already marinated with salt. I'll start cooking when Brother Bao comes back with the seasoning. Teacher Xiao Jiang, this is really convenient. That gas stove is really great."
Not only will the flames be bright, but you won't have to chop wood or pick out ashes. It will clean up cleanly and won't burn the bottom of the pot black.
The capital is great, the army is great!
Jiang Jun is still trying to adjust her thinking. In another time and space, her mother, Li Caixia, who only had eyes for Jiang Yuan, is now just a girl in front of her who is still looking for a sense of existence and value.
Although angry, Jiang Jun suddenly couldn't bear to bully Li Caixia: "Where are you from? You speak Mandarin so well!"
The aloof teacher Xiao Jiang suddenly took the initiative to ask questions, which made Li Caixia very excited. "Brother Bao and I are from the same hometown. We are from neighboring villages. Brother Bao and my second cousin went to elementary school together. When I was a child, I loved listening to the words spoken in movies. Whenever I went to the movies, I would imitate them. I often followed the movie show to several villages in a row. After watching a movie more than ten times, I could speak all the words in the movie!"
Jiang Jun didn't expect Li Caixia to be so ambitious since she was young: "Then why did you come to Beijing to study?"
Li Caixia hesitated for a moment and said, "I didn't go to school in Beijing. I went to school in our county. My family didn't want me to continue my studies and wanted me to go home and get married. But when Bao Ge came back to visit his family, I asked him to take me to the city to work as a nanny."
In fact, when Chen Zhenbao was talking to everyone about how good foreign war movies were, he mentioned that some people could understand foreign movies without translation, which aroused Li Caixia's extreme admiration and interest. With the simple idea that learning a song well means learning a foreign language well, she tried to persuade Chen Zhenbao and insisted on going to Beijing to meet Jiang Jun.
Jiang Jun broke out in a cold sweat, thinking that Chen Zhenbao was Huang Shiren. It turned out that Chen Zhenbao was the good man who rescued Li Caixia from the fire pit!
"So you plan to be a nanny?" Jiang Jun remembered that Li Caixia was Jiang Yuan's full-time life assistant. Whenever he went abroad, Li Caixia served as his translator. With her unbearable spoken English and an electronic translation dictionary, she traveled around the world.
If I were to become a nanny, where could I get the opportunity to learn a foreign language?
Such bad grammar, such terrible pronunciation, the root cause must be in this time and space!
Li Caixia pursed her lips, clenched her fists, and made up her mind. She stared at Jiang Jun with her big eyes and said seriously, "Teacher Jiang, I want to be your nanny. I'll cook for you, wash your clothes, and mop the floor. You don't have to pay me. As long as you can teach me a foreign language, is that okay with me?"
To put it bluntly, it is an exchange, exchanging physical labor for knowledge learning.
Li Caixia still thinks that the working people are above all else. She doesn't know that the monthly income of a nanny can only allow her to receive three to five hours of foreign language tutoring at most. She thinks that the exchange conditions she proposed are particularly tolerant and compromising.
However, in the 1970s, the whole nation continued to deny individual economic behavior. In terms of learning cultural education, the state vigorously implemented compulsory universal education, coupled with the criticism of educators during the cultural reform movement. As a result, in the following decades, many working-class people mistakenly believed that all education was free and that it was an obligation for educated people to tutor others.
Jiang Yun murmured, "Cooking, mopping the floor, and washing clothes?"
Why does it sound so happy? For Jiang Yun, who has become accustomed to being taken care of by Jiang Yonghua, it is a happy thing that someone will still take care of her housework in the future.
Especially accepting Li Caixia's care, it seemed that it could make up for her long-term loss of being ignored by Li Caixia, and comfort her grievance of not having enjoyed the care of her parents.
She wanted to agree immediately! Right now!
Li Caixia nodded vigorously: "I can still work in the fields, planting rice and vegetables, chopping wood and pulling weeds, and I can also make clothes."
Jiang Jun still had another point of hesitation: "But I don't have a job yet."
Before finding a job, you hire a nanny at home. This is simply the bourgeoisie exploiting the working people. This is a typical example of the bourgeoisie exploiting the working people and should be put on the stage to receive criticism and education from the whole nation!
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