In the blink of an eye, it was December. The day after Chu Jingqiu's birthday, Xiao Yihan took her to get a marriage certificate.
Chu Jingqiu looked at the two marriage certificates that looked like award certificates, her heart filled with excitement and happiness.
She is now a married woman and will spend the rest of her life with her beloved man in the 1970s.
On this day, Chu Jingqiu was sorting cabbages in the vegetable cellar of the staff quarters.
Suddenly, a familiar voice broke the silence. "Jingqiu, Jingqiu, are you there?"
She hurriedly stuck her head out of the vegetable cellar, and without even bothering to brush off the dirt on her body, she ran out in a hurry.
When she opened the door, she found Zhang Pingping standing at her door holding the child. She shouted in surprise: "Sister Pingping, when did you come? Why didn't you say hello to me in advance?"
Zhang Pingping said with a smile, "Yueming wanted to tell you, but I didn't let him because I wanted to give you a surprise."
Chu Jingqiu hurriedly welcomed Zhang Pingping into the house. "Sister Pingping, come in quickly! It's cold outside. Don't let the little one get frozen!"
After entering the house, Chu Jingqiu washed her hands while asking, "Sister Pingping, when I left, the child hadn't been named yet. We kept calling each other 'baby, baby' in our correspondence. What's the little one's name?"
Zhang Pingping unwrapped the child. "My dad gave him a nickname, Maomao. His full name is Du Chenxuan."
Chu Jingqiu paused while wiping his hands, then burst into laughter, "What's your name? Maomao, hahahaha..."
Zhang Pingping asked in confusion, "Jingqiu, what are you laughing at? What's wrong with calling me Maomao?"
Chu Jingqiu laughed breathlessly and said, "Okay... okay... I didn't say it's not good. You don't know, Xiao Yihan's nickname is Maomao.
You said that when the time comes, we both shout: Maomao, and Xiao Yihan also agrees, that scene will be so funny! "
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Pingping also laughed, "This is too much of a coincidence! No, I have to change this nickname for him.
I haven't called him by this nickname very often. My mother gave him the nickname Zhuangzhuang. Everyone in the village calls him a bad boy. Since no one knows, I'll just call him Zhuangzhuang from now on!
If he doesn't change it, it will be embarrassing to have the same name as his father's boss!"
Chu Jingqiu said with a wicked smile, "I think that's a good idea. When the time comes, I'll deliberately stand at the door and call out Maomao. I'll see what Xiao Yihan will do!"
"You just bully Xiao Yihan because he pampers you." Zhang Pingping joked.
Chu Jingqiu stretched out her hands and took Xiao Zhuangzhuang from Zhang Pingping. "Sister Pingping, this little guy is getting more and more handsome. Look, he's not shy when I hold him in my arms. He even smiles at me!"
Zhang Pingping looked at Xiao Zhuangzhuang tenderly, "I've practiced this a long time ago. When we were at home, there were so many people at home that they all rushed to hold me.
When we arrived at the educated youth center, Aihong and Zishan all rushed to hold him. With so many people holding him, he no longer felt shy.
"Sister Pingping, Aihong wrote last time saying that the Beijing Military District was recruiting soldiers and that Zhou Weidong had already joined the army and returned to Beijing. I just don't know which unit he is in."
Zhang Pingping shook her head. "I'm not too sure, but she's not in our unit. Aihong is trying to find a chance to return to the city, so the three of us can be together."
In the autumn, six or seven more educated youth came to the educated youth site. There were more girls among them. They all squeezed into one room and often had conflicts.
Zishan and Aihong have now moved into the same room."
Chu Jingqiu nodded and said, "I heard about this from Aihong. Fortunately, I left, otherwise two or three people would have to squeeze into one room.
By the way, where is Yuan Xingyuan? Didn’t she live in my room? Who will live with her now?
Zhang Pingping wiped Zhuangzhuang's saliva and said, "The new educated youth who came this year seems to be her sister. The two sisters are living in the same room now.
Her sister looks young, and she must have gone to the countryside after graduating from junior high school. Both of them are very capable. I don't know how Yuan Xingyuan got around, but now she works as a private teacher in the village primary school."
Chu Jingqiu kissed Xiao Zhuangzhuang on the cheek. "Sister Pingping, are you here to visit relatives? How long do you plan to stay?"
Zhang Pingping said with a happy face, "I'm not leaving. Our Yueming has been promoted to deputy battalion commander, and I came here to accompany the army.
I also told Yueming at the time that Jingqiu was getting married, and if I couldn't get permission to join the army, I would come to their wedding even if it was just to visit my family."
After saying that, he pointed to the house to the east and said, "It's a coincidence, the house we were assigned is just across the road from you, on the westernmost side of the battalion-level officers' quarters."
Zhang Pingping looked around the room, muttering softly, "Regimental-level housing is big, with three bedrooms and a living room.
Ours is a two-bedroom, one-living room apartment, with one bedroom on the sunny side and one on the shady side. But that's pretty good.
For example, my mother's family of eight, three generations, squeezed into a two-bedroom, one-living room apartment, and even had to partition off the balcony for people to live in.
Chu Jingqiu poured Zhang Pingping a glass of water and handed it to her, "Sister Pingping, is your house tidy now?"
Zhang Pingping replied with a smile, "It's almost done. Yueming has repainted the room.
It’s just that I don’t like the furniture very much. It’s too difficult to buy furniture nowadays, so we will just use the furniture provided by the army for now.
When I came this time, I pulled some wood from the village and will find someone to make some furniture in a few days.
I think the furniture in your house is very beautiful. Are they all new?
We can then fight in your style."
Zhang Pingping went to the bedroom to take a look and said in surprise, "Jingqiu, your wedding photos are actually in color!
The photo of Yueming and I was taken in black and white. Beijing is still very developed. I will take a color photo with Yueming some other day."
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