Chapter 18 Chapter 18 Chapter 18 Jin Menglan...
Chapter 18
Jin Menglan's gaze was too scorching. Ma Junming saw Jin Menglan in the crowd as soon as he turned around, and immediately rode his bicycle over to say hello.
"Meng Lan!"
He first called out Jin Menglan with genuine emotion, then looked at the village chief beside him, and his attitude changed to a natural and friendly one as he called out, "Sixth Uncle!"
The village chief of Kaoshan Village is named Shan Xing'an. He has many brothers and sisters, so most of the younger generations in the village call him Sixth Uncle.
Ma Junming is originally from Kaoshan Village. After graduating from junior high school, he joined the Nanqiao Town Noodle Factory and is now a security officer. His household registration and other ties are all in Nanqiao Town, but his parents and siblings still live in the village.
He is a compulsive gambler and enjoys domestic violence. After marrying Jin Menglan in his previous life, he often beat Jin Menglan. Jin Menglan has so much experience in dealing with trauma thanks to him.
Later, Jin Menglan was diagnosed with cancer. This bastard not only went to the hospital and gambled away the money Jin Menglan had finally raised for her treatment, but also sold the cemetery that Jin Menglan had bought for herself. After learning about these things, Jin Menglan's condition deteriorated rapidly, and she eventually died on the way to seek medical treatment.
By the way, what Jin Menglan couldn't accept the most was that in order to save the cost of cremation and burial, this man signed a body donation agreement while Jin Menglan was conscious, making Jin Menglan's body a teaching prop in anatomy class.
Jin Menglan was jealous of Wei Sheng because she couldn't bear to see others living well, so she wanted to replace them. But as for Ma Junming, she just wanted to kill him as soon as possible.
Seeing Ma Junming at this moment, and thinking of Weisheng who had already settled down in the home of the village elder's daughter-in-law, Jin Menglan wanted to pair the two of them up.
By the way, during this period, Jin Menglan was dating Ma Junming, and they were planning to get married next fall.
Just as Jin Menglan was thinking about how to pair Weisheng and Ma Junming, she heard the village chief smiling and mentioning her name to Ma Junming, "Come to see Menglan?"
Hearing this, Ma Junming glanced at Jin Menglan with some embarrassment. He stretched out his hand to scratch his neck and changed the subject: "Is this the new educated youth in our village?"
"Yeah." The village chief said without a doubt, "You and Menglan go home. I'll take them to the educated youth's courtyard."
After saying that, without stopping for long, he took Li Wenxuan and the other two to the courtyard of the educated youth.
Seeing the village chief and others leave, Ma Junming immediately took out a brown paper bag from his cloth bag and handed it to Jin Menglan.
Jin Menglan didn't want to accept it, but the memory of her past life made her dare not refuse. So she reluctantly took the brown paper package and numbly opened the gift under Ma Junming's urging.
It was a scarf, bright red and very beautiful.
Jin Menglan remembers it.
This was the gift she had accepted with great joy, and it was also the evidence that Ma Junming almost strangled herself.
Seeing it was the scarf, Jin Menglan threw it away in horror. Ma Junming quickly caught it before it hit the ground. Then, he looked at Jin Menglan with a puzzled look, and a hint of displeasure flashed in his eyes.
Jin Menglan was beautiful, with thick eyebrows and large eyes. She had a voluptuous figure, looking like she'd be fertile. Not only did she attend junior high school, she was also a skilled worker. Most importantly, she came from a privileged background; her father had even adopted her to an uncle who had died in the Korean War.
Jin Menglan's conditions are indeed good, but if none of the girls in the town looked down on Ma Junming, who had no wealth and was a guy from the village, Ma Junming would not have dated Jin Menglan, a girl from the village.
In the blink of an eye, Ma Junming suppressed his unhappiness, replaced it with a look of concern, and gently asked Jin Menglan what was wrong.
Jin Menglan: "...It's nothing, I saw it wrongly. By the way, have you eaten?"
Jin Menglan didn't dare to anger Ma Junming at this time, so she could only force a smile and deal with it perfunctorily.
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Here, Jin Menglan suppressed her fear and calmly dealt with Ma Junming. There, Weisheng looked around his new residence with a look of satisfaction.
The village chief's eldest son is Shan Xinghuo and his daughter-in-law is Yu Tao. The couple's home is a typical northern adobe house.
The kitchen is right after you enter the house, and there is a room with a kang on each side of the kitchen.
Yu Tao lived in the larger east room, and Weisheng lived in the relatively smaller west room.
There is not much furniture in the west room, just a set of kang cabinets, a kang table and two wooden benches for sitting and placing things.
The kang is 3 meters long and about 2.2 meters wide. The kang cabinet is also 2 meters long, 1 meter high, and 50 centimeters wide. This large kang is more than enough for Weisheng to live on, and the cabinet can also hold a lot of things.
There is a clothesline above the edge of the kang. It is not very high, but it is convenient for hanging clothes, towels, etc.
From the original owner's memories, Yu Tao had a gentle personality, even a bit cowardly. Fortunately, she was the village chief's daughter-in-law, so their life was peaceful and stable. That's why Weisheng had found a way to move in.
There were many educated youth living in the educated youth compound. Not only was the environment poor, but there was also a lot of trouble. The original owner's memories included people losing money and things, misusing other people's things, and forming cliques.
Weisheng knew that he was not on the same path as those educated youth, and that living together would inevitably lead to a lot of dirty things, so he used the excuse of developing photos to gain some benefits for himself.
After all, she does it on the first day of the month and the villagers do it on the fifteenth day, so it is a fair trade.
In fact, there is another reason why she lives here, which is to prevent Yu Tao from being kidnapped.
Because of the special nature of the unit that Shan Xinghuo belonged to, even though his current rank was not high, he was already qualified to accompany the army. Yu Tao got the news and happily went to join the army.
The village head and his wife personally sent their eldest daughter-in-law onto the train, but Shan Xinghuo, who was at the other end of the train, did not receive anyone and there was no news of him since then.
Even as a digital being, Weisheng deeply detests human trafficking and the coercion of women. If one turns a blind eye to something within one's power, what's the difference between that and an animal?
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Yu Tao was a soft-hearted person. Seeing her father-in-law arrange for Weisheng to stay with her, she accepted it without so much as a question, complaint, or protest. After the village chief and his companions left, she saw Weisheng unpacking his luggage and getting water and cleaning the house, and she even helped him out.
The west room was not dirty to begin with, but it had been unoccupied and had accumulated some dust. The two of them worked together and cleaned it in no time.
Weisheng placed the bedding on the kang cabinet according to the villagers' custom, and piled all the luggage he brought into the kang cabinet. Then he took out two visible locks and went to find Yu Tao.
"Sister Yu Tao, I'm going to cause you trouble in the future. These are two new locks I brought from home. One locks the west room door, and the other locks the outer room door. The open lock on the outer room door should be used to lock the east room where you live."
Yu Tao was still thinking about the lock problem before, but when she saw Weisheng take out the lock on his own initiative, she smiled at Weisheng embarrassedly at first, and then took one of the new locks and a key.
Weisheng put the remaining keys in the key ring, and then smiled and talked to Yu Tao about the daily life photos. Yu Tao thanked Weisheng again and again, ran back to the east room to change clothes, comb her hair and wash her face, and then asked Weisheng a little awkwardly how to take this daily life photo.
He took a photo by the vegetable garden, inside and outside the house, and then told Yu Tao that he would not develop the photos until all the film in the camera was used up, so Yu Tao didn't need to worry.
Yu Tao was too embarrassed to rush Weisheng when she could take the photos for free. Not only was she too embarrassed to rush him, she was also planning to cut some salted meat tonight to make a delicious meal for Weisheng.
Then, speaking of food, Weisheng decided to make a deal with Yu Tao.
She asked Yu Tao to prepare her three meals a day and two kettles of hot water, citing her inability to cook and her lack of food. She had her own private space, so if she wanted to eat, she could return to it. So, publicly, she ate whatever Yu Tao ate.
In this way, Weisheng would not have to worry about three meals a day, firewood, rice, oil and salt. And there would be no unnecessary misunderstandings and quarrels between him and Yu Tao over trivial matters.
For example, you suspected I used your rice and picked vegetables from your garden. I suspected you used my oil. And then there's the matter of cooking without cleaning up, leaving the common areas messy and filthy. Who did more work, who did less, who used too much firewood, and so on... It's safe to say that if Weisheng didn't cook in public, he could avoid 90% of the conflicts.
In 1970, rice was only 0.15 yuan per pound, so after discussing with Yu Tao, Weisheng took out five yuan and gave it to Yu Tao as food expenses for this month.
After receiving the money, Yu Tao's last bit of worry disappeared. Seeing this, Wei Sheng even stuck out his tongue cutely:
Look! Five yuan can be used for both alimony and food expenses.
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