[Page 2]2010, 11, 28, 23:09，
On this day, Zhu Gan, Da Ha, Jiang Er, Little Tiger, Teacher Xiao Wang, the ugly fatty, and other students from Xingzhong, as well as a male classmate of Jianmei (the only person from his hometown who was admitted to Wanshi), came to the Huang family to have a meal. They congratulated the two of them on their triumphant return to their mother's home after one month of marriage.
"Jianmei, go cook! Can I chat with everyone for a while?”In the face of the students, Xing Zhong said some "real man" words.
"Go and cook by yourself. I don't want to eat! Xingzhong."
"Jianmei, you have to do something feminine! It's not that I'm afraid of hardship. If I cook, wash clothes and do housework all day long, wouldn't men laugh at me for being useless? Isn't that strange?" Xing Zhong was a man who was willing to endure. For the sake of his beautiful wife, there was nothing he was unwilling to do (including washing women's underwear without anyone knowing). However, the ridicule of the neighbors made him really embarrassed-especially the three siblings who lived opposite his house, Zhongxiao, Pingan, and Wushi-so he hoped that he could maintain a certain amount of manly dignity.
"You're useless to begin with! All the promising men had gone out to develop their careers. Let alone others, Brother Ma was the only one who repaired pens and bought glasses. The old bungalow in the alley next to the crossroad department store had long been rebuilt into a new two-story building. It was not much shorter than the tallest three-story department store in Wan County! You set up a stall with him every day. Only you will forever stay in the small attic of the Huang family and squeeze out oil dregs. The eight brothers and sisters will also suffer along with me!”
"My old place is a treasure land in the town of Wan County after the establishment of the new dynasty. The road at the entrance is like Nanjing Road in Shanghai or Chang 'an Street in Beijing! It was a home that my grandfather carried a sedan chair and was killed by the Japanese invaders in exchange for his life. It was better to stick to his home than to wander (rent) outside. If I really wanted to earn money, I would have contacted my uncle and gone to the Greater Kaxing 'an Mountains a long time ago. I wouldn't have worked on the farm for two years in vain.”
" Sigh…" Jian Mei sighed painfully and walked out alone.
From then on, when she washed rice and vegetables at the well of the primary school behind the Huang family, washed clothes and quilts by the Dongmenwan River, queued up to buy rice and oil at the grain station, bought vegetables at the big vegetable market, or did housework, there would always be some gossipy women from the Fuxing Neighborhood Committee who would gossip in Jian Mei's ears from time to time.
What did he mean by only being released after the second year of "re-education through labor" in Xingzhong? He didn't have any official job! It's not worth it for an eighteen-year-old girl like you to marry him! Of all people, she had to marry into the Huang family's courtyard! Xingzhong's father was suspected of being a bandit in the old society and even appeared in the fake Central Daily (equivalent to People's Daily)! And now, he had just returned from a five-year sentence of "reform through labor" for committing the crime of "counter-revolution" in the New Celestial Dynasty! What Xingzhong's eldest younger sister gave birth to a "private bun" and she was fired for her bad behavior! Xingzhong also has a younger brother who likes to gamble! And how difficult it was to get along with the women of the Huang family! The eight siblings were all at home. The difficulty of eating from the same big pot and pushing each other away from doing housework made those narrow-minded women fight. It was true! How many troublesome trifles will be brought to you, Huang Jianmei, in the future!……
Jian Mei clearly knew that these words were indeed meant to sow discord. She also knew what these people were up to! But she was--
Of course," sowing discord " couldn't shake Jian Mei's love, marriage, family, and other wishes very quickly. The rumors and rumors that were spreading around could not shake her decision to be the Huang family's eldest son's daughter-in-law for the rest of her life!
I hope so! Xing Zhong and his family always wanted to live with reason and hope.
However, ever since her agricultural household registration was placed in the Fuxing Neighborhood Committee, the son of the street director, Wang, had a good relationship with Xingzhong's classmates (that is, Teacher Xiao Wang was already teaching English in the "Dai Mao Zi Primary School" in Chengguan Town, but he still asked him to find a partner!），Therefore, the department director already knew Jian Mei. Therefore, Director Wang often encouraged her to come to the neighborhood committee to participate in voluntary labor, helping the neighborhood committee to publish blackboard newspapers and participating in the military veterans to do some housework, such as fetching water (to Dongmen Wanhedan, which is-km away), chopping wood (to Jingting Mountain, which is three kilometers away), and so on. As a result, she no longer did the household chores of the Huang family and got close to Director Wang. She actively participated in public welfare publicity activities and soon became the backbone of the grassroots party organization and the "Four Purities" working group to carry out this national movement!
One day, after she returned home from Chief Wang's office, she told Xingzhong, who had just finished setting up the portrait stall,"
"The neighborhood committee has organized the young people of our street to go up the mountain to cut firewood to help the 'Five Protectors' and 'Family of Martyrs' fulfill their obligations!”
"Jianmei, I agree to let you participate! However, we have already separated from the big family to live alone according to your request, but I have to paint to earn money for you and me. I also have to raise money to pay back your class teacher's gift money--to compensate you for your three years of junior high school expenses! And you have to cook for the two of us, right? My eldest sister Xinghua has already gone to my mother's restaurant to be a waiter. There's no one to wash my clothes! You can't leave this little work to my grandmother, can you?”[To be continued][Page 3]
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