Chapter 120

All the sisters-in-law were silent in unison for a split second
Doudou’s mom shook her head and lost her smile, “I finally know what the difference between you and us is! It turns out it’s not that you’re a good match for Lu Ying but because you’re Xu Wen!”
Song Boying nodded in agreement, “Right! They say it’s hard to be a stepmother Anyone who is a stepmother would have a dilemma about what to do and how to do it Every day, they are afraid that they will be poked and prodded if they don’t do the right thing But you’ve made being a stepmother sound so refreshing! It’s also a key factor in your family’s harmony!”
“That’s why! Sometimes you can’t just envy other people’s happiness, you have to look at what they do! However, Mrs Xu Man, is it true that you and Lu Ying have never gotten angry with each other?”
Xu Man thought carefully and shook her head, “I don’t think so? Just once before marriage, right? Other than that, I really haven’t Maybe it’s because of my personality that I weigh things over and over again before I do them, and once I’ve made up my mind, I won’t regret it and I’ll stick to it From the moment I decided to marry him, all I could think of was how to make each other comfortable, and if he was busy, then so was I Why should I stop and just look at him? Why should I stop and just watch him? Then he is tired and I am tired too, right?”
The only time she was confused by Wen Yiming was when she didn’t want to be bound by marriage
“As for grievances, I’m sure there are some I was seriously injured on an expedition with the army, and news reached us that he had sacrificed his life Then there were rumors that I was a bad husband! My family also parents and brother and sister-in-law and a seventy-year-old grandmother, I can no longer leave Dongsheng to them, it will increase the burden of our family, I do not want to let my parents share my tiredness and my responsibility in order to make life easier for myself
I once thought of taking a break from school to see if I could take Dongsheng to college But I was afraid that the subsidy for school would not be enough for the two of us to start our own schooling, and I was in a bit of a dilemma”
Song Baoying exchanged glances with Doudou’s mom
Song Baoying spoke, “Ask sister-in-law, I ask a rude question, you received the university acceptance letter, and mistakenly thought that Lu Yuanzheng also sacrificed his life, did not want to give up raising ” She glanced at Dongsheng, who had fallen asleep beside Xu Man
Xu Man shook his head without hesitation, “No In the beginning, I was indeed only influenced by Lu Yuanzheng’s death! In the beginning I was indeed only entrusted by Lu Yuanzheng, but, later, Dongsheng is just my son has nothing to do with anyone No matter how hard life is, no mother would not want her son, right?”
The sisters-in-law nodded their heads and praised Xu Wen
Jiang Yi Yi’s eyes glowed as she looked adoringly at Xu Man, “Sister-in-law, I want to learn from you! I want to learn from you! I want to learn from your mentality! I’ll go back and apply for the teacher’s college, and when I graduate, I’ll come to the island to teach, okay? When I graduate, I’ll come to the island to teach, okay? You’ll have to reserve a place for me! I feel that with your charisma, even if I successfully graduate from college, there’s no place for me in this office”
Xu Wen lost his smile, “Good! You go back and study hard, and I’ll definitely reserve a spot for you then!”
Jiang Yi Yi excitedly stood up to make sure with Xu Man, “Really?”
Xu Man shook his head, “False! I’m not the principal, so I don’t really have a say You know, I’m lazy, so if you want me to reserve a spot for you during the game, I can agree Everything else is out of my hands!”
Jiang Yi Yi let out an oh, and turned her gaze back to Song Boying
Song Boying was amused by her, “You’re such a cute girl! OK! I promise you, as long as you get into the teacher training program, I’ll definitely save you a place in the office!”
Wang Lingling shouted at Xu to ask, “Sister-in-law, you haven’t said how you and Lu Ying went from meeting to getting married?”
DouDouMom gave Wang LingLing a curious look, “Sister-in-law LingLing, it’s rare to see you so interested!”
Wang Lingling’s presence was particularly low in normal times, only when she was working was she particularly bright
She smiled nervously, with a few moments of embarrassment, scratching her head, “I always think that Sister-in-law Xu Wen is just like that lesbian in the movie, not only is she beautiful, even getting married like in the movie, it must be especially passionate!”
“Then you’re flattering me! Between the two of us can not be Yi Yi sister in law and Li platoon commander so sensational My family is especially poor, seven or eight people sleep on a bed, summer is too hot, I secretly ran to the pond in the wilderness to bathe, Lu Yuanzheng thought I was drowning to save me, and then to be responsible for me to marry me!
So be it! Not even received me to their home before the emergency recall, or Dongsheng for him to the second half of the wedding process
And then lost contact for six months, he almost died, and so get his news I came here with Dongsheng, and then he accompanied me to the school to report to the school to discuss with the school that I only need to go back to the examination every year, followed by the island, the rest of you all know Last year also made up a wedding on the island”
All sisters-in-law:””
Can’t tell you what it feels like, it’s a bit different than what I thought it would be
In the middle of the night when his sisters-in-law were all asleep, Xu Wen quietly climbed up and returned home
With Lu Yuanzheng’s alertness, it was impossible to do that with a person suddenly lying beside him and still be indifferent
Before he opened his eyes, his hand felt under his pillow
The other hand to grab Xu Man, touch Xu Man a moment, awake, the probe to the pillow under the hand withdrew back, both hands are circled to Xu Man on the body, also do not open their eyes, turned on his side, embracing her, yawning, “Why did you come back?”
“I missed you”
Lu Yuanzheng opened his eyes when he heard this, the room was dark, he couldn’t see Xu Man’s expression, “What’s wrong? Had a fight with your sisters-in-law?”
“Not at all! Just miss you”
Lu Yuanzheng’s chest vibrated and he laughed lowly, “Quite unlike your style, a bit flattered”
Xu Wen bristled, “So is this a lack of self-confidence on your part, or do you not trust me?”
“Neither I believe that you really want me But, surely you don’t just think about it for no reason either Tell me?”
“It’s a human being! Can’t be too familiar, you see too familiar there is no sense of boundaries! When I say I miss you, your first reaction isn’t even to be touched but to question if I’ve been wronged by something? Comrade Lu Yuanzheng, you tell me what I usually show that I don’t love you enough to make you think that I must be thinking of you because of other factors?”
At this moment, Lu Yuanzheng sight restored quite a lot, index finger traced on her slightly toothed lips, “About because you girl usually mouth like a clam shell, pry all can not pry, let you say a good sound difficult!”
Every time only when doing, he tossed her to lose her mind, or she could not bear to beg for mercy, only then will wooing say love him shouting his husband begging him to end earlier
As for the usual number of times she said she loved Dongsheng, it was at least ten times as many times as she said she loved him, and probably more
I really don’t blame Lu Yuanzheng for not being confident, he had mainly never gotten preferential treatment
Xu Wen remembered about the same time and giggled, reaching out with both hands to pinch his cheeks and pull them to the sides as she laughed, “Hubby~ I miss you!”
She purposely pinched and pulled to tease him
Lu Yuanzheng lifted his arm, both hands grabbed her hands that were making a mess on his face and pulled them over his head and together, instead one hand clutched both of her slender white wrists, the other hand pushed her to lie flat, and rolled himself over on top of her, his voice was dull and hoarse, “Don’t want to sleep anymore?”
“I want to! I’m so sleepy”
“You won’t be sleepy in a while” Lu Yuanzheng used both his mouth and his hands, not leaving her another chance to backtrack
“Screaming so loudly? Not afraid that the next door will hear you?” Lu Yuanzheng dumbly reminded Xu Wen
“There’s no one next door ” Xu Man gasped and tilted her neck up, her beautifully manicured nails raking across his back relentlessly, as he sank heavily into his waist
The clouds and rain have broken
After a short and insatiable sleep, Lu Yuanzheng, refreshed, waited for Xu Man to finish his bath, cleaned himself up again, and went out on the terrace to smoke a cigarette afterward
Xu Man has been tossed around by him and has fallen into a deep sleep
Lu Yuanzheng leaned his back against the wooden railing and looked at the big bed with the moonlight
The moonlight was on the whiter side, and Xu Man’s skin was even whiter, with some miserable marks on the skin exposed outside the sheet
Lu Yuanzheng licked his lips, reached out to touch his hot back, and let out a light laugh
His family’s girl, looking like a good natured person who doesn’t fight or grab, actually never suffers!
Jiang Yi Yi only notified Xu Man when she left
Xu Wen sent her to the shore and asked her, “You really didn’t tell Li Mao?”
Jiang Yi Yi shook her head, “I packed my bags and left them at home for a few days Whenever he comes back, he will definitely be able to see it But he didn’t know if he really didn’t see it or didn’t care about me at all, he didn’t ask or mention it at all If he doesn’t care about me, why should I go looking for him? It’s just to annoy him, and he might even think I’m trying to torment him again!”
“I think you guys could actually have a talk You have to realize that he doesn’t know what you think, and you can’t always ask him to do what you think I’m telling you men are creatures that need dogma too Maybe he really doesn’t think that much, and you have to teach him how to be nice to you”
“Doesn’t matter! If it’s really meant to be, we’ll still be together I hope by then I’ll just be Jiang Yi Yi and not Li Mao’s Jiang Yi Yi Besides, I left him a letter”
Seeing that her mind was made up, Xu Wen didn’t say much and pulled out two things from his pocket and handed them to her
Jiang Yi Yi looked down at the small glass bottle and another oddly shaped object in her hand and wondered, “What’s this?” It didn’t look much like a parting gift
“One is an anti-wolf spray, the main ingredient is chili water One is a stun baton, but the material is limited and not very powerful, so I guess it can at most numb a person’s hand for a bit You’re a girl on the road, you have to be safe! Give me a peace report when you arrive”
Jiang Yi Yi nodded and reddened her eyes, “Sister-in-law, thank you! It’s good to know you!”
Xu Wen patted Jiang Yi Yi’s shoulder, “Have a safe trip!”
Jiang Yiyi shed a tear, “I’ll be back!”
Xu Man couldn’t hold back his laughter
Jiang Yi Yi was dumbfounded, “Sister-in-law, what are you laughing at?”
“I used to watch a cartoon where a villain was the bad guy, and every episode when he lost the battle he would say ‘I’ll be back!'”
Jiang Yi Yi: “”
Didn’t tense up, also followed the laugh out loud, the sorrow of parting is so scattered
The construction of the elementary school was also gradually coming to an end
At the final closing, everyone really bought a few buckets of paint and came back
The sisters-in-law who knew how to paint outlined some patterns on the outside walls of the wooden houses, the playground, and the courtyard walls, while the rest of the sisters-in-law and the children took brushes and colored the patterns
In the late seventies, cartoon patterns weren’t much of a thing because of the limited means of communication Most of the paintings on the walls were flowers and plants and such
While the paint was drying, Song Baoying organized the teaching aids for the semester, and all the sisters-in-law with junior high school education or higher were called over for the pre-service teacher training
Just like that there weren’t many of them
The signs of the times were too obvious in some details, such as the fact that there were still more boys who could go to school Not many girls, especially those from rural areas, go to middle school
When there were, it was the city girls who were the most numerous
Once again, Xu Wen was secretly grateful to the Xu family, who really favored her
There aren’t many children on the island right now, and when there are, they’re just enough for first grade, so Song Baoying’s single teacher is enough for now
Xu Wen was free again
But she couldn’t stay idle, reading her college textbooks while studying how to make a boat
She had promised Dongsheng that she would make a houseboat to take him to the sea
A wooden house wasn’t difficult, the hard part was how to make the house float smoothly on the sea
Xu Man made a trip to the scrapyard in Haicheng and bought some used tires back
She is responsible for buying, repairing things still have to be Lu Yuanzheng dry
After all the tires were pumped up one by one, they were first put on for two days to make sure they didn’t leak before starting the next step
The tires are not the hard outer tires, but soft inner tires that can be inflated with a pump
With so many tires, it took a lot of time just to pump them up, so much so that now Lu Yuanzheng frowned when he saw the inner tires
The air-filled tires were fixed together one by one with a rope, and then covered with a thick layer of foam, which was wrapped with a fishing net, and then a thin layer of wooden planks was laid on top
Wooden hut, no, is a bamboo hut, in order to reduce unnecessary weight, two huts are nailed with bamboo pieces, this is for entertainment, and not really live on it, the requirements are not so high, leakage of rain are acceptable, but for the time being does not leak
When making the bamboo hut, Dongsheng has been at home and did not go out to play, even his favorite beans are not looking for, just upside down in Xu Man or Lu Yuanzheng behind
It took the three members of the family about half a month to finally get the houseboat down to the sea
When Lu Yuanzheng called a few people to carry the boat into the sea, Dongsheng ran out
After a while, Dongsheng brought Doudou
Xu asked, “”
Thought he didn’t go looking for Doudou these days because he preferred the houseboat, but it turned out to be simply because he wanted to give Doudou a surprise
Dongsheng held Doudou and explained the houseboat to her, “Look, one of those two rooms is the living room, and one is the bedroom My mom has put an ice bucket in there, iced fruit juice and fruit, we will go up to eat later
The open space in front of the house is so big, we can play on it “
Xu Man: “”
Xu Man elbowed Lu Yuanzheng who was busy fixing the hull, “Comrade Lu Yuanzheng, you now have a goal to strive for!”
“Huh?” Lu Yuanzheng twisted his head to look at her uncertainly
“According to the prices after one decade, it will cost quite a bit of money to marry a daughter-in-law back home I’m guessing that by then it’ll be at least ten thousand miles for the bride price, and you’ll also need a house, right? Millennial prices don’t seem to be expensive yet, but how can it be hundreds of thousands of dollars, right?”
Lu Yuanzheng asked without understanding, “What do you mean by one in ten thousand?”
“It’s ten thousand and one dollar!”
“That much?” His current stipend was firmly in the middle of the current national salary level, but it would take him ten years to save ten thousand without eating or drinking, right?
“Don’t be afraid! Your allowance will go up, it won’t always be this amount” Xu Wen comforted, “Actually, eleven thousand is pretty cheap The main thing is the house, the millennium is almost ten years from now, so we have to buy a few more sets while the prices are cheap Otherwise, in a few years we won’t even be able to afford a square foot, and the dowry will go up to 158,000!”
Lu Yuanzheng: “How much?”
“One hundred and fifty-eight thousand! There’s also a house worth at least a million dollars and a car! It’s commonly known as ten thousand purples and thousands of reds and a single move”
Xu Wen gave Lu Yuanzheng another popularization of what it meant to be ten thousand purples and a thousand reds, and what it meant to be motionless
After listening, Lu Yuanzheng was silent for a while and suddenly said, “Daughter-in-law, let’s have a child?”
Xu asked, “?”
How did you suddenly jump to having a child?
“Early to have a child, early to grow up and early to get married, otherwise I’m afraid that the speed of my rising wages won’t be able to catch up with the speed of rising prices!”
“Oh! Then don’t be afraid! The speed at which your wages rise should be able to catch up with prices, but you can’t think about housing prices!”
Lu Yuanzheng: “”
“But don’t you be afraid! You do a good job of defending your family and country, and when I go to make money next year! I promise you won’t worry about getting a daughter-in-law in the future!”
“Marrying a daughter-in-law is the son’s business! Why should I worry? I’m only responsible for raising them, not marrying them!” Lu Yuanzheng paused, “Are you leaving the island next year?”
“I haven’t thought about it yet! Let’s see what happens next year!”
Lu Yuanzheng stopped talking
After a while, he spoke in a faint voice, “Get on the boat! Go and try!”