Chapter 84

Lin Minjun knew that going to university was not a simple matter at any time

But she felt that she had underestimated the difficulty of going to university, because she saw Director Su’s eyes dropping round after hearing her say that she wanted to go to university, her mouth slowly opening, unable to close, a look of shock to the extreme

Lin Minjun’s courage was like a balloon being punctured, bared out, she said, “I don’t mean to go back to high school, and then take the college entrance exams, I know that I definitely won’t be able to take the exams, everyone has been studying for several years, and I can’t keep up with the teacher’s lectures if I go over there hastily ”

In the end, her voice got smaller and smaller, and her courage ran out, Lin Minjun said with chagrin, “Forget it, just pretend I didn’t say anything, I’m not going to take the test”

“Why don’t you take the test!” Director Su immediately grabbed Lin Minjun’s hand, his eyes full of appreciation: “How did you think of going to college?”

Lin Minjun: “I just think it’s good to learn some culture, I’m not afraid of you laughing, I want to open a restaurant in the future, but there is no culture, easy to be deceived ah, in fact, I don’t want to go to college, just want to go to night school”

In her previous life, Lin Minjun had already started to run around on the road to get a child, and had never heard of the word “night school”

In this life, she heard about it from Qi Song, whose grades were worse than Jiang Quan’s Jiang Quan took the college entrance exam this time, and got a junior college, and his whole family was happy to send him to school

Qi Song is simply not intended to apply for the examination, early through the family’s relationship into the unit to work, the last time he came to dinner, he told Lin Minjun, he is going to go through the unit recommended to go to night school, in the night school to learn, can also take the examination for the university, but it is a correspondence course, not more than their serious to participate in the college entrance examination of their classmates

But no matter what, can go to college, can be taught by the teacher, which is also very good

So Lin Minjun had been thinking in her heart that she should also think about going to school, and when she saw Director Su today, she thought about it all of a sudden, and that’s why she brought it up

“This is the right idea for you, now you are young and don’t feel it yet, when you reach my age you will know how much of a disadvantage it is to have no education, no culture, it’s good that you want to go to school, I support it” Director Su nodded and helped Lin Minjun pull up the broken hair that had fallen down

The two of them stood on the side of the road and talked, the fallen leaves were falling down, Director Su took Lin Minjun’s hand and said gently, “You have this heart, and you helped me so much today, I definitely want to help, what is your education now?”

Lin Minjun breathed a sigh of relief and calmly said, “Only elementary school, when I wanted to go to the first year, my relatives at home wouldn’t let me go, saying that it’s a waste of money for girls to go to school”

Director Su froze for half a day and stifled an expletive, “Bullshit!”

She helped Lin Minjun plan more seriously, “Then you’re considered an elementary school educator, nowadays night school requires a high school education at the minimum, but it’s okay, I’ll arrange it”

“I have a friend who works in night school, she told me that now in addition to night school, there are also cultural remedial classes, you first go to junior high school cultural remedial classes, pass the exam, and then go to high school cultural remedial classes, do not have to worry about keeping up, remedial class teaching to be lower than the teaching difficulty of the teaching in the serious school, and so on high school’s finished, you can go to night school, and then take the exam of the night university, you will be able to go to the university ”

After saying that, Director Su patted Lin Minjun’s hand and encouraged, “You go back and wait for my news, go home and prepare well, I will take you to report in two days”

Lin Minjun originally just wanted to inquire with Director Su, there is no school doorway, did not expect Director Su directly take this matter down, Lin Minjun at once do not know what to say, nose a little sour, want to say thank you to Director Su serious, but also feel that this thank you is too light

Everything is in the unspoken, Director Su saw what Lin Minjun wanted to say, smiled and patted her hand, “Nothing, really nothing, once I see you, I think of myself when I was young, I can help a hand, as a blessing for my daughter”

“Next time you still need herbs then you directly ask, I’ll call back to buy them” Lin Minjun took a deep breath and said

Director Su: “Then I won’t be polite next time, right, when do you have time, I’ll take you to report?”

The two of them agreed on a time with each other, this time Director Su really had to leave, riding his bike and leaving, Lin Minjun also got on the bus, she had to send the basket back to the store first

After sending the things back to the store, Lin Minjun was still thinking about helping Mr Shen to buy ham, and immediately ran to the post office, this time to make a phone call is still a luxury, there are no public phones everywhere, you have to go to the post office in order to call your hometown

To the post office Lin Minjun realized that he made a fool of himself, today is Sunday, everyone is on vacation, the post office of course, no one, she rested her breath, slowly walk back to the store, is to give themselves a small vacation

The next day is Monday, Lin Minjun got up early in the morning to go to the post office to make a phone call, the phone dialed to the post office in the township, it was hard to get through, Lin Minjun said: “Please, I’m looking for Zheng Xia in Shangyingzi Village”

And so on the other side said: “Good, now find someone to call”

Lin Minjun hung up the phone, sitting next to wait for a call back, the fastest fastest have to wait forty minutes, this is their village from the township is relatively close, happen to be far away, call today, the next day to receive a call back, this is the efficiency of the call now

Today, I waited early, after more than twenty minutes the phone call came back, a brittle female voice on the other end of the phone, “Ajun, is that you?”

“Ah Xia” Lin Minjun said

On the other end of the phone was her only friend since childhood, Ah Xia

Last time Lin Minjun sang a song to Cao Auntie is to learn from Axia, Axia was born is the treasure of the whole family, Lin Minjun was born without a father and mother, the relationship between the two girls has been very good, when Lin Minjun followed the young people on the train, Axia wiped her tears overnight to send her to go, and has been told to pay attention to her safety before she left

At this time, hearing Lin Minjun’s voice from the other end of the phone, A Xia lowered her voice and said, “After you left, your uncle’s family has been looking for you, but also came to me”

“So what did you say?” Lin Minjun’s heart tightened

Ah Xia giggled twice, her voice was proud, “I said I don’t know, your own family doesn’t look good anymore, people lost and ran to me, looking for me to ask for someone, is it bullying me to be young? Then my grandmother came out and scolded, just scolded twice, they ran away in a puff of smoke”

A Xia’s grandmother when she was young is the village is famous fast-talking, a mouth to scold people and sharp and sharp, three hundred and sixty degrees without dead angle pick each other’s faults, simply can be scolded people want to find a crack in the ground to drill in

Immediately, Lin Minjun’s uncle’s family was scolded and fled, and she couldn’t help but laugh out loud, “Thank you, Ah Xia”

“Do we still need to say thank you between the two of us?” Ah Xia’s tone became serious, “Later on, when they couldn’t find you, they started inquiring about your family’s ancestral prescription for stopping bleeding”

Mentioning this Ah Xia felt pity, she heard the elders of her family say that Ajun’s mom’s family was a famous medicine family nearby, all of her grandparents had studied medicine, if Ajun’s mom hadn’t died, she must have learned medicine as well, and her destiny would have been completely different, but unfortunately things are unpredictable

“Let them look for it, they can’t care about me if they look for that” Lin Minjun said, “Anyway, that formula was lost long ago when my mom left, they won’t be able to find it”

Ah Xia was silent for a while and regained her spirits, “How are you doing over there?”

“Didn’t I tell you last time that I opened a store? After the store opened, business was great, I even made the newspaper, and now the store has hired a helper, so I guess I’ll be able to put down roots in the North City after working for a while longer” Lin Minjun said with a smile

Ah Xia immediately put her heart down and chatted with Lin Minjun in a relaxed tone

At this moment, the cost of phone calls can be high, chatting for a while Lin Minjun came back to his senses, hurriedly said: “Next time I’ll write to you again, today I’m looking for you to have a serious matter, A Xia, I remember your uncle is very good at making ham, there are still extra hams in the house? You ask them if they are for sale, I remember that he made all the hams in your house and your grandfather’s house”

“How much do you want? What kind?” Ah Xia immediately asked

Lin Minjun: “Two or three years is best”

“There are three next year, but not this year, so if you want it, you can only make it now”

To say that the taste is good, or two or three years is the best, no matter whether it is stewed soup or stewed chicken is the freshest, thinking of the ham, Lin Minjun’s mouth is also constantly secreting saliva, “To have one that was made two years ago, you help me to talk to my family, wait until it is time to be able to eat it and ask the truck to bring it to the capital, I’ll give a deposit”

“Good”

With that, the matter of buying the ham was discussed, and when the phone hung up, the post office worker held out his hand, “One dollar and a half”

Lin Minjun sighed in her heart that it was so expensive, while enduring the pain and giving the money

Back to the store, it is the time of noon busy, Cao Auntie busy, head wrapped with a piece of cloth, that is Lin Minjun specially instructed, in the store when you have to put all the hair coiled up, to prevent the hair fall into the pot

Cao Auntie’s hair is short and can’t be coiled up, so she wraps a piece of cloth around her head, and the edges of her hair roots are all soaked with sweat at this time

Lin Minjun took over the work on the stove, and turned on the electric fan, “You go and rest for a while, change your hat, and, why don’t you turn on the fan, it’s so hot now, we have to turn on the fan when we work”

“The fan is too expensive, it hurts me to fan it” Auntie Cao took off her hat and lamented, stood in front of the fan and blew for a while, and went back to entertaining the customers

The lunch stall in the store was always the busiest, but after this period of time, it cooled down, so Lin Minjun moved the electric fan outside, and moved the dishes prepared for the evening over, letting Auntie Cao choose the vegetables with herself in the wind

Auntie Cao’s mouth never stops talking, always needing to croak about something, and this time she was talking to Lin Minjun about the recent events in the compound in an endless stream

Lin Minjun listen and laugh, always can not figure out, the same is busy in the store, she closed the store home just want to lie on the bed to rest, Cao Aunt actually have the energy to go to the yard to chat gossip

Auntie Cao: “Xiao Lin, have you heard, our yard Xiao Xu’s daughter Ding Ling recently got a date”

“Getting a date?” Lin Minjun was a bit surprised: “How old is she? I remember she is still in junior high school, preparing for the midterm exams

“Don’t mention the midterm, this girl is going to make Xiao Xu angry, two days ago, she even told me, guess what she said?” Cao Auntie shook her head while still being able to tell the story in a colorful manner, gesturing with her hands and feet, “The little girl who is only sixteen years old, and only seventeen years old after the New Year, actually said that she wants to get married to her partner and said that she is not going to go to school, she wants to get married!”

Lin Minjun sucked in a breath of cool air, “When I was in the countryside, people didn’t have the money to go to school and didn’t have a job before they were forced by their families to get married, how come you guys have this kind of thing in the city too?”

“Harm, you were forced, not voluntary, Ding Ling is as stupid as, their own noise to get married, Xiao Xu also complained to me, said Ding Ling to find the object of the flow is a blind, no serious work all day know coaxing the little girl, you say when the mother can not be angry? Hate to put a girl to strangle, this girl is also strange, how to say are not listening, can only lock her in the house to prevent her from going out to see the object, in order to this matter, the cane are broken a few” Auntie Xu patted her thigh and said

Lin Minjun carefully recalled, shook his head: “In fact, I think Xu Sister-in-law’s education of Ding Ling is also a bit of a problem, I opened the store before very late to go home, and when I arrived at home, their family is not yet asleep, and I always heard Xu Sister-in-law scolded Ling Ling do not study well, Xu Sister-in-law Ling Ling is also too strict, the child’s mind is not as mature as the adults, how can you one to give her the pressure, maybe Xu Sister-in-law properly sit down with Ding Ling and the children’s minds Maybe if sister-in-law Xu sits down and talks to Ling Ling properly, things can still be better”

Aunt Cao let out a long sigh, “A widow’s door is full of wrongs and wrongs, Xiao Xu can’t help it, she hasn’t remarried all these years because she wants Ling Ling to study well, so that she can have a good career in the future, and there’s no way out of it, and if you want to say who’s to blame, blame Old Ma and Old Cao for this, they really deserve to die”

Aunt Cao began to mutter, “How can Ling Ling not understand it, young to make a fuss about getting married ”

Halfway through her speech, Big Aunt Cao staggered violently, “Not right ah, how did that family come, it can’t be to find me?”

“Who came to find you?” Lin Minjun asked in surprise

“The Lu family, Xue Ping’s mom, don’t you think so?” Big Aunt Cao hurriedly stood up and reached out to point in a direction

Lin Minjun followed the direction of Auntie Cao’s finger and saw a group of people at the end of the road walking towards her side, one of them was really Lu’s mother

One of them was really Lu’s mother To be precise, it wasn’t just Lu’s mother, Lu Deping was right behind her, and there were a few other people that Lin Minjun couldn’t see because they were too far away

Auntie Cao had already started walking towards the back kitchen, with a look of avoiding the plague, “What’s going on, how did they even find their way here, it’s really annoying”

“What’s going on? You owe their family money?” Lin Minjun asked curiously

Big Aunt Cao: “How is this possible, when people hear me coming to their door to beat them up, they won’t even open the door The last time Xue Ping’s mom knew I was working for you, she actually told me not to and advised me to quit my job”

She complained with a disgusted face, “She dares to think, not work she gives money to me to live ah, besides in your commute to and from work with you, do not need to walk by myself, but also get a bonus, where can I find such a suitable job again, forget it, I am too lazy to talk to her, go to the back kitchen first”

The old lady was staggering, said she was going to run to the back kitchen, and grabbed a handful of greens on her way out, dripping with water

Lin Minjun loves cleanliness, frowned at the sight, brought a mop and wiped the water, advised, “Don’t be in a hurry, I see that there are still people around, maybe they just happen to be passing by here, not necessarily looking for you”

“Really? You help me see, what kind of people are around her?” Auntie Cao immediately turned around and quietly looked out

At this time, mother Lu’s group of people also came much closer, Cao Auntie saw clearly, the situation does not seem to come to find their own chatter, immediately assured, looking for a corner they can not be seen, excitedly began to watch the fun

She is also looking at the side with Lin Minjun gossip, “You see Xue Ping her mother side and a young man it, that is Xue Ping’s brother De Ping, this child is good, I have not heard of doing anything out of the ordinary, Xue Ping her mother has been trying to find a good daughter-in-law to De Ping it, I look at them today this situation is like in the blind date ah”

“Blind date?” Lin Minjun on Lu Deping has completely put down, completely uninterested, hear this instead quite happy, Lu Deping if the blind date successful, married, should not pester their own

Lin Minjun and Lu Deping have not met for a long time, she guessed that Lu Deping should also put himself down, so it is very good, she now does not want to see him, and do not want to have any association with him, in the past life, that is a piece of bad karma

Lin Minjun on Lu De Ping’s feelings, the beginning is the hope of peace and separation, but Lu De Ping is not only not peace, but also move over to pester, moving self-centered feel that the two people can continue the previous relationship, a long time Lin Minjun feel bored, but also see through a lot

Lu De Ping claimed to love her, but his mother forced to have a child when Lu De Ping will only say, Ajun, you endure, around the relatives and friends said Lu family really benevolent, Lin Minjun your life is really good, Lu De Ping never say a word

Lin Minjun vaguely feel, Lu Deping’s love for her only exists in the mouth, Lu Deping’s love for her is not like in love with a person, more like love a grass a flower, as if she is a lifeless person

The longer the time Lin Minjun on Lu De Ping last bit of love are consumed, now she is on Lu De Ping’s feelings are very complex, a thousand words can only be converged into one sentence: love what you want, do not die my door

Cao Auntie’s face is sure: “Yes, I know the old woman behind them, and I’m still a competitor, in our matchmaker circle is a famous clever mouth, how do you say, she can make the dead into alive, round into flat”

Lin Minjun stared at her: what else do you matchmakers have in store for you?

In fact, Auntie Cao had guessed correctly that the Lu family would be here today on a blind date

Not far away, the matchmaker walking beside Lu’s mother smiled, pulled Lu’s mother’s hand, “Meizi, you talk about your family De Ping, talk to Xiaotong ah, this thing between men and women is to be the boy to take the initiative, the girls are shy, embarrassed to talk”

Lu mother did not move to draw back her hand, eyes flashed a trace of dislike, quickly returned to normal, also said with a smile, “words can not be said so, my family De Ping has never had a relationship, the character of the shy, Xiaotong you do not be afraid of shyness, take the initiative to talk with my family De Ping, you are both excellent young people, certainly have a common language”

Lu Deping has never been with anyone, so she has?

Lu Deping was afraid of being shy, so she should be brazen?

Fang Xiaotong glanced at Lu Deping who was walking side by side with her, and immediately felt speechless

She seems to have a lot of bad luck lately, and today her mom rushed her out for a blind date, saying that it was introduced by a colleague from her unit, so Fang Xiaotong couldn’t argue with her mom and came out

To the agreed location, a look at the object of the blind date is well-mannered, wearing a white shirt a handsome look, Fang Xiaotong was quite happy, quite interested, want to talk more, but get along with but twenty minutes Fang Xiaotong think Lu Deping this person can not

How to say, this person out of the matchmaking, but put a look who owes him eight million expression, she asked what, Lu Deping are umm ah ah perfunctory, or is directly to the problem thrown to his mother

The most ridiculous thing is that the matchmaker proposed to come out to shop, and then Lu Deping took his mother, as if his mother is his spokesman, microphone

There have been several blind dates, but this is the first time that Fang Xiaotong has seen this kind of person, who needs his mom to say everything, and takes her with him everywhere, as if she has not been weaned yet

Fang Xiaotong on Lu Deping is completely unattractive, if not for the sake of their own mother’s face, she would have left, and now can only reluctantly with them out to stroll, praying to hurry to end home

Then look at Lu Deping, look at his face, a look of wandering, Fang Xiaotong completely uninterested, not even the idea of talking, silently away from a few steps

At this time, Lu’s mother is joyful, although the two young people look is not electric each other, but Lu’s mother is that they just do not understand each other, understand each other will certainly fall in love with each other after

After all, in the heart of Lu mother, Lu Deping is a thousand good, with the fairy daughter is too wrong

Lu Deping also really competitive, with the memory of the previous life, this life Lu Deping business more smooth, at first just through the fucking relationship to do a little hospital business, but soon he opened his own factory through the loan, and now the factory is flourishing, coupled with his own image is good, it is a very good young talent, Lu’s mother is more complacent

She gave her son a thousand choices, chose Fang Xiaotong matchmaking, Fang Xiaotong’s family history is good, the work is good, parents are leaders, their own school as a teacher, physical appearance, after the birth of a child, let her resign, at home, but also can educate the child, two birds with one stone, her family Duping is not unable to afford to support his wife and children, I believe that in-laws in-laws will not refuse

The mother of Lu still feel a little dissatisfied, she disliked Fang Xiaotong’s height is not tall enough, the face is not pretty enough, but the good thing is that the family is very good, to make up for this point of shortcomings, in the future, my family DEPING has the old man’s support, will be able to rocket up

Lu mother as long as the thought of her son’s future, simply to be happy flowers, and then look, they are very close to Lin Minjun’s store, as long as to Lin Minjun see, that girl is absolutely embarrassed to De Ping again to the front!

Lu mother saw two young people are not talking, clearing her throat, glanced at Lin Minjun’s store, said loudly: “I say today’s matchmaking is really good, my family De Ping young has opened a factory, can earn a lot of money a year, is the boss, Xiaotong himself is a teacher, family is also good, simply born to be a pair of old sister, you say? ”

Matchmaker also do not know what Lu mother suddenly crazy, she this voice out, a lot of people on the main road have turned back, forgive the matchmaker feel that they have been enough to see a lot of people, but also be embarrassed to

“Well right, indeed a natural pair, it depends on whether the two children can get along” The matchmaker said stiffly

Lu mother dissatisfied look at her: “What is this can not get along with, maybe the two people have long been looking at the right eye, is to see us here embarrassed to speak it”

Said Lu mother pushed her own son, pointed to the roadside and said: “De Ping, you go to buy a bottle of soda for Xiaotong, now the day is too hot, look at Xiaotong hot into what kind of, mom knows you are embarrassed, don’t be afraid to be shy, go and buy it”

Lu De Ping today was going to deal with things in the factory, his factory has been a bit of a scale, invited more workers inevitably more verbal disputes, must be to develop a regulatory system, Lu De Ping is busy with this matter, who knows that his mother a drag queen, at home to make a mess of the sky must be over to him over the blind date

Lu Deping is very resistant to blind date, and because of the things with Lin Minjun has not been progress, would have been anxious anxious, was his mom so stirred up, on the blind date simply disgusted to the extreme

At this time also be forced by his mother to buy soda for others, his lonely temper also came up, said in a cold voice: “Do not go”

This sentence is like a big slap on the face of Lu’s mother