Chapter 101

The little boy was sent away, Zhu Yanshu put down a big stone in her heart.

Zhang Ma is still a bit sad, although did not say, but when she came back, her eyes were red. Zhu Yanshu took her hand and coaxed her, “Mrs. Zhang, I have no choice.”

Zhang Ma nodded, wiping her tears and said, “I understand, you family of women, what’s the point of having one more child? Not to mention it’s that whose seed it is, it’s a white-eyed wolf even after raising it.” She sighed, both to Zhu Yan Shu listen, but also to comfort themselves: “That family seems to be very strict, will teach him well, and in the future will not grow up with his own parents to learn is not far off.”

Zhu Yan Shu coaxed: “Wait for two years, let Yan Yan give birth to a small one for you to bring!”

Zhang Ma immediately shook her head: “Yan Yan is still small, at any rate, after 20 years to have a child, the age of the child is not good for the mother.”

Zhu Yanshu: “Okay, okay, I’ll listen to you, in two years.”

Zhu Yanshu asked Yang Yuyan to talk to Zhang Ma more in the next two days.

Yang Yuyan asked in a low voice, “What’s wrong? Did you annoy her?”

Zhu Yanshu sighed: “The child was sent away, and Zhang Ma is upset.”

Yang Yuyan let out a sigh, send a cat or dog still have to miss two days in the heart, let alone send a child, the family heart is not very comfortable.

She nodded: “Then I’ll find Zhang Ma to talk more, just don’t let her think about it anymore.”

Yang Yuyan’s ability to find someone to talk to wasn’t too high, pondering left and right for half a day, she drilled into the kitchen and spoke to Zhang Ma, “Zhang Ma, I want to eat raw fried buns.”

Zhang Ma turned her head to look at her, and without saying anything, she went to get a bowl to open the noodle tank, while saying, “Do you want to cook another duck blood soup?”

Yang Yuyan squatted down, “Sure, sure.”

Zhang Ma didn’t kick her out today, so she let her stand in front of the kitchen and watch. She made the noodles, chopped the meat, adjusted the onion and ginger water, and so on, until the buns were put into the pot face down, then she took a basin and called out to Miss Yang: “Go to the chicken and duck seller downstairs and ask him to buy duck blood, duck liver and duck breast for 10 cents, and see that he kills them now.”

Yang Yuyan took the basin and stomped downstairs.

In the past, the corridor was bustling, today is still the same lively, although moved away three families, but the remaining families are still the same life, in the middle of the day nothing to do, gathered in the corridor gossip, see Yang second miss personally take pots out to buy food, all greeted warmly: “second miss, buy what to go?”

Yang Yuyan: “Duck blood.”

A tenant said, “Duck blood soup? It’s very fresh! Cakes or buns?”

Another tenant laughed at her, “Duck blood soup tastes better with meat buns.”

The rest of the tenants laughed.

“Meat buns? Do you have money to buy meat?”

“The butcher stores are closed, where are you going to buy meat? Still want Pork Liu to give you an extra pig’s tail?”

Yang Yuyan went to buy duck blood and came back, the girls were still talking and laughing, and somehow so idle.

One of the tenants saw fresh duck blood in the basin she was carrying, and hurriedly said, “Ouch, I have to rush to buy duck feet and duck wings!”

As soon as she said that, the rest of the tenants also reacted and went back to their houses to get pots to run out, and four or five women rushed out of the door at a moment’s notice.

Yang Yuyan came back with the duck blood and handed it to Zhang Ma, telling what just happened as a joke.

She said, “I don’t know who robbed the duck feet and wings.”

Duck feet and duck wings are cheap, as well as duck heads and duck necks and duck racks are all cheap things, and the rest of the duck breasts and duck legs are the most expensive. The one selling chickens and ducks was able to slice off all the meat from the duck rack, leaving only a sliver hanging on the rack. Zhang Ma said it could only be used for soup and noodles, but nothing else.

Mrs. Zhang: “It’s just for sipping.”

For dinner, everyone else ate something serious, but in front of Yang Yuyan was duck blood vermicelli soup and shengjian.

Yang Yuyan had six shengjian in front of her, she made a round, and the others all took one as a gesture, and the rest went to her.

She ate the pan-fried food with the vermicelli soup and listened to the other people at the table chatting.

Su Chunjun said that he had been officially transferred into the secretariat, his salary has increased by five dollars from this month, the good thing is that he has moved from the first floor to the secretariat, the bad thing is that from now on, he can no longer just hang on to the account.

He laughed: “It’s a big chunk of income less.”

Zhu Yan Shu laughed: “It is a good thing to be valued by the above, congratulations on your promotion, Zhang Ma, bring the wine.”

Zhang Ma brought red wine and four crystal western-style wine glasses, which were small and filled to the brim.

Yang Yuyan didn’t like wine, she drank this wine during Chinese New Year and didn’t think it was good.

She said, “I want to drink champagne.”

Zhang Ma ranted at her, “I told you to drink the champagne alone long ago, it’s gone, just make do.”

As Zhang Ma poured wine for everyone, Yang Yuyan said, “I’ll do it.”

Yang Yuyan said, “I’ll do it.” She stood up and poured the wine from the bottle, and Su Chunjun brought the wine glass to her hand, and the wine slowly slid into the glass and slowly filled it up.

After the wine was poured, Zhu Yanshu raised her glass, “Come on, let’s all congratulate Mr. Su on his promotion.”

Su Chunjun smiled and said, “You flatter me too much, I’ll go first, ladies and gentlemen please feel free.”

He drank it all in one gulp, the rest of them just took a sip, Yang Yuyan didn’t touch it at all, and pushed her own wine straight over when she saw him finish it.

The wine bottle was not taken away, letting them continue to drink.

Zhu Yanshu said, “Mr. Su’s high rise, will more guests come to the engagement?”

Su Chunjun said, “Probably about a dozen more. I’ve already invited the people from the Secretariat today, and I’ll make up the invitations tomorrow. For those who dragged their families, I guess there will be two or three more tables.”

Yang Yuyan was dumbfounded by what she heard, and turned her head to ask Yang Yucan, “Did the engagement …… invite a lot of guests?”

Wasn’t it just a family dinner!

She thought it was just a matter of the whole family going out to eat together!

Yang Yucan saw her dead to the end especially do not know, cold smile: “Invitations sent out five hundred, even if it comes a little less, there are two or three hundred people. The Peace Hotel has booked twenty tables, and there may not be enough to sit on.”

Yang Yuyan’s eyes glared round, popped out a sentence: “Our family does not eat! The Peace Hotel is opening twenty tables for a banquet? How much money will it cost?”

Zhu Yanshu was talking to Su Chunjun, but she was too loud and scolded, “What are you yelling about? Do you want the neighbors to hear you?”

Yang Yuyan immediately asked, “Did we invite the neighbors?”

Zhu Yanshu: “No.”

Yang Yuyan was relieved.

Zhu Yanshu: “Is that possible? Are you stupid? Of course we should invite the neighbors.”

Yang Yuyan instantly felt that her cheeks were about to be stripped clean, her body was bubbling with heat, and embarrassment was everywhere, growing wildly.

“How can this be! That’s too much!” She stood up and screamed.

Zhu Yan Shu was surprised, “What’s wrong? What’s wrong? You weren’t angry two days ago, why are you angry today?”

Yang Yucan hurriedly pulled Yang Yuyan to see her complexion, seeing that she was really angry with a red face and stiff body, she immediately hugged and coaxed: “Not angry, not angry, what’s wrong? Do not want the neighbors to go? Afraid of too many people?”

Yang Yuyan stomped her feet in her sister’s arms: “That’s right! Why invite so many people! It’s so embarrassing!”

Zhang Ma stretched her head out from the living room to take a look, then shrank back, pretending not to know.

Zhu Yanshu couldn’t help but get up and go over to coax her, “Everyone else thinks it’s not enough, but only this one I gave birth to is different. Boy, this is a good thing. Look, who doesn’t like to be honored at their engagement? When the time comes, so many people will wish you and Mr. Su the best of luck.” She pulled down Yang Yuyan’s arm and pretended to whisper, “Look, when you get angry, Mr. Su doesn’t know what to do.”

Yang Yuyan had already felt that there was one less to coax her, and when she looked over, she really saw Su Chunjun standing there, as if he didn’t dare to come over, with a surprisingly helpless look.

She glared at him, only then did he seem relieved, put down his napkin, hesitated for a moment before coming over, and said to her in the gentlest of voices, “I know you don’t like crowded places, and you hate to have your private affairs known by so many people, this time it’s me who’s bad, and when we get married we won’t be doing such a big deal, okay?”

Yang Yuyan also just heard a shock, and embarrassment seizure, only to feel uncomfortable, at this time by the whole family around the coaxing, also think it is her unreasonable. Yes, girls like the scenery, they want to run a big, but also for her good.

She then subsided, just finally struggling to ask: “Isn’t that going to cost a lot of money?”

Su Chunjun hurriedly said, “No need to spend money. The banquet is the one I found, and I said that the cost is completely free.”

Yang Yuyan was naturally shocked. Zhu Yanshu and Yang Yucan had been shocked earlier, and at this time, they appeared to be extraordinarily calm.

Yang Yuyan hurriedly asked, “Free of charge? How much is that?”

Su Chunjun: “I didn’t ask in detail, about two thousand dollars.”

This favor was also earned by Su Chunjun, he said he didn’t have to care, Zhu family mother and daughter had to not care.

The group of people resumed their seats, to change the topic.

Zhang Ma hurried over to interrupt, “Finished eating? I’ll give you some sweet soup, put it on the sofa, go over and drink it.”

Everyone went over to drink the sweet soup, Su Chunjun walked behind and tried to hold Yang Yuyan’s hand. Yang Yuyan also wanted to apologize and took the initiative to give her hand.

When the two of them held hands and exchanged glances, the uneasiness they had just experienced dissipated.

Sitting on the sofa, everyone has a bowl of sweet soup in their hands.

Zhu Yan Shu brought up the matter of going to make new clothes.

“Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow will be sunny and not much wind, what do you think?” She asked Su Chunjun.

Su Chunjun busily put down his bowl and said, “I’ll listen to you, I’ll be convenient whenever you see fit.”

Zhu Yanshu then set a date to go to the tailor’s store early tomorrow morning to make clothes.

Because she had to get up early the next day, she was bound to go to bed early tonight.

Zhu Yanshu went back to her bedroom early to do her beauty exercises, and before she went in, she said to Yang Yuyan, “Don’t study too late, go to bed early.”

Yang Yuyan feels this is sarcasm, but still holds a book in her hand as cover to talk to Su Chunjun. The two switched to the dining room again avoiding the crowds and putting on a show.

Yang Yuyan had to look like a serious student, and with what happened just now, she couldn’t help but look more serious, so she took her textbook and first reported to Teacher Su that she had memorized a few words, read a few chapters, copied a few poems, and practiced ten pages of brushstrokes today.

Su Chunjun was also very polite, sitting a palm away from her, and no longer looking for an opportunity to move his hands, touching the braid, touching the small hands.

He said, “I’ll bring you a few books tomorrow, okay? They’re all new, I went to the bookstore and bought them specially.” He whispered, “They’re all novels.”

Novels are good, novels are good.

Yang Yuyan hadn’t been able to visit a bookstore to buy novels for a long time, because the nearest bookstore downstairs from her house had closed down, and the owner had gone back to his hometown in fear.

She asked, “Is the bookstore you’re looking for still open? The owner is so bold. Isn’t he afraid of being checked?”

Nowadays, the source of books in bookstores is very complicated, because although books and magazines need to be published according to the number, but more of them are privately published, printing books and newspapers in nowadays only need an ink machine can do it, there are Japanese and German ones on the market, and many bookstores have their own one to print some books of the wind and snow so as to sell them for money.

Because of this, the gendarmerie check bookstores are basically a check, catch the owner can be thrown directly into prison, the bookstore books back, according to the book number for the crime, and then the words and phrases of sensitive singled out for questioning, enough to bookstore owners in the prison for the year.

When she was in the bookstore, she could often see similar books, surprisingly, their covers and names are not exciting at all, but some euphemistic as if the name of love poems, at first glance thought it was a collection of poems written by the new school of poets who are sad in spring and autumn.

But the content inside is exciting.

She never buys them, though, because Yang Yuchan buys enough of them.

Su Chunjun said, “It’s fine, it’s fine if the boss runs away, when it’s fine he’ll come back and open a store for business all the same.”

Yang Yuyan was surprised, “Zhang Ma said the same thing!”

When she said the bookstore owner ran away, Zhang Ma said, “He’ll be back after a while.”

Su Chunjun smiled and said, “Everyone is used to it, leaving when the wind is tight and coming back when the wind is not so tight. Maybe in a few months, the butcher store owner will come back too.”

Yang Yuyan: “That’s good, Zhang Ma now has to run to another street to buy meat and complained several times.”

The two chatted for half an hour before Zhang Ma came over to clear her throat and asked if Mr. Su wanted another bowl of sweet soup.

Mr. Su Chunjun heard the chord and immediately got up and said, “It’s late, I should take my leave, you guys have an early night.”

Yang Yuyan sent him out the door, and the two of them stood at the door saying goodbye some more before parting ways. Zhang Ma snatched up the door and locked it, pushing her back to the house to change into her pajamas.

Zhang Ma: “We’ll see each other tomorrow morning, you’ll be able to see him every day from now on, you’re sick of seeing him.”

Yang Yuyan said seriously, “That’ll have to wait until he’s old.” She shouldn’t like the old man, by then the filter that comes with love should be gone, alas, love will eventually perish, leaving only the chicken scratch of life.

Zhang Ma: “If he’s old, you’ll be old too, by then you’ll have a wrinkled face too, similar to me.” She stuck her face in front of Yang Yuyan, making her fall down on the bed with laughter, and the suddenly rising feelings about love just now disappeared without a trace.

After washing up, she lay on the bed under the quilt and thought about the thoughts she had just had again.

When he grew old, and she grew old, would he become the most handsome old man in her eyes?

She rolled over.

What if she was all wrinkled and he didn’t like her then?

Thinking about it, she realized that she might be able to accept Su Chunjun becoming the most handsome old man in history, but she was not sure if he would continue to love her with a wrinkled face.

After a night of tossing and turning, she yawned in the morning.

Yang Yucan got her out of bed early, rushed her to wash up, urged her to change her clothes, pulled her to the balcony to make her memorize her books, and she brushed her hair.

Yang Yuyan turned her back to her sister, who had been upgraded to mom, and blinked back tears as she woodenly recited poems. The love poems were recited by her in a dry, emotionless manner.

Yang Yu Cicada braided her hair and said, “You read love poems like you’ve already walked into the grave of love.”

Yang Yuyan smiled and said, “I heard that marriage is the grave of love, I am indeed about to walk into it.” After saying that, she sighed herself first.

Yang Yuchan asked with concern, “What’s wrong? What’s on your mind?”

She had always felt that Yang Yuyan was nowhere near the age where she could get married, whether it was physically or psychologically, she was not mature enough to walk into marriage. But now it was already a state where the arrow was on the string and had to be sent. She was worried that Yang Yuyan had failed to change her mindset and that something would go wrong again.

Yang Yuyan asked her seriously, “Sister, you say if …… when I’m forty or fifty years old and full of wrinkles, Su Chunjun, he doesn’t like me anymore, what should I do?”

Yang Yucan: “……”

After all, it was her own, Yang Yucan couldn’t fight.

She pressed Yang Yuyan’s shoulder and said, “You can go ahead of him to publish a newspaper divorce ah.”