Chapter 010.
Turning his head to see Zhen Zhen’s reddened face, Servant Huai Ming subconsciously froze for a moment.
He quickly returned to his senses and withdrew his own hand, his expression and tone unaffected, and told Zhen Zhen, “That’s it, you have to sit up straight when you write, don’t bend over or lower your head too deeply, this is not a good habit, and it’s not good for your body either.”
Zhen Zhen hurriedly nodded after hearing this.
She sat up straight as Shi Huai Ming said, and used the pen grip he had adjusted for her to write “a” on the paper.
After writing, she raised her hand to show Shi Huai Ming, “Is it okay?”
Shi Huai Ming gave his affirmation, “Yes.”
He said as he prepared to get up, “I have to go to class, you memorize and copy everything you just learned, it’s best to learn to write silently as soon as possible. Later on Li Shuang will come to find you, you can just go directly with her.”
Zhen Zhen watched him get up, pen in hand and responded, “Oh.”
Servant Huai Ming thought for a moment and continued to explain, “I’ve given Li Shuang the money and tickets, you don’t need to be nervous, just go out and follow her closely.”
Zhen Zhen still answered, “Okay.”
Getting up, she sent Servant Huai Ming out the door.
Watching the door close, Zhen Zhen returned to her room and sat down, picking up a pen to continue writing letters.
This was what Servant Huai Ming had taken the time and effort to teach her, so she didn’t dare not take it seriously.
It was Zhen Zhen’s first time practicing writing, so she wrote more slowly.
After she had seriously written two pages, a knock sounded on the front door.
Zhen Zhen put down her pen and went out to open the door, only to see her neighbor Li Shuang standing outside the door.
Zhen Zhen hurriedly smiled a little, “Sister-in-law.”
Li Shuang wasn’t that enthusiastic about Zhen Zhen, and didn’t come in, directly said, “Something happened at home today, I took a half day off, and I just got back from work. Let’s go, take you shopping to buy things.”
Zhen Zhen smiled and answered, following Li Shuang out the door.
She liked Li Shuang from the first moment she saw her, thinking that it would be good if she was half as good as her.
Li Shuang fulfilled all her imaginations of a woman in the city.
As they walked side by side, Li Shuang asked Zhen Zhen, “What are you missing?”
Zhen Zhen answered truthfully, “Actually, I don’t lack anything.”
Nowadays there are a lot more things to use than in the countryside, everything is available, she doesn’t lack anything at all.
Li Shuang smiled, “Take a stroll and then we’ll talk.”
Li Shuang had little interest in Zhen Zhen, but was interested in what was going on between her and Shui Huai Ming.
She was the one who led the conversation as they walked along the road. She asked Zhen Zhen, “I heard that you and Shui Huai Ming have a child marriage?”
Zhen Zhen nodded, “It was set by my parents when I was young.”
Li Shuang said she didn’t understand, “But when you got married, it was a new society, the state advocated free love, and opposed feudal marriages arranged by parents, so how could you still get married?”
Zhen Zhen hesitated for a moment and said, “Third brother he …… is very filial.”
Li Shuang heard and understood, parents arranged marriage is naturally the parents look at, and the service Huai Ming is willing to accept such a marriage, naturally because they do not dare to disobey their parents’ arrangements.
Zhen Zhen only answered half of the question, she then asked, “What about you?”
Zhen Zhen thought for a moment and said, “I don’t have much of an idea, I just listen to the marriage that my parents set. In our place, if you get married and don’t get married, it’s not good for the girl’s reputation. When you grow up, you will find a man to get married and live your life, that’s how it is in our place.”
Li Shuang nodded her head, “That Shi Huai Ming is not bad, he is quite responsible, he kicked you out if he didn’t get ahead.”
After talking about marriage, Li Shuang asked about children, “Don’t you have any children?”
Zhen Zhen shook her head, “Back then, half a month after getting married, he joined the army and went to war.”
Li Shuang remembered her own year.
She thought back, “We, too, weren’t married for long, and I was just pregnant at that time when He Shuo left. I stayed home alone to have the baby and brought it up until last year, when he came back.”
The two of them talked about their respective husbands, but also had something to talk about.
After chatting all the way to the department store, Li Shuang signaled to the gate, “Here we are, let’s go, I’ll take you in for a stroll.”
Seeing the department store’s large high-rise front door, Zhen Zhen only feel eyes are dizzy.
She followed Li Shuang inside, her fingers hidden in her sleeves slightly pinched, feeling that this dress on her body, and the environment in the mall really does not match.
She didn’t want to act like she hadn’t seen the world, but she still couldn’t suppress her nervousness.
She followed beside Li Shuang and couldn’t help but look left and right.
The mall was something she hadn’t seen before, and many of the things in the mall were also something she hadn’t seen before, so it was also extraordinarily new.
Li Shuang could see that she was curious and nervous, smiled a little and asked, “Never seen it before, right?”
Zhen Zhen very honestly nodded at her.
Li Shuang boldly said, “Go, today to bring you a good long see.”
In order to avoid getting lost, Zhen Zhen followed Li Shuang closely.
Li Shuang took her to the counter and introduced her to all the things sold in the counter.
Zhen Zhen listened and nodded her head, memorizing the things she introduced to her.
Walking to the counter selling snowflake cream, Li Shuang suddenly said, “Little Cotton, do you have snowflake cream?”
Because it wasn’t her name that was called, Zhen Zhen didn’t respond immediately.
Seeing that she didn’t answer, Li Shuang turned her head to look at her, “Asking you, do you have snowflake cream?”
Zhen Zhen then realized that Li Shuang was asking her, and hurriedly answered out loud, “I haven’t used this kind of thing.”
Li Shuang looked at her face, “Then your skin is good, using this will make it better, and it smells good.”
Saying that, she turned to the counter and asked again, “Just these in the counter, which one do you want?”
The brands were different and the bottles looked different.
For this one, Jen couldn’t pick, so she had to be honest, “I don’t know much about it, I can actually do without this one.”
It could make the skin better and still smell good, so it definitely wasn’t cheap.
As if she knew what she was thinking, Li Shuang said easily, “Aigoo, you can rest assured, with the current salary and subsidies of Shi Huaiming, this is something he can still afford to pay for. A woman should primp herself to look good, understand?”
Of course Zhen Zhen knew that it would be better for a woman to be beautiful, for example, she also liked the red scarf that Shui Huai Ming had given her.
But the kind of beauty Li Shuang was talking about was something she couldn’t even fantasize about before.
Seeing that Zhen Zhen didn’t say anything, Li Shuang knew why Mr. Huai Ming asked her to bring Zhen Zhen to buy things.
There are a lot of things that Servant Huai Ming doesn’t know, even Lin Zhen Zhen herself doesn’t know.
Since she didn’t know, Li Shuang simply didn’t ask so many questions.
She picked out a snowflake cream from the counter, took two bottles, one for herself and one for Zhen Zhen, paid for it, put it in her bag, and took Zhen Zhen to continue shopping at the next counter.
Zhen Zhen thought about what she had just called herself and took the time to explain, “My name is Lin Zhen Zhen, not Little Cotton.”
Li Shuang looked over at her and smiled, “I know, I gave you a nickname, nice, right?”
Oh ……
Zhen Zhen didn’t say anything else at this.
Little Cotton is just Little Cotton.
After buying the snowflake cream, Li Shuang brought Zhen Zhen to buy some other feminine products.
Some of them she herself also needed, so she would take a double portion.
After buying sanitary napkins, Li Shuang put the yellow paper bag into the bag and asked Zhen Zhen in a low voice: “Do you know what a sanitary napkin is?”
Zhen Zhen shook her head, “I haven’t heard of it in the countryside.”
Li Shuang laughed, his voice was even lower, “It’s used when you come to that, I’ll teach you later.”
Zhen Zhen understands, and her voice is lowered, “Oh, good.”
Shopping a circle down, Li Shuang bag has been stuffed with things.
She looked at the counter in the mall to think for a while, remembered something, and took Zhen Zhen to the counter that sells cloth, pulled Zhen Zhen to select fabric, and bought Zhen Zhen materials that can make two sets of clothes.
Li Shuang picked up the fabric and compared it to Zhen Zhen’s body, “Now it’s just a little cold in the morning and evening, buy a good cloth and then take you to the tailor store, a body to do spring and fall clothes, long sleeves and long pants, this floral blue material lining you very good, just do a set of Bragi.”
Zhen Zhen was curious and asked, “Sister-in-law, what is Bragi?”
Li Shuang explained to her, “Skirt, dress, transliterated from Russian.”
Zhen Zhen didn’t understand the phonetic translation, but didn’t ask any more questions.
When the cloth was chosen, Li Shuang pointed out the fabric and said to the salesman, “This one is cut four and a half feet, this one is cut three feet, and this one is cut seven feet.”
After getting the cloth and paying the money and ticket, Li Shuang turned around and said, “Let’s go, take you to the tailor store.”
Zhen Zhen carried Li Shuang’s bag in her hand, so she didn’t grab the fabric again.
She was completely unfamiliar with the neighborhood, so she still followed Li Shuang, and she went wherever Li Shuang took her.
When they arrived at the tailor’s store, everything was also at Li Shuang’s beck and call.
Li Shuang asked the tailor to measure Zhen Zhen’s body, and also told the tailor what kind of style of clothes to make.
Watching Li Shuang do and talk very quickly, Zhen Zhen had only four words in her head – she is really great.
Although she herself is not very powerful, before she married in her mother’s family rely on her parents and elder brother and sister-in-law to protect, after marrying again rely on her mother-in-law and elder brother and sister-in-law to protect, but she is very like powerful people.
Not only very fond of, but also very envious.
Seeing the way Zhen Zhen looked at herself, Li Shuang couldn’t help but smile and ask, “What are you looking at me like that for?”
Zhen Zhen smiled and said, “Sister-in-law you look so beautiful.”
Li Shuang was delighted by her compliment and was not modest: “You have a good eye.”
Coming out of the tailor store, the two were considered to be more acquainted.
Li Shuang said to Zhen Zhen, “We are neighbors, our family He Shuo and your family Shui Huai Ming are comrades in arms and classmates, good relations, in the future, if there is anything you can directly find me on the line, I will help you if I can.”
Zhen Zhen didn’t give any more points and answered, “Thank you, sister-in-law.”
When the two of them arrived home after chatting, Shui Huaoming and He Shuo had already returned from class.
The two men had also prepared dinner and were chatting outside, waiting for Li Shuang and Zhen Zhen to come back for dinner.
Seeing Li Shuang and Zhen Zhen come back, He Shuo spoke first, “Yo, bought quite a few things.”
Li Shuang looked at him and said, “Buy everything, of course more.”
Saying that, he took the bag from Zhen Zhen’s hand and said to Zhen Zhen again, “Come to my house after dinner, I’ll divide your stuff among you.”
Zhen Zhen nodded, “Okay, sister-in-law.”
After saying their words the four of them went their separate ways home.
He Shuo had just opened the door when He Zi Ran ran back from outside again, and the family of three entered the house together.
Entering the house and closing the door, He Shuo looked at Li Shuang and said, “It looks like you and her get along pretty well.”
Li Shuang carried her bag to the house, “It’s just that I can get along, as long as I want to, who can’t I get along with?”
He Shuo takes He Zi Ran to the kitchen to wash his hands, “Yes, my wife is the best.”
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Next door, Zhen Zhen and Shi Huai Ming have already sat down to eat.
Servant Huai Ming asked Zhen Zhen, “Did you have fun?”
Indeed very happy, Zhen Zhen nodded with bright eyes, her voice clear and crisp: “Li Shuang’s sister-in-law took me to the department store, I gained a lot of insight, there are many things in there that I haven’t seen in the countryside. Also went to the tailor store, sister-in-law let the tailor make me a strip of Braj ……”
Said thought of something, “Third brother, what is the meaning of the phonetic translation ah?”
Serving Huai Ming explained to her, “Phonetic translation is translated according to the Russian pronunciation, the dress is pronounced in Russian and pronounced like Bragi.”
Zhen Zhen understood and nodded at him, “I seem to get it.”
Because she was happy, Zhen Zhen wanted to tell Squire Huai Ming a little more about her trip to the mall today.
But before she could say anything, Shui Huai Ming suddenly said, “Don’t get distracted by the fun, take your heart back, continue copying the letters after dinner until you can mime, I want to check it at night.”
The slightly excited mood was suddenly interrupted.
Zhen Zhen chokes for a moment, swallows the words in her mouth, slowly collects the smile on her face and nods at him, “Okay.”
After saying this, she remembered something, “But sister-in-law Li Shuang asked me to go to her place to get the things I bought ……”
Serving Huai Ming, “I’ll go get it for you.”
Well, Zhen Zhen had to answer again, “Oh, okay.”