Chapter 014
After living a regular life, it’s not far from being fully adapted.
In the new week, Zhen Zhen’s daily routine was still cooking and studying.
When she was tired of studying, she would sweep the floor when she got up to move around, or go out to play with Big White for a few minutes.
Two days later, Old Zhou’s daughter-in-law came over.
When the jeep stopped in front of the house diagonally across the street, Zhen Zhen had just finished her lunch and came out to bask in the sun.
She sat on a bench and looked across the street, seeing a young driver come down from the car, who opened several other doors, and then saw another woman and four little boys come down from the car.
Among the four boys, the oldest looked fourteen or fifteen years old, and the youngest looked six or seven years old.
The driver brought down the packages that had been placed in the car, which were several large packages.
He first moved a package into the house, the woman moved one, and several children moved another.
While he was watching, Li Shuang came back from work.
Li Shuang, holding He Ziran in his hand, greeted Zhen Zhen and said, “What are you sitting here looking at?”
Zhen Zhen stood up and gestured to the opposite side, “It seems like Old Zhou’s wife is here.”
Li Shuang looked in the direction she indicated, and saw a woman coming out of the house.
The woman was gray, with a big face and a bucket waist, her face looked a bit fierce, and Old Zhou was very much a married couple.
Zhen Zhen asked Li Shuang, “Should we go over and say hello?”
Li Shuang retracted her gaze, “I don’t want to go, if you want to go, you go.”
After saying that, she went home, but suddenly thought of something and came back, saying to Zhen Zhen, “Right, I told the tailor to make the clothes faster, so your clothes should be almost ready, so you can go pick them up.”
Zhen Zhen almost forgot about this, and responded, “Oh, okay, I’ll take the time to go pick it up.”
Li Shuang asked one more time, “Can you find your way?”
Zhen Zhen thought for a moment, “I think I can.”
Li Shuang: “If you can’t find it, ask Squire Huai Ming to pick it up for you.”
After saying that, she didn’t stand around any longer and called He Ziran, who had run off to play with Dabai, to go home.
Zhen Zhen wasn’t sure if that was Old Zhou’s wife or not, so naturally she didn’t rush over to greet her.
She stood still and hesitated for a while, picked up a bench and went back to the house with a book.
When she went to the house to memorize the multiplication algorithm again, Shui Huaiming came back.
The two of them washed their hands, brought bowls and chopsticks, and sat down to eat.
Zhen Zhen asked Shi Huai Ming, “That one across the street, is that Old Zhou’s wife coming over?”
Shi Huai Ming lifted his gaze to look at her, “You saw it?”
Zhen Zhen nodded, “Just arrived not long ago.”
Servant Huai Ming thought for a moment, “It should be, you want to go over and get acquainted?”
Zhen Zhen nodded, “I want to.” The people she knew here were really too few.
Servant Huai Ming: “Then after dinner I’ll take you over to say hello.”
Zhen Zhen: “Okay.”
After eating a few bites of rice and thinking about picking up the clothes from the tailor store, Zhen Zhen added, “Sister-in-law Li Shuang told me that the clothes I had customized at the tailor store should be ready, and she asked me to pick them up at the tailor store.”
Servant Huai Ming: “I’ll take the time to go over and pick it up.”
With nothing more to say, Zhen Zhen lowered her head and ate quietly.
After eating, she followed Servant Huai Ming to Old Zhou’s house.
The door to Old Zhou’s house was not closed, but Servant Huai Ming still tapped on the door panel twice.
When Old Zhou came over and pulled the door all the way open, Servant Huai Ming spoke, “I brought Zhen Zhen over to take a look.”
Old Zhou smiled a little and said, “Quickly, come in and sit down.”
Seeing that Shi Huai Ming was carrying something in his hand, he added, “You’re just here, what else do you bring?”
Mr. Huai Ming entered the house and handed the things in his hand to Lao Zhou.
Zhen Zhen followed Shui Huai Ming into the house and saw a lot of things piled up in a mess.
Old Zhou’s wife had moved a lot of things from the countryside, almost everything she could carry, in addition to clothes, shoes and socks, as well as eating bowls and chopsticks, colanders, needlework, vegetable seeds and seedlings …….
The things are too rich, Zhen Zhen just casually scanned.
Old Zhou wanted to let Zhen Zhen and Shi Huai Ming sit down, but in fact there is no place to sit properly.
Of course, Zhen Zhen and Shi Huai Ming didn’t intend to stay much longer, so they stood and didn’t sit down.
Old Zhou called out to his wife and four children to come out.
When they arrived, Lao Zhou smiled and introduced himself to Shui Huaoming and Zhen Zhen: “This is my wife Wu Dafeng, and these are my four dolls, all called by their nicknames, Zhou Dawa, Zhou Erwa, Zhou Sanwa, and Zhou Thuwa, which is good to remember.”
Old Zhou finished, Zhen Zhen busy: “Sister-in-law hello, Dawa Erwa Sanwa Siwa, how are you.”
Dawa Erwa Sanwa Siwa said in unison, “Uncle good! Auntie good!”
Lao Zhou smiled, and introduced Wu Dafeng: “This is my good comrade-in-arms, Serving Huai Ming …….”
Wu Dafeng is not timid, not waiting for Lao Zhou to finish his introduction, he opened his mouth directly, his voice high and loud: “Aigoo, you look really spirited, exactly like those battle heroes shown in the movies.”
Saying this, he himself looked at Zhen Zhen, “This is your sister, right?”
“……”
Old Zhou was speechless, lightly tsked his mouth and blanked Wu Dafeng, but Wu Dafeng did not look at him at all.
Servant Huai Ming had to speak out to explain, “This is my wife, Lin Zhen Zhen.”
“Your wife?” Wu Dafeng’s eyes rounded, “False, doesn’t look like that at all!”
This looks like a woman who has been married for several years, this looks like a big girl!
Zhen Zhen smiled and said, “Sister-in-law, I am his wife, my name is Lin Zhen Zhen.”
Wu Dafeng looked at Zhen Zhen, and then looked at Shui Huaoming, and suddenly smiled, “But they’re a good match, they’re both handsome.”
Zhen Zhen and Shui Huai Ming did not stay in the old Zhou’s house for a long time, one is his house is really too chaotic, want to find a place to stand is a little difficult, and secondly, they have other things to go back to be busy, so recognize a few pleasantries and go home.
To the home into the room to sit down.
Serving Huai Ming decisively and directly to come a sentence: “Well, close the heart.”
Zhen Zhen is already a little used to it, nodded her head and took a deep breath to adjust, and entered into the study state.
Servant Huai Ming continued to teach Zhen Zhen the rest of the alphabet according to the content of the textbook.
Learning pinyin laid a good foundation, and it would be much easier to learn Chinese characters next.
Characters that you can’t remember can be memorized by labeling them in pinyin and deepening the impression in your mind by copying them over and over again.
These are all rote memorization things, and there is no learning skill to speak of.
Because he had gotten started, now Servant Huai Ming was quick to teach new content.
After teaching today’s new content, he got up and said, “Same old rules, read it a few times then copy it a few times, copy it until you can mime it. You study here at ease, I will now go to the tailor store to get you clothes.”
“Okay.” Zhen Zhen watched him go out of the room and withdrew her attention to read, “zh……ch……sh……”
***
Squire Huai Ming rides his bike to the tailor store.
Picking up the clothes and arriving home, it’s almost time for class.
He gives the clothes to Zhen Zhen, picks up a cup of water, and heads out the door.
Zhen Zhen listens as Squire Huai Ming opens the door and goes out, focusing her attention to continue studying.
But because she had just brought back the new clothes she had just made, her willpower became weak, and as she studied, she couldn’t help but look over to the clothes she had brought back, wanting to see what the new clothes that had been made actually looked like.
Always distracted, always wandering off.
Jen hesitated for a moment, put down her pencil and took her new clothes back to her room.
She went into her room and closed the door, took off the clothes on her body, changed that new spring and fall outfit into it, and stood in front of the mirror.
The fabric and style of the clothes Li Shuang picked out for her were all very nice, and they were fashionable and not obtrusive on her.
After trying on the set of long sleeves and long pants, she changed into the blue floral braggy.
For the first time she looked at herself in a dress.
The dress pinched her waist, taking out all of her thin waist.
Her breasts bulged and her waist was so thin that she was embarrassed to look at herself in the mirror.
If she wore this kind of dress in the countryside, she would be pointed out.
However, this dress was really fashionable and pretty.
Zhen Zhen tried it on to her heart’s content, changed out of the dress and put it in the closet with the long-sleeved pants.
After trying on the clothes, her heart was solid, she went back to the service Huai Ming’s room to sit down and continue to study.
In the evening, she cooked dinner and waited for Mr. Huai Ming to come back for dinner.
While she was writing her multiplication facts, the sound of a tap on the front door suddenly rang out.
Zhen Zhen thought it was Li Shuang looking for her and opened the door to call her sister-in-law, but when she saw that it wasn’t Li Shuang but Wu Dafeng, Lao Zhou’s wife, she subconsciously froze for a moment.
Wu Dafeng looked at her and asked: “Do not recognize me?”
“No.” Zhen Zhen hurriedly smiled and said, “I thought it was the sister-in-law next door, I didn’t react.”
Wu Dafeng said, “This city is trouble, you have to knock on the door, we sleep in the countryside do not close the door.”
Zhen Zhen laughed a little and asked her to come inside.
Wu Dafeng did not come in, only said, “I just cleaned up the house almost, only to take the time to come, come to see you, brought you some soybean sauce, our family’s own sauce, can be delicious.”
Saying this, she lifted the bowl in her hand and sent the soybean sauce to Zhen Zhen.
Zhen Zhen politely said, “Sister-in-law, no need to be so polite.”
Wu Dafeng spoke bluntly, “What’s polite about being polite, we’re all like that in the countryside, who doesn’t eat something from someone else’s house in the neighborhood? I heard that you are also from the countryside, is it not like that where you are?”
Indeed, this is also the case.
Zhen Zhen was no longer polite and took the bowl, ready to go back and pour it into her own bowl.
But before she turned around, she suddenly saw Li Shuang coming back.
Li Shuang passed by, and Zhen Zhen greeted each other.
Zhen Zhen introduced her, “Sister-in-law Li Shuang, this is Wu Dafeng, sister-in-law Wu, just came at noon.”
After hearing this, Li Shuang smiled at Wu Dafeng, “Hello, Mrs. Wu.”
Wu Dafeng looked at Li Shuang, “Are you also the family member of our Old Zhou’s comrade?”
Li Shuang smiled, “Yes, my family member’s name is He Shuo, and he is also a very good brother to Old Zhou.”
Wu Dafeng didn’t make a fuss and directly asked, “Do you want soybeans in our home sauce? I’ll get you some if you want.”
Li Shuang glanced at the soybeans in Zhen Zhen’s hand and smiled, “No, it’s too much trouble, thanks.”
After saying that, he didn’t stay any longer and said to Zhen Zhen, “You guys get busy, I’ll go home first.”
Wu Dafeng watched Li Shuang go home for a moment and turned back.
Zhen Zhen told her, “Li Shuang’s sister-in-law is from the city, and her husband is also from the city, both from Xicheng.”
Wu Dafeng squints and grunts directly after hearing this, “What’s the big deal.”
Zhen Zhen smiled, “They are all quite nice.”
After saying this, Zhen Zhen didn’t stand there any longer, turned around and went back to the house to pour down the soy sauce, and came out to return the bowl to Wu Dafeng.
Wu Dafeng took the bowl and said warmly, “I saw you at first glance, we can get along, nothing I come to you to play ah.”
Zhen Zhen nodded, “Uh, okay, sister-in-law.”
Wu Dafeng took the empty bowl and left, Zhen Zhen closed the door and came back.
She sat down at the table and didn’t write more than a few words when Shui Huaiming opened the door and came back.
Putting down his pen, he went outside to eat.
Zhen Zhen pinched her chopsticks and said to Shui Huaiming, “This soybean sauce was sent by sister-in-law Dafeng.”
Servant Huai Ming listened to her and reached out his chopsticks to eat the soy beans.
***
Next door on the dining table.
He Shuo took a sip of congee and said to Li Shuang, “Huai Ming and Little Cotton went to Old Zhou’s house at noon to take a look, and Little Cotton and Old Zhou’s wife have gotten to know each other, so why don’t we take something over there to take a look?”
Li Shuang didn’t even lift her eyelids, and directly said, “I don’t want to go.”
He Shuo: “What’s wrong?”
Li Shuang: “I don’t want to go, I don’t want to go, I know so many people, what are they doing, do they have nothing to do?”
If it wasn’t for the fact that she wanted to match up Wen with Squire Huai Ming, she wouldn’t have been interested in Squire Huai Ming’s wife.
He Shuo: “That old Zhou is my comrade my brother.”
Li Shuang: “It’s yours and not mine, I don’t care, that face of Old Zhou’s wife, I don’t like it when I look at it.”
He Shuo: “You look at the first glance of the small cotton is not also said not good, this is not with quite good?”
Li Shuang: “I said little cotton is not good, is to say that she is not good with Shi Huaiming, and Shi Huaiming stand together do not match, not like Shi Huaiming’s wife, more like his sister, like a child, I did not say look do not like. Moreover, I get along well with Little Cotton, it’s also because I’m willing to get along well with her, it’s not how well I get along with her.”
He Shuo: “Then you are unwilling to get along with Old Zhou’s wife.”
Li Shuang: “Yes, not willing, don’t want to get along, waste of time.”
He Shuo: “Dear wife, beautiful wife, you just give me a little bit of face, simply recognize it okay?”
Li Shuang: “……”
***
After dinner, Li Shuang took He Ziran and He Shuo on a trip to Old Zhou’s house.
He Shuo stood outside the door and knocked on the door, Wu Dafeng shouted at the top of her voice: “Who is it? The door is open, just come in yourself.”
He Shuo glanced back at Li Shuang, then pushed open the door to enter.
Old Zhou welcomed him towards the door, seeing He Shuo’s family, he greeted them with a smile, “Come on, come in and sit down.”
Old Zhou’s family had a large population, and there were quite a few stools at the table, but Li Shuang smiled and politely refused, not sitting down.
If she didn’t sit down, then He Shuo naturally didn’t sit down either, and just stood and chatted with Lao Zhou and Wu Dafeng for a few minutes.
There was an attraction between children, and He Ziran stood alone in front of the four dolls of Old Zhou’s family.
Old Zhou’s four dolls were pitch-black, while He Ziran was as white and tender as a doughnut.
The four children asked He Ziran, “How old are you?”
He Ziran said, “I’m five years old.”
Siwa: “I’m two years older than you, I’m seven.” He Ziran said, “I’m five years old.”
He Ziran said, “You’re so white.”
Li Shuang saw this and called He Ziran, “Come over here.”
Looking at He Ziran running over, Wu Dafeng said, “They are all children, let them play.”
Li Shuang laughed and said, “Boys are all too skinny, they are not familiar with each other, I am afraid that they will get into a fight while playing.”
Wu Dafeng: “Aigoo, can not bully your doll.”
Li Shuang smiled, did not speak again.
Originally came to the door to take a look, He Shuo did not stay longer.
After standing and exchanging pleasantries, he took Li Shuang and He Ziran home.
Arriving home and entering the house and closing the door, He Shuo said, “This wife of Old Zhou, she doesn’t stick to the small things.”
Li Shuang grunted and laughed, too lazy to say much to him, and took He Ziran to the restroom to wash up.
***
Next door, Zhen Zhen and Squire Huai Ming are the same as usual.
After studying at night, Zhen Zhen went to wash up and went back to her room to sleep.
The next day, she gets up, eats breakfast and waits for Squire Huai Ming to leave, she still sits down and continues to study.
However, after studying for not much longer today, there was suddenly a knock on the front door.
The knocking sound was heavier, and along with the knocking sound, there was also Wu Dafeng’s voice, “Zhen Zhen, I’m your sister-in-law Dafeng.”
Hearing the voice, Zhen Zhen was busy getting up to open the door.
Opening the door and seeing Wu Dafeng, Zhen Zhen asked her in a loud voice, “Sister-in-law, what is it you want?”
Wu Dafeng didn’t make a fuss and came straight to the house, “I just don’t have much to do, so I came over to talk to you. There’s no one else in the courtyard, so I’ve been bored out of my mind just for a while.”
Watching Wu Dafeng enter the house, Zhen Zhen closed the door.
Wu Dafeng was carrying a bamboo basket with a large leek inside.
Zhen Zhen brought her a small bench and told her, “They all have jobs, it’s not a day off, they all go to work.”
Wu Dafeng took a small bench and sat down, directly picked up the leeks began to reason, “I said how all the people do not see it, this city is really not good at all, to what nothing, not as good as in the countryside to live comfortably. Just these dishes, or I brought it myself.”
Zhen Zhen also took a small bench and sat down, “You can go outside the food store to buy.”
WuDaFeng can’t listen to this, “Eating a vegetable have to buy, say out really let people laugh off teeth!”
Zhen Zhen bent down and picked up a handful of leeks, helping to organize together.
Wu Dafeng asked Zhen Zhen: “When did you come here?”
Zhen Zhen said, “I came here last week, and I’ve been here for almost ten days now.”
Wu Dafeng put the leeks aside, “Are you still getting used to it?”
Zhen Zhen: “I was very uncomfortable when I first came here, but I’m much better now.”
Wu Dafeng: “I see you don’t have any children, and you don’t have anything to do here every day, aren’t you bored?”
Zhen Zhen smiled, “It is a bit boring, not as lively as the countryside, and everywhere you go there are people you know.”
“Right.” Wu Dafeng empathized, “I feel the same way.”
Saying what she thought, she suddenly lowered her voice, “Are you getting along quite well with that Li Shuang?”
Zhen Zhen nodded, “Yes, she helped me a lot, taught me a lot of things, she is quite good.”
Wu Dafeng lowered her eyebrows to manage the leeks in her hand, “Don’t be cheated, you’re still helping to count the money. She that look, at a glance is not a good person, on the surface to us polite and smiling, that is because of our men, behind the scenes do not know how to arrange us. She doesn’t even look down on us, can’t you see that?”
Zhen Zhen looked at Wu Dafeng, “Sister-in-law Dafeng, sister-in-law Li Shuang is not such a person.”
Wu Dafeng laughed, “You’re the one who’s stupid, you believe everything people say, you need to be more careful.”
Zhen Zhen explained, “I’m not looking at what she said, I’m looking at what she did.”
Wu Dafeng still smiles, “You will know sooner or later.”
Seeing that Zhen Zhen was defending Li Shuang, Wu Dafeng stopped talking about Li Shuang.
She and Zhen Zhen tended to the leeks together, chatting about things in their respective hometowns, all of which were short and sweet. Anyway, the countryside is the same thing, two people have almost the same life experience, can always talk together.
When the leeks were finished, Wu Dafeng took a broom and swept away the leaves.
She put the leeks back into the basket, grabbed out a large handful for Zhen Zhen, “This handful is for you to eat, you can do some leek boxes, this time of year the leeks are very tender, it is the most delicious time.”
Zhen Zhen politely a few sentences can not be pushed back, also stayed.
Originally, Zhen Zhen intended to help Wu Dafeng finish the leek, go back to the room to continue to study.
But Wu Dafeng finished leeks did not go, still sitting on the bench, pulling Zhen Zhen gossip.
Wu Dafeng does not go, Zhen Zhen also embarrassed to get up and drive people, after all, Wu Dafeng first time to come, she can not give so little face.
This is how it was in the countryside, when there was nothing else to do, the women would get together like this, sorting out vegetables, hooking sweaters, nailing the soles of the shoes, and talking about the shortcomings of the family to pass the time.
Staring at the height of the sun, about the same time, they will be dispersed to go home to cook.
Time passes quickly as we chat and gossip together.
Seeing that the sun was getting high outside, Wu Dafeng slapped her thighs and got up, “I have to go back to cook.”
She had brought a lot of things with her, so cooking at home would save her money compared to going to the cafeteria.
Zhen Zhen sent Wu Dafeng away and went back to her room to glance at the alarm clock.
Now that Squire Huai Ming had also taught her to read the clock, she knew around what time Squire Huai Ming would be back.
Cooking was perfectly in time, but she hadn’t even consolidated what she had newly learned last night today.
So Zhen Zhen didn’t spend any more time cooking.
She went back to her room and sat down to catch up on copying and silently reading the pinyin alphabet she learned yesterday.
It wasn’t that there was a prescribed number of times she had to copy the homework, as long as she was able to memorize it.
When it was about time to copy, she took food stamps from the drawer and went straight to the cafeteria to get food.
When she met Li Shuang in the cafeteria while fighting for food, Li Shuang was surprised for a moment, “Why don’t you cook for yourself anymore?”
Zhen Zhen smiled and said, “Today is a little too busy.”
Li Shuang also smiled, “Busy studying?”
Zhen Zhen nodded, “Yes.”
Li Shuang still smiled, “Your family service Huai Ming can really a rare person, but he is willing to teach you literacy is a good thing, some men that is to take their wives as a tool for succession, as a nanny, will not bother to care about these things. He’s doing this for your own good, it’s a pain in the ass to do anything without being able to read and write, especially in the city, where you can’t tell the difference between male and female toilets.”
People in the city just don’t think the same as they do.
Zhen Zhen digests for a moment and nods again, “Sister-in-law you’re right.”
The two talk their way to the house, each going home.
Zhen Zhen enters the house and puts down her meal on the dining table, and rushes back inside to continue copying the alphabet.
But before her mouth was full of two lines of copying, Squire Huai Ming came back from class.
Zhen Zhen took a steadying breath, put down her pencil, and got up to greet him, “Third brother, you’re back.”
Servant Huai Ming answered and went to wash his hands, then went to the table with Zhen Zhen to sit down to eat.
Seeing that the table was set with meals from the cafeteria, he was slightly surprised for a moment, but didn’t say anything.
It didn’t matter that Zhen Zhen cooked at home by herself or went to the cafeteria to get food, he wasn’t picky about it.
He told Jen, “Old Chow said he’d invite us over for dinner on Sunday.”
Zhen Zhen responded, “Oh, good.”
On Sunday dinner, Old Zhou said this at the wine table.
Seeing that Zhen Zhen was a little distracted look, the service Huai Ming probed and asked, “What’s wrong with you today?”
Zhen Zhen naturally wanted to hide it and not say, so she shook her head, “Nothing ah, quite good.”
Seeing her like this, Servant Huai Ming did not pursue the question.
But when he sat down after dinner to check on her studies, he found a problem.
Zhen Zhen pinched her pencil and had no way to put it down, so he looked at the book, then at Zhen Zhen, and read again, “Write, 眉e.”
Zhen Zhen’s grip on the pencil wouldn’t go down, and her face and lip line were taut.
Servant Huai Ming stares at the side of her face for a moment and asks her, “Tell me, what did you do this morning?”
It was impossible to hide it.
Zhen Zhen lowered her head and whispered, “Sister-in-law Dafeng came to talk to me …… I helped her to cut the leeks ……”
This is to find like-minded people, someone to pass time together.
Serving Huai Ming looked at Zhen Zhen gently inhaled a breath for a moment and said in a cold voice, “This is the first time, this time only give you a verbal warning, if there is a next time, it will not be as easy as this time, there will be a punishment. I’ll only be a bit more free during this time in military school, when I graduate and get assigned to a unit, I won’t have the time to control you like this.”
Jen still had her head down, “Oh.”
***
Although Zhen Zhen didn’t grasp what she learned last night, Squire Huai Ming still taught new ones.
Anyway, it wasn’t something that required a lot of brain power, as long as you took the time to memorize the pronunciation and know how to mime it, it would be fine.
After teaching the new content, he went to class, and Zhen Zhen remained at home to study.
When it was almost three o’clock in the afternoon, there was another heavy knock on the door, and Wu Dafeng’s voice came from the doorway: “Zhen Zhen, I’m your sister-in-law Dafeng.”
Hearing Wu Dafeng’s voice, Zhen Zhen’s eyebrows jumped.
She thought it would be better to pretend she wasn’t home and not answer the door.
But on second thought, if Wu Dafeng found out, wouldn’t that offend her even more.
After hesitating for a while, Zhen Zhen still got up and opened the door.
Wu Dafeng was holding a needle and thread and half of the soles in her hand, she looked at Zhen Zhen and said with a smile: “What are you doing at home? She looked at Zhen Zhen and said with a smile, “What are you doing at home?
The sun outside is quite nice.
But Zhen Zhen apologized and said to Wu Dafeng, “I’m sorry, sister-in-law, but I have a problem at home, so I can’t go out to sunbathe.”
Wu Dafeng was curious, “What’s your business?”
There’s no land to tend, no chickens, ducks or pigs to raise, so what could be wrong?
Zhen Zhen thought for a moment, but still told the truth, “My third brother taught me to read and write, so I have to hurry up and learn.”
Wu Dafeng’s face knotted with doubt, “Your family man?”
Zhen Zhen nodded, “Uh-huh.”
This is really rare hey.
Wu Dafeng’s eyes widened slightly, “What’s wrong with being illiterate? He dislikes you?”
Zhen Zhen has not answered, she immediately tone of voice to pick up: “Is it illiterate can not wash clothes cooking, or illiterate can not give birth to a child to bring up the child ah? What’s wrong with being illiterate? In the old society, every family was so poor, except for the landlord’s family, how many women in the countryside can read and write? Not many men could read either. My Lao Zhou couldn’t read before he joined the army, but he’s still a cadre now. What’s wrong with being illiterate? Why should he think you can’t read? It’s not enough to marry a wife and live with her, to be able to do laundry and cook and give birth to children and work, is it? This man of yours really doesn’t know enough.”
Zhen Zhen looked at Wu Dafeng and winked silently.
Wu Dafeng didn’t take herself as an outsider and continued, “You mustn’t be afraid of him, you must know that you are his legitimate wife, you didn’t just follow him casually. If you are as honest as you are, you will be held to death by him. He told you to go east, you only dare to go east, this life is not suffocating, ah? You can do whatever you want.”
Zhen Zhen blinked for a while.
Then she said, “Sister-in-law, I’d rather play with you on Sunday.”
Wu Dafeng was so worried, “Little Zhen Zhen, you’ll be bullied to death if you live like this, you have to branch out.”
Zhen Zhen explained to her, “Sister-in-law, third brother didn’t bully me, he did it for my own good.”
Wu Dafeng wanted to say more.
This time, Zhen Zhen smiled and spoke out first: “Sister-in-law, I will definitely come over to play with you on Sunday.”
Wu Dafeng was not completely insensitive.
Seeing that Zhen Zhen was like this, she also put away the words in her stomach, and only added: “OK, then you study to go, Sunday Lao Zhou said to invite you two families, as well as the family of the head of the He family of three families, to come to the house for dinner, you come over early to play.”
Zhen Zhen smiled and nodded at her, “Okay, sister-in-law.”
Wu Dafeng took her half-naked soles and left.
Zhen Zhen closed the door and came back, sitting down in front of the table and letting out a long breath.
She couldn’t be disturbed or tempted anymore, she had to sink her teeth into it and try to finish the task as early as possible.
***
Unable to find anyone else to talk to, Wu Dafeng was at home by herself, napping the soles of her shoes.
Old Zhou went to class, and the four dolls went to school, so she was alone in the house, and it was cold as hell.
No one to talk to, so she sings opera to herself.
In the evening, when Lao Zhou and the four children came back, the house was lively again.
During dinner, Wu Dafeng said to Lao Zhou: “Your comrade, Zhen Zhen’s man, is really a strange person. Married to a wife do not think of having children to raise children, guess what, in the home to teach Zhenzhen literacy, but also do not let Zhenzhen do something else, where there is such a thing?”
As a brother, Lao Zhou also understands Shi Huai Ming.
He is a man who loves to read and is very educated, and it is normal for him to have requirements for his wife’s education.
He said Wu Dafeng: “You do not meddle in other people’s business, this is not the village, you change your no matter who’s business to go up to get involved in a foot of the problem, if you make other couples fight, I can not forgive you.”
It is true that this is not the village.
Wu Dafeng didn’t be stubborn with Lao Zhou and answered, “I know, I know.”
***
With Lao Zhou’s instructions, Wu Dafeng didn’t come back to Zhen Zhen for the next few days.
She did not have much to do at home, the small piece of land outside the house to the whole, sprinkled with vegetable seeds and planted vegetables.
Vegetable species is very complete, planted radish leek small green vegetables, but also planted eggplant pepper cucumber and tomatoes.
This is what Jenny wants to do.
When Zhen Zhen saw it through the window at home, she envied it for a while.
However, Squire Huai Ming didn’t let her waste her time on these things, so she could only envy her.
Finally it was Sunday again.
On Sundays, Zhen Zhen didn’t have to study, so after breakfast she ran to Wu Dafeng’s house.
She helped Wu Dafeng work the land and watered it.
When it was almost noon, Zhen Zhen ran home again to cook.
Serving Huai Ming in the kitchen to help her along, he asked her, “Do you want to go out for a spin this afternoon?”
Upon hearing this, Zhen Zhen turned her head to look at Shi Huai Ming, “Where to go?”
Servant Huai Ming: “Anywhere, I’m not particularly familiar with Xicheng, so I’ll just take a walk and have a look around.”
Zhen Zhen thought it was quite good and answered, “Okay.”
After saying yes, Zhen Zhen didn’t go to Wu Dafeng’s house to join in the fun after dinner.
She said hello to Wu Dafeng, got on Shui Huaiming’s bicycle and followed him out.
Wu Dafeng called out to her, “Come back early and have dinner at my house tonight.”
Zhen Zhen waved at her, “Okay.”
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