Chapter 024.
Zhen Zhen stood in front of the sink and yawned, unscrewing the faucet to receive water to brush her teeth.
After brushing her teeth and washing her face, she reached for the white dry towel hanging next to her and wiped the remaining water droplets on her face.
After washing up back to the bedroom to sit down, in front of the mirror seriously rubbing snow cream, and then combed hair braid.
After braiding her hair and tying a hair tie around the end of her hair, she got up and went out to the kitchen to make breakfast.
After panning some rice and putting the porridge on the stove to cook.
Zhen Zhen also went to get a handful of leeks, half a carrot, a piece of tofu and two eggs.
The fire in the stove was very hot.
Zhen Zhen stood at the table with her apron on, cracked the two eggs into a large bowl, and pressed the tofu into it. The carrots and leeks were all chopped up, poured into a large bowl, sprinkled with salt and mixed well.
Add the leeks and carrots to the egg and tofu mixture, then add a little flour to the large bowl.
Mix the vegetable paste and heat the pan, brush the bottom of the pan with a thin layer of oil, when the oil is hot, ladle the vegetable paste into the pan, and spread it into a pancake, turning the pancake to cook it until it is golden brown on both sides.
One by one, the pancakes were taken out of the pan and placed neatly on a large plate.
Zhen Zhen picked up the plate and smelled it a little closer, smelling the strong aroma of vegetables, her eyes and mouth spread out a satisfied smile, and carried the plate out.
Serving Huai Ming returned from his morning training and washed up, and sat down to eat with Zhen Zhen.
Golden, fluffy and fragrant leek and tofu breakfast cake, plus a bowl of hot white rice porridge, the bowl of white hot air, two people sitting at the table to eat, a simple, down-to-earth and warm picture of life.
After dinner, Mr. Huai Ming went to class and Zhen Zhen stayed home to read.
She took out “Song of Youth” and opened it, intending to continue reading from where she left off yesterday.
But when she turned to the position she had seen, the first thing she saw was the various annotations that Shui Huaiming had made for her.
Zhen Zhen looked at the extra words in the margins, and unconsciously curved the corners of her mouth.
Then she relied on these notes and explanations made by Servant Huai Ming and continued to read the new content.
This seemed to be faster than yesterday, and it was easier to understand.
Zhen Zhen was also originally a person who liked to listen to stories.
Now that she was reading the story herself and seeing what was going on, her mood was constantly being tugged by the main character, so she was mesmerized and kept wanting to know what happened next.
When I saw a really sad place, I followed the emotion and raised my hand to wipe a couple of tears.
She was so engrossed that she forgot the time, and when she remembered to look at the time, she realized that it was already noon.
Cooking is too late, she quickly put down the book, take the food stamps to go to the cafeteria to eat.
On her way out, she happened to bump into Wu Dafeng, and she called out to her with a smile, “Sister-in-law.”
Wu Dafeng’s face did not look as good as usual, and her tone was not good, then she said, “You still remember sister-in-law ah.”
Seeing Wu Dafeng talking like this, Zhen Zhen naturally still felt awkward.
She knew that Wu Dafeng had a problem with her in her heart, but she felt as if she couldn’t explain it, so she maintained the smile on her face, didn’t answer this, and said, “I’m going to the cafeteria to get some food.”
Wu Dafeng shook her head and sighed, “Now you don’t even cook, ruined.”
The smile on Zhen Zhen’s face was a little bit unable to hang on, Wu Dafeng did not care about her to continue to say: “You can not compare with Li Shuang, Li Shuang people to He Shuo gave birth to a son, this belly pregnant with a, you so far have not been pregnant, you are not anxious? You can’t give birth to a child, and you can’t serve a man well, you can go on like this how to do oh ……”.
Compared to saying that wearing a skirt is not nice, these words really poked Zhen Zhen.
She pursed her lips and lowered her head, and when she raised her head, she hung a smile and still said, “Sister-in-law, I’m going to go get dinner.”
After saying this, she left, not continuing to stand and talk to Wu Dafeng.
Walking on the road to the cafeteria, she kept her head down.
Her heart was a bit stuffy, and she didn’t feel smooth even after taking a few deep breaths.
After playing the meal suddenly someone tapped her on the back and she was startled before she pulled herself out of her thoughts.
Zhen Zhen turned around and saw Li Shuang next to her.
Li Shuang, who was also carrying a lunch box in his hand, looked at her and said, “What are you thinking about? I called you twice and didn’t even hear you.”
Zhen Zhen looks at her and smiles, “I didn’t think about anything, I didn’t pay much attention to it.”
The two carried their lunch boxes out of the cafeteria and went home together.
Li Shuang still asked Zhen Zhen, “What’s on your mind, tell me, did Servant Huai Ming upset you?”
Zhen Zhen shook her head, looked at Li Shuang for a moment, and spoke, “After I wore a skirt, sister-in-law Dafeng would say that I don’t look good when we met, and I kind of didn’t want to hear it, so I’ve been avoiding her for the last couple of days, and she has a problem with me now.”
Li Shuang was curious: “You two quarreled? Don’t argue with her, you can’t argue with her.”
Zhen Zhen shook her head again, “I didn’t quarrel, I just suddenly feel like I can’t talk anymore, just now I greeted her, she nagged me a few more times, I can’t help but think, am I really getting less and less like a good woman.”
Hearing this, Li Shuang laughs a little, “What is a good woman?”
Zhen Zhen thought for a moment and said, “A good woman is one who serves her man and child well and takes good care of her home.”
Li Shuang smiled again, “Marriage that is two people, home is also two people, the child is even more two people, the need for husband and wife two people together to operate together to take care of, not a woman alone.”
Said thinking of something, she looked at Zhen Zhen and asked, “Is she saying you can’t give birth to a child ah?”
Not knowing how Li Shuang guessed, Zhen Zhen nodded at her, “Yes.”
Li Shuang didn’t take it seriously, “What do you care what she said, Squire Huai Ming is not her family’s Lao Zhou, you don’t need to listen to her.”
Zhen Zhen sighed, “In fact, our countryside people are this kind of thinking, women, to the age of a man to get married, have children to raise children to live, the men and children to take good care of is a good woman praised by everyone.”
Li Shuang: “What’s the use of these praises? What do you care what they say? What’s wrong with getting married and not having kids, if you don’t want to? Look at your family’s Shihuaiming, he doesn’t care if people say he can’t do it. In the future, if Wu Da Feng tells you she can’t have kids and you don’t want to tell her the truth, then tell her that it’s because your Shui Huai Ming is not good at it. Anyway, it’s because Shi Huai Ming is too arrogant to be in the same room with you, so you can blame him for that. Why is it the woman’s fault if she can’t have a child, and why can’t it be the man’s fault if he can’t?”
Hearing Li Shuang say this, Zhen Zhen didn’t hold back and laughed out with a red face.
Originally, the heart is still stuffy, after laughing out suddenly feel much more comfortable.
Talking with Li Shuang walked home, Zhen Zhen’s mood has been completely relaxed down.
She put the rice on the dining table, and went to the room to sit down and open the book, then just saw the place to continue to read.
Before she could finish a line, she suddenly heard a knock at the door.
Jenny got up and opened the door, only to see the letter carrier in a light blue uniform outside.
She said hello to the letter carrier, who handed her a letter and left.
Zhen Zhen took the letter into the room, just put the letter on the writing table, the service Huai Ming came back from class.
Zhen Zhen came out of her room and sat down to eat with Shui Huaoming.
After eating, she sat down in her room and Zhen Zhen brought the letter to Shui Huaiming, “It seems to be a letter from home.”
Shi Huai Ming took a look at the envelope and said, “You can read it.”
Zhen Zhen knew that Servant Huai Ming was exercising her.
She didn’t say anything else and nodded as she picked up the envelope and carefully tore it open.
She took the letter out of the envelope and slowly unfolded it, first scanning it roughly.
After briefly scanning it, she also saw that there were some words she didn’t recognize.
Servant Huai Ming knew that she couldn’t recognize all of them, and told her, “Just like reading a book, if you don’t know the words, just guess the meaning according to the context, and you’ll be able to get it right if you’re not too far off. If you really can’t, I’ll tell you.”
Zhen Zhen nodded again, then guessed at the letter and, with the help of Servant Huai Ming, read the letter, “Huai Ming, Zhen Zhen, everything is fine at home these days, the crops in the field are growing well, the bean sprouts are selling well, and there’s nothing wrong with my health, which has been getting better again for a while now. I’m not short of money. It’s not easy for you to live in the city, so keep the money for yourselves and don’t treat yourselves badly. Don’t treat yourselves badly. Especially Huai Ming, don’t treat Zhen Zhen. Zhen Zhen has been in the city for some days now, is there any movement in the stomach, I can wait to hold …… it.”
As she read this, Zhen Zhen’s voice weakened.
She turned her head to look at Servant Huai Ming, who didn’t have any particular reaction.
So she was busy putting her eyes back on the letter and continued to finish reading the remaining small paragraph.
After she finished reading, Shi Huai Ming asked her, “Do you want to try? Leave the words you don’t know blank and I’ll fill them in for you.”
Zhen Zhen felt that this should be fine and nodded in response, “I’ll try then.”
Servant Huai Ming didn’t bring her a letter book or pen.
He said to Zhen Zhen, “You make a draft in your own book first, and then transcribe it when you’re done.”
Zhen Zhen nodded again and picked up a pencil to turn over her own book.
While thinking of wording in her head, she put down her pen and wrote: [Mother, big brother, sister-in-law, I am Zhen Zhen, I learned to write after my third brother after I arrived here, and this letter is from me to you. This letter is for me to write to you. Don’t worry, I’m doing quite well here with third brother, and third brother has treated me exceptionally well and hasn’t treated me badly. I also made a lot of friends here, they are all quite good to me, I am very happy ……]
Of course Zhen Zhen didn’t write all the words that came into her head because some of them couldn’t be written.
She left a space for the words she couldn’t write and would fill them in for Squire Huai Ming when she finished writing.
After writing the small everyday things, there was one stomach thing left to write.
Zhen Zhen hesitated for a moment with her pen in hand, thinking of the words Li Shuang had just said to her.
So she lowered her eyebrows and brewed for a while, and then dropped her pen to write slowly: [Third brother, his body is a little bad, at present there is no way to have a child, wait for a period of time when his body can be, we will have a child again ……].
After writing, Zhen Zhen looked up and down again.
She felt that there were no more problems and handed the book to Servant Huai Ming, “I’ve blanked out the words that I don’t know.”
Servant Huai Ming answered and took her book, reading the letter she wrote while helping her fill in the words she didn’t know according to what she said.
But when he filled in the paragraph where she went back to giving birth to a child, he suddenly paused his pen as he looked at the letter paper.
“……”
He has some health problems? So there was no way to have a child?
He has tons of intense physical training every day, he would be in bad health?
Suddenly he thought of that day when Zhen Zhen got drunk in the western restaurant and asked him on his back if he was inactive, he slowly turned his head to look at Zhen Zhen and thought in his heart – did she really think that he didn’t have intercourse with her because he couldn’t do it in that area?
I don’t know what he’s thinking here.
Zhen Zhen was made to feel weak by his look, and quickly spoke out to explain, “An excuse, it’s just an excuse, or else Mother would definitely keep pushing ……”
Servant Huai Ming of course did not ask what was on his mind.
A few moments later he withdrew his gaze, holding the pen he landed on the vacant spot and asked Zhen Zhen, “What’s the filler here?”
Zhen Zhen looked up and saw that it was written for Shidan Ling and Shidan Xingguo, and she said, “Oh, fill in the word diligence here.”
After helping Zhen Zhen to fill in the words, Servant Huai Ming handed Zhen Zhen the book and brought her a letter book and pen.
Zhen Zhen took these things and looked at Shi Huai Ming, “Is there anything you want to change?”
Servant Huai Ming said, “Writing a letter means writing what you want to say, so you don’t need to change it.”
As long as she didn’t need to change it, Zhen Zhen uncapped the pen and carefully transcribed it onto the letterhead according to the draft she had written.
After copying, she blew on the paper to let it dry, tore off the paper, folded it up, and stuffed it into a new envelope.
Sealed the envelope, Shui Huai Ming also taught Zhen Zhen to write the address of the recipient, the recipient, as well as the sender’s address and sender and other information, the address needs to be very accurate, and the format must be written in a standardized way.
Zhen Zhen followed what he taught her and made a draft in her notebook first.
Once the draft was finalized, she carefully wrote the information on top of the envelope and affixed the stamps.
With the big job done, Zhen Zhen couldn’t help but smile as she held the envelope and said, “Mother and sister-in-law will definitely be surprised and amazed.”
Servant Huai Ming followed beside her and said, “Definitely will be.”