Chapter 98 Chapter 97

Yao Xiaoping hurriedly replied, "One of my parents introduced Shi a job, and we went to see it—" Zhuo Liang didn't believe it: "Introduce a job? Will she wait until today if she can find a job? You have time to spend on these useless efforts, don't drag Yan'er, she is pregnant now, she needs to rest more——" "Is Mr. Zhuo impatient because his wife is not at home and hasn't had lunch yet? No way, you have to take care of yourself in the future. Shi has found a job and is going to work soon, so he can't stay at home full-time I'm serving you—" Yao Xiaoping said to Shi Yan after finishing speaking, "Where are your things? I'll help you move, you can rest for a while, Teacher Zhuo said, you are pregnant now, you need to rest more—"

Zhuozhuo watched the two of them enter the bedroom, and watched Yao Xiaoping come out of the bedroom carrying the quilt, and realized whether the "moving things" they said was true or not. He didn't dare to stop Yao Xiaoping, so he walked to the door of the bedroom, Ask Shi Yan: "Where did you move? Where did you find a job? How could it be so easy?" Shi Yan shook the door key in her hand: "Steel Factory Children Middle School, I have all the keys, and I will go to work next week—" It took a long time for Zhuoyue to snort: "You don't discuss anything with me, and you have to be so sneaky to find a job. How can you look like a family?"

"I just got the news this morning, and you're not at home. Who should I discuss with? Am I not discussing with you?" Yao Xiaoping said: "Mr. Zhuo, the taxi we took is still waiting below, why don't you go down and help pay for the car, otherwise it's really not like a family—" Joyo pretended he hadn't heard, and stood angrily in the living room, watching Shi Yan collect things from room to room, and watch Yao Xiaoping carry things upstairs and downstairs.The more Yao Xiaoping got angry, the more she went in and out with a sullen face, slamming doors and kicking stools.Zhuoyou reprimanded: "Be careful when you walk, don't kick this and hit that—"

"Can't you see it? If you don't see it, move your hands, and I'll leave after a few moves, so as not to poke your eyes—" "You split up other people's couples, and you still expect me to help you move things?" "You help me move things? I'm helping you move things, do you understand? I helped my wife find a job, saved you from paying her living expenses, and saved you a lot of hospital expenses for having a baby, do you understand Understand? You didn't thank me, and you scolded me for breaking up your husband and wife? Couples can be broken up by others? You want to reunite your husband and wife, so you don't go to her on weekends by yourself? Do you have to let her live with you? She lives so far away, How do you go to work every day? If you have the ability to buy an airplane for her to go to work, then she won't have to move—"

Zhuo Liang probably realized this too, and knew that they should not be prevented from moving, but he couldn't bear the shame of helping move things, so he still stood there without moving. The neighbor who had something good happened came in to take a look, and asked, "What's going on?" Shi Yan hurriedly explained: "I've transferred my job. It's quite far away from the steel factory. I have to move to live there—" Neighbors also enthusiastically came to help, Zhuo Liang had no choice but to reluctantly, pretending to be sending his wife to the front line, and helping to move things.On the last trip, Shi Yan also followed.Zhuoyou complained, "Called a taxi to move. I've never seen such a prodigal. Waiting by the meter, how much is the fare? You told me earlier, I'll find a ride——"

Yao Xiaoping shabby said to him: "How much money can I save by finding a free ride? Don't worry, I will pay for the car I ordered. If you don't give your wife a penny, can she afford the car?" money?" Just as Zhuo Liang was about to get nervous, Shi Yan interrupted and said, "Okay, okay, we're done moving, let's go—" Before getting into the car, she bid farewell to Zhuo Liang in a low voice, "I'm moving in because next week To attend class, I have to go over and get acquainted with-" He asked: "Where is it? It shouldn't be kept a secret from me, right?"

Shi Yan didn't know what that place was called, but said it was the building diagonally opposite to the gate of the Middle School for the Children of the Steel Works, the one on the left of the first floor of the third unit, and got into the car after speaking.After the car started, she looked back at the place where she had moved in and out several times, and knew that this time it was really gone forever, so she couldn't help feeling a little mixed.But when she turned around and faced the front of the car, she was extremely happy, feeling that her car was going straight to the child's household registration.

She slept alone in her "new house" that night, covered all the quilts and blankets, and still felt cool, and only then did she realize Yao Xiaoping's great wisdom and foresight.The next day, she went to school, but she didn't have the nerve to mention the room change. She just finalized her office desk and textbooks, all of which were left by the English teacher who "has been regretting the transfer". Even at this point, she was still worried that the job would not be secure, and it would always be like a dove occupying a magpie's nest.She didn't really feel relieved until the principal offered her a three-year contract to sign. She didn't think it was a contract of prostitution at all, but felt like an invisible net that caught a fertility target, because other schools They didn't dare to accept her because they didn't have a fertility quota. Since the steel factory children's middle school dared to accept her, it showed that they did have a fertility quota.She readily signed, and cheekily asked the principal when the salary would be paid, and if he could pay her this month's salary first, because she had no money in hand.

The principal lent her some money from his own pocket, and she was very grateful. After leaving school, she took a car to the nearest department store to buy an electric heater, cotton wool, and some small things. On weekends, Yao Xiaoping’s family of three came by bus, saying that they came to her place for a "Warm House Banquet". They bought some vegetables that were fresh enough but full of mud and sand from the vegetable vendors at the gate of the steel factory. Yan Jin killed a frisky chicken, but was not killed by Yan Jin's multiple stabs. He chased wildly around the house, and was finally caught by Yao Xiaoping, who twisted the chicken's neck and killed it with a knife. Braised in pieces, making it fragrant.

While cooking, Zhuo Liang also came over on a motorcycle, bringing some gadgets that Shi Yan had pulled down, and when he came in, he complained that the road was too muddy and his motorcycle was dirty, and he had to wash it for at least two hours when he went back. Yao Xiaoping whispered to Shi Yan in the kitchen: "That iron rooster of yours has come and sent some things that you threw away. Come, take this opportunity to have a meal—" But as soon as she stepped out of the kitchen, Yao Xiaoping laughed like a flower, "Oh, today's Wenju Banquet is really lively, everyone who should come has come.Yan, buy a few bottles of beer from the store at the door, and have a good drink with Mr. Zhuo—”

During the dinner, Zhuo Zhuo suggested: "Yan'er, when I'm free, find a car and move my furniture here—" Knowing that he was talking about the furniture that drove her to Liangshan, she hurriedly evaded and said: "No, no, this room is very wet, and the furniture is broken when you move it—" Yao Xiaoping strongly supported: "Shi, why don't you let him move the furniture? If he puts his furniture in someone else's place, wouldn't it take up a room in the other person's house? If that friend wants to use the room sometime, don't you have to ask him to find another room?" Is there a place? You don’t have any furniture here, what does it look like? The bed is covered with strip mats, it’s very cool, don’t freeze the waist of the parturient—” After a few days, Zhuo Liang really found some people, borrowed a car, and moved the furniture here. The neighbors who moved next door were quite envious. Too bad, no one is willing to play such a good furniture, you are the first one.Zhuo Zhuo was so pleased with the news, he called friends, served tea and lighted cigarettes, and was very busy. After moving, he invited Shi Yan and those who moved to the restaurant for a meal, which cost a lot of money. Later, when Shi Yan called Yao Xiaoping on the phone, she complained, "It's you, you promised him to move the furniture, and now the whole room is his stuff, so what can I do—" Yao Xiaoping said with a smile: "Forget it, even if you don't let him move the furniture, you can still draw a line with him from now on? The child in your stomach has tied you together. Besides, Huang Hai is also married. You are dragging your sons and daughters. After getting divorced, do you really expect to find a powerful man? Even if you can find one, he must be an old man. Men in the world are all selfish. One might be worse than excellence—" "What about rigor?" Yao Xiaoping lost her breath and said after a long time: "Strict people are good, but you may not have thought about my life. You are always worried that one day he will get tired of me, and one day he will change his mind." I’m afraid that he won’t be able to stand other people’s comments, that Xiaogang will annoy him, and that his family members will object—the mental burden is too heavy. She comforted and said, "Don't think about it, I think he is really good to you. Take your time, I believe his family will also figure it out—" Yao Xiaoping said angrily: "But why should it be his family's turn to figure it out? Apart from being married and having a child, what else is there that I am not good enough for him? not human?" This topic is too sensitive, and the two of them will be filled with righteous indignation and discouraged when they talk about it, so she brakes in time every time and changes the topic: "I want to spend the Spring Festival here, so as not to run home alone and let my parents see the flaw, It made them uncomfortable, and made them have a bad time during the Spring Festival. I want to go back when I am about to give birth—" Yao Xiaoping reminded: "Since you don't go back during the Spring Festival, it's better to wait until after the baby is born. If you go back to have a baby alone, others will see the flaws differently? Besides, you gave birth in your hometown and want to go back to D There are a lot of troubles in the middle of the city's hukou for no reason. You are not here to supervise and rely on others to help you get the hukou. If you fail to get the hukou, you will not waste all your efforts? I think it is better to wait until you have a child in D city and get the hukou It’s good, it’s not too late to go back to my hometown, and it’s quite normal for others to look at it at that time, your husband has to go to work, so of course he can’t accompany you back to his hometown—” She sincerely admires Yao Xiaoping's cunning and cunning, but said worriedly: "I'm afraid of the few days when I give birth to the hospital—no one takes care of me—I don't want to ask for excellence, it's useless to ask him, he can't do anything—you Going to work again—" "Then ask my mother to take care of you for a while. She is free at home. Don't look at my mother as an old lady in the country. She has seen the world. She used to be the wife of a Kuomintang officer. She eats well, drinks spicy food, and travels all over the world. , What haven’t you seen? It’s many times richer than you and me. Later, her husband, a Kuomintang officer, went home to recover from his injuries. Before he had time to escape to Taiwan, he was caught by the Communist Party and shot. My mother married into the deep mountains and old forests. going to-" Only then did she know where Yao Xiaoping's beauty, temperament, talent, and wisdom, which are very different from those of the girls in the mountain village, come from, the wife of a Kuomintang officer! What else can I say?It must be good-looking and talented.This also made her even more confused about how Yao Xiaoping's mother could endure the fate of living in the mountains, doing farm work, eating bran vegetables, and marrying a hunchback. Maybe a woman's resilience is good, no matter how hard she bends, she just won't bend. Yao Xiaoping warned: "I will go back to my hometown during the Spring Festival. I will go back on the 27th and 8th of the twelfth lunar month. I will not come back until the third and fourth day of the first lunar month. I think you have to go back to Zhuoyou for the Spring Festival. Otherwise, you will be alone. Don't spend it." A weeping Spring Festival—" "I've thought about this too, but I think it's better than going back to "Dongdongguai" alone and making everyone in the family cry about the Spring Festival—" Yao Xiaoping suggested again: "Can't you just form a temporary united front with Zhuoyue? You want to save face in front of your parents, but he wants to save face in front of his mother? You can talk it over and just fool around with the family members during the Spring Festival. Old man, first go to your place to stay for a few days, and then visit his house, if the well water does not interfere with the river water at other times, wouldn't that kill multiple birds with one stone?" "He didn't mention it, and I won't beg him. I don't want to be with him, and maybe he doesn't want to be with me either. He thinks I have a dirt road here, and he's afraid he'll dirty his motorcycle. Saying—it’s useless—it’s a bad thing—” Yao Xiaoping immediately realized the true meaning of "bad things", laughed for a while, and said: "You can do whatever you want, as long as I am in D city, I will come to accompany you. If I am not in D city, then there is nothing I can do, or else Are you going to play in our country with me?" She didn't want to go either, the boat was exhausting, and it was the countryside, what was there to do?If I go to someone else's house alone for the Spring Festival, doesn't that still prove that there is something wrong with my marriage?Since you don't want to lose face, then hide in your own home and don't go anywhere. After only a few days of work, she had the final exam and then the winter vacation.She received her wages for January, February, and two months, and the school also gave her a quarter of the year-end bonus and distributed some Spring Festival supplies.Her hands were not so tight, and she also went shopping for some new year's goods. She lied to her family that she would go to her mother-in-law's house for the Spring Festival this year. It was inconvenient for her to take a car with her big belly, so she would not go back to her hometown for the Spring Festival. When she had a baby, she would go back to her hometown. You can live until the end of summer vacation. When her parents heard about it, they felt very regretful, saying that this was the first time since she was born in the past few decades that she was not at home for the Spring Festival, and only now did she really realize that her daughter was indeed married and became a member of someone else's family.Her parents tearfully wanted to come to D City to see her, but she hurriedly refused, and said a lot of high-sounding reasons, and finally stabilized her parents. On the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month, there was light rain and snow outside, and the sky was overcast. She didn't wake up until late, ate something casually, and then leaned on the sofa to watch TV.As she was watching, she suddenly heard someone knocking on the door. She thought it was Joyoung, she hurriedly turned off the TV, did not open the door, did not dare to vent her breath, and pretended not to be at home.But the person who knocked on the door was very patient, knocked a few times after a while, and finally shouted loudly: "Shi Yan'er, I'm Huang Hai, I'm helping your parents to bring you New Year's goods—" She got up in a hurry, took off her shoes and ran to open the door. It was really the Yellow Sea, looking like it was raining and snowing, her hair was soaked and stuck to her head in a mess, a pair of leather shoes under her feet were covered with mud, and half of her trousers were covered in mud. God, with big and small bags in his hand, like a country bumpkin visiting relatives in the city.