Chapter 232: Having someone to rely on when you are old
Song Guifang took Niuniu and her brother into the dormitory, and Jiang Xinyu took out the clam oil and wiped it on Niuniu's face.
Clam oil is very oily and is more effective than ice cream in preventing frost cracks. Seeing Niu Niu's face, Jiang Xinyu knew that Song Guifang might not even be willing to buy clam oil now.
"Sister Song, are you living at your parents' house now?" Zhang Ling asked curiously.
Song Guifang's feelings for Zhang Ling were average, but she was still polite on her face and said, "I live at my parents' house."
Zhang Lingxian glanced at Song Zhikun, who said little, and asked impatiently: "What about your brother? Why hasn't he returned to the army yet? He has been in the brigade for a long time."
Song Guifang said: "He was injured on a previous mission and his physical condition is not suitable to continue in the military. He will change his career."
Zhang Ling looked at Song Zhikun and said, "Brother Song, where have you been assigned?"
I heard that Song Zhikun was promoted to work, and he couldn't leave the company where he arranged his job transfer.
Song Zhikun felt uncomfortable staying in this small dormitory with several lesbians, so he said concisely: "It's the city's public security department."
"I'm going to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some things. You take Niuniu here first."
After Song Zhikun put down his words, he left the dormitory.
Zhang Ling rolled her eyes, stood up and said, "I won't eat in the dormitory when I go home. Sister Song, if you take your children to eat at school, this meal is mine. You're welcome."
Seeing her in such a hurry, Jiang Xinyu suspected that she was chasing Song Zhikun.
It seems that in Zhang Ling's eyes, Song Zhikun is much more promising than Xiao Lin and Li Luo.
Today’s lunch is still cabbage vermicelli with cornmeal pancakes.
In order to avoid embarrassment, Song Guifang did not take her children to the male teacher's dormitory. Jiang Xinyu filled two bowls of food and brought the pancakes back to the dormitory to eat together.
Jiang Xinyu felt that this was unnecessary, so she avoided Wu Jian and Zhong Ying. They still had to eat together in the afternoon.
"I've been eating the cabbage cooked by Master Li for several years. I really miss it if I don't eat it for a while."
Jiang Xinyu was convinced, "I don't want to eat this food at all. It's either cabbage or radish. I almost vomited after eating it."
The two chatted while eating, and she learned a lot about Song Guifang's current situation.
Previously, her brother Song Zhikun beat up several men in the Zhu Lin family in order to vent his anger on her.
Now Song Guifang lives with her children in her parents' home, and she has to pay living expenses every month, which is three yuan a month, until she moves out with her children.
"My stepmother has already started making arrangements to marry me off. She is looking for a second marriage partner who is in her forties, who is about the same age as her."
Jiang Xinyu: "Do you still want to marry again?"
Song Guifang glanced at Jiang Xinyu with some confusion, feeling that this girl sometimes had naive ideas.
"It's not that I want to get married, it's that I have to get married. I won't get married anymore. I have nowhere to go with my children. My brother said that he would take Niuniu and I over after he settles down in the city. But sister Xinyu, he is not that old.
We are young and it’s time to get married. What’s going on with Niuniu and me? My future sister-in-law won’t be happy either.”
Jiang Xinyu: "You build another house in the village and live with Niuniu by yourself. If the money is not enough, I will lend you some."
She still had more than 20 yuan in her hand, which she had saved after turning in her wages for the past two months. She was not afraid of wasting the money if she lent it to her. Song Guifang's brother would have a job in the future, so he had to pay it back to her.
Song Guifang pursed her lips and said, "It's so easy for you to say. I don't have a job now. How can I live with my child alone?"
Jiang Xinyu couldn't understand her. Why couldn't she survive alone with her child?
"My partner has raised the child by himself for so many years. Isn't that pretty good? If you find someone else, you may not necessarily be good to the child, or he may be violent."
Song Guifang glanced at Niuniu who was busy eating, and lowered her voice and said, "What should I do when she grows up and gets married?"
Jiang Xinyu felt complicated for a moment.
Her mother, Chen Xiuyun, also adopted Xiaochuan. The three sisters also thought about how her mother would live alone if they all got married.
Comrade Chen Xiuyun should also have this consideration before adopting Xiaochuan. At this time, Song Guifang's thoughts are not difficult to understand.
All for the sake of having something to rely on in old age.
But if you can't trust your own biological child, who else can you rely on? It's better to rely on yourself than anyone else! But what she said to her must be in vain.
"Niuniu and I have nothing to do in the afternoon. When you go to class, I will go and tell Chen Yi and let him come for dinner after school."
Jiang Xinyu: "It's cold outside. Don't run around with Niuniu. I have one class in the afternoon. I'll call him when I have time."
Song Guifang brought two chickens and cooked them all at once in the afternoon. The smell of chicken wafted through the school before school ended, and the students were all very greedy.
When Jiang Xinyu and Chen Yi entered the school gate, they sniffed and said, "The chicken must be stewed with potatoes."
Chen Yi chuckled, "The nose is quite pointed."
Jiang Xinyu took out a wine-filled chocolate from her pocket and gave it to him, "I'll give you another one."
Chen Yi didn't want to compete with her for rations, and she didn't have much of this stuff, so it was better to leave it to her to eat slowly.
Jiang Xinyu tore open the candy wrapper, stuffed the chocolate into his mouth, and asked with a smile: "Is it sweet?"
He held the chocolate in his mouth and said, "Sweet."
The two were talking, and Zhang Ling's voice sounded from behind.
"You two have such a good relationship, people who don't know would think you two are already married."
Zhang Ling's words seemed to be joking, but in fact they implied that the two people's behavior was inappropriate.
Jiang Xinyu snorted, "We will get married during the holidays this semester, so you have to come then."
Zhang Ling took a breath, rolled her eyes and asked deliberately: "When you country people get married, do you only need to get a few eggs to attend the wedding banquet?"
Jiang Xinyu glanced at her and said, "You, a city dweller, have the nerve to just take a few eggs? Last time Sister Xiaofang got married, Chen Yi and I gave each of us two yuan."
"This is a hotel in the county, but you are in a village. Can we compare?" Zhang Ling didn't want to pay for it.
Jiang Xinyu said "tsk tsk tsk" a few times, "Getting married is a big happy event. No matter where it is held, people who go to the wedding banquet should go with blessings. The gift money is the intention and has nothing to do with the occasion of the wedding banquet. Teacher Zhang,
Do you think this is true?"
Zhang Ling had nothing to say and despised her behavior of forcing gifts.
Jiang Xinyu didn't care about her gift money. She had never thought of inviting her here before. She said this just to annoy her.
Zhang Ling always had something to say and was flirting with her. She couldn't bear to say anything in return.
Zhang Ling turned around and went to the classroom angrily. Jiang Xinyu heard the chuckle from beside her, turned to glance at Chen Yi, and then said proudly: "I am not Teacher Xiao Lin and Li Luo, quarreling with me.
, can I still let her go?"
In the past, he thought she had a good temper and a gentle personality. After getting along with her for a year, he found that it was all an illusion in the past and that he didn't really understand her.
He was able to fight with women in the village, and was able to beat his colleagues into silence at school. He was also very good at controlling them.
But he didn't think she was rude, overbearing or unreasonable, she was obviously very cute.