Stepmother

    Zhong Jianguo got up and slapped Sanwa on the head, then went to the living room to answer the phone.

    Sanwa waved her fist at Zhong Jianguo's back.

    Song Zhaodi coughed: "What are you doing?"

    "Move the muscles and bones." Sanwa quickly retracted her hand and walked in, "Mother, I'll help you wash the vegetables."

    Song Zhaodi: "Your dad is done washing." The voice fell, Erwa came in, "Is it Lian Lie?"

    "Yes." Erwa said, "Uncle Lian asked if you wanted to talk to him about the lady in the hall, and I was right. I told him that Miao Miaojie was married, and he Startled, and asked why it was so fast, if something happened. Then Dad took the phone away."

    Song Zhaodi: "I was startled at first, not to mention Lian Lie." After a while, "Stealing chickens won't cost you rice, you are talking about people like Shi Ailian."

    "She is so tossed, doesn't Old Man Wu scold her?" Zhen Gang was very curious.

    Song Zhaodi said with a smile: "She cried and said that she was good for the Wu family. Do you think the Wu family would blame her?"

    "Probably not." Erwa imagined, "That woman is really powerful."

    Song Zhaodi: "If you meet that kind of person in the future, stay away. Such a person is hard to guard against. Don't think you are smart and won't be fooled by her."

    "It's no use telling them this." Zhong Jianguo walked in, "Only they bring people back, try it."

    Song Zhaodi: "Me? How can I try?"

    "Mother-in-law conflict." Zhong Jianguo reminded her.

    Three baby looked at his father and then at his mother: "Dad let mother be a bad mother-in-law?"

    "Go out, it's none of your business here." Zhong Jianguo glared at him.

    Sanwa pouted: "Just go out, you think I want to be a light bulb here." Not only did she go out by herself, but she also dragged Erwa and Zhengang away.

    Zhong Jianguo stared at him and walked away, then said, "Lian Lie said he would tell his ex-brother-in-law and told him to pay attention."

    "Don't say anything other than this?" Song Zhaodi asked, "For example, introducing someone to Liu Wei, I talked to Liu Ping."

    Zhong Jianguo: "No. I guess he called us as soon as he got home, and Liu Ping didn't have time to tell him."

    "Dad, Uncle's phone number."

    Erwa's voice came from outside. Song Zhaodi groaned in her heart: "It won't happen, right?"

    "Maybe." Zhong Jianguo heard Song Zhaodi say that Yang's health is not very good, "Since your village has a telephone, this is the first time your brother-in-law has called us." Just go outside.

    Song Zhaodi quickly wiped her hands and followed, seeing Zhong Jianguo's solemn expression, and when he hung up the phone, he asked, "Is that so?"

    Zhong Jianguo nodded.

    Song Zhaodi: "Then I'll pack up now and leave early tomorrow. By the way, remember to go to school to help us take a few days off."

    "No." Zhong Jianguo said, "Aunt Yang is your eldest sister's mother-in-law, and your eldest brother-in-law said that the three of them don't have to go there. Also said that Erwa and Zhengang have to take the college entrance examination this year, called They study hard."

    Song Zhaodi recalled: "I vaguely remember that my aunt's father-in-law died, and my mother and my father also went there. We didn't go. Then, the three of you should not go."

    "Let's pack your luggage." Zhong Jianguo said, "I'll help you pack together."

    Song Zhaodi nodded and went back to the kitchen to continue cooking.

    The next morning, Song Zhaodi went to Binhai alone. Arriving at the county bus station, Song Zhaodi saw Dali.

    I haven't seen you for half a year, vigorously growing a beard. Seeing his long beard, Song Zhaodi couldn't help but ask, "Why don't you shave it off?"

    "My dad said that shaving it off will make it grow faster." said vigorously.

    Song Zhaodi was speechless: "If you don't shave, it should grow." After a pause, "Your uncle shaves every morning, but if he doesn't shave for two days, his chin is dark. Don't. Listening to your father's nonsense, with a sloppy beard, other girls don't want to talk to you when they see you."

    "Then I will shave it off when I go back?" Dali asked hurriedly.

    Song Zhaodi: "Send your grandma away and then shave. By the way, whose shirt belongs to you? I look a little small."

    "My dad's." vigorously.

    Song Zhaodi couldn't help rolling her eyes: "Did your mother say that you are still growing now, and told you to wear your dad's clothes first to make do with it, and then make new ones for you during the New Year?"

    "No." Dali said, "My mother said that I am still a student, so there is no need to dress too well."

    Song Zhaodi sighed: "Your mother, I really don't know what to say about her. I'll talk to her later. A young man dressed like an old man, she doesn't think Shame."

    A strong "um" sounded without speaking. He knew that even if he stopped him, Song Zhaodi agreed now, and he would still scold his mother when he went back.

    The day after Song Zhaodi arrived in Xiaosong Village, Yang was buried. Because Liu Yang and Song Laibao were psychologically prepared, they didn't feel that Yang's departure was sudden, and they didn't feel too sad.

    On the day of Yang's burial, Song Lainan and her husband went, as did Mrs. Duan and his wife, Liu Ping, Lian Lie, and Liu Wei. Liu Yang's father's remains have not been found yet, so Liu Yang decided to bury Yang's ashes in Xiaosong Village. He found his father one day and moved the two back to their hometown.

    Liu Yang's decision, Mrs. Duan's family has no opinion. Sister-in-law Duan also felt that it was suitable to be buried here. During the festivals, Liu Yang could take several children to visit her.

    Song Zhaodi did not go back to send off Mrs. Duan's family, and took Song Laibao to the town to buy a bunch of cloth the next morning.

    Song Dali was going to return to Binhai with Mrs. Duan and the others, but was stopped by Song Zhaodi. After buying the cloth, Song Zhaodi went to borrow a ruler and cut four suits for each of the three nephews.

    Song Laibao frowned when he saw a lot of cloth on the table: "Why are you making so many clothes for them?"

    "It's done!" Song Zhaodi glanced at her, "I really should have brought Erwa and the others this time, and asked you to see what our children are wearing and what your children are wearing. "

    Song Laibao: "You and Zhong Jianguo are a few hundred dollars a month, can we compare with you?"

      , you have to raise five children, and your family only has three."

    Dali knew that the sisters had to talk: "Auntie, our family is going to build a house, two places."

    "Why do you cover so much?" Song Zhaodi couldn't help asking.

    Dali: "My mother said that in the future, there will be more people in the family, so I won't build one more place, and I won't be able to live there."

    Song Zhaodi thought about it: "That's it."

    "Yes." Song Laibao said.

    Song Zhaodi: "If you build it here, it's better to buy a piece of land in the county to build it."

    "The county?" Song Laibao thought he had heard it wrong.

    Song Zhaodi: "Dali said before that he hoped to come back after graduation, still think so?"

    "My grandmother and grandfather are getting older, and my parents are not too young. I am in the county, and I have something to do at home, so I can also help, and I don't have to ask for help." Dali said.

    Song Zhaodi: "Then go to the county to buy land. In the future, you will go to the county to celebrate the New Year. It will save them from running here." After a while, "it often snows in winter, and this place is full of mud. It's not convenient to go back and forth."

    "Auntie's idea is good." Liu Gen suddenly said, "Mom, if you build a house in the county, I don't need to live in a dormitory when I go to school in the county."

    Song Zhaodi glanced at him: "You think very well. Even if your mother builds a big tile house for the three of you in the county, you have to live in dormitory. Don't care if no one asks, you still haven't gone to heaven?!"

    Liu Gen's face changed slightly: "I'll go see if the cow is full." Without waiting for Song Zhaodi to speak, she turned and left.

    "He's afraid of you?" Song Laibao scolded Liu Gen, and Liu Gen would reply ten sentences to her. Song Laibao was surprised when Liu Gen didn't reply.

    Song Zhaodi: "Maybe. Big sister, the house you live in now really has to be demolished and rebuilt. I still recommend building this place."

    "But there are no people we know in the county, will they sell the land to us?" Song Laibao was very worried.

    Song Zhaodi said with a smile: "You ask the village chief to go with you, and bring Dali with you. If someone asks who Dali is, you will say it is your son, studying at Binhai Normal University, next year. Back to the county to teach."

    "According to what Zhao Di said." Father Song thought of the key point, "I will go to the village chief tomorrow and say that Dali will come back next year, because I am afraid that the school will not have a teacher's dormitory, so I want to build a house for him. house."

    Song Laibao frowned: "I don't understand, what does it have to do with the land purchase?"

    "I heard from my classmates that the teachers of the No. 1 Middle School in the county have the highest education." Dali said, "I am an undergraduate. If the person we are looking for has children and wants to ask me to help with homework, he will definitely Help us do this."

    Song Zhaodi nodded: "Dali is right. Even if you don't need it, people will look at it when you hear that Dali is a college student. What's more, we Chinese people pay attention to having one more friend and more paths."

    "Then let's try." Song Laibao asked, "When are you leaving?"

    Song Zhaodi: "Leave early tomorrow morning."

    "Then I will cook some eggs for you and leave it for you to eat on the way." Mother Song said, "Our corn is still edible, I will cook some more corn for you."

    Song Zhaodi suddenly had a black line on her forehead: "Mother, I can't eat that much by myself."

    "If you can't eat it, give it to others." Song Mother said, "Last year, when Jianguo's uncle and Teacher Cai came to visit us, they all told us. They came to our village because you were with others. Cai Yang chatted and chatted, and Cai Yang got his dad here.

    "This year's Spring Festival, those educated youths who were in our village also came. They said that if you hadn't told them that the college entrance examination would be resumed in the future, they would have done that?"

    Father Song: "Abandoning oneself, breaking the jar."

    "Yes, that's what it means." Mother Song said, "If you have a good relationship, maybe you will meet someone as capable as Teacher Cai in the future."

    Song Zhaodi nodded: "Okay. I'll listen to you."

    At noon the next day, Song Zhaodi boarded the train with six corns, ten eggs, ten egg pancakes and some clothes.

    It is not very hot in the north at this time, and the food made in the morning can be put into noon. Song Zhaodi felt that the egg pie would taste bad at night, so she opened the oil paper when she got in the car. She ate one cake first, and then gave five cakes to a middle-aged couple with two children sitting opposite her.

    In the evening, four more corns were given to them. The family who ate it couldn't help but ask how much food Song Zhaodi had brought.

    Song Zhaodi can't tell the truth, just say my mother is always afraid that I will not be full.

    After eating Song Zhaodi's egg cake and corn, the middle-aged couple was very embarrassed, so they took out the cherries in the bag, and found that Song Zhaodi had a porcelain jar for drinking water, they filled her with a mug.

    Song Zhaodi accepted it with a smile, took out the eggs in the bag, ten eggs, five people, exactly two per person. Middle-aged couples are stunned.

    The middle-aged woman hesitated for a while, took the egg, and gave Song Zhaodi the rest of the cherries.

    No one dared to sell their own products for two years. Song Zhaodi came to Binhai twice this year, and both saw someone carrying a pole to sell their own products, so she returned the cherries to the other party, and planned to buy them when she went to Shencheng.

    The other party didn't want it, Song Zhaodi said that she had to travel for two days, and the cherries would be broken when she got home. This is enough for her in the china jar.

    The middle-aged couple asked Song Zhaodi where to go after hearing her mention the "two-day train". Song Zhaodi told them to go to Hangzhou, and they came and went, and they were familiar with them.

    The middle-aged couple got off the bus after two stops. When they got off the bus, they told Song Zhaodi where their home was. If Song Zhaodi came here, she must go to their house.

    Song Zhaodi smiled and said yes.

    Sitting in the car, she saw the middle-aged couple holding a child and rushing home, but Song Zhaodi couldn't help but think that in future generations, let alone ask her to sit at home. If she asks more, people will treat her as a person with bad intentions.

    When someone gets off the car, someone gets on the bus. A father and son came to Song Zhaodi next door. Song Zhaodi secretly looked at each other and looked like they were visiting relatives.

    The people of this era are very simple, Song Zhaodi greeted them, they didn't think much, they thought that Song Zhaodi was very talkative, so they followed Song Zhaodi's words.

    Song Zhaodi heard that the high school teachers in their hometown were not good enough. A relative was a teacher in Shencheng, so he went to live at the relative's house for two months and told the school that the child was studying at home.

    There are still two months before the college entrance examination. Shouldn’t you be reviewing at home honestly? Even if the teacher is an undergraduate, he can't help with the four subjects. Song Zhaodi tried to ask if they had bought the "College Entrance Examination Materials".

    The voice fell, and the people from the front, back, left and right came around and asked Song Zhaodi what college entrance examination materials. This time, Song Zhaodi was surprised, and said the name was "College Entrance Examination Materials", which was available at the beginning of last year.

    Everyone shook their heads and said they didn't know, had never heard of it, and had never been to Xinhua Bookstore.

    Song Zhaodi didn't know what to say, so she told them about Shencheng and went to Xinhua Bookstore. The book was edited by a group of very powerful teachers led by the president of Imperial College. After speaking, take out the cherries, please eat the cherries.

    After eating the cherries, Song Zhaodi harvested a bunch of things, including salted duck eggs, green onion wraps, mulberries, and two melons. Song Zhaodi's original intention was to empty the tank, so she asked the conductor to pour hot water.

    The tank is empty, and there is a pile of food on the seat. Fortunately, there are few people traveling in this era, otherwise, she can only hold it in her arms. Because the train is swaying, like a cantaloupe, it will be thrown out in a cloth bag without a zipper. So that when someone got on the bus later, Song Zhaodi didn't dare to get close to others, because he was afraid of carrying a large bag when he got off the bus.

    Back home, Song Zhaodi took a bath, went upstairs to sleep for a while, Sanwa and the others were about to leave school.