Chapter 31: I'll Come
Gossiping on the mahjong table seems to have become a tradition among Chinese women. Parents are short, and all kinds of gossip comes from this kind of place.
Wang Qian and Jiang Aijun were very happy to play mahjong, although some people like to gossip about these mahjong partners, but when they think about it, tomorrow is the day of Huahua's wedding, no one is so uninteresting.
But they really underestimated these boring aunts.
For example, Li Rong, the aunt who sat opposite Wang Qian on the mahjong table, talked about marriage intentionally or unintentionally, and it was good at first, but it started to be wrong when chatting.
In the end, as soon as the conversation changed, he talked about Jiang Hua's marriage partner Zhang Tong, and said that Zhang Tong didn't seem to be a good person.
"I only opened a small restaurant, so it doesn't seem to be a good match for Huahua. Li Rong said intentionally or unintentionally. At the same time, an eighty-thousand-character tile was thrown.
"I said Wang Qian, this is not good. Why do you say that Hua Hua is also a cadre at the department level? If you don't say how great it is to marry a husband, at least you can't lose your grandeur. Could it be that this Zhang Tong is going to join your Jiang family?"
After Li Rong said this, Wang Qian's eyebrows twisted up, Li Rong has always been a little jealous of the Jiang family. At the beginning, Li Rong and Wang Qian were female workers in a factory. Li Rong was very beautiful when she was young, and she was a second-class factory flower.
That's right, secondary.
Because the top factory flower is Wang Qian, Wang Qian when she was young was a beautiful Shuangqing Electric Appliance Factory.
This made Li Rong actually a little dissatisfied all the time, after all, no one wants to be the second child, right. But sometimes you can't accept it, people think that Wang Qian is a top factory flower.
There are many people who pursue Li Rong, but there are even more people who pursue Wang Qian. Especially many people who pursue Wang Qian, the conditions are very good.
At that time, there were very few big bosses, and the so-called good family conditions were generally the children of cadres. Not to mention the children of cadres in the factory, there are many cadres and children in Shuangqing City who are also pursuing Wang Qian.
This made Li Rong quite red-eyed, because Li Rong's family background was not good, and she was from the countryside under Shuangqing. I finally entered the factory to work, thinking that I could change my family's background.
At that time, it was still very difficult to convert from rural to non-rural households, and it was much better to have a rural household registration than a rural household registration.
At that time, Li Rong was admitted to the secondary school in the city from the countryside, and then was assigned to work in the factory, and worked for three years before getting a city hukou.
But there are also parents and siblings in the family who are digging in the fields. At that time, the countryside was very miserable, rural transactions were almost barter, and the peasants had little cash income.
Exchanging soybeans for tofu is something that seems unthinkable today, but it was common in every rural village in China at that time.
Li Rong's brother grinds tofu in the village. The ancients said that there are three hardships in life: holding the boat, beating the iron, and grinding tofu.
The reason why grinding tofu is bitter is because in the years of barter, the master who grinds tofu does not make money. In the end, only a little okara can be dropped. That's right, it's not tofu, it's not soybeans, it's okara, at most it's a little soy milk.
In the seventies and eighties, in the countryside, only the really poor could not eat, so they would grind tofu. Because I rely on selling my physical strength to grind tofu.
Why can you only get okara?
Because at that time, almost every household in the countryside had a stone mill, and almost everyone could make tofu if they wanted tofu, especially in the Sichuan-Chongqing region at that time, women making bean curd was almost a family handicraft.
Since everyone knows how to do it, it is natural to hand over the soybeans to the grinding tofu in the hope that the other party will hand over reasonable tofu. The master who grinds tofu can only drop some bean dregs and soy milk and use them to eat or feed pigs and chickens.
The years of living by eating bean dregs are naturally not very good, and rural life is not idyllic. That's a place where you really have to work hard to live.
Especially Li Rong's family is a village in Shuangqing Mountain, even if the country starts to do a lot of work, but there are many mountains and few places in the village, and the family can't eat enough all year round, and everyone is hungry.
Fortunately, Li Rong walked out of the mountains, knowledge changes fate, and she was admitted to the technical secondary school with a very high score. She was the only one in the class of more than 50 people who was admitted to the secondary school in the city from the middle school in the county, and the other students could only sigh for her good luck and high scores, and then went to the county or the city to study in high school.
After graduating from secondary school, she was assigned to the factory and got an urban hukou, and Li Rong began to get a salary, and she really felt that life in the city was superior to that in the countryside. She desperately wanted to move her family into the city.
But how easy was that in those days? It was all indicative, when a massive earthquake killed a lot of people. The final compensation standard is to let the living farmers turn into non-farmers and work in the factory.
What can Li Rong do to change it? Unless she is reincarnated again. So she pinned her hopes for change on marriage, and she hoped to marry a cadre with real power. In this way, the family hopes to get rid of the identity of the local peasants and become city people who eat the emperor's grain.
And it just so happened that among the people who pursued Wang Qian, there was such a high-ranking cadre. As long as the father of the family nods, their family's agricultural conversion can be solved.
For this reason, Li Rong kept approaching this high-ranking cadre. But people didn't look at her at all, only Wang Qian in their eyes.
This made Li Rong angry, and her jealousy of Wang Qian grew.
The person has a beautiful family, and the salary is higher than herself, and the person who pursues her is also unattainable. If jealousy was poison, Li Rong would have died of poison a long time ago.
But probably God can't get used to Wang Qian's perfection, and deliberately wants to mess up Wang Qian's marriage.
Just when the children of high-ranking cadres were just showing a glimmer of hope in pursuing Wang Qian, Jiang Aijun transferred to the factory. A heroic figure who had retired from the front line and had several medals on his chest appeared.
Beauty loves heroes, Wang Qian's eyes were instantly attracted by Jiang Aijun, and she threw the high-ranking cadre aside.
Li Rong can be regarded as having got the opportunity to approach the other party while the children of the high-ranking cadres are hurt in their hearts.
Li Rong sees farther than ordinary women, she will not fall in love with a man because of any heroic deeds. Can the honor of heroes be eaten as food? Aren't you still coming back to be a worker? Do you have the ability to be a leader!
She saw very openly and accurately, Wang Qian finally married Jiang Aijun, and Li Rong married Gao Gan's son. Subsequently, the country underwent a series of changes, and the reform and opening up of state-owned enterprises were laid off.
Seeing that Jiang Aijun and Wang Qian's lives became more and more sad day by day, but because she married a good husband and directly found herself a job as a career editor after the factory closed down, Li Rong was proud in her heart.
She found that pleasure in Wang Qian, that kind of thing called superiority.
At that time, Li Rong also pretended to care about Wang Qian, and every time she brought some food and drink, saying that it was not easy for their husband and wife to be laid off and give birth to a daughter, and she was an old colleague and sister, so she should care about it.
In fact, it is the pursuit of existence in the name of care.
Wang Qian and Jiang Aijun actually don't know Li Rong's thoughts, but the couple's personalities are different from Li Rong's. They didn't care what purpose Li Rong came with, at least they really helped themselves, so the couple has always been very kind and polite to Li Rong.
Later, Jiang Aijun was laid off and began to start a business by arranging skewers on the street. From a skewer shop to several hot pot chains, he has become a well-known entrepreneur in Shuangqing, and his life is thriving. Li Rong couldn't find any sense of superiority in front of the Jiang family.
What's even worse is that not only Jiang Aijun succeeded, but their daughter also lived a successful life.
At a young age, he got to the level of the main level. And her husband, although he is the son of a high-ranking cadre, is now in his fifties, that is, a deputy department level, and this life is at the end of his life, and he can't get mixed up.
All her superiority was gone, which made Li Rong very annoyed.
People always have to find a sense of existence in life, and Li Rong's sense of existence is to have various feelings of superiority when comparing those former old sisters.
And now, she can finally regain the sense of superiority she used to have in front of her old sister. After all, no matter how good Jiang Hua is, what? Isn't it better to marry a useless man?
"So, Huahua's husband is rich, right?"
Li Rong chatted about this, which made Wang Qian's teeth almost crushed. But she is not good at turning her face, not to mention that Li Rong helped her family in her early years. Let's just say that now Li Rong's husband is also responsible for managing the security and fire protection in a large area of Shuangqing.
There are five hot pot restaurants in Shuangqing, and if people stick your neck and make you fail to pass the law and order, how uncomfortable it is.
"Oh, it's good to find a man who has a lot of money. Listen to your wife's words softly, Huahua in the province is too strong, and normal men don't dare to ask for it. Li Rong said with a smile, her tone seemed to be happy that Jiang Hua had found a good husband, but what she said was not the same thing.
Wang Qian's teeth were about to crush, and at this time, Zhang Tong didn't know when he came. And he came with a lot of food.
"Come on, come on, have a supper, eat a supper. My dad (Jiang Aijun) sent me a message, saying that uncles and aunts are all playing mahjong, this big night, how can you play mahjong without eating something. Zhang Tong smiled and put all kinds of braised vegetables next to the two mahjong tables.
When passing by Jiang Aijun's side, he patted Jiang Aijun on the shoulder, and the two exchanged glances.
"Mom, what's wrong? I see that your complexion is not very good, have you been playing mahjong for a long time?
But Li Rong over there said in a weird way: "Eh, your mother can't take it away now." We said we were going to play four rounds of mahjong. Now that we're gone, we're missing one. ”
"Oh. Zhang Tong sighed meaningfully, and then said, "That's it, Auntie, do you think I'm going to fight for my mother?"
"Do you know how to play Sichuan-Chongqing mahjong?"
"Hah, it's okay. I played when I went to Shuangqing, and I didn't lose on the electric mahjong machine anyway. Zhang Tong sat directly on Wang Qian's seat just now and smiled.