Chapter 4 Meet Aunt Lin again
When Meng Zhenghui said this, he was actually a little hesitant, after all, if it was the previous family background, even if it was the previous family background, although it would cost a lot to do this kind of thing, there would be no result, but that part of the expenses was nothing to the Meng family, but now it is different.
Lin Baitang wants to live with himself, even if he doesn't think about himself, he should consider Lin Baitang.
In the past, he couldn't give Lin Baitang for the time being, but at least, he wanted to give Lin Baitang a clean small yard and a worry-free environment.
Just when he was thinking so, Lin Baitang nodded very understandingly and said: "Okay, tomorrow I will go and sell the jewelry I brought, you will have to spend a lot of money to find someone, you don't have any money on you now, it's not easy to do things." ”
Lin Baitang said it as a matter of course, and even immediately began to think about what he brought out, in which pawn shop should the golden jade pearl pawn in order to get the most money.
In the face of Lin Baitang's resoluteness, Mr. Meng Zhenghui was stunned, and then smiled: "No need." ”
Facing Lin Baitang's slightly puzzled eyes, Meng Zhenghui reached out comfortingly and patted her forearm: "I also lent out some money when I went out with my friends earlier, although it is not too much, but if it is used to inquire about the news, it is no problem to use it for a month or two, so you don't have to worry about these, after all, those were bought for engagement, so let's keep them." ”
Meng Zhenghui's voice is always gentle and steady, it seems that everything is in his hands, nothing is worth bothering too much about, such a voice once led and taught her many things when Lin Baitang just lived in the city and was not suitable for everything.
For a long time, Lin Baitang regarded this voice as a sign of reassurance, but this time it was different, she didn't relax as before, but frowned.
She and Meng Zhenghui's living environment is different, Meng Zhenghui has had the best family conditions since he was born, in a more vulgar saying, he never cares whether the other party has money or not, anyway, he is not rich.
So whether it was when he was a child or when he was older, the friends he met were more or less holding him. Some are straightforward, some are obscure, some are for money, and some are for the forces behind the money.
To put it bluntly, that is to say, Meng Zhenghui's former friends are not so much making Meng Zhenghui as a friend, but rather using Meng Zhenghui to connect themselves with the Meng family.
Such a relationship was originally unstable, and now that Meng Zhenghui was kicked out of the Meng family, Lin Baitang was a little more worried.
The other thing she is most afraid of is that Meng Zhenghui will be scolded and driven away in the process, even if it is treated coldly, it will be worse for the current Meng Zhenghui.
What people earn for a lifetime is a breath, Meng Zhenghui has nothing now, Lin Baitang is really afraid that those people will unload his last breath again, and Meng Zhenghui will probably be wasted at that time.
It's just that you can't say this directly to Meng Zhenghui like this......
Lin Baitang didn't know how many things he had in his mind for a while, Meng Zhenghui didn't get a response from Lin Baitang after saying a few words, and when he turned his head to look at her, he saw her holding her cheek with one hand, and knocking on her thigh with the other hand.
It's like a distraction.
Meng Zhenghui lowered his voice and asked her, "Are you sleepy?"
Lin Baitang woke up from his cumbersome thoughts, patted his face with a smile, turned to Meng Zhenghui and smiled: "No, I'm just thinking about something." She didn't plan to ask Meng Zhenghui to ask her what she had just thought, so she immediately asked, "Are you going to ask for money tomorrow?"
Meng Zhenghui was really diverted by her, and sighed: "The sooner the better." ”
He smiled a little tiredly: "It's just a friend of wine and meat, if you don't take advantage of the time when the wine and meat are not cold, you can only eat a mouthful of disgust when it is cold." ”
He also knew it, but he didn't say it, if Lin Baitang hadn't asked here, he probably wouldn't have told Lin Baitang about this situation.
Lin Baitang heard his tiredness, and gently squeezed his hand: "Don't go, it's okay if you don't sell things, my family's land used to be rented to others to plant, and the rent was collected once a year, but this year's has not been received, I will collect it once tomorrow, and it will be enough for a while." ”
Meng Zhenghui just smiled, but did not answer Lin Baitang's words directly: "Sleep, I'm afraid I have to get up early tomorrow." ”
Although he didn't say it explicitly, the meaning of his words was very clear.
What he decides, he doesn't want to change easily.
Although Lin Baitang is engaged to him, she doesn't want to change his mind, although she has not studied like Meng Zhenghui and read so many books, but she still knows the most basic and respectful truth.
The two of them didn't say anything, and sat in a daze for a while, before they went back to the house and went to sleep.
The two men talked so long at night that when the bell of the ox cart rang outside the door, they almost felt like they had just put on their pillows, and it was dawn before they could sleep.
Lin Baitang endured sleepiness and got up, picked up two handfuls of cold water at random, washed her face fiercely, and then opened her eyes, and when she came out of the house after cleaning up, Meng Zhenghui had already walked outside the yard, planning to get on the ox cart.
Lin Baitang chased after two steps, poured the dumplings he had just taken out of the cupboard into the oily paper bag, and handed it to Meng Zhenghui: "Bring this." ”
She hurriedly wrapped the paper with a second layer of insurance, didn't see Meng Zhenghui's expression, and just said: "You definitely won't eat anything outside when you go out this time, you can't be hungry for a day, right?"
Meng Zhenghui really hadn't tried to carry dumplings like this, so he slowly took the dumplings in his hand and reacted: "Whatever you want to eat, I'll bring it back to you." ”
Lin Baitang smiled: "There's nothing you want, just don't lose yourself." ”
While the two were talking, the bell of the ox cart rang twice, Meng Zhenghui knew that this was urging, and it was not good to ask people to wait: "I'm leaving, you can sleep for a while." ”
The ox cart was not going fast, and after a long time, Meng Zhenghui couldn't see the shadow of Lin Baitang guarding the door.
A bag of dumplings was stuffed into the straight suit jacket, which looked bulging, and Meng Zhenghui took out the dumplings and put them on his lap.
The uncle who drove the ox cart looked back and was quite strange: "Why don't you eat it." ”
Things in the village sometimes have to be sold in the city, so it is common to bring food, the big guys get up early, and the time to enter the city is also expensive.
Meng Zhenghui smiled gently: "I'm not hungry yet." ”
Uncle Zhou quite understood: "It's easy to get up in the morning and have no appetite." Thinking of this, he also enthusiastically gave advice: "You will find a stall in the city later, you can ask for a bowl of hot noodle soup for a penny, and then soak the rice in hot soup, eat and drink, and warm up the day." ”
These can be regarded as the common things for villagers to enter the city, but for Meng Zhenghui, it is very fresh, during this period of time after he returned to China, most of the people he went to were dining rooms and homes, although he had seen roadside stalls, but he never paid much attention to it, he didn't even know that in such a place where consumption was very low, it was still possible to only need soup and not rice.
Meng Zhenghui listened to this experience as a story and felt that it was interesting. He was not stingy and said, "Thank you, uncle." ”
Uncle Zhou was stunned by Xie as he drove the car, and whispered: "Wen Xuan." ”
It is said that there is a chain of contempt between people, farmers like them who dig in the soil, and the most disdainful is a scholar like Meng Zhenghui who can't carry his hands on his shoulders, otherwise he is Lin Baitang's man, I'm afraid there are few people in the village who are willing to pay attention to him.
Uncle Zhou complained in his heart, but the smile on his face didn't change much: "Thank you, this is what your daughter-in-law and her father told us when they came back from the city, and I didn't talk much today, she will definitely tell you in the future." ”
After Uncle Zhou finished saying this, he didn't get any response, he looked back with a little doubt, and what he saw was the thoughtful Meng Zhenghui.
His fingers gently fumbled with the oil-paper bag, but the expression on his face was a little absent-minded.
Meng Zhenghui didn't even have any idea when he listened to Uncle Zhou teach him how to save money, but he felt a little uncomfortable at this moment.
He told Lin Baitang a lot about the Meng family, but he really didn't know much about Lin Baitang's family, even today, he learned it from other people's mouths.
He suddenly regretted it.
He just knew that Lin Baitang was not as good as him, but he didn't think that at her young age, she was already making such a plan for a penny or two cents.
If I had known that .......
He should have been nicer to her.
There are two flowers, one on each branch.
Lin Baitang watched Meng Zhenghui walk away in an ox cart, and was about to go back to sleep, but he saw the women in the village walking this way with their children in the distance.
This kind of thing happened in the morning, and no one was not curious. Lin Baitang stretched out his hand to stop one of them: "Auntie, what are you doing here?"
Lin Baitang and Meng Zhenghui spread the unspeakable things of Lin Er's aunt in this small village, and the Zhao family's aunt was startled when she saw Lin Baitang stop her at first, and she smiled when she heard the question, and said with a big grin: "Catch up with the market, you haven't come back for a while, you don't know the day, right?"
The aunt of the Zhao family was straightforward, and she didn't think much about what she said: "It's still too late to clean up now, why don't you take a basket and let's go and have a look together?"
This matter is exactly what Lin Baitang wants, she didn't catch up with the set during the time she came back, and the things at home were tight, if she was alone, she would have endured it and passed, but now that Meng Zhenghui is here, she is willing not to let such a good person endure the small days of buckling and squeezing with her.
Lin Baitang calculated very well, the market is cheaper than in the city, she is a little tired this time, buy more things, and the family can live a good life for a while.
However, before she could speak, a snarky voice came from the side, a yin and yang weird breath, and I didn't know whether I was belittling myself or others: "Don't you rush, people came back from the city, what rare things have you never seen, go with you, a?"