Nine

As the number of people moving in from other places gradually decreased, the discussion caused by such events gradually subsided. But just when the residents of Yahou Street thought that there would be no new situation, the relocation of a family caused a small shock in the community: Cai Limin's wife, Pan Yanping, a Peugeot woman who worked at the county cultural center, also moved her family into Yahou Street. Unlike others, the house arranged by the town's housing management committee for her family is not only much larger than the average family, but also renovated it carefully before her family moved in.

Witnessing Qiao Daxing, a technician of the Housing Management Committee, leading the craftsmen in and out frequently, looking at the piles of building materials constantly being transported into the house, especially watching the busy work of the construction team, the new house is being completed day by day, and the residents of Yahou Street have a topic again.

"Tell me, why did she move here, doesn't the county government's family dormitory have a place for her to live? Besides, she has no connection here!" Due to the suddenness of the incident, Rong Deshao, a middle-aged man who rarely participates in the pingchang chat, looked at the courtyard that was about to become Cai's house and asked questions.

"It's okay to move here, but such a cultivation method has never been done in the past" Listening to Rong Deshao's words, Shi Shoubao, who was as ordinary as him, couldn't help it. Ben also, although in view of the fact that there are many houses in Yahou Street that are ancient buildings left over from the Ming and Qing dynasties, the housing management office cannot repair them, but it is the first time that such a large-scale construction of houses has been carried out in Yahou Street. Not to mention anything else, just in front of the courtyard, a new flower platform was set up, planted with a variety of flowers such as moon season and roses. As for the newly paved solid wood floor in the house, it is even brighter and brighter.

"So, what is an official is what is an official. Listening to Shi Shoubao's uneven sound, he stabbed obliquely, and I don't know who "hummed" disapprovingly.

"Living in a good place in the Finance Bureau, but moving here, no matter how good the house is, it is difficult to toss!" someone sighed.

"You're wrong, as long as you can get your pulse, it's worth the effort. "This time it's a woman who speaks. As soon as you heard the familiar voice, you knew that it was Aunt Chao who lived in the same yard as Zheng Wenshu.

"How do you know the family is here to get their pulse?" someone asked.

The hostess of this family said to Xiang Liang that the eldest daughter born to her husband's ex-wife was only admitted to the second middle school last year. If I had lived in Yahou Street before, I would have entered No. 1 Middle School a long time ago. Therefore, for the sake of the future of the youngest son born to him, he has to make amends. ”

Hearing this, everyone suddenly realized, but immediately felt that something was wrong: The so-called pulse qi is just like that, and it really takes that as it is? You must know that the children studying in Yahou Street are not old and young, but not all of them have good grades. Whether you can go to school or not depends on your talent and whether you are diligent or not. If you think that you can move forward with your pulse, then the students in Yahou Street have all become college students.

But there is something that the neighbors can't imagine, that is, no matter what they say, Pan Yanping doesn't say that she doesn't know, and even if she knows, she won't take it seriously. With her husband's status, prestige, and especially power, she not only lived a much more nourishing life than ordinary people, but also developed a temper that was arrogant to them. No, it's been a month since she moved to Yahou Street, and she has never taken the initiative to talk to the neighbors, and several times someone smiled at her, she didn't seem to see it. She doesn't care what they think of herself, as long as she lives comfortably.

"Yanping, I said that you are not polite to the neighbors, since you are neighbors, you must live in harmony. ”

When I got up this morning, seeing my wife combing her hair and humming and singing, she seemed to be in a good mood, and Cai Limin opened her mouth to persuade her. Cai Limin originally disagreed with moving to Yahou Street: Isn't it good to live in the family dormitory of the Finance Bureau where he worked in the past, why do you want to toss like this, but he can't stand his wife's stubborn temperament, and he heard that this is indeed a feng shui treasure, so he agreed. It's just that after moving over, Fang found that the neighbors were respectful of him and his family, except for Min Lanzhen, director of the neighborhood committee, and Yang Qionghua, the wife of Hong Daxuan, deputy director of the county party committee office, there were no other neighbors visiting the door, which was really a bit of a cold taste. After some observation, he believes that it has a lot to do with the behavior of his wife Pan Yanping. This woman, relying on her good looks, and working in an agency, raised her hand and threw herself to the FA with a shelf, ignoring others, who dares to get close?

"Why am I not polite to them?" Hearing her husband say this, Pan Yanping, who was very happy just now, immediately pulled down her face, "According to yours, you want to use your hot face to stick to their cold butts?"

"Why do you say that?" Cai Limin felt that she was a little unreasonable, and her words were also very vulgar.

"Then what do you want me to say?" Pan Yanping knocked on the dresser with a delicately made horn comb, looking very impatient.

"Okay, count me too much, you just wait to do it yourself. Knowing that this dispute would be unfinished as before, he chose a truce.

Seeing her husband retreat again, Pan Yanping was very proud. To be honest, although Cai Limin is much older than her, she feels that it is still cost-effective to follow him. This is not only because he brought her a material life that she couldn't think of in the past, but also because he has a good temper and rarely doesn't depend on her. Not to mention anything else, just agreeing to her to move into Yahou Street is very much her wish. You must know that the houses here are not only large in size and convenient to live in, but also in a format that is very self-conscious. Not to mention the freedom of living in a single-door household, just looking at the green trees and bright flowers in the courtyard, I can say how comfortable it is.

Thinking of these, Pan Yanping couldn't help but be secretly happy. After dressing up and eating some breakfast served by her husband, she took out a handkerchief and wiped her ruddy little mouth, and said to him in a loud voice: "I want to go out with Deputy Secretary Wu's lover to do something today, and you will take your son to the county government canteen for lunch." After speaking, he twisted his soft waist and walked out, and when he left the door, he did not forget to use his soft and white little hands to arrange his black hair again.

Looking at her love-hate look, Cai Limin, who was sitting at the dining table, couldn't help but shake his head. He didn't know if it was a good thing or a bad thing that he had married this beautiful wife. For her, he carried an infamy of Chen Shimei in his hometown, so that he didn't dare to go back to visit his parents who were getting older after leaving his hometown for more than ten years.

How could such a thing happen? This was never expected by colleagues and superiors. This is not only because Cai Limin has a wife in his hometown in Hebei, but also because he has a very decent style of life, and people have never heard of any scandals about him. Of course, Cai Limin himself is clear about this, but when it comes to it, he still can't withstand the temptation of beauty and falls under Pan Yanping's pomegranate skirt. He will never forget how he slept with this young but scheming woman.

Cai Limin clearly remembers that it was July 6, 1952. He didn't go back to bed until midnight because he had a meeting the night before, and he didn't wake up until 7 a.m. that morning. Just as he opened his eyes, he heard someone speak in the hall outside the room—

"Mom, did you see my underwear drying in the house?"

"I seem to have it in your closet for you. ”

"No, I don't. ”

"Where did that go?"

Cai Limin heard that this was seventeen-year-old Pan Yanping and her forty-year-old mother talking. Although he lived in Pan's house for more than two months, he didn't know much about this handsome woman, and only heard the township cadres briefly mention that she had been married for less than a year, and was sent back to her parents' house by her husband's family in the name of "Kefu" because her husband died of illness. Because she has been in private school for three years, and she was born to Peugeot, and she has no children, she can't stop anyone from proposing, but for some reason, she refused. To tell the truth, Cai Limin was not interested in these situations, he was anxious that the peasants in this village cherished the land under their names because of the land reform not long ago, and they were not highly motivated to set up a primary society, resulting in a very slow progress of work. But what he didn't expect was that he didn't pay attention to Pan Yanping, but Pan Yanping paid attention to him. Since the first day he moved in, she has deliberately brought the relationship between the two closer, either taking the initiative to do his laundry and cooking, or running errands and delivering letters for him, even when he was reading documents and sorting out notes, he also sat aside, and flew to give him a wink from time to time, which made him very uncomfortable. He sometimes thinks that this is not okay and wants to talk to her, but when he thinks about it, he feels very ridiculous: others have not expressed anything to you, what is there to talk about, aren't you making yourself amorous and asking for trouble? Fortunately, after a few months, the work is about to end, and you can leave here as soon as you wait for the acceptance from above.

But what Cai Limin didn't expect was that what should have come was still coming. This morning, Pan Yanping said to her mother, don't worry about the underwear, I'll look around by myself, you better go to the market as soon as possible.

Hearing Pan Yanping say this, Cai Limin, who had just woken up from his sleep, didn't care much at first, but after thinking about it, he felt that something was wrong: In all directions, didn't that also include the room where he lived? And urged her mother to go to the market! But before he came back to his senses, he found a light figure floating into the room. After searching the cabinet, the figure went straight to the wooden bed, lifted the mosquito net, leaned over his body, and groped for the pillow.

How could this be? Cai Limin was a little stunned, and then he became angry. (omitted here........ In this situation, Ren Shinoshita Hui can't hold it, not to mention Cai Limin, who has been separated from his wife for a long time. When the blood is excited, reason is gone. In the unquenchable impulse, he not only did not push away Pan Yanping, who was hugging his body, but ......

In the future, it is a story that many cadres in the party and government circles of Lichuan County know: in order to deal with Pan Yanping's coercion and temptation, Cai Limin tried his best to divorce his wife who was four years older than him in his hometown in Hebei, and Pan Yanping not only married an official as he wished, but also relied on his strength to finally enter the city and become a cadre. Of course, Cai Limin also paid the price for this, not only was the insider attributed to a type of person who likes the new and hates the old, and has a moral deficit, thinking about it, he feels that he has completely fallen into Pan Yanping's trap, but because the other party cried and made trouble as soon as the matter was mentioned, he never figured out the original reason for the matter. In the end, there was only one question left in his heart: even if she had married once, she was only seventeen years old at the time, how could she have such scheming and courage, was she not afraid that she would not eat her at all, but would scold her harshly?

However, what Cai Limin thought about his actions back then is no longer a question for Pan Yanping to consider. As for the people he just mentioned asking her to treat the neighbors of Yahou Street well, he would not accept it for her. At this moment, all she was thinking about was how to go to Qingjiang City with Deputy Secretary Wu's wife, meet with Principal Xia of No. 1 Middle School, and see how the things he promised were going. But what she didn't expect was that as soon as she walked to the gate of the hospital, she met Jiang Yizhen and Zheng Wenshu, the resident group leaders who came to visit.

"If you have anything to say, please tell me quickly, I still have to go to Qingjiang City with the lover of Secretary Wu of the county party committee to do business. Pan Yanping didn't want to waste time on the street cadres, so she said bluntly.

Seeing her pulling the big flag as a tiger skin, Jiang Yizhen was very disapproving, thinking to herself What are you angry about, I have also seen women whose husbands are much older than your husband, and none of them are like you. But she didn't want to be angry with the other party, so she made a long story short: "We have checked, and your house is still short of a large vat and fifty sandbags." ”

"It's been checked, when?" Pan Yanping was a little confused.

"You're not here. Jiang Yizhen glanced at the courtyard.

"The vat, and the sandbag, what are you doing?" Pan Yanping still had questions.

"The town's fire office stipulates that each yard should have at least one large tank filled with water and 50 sandbags to prevent fires. Jiang Yizhen patiently explained.

So that's the case, Pan Yanping realized that ordinary residential areas also have their own rules. But she didn't want to admit that she was ignorant, so she panicked: "I have thought about the fire protection for a long time." No, I've purchased a fire extinguisher, and the store will deliver it tomorrow afternoon. ”

"Really?" Jiang Yizhen didn't believe it. After all, fire extinguishers are expensive, and I've never heard of a private person buying them.

"Will I lie to you?" Seeing Jiang Yizhen so serious, Pan Yanping was unhappy. But at this moment, she found that Zheng Wenshu beside Jiang Yizhen was quietly watching her, although she had never spoken, but the pair of black and white eyes contained a look that was so calm that she couldn't ignore it.

"This is—"

"Her name is Zheng Wenshu, and she is the lover of Principal Cen of the People's Primary School, and she is also a member of our resident fire team. ”

By the way, Pan Yanping remembered that she was the housewife whose son was admitted to Fudan University last year. When she moved into Yahou Street, she had heard about it, and she knew that her youngest son was also very good at reading.

"Oops, it turned out to be Sister Zheng. Thinking of this, Pan Yanping's face rarely smiled, "I heard that your son is very good at reading." ”

"Where," Zheng Wenshu didn't expect the woman's face to change so quickly, she said modestly, and followed her words: "If you want to say that you can read, you are still the son of Team Leader Jiang, one is a graduate of Nankai University, and now works at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the other is studying at Northwestern Polytechnical University." ”

Pan Yanping will be an eye-opener: casually meet two housewives, the son can study, and the work is so good, it seems that this Yahou Street is really as people say, where the context is, and she really moved to the right home. Thinking of this, she immediately changed her expression, and said with a smile on her face: "Admire and admire, I have moved to the right place this time." ”

What, dare she move here just to study for her children, is it really like people say that it is a little bit of the pulse of the back street? Hearing this, Jiang Yizhen and Zheng Wenshu couldn't help but glance at each other.

Pan Yanping was such a clever person, and she immediately read what they were thinking from the other party's expressions. But she didn't want to chat with them, so she said: "I'm really sorry, I do have something to do today, so I won't accompany you for the time being, and I will inevitably learn from the two of you in the future." ”

"You're busy. Looking at her deferential appearance, Jiang Yizhen felt a little inexplicable, so she responded casually.

"Okay, okay, we'll see you later. Pan Yanping waved her hand, twisted her waist, and walked towards the alley leading to the north avenue of the county.

Looking at this woman's exaggerated posture, Jiang Yizhen was speechless. For a while, Fang seemed to be talking to himself and seemed to be talking to Zheng Wenshu: "It's this kind of official wife who has a lot of fame, and it's not as good as the common people to do anything." ”

Of course, Zheng Wenshu heard Jiang Yizhen's words, but she didn't take it to heart. The reason why she accompanied Jiang Yizhen to Pan Yanping's house was that Jiang said that she was not used to dealing with Mrs. Guan alone, but also because this good sister helped her a lot on the issue of invitation. To be honest, for the sake of the life of the whole family, she has an inexhaustible heart, not to mention that there are troublesome things recently, that is, although Niu Houhuai's performance in the "Four Clears" is very positive, exposing a number of colleagues who he thinks are "four unclear", but in the end he only promoted a deputy head in the Commercial Bureau where he worked, and the party still did not succeed, so many complained in front of Situ Huimin, saying that it was his father-in-law who affected his progress.

"It's all the matchmaker's harm!" Whenever her husband complained about her stepfather, Situ Huimin was very unhappy. She also knew that her stepfather's capitalist background did affect the family. Not to mention anything else, the eldest brother pragmatically participated in the physical examination of the recruiting flight back then, although it was a first-class good body, but he couldn't pass the political examination, and he passed by the dream of being a pilot. But she didn't complain about her stepfather at all, because her stepfather raised her as his own since she was a child, and she was really an honest person. Therefore, she could only complain about the wife of Shangguanzheng, the introducer and stepfather's colleague of the year. If it weren't for marrying Niu Houhuai, even if the family life was not substantially different from the current situation, at least there would be no constant friction between the husband and wife, and it was always difficult to talk about it together.

"If I joined the army and left during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, I am afraid it will be another way of living. Once, Situ Huimin said to her mother, "It's just that my grandmother didn't allow me to go." ”

Hearing her daughter say this, Zheng Wenshu didn't squeak. She knew that this matter was not so simple: on the surface, her grandmother was reluctant to give up her granddaughter, but in fact, the old man was afraid that the political trial would not pass, and the family would not look good after being brushed down. Therefore, the only hope she has now is that the whole family, especially Lao Cen, will not encounter any unforeseen things and live a safe life. It's not that Lao Cen is cautious in his words and deeds on weekdays, plus Gong Heping, the deputy county magistrate in charge of education at the time, is decent and fair, and I really don't know if he will wear a hat.

What Zheng Wenshu thought, Pan Yanping, who had just met her, couldn't have imagined. But for her person, Mrs. remembered. That night, after returning to her home in Yahou Street from Qingjiang No. 1 Middle School, she not only told her husband Principal Xia's affirmative reply, but also told him that she had listened to his persuasion and paid attention to improving her relationship with her neighbors, because she had a very friendly conversation with Zheng Wenshu and Jiang Yizhen, who came to visit, and she learned that their children were very good at reading, and that Zheng Wenshu's husband was Cen Huanian, the principal of the People's Primary School.

Cen Huanian? Cai Limin's mind turned slightly, and he remembered that there was such a person. I remember once hearing the director of the county education bureau mention that the Dao is the people's primary school is not only the best primary school in the county, but also very famous in the region, but the principal Cen Huanian is the only non-party principal in the county.

"What's wrong with the non-party? As long as you can run a school, it's good. Hearing her husband briefly talk about Cen Huanian's situation, Pan Yanping was a little disapproving, "I will definitely deal with them in the future to see how they raise their children." ”

"I'm just telling you what I know, and I didn't say what to do. Seeing his wife like this, Cai Limin felt a little inexplicable. However, he felt that what she said was not unreasonable, so he followed her words and said: "If you are willing to deal with them, what will I say? ”

Pan Yanping didn't hear clearly what her husband said. She's an emotional person who always thinks about things along her own lines. She felt a little tired after running for a day, so she refused her husband's plea after going to bed, leaving her back to him, who was very uncomfortable at the moment because of his unsatisfying desires.

Looking at his wife's graceful and moving figure, smelling her body fragrance, my heart felt like being scratched by shrimp arthropods. He wanted to use force, but he was afraid that she would make trouble, so he was really uncomfortable for a while. He felt aggrieved at the thought that he had no initiative in the life of husband and wife, and that she had to serve him if she wanted him, and that he had to get out of the way if he didn't want him. Over the years, he has become more and more regretful about his impulsiveness, and feels that his ex-wife, who is still serving his in-laws in his hometown, is precious. If nothing else, she had never disobeyed his wishes in the kind of thing between the two of them, although some of his words and actions made her ashamed. And the reason why she is so, in her words, who calls herself his woman?

It's going to be a sleepless night again, and I don't know how many more days like this will come.