Chapter 234: Survival in the Sixties (11)
Bai Cuilan was working hard outside to persuade someone to marry her brother and sister-in-law, and her throat was smoking, she went to the kitchen to drink water, and saw Zhang Aiguo, who was "sensible and polite" by her, hugging Bai Hong and kissing her. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Bai Cuilan's old face was flushed, and her heart was a little weak, she looked out for the first time, and confirmed that her brother and sister-in-law were sitting in the middle of the courtyard and couldn't find the movement in the kitchen, so she breathed a sigh of relief, pushed the door into the kitchen, and closed the door.
I just saw her clasping her hands on her chest, leaning behind the door, raising her eyebrows, and teasing the two young people: "You guys are good, you and I are at ease in the kitchen." It's embarrassing for my aunt, I have to say it outside for the sake of your little couple's marriage! Patriotic, what are you doing with a smirk, my aunt is dying of thirst, pour me a bowl of water. ”
"Okay! When Ming'er and Honghong have a happy event, your seal will be indispensable!" Zhang Aiguo saw Bai Cuilan's smug expression, his tone was relaxed, he knew that his good things were coming, and he smiled so much that he couldn't see his eyes.
Bai Hong was blushing, she knew that she couldn't talk about her aunt, and she couldn't reason with Zhang Aiguo, a cheeky "hooligan", so she simply didn't hear anything and buried herself in washing her dishes.
At this moment, her heart is tangled and sweet. The man opened his mouth and kept his mouth shut, and so soon mobilized his aunt to intercede with his parents on his behalf, listening to his aunt's tone, it seemed that her parents were a little moved. Did she really want to marry him in a flash? But she hadn't been in love with him yet! I felt that if I married him like this, I would suffer a lot. But if he doesn't follow him, he will be lost and uncomfortable, so she should be distressed.
Oops! It's so troublesome to deal with the object! Bai Hong vigorously opened the green vegetable pole and scrubbed it vigorously. The smile on his face can greasy a person, and the whole person seems to be coated with a layer of honey.
Bai Cuilan saw the sweet smile on her niece's face, and then glanced at Bai Hong's nephew who was absent-minded and cut a dish, knowing that she would be able to drink the wedding wine immediately.
The two young people were slimy, and Bai Cuilan suddenly felt that she was so eyesore. She smiled at Zhang Aiguo and said, "Don't look at it, be careful to cut your hand! I'm leaving, so as not to disturb you." Patriotism, you have to be attentive, don't make us wait outside for too long. My brother is still inspecting you!"
"Hmm. Zhang Aiguo told Bai Cuilan to wake up, gather her mind, and concentrate on cooking. lest he be provoked by the future father-in-law who already looks at him unpleasantly.
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With the assistance of Bai Cuilan, plus he ran to the Bai family whenever he was free, helped the white carpenter and his wife to work in the fields, and brought some pork, fish, and chickens to the Bai family from time to time, cooking delicious food for the future father-in-law and mother-in-law, and improving the food. During this period, he didn't forget to buy Bai Hong a beautiful dress, her favorite books, etc., Zhang Aiguo only spent two months to conquer the white carpenter couple and Bai Hong, and married the beauty that Xiao had been thinking about for a long time.
Zhang Aiguo was very willing to pay the money, not only bought "three turns and one ring" as a dowry, but also added another 500 yuan of bride price, saying that it was dedicated to honoring the white carpenter and his wife, and thanking them for giving birth to Bai Hong.
This is the first one in Hushi Town. It's that many people in the city marry wives, and they can't come up with or are reluctant to come up with so much money.
The white carpenter couple suddenly felt their eyebrows raised, and the haze that had shrouded their hearts before was gone. Laugh when they meet people, gossip with whom, and they will not leave their son-in-law within three or five sentences, that is, Bai Hong, the treasure who has been the first in their hearts for many years, has temporarily retreated and become the second.
The white carpenter couple wanted to marry Bai Hong with five hundred yuan and three turns and one ring, but Bai Hong and Zhang Aiguo did not agree.
Bai Hong thought that she couldn't cut cloth and make clothes, so she left the sewing machine to her mother. As for the five hundred, Bai Hong asked the white carpenter to give Bai Lao Da and Bai Lao Er two hundred respectively, and let the second elder keep the remaining one for his own use, buy more millet and white noodles to eat, eat less rough grain, and raise his body well.
The daughter and son-in-law felt sorry for themselves, and the white carpenter couple felt very relieved.
Bai Mu got a sewing machine, she was good at making clothes, she took some work to make clothes in the village, let people bring their own cloth, she was responsible for sewing, a piece of clothing charged a dollar, a pair of pants charged five cents, a winter down, but also a small profit.
As for the white carpenter, he is very satisfied with his son-in-law who is married and still often takes his daughter back to the Bai family to accompany the two elders and cook food for them. I heard that my son-in-law wanted to open a store in the west of the city in two years, so I volunteered to give my son-in-law free tables, chairs and counters.
Zhang Aiguo called his father-in-law deeply touched by this deep love, he was embarrassed to let his father-in-law, who was almost fifty years old, make him furniture, and he was afraid that this would cause the two careful-eyed brothers-in-law of the Bai family to be dissatisfied and make trouble, and then cause trouble to the second elder of the Bai family. He paid for someone to drive a tractor and sent a few truckloads of wood to pile up in the backyard of the Bai family, so that his father-in-law could slowly fight for him, and when the fight was over, he would pay another salary.
The white carpenter knew his son-in-law's good intentions, but he only felt that this one son-in-law was more considerate and filial than his two sons, and his heart became more and more partial to his son-in-law. secretly made up his mind to hide it from his son and daughter-in-law, and resolutely did not want his son-in-law's salary.
Before Bai Hong and Zhang Aiguo got married, they had already passed the assessment of the town elementary school and became a people's teacher with honor, teaching third-grade Chinese and fourth-grade mathematics.
From Monday to Friday, classes are held in the town elementary school, half of the time they live in the osmanthus production team, and half of the time they live in the Bai family with Zhang Aihua, who is in the fifth grade, and Zhang Aijun, who is in the third grade. Zhang Aiguo and Zhang Aihua's families were poor when they were children, and they both read late.
Because the family has been separated, Bai Hong took the Zhang family sisters and brothers to eat and drink at her mother's house, and the eldest sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law Bai were dissatisfied in their hearts, and they didn't dare to squeak.
It's just that every time Bai Hong goes back to her parents' house, she asks her children to go to the main house to eat and take it.
Bai Hong felt that it didn't matter at first, thinking that the child was still young, and it was normal to be greedy and lonely. But again and again, again and again, eating and taking the candy and snacks she brought home, not only did she not remember her good, but occasionally once she forgot to bring something home, her nephews and nieces shouted at her, scolding her for being a "miser", "married and went back to her parents' house to eat and drink, not ashamed".
Bai Hong was furious, feeling that the things she bought for her nephew and niece were fed to the dogs. The adults and children of the two brothers' families, no one accepted her love.
Since then, I no longer buy candy and snacks to go home, and I have also reduced the number of times I go back to my parents' house to eat.
Bai Hong often rides a bicycle or asks the village boss to drive an ox cart to pick up her parents to her in-laws' house. She bought chickens, ducks, fish balls or something, and asked Bai Cuilan to bring her husband and son to her house as guests, and followed Bai Cuilan to learn to cook, and Zhang Aihua helped them.
Gradually, Bai Hong can also cook some home-cooked dishes. Although the taste is average, the countrymen are not picky, and they will be able to eat it.
It's just that Zhang Aiguo came home from a vacation, and when he heard his younger siblings say that when he was not at home, his daughter-in-law often cooked, and he was distressed like something.
But there are no adults in the Zhang family, and his younger brothers and sisters are still young, so he can't bear to ask them to cook. only prepared a generous gift to Bai Cuilan's house, and asked her to cook more, and by the way, solve the food problem of his daughter-in-law and younger siblings.
Zhang Aiguo also moved more than half of the Zhang family's grain to Bai Cuilan's house, and asked Bai Hong to buy vegetables and meat every now and then to satisfy the hunger of the whole family.
Only in the middle of each month and at the end of the month when he went home on vacation, he would go into the kitchen by himself, cook delicious dishes and invite Bai Cuilan's family and Bai Carpenter and his wife to eat, and sometimes call Aunt Bai Hong's family.
As for Bai Hong's brother and sister-in-law, Zhang Aiguo never invited them to dinner. Similarly, Bai Boss and Bai Lao Er were embarrassed to be guests at Zhang's house. Before Gai Yinzhang Aiguo married Bai Hong, he made his position clear: he would not touch their light in the future, and the Bai brothers were not allowed to beat him and Bai Hong's idea.
It's just that the stones and peach blossoms are bitter, and the sister-in-law Bai and the second sister-in-law Bai who grab snacks with the children can no longer touch the light of the white rainbow and eat free candy and snacks.
And that's not all. After the separation, in the days of Maodong, people often went to the Bai family to ask the white carpenter to help make furniture, and the white carpenter broke his two sons' hearts and no longer took them to work, but selected two young strong men in their twenties from the Bai family as apprentices and took them to work. The money tickets, food, fruits, vegetables, meat, tobacco and alcohol, etc., except for some for himself and his wife, the rest were sent to Bai Hong.
Occasionally, if there are too many things, I will send some to Aunt Baihong's and sister-in-law's house, and it is not cheap for my son and daughter-in-law at all.
Therefore, in the Bai family, it is often the old couple who cook food behind closed doors, not for the selfish son and daughter-in-law, but at most for the two children, Stone and Peach Blossom.
is as cheeky as a white sister-in-law, taking advantage of the fact that she is pregnant with the Bai family's "eldest grandson", several times she wants to eat from the white carpenter and his wife, but she is scolded by the white mother, and she is not allowed to touch it at all. The sister-in-law Bai, who is used to taking advantage, scolded "those two old immortals" behind her back.
There were a few times when she couldn't hold back and complained in front of Boss Bai, which made Boss Bai, who was already anxious, angry, slapped her twice, and almost drove her back to her parents' house, and Sister-in-law Bai was honest.
As for the two husband and wife, they did not have the black skin of the eldest couple, and basically stopped after the separation, and listened to the words of the second sister-in-law of Bai's mother-in-law, and asked someone to build two greenhouses in the one acre of self-reserved land, and went to the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy some transparent plastic to cover them and plant greenhouse vegetables.
Half of the vegetables grown are sold to supply and marketing cooperatives, and half are sent to restaurants in towns and counties. After one winter, in addition to the capital of 130 yuan, he also earned more than 100 yuan, but the two of them were so happy.
When some people in the village saw that they were making money, they also started to build greenhouses and start a vegetable business.
After the Spring Festival, on the sixth day of the first lunar month, Bai Lao Da and Bai Lao Er exchanged money and Zhang Aiguo for some cigarettes, alcohol, cloth, and meat tickets, went to the county department store to buy a pass, and brought good gifts to visit the leaders of the steel plant responsible for recruiting workers.
It's a pity that they each spent one or two hundred yuan to the leader's house, but when they were recruited later, their brother's name was not on the admission list.
Bai Boss and Bai Lao Er were angry and anxious, and went to the recruitment leader's house to squat all day, and pulled the skin with people for a day, but they broke up unhappily.
Angry Bai Boss and Bai Lao Er went to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau to sue the recruitment leaders for bribery, and then made trouble for a few days, although they asked for the money they gave as gifts, and also messed up the work of the recruitment leaders, but they still could not enter the steel plant. also offended the family of the recruitment leader, and asked people to shout at the ruffians to set black bags and beat them.
In the end, the two of them each lay in bed for more than two months, and the medical expenses alone exhausted the family's funds, and they also borrowed some money from relatives.
The weather is warm, and the greenhouse of Bai Laoer's house is useless. The countryside is full of vegetables, and most people's vegetables are better and more planted than Bai Laoer's family, and the price is cheaper when selling vegetables, which squeezes Bai Laoer's family out of the vegetable market.
After the eldest Bai and the second eldest Bai recovered from their illness, the family had no money for the project, so the brothers went to the main room and knelt down to beg the white carpenter to forgive them, take them to do carpentry together, and earn money to pay off the debt as soon as possible.
The white carpenter saw that his two sons were much more honest after suffering losses, so he also took them to work. It's just that the white boss and the white old man are not good at second-hand art, and often the white carpenter introduces them to do the work, and the brothers are doing a good job, which causes the customers to be dissatisfied.
Gradually, there was no one to work for them, and the brothers soon lost their jobs again.
Later, I don't know where they heard that Zhang Aiguo and his uncle knew many leaders of steel and coal mines in the county seat, and Bai Lao and Bai Lao ran to Zhang Aiguo's uncle's hotel every day and begged them to "show the brothers a way to live," otherwise they would not leave the hotel.
The faceless Bai brothers spilled in the restaurant, causing a lot of guests, Zhang Aiguo and his uncle had no choice but to get them into the coal mine "latte salary".
Zhang Aiguo, who has a black belly, didn't want to cheapen the pair of brothers in vain, so he found someone to get them to mine, although the salary was high, but the work was heavy, and the Bai brothers were tired to death every day. But in order to support their families and repay their debts, they couldn't say what they were suffering, so they had to grit their teeth and persevere.
Because Zhang Aiguo came forward to solve the work problem of the Bai brothers and put them into a "state-owned enterprise with a bright future", Bai's sister-in-law and Bai's second sister-in-law were honest and did not dare to make Bai Carpenter and Bai Hong unhappy, for fear of ruining her husband's future.
The atmosphere of the Bai family is therefore more harmonious.
The white carpenter and the white mother therefore loved their son-in-law even more. Now that there is something going on at home, the old couple does not discuss with Bai Hong, they all look for Zhang Aiguo.
Sometimes the two of them are idle, and they also pick up the chickens, ducks, melons, fruits and vegetables at home and send them to their son-in-law who works hard in the restaurant, so that Zhang Aiguo can make up for his health.
Bai Mu kept making clothes, shoes and socks for Zhang Aiguo, so that Zhang Aiguo, who had not enjoyed his mother's love for many years, was moved, and said to Bai Hong in private that his mother-in-law treated him better than his own mother treated him back then. Marrying Bai Hong was the most correct decision he made in his life.
Bai Hong was sour about this, and felt that after getting married, her status in her parents' hearts plummeted, and her husband, who was very good at coaxing people, had no place to stand.
On this day, Bai Hong was on vacation and was caught by Bai's mother and asked her to take her to her son-in-law on a bicycle. The hens at home laid thirty eggs, and the white mother bought two silver carp weighing three or four catties in the village fish pond, and also packed a large bag of chestnuts, walnuts, and pine nuts from the mountains.
Bai Hong has been very greedy lately, and her appetite is very good, and when she saw the big bag of chestnuts, walnuts and pine nuts, she pouted: "Mom, have you forgotten that your daughter also loves to eat these? Who the hell is your own?"
"What are you talking about! The county requires tickets for everything, and supplies it according to the quantity, and sometimes it is not necessarily possible to buy tickets if you have money. If I have it at home, I will send some to Aiguo, and let him taste the mountain goods in our village. ”
The white mother glanced at her daughter: "Your aunt came to me to gossip, and said that your uncle sent you a lot of walnuts and chestnuts." You're done eating?"
"......" didn't finish it.
Bai Hong paused and continued to "pick thorns": "But it was given by my uncle, not by you." Besides, this bag of things is thirty pounds to say the least, and it is dead, how can you carry it? And those eggs, which are easy to break, simply don't bring them. It's better to stay at home and let's eat. I brought two silver carp to Aiguo. ”