Chapter 161: Not Simple Neighbors

"Hey, Ding Mei, what are you looking at?" A dark-skinned woman wearing a black bell bottom, a visor on her head, dressed in a white gown, walked over with a hoe.

"Sister Gao, I didn't look at anything, so I thought about why the battalion commander's family didn't go out all the time." Ding Mei stood in the middle of the two family courtyards, with an innocent and puzzled expression.

"How can you understand these things when you're young, they're newly married and just here. The little couple tossed a lot, and besides, the family of the battalion commander Gu was from the city. The people in the city are squeamish, just like you were back then. The dark-skinned woman didn't care, and pulled her pants to show Ding Mei: "Look, what are my pants like." My sister-in-law brought me clothes that I didn't wear. The material of these pants is very good, and it is comfortable to wear for work. ”

Ding Mei took Sister Gao's hand, frowning and embarrassed: "Sister, you said that I used the vegetable plot in Camp Commander Gu's house." Will she be anxious with me? ”

This senior sister is an old man in the family home, and she is also a local, and her mother's house is outside the big wall. She will take a look at anyone's new family members, and the big guys will go to her if they need help. Over time, she became the eldest sister in this area, like an aunt in the neighborhood committee, there was nothing she didn't know.

"What's the matter, didn't you ask her a man when you were farming? If she doesn't come, she will let the land be wasted? She wants to plant it again next year, and that's fine! Sister Gao patted Ding Mei's hand: "Sister is from here, you can listen to what you say." The family members of the battalion commander Gu don't look like that, and they are not good for work. ”

Ding Mei pouted, looking embarrassed: "I heard that people in the city are stingy, and there is no reality in our countryside." Besides, people are literate and exquisite. Before she finished speaking, Sister Gao's face immediately changed, and her voice rose several degrees: "What's the point of not compromising, it's different when you get married." What woman doesn't live for a man and a child? What's wrong with the women in the city, what's the land with culture, and they can't come over to farm like us? ”

After speaking, she spat and salivaed: "Look at you, you look like you look like a small tank, why are you so wretched!" ”

Zhang Cuilian didn't know that her vegetable plot was occupied by others, and she finally felt bored after being locked up in the yard for a few days. And the water in the kitchen tank has also bottomed out, the rice is fetched by others, and the bath water is boiled by others. I can't let people do it at home and outside, but I feel like an uncle.

She changed to white cotton with short sleeves and a blue polka-dot over-the-knee skirt underneath. Wearing a pair of sandals turned from broken straps, he went into the kitchen. First, he scooped out the water from the water tank and carefully brushed the water tank. Then he lifted the bucket in the yard, opened the far door and walked to the pressurized well to fetch water.

In the vegetable field not far away, some people are picking beans in their own homes, and some people are hoeing weeds. When I looked up, I saw Zhang Cuilian dressed very beautifully, and then I pressed the water, greeted each other, and gathered together to watch the excitement.

Zhang Cuilian came out of the house with the third bucket of water and saw Ding Mei who was fetching water like her. When I saw her come out, I greeted her with a smile.

This is when she found out that she didn't know when, there were several women in the shade at the gate of the house next door. It seems that just a little bit of effort just now, the big guys have come out.

"Oops, sister-in-law. Why did you come out to carry water? Ding Mei pressed the well easily with one hand and asked Zhang Cuilian curiously.

"There's no water in the tank!" Zhang Cuilian thinks this question is really boring, isn't there a shortage of water at home, who will have nothing to do to find water?

"I see that Camp Commander Gu carried water yesterday, is it so expensive for your family's draft? Do you want to do laundry? A woman about forty years old said in the shade.

"yes, yes." Zhang Cuilian smiled shyly, and this Ding Mei introduced Zhang Cuilian: "This is Xu Dayong's daughter-in-law, Yuhua's sister-in-law!" ”

Li Yuhua lives in Gate No. 1 in the east, Fan Jinfeng is Zhang Cuilian's neighbor in Gate No. 2, Gate No. 4 lives in Pozi Yu, Gate No. 5 lives in Su Yaxiu, and Gate No. 6 lives in Ding Mei.

"Oh, you're so good-looking, this dress looks even better." Su Yaxiu stared at Zhang Cuilian's skirt enviously, pointed to her legs and said, "You are so white, you don't work at home, right?" ”

Zhang Cuilian nodded and didn't wait for anything to speak, Ding Mei preemptively said, "My sister is a college student, and she only graduated this year." Right, sister! Ding Mei's expression of honor was as if Zhang Cuilian was her own sister.

"Sister, you can't wear like this when you work. Look at you, and wear shoes with heels. Got a foot in the stumble! Ding Mei pointed to Zhang Cuilian's shoes, and then pointed to the skirt on her body: "Such a good skirt, wear it again when you go out!" ”

Zhang Cuilian glanced down at her skirt and wondered in her heart that this was the home clothes she wore at home. She nodded her head to be teachable, in order to make herself less out of place. She walked among the crowd and chatted with them.

This chat brought out a lot of things, such as Mrs. Yu's longest stay here. I also know that there are quite a few women in the class who work here.

Fan Jinfeng helped in the canteen, and Su Yaxiu sold things in the service club. Also, life here is a decade backwards from Q City, and their preferences are still stuck in the early eighties. Mrs. Ding combed her high bangs, and Ding Mei even encouraged her to perm an explosive head and said that it was more suitable for the skirt on her body.

Several women asked Zhang Cuilian about the question as they spoke, and Mrs. Ding was even more curious about why Gu Zhicheng came back from the cafeteria with food in the past two days. Zhang Cuilian said that the family did not have enough food, and Mrs. Ding not only didn't believe it, but also laughed at herself in an ambiguous and strange tone.

In the end, Zhang Cuilian could only excuse herself that there was still work to be done in the house, and went home with a bucket.

When he came back from work at noon, Gu Zhicheng told Zhang Cuilian that the dining table in the living room would be delivered in the afternoon. Zhang Cuilian told Gu Zhicheng what happened in the morning: "Why are they all housewives? There are also those who go home to play halfway through work. ”

Gu Zhicheng frowned while eating: "Most of the family members here have graduated from junior high school, and some have not studied in elementary school for two years. They work during the day and don't have time to watch their children, so can't they run home to feed when they are not busy! It's not easy for family members, you can't underestimate who caused trouble again! ”

Zhang Cuilian thought about the curious eyes of these people in the morning, as well as the difference in their views on things. I think Gu Zhicheng's reminder is quite right, since you want to live here, contact is indispensable. Say too much and try not to be impatient or arrogant.

Zhang Cuilian, who made up her mind that she would never go out if she had nothing to do, did not expect that if she did not take the initiative to contact others, others would come to her to play.

At one o'clock, the weather was still hot, and Zhang Cuilian had nothing to do. Lying on the sofa, I suddenly heard someone screaming very close outside: "Oh, how can people come in so clean?" ”

Zhang Cuilian stood up excitedly, walked out of the living room quickly, and saw Mrs. Yu standing at the door. Seeing her come out, the folds in the corners of her eyes stretched out with a smile: "Your family is too particular, and there is a cabinet at the door." What's this for people to slipper? ”

Zhang Cuilian welcomed her in with a smile: "No, no." Mrs. Yu stood next to the shoe cabinet and made a gesture to take off her shoes: "No? Then what are you doing here, don't let me bury the house anymore. ”

"It's the two of us who do it ourselves, and we just wear slippers at home. That's why I put a shoe cabinet at the door, and I also found a place to put our shoes! Hearing Zhang Cuilian's explanation, Mrs. Yu smiled as if confirming it again: "You really don't have to take it off?" ”

"You really don't have to take it off!"

Mrs. Yu took a step into the house as if relieved. The layout of everyone's houses is the same, and she can see at a glance that there is a hut in Camp Commander Gu's house.

"Huh? Why did you come out of a whole hut? What's the matter, your mother-in-law is going to come and live in the future? Mrs. Yu didn't go to see the cottage, but stuck her head into the kitchen.

While looking at it, he nodded and smashed his mouth: "It's so clean, it's newly married." This pot and pan is polished, not like we all have greasy putty hanging in our house! ”

After speaking, he glanced back at the room with the door closed across the kitchen, and muttered, "This house doesn't seem to have come out before, what are you guys doing here?" ”

Zhang Cuilian is not a newlywed and ignorant little daughter-in-law, since she heard Yu's mother-in-law's sentence, 'Your mother-in-law will come to live in the future?' I know that this eldest sister is definitely the most talkative character in the east and the west.

I heard her ask just now, but I didn't say anything. Now I asked again, so I had to smile and say, "Well, the big house is too big and empty." We came out of the bathroom and washed our faces and clothes. ”

Yu Pozi's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she went in without asking Zhang Cuilian to push the door. As if Grandma Liu had entered the Grand View Garden, she opened the shower curtain and saw the water tank.

"Oh, you're so blessed. Your battalion commander Gu is really hurting. After speaking, she glanced at Zhang Cuilian meaningfully: "The daughter-in-law in this city is asking for a lot, and she has to take a bath if she loves to be clean." ”

After speaking, I saw the bottles and cans on the windowsill, and when I walked over, I couldn't help but pout my lips when I saw that it was shampoo and conditioner.

When she walked to the bedroom, she saw the half-shorter kang and asked Zhang Cuilian: "Where do you sleep when you have a guest at home?" When the old woman comes, you let her live on the ground? ”

When she saw the half-wall-sized bookshelf in the living room, she couldn't help but point to the books on it and ask, "It's all yours?" Oh, mom, what are you doing after you graduate? ”

I don't know which place stimulated her, but just now, she was like Grandma Liu, and she saw everything rarely, but suddenly became deep.

She sat down on the sofa and sat up and down vigorously, commenting like a leader: "It's okay, it's good, it's soft." Your family is very good-looking, but the bathroom is useless. There is no water on and off, and you can't take a shower. You can still in the house, don't you have to go out! ”

The corners of Zhang Cuilian's mouth twitched and sat on the futon next to her. pushed the watermelon pieces on the coffee table in front of Mrs. Yu: "Sister-in-law, is there something wrong?" ”

Yu Pozi's eyes flashed, and she smiled weakly: "What can I do, it's just to come and see you." ”

Zhang Cuilian let out an 'oh' and pulled out a toothpick box from under the coffee table. took out a few toothpicks and inserted them on the watermelon, and her unhurried appearance made Yu Pozi's heart scratch like a kitten.

"Brother and sister, sister-in-law just wants to ask you. Of course, you can't say that's what I said. Where are we talking, where are we. Okay? Mrs. Yu squeezed her eyes at Zhang Cuilian, with a sincere expression.

Zhang Cuilian almost laughed out loud, and sure enough, Yu Pozi was talking nonsense.

"Okay! Sister-in-law, you say, I will never say anything about it! Zhang Cuilian inserted a watermelon and handed it to Mrs. Yu, she took it and joked: "You are really good at playing, eating a watermelon is so delicate." Click, click, click! ”

After eating two, she said, "You know no, Ding Mei planted your family's vegetable patch!" ”