Half the Sky (Part I)

Located on the outskirts of Beijing, this small town is so small that if someone farts at the south end of the town, if the wind is favorable, everyone at the north end of the town can smell the stench. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info However, the temple is small and the gods are big, and the town is small and there are many celebrities, so you should not underestimate this place.

In fact, there are only two streets in the town, but there are four street names: East Street, South Street, West Street, and North Street. The town government is located in the middle of the north of West Street, there is the only non-private department store in the town in the south of West Street, and there is a middle school at the west entrance of West Street, so West Street has naturally become the political, economic and cultural center of the town, and the celebrities in the town, especially several female celebrities, live in West Street.

Yang Chunni, the lover of the deputy mayor, gave birth to two girls in one child, known as "tons of grain fields". Since the mayor's and secretary's homes are in Beijing, and her lover and children are not in the local area, Yang Chunni has become the "first lady" in the town.

Yang Chunni is barely a beginner in Chinese, a native of the countryside, originally did not know a few words when she was in school, worked in farm work for more than ten years, and more than half of the words she knew were thrown into the fields to fertilize the crops.

Yang Chunni's husband has been a soldier in the northwest of the motherland for 14 years, and after being promoted to a deputy battalion position in the army the year before last, Yang Chunni went through the procedures for joining the army, but she did not go to the army to live. Because the living conditions in the place where the husband served were very poor, picking up a dirt and breaking it, both sides shouted thirsty, and the most lacking thing in that place was water, and the cadres and soldiers each had a bucket of water every day, first washing their faces, then washing their clothes, and finally flushing the toilet. Yang Chunni herself is not afraid of hardship, but she is afraid that her daughter will suffer. Last winter, after her husband returned to his hometown in the suburbs of Beijing to become a town leader, Yang Chunni threw away her hoe and moved to the town with a pair of daughters.

Yang Chunni's black and red face was smiling, she couldn't be idle, she had been away from the countryside for more than half a year, and she was still as ordinary as the dirt in the field. When he married a Han, he just wanted to find a "soldier", and he became an "official's wife" without paying attention.

Zhao Meifeng, who loves to gnaw on sugarcane, nicknamed "sugar press", people say that eating sweets is easy to gain weight, but her figure seems to have been in the pot of fried fritters a few times, two round eyes account for too much proportion on the slender face, a pair of thin lips who like to taste delicious meals and love to play with right and wrong, and can only be idle when they fall asleep. Because her lover teaches English in the middle school in the town, she is sometimes happy, and she will come with a sentence of "three grams of oil", "grunt hundred" or something, which makes people get goosebumps when they hear it.

Qi Xia, others call her "old military family", in fact, she is only thirty-one years old, she does secretarial work in the town government office every day, her face is clear and beautiful, her skin is tender and white, because the wind can't blow, the rain can't be wet, and she looks much younger than her actual age. Because the other soldiers in the town were demobilized and returned home for two or three years, only her lover, who used to be a soldier in a military compound in Beijing, was admitted to a military academy in the second year of being a soldier, and after graduating from a military academy, he was assigned to a remote grassroots unit as a platoon commander and became a cadre, and he has served in the army for 12 years. Therefore, Qi Xia has been able to enjoy ten catties of pork, two catties of snacks and a letter of condolence from the town government during the Spring Festival for many years, so she can naturally be regarded as an "old military family".

The difference between Qi Xia's lover and Yang Chunni's lover is that where Yang Chunni's lover is a soldier, the most lacking thing is water, and where Qi Xia's lover is a soldier, the least lacking is water. Qi Xia's lover is the island garrison, a small island of only a few tenths of a square kilometer, all the sea water can be seen at a glance, and the cadres and soldiers guarding the island are as strange as if they have seen a visitor from outside the world when they see a fishing boat coming nearby.

In the mountains not far from the town, there is a military garrison, which is a rear warehouse for storing war materials, Qi Xia's biggest wish is that her husband can be transferred to this rear warehouse under the jurisdiction of the army to serve, and she will be spared the pain of finding a husband with her children every year, but her lover's sentence "A soldier takes obedience to orders as his duty, and he can't go wherever he wants", which made her wish come to naught.

The department stores in small towns are not like the scattered commissaries, where seven or eight employees are salaried staff. This store is not only a place to buy and sell things, but also a place to exchange various news, if the store is in charge of the purchase and sale of goods, then, the collection and dissemination of news should be regarded as the responsibility of the salesperson Zhao Meifeng. Don't look at Zhao Meifeng's so-so when she sells things, she often miscalculates the accounts, but she is very careful about gossip and road news, and is good at "processing with incoming materials", specializing in "wholesale and retail". She was as curious about the marriage of the east family as the funeral of the west family, and Zhang San's promotion was as fresh as Li Si's imprisonment, and a mouth could say that the dead were alive and the high ones were shy. Yang Chunni persuaded her many times to "chew more sugarcane and chew less tongue", she said eloquently: "People have a mouth, either eating and drinking, or talking, now is not the information age, there are some things you don't say, who knows?" I see that many leading cadres are not qualified at present, and a large number of meetings are held in the city, a piece of paper is conveyed in the district, and after returning to the town, the leaders of the unit are not angry, and they have embezzled everything that should be said. Yang Chunni snatched her and said: "People say what they should say, don't say what they shouldn't say, if anyone who talks a lot can be a cadre, you should have gone to the Party Central Committee to become a propaganda minister." ”

Yang Chunni sometimes counts Zhao Meifeng worthless, Zhao Meifeng doesn't seem to be angry, and the "eldest sister" is long and the "eldest sister" is short in front of Yang Chunni. Many people in the town know that without Yang Chunni's lover, there would be no Zhao Meifeng and her family today. Zhao Meifeng's lover used to be teaching in the county town before the county was redistricted, because of "that kind of thing" with a female teacher, the city was full of storms, and the school was ready to deal with him and return to his rural hometown. Yang Chunni's lover was in charge of the town's cultural and educational work, and was worried about the lack of English teachers in the town's middle school, so he "contained" Zhao Meifeng's lover. Zhao Meifeng is a laid-off worker of the original county chemical factory, who has not had a serious job for many years, and became a salesperson in a store in the town with her lover.

Today is Sunday, Zhao Meifeng is wearing an orange dress, a white sunhat, and a white gold necklace around her neck that is shiny enough to signal spy satellites in the sky. She walked through the web woven by the mothers-in-law on the side street with envy and jealousy, and floated like a butterfly to Yang Chunni's house.

It is a place known as the town government's family courtyard, and Yang Chunni lives in a suite at the east end of the front row of bungalows. Zhao Meifeng entered the courtyard and saw Yang Chunni's teenage twin daughters, Da Yun and Xiao Yun, climbing on the next small round table in the willow tree to do their homework, so she asked them, "Is the eldest sister at home?" ”

Da Yun raised her head and saw that it was Zhao Meifeng, and said seriously, "My mother went to 'squat'." ”

"What!" Zhao Meifeng's eyes became copper bells, "Go to London!" The eldest sister is going abroad? ”

Da Yun laughed and said, "What kind of country did you go to, you went to a place where you take turns squatting." ”

Zhao Meifeng scolded Dafeng with a smile: "Dead leap girl, you can't find a partner when you grow up." ”

Xiaofeng also stopped writing, looked at Zhao Meifeng's slender neck, and said with a smile: "Aunt Zhao, you are dressed so beautifully today, like a ------ on TV"

Zhao Meifeng was happy: "Or Xiao Yun can speak, who am I like on TV?" Singing, or dancing? ”

"It's like a giraffe in the animal world." Xiao Yun said.

Zhao Meifeng's face turned even redder after being coated with marital fat, but the twin sisters burst into laughter.

Yang Chunni walked out of the public toilet in the courtyard with her trouser belt in her belt, and shouted from afar: "If you don't do your homework well, what's the trouble!" ”

Zhao Meifeng hurriedly complained: "Eldest sister, you have to discipline these two crazy girls well, and make me happy every day."

Yang Chunni glared at the two leap girls with disgust and said, "It's not big, it's not small!" She saw Zhao Meifeng wearing a dress with a low neckline, and said angrily: "If everyone else is like you, I think it is enough to keep one of the two cloth sellers in your store." ”

Zhao Meifeng didn't feel embarrassed, and said nonchalantly: "What am I, you haven't seen what the young people in the city are wearing!" When I was working in the county seat, a neighbor heard that when she was in fashion, her trouser legs could be dragged down ten centimeters on her feet and neck, and the family didn't have to sweep the floor once a month, but the washing machine was broken twice a year. Later, in fashion, her daughter made a blouse with two handkerchiefs, and the seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl had her navel and eyes basking in the sun every day. ”

"My eyes are full of shit, and I say that other people's butts stink," Yang Chunni muttered.

Seeing that Yang Chunni was busy choosing vegetables, Zhao Meifeng said sourly: "Eldest sister, it's almost time, you haven't cooked lunch yet, you must be helping the 'old military family' with housework again, I think you are about to become a nanny for their family without spending money!" ”

Yang Chunni threw her a handful of leeks and said unceremoniously: "Don't talk about it, help with some work." If you put your mind to work and have difficulties at home, I will also be a 'nanny' for your family. ”

"I don't dare to be! Hi, eldest sister, have you heard", Zhao Meifeng approached Yang Chunni and said mysteriously, "I heard that Qi Xia's lover is not the company commander, did you make any mistakes?" ”

"Isn't it chewing your tongue again," Yang Chunni glared at Zhao Meifeng and said, "Her lover is not a company commander, and she is now at the deputy battalion level." ”

Zhao Meifeng pouted: "Pie fell from the sky, gold bricks were picked up on the ground, how could all the good things be done to her, she just became a model worker, and her husband was promoted again." ”