Half the Sky (Middle)
Qi Xia used to work as a secretary in the county government, which is now the district government, and she took the initiative to ask to come to work in the town. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
After graduating from high school, Qi Xia went to a junior college in Beijing to study secretarial, and her lover joined the army to the army, and then the two of them corresponded, fell in love, and got married, and the whole process was like a small river.
Soon after getting married, Qi Xia's parents suffered from cancer one after another, and her lover sent money, postal medicine, and asked someone to ask for a doctor, which was more thoughtful than her own son. In the second year, the two old men died one after another only a few months apart, and the grief of losing their loved ones and the concern for their elderly mother-in-law were like two ends of a burden, weighing heavily on Qi Xia's thin shoulders.
Qi Xia's lover lost her father when she was a child, and only her brother with dementia and her old mother depended on each other at home. In order to facilitate the care of the elderly, she resolutely gave up her comfortable job in the county seat and asked to be transferred to a small town two kilometers away from her lover's home. Since then, working in the town during the day and doing housework in the countryside at night has become the whole content of her life. One midsummer evening, when the lead clouds were low and the thunder was blowing, she was busy with the work at hand, took her raincoat, and rode her bicycle to her mother-in-law's house. As soon as she got out of town, the downpour poured down on her head, and the country dirt road soon became a quagmire, and she fell down at a bend, and her legs under the bicycle could not be pulled out, and she struggled in the mud and cried, that poor look, if the dead parents had known underground, would have reached out from the coffin to help her. Later, with the help of a passing neighbor, after returning to her mother-in-law's house, she had a miscarriage.
After another two years of hardships under the Coptis tree, she gave birth to a son, a smart and beautiful son who was a reward for her years of hard work. His lover's brother was hit and killed by an electric tricycle on the road outside the village one day, and after dealing with her brother's funeral, she rented a house in the town and took her mother-in-law to the town to go with her. Under her careful care, her mother-in-law's health has been much better than when she was in the countryside, and her son can slowly measure the size of the world with staggering steps.
Qi Xia is very strong, and the burden of life is small, so she puts her main focus on work. There are very few staff members in the town government, and some things can't be done, so in addition to sending and receiving documents, she also takes over some reception and typing. At the beginning of this year, she was named a model worker in the district.
Don't look at Yang Chunni doesn't have much culture, the women in the town admire her very much, of course, not because she is the wife of the deputy mayor. She doesn't have a job, but she's busier than people who have a job, taking care of the children for this family today and sewing quilts for that family tomorrow. When the owner has difficulties, she will help, and if the west family has conflicts, she will also mediate. The family members of some cadres in the town like to accept gifts from the common people, and she never asks for other people's things regardless of whether she does anything or not. Some people say that Huowang has a rotten pig's head, and it is easy to do things when it comes to etiquette, but people who look for her family to do things often can't enter the temple with a pig's head.
Yang Chunni had dinner and told her two daughters to do their homework well, and she hurried to Qi Xia's house. For more than half a year, she has been going to Qi Xia's house almost every day, one is a military wife, the other is a former military wife, both of them know the difficulties of being a soldier's wife, and they always have endless words together. Qi Xia's lover has already contacted Qi Xia for work in the small city where the higher-level organ of the island defense force is located, and the transfer procedures are being handled. Thinking that the sisters who got along well were going to break up for a long time, Yang Chunni felt a little melancholy, and she was happy to see that Qi Xia and her family were about to end their separation life.
Qi Xia had just waited for her mother-in-law to go to bed, and when she saw Yang Chunni coming, she handed her a small bench, and Qi Xia's son pounced on Yang Chunni, hugged her neck and kept calling Auntie.
"Sister-in-law, if it weren't for you, I really don't know if I could survive until now, and I really can't bear to leave you when I think of being transferred away soon." Qi Xia snuggled up to Yang Chunni and choked up.
Yang Chunni helped Qi Xia comb the messy hair on her head, and said with a smile: "Don't talk stupidly, there are still husband and wife in the world, you will leave in the future, don't forget that there is a sister-in-law with a bun in your hometown!" Don't feel bad, come, say something happy. ”
Qi Xia said: "Although the place where I want to go to work is not big, it is a famous tourist destination, and when we settle down there, please go and live for a few days to see the scenery by the sea." ”
Yang Chunni smiled and said: "I, a person who can't control a few drops of ink with my feet and neck down, dare to go so far away, it's strange if I don't lose it when the time comes!" Besides, I'm not used to some things in the city. One night, he said that he wanted me to go to the dance hall to open his eyes, I walked to the door of the dance hall and looked inside, my mother, the light in the room was like a ghost fire in the old cemetery, flashing and flashing, hundreds of men and women, pouting and stumbling, ugly and dead. When I got home, I told my child's father that you are not allowed to dance that kind of dance in the future, and I heard that there is a place where people are dancing and kicking one to death, and the child's father said to me, you are really an old-fashioned hat, and people are not jumping and 'kicking one to death', but dancing to 'disco'."
Yang Chunni's words amused Qi Xia, her beautiful face was flushed, and she said to Yang Chunni with a smile: "Sister-in-law, you have to slowly adapt to life in the city in the future, if the deputy mayor is promoted to the district and city leader in the future, you don't want to make jokes with him." ”
Yang Chunni said: "I don't have that blessing, even if one day, I can't change the current farmer's habits." Let's just say watch TV, I can't see the child and her father together, I remember the year when the family just bought a color TV, I want to watch a TV series, he has to watch the ball, you say that you watch the ball roll on the ground all night, what does it mean! He watched and watched, and shouted as he watched, as if he was saying that there were more horses and fewer cows. ”
Qi Xia laughed so much that she almost broke her breath, and said to Yang Chunni: "Alas, sister-in-law, you are really interesting, it's not 'Maradona', it's Maradona, the name of a famous football star." ”
Yang Chunni also laughed: "You laughed at your sister-in-law again, I only later learned that 'Maradona' was a person, you said that I couldn't finish the housework every day at that time, where do you know what this star was that month." ”