In the blink of an eye, Mrs. Lou and Lou Cuiying had been living in Tongxin Pavilion for a month. One Sunday, Wen Wuwei came to Chengguan to take his grandmother and cousin home. Mrs. Lou asked her grandson on the way: "Is your little aunt good to you?" ”

"Whew! Here! Buy me shoes and make me clothes. I thought that my little aunt was born neatly and her temper must not be very good, but I didn't expect her to be a refreshing person. Hey! Lou Cuiying replied happily.

"A man must know what is good and what is bad. In the future, when my aunt gives birth to a villain, you will come to serve her! Mrs. Lou took care of her grandson with a lonely tone.

"No problem! Wrap it around me. Lou Cuiying proudly promised.

Time flies, and Zhu Yuliang unconsciously ushered in her twenty-first birthday in Zhuji.

More than three years have passed, and she has learned an authentic Zhuji dialect except for a few tone particles that she can't pronounce accurately.

A year ago, she had been promoted from a salesperson with a "bad service attitude" to an accountant in the Huansha business department; Now, she has been promoted to the position of Chief Accountant in the Finance Department.

It is said that the accountants can use their slender jade fingers to open the bow left and right, so as to save a lot of time for review, others need an hour to settle the accounts, and she only needs twenty minutes to get it done. For this reason, in addition to the reputation of "Zhu Xi Shi", she also has another "Zhu Abacus" divine title.

Nowadays, no one will investigate whether Zhu Yuliang's "service attitude" is good or not; As long as the "abacus" is angry, the financial personnel below will be guaranteed to return to heavy work all night.

One day, Xu Qingpei went to Cai Fuguo's office to report his work, and when talking about Zhu Yuliang, he said: "Cai Ju said that she was a national treasure, and the younger brother secretly laughed at the eldest brother's infatuation; Now I know that it is the younger brother who is dull and clumsy, and the eldest brother who knows treasures. High! High! High! But don't let her sit in a helicopter anymore, or the little brother will lose an arm! ”

Cai Fuguo still said in a confident tone: "We have to thank Li Ju for keeping her." Ha ha! But you have to keep an eye on her, and don't let the 'abacus' figure it out what we don't want to see! ”

"Little brother understands!" Xu Qingpei nodded in agreement.

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Three years have passed, Zhu Yuliang's face has been childish, and his facial features have become more three-dimensional and delicate; Her skin was as smooth and clear as a shelled egg, and as white as a peach; Her limbs are more graceful and her curves are more seductive...... The charm of the young woman with all directions is about to come out. Don't say that men are swaying and yearning for it when they see it, and women are all thrilled when they see it, and they hate God for being unfair.

Zhu Yuliang's more and more provocative, naturally more and more challenging the sense of crisis of the two intellectual housewives next door. They first belittled the dress of "Xiao Zhu", then couldn't help but envy it, and finally imitated it by copying and copying, so that they also followed what style Xiao Zhu's clothes were...... In the Tongxin Pavilion, a realistic version of "Dong Shi Xiaofeng" was staged.

Although Zhu Yuliang is extremely particular about his personal clothing and materials, he is also an extremely "thrifty" person. Her frugality is reflected in her refusal to spend a penny of unjust money, let alone waste a grain of rice, a drop of water, or a kilowatt-hour of electricity at will......

For example, like her mother, she also chops lard residue and mixes it in bun filling or dumpling filling, and also cuts off the outermost skin of watermelon skin to make a crispy sesame oil salad, and also cuts the winter melon skin into shreds, red pepper shreds, and shredded meat stir-fried together into a dish with a unique flavor...... In terms of housekeeping, she has completely obtained the true inheritance of her mother Xu Guiying.

Zhu Yuliang also cooks good dishes without a teacher. Whenever a guest comes to the door, she has to arrange the dishes with a variety of dishes, good color and taste, for fear that the guests will not eat enough, so that the flow of customers in her house is the highest in Tongxin Pavilion.

Wen Yuanfang always returned to Tongxin Pavilion, although he said that his wife was extravagant, his taste buds and stomach were extremely useful. His favorite food is his wife's Shih Tzu tofu, Suzhou dried tofu, braised hooves and braised large intestines, as well as goose juice glutinous rice, bone soup noodles, and thin-skinned wontons...... After wiping his mouth, he often sighed: If you have a wife and Yuliang, what more can you ask for!

Zhu Yuliang's level of knitting sweaters is also beyond the reach of ordinary women. She can collect all kinds of threads and threads, and then weave woolen garments in various styles, colors and patterns. In order to meet her future baby, she actually made dozens of sweaters and pants that children need to wear at various times in a few years, and it is estimated that the child will not be able to wear it when he is four or five years old.

Liu Yuelan originally looked down on Zhu Yuliang because of her family background and her own gynecological backbone, but now her attitude towards Zhu Yuliang has already changed. She asked Xiao Zhu for a while, "how to fight this woolen needle", and asked Xiao Zhu "how to cook this dish" for a while, and her modest and friendly attitude was completely a big sister next door.

As for Chen Meijuan, she no longer dared to close her eyes and say that "Xiao Zhu" was a country girl; On the contrary, no matter how fluent she speaks foreign and how good she feels, she can't get rid of the philistine spirit brought from her mother's womb.

Zhu Yuliang spent the Spring Festival at Tang Feng's mother-in-law's house when he was nineteen years old, and spent the Spring Festival with his husband at Zhenjiang Xiaoyizhuang's mother's house every year after that.

Every year, in order to rush to Xiaoyizhuang for the Spring Festival, the couple will start to prepare for the New Year's ceremony as soon as it is New Year's Day. They sent ham, chicken, champs, candies and all kinds of Zhuji specialty pastries to their homes like rats carrying incense, for fear that they would miss the opportunity and not be able to buy New Year's goods, resulting in a cold and cold appearance when they returned home for the New Year.

After the New Year's gift is prepared, the next step is to buy a train ticket in advance. The long queues to buy train tickets often meander down the streets, and often when it is their turn to buy tickets, they are told that today's tickets are sold out; As a result, going to the train station after work and standing in the cold north wind to queue up to buy train tickets has become the first hard thing that Zhu Yuliang must do before the Spring Festival every year.

The second piece of hard work was the journey home.

The couple usually set off from Zhuji Railway Station at seven or eight o'clock the night before Chinese New Year's Eve, carrying large bags and small bags. After squeezing onto the train with great effort, in the sealed can-like carriage, they leaned on their heads and shoulders, and passed through Xiaoshan, Hangzhou, Jiaxing, Shanghai, Suzhou, Wuxi, and Changzhou in a groggy manner, and their relatives in Zhenjiang beckoned to them......

This year, Zhu Yuliang's 22-year-old Spring Festival will naturally be spent in Xiaoyizhuang.

On that day, the train had already reported "...... Zhenjiang Station is almost here, please get ready to get off the train", Zhu Yuliang stood up with her husband's shoulders, and after moving her already numb legs, she took off her shoes and stood on the seat, and began to hand Wen Yuanfang one by one the burdens.

"I don't know if my dad has received my letter, and I don't know if Zhili will come to the carriage to pick us up this year like last year." Zhu Yuliang said with some concern.

"I guess I got it. If Zhili doesn't pick us up, we'll wait for dawn to take a car to Xiaoyi Village! ”

The train is getting slower...... Zhu Yuliang's mood became more and more urgent and excited. At this time of year, her heart has already flown to Xiaoyizhuang, and to her parents and younger siblings......

The train has entered Zhenjiang Station...... It's going to stop soon.

"Far away! I saw Chi Li! I saw Chi Li! Chi Li has grown taller again! Zhu Yuliang shouted excitedly, and tears immediately welled up in his eyes.

"Why are you crying? It's time to be happy, we're home again! Wen Yuanfang comforted his wife.

The train stopped completely, Wen Yuanfang immediately opened the window, stuck his head out of the window and shouted loudly: "Zhili! We're here. ”

"Sister! Brother-in-law! Hand me my luggage! A young man of sixteen or seventeen came running up cheerfully and said.

"Good come!" Wen Yuanfang stuffed a big burden to his wife and brother through the car window.

"Zhili has grown taller again!"

"My sister and brother-in-law have lost weight."

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While talking, the three of them got on the morning bus to Xiaoyizhuang...... After more than an hour, the car arrived at the Xiaoyizhuang bus station. Zhu Xinghua saw that his son successfully picked up the eldest girl and eldest son-in-law, and laughed and said, "Hurry up and go home and drink hot!" Your mom and they're all waiting for you at home! ”

When he was about to arrive at the door, Baal's bark sounded first, and he was seen wagging his thick tail and quickly running over to lick his relatives who had returned from afar...... "Big sister!" Big brother-in-law! "A group of children suddenly rushed out of the house and ran towards them; Mother Xu Guiying stood far away in the wind, wiping her tears with an apron......

Many years later, Wen Yuanfang still remembers: Zhu Zhili was seventeen years old that year, and soon after graduating from high school, he had become the pillar of the family; Zhu Yushan is fourteen years old, slim, quiet and well-behaved; Zhu Yuzhen is twelve years old, immature and cute, with sheep's beard sores on her mouth; Zhu Zhihui is nine years old, and she is still ashamed and afraid of life when she sees her eldest brother-in-law; Zhu Zhicheng is six years old, a red-butted child......