After Zhuzi came back, Li Chunhua was so happy that she stopped making clothes and went to the fields to pick vegetables, to the fish pond to catch fish, and to the chicken farm to buy a rooster and a dozen eggs.
I prepared a sumptuous dinner and brought a bottle of good wine. I invited my sister-in-law and mother-in-law to join me in the fun.
Looking at the table with dishes that were more sumptuous than those on a festival table, Sun Daqin was a little confused and looked at her as if she were a fool, "Third sister-in-law, Zhuzi is no longer a worker, and you are actually celebrating for him?" Is this person's brain broken
Li Chunhua poured wine for Sun Daqin, "It doesn't matter whether he is a worker or not, the most important thing is that Zhuzi is my son."
Sun Daqin thought about it carefully and it was true.
Xiao Min looked at her mother and grandmother's glasses, which contained wine, and stared at her Third Aunt eagerly.
Li Chunhua was stunned. "This wine is very spicy. Children should not drink it."
Qian Shulan turned her head to look at Xiao Min who was so greedy, and thought to herself, "Do you want to drink?"
Xiao Min nodded, "I'm not afraid of spicy food, I like spicy food."
Qian Shulan nodded, "If you want to drink, you have to drink this one. Okay?"
Xiao Min readily agreed, "Okay!"
Qian Shulan didn't waste any time and asked Li Chunhua to find another wine glass. She picked up the bottle and poured her a glass. "This wine tastes good. Have a drink."
Everyone else was stunned and they kept staring at his grandmother while sitting on the opposite pillar, trying to confirm whether his grandmother was speaking in a sarcastic way.
Sun Daqin was confused by her mother-in-law's words.
Zhengjun and his wife looked at each other, obviously thinking that his grandmother was having a seizure.
Because they were too excited, no one came out to stop Xiao Min when she raised the wine glass to drink.
Xiao Min first took a small sip, and then it was too spicy, so she spat out everything in her mouth, frowning and looking at her grandmother, "Grandma, what is this? Why does it taste so weird?"
Qian Shulan showed no remorse for lying to the child, "It's wine. Your third aunt said it tastes spicy."
Xiao Min pouted, "But this is obviously bitter. It's so hard to drink. Why do you want to drink this?"
Sun Daqin took a sip, then picked up a piece of cold-mixed shredded vegetables with chopsticks before answering her, "Just because you don't like it doesn't mean others don't like it. This wine is good stuff, it's the essence of grain."
"What kind of grain essence is this? It doesn't taste good at all." She pouted and looked at Qian Shulan with an accusing look on her face, "Grandma, you lied to me."
Qian Shulan looked innocent, "You wanted to drink it. When you were about to drink it, you should have thought of the consequences."
Xiao Min pursed her lips. Seeing how good they were drinking, she was just a little greedy, but she didn't expect the taste to be so hard to describe. She was so embarrassed that she lowered her head slightly and looked at the half-full glass of wine in front of her. Suddenly, her scalp felt numb, "Grandma, this wine?"
Qian Shulan said calmly, "One should keep one's word."
Xiao Min is about to cry.
Sun Daqin was heartbroken and tried to smooth things over, "Mom, Xiaomin is still young. How about I help her drink the wine?"
Qian Shulan glanced at her and said, "She is already eleven years old, not a child anymore. You can drink for her now, but if she gets into trouble in the future, can you clean up the mess for her?"
This? Sun Daqin had a headache. Wasn't it just a drink? Why did it bring up the future? But she didn't dare to say anything more. When it came to educating Xiao Min, her mother-in-law didn't allow anyone to interfere.
In the end, Xiao Min could only pour the wine into her own mouth amid everyone's sympathetic gazes.
The food was so spicy that she almost cried. Li Chunhua and Sun Daqin served her some food and said, "Have some snacks to wash away the smell."
It took Xiao Min a long time to get rid of the taste in her mouth.
She covered her cheek which was sore from chewing food all the time, and regretted it so much, "Oh my god, I will never drink again, this taste is simply fatal."
Zhengjun and Zhuzi laughed out loud because of her amusing them.
Qian Shulan is now counting the days ahead. She wants to protect Xiao Min, but she has to teach her how to grow up. "This is at home, and you are surrounded by your family. If you get drunk, no one will do anything to you. But if you get drunk outside and put your trust in the wrong person, you will put yourself in danger. The first thing a girl should learn is to protect herself. Do you understand?"
Xiao Min's eyes were round and cute. Her cheeks turned red. "I know, grandma."
Sun Daqin rubbed her face and turned her head to look at her mother-in-law. "I'm going to the provincial capital to see Zhengguo tomorrow. Mom, do you want me to bring some things back for you?"
Qian Shulan was a little amused. "You just released the tickets a few days ago and you urged Chunhua to make the clothes. You just got them and you want to give them to them without stopping for a moment?"
Zhengjun felt someone pulling his sleeve. He immediately turned his head and saw his wife winking at him. He subconsciously looked at his wife's bulging belly, opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything.
Qian Shulan happened to be sitting opposite him. She watched the two of them wink at each other for a long time. She put her hand in Sun Daqin's ear and whispered, "Zhengjun's wife is going to give birth in a few months. Aren't you going to keep your cloth coupons?"
Sun Daqin glanced at Zhengjun's wife and said to Zhengjun, "Starting next month, my cloth coupons will be left for you to make new clothes."
Zhengjun immediately thanked Sun Daqin, "Thank you, mother."
Sun Daqin glanced at Zhengjun's wife and said calmly, "Just don't think I'm partial. It's my own cloth, I can give it to whomever I want."
The military officer's wife felt a little embarrassed.
Looking at this scene, Li Chunhua suddenly felt that she was quite lucky. She only had one son and this kind of problem would never occur to her.
The next day, Sun Daqin took the new clothes, the braised meat and two roosters given by her mother-in-law, and rode her bicycle to the county town.
Qian Shulan was busy at the food factory all day.
The food factory now produces 200,000 braised eggs and 1,000 kilograms of dried eggs every month.
During the election three years ago, the director of the food factory was replaced, but that person did not do a good job. His organizational and coordination skills could not keep up.
Often the eggs were cooked before the ingredients arrived, and the cooked eggs were not kept for long, so a large number of them went bad. The loss was quite heavy, and before the end of the year, the man was fired.
There is no way around it, the position of factory director has to be taken care of by Qian Shulan.
She is already very experienced in being a factory manager. It is not difficult for her at all. She is doing a very good job.
By the end of the year, everyone still chose her to be the factory manager, and she has been in that position ever since.
Qian Shulan now gets 50 work points a day: 20 as the director of the food factory, 20 as the director of the chicken farm, and 10 as the accountant of the production team.
Even if she didn't work in the fields, she could still get more than 1,500 yuan a year, which was definitely the highest in the entire production team.
"Mom? Mom?" Zhou Xuemei stood outside the door with her two children and shouted.
When Qian Shulan saw that it was her, she put down the eggs in her hand, walked to the door and took off her mask.
Qian Shulan was a little surprised, "Why are you back?"
Zhou Xuemei was a little embarrassed. "I brought the two children back to see you. Mom, are you still so energetic?"
Qian Shulan took off her clothes and asked Xu Cuilan to take charge of the work. She led one of them out with each hand.
Qian Shulan looked at her grandson who had found her shoulder, thought for a moment and asked, "These two children should be taking the high school entrance exam, right?"
Zhou Xuemei patted her youngest son's shoulder and said, "Yes."
"Can you get into technical secondary school?" Qian Shulan glanced at the two children's faces.
Paopao was a little embarrassed and scratched his head, "I'll try my best."
Dandan straightened his chest and said confidently, "I'm sure I can pass the exam."
One is just barely enough, the other is confident. Okay, no need to ask.
Qian Shulan praised Dandan, "That's great! When you get admitted to a technical secondary school, grandma will give you a bicycle so that it will be more convenient for you to go to school every day."
Dandan jumped three feet high with excitement. He had wanted a bicycle for a long time, but his father always disagreed, saying that the family didn't need it. "Then it's settled."
Qian Shulan touched his head, then turned her head to look at Paopao, "If you can't get into technical secondary school, we can go to high school. You have to study hard."
Paopao nodded and said nothing.
Qian Shulan brought Zhou Xuemei to her home, and then she and Zhou Xuemei prepared a table of food and chatted for a while.
Zhou Xuemei sighed, "Children are really hard to teach. These two children look the same, but one is lively and the other is introverted."
Dandan saw his elder brother lowering his head and hurriedly said, "Mom, you don't have to worry about him. Although he is not as good as me in academic performance, he is my brother. If he can't find a job in the future, I will support him."
Zhou Xuemei didn't know whether to laugh or cry after hearing this. Paopao, who was raised by his younger brother, was very embarrassed.
Qian Shulan tried to comfort him, "Studying is not everything. You are wrong to think so. I think Paopao is doing well now. Who knows, he may become a factory manager like grandma in the future."
Paopao glanced at his grandmother quickly, and there was a glimmer in his eyes.
After receiving the look from her mother-in-law, Zhou Xuemei also clapped her hands, "Yes, I asked for too much. Paopao works so hard, he will definitely have a great future."
Paopao blushed when his mother praised him so much.
After a while, Xiao Min also came back from school. When she saw her two brothers coming back, she immediately took them outside to play.
Looking at their backs, Zhou Xuemei suddenly sighed, "As long as they can love each other, it's more important than anything else. Just now when I was walking to the square in the county town, I happened to see someone being criticized. It turned out to be a pretty girl. The other party actually pushed her own brother into the river. How cruel."
This plot is so familiar. Qian Shulan was slightly stunned and asked her, "What's your name?"
Zhou Xuemei thought for a moment and said, "It seems his last name is Pang."
That's it! Qian Shulan rubbed her face and murmured, "It seems that she really broke up with the other party."
There was no law to protect minors in those days, so the girl was executed by firing squad after being criticized.
Zhou Xuemei was a little surprised, "Mom, do you know that girl?"
Qian Shulan told the story of Zhuzi's mother.
Zhou Xuemei has always been a loving mother. She couldn't stand hearing about such a selfish mother. "What kind of person is this? After her youngest son died, she came to look for her eldest son. She even let her eldest son marry that evil-minded woman."
At this point, she clapped her hands and said, "She sued the girl. The man will definitely divorce her. Alas, it will be difficult for her to marry into a good family at her age."
Qian Shulan was also still in shock, "Who said it wasn't true?"
Zhou Xuemei was a little worried, "Will she come to find Zhuzi again?"
Qian Shulan secretly speculated, "Zhu Zi has always refused to acknowledge her, and she has nothing left, so she just gave up, right?"
If Zhuzi refused to marry the girl, she would no longer be useful to him. How could she be willing to let the murderer live? It was only a matter of time before they fell out.
But she is no longer able to have children at her age, so it is hard to say what the future will be like.