My eldest sister-in-law was going to take a ride with the kitchen staff at noon, so the two families decided to have lunch together as a practice.
Just in the morning, the eldest sister Tian Yu, who had just finished her confinement, brought some food ingredients over and started working with Aunt Gu and Sister Nan.
Little Zhenzhu and Little Beike need milk almost every two hours, so usually at this time, Tian Mi would catch up on her sleep.
But today the situation was special. Although the three women in the kitchen didn't let her do it, she didn't go back to the bedroom. Instead, she found a cotton mat and put it on a stool, sitting at the kitchen door and chatting with them. From this position she could also keep an eye on the twins' movements at all times.
When she heard her elder sister say that she wanted to fire Aunt Wang, the nanny at home, Tian Mi frowned subconsciously: "Chengcheng is so noisy, and you are still busy doing housework. Guoguo is not even four years old yet. Aunt Wang can at least relax a lot with you. Can you handle it if you fire her now? Or wait a few months until Chengcheng is older?"
Tian Yu was washing the chopping board, preparing to chop the goose. Upon hearing this, she said without turning her head, "It's only several dozen dollars a month. It hurts me, your sister. Besides, how can we openly hire a nanny for a long time? Wouldn't that make people think we're worth it?"
That's right, Tian Mi rested his elbows on his knees, with a somewhat unhappy expression.
My eldest sister suffered a lot when giving birth. She had to lie in bed for half a month before she could get out of bed.
At that time, Tian Mi was in the late stage of pregnancy, and her twin belly was so big that it was impossible to take care of her.
As for my third sister, even if she takes leave, it is impossible for her to take it for two consecutive months, so my brother-in-law asked Political Commissar Liu and Brigade Leader Wang to help find someone. It can be considered a bright spot, but it can only take care of her until she is out of confinement. If it is delayed any further, given the current environment, it is hard to say what will happen.
Fortunately, her Aunt Gu always told others that she was a relative of her husband's family, and she came to help because she was worried that the young couple would not be able to raise the child well.
But Aunt Gu is from Beijing, she has her own family, and she has worked for my in-laws for ten years, so it would be difficult for me to keep her there forever.
It seems that before the overall environment improves, she has to be prepared to take care of the two children by herself when she goes to work.
"By the way, I was saying that I seemed to have forgotten something and my memory is getting worse. The day after tomorrow there will be another monthly family quarters meeting. When I came, I met Aunt Mei. She asked me to ask you, do you have time to write this issue's manuscript? If you don't have time, she will help you write it first." Tian Yu chopped the goose a few times and finally remembered what he had forgotten.
"I'll write it myself, and the manuscript is almost ready." I do my job just as I should, and I still get a salary of more than 20 yuan a month.
Especially recently, she doesn't have to give lectures to the family members. She just needs to write manuscripts, which is not troublesome and can be used as a way to kill time.
This is the topic of this meeting. "Sister, the theme of this meeting is about the preference for boys over girls."
"Write it. It's not a sensitive topic. Now people say women can hold up half the sky. It's wrong to favor boys over girls." At this point, Tian Yu suddenly stopped what he was doing and looked at his sister curiously: "Whose family did you see favoring boys over girls? Our family compound?"
Tian Mi blinked: "I seem to have forgotten to tell you, it's Ma Erhua, her daughter-in-law Yao Dongmei seems to be pregnant too"
Next, she told what Ma Erhua had said when she asked Cheng Lao to check on the relationship between men and women.
As a doctor, Lou Yannan was the first to disagree: "Generally speaking, doctors won't tell the gender of the baby. Even if she asks, they won't tell her."
Tian Yu followed up with, "That old woman is really capable of making trouble. What's wrong with the little girl? She is also a piece of flesh that fell from her mother's body."
That's not necessarily true. Tian Mi is not optimistic about people with bound cerebellums: "Not everyone thinks so, so I thought, take advantage of this family ideological and political class to have a good chat about this topic, and also write a story about favoring sons over daughters. Sister, you can give it to Aunt Mei later and ask her to review it. Then mention the matter of Ma Erhua to Aunt Mei. We can't control other things, but everyone is watching. If Ma Erhua wants to abuse his granddaughter again, he should be more cautious, right?"
"Okay, I'll make a note of it and go tell Aunt Mei later." The Women's Federation is in charge of these matters, so it's not considered an overstep.
Zhou Jianshe naturally also came to the two families' lunch together.
After hearing about his secret love from her husband, Tian Mi couldn't help but take a few more in-depth looks at him when she saw him again.
Even though the other person didn't do anything but sit next to Sister Nan, she was already imagining countless romantic love stories with bright eyes.
Zhou Jianshe is thick-skinned and doesn't feel anything.
Chen Gang was a smart man. Even though he didn't ask anything, he still guessed most of the things from his second sister's obvious behavior.
However, Lou Yannan looked over several times in confusion, not understanding why Tiantian looked so strange today.
In the end, Lou Luhui couldn't bear to watch it anymore, so he picked up a piece of goose meat, rinsed it in boiling water, and put it in her bowl: "Okay, stop watching, you can't eat strong flavors now."
Tian Mi choked and rolled her eyes at her husband. Her reputation as a glutton was ruined by this man. Was she greedy just now? He knew she was eating candy, but he still said that on purpose.
"Don't want to eat goose meat?" Now his wife eats a piece of boiled meat for every meal, which is already a normal routine. Since she hasn't eaten goose for a long time, Lou Luhui specially picked a piece for her.
".eat."
Seeing that his wife finally stopped staring at his eldest sister and the others with a creepy look, Lou Luhui got up and went to the room to check on the children.
When he came back, he told his wife the good news and diverted her attention: "Didn't you want jade before? I asked someone to get it. I can bring it over in ten days at most."
If her husband hadn't mentioned it, Tian Mi would have almost forgotten about it. She asked excitedly, "Really? What kind? Is it also mutton-fat jade?"
Lou Luhui swallowed the food in his mouth and said, "I'm not sure. My friend said he helped me choose a few good ones. It's hard to tell you the details over the phone."
Chen Gang didn't expect that his second sister also liked jade. He used chopsticks to pick up the spicy food that his wife had picked up from the chopsticks. He ignored Comrade Xiaoyu's dissatisfaction, scooped a bowl of soup and handed it to her, then smiled and reminded: "What are you going to carve with these jades? You can't put them out now."
Tian Mi naturally understood, but since everyone here was her family, she didn't hide it: "If you don't carve it, just leave it there. Maybe it will be valuable in the future."
At this time, unless their family has a foundation of several generations and understands the value of jewelry in prosperous times, very few people would come up with the concept of active investment.
Tian Mi didn't want to say too much, but this was a good opportunity, and those present were all close relatives, so she jokingly said, "It's always been like this with jade and antiques from prosperous times. Our country is getting better and better. In a few years, these things might become valuable."
This sounds like a joke, so most people just listen to it and have a good laugh. It's just a piece of stone. No matter how beautiful it is, it's just a piece of stone. How much can it be worth
However, Chen Gang and Zhou Jianshe both had the same idea in their minds.
Chen Gang was just thinking too much and felt that what his second sister said made some sense.
Zhou Jianshe grew up in Beijing. He was very fond of shopping in the 1950s and 1960s and had visited second-hand stalls such as antiques.
I have to say, they are all shrewd. They can extract important information from a seemingly plausible joke or a hint that is not really a hint.
After seeing off Sister Nan and Zhou Jianshe.
Tian Mi's life didn't change much. She still stayed in the house every day to recuperate after giving birth.
Fortunately, my eldest sister has finished her confinement and can come to accompany me every day. My third sister also comes to attend classes in the evening, so life is not too boring.
By the way, it has been Tian Mi who has been helping the third sister review for the cultural subjects recently.
To everyone, she was just killing time.
This is actually not wrong, but more importantly, you can take this opportunity to review the knowledge you learned in junior high and high school.
Just when Tian Mi thought that her life would remain unchanged until she was out of confinement, on the third day after the military families finished their ideological and political class, Yao Dongmei, who had been silent all this time, suddenly exploded.
Tell the facts to people.
Don't judge people based solely on first impressions.
Yao Dongmei, Zhou Dajun's wife who was hated by all the military families, suddenly became strong and changed her previous timid image.
On this day, Tian Mi turned out all the scraps of cloth in the house and was learning from Aunt Gu how to make thousand-layer sole for the children when there was suddenly a commotion in the housing estate.
The two looked at each other, and Aunt Gu rubbed the glue on her hands and said, "Don't go out. Let me take a look. I think someone is quarreling again."
At this time, the relationship between neighbors is good, but there are also a lot of frictions. There are no major incidents, but when encountering minor conflicts, it is easy to quarrel.
They both thought that today would be the same.
Just as Aunt Gu reached the door and was about to push it open, she heard someone screaming in fear outside:
"Ah! Murder, murder!"
Tian Mi and Aunt Gu were both shocked.
"Don't open the door! Auntie will lock the door!" After Tian Mi reacted, she immediately walked over quickly and reminded loudly.
Aunt Gu finally came back to her senses, and she said "Oh!" several times before she pushed the bolt up with trembling hands.
Tian Mi had already walked over. She first checked the door to make sure it was locked, then patted Aunt Gu on the back to comfort her, then walked to the window and looked out.
But her location was at the very edge of the family area, and after looking around for a long time, she saw nothing.
"Why would someone kill someone? This is the family quarters." Aunt Gu also came over and asked in shock.
"Not sure yet. Let's not rush out. Let's wait and see. Someone should come to notify us soon." Although Tian Mi was also worried, her reason told her that panicking was useless.
Fortunately, the anxiety of the two did not last long. About ten minutes later, the figure of eldest sister Tian Yu appeared in their sight.
Tian Mi immediately removed the bolt on the door, looked at the elder sister who rushed in and asked anxiously: "Why are you here? What's going on outside? Who killed someone?"
Tian Yu knew his sister was worried, so he ran all the way here. He took several deep breaths before he had the strength to reply, "No one was killed. It was a misunderstanding. Yao Dongmei and Ma Erhua fought for some reason. Both of them were covered in blood. We don't know what happened yet. The person has been sent to the health station. I came here to tell you first."
(End of this chapter)