Qian**'s heart was burning with anger. She had never thought of changing her child's name before. Even if she had thought about it, it would probably not be possible. After all, the Tian family was still there, and Tian Dazhu would never agree.
After all, he is the biological father of the children. He was dumped by Qian** and divorced, but he could console himself by saying that it was because Qian** could not give birth to a son. But if his daughters were to change their names, he would definitely not be willing to do so.
It's so embarrassing. He's not a live-in son-in-law, so why should the child be named Qian**
But it's different now, Qian** thought, Tian Dazhu is now immersed in the joy of having a son, and he took the opportunity to propose changing his daughter's surname, which would just make everything clear.
When you, Tian Dazhu, marry a new wife and have children of your own, I will change my surname to my surname for my three daughters. Once the surname is changed, there will be no relationship between us in the future, and we can't even trace our ancestry to one person.
Qian**: "Okay! I'll ask them right now!"
Wang Ying had told her earlier that she should listen to the children's opinions. After all, this was a major matter concerning the future of the three children, so it was necessary to ask them.
Wang Ying: "Not only the surname needs to be changed, in my opinion, the given name should also be changed. It's ok to call them Daya and Erya by nicknames, but we still need to think about the full name."
Qian** thought for a moment and said, "Why not call them Wheat Seedling, Wheat Ear, or Wheat Malt. I wanted to give my children these names before, but I didn't get around to it later."
Wang Ying thought about it and felt that no matter the meaning or other aspects, it was very suitable.
She nodded: "It sounds good to me, you tell them about it."
After Qian** sent Wang Ying away, he told his two daughters about this matter without stopping.
Da Ya and Er Ya both blushed.
After Qian** finished talking about the name change, he continued, "If you don't want to, you don't have to change it. Anyway..."
Before she finished, Erya came up to her eagerly and said quickly, "I do! My name is Mai Sui, right? I like to be called Mai Sui! From now on, I will be called Qian Mai Sui!"
Daya also nodded: "My name is Qian Maimiao!"
Erya pointed at her little sister who was still sleeping: "My little sister's name is Qian Maiya!"
Qian** smiled and stroked the hair of his two daughters: "Okay, I'll take you to change your names tomorrow!"
He also has to take his daughter back to her parents' home. Although her parents' family is poor and her eldest brother has to live under the thumb of his sister-in-law after getting married, the news of changing his daughter's surname must be made known to her parents' home.
As for whether or not to be included in the family tree, Qian** did not force it.
Anyway, my daughter has my surname, so it will have nothing to do with others in the future.
After Wang Ying sent the meat home, she left seven or eight pounds of meat for her family, some of which was tenderloin, some was spare ribs, and a pig's tail, and the rest was all pork belly.
Old Mrs. Xu is very good at making pig tails. While Wang Ying was out delivering the meat, she had already prepared the pig tails at home.
Wash the pig's tail and remove the hair. Then use a machete to cut the tail into sections. Put it in cold water to remove the foam. Then add oil to the bottom of the pot and fry sugar color. Put the pig's tail in the pot. There is oil at the bottom of the pot. The pig's tail itself is also a layer of oil. Fry it for a while after putting it in the oil pan, then add spices and seasonings and start stewing.
Simmer for two hours at a time, sprinkle a handful of sugar into the pot, and simmer until the soup is bright red and the pig's tail becomes soft.
Old Mrs. Xu put a lot of red and green peppers in the pot. The sweet and spicy flavor wafted out from the stove, making Wang Ying very greedy.
Old Lady Xu said, "When Xu Shuang's father was alive, he loved to eat this pig's tail. The sweet and spicy braised tail is the best to go with wine."
Wang Ying was eager to try: "It smells good!"
Wang Ying: "Mom, do we have any rice wine at home?"
Speaking of snacks, she couldn't help but feel itchy. Why not wait until Xu Shuang comes back, fry a plate of peanuts, eat peanuts with pig tails and drink wine? Tsk, just thinking about it makes her happy.
Old Lady Xu shook her head and refused: "Yes, yes, you can't drink it. Have you forgotten that your good life is not over yet? Let's talk about it after it's over."
Wang Ying really forgot about it. She was so upset yesterday that she completely forgot about it today when she had meat to eat...
"Okay then." Wang Ying felt very sorry.
Although she was not allowed to drink, Old Lady Xu extravagantly steamed a pot of rice. By the time the aroma of the pig's tail could no longer be suppressed, the rice was cooked.
Xu Shuang just happened to walk in, holding a lunch box in her hand.
He handed the lunch box to Wang Ying: "This is the fried fruit we made in the store today."
Fried fruit is not often made even in restaurants, mainly because it uses too much oil. If they do make it occasionally, they make a lot and can sell it for three to five days.
Xu Shuang drank a glass of water before saying, "Xie Yuejin is getting married, and he ordered these fried fruits."
Wang Ying thought of the "Sister Ying" who had a similar name to hers that she had met in the restaurant last time, and guessed that she was probably Xie Yuejin's marriage partner. Nowadays, there are almost no people who change partners frequently, and most people get married after dating for a while.
"That's great. Is he planning to do business at your hotel?"
Xu Shuang was speechless: "Yes, let's book a table."
Old Lady Xu interrupted, "Book a table? How many tables?"
Xu Shuang: "It's all included."
Wang Ying was almost scared to drop the fried fruit in her hand. This guy was really generous. There were more than ten tables in the restaurant. How could he book them all at once
How much does this cost!
Xu Shuang: "Almost a hundred."
A meat dish cost more than one yuan, and a vegetarian dish cost a few cents. Xie Yuejin also wanted four cold dishes, eight hot dishes, and a soup for a table, which cost seven or eight yuan. With more than a dozen tables, the price would be close to one hundred yuan.
Wang Ying was shocked: "This is too..."
Nowadays, few people do this when they get married. Why spend a hundred yuan on a wedding banquet when you can't just buy something else? Nowadays, gifts are not as expensive as they were in the past, when a family can give a few cents, it is already a big gift.
The wedding banquet was so grand that it would be impossible to make back the money just by collecting gifts.
Xu Shuang went to the kitchen silently to serve the dishes. What he didn't say was that Xie Yuejin also stuffed ten yuan into his pocket, asking Xu Shuang to keep it a secret and not to tell the girl's family that he was a chef in a restaurant and wanted Xu Shuang to help with the wedding banquet.
Xie Yuejin almost knelt down to Xu Shuang when he spoke: "Master Xu, please be kind and help me. My girlfriend's family is well-off, and she works in the union of the thermos factory. I'm just worried that if she finds out that I'm not a chef, she will kick me out. I finally got married, please help me."
Xu Shuang didn't want to pay attention to him at first. To put it bluntly, Xie Yuejin's behavior was marriage fraud.
Trick the girl into taking the bait.
So Xu Shuang didn't respond to this conversation.
However, Xie Yuejin was obviously not giving up and was still trying to persuade Xu Shuang, raising the price from ten yuan to fifteen yuan.
Xu Shuang didn't bother to care about his bullshit. Although he didn't have a very good impression of Xie Yuejin's girlfriend, a marriage fraud is a marriage fraud.
Xie Yuejin not only lied to the young woman that he was a chef, he also said that he had been allocated a house. In fact, it was not an allocated house at all, but a house he rented himself.
Xu Shuang felt that this was not going to last long. Xie Yuejin would be exposed sooner or later. If he was exposed, the young woman would definitely not let him off easily.
Xu Shuang shook her head and stopped thinking about the mess at work.
Seeing that there was already braised pig's tail in the pot, he stir-fried some vegetables and mixed some cucumbers.
The three of them began to eat under the oil lamp. Mainly because Xu Shuang came back late, their family always had the latest meal in the team.
Under the light of the oil lamp, the braised pig's tail was coated with a faint red glow, which made it look even more tempting. Wang Ying skillfully placed the pig's tail on the rice, and the fragrant sauce flowed into the gaps in the rice, dyeing the rice with a red glow.
The pig tail has thick gelatin, fresh and fragrant, with a very prominent sweet and spicy taste. When you bite the skin hard, you can even hear the sound of it popping open. The outer layer is particularly burnt and fragrant because of the sauce, but the inside is soft, glutinous and mellow. The white gelatin even gives people the illusion that white fat is flowing on the tip of the tongue.
The pot of pig tails was eaten up in no time.
Wang Ying still felt it was a pity, but what was she sorry about? It was a pity that the pig only had one tail.
Oh, it would be nice if there were more.
The next day, when Wang Ying got up, she met the doctor who came to see her.
The man came with a big forehead stung by a wasp and complained to Wang Ying: "I didn't feel anything after the sting, so I ignored it and went back to wash it with some soapy water. But why is it getting bigger? Doctor, please take a look."
Wang Ying: "The wasp stinger is inside. If you only disinfect it but don't remove the stinger, won't it swell up?"
She treated the wound, gave some instructions, and finally charged 10 cents for the consultation.
It happened that Tian Xinghua came, and Wang Ying took her to learn about medicinal herbs.
The two of them had been there for a while when they suddenly heard someone calling them from outside.
The person who came was Wu Guihua. Wu Guihua said, "Wang Ying, will you come with me? Widow Yu is making a fuss. She said she doesn't want Qian**'s daughter to change her surname, and she also wants Daya and Erya to go back and live with Tian Dazhu."
Wang Ying stood up and said softly: "I'll go!"
Wang Ying also called Xinghua to join him: "Come on, it's time for you to do a field investigation. It's rare to run into a pregnant woman, go check on her condition."
The three people arrived at the brigade headquarters and heard Qian**'s voice from a distance.
"Tian Dazhu, come out and talk, and stop letting women talk over you. Didn't we agree before? The daughter will be mine, and I won't raise her or bury her. If you don't raise her, she won't have to take care of you in her old age. This is clearly written in black and white. How can you go back on your word now?"
"There's no point in going back on your word! You've married a new wife, and now you need a maid, so you want to take my daughter back to serve you. You're blinding me! I can't send my daughter to your stepfather and stepmother!"
"Sister-in-law, that's not what I meant. Dazhu and I have never thought about it that way. It's not that we feel that the child will suffer with you, so we..."
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Wu Guihua had no intention of appreciating this lively scene. Now that she was the director of the Women's Department, she felt that this job was really a hot potato.
No wonder we haven’t found anyone to take over.
No matter what bullshit is going on, she has to be the first one to step forward and mediate.
Didn't you see that since she took on this job, Tian Youfu looked like he was ten years younger? He even walked with the wind!
On the contrary, she was so ambitious at the beginning, but now she doesn’t even want to eat the melon.
Wu Guihua sighed and took Wang Ying and her daughter to the scene.
Wang Ying spotted Widow Yu in the crowd at a glance. It wasn’t that she was looking for faults in her, but Widow Yu was dressed very conspicuously.
Because she was getting married the next day, Widow Yu wore a tight red dress, a new pair of trousers, and new cloth shoes. Her pretty face made her stand out among the crowd.
Tian Dazhu was holding her hand, as if trying to persuade her to go back.
Although Qian** on the other side was harsh in his words, he did not look angry.
Wu Guihua took a deep breath and shouted at the top of her voice: "Make way!"
She brought Wang Ying with her, and immediately several people in the center were at a loss.
No one is fainted or sick here, why call a doctor
Wang Ying stood aside and did not move forward.
Widow Yu smiled reluctantly when she saw Wang Ying coming over: "Director Wu, why did you call a doctor? I'm fine."
She was the only pregnant woman in this group of people, so it was easy to guess who Wang Ying was coming for.
Wu Guihua waved her hand and said, "Isn't this ready?"
Widow Yu's mother-in-law was coughing nearby. Seeing that Widow Yu was about to say something else, she pulled at the corner of her clothes.
Widow Yu immediately stopped talking and pursed her lips in silence.
She didn't speak, Qian** said.
Qian**: "The director of women's affairs is here, let's talk it over. Daya, Erya, and Xiaoya agreed to be under my care. Tian Dazhu won't take care of the children unless he gives me money. Now I want to change the child's name, what does it have to do with your family? Besides, even if it's Tian Dazhu's business, it's none of your business, right, widow Yu? You two haven't even got your marriage certificate, and even if you have, you can't say anything in front of me."
Qian** didn't really think that much. She just thought it was a good idea to change her daughter's name so that she could be more clearly separated from Tian Dazhu. Who knew that the first person who jumped out and said no was not Tian Dazhu, nor Tian Erzhu's wife. Even Tian Dazhu's mother didn't say anything. Instead, it was the widow Yu who hadn't married yet who kept saying she was not happy and wanted to take the child over to raise.
Money is disgusting.
Widow Yu's abacus beads were about to break in her face. It was not that she didn't want to change the child's name, she just wanted to bring Daya and Erya back to be the blood bags for the child in her belly.
Qian**: "You are dreaming, thinking of asking me, Daya and Erya, to be your maids. Dream on! If you dare to interfere again, I will go to the commune to ask if you and Tian Dazhu, who have a child before marriage, are considered to be having an affair."
Wang Ying originally intended to come to help Qian ** to scout the battlefield, and she was also worried about any disturbances. But after watching for a while, she realized that she was superficial, and Qian ** had now evolved and was very powerful.
She immediately hit the sore spot of Tian Dazhui and Widow Yu.
Although it is not a good thing for these two people to have a child before marriage, it is not other people's business for them to be a divorced man and a widow, so everyone just treats it as a joke.
But if someone gave them a higher level, it would be different.
Now most of the things in the countryside are like this, if the people don't report it, the officials won't investigate. This is even more true for things between men and women. If you take the initiative to investigate, even if it is confirmed that they are having an affair, what can you do
Take Widow Yu away and lock her up? She's pregnant!
As for Tian Dazhu, his family is extremely poor and there is no benefit in dealing with him.
So no one would pay attention to these things, and the brigade was even more close to each other, so it was difficult to come forward to nail these men and women. If they took action this time, they would probably be surrounded by these bullshit things in the future. There was no shortage of these romantic news in the countryside, and there was no end to the investigation. Didn’t Tian Youfu come forward
But if the money dispute comes to light, the story will be different.
After all, if someone complains, you have to investigate, and not only investigate, but also give results. Otherwise, if someone gets angry and complains to higher-ups without your knowledge, and the matter gets out of hand, the unlucky ones are the cadres below who didn’t do their job well.
Qian**'s words were very effective and immediately dampened the arrogance of Widow Yu.
Tian Dazhu had a bitter face, he couldn't understand how things turned out like this.
When Qian** wanted to change his daughter's name, his first reaction was that Qian** was angry and was afraid that she was going to use the issue of changing his daughter's name to force him not to marry Widow Yu.
He felt bitter for a long time, thinking that Qian**'s actions made it too difficult for him.
How could he not get married? Widow Yu said that her belly was pointed, so it must be a son.
This is the son he had been waiting for for so long.
Tian Dazhu wanted to persuade Qian** to be more open-minded and stop making things difficult for him.
But when Qian** and Widow Yu started arguing, even someone as slow-witted as Tian Dazhu could see clearly that Qian** was not forcing him not to get married, but was trying to draw a clear line between them.
Tian Dazhu was very conflicted, while Widow Yu and her mother-in-law were still whispering in his ear the benefits of keeping the two older daughters.
Tian Dazhu was swaying from side to side, unable to settle his mind.
Now, he doesn't have to waver. Qian** has made it clear that she wants to achieve her goal, and if she fails, she will make a fuss. In short, she wants to change the child's name.
Tian Dazhu lowered his head and said, "F**k, stop making trouble... Isn't it enough that I promised you? You can take the three girls away if you want. I don't care. Do whatever you want."
Widow Yu was not as angry as others imagined. She shrugged indifferently. She was just taking a gamble. If she won, she would have two little strong kids at home who could help with the housework and get some gifts when they got older. If she lost, she would lose. It wouldn't hurt anyway.
Even though it was embarrassing, it was no big deal. Compared to the benefits, the loss of people was nothing.
Qian**'s chest heaved. She wasn't angry when she had an argument with someone just now, but now she was very angry at Tian Dazhu's few words.
That's his daughter too!
Tian Dazhu has three daughters, but he never asked about them. After they separated, he never even looked at them. Now they are arguing about the name of the children, but it is just that his wife-to-be wants to take a gamble. As for Tian Dazhu, he has never taken the children seriously!
Qian** sneered and took his daughter to find the branch secretary to change her name.
This farce, which started off well but ended terribly, came to an end so abruptly that the people around were still immersed in the quarrel and unable to recover for a long time.
No one in the team had been divorced before, so naturally there hadn't been such a scene of the ex-wife and the current wife quarreling with each other. Well, it's also a good opportunity for everyone to see it.
Everyone had left. Wang Ying thought about asking Xinghua to take Widow Yu's pulse. Anyway, if Xinghua went there to learn to be a midwife, she would have to deliver babies for a whole group of pregnant women when she came back, so it wouldn't be a bad idea to get in touch with her earlier.
Widow Yu looked unhappy: "I don't want it. I'm a healthy person. Why do I need to take your pulse? What if you find something wrong with me?"
Wang Ying: "It's really strange. Diseases come out on their own. What does it have to do with taking the pulse? It's not the pulse that caused the problem. If you don't check, how do you know if you are healthy?"
Widow Yu refused to do so, so she pulled her mother-in-law and walked away quickly: "I don't want to! You are close to Qian **, who knows if you will hurt me, don't follow me, I don't want you to help me!"
Widow Yu and her mother-in-law ran away so quickly that they didn't look like pregnant women at all.
Wang Ying could only spread her hands towards Wu Guihua.
Wu Guihua seemed to be thinking about something, and after a moment she said, "Who cares? She can watch it if she wants. Anyway, we are not begging her to do so."
She really wanted to do that. Asking Wang Ying to come over was just in case. Of course, she also wanted Xinghua to learn from her.
Since the other party is not happy, just ignore it.
Wang Ying waited for Qian** to come out and gave a candy to each of the two children, Qian Maimiao and Qian Maisui, who had just changed their names, to celebrate the fact that they finally had their own names.
Qian Maimiao thanked him with a smile and followed Qian** back to the back mountain.
The next day, Tian Dazhui married Widow Yu, and Widow Yu's mother-in-law also moved into Tian Dazhui's house to help take care of her pregnant ex-daughter-in-law.
Taking advantage of the rising temperature, Wang Ying went up the mountain to check on her medicinal field. Cheng Yu took good care of it, and the medicinal herbs in the field were all growing well.
Wang Ying took the opportunity to collect another batch of medicinal herbs and prepared to go to the city before the dog days of summer, one purpose was to deliver the medicine, and the other was to buy medicine.
Yes, buy medicine. Wang Ying plans to prepare some Sanfu stickers herself.
The facial mask she made before was very useful. It made her skin whiter during this period of time. She looked whiter than the girls in the city.
So Wang Ying decided to try to prepare the Sanfu plaster herself and give it to her family when the Sanfu period came.
Wang Ying rode her bicycle into the city, going to the hospital first and then to the restaurant as usual to bring dried vegetables to Chen Dong.
Chen Dong saw that there was no one around, so he pulled Wang Ying to a nearby corner and asked, "Ying girl, did your team also suffer from hail this spring?"
Wang Ying nodded: "Yes, several surrounding communes have suffered, but our brigade is not so bad, the houses are not badly damaged, and the crops have been replanted."
Chen Dong frowned tightly. "I heard that some communes around here didn't replant their crops in time?"
Wang Ying: "Indeed, there were. I heard that because of the high-level reports, by the time the replanted grain was distributed, it was already a little late. Some brigades were hit by hail a lot, and the gap was too big to fill."
Chen Dong rubbed his hands and turned around: "That's not good, I don't think it will work. Tell Shuang to send me more dried vegetables and dried goods during the wheat harvest, and don't send them after July. I dare not do this again this year."
Wang Ying: “Why?”
Chen Dong sighed, "You don't understand this. This kind of speculation is usually risky. We do it covertly, but that's because we have some convenience. But when there is a disaster, we can't do this. Think about it, when there is a disaster, the black market price will go up. If we don't follow the increase in price, there will definitely be many people buying, and those who can't buy will report it, and we will be sure to win. But if we follow the increase in price, first of all, it will be bad morals, and secondly, if the increase is too much, do you think the higher-ups won't investigate you? Food is a key area. If there is a famine, the first place to be investigated will be the black market."
Chen Dong made the final decision: "Tell Xu Shuang not to worry about anything else. We won't be dealing with grain, just dried vegetables and dried goods, at the latest until around the summer wheat harvest."
Wang Ying also understood the urgency of the matter. She could think of epidemic prevention, but she was not as sensitive as these elderly people in terms of food. These were people who had truly experienced hunger, and they had a standard for whether the harvest was good or not.
Wang Ying: "Okay, then Master, please write me a note later. Don't worry about others. Just write down what you need. I will ask Xu Shuang to prepare it for you."
If the harvest in the countryside is bad, the city will also be in trouble. People will go hungry for at least one or two months.
Chen Dong patted his big belly and said, "No, I don't need anything here. Besides, I'm not in a hurry. If there's not enough in the middle, I can just ask Frost Boy for more. By the way, since you're here, I'll give this to you."
Wang Ying took it and looked at it, and was delighted. It was a sewing plane ticket.
Chen Dong was still chattering: "I won't share the money with Frost this time. This ticket is so hard to get. It's in great demand. I asked so many people and even went to the provincial capital to get him one."
Wang Ying knew how valuable the sewing machine ticket was, so she thanked him repeatedly. She had said she wanted to buy a sewing machine before, but she hadn't had a ticket, so she waited for a long time.
After hearing the bad news and the good news, Wang Ying rode her bicycle with her mind full of the sewing machine.
It seems that Old Mrs. Xu likes sewing very much. With this machine, she no longer has to waste time with needles when making clothes at home. She can even make a few more sets of bed sheets and quilt covers at home.
Everything is fine now, except that we only have one bed sheet at home. I dare not change it. I just wash it when the weather is good, hang it out to dry in the sun for a day, and then put it on at night.
Wang Ying thought so as she rode her bike on the way home.
As she walked, Wang Ying caught a glimpse of a familiar figure flashing into a small alley out of the corner of her eye.
Wang Ying braked the bike with her foot, and soon the person came out of the alley again, followed by a man pushing a bicycle.
The two of them were riding one in front and one behind, looking no different from an ordinary couple. It seemed that there were a lot of things placed in the backpack at the back, which made the bike tilt to one side.
Wang Ying didn't follow, but she was still very confused.
What was Wang Lingling doing in the county town? Who was that man