When the Chinese New Year comes, I always feel that time flies by.
After the festival gifts were distributed, all units began to arrange rotations. In large state-owned factories like the sugar factory, except for some departments that could not leave their posts, other production departments gradually relaxed.
The infirmary where Wang Ying worked was not among them.
Even during the Chinese New Year, someone has to stay behind.
Except for New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, there must be a doctor and a nurse on duty every day. Doctor Yang began to arrange the on-duty personnel.
"Wang Ying is pregnant. Let's take care of her. We won't arrange for her to come during the New Year. Do you have any objections?"
It wasn't that she used a backdoor to help Wang Ying. In fact, it was the same in the factory. Even the people working in the workshop would be taken care of if they found a pregnant woman.
The other two doctors had no objections, and Doctor Yang looked at Jiang Lin.
Jiang Lin's face looked strange. She didn't look angry, but rather eager to try.
"…Does Doctor Jiang have any comments?"
"No!"
Jiang Lin would not have any objection. She has been working very hard recently and even took out her medical books to read. She was so diligent that even her uncle was surprised. He was afraid that he had said something harsh to her last time and that was why she was so diligent.
Jiang Lin was trying hard to surpass Wang Ying and give Yang Qing a good slap in the face. She used her not-so-flexible brain to think about it and decided that she had to set a goal to surpass Wang Ying.
A man’s appearance is a small matter, only technical ability comes first!
Jiang Lin glanced at Dr. Yang who was speaking. She felt that her current goal was very clear.
The goal is to surpass Wang Ying’s position in Doctor Yang’s eyes!
Doctor Yang is the leader, and she wants to surpass Wang Ying in front of her leader and become the mainstay of the medical office!
Jiang Lin's agreement without hesitation surprised everyone.
In the past, Jiang Lin would definitely say a few sarcastic words to mock Wang Ying for not taking her work seriously.
Are you so easy to talk to today
Yang Qing was the only one among the crowd who guessed the reason, and she could hardly hold back her smile.
Wang Ying was also a little surprised and looked at Jiang Lin strangely.
Jiang Lin felt uncomfortable being stared at by them, so she said "What are you looking at!" and went into the clinic.
Last time, a patient with high blood pressure came, and Wang Ying quickly gave him an acupuncture injection, so the patient was fine. Damn it, she had to look in the book to see what Wang Ying did last time! When she learns it, she must show off in front of Yang Qing!
Jiang Lin ran away, and Doctor Yang said helplessly: "That's it, I've arranged the shift schedule and posted it on the door, everyone please check the time carefully and remember to come when the time comes."
Jiang Lin has been very active recently, so active that even Doctor Yang couldn't say anything. It was wrong for her to just leave the people in the meeting and run away.
Forget it, being able to work is better than anything else.
The infirmary has discussed the shift schedule, and we are more motivated to celebrate the New Year.
In the remaining days, everyone tacitly took turns to ask for leave. It was Chinese New Year, so we had to buy some meat? Chicken and fish? And melon seeds, candies, small firecrackers, fried fruit, red paper, popcorn...
Everything has to be prepared. Now, it is not allowed to post door gods and worship the kitchen god, but you have to post a few couplets? In the past two years, it was not allowed when it was the most strict, but now it is not so strict.
It was not convenient for Wang Ying to squeeze into crowded places while she was pregnant. Although she felt she could do so, Xu Shuang suggested that she should still be cautious.
So Xu Shuang took half a chicken and went to see Aunt Liu from the house management.
Aunt Liu felt embarrassed to accept the gift. She realized that Xu Shuang really treated her wife like a piece of cake. No pregnant woman in anyone's family is so precious! She's only three or four months pregnant and her belly is like this. What will happen in the future
But Aunt Liu is not a talkative person. Think about it, the couple are both workers, one is a chef, the other is a doctor, there is only one elderly person above them who is not around, and there is only one child in her belly. The population is simple and earns more. They want to live a more precious life. Why should they care about their own business
Aunt Liu is very open-minded. She recalled that when she was pregnant with her first child, it was still the old society. She was still working on the day of delivery. She gave birth to her first child on the kang at home. By the time she gave birth to her second child, she had already joined the factory and gave birth to her second child in the factory's infirmary. Times are always improving.
Xu Shuang brought the chicken to ask Aunt Liu for help, and Aunt Liu did not let her down with this half chicken.
Whenever she needed to squeeze in some New Year goods, she would first ask Wang Ying if she wanted her help to carry them.
Wang Ying counted and counted, and found that there were really not many things to buy.
There were only two of them and they didn't eat much, so Xu Shuang divided the chicken and duck meat, and the only extra thing they had to buy was fish.
Aunt Liu looked at her bulging belly and said directly, "We'll bring one for you when we go shopping."
Grabbing fish is a technical job. You have to get up in the middle of the night to queue up. If you are a little later, you won’t be able to buy them.
Wang Ying did not refuse and thanked Aunt Liu.
As soon as the children in the compound have their holidays, the excitement reaches its peak.
The six children of the Ma family and the two of the Liu family, a total of eight children, were either running and playing in the yard or having fun outside.
Ever since Xu Dabao from the Xu family lost the donkey eggs from the Ma family last time, the adults of the two families have become enemies and have expressly forbidden the children from hanging out together.
So Xu Dabao could only watch Ludan and his sister and Yangyang and their sister playing together.
No matter how naughty a child is, he will look lonely and pitiful without friends.
When Aunt Xu saw her grandson like this, she became furious and started to curse him. The children were a little scared and left the yard and ran out.
Aunt Xu's eyes flashed with resentment, and she advised her grandson: "Be good, Dabao, we don't want to play with those short-lived little bastards. Go ask your mother for money to buy a few boxes of whips and go to the next door compound to play."
Nowadays, a box of firecrackers costs one cent, and not every family can buy them for their children.
But Aunt Xu doesn't care about money because it's not her who pays for it.
When Xu Dabao heard his grandmother asking him to buy a small whip, he happily went to find Zhang Yun.
Zhang Yun was cleaning the house at home. Today was the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, and it was time to clean the house.
Although the two rooms in her house are large, their orientation is not good. One of them is not exposed to the sun and it has been cloudy all year, so she has to take this opportunity to clean it.
Zhang Yun wrapped a piece of cloth on her head and used a duster to dust off the dust. Although there are many people in the family, her father-in-law is an old smoker. In recent years, it seems that his mouth has been sawed off. Apart from eating, drinking, smoking and sleeping, he is like an invisible person at home.
Her mother-in-law would understand her, but she was in poor health and could not do much.
As for Xu Lei, Zhang Yun couldn't bear to order her man around. Her man was well-educated and had good grades in school. When he was pursuing her, he would write love letters one after another. Sometimes when Zhang Yun felt that life was too hard to bear, she would take out those love letters and read them. As long as she read them once, she would gain endless courage.
Zhang Yun felt that she had to hold on even for Xu Lei, as this family couldn't do without her.
Xu Dabao ran in and called out to his mother awkwardly, "I want to buy a whip."
Zhang Yun replied without thinking: "What are you buying? We don't have any money."
A box of whipped cream costs ten cents and is equivalent to a meal of cabbage.
Her monthly salary is only so little, what should she do if she doesn't save money? Her husband and mother-in-law are both in poor health and can't eat too badly. The children need money for school, food, clothing and shelter. Every day when Zhang Yun opens her eyes, she feels endless pressure.
Xu Dabao pursed his lips and didn't make any noise, but his eyes were full of resentment.
He felt that his grandmother was right, his mother was a poisonous scorpion. He was her son, why didn't she buy him a whip? And last time, when it came to the donkey egg incident, his grandmother cried and begged his mother, but his mother still beat him up.
Xu Dabao stood there like a wooden stake. Zhang Yun was exhausted from cleaning and said in disgust, "Get out now. It's all dusty. I have to wash your dirty clothes."
Xu Dabao felt that his mother was not a good person and only knew how to talk about him.
He cursed his stepmother in a low voice. He had heard from others that stepmothers were not good to children. His own biological mother was not as good as other people's stepmothers.
Xu Dabao cursed softly, so Zhang Yun didn't hear it.
She was used to taking care of children in school, and she loved Xu Dabao in her heart, but she was the bad guy.
"Hey, if you don't want to work, get out."
Zhang Yun drove Xu Dabao out.
Xu Dabao immediately went to find his grandmother feeling aggrieved.
Aunt Xu came in not long after, looking apologetic: "Xiao Yun, did Dabao come to you to ask for money to buy something again? Why don't you just give him a dime? Don't you know that the children in our compound are all very bad and don't even play with him. He is so pitiful all alone. It makes me sad to see him like this. What about the Ma family? Didn't they almost lose their child, but they didn't lose it? Why are they so harsh on our Dabao? What does a child know..."
Zhang Yun felt a little uncomfortable. The last time she came back, she happened to catch a fight in the compound. Of course, she stood on her own family's side without a doubt. But after the fight, she found out that it was her Dabao who had done something wrong. He was playing with others and didn't say anything when he came back and didn't see anyone.
Zhang Yun was very conflicted. On the one hand, she felt that what Dabao did was really outrageous. How could he come back without saying anything? If the situation was reversed, if Dabao lost his donkey egg and didn't say anything, she, as a mother, would also be angry. But on the other hand, Zhang Yun felt that her family was wronged. After all, the child was not lost, right? The quarrel has lasted until now, and the two families can't see each other when they meet. It's really too much.
Even though Zhang Yun has a sour temper as a teacher, after so many years of dealing with the daily necessities of life, she has become a little more sensible and can understand the situation better.
In this compound, the new Wang Ying family had a good relationship with the Liu family, and they had no major conflicts with the Ma family. Especially on the day when the child was lost, Donkey fell ill in the middle of the night, and Wang Ying even prescribed medicine to reduce Donkey's fever. Later, the Ma family even came to Wang Ying's house and gave her a pair of cotton shoes with thousand-layer soles that they made themselves.
It was also from then on that the people in the compound suddenly realized that they used to only care about the trivial matters of the family, but now they realized how convenient it was to have a doctor living in the compound.
Even if they don't usually help you, you can't offend them. If something urgent happens at home, you still have to go to them for help.
So now, except for their family, the other three families in the compound are very harmonious.
It's not that Zhang Yun doesn't regret it now, but who made her offend Wang Ying when she first came? If she turned her head and licked him again, Zhang Yun would not be able to bring herself to do it.
Since she couldn't bring herself to do that, Zhang Yun could only follow her mother-in-law's wishes and agree to buy her son a whip. She couldn't let her son be without friends forever, could she? Buy him a box of whips and let him go to the next door to play.
Aunt Xu was so cunning that she quickly said in a friendly manner, "Give me the money and I'll give it to Dabao later. I don't know where this child has gone."
She would give the money from her daughter-in-law to the child, and at the same time make Dabao feel that she, as his grandmother, loves him more than his biological mother.
Zhang Yun didn't think much about it and just took out a dime and handed it to her mother-in-law.
But then I started to worry. People say that the New Year is difficult, and the difficulty is during this period. In order to have a good New Year, most units pay salaries half a month earlier than normal.
The school is the same, and the salaries were paid a few days ago.
As a result, money at home was spent like running water. We had to buy a few feet of cloth here and some fine grains and meat there. In just a few days, most of the salary was spent.
That’s not enough, I still have to plan what to buy before the New Year.
Zhang Yun frowned, regretting the ten cents she had just given.
Aunt Xu could see what was on her daughter-in-law's mind, so she just laughed.
"Xiao Yun, are you going to your mother's house... this year?"
Zhang Yun's family conditions were good. In the past few years, Zhang Yun's family opposed her marriage to Xu Lei and even said that they would not recognize her as their daughter if she got married.
But Zhang Yun got married anyway. She didn't ask for a penny as a dowry. She only packed her own clothes and bedding, and brought the hundred yuan she had saved with her.
After getting married, the relationship between Zhang Yun and her parents had not eased. But last year, when life was tough, Zhang Yun's mother couldn't bear to see her daughter like this, so she gave her 20 yuan out of pity. But what made her angry was that Zhang Yun threw the 20 yuan back, saying that she would not take a penny from her parents even if she was digging wild vegetables.
Aunt Xu looked at Zhang Yun's complicated expression. She was anxious in her heart, but her face was full of guilt and kindness.
"Xiao Yun, you should go back to your parents' home. Besides, it's been so many years, and Dabao is so old now. Your mother-in-law won't be so cruel. You are not young anymore, how can you not go back to see your parents? You should always take care of the kindness of your parents!"
This year, because of the incident a while ago, the neighbors no longer had any help. Aunt Xu urgently needed Zhang Yun to find a way to make money, otherwise her eldest grandson would have to suffer the consequences.
Zhang Yun hesitated again and again. In fact, she regretted throwing the money back to her mother's family last year, but she was too proud to come down from it. Besides, if she started to hang out with her mother's family, she wouldn't know how to say anything if her neighbors saw that she was not living well.
Zhang Yun: "Forget it."
She can't afford to lose this person.
Before Aunt Xu wanted to say anything, Zhang Yun had already spoken a lot like a machine gun.
"Mom, I've said before that I'm willing to be with Brother Lei. I don't want anything from him, and I know he doesn't want anything from me. We're together for love, even if life is hard, I'm willing. I don't care if those people in my family look down on me. I just know that I'm living a good life. You don't need to persuade me."
Aunt Xu: …
Are you kidding? If you weren’t a teacher, would I let you into my house
How can you be so naive
She was too lazy to talk to this love-brained daughter-in-law, so she went out to look for her grandson with a dime in her pocket.
Xu Dabao took the money and bought a small whip, and he immediately became very excited.
He happily took his little whip to the next door compound to play, and gathered a group of his little brothers to play war.
Two new families recently moved into the compound next door. Both families have children, two girls who are about the same age as Xu Dabao.
The two girls played together with the boys and always won when they played war.
Xu Dabao was unhappy. He pointed at the other party and said, "All of you go away! We don't want to play with this little girl!"
The girl with pigtails was unhappy: "Xu Dabao, you just can't afford to play! You won't let us play if you lose. Why don't you say that you run too slow?"
Her little sister chimed in: "That's right! You just run slowly!"
Xu Dabao had always been spoiled at home. Before he had a falling out with the Ma family, he was also a bully in the compound. Naturally, he couldn't stand others looking down on him: "What bullshit are you talking about! You can't afford to play! I just don't want to play with girls! My grandma said that if you play with girls, you will grow up to be a second-rate chair!"
The girl with pigtails didn't know what "second chair" meant, but she knew it was not a good thing: "If you can't afford to play, then you can't afford to play. Even if you don't play with the girl, you are still a second chair."
Xu Dabao was furious. This was how quarrels between children were. When they were quarreling, they always liked to imitate the way adults spoke.
He was so angry that he imitated his grandmother and farted: "You little whore, you bastard, you are short-lived! Get out of the way! I won't even let you play with the whip I brought! Go eat shit yourself!"
Aunt Xu never dreamed that her habit of cursing in a deserted place was seen by her grandson, and that Xu Dabao learned all the dirty words.
When he cursed like this, the children in the next yard all blamed him.
"Xu Dabao, why are you swearing so nastily?"
"That's right, you come to our yard to play, and you have the nerve to bully the people in our yard?"
"Why do you scold Tiantian and Xiaomi?"
Xu Dabao panicked for a moment and shouted, "What do you mean? Are you trying to bully me? I won't let you play with the whip I brought with me!"
Children also have tempers.
"If you don't want to play, then don't play!"
“We’ll buy our own for Chinese New Year!”
"Come on, let's go over there."
Xu Dabao was isolated again. He was so angry that he simply took Xiaobian and went to another alley instead of going home.
If you don’t want to play, then don’t play!
Who cares
Xu Dabao ran very fast and disappeared in the alley in the blink of an eye.
But after he left, a man with a scar on his face hurried into the area.
The man looked around with a sly look in his eyes, found a little boy playing nearby, gave him a candy without any additives, and said with a smile on his face.
"Little friend, can you go to the Xu family and call someone for me?"
"Just tell Xu Dabao's father that something happened to his uncle's family, and that several relatives are coming by train to ask him to stay with them."