Wang Xiaojuan chased after her angrily, and slapped Li Manjun on the head with the spatula.
"Which one are you talking about? Which one else could there be? Of course it's Factory Manager Li's nephew. Have you met him?"
Li Manjun kept moving, spitting out a mouthful of white foam, taking another sip of water to clean his mouth, turned around, put the toothbrush and cup back on the window sill, tilted his head and replied with two words: "No see."
Wang Xiaojuan's expression changed suddenly. If Li Manjun hadn't reminded her that the food in the kitchen was going to be burnt, the spatula would have been photographed.
"I don't like that person." Li Manjun said bluntly.
Wang Xiaojuan was stunned, "You said you don't like it without even meeting me?"
Then his eyes lit up, "Then you can change to another one. I heard your Aunt Wu say that the guy from the East Street Food Store is also pretty good..."
Li Manjun: "..."
Seeing that her daughter was silent, Wang Xiaojuan just thought she agreed. She happily told her several candidates, quickly prepared the meal and brought it to the "ancestor" in the dining room.
“Come over and eat!”
There are only two homeless people in the family, mother and daughter. Those who go to work and go to school have already left, so they make a pickled cabbage soup and a plate of fried edamame.
Li Manjun glanced at the kitchen cabinet, and Wang Xiaojuan immediately locked the cabinet door vigilantly.
"Don't look, I have to save that piece of pork belly for braised pork tonight. Your brother loves braised pork the most. The school will hold a school sports meeting soon, so he needs to make up for it so he can compete for a place in the sports meeting."
When talking about her son, Wang Xiaojuan's tone is much gentler.
Li Manjun thought to herself that it was a good thing that she was not her original self, otherwise she would have felt so uncomfortable hearing her mother's obviously partial words.
She was an only child in her previous life, so she had never experienced the feeling of having a bowl of water from her parents. She didn't expect to experience it on the first day of time travel.
Of course Li Manjun wants to eat meat. She used to bring meat with every meal, and she couldn't get enough of it.
If you eat sauerkraut soup and edamame occasionally, you can treat it as a weight loss meal.
Li Manjun was surprised to find that he still had some Ah Q spirit.
After the meal was over, Li Manjun stood up, cleared the table and took the dishes to the pool in the courtyard to wash them.
This way I can listen to less of my mother's nagging.
She had just spent a whole morning with Wang Xiaojuan, and her ears were so raw that she felt like hearing calluses.
The back and forth is about finding a partner and getting married as soon as possible.
Previously, because she wanted a room of her own, her younger sister Li Lijun was always there to help her. She wanted her to get married early so that she could have a bedroom by herself.
As a young girl in the rebellious phase of her youth, Li Manjun can understand her pursuit of private space.
But if this pursuit is based on her sister's pain, then sorry, there is no way!
The original family home is actually not small. There are three bungalows with a small yard. The two sisters sleep on the left side. The largest room in the middle is divided into two. The front is the dining room and the living room, and the back is the couple Wang Xiaojuan and Li Dawei.
bedroom.
The largest room on the right is exclusively occupied by Li Jianjun.
One side of the courtyard is the living and washing area, and a shed is built as a kitchen on the other side.
Such housing conditions are among the best in the entire middle school area of the town.
Many people now have seven or eight people, and three generations of grandparents and grandchildren are crowded into a small house of more than ten square meters.
At this time, everyone is waiting for their work units to allocate houses. It will take a few years for commercial housing to emerge. People’s housing requirements are not high. It would be great if they can afford housing.
If you add a separate bathroom, it will be a luxury presidential suite!
Li Manjun washed the dishes and put them on the stove, shook off the water stains on his hands, took out two rolls of ephedra paper in the living room, and said to Wang Xiaojuan who was about to do the laundry:
"Mom, I'm out."
Wang Xiaojuan asked: "Where to go?"
Li Manjun raised the papyrus in his hand, and the destination was self-evident.
There is no bathroom at home, so everyone has to go to the public toilet next to the school.
Of course, escaping to the toilet is just a reason to go out for a walk.
It was also at this moment that Li Manjun suddenly realized, didn’t everyone have a bathroom at home when they were young?
Unfortunately, her childhood memories are really vague. By the time she could remember them, it was already the late 1990s. At that time, people's lives had already become affluent and separate bathrooms were commonplace.
Wang Xiaojuan explained: "Come back after finishing school. There is a big market today. For the two new pairs of Jiefang shoes on the shoe rack, you can ask the villagers to help bring them back to your grandparents."
After saying that, he couldn't help but complain: "They say the second child can't get up and down, but in the end, it's not the second child who is the most filial..."
Li Manjun took her shoes directly before going out. She was too lazy to run back again.
"Tomorrow your Aunt Wu will come to our house for lunch. Don't run away, do you hear me?" Wang Xiaojuan shouted at the top of her lungs.
Why is Aunt Wu here?
Of course it's a blind date.
Li Manjun responded perfunctorily, took three steps in a row and rushed out. Holding his breath, he settled his personal situation in the public toilet, and walked towards Ma Street with two pairs of Jiefang shoes wrapped in yellow paper.
Ma Street used to be a place dedicated to selling horses. Later, when the horses disappeared, pigs, cattle and sheep became more numerous. However, the name remained the same, and it was still called Ma Street.
Li Manjun feels that it is more appropriate to call it a farmer's market, because on market days, there are all kinds of agricultural products here.
There is a big market today. Villagers from the surrounding villages of Heather Town will come to the market. Some sell chickens and ducks, and some sell home-grown tobacco leaves or other medicinal herbs. They are all concentrated on Ma Street, which is very lively.
It was not difficult to find fellow villagers from his hometown of Hongxing Village. Li Manjun found his next-door neighbors in the market selling chickens and ducks, and asked them to help deliver these two pairs of Jiefang shoes to Old Man Li and Old Mrs. Li when they returned to the village.
Li Dawei has an eldest brother above him and two younger sisters below him. Li Dawei is the second eldest son and the only one in the family who has entered the work unit, but his parents just don't like him.
When Li Dawei married Wang Xiaojuan, Wang Xiaojuan was very angry with her mother-in-law because both of her children were girls, and the couple were not welcomed by her.
It wasn't until she gave birth to her son Li Jianjun that the old man and woman's attitude towards her became slightly better.
Therefore, from this point of view, Li Manjun can understand that Wang Xiaojuan values Li Jianjun's behavior more.
It's not that she wanted to prioritize children over daughters, but the environment made her become like this.
But even though they were not welcomed by the two elders, Li Dawei and Wang Xiaojuan still had no less filial piety to pay.
When the neighbor uncle from my hometown put away the two pairs of Jiefang shoes, he couldn't help but sigh: "Manjun, your parents are sensible and filial."
Wang Xiaojuan's purpose of giving shoes was achieved and she successfully obtained the title of "filial piety".
She just wants to slap old men and women in the face and show them which one should be hurt.
Li Manjun did not comment on what his parents did. He thanked his neighbors in his hometown, turned around and left Ma Street, and walked around on the street.
People who have lived through the 1990s say that this was an era when even pigs could fly as long as they stood on the cusp of the storm.
Li Manjun wanted to see if she could be the flying pig.
