Chapter 197: Eating Melon in the Age of Literature (9)
Author: Salina
Chapter 197: Eating Melon in the Age of Literature (9)
The large courtyard where the Qiao family is located was originally a two-entry courtyard.
Both the front yard and the back yard are not big:
There are three main rooms and two wing rooms in the east and west.
Because it is close to Five Star Machinery Factory, the street and the factory arranged for many workers to come in.
Depending on length of service, grade, etc., some employees are allocated one room, and some are allocated two rooms.
There are about ten households in the two courtyards.
Although Old Man Qiao's level is not very good and his skills are average, he has seniority.
He used to be an apprentice in a foreign machine factory. After liberation, he became a veteran of the Five-Star Factory.
When the house was divided, he got the two main rooms in the front yard.
Widow Liu's man is also an old man from a machinery factory, but he is a few years later than Old Man Qiao.
Her home is in the east wing of the backyard.
There are also two rooms, one is used as the main room and the other is the back room.
Widow Liu's husband fell ill and passed away a few years ago, leaving only three daughters.
Originally, Widow Liu gave birth to four daughters in one go, one of whom died when she was just a few years old.
The eldest daughter and the three daughters got married one after another, and only one of the younger daughters found a son-in-law at home.
Bai Sini's son-in-law is Gu Changhe, a relative of Gu Xiaoni's village.
According to the seniority in the village, Gu Xiaoni calls Gu Changhe brother.
Widow Liu is an aunt who can be beaten with eight poles.
With Gu Changhe's relationship as a matchmaker and some kinship, it is not too much for Widow Liu to act like an elder in front of Gu Qingcheng.
"Xiao Ni, let me tell you, don't be stupid!"
"The job in the machinery factory was left by your Jianguo family. How can you say that you just give it to others?"
"If it doesn't work, just go to the factory or the Women's Federation! There will always be a place for you to make the decision!"
Widow Liu's words are indeed from the perspective of "Gu Xiaoni".
Otherwise, they are just neighbors of the Qiao family, and they will watch the excitement and make peace with each other.
Gu Qingcheng knew that Widow Liu was doing this for her own good.
She looked at Widow Liu with grateful eyes, "Auntie, thank you!"
Then, she added, "But let's forget about it."
"Others don't know Jianguo's father's temper. As an old neighbor, don't you still know it?"
"We beat and beat all day long, and we yell and drink at every turn... Oh, my child and I just want to live a quiet life!"
"Now that there is another Qiao Tongsuo, Jianguo's father can actually say ridiculous things that I have never thought of!"
When he said the last sentence, Gu Qingcheng's face was filled with surprise, ridicule, and even more disheartened: "Forget it! This Qiao family really can't stay here any longer."
"If you don't get it right, mud will fall into your crotch. It's either feces or feces!"
Widow Liu opened her mouth and swallowed all her words of advice.
"Mom, you're back! What's going on in the front yard? I heard it from a distance!"
Widow Liu took Gu Qingcheng and her daughter to the front of her house. Before she could open the door, the door was pushed open from the inside.
A young man in his twenties came out of the house carrying a basin of water.
Looking up and seeing Widow Liu, the young man asked casually.
As soon as he finished asking, the young man saw Gu Qingcheng, "Huh? Xiaoni is here too! Come in quickly!"
As he spoke, he stepped aside.
"Brother Changhe!"
Gu Qingcheng greeted the young man.
Gu Changhe's eyes glanced at the small bundle hanging on Gu Qingcheng's arm, and he suddenly realized, "Xiao Ni, it wasn't your family that was making a fuss just now, was it?"
"Oh, let's talk about it after we get in!"
Widow Liu was a little impatient and waved her hand, "Hurry up and get some water. Xiaoni and I will go into the house and talk!"
Widow Liu's attitude towards Gu Changhe was not good, but she was not deliberately looking for trouble.
If the identity is changed: Widow Liu is not the mother-in-law, but the mother-in-law, and she is not treating the son-in-law, but the daughter-in-law, which seems normal and reasonable.
After all, a son-in-law who comes to the house is the same as a daughter-in-law, who is "married" into someone else's family.
However, there are fundamental differences between a son-in-law and a daughter-in-law.
The former is a big man, with self-esteem and pride that comes from gender and the world.
The same is true of being criticized at the partner's house. The son-in-law who comes to the house will be miserable and pitiful, while the daughter-in-law will be treated as she should be!
A hint of sadness flashed across Gu Changhe's eyes, and there were bulging veins on the back of the hand holding the aluminum basin.
However, he still "beared it", forced out a smile, and found the steps by himself, "Hey! You guys come in the house!"
After that, Gu Changhe took the basin to the water house in the yard.
Wash the dishes and basins very carefully.
"Hey! Xiao Gu is here to wash the dishes again. Haha, your son-in-law is really capable."
The speaker was Li Hongmei, the eldest daughter-in-law of Zhu Jinshui, the man in charge of the backyard. She was in her thirties and had a thin mouth. She looked like a shrewd and sharp-tongued person.
What she said to Gu Changhe sounded normal at first glance.
But when she mentioned "washing dishes" and said "son-in-law", "careful people" would easily think too much about it.
In this era, how can a grown man in the north do housework?
Gu Changhe did it, but he still stepped in the door upside down.
so--
"Yeah!" Gu Changhe responded casually, lowering his head, his entire face hidden in the shadows, making his expression unclear.
Only when I was washing the dishes, the bang bang bang clang sounded a little harsh in the yard in the evening.
After Gu Qingcheng entered the house, he also noticed the movement outside.
A son-in-law with a high "self-esteem" who comes to the house, and a neighbor who likes to make jokes... Tsk, tsk, this Widow Liu's family may not be able to live in peace in the future.
Shui Shui, who was locked up in a small dark room:...Huh, you have been kicked out of the house by your husband's family, so you still have the heart to take advantage of others?
"Xiao Ni, do you really want to go back to your parents' home?"
Widow Liu felt a little pity. She had just lived a good life in the city for a few years, but now she had to go back in despair with her daughter.
My father and mother feel distressed, but can my sisters-in-law be happy?
"Um!"
Of course, he has to go back. Gu Qingcheng has already received a note from Director Feng and needs to go back to her parents' home to go through the procedures such as changing their household registration.
Because of the requirements of this era, when the original customer Gu Xiaoni got married, her household registration remained with her parents' production team.
Now that Gu Qingcheng has obtained the employee quota in the machinery factory, he needs to transfer his household registration here.
These days, if you want to eat commercial food, there are two ways:
The first is to become a formal employee of the factory through recruitment;
Second, you can buy a house in the city and transfer your household registration to the house.
The former is a collective household registration, and the latter is an individual household registration.
Just like some of the employees in a machinery factory, some of them are from rural areas.
When the factory recruits workers, they can apply for single dormitories when they enter the city.
Once you have saved up enough years of service and level, you can apply for housing allocation, or apply for family members to be transferred from rural to non-agricultural land!
As a "specially recruited" employee of the machinery factory, it is not easy for Gu Qingcheng to have a formal establishment.
Want to share a room?
Haha, just wait and see.
However, with the factory's collective household registration, you can eat commercial food.
So Gu Qingcheng still had to go back to his hometown to go through the formalities.
"Oh, you kid, why can't you make sense!"
"...However, what you said makes sense. Jianguo is a good boy, but his parents-"
Having said this, Widow Liu couldn't help but shook her head.
Gu Qingcheng said nothing.
Outsiders can talk about the parents-in-law, but Gu Qingcheng, as a cheap daughter-in-law, cannot.
Even though these parents-in-law have become "past tense".
She lowered her head and said nothing, but subconsciously looked at her surroundings from the corner of her eyes.
Widow Liu's man's surname is Bai, and the current head of the household is Widow Liu's daughter Bai Sini.
The Bai family's house is neither big nor small.
The decoration of the main room is similar to that of Qiao's house.
They are all in the middle hall, with tables and tables of the Eight Immortals.
There is a wooden bed placed against the west wall.
The bedding was folded into square squares, with pillows placed on top. The pillows were also covered with pillow covers embroidered with red plum blossoms.
The bed was made very clean.
When guests come during the day, if there is not enough stool to sit on, they will sit on the bed.
At night, you can unroll your bed and sleep.
Gu Qingcheng glanced at it and could roughly guess that this bed should belong to Widow Liu.
Bai Sini and Gu Changhe were inside.
"Okay, now that you've made up your mind, Auntie won't persuade you any more!"
"It's getting late, Qiao'er is already sleepy, you two, just stay here with me for the rest of the night!"
As she spoke, Widow Liu stood up and took out another pillow from the cabinet, "I've washed the pillow cover, it's not dirty!"
The pillows belong to my wife, and we don't prepare new bedding specifically for guests these days.
Old things, wash them clean and they can still be used!
"Auntie, look what you said! You were kind enough to keep me and Qiao'er here. I can't even thank you enough. How could I dislike you?"
Gu Qingcheng said sincerely.
Seeing that she was not lying, Widow Liu felt even more pity for this girl!
What a sensible child, well, the old couple of the Qiao family can do their best.
Widow Liu made the bed, and Bai Sini led the child in from outside.
When Xu was passing by the front yard, he had already heard the neighbors talking about the latest news about Qiao's family.
After entering the door, when she saw Gu Qingcheng and Qiao Qiao, Bai Sini didn't ask any questions and just greeted her politely.
Gu Qingcheng took a look at Bai Sini. She was in her mid-twenties, with slightly dark skin and normal facial features.
Well, if we use the system's scoring model, Bai Sini's appearance should be around sixty-five.
Not ugly, not beautiful, just an ordinary person.
As Bai Sini's daughter who wanted to adopt a son-in-law, she took over Bai's father's job and worked in the guest house under the machinery factory.
After working for seven or eight years, I have been rated as a second-level worker, with a monthly salary of thirty-seven yuan.
The guest house also has some benefits, and she can support a family of four by herself.
However, Gu Changhe is a grown man after all, and he cannot really be a househusband at home.
Among the conditions for recruiting a new wife, the Bai family had to help Gu Changhe find a job.
Bai Sini spent most of her family money to get Gu Changhe a temporary job as a cafeteria worker.
The wages are lower, and there are no benefits like formal employment.
But, it is a serious job after all.
If you do well, you can become a regular employee.
For rural people in this era, it has already reached the sky in one step!
Therefore, even though he is a door-to-door son-in-law, everyone in Gujia Village, old and young, is very envious of him.
When Gu Changhe returns to the village, he will also receive all kinds of envious and jealous looks.
Especially since he successfully arranged a marriage for Gu Xiaoni and married her to the city, Gu Changhe became even more respected in his hometown.
PS: I heard the story about settling in from some elders. There is no research and I don’t know if it is true. Just watch the excitement, (*^▽^*)
