Chen Min didn't care at all and smiled and shrugged.
"Anyway, I have nothing to do when I go home. I can stay here for a while and you can chat with me."
Ahu patted his shoulder and said, "Let's have a nice drink together! I'm free tonight, let's go have a beer!"
"Great!" Chen Min smiled happily.
Ahu's mother curled her lips and muttered: "Two old men have no wives to accompany them, so they can only keep each other company! Shame on you! Look at Ayuan, he is going to be a father soon! You are both older than him, but you don't even have a wife!"
"
Chen Min smiled softly, "Aunt... we can't rush this."
Ah Hu shrank his head and said, "Aren't I looking for it?! But I still can't find it, so you can't blame me!"
"It's useless!" Ahu's mother invited Xue Ling to eat pancakes, and asked happily: "Sister-in-law, do you have any friends or classmates? You don't have to be too beautiful, and you don't have to be difficult to work. Just be ordinary and down-to-earth.
Okay. Hurry up and introduce Ahu and Amin to us!"
Xue Ling was stunned for a moment, then laughed.
"Not yet. My friends and classmates are all in the north, mainly in the imperial capital. They are too far away. Most of my colleagues in the newspaper office are already married, so there are really no suitable ones."
Ahu's mother shook her head and sighed: "Oh... why is it so difficult to find a good daughter-in-law?"
Chen Min and A Hu each grabbed a beer and ran away.
Cheng Tianyuan heard her talk about the newspaper office and couldn't help but ask: "Daughter-in-law, you haven't been to the newspaper office much recently, have you? By the way, how are Liu Xing and that Wang Qing doing? Are they married?"
Xue Ling replied: "I went to the newspaper office last week and submitted a small column for eight weeks. I hope it can handle it until I finish my confinement. Liu Xing said it will be until the end of the year. Wang Qing's mother probably still has some small requests, so
The wedding is tentatively scheduled for the end of the year."
Cheng Tianyuan asked curiously: "Small request? What request?"
Xue Ling answered: "Wang Qing's mother initially asked him to buy a new house, but she refused to let her daughter marry him without a new house. Liu Xing finally raised money to buy a small apartment, but her mother said it was not enough, so he had to find a way to change to a medium apartment.
."
She didn't say in detail that she helped Liu Xing buy the apartment and allowed him to pay 100 yuan a month and pay back the balance slowly.
"Liu Xing later worked hard to buy the middle set. Unfortunately, Wang Qing's mother thought that the gift he gave was too low, so she asked for 480 yuan to come up with a better figure. Liu Xing didn't have enough money around him, so he could only slowly
Save, so the wedding is scheduled for the end of the year."
Ahu's mother on the side couldn't help but mutter: "This mother-in-law is really awesome! Is her daughter that good?"
Cheng Tianyuan smiled and replied: "It should be considered pretty good. She has good looks and good looks. The main reason is that she is educated and has a stable job in a newspaper. The mother-in-law is still reluctant to let her daughter get married after she is raised, so she has to make more demands.
, toss your son-in-law."
Ahu's mother nodded and said: "Then that's not too much. It's not easy to raise a good daughter. She still has a stable job. It's time to give her son-in-law a good test."
Liu Ying couldn't help but look at Xue Ling secretly, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Lingling is also a scholar, and her conditions are very good, even better than that of Wang Qing.
Fortunately, the Xue family's mother-in-law and father-in-law were both good people. When she heard that she wanted to marry Lingling to celebrate the wedding, she agreed without saying a word.
The bride price was just a little, and there was nothing else, so the person got married in a hurry.
In comparison, their family is much luckier.
If you meet a mother like "Wang Qing", then given the conditions of their family at that time, they would never be able to marry a daughter-in-law.
Without comparison, there would be no such sigh.
Thinking like this, Liu Ying felt more and more love for her daughter-in-law.
After packing up their things and closing the doors and windows, everyone prepared to return to "Wangjiang Garden".
The sky was already getting dark, and the wind on the riverside was strong and howling.
Suddenly, someone shouted outside the store: "Xue Ling! Xue Ling!"
Cheng Tianyuan and Xue Ling were stunned and quickly walked out.
——It’s actually Liu Xing!
Liu Xing was holding a bicycle, wearing a white shirt and military-colored trousers, and a pair of rubber shoes on her feet, standing in front of the store in a clean and fair manner.
"When you came over last week, the mooncakes ordered by Director Liu had not yet been delivered. Today the newspaper office sent everyone mooncakes, two boxes per person, and eight large oranges. I picked them up for you. I was a little late after get off work, so I sent them over. It’s just a little late.”
Xue Ling walked down holding her big belly and said with a smile: "Thank you!"
Liu Xing raised his chin, "Why are you so polite to me? Why don't you just walk a little longer? Come on, give it to your lover, it's still a bit heavy."
Cheng Tianyuan quickly took it and thanked him.
Xue Ling asked: "You haven't had dinner yet, right?"
Liu Xing shook his head, "It's okay, I'll eat when I get home. The newspaper office is on holiday tomorrow, so I'm a little late in finishing the manuscript today."
Cheng Tianyuan said quickly: "There are pancakes in the kitchen. If you don't mind, sit down, eat some, and chat with Ling Ling. I have to clean up and plan to close the store."
Liu Xing chuckled, "Then - then I'm not welcome."
Cheng Tianyuan warmly greeted him to sit down, brought two large pancakes, went to the back to get two bottles of beer, and opened one.
In order to find a wife, Liu Xing usually reduced his clothes and went on a diet, but he was very happy when he saw beer to drink.
"Ling, Brother Cheng is such a nice person!"
Xue Ling smiled and stroked her pointed belly, raising her eyebrows proudly: "Why should I come all the way to marry him!"
Liu Xing laughed and ate the pancakes.
“Delicious! So flavorful!”
He took a sip of beer, said "Wow" and smiled happily.
“It feels like a holiday tonight!”
Xue Ling looked at his thin and delicate face and couldn't help but whisper: "Don't be too economical... You can pay me back if I'm not in a hurry. I think you seem to have lost weight again."
Liu Xing was stunned for a moment and then smiled.
"Thank you for your concern! I'll pay you back if you're not in a hurry, but I have to worry myself! I only have two hundred yuan a month. I'll save a hundred yuan to pay you back, save fifty yuan as a betrothal gift, and give some to my parents for their household needs. My dad
I’m retired and don’t have much money, so I still have to help with the household expenses. If you don’t save money, how can you save money?”
Xue Ling clicked his tongue twice, broke off an orange, and ate it slowly.
"We are friends, and I have to advise you. When you are really poor and have no way out, you can only save what you can. But to be truly rich, you have to make money instead of saving money."
Liu Xing pouted: "I have a job! I'm not a lazy person."
"Wrong." Xue Ling said: "I didn't ask you to resign, but I suggested that you work part-time."
Liu Xing raised his eyebrows, rolled his eyes, and asked: "What part-time job? What do you do? I'm in a hurry to get money! Ling, you have a way, right? Please teach me!"
"No rush." Xue Ling ate peanuts and asked: "Aside from writing articles and doing interviews, what else are you good at? You are so skinny that you can't carry it on your shoulders or carry it on your back. You need to have a part-time job.
It’s good to have special skills.”
Liu Xing was so disgusted that he looked disgusted and said with a wry smile: "I can write articles and take photos, but I'm really not good at anything else!"
Xue Ling's eyes moved slightly, and she couldn't help but think of those newspaper photos Liu Xing had taken before.
"You're good at taking photos! You've learned this before, right?"
Liu Xing answered: "I learned it when I was studying in the provincial capital. Later, I saved money and bought a Phoenix camera. However, the film was too expensive. No matter how much I liked it, I could only take a few pictures secretly. I took a lot of pictures for the newspaper.
, because it can be reimbursed.”
Xue Ling said "Yeah!" and said, "Then you might as well open a photo studio!"
Liu Xing was stunned and took a sip of beer.
"If I have that kind of money to open a photo studio, why would I need to owe you a bunch of money!"