Zhou Xiaoyun’s Happy Life

Chapter 39: Third Uncle’s House in the County (1)

Sanshu Zhou Guomin works at the post office in the county town and is responsible for delivering newspapers to various units. The post office is equipped with a bicycle with a bag on the back seat.

At that time, those who had to eat from the government were called "iron rice bowls." Zhou Guomin graduated from a post and telecommunications school. Although he graduated from a technical secondary school, he was very good in his major. Generally speaking, ordinary undergraduate students are not as easy to assign as their majors.

The third aunt, Song Mingli, was originally from the city. She majored in teaching as a bachelor's degree. After graduation, she was assigned to Yingming Middle School, a key middle school in the county. At that time, teachers' salary was not very high. The salary she received was far less than that of Zhou Guomin, but it was a big thing at that time for a woman to be educated and employed. The other brothers and sisters-in-law in the family all looked at Song Mingli highly.

Song Mingli does not look down on rural people, but she still has a natural sense of superiority.

 She is very good at being a person. In her hometown in the country, she does not act like a city person and always helps with things.

Shen Huafeng and Zhao Yuzhen had some thoughts about her. They were both Zhou family's daughters-in-law, and neither of them felt happy that Song Mingli was taller in every aspect. However, in big scenes, Song Mingli was very willing to spend money to support the scene, leaving the two of them speechless.

Let’s talk about the nearby ones instead of those far away. Song Mingli gave the children five yuan as a gift. There were eight children in the family. This amount of money was not a small amount. You must know that the teacher’s salary at that time was The monthly salary is only more than 40 yuan.

But Song Mingli smiled brightly and didn't even blink when she took out the money. Although Shen Huafeng and Zhao Yuzhen also gave Zhou Zhiyuan five yuan as a new year's gift, the third family only had such a precious egg. After all, they took a lot of it. Cheap. Therefore, Shen Huafeng and Zhao Yuzhen smiled involuntarily at Song Mingli when they had dinner together.

During the New Year, meals are eaten from house to house, and finally it is the turn of the Zhou people in the city.

The county seat is about 40 to 50 miles away from Zhou Xiaoyun's home, and it takes more than an hour by bicycle. Fortunately, my uncle's house has a tricycle, and it only takes half an hour to drive there.

Along the way, the small tricycle was filled with the Zhou family. Not counting Wu Youde driving the car, there were five adults, Zhou Guofu, Shen Huafeng, Zhou Guoqiang, Zhao Yuzhen and Zhou Fang, and eight children in total. At this time, Zhou Guoqiang and Zhao Yuzhen finally lamented that they had too many children, and their own children accounted for half of the eight children.

The children were very excited when they saw that they were about to enter the county town, and their little minds rushed to look outside the car. First we passed some crop fields, then the road became wider and wider, shops and streets began to appear in our field of vision, and we finally arrived at the county seat.

Zhou Guomin’s family lives in a dormitory building issued by the post office. The house with three bedrooms and one living room is kept clean and tidy by her diligent grandma. The house of more than 90 square meters is quite spacious for a family of four, but it immediately seems crowded when so many people enter.

Song Mingli and her grandma were busy cooking. A large table was set up in the living room, and a small square table was prepared in the kitchen for the children to sit.

When eating in the city, everyone is a little more restrained and not as noisy as in the countryside, and the eating speed is much faster.

 After eating, the adults talked together and the children played nearby. Zhou Zhiyuan was so magical on his own territory that he took Dabao and the others out to play.

Zhou Xiaoyun came to his third uncle's house only a few times in his previous life, and his memory was already a little blurry.

 Looking carefully at this time, I found that the structure of the house at this time was all square and there was no decoration at all. The house had a cement mill on the floor and the walls were painted white, which was very simple.

However, Zhou Guomin worked at the post office and there were magazines and newspapers everywhere at home, and Song Mingli was a Chinese teacher. The bookshelf was full of composition books and story books, which made Zhou Xiaoyun pick up a composition book and read it as if he had found a treasure.

Zhou Xiaoxia and Zhou Xiaoyun were a little impatient when they were together, so they encouraged: "Da Ya, it's rare for us to come to the city and go out for a walk. Haizi and the others have gone out to play a long time ago, let's go find them!"

Zhou Xiaoyun didn’t really want to go, but then he thought he wanted to buy some things, so he nodded in agreement.

Erya stayed on Zhao Yuzhen's lap when she was too young. Zhou Xiaoxia went out with the three girls Zhou Xiaoyun and Wu Mei.

When I walked out of the door, I saw Zhou Zhiyuan, Dabao and several other boys setting off whips in the open space.

 No girl is willing to play such a dangerous game, and neither Zhou Xiaoxia nor Wu Mei wanted to go there.

Zhou Xiaoyun took the opportunity to say: "The three of us will go shopping on the street in front, buy some flowers and wear them. Anyway, we all have money."

Zhou Xiaoxia loves beauty the most and agreed: "Okay, let's go buy beautiful headbands and flowers."

Wu Mei hesitated: "But we are not very familiar with this place, so we might not be able to find it and come back."

Zhou Xiaoyun advised her: "How is it possible that I can't find it and come back? You see, there is no intersection if you just walk along the road, so you can just walk along the road when you come back. Besides, Sister Xiaoxia is ten years old, she must know her road."

Zhou Xiaoxia, who was called out, immediately held her head high and said, "I am an adult." Wu Mei couldn't help but persuade her to go around, so she followed.

There are shops on both sides of the street, some selling clothes, some selling shoes, some selling dried fruits and food, and some selling stationery and department stores. Zhou Xiaoxia and Wu Mei were attracted by a stall filled with rubber bands and hairpins, and they looked around in front of the stall. Those who picked it up had a lot of fun discussing it.

Zhou Xiaoyun also found her target. She told Zhou Xiaoxia and Wu Mei to wait for her where they were for a while and then walked towards the store door.

 In fact, she didn’t need to tell her, Zhou Xiaoxia tried this and that, Wu Mei looked at this and that, how could the two of them be willing to leave.

The store Zhou Xiaoyun entered specializes in selling pens, inks, paper and inkstones. The boss is a young man who is settling accounts with his head down. When he saw the guest coming in, he greeted him with a smile. When he saw the visitor clearly, he couldn't help but murmur in his heart: The children of this family didn't expect to celebrate the New Year and went to a shop selling brushes and ink to play.

The little girl who had just reached the height of the counter clearly conveyed her business to the boss’s ears: “Boss, I want to buy two brushes, two bottles of better ink, and give me a stack of rough paper.”

　　Until the business was completed and the money was received, the boss was a little dazed. This world is really strange. Since when did children of several years old buy these things?

 (End of this chapter)