Stepmother

Sanwa is curious: "What about the Wu family and the Shi family?"

"The two of them?" Song Zhaodi disdainfully said, "There is an unspoken rule in our country, the people do not raise the case, and the officials do not hold accountable. Once the reorganization is released, the cases handled by the Wu family and the Shi family during the Great Revolution will be re-examined, The people who were suppressed by the Wu and Shi families brought the materials to the procuratorate, even if it was a trivial matter the size of sesame and mung bean, the accumulation of small things could make the old man of the Wu family half-dead."

Erwa: "Isn't it about those two families?"

"Self-reliance." Song Zhaodi said, "Self-reliance is twenty-two. I have to talk to your grandfather Qi and find a virtuous and sensible daughter-in-law for Zirei who can stand loneliness."

Zhengxing: "I'm busy with self-reliance and work, and it's possible that I won't return home for ten days and a half months. He really has to look for a partner."

"Don't talk about self-reliance, how about you?" Song Zhaodi asked, "Didn't you talk about one in college?"

Erwa hurriedly said, "Mother, I know that there are several female classmates who like to revitalize."

Song Zhaodi was interested, put down the watermelon rind, picked up the wet towel on the bench, wiped her hands, and said, "Tell me about it."

"Teacher!" Revitalizing the headache, "Nothing, don't listen to Erwa's nonsense."

Erwa: "I'm not talking nonsense. Mother, once my brother and I went to the Normal University to find him. When we found him in the library, he was surrounded by three girls who looked like It was a discussion. But I could see clearly that the three girls could not wait to strip him of his clothes."

"Brother is so powerful?" Zhen Gang turned to Zhen Xing and looked at it, "I can't see it."

Erwa: "I didn't expect it either. Big brother is surrounded by so many girls, I'm not surprised at all. Brother Gengsheng has so many girls like it, I'm not surprised. But it's you, Zhenxing, you Honestly, did you learn how to please girls?"

"Then Zhenxing you are back, what about your objects?" Song Zhaodi asked.

Zhenxing smiled bitterly: "Teacher, can you stop saying the same thing. I don't have a target, let alone several."

"Then I'll introduce one to you tomorrow." Song Zhaodi frightened him.

Zhengxing nodded: "Okay."

Song Zhaodi choked: "I'm serious."

"I'm not kidding you." Zhen Xing said.

Song Zhaodi couldn't help but slandered, the child is too old to be fooled: "Tomorrow I will find someone to introduce you to someone."

"Mother, we have to make clothes tomorrow, and we have to make food for eldest brother." Sanwa reminded her.

Song Zhaodi took a breath and suddenly wanted to hit someone: "You don't need to remind me, I know."

"Aren't you afraid that you will forget?" Sanwa pouted and turned to Zhenxing, "Your female classmates like you, but you don't like them, so what do you like?"

Zhenxing was tired: "Teacher, I'm going to take a bath and go upstairs to sleep for a while." Without waiting for Song Zhaodi to speak, she got up and went to the kitchen to get hot water.

Sanwa looked puzzled and asked Erwa: "Is this question difficult to answer?"

"It's not difficult to say." Erwa said, "But, if you ask me, I can't answer."

Zhen Gang: "Because you guys are all boys."

"Then tell me, how many girls are there in your clinical medicine department?" Erwa asked.

Sanwa looked at Zhengang and then at Erwa: "Why are there so few girls in your school? There are 25 girls and 18 boys in our class."

"Our side is special, it's a military region." Song Zhaodi said, "And your mother, let me tell you that knowledge changes fate. So everyone attaches great importance to education. The outside is completely different from here.

"If I didn't study very well, and your grandfather's family didn't have a boy, your grandfather expected me to get ahead, I would go to a secondary school at most, and then go to a furniture factory to be a small accountant."

Sanwa doesn't understand: "You study well, does it have something to do with grandpa's lack of boys?"

"It's a big relationship." Zhen Gang came out with the water, "Ninety percent of the Chinese people prefer sons over daughters and expect to raise children to prevent old age. No matter how talented a daughter is, she will be someone else in the future. Can't count on it."

Sanwa frowned: "That's all feudal thinking. Now, it's all reformed and opened up."

"Let's not talk about reform and opening up, even after fifty years, the majority of people who prefer boys over girls." Song Zhaodi said, "In addition to not letting girls go to school, there is another reason, most People think that the two occupations of teacher and nurse are good, but these two occupations can be done when they go to secondary school. Many girls choose to go to secondary school, and they can go out to work earlier and support their families.”

Sanwa: "Mother said that, it's still patriarchal."

"That's right." Song Zhaodi said, "For these reasons, there are very few girls in the university, not to mention many people don't know the law department and the clinical medicine department. Isn't it? Erwa."

Erwa nodded: "Mother is worthy of being a mother, she knows everything."

"I've lived decades longer than you guys, and I don't even understand this. I've lived in vain." Song Zhaodi said, "Let's just say that Li Lanying from the east is a military member, so it stands to reason. It is said that the consciousness should be very high, but because the fourth is a girl, she wears her sister's old clothes every year, and the third is a boy and has new clothes every season."

Sanwa frowned: "I don't like Head Sun's two sons."

"Did they provoke you?" Song Zhaodi asked.

Sanwa: "No. Anyway, I don't like it, especially the eldest son of the head of Sun. When he came back last winter, he should have asked his sister to press the water, like a girl. Grandpa Qi told him The nanny doesn't speak like him."

"I don't like it either." Song Zhaodi glanced to the east, "Even if you can't be impartial, you shouldn't be so extreme."

Zhen Gang said as he packed up the watermelon rinds: "So there is only one teacher Song on the island."

Song Zhaodi was happy: "When you look for someone in the future, you will say the same thing with your mouth. I promise to like your girl more than your brother."

"I like dead people lately." Zhen Gang said.

Song Zhaodi immediately wanted to beat him: "Pack up and cook. Master Zhong is coming back soon."

"What to eat?" Zhen Gang asked.

Song Zhaodi thought for a moment: "There are two fish in the refrigerator. They have been braised and steamed with some rice. If you want to eat egg fried rice, steam more, and make egg fried rice at night."

"I want to eat egg fried rice." Sanwa got up and said, "I'm going to steam the rice. Second brother, Zhengang, you use the ground pot to make braised fish." The voice fell, and Zhong Jianguo came in.

Zhong Jianguo saw a few pieces of watermelon on the table, combined with what he just heard: "Don't tell me I haven't cooked yet?"

"Yes." Song Zhaodi said, "I have to tell you again, we will go to the imperial capital the day after tomorrow."

Zhong Jianguo looked at her sharply: "What are you going to do in the imperial capital?"

"Play." Song Zhaodi said without hesitation.

Zhong Jianguo frowned: "Aren't you afraid of fainting yourself on such a hot day?"

"We are holding umbrellas, so we won't suffer from heat stroke." Song Zhaodi, "I guess I won't be back until the end of the month. Would you like me to make more dumplings, roll some noodles, and steam some steamed buns—"

Zhong Jianguo interrupted her: "No! As soon as you leave, I'll eat in the cafeteria." After a while, "Play as long as you want, as long as you don't come back."

Song Zhaodi looked at him, speechless, and wanted to laugh: "Sanwazi, your father is angry and thinks we won't take him when we go out to play."

"Who said you won't take him?" Sanwa said loudly, "It's because he doesn't have a vacation himself, so I can't blame others."

Song Zhaodi: "Did you hear me?"

"You can get angry with me together." Zhong Jianguo nodded at her, went out to wash his face, opened the refrigerator and took out the watermelon when he came in, "Why do you suddenly think of going to the imperial capital? Zhenxing is not Did you just come back?"

Song Zhaodi glanced at the kitchen and whispered, "Sanwazi misses a few older brothers. Let's take a look at Dawa, turn to Binhai and come back in a few days."

"Your father is sick again?" Zhong Jianguo asked.

Song Zhaodi shook her head: "If you are not sick, you have to go and see. By the way, when we transfer from Shencheng, do we want to go to Dawa's grandmother's place to have a look?"

"Don't go!" Zhong Jianguo said, paused, "Why don't you ask Zhenxing to take a look. Erwa and Sanwa are a bit like Bai Hua. If they pass by, the Bai family may recognize them."

Song Zhaodi didn't want to go, but Baihua was buried on the island, and Sanwa went to her grave every year. Song Zhaodi felt that no matter whether the three children's pro-grandmother was dead or alive, she should be told. Even if she has turned into a loess now.

On the morning of Monday, July 19, Song Zhaodi and the others arrived in Shencheng. Because it was almost noon, Song Zhaodi found a restaurant to sit down and revitalized one person to go to Bai's house.

In about forty minutes, the dishes were ready and Zhenxing came back.

Song Zhaodi greeted him for dinner. When they went to the train station after dinner, Song Zhaodi asked, "Are you still alive?"

"It disappeared last summer." Zhenxing looked at Erwa, "Advanced esophageal cancer."

Erwa staggered and asked in disbelief, "She didn't have surgery?"

"No." Zhenxing said, "When I got there, a few people were eating under the tree at the entrance of the alley, and I asked an uncle that Bai Lin's mother was cured of esophageal cancer. No. The uncle said that grass grew on her grave.

"I asked her why she didn't get cured. The uncle meant that he was afraid of spending money, and then asked me what I was doing. I said that one of my relatives also had esophageal cancer. It was still early, if it could be cured If it is good, it will be cured, and if it is not cured, it will not be cured, so as not to suffer.”

Zhengang frowned slightly: "That's not right. I heard from the teacher in our school that the maximum cost for that operation is 200 yuan, and it can't be more."

"How do you know?" Sanwa asked.

Zhen Gang: "There are several teachers in our department who often go to the operating table today and teach us tomorrow. Don't think I'm only a year old, I know the situation in the hospital better than you."

"As you say, she has no reason not to do it." Sanwa didn't understand, "Mother, what did she think?"

Song Zhaodi: "I'm not her, I'm afraid of death, I really can't guess. Zhenxing, go to the grave for your father and your mother before school starts, and tell them that you have graduated from college. Erwa, you and Go to revitalize a piece, and tell Bai Hua."

"I see." Erwa said, "I guess she left the money to her grandson."

Song Zhaodi: "Don't worry about their family." Turning to revitalization, "Ten or twenty years later, your classmates are all university professors, but you are just a high school teacher, have you ever thought about this? "

"I thought about it, and I thought about it seriously." Zhen Xing said, "the people they will teach in the future will be educators, and the ones I will teach in the future may be officers. You still envy me."