African Nationhood

Chapter 260 Marriage in the Pond (Part )
  The destination of the pond is Mapu Port Junior Primary School. This primary school gathers tens of thousands of immigrant school-age children on the north and south shores of Mapu Port. Those who are far away can apply for accommodation at the school.

And his sister Chi Ou also lives on campus because of Chi's mother's insistence. She usually stays at school to study and can go home on weekends.

Pond would go to school to see his sister every time he had a break. Mapugang Elementary School is located in the southwest corner of Mapugang City, making it convenient for students on the south bank to come to school, while students on the north bank only need to walk a little longer.

The entire school is not big, covering an area of ​​more than ten acres. After all, there are only a few hundred students.

The Mapugang City Management Committee has also left a lead time for the expansion of the school. After the population surges in the future, the expansion of the school will not be difficult.

……

Like primary schools in later generations, there must be a small shop at the school entrance, but the small shop here is a service club.

The items in the service club are cheap and rich in variety. In addition to the common pencils and word pads, there are also a wide variety of snacks.

In addition to the common persimmons, fruit peels and maltose, the most popular items sold at the service center are the sweet and sour and slightly spicy "Fig Shreds" and the spicy "Spicy Tiao".

Among these kinds of snacks, the latter two are said to be made by Mr. Shi personally instructing the small food factory.

When Po Po ate "Shredded Figs" and "Spicy Sticks", he also felt that these two snacks were very delicious.

Later, after I got to the Navy, I learned from my comrades that the so-called "shredded figs" are made from pickled radish. No wonder this thing has a spicy taste after eating it. It turns out to be made from radish.

The "spicy strips" are pickled from soybean products such as yuba. They taste chewy but extremely spicy.

Pond likes to eat, and Pond loves to eat even more, so every time Pond comes to visit his sister, he will buy her a big bag.

These snacks are not high in price and come in large quantities. You can buy a large pack with a 5 yuan military stamp.

……

The service club doesn't have a big appearance. There are only two people inside, an older middle-aged woman and a young girl.

When the two salesmen saw Pond coming in, the young salesman immediately greeted him with a smile.

The middle-aged salesperson greeted with a smile: "Here comes the sailor brother. I haven't seen you for a while. You look handsome again."

Pond smiled and said nothing, but the young salesperson next to him quickly started to pack "shredded figs" and "spicy strips", and also added some fruit bark maltose.

These are all fixed items for Pond. Before Pond opened his mouth, the young salesperson had already packaged and weighed them for him.

"There are a total of five yuan in military notes, which have been divided into two packages."

Chi Chi used to buy two or three yuan military stamps to see his sister, but since he learned that Salina was transferred here to be a teacher, he changed to buy five yuan military stamps and divided them into two parts.

Facing the two tightly packed paper packages handed over by the young salesperson, Pond smiled, and then quickly handed over a 5-yuan military coupon.

Watching Pond walking out of the service club, the two women gathered together and whispered, "What a pity for this sailor brother. How can he fall in love with a foreign woman and kill her husband?"

The two people's voices were not loud, but the pond was not far away and he could hear them.

……

Salina's head was bitten open by a lion two years ago when her husband failed to participate in a hunting team.

Although the whole body came back, all the faces could not be seen clearly.

At that time, Salina burst into tears, but she could not call her husband back. After burying her husband, she left her husband's house.

Although they had been married for several years, her husband spent most of his time away from home hunting, so she did not have any children.

All of her husband's pension was withheld by her parents-in-law. She could have sued her parents-in-law's family to get a share of her husband's pension.

But she didn't do this, so she basically had no savings except her salary income. Later, Salina won the first prize in the "Learning Chinese Grand Prix" held by the company's cultural department. In addition to receiving a gold certificate, she was also transferred to the education department by the cultural department and became a teacher in Mapugang City.

This job was previously only available to Chinese people. After she became a teacher, she discovered that teachers’ benefits were much better than those of port receptionists.

Not only do they get up to one and a half months of paid leave every year, but they also enjoy free schooling for their children and public medical care.

……

Although Chi Chi has only been working for three years, he has saved a lot for his wife, including more than 3 yuan in military bills.

Moreover, his land has accumulated to 40 acres, and Chi Mu helps him manage it on weekdays.

Chi's mother also holds the harvested grain in exchange for military coupons, but she has remarried and can no longer be counted as a member of the Chi family. Sooner or later, he will get back the income from the land.

Salina's thoughts about Pond can also be seen, but she is a widow and 4 years older than Pond.

And Pond is a naval soldier and a Chinese, so there is a big gap in status between the two.

She didn't dare to speak for fear of breaking the tacit understanding between the two.

……

Pond is already 21 years old. If he still stayed in the Qing Dynasty, his children would be all over the boat.

He was just 18 years old when he first joined the navy. Chi's mother did not dare to delay her son's future, so she did not help him arrange a marriage.

After Chi Chi was promoted to private, Chi's mother began to worry about her son's marriage.

At first, Chi's mother just patiently persuaded him, and later she directly forced him to go on a blind date, but he was silent and refused, and Chi's mother couldn't do anything either.

The reason why Chi Chi was reluctant to go on a blind date was that he accidentally learned that Salina was widowed. At that time, he firmly believed that he would marry Salina.

But he was afraid that his mother would not agree, so he refused on the grounds that he had just boarded the ship and was busy with training.

At first, he did not have much free time due to combat training, so he started to write letters to Selina. The contents of the letters at first were nothing special, they were all daily contents.

Selina was also shocked when she received Pond's letter.

At that time, she was in the lonely and empty period of being widowed, so she started communicating with Pond.

Later, Salina slowly came to her senses and realized that this Chinese sailor must be interested in her.

The status of soldiers in the Nanhua Company was very high, and they were protected by military fields. They were the most favored marriage partners for many women, including indigenous white women.

There is a young soldier who likes her, how could Selina not be tempted.

So when the cultural department asked her where she wanted to work, she already knew that Pond's sister was studying at Mapu Port City Junior School, so she chose Mapu Port City Junior School without even thinking about it.

At that time, the cultural department also praised her for her commendable spirit, taking the initiative to choose the start-up Mapugang City as a teacher, and called on the company's normal students to learn from her.

Selina was quite embarrassed at the time, but she gradually got used to it after working in school for a long time.

Since Pond came to deliver food during the holidays, other people in the school also tasted it.

She would always tease Salina about nothing, and her family also urged Salina to find a man to marry while she was still young and could have children, which made Salina a little anxious.

If this dull guy didn't speak, she couldn't wait to speak.

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