The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 92 Mother Zhou's Worry

When Zhou Lingying's husband drove out, he gave her 100 yuan. Not 1 yuan, not 10 yuan, but 100 yuan.

Although everyone knew that the hundred yuan included the wages of the carpenter and the money for Jiang Cheng's father's medical treatment in the hospital, there was still a lot of surplus, and Zhu Lan also gave the money from Zhang Yang's kelp sales to Zhou Lingying. The same was true for the money from the eel sales a few days ago.

Maybe Zhou Lingying wanted to show off, so she told Wang Yuzhen all this in private.

This afternoon, Li Hongmei saw Zhao Yuxia washing clothes, so she approached her to talk to her. She said that washing clothes with tap water was expensive, and there was a well not far away where she could wash clothes, and asked if she wanted to go with her.

Zhao Yuxia has always lived in the countryside and saves money on many things, so she came here with Li Hongmei to wash clothes. This gave Li Hongmei the opportunity to talk about Zhou Lingying behind her back, hoping that Zhao Yuxia, as a mother-in-law, would take good care of her daughter-in-law.

Now Li Hongmei's daughter-in-law always talks about how well Zhou Lingying lives, and how her son can't earn money and just asks her to save money every day.

At this time, Zhou Lingying was feeding chickens at the chicken coop outside the kitchen, unaware that someone was slandering her behind her back.

The rotten leaves she used to feed the chickens were picked up by her at the vegetable market with great difficulty. She was not the only one who picked up rotten leaves at the vegetable market. There were also chicken farmers who picked up rotten leaves at the vegetable market, and they had to be careful when picking up rotten leaves.

The two hens that Secretary Wang sent were already laying eggs and had laid several eggs in the past few days.

Carpenter Li has already made most of the furniture he is going to make, including cabinets, wardrobes, tables and stools.

After finishing the work today, the only thing left is a desk and a dressing table. There should be some leftovers, and Master Li will make a few small stools.

In fact, when a carpenter works for someone else, he will take away any extra wood he has. Sometimes he takes the wood away to repair furniture for others, such as a broken leg of a stool. If he doesn't repair it, he can make a stool by himself if he has enough wood.

But since Jiang Cheng was such a good employer, Master Li would not be greedy for one or two short pieces of wood. He could make two more small stools for his employer with some leftovers.

After feeding the chickens, just as Zhou Lingying was about to go and see how the corn flour for the steamed corn bread was fermenting, she saw Zhao Yuxia and the neighbor aunt coming back with washed clothes.

I don’t have many clothes, and it’s mainly because I’m sweating, so I just scrubbed them a few times.

In the past two days, Zhao Yuxia carried Jiang Changhe on her back when she went to the hospital. When the doctor came, he would only give her acupuncture and massage for more than an hour. She could go home for the rest of the time. If she didn't want to run back and forth, she could stay in the hospital. But she couldn't bear to pay the hospital fee of more than 20 cents a day.

And if you are hospitalized, you need to be delivered meals and have someone to accompany you. It is really better to run a trip every day. Just carrying it back and forth every day will make you sweat a lot.

If Li Xianglan were here, she might have come to the hospital without Jiang Changhe and wouldn't have been afraid of what people might gossip about.

But Zhou Lingying didn't want to carry Jiang Changhe on her back unless she had no other choice. If her man was sick and couldn't move, she would be willing to help him wipe his butt when he went to the toilet. But Zhou Lingying was just over 18 years old after all, and she was too shy to carry her father-in-law to the hospital.

As for washing clothes, Zhou Lingying and her parents-in-law also wash them separately. It's not that she doesn't want to wash clothes for her elders, she just doesn't want to wash Jiang Changhe's trousers. She is willing to wash trousers and shirts.

But if one pair of trousers was left unwashed, Zhao Yuxia would have to wash them, so Zhao Yuxia simply didn't ask Zhou Lingying to wash their clothes. Back home, the eldest daughter-in-law, Li Xianglan, would not dislike this.

"Mom, you're back. Let me wash and dry the clothes." Zhou Lingying walked straight to Zhao Yuxia and took the wooden bucket filled with clothes from her. "Yingying, I want to tell you something. Just go to the right side of the yard and go to a street. There is a well there. You can wash your clothes there in the future. After all, tap water costs money. It's not easy for Chengzi to earn money alone. He has to support you and treat his father's illness. The poor nephews and nieces are also counting on him. The more money you can save, the better." Zhao Yuxia said with a slightly stiff tone.

"Oh, Mom, I understand. I didn't know there was a well over there. I will go there to wash clothes tomorrow." Zhou Lingying replied. Zhao Yuxia's tone made her a little uncomfortable, but she was willing to do so if it could save some water for washing clothes.

After responding to Zhao Yuxia's words, Zhou Lingying went to hang the clothes. In this weather, even if the clothes are washed in the afternoon, they can be dry at nine o'clock in the evening without waiting until tomorrow.

Zhao Yuxia didn't say anything else. She had to make another cabbage in the evening, so she went to cut it.

The family had dinner in the evening, and when it was getting dark, the carpenter went home.

At night, Zhou Lingying thought about Jiang Cheng, where he should be, when he would come to her parents' home in Nanjing, and how Jiang Cheng would be treated by her parents if he came to her home.

The last time she wrote to him, she only said that she and Jiang Cheng were dating, but now they were married and they did something very embarrassing. As for such things, she didn't even know how to think about such a scene when she was not with Jiang Cheng.

Now Zhou Lingying can take the initiative to take off her man’s pants before going to bed at night.

Zhou Lingying thought of her family. Her family had also been thinking about her these days.

The last time Zhou Lingying sent a letter, it took more than ten days to reach her home due to traffic problems and bad weather. Her parents were very happy at first when they saw the letter from their daughter, but they became worried after reading the content of the letter.

Nanjing, Baixia Road, Qinhuai District, the top floor of a flat-roofed building for employees.

When the weather is hot, some employees have flat cement roofs. Some employees can go to the top floor to dry some things. When it is hot, some people directly move their bamboo beds to the roof to sleep in the cool.

"Mr. Zhou, why is our daughter dating someone from the countryside? Hey, I heard that some rural areas are very chaotic. Do you think our daughter will be bullied if she finds a partner in the countryside?"

"Hey, stop making wild guesses. Didn't my daughter say in her letter that the guy she's dating is a former soldier with a job? You're just listening to what others say. Rural people are very honest. Besides, even if she finds a bad guy, what can we do about it?"

At this time, the two people sitting on a bamboo bed in a corner of the flat roof of the staff building and talking to each other in the cool air were Zhou Lingying's parents. Zhou Lingying's father was Zhou Dongming and her mother was Liu Xiaofang.

They had only received the letter from Zhou Lingying a few days ago. As a father, Zhou Dongming was only worried for a while that day.

Maybe men are more open-minded than women. Considering that their daughter is over 18 years old, she is actually 19. When there is no way to get her back, it is rare to tell her that she should not find a partner even if she becomes an old maid.

So Zhou Dongming was worried for a long time, and then he thought that he couldn't change anything, so the matter was left as it was.

At most, I hope that my daughter can have better vision and find someone who treats her well. Moreover, the letter said that the other party would work, so at least she would not have to worry about food in the future.

Zhou Lingying's father came to his senses in less than half a day, but her mother Liu Xiaofang has been thinking about it every day. She also heard from others that many of the educated youth who went to the countryside got married and wrote to their families to say that their lives were not good.

(End of this chapter)