Eating melons and raising children in the period literature

Yang Qingqing has been working for a while. During this period, except for Wang Meili's occasional targeting, her relationship with Yao Hongxia can be said to have made great progress.

Now Yao Hongxia and Yang Qingqing can be said to be best friends. After get off work at noon that day, Yao Hongxia insisted on taking her to the state-owned restaurant for dinner.

"Qingqing, let's go to the state-owned restaurant for dinner. I'll treat you."

"I brought food, you can go by yourself."

"Oh, don't worry about the money. I'm going to treat you to a meal, just accept it. I have something to tell you. Let's go."

Then he took Yang Qingqing to the state-owned restaurant.

"Sister Wang, two bowls of shredded pork noodles. And a plate of cold dishes. What do you want?"

"Okay, Hongxia came with Qingqing today. There are also smashed cucumbers and mixed tofu," said Sister Wang happily.

"Yeah, let's have cucumbers. Is that okay? Qingqing."

“Okay, I’ll eat anything.”

They found a place to sit down and Yao Hongxia couldn't wait to say, "Qingqing, I have a friend. She likes someone. That person is very good, gentle and considerate to her, and always obeys her in everything. But now she finds that the person seems to be pretending. He is not that good anymore, but there is an indescribable feeling."

"So what do you want? Do you like him and want to marry him?"

"My family originally planned to have us get engaged after the Chinese New Year and get married in two years, but now I feel like he's not paying enough attention or isn't willing to do it anymore." Yao Hongxia was very distressed but there was really no one she could talk to, so she found Yang Qingqing.

"Didn't you just say a friend? Now it immediately becomes like your family wants you to get engaged. It was exposed too quickly. Hahahaha."

"Oh, stop laughing. I don't know what to do now."

"Then when did he start to make you feel that he was unwilling? And do you insist on marrying him? Do you like him very much?"

"I'm not sure. I always thought of him as my older brother. He and my brother grew up together. He has always taken good care of me. It was his family that suggested we get married. My parents asked me and I didn't object, so my family agreed."

"You treated him as your brother and agreed to marry him! Don't you think that's hasty?"

"You don't know, he's so good-looking. Many of my classmates like him. If I marry him, they will be so jealous of me. Besides, he's been very good to me!"

"That's why! Even though it looks good, it can't be eaten."

"But he is now a technician at a steel plant. His salary is only slightly lower than my mother's, which is very impressive."

"Then he is handsome, rich, and has a nice personality. No wonder you agreed. So did he become uneasy after he found out about the engagement?"

"No, we got engaged after the Spring Festival. He was very good to me in the beginning, taking care of everything. He would talk to me every day, sometimes he would send me to work, and we would go to the movies during our breaks. He went to Kyoto to study two months ago, and he was not right when he came back. I told my mom, but they said it was because he had a lot of work to do. They told me to be considerate of him and not to be willful. But I just feel something is wrong."

"So what do you want now? Do you want to break off the engagement? Or do you still want to marry him?"

"I don't know, I just feel so annoyed."

"Why don't you just ask him directly? You are not the type to be so slow!"

"I asked him. He also said that he was busy with work and didn't mean to ignore me. He asked me to forgive him. I thought I was being too suspicious. But he suddenly changed in the past two days. He became indifferent and didn't like me. He always found excuses to stay away from me. Even when he was with me, he seemed to be thinking about someone else. I think he likes someone else."

"You mean he was not right two months ago, then he got better, but now he is not right again. I think he has fallen in love with someone else. But that doesn't make sense! It's possible for a person to like another person intermittently."

"I don't know what's going on. I just feel like he's in love with someone else. We planned to go to the movies these two days. But he said yesterday that he doesn't have time recently. He has something to do and asked me not to go to see him."

"Then don't look for him these two days. Find out if it's because of work. What if he's just busy? You can pay attention to whether he has frequent contact with women. Or you can ask him directly!"

"I asked him, but he didn't say anything. He seemed to be hesitant to speak. I asked my parents, but they told me not to think too much about it. It was so annoying."

"If you think there's a problem, just pay attention to it. If it doesn't work out, just cancel the engagement. I haven't even met him! I really don't have any advice for you."

"I know. It'll make me feel better if I tell you about it. I'll keep an eye out to see if he likes someone else."

A few days later, it was finally Yang Qingqing's turn to rest. She went to Ma's house to pay back the money and heard Ma's story about the educated youth in the village. When she thought about what Yao Hongxia said, she felt that the matter was not that simple.

Yang Qingqing ordered a cabinet and table to be delivered to her home. She happened to be at work and forgot to pay Wen Jing. After they were delivered to her home, Wen Jing had no choice but to go to Ma's house. Ma's house paid for it. Yang Qingqing had no time to return the money and thank Ma's house recently. So she went to Ma's house during her break. While returning the money, she thanked Ma's house for helping her make clothes. Yang Qingqing brought two bars of scented soap and two bars of soap to Ma's house as a gift.

Aunt Ma told Yang Qingqing about the latest news in the village.

Among the educated youth who came two days earlier than Yang Qingqing this year, there was a particularly pretty female educated youth. The young men in the village were so fascinated by her that they competed to help her with work and give her gifts! A few days ago, a young man suddenly came from the city and said he wanted to see her. I thought he was her brother, but later I heard that he was not, but just a friend. He also said that he would find a job for her in the city! Everyone said that he was her boyfriend, and she didn't object, so everyone agreed.

Originally, all the young people in the village had given up, but Tiansheng from the village went to the educated youth center to make a scene when he heard about it. He said that the female educated youth took his money and wanted to date her. The man was not her partner, so he asked the female educated youth to get a marriage certificate with him.

The female educated youth disagreed, saying that she had confiscated his money and had not agreed to date him. Finally, the village chief (the village chief, village director, and team leader were all the same person) went to investigate and found out that it was another person who came with her who collected the money under her name. In the end, the village chief asked the female educated youth to return the money and punished her to fertilize the rice fields.

At first Yang Qingqing thought it was modern chemical fertilizer, but after Aunt Ma explained it to her, she realized it was manure water. Chemical fertilizers were not used on a large scale in that era.

The reason why the educated youth framed someone was because she was pretty and seduced people everywhere. The person she liked also liked her, but when she ignored her, she wanted to take revenge on him.

Yang Qingqing didn't think much about it and asked what the beautiful female educated youth was called. Only then did she know that the female educated youth was the heroine of the book, Su Xiaoxiao.

She realized that she had encountered a plot. After years of experience in reading modern novels, she felt that since the heroine had appeared, the hero should not be far away. Could it be that the man who could find a job for the heroine was the hero? However, through Ma's description, Yang Qingqing could not determine whether it was true or not, so she thought that it had nothing to do with her and put it aside.

As a result, she saw the heroine talking to a good-looking, medium-sized, gentle man at the entrance of the village in the afternoon. Yang Qingqing passed by and heard them say

"Thank you, Brother Han. I really appreciate that you thought of me, but I really can't accept it. I responded to the country's call to receive re-education from poor and lower-middle peasants." Su Xiaoxiao looked at the man with tears in her eyes.

"Xiaoxiao, you are really conscious. But can your body withstand the labor in the countryside? It will be too hard for you. Everyone will understand you. Don't think too much, no one will blame you."

"Brother Han, thank you, I really can't accept it." Then he ran away crying.

Yang Qingqing passed by them and heard their conversation and Su Xiaoxiao's beautiful back as she ran away.

Han Liren looked at Yang Qingqing with dissatisfaction, turned around and left.

Yang Qingqing: "I didn't ask her to run away, why are you looking at me, you're crazy"

She returned home and the more she thought about it, the more she felt that it was a little unsafe to be so close to the heroine. But you still have to be close to eat melons. There was no Internet in this era, and if you were far away, you couldn't eat melons.

Yang Qingqing felt that she had not yet fully met the educated youth in the village. She also did not know what the educated youth in the village were like. Currently, the only known ones were the heroine Su Xiaoxiao, the female educated youth Wang Dan who framed her, and this Han Liren. Everyone had no intersection with her, and it should not affect her. She would just be responsible for eating melons in the future.

I thought it through and didn't worry about it anymore.

The next day at work, Yang Qingqing saw that Yao Hongxia was still absent-minded, so she didn't go to say hello.

Who knew that when he was about to ask her during lunch break, he saw Han Liren coming to see Yao Hongxia.

Yang Qingqing went back to her counter without bothering him.

When I went to work in the afternoon, I saw Yao Hongxia with red eyes from crying. Yang Qingqing saw that no one came, so she went to ask her

"Sister Hongxia, what's wrong with you? Was the person who just came to you the one you mentioned?"

"Yeah, it's him. He just told me that he wants me to tell my parents that he wants to cancel the engagement. He hopes I can help him. He met a girl and wants to marry her! So he wants me to cancel the engagement."

"What? I don't understand what you are saying? He likes someone else and asked you to cancel the engagement, so you agreed."

"Am I crazy? How could I possibly agree to him? It was their family that wanted to get engaged, and now it's their family that's going back on their word. Why should I say that? I'm so pissed."

"Then why are you crying? Weren't you worried before that his attitude was wrong? Now you know the reason. What do you want to do?"

"That's why I'm crying. I didn't say I had to marry him. If he wants to cancel the engagement, we can discuss it between our two families. But he actually asked me to go and talk to him. I feel so aggrieved now. It's not like I should cancel the engagement, but it's not like I should not cancel it either! What do you think I should do?"

"It's easy! Go talk to your parents and tell them what he told you. Let your parents help you solve it."

"You're right. I'm so angry. See you tomorrow. I'm going to ask for leave. I'm not in the mood to go to work. Anyway, no one comes to my counter. I'm leaving first."

"Okay, go ahead. I'm going to work."

Yang Qingqing thought to herself, "That Han Liren is really sick. Did he lose his IQ after meeting the heroine? What a train of thought. Is Han Liren the male protagonist? I don't think so! Then the male protagonist of this book is a bit weak. The name doesn't sound good either!"

But it has nothing to do with Yang Qingqing at the moment. She just thinks about it.

the next day, noon

"Qingqing, let me tell you something. My parents agreed that I would not marry into his family. They took me to his house last night. But his family disagreed, and he didn't say anything. In the end, they didn't cancel the marriage. I don't know what he was thinking! He wanted to cancel the engagement. But when we went there, he didn't say anything and didn't express his attitude."

"I don't know what he thinks. Just stick to your idea. Leave the matter to your parents!"

As I was talking, I saw Han Liren coming over.

"Hongxia, I have something to talk to you about. Can you come out for a moment?"

"I don't have anything to tell you. Didn't we make it clear yesterday? Why are you looking for me again?"

"I really need your help, please."

"Okay. Let's see how we have grown up together. Qingqing, I'm going to go out for a while. I'll be back soon."

County Center Park

"What do you want to say that requires me to come out?" Yao Hongxia said impatiently

"Hongxia, can you tell your parents that it was you who insisted on breaking off the engagement? Then tell my parents that it was because of you. I really have someone I like. I can't bear a bad reputation."

"Where's your brain? Why can't you do it? I can do it."

"Your family is powerful, no one will laugh at you. But it's different for me, my family are all scholars. We can't let others talk about it. Besides, Xiaoxiao is so innocent, weak and kind, she won't accept my breaking off the engagement."

"You are sick! Your family can't do it, you can't do it, and your girlfriend can't do it. Only I can do it, right? Am I crazy? I'm ruining my own reputation to help you."

"No, can you tell your parents that it's not because I like someone else that you're breaking off the engagement. Just say that we're not suitable for each other."

"Then what were you doing earlier? You could have just said no. Now that I know everything, are you going to pretend you don't know?"

"No, I really don't want to lie to you. But my family can't accept me breaking off the engagement. Especially because I like someone else. That's why I want to ask you for help."

"You are such a contradictory person! You don't want to lie to me, but you also want me to help you. I can't do that. Go ask who can do it. I have nothing to say to you! Don't come to me anymore."

Yang Qingqing was also speechless when she heard Yao Hongxia's retelling. But she also felt that Han Liren was no longer like the male protagonist. If the male protagonist was such a person, wouldn't the author of the novel be scolded to death?

This Han Liren is the type who always wants to live a clean life, and the person I like also wants to live a clean life. But he doesn't want to have to do anything bad with his ex-girlfriend. He wants his ex-girlfriend to do all the bad things. He and his family must be the victims. He is the type of scum who wants to be a whore but still wants to be a saint. But he also has a little bit of integrity. It's hard to say

Yang Qingqing decided to pay attention to this matter. After all, it was related to the heroine. If something happened that would affect Yang Qingqing herself, it would be bad.