Chapter 44

Sister-in-law Duan got Song Zhaodi's words, and went home to discuss with her daughter Liu Ping about going to the health school.

Your family knows your family.

Master Liu said that he would definitely not change his mind if he gave the university places to his soldiers, even if Liu Ping pressed him to death. However, when Liu Ping dared to force her to death, her father dared to beat her with a belt. Compared with death, Liu Ping and Liu Wei were more afraid of being beaten.

Liu Ping agreed to go to the health school, and Liu Wei went on to say that he would join the army next year.

Sister-in-law Duan did not want her son to be a soldier, but the young children on the island did not go to the army, and they went to the mountains and the countryside if they did not go to work. Sister-in-law Duan is from the countryside. She knows how hard the countryside is, and she is even more reluctant to let her son go back to the countryside.

The lesser of two evils. Sister-in-law Duan is not literate, and she understands this truth, so she agrees with her son to join the army.

When Liu Ping went to the health school, the first-year students brought by Song Zhaodi were also promoted to the second-year.

In the autumn of 1968, on the first day of school, Song Zhaodi followed Sanwa to the school, and saw the school teachers gathered in the principal's office again.

Seeing that Song Zhaodi was very nervous, the principal quickly said that there was nothing wrong and everyone was waiting for her.

Song Zhaodi sat down with Sanwa in her arms.

The principal said that today is mainly to discuss Teacher Song's problem.

This made Song Zhaodi confused and curious, so she asked the principal what problem she had.

The principal went on to say that Commander Wu had mentioned it to him and hoped that Song Zhaodi would follow the class and teach English in the second year of junior high school. Immediately, he pointed to a few teachers and said that their children are going to the first year of junior high this year, and they hope that Song Zhaodi will continue to teach the first year of junior high.

With Deputy Commander Wu on one side and his colleagues on the other, the principal was in a dilemma, so the meeting was held. Everyone thought of a way to get the best of both worlds.

Song Zhaodi shook her head and laughed when she heard what the principal said. Isn't the best way to get the best of both worlds is that she teaches the first and second classes of the junior high school.

The principal is not stupid, Song Zhaodi smiled, and he knew that Song Zhaodi had guessed what he meant. He was quite embarrassed and asked Song Zhaodi if it was okay.

With a high salary, Song Zhaodi logically said that there is nothing wrong with teaching two classes, so she asked the principal: "If this year's second-year students are promoted to third-year students, and you want me to continue teaching them, what are you going to do at that time?"

The principal was dumbfounded.

There are two English teachers in junior high school, one of whom was transferred from elementary school. Song Zhaodi took over the first year of junior high, and the teacher was transferred back to the primary school. Once Song Zhaodi takes three grades of English alone, another English teacher will face unemployment.

After a little thought, the principal knew that this matter could not be compromised, so he went to find Commander Wu.

Commander Wu didn't want to be told by others that he forced another teacher to lose his job because of his son, so he discussed with his son whether Song Zhaodi should follow the class.

Commander Wu's son wanted to be a diplomat. He knew that diplomats had to learn foreign languages ​​well, so he told his father that Mr. Song would follow him until the second year of junior high school.

Afraid that Song Zhaodi would disagree, the principal specifically mentioned that Commander Wu's son wanted to be a diplomat.

Song Zhaodi did not expect that the college entrance examination had stopped. Before the children of Wu family gave up their dreams, they agreed to take the second year of junior high school and take the first year of junior high school. After this incident, Song Zhaodi realized that there is a shortage of good English teachers on the island.

Since the English classes were all scheduled in the morning, Song Zhaodi was fine in the afternoon, so she went to the supply and marketing agency to buy a thick notebook, and copied the words that could be used in daily life according to the English textbooks of the first, second and third grades of junior high school, and at the same time in the back Add Chinese reading. Afraid that the children would not know the characters, they wrote Pinyin on the Chinese characters.

When Zhong Jianguo first entered junior high school, in order to learn English well, he also used the stupid method of adding Chinese reading.

Song Zhaodi told Zhong Jianguo again that this was done for the three children of the Zhong family. Zhong Jianguo was very happy to see her so caring. Song Zhaodi copied during the day and he copied at night.

The day before New Year's Day, the one-centimeter-thick notebook was full, and all the words Song Zhaodi could think of were finished.

In 1969, on January 1, in the morning, Song Zhaodi taught the book to Dawa. Dawa did not know English vocabulary, but Song Zhaodi taught him Pinyin very early.

Although Zhong Dawa is just in the first grade, she has already learned to use pinyin to read characters, so she picks one and asks, "Mother, what is it that you are exhausted from running?"

"Police, it's written on the back." Song Zhaodi said, turning to Zhong Jianguo, "Why do I feel unreliable?"

Zhong Jianguo: "It's not reliable in the first place. But it's better than not being able to speak up to the standard. It's not too late to correct his pronunciation when the baby goes to junior high school. You can learn as much as you can now."

"Should I watch it if I want, or not if I don't want to?" Zhong Dawa hurriedly asked.

Song Zhaodi smiled and said, "My father and I worked so hard to write it, are you embarrassed not to read it?"

The big girl choked.

Song Zhaodi: "You can teach your brother."

"I like this." Zhong Dawa was overjoyed and called Erwa and Sanwa to his side, "Come here, brother will teach you English."

Song Zhaodi said quickly, "Don't tear up the book. Otherwise, I'll slap your ass."

"No." The little friends on the island don't know English. Zhong Dawa has already thought of learning English to show off to the little friends, but she treasures the English book made by Song Zhaodi.

Song Zhaodi has been married to Zhong Jianguo for more than two years, and has been with several children for so long, so she understands the nature of children very well. If a very introverted child gets a new dress, he can't help but spread it out and show it off.

Song Zhaodi estimated that there would be a group of children behind Zhong Dawa's butt at the end of the year at the latest. However, she underestimated Zhong Dawa's "diplomatic ability".

On the 11th of January, in the afternoon, Zhong Dawa went out and brought back a bunch of children. Song Zhaodi roughly counted, there were thirteen or four.

Half are the children of soldiers and half are the children of fishermen on the island. Sitting in the living room of Zhong's house, Song Zhaodi's head hurts because of the noise.

The weather became cold, and Song Zhaodi couldn't drive the child out, so she told Dawa to go to Ma Zhenxing's house to play, and she had to make cotton shoes for their three brothers.

The big baby thought it would disturb her mother to make shoes, so she waved her little hand and went to Ma Zhenxing's house to play.

Sanwa likes to be lively, so she quickly grabbed Erwa's hand, fearing that the two older brothers would abandon him.

Seeing that the little baby wanted to go, Song Zhaodi instructed the older baby and the second baby to take care of the younger brother. When the younger brother wanted to pee, remember to take off his younger brother's pants.

Dawa was not afraid that Song Zhaodi would get angry and beat people, but she was afraid that Song Zhaodi would not cook and asked his father to do it. don't know if Zhong Jianguo did it on purpose. He has been learning how to cook for two years, and now he cooks once in a while, either because the salt is too much, or the salt is too small and tasteless.

As a result, what Song Zhaodi explained, Dawa never dared to forget. After playing at Ma Zhenxing's house for a while, he asked Sanwa if she wanted to pee or poop.

Zhou Shufen also thought that the child was very noisy, so she hid upstairs. I came down once in the middle and saw the big baby was lifting the pants for the third baby. I thought that Sanwa was urinating in his pants, but when he went to the front and asked that it was the big baby who watched him pee, he couldn't help feeling that Song Zhaodi taught him well.

After the child was sent away, Song Zhaodi began to write a letter to her mother, telling her that she would not be able to go back to the New Year this year, and at the same time put fifty yuan in the letter.

When Mother Song received the money from Song Zhaodi, she knew that the little girl had a good life.

Zhong Jianguo would wash clothes and wash dishes, and a little girl could stand up to such a man. Song mother did not say that she would not see him for a year. Even if she did not see her for ten years, she would not worry about Song Zhaodi being wronged.

But Song Zhaodi was her own after all, and she never came back after she got married, so Song's mother felt very uncomfortable.

The eldest sister of the Song family saw that her parents were unhappy since they received the letter, so she suggested that they go there.

There is not much work in the production team in winter. Mother Song and Mother Song are only in their early fifties and have never been seriously ill. They are in very good health and can withstand long journeys.

Just thinking that the second daughter had complained about her, and only took the eldest sister's family to Wengzhou Island, not taking her to Wengzhou Island, Song mother felt that if she did not bring the second daughter's family this time, she would be complained again when she came back.

Mother Song asked her eldest son-in-law Liu Yang to send a telegram to Song Zhaodi and ask Song Zhaodi if she would let her second sister come over.

When Zhong Jianguo received the telegram, he frowned, and when he got home, he asked Song Zhaodi, "What should I do?"

"My mother and my father want to come and see us, do you want to refuse?" Song Zhaodi asked rhetorically.

Zhong Jianguo: "When your parents come, I will welcome you ten thousand people. When your mother comes, I don't have to do the dishes or do the laundry. Your father also cleans up the ducks and chickens. But you The second sister's family comes over, and our family of five has to squeeze into the same bed again."

"No need." Song Zhaodi said, "The eldest child has three beds in the house. They asked my mother and sister to sleep in one bed, the children to sleep in bunk beds, and the second brother-in-law and my father to sleep in the guest room." After a pause, "The second brother-in-law has to go to work, and he has to go back after three or five days at most."

Zhong Jianguo: "Then I will return the telegram?"

"Go." Song Zhaodi said.

On the afternoon of January 31st, Song Zhaodi took her three children to the pier.

Mother Song and Father Song got off the boat, and the eldest child said happily, "Mother, the grandma who bought us a lot of delicious food is here again."

Mother Song was also happy when she heard Dawa's words: "I bought you a lot of delicious food this time." As she spoke, she handed the bag in her hand to Dawa, "This child grows really fast, in two more days. Years can help you do things.”

"It's okay now." Song Zhaodi said, "burning fire, moving firewood, feeding chickens and ducks, the big baby may have done it. What about the second sister and the second brother-in-law?"

Mother Song sighed: "The two children are seasick, and they're behind. Your father and I were afraid that you would be in a hurry, so we came down first."

The second sister of the Song family is called Song Lainan. Song Zhaodi and Zhong Jianguo met her on the day they got married. When Second Sister Song saw Song Zhaodi, she didn't congratulate her or asked her why she wanted to marry a man with three children. Instead, she opened her mouth and said, what's the use of going to school for so many years, not to fill a house for others.

Song Zhaodi was so angry at the time that she wanted to curse. If it wasn't for fear that Song's mother and Song's father would be sad, Song Zhaodi would not have agreed with her parents to bring her here.

Song Lainan disembarked, Song Zhaodi glanced at him, Song Lainan held his young son and looked back and forth with his mouth pouted.

Song Zhaodi's brows twitched, and she pretended not to see it, and greeted, "Father, mother, let's go back, I've bought the food, we can eat when we go back."

"Have you bought meat yet?" Song Lainan said suddenly.

Zhong Dawa frowned: "Who are you talking to?"

"I, of course I'm with you—" Song Lai-nan paused, "What did this child call you?"

Song Zhaodi: "Call my mother."

"I'm talking to your mother." Song Lai Nan said.

Zhong Dawa was unhappy: "Then why didn't you mention my mother's name? It's rude of you to talk like that."

Song Lainan suddenly felt short of breath and stared at Song Zhaodi: "Do you usually teach children this way? You don't understand a little politeness, and you don't know how to call people."

"What are you arguing about?" Mother Song felt that Dawa was right. Song Lainan asked a question without nomination or surname. She also wondered who Song Lainan was talking to, "Go back!" Glancing at the second daughter, she walked forward.

Song Lainan snorted and followed with pouting.

Song Lainan's husband, Song Zhaodi's second brother-in-law, hugged his eldest daughter, smiled at Song Zhaodi, and went after Song Lainan.

Zhong Dawa tugged at Song Zhaodi's trouser pocket: "Mother, who is she? How can she speak exactly like her grandparents?"

Song Laibao and Song Zhaodi, the eldest sisters of the Song family, looked like Mother Song, with round faces and big eyes, excellent eyebrows, and a very straight nose, but they were a little short.

Song Zhaodi suspected that Song's mother was too young when she gave birth to her eldest daughter, and she became pregnant with Song Laibao before her body was fully developed. As a result, when Song Laibao was born, neither two sisters were healthy nor tall.

The second son, Song Lainan, is about the same height as Song Zhaodi, nearly one meter seven. But Song Lainan has the same eyes as Song Zhaodi's, and a broad face like Song's father. In other respects, he is not like the Song family, but rather like several of Song Zhaodi's aunts and cousins.

Song Zhaodi said that her second sister was like Zhao Yin, which was not nonsense. Song Lainan's nose collapsed, exactly like Zhao Yin. Song Lainan likes to curl his mouth and wrinkle his nose when he talks, and Zhao Yin also has this problem.

Song Lainan's tone of voice was very similar to that of Zhao Yin and Zhong's father, and he was mean and inconvenient. Song Zhaodi didn't expect the big baby to see it at a glance, she was quite surprised, "No doubt, it's my second sister." She patted the back of the second baby's head, "Let's go home too."

Zhong Dawa was puzzled: "the second aunt you are talking about is her? But, they are all aunts, why are they different from aunts?"

Song Zhaodi coughed lightly: "This second aunt was just like the aunt when she was young. Later, when her head hit the door, she became like your grandmother."

"Is your head caught in the door?" Zhong Dawa asked.

Song Zhaodi almost laughed: "Yes! However, you can't say it in front of her, otherwise she will be very angry and beat you and Erwa while your father and I are away."

Erwa covered her mouth in fright.

Mother Song and Father Song walked out for a while, feeling that the footsteps were wrong. Looking back, Song Zhaodi was still standing there. Mother Song shouted loudly, "Zhao Di, what are you talking about?"

"I didn't say anything." Song Zhaodi replied loudly, holding the third baby, the second baby, and the eldest baby to follow.

Song Lainan watched and listened to all directions along the way, but his mouth was not idle. He kept saying that Wengzhou Island was a small fishing village, no different from her home.

Rows of second-story buildings appeared in front of him, and Song Lainan seemed to be suddenly caught by someone's throat. Before she could find her voice, Song's mother arrived. Song Lainan asked in disbelief, "This is Zhao Di's house?"

"Yes." Song Zhaodi winked at the big baby.

The big baby picked up the key hanging around his neck and unlocked the lock on the bamboo raft door.

Song Lainan saw that the yard was green and green, clean and tidy, as if he had stepped into the city from the countryside, and couldn't help but say, "This is like the house where military officers live."

"The house belongs to the army." Song Zhaodi felt ashamed for her when she saw her sour grin. "After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the army will take back the house."

Song Lainan paused: "Where will you live in the future?"

"Save money to buy a house, or buy land and build it yourself." Song Zhaodi said, "Daddy, go open the door."

Zhong Dawa glanced at Song Zhaodi, mother would lie too.

"Come in." Zhong Dawa opened the door and put away the book and sewing box on the bench, "Grandma, grandpa, please take a seat."

Father Song was delighted: "This child is getting more and more polite."

Zhong Dawa pursed her lips and smiled, and went to move the small bench, one for herself and one for Erwa, sitting next to Mother Song.

Song Zhaodi handed Sanwa to her mother and went to get a thermos to pour water: "Father, mother, drink some water to warm up your body first."

"I want to put things upstairs first." Mother Song took out the things she bought for several children as she spoke.

Knowing that it was bought for them, Zhong Dawa immediately opened it, saw the white thing inside, took out a piece and asked, "Mother, what is this?"

"Rice candy." Song Zhaodi thought about it carefully.

Zhong Dawa hadn't eaten it, so she looked curious, handed it to Erwa, and opened another oiled paper bag: "What about this?"

"Caramel." Song Zhaodi said, and opened another paper package. When she saw the candy stick inside, she couldn't help frowning, "Mother, why did you buy them so much candy."

Mother Song: "Of course it's for food." After a pause, "Last time I came with your father and saw that there is no food for children in your supply and marketing cooperative, so I guessed that Dawa and Erwa have never eaten. Baby, second baby, take it and eat."

"Mother, I want too." Song Lainan's daughter suddenly said.

Zhong Dawa handed the caramel in his hand to Song Lainan.

"I don't want it, I want that." The little girl pointed to the rice flower candy in Erwa's hand.

Song Zhaodi: "Dad, get my sister a piece of rice candy."

"I don't want it, I want it from him." The little girl pointed at Erwa and said.

Zhong Dawa frowned: "My brother ate this one, and I'll get you a good one."

"I don't want it!" The little girl raised her voice abruptly.

Zhong Dawa shivered with fright, and almost threw the caramel in her hand to the ground. When she came back to her senses, she looked at Song Zhaodi: "Mother..." Is she sick?

"Second baby, this is for my sister." Song Zhaodi took a good piece, exchanged for the rice flower candy that Erwa had eaten, and handed it to Song Lainan's daughter Du Tao, pointing out, "Second sister, your daughter's candy.Good eyesight."