It’s a Stepmother, Not a Sister [70s] - Chapter 115

    “Elder He, what are you looking at?” Zhao Yinghua, who was holding a bag of clothes, asked. She saw Mr. He standing in front of the group of monkeys, startled, and couldn’t help but be curious.

    From Zhao Yinghua’s point of view, the “monkey painting” on the wall is really…

    It makes people look a little panicked, each of the monkeys above is vivid, and the facial expressions are vivid, making people feel as if there are so many people in front of them…

    A tingling monkey.

    Scratching the monkey hair on her hand, chirping and surrounding you… Zhao Yinghua swallowed and couldn’t help thinking of Xiao Huihui, who was a headache at home.

    “Grandma!

    …

     Mr. He walked out of his thoughts, “Xiao Jiang’s painting is very interesting. It’s done in one go, no, it’s natural.”

    “…She must know a lot about monkeys.” Mr. He dragged his cheeks thoughtfully.

    The corner of Zhao Yinghua’s mouth twitched, “Can’t it be deep? There is a monkey child at home.”

    “I took my child to the zoo a few days ago to see the monkeys.”

    “In addition to this one, she also drew many other monkey pictures.”

    “Really? Can you show me?”

    “Okay, it’s all because of the child Huihui, who was arguing every day to catch monkeys like his brother, where there are wild monkeys to catch him now, and the fifth daughter-in-law will I drew him a lot of monkey stickers in the room…”

    “Huihui doesn’t want to paint, he wants to be a real monkey, but he didn’t make a fuss about Xiao Jiang, those paintings were also torn down and left, right… it’s here .”

     Mr. He looked at the monkey pictures she drew before, and nodded involuntarily, “I practiced a lot.”

     “Yes, I also think that Xiao Wu’s daughter-in-law is more and more able to draw monkeys.”

    “Look at this one, it’s like a real monkey.”

    “I think this one is the best one to draw!” Zhao Yinghua pointed at a monkey face.

    Master He: “…Can you take a closer look at this group of monkeys?”

    Zhao Yinghua: “This…there are too many monkeys, dozens of them?”

    There are so many monkeys, it’s a headache to look at.

     Mr. He: “One hundred and eight monkeys.”

    Zhao Yinghua: “…”

    “This is her best work.” Mr. He nodded with satisfaction.

    Zhao Yinghua: “?????”

    Crazy!

    “Master He…do you like…this monkey?”

    “I want to watch more.”

    Zhao Yinghua only felt that her scalp was numb, so many monkeys, wouldn’t she have nightmares at night?

    “How about you take it to the mountain city to enjoy it slowly? It’s getting late, so it’s not good to delay.”

    “Okay, then I’ll take the painting with me.”

    Mr. He carefully took this treasured “Monkey Group” with Zhao Yinghua to the mountain city by boat.

    The next day, he brought the monkey group to the Shancheng Academy of Fine Arts and found Mr. Shen, a teacher of Jiang Shuangling. When Mr. Shen saw the painting, he was immediately surprised.

    “Is this a painting of Xiao Jiang?”

    “The artistic level of this painting is very high. I didn’t expect her painting to progress like this…” Mr. Shen muttered.

    “I asked her to hand in a piece of work before, this one? She told me that the painting will be handed over to me when she returns from her hometown.”

    “Didn’t think she was done?”

     Mr. He: “…”

     Mr. He was a little puzzled, this is the work that Jiang Shuangling wants to participate in the competition? He hadn’t heard him say it.

    Mr. Shen smiled and said: “She has practiced for this group of monkeys, and she doesn’t know how long she has been practicing. These 108 monkeys are all done in one go. Look here, and here…”

     Mr. He: “She drew a lot of monkeys, and she took her children to the zoo to observe the monkeys carefully. By the way, she has seen wild monkeys several times.”

    “…no wonder.”

    “She actually drew such a work… I was not sure about her winning the award, but now I have an eight-nine score in my heart.”

    This painting is already at the level of Jiang Shuangling’s extraordinary performance countless times.

    “I didn’t expect her to be so good at drawing monkeys.”

     Mr. He nodded thoughtfully: “It’s her youngest son who likes monkeys, she drew a lot of them and posted them in his room.”

    …

    “There is such a story behind it.” Mr. Shen nodded silently, “With a mother’s deep love.”

    “No wonder the painting is full of emotion, every monkey is lively and lively, so it is…”

    Jiang Shuangling and Qi Heng brought their three children to the crowded Shancheng Railway Station. Qi Hui slid by his father’s leg and looked around, his **** eyes kept looking around.

    Comrade Qi Hui, who has never traveled far, came to a place like the train station for the first time, and he was curious wherever he looked.

    People walked past him with a backpack, and he stretched his head like a giraffe.

    Seeing the official at the train station pulling a cart through the crowd, he couldn’t help but follow the cart.

    Then he was lifted by the hem.

    Qi Yue and Jiang Che are already two very mature cubs, help take care of this little loach that slides around.

    “Brother, what is that?”

    “Selling peanuts and melon seeds.”

    “Do monkeys eat peanuts and melon seeds?”

    …

    Jiang Shuangling: “…”

    She leaned on Qi Heng’s shoulder a little tired.

    The monkey is exhausted.

    I hope that after this trip, the little broken cub at home can completely forget about the monkey.

    The green-skinned train whined into the station, Qi Heng hugged Qi Hui in his arms, the little brat stared at the long train with wide eyes.

    “Dad? Are we moving?”

    “Dad and mother take you and your brother and uncle back to your mother’s home.”

    …

    The family got on the train, Qi Heng and Jiang Shuangling sat in a row holding Qi Hui, Qi Yue and Jiang Che sat opposite, the family temporarily contracted this corner of the train.

    After getting on the train, there were constant noises in the compartment, all of which were the sound of luggage being placed, and the loud voices of speech. The flight attendant in front held a small speaker to remind the passengers to pay attention matter.

    Selling peanuts and melon seeds is preparing to enter the carriage.

    Qi Hui squeezed to the window to look outside as soon as he got on the train. After everyone was seated, the train banged and banged out of the train station, and the scenery outside turned green. field.

    The cold wind from outside the window blew in, Jiang Shuangling put a rabbit fur hat on him, Qi Hui shrank in her mother’s arms, and straightened like a giraffe Neck struggled to look out the window.

    “Mom, hurry up!”

    As soon as Qi Heng got in the car and sat down, he closed his eyes and rested. The opposite Qi Yue and Jiang Che gathered together and talked about some interesting things at school. But the picture from five years ago popped out in my mind.

    Two four- and five-year-olds were squeezing around on the seats, eating small milk cakes, and flipping through comics…

    From 1971 to 1976, five years have passed.

    Jiang Shuangling couldn’t help feeling the change of time in her heart. Five years ago, the man beside her was still a stranger she had only seen twice, but now, he is her in this world the closest person.

    Life changes so wonderfully.

    “When I went out, I made some small milk cakes. Come, everyone will try a piece.” Jiang Shuangling still remembers the small milk cakes she once made, and this time she specially made an upgraded version and brought it here .

    Posted one by one.

    Jiang Che happily took the small milk cake from her sister. After taking a bite, although she thought it was too sweet, she still ate it seriously; Qi Yue took the small cake Milk cake, this sweet and greasy little milk cake made him frown. It was seven or eight similar to Qi Heng, who ate a small milk cake for the first time back then; Qi Heng was expressionless and ate too sweet. In the past few years, Jiang Shuangling has had many experiences of being fed sweet and greasy cakes by Jiang Shuangling. At this time, he has no feeling at all. When Jiang Shuangling eats the little milk cake in her hand, she also feels that she is about to die.

    Among the five people present, only Qi Hui, the child, sincerely likes to eat the little milk cakes made by her mother.

    “Mom, it is delicious!

    Jiang Shuangling: “…”

    Three next to: “…”

    Eating too much.

    When Jiang Shuangling went to fetch water, someone in the same car joked with her, “You have too many boys, it’s hard to support them.”

    “That’s a lot!

    “I think you eat less, don’t save yourself too much.”

    Jiang Shuangling was speechless.

    She…she actually received a sympathy? !

    Walking with a bunch of rice buckets, but she only ate a small rice spoon.

    It’s not that she doesn’t eat much, it’s that she eats too little against their background.

    The head is large.

    When Jiang Shuangling returned to the seat, Qi Hui sat on the seat and kicked his legs around, he was no longer interested in the scenery outside the window. “Mom, I want to watch TV.”

    “There is no TV in the car, I will tell you a story.”

    “I want my uncle to tell me stories, and my brother to sing for me.”

    Qi Yue: “?” Am I singing out of tune?

    Jiang Che: “!?” I can’t tell stories?

    Jiang Shuangling and Qi Heng: “…”

    “If you don’t listen to mother’s stories, let’s memorize ancient poems, shall we?”

    Let Qi Yue sing in the carriage, do they want to be famous on the train?

    Qi Hui showed a sad face: “Then let’s mother tell the story.”

    Jiang Shuangling held the little brat in her arms and told him stories with a comic book. Although Qi Hui was lively and active during the day, he slept very early at night, listening to his mother’s voice, The little head slowly fell asleep like a chicken pecking at rice.

    Qi Heng took the sleeping Qi Hui into his arms, Jiang Shuangling was also a little sleepy, leaned on Qi Heng’s shoulder and fell asleep gently.

    The lights in the carriage were all off, the windows of the train were closed, and only the rhythmic clanging of the train could be heard on the tracks.

    Qi Heng tilted his head, dropped a kiss on the forehead of the woman beside him, and slowly closed his eyes.

    The family got off the train.

    Jiang Shuangling looked around and found that five years later, the train station seems to have not changed, but the facilities have become more outdated, and the pedestrians are still the same.

    This is also a revisit.

     Carrying things out of the train station, Qi Heng is carrying their luggage, Jiang Shuangling is empty, Qi Yue leads her brother forward, “Mom? Where are you going?”

    Jiang Shuangling: “…Ask someone?”

    It took a lot of twists and turns, and finally their family got on an ox cart and wandered back to the familiar village.

    The child Qi Hui was very interested in the ox cart, and the old man who drove the cart let him sit on the buffalo and play for a while.

    The buffalo left a lump of cow dung when walking. Qi Hui’s eyes were very sharp. He immediately found the stinky lump, and curiously wanted to pick one up and study it.

    The ox cart dropped them at the entrance of the village.

    Before Jiang Shuangling entered the village, she first met an aunt from the village. When the aunt with a bamboo basket on her arm saw her, she immediately exclaimed, “Oh! You are Jiang Jiada. Girl, this, this… I haven’t seen you for many years.”

    “It looks a little strange, I can’t recognize it.”

    “Have you been married for five or six years?”

    “This? Is this your brother?”

    “Your brother’s name is Jiang… Jiang…” The aunt looked at Jiang Che and couldn’t name him for a long time.

    Jiang Shuangling said, “Jiang Che, my brother Jiang Che.”

    “Yes, yes, I haven’t seen each other for many years. Your brother has grown so big.”

    “This is the Qi you married… What kind of battalion commander is Qi?”

    “Well, he is my love, these are my two sons.”

    …

    Jiang Shuangling took her family to the old house of their Jiang family, which is the house where she lived with Jiang Che before. Feeling a little decadent.

    The strokes practiced by Jiang Shuangling are still in this house.

    As soon as Jiang Shuangling saw those paintings, her face turned red, this, this… these were all deliberately left by her back then… Looking at it now, it’s really funny.

    She deliberately exaggerated and so what…

    The rest of the family didn’t care about Jiang Shuangling’s embarrassment that she wanted to pick her toes, Qi Heng picked up one of the paintings, and the cold peach blossom eyes immediately got a smile.

     “Over the years, Jiang Mei’s paintings have gotten better and better.”

    Jiang Che: “This is my sister’s previous painting??!”

    Jiang Che’s eyes widened in disbelief, unbelievable that these paintings were drawn by Jiang Shuangling.

    Jiang Shuangling blushed: “…I took you to draw it together, and you said that my sister is beautiful!

    The former younger brother Jiang is no longer honest, and the memories of the past have been fed to the dog in the passage of time.

    He forgot.

    Qi Yue flipped the page: “Is this really my mother’s drawing?”

    The most disrespectful is Qi Hui: “Mom is really ugly.”

    Jiang Shuangling: “… Ugly can show how much progress I have made over the years.”

    After they rested in the old house for a while, Jiang Shuangling went to visit the production captain’s house, and then took her family to incense to her parents.

    Jiang’s father and Jiang’s mother are buried in the same place.

    “Grandpa and Grandma?”

    “Yes, grandma and grandma are mom’s dad and mom.”

    “Li Erhua, the eldest girl from the Jiang family is back, followed by several people, her man is really handsome, I heard that he is now the head of the regiment, and Jiang Che, Jiang Che is a good boy It was so good…”

    “Your niece is very promising.”

    “Didn’t she come to your house?”

    …

    Li Erhua frowned, “What?! Jiang Shuangling is back?!”

    Li Erhua almost forgot about her married niece, but she came back with her younger brother.

    “She came back? What did she come back for?”

    “What else can she do when she comes back? Of course, she brings her younger brother to recognize her hometown. Her younger brother is still a surname Jiang.”

    Li Erhua frowned.

    “You, Miss Jiang, are very promising. It would be nice if your Hongping was like her.” The person who came to their house to report the news teased.

    In their village now, Li Erhua’s daughter Jiang Hongping is not a joke. A few years ago, she was chasing Xiao Zhenchang, but the surnamed Xiao ignored their family, and Jiang Hongping wanted to force a marriage , Who knew that the girl who was sent to the door would not be wanted, and she was driven out.

    It almost became a joke in their village.

    “Bah, you talkative bitch.” Li Erhua drove people away.

      Smile, are you crazy?”

    “It was such a good marriage, you gave your cousin away for nothing… I want to kick your head off to see what’s in your head.”

    “Mom, it’s 1976, and people have begun to set up stalls on the street.”

    “You, you… what nonsense are you talking about.”

    “Wait a few days for you to visit someone’s house.”

    Jiang Hongping slapped the bed, “I don’t! Mom, let me tell you, I’ve made up my mind now that I want to be a strong entrepreneur.”

    Jiang Hongping once pinned her hopes on Xiao Zhenchang, but this man was unwilling to be with her at all. After being made a joke in the village by the other party, Jiang Hongping was full of resentment, and completely became the richest man Madam’s wish.

    Later, she hooked up with a new educated youth in the village. The new educated youth, Jiang Hongping remembered as soon as she saw him, the other party had a very powerful elder, although his elder is now Live in the cowshed in the next village, but will be…

    Although Jiang Hongping can’t remember the specific details because the year is too old, she knows that she will be able to live a good life in the future by grabbing this educated youth.

    Who knew that later she went to help someone take care of the elder, but she didn’t pay attention for a while, almost made him delay his illness, and almost burned to death in the cowshed, and the educated youth heard that she was there Gossip in the village…

    The two ripped apart.

    Jiang Hongping’s reputation is also completely stinky.

    Li Erhua wanted to marry her outside the village. Eating and drinking at home, not worrying about food or clothing, relying on her own reputation, Jiang Hongping simply depends on the Jiang family and never gets married.

    Li Erhua already felt that her daughter was crazy, so it’s okay to talk about some crazy things before, the whole person went crazy to pester Xiao Zhenchang, and then she finally became normal, thinking If I can marry that educated youth, who knows now…

    He stayed at home and became a second-rate female.

    Lazier than other lazy people!

    Li Erhua thought she was pretending to be crazy and not willing to marry.

    “What a strong woman you are, you are a second-rate, how can I raise you as a second-rate…” Li Erhua was so angry that she wanted to find a stick to beat her.

    Jiang Hongping, a dead pig, was not afraid of boiling water and wrapped a thick quilt on the bed. After so many years of mixing, she was not afraid of Li Erhua.

    Delicious and delicious at home, she didn’t want to get married, and even sometimes, Jiang Hongping felt that she was not the richest man’s wife, so it was not bad to lie in bed every day lazily.

    If you don’t work and don’t feel tired, it’s a fairy life.

    Jiang Hongping doesn’t feel that she is being lazy, she feels that she is keeping a low profile, she is quietly waiting for the opportunity, now she needs to rest herself first, and when the spring breeze of reform and opening up comes out, she will go Be the first to be approved to start a business in the sea!

    At that time, with the memory of her rebirth, what Xiao Zhenchang, what dog educated youth, she Jiang Hongping can become the richest man by herself, she wants to make a lot of money, Jiang Hongping changed her goal, she wants to be a strong woman herself .

    For the past year, she has been lying in bed every day, in addition to eating and drinking, she has fantasized in her mind how she will make money after the reform and opening up. Very satisfied.

    Now she’s waiting for the year to pass.

    Gold was everywhere in the 1980s and 1990s, and she was sure to pick up a lot of gold.

      .

    “Mom, why are you running over here today?!

    “What makes me crazy?”

    “Why did you come to me to vent your breath if you’re not crazy?” Jiang Hongping wrapped her thick quilt, secretly stretched out a hand from the quilt, and touched a handful of melon seeds on the bedside. While eating the melon seeds, throw the skin out.

    Li Erhua’s cheeks twitched as she looked at the peeled melon seeds, and everyone almost fainted from anger.

    “How did I raise a dog like you, you dog.”

    “Oh, why is my life so hard.” Li Erhua was sitting on the floor of the room, her hair scattered.

    It’s just that Jiang Hongping is so used to being stubborn that she doesn’t care about her splashing at all, she rolled her eyes and said sarcastically while eating melon seeds: “Mom, don’t worry, you are not bitter at all, you believe If you don’t believe me, wait another three or four years, and I will definitely make you rich.”

    “At that time, our family will be the first ten thousand yuan household in the village. Do you know how powerful the ten thousand yuan household is? I will buy you a big brother, a TV…”

    “Everyone in the village must envy you, envy you for having a good daughter… I’ll buy you gold and let you wear gold earrings, gold bracelets, gold necklaces…”

    …

    If it wasn’t for Jiang Hongping saying this in front of Li Erhua every day, Li Erhua often felt that her daughter was going crazy, but looking at the other party’s demeanor, she, as a mother, always had some confidence in her heart, She also hoped that what the other party said would come true.

    So Jiang Hongping was not kicked out.

    Li Erhua sighed and pressed her chest, “Do you know that your cousin is back? The man she married is now the head of the regiment…”

    Hearing what Li Erhua said, Jiang Hongping immediately emerged from the bed and was shocked: “What?!〗 Shuangling is back?”