Travel through 1972 with a space mall

When Ye Mingyuan came back from work, dinner was not ready yet. He drank half a tank of water and then went to the coal shed in the yard to pick up coal chunks from the coal pile.

After Su Jiao finished cooking, she came out and saw that Ye Mingyuan had divided the coal pile in the coal shed into two piles, one pile of coal blocks and one pile of pulverized coal and cinders. He was gathering the cinders with a shovel.

Su Jiao walked over and asked doubtfully: "Mingyuan, why do you need to pile them separately? Can't you just mix them together and burn them together when burning?"

Ye Mingyuan straightened up and said cheerfully: "Daughter-in-law, the coal we bought has too much cinders in it, so we can't burn it directly. When I get off work, I will pull a cart of yellow mud and make these cinders into briquettes. This way It’s easy to burn but a little more resistant to burning.”

Su Jiao said that she had learned a lot. She had never burned coal before and it touched upon her blind spot in knowledge.

"If you wanted to separate, why didn't you tell me earlier? I have nothing to do when I'm at home, just pick it up slowly.

Stop it now, wash your hands quickly and go inside to eat first. "

When Ye Mingyuan heard this, he immediately sped up, "Hey! It'll be fine soon."

On the days when Ye Mingyuan was off work, he went to Su's house to get a cart to haul mud after breakfast.

Su Jiao was drying out the freshly washed diapers in the courtyard when she heard a knock on the courtyard door.

Turning around, she found Cheng Lan, the educated youth she had brought back by bike last time, standing at the courtyard gate smiling and waving to her.

"Cheng Zhiqing? Do you want to see me for something? Come in quickly." She quickly shook off the water stains on her hands and said with a smile.

Su Jiao had a good impression of her, and the two of them got on the bus together after taking her back. Although they made a joke, they also invisibly shortened the distance between them.

He invited Cheng Lan into the room and poured her a glass of water.

Cheng Lan took out an egg from his pocket and handed it to Su Jiao.

"Thank you for driving me back last time, otherwise I would have to walk for two hours. I have a day off today, so I just wanted to come over and thank you."

"Don't be so polite. We are all from the same village. We just happened to meet each other. It was just a coincidence."

Su Jiao smiled and pushed the egg back, feeling even more fond of her.

Cheng Lan saw that she didn't answer and didn't say anything more. She just gently put the egg on the kang.

The two continued to chat for a few more words, and then Cheng Lan said goodbye.

Su Jiao sent her out. As soon as she came to the yard, Su Jiao looked at Cheng Lan who was hesitant to speak.

"Cheng Zhiqing, do you have something you want to tell me?"

Looking at her appearance, Su Jiao had countless thoughts flashing through her mind, and finally settled on the idea that she thought was the most reliable that Cheng Lan might have asked her for help.

My heart instantly became cold, but I still asked with a smile on my face.

"It's about your brother Su Youjun. After thinking about it, I still think I should tell you."

ah? Su Jiao looked stunned. Just now, she thought Cheng Lan thought she was easy to talk to, so she just met her and asked her for help.

She thought she was not good at judging people and had seen the wrong person.

"My brother? What's wrong with him!" Su Jiao was full of questions. She didn't know how her brother could be related to Cheng Lan.

While asking, Su Jiao took Cheng Lan back to the house.

After listening to Cheng Lan's words, Su Jiao felt that she couldn't breathe enough.

Cheng Lan's words just now confirmed her previous suspicion that her third brother did have a sweetheart, who was indeed from Xiangyang Village.

But she never expected that what her third brother was interested in was Sun Lu, an educated youth from the educated youth spot.

Her impression of Sun Lu was still based on what Wu Xiaoqin had said about cheating, slipping, being pretentious and lazy.

But she didn't expect that Sun Lu would be worse than she imagined.

Cheng Lan just said that Sun Lu was an educated youth who came to the countryside from Haishi. She had a fiancé in Haishi who would send her money checks every month.

That Sun Lu was thoughtful, but she told others that the letter was written by her parents.

There are only two rooms in the educated youth camp. Two men live in one room and three women live in one room.

Cheng Lan lived on the same bed as Sun Lu and Li Caihua. Cheng Lan only found out about it when she heard Sun Lu whispering to Li Caihua when she was sleeping at night.

In October last year, one day Sun Lu left work to fetch water. When she returned to the Educated Youth Home, she told Li Caihua that there was a mud-legged man in the village who seemed to have taken a liking to her. He kept staring at her with a smile and helped her fetch water. Later, he touched her again. After visiting a few times, Sun Lu became more convinced of her idea.

She has a fiancé in the city who gives her money and tickets every month, so naturally she looks down on the mud-legged people in the village who work in the fields.

So Sun Lu and Li Caihua discussed how to play with this mud-legged kid.

There is no doubt that this mud-legged guy is her third brother.

Then Sun Lu started to hang on to her third brother, giving him a smile from time to time and saying a few words softly to him, which made her third brother become a fool. She felt that she had a chance, so she would help carry water at every turn, and would even do it from time to time. Give me an egg and some fish you caught yourself.

A few nights ago, Cheng Lan heard Sun Lu and Li Caihua secretly eating meat buns in bed.

After hearing their conversation, I realized that it was her third brother who had given it to me again.

The two thought Cheng Lan was asleep and discussed in low voices for a long time. Sun Lu felt that her third brother was easy to deceive and began to feel dissatisfied.

She said that her third brother has a father who is a captain and a brother-in-law who works at an agricultural machinery station. The family must be rich. She must find a way to cheat her third brother out of money. If she fails, she will find an opportunity to seduce him, and then let Li Caihua lead him. If someone catches her on the spot, she can then sue her third brother for being a gangster and extorting a sum of money.

Cheng Lan was not a nosy person at first. When he heard about it before, he had the attitude that it would be better to do less than to do more, and he pretended not to know.

But after the last contact, Cheng Lan also had a good impression of Su Jiao, and Sun Lu began to go overboard more and more, and even started to use sinister plots to harm others.

After thinking about it for the past few days, she decided to tell Su Jiao, so she took advantage of today's rest to come to Su Jiao.

"Su Jiao, are you okay?" Cheng Lan was afraid that she would get angry, so she quickly stood up and comforted Su Jiao.

"I'm fine!" Su Jiao took a few deep breaths, her teeth almost shattered.

She wasn't too angry with Sun Lu, because the incident hadn't happened yet. He was angry with Brother Su San.

Seeing how confident he looked before, her mother didn't like him when he was introduced to him. She thought he was very reliable, but in the end, he was deceived like a fool and treated as a licking dog for more than half a year.

Ye Mingyuan came back from pulling the mud and was about to go into the house to drink water when he saw a guest in the house.

Just as he was about to say hello, he saw his wife panting heavily as if she was about to catch her breath.

Ye Mingyuan pulled Cheng Lan away and looked at Su Jiao nervously: "Daughter-in-law, what's wrong with you? What's wrong with you!"

"I'm fine! I'm fine! But Su Youjun is finished!" Su Jiao took a deep breath and gritted her teeth.

"Ah?" Ye Mingyuan was busy trying to cheer Su Jiao up, and when he heard her words, he had a question mark.

Cheng Lan was not angry after being pushed aside. Instead, Su Jiao was a little envious when she saw Ye Mingyuan was so nervous.

She had finished what she wanted to say when she came here today, so she couldn't stay any longer. She said hello to Su Jiao and left.

Su Jiao repeated Cheng Lan's words to Ye Mingyuan.

Ye Mingyuan was silent for a long time after listening.

"After work at noon, let's go to my parents' place and listen to what the third brother has to say." Ye Mingyuan said softly.

"Yeah." Su Jiao, who had calmed down, nodded.

In fact, she already knew it in her mind. After all, Cheng Lan had no enmity with them, and there was no need to make up lies to frame her. Moreover, many of the things Cheng Lan said were indeed consistent with her third brother, such as those two steamed buns. .

But after all, what Cheng Lan just said was just her side of the story. We still have to listen to Brother Su's statement to fully confirm the authenticity of Cheng Lan's words.