"Put your butt up!"
"Yes, this is the position, with your butt raised a little higher."
"Open it a little with your hands so I can get in."
"It's a bit tight, it will hurt, please bear with it."
"Put it in quickly, I feel so itchy, hurry up~"
I saw Zhao Shanhe sticking his butt out and holding the bedside with his hands, while Su Wan was helping him apply the medicine with a serious look on his face. After the medicine was ready, Zhao Shanhe lay back on the bed with a relaxed look on his face.
"Finally the pain and itching are gone." He said, lighting a cigarette.
"Just eat something light these days. I'll make whatever you want to eat tonight." With that said, Su Wan opened the curtains, opened the door, and turned on the fan.
When the fan blows, the room becomes much cooler, which is quite pleasant.
"Let's eat some hand-rolled cold noodles tonight, with some cucumber shreds and meat sauce. I'll squint for a while. When I wake up, I'll go to the canteen and buy a box of iced cans to quench your and Yanyan's thirst." Zhao Shanhe choked out. I smoked and yawned. I have been busy these days and feel tired.
"Okay, then you should take a nap. It's time for Yanyan to take a nap." Su Wan said, and thoughtfully put on his underwear.
…
Zhao Shanhe slept straight into the afternoon. Seeing that it was almost five o'clock, he hurriedly got up, washed his face, took money to buy a bottle of iced cans from the store at the door, and bought himself two packs of cigarettes.
The cigarettes are from Peony and cost fifty cents a pack.
It is not cheap in the eyes of poor people.
This cigarette looks pretty cool when you put it out.
Nowadays, this old brand of cigarettes is much easier to smoke than those dazzling commercial cigarettes that will be released in the future.
When I opened the cigarette case, the strong smell of tobacco penetrated my nose, and it was so strong.
After carrying the things back home, Su Wan had already rolled out the noodles and was about to put them in the pot. The meat sauce had already been fried and was being heated in the pot.
Zhao Shanhe poured the cold can into a wide-mouthed bowl. It was cold and had a layer of frost on it.
When the noodles are rolled out by hand, pour cold water over them several times, then use a large wide-mouthed bowl to fill up half a bowl of noodles, and top with cucumber shreds and meat sauce.
The hand-rolled noodles are chewy, the cucumber shreds are crispy, the meat sauce is fresh and salty, and paired with a bite of sour and crunchy pickled garlic, it's really comforting.
After eating and drinking, blowing on the fan, watching the big color TV, holding his cute little wife in his arms, Zhao Shanhe always felt that the world was his own.
In the middle of the night.
"Shanhe, I want to tell you something."
The small night light in the room was on, and the volume of the action movie playing on the TV at midnight was turned down in order not to wake Yan Shicheng, who was sleeping.
Zhao Shanhe was leaning on the bedside, holding Su Wan in his arms, and was watching intently.
"What's the matter? Do you want it?"
"I hate it, why are you saying such inappropriate things~" Su Wan shyly twisted her waist in Zhao Shanhe's arms, and then said, "Didn't Dad call me yesterday and tell me about the house replacement in the cannery? I was anxious, fearing that the place for the replacement house would be snatched away, so I asked us to go home and discuss it. What mom meant was that I wanted to get a replacement house for Su Peng to use as a wedding room, and I was short of money..."
"You are just a younger brother, Su Peng. If you want to help, I don't have to say anything. Just give me the money and that's it." Zhao Shanhe was happy, just because his brother-in-law was a pretty good person.
Although Su Wan and Su Wan were not born in the same womb, Su Wan had been kind to him since childhood, and he knew how to be grateful. In the first year of his job, he used his salary to buy cotton-padded jackets for Su Wan and Zhao Shanhe.
Two years ago, a coat made of pure new cotton batting was not cheap. One piece cost at least more than ten yuan.
Zhao Shanhe kept this feeling in his heart.
Su Peng is a man who repays kindness and values family ties. He is much better than his own mother, Zhang Cailing.
It's strange to say that Zhang Cailing, who is full of scheming, can give birth to a good son like Su Peng, who is really good!
"Then arrange your time tomorrow and let's go there at noon." Su Wan said, yawning and feeling a little sleepy, "Go to bed early and get up early tomorrow. I'll go to the street to buy something to take back."
"It's still early, let's play for a while!" After saying that, Zhao Shanhe turned off the TV and night light, and lay in bed for a long time. He was exhausted before he got off Su Wan.
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Noon the next day.
The tricycle was driven by Zhao Hao to pick up the goods, so Zhao Shanhe took Su Wan and Yan Yan on the nearest bus at noon, carrying many good things in large and small bags.
This time on the bus, many people were greedy for snacks and cooked food, and the smell alone made people salivate.
There are no buses in the city that go directly to the suburbs of Bianzi in Nancheng, so we can only take three intermittent buses. By the time we get there, it's already one o'clock in the afternoon.
"Next time I come back, I really have to drive a tricycle. It was originally an hour's journey, but I had to make several turns and sit for two and a half hours to get there. My bones and muscles are sore from sitting there!"
After getting out of the car, Zhao Shanhe couldn't help but complain. Even though the hemorrhoids on his butt were not healed yet and there was a faint pain from falling, he still couldn't bear to let Su Wan carry the things and carried them all.
Su Wan just walked beside her beautifully, looking at Zhao Shanhe's considerate look, she didn't know how satisfied she was.
This large and small package entered the street of bungalows assigned by the cannery, and people looked at it from time to time.
Su Wan has not been back to her natal family often in recent years, and she has changed a lot during this period. She is dressed like a lady in the city, with pretty high-heeled leather shoes, a fashionable Bragi skirt, and a small baby on her arm. With her sheepskin bag and delicate lipstick on her lips, it would be an exaggeration to say she looks like a female star in a movie.
"This girl is so pretty, her skin is so wet that it's wet. She doesn't seem to be from here, does she?"
"That look in your eyes is really bad. Isn't that Su Wan, the eldest daughter of the old Su family? She has only been married for a few years and you don't recognize her."
"Oh my god, this woman is Su Wan, but I really couldn't tell. I thought she was some big boss's wife. She looks so dressed up. If you ask me, it's the dead Yang Minjing who will give birth. This Su Wan looks energetic, and that Xiaoyan looks like a flower."
"Yang Minjing is good-looking. The daughter she gave birth to is destined to be good. Besides, she has a good personality and is as gentle as water. She is a hundred times better than Zhang Cailing. But Su Zhengshan doesn't have that fate. A good daughter-in-law will be gone at the last word, which makes her Zhang Cailing took advantage."
"Isn't that right? Although Zhang Cailing's appearance is pretty good, she can't compare with Yang Minjing. They are like heaven and earth. Besides, when Zhang Cailing got divorced and had a girl, she still owed a famine. What man can do that? Yes, luckily Su Zhengshan didn't mind it, he repaid the famine and gave it to his daughter, but Zhang Cailing was ruthless and made Su Wan and Xiaoyan suffer a lot back then."
"Oh, aren't stepmothers like that? They only care about their own children. If Su Wan hadn't been sensible back then, Xiaoyan wouldn't have lived to be five years old. Xiaoyan lost her mother when she was born and grew up eating rice cereal. It's pitiful, God has eyes, I heard that Su Wan's man has become the boss, and now his little life is quite good!"
