Chapter 2 part 2

The next day:

    When the sky was still slightly bright, Qin Shi got up quickly, packed up, and prepared to go to town.

    Sini was woken up, and she muttered impatiently: "What are you doing? It's so noisy! Can you keep it down?"

    Qin Shi rolled her eyes ungracefully, ignored her, and moved her hands as usual.

    When I fell asleep last night, didn't she make a lot of noise when she returned? Why didn't she pay attention?

    After Qin Shi tidied up and came out, and closed the door with a normal voice, Sini's irritated voice came from the room again.

    Every day, Grandma Qin and her stepmother were busy in the yard, and when they heard the voice, they asked, "What's the matter?

    " go in the kitchen; I want some freshly served lemonade."

    Grandma Qin stared again, and Qin Shi ignored her, only saying, "I'm leaving," and left.

    After Qin Shi walked out of the yard, Grandma Qin opened her mouth, cursing and cursing while busy.

    "You treat yourself like a townsman before you get married? You are not even a married woman, so what are you proud of!"

    "If it wasn't for the road materials..." Grandma Qin realized something and immediately spoke, "He fell in love with her. If this did not happen, can she marry so well?"

    Sini's mother, who was doing laundry, looked up at Grandma Qin and snorted in her heart.

    If it wasn't for the Lu family giving back the quota of temporary workers in the machinery factory, wouldn't this damn older woman give her the bride price? Maybe the betrothal gift is also part of it!

    The more Sini's mother thought about it, the angrier she became, and the washing action became more and more serious, with a calculating light in her eyes.

    Qin Shi walked to the village with her satchel on her back and saw that someone was already sitting in the donkey cart, so she trotted a few steps and squeezed in, took out two cents, and handed it to Uncle Li, who was pulling the cart.

    Uncle Li took it with a smile and asked Qin Shi: "Are you feeling better? My grandson said yesterday that you haven't gone to school yet, and was talking about you."

    People in this society now have a special feeling for highly educated people. Not to mention that there are not many high school students in the village, and Qin Shi is still admitted to the university.

    Even though Yuan Shen looked withdrawn and reticent, the villagers were very friendly to her.

    "Really," Qin Shi explained with a smile: "I'm very sick these days, so I decided to go to town to see a doctor. I'll go back to school when I'm done."

    " Yes, no one else knows yet." Qin Shi naturally didn't want others to know about it, so she made an excuse.

    "Hey in the village, being barefoot can be a minor illness, and you still have to go to the town."

    "Erni, come sit on the side." The

    Aunts on the donkey cart heard the words and enthusiastically pulled Qin Shi next to her, letting her have the best seat--the last and innermost position.

    Qin Shi responded generously and thanked them with a smile, which provoked all the aunts to laugh and praise her differently.

    Qin Shi couldn't bear their enthusiasm, so she took a breath, pretended to be out of spirits, and closed her eyes to rest.

    When the aunts saw it, the chattering voices became a little quieter.

    It didn't take long for the donkey cart to be full of people; Qin Shi huddled in a corner, and her body was about to fall apart after being bumped.

    Two hours later, before Qin Shi's butt was smashed into eight petals, she finally arrived in the town.

    The old aunts rushed away, and Uncle Li shouted: "Come back at four o'clock this afternoon; everyone pays attention to the time! I won't wait for you if it's late!"

    "Got it, I got it!"

    Qin Shi finally came down; she carefully looked at the town in the 1980s and walked into it slowly.

    It's not too different from the ones on TV, very distinctive.

    Hmm... very poor too.

    Qin Shi walked around and found no stores, so she had to go to the supply and marketing cooperative. After entering, she found that she didn't like anything inside. The fabric was either dusty or dull, not even red.

    The salesman was proud and rolled his eyes at Qin Shi: "The red cloth is very scarce. Do you want to buy it? If you don't buy it, leave, don't affect the people behind."

    Qin Shi turned and left; the salesman who provoked her looked at her back. He spat in disdain, poor ghost.

    So what about being pretty? It's not like I can't even afford a piece of cloth.

    Seeing the "arrogant service staff" and "poor variety of goods" unique to this era, Qin Shi didn't bother to go shopping anymore and turned to enter the state-run restaurant.

    She is hungry.

    After entering, the waiter ignored her, just knocked on the sign at the window, and said, "Choose what you want to eat."

    Qin Shi saw that it said today's special "braised pork" and "pork dumplings," so she ordered dumplings.

    The braised pork cost four yuan! Too expensive. One piece of dumpling now that's affordable.

    "Just wait." After the waiter said, he continued to look down at the book.

    Just as Qin Shi was about to find a seat to sit down, she heard the only person at the table in the shop utter a terrified cry.

    "Congcong! What's wrong with you, Congcong?"

    Qin Shi took a closer look, the child beside the woman was flushed and opened his mouth, but he didn't make any sound; just grabbed his neck with his hands.

    The woman screamed anxiously, panicked.

    With a solemn expression, Qin Shi ran over to pick up the child, let him lie face down on her forearm, put the other hand on his back, and patted the child's back between the two shoulder blades vigorously and regularly.

    After a few slaps, the child spits half of the dumpling stuck in his throat, and he cries out with a "wow."

    Qin Shi put him on the ground, gently opened his mouth, and saw that there was nothing in his throat, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

    The child's mother regained her composure, pulled him over, and beat him vigorously, hitting, drawing, and kicking him.

    "What are you doing? Can you choke yourself to death when you eat? Ah! You scared this old lady to death!"

The child was still afraid, but now he was scolded and beaten, crying even more heartbreakingly.

    Seeing him being kicked to the ground, Qin Shi couldn't stand it; how could she beat a child like that? She helped the child, gently patted his back to comfort him silently, then turned to look at the child's mother.

    "What do you do? Make your child almost choke to death when eating? Huh? Are you a mother? If you don't look at the child beforehand, you will only scream when it happens, and you will only beat the child afterward. Parents these days need to be more aware. Can I child know better than you?"

    Qin Shi's expression was stern, and the woman was stunned by the scolding.

    The waiter who had been reading the book sneered and said, "Isn't that what it is?"

    "None of your business!" The woman was so ashamed that she picked up the bowl on the table and drank all the soup, then dragged the crying child out of the state-run restaurant.

    Qin Shi looked at her back, then glanced at the empty bowl, and couldn't react for a while.

    The aunt, who watched the whole process at the door, moved to Qin Shi's side with shining eyes and praised her with a smile: "The girl is so amazing!"

    Before Qin Shi could answer, she asked again: "What do you do? What's your type? Do you have a date?"

    Qin Shi: "...?"

    Huh?

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The author has something to say:

    Qin Shi (dumb): Why is this aunt so enthusiastic about this matter?