Chapter 31: Sister-in-law for a Day.

“My fingers are dirty.”

Zhang Haixia pulled back her fingers in panic, with saliva still on them.

A faint blush appeared on her face.

The child licked her fingers as if she was licking a lollipop.

“The wound must be disinfected properly. Saliva has a disinfecting and sterilizing effect. It would be bad if it was infected with bacteria.”

“That’s too much.”

Zhang Haixia hid her hands behind her back and asked, “What’s the matter with Ah Qiao coming to see me?”

As the saying goes, one does not visit the temple without a request.

Zhang Haixia’s current identity is very awkward.

She is sandwiched between two families.

She has not yet married into the family and has had many unpleasant experiences with her husband’s family.

She also owes a lot of money to relatives and is not welcomed.

It can be said that she has no relatives at all.

My uncle’s family and everyone in the town knows about Zhang Dafu’s character.

The reason they arranged this marriage with my sister-in-law is because of her hardworking, simple and honest character.

If she is married home, she will definitely be a good wife who will not fool around.

She is a local and they know her background well.

There is no need to worry that she will be like some wives from other places who run away after giving birth to one or two children.

Zhang Haixia has a delicate, thin, oval face and a small, delicate nose.

Perhaps because she has to work the night shift, she has obvious dark circles under her eyes.

She was wearing a white round-neck T-shirt under the apron.

The collar was a little wrinkled and yellowed from being washed too many times, and it was loose, revealing her collarbone and a touch of snow-white skin.

Her three thousand black hair was tied into a simple knot at the back of her head.

Tight jeans wrapped around her perky buttocks and slender thighs.

My cousin’s wife was only a freshman in college, so naturally she didn’t have the exaggerated plump buttocks of a young woman.

But according to my grandmother, she had a big pelvis, so it was easy for her to give birth to a son and she had great potential in the future.

That was why my grandmother chose my cousin’s wife as her grandson’s wife.

We can ask grandma to persuade mom to give birth to a younger sister.

Grandma now wants my uncle and aunt to have another child while they are still young.

If mom, as the older sister, can set an example, things will definitely be much smoother.

Zhang Haixia’s mother’s surname is also Chen, so she is a distant relative and she also wants to help this poor girl.

“I’m here to play with my sister-in-law.”

Children don’t need so many reasonable reasons, it’s okay to be a little unreasonable.

This is why my sister didn’t come with Chen Qiao.

Their relationship with my sister-in-law is not very good.

They have only met twice before.

One time was after my cousin and Zhang Haixia confirmed their engagement.

My cousin was embarrassed to ask Zhang Haixia out for dinner alone, so he asked Chen Qiao and Chen Feifei to be the third wheel.

Chen Qiao sat with his cousin, while his sister and sister-in-law sat on one side.

There were no milk tea or hamburger shops in the town at that time, only snack bars and restaurants.

They had a meal in the restaurant.

At that time, Chen Qiao just focused on eating, and his sister was not much better.

She didn’t know how to create opportunities for her cousin and sister-in-law.

Instead, she and her cousin’s wife chatted in a low voice about girls’ topics and had a very happy chat.

My cousin’s wife is my sister’s senior and they have always been in the same school.

My cousin and sister-in-law had all kinds of awkward conversations, and after the meal they went back to their respective homes.

The second time they met was at my cousin’s funeral… Zhang Haixia’s identity was also very embarrassing.

Some people even said that she was an unlucky star, a jinx, and a husband-killer.

Uneducated people in rural areas are just superstitious.

“What fun is there here?”

Zhang Haixia said with a wry smile.

It was no exaggeration to say that the house was bare and there was nothing in it.

Chen Qiao wanted to help clean up the broken pieces of the bowl, but Zhang Haixia quickly grabbed his little hand to stop him.

“Don’t move. I’ll do it myself. If your hand gets cut, I won’t know how to explain to your parents.”

Zhang Haixia threw all the broken pieces of the bowl into the trash can, then took the broom and dustpan to sweep the rice on the ground into the ground.

Finally, she swept the floor again, and only felt relieved after making sure there was no debris on the ground.

“Has Aqiao had dinner?”

Zhang Haixia asked after washing her hands and shaking off the water stains on them.

“I’ve already eaten at home.”

“Would you like to have another meal at my house?”

Zhang Haixia was just greeting guests out of habitual courtesy at mealtime, but she regretted it right after she finished speaking.

The food on the table was so shabby, without any meat at all, that it could not be used to entertain guests.

I hope Chen Qiao can understand the ways of the world and refuse politely so that everyone won’t feel too embarrassed and can save face.

But Chen Qiao originally wanted to stay with his sister-in-law for a while longer, so he agreed.

“But now I’m hungry again.”

Chen Qiao fetched the bowl and chopsticks, filled a small bowl with rice, sat next to Zhang Haixia and said, “Let me try my sister-in-law’s cooking.”

“You don’t have to force yourself to eat.”

“It seems like there is not enough oil.”

Chen Qiao picked up the vegetables and took a bite and commented.

“I’m too stingy. If it doesn’t taste good, don’t eat it.”

Zhang Haixia felt her cheeks getting hot.

She would scoop out a small spoonful of lard every time she cooked, for fear of wasting it.

“It’s not good for your health to eat too much oil and salt, but you should be nicer to yourself. Even adults can suffer from malnutrition, not to mention that you have to work the night shift, so don’t ruin your health.”

The breasts and buttocks in particular may be malnourished.

“You need to eat more since you are so short.”

Zhang Haixia put some food into Chen Qiao’s bowl.

Chen Qiao eats a lot at home, and after eating half a bowl, he is really full.

While Zhang Haixia was washing dishes, Chen Qiao was wandering around the house.

There were two bedrooms on the first floor.

One room was empty.

There was an ashtray made of a tin can of peanut milk and a smell of cigarette smoke.

After all, the windows had no ventilation at all. It should be Zhang Dafu’s room.

The walls of the other room were covered with pink wallpaper and there was a sweet scent like that of a young girl’s boudoir.

It should be my sister-in-law’s bedroom.

Logically, my sister’s room should also have one, but Chen Qiao was used to it from the daily smell and couldn’t smell anything unless he got close to my sister.

There was nothing in the room.

On the floor was a snakeskin bag, also called a urea bag, commonly used by migrant workers.

On a paint-chip table were high school textbooks, with a chemistry book spread out facing upwards.

It seems like the laboratory department at the cement factory has to take a chemistry exam?

But this kind of entrance examination is nothing for my sister-in-law, right?

After all, her college entrance examination score is good enough to get into a second-tier university, which is enough for a township middle school like theirs to set off firecrackers to celebrate.

She is the first person in history to pass this exam, and the school even gave her a bonus to let her go to school, but how could Zhang Dafu let his daughter continue to go to college?

My sister-in-law could have gone to high school in the county, but because Zhang Dafu didn’t give her living expenses, she could only study in the high school department of the township middle school.

There were almost no teachers, and the junior high school teachers were part-time teachers.

There were many students in a class who practiced sports, so their chances of going to college were greater.

The town set up a high school department simply because they were afraid that these uneducated high school students would cause trouble and become street thugs.

It’s better to control them in school.

With the decrease in the number of students, there is only one class left in the high school department, and the department will be disbanded next year.

“My house is boring, right? There’s not even a TV.”

Zhang Haixia took off her apron and hung it on an iron nail on the wall.

“The high school books look interesting.”

“You can understand this? You’re only in elementary school, right?”

“I am already in the sixth grade of elementary school and will be going to junior high school soon.”

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I didn’t start learning chemistry until the third year of junior high school.”

“Sister-in-law, can you teach me? I don’t know how to read the words here.”

Chen Qiao pointed at the periodic table and asked with blinking eyes.

“There are many rare characters here that you don’t use in daily life, but if you want to learn them, I can teach you.”

There was only one plastic chair in the room.

Zhang Haixia picked up Chen Qiao and sat him on her lap, then pointed to the periodic table and began to read.

“Hydrogen and helium…” Chen Qiao leaned his back on Zhang Haixia’s chest, enjoying the soft cushion and rubbing it with the back of his head from time to time.

My sister-in-law’s breasts, hidden under her loose clothes, are bigger than I imagined.

“Isn’t it difficult? It took me a long time to memorize them all. In junior high school, you only had to memorize the first twenty. I wonder if the requirements have changed now.”

“I remember them all.””real?”

“Really? I’ll recite it to my sister-in-law…””Ah Qiao, you are a genius. You can remember it after reading it twice.”

Surprised, Zhang Haixia hugged Chen Qiao tightly as if she had found a treasure, pressing the back of Chen Qiao’s head against her chest.

“It’s my sister-in-law who taught me well.”

It’s nothing, it’s just that it’s too familiar.

Although I haven’t read it for a long time and have almost forgotten everything, once I read this familiar formula again, it all came back to me.

“You are smart, it has nothing to do with me, and you don’t have to call me sister-in-law anymore, I am not worthy of being your sister-in-law…” Zhang Haixia’s voice already had a slight tone of crying.

“That’s not true. I always treat my sister-in-law as my sister-in-law. Once a sister-in-law, always a sister-in-law.”

Chen Qiao turned around and knelt on Zhang Haixia’s thighs.

The reason why Chen Qiao still called her sister-in-law was not simply for the sake of seeking excitement, but this identity was the bond that maintained the relationship between the two, otherwise they would be strangers with no relationship.

But it was not Chen Qiao’s original wish to let his sister-in-law marry him and become a widow, nor was it convenient for him to eat his sister-in-law.

After all, even if my parents find out about eating my sister, it is still our own small matter and family disgrace should not be made public.

If it involves grandma and uncle’s family, it won’t be so easy.

Chen Qiao wants his sister-in-law to gain true freedom and rebirth, and redeem her completely.

He will never forget the scene where she said, “Why did you save me?”

“I…I’m sobbing…” Zhang Haixia was choking with sobs and unable to speak.

She was sniffing her nose, and her eyes were wet.

Years of grievances flooded into her heart, and tears welled up in her eyes.

She raised her head and cried like a child.

Chen Qiao put his arm around Zhang Haixia’s shoulders.

It seemed like he was holding her in his arms, but in fact, he was hugging his sister-in-law tightly.

He put his chin on her shoulder, patted her back and consoled her: “Cry, you will feel better after crying. My mother said that if you keep holding it in, you will hurt your body.”