Chapter 39: She always has someone to order around

Her tone was serious, yet permeated with an irrepressible joy.

Uncle Song stopped slurping his noodles, looked up at his wife, his forehead marked with deep lines.

"What good news?" he asked.

"Zhaozhao has become a salesperson at the supply and marketing cooperative!!" Aunt Song's tone was light, her face overflowing with smiles, very happy.

Uncle Song's hand gripping the chopsticks tightened, his expression pleasantly surprised, "Really?"

"Could that be fake! Zhaozhao came specifically to say it."

Aunt Song remembered Zhaozhao's outfit today and said with a smile, "Zhaozhao was wearing a brand-new white shirt today, a linen skirt down to her ankles, and a new watch on her wrist. She said it was a coupon Chenghuai sent yesterday, and she just bought it."

"That little face, red lips and white teeth, she's so pretty. She hasn't suffered at all, her complexion is even better than when she just graduated. I can tell she's living very well. Now that she's a salesperson, her life will definitely be even more comfortable in the future."

Uncle Song had always been worried about Lin Zhao, his only niece.

It wasn't that he hadn't found her a job in the past few years, but the ones he found were all factory floor jobs, standing for hours at a time, stuffy in summer and hard to endure in winter. A young girl would have her hands cracked after working for a few days.

He could endure hardship himself, but he couldn't bear to see his Zhaozhao suffer this hardship, so he wanted to find a relaxed and decent job.

However.

Jobs in the county were already limited, and ordinary jobs were hard to find. Finding one as relaxed and decent as a salesperson was even harder.

"It really is good news." Uncle Song breathed out heavily, the big stone that had been pressing on his heart finally moved away, "Did Chenghuai help find it?"

Aunt Song nodded, "It was also a coincidence."

"Chenghuai has a comrade whose brother-in-law is the director of the supply and marketing cooperative. It just so happened that the cooperative was expanding and needed to recruit two more salespeople. Our Zhaozhao is a high school student, has connections, and has the education, so the job became hers."

Uncle Song knew the ins and outs and also felt Zhaozhao was lucky, "She has always been lucky."

He was indeed hungry after a day of work, slurped two mouthfuls of noodles, remembered something, and Uncle Song asked again, "How does Zhaozhao eat at noon?"

"Starting tomorrow, I'll have Yuncheng send it to her." Yuncheng was a temporary worker and wasn't that busy. When he got busy, he would have Yunjin send it. Aunt Song had long had plans in her heart.

Song Yuncheng: "..." Biological mother?

Song Yunjin: QAQ

Uncle Song said "Hmm," "I'll leave the bicycle."

The sunset slowly fell, and the western sky, along with large patches of clouds, was dyed orange-red.

Riding a bicycle was much faster than walking, it was just hard on the butt.

"Yuncheng, have you found a job?" Lin Zhao moved her body, trying to divert her attention.

Hey, who are you looking down on!?

Song Yuncheng flipped his bangs and said, "Sister, do you think I'm you?"

"I'm not as delicate as you. I can do any work, so finding a job is simple for me."

Lin Zhao swayed her feet, not angry. She was delicate and couldn't endure hardship.

Song Yuncheng pedaled the bicycle and continued, "I got into the motor factory, temporary worker. I reckon I can become a regular next year."

"By the way, you're a regular employee, right?" he asked.

Lin Zhao nodded, thinking Yuncheng couldn't see, and said, "It's a done deal."

This is what they call having someone in the court makes things easy to handle.

"Really makes people envious." Song Yuncheng's tone was full of envy.

"Didn't you ask Uncle to think of a way for you?"

Song Yuncheng laughed out loud, "Sister, you mean finding connections, right? I wouldn't dare say it. If I dared to mention it, my dad could beat me to death. Old Song's temper is as violent as my aunt's, and it hurts a lot when he hits people. I'd better just endure it slowly."

Lin Zhao pinched his arm.

The teenager riding the bike had a distorted expression, hissing in pain.

"Sister, biological sister, do you want to pinch me to death?" Song Yuncheng almost jumped off the bike.

"I told you not to talk nonsense!" Lin Zhao rubbed the place she had pinched again and said ungraciously: "My mother and uncle have very good tempers, they never speak loudly, how are they bad-tempered?"

Their tempers are very good?!!

Song Yuncheng's arm shook, and the handlebars swayed left and right.

After stabilizing the bike, he turned his head, his face full of shock, "And that's not bad-tempered?!"

Thinking of the way his father spoke softly to Sister Zhaozhao, he put on an expression of realization, "That's true, my dad is never fierce to you, he's always smiling at you..."

The young man muttered with dissatisfaction, "Who is the biological one here anyway?"

Song Yuncheng carried Lin Zhao back to the brigade.

He was a stranger, looked spirited, and was riding a bicycle; as soon as he appeared, he was targeted by the aunts and older women in the village.

When they saw Lin Zhao in the back seat, their expressions changed instantly, and the inquiry in their eyes couldn't be hidden no matter what.

Song Yuncheng's brain turned, and he immediately guessed what these people were thinking.

He said loudly: "Sister, we're here."

This shout of "Sister" was unusually loud.

Sister?

Lin Zhao has a younger brother!?

The brigade leader's wife stepped forward a few steps and asked with a smile: "Chenghuai's wife, you have a younger brother? How come I remember you only have three older brothers."

Nonsense, she clearly has four older brothers!!

Not wanting the people in the village to watch a joke and spread rumors about her family's affairs, Lin Zhao didn't say much.

"This is my cousin, my aunt had him send me off."

The brigade leader's wife nodded, "So he's from your aunt's side."

Lin Zhao was a high-profile person, and no one in the brigade didn't know about her having a powerful uncle in the city.

Because of this, no one dared to dance in front of her.

The brigade leader's wife sized up Song Yuncheng, her eyes flashing with sharp light, and pursued the question: "Young man, do you have a partner? If you don't have one, this aunt will introduce one to you."

"Sure." Song Yuncheng actually agreed, and then chattered: "My family has three workers, does the girl Aunt introduces also have a job?"

The brigade leader's wife was choked, and her smile faded instantly.

She was all from the countryside, where could she find someone with a job?

In the whole brigade, only Lin Zhao was the girl with an iron rice bowl.

"Your standards are quite high."

Song Yuncheng looked disapproving, "Not high, how is it high? My family has three..."

He casually gestured a three, "Three workers, all iron rice bowls, it's not excessive at all to require the female side to have a job."

"In the city, if you don't have a job, you don't have grain, and if you don't have grain, you can't even eat. This is a very realistic problem, you can't not consider it."

Hearing this, the brigade leader's wife and the aunts and older women in the village felt that what he said also made sense.

"That's true."

"Three workers in the family, wanting to find a partner with a job, it's not excessive."

Song Yuncheng nodded seriously, that's right, it's not excessive.

Behind the backs of the enthusiastic matchmaker aunts, he winked at Lin Zhao.

His eyebrows raised, his eyes like stars, revealing a row of white teeth, and the spirit of youth came rushing toward them.

"Go home." Lin Zhao beckoned to him.

"..." Sister, can you not call me like you're calling a puppy.

Song Yuncheng's eyes were resentful.

He followed obediently.

He wasn't in a hurry to return to the county, because he wanted to take a look at Gu Da Cai and the others.

When he went back, his parents would definitely ask, and if he couldn't answer, he would be looked down upon again.

Song Yuncheng and Lin Zhao went to the Gu family. Looking at the earthen house in front of him, he froze in place, his face full of disbelief, and he also felt some heartache for his sister.

"Sister, you live here?"

"Yes, this is my home." Lin Zhao nodded frankly, eyeing him with a threatening look, "Why, my home isn't worthy of you visiting?"

Song Yuncheng didn't mean that at all, and pushed the bike into the yard angrily.

He was really stupid.

Heartache for what.

Seeing a stranger come to the house, Da Huang's ears stood up, he barked, bared his sharp teeth, and growled threateningly.

Xiao Hu Po stood beside Mom, also barking, looking fierce and milky.

"Da Huang, Xiao Hu Po, our own people." Lin Zhao said.

Da Huang really had spiritual energy; as soon as her words fell, he stopped barking, and together with Xiao Hu Po, they stepped forward, crazily wagging their tails around their mistress.

"Sister, you raised a dog? You actually raised a dog!?" Song Yuncheng's tone rose higher and higher, frowning with worry, "Sister, are you eating enough?"

Lin Zhao felt he was talking nonsense, "Of course I'm eating enough, if I wasn't eating enough, how could I possibly raise a dog? There's nothing wrong with my brain."

Song Yuncheng felt relieved, stared at Da Huang and Xiao Hu Po, his eyes showing some disgust, "So ugly."

After receiving an eye-knife from his sister, he changed his wording, "... looks quite clever."

Lin Zhao retracted her gaze with satisfaction and touched the heads of the two dogs one by one.

Song Yuncheng asked: "Sister, where are Gu Da Cai and the others?"

"Probably playing at the old house or in the village." Lin Zhao said.

"I'll go find them!" Song Yuncheng was excited, thinking that children all like to ride bicycles, so he pushed the bike out again and rode around the village looking for Gu Da Cai and the others.

Seeing that it wasn't early, Lin Zhao washed her hands and face and went into the kitchen to cook.

She had won two bags of braised beef noodles in the lottery before, the noodle cakes weren't small, so she simply boiled them all, added a few more eggs, and put in some small green vegetables, it should be enough.

Whether it's enough or not, it'll have to do, it's convenient.

Yuncheng still has to go back to the county later.

Song Yuncheng pedaled the bicycle slowly, looking for Gu Da Cai and Ercai all over the village, his voice calling people was loud.

"Gu Da Cai!"

"Ercai!!"

Gu Da Cai and Ercai were dividing the canned food with Tie Chui, their cheeks bulging as they ate. Hearing someone call their names, they held the canned bottles and walked toward the sound.

They saw a stranger.

Ercai saw Song Yuncheng... and his bicycle, his eyes lit up, he wiped his mouth, walked over quickly, and stared at his bike.

"Brother, come quickly and look at the bicycle!"

After calling his brother, he looked up at Song Yuncheng and asked without treating him as an outsider: "Who are you? What are you doing in our brigade? How much did you buy this bicycle for?"

The child's eyes were as bright as falling stars, his smile cute and lively, very likable.

Song Yuncheng liked him at first glance and asked with a smile: "Are you Gu Da Cai or Ercai?"

Ercai was a clever ghost and wouldn't easily say who he was. He stood there with his arms crossed, his chin slightly raised.

"I asked you first, you say who you are first, then I'll consider whether to make friends with you."

Song Yuncheng looked at the child's arrogant appearance and held back his laughter until he was almost internally injured.

"... cough, I am your uncle." He said.

"?!" A big question mark appeared on Ercai's face.

Uncle?

He stood shoulder to shoulder with Gu Da Cai and whispered in his brother's ear, "Brother, this person must be a hateful kidnapper, he's impersonating our uncle. Let's trick him to the brigade headquarters, let the brigade leader catch him, and let him not trick children again!"

Ercai had a loud voice, and even when he lowered it, it wasn't much quieter.

Everything he said was heard by Song Yuncheng.

"...!!" The young man's mouth twitched.

At first meeting, his own nephew was loudly plotting to send him in!!

"I really am your uncle, if you don't believe me, go home and ask your mother." Song Yuncheng was both helpless and bitter.

Gu Da Cai and Ercai were stunned, their whole faces lit up, and the little brothers held hands and ran away.

They ran home in one breath.

Seeing the door at home open, the smiles on their faces were more dazzling than the sun.

"Mom!"

"Mom!!"

Two joyful and excited voices came from far to near.

"Mom, you're back!" Ercai rushed to the kitchen door and said loudly: "Mom, why didn't you call me and Brother when you came back? Brother and I waited for you for a long time, we were so hungry waiting."

Smelling the fragrance coming from the kitchen, his saliva was almost dripping down.

"Mom, what are you cooking? It's so fragrant, is there a portion for me and Brother?!"

Gu Da Cai still remembered Song Yuncheng, leaned against the door frame, and poked his little head inside, "Mom, there's a weirdo riding a bicycle who said he's our uncle, do we have this uncle?"

What this uncle, that uncle, Lin Zhao felt that the child's way of speaking was really interesting.

"Yes, the person who rode the bicycle to find you is also your uncle. Besides him, you also have a younger uncle, but he's still in school, I'll have a chance to take you to see him."

Gu Da Cai's voice was crisp, "Okay."

"Mom, Ercai's stomach is almost flat with hunger, I want to eat." Ercai held his stomach, which was rumbling, and acted like a spoiled child to his mother.

"The food is ready, take your uncle to wash his hands." Lin Zhao gave the order and served the cooked noodles into bowls.

Song Yuncheng didn't want to sponge a meal, even though the fragrance from the kitchen made him swallow his saliva involuntarily.

"Sister, it's not early, I'll go back to eat."

"Don't talk nonsense!" Lin Zhao glared at him.

Song Yuncheng kept quiet, touched the tip of his nose, and honestly followed Ercai to wash his hands.

Ercai giggled.

The uncle rubbed his nephew's head, "Where is your hair?" He asked while washing his hands.

Ercai scratched his prickly head and said: "I let the barber shave it, Mom said a bald head is cool."

Song Yuncheng didn't quite believe it, it must be that they had little creatures on their heads and were disliked by his sister.

Gu Da Cai wiped his hands with a towel and looked at his new uncle from time to time, "Why haven't I seen you before?"

"Ask your mother." Song Yuncheng kicked the ball back.

Gu Da Cai pursed his lips and didn't speak.

No need to ask, it must be that Mom was too tired taking care of them and didn't have time to introduce this uncle to them.

After washing their hands, Song Yuncheng and the two cubs went to serve the food.

After entering the kitchen, the fragrance was even richer.

This taste was indescribable.

All three of them were dazed by the fragrance!!

They smiled with their eyes narrowed, their noses twitching rapidly, as if they wanted to inhale all the fragrance into their own chests.

One big and two small had synchronized expressions.

"Sister, your cooking skills are getting better and better, it smells fragrant, it must taste even better." Song Yuncheng remembered the past, when Sister Zhaozhao occasionally cooked, whatever she tossed together was better than what his mother cooked with effort.

His dad said, this is called talent.

Not wrong at all.

"Eat quickly, you still have to go back to the county after eating, leave early, so you don't have to worry about not seeing the road when it gets dark." Lin Zhao said.

Song Yuncheng nodded, buried his head in eating noodles, stuffed a chopstick of curly noodles into his mouth, his pupils widened, and at the same time he gave a thumbs up.

"Amazing!!"

After praising, he started eating rapidly.

Gu Da Cai and Ercai were starving, and also buried their faces in the bowls, eating noisily, so fragrant they couldn't speak.

Song Yuncheng was a city child, that's true, but he rarely ate so comfortably.

After finishing a bowl of noodles, he stood up while holding his stomach, "Comfortable!"

Seeing Gu Da Cai and Ercai cleaning up the bowls and chopsticks, he hurriedly wanted to help.

Gu Da Cai reached out to stop him, "Mom said Uncle is in a hurry to return to the county, Ercai and I will clean up."

Song Yuncheng felt that the two nephews' movements were too proficient and asked curiously: "Do you two wash the dishes usually?"

Gu Da Cai nodded his little head calmly, "Mom is tired, Ercai and I can wash."

Song Yuncheng just felt that compared to the two cubs, he was so useless.

"You are really amazing." He praised.

His sister used to order him and Yunjin around, now she orders Gu Da Cai and Ercai around.

She always has someone to order around.