Three or Two Things about Rebirth

Ma Mingjun said, "A lot! Forestry, coal mining, aquatic products, timber companies, etc., all laid off a lot of people. We are an agricultural county, so it's better. There are more people in the forestry bureaus outside. Lao Xu's relatives in my unit are from the Nanling Forestry Bureau. The couple were the first batch of layoffs. They couldn't make ends meet. They divorced soon and left their children to be raised by their grandparents. Haha, why did Lao Qiu think of asking this? You are sitting in the customs building, and you think of the sufferings of the world?"

"Just asking."

"It's a bit cruel." Ma Mingjun stopped laughing. "Ordinary people always think very simply, thinking that they can keep their jobs for life. But one day they find that their jobs are broken, and it's like the sky has fallen."

"Why are they being laid off?" Qiu Luming had never paid attention to this before. It was too far away from her life. None of Qiu's relatives had ever mentioned the word "layoff". It was not even a topic of conversation at the dinner table. "Is it because all the trees have been cut down? Is the coal mine emptied?"

Ma Mingjun smiled silently, "I don't understand either. This is a national event. Let's just be thankful. Although we don't have much education, we are lucky enough to have a decent job thanks to our parents' help. We can also marry a wife and live a stable life. Several classmates in my class still don't have a job or a partner."

"What object?" Zheng Wei came back after seeing Police Officer Xiao Zhang off. He was particularly sensitive to the word "object" now.

"Nothing, I said let's go to my house for lunch at noon."

"Have you cooked at home?"

"I've never cooked before, but I have everything. Cooking instant noodles is no problem!"

"Instant noodles are OK, buy Master Kong's!"

Ma Mingjun and his wife still have a sense of novelty in playing house, and are happy to invite friends to their home for dinner. Their kitchen is not big, but it has all the necessary appliances, all brand new and never used. The couple usually go back to Ma's or Lin's house for meals.

The four of them bought ten bags of instant noodles, ten eggs, ten sausages and two bags of pickled mustard tubers at a roadside store. When they arrived at Ma Mingjun's house, the two men rolled up their sleeves and went into the kitchen. Lin Haiying pulled Qiu Luming to sit on the sofa and took out a few photos. "I haven't given them to you yet. This is our group photo."

Qiu Luming looked through the photos. There were two group photos of the four of them, and one was a snapshot of her helping Lin Haiying with her hair.

She smiled and put the photos into her purse. Over there, Lin Haiying fiddled with the VCR and the scenes from the wedding day appeared on TV.

The most exciting scene was when Lin Haiying's classmates and friends blocked the door and stopped the groom from asking for red envelopes. Then Ma Mingjun changed his mind and accepted the red envelopes. There was also a scene where Lin Haiying hugged his mother and cried. After a while, the camera turned and Ma Mingjun hugged Lin Haiying and walked out of the Lin family yard. Behind the newlyweds, Lin's mother followed and wiped her tears at the door. The photographer followed Ma Mingjun's steps and recorded his whisper in Lin Haiying's ear, "Don't look back, don't look back!"

Qiu Luming laughed out loud, and Lin Haiying also laughed, "Like an idiot!"

“The noodles are ready!” Ma Mingjun shouted, “Wash your hands and eat! Lao Zheng cooked the noodles, I cracked the eggs, he cut the sausage, and I served it in the end!”

"It smells so good! You two are very capable!" Lin Haiying praised.

"Instant noodles come with a seasoning packet. Just put them in the pot and cook them. How can they have any other taste?" Qiu Luming said in a disapproving tone.

Lin Haiying smiled and said, "Sister Qiu, you don't understand. There is affection in this. Do you know how my eldest brother praised my niece? 'My daughter's farts are all composed to music. My daughter turns off the lights darker than others!'"

Qiu Luming laughed so hard that he couldn't straighten his back.

The four of them did not go to the dining table, but gathered around the coffee table, eating and watching videos.

In the video, Zheng Wei helped Ma Mingjun pick out a grain of corn from her hair that was sprayed with hairspray, and the four of them laughed out loud. At the end of the video, there is a shot of Lin Haiying lighting a cigarette for the people who were making trouble in the bridal chamber. She struck a match and held it to a man's mouth. The man leaned over with a cigarette in his mouth, but blew out the match with a puff, and shouted for a start over. He stood on a chair and asked Ma Mingjun to hold Lin Haiying to light the cigarette, but he blew it out several times in a row. The last time, as soon as he blew it out, Lin Haiying smashed the match into the man's face. The bridal chamber burst into laughter, and the man got off the chair with his face covered, and was scolded by everyone.

The four of them also laughed.

"Haying, you are so amazing!"

"I should have thrown it in his face earlier, what a jerk!" Lin Haiying said with a smile.

"This guy is Xiao Zhao from our unit. He's so annoying!" Ma Mingjun echoed.

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After the meal, Ma Mingjun wanted to pick out a video of Stephen Chow to watch, but Qiu Luming refused, "Thank you for the meal, you guys take a rest, I have to go home."

Zheng Wei naturally left with them.

As the two of them were pushing the cart, Qiu Luming couldn't help but say to Zheng Wei, "Can you be less impulsive? Fighting is not the fundamental way to solve problems, especially with older people. It will only make you unreasonable even if you are right."

"I'll try to change." Zheng Wei paused and said, "I haven't fought much in the past few years. We can reason with people of quality, but with people like Fu Xinyang's mother, we have to be tough! Your family is of high quality, but it has its disadvantages. If your second brother encountered this today, it would be troublesome to deal with it. To compete with a scoundrel, you have to be more scoundrel than him! From now on, I will do this kind of dirty work! Don't worry!"

"What would you do if Fu Xinyang's mother wasn't frightened?"

"Then really beat her up!"

Qiu Luming sighed. "I can't imagine what it would be like if you hit an old man."

"Hehe, I'm just kidding. Think about it, when have I ever done anything naughty or really hit an old man? Back then, our head teacher was such a jerk, but at most I just scolded him, I didn't even hit him! But, I can do whatever I want, but I just can't bear to see you get wronged, so, yoyo, you have to be steady in the future, and don't always cause trouble for me!"

"I caused trouble?"

"Yes, it's all your fault. By the way, I also beat Fei Yuanhang once."

"what?"

"He really didn't dare tell you." Zheng Wei said a little cunningly and proudly, "When I knew you two were dating, I was jealous to death, but I have to admit that I really can't compare to him. He is the most talented man in Jiayang, and I am nothing. He can take you to Beijing, but I can only accompany you in Jiayang. I don't have much education, and I can't even talk to you in Russian. You are a hundred times better with him than with me, but I was unwilling to give up without beating him up. After that, I found a day and had a fight with him. He was no match! He was old and a cultured person. He couldn't beat me at all. I didn't even have to use all my strength to knock him down."

After saying that, he looked at Qiu Luming's face and asked, "You won't feel bad, will you?"

Qiu Luming stopped, looked him straight in the eye, and said seriously, "Zheng Wei, I know you want to ask me some questions, so ask them all at once. I will answer them truthfully. If you feel you can't accept it, just give up before it even starts!"

Zheng Wei also became serious and looked at Qiu Luming. He bit his lower lip and suddenly said loudly and firmly, "I won't ask! I already knew about your situation. Why should I listen to you provoking me again! I accept it, I accept everything about you! And I will never give up!"

Qiu Luming stared into his eyes for a long time and said, "Okay, Zheng Wei, you must remember what I said today. If you regret it in the future or bring it up again, I will look down on you!"

"I will never regret it!" Zheng Wei stretched out his right hand wearing a leather glove and raised it in front of Qiu Luming.

"what?"

"High five!"

"Why are you clapping? I just have a girlfriend, openly and aboveboard. Do you need me to swear to accept her? Is that an unforgivable sin?" Qiu Luming glared at him. He felt that his communication with him was not as smooth as Fei Yuanhang's, or even worse than Zhang Weijing's.

"I was wrong!" Zheng Wei immediately chased after her and shouted when he saw her face change.

Qiu Luming stopped again and asked angrily, "Then what did you do wrong?"

"Where did I go wrong?"

"I'm asking you!"

"I don't know!" Zheng Wei compromised, "If you're angry, it must be my fault. I can see that whoever falls in love first will lose. I can't turn things around in this life. Qiu Luming, Qiu Luming, you have been bullying me since you were a child just because I like you!"

Qiu Luming also discovered at this moment that when she was with Fei Yuanhang and Sergei, she had always been emotionally stable and lived in peace with him, but after spending a few days with Zheng Wei, she always wanted to bully him. She didn't know what was going on!