1979: My fiancée is a goddess

Chapter 15: Dinner and meeting acquaintances

“Save money to buy a car!”

Cheng Kaiyan was riding a bike with her aunt on the back seat, traveling through the alleys. There were many small potholes on the road, and the wheels kept sinking into the mud. Every rotation was accompanied by the sound of mud and water splashing.

So he rode very carefully, fearing that Jiang Ting would fall off.

In today's Beijing, road development is also rapid. Some roads have been paved with asphalt, but cement and dirt roads still occupy the majority.

In alleys and streets, it is good enough to be paved with bluestone bricks. But when it rains or snows, the roads will be so bad that you don't want to go out, especially in the areas around the Third Ring Road and beyond, which are basically mud roads.

Jiang Ting currently lives in a tube-shaped building near Ditan Park. She is now moving to the teacher dormitory of Beijing Normal University, and is said to have been allocated a two-bedroom, one-living-room apartment.

After riding for almost half an hour, we finally arrived.

In front of me stood several east-west oriented Khrushchev buildings, with a sign hanging at the door saying "Family Compound of a Certain Bureau".

Go up to the third floor, open the door, and what comes into view is a medium-sized three-bedroom and one-living room apartment.

Jiang Ting entered the room silently, and Cheng Kaiyan followed behind her.

Entering the bedroom, there is a color wedding photo placed on the bedside. The picture shows a newlywed couple wearing suits and white wedding dresses, with Tiananmen Square behind them.

The bride is naturally Jiang Ting.

"He is also a man with a story..."

Cheng Kaiyan looked at it for a while and thought to himself.

At this time, Jiang Ting carried a few large cardboard boxes to him and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing, it's just hard to carry like this, isn't it? If you use a bicycle, you still have to use bags to carry it, and if you want to carry it in boxes, you'd have to have a car."

Cheng Kaiyan thought for a while and said, In his previous life, he had moved many times because of renting a house, and he had his own experience in this regard.

"It's a car."

"Hmm?! Oh..."

It took them more than ten minutes to carry more than ten boxes downstairs. After checking to see if there was anything dropped, the two of them locked the door and went downstairs.

After a while, as expected, a military green jeep stopped in front of us. The driver was a security guard. He asked, "Madam, have you counted everything?"

lady?

Cheng Kaiyan raised her eyebrows. Wow, Aunt Jiang married a second-generation rich man?
She’s a lady, and she drives a jeep… no wonder you don’t like me as your nephew’s son-in-law!

But you married such a powerful man, and you still let me do the hard labor... Is this appropriate?

Cheng Kaiyan was speechless for a moment, thinking of a short video in her previous life, in which a woman had a boyfriend, but she asked a dog to help her move because she was afraid that her boyfriend would be tired.

She really made me cry!

……

The journey was much faster afterwards. Although Beijing Normal University was in the northwest, more than ten kilometers away from here, it was a piece of cake for a car. It only took ten minutes to get to Beijing Normal University.

There was another round of moving things up and down. After being busy for a long time, it was five in the afternoon and the rain outside had stopped.

Cheng Kaiyan worked hard all afternoon and was so tired that she lay down on the wooden sofa, while Jiang Ting was cleaning with a broom.

"Huh~"

Jiang Ting was holding a broom in her hand, leaning on the dining table, looking very tired, with fine beads of sweat covering her fair and pretty face.

She walked into the room and took two towels, one to wipe her own sweat, and the other to Cheng Kaiyan: "Thank you for your hard work Kaiyan, I really troubled you today. If you weren't here, I would probably be busy until the evening."

At this point, Jiang Ting couldn't help but laugh, and her eyes softened when she looked at Cheng Kaiyan.

"It's a small matter. We are one family, so why should we talk about different things? Even if Sister Xiaoli and I are not together, my mother and you are sisters."

Cheng Kaiyan grinned and didn't take it seriously, but then changed the subject, "Auntie, will you take care of dinner today?"

"Puchi~ Don't worry!"

Jiang Ting couldn't help but chuckle when she heard this, and gave Cheng Kaiyan a charming roll of the eyes, "The emperor is not hungry for soldiers, so how can I bring you out and let you starve? I'll take you to a restaurant."

……

State-owned hotel.

It’s past five o’clock and it’s almost time to get off work.

The waiter sat on the chair, yawning boredly, waiting for the end of his shift.

The chef in the kitchen also stopped the fire, muttering, "No visitors! No visitors!" At this time, a man and a woman came in from outside. The woman was wearing a gray woolen coat with a red scarf on her collar. The man looked relatively young, but had a more mature temperament. He was wearing a Type 65 military coat.

"Teacher Jiang, are you here for dinner?"

The waitress was a girl in her twenties. She was about to say that it was almost time to get off work, but when she saw it was Jiang Ting, she smiled and spoke.

Aunt Jiang nodded. She works at Beijing Normal University and is a frequent visitor here.

He pulled Cheng Kaiyan to sit by the window, holding the menu and said, "Comrade, give me a portion of braised pork, braised eggplant with dried shrimps, and a dish of braised beef in soy sauce."

"They're all meat dishes? How generous, Aunt Jiang!"

Cheng Kaiyan nodded with satisfaction, it was worth it after being tired for the whole afternoon.

In a state-owned restaurant, you order the food first, then pay the bill and get the ticket, and then you go and get the food when it's ready.

However, in just ten days it would be 1980, and you wouldn't actually need tickets to eat at state-owned restaurants, but it would be cheaper with tickets.

As an associate professor at Beijing Normal University, Jiang Ting had plenty of votes and had no shortage of them at all.

After waiting for a while, the food came.

The braised beef is fragrant, and the braised pork is greasy and looks very appetizing...

Cheng Kaiyan picked up a piece of braised pork and put it into her mouth. The hot and tender braised pork was filled with juice and fragrance. She didn't even need to bite it. It melted in an instant and fell into her stomach with a sip.

After eating and drinking to my heart's content, I spent more than two yuan on three dishes.

There was still some left. Seeing this, Jiang Ting borrowed a lunch box from the restaurant and packed it up to take away. She was a regular customer, so she still had some face. She handed the lunch box to Cheng Kaiyan, "I guess Sister Yuxiu hasn't eaten yet. You can take it back to her later."

"Ah."

So Cheng Kaiyan sent Jiang Ting back to the dormitory. Before leaving, Jiang Ting lent her bicycle to Cheng Kaiyan and also gave him a flashlight.

The north wind was howling, causing the brim of my hat to flutter.

Cheng Kaiyan had become much more familiar with the map of the capital these days, so she did not get lost. At a corner, she suddenly saw a pair of familiar figures.

"laugh--"

With an emergency brake, Cheng Kaiyan rang the bell.

"Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding~"

The ringing of the bell made passers-by on the street stop, and so did the figures.

"Sister Shang Cui? Niuniu? Why are you here?"

Cheng Kaiyan rode his bike up to the two of them and asked in surprise.

Shang Cui, with disheveled hair and a pale face, was wearing a patched jacket and wandering on the street with a little girl of two or three years old in her arms covered with a sheet.

Hearing a familiar voice, he looked up suddenly.

This is none other than Cheng Kaiyan, the young comrade who once gave me a meal on the train!
Shang Cui, who was unfamiliar with the capital, burst into tears when she saw her old friend and choked up, "Comrade Xiao Cheng!"

……

In a room of less than ten square meters in Beitaiping Village, Shang Cui sat on the bed in a daze.

His face showed the pain of hunger and the embarrassment of facing old friends.

The little girl in her arms was sleeping soundly, muttering in her dream that she was hungry, which broke her heart.

After arriving in the capital a few days ago, she made up her mind not to go back until she found her husband.

Before she left, her elderly parents gave her half of the money they had saved from digging in the dirt. Now, after using the dozen dollars for food and rent, there is almost nothing left.

Shang Cui originally wanted to do odd jobs in the capital, but people there didn't want people with unknown identities.

She was the owner of a private restaurant that was secretly opened near the school. She felt sorry for her and asked her to wash dishes from time to time in exchange for some meals.

But life was still difficult and I often went hungry.

After a while, the door opened and Cheng Kaiyan walked in carrying two baskets of hot buns, which he had just bought.

"Eat, eat."

Hearing this, Shang Cui's tears started streaming down her face again.

(End of this chapter)