Back to the 70s: My Wife is Both Fierce and Crazy

Chapter 39 Bai Manman

Despite being from rural areas, a significant number of them are admitted to town middle schools and county high schools every year.

The village chief is always praised by his superiors when he goes to meetings in the commune or town.

He was very pleased with himself.

"It's alright, it's alright," the teachers all smiled brightly.

After giving each child a dime, Bai Jing went directly to the commune market.

The five children were incredibly envious when they learned that their eldest sister could go to the market.

Why only five? Because two others were attending junior high school in the commune.

One is Bai Ling, and the other is Bai Yumeng from my second uncle's family. Both of them are girls, they are also classmates, and they are in the same class.

By the time Bai Jing arrived at school and paid her two younger sisters' tuition fees, it was already noon.

"Can I eat at your school?" She didn't have any tickets, and she couldn't afford to eat at the big restaurant in the commune.

Just then, her sisters were having lunch, so she thought she'd join them for a meal.

"Okay, but you have to buy us meal tickets, big sister." Bai Ling knew a little about the situation and, thinking about the good food she had for breakfast, she made her first request to her big sister in thirteen years.

Bai Jing was naturally satisfied.

"no problem."

Junior high schools have canteens where you don't need tickets to eat. You either exchange grain for meal tickets or you exchange money for meal tickets.

One meal ticket can buy two ounces of grain and eight ounces of vegetables. The two ounces of grain are not just plain rice and white flour buns, but mixed grain rice or three kinds of flour buns. The vegetables are vegetarian, and the canteen naturally provides free hot water.

Of course, if you want to eat meat, you need to buy extra tickets; two meal tickets can be exchanged for one meat dish.

A meal ticket requires one jin of grain to exchange, and this jin of grain is naturally not rice.

Bai Jing bought two yuan worth of meal tickets for each of them, giving each of them twenty tickets. In total, each meal ticket cost only two mao (0.2 yuan), which Bai Jing thought was not expensive.

Seeing that there were meat dishes, Bai Jing didn't hesitate and used two meal tickets to buy a meat dish.

The three of them spent a total of five tickets and got back six ounces of rice, three vegetarian dishes, and one meat dish, which made many people extremely envious.

After eating and drinking their fill, Bai Jing went to get down to business. When they learned that she was going to the market, the two said they had time at noon and wanted to go with her.

Bai Jing had no choice but to take them along.

When you arrive at the market, you'll find people from all around, exchanging all sorts of things.

Bai Jing walked from beginning to end, taking a liking to many things, and also letting Bai Ling and Bai Yumeng have a good time.

"Big sister, look! Isn't that Sister Manman?" Bai Ling had sharp eyes and spotted Bai Manman with braids from afar.

"Is that her boyfriend? They're holding hands." Bai Ling's face flushed slightly as she spoke.

Bai Yumeng also looked curious, "Where is it? Let me see." The little girl was very curious.

"Over there." Bai Ling pointed directly to where Bai Manman and Wu Ming were.

Bai Jing naturally saw the two people as well.

She was just a little confused as to why these two had gotten together at this time.

"Sister, Bai Manman really is fair-skinned." Bai Yumeng said excitedly. "Sister, look, aren't they kissing?" Bai Jing was speechless. "Alright, kids, don't look around like that, you'll get a sty." She quickly pulled the two behind her and used her body to block them.

"It's getting late, you should go back to school."

“No, big sister, let’s go take a look. Isn’t Bai Manman your best friend? Let’s go see what’s going on with her boyfriend.” Bai Yumeng’s face was full of curiosity and resistance to going back to school.

Seeing her like this, Bai Jing was both amused and annoyed. "They're doing important business right now, it's not appropriate for us to go over there."

Although she knew the two of them would end up together, she didn't expect that they would be together now, and Bai Jing felt uncomfortable.

This discomfort wasn't because she liked Wu Ming that much, but because she felt disgusted.

Wu Ming was a gambler and womanizer, and had no loyalty whatsoever. She wasn't surprised that he was having affairs with other women, but Bai Manman surprised her at this moment.

You know, Bai Manman married into a family in the city. If Wu Ming hadn't been good-looking, the two of them probably wouldn't have gotten together at their age in their past lives.

In her past life, she couldn't understand why she would fall for Wu Ming, who was a gambler and poor man, when she clearly had plenty of money and connections.

She finally understood what she couldn't figure out in her past life: that's why they got together at this time.

Seeing that her older sister didn't reply, Bai Yumeng immediately grabbed Bai Ling's hand and shook it, "Bai Ling, you should persuade your older sister, let's watch secretly."

Bai Ling was also curious, but she didn't say anything and instead stared at her eldest sister.

Bai Jing was indeed curious to see what those two were up to, so she said, "Then you two better not get caught."

After saying that, he led the two of them to secretly flank Bai Manman and Wu Ming from behind.

They actually found a place where they could hide people and still hear them talking clearly.

An old wall; hiding here, you can not only see people clearly through the holes in the wall, but also hear their conversations clearly.

"Are you serious? Is she really that easy to manipulate?" Wu Ming asked earnestly after kissing Bai Manman, "And the betrothal gifts don't need to be too much?"

"Of course, Ming-ge, would I lie to you? Her family is so poor, they can't even afford to eat. If your family offers even a little something, they'll definitely be willing to marry their daughter to your family."

"Then your parents' wishes will be fulfilled, and they won't care about you anymore. I heard that Ming is planning to do something big with Hai, so you can't let your family hold you back."

Bai Manman, for reasons unknown, kept praising Bai Jing to Wu Ming.

“But I heard she’s not good-looking and is only sixteen. If she’s going to get married, she’ll have to wait two more years. Manman, don’t try to fool me.” Wu Ming’s voice was deep, with a strong sense of threat in his tone.

He originally intended to marry the woman in front of him. He wouldn't say he liked her, but she was obedient and would listen to him if he gave her some benefits. He didn't want to get married right now.

But his family was pressuring him to get married and start working, and he didn't want to end up like his father, dealing with those stinky pigs every day.

He has his own career, but he's not one to be seen in public. He'll naturally consider marriage once he's made a lot of money, but not now.

"How could I dare? Don't you trust me, Ming-ge? I love you the most, so of course I wouldn't harm you. You know, my mother plans to sell me to pay for the bride price for my brothers. It's not worth it for you to marry me. You might as well listen to me and marry Bai Jing. She's obedient and hasn't seen much of the world. After the wedding, won't it be up to you, Ming-ge, to call the shots?"

Bai Manman was afraid that Wu Ming would ruin her reputation, so she quickly asked her mother to find a partner for Wu Ming. Unexpectedly, her mother chose Bai Jing from the Bai family.

That short, dark-skinned girl—if it weren't for her passable face, she wouldn't have been able to fool Wu Ming.

Bai Manman knew even better that the short, dark-skinned girl had a wonderful figure hidden under her clothes, a figure that even made her jealous. Wu Ming was really lucky.

If things weren't so strict, she would have had her mother sell Bai Jing to a farther place, so she could at least bring back more money.

It's a pity, time waits for no one.