Lin Nianhe dragged them back into the room, turned on the living room lights, poured so milk for Wen Lan and Miao Hongqi, and took out so fruits and sunflower seeds.
The grand conference of criticizing the Sun Family officially began.
"My Sister Shui has both the looks and height, and she’s from Peking University! How dare they? Saying she’s not a good match... Sister Shui’s leg is longer than their son’s life, good enough to outlast him!"
"Sun Guanghui is just a dimwit, can’t manage to fart even with eight prods. What’s he going to say when he shows up? That you two eloped and didn’t care about his parents? If he really wanted to say that, why didn’t he say it to your face?"
"And Shui has even been to the Trade Fair, they haven’t even been to a beverage factory."
"That’s right! Brother Qian, the fleet captain, earns more than that deputy factory director, why didn’t he ntion that? Sister-in-law staying at ho looking after the kids can earn twenty or thirty a month, that’s not worse than a regular job, right?"
"Now Damin has beco a team leader, he’ll at least be a company commander in the future! Why shouldn’t the older sister of Commander Wang be able to marry a commander, huh?"
"..."
The unwritten rule of sisterhood is always to encourage separation, not reconciliation.
Hearing this, Wang Shui couldn’t help but start to rember Sun Guanghui’s good points.
"Well... he’s not that bad, right..."
"If we’re just talking about Sun Guanghui as a person, I can’t really say he has any major issues," Lin Nianhe said, taking a sip of her tea, and then changing her tone, "but his family is definitely a minus, even if we’re not satisfied, his parents are so old, shouldn’t they know how to resolve issues gracefully? Picking on a young girl like you, what’s so great about that?"
"Exactly! You’re just too soft," Wen Lan poked Wang Shui’s head, "why didn’t you flip the table on them? Don’t tell Aunt Wang when you get back, or she’ll surely smack you for not standing up for yourself!"
Miao Hongqi nodded vigorously in agreent.
"That’s not right, even if Aunt Wang is far away, couldn’t you have gone to find Sister Lirong? Have Fourth Brother take so brothers over to pay her a New Year visit..."
As the conversation beca more intense, Wang Shui kept waving her hands: "Hey, hey, hey, stop it, all of you just stop."
The three of them quieted down and looked at her.
Wang Shui, feeling a bit uncomfortable, forced a smile and pointed to the clock nearby: "It’s three o’clock, aren’t we sleeping?"
The conference had already been going on for nearly three hours.
Lin Nianhe: "The flag raising is around 6:50, if we sleep now... can we even wake up?"
Obviously, they couldn’t.
So... let’s continue.
That night, Father Sun and Mother Sun slept very uneasily.
Strangely, the two of them had the sa dream, in which the three girls surrounded them and scolded them the whole night.
At five thirty, the girls, tired from scolding, went back to their rooms to change and wash up, and then went to the cafeteria for breakfast.
Su Yuncheng and Feng Wei also got up early and saw the girls looking exhausted. Feng Wei asked, "Did you also not sleep well last night? Hey, I didn’t either, the leader had so many things to say to !"
He was too excited to fall asleep.
Lin Nianhe yawned and casually replied, "Our situation is different. We spent last night cursing out loud."
Su Yuncheng: "...?"
Feng Wei: "...?"
Upon learning that the girls had stayed up all night cursing out Sun Guanghui and thus didn’t sleep, the expressions on both n turned extrely complicated.
After a three-day and three-night train ride, having wandered around the whole afternoon, and needing to wake up early the next day.
Yet, these people didn’t sleep at night and spent it cursing Sun Guanghui instead.
Hard to understand.
But admirable and frightening.
Feng Wei quietly tugged at Su Yuncheng’s clothes, "Brother Cheng, do you think... they’ve ever cursed out my mom?"
Su Yuncheng: "They have a much better relationship with Aunt Feng than with you."
"Oh..." Feng Wei held his breath without fully exhaling.
What does that an?
Never cursed his mother, just him?
Feng Wei glanced at Su Yuncheng, then after a while, he glanced again.
That look seed to ask: Brother Cheng, do you think they’ve cursed you too?
Su Yuncheng silently stood up and went to get an extra portion of atball soup from the cafeteria master chef.
The kind of atball soup that’s all atballs.
For the first ti, the girls choked on the soup while drinking it.
After the al, Su Yuncheng picked up Feng Wei and went to drive the car, returned to the cafeteria to pick up the girls, and headed straight for Tianann.
The national anthem sounded, and the five-starred red flag fluttered in the wind.
Such a scene, every ti observed, invariably fills one with tears, leaving one utterly spellbound for a long ti.
After the flag-raising ceremony ended, Lin Nianhe took out her cara: "I’ll take pictures for you all."
"Okay!"
The shutter clicked lightly, capturing the mont for eternity.
After being up all night, the girls were all listless, but they couldn’t go back to rest – they still had to go to register.
Fortunately, the three schools weren’t too far apart from each other.
Su Yuncheng first drove to the Normal University to drop Miao Hongqi off for registration.
By the ti they arrived, the school was packed with people everywhere. Unlike later on, the Normal University currently had a noticeably larger number of male students.
Miao Hongqi was a bit nervous, holding her admission notice and looking left and right, speaking in a voice even quieter than usual.
"Tiechui, it’s over there." Lin Nianhe tugged at her, pointing to the new student registration area not far away.
Miao Hongqi was in the Chinese departnt, class one, which, it was said, had only eight girls.
Her dorm was on the second floor; boys were not allowed in the girls’ dormitories, so Su Yuncheng and Feng Wei carried the luggage to the downstairs and then handed it over to the four girls.
Four people carrying one person’s luggage was quite easy, Miao Hongqi’s dormitory already had five people moved in, and there were still three upper bunks empty.
Lin Nianhe asked her, "Can you handle living in an upper bunk? Otherwise, should we talk to the teacher and switch it?"
Wen Lan curiously looked at her, "You know people at the Normal University too?"
Lin Nianhe: "I have connections everywhere."
Miao Hongqi stopped her: "No need, no need, I’ll manage... You guys shouldn’t delay either, hurry up and go register."
"It’s okay, there’s no rush." Lin Nianhe checked the ti, "We’re early."
She was about to help, but before she could reach out, Wang Shui and Wen Lan pushed her aside: "Find a spot to stand without getting in the way."
Lin Nianhe: "Got it."
Lin Nianhe stepped back a few paces and skillfully took out seven little cloth bags filled with candies from her bag, babbling non-stop:
"Hello sisters, my sister’s na is Miao Hongqi, she doesn’t talk much usually, so please take care of her in the future."
Candy is always popular everywhere.
Lin Nianhe distributed five bags and left two for Miao Hongqi, telling her to share with the other two roommates later.
"You four... are you sisters?" asked the woman staying in the lower bunk across from Miao Hongqi.
She looked to be almost thirty, perhaps actually a bit younger.
"Mhm, sisters closer than real ones," Lin Nianhe replied with a bright smile, looking like a simple-minded and guileless girl, "We’re from the sa production team; we’ve been together for many years now."
"Where did you do your educated youth rural placent?" the girl near the door showed curiosity, speaking with a Beijing accent.
"Northeast, Lan County."
Lin Nianhe smiled and pointed at her Head Flower: "The head flower you’re wearing is produced by Lan County Textile Factory."
"Really?"
Instantly, a sparkle lit up in the girls’ eyes.
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