Chapter 9 Mimeograph Machine

After returning home from the dock.

Li Duoyu took a shower, changed into clean clothes, and rode his 28-inch bicycle to the gate of Dandan Island Primary School.

As the school bell rang, the primary school students swarmed out as usual.

When the fat boy Li Haoran saw Li Duoyu, he was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth:

"Uncle, when did you cut your hair? I still think your big hair is more handsome."

Li Duoyu smiled harmlessly:

"I'm going to the county tomorrow. Do you want me to go to the bookstore for you?"

"Uncle, I was wrong."

Hearing the word "bookstore", the fat boy disappeared instantly.

In the past, Zhou Xiaoying would come out after most of the students left, but this time Li Duoyu waited for half an hour and still didn't see Zhou Xiaoying.

This made him a little anxious.

It happened that a female teacher who was close to Zhou Xiaoying came out of class and saw Li Duoyu still waiting, so she said:

"Xiaoying is printing test papers today, I guess she won't be that fast, do you want to go in and find her?"

"Where is she printing? I'll go find her."

Lin Shanshan pointed to a small room next to the teaching building: "That's where we print the test papers."

"Thank you, Teacher Lin."

Seeing Li Duoyu's hurried look, Lin Shanshan couldn't help but sigh. Why didn't she realize that Li Duoyu looked quite clear before, and he loved his wife so much.

Unlike the one in her family, not only did he not make any money, but he also treated himself as a boss all day long, and she paid for all the money for smoking and drinking every day.

Life!

As soon as Li Duoyu approached the room, he smelled a pungent smell of ink, while Zhou Xiaoying was sitting in the room, holding a stylus and carving the test paper template on wax paper.

When Li Duoyu pushed the door in, she was startled. In a moment of carelessness, the stylus poked a big hole in the wax paper.

This annoyed her, because once the wax paper was punctured, it had to be re-engraved.

"It's all your fault. I have to re-engraved it."

Li Duoyu laughed: "I waited at the door for half an hour, but I didn't see you. I couldn't help but come in to find you. You used to be very fast at this, why are you so slow today?"

Zhou Xiaoying looked helpless:

"Before, there was only one subject, Chinese, and now there is also one subject, mathematics."

Li Duoyu then remembered that his wife took two courses and the test paper had to be printed twice.

"I'll help you carve one copy." Li Duoyu said.

"Do you know how to carve wax paper?"

"Don't look down on your husband like this, okay? I graduated from junior high school after all, and I have no problem with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division within 100."

Zhou Xiaoying was a technical secondary school student. In this era, she was already a top student. Originally, she could be assigned to work in a unit in the city after graduation.

But for some reason, she chose to stay on the island to teach.

"Hurry up and give me another test paper. I'll help you carve it."

After Li Duoyu took the test paper, he found that his wife's penmanship was just like her, very neat and beautiful.

In this era, test papers were generally printed with mimeograph machines, which was very time-consuming and laborious.

You have to carve the words on wax paper first, then put it on the mesh, and roll the wax paper twice with a brush or ink roller, and a test paper is considered carved.

Among all the processes, wax paper carving is the most tedious. Wax paper must be placed on a hard board for carving. Once the carving is wrong or the wax paper is torn, it has to be pushed back and started over.

"Be careful, don't carve my original paper." Zhou Xiaoying was afraid that Li Duoyu could not do this job, so she gave him a math test paper with relatively few words and simpler.

I thought he would carve it crookedly and shout to give up in a few seconds, but what she didn't expect was.

After Li Duoyu sat down, his expression became very quiet and focused, without the slightest sloppy look, and he did things meticulously.

When carving, every stroke was clear and not inferior to her teacher who had carved test papers for several years.

These days, Zhou Xiaoying couldn't understand Li Duoyu. How could this person in her family suddenly become so outstanding?

Halfway through the class today, she suddenly became dazed and laughed foolishly, and was laughed at by the students in the class.

Thinking of this, Zhou Xiaoying couldn't help blushing.

However, what Zhou Xiaoying didn't know was that the reason why Li Duoyu was so meticulous was that he was forced and beaten.

In his previous life, after he arrived in the island country.

His first job was to assemble electronic components in a black factory, often sitting on the assembly line for more than ten hours.

Suffering accompanies growth, and it was during that difficult period that Li Duoyu became well-organized when doing things.

With the help of Li Duoyu, the two spent an hour and a half to complete the printing of more than 100 test papers.

And when they walked out of the school gate.

The sun had already set.

The sunset illuminated the sea red.

On the beach, only one or two naughty children were playing.

When there was no one around.

Zhou Xiaoying leaned closer to Li Duoyu and took his hand.

This made Li Duoyu's body tremble, but unfortunately the atmosphere could only go so far, and there was no way to take the next step, otherwise he would have to ask Zhou Xiaoying to give birth to a football team for him.

After the two returned home.

Old Li sat on the stone slab in the courtyard and smoked a cigarette. Seeing that the two came back late, he said:

"Why did you come back so late?"

"The school will take an exam the day after tomorrow, and the test papers will be printed at school today." Zhou Xiaoying replied.

"You are pregnant now, you have to be careful, okay?"

"I know, Dad."

After Zhou Xiaoying finished speaking, as usual, she went to the kitchen when she got home. As a result, Lao Li said directly:

"What time will we have to eat if we cook at this time? No need to cook. Mother has already prepared it. Let's eat together in the evening."

Zhou Xiaoying was about to refuse.

Lao Li continued: "Today, Duoyu went to ask for Xiaohai and got you a lot of small seafood. Your mother has already put it in the pot."

"You went to ask for Xiaohai?" Zhou Xiaoying was surprised.

If I remember correctly, this person in her family didn't like playing in the mud since he was a child, and he was not interested in those small seafood.

"Well, I went to ask for Xiaohai with my mother today."

"Didn't you hate going to the tidal flats the most before?"

"People will change, okay?"

"No, you have changed too much."

"Isn't this going in a good direction? Why are you so talkative? Hurry up and sit down to eat. I'm almost starving."

Zhou Xiaoying: "."

Since the separation.

Although they all live in the same courtyard, they rarely get together for dinner because of the time bomb of the second sister-in-law.

Recently, because Li Duoyu has changed his temper, and there are a lot of small seafood, the two elders want to have a meal together.

After the two sat down, they found that the table was full of delicious dishes, including fried clams, stir-fried oysters with green garlic, pan-fried croaker, a plate of boiled spicy snails, and stewed tidal borer with old wine.

Perhaps it was too long since they had eaten together and the meal tonight was too rich, Zhou Xiaoying seemed a little restrained, holding Li Duoyu's thigh with her right hand, and asked softly: "Is there something big going on at home?"

And Chen Huiying looked at her belly, and she was more and more happy, and kept saying:

"It seems to be a lot bigger."

"It seems that I can have another baby next year My dear grandson. "

Chen Huiying had just picked up a barramundi for her daughter-in-law, and before she even started eating, she picked up another one and put it in her daughter-in-law's bowl:

"Eat more, this is caught by the fish specially for you, stewed with old wine. You are so tired from class, you need to nourish your body well."

"Mom, I really can't eat so much."

"It's just this little, how can it be enough? In a few days, I will stew a hen for you to nourish your body well."

Just when they were eating, the second sister-in-law and her family happened to come back from outside, and just heard that the mother was going to stew a hen for Zhou Xiaoying to nourish her body.

The whole face fell instantly.

She shouted in the courtyard: "Yaoguo, I bought a pig's trotter today. I will stew it for you to eat in the evening, so that you can also nourish yourself well."

The little fat man behind her had his eyes shining.

"Okay, there will be pig's trotters to eat tonight."

But the group of people eating in the kitchen ignored her at all, which made her very unhappy.

Li Yaoguo, wearing glasses, frowned. His wife had spent all his salary on imported cloth for clothes in the past two months, so how could he afford pig's trotters?

As a result, a neighbor who was pouring bath water shouted:

"Xiuhua, no one has slaughtered pigs on the island these two days, where did you buy pig's trotters?"

Zhu Xiuhua was choked up and slammed the door in shame.

At dinner time, Li Yaoguo and his son looked at the wrinkled steamed buns made of sweet potato flour on the table with bitter faces.

The fat boy Li Haoran scratched his head and asked with a fluke:

"Where are the pig's trotters?"

Zhu Xiuhua looked at Li Yaoguo with great displeasure: "If you want to eat pig's trotters, go eat your father's."

That day, Li Haoran's young heart was hurt again.

While his mother was taking a bath, Li Haoran slipped to the grandpa and grandma's house next door, and Chen Huiying, who had known the situation for a long time, left him a lot of food.

The fat boy devoured it all.

"Eat slowly, no one is competing with you, don't choke." Chen Huiying looked at the fat grandson with heartache.

Li Duoyu thought that Li Haoran was so fat when he was a child and he couldn't find a girlfriend, and the two elders should bear some responsibility.

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