Chapter 32: Changing the Light Bulb
As for why Shen Xuemei is like this, Mu Chen also has his own answer in his heart, the biggest possibility is that because she is 33 years old but she has been single, she is even afraid of her parents, so she has to leave her alone in the village, her parents said that they went out to work, but they have not come back once until now.
"I think you are salty and eat radishes and don't worry about it, what does it matter to you whether the little girl marries or not?" Anyway, we don't look for her!" Mu Shulin's words instantly made Mu Chen's mother and son shut up, and he also pointed to the box in the yard and said, "I said that you child, when you earn money, you will buy so many things at home, will we use them up?"
Mu Chen hurriedly interrupted: "Of course I'm out of use, the one with a lot of boxes is the one I bought for my family, and I bought these boxes here for Lan Xiaodie, I think you should have no opinion, right?"
Mu Shulin immediately laughed when he heard this, "I just said how can you kid come and pick me up on the road, I want to use a tricycle, okay, it's going to get dark soon, hurry up and send these things to Fluttershy." β
Zhao Ailian listened to it on the side, and was very happy in her heart, it seems that her son has really grown up, not only knows how to honor his parents, but also knows how to be good to a person, Lan Xiaodie has been alone in the village for so many years, and she really needs these things that Mu Chen bought, and she needs the care that Mu Chen brings, it seems that in this regard, there is no need to teach Mu Chen at all, he knows what to do.
After the father and son loaded all the electrical appliances they bought for Lan Xiaodie onto the tricycle, Mu Shulin said slowly, "You said that you gave all these things to Lan Xiaodie, so isn't that equivalent to a marriage proposal?"
Mu Chen guessed that Mu Shulin was going to ask this, and he hurriedly said: "I only bought these things because Lan Xiaodie used them, of course they are not for proposing, besides, she is a girl in our village, and her parents are far away in the city, so I can't ask her to propose to herself, right?"
Mu Shulin was right to think about it, so he asked Mu Chen to send the things to Blue Fluttershy while it was still dark.
After arriving at Weimin Elementary School, Lan Xiaodie is busy working in the newly built health center, and Mu Chen parks the tricycle and immediately walks in.
"Fluttershy," Mu Chen symbolically knocked on the door, "what are you up to?
Lan Xiaodie said to Mu Chen without looking back: "You hurry up and help me bring in the contents of the two big boxes at the door, while it's still dark, I have to put them in the cabinet, you said that this light bulb is not bad sooner or later, but it is broken at this time!"
"The lamp is broken," Mu Chen suddenly felt an inexplicable snickering in his heart, "Then you wait here, I'll go home and get some light bulbs." β
Lan Xiaodie wanted to refuse, but thinking that it would be very inconvenient to have no electric light at night, she still asked Mu Chen to go to the house to get a light bulb.
After Mu Chen took the light bulb from home, he picked some shallots from under the eaves, such a good thing, he naturally wanted Lan Xiaodie to taste it, but what he regretted the most was that he didn't bring a little bit of the sophora he planted, even if Lan Xiaodie didn't need it herself, but it was also good to dry these sophora and use them as medicinal herbs, it seems that this matter has to be kept in mind later.
Back at Weimin Elementary School, it was already completely dark at this time, and Lan Xiaodie said to Mu Chen with a flashlight: "The light bulbs used before were all found by those workers from home, and I think they have been used for some years, but I didn't expect them all to burn tonight, it's really unlucky." β
Mu Chen smiled and comforted Lan Xiaodie: "It's okay, we have a lot of light bulbs at home, and the last time I went to town, I bought a hundred at a time and came back." β
"What are you buying so many light bulbs for?" Fluttershy was a little surprised, "Can you just spend as much as you make money?"
Mu Chen smiled bitterly, where is this? Besides, a hundred light bulbs don't cost much.
Mu Chen didn't know how to answer, so he quickly took out the light bulb and asked Fluttershy where she needed to install it.
After moving the ladder, Mu Chen, with the help of Lan Xiaodie's flashlight, quickly installed several places in the Minmin Elementary School that needed to install light bulbs, and the two most difficult places were one in the health center, and the other was a bedroom separated from the back of the health center.
Mu Chen had also suggested that Lan Xiaodie rebuild a room where she lived, but Lan Xiaodie made it very clear that even though Weimin Primary School had been abandoned, it was still Weimin Primary School, and besides, it was only the village chief who agreed to build a health center, and did not agree to repair her own place, so Lan Xiaodie separated a room from the back of the newly built health center to use as a bedroom.
There is no herringbone ladder in the countryside, and the ladder used by Mu Chen is too long to use indoors, the two of them thought of several ways to no avail, and finally Mu Chen only came up with the idea of lifting the table under the electric light first, and then putting a stool on the table, so that he could reach the electric light above.
Blue Fluttershy was in a hurry, the two boxes of medicines outside the door had not yet been put in the cabinet, so she agreed to Mu Chen's plan without much thought, Mu Chen was quick with his hands and feet, and quickly replaced the light bulb outside, and now there was only the last light bulb in Lan Xiaodie's bedroom.
"You live in such a humble place?!" Mu Chen came to Lan Xiaodie's bedroom for the first time, he didn't expect Lan Xiaodie to sleep on such a simple bed, and when he looked closely, there was only a bed of cotton on the bed.
"How hard is this," Mu Chen was very distressed, "I'll bring you two beds of cotton from home tomorrow, you said that we lack everything in the countryside, and there is definitely no shortage of sleeping covers." β
"I like to sleep on a hard bed," Lan Xiaodie's face was also a little unbearable, she also understood that she was very stubborn, but she just didn't want others to give him charity, this bed of cotton was still used in her college at that time, "Okay, you don't care about my business, it's important to change the light bulb quickly." β
With the help of the light of the flashlight, Mu Chen roughly swept Lan Xiaodie's bedroom again, in fact, it was a bedroom, this bedroom had no door at all, but made a shield for the cabinet in front of the medicine, and then hung a curtain in the place for people to pass through, so that the back of the health center was Lan Xiaodie's bedroom, and in addition to a simple bed, there was only a clean and tidy desk and a basin shelf, and some medical books were placed on the tableγ
"Can this table be moved?" Mu Chen thought that there were still those medical books on the table, so he had to ask Lan Xiaodie's opinion first.
"Of course you can, but you wait for me to put the books away. With that, Fluttershy immediately moves all the books on the table to the bed.
Mu Chen brought a stool from the outside, and then easily moved the table to the middle of the room, and he was about to speak, but he saw Lan Xiaodie's eyes widen.
"What's wrong with you?" Mu Chen was a little surprised, "Why are you looking at me like this?"
Lan Xiaodie was stunned and said, "My table was welded by the village blacksmith master with steel bars at that time, and it took two workers to move it at that time, and you actually moved it alone!"