Chapter 71 Chapter 71 (Update)

The short Spring Festival holiday passed in a flash, and Shen Shaoyuan had to start working again. He rode his bike back and forth between the commune and the village every day in the wind and rain, which was very hard.

Fortunately, Shen Moer had to go to the commune after the beginning of the year. The ninth workshop did not start work so soon, but Shen Moer and Geng Liming had agreed to open an art class in the commune middle school for a year to select painting talents. So basically she had to go to work in the commune when the commune middle school started.

The commune arranged housing for the three managers of the Ninth Workshop in the staff quarters. They were all small suites with two bedrooms and a living room. The workshop director Mao Jianxin and the deputy director Jin Caifei had already moved in. Shen Moer took the key and handed it directly to Shen Shaoyuan without even going to see it herself.

While Shen Shaoyuan was at work, he asked someone to help clean the house.

There are many apprentices in the kiln factory. The salary is not high. They will take some odd jobs privately. Generally, they are doing it under the name of helping colleagues. In fact, those who know how to do it know how to do it. For example, cleaning the house is considered an easy job. Shen Shaoyuan pays a lot. They earn money easily and are very happy. It can be said that everyone is happy.

Shen Shaoyuan was really not good at doing these things, but their Propaganda Department was also busy after the beginning of the year, so he used the excuse that his family was busy to find people to do the work.

Others also understood. Although Shen Shaoyuan had not been in the kiln factory for long, he had been promoted from a temporary worker to a regular worker and then to a deputy section chief, just like riding a rocket. This was also because he was really busy. Basically, he was responsible for all the work of the Propaganda Department. The other two, Section Chief Xu Weiguo and Secretary Ding Lixin, could only help him.

Since Shen Shaoyuan came, their factory's publicity work has been praised many times by the superior authorities. Many units have found various excuses to borrow people, and there are also many who want to poach people, so the kiln factory leaders hurriedly promoted people, mainly to retain them.

Shen Shaoyuan is not a dull person. He is quite talkative and often shows off his daughter to others. Therefore, the people in the kiln factory also know that although he has only one daughter, she is also very capable. When he was a teacher, he took two little ones to win the second prize in the province, and they were the only ones in the city to win the second prize. Later, they also got in touch with the embroidery factory in the provincial capital. For her embroidery skills, they directly built a workshop in their commune, which is even more amazing. Look, Shen Shaoyuan hasn't even got his turn to get a room, but the commune has already allocated a room for his daughter. Everyone is envious, and naturally thinks that since his daughter is so amazing, she must be busy at ordinary times!

As for Shen Shaoyuan's son-in-law, he is said to be very capable and is conducting some experiment to increase crop yields. He must have a lot to do this early spring.

So when Shen Shaoyuan asked someone to help clean the house, no one found it strange at all. Some people even offered to help. However, Shen Shaoyuan did not bother others and found an apprentice to clean the house himself.

After cleaning the house, Shen Shaoyuan started to bring things to the commune from time to time. They planned to move on the twelfth day of the first lunar month, but they could bring some odds and ends over before that.

That day, Shen Shaoyuan was rushing home from get off work, riding his bicycle very fast all the way. When he was almost at the entrance of the village, a person suddenly jumped out from the side of the road. He was about to hit him. Shen Shaoyuan immediately turned on the brakes and tapped the ground with his foot. After a while, he operated the bicycle and stopped just in front of the person.

Shen Shaoyuan frowned and looked at the person. It was a woman in her forties. She was obviously not young, but she had two braids and wore a bright red cotton jacket. If you didn't look at her face, she looked like a young girl of seventeen or eighteen. The woman had a decent appearance, especially her eyes, which were big and bright. When she looked at people, she looked a bit pitiful.

It was a stranger, but there was an inexplicable familiarity between his eyebrows. Shen Shaoyuan thought about it and understood.

Zhou Chuntao.

This person's appearance was quite different from the one in Shen Laoqi's memory. Perhaps Shen Laoqi had not seen Zhou Chuntao again after she got married. In his memory, Zhou Chuntao still looked like a girl of seventeen or eighteen years old, so Shen Shaoyuan really didn't remember her at first.

"Shaoyuan."

Zhou Chuntao looked at Shen Shaoyuan lovingly.

Shen Shaoyuan's brows twitched. How to put it? People in Yangliu Brigade usually called Shen Laoqi, Laoqi, or Seventh Brother, Seventh Uncle, or Seventh Grandpa according to seniority. It was the first time that Shen Shaoyuan heard someone calling his name in the village, and he felt a little awkward.

Shen Shaoyuan said coldly: "Sister Zhou, you should be more careful when walking. If I hadn't reacted in time, I would have hit you. Fortunately, I braked in time and didn't hit you. My bicycle was not damaged, otherwise it would be troublesome."

Zhou Chuntao choked. She was a few months older than Shen Laoqi, but Shen Laoqi couldn't just call her Sister Zhou. It sounded as if she was quite old.

But now is not the time to argue about this. She looked sad and looked at Shen Shaoyuan delicately: "Shaoyuan, we grew up together, and we can be considered childhood sweethearts. Although we haven't been in touch for many years due to various reasons, in my heart, our feelings will not change no matter how much time passes. Over the years, I often think of our little things back then. We used to collect firewood together, work together, we..."

Shen Shaoyuan interrupted her: "Sister Zhou, it's getting late. My daughter is waiting for me to go back for dinner. You don't have to try to make friends with me. After all, we didn't collide, and my bicycle wasn't damaged. Don't worry, I won't ask you for compensation."

Zhou Chuntao was choked again.

Damn it, who is going to compensate you for your bicycle, your second-hand broken bicycle!

She twitched her lips, and her tender expression almost couldn't be maintained. After she calmed down, she choked up a little: "Shao Yuan, I know that you must have been blaming me all these years, blaming me for not responding to you at the beginning. In fact, although you didn't say anything at the time, I knew it in my heart. I was very touched by your silent care and protection for me. But you also know that my parents, hey, they are already dead, and I shouldn't say anything about them, but, but because they despise the poor and love the rich, I missed a very good person. In fact, I have resented them in my heart for these years. But, they are my parents after all, I have always respected and filial to them, and I was young at that time, and I didn't dare to disobey them, so..."

Shen Shaoyuan glanced at the handlebars of the bicycle that was held by Zhou Chuntao, and thought to himself, isn't it just acting? Am I, Shen Shaoyuan, afraid of you?

He suddenly let out a long sigh and said, "Sister Zhou, I know that you were deeply in love with Wang Daniu back then, but unfortunately your parents broke you up. But I didn't expect that you still missed him after all these years. Come to think of it, you two are quite predestined to be together. His wife ran away two years ago, and your husband died last year. Now you are both single again. You told me all this today because you want me to help you get together, right? You're right. We grew up together, and I should help you with this. It's okay, don't worry, I'll talk to Daniu tomorrow. It's not good for a woman like you to take the initiative in this kind of thing. I'll talk to him and ask him to take the initiative."

Zhou Chuntao: “???”

What the hell are you talking about?!

Who would have a crush on Wang Daniu? He was so poor, his wife ran away because she couldn't make ends meet, leaving her three children to him. He was a poor family who had to borrow food and money from the production team every year. Who the hell was destined to be with him? !

Zhou Chuntao was about to collapse.

She felt that she knew Shen Shaoyuan very well. This man had been honest since he was a child and did not know how to refuse. Otherwise, he would not have been fooled by his two brothers even though his father had helped him to plan and left two large blue brick and tile houses for him.

In addition, she did know that Shen Shaoyuan had once taken a fancy to her, so before stopping Shen Shaoyuan today, Zhou Chuntao was very confident and felt that it would be easy to coax Shen Shaoyuan.

Zhou Chuntao even thought about expressing her affection first to keep him hanging, and then wait for Shen Shaoyuan to ask her to marry him. At that time, she would definitely not agree immediately, and she would have to discuss the conditions with him.

I heard that his daughter was allocated a house in the commune, so the two rooms in Yangliu Brigade should be left to her daughter Xu Qi. Xu Qi is a boy and can set up his own family in the future. She was already polite by not asking for the house in the commune.

Another thing is that he has to ask his daughter to arrange a job for Xu Wei. Isn't his daughter the deputy director of the ninth workshop? So it's not too much to arrange a team leader for Xu Wei? This kind of good position must be assigned to a family member, so that family members can help her wholeheartedly, right? Otherwise, she is a little girl, and she suddenly becomes a leader. How can she manage people?

By the way, let his daughter arrange a position for herself as well. Such a big workshop must have logistics support, such as departments that handle money and things. For this, it is even more necessary to arrange for family members to help look after them.

Her Xu Qi is still young now, but when he grows up, he can take over his daughter's job. By then, not to mention deputy director, he might even be able to be director or factory manager.

Zhou Chuntao had beautiful ideas and had imagined the next ten or twenty years. But she never expected that she would get stuck at the most reliable first step.

She was stunned, and for a moment she couldn't tell whether Shen Shaoyuan was speaking sincerely or angrily.

After thinking about it, Zhou Chuntao still felt that Shen Shaoyuan must have done it on purpose. He must have been speaking in anger. He just blamed her for not choosing him in the first place, so now he deliberately mentioned that bastard Wang Daniu to annoy her.

Yes, definitely.

Zhou Chuntao prepared herself mentally again, trying to mobilize the stiff muscles on her face and put on a tearful expression: "Shaoyuan, I know you are angry with me——"

"Dad, who is this?"

A voice suddenly sounded.

Zhou Chuntao had been thinking for a long time, but the emotions she had finally built up were interrupted again.

Shen Moer came over and glanced at Zhou Chuntao. When she saw Zhou Chuntao's appearance clearly, she narrowed her eyes slightly, and then said with a look of confusion, "Did you bump into this aunt? Why is she holding on to the handlebars of your bicycle?"

Chen Shaoyuan looked helpless and said, "We didn't hit each other, but we almost did. Don't worry, our bicycles were not damaged, so I didn't ask this Sister Zhou to compensate. She held on to the handlebars of my bicycle because, hey, she and your uncle Daniu are childhood sweethearts and they love each other, so she wanted to find me to match them up. This is a small matter, Sister Zhou, don't worry, I will do my best. So you really don't need to hold on to my bicycle, you should trust my character."

Zhou Chuntao felt like a dog biting a hedgehog and had nowhere to bite. She argued, "No, Shaoyuan, don't say such angry words. I don't want to be with Wang Daniu. There's nothing wrong between me and him. I'm with you..."

Shen Moer's eyes flashed, she pursed her lips, walked over and patted Zhou Chuntao's hand, interrupting her and saying, "Auntie, don't worry, you see my father has said that he will do his best, you can rest assured, my father doesn't have time, I'm still in the team, I can help. We are waiting for my father to have dinner at home, so I won't talk to you more."

When Zhou Chuntao was slapped by her, her arm went numb and she let go of her hand involuntarily.

Shen Shaoyuan took the opportunity to get on his bike and drove away in a flash.

Shen Moer slowly let go of Zhou Chuntao and said with a smile: "Aunt Zhou, don't worry, this matter will be left to us father and daughter."

Zhou Chuntao finally came to her senses and grabbed Shen Moer: "No, Moer, your father misunderstood, there is nothing between me and Wang Daniu, I am..."

Shen Moer smiled harmlessly: "Aunt Zhou, since there is nothing wrong between you and Uncle Daniu, then you should show up less in front of my father in the future. Otherwise, I will definitely ask Uncle Daniu, since you are childhood sweethearts and have a lot of feelings for each other, why don't you think of a way to rekindle your relationship?"

"Goodbye, Aunt Zhou."

After saying this, Shen Moer went home leisurely.

Zhou Chuntao was left standing there, her face turning pale. If she still didn't realize what the father and daughter meant by this moment, she would be really stupid.

It was also because she was too sure of Shen Shaoyuan's friendship towards her at the beginning, so she never considered the angle that Shen Shaoyuan was unwilling. Now that she came to her senses, damn, Shen Shaoyuan was intentional when he talked about Wang Daniu from the beginning!

Shen Moer's last few words were naked threats, meaning that from now on she should just stay out of the spotlight and not show up in front of Shen Shaoyuan, otherwise they would find a way to set her up with Wang Daniu.

This black-hearted girl.