After learning the craft for a few years, and as his uncles had grown old and returned to their hometown, he began to work on his own with the construction team.

During that period, Ge Dazhi met a working girl named Xiuchun who came from the same province as him. The two met by chance and felt close to each other because they were from the same hometown.

After a few interactions, the two of them secretly fell in love and started dating.

After they started dating, Ge Dazhi learned that Xiuchun's family was not well off and her mother was extremely patriarchal. She had to send most of her salary home, and the little money she had left was enough for daily expenses, so she couldn't even afford to buy nice clothes.

Ge Dazhi felt sorry for her and would often treat her to meals and buy her things.

Xiuchun was also moved. Knowing that Ge Dazhi consumed a lot of energy doing physical work and the big pot meals at the construction site were not very tasty, she bought a small pot from the dormitory and stewed some soup or rice for him from time to time to improve his diet.

The two of them understood and took care of each other, and their relationship became more and more stable. Even Ge Dazhi's co-workers knew about Xiuchun.

Every time she saw Xiuchun bringing him food, she would tease Ge Dazhi with a smile, saying that he had found a good partner who was very considerate and virtuous, and asked him to marry her home as soon as possible to prevent her from being abducted by someone else.

Ge Dazhi knew that his coworkers were just joking, so he didn't get angry. Instead, he smiled and said that he would invite them to his wedding banquet later.

But he didn't know that his coworkers' joke turned out to be a prophecy.

During that time, Ge Dazhi was planning to find a time to propose marriage to Xiuchun, but he found that Xiuchun became busy. She used to come to the construction site two or three times a week, but she didn't show up at all in the past week.

He thought something had happened at her factory, so he quickly asked for leave to go find her.

He successfully met Xiuchun that day, but Xiuchun's appearance surprised him.

It's not just because Xiuchun had her hair permed and wore a necklace, but also because her attitude was weird.

As if she was worried about being seen by someone, she simply explained that she was very busy recently, and then anxiously urged Ge Dazhi to go back quickly.

It seemed like I didn't want to stay with him for even a moment longer.

Although Ge Dazhi felt it was strange, he thought she was worried that the foreman would be angry if she stayed out for too long, so he just told her to take care of herself and turned back to the construction site.

But when Xiuchun factory was closed on weekends, she still didn't come. Ge Dazhi began to worry again and went to the factory to look for her again.

After arriving at the gate of her factory, I asked the security guard to help call her, but the security guard said that Xiuchun had left early in the morning.

As for where he went, the guard certainly didn't know.

Ge Dazhi didn't expect that he would come back empty-handed. He did have a pager, but Xiuchun was reluctant to spend money on a mobile phone. Besides, she didn't have many contacts, so she had to use the public phone to talk to her family.

Now that she left the factory, he didn't know where to contact her.

In the end, Ge Dazhi could only wait at the factory gate for several hours, from nine in the morning to twelve o'clock.

I thought that with Xiuchun's frugal personality, even if she went out, she would definitely not be willing to eat out at noon and would go back to the factory cafeteria to eat.

As a result, he waited until after twelve o'clock, but Xiuchun still didn't show up. He had to go to work in the afternoon, so he had no choice but to go back.

And he didn't see Xiuchun for the next week.

When the weekend came, he came to Xiuchun's factory early again, wanting to ask her if anything had happened.

When I asked the security guard, I was told that Xiuchun had gone out again.

After hearing this, Ge Dazhi began to suspect that the security guard was deliberately playing a trick on him and was unwilling to help him save Xiuchun.

He went to a nearby store and bought two pounds of fruit, handed it to the security guard, and begged him to help go in and look for Xiuchun. He just wanted to see her and make sure she was okay.

Seeing him begging desperately, the guard even brought some fruit over. He hesitated for a moment, but finally sighed, patted his shoulder, and told him the truth.

"Brother, let me tell you the truth. Your girlfriend is definitely not from the factory. A car came to pick her up early in the morning."

"And it's not just the past few days. Starting from half a month ago, that car has been coming to pick her up every two days. What is the relationship between the people in that car and her? I'm just a small security guard, so I have no right to ask."

"Anyway, you better put in some effort. Your partner might become a wealthy lady."

Ge Dazhi was no fool. After hearing what the guard said, he recalled the changes in Xiuchun since he last saw her, and the frequent cars that came to pick her up...

He had heard Xiuchun say early in the morning that apart from his coworkers and him, she didn't know anyone here, let alone anyone who drove a car.

So what is that person's identity?

Could it be that she really has someone else?

Ge Dazhi was confused, but he still chose to find Xiuchun to ask for clarification.

If she really had another choice, he would not bother her anymore. At worst, they could just part ways amicably.

After making up his mind, he asked the guard about the specific time when the car would come to pick up Xiuchun. After figuring out the pattern, he came here one night.

According to the pattern summarized by the security guard, the car should come to pick up Xiuchun that night.

Ge Dazhi got up early, then hid aside and waited. When the waiting time was almost up, he stared at the cars on the road while looking towards the factory.

As he was looking, he found a car that looked familiar. Just as he was wondering where he had seen that car before, he saw the people in the car getting out.

The man turned out to be the foreman of their construction site, a bald fat man.

Before Ge Dazhi could figure out what the contractor was doing here, he saw Xiuchun take off her factory uniform, dressed up beautifully and walked out of the factory, running towards the contractor.

The contractor smiled, put his arm around her waist, took her to the passenger seat, then got in the car and drove away.

After watching all this, Ge Dazhi froze on the spot, feeling as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.

If he had some expectations for Xiuchun before and thought that all this might be a misunderstanding, the scene before him completely shattered his last bit of hope.

He was angry and sad. He didn't understand how everything could have turned out like this in just half a month.

If Xiuchun thought he was poor, thought he was not a good person, and didn't want to continue to be with him, and told him directly, he would never bother him.

But she said nothing, leaving him in the dark like a fool!

The most important thing is that the man she found was actually his contractor!

Ge Dazhi didn't know how the two of them knew each other, but he thought it was because she came to the construction site to find him that they got in touch.

Then Ge Dazhi will only feel even more angry!

He was eager to find Xiuchun to ask for clarification, and also wanted to find out whether they were in that kind of relationship, so he immediately took a taxi and followed her.

Finally, he discovered that the foreman had brought Xiuchun to the vicinity of the construction site and then stopped outside the house rented by the foreman.

Although this place is close to the construction site, it is still some distance away from the workers' iron dormitories. Moreover, the workers usually go back to the dormitories and fall asleep after work, and rarely come here.

So it was not easy for the contractor to be discovered when he brought Xiuchun here.

Just thinking that Xiuchun might be involved with the contractor just a hundred meters away, completely disregarding his feelings, made him tremble with anger!

After the foreman and the other two entered the room, Ge Dazhi walked out of the room with a gloomy face.

Then, he saw a disgusting scene outside the window.

His previous guess turned out to be true. The girl he was dating was really with someone else behind his back. Ge Dazhi could no longer suppress his anger. He picked up a brick on the ground and smashed the door.