Chapter 24 Chapter 24 Spicy

Shu Meilan dressed very fashionably. She had her hair permed into the shape of instant noodles, and she also drew her eyebrows, put on powder, and put on lipstick. She wore a bright red woolen coat, a fine-needle black turtleneck sweater, dark jeans, and snow boots. Even from a distance, she no longer looked like a country girl.

Shu Niannian frowned slightly. Didn’t Yang Guihua say that Shu Meilan went to her grandmother’s house?

Why did Shu Meilan just say that she is with Lu Jianjun now?

Escape?

Or something else?

However, Shu Niannian didn't care at all whether Shu Meilan was with Lu Jianjun. She just wanted to go to the street to buy some pork offal and have a steaming hot pot with her family at noon.

Shu Niannian only glanced at Shu Meilan, and then tried to walk over, but was blocked by Shu Meilan. Shu Meilan gently raised her hand to tidy up her instant noodles, deliberately letting Shu Niannian see the gold ring on her hand, "Cousin, I'm talking to you, why are you ignoring me?"

After the falling out, Shu Niannian didn't want to give Shu Meilan face at all, "Don't be so affectionate. First of all, we are not related by blood. Grandpa thinks you are immoral and has removed you from the family tree. Secondly, I have already broken off the engagement with Lu Jianjun. Who he is with has nothing to do with me. You can just keep your dirty deeds to yourselves. There is really no need to reveal them to me."

Shu Niannian was carrying a schoolbag across her shoulder and wearing a simple cotton coat, but in front of the fashionably dressed Shu Meilan, she was not at all inferior in speaking momentum, and even had the upper hand.

Shu Meilan was so angry!

She had finally put on the gold ring and came to block Shu Niannian on purpose, just to make Shu Niannian envious and jealous. Who knew that Shu Niannian not only did not envy her, but scolded her instead? !

This won’t do!

Shu Meilan raised her chin and looked at Shu Niannian with contempt and complacency, "Alright, stop pretending! I know your heart must be hurting right now. I think you know better than me what a good man Brother Jianjun is. Now such a good man with so much money has broken off the engagement with you and chooses to be with me instead. I don't believe you are not sad?! You must be regretting it to death! You are just holding on!"

Shu Niannian wanted to roll her eyes, but she held back when she thought that this was the school gate. She really didn't know what Shu Meilan was so proud of. "He's just a man. Since you can seduce him, I'll take him at all costs. But there's really no need for you to show off here. I don't think it's a very glorious thing to seduce your future cousin-in-law by improper means. At the very least, you're shameless. At the most, you're committing incest. How come you feel so proud of doing such a shameful thing?"

Shu Niannian spoke very rudely, and every word she said hit Shu Meilan's sore spot. Shu Meilan looked at the people around her pointing fingers at her, her face turned red with anger, and in the end she could only flee in panic.

If this happened in her previous life, Shu Niannian would probably be furious now, but she is now living a new life after all, and such insignificant people and insignificant things can no longer cause any ripples in her mood.

In life, there are so many important things waiting for her to do, she can't waste unnecessary time and emotions on bad people and bad things.

Shu Niannian was going to the street to buy pork offal. She still had to eat hot pot. The New Year was coming soon, and the streets were much busier than usual. Shu Niannian came to the supply and marketing cooperative as if she was familiar with the place. The owner of the pork stall saw Shu Niannian and greeted her from a distance, "Why are you here so late?" Shu Niannian smiled and apologized, "I dealt with some things at school, so I'm late. Are all the things I want still there?"

The pork stall owner took out a basket of pork offal and two pig trotters from under the chopping board and said to Shu Niannian with a deliberately stern face, "It's just you. If it were someone else, I would have sold these offal long ago. If I hadn't been waiting for you to pick them up, I would have left work half an hour ago."

Shu Niannian thanked him repeatedly and paid the money. Although the owner of the pork stall said something, he still gave Shu Niannian the remaining pork bones. Shu Niannian felt embarrassed and wanted to pay the owner again, but the owner confiscated them. Pork offal is not easy to sell these days, and for someone who likes to eat pork offal as much as Shu Niannian, he has to maintain this relationship and keep this customer. Giving away a few pork bones is just not a loss.

It’s nothing!

Shu Niannian did not refuse. She was also a businesswoman and knew the boss's mentality. After thanking the boss again, she took the pork offal to the machinery factory. Today was the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month, a day when the machinery factory was closed. Li Guifen greeted Shu Niannian early in the morning and asked her to wait here for Shu Guodong and Shu Wenqiang to get off work.

A string of pig offal weighed more than ten pounds, plus two pig trotters and a few pig shanks, it weighed at least more than twenty pounds. Shu Niannian had a hard time carrying it. She had never done much heavy work since she was a child, and now she suddenly had to carry more than twenty pounds of weight. Shu Niannian felt that her arms were about to be disabled.

The supply and marketing cooperative was about a mile away from the machinery factory. Just when Shu Niannian was about to give up, her hand suddenly felt light. Shu Niannian turned around and shouted in surprise, "Second brother! Aren't you supposed to be working at the machinery factory? Why are you on the street?"

Shu Wenqiang tapped Shu Niannian's head lightly with his fingers, then walked towards the machinery factory with more than 20 kilograms of pork offal in his hand. "My father and I were waiting for you at the entrance of the machinery factory, but no one showed up. So my father and I split up. He was waiting for you at the entrance of the machinery factory and asked me to come out to look for you, fearing that you would get lost on the street or be taken away by a beggar. That would be a big loss!"

Shu Niannian became more energetic when she didn't have to carry anything. She was used to quarreling with Shu Wenqiang, so she retorted, "You were the one who was slapped away by the beggars. I'm so smart. When the beggars see a girl as smart as me, they take a detour for fear of being slapped. I overturned their nest!"

Shu Wenqiang gave Shu Niannian a look that said "you are an idiot", which made Shu Niannian instantly furious. She raised her fist to hit Shu Wenqiang, but Shu Wenqiang raised his leg and "jumped" out. Yes, you read that right, "jumped"!

Shu Wenqiang's body reaction speed was too fast. Every time Shu Niannian raised his fist, Shu Wenqiang had already run three meters away. Shu Niannian was unwilling to give up. Shu Wenqiang ran in front and she chased him panting behind. Shu Wenqiang was particularly anxious. Seeing that the distance between him and Shu Niannian was far, he stopped and waited for Shu Niannian. When Shu Niannian was only one step away from him and the little fist was about to fall on him, he "rushed" out like lightning again.

Shu Niannian was furious. Such a pretty young lady didn't care about her image at all. She chased Shu Wenqiang with her fists raised all the way until they reached the gate of the machinery factory. While Shu Guodong was smoking a cigarette at the gate of the machinery factory, he saw Shu Wenqiang running towards them in a hurry with a bag of meat. About ten meters behind him, Shu Niannian was chasing after him with her fists raised angrily.

Shu Guodong was so worried that he thought these two children were really a cause for concern. It was fine if they just fought with each other when they were little, but now that they have grown up, they are still so disrespectful. Isn't this a joke?

Shu Guodong stretched out his arms and embraced Shu Wenqiang, and Shu Niannian followed closely. Shu Wenqiang had nowhere to run and was punched hard by Shu Niannian several times.

Shu Wenqiang pretended to scream in pain, and Shu Niannian laughed happily.

Shu Guodong shook his head helplessly, feeling both warm and funny.

After the few people got together and were about to go home, they were stopped by someone behind them. Shu Guodong turned around and saw that the person calling him was actually the factory director? !

In a state-owned enterprise, a higher-ranking official can crush people, let alone a factory director who was who knows how many levels higher than him. Shu Guodong did not dare to neglect him. He hurriedly trotted back and asked the factory director if he had any instructions.

The director of the machinery factory was named Li Changhong, a senior intellectual who wore black-rimmed glasses and looked gentle and elegant. He patted Shu Guodong on the shoulder with a smile, pointed at Shu Niannian and asked who she was?

Shu Guodong was a little confused now. He didn't know what Li Changhong wanted to do, but he could only answer truthfully, "That's my little girl."

Li Changhong's glasses lit up. "You actually have such a young daughter. How old is she this year?"

Shu Guodong quickly replied, "I'm eighteen this year."

Li Changhong smiled and said, "Now it's time to talk about my husband's family, right?"

Shu Guodong: "I broke off my engagement some time ago. I am now repeating my senior year at No. 1 Middle School and preparing to take the college entrance exam next year."

Li Changhong smiled even more. He whispered something in Shu Guodong's ear. Shu Guodong was stunned. Li Changhong patted Shu Guodong's shoulder heavily and said, "Consider it. My boy is pretty good too!"

Shu Guodong was still in a daze. When Li Changhong passed by him pushing his bicycle, he smiled and whispered to Shu Guodong, "Old Shu, you are so lucky. Both your son and daughter are so outstanding."

After Li Changhong left, Shu Wenqiang and Shu Niannian ran over and asked Shu Guodong what was wrong. Shu Guodong smiled and said it was nothing, but Shu Niannian and Shu Wenqiang both felt that something must be wrong.

On the way home, Shu Guodong became a little taciturn, but he didn't look sad and would laugh occasionally. From this, Shu Wenqiang and Shu Niannian concluded that the director of the machinery factory, Li Changhong, must have gone to their father to have a secret conversation.

But it shouldn't be a bad thing.

They all linked this matter to Shu Wenqiang. Shu Wenqiang whispered to Shu Niannian, "Do you think the factory director told our father that I performed well and wanted to make me a regular employee?"

Shu Niannian nodded. "Although it's very shameless for you to brag like this, I think your analysis this time is correct!"

Otherwise, they really couldn’t figure out what Li Changhong said to their father?

What can there be to talk about between two families who have nothing to do with each other?

Since it didn't look like a bad thing, Shu Niannian didn't care. There was only one thing on her mind now, and that was whether to have spicy or fragrant hot pot for lunch.

Shu Niannian whispered to Shu Wenqiang about the different tastes of spicy hotpot and mala hotpot, making Shu Wenqiang drool. At this time, Shu Guodong suddenly said, "The factory director's son is named Li Zhiqiang, and he likes studying just like Niannian. The factory director just told me that his son also graduated from No. 1 Middle School and is now a senior. He will come to the machinery factory for internship next year. I will introduce you to each other later. Niannian, if you don't know anything in your studies, you can ask him for help."