When Ye Li returned home, it was already past nine o'clock in the evening.

When she entered the yard, she saw everyone queuing up at the tap in the middle of the yard to get water for washing.

Seeing Ye Li coming back, someone blew a whistle.

This whistle is called a hooligan whistle. Usually, men whistle at women on the street when they want to tease them.

Ye Li was extremely disgusted by this.

She looked up in the crowd and saw Aunt Jiang's son Niu Dazhi.

Niu Dazhi had a lewd smile on his face, holding a basin in his hand, with his bare arms and a towel around his neck, and was looking at Ye Li with a smile.

"Hey, Xiaoye is back so late?"

Ye Li knew his character. He liked to get close to young girls and wives when he had nothing to do. He obviously had a wife at home, but he was still fooling around outside.

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Niu Dazhi saw that Jiang Xun's legs and feet were not very strong, so he wanted to seduce her.

This hookup will first ruin her reputation. Even if she does it in the future, she will tell others that she hooked him up because of her fickleness.

This society is much more tolerant of men than women.

If that kind of thing happens, people will spit at the woman and call her shameless, but few people would do that to a man.

So, Ye Li was too lazy to pay attention to him and simply ignored him, walking past him without even looking at him twice.

Niu Dazhi originally thought that even if Ye Li was unhappy, she would definitely say a few words to him. No matter whether the words were nice or not, at least they could get in a conversation.

As a result, no one paid any attention to her.

Seeing this, Hu Jingjing sneered twice and whispered, "Serves you right!"

Niu Dazhi's behavior of whistling at Ye Li caused dissatisfaction among some elderly people in the yard.

"Dazhi, pay attention. She's Jiang Xun's wife. Why are you bragging about her?"

"That's right, be careful, Aunt Zhao will come out and rip your mouth off!"

Niu Dazhi said with a playful smile: "How dare I... Isn't it a habit for me to blow the whistle?"

"Bah, shameful." Kang Yuelian, who was standing behind Niu Dazhi, cursed softly.

"Say it again?" Niu Dazhi looked back.

Kang Yuelian raised her eyebrows and stared at Niu Dazhi with her almond-shaped eyes: "Why? Want to practice? I'll ask Brother Dalin to spar with you?"

How dare Niu Dazhi provoke her: "A good man doesn't fight with a woman! Can I not provoke you?"

The yard can be messy or lively, and it has nothing to do with Ye Li.

As soon as she closed the door, she asked about Jiang Xun's situation at the factory today.

"Everything went smoothly and everyone took good care of me."

"Are you used to it?" Ye Li asked him.

"It's a habit." Jiang Xun paused and said to Ye Li, "I want to keep doing this job!"

Ye Li was really happy for him after hearing this: "Okay! Let's do it! Tell Director Wang about me tomorrow! As long as you are willing to do it, I will see you off no matter how windy or rainy it is!"

"No need." Jiang Xun smiled, "Master Qin came tonight, and I just found out that he lives in Courtyard No. 7. He said that he would accompany me every morning and evening from now on."

"Really?" Ye Li was very happy. "Okay, then I'll trouble Master Qin! Once you open the account, we'll treat Master Qin to a meal at the state-owned restaurant!"

Jiang Xun smiled and said, "Okay, I'll listen to Li Li."

Every time he said the word "Li Li", Ye Li felt it sounded inexplicably nice.

His voice was deep and rich, like the mellow aroma of red wine, with a charming flavor, and it was like a lover whispering in the ear.

"Li Li? Did you hear that?" Seeing that she didn't say anything and seemed to be in a daze, Jiang Xun raised his hand and waved it in front of her eyes.

Ye Li came back to his senses: "Huh? What did you say?"

Jiang Xun said, "I just asked you, did you go smoothly to find Section Chief Liu?"

Ye Li nodded: "If it goes smoothly, this thing should be successful. If it succeeds, we will make a small profit."

I can’t earn enough money for the surgery with that little salary.

She hoped that Jiang Xun could stand up as soon as possible, get rid of this hateful wheelchair, and walk in the warm spring breeze like a normal person.

This matter went unusually smoothly.

It only took Section Chief Liu two days to get the matter done.

On the evening of the third day, Ye Li followed Liu Hua to the factory warehouse.

The warehouse manager was the factory director's sister. When she saw Liu Hua and Ye Li coming, she opened the door with the key.

"In front," the warehouse manager pointed to the pile of defective cloth that was gathering dust, and said, "Go and pick it yourself."

When Ye Li saw the pile of cloth as high as a mountain, he felt a little excited.

She walked forward and picked up a piece of cloth. She found that it was a floral cloth. She had made a wrong stitch when weaving it, causing the pattern on the whole cloth to be disordered and look very uneven.

In addition, there are other cloths, some of which have failed to be dyed, some have missing threads, and some have lumps. In short, there are all kinds of problems.

But these fabrics do not affect their use.

City people might still care about beauty or ugliness, but people in the village generally require the cloth to be stronger so that they can be worn for a longer time.

After all, many people's clothes are torn and they can't buy cloth, so they can only patch them with other cloth.

She had seen people's clothes covered with patches, which turned white after washing, but they were reluctant to throw them away.

"How is it? Can these cloths be used?" asked Section Chief Liu Hua.

"It works, it works!" Ye Li nodded excitedly.

"If these are not enough, there are still some cut-off pieces of cloth in the garment factory."

Those scraps of cloth don't have many uses; garment factories use most of them to clean machines.

"Enough." Ye Li said, "I can handle all these cloths! After I'm done, I will share the money I earn with you and the factory director."

"The factory manager said that these cloths also have costs. The cloth is sold, and the costs must be recovered! This at least allows the accountant to do a good job of accounting!"

“Understood.”

"Okay, this matter cannot be made public. You can come here and get it later. Use as much as you need. Try to keep it secret." Liu Hua reminded.

"Don't worry, I can definitely do this beautifully." Ye Li assured, patting his chest.

After getting the defective cloth from the factory, Ye Li hurried back.

Before going to work today, she told Jiang Xun that she might be home a little late in the evening to deal with the cloth issue.

So she took the bus to Chunfeng Hutong to look for her second aunt.

As soon as she got off the car, she saw her mother Ye Chunwang walking out of the alley with her arms around a woman.

The two were talking and laughing. His shifty younger brother Ye Chunwang, when no one was paying attention, hugged the woman's face and gave her a quick kiss.

"Oh, you're so annoying!" The woman flirted with him in a whining voice, "Is that what you men think about all day long?"

The voice was neither loud nor soft.

Because it was dark, not many people got off the bus and few people knew them, so they said this so brazenly.

Ye Li felt sick after hearing this.

But, inexplicably, she felt that the woman looked more and more familiar the more she looked at her. It was as if she had seen her somewhere before.

This woman is definitely not her sister-in-law from her previous life. Who is this person?