Chapter 60

"Sister Xia, is this enough tea?" Qin Yao smiled slightly and decided to put the matter aside for the time being. Director Huang had told her so much today and looked so kind, but Qin Yao did not completely believe her.

Anyone who can become a small leader and win people's hearts must have some skills. Qin Yao is no longer a naive college student who has just entered the society, and she doesn't want to be used as a gun as soon as she arrives.

The specific situation of the new position needs further observation and we should not act rashly.

Qin Yao pretended to accidentally touch Director Huang to check her favorability.

[She has a favorable impression of you of 40 (she thinks you are useful)]

Neither-good nor-bad favorability, is it useful? How is t useful?

Qin Yao pondered while lowering her brows. She had just arrived at the new unit and was keeping a low profile.

Director Huang assigned her a task: to look through past promotional materials and write a few congratulatory poems for the Lantern Festival - this was her entire day's work.

Even though there is a disharmonious mess like Xiao Pan in the new unit, it must be admitted that the daily work of the Propaganda Office is very easy.

Qin Yao sat at her workstation and looked through study materials. After a while, she picked up a pen to write a poem. She wrote a few sentences on the draft paper and crossed them all out. After a while, she wrote a few more sentences and crossed them out again. Then she supported her chin with her hand and pondered, looking as if she was scratching her head.

The three people nearby noticed Qin Yao's actions and they all found them funny. Xiao Pan was even more proud.

He laughed to himself: Do you think it's an easy job to do creative work while sitting in an office? I'm telling you not to write and it'll worry you to death.

Director Huang drank tea from an enamel cup. He glanced at Qin Yao who was working and nodded continuously.

While the three of them were not noticing, Qin Yao, with her head down, wrote a few lines of poetry fluently and couldn't help yawning twice.

Comrade Xiao Qin thinks that being an actor is also a technical job.

Long before Director Huang gave her the task, Qin Yao had already thought of several Lantern Festival poems, but of course she couldn't write them and hand them in right away - wouldn't that be like having nothing to do after eating?

Her leader asked her to think about it for a day and polish it carefully. If she finished writing and handed it in immediately, no matter how good it was, her leader would point out contradictions several times and ask her to delete and revise it.

As a leader, you cannot let your subordinates sit idle. If they finish their tasks first, their leader will still give you new tasks.

Just get the work done at the right time.

After writing a poem, Qin Yao put down her pen and went to look at some information. She moved slowly, her thoughts running wild. She was thinking about Gu Cheng.

Habits are a terrible thing. During the three months of observing Gu Cheng, Qin Yao tried hard to immerse herself in work and never let herself think too much about Gu Cheng. However, during the month when she went back to his hometown with him, the two of them became husband and wife, spending time together day and night. Gu Cheng became a part of her body habits just like eating and drinking.

It hasn't been long since we separated, but my body can't help but miss him.

Does this count as marriage before love?

"Xiao Qin, don't worry too much. Come sit down and take a rest after working for a long time."

Director Huang asked Qin Yao and others to sit on the sofa. Not long after, a middle-aged woman came and the others chatted. Qin Yao didn't want to think about Gu Cheng at this moment. She was forced to eat a lot of melons.

This middle-aged woman was from the neighborhood committee and wanted to introduce a date to Deputy Director Liu. While talking about the blind date, she also told all kinds of miscellaneous stories about the village streets.

For example, a father-in-law and daughter-in-law are suspected of having an affair. Another example is a stepmother who is extremely good to her stepson, but now that the stepson is looking for a partner, the stepmother's behavior is not right, which makes people marvel... Another example is the "brother-sister swap" between two families that was once popular in the past.

"She was definitely pregnant before the switch."

"Someone said they had seen them both at home before."

"It's not his child, but this man still acknowledges it?"

…

Qin Yao drank tea and listened to them chatting. As a post-2000s girl who grew up in the city, this was the first time she came to a place that was like a "village information exchange station", and she was thinking "fool" in her heart.

At this time, most people are very simple, but many people do things that follow the primitive desires of beasts, which is hard to imagine.

Of course, most of them are just hearsay. Whether it is true or false, only the parties involved know the truth.

Qin Yao had a fruitful first day at work after changing her job. She drank a lot of tea, ate a lot of melons, and wrote a few Lantern Festival poems. It was as if she had spent the whole day in a teahouse.

A good unit for eating melons.

Qin Yao got off work contentedly, humming a little tune. Before she left the hospital, she met an old acquaintance on the way - Zhou Fangyu.

Zhou Fangyu was wearing a white coat, standing under the blue sky and white clouds, looking at Qin Yao with a melancholy and sad face.

His voice was hoarse, full of concern: "Yaoyao, you... have you been okay these days? Did you feel wronged when you went home with him?"

Zhou Fangyu looked at the 20-year-old "girl" in front of him with affection. Even though she was already married, he preferred to use the word "girl" to describe her.

Qin Yao married Gu Cheng. How could a family like the Gu family possibly look down on Qin Yao, whose father was a cook? Qin Yao must have suffered a lot of grievances in the Gu family.

"How can I suffer such injustice? My mother-in-law is so nice to me." Qin Yao was too lazy to pay attention to him.

Zhou Fangyu felt a pain in his heart, thinking that Qin Yao must be suppressing her grievances. If he said a few more words, he would be able to break Qin Yao's defenses. He wanted Qin Yao to fall in love with him again, and he would let Yaoyao know that he was the good man worthy of entrusting her life to.

"Yaoyao, I still have the handkerchief you gave me. I will remember the happiness we had together for the rest of my life."

Qin Yao said coldly: "If you dare to harass me again, I will report you for hooliganism."

Zhou Fangyu was hurt by her cold eyes.

When other people in the hospital saw this scene, they couldn't suppress the mockery in their eyes. Some people felt sorry for Zhou Fangyu before, but now seeing him entangled with a married woman, they immediately felt that he was a worthless person.

"The Zhou guy is really not a good guy. Fortunately, I didn't get entangled with him. Doctor Xue has suffered a lot from him."

"This man is so shameless. He has a fiancée who his family recognizes. Yet he came to date Dr. Xue. His fiancée made a scene and let Dr. Xue be scolded. He has no sense of responsibility at all."

"Now that his fiancée has married Director Zhang, he dares not say a word and actually comes to find Xiao Qin."

…

In the month that Qin Yao left, there was a huge turning point in the relationship between Zhou Fangyu and Zeng Manli. As his "fiancée", Zeng Manli disrupted Zhou Fangyu's relationship with Dr. Xue, but not long after, she had a "flash marriage" with Director Zhang of the hospital and became a stepmother.

Dr. Xue is dating Dr. He Guangzhi.

Zhou Fangyu, who was indecisive, ended up gaining nothing.

Qin Yao, who knew about this, discovered that Dr. Xue had taken the script of "Qin Yao" in the book.

Logically speaking, there was nothing wrong with Dr. Xue dating Zhou Fangyu.

Zhou Fangyu had already verbally broken off the engagement with his fiancée Zeng Manli at that time, so there was nothing wrong with him dating other women.

The strange thing is that Zeng Manli is a "unruly" woman, and Zhou Fangyu is a "dragful" and despicable man.

Zeng Manli came to the hospital and made a scene. Within two days, Zhou Fangyu got back together with Zeng Manli. This made his verbal statement of "the engagement was off" a lie, and Dr. Xue became the mistress who interfered with their relationship. Zeng Manli loudly humiliated Dr. Xue in the hospital.

Zhou Fangyu was a coward. After weighing the pros and cons, he chose to side with "Zeng Manli".

No matter how good Dr. Xue's conditions were, Zeng Manli was his former fiancée. The two families knew each other well and she was his childhood sweetheart.

There is a 90% chance that Zeng Manli will marry him, and she will also have an easier life after marriage. Since Zeng Manli is willing to return to her old lover, Zhou Fangyu naturally chose to return to her old lover.

The reason why Miao Cuiye scolded Zhou Fangyu as a bad guy was because she saw that Zhou Fangyu wanted to get back together with Zeng Manli, so she deliberately allowed Zeng Manli to come to the hospital to tear down Dr. Xue, while he made a few hypocritical excuses and was "forced" to get back together with his ex-fiancée.

But what surprised everyone was that Zeng Manli and Director Zhang got married suddenly.

Qin Yao was amazed at the development of the plot. No matter what the two of them said, neither of them was a good person.

In the evening, Qin Yao took a car back to the family compound. The courtyard was illuminated by the afterglow of the setting sun. Green seedlings broke through the soil, revealing vitality in the dim light. Qin Yao returned home and turned on the lights. Soon, it was dark.

Gu Cheng didn't come back, so she ate alone and cleaned the house simply.

At this moment, Qin Yao suddenly felt that the house was too big and empty. She was the only one in this two-story house and such a small courtyard. It was so quiet everywhere that it made people feel scared.

She stood on the second-floor balcony and looked out. Lights were on in other people's homes. The evening breeze brought the voice of Sister Zaohua from next door. Sister Zaohua was scolding a naughty child. No one knew what was going on in their family, and she heard a few sharp rebuttals from the children. It was very lively anyway.

The coldness and loneliness were like two cold knives, stabbing deeply into Qin Yao's body.

I don’t know how Chen Baozhen managed to survive alone before.

I used to live with Zhang Yufei in the dormitory. Although I lost my privacy, at least I had someone to keep me company. When I stay at home alone, an inexplicable feeling of loneliness always lingers. I feel like I am in a deep black hole, which makes me feel suffocated.

Clearly, after graduation, she had been working and living alone, and her life was good. Why did she feel so lonely now?

I have to admit, it’s tough!

Gu Cheng told her that day that life after marriage was just the beginning, and he was afraid that she would resent and hate him - Qin Yao began to have a personal experience.

It is impossible to say that there is no "resentment" and "grievance".

Like her parents, Qin Chuanrong and Shen Guixiang, her eldest brother and sister-in-law, and her second brother and sister-in-law, they all worked in factories. Like the men in the countryside, they worked during the day and returned home at night. The family gathered together for dinner, and the couples slept together at night.

The nature of Gu Cheng's work meant that he would not come back often. Coming back every one or two days was considered good enough, but after going out to sea, a week? One month? How many months?

When they were dating, he met her every once in a while, but Qin Yao didn't think anything of it.

Now they were husband and wife, and Gu Cheng had become her husband... Thinking about how many years of such days would pass in the future, she realized that she had really stepped into an abyss where she could not see the way forward.

That's real life.