"Hey, are you all waiting for me? Comrade Gu Jinghua, aren't you going again? Your parents are too strict with you!"

The young man who caught up with him said this sympathetically, smacking his lips.

"Xiao Zhangzi, you haven't come yet. Comrade Gu just said he was going to the movies."

"Really? The sun still rose from the east today, but it didn't set in the west."

"Well, look at what you're saying. Our monthly salary is just over fifty yuan, and the most expensive movie ticket is only 16 cents a piece."

"Hehe, it's been a few months since we invited Brother Gu to go to the movies with us, but he always refused."

"Brother Gu, did you go to the state-owned restaurant with us to eat, or did you eat in the cafeteria?"

"I'll go to the cafeteria to eat and then go over. What time do you buy your tickets? I'll wait for you at the cinema entrance."

Brother Gu held the fifty cents tightly in his hand. At this moment, he felt ashamed, even more embarrassed than when he was raising pigs in the countryside.

"Let's go have a few drinks together around 9:30, then come back to bed after the movie. We have tomorrow off anyway."

"It's only half past six. Why don't you go in and watch the eight o'clock show first? It's quite cold standing outside waiting for us." A colleague suggested kindly.

"Forget it, I'm not going." Brother Gu said embarrassedly.

"No, the movie playing tonight is 'Heroes of Youth'. I heard it's really good."

"Comrade Gu, why don't you come with us to dinner? It's my treat tonight."

"Thank you. I'll go to the cafeteria to eat and then I'll go watch the 8 o'clock show." After saying that, Brother Gu walked towards the cafeteria.

"You're still being controlled by your parents at this age. When you get married, you'll have to endure their bullying. What a sin!"

"Hey! Stop worrying about nothing. Do you think any girl would marry a guy like him?"

"Hehe, that's right. If my sister falls for someone like him, I'll break her legs."

"Who says there are no girls willing to marry him? I've seen it happen. Every month when payday comes, there's a beautiful girl waiting for him at the door."

"No way, there are girls who are so depressed?"

"Why can't you let it go? Brother Gu is good-looking and pleasing to the eye."

"Tsk tsk, everyone envies the imperial capital, but how could they know how pitiful the people there are!"

Brother Gu walked a long way and could still hear his colleagues' unscrupulous discussions. He clenched his hands but was unable to refute them.

They had heard worse things when they were raising pigs, but now he couldn't stand it.

Everything has been going in a good direction since they recognized their biological sister Jiaojiao.

Their family returned to the imperial capital and bought back the old house that had been occupied by their second uncle for more than ten years.

Wherever he went with his grandfather and parents, he was always treated as a guest of honor. It had been a long time since he had been looked down upon and ridiculed like this.

This is the first time that Brother Gu has encountered such a Waterloo since he left the pig farm. Life is so unpredictable!

He missed his family so much, especially his own sister Jiaojiao, who only gave him benefits and never asked for a penny from him.

When he went to the canteen to get food, the auntie who served him food gave him a few extra spoonfuls of meat.

She said with a look of pity: "Young man, you are from another place, right? Today we get our wages and everyone goes out to eat, so I picked out some extra meat for you."

"Thank you, Auntie. Actually, I don't really like eating meat." Brother Gu was telling the truth.

He was embarrassed to say that the meat in the cafeteria was cooked very badly. He thought it tasted weird and not tasty at all.

Especially today, maybe there was too much meat, it felt like chewing a piece of wood, tasteless.

The meat made by his sister is soft, glutinous, delicious and fragrant, and tastes delicious!

The aunt thought he was shy and embarrassed, so she smiled happily and said, "You are so handsome, young man. I will pick out a few more pieces of meat for you to eat in the future."

Brother Gu was a little embarrassed by the aunt's stare. He scratched his scalp and explained, "Aunt, you misunderstood. I especially like eating vegetables."

The aunt was stunned and asked in confusion, "You like eating vegetables? Where are you from?"

"I am from Qingcheng." Brother Gu was too embarrassed to say that he was from the imperial capital. He was afraid of bringing shame to the people of the imperial capital!

He quickly finished his meal and rushed to the cinema because he really wanted to watch a movie.

But he knew that his colleagues would definitely talk about the content of the movie tomorrow, but he had no idea what it was about.

The cinema is in the northwest corner of the square. There is only one entrance door, and the front faces the street.

People outside have to pass by many small stalls selling snacks such as melon seeds and popcorn to buy tickets.

Therefore, before entering the cinema, Brother Gu seemed to see a familiar figure.

He thought he was seeing things, so he rubbed his eyes and took a closer look. It was indeed his adopted sister.

Sheng Yueliang was smiling as she pulled her second brother Sheng to buy melon seeds. Big brother Gu stood in the crowd and watched them quietly.

She invited Second Brother Sheng to see a movie, but she didn't invite him when she took the money today. After all, a brother is still a brother.

Don’t even mention why Brother Gu knew it was Sheng Yueliang who was treating them, because he saw her handing money to the melon seed seller and buying two paper bags of melon seeds.

What Brother Gu didn't know was that Brother Sheng gave all of his monthly salary to Sheng Yueliang without leaving a single cent, just like him.

They don't have to pay for their living expenses out of their own pockets, as Dad Sheng sends it to Grandpa Sheng on time every month.

Then the old man gave it to the nanny, and even prepared clothes for the changing seasons.

Sheng Yueliang just heard Brother Gu say today that he was going to treat his colleagues to a movie, and she was unhappy inside.

Brother Gu wasted money treating his colleagues to a movie without even asking her out, but considering that she got a salary every month, she didn't blame him.

Her husband Song Zijin has been getting along very well with a young widow in the compound recently and has no mood to date her.

Sheng Yueliang has been enjoying herself recently, dressing beautifully, and she doesn't mind whether Song Zijin asks her out or not.

Her ideal husband would not return to the compound for another two years. She could wait, but she also knew that if she wanted the horse to run fast, she had to feed it with grass.

Her biggest reliance now is Ershazi and Brother Gu, because they allow her to live a carefree life.

So she invited the idiot to see a movie to cheer him up so that he could continue to work hard.

This allowed Brother Gu to see the siblings watching a movie together, and he even bought two bags of melon seeds.

In fact, Sheng Yueliang has never been frugal with herself and it takes her almost an hour to watch a movie.

She could finish two bags of melon seeds by herself, and the reason she bought two bags was naturally to please Second Brother Sheng.

Anyway, Sheng Yueliang knew that Ershazi wouldn't eat it, so in the end she had to eat it herself.

But Brother Gu didn't know all this. He held fifty cents in his hand and went to buy a paper bag of melon seeds out of spite.

When he paid, it cost twenty cents, which was actually more expensive than a movie ticket, but he was a grown man and was too embarrassed to go back on his word, so he bought it anyway.