Chapter 131 Chapter 131 Chapter 131...

Chapter 131

Su Lingling rushed into the office building as the bell rang. Instead of running directly to the archive room upstairs, she went to the Criminal Investigation Team 3 to look for Weisheng first.

"Bang!"

"My mom steamed these buns, eat them while they're hot."

Su Lingling rushed in like the wind, leaving behind the sound of an aluminum lunch box hitting the table and these words before rushing out like the wind.

Weisheng raised his head from the archive files and saw only Su Lingling's back as she ran away. Wang Qi and the others also looked as if they had not reacted.

However, during the week that Weisheng was at work, Su Lingling came to pick him up after get off work every day, which made Wang Qi know who was coming.

After realizing what was happening, they all shook their heads in amusement and continued doing what they were doing.

There's nothing to do!

When there are cases, they handle them. When there are no cases, they don't want to organize the case files and documents. So at this moment, Wang Qi and the others are either lying on the desk with a bored look on their faces, or spending time with today's newspaper.

I opened the lunch box that Su Lingling had left on the table and found four buns placed back to back inside.

It's made of white flour, plump and warm.

Weisheng took one out, took a bite, and found that it was still a five-diced meat bun. His eyes lit up.

Feeling embarrassed to eat alone, Weisheng said to the people in the office, "There are four buns. I'll eat one. Who will eat the remaining three?"

Today is Monday, and Team Leader Qu is at the morning meeting. Besides him, there are five others in the office: Wang Qi, Gao Liang, Hu Xueyi, Wang Jiangshan, and Zhao Xinsheng. So before Weisheng invites them to eat buns, he reports the quantity.

After hearing Weisheng's words, the two married men said that their wives had cooked in the morning, and the other three people living in the dormitory also said that they had eaten in the cafeteria.

However, Wang Qi still came over and took a bun, took a bite himself, and gave the rest to Hu Xueyi.

After praising the buns for being tastier than those in the cafeteria, he started talking about other things while using the buns as an excuse.

After eating the buns, Weisheng continued to write with his head down, occasionally asking a question while trying to multitask. After expressing his participation, he let those people chat one after another.

As they were talking, Team Leader Qu came in.

Seeing him come in, everyone subconsciously dropped their idle conversation.

Team Leader Qu is a short man in his forties, almost fifty. I heard that he worked as a serviceman for his superiors in the army in his early years.

Apart from major cases and instructions from higher authorities, the city bureau's morning meetings every Monday are almost all the same.

After Team Leader Qu came back from the meeting, he also routinely conveyed the content of the meeting.

"Chen Ting, please take notes of the meeting. We will also need to keep minutes for our group meetings in the future."

"OK."

Weisheng picked up a stack of manuscript paper from the table and typed a draft according to the meeting minutes format he knew. Then he looked up and signaled Team Leader Qu that he could start.

Upon seeing this, Team Leader Qu cleared his throat and started the meeting. After all, this was the first team meeting with meeting minutes, so Team Leader Qu deliberately spoke for a while longer.

The meeting will be adjourned in five minutes.

Weisheng took a look at the meeting minutes he had made, then stood up and went to find Team Leader Qu to sign.

When Team Leader Qu took the manuscript paper handed to him by Weisheng, he saw four slightly larger words in the middle of the top - Meeting Minutes.

Starting from the next line, all typeset on the left.

The first line is the meeting department and meeting time.

The second row is for attendees and absentees.

The third row is for the meeting host and the meeting recorder.

The fourth line reads "Content of the Meeting".

Then starting from the fifth line, it is the content of the five-minute meeting that Team Leader Qu mentioned today.

Team Leader Qu carefully reviewed what he had said, nodding as he read. At the end, he glanced puzzledly at the large 'S' in the empty space between the meeting content and the last line of signatures, then pointed at it and looked at Weisheng.

This doesn't seem like a typo.

Weisheng: "Seal."

There was no need for further explanation; just these two sentences made Team Leader Qu understand.

He had never seen other meeting minutes before, and Weisheng's meeting minutes looked very professional, so he gave Team Leader Qu the impression that this was a normal operation.

After writing his name in the last column, Team Leader Qu praised Weisheng for his good work.

Weisheng sat back with the page of meeting minutes, and found a hole puncher, side clips, etc. from the side. He punched holes in this page of meeting minutes and a stack of manuscript paper, fixed them together with side clips, then made a cover and put it in an empty file box.

After sorting these out, Weisheng continued to work hard with the case files on her table, while Team Leader Qu had already made a cup of tea and was leisurely reading their city's Wutong Morning Post.

There was nothing to do in the morning, so before getting off work, Su Lingling came to the office to pick up Weisheng and take him to the cafeteria as usual.

Su Lingling chattered to Weisheng all the way and was still talking when they arrived at the cafeteria.

"...yesterday my parents had another argument about a relative from Beijing. My mom was angry and ignored them. The meal my dad cooked last night was terrible. My mom even said that my dad's cooking skills were obviously my grandma's..."

Weisheng ate while listening to Su Lingling talking about these family matters. When she had almost finished speaking, he changed the subject and asked her if the shirt she was wearing today was new.

When talking about this, Su Lingling became excited.

"I'm telling you, I have great taste and I'm the best at matching. Even my mom can't compare to me..."

After talking about clothing fabrics for a while, Weisheng asked her, "If the college entrance examination is reinstated in the future and there are majors like fashion design in universities, would you choose to study?"

Su Lingling was stunned for a moment, then looked around, "How did you know the college entrance examination would be resumed?"

Weisheng twitched his lips, then imitated her and whispered, "I was just saying it, but you seem to know something?"

Su Lingling stepped back instantly and subconsciously covered her mouth with both hands.

"Sister, you are being too cautious."

Su Lingling: “…”

After a quick meal, the two of them washed their lunch boxes on the way back to the dormitory. After entering the dormitory, Su Lingling whispered the news of the college entrance examination to Weisheng.

"That relative of mine in Beijing mentioned this to my dad a while ago. He said that the higher-ups have already started researching this, and there might be an official announcement someday. He also told me to quietly review it."

Su Lingling's father wants his daughter to go to college, but her mother thinks it is unnecessary.

Su Lingling's family had already arranged a job for her. She could progress through the ranks and eventually gain all the seniority levels she needed. If she gave up her job to attend university for four years, not only would she have wasted four years, she might also have to start all over again.

In the words of Su Lingling's mother, the job assigned after graduating from university may not be much better than that of an archivist.

As for Su Lingling herself, she didn't want to take the entrance exams, but she also wanted to go to university. Her current job was pretty good, and she was worried that the job she would be assigned after graduation wouldn't be as good as her current one.

Seeing that Weisheng hadn't said anything, Su Lingling couldn't help but ask Weisheng again: "Tingting, are you going to take the college entrance examination?"

Chen Ting was twenty years old when she died in December of 1979. If she hadn't stayed at the Municipal Bureau until December of 1979, she certainly wouldn't have left. However, if she had done so, she would have missed the golden years of the Gaokao (National College Entrance Examination) between 1977 and 1979. If she had missed those three years, the difficulty of taking the Gaokao would have been...

Shaking his head, Weisheng attributed his decision not to take the Gaokao to his family's financial situation. "I'm definitely going to take the Gaokao, but I need to work for a few years and save some money before I consider this."

Su Lingling thought she understood Weisheng's meaning. Thinking of how much her sisters had suffered for tuition in middle and high school, she said with hope, "I really hope that I can go to college without tuition."

Weisheng smiled and then said to Su Lingling, "If the country reinstates the college entrance examination, then in the future, a college degree will definitely be more popular than a high school degree in the workplace. Your relative called to tell me this, he must have anticipated this."

Su Lingling nodded, "My dad said the same thing. But my mom has always looked down on my dad's relatives. The more they say that, the more annoyed my mom becomes." Then everything would be done the other way around.

"Opportunities come to those who are prepared. Regardless of whether or not we take the college entrance exam, let's quietly start reviewing." After saying this, Weisheng smiled again: "Luckily, we just graduated this year, so reviewing is easier than others."

Su Lingling: "Okay, let's do it."

…

That night, Su Lingling returned home again. The next morning, she not only brought breakfast for Weisheng, but also brought all her high school textbooks.

From that day on, Weisheng sorted case files and archives in the office at night, and Su Lingling sat opposite her to review.

Weisheng found various papers from the college entrance examination cram school he had run in his space, and every now and then he would take out one for Su Lingling to do.

Seeing that Weisheng didn't review but could still tutor her, Su Lingling felt even more sorry for Weisheng.

It would be great if there was no tuition fee for going to university, but instead living expenses and travel expenses were provided.

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In this way, time passed by bit by bit, and Weisheng finally got his first salary since he started working.

On the day he received his salary, Weisheng took Su Lingling to a department store in the city center and bought a wool towel for Su Lingling's mother and a pair of five-finger leather gloves for Su Lingling's father.

So, Weisheng still went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy two boxes of canned snacks, and then took Su Lingling to the Su family.

Knowing that Weisheng was coming today, Su Lingling's parents had specially bought some meat and vegetables. When they met, they called him uncle and aunt, handed him the gifts, and expressed their gratitude and gratitude for his kindness.

When Su's mother Yi Xuemei heard Weisheng say this, she suddenly glared at Su's father Su Yangfan, then took Weisheng's hand with a distressed look on her face and went to talk to him aside.

When Su Lingling was studying in the town's high school, Yi Xuemei often went to the town to visit her daughter. After going there so often, she became familiar with Shen Ting.

Now, when they were talking to Weisheng, they were both warm and friendly, and extremely natural. It was just that he didn't know if he was being too sensitive or if it was true, but he always felt that Su Lingling's parents were too warm and friendly with her.

While eating at the Su family's house, Su Yangfan unexpectedly brought up the college entrance examination. As soon as this topic was brought up, Weisheng noticed Yi Xuemei glaring at Su Yangfan again, then turned around and put another piece of braised pork ribs into her bowl.

Weisheng: “…”

Weisheng left the Su family in confusion and began to wonder how powerful the Su family was. They arranged for one more person to work in the Municipal Bureau just based on their daughter's few words of nagging and coquettishness.

If Chen Ting is really not a child of the Shen family, then the Su family... may not be unaware of the inside story.