"Comrade, is it convenient for me to take a picture of you?"
As Ruan Xiaotang rode her bicycle into the gate of the military compound, she was stopped by a young man she had never met before.
Seeing that the other person looked gentle and spoke politely, Ruan Xiaotang nodded in response, stopped the bicycle and leaned against it.
The young comrade in front of me had a fair complexion and wore a pair of round glasses on his nose. He wore a clean white shirt on his upper body and black trousers underneath. Hanging around his neck was a domestically made Seagull 4B twin-lens reflex camera.
Who is this person?
In this age of hunger, he actually had such a rare and luxurious camera.
Ruan Xiaotang immediately became alert and asked, "Comrade, what is the purpose of taking pictures?"
A pair of cautious eyes looked him up and down.
Fang Boruo smiled brightly and said, "Hello, comrade. I am Fang Boruo, a new member of the Propaganda Department. My job is to take pictures, and take beautiful pictures."
This one sentence dispelled Ruan Xiaotang's doubts.
Slightly apologetically, with a slight smile.
I almost mistook my comrade for a spy.
He probably didn't notice it.
Ruan Xiaotang introduced herself generously, her voice sweet and clear, "Hello, comrade, I am Ruan Xiaotang, and Captain Zhou Xingze is my husband. You can take pictures, can you pose with me?"
"No, no, just stand in front of the roses. It will be natural."
"good,"
Ruan Xiaotang took a look at them one by one, stepped back, and stood in front of the beautifully blooming pink rose.
A light breeze is blowing.
The gentle breeze blew up Ruan Xiaotang's red dress and her scattered black hair.
Strands of long hair fell in front of her eyes. Ruan Xiaotang subconsciously raised her delicate arms and tucked her hair behind her ears. She raised her red lips and looked at the camera with a faint smile.
"Click"
The camera captured the beauty at that moment.
The girl's pure yet charming smile is forever preserved.
Fang Borao, who was two meters away, was stunned.
Having attended university and studied abroad, he considers himself knowledgeable and experienced. He has met and come into contact with many interesting people and different customs and practices in many countries.
But without exception, none of them stirred any waves in his heart. They were all like passing clouds, leaving no trace.
Until today someone broke this record.
"Comrade, now that the filming is over, can I leave now?"
“Yes, sure!”
Ruan Xiaotang smiled at him politely, pushed her bicycle, and left.
As I walked, I muttered to myself: He looks like a decent person, but he is a stutterer. This is a real loss of points. What a waste!
Fang Borao stared at her receding figure, his heart filled with boiling emotions surging like waves.
I adjusted the black frame of my glasses, but my heart couldn't calm down for a long time.
What a smart girl!
She was born with facial features that are extremely oriental in beauty.
Her gentle temperament exudes positivity, vigor and vitality.
I don’t know if it’s an illusion.
Or maybe it was because he was too emotional today.
There was a light in her eyes, with a flamboyance and rebelliousness that went against the grain of this era.
But she is so delicate and gentle.
how?
Fang Borao rubbed his heart hard with his left hand.
His eyes were fixed on the camera.
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"The above is the main content of my report. Please check and sign it, Captain Zhou."
Liu Jiajia was wearing a black business suit, with her long hair tied up high and a decent makeup on. She sat upright in the chair opposite Zhou Xingze.
"I'll take a call first, sign the document, and then have the guard Xiao Wang send it to you."
"No, please, Xiao Wang, I can do it myself..."
Zhou Xingze picked up the phone and made a gesture to silence Liu Jiajia who was about to speak.
Then he waved his hand, indicating that she could leave his office.
May involve confidential information.
Liu Jiajia stood up awkwardly and left Zhou Xingze's office reluctantly.
In order to leave a better impression when they were alone together this time, she got up early and spent two hours preparing to please him.
But he didn't even open his eyes to look at him.
He probably doesn't even remember what color lipstick she used today.
"Wife, you are tinkering with so many different colors of lipsticks yourself, you are not going to speculate, are you?"
"How clever! You guessed it all."
Before traveling through time, Ruan Xiaotang stored all the home appliances in her rental house, including pots and pans, and even small items like a pair of scissors, into the space.
Nothing in the house, especially those weird little parts bought online, was wasted.
Look, homemade lipstick molds come in handy in this era.
Since I accidentally gave my sister-in-law a lipstick, it quickly became a trend in her workplace.
People kept asking my sister-in-law about the source of the lipstick and wanted to buy one.
This is not.
Isn't the ready-made deal right at your doorstep?
She was about to earn her first pot of gold.
"How much is one?"
Zhou Xingze took off his military jacket and hung it on his arm, picked up the lunch box in the net bag and placed it on the eight-immortals table.
Ruan Xiaotang lowered his head and fiddled with the mold seriously, and replied perfunctorily, "Five dollars!"
"Tell me again, how much?"
"Five dollars!"
"Why don't you just go and rob it!"
When Zhou Xingze first heard the price, he thought he was hallucinating.
Until I asked again.
He was so shocked that his speech was incoherent.
Pulling up one of her arms, he curiously asked, "It's so expensive, who do you sell it to?"
Who would buy it at the sky-high price of five dollars?
Such a spendthrift.
Ruan Xiaotang frowned slightly and said angrily, "It hurts, it hurts, let go."
"Okay, okay, okay, I'll let go and tell you."
Speaking of this, Ruan Xiaotang herself did not expect it.
In this conservative era, there are so many people who, for the sake of beauty and fashion, would spend huge sums of money to buy her handmade lipsticks.
Her customers spread the word by word of mouth, and keep sending her products in batches.
The product quality is so high that all the orders she receives are scheduled for a week later.
"In our military region, the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill, the Weiye Printing Factory, the Nuanxin Textile Factory, the Leyang Chemical Factory, etc., the female workers here are all my clients, and even some middle-level female leaders are my loyal clients."
"Then your price is... a bit high."
Zhou Xingze saw how she was working day and night just to make these lipsticks.
I still feel sorry for her, but this price...
After some thought, I decided to ask.
"Do you know how tired I am doing this every day? Do you know how hard I work to make ends meet? Are you blind? You don't even know how to feel sorry for your wife. Your wife has given so much, but isn't it worth the price of a lipstick?"
"It's worth it, it's worth it, I'll do the rest, you go to the house and rest and have your meal."
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