Chapter 32 Nothing can be hidden from him
Ye Xiaomei felt very uncomfortable with those eyes staring at her from behind. Even with a lotus leaf covering her head, she could still be recognized.
"Auntie Zhang, I'm very happy today. I won't have to pay for the next two days." Zhang Changjiang was overjoyed and took the piece of pork belly from the pork stall.
"You..." Aunt Zhang cried and could only blame herself. That piece of pork belly with three layers of fat and two layers of lean meat cost at least seven or eight yuan.
"Changjiang, isn't that the girl you were talking about that day?" The yellow-haired man echoed from behind.
In a flash, the two of them surrounded Ye Xiaomei.
"I won't sell it anymore." Ye Xiaomei carried the backpack and walked away, only to feel a pulling force coming from the basket. She had no choice but to go back to where she was. When she turned around, she saw Zhang Changjiang holding her backpack.
"Hehe, why are you so afraid of me? I won't eat you." Zhang Changjiang pressed down hard, and Ye Xiaomei's boneless body almost fell down. She could only squat on the ground according to his force.
"What do you want to do?" Ye Xiaomei's face flushed with annoyance.
Instead, it was this expression that made Zhang Changjiang stare in amazement. It was this expression, shy and scared. How could there be a girl in the world who is so likable even when she is angry?
"Our big brother Changjiang wants to pick you up." Huangmao laughed so hard that he fell backwards, with dirty words in his mouth.
"Tsk! Huang Gang, who told you to say that? She is already in a relationship." Zhang Changjiang pretended to be angry and said to his brother, then turned around and smiled:
"Ye Xiaomei, don't be afraid. I won't do anything to you with so many people around. I just can't understand one thing. How could you, who is so beautiful, fall in love with that cripple? Brother Zhang is just speaking up for you."
As he said this, he raised his hand to touch Ye Xiaomei's face.
Ye Xiaomei turned her head away and dodged instantly.
The smile on Zhang Changjiang's face froze for a moment, and then he spread his hands to hide the embarrassment of being rejected:
"You say I'm pretty good, right? I'm the one who manages the entire street in Qingyang County. Let's not talk about anything else. I just take a stroll every morning and earn three figures a day. You say it's great to eat and drink with me, right?"
As he spoke, he lifted the two pounds of pork belly in his hand and shook it in the air. His fingers loosened and the pork belly fell into Ye Xiaomei's bamboo basket with a click. "I'll give it to you."
Zhang Changjiang had seen the conditions of the Ye family and was afraid that they could not afford to eat such delicious food often.
Ye Xiaomei took it out without saying a word and threw it far away.
"Hey!" Zhang Changjiang never expected that this timid and soft girl would actually throw his meat away:
"You... are fine... you are pretty. I won't get mad at you, but at least you should apologize to me."
"Why should I apologize to a thug like you?" While he turned around to look for the meat, Ye Xiaomei picked up the basket and left.
"Ruffian?" Zhang Changjiang looked at the looming figure squeezing into the crowd, stamped his feet in anger, pointed at his nose and instantly got angry:
"Huang Gang? I'm a gangster? Am I a gangster? She actually scolded me. Even my mother doesn't dare to say that to me. F*ck!"
Huang Gang scratched his head. There were some things he didn't dare to say directly: "Maybe you scared the person."
Ye Xiaomei ran all the way to the gate of the county hospital, always afraid that Zhang Changjiang would catch up with her. It was not until she entered the county hospital and looked back that she found that the gangster had not caught up with her. Only then did she sit down beside the flower bed and breathe a sigh of relief.
When she opened the backpack, she saw that all the water in the basin had dried up when she ran. All the loaches were curled up together and blew bubbles, and many of them had already turned upside down.
"Hey, sister-in-law, you sold out so quickly?" Heizi, who was smoking in the yard, saw Ye Xiaomei at a glance.
Ye Xiaomei's face was pale, still mixed with the shock from earlier, and she pulled the corners of her mouth awkwardly: "Well, I don't want to sell it anymore, I plan to take it back home and eat it myself."
"Why aren't you selling it again?" Heizi asked.
Ye Xiaomei wiped the sweat off her face and walked into the hospital, then rested on a chair in the corridor outside Director Li's office.
What should she do? Zhang Changjiang turned out to be the owner of the county market. How should she do business on the street in the future?
She didn't know how long she was in a daze, but a nurse brought her back to reality: "You must be Comrade Ye Xiaomei, Director Li wants you to go to her office to cool down."
"Thank you." Ye Xiaomei knocked on Director Li's office door carrying a backpack.
Ye Xiaomei just thought that there was a ceiling fan in Director Li's office. Even if she was not too hot, the loach could take this opportunity to cool down.
As soon as she entered, Ye Xiaomei saw Ma Qijun sitting across from Director Li's desk. She had the answer in her mind. It didn't seem like Director Li had asked her to come here to cool off. It must be that Ma Qijun had seen her.
Ye Xiaomei silently moved the bamboo basket under the fan.
"Xiao Ye, have some water. Why are you selling loaches again in this hot weather?" Director Li personally handed Xiao Mei a glass of water.
"Hmm." Ye Xiaomei held the tea in her hands and sipped it carefully. While Director Li and Ma Qijun continued to discuss the checklist, she took advantage of their unpreparedness to quickly pour the cool tea into the bamboo basket and quickly covered it with lotus leaves.
These little actions were noticed by Ma Qijun: "There's cold tea over there." He pointed to the big kettle in the corner.
Ye Xiaomei blushed, it seemed she was discovered. She lowered her head and went to the corner of the wall to pour half a pot of wine into the wall continuously. Only then did she bear to gulp down a few mouthfuls herself.
"Xiao Ma, the medical facilities of the Military General Hospital in the city are definitely better than those in our county. You really should go there alone for a comprehensive consultation." Director Li sorted out the messy test sheets on the table.
Ma Qijun was silent for a long time and subconsciously glanced at Ye Xiaomei.
Unexpectedly, Ye Xiaomei was also looking at her, so she quickly shifted her gaze.
If Ma Qijun was not mistaken, Xiaomei's eyes were full of worry just now, and his heart couldn't help but warm up:
"Okay, let's go next weekend."
Director Li sighed and said, "What's going on? Xiao Ma, why aren't you worried?"
Ma Qijun was not in a hurry, but he found that the herbs Ye Xiaomei gave him were very beneficial for legs, so he wanted to finish the herbs Xiaomei gave him before going.
"That's settled. Xiaomei, help me pack up these checklists."
Ma Qijun suddenly called Ye Xiaomei. Xiaomei shuddered and quickly put down the cup and went forward to clean up.
Ma Qijun turned his wheelchair over to the backpack, pinched the lotus leaf with his fingers and opened it to take a look. It seemed that the girl had not been sold.
In the car, Ye Xiaomei sat in the back seat without saying a word, which was completely different from her cheerful and cheerful appearance when she came.
Ma Qijun thought for a while before he said, "Just sell the loach to me. My mother really likes eating loach."
Ye Xiaomei was stunned: "That won't do, I..." She felt that she couldn't hide the little thoughts in her heart from the eyes of this grown man, or was she showing it too obviously?
"It doesn't matter who you sell it to. Can't I sell it to you?" Seeing how nervous she was, Ma Qijun knew that this girl was still very stubborn at heart. She might have regarded his action as alms and help.
Ye Xiaomei lowered her head suddenly: "I... didn't mean that." She was worried about the future. How would she set up a stall on the street? That Zhang Changjiang was so overbearing.
"Heizi, the savings bank."
"Okay."
The car drove straight to the only savings bank in the county.
Ye Xiaomei didn't know what he was going to do, so she just sat in the back seat with her head down and waited.
When Ma Qijun returned, the sun was already high in the sky. Ye Xiaomei's cheeks were rosy in the sunlight through the car window. The poplar trees in the yard of the savings bank were filled with the chirping of cicadas, making the ears noisy.
I just made up my mind to be self-reliant yesterday, but today I feel defeated.
The back seat door suddenly opened.
Ye Xiaomei reflexively pulled the backpack to the other side, with half of her arm almost sticking out of the car window.
Ma Qijun hesitated for a moment and closed the door. "My mother really likes to eat these. If you don't believe me, come to my house later and ask her yourself. If she says she doesn't like them, I won't buy them from you. If she says she likes them, you can sell them to me."
"..." Ye Xiaomei knew it very well. He could tell from the beginning that she had not been sold.
"Um!"
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