Fang Jiangtao didn't know what was going on at first.
After walking only a few steps, they ran into Xu Meili, the gossipmonger.
I got the gist of it after just a few words.
"Have you heard? It's quite a lively scene at Deputy Director Gu's house."
Fang Jiangtao's ears perked up.
He wasn't particularly interested in listening to gossip.
They're always gossiping about this family or that family.
Normally, he would just chat with the other person.
Today he rushed back to talk to his daughter, hoping that she would have a better life in the countryside.
Little did anyone know, this gossip was about Gu Anning's family.
There's only one deputy director in this compound.
If Xu Meili is referring to Director Gu, then there's another company.
It's not certain if it's Gu Anning.
After all, when people address each other by their titles, they subconsciously drop the word "deputy".
But if it's Deputy Director Gu, then it's just Gu Anning alone.
Fang Jiangtao kept his thoughts to himself.
I'll talk to Fang Xinmei about it later.
Anyway, there are still ten days before the day I go to the countryside.
That's enough for him to teach Fang Xinmei some tricks.
Seeing Fang Jiangtao's expression, Xu Meili became smug.
She knew that Fang Jiangtao, as Gu Anning's mortal enemy, would definitely be interested in this gossip.
If this weren't home, I would definitely ask Fang Jiangtao to pour me a cup of tea, or...
"Come on, Sister Xu, have some melon seeds. What's going on? Our compound is a mess. If word gets out, people will think that everyone in our compound is of very low quality."
Since it involved his mortal enemy, Fang Jiangtao naturally didn't have many nice things to say.
Xu Meili didn't expect that instead of getting a cup of tea, she would actually get a handful of melon seeds.
She didn't think it was too little; these days, everyone is short of money.
If she wants to eat sunflower seeds, she'll have to prepare money and tickets later.
It's ready-made, and I enjoy eating it.
"Sister-in-law, hurry up and tell me. Stop just eating sunflower seeds." Fang Jiangtao regretted it a little; he should have known better than to give her the sunflower seeds.
He bought this for his daughter when he passed by the supply and marketing cooperative on his way back.
If someone in the family has to go to the countryside, and they can't bear to leave their son, then naturally their daughter has to suffer.
He knew his daughter was upset, so when they passed by the supply and marketing cooperative, he thought he would buy some snacks to comfort her.
I just grabbed a handful and gave them to Xu Meili, but she was too busy eating sunflower seeds to say anything about gossip.
If only I had shown that I wasn't interested, Xu Meili wouldn't have bothered to keep me in suspense and would have just blurted it out.
Xu Meili is the kind of person who, if she keeps any gossip to herself, she'll go crazy from holding it in.
After being urged several times, Xu Meili finally put the sunflower seeds in her pocket, intending to eat them when she got back.
Then, Xu Meili recounted the events of the afternoon in vivid detail. She even added some artistic embellishments, making the whole story seem dramatic and full of twists and turns.
She wasn't even there, yet she described the whole thing so vividly, as if she were there herself, observing everything from beginning to end.
Fang Jiangtao naturally knew that some of the descriptions in Xu Meili's words were not entirely true, but the outline of the story was true.
"So, Gu Anning's daughter, Gu Changhong, probably doesn't want to go to the countryside. So she's deliberately trying to find someone to marry?"
That's interesting.
I don't want to make others uncomfortable either, even if it makes me uncomfortable.
The idea that one feels comfortable only when the enemy is uncomfortable.
After listening to all of this, before leaving, Fang Jiangtao casually remarked, as if he had just remembered something, "Impossible, right? I saw Deputy Director Gu take the household registration book out earlier, saying he was going to register his daughter for a rural assignment?"
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