Chapter 185: Some are happy, some are sad
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Liushutun produced 11 workers, two of whom were educated youth and nine were local members of the commune.
Among these 9 people, there are 6 women and 3 men.
Xie Yun’s friends Xu Wumei and Wang Qinghong were both on the list of those accepted.
Xu Wumei went to a detergent factory, and Wang Qinghong went to a pharmaceutical factory.
As soon as the list of admitted candidates was announced, Liushutun became lively again.
Among the six female comrades who were admitted, four were unmarried and two had just gotten married.
Among the three gay men, two are single and one is married.
These six unmarried men and women suddenly became popular in the marriage market, and the number of people who came to propose marriage to them almost broke down the threshold.
Xu Wumei's secret love affair could no longer continue and had to be made public. She didn't want to deal with the matchmaker.
Likewise, her partner doesn't want to deal with a matchmaker.
Xu Wumei's boyfriend Chen Guangzhi is the captain of the men's assault team. He is very ambitious and this time he was admitted to the thermal power plant.
Both of them became workers. Faced with the aggressive matchmakers, they discussed it and decided to get engaged first.
The Chen family invited a matchmaker to propose marriage to the Xu family, and Aunt Xu was so happy that she couldn't stop smiling.
It was not only because Wu Mei had found a good partner, but also because Wu Mei herself was getting better and better. She felt extremely proud that her family had a female worker.
Aunt Xu didn't even object to them getting married as soon as possible.
But the five beauties objected!
She was determined to respond to the women's director's call for delayed marriage and wait until she was 23. Coincidentally, when she was 23, Chen Guangzhi would be 25.
Aunt Xu said she was stubborn. Director Yan said it was encouraged, not required. "You are 21 now, and you are already old enough to get married. There is nothing wrong with getting married first. When you get to the county, you two will be a legitimate couple and can live together and take care of each other."
Qushui County has planned an industrial park where these enterprises are relatively concentrated, and the detergent factory and thermal power plant are not far away.
But Xu Wumei still shook her head. She didn't want to get married so early. First, the government advocated for delayed marriage. Second, she was worried about the impact on her work. If she got pregnant and had a child shortly after joining the factory, would she still be able to work properly? She wanted to get her job stable first. Third, of course, she observed that talented people married late. People like Yue Zheng, Yan Dongsheng, Xie Binbin, Wang Qingli, and Wang Qinghong were all single. Why would she want to get married so early?
"Mom, Guangzhi and I have discussed it and decided to get married in two years. He agreed."
Aunt Xu teased him, "Aren't you afraid he'll run away? What if he meets a city girl and changes his mind? Doesn't want to marry you anymore? What will you do?"
Xu Wumei was stunned for a moment and said, "If he changes his mind, I will cancel the engagement again. Even if we're married, we can still get divorced. Mom, I'm a worker now. I have a salary and a dormitory. As long as I work hard, my life will be secure. If I die, my company will bury me. I'm not afraid of anything. It's just right. I'll see how he behaves in the next two years. If he really changes his mind, then we should separate quickly to avoid getting married and then getting divorced."
Aunt Xu nodded. Yes, the five beauties now have stable jobs! They are more confident in what they say and do! "Then I won't care. You decide for yourself."
That evening, at the junior high school night school class, Xu Wumei asked Chen Guangzhi to meet her. They were already engaged, and now that it was clear, their respective teammates no longer had to pretend to be ignorant.
In the past, whenever Xu Wumei and Chen Guangzhi met, two or three female commandos would secretly follow them from a distance, protecting Xu Wumei's safety and reputation. They also watched a love affair unfold. Everyone rushed to join them, and the competition for rock-paper-scissors was fierce.
Now, just follow me openly.
Behind each side is a string of light bulbs.
Xu Wumei's side is the female commando team, and Chen Guangzhi's side is the male commando team.
The main person was chatting in the middle, and the light bulbs were all staying more than 20 meters behind him. The two teams of light bulbs were forty to fifty meters apart.
The person being watched: "..."
Chen Guangzhi glared at his teammates and drove them away with his eyes. Seeing that no one reacted, he had no choice but to turn around and smile flatteringly at the five beauties.
Xu Wumei accepted the sisters' care well.
She said to Chen Guangzhi, "We still have two years before we get married. After we get to the city, if you fall for other girls and don't like me anymore, just tell me directly. I'm not the type to pester you. As long as you tell me clearly, we can break up in a decent way. Don't make it like last time, which would embarrass everyone. You know I'm not afraid of that."
Chen Guangzhi smiled and said, "I won't fall for other girls. I only like you. I like that you're open-minded. We both agreed to get married in two years. If I fall for someone else in the next two years, who would I be? Don't worry, I'm not the kind of person who wants more while having my cake and eating it too. If I do something wrong, you can punish me."
他从来没跟五美说过，他就是在她抡着棍子打人的时候看上了她。他可不会没事找揍！
The light bulbs on both sides were laughing so hard that they were churning.
Wang Qinghong adopted a unified attitude towards those who came to propose marriage: rejection.
Although she is already 27 years old, she is not eager to get married. Moreover, no one has proposed marriage to her before, but now there are so many of them. It is obvious that they are not attracted to her as a person, but to her job and salary. She is not stupid!
Why do you have to get married with a job, take care of your parents-in-law and give birth to children? Do you think your life is too leisurely?
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Some are happy, some are sad.
Wang Anfen and his wife beat their chests and stamped their feet in regret. If they had known their eldest daughter would be so lucky, they wouldn't have forced her to marry! If they hadn't forced her, the two daughters wouldn't have fallen out with the family, and they would still be living together. Now one of them is in college and will definitely be a cadre when she returns, and the other is a worker. Isn't their family shaking? Everyone who sees them can't help but flatter them!
It’s not like now, everyone who sees them will make fun of them and shake their heads, and they are just short of directly saying that the couple are fools!
The Zheng family was also in a gloomy mood.
Zheng Lanping didn't pass the exam, which is nothing. There are only so many recruitment vacancies, and certainly not everyone can pass.
But the problem was that Xu Wumei passed the exam, which was a bigger blow to the Zheng family than Zheng Lanping's failure.
They had originally wanted Xu Wumei to be their slave, yet they looked down on her. They'd even started bullying her before she even got married. After breaking off the engagement, they didn't truly acknowledge their own shortcomings and even felt that breaking off the engagement was her loss. And what was the result? While Xu Wumei prospered, the Zheng family continued to decline!
In just two years, the situations of the two families were completely reversed.
This time, Li Aiyun and Zheng Lanping were both defeated and their hearts were broken with sadness.
Old Man Zheng was also very sad. In the past, his family had an officer who held the highest position in the team. Now, the officer had been demobilized and became a small cadre, no match for Zhao Hongxia from the Zhao Fu family, and even less so for Xie Binbin from the Xie family.
There were so many workers in the team all of a sudden, and the income of those who worked hard and earned work points was also increasing. Everyone's life was getting better overall, but only his family's was going downhill. This realization made Old Man Zheng feel uneasy.
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