Chapter 211 Zhang Ruifeng vs. Li Aiyun
In September 1973, Xie Shen started his second year of high school.
With adequate nutrition, proper exercise, and the conditioning of spiritual spring water, the 14-year-old boy is almost as tall as Li Zhixin.
When he was twelve or thirteen years old, he grew rapidly in height. In two years, he grew from a little over 1.5 meters to over 1.7 meters. At that time, everyone was amazed at how fast he grew. He had grown taller visibly.
After those two years of shock, his height entered a period of slow growth and people no longer paid much attention to his height.
Except Li Zhixin.
This comrade has let down our guard a bit.
Because when Xie Shen was growing up, the elders would use him as a reference, saying, "Grow up faster, you'll catch up to Xiao Li in less than two years."
Then, when everyone stopped paying attention to Xie Shen's height, Li Zhixin still stared at him stubbornly.
Every ten days or half a month, he would compare himself to Xie Shen. Every time he did so, he would whine, "You've grown taller again!"
Xie Yun always laughed when she heard this. She had heard of the "Qing Giant" joke in her past life.
Li Zhixin was furious: "What are you laughing at!"
Xie Yun said seriously, "Xiao Li, how do you talk to your boss?"
This sentence choked Li Zhixin.
It is still very useful for a leader to maintain his status.
Xiao Li curled his lips and tried to process his emotions.
The old men comforted him, "Xiao Li, be content. You are currently the tallest in our team. Even if Mumu surpasses you in a few days, you will still be the second tallest. We are all in our forties and still haven't surpassed you. What are you unhappy about?"
Li Zhixin looked at everyone. The shortest was less than 1.6 meters tall, and the tallest was less than 1.7 meters tall. In comparison, he and Xie Shen were indeed quite tall.
Especially Xie Shen, who is only focusing on growing taller and has not developed horizontally. He looks like a thin bamboo pole. Overall, he is still the best looking.
Li Zhixin suddenly calmed down.
He patted Xie Shen on the shoulder and said, "Eat more and grow stronger. Look at you now, you are too thin. You can't compare with your brother."
Xie Shen: "...I don't want to compete with you...You are you, I am me, why do we have to compete?"
Li Zhixin: “…”
Xie Yun said, "He's thin because he works so much. We have to go to school, come here to take classes with the teachers, and run back and forth between the commune and Liushutun every day. When we get home, there's still a lot of work to do. He obviously can't gain weight. You're fatter than him, which means you're still working too little and need to increase your workload."
Li Zhixin wailed again, "No, please spare me, I haven't slept for less than 8 hours now."
However, he also had to admit that Xie Shen was really capable. When he was his age, he basically did nothing. He would be praised for helping to serve the food and wash the dishes at home. Relatively speaking, it was indeed more difficult for children in rural areas.
He compared them. Although Xie Shen was tall and thin, his fingers were thick and strong. He could tell at a glance that he was used to doing hard work and looked very strong. His fingers were relatively thin. He glanced at Xie Yun again and found that her finger joints were also quite thick, obviously she had done a lot of hard work in the past.
In fact, Xie Yun is now more capable than him. Sometimes, when they do the lifting and moving work at the agricultural machinery station, Xie Yun does it easily, like a strong man. Every time he finishes the work, he has to take a long time to relax, and he feels like his waist can't straighten up.
Alas! These two siblings must have had a hard time in the past! How could he compare with those two poor children?
Li Zhixin straightened up and said to Xie Yun, "A little more is fine, but not too much."
Xie Yun: “…”
She glanced at Li Zhixin and found that his expression when he looked at her and Xie Shen was full of kindness, with a hint of sympathy and pity in his eyes. She couldn't help but suck her teeth, wondering what was going on in this guy's mind.
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Ever since Zheng Lanping spotted him during the Lunar New Year, Li Zhixin had been wearing tattered clothes. His hairstyle had also changed from a more fashionable, city-style haircut to a rather uneven short crew cut. When a hairdresser at the agricultural machinery station, who barely knew how to cut hair, used a clipper to give him a haircut, Li Zhixin specifically told him, "Don't cut it too tight."
Everyone in the agricultural machinery station laughed and told him not to worry, that the master's skills were just so-so and it couldn't be promoted too well or too badly, so he could just make do with it.
His face is now tanned and rough, he doesn't shave, and he looks unkempt, just like an old farmer in the countryside.
With his appearance, Xie Yun felt it hurt his eyes to look at him for even a second. Even Zheng Lanping had given up on him.
This is a very interesting thing.
Just after the Chinese New Year, Li Aiyun suffered a setback in front of everyone and stayed quiet for a while, not getting close to everyone again.
She and Zheng Lanping went to the commune several times to observe Xie Shen's movements and try to meet the young man again.
Xie Shen was speechless.
These two didn't have any sophisticated tracking and investigation methods, so they were basically naked. But their eyesight wasn't very good.
Sometimes when Xie Shen and Li Zhixin walked together, neither of them reacted at all.
It can only be said that Li Zhixin's disguise was too successful. When he found Li Aiyun and Zheng Lanping, he even disguised his walking posture.
Around the end of April, unable to resist Zheng Lanping's constant nagging, Li Aiyun went straight to the grain store to find Zhang Ruifeng. "Mr. Xie, I want to ask you something. Who is the family of the young man your son is with? My daughter is of marriageable age, and I think that young man is nice. I want him to be my son-in-law."
Zhang Ruifeng was speechless for a long moment before she said, "My son is in high school, and he's surrounded by young people. I don't know who you're talking about. You've come to the wrong person. Don't say I don't know. Even if I did, I couldn't tell you. They're my son's classmates and friends, not mine. I'm not close to them, so I have no right to share their personal information."
Li Aiyun said, "I won't ask for details. Just tell me who he is and where he works. I'll ask the matchmaker to find out the rest."
"Then why don't you just ask the matchmaker? Didn't I just tell you that I don't know?"
Li Aiyun said, "Old Xie, we are from the same brigade after all. Why are you so reluctant about such a small matter? I just want to ask you about someone, not to do anything bad. The last time I saw that person, he was with your son, otherwise I wouldn't ask you about it."
Zhang Ruifeng's colleague said, "You're such an interesting person. Mumu has so many friends, who knows which one you're talking about? Besides, what's wrong with not wanting to tell you? Why are you still so entangled?"
Li Aiyun ignored the rest of the sentence and directly responded to the question of "which one?", "It was two days before the New Year, when Mumu and that guy went to the supply and marketing cooperative together."
Zhang Ruifeng said, "I still don't know who you're talking about. I wasn't there that day, so I don't know who he was hanging out with, and he didn't tell me."
"He's a young man, he looks to be about twenty years old. He shouldn't be your son's classmate, but maybe your daughter's colleague?"
Zhang Ruifeng's mind raced, and he suddenly realized, "You're talking about him!"
"Yes, yes, you remember?"
Zhang Ruifeng thought to himself, what are you talking about? You know who I'm talking about, so you're right, right, right.
But she went along with the performance.
Zhang Ruifeng looked surprised and incredulous: "You're attracted to him?"
"Ah. What's wrong?"
Li Aiyun was a little nervous about her reaction.
Zhang Ruifeng said, "It's nothing. Actually, I was wrong about you. I thought you were scornful and vain, and wanted to find a man from a wealthy family for your daughter to marry into and enjoy a comfortable life. I didn't expect I was wrong. I'm so sorry, I wronged you. The fact that you're attracted to him shows you're not scornful."
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