Chapter 71 Nails
"Okay." Zhang Jianming was a little curious: "Are you looking for a partner?"
They lived in the same room, and he knew everything about Gu Ci often going out secretly last year.
These educated youth would also go to state-owned restaurants to have a good meal every month, or go to the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy some delicious food to improve their lives.
But no matter how good Gu Ci's conditions are, he can't always go, right?
Gu Ci smiled for the first time: "It hasn't been decided yet. I'll treat you to a drink when it's decided."
Zhang Jianming nodded blankly, and after watching him leave, he stroked his chin and thought: When Director Gu asked him to carry the package, he also gave him a huge sum of 20 yuan and asked him to keep an eye on Gu Ci.
Zhang Jianming automatically understood it as: A mother worries about her son even when he is far away.
It must be that Gu Ci only reports good news and not bad news, or because of his stepmother, he is not close to his biological father.
It’s a pity that Gu Ci didn’t know how worried his biological father was about him.
Li Xun wanted to get married here because he had no hope of going back.
But I am different from Gu Ci. My family will find a way to find a job for them to go back.
But if Gu Ci got married here, he would lose his hope of returning home.
Why did he let Li Xun lead Su Jinxiang away before? I just don’t want Gu Ci to stay here forever.
Sometimes, he would be jealous of Gu Ci for having such a good father and such good conditions.
But he didn't dare to really frame Gu Ci, otherwise it would be too easy for Director Gu to make things difficult for his parents.
Zhang Jianming was hesitating whether he should inform Director Gu.
After Director Gu finds out, he should be able to stop Gu Ci from finding a partner here, right? Besides, I was the one who reported the news first, so Director Gu couldn't stop it and it can't be blamed on me.
At this moment, he didn't think that his behavior was bad to Gu Ci.
Instead, I feel that I have saved the rest of his life?
It's a pity that I can't tell him with a clear conscience, he will definitely be grateful to me in the future.
He is truly a good comrade who does good things without leaving his name behind.
There is one more important thing, which is to bring Li Xun and Su Jinxiang together as soon as possible, so that she won't keep staring at Gu Ci.
Now that the sun is out, the thick ice and snow have melted, but the temperature is too low, so the snow-covered areas on the paths have frozen over, making it particularly easy to slip.
Li Xun almost slipped several times and came to Secretary Su's house carefully.
Aunt Su also just ate a bowl of vegetable and sweet potato porridge.
Whenever she sees someone coming over when she's having dinner, she will never ask them if they have eaten. If they say no, wouldn't she have to politely invite them to eat?
Wouldn't that mean losing our own food?
So she smiled and asked, "What does Li Zhiqing want to see my old Su about?"
"I'm not looking for Secretary Su, I'm here to see Auntie." Li Xun was very polite: "Auntie, we want to buy some vegetables, radishes, potatoes and sweet potatoes. Do you have any extra at home?"
When Aunt Su heard this, she smiled and said, "How much do you want?"
In her opinion, these educated youth were all rich people. Since they came, she no longer had to take her eggs to the town to sell.
Li Xun said, "If it's one cent per pound, we'll first order 240 pounds."
"Give more to your aunt's family, and give less to your aunt's family."
Aunt Su smiled immediately when she heard this: "Okay, come in and wait, I'll go and ask them to go to the field to cut vegetables for you."
She was so generous that she asked her daughter to give Li Xunsheng a bowl of vegetable and sweet potato porridge.
She was worried about the radishes she had harvested. There were still more than 100 kilograms left, and some of them had become hollow after she ate them in the past two days.
If you put it in any longer, the moisture will be lost and the radish will become even less tasty.
But I couldn’t bear not to eat it, so now I could give it all to Li Xun.
Anyway, they don’t dare to come to my house and say it.
Even if they really said it, I just need to apologize and cut some vegetables for them.
However, there are not many vegetables left at home, so I can only give you 20 kilograms at most this time.
There are still quite a few sweet potatoes, but it’s too cold this year and some have been frozen.
If sweet potatoes are not stored properly, they will have a rotten sweet potato smell.
Just give them 50 kilograms and give the rest to potatoes.
Su Jinxiang was very gentle and polite to the male educated youth, especially Li Zhiqing, who was very considerate to her, so she quickly served him a large bowl of vegetable and sweet potato porridge and said, "Why are you the one buying it? Aren't these things the captain of your place should be in charge of?"
Li Xun boasted: "He is a bad guy and doesn't know how to do things. Everyone asks me for help."
Seeing Aunt Su coming in, he said in a particularly considerate tone: "I thought you must have a lot at home. When the weather gets hot, the radishes will become hollow and the potatoes will sprout, making them difficult to preserve, so I hurried over to ask."
He knew all this when he was at home, and now he was telling her that he knew which vegetables were difficult to preserve, so he thought of her house.
Aunt Su really didn't expect that he would understand these things. She thought these educated youth were ignorant of the five grains.
This made her feel embarrassed to give all the carrots to them. She could only laugh dryly: "Li Zhiqing is really good. I like capable young people like you. I will definitely ask your uncle to take good care of you."
"By the way, I'll bring you some pickled radishes later. They'll go well with rice."
Li Xun achieved his purpose this time and smiled happily: "Thank you very much, Auntie. If you need anything in the future, I will come to bother you again."
Aunt Su liked his tactfulness and smiled even more happily: "Sure, come to me if you need anything."
"If you have any problem, you can come to us. We will definitely help you if we can."
After Li Xun finished a bowl of porridge, Aunt Su asked him to go back first, saying that she would ask her son to take him to the educated youth center later.
Li Xun immediately gave her all the money.
By the time the Su brothers arrived at the educated youth center carrying the vegetables, it was almost nine o'clock and the educated youth center was preparing to cook lunch.
Today it happened to be Chen Mei and another female educated youth's turn to cook.
The female educated youth were already familiar with cooking rice over a fire. Chen Mei was peeling potatoes and complaining to her about the bad things in the countryside: "My home is all tarmac roads. Even when it rains or snows, it's not as muddy as in the countryside. Once you step in, you sink into the mud and can't lift your feet. I don't even want to go out in this weather."
The female educated youth also agreed: "Yes, our roads are all cement roads. The roads in the countryside are indeed inconvenient."
Chen Mei saw the Su brothers coming in and immediately changed her attitude: "You can't always think that the countryside can't compare to the city. If there is no food supply from the farmers, how can your family have food to eat?"
When Su Hongqi heard her words after entering the house, he was so happy: "Chen Mei, you are really conscious. You are not like some people who think they are great just because they came home."
He said in a bad tone: "If you look down on the countryside, you don't have to come here if you have the ability."
When the young woman who was stoking the fire heard this, she knew that she had been tricked by Chen Mei. She could only swallow her loss in silence, and apologized with a red face and sobs: "I said the wrong thing, I was talking nonsense."
She didn't dare to offend Secretary Su's son, and was even more afraid of being used as an excuse to scare others.
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