Chapter 55: Meeting Chen Manli
People come and go at the gate of Zixing County.
Jiang Weiyi was wearing his best floral dacron shirt, a washed-out khaki jacket, and his hair was carefully combed. He was holding his head high and preparing to sign in.
She followed Director Ma from the Logistics Department to a meeting on "sideline production," wondering if she could show up in front of her boss.
Just as she lowered her head to sign, there was a "bang" and someone hit her shoulder hard! The pen in her hand almost flew out, leaving an ugly ink mark on the notebook.
"Ouch! Can't you see where you're going?!"
Jiang Weiyi was furious and looked up to curse.
The person who hit her was a young woman.
She was wearing a well-tailored navy blue Lenin suit that showed off her slim waist, shiny black leather shoes, and a half-new black cadre bag in her hand.
Her hair was curled in fashionable curls, and although her face looked a little haggard, she exuded the sense of superiority of a city dweller.
It was Chen Manli, whom I hadn’t seen for more than a month.
Chen Manli was also in a bad mood. She had just been criticized by the leader who came with her, and she was full of anger.
Being hit just added fuel to the fire. Jiang Weiyi's clothes looked very rustic, and the sign-in book had "Songtaogou Base" written on it.
The base that Shen Lingning went to? !
Suddenly, she felt so superior that her eyebrows raised:
"You're blind! Where did this country bumpkin come from? You're so clumsy! You bumped into a comrade from the province and didn't even apologize? You have no manners at all!"
She deliberately emphasized "comrades from the province" and raised her chin high.
Chen Manli was devastated because Shen Lingning had taken away all of her and her father's money and luggage, and she also lost her father's appointment letter to go to Chang'an.
Everything went wrong when he arrived in Chang'an, and he was finally assigned to an agricultural department that he disliked.
Today I had to take a car and walk along the mountain road to attend a meeting in this small county town in the mountains. I was already in a bad mood.
“Is it so great that we’re from the province?!”
Jiang Weiyi hated it most when people looked down on her background, especially since she had dressed up specially today, so what was wrong with that?!
Chen Manli's eyes scraped at her face like a knife, completely erasing her pitiful sense of superiority!
Jiang Weiyi immediately got angry like a chicken with its feathers blown off its ribs and snarled back, "Just because you dress well, you're superior? I think you're acting like a capitalist lady!"
"When you walk, your eyes are on top of your head! You bump into someone and you're still right?!"
"Who are you calling Miss Capitalist?!"
Chen Manli's voice suddenly became piercing, like a cat whose tail was stepped on!
This word is both a taboo and a weapon in her mind.
In the past, she relied on her parents to work in the Shen family, and she studied in the same school as Shen Lingning.
As Shen Lingning's follower, she wished she could be the eldest daughter of a capitalist.
But things are different now. Nowadays, if you are the eldest daughter of a capitalist, you are a disaster.
Isn’t Shen Lingning an example?
The two men were arguing at the check-in table in the county government compound, glaring at each other and arguing back and forth, each word full of thorns, aiming to poke the other's lungs.
Chen Manli called Jiang Weiyi a "mud-legged person," a "country woman," and a "mountain bumpkin."
Jiang Weiyi scolded Chen Manli for "pretending to be Westernized," "a stinky capitalist lady," and "a fox taking advantage of the power of another."
The old man guarding the door nearby was holding a teacup, stunned by what he saw. He wanted to persuade them but couldn't get a word in, so he kept rubbing his hands in anxiety.
In this chaotic war of words with spit flying and mutual exposure of each other's shortcomings.
When Jiang Weiyi cursed again: “…Just like that bitch Shen Lingning!
Relying on her good looks, she wants to eat swan meat and own a mountain! She doesn't even take a piss to look at herself..."
Chen Manli's hand that was stretched out to pull Jiang Weiyi's hair suddenly stopped in mid-air!
"etc!"
Chen Manli stared at Jiang Weiyi intently, her voice changing tone with a strange excitement: "You know Shen Lingning?! The Shen Lingning from Songtaogou?!"
Just now she wanted to ask if he knew Shen Lingning, but the two of them quarreled and forgot about it.
Jiang Weiyi was also confused by her reaction and nodded subconsciously: "Yes... yes! I know her. She's a new young lady at our Songtaogou base!"
Chen Manli's eyes lit up, revealing her excitement at meeting someone of her own kind.
In an instant, the two women who had just been on edge, eager to tear each other apart, had a strange light in their eyes, as if they had found a "common enemy"!
"Go! Talk to the side!"
Chen Manli grabbed Jiang Weiyi's arm and, without caring about her status as a provincial official, dragged her to an old locust tree nearby.
The gatekeeper was so confused by the dramatic scene that he could only shake his head and sigh.
Under the tree, the two quickly exchanged information about Shen Lingning.
"What? A capitalist lady like her wants to lease a mountain to grow tea? What the hell is she dreaming of?"
When Chen Manli learned that Shen Lingning actually wanted to "rent a mountain to grow tea" in Songtaogou, she was furious and her old hatred surged in her heart!
In order to completely crush Shen Lingning to death, and also to show her "power" in front of Jiang Weiyi, she lowered her voice.
With a kind of malicious excitement, he exaggerated and blurted out all the stories:
"Humph! I'll tell you what you think she is!"
"Chen Lingning, she is the granddaughter of the Shen family in Shanghai! She has been wearing gold and silver and eating delicious food since she was a child!
She is not a good person either!!”
Jiang Weiyi's eyes widened in surprise: "Then Shen Lingning is definitely the public enemy!"
Xiang Xiang felt unwilling: "No, I have to report her and make her divorce Zhou Weiguo, otherwise Zhou Weiguo will be dragged down by her!"
Chen Manli looked excited: "Is Zhou Weiguo Shen Lingning's husband?"
Jiang Weiyi nodded. "Yes, and he's a battalion-level officer. If he succeeds on this secret mission, he'll be awarded a second-class merit upon his return, and he'll be promoted even higher!"
Chen Manli's face darkened with indignation: "Why should this bitch be allowed to marry such a good husband? Let's ruin their relationship!"
Jiang Weiyi blushed and nodded: "Okay!"
Chen Manli saw the clue and jokingly said, "Are you attracted to her husband? Don't worry, even if it's ruined, he's yours!"
The two of them talked to each other about how to break up someone's marriage, and they became more and more interested in each other.
Just when Chen Manli was talking excitedly with saliva flying, a gust of wind blew past the old locust tree.
A few half-dried leaves swirled down from the tree.
One of the dead leaves, with jagged edges and stained with bird droppings, seemed to be precisely controlled by an invisible airflow. With a "pop", it landed squarely on Chen Manli's excitedly open mouth!
"Ugh...Pfft! Pfft!"
Chen Manli was caught off guard, an indescribable fishy stench rushed into her nose! She was so nauseous that she was scared to death. She hurriedly used her hands to scratch it, but her face was red!
The carefully groomed curls were also messed up.
The old man guarding the door curled his lips, unable to suppress the smile on his face, turned around and pretended not to see it.
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