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"You should have seen Captain Liu when you went to pick up Guaiguai. What do you think of him?" Xiao Li kept saying in front of Wang Xuemei that Liu Tutu had met two unreliable men before, and it was a pity that he didn't have a partner at the age to get married. There were many young girls in the medical department, so he wanted Wang Xuemei to find a reliable one for Liu Tutu in the medical department.
Wang Xuemei asked around about Liu Tutu's personal situation and, feeling he was a good match, agreed. She then asked around in the medical department, and it turned out the girls were either married or had boyfriends, or were obsessed with looks and thought Liu Tutu was intimidating. This put Wang Xuemei in a difficult position, and she told Xiao Li directly, accepting a difficult position.
Just when Wang Xuemei was worrying about something, a young girl who had just graduated from a medical school came down from the medical department. The girl's name was Zhou Tong, she was twenty years old this year, very delicate, with fair and tender skin, elegant temperament, and a very bookish girl.
Xiao Li happened to see this girl when he was bringing Guaiguai to the medical department one day. He thought that this girl would be a perfect match for their Liu Tutu, so he wanted to ask Wang Xuemei to match them up.
Although Wang Xuemei felt that the two of them were an accidental match, she still asked Zhou Tong some personal questions. Under the pretext of asking her to find Guaiguai, she asked her to secretly take a look at Liu Tutu first.
"Don't be embarrassed, just tell the truth. If you think it's suitable, I can help you get together someday. If you don't think it's suitable, we won't mention it again."
Zhou Tong, who was sitting in front of Wang Xuemei, blushed and lowered her head shyly. She stammered in a voice barely above the level of a mosquito, "I... I think he's a bit ugly, and... a bit fierce."
Liu Tutu is a dark-skinned man who looks very fierce when he is not smiling. The hideous scars on his face make him look somewhat unapproachable.
Seeing her like this, Wang Xuemei understood and said, "Okay, I got it. I won't talk about this matter again." Even if the girl disagreed, she couldn't force her.
"No...no, I heard that the wound on his face was left over from the war. I...I...I think I can get in touch with him. Maybe after getting in touch with him...I'll like him." Zhou Tong, like many girls, worships heroism. She is afraid of Liu Tutu, but at the same time she wants to get closer to him to get to know him. She is a complex of contradictions.
"You will?"
Zhou Tong nodded shyly: "Well, I'll listen to the organization."
For a moment, Wang Xuemei felt old and could no longer understand the thoughts of these young people. She could only say, "Okay, in that case, I'll find time to invite you to my house for dinner some other day."
The meal meant a blind date.
Let the two young people get to know each other at the dinner table, and see what Liu Tutu means.
Xiao Li quickly arranged a dinner. That day, when he got home from get off work, he said to several cadres in the regiment, "Your sister-in-law said she's free tomorrow and wants to treat everyone to a meal. Go home today and tell your wives not to cook dinner tomorrow afternoon. Just bring the kids over to our house and we'll have a few drinks tonight."
"Oh, by the way, there's a single guy here." Xiao Li pointed at Liu Tutu, "You can come with us, but you'll be responsible for buying alcohol for everyone."
The dinner was Liu Tutu's blind date, and Xiao Li felt it necessary to make him spend money. He even thought about punishing Liu Tutu severely if the blind date was unsuccessful.
The dinner was set, and Xiao Li went home that afternoon and told Wang Xuemei directly. Wang Xuemei said with a worried look on her face, "It's okay for me to hold a scalpel, but using a kitchen knife to cook a big meal is a bit risky."
Xiao Li nodded, indeed.
Wang Xuemei's cooking skills weren't as good as his. It was fine for the family to eat together, but it was really not decent to invite others to dinner. After thinking about it, he said, "How about I come back early tomorrow to cook."
Wang Xuemei disagreed: "How can that be possible? The military wives will definitely come early tomorrow. What will they think of us when they see a grown man like you busy in the kitchen?"
Although society is now liberated and men and women are equal, in many places it is only liberation in words, and some behaviors have not actually changed much. For example, men do not enter the kitchen. If people see Xiao Li in the kitchen cooking while she is outside taking care of the children, there will be another bloody storm.
Just thinking about that scene makes me feel overwhelmed.
"Do you still care about what others think? I'm afraid they will be jealous and envious of you. Please teach me how to control your husband." Xiao Li never cared about what others thought of him. After all, he was the boss here. Even if others talked about him, they could only talk about him quietly at home. As long as he didn't hear it, they could say anything behind closed doors.
Xiao Li is very good at covering his ears and stealing the bell.
Since Xiao Li himself didn't care about these things, Wang Xuemei left Guaiguai with Song Zhaodi next door the next afternoon and felt at ease to become Xiao Li's assistant.
It was so hard to have a dinner together, and Xiao Li was generous for once. He went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy a few pounds of pork, and also went to the village to ask his fellow villagers to buy two chickens and fish, plus some vegetables and wine. It was a rare and delicious meal.
Chief of Staff Yan's wife, Li Guihua, was afraid that Wang Xuemei could not prepare everything by herself, so she called people over in advance. When seven or eight women saw Xiao Li busy in the simple kitchen in the yard and Wang Xuemei serving him food, their eyes almost popped out.
Li Guihua was old, and her manners were old-fashioned. Seeing the way the two were interacting, she opened her mouth to say something, but when she remembered that Wang Xuemei was not her daughter, and that her husband held a higher official position than hers, she swallowed the words that were on the tip of her tongue and could only say dryly, "Captain Xiao is the master chef today! Captain Xiao is much better than my wife. My wife can only cook noodles."
Every time it is either overcooked or undercooked, which is a complete waste of food.
I don’t know if the food cooked by Captain Xiao is edible. It’s too much for Dr. Wang, a woman, to let a man cook. Captain Xiao doesn’t know how unlucky he must have been to have such a woman.
The older ones look down on them, but the younger ones are jealous. When a woman is young, she doesn't want to find a partner who understands her and pampers her. After marriage, even if there is some gap between reality and imagination, they will often fantasize in their hearts that one day their man will suddenly come to his senses and their dream will come true.
Xiao Li's appearance, family background, abilities, and his thoughtfulness towards Wang Xuemei have undoubtedly made him the ideal man for the women in the family quarters. Although they envy him, they are also concerned about whether the food he cooks will be edible. They all say, "The kitchen is for us women. Captain Xiao, please let us come."
The girls rolled up their sleeves and prepared to go into the kitchen. Wang Xuemei smiled and pushed them out. "You are the guests today. How can we let you do this?"
Then he said to Xiao Li, "Take everyone inside and sit down first. I'll come over to help you later."
"You guys chat about yourselves, don't bother me."
Xiao Li's indifferent look made Li Guihua's eyes red. Although she liked Wang Xuemei's behavior, she denied that she had ever had such a desire in her heart. Unfortunately, life eventually wore away her edges, and even deprived her of the right to dream.
Following Wang Xuemei into a house that looked exactly like theirs, they were filled with envy. Every time they came to Xiao Li's house, they would consciously compare it with their own homes. At first, they even thought that Xiao Li was the leader and was given special care by the group, so they specially decorated the house so well. Later, they heard that it was all spent by the group leader himself. Thinking about the money spent on buying glass and furniture, they were envious. Only occasionally when they thought about it, they would say to their husband, "When we have more money at home, let's make glass windows like the ones in Group Leader Xiao's house."
Soon, the men who had just finished get off work came over. Seeing the cooking in the kitchen of Xiaoliyuan, several of them frowned loudly, "Why is Xiaotuan cooking in the kitchen? How can we men enter the kitchen? When we left today, we asked the woman to come over to help early, why hasn't she come yet?"
Chief of Staff Yan Bing is a typical male chauvinist. After being married for more than 20 years, he still wants his wife to pour footbath water and put it by his feet. Not to mention helping with housework, he even has to pick up the teacup when it falls over. Seeing that only Xiao Li was busy in the kitchen, he felt a little dissatisfied with Li Guihua, thinking that she did not listen to him and come to help, which made Xiao Li lose face.
Having worked together for quite some time, Xiao Li was quite familiar with them and Yan Bing's male chauvinism. He knew what Yan Bing was thinking from the look on his face. He frowned secretly and said calmly, "It's our family's dinner party today, how can we let the guests do anything? They wanted to help, but we didn't let them. We told them to wait inside. Comrade Wang is also inside, so you can go inside by yourselves."
The leader was cooking in the kitchen, and several people would not come in to drink tea under any circumstances. They rolled up their sleeves and looked like they were going to help. Xiao Li glanced at the small kitchen he was in. These grown men who came in were probably unable to even move their feet. He took out a few vegetables from the kitchen and handed them out, "You guys pick these outside."
Then he pointed at Liu Tutu and said, "Come in and help." After he came in, Xiao Li asked directly, "What do you think about this personal issue now?"
"Xiao Tuan, I think we can wait a little longer."
"What are you waiting for? You're not a child anymore. If you keep waiting, your mother won't be worried to death, and we'll all be worried to death because of you. The organization urges us every day to help solve the problems of you older single young people, but it ends up being stuck with us league cadres. I feel ashamed to tell anyone about it." In the past, Xiao Li would not have thought that Liu Tutu was old, but in today's society, there was no way he could do anything about it. He was an older young man and the first person the league needed to help solve the problem of marriage.
"The medical department recently assigned several medics. One of them is a student from a medical school. She's very pretty and fair-skinned, and a lot of guys are eyeing her. If I hadn't asked your sister-in-law to help set her up, she wouldn't have agreed to meet you. She'll be coming here with Dong Zhengwu's wife soon, and you'll have to perform well for me then. If you don't, hmph!"
Xiao Li slammed the kitchen knife in his hand down onto the chopping board and said in a harsh tone, "I'm going to chop you up and throw you on the hill to feed the wolves! Do you hear me?"
"I heard it, I heard it, I will definitely perform well."
Zhou Tong came here with Huang Cancan. When she came, she first saw a group of men working in the yard, and then she saw Liu Tutu cutting vegetables in the kitchen with her head down. She lowered her head shyly and followed Huang Cancan quickly into the house.
"The sun rose from the west today. Why are those grown men working in the kitchen while you are hiding away in the house?" This was the first time she saw her husband working so actively and proactively. If there weren't so many people around, she would have wanted to go over and argue with him to see if he was a monster.
"Why don't we switch identities?" Wang Xuemei pulled Zhou Tong over, seeing her blushing face, and asked, "Did you see Captain Liu just now? Don't be nervous later. If you think it's inappropriate, tell me."
When everyone heard something was going on, they all became interested. Women, when they get together, talk about family matters and gossip. They like to act as matchmakers for young, unmarried men and women, so they get excited when they hear something like this: "Are you talking about Captain Liu? Captain Liu has good conditions, he's young and promising, and he's the kind of person you can entrust your life to."
"I originally wanted to introduce my cousin from my hometown to Captain Liu, but unfortunately he refused. However, my cousin is not as pretty as Comrade Zhou, so I think Captain Liu will not refuse."
"What are you talking about? What do you mean Captain Liu won't refuse? In my opinion, he is not worthy of Comrade Zhou." Liu Tutu is a good person, but his biggest shortcoming is his disfigured face. Women don't look at faces. Zhou Tong is so beautiful. In their opinion, the two of them standing together are like a beauty and the beast, not a match at all.
While they were chatting, the food was finally ready. Since it was a blind date for Zhou Tong and Liu Tutu, there was naturally no rule of men and women sitting at different tables. Xiao Li deliberately arranged the two people to sit opposite each other so that they could get to know each other.
Xiao Li could understand that Zhou Tong was a girl and was embarrassed to speak, but Liu Tutu, a grown man, didn't say a few words during the whole meal, let alone try to please the girl. Xiao Li was so angry that he gritted his teeth.
This idiot!
I'm so pissed off!
I’ve wasted my food!
After the meal, Huang Cancan sent Zhou Tong away, and Xiao Li finally couldn't hold it in any longer, "You little brat, what did you tell me before the meal? Perform well, this is your performance!"
"Old Xiao, calm down. I will give him some ideological education tomorrow and guarantee that he will change his current thinking." If Dong Shiyi hadn't stopped him, Xiao Li would probably jump up and kick Liu Tutu several times.
"Damn it! The eunuchs are really not anxious, but the emperor is anxious to death."
Liu Tutu: "Xiao Tuan, it's the emperor who is in a hurry to kill the eunuchs." Although he has little education, he still knows this.
Xiao Li took a sip of tea, and the anger that had finally calmed him down was aroused again: "Fuck you! Go back and write a thousand-word self-criticism, and run five kilometers with a load tomorrow."
"roll!"
"Yes!" Liu Tutu walked away with a sad face.
Dong Shiyi looked at a loss for words and said, "You're really good at writing a self-criticism after your first blind date didn't work out. But I think that girl has potential, so I think we can get together."
"How can that be? Look at Liu Tutu, he's ugly and can't be liked by girls. If I were a girl, I wouldn't like him and would let him be single for the rest of his life."
Thinking of Zhou Tong's blushing face when she saw Liu Tutu, Dong Shiyi smiled mysteriously: "Just wait and see."
Xiao Li had calmed down by now and jokingly said, "You look so confident. If they fail, will you eat shit live on the Internet?"
Dong Shiyi: ...It’s so fucking disgusting.
But he still nodded and said, "Eat!"
Xiao Li: In order to watch Dong Shiyi eat shit, I have to try my best to stop them from being together!
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