Chapter 55 Farce "It's just right for us to talk about bread and love." ...
Fang Hongjun called Tian Yong away. Everyone in Wang Ying's group looked at her. Wang Ying said, "We will obey the leadership's instructions, but let's clean up the flour on the ground first."
"The flour on top can still be used, and the flour in the bag is clean," said Xu Lili.
"Well, find two more pockets and pack them separately. After packing, put them in the designated place." Wang Ying said.
Luo Wenshu deliberately said, "The person who made the mistake just left like that. What a shame." Of course, the people in Workshop 4 acted as if they didn't hear anything.
A few people cleaned up the flour on the floor. Luo Wenshu and Wu Haiyang carried a bag of flour to the preparation area. Besides moving the flour, Tian Yong also had to weigh it, adding the flour needed for the recipe to the mixing bucket. Today, this task fell to Wang Ying and his team.
There were already a lot of them, so it was no problem for five of them to work together to do this. They even thought it was better than just watching from the sidelines.
The operators who worked with them occasionally glanced at them and saw that they were all working very seriously and it was impossible to find any fault.
Later that afternoon, neither Director Fang nor Tian Yong returned to the workshop. No one in Workshop 4 thought there was anything wrong with this; it seemed Director Fang was the local tyrant in Workshop 4.
We worked a little overtime today, leaving about twenty minutes later than usual. After work, the five of us changed into our work clothes and headed back to the office. Once there, Luo Wenshu said a bit sheepishly, "It's all my fault today. I made you do all the hard work."
"What are you talking about? We are a team, and we must do this together. Besides, it's Tian Yong's fault, not yours," said Wu Haiyang.
"Fortunately, the team leader had a sharp nose and noticed the smell of alcohol, otherwise he would have really blackmailed me!" said Zhou Qianjin.
"It's nothing," Wang Ying said. "Everyone's worked hard today, so let's go home first. We'll have a holiday tomorrow. We might have an outline of the plan on Monday, so we'll talk about it then."
Several people packed up their things and left work together.
After leaving the office building, Xu Lili didn't see Zhao Yunsheng coming to pick Wang Ying up. She joked with her, "Team Leader, the Cultural Center has been busy these past two days, and your partner didn't come to pick you up."
"My mother-in-law sprained her ankle, and he has to go home after get off work to prepare dinner and other things," said Wang Ying.
"Oh, is it okay?" Xu Lili said.
"It's okay. I went to the hospital and found out that it was a ligament injury," said Wang Ying.
They chatted until they reached the factory gate, said their goodbyes, and went home. Wang Ying took a few steps and spotted the girl who had asked her for the sweater pattern earlier standing by the factory wall. Seeing Wang Ying, she came towards her.
"Comrade Wang Ying."
"It's you, comrade. I wonder what your name is," said Wang Ying.
"My name is Gu Mei."
"Comrade Gu Mei, are you waiting for me? What's going on?" Wang Ying looked at Gu Mei. Her woolen coat and leather shoes looked fine, suggesting she came from a well-off family. The two bars of soap she had given him last time were also from Shanghai.
Gu Mei blushed a little: "Thank you for the trick you showed me last time, but I seem to be a little stupid and can't learn it. Can you teach me?"
Wang Ying was so busy with work that she didn't even have time to knit, let alone teach her. So she said, "Don't you have anyone else in your family who can knit? Anyone who can will learn by just watching. It's not that I don't want to help you, but our food factory is really busy at the end of the year."
Gu Mei said with some embarrassment: "My family members don't know how to weave, and they don't let me weave."
Wang Ying keenly sensed something was amiss and cautiously asked, "Could it be that your family doesn't approve of your relationship?"
Gu Mei nodded: "Hmm..."
Wang Ying felt that she should not teach him that, lest something happen and her family come after her.
"Why don't your family members agree? Is it because he went to the countryside?" Wang Ying asked.
Gu Mei's eyes were red. "No, they never agreed. Besides, he didn't have to go to the countryside. It was my family who gave his parents 500 yuan and forced him to go to the countryside."
Wang Ying looked at Gu Mei. This girl was pure and innocent. She was so innocent. She would ask for a fancy sweater from a man she saw on the street. She would even casually tell a stranger about this.
"Is his family's financial situation quite different from yours?" Wang Ying asked.
Gu Mei nodded, then said with red eyes: "But we really love each other. It's a different era now. We shouldn't be so feudal as to stick to family background."
Wang Ying thought the girl was a bit silly. Seeing that it was getting late, she was worried that the young widow would come back and she was anxious to go back, so she said, "Why don't you walk with me and we can talk while we walk?"
"Okay." Gu Mei agreed.
Wang Ying took a few steps and couldn't help but said, "You're just following me like this, aren't you afraid that I'm a bad person?"
"You don't look like a bad person." Gu Mei said.
"There's no word 'bad' written on a bad guy's face. Don't follow anyone casually in the future." Wang Ying couldn't help but give him some advice. There is a kind of girl who has a good family background but is easily deceived, especially by a scumbag.
"I know you work in a non-staple food factory and I even know your name, so I followed you. I usually don't follow others." Gu Mei defended herself.
Wang Ying smiled and said, "That's great. Is there no one around you who agrees with you and your partner?"
"How do you know?" Gu Mei said, "None of my family, relatives, or friends agree."
Wang Yingxin thought that if someone agreed, she would not say so much to a stranger like herself.
"What do you think of your family, relatives and friends? Are they nice to you?" Wang Ying asked.
"Very good." Gu Mei's voice was a little soft.
"Have they made any wrong decisions that led to bad consequences?" Wang Ying asked again.
Gu Mei's voice became even softer: "No..."
"Besides the fact that they think your partner's family conditions are not good, did they give any other reasons?" Wang Ying asked again.
"Hmm..." Gu Mei's voice was softer than a mosquito.
"Do you think that in the face of love, those reasons are not reasons?" Wang Ying continued to ask.
Gu Mei lowered her head and said nothing.
Seeing that she didn't say anything, Wang Ying didn't ask any further questions. He had to give her some time to think about it herself.
Gu Mei was silent for a long time. When they reached the alleyway leading to Wang Ying's house, Gu Mei finally said, "But we truly love each other."
"What about the love of your parents and relatives? Don't you care about them? What's more, his family took 500 yuan from your family and sent him to the countryside. Do you dare to marry into such a family? Do your parents dare to let you marry?" Wang Ying said.
Gu Mei fell silent. She stopped and muttered, "You are the same as them. You don't understand what love is."
"Comrade Gu Mei, material is the foundation of spirit! Even if we have feelings, we cannot be satisfied with just drinking water. Otherwise, what is the point of our non-staple food factory?" Wang Ying also stood with Gu Mei.
Gu Mei's tears streamed down her face, catching Wang Ying off guard. Seeing that it was getting darker and darker, Wang Ying was anxious to go home, but he was also a little worried about her, so he said, "Why don't you come back with me? There's someone at home who knows a lot about love. Let him talk to you."
"Who?" Gu Mei looked at Wang Ying with tears in her eyes.
"My husband." Wang Ying said.
Gu Mei forgot to sob for a moment, and after a few seconds she said, "You are such a weird person... You allow your husband to talk about this with another woman?"
Wang Ying didn't think about it for a moment, but the words were already out, and it was hard to take them back, so she said, "Because I believe in him. Will you go?"
Gu Mei really didn't want to go home, and she felt that Wang Ying was a good person, so she really went home with her.
Wang Ying brought Gu Mei back home. There were several bicycles parked in the yard. One of them looked familiar to her, as if it belonged to the Wang family. Her parents must have heard that her mother-in-law was injured and came to visit her. They arrived very quickly.
"You have so many family members." Gu Mei also saw the bicycle.
"Are you afraid?" Wang Ying teased her.
"What's there to be afraid of?" said Gu Mei.
"My mother-in-law sprained her foot yesterday, and some relatives should come to see her today," Wang Ying explained.
"Oh, that would be embarrassing for me to go empty-handed." Gu Mei stopped, feeling a little helpless.
At this time, Zhao Yunsheng poked his head out of the kitchen and saw Gu Mei beside Wang Ying, who was stunned for a moment and came out from the kitchen to greet him.
"Yingzi, you're back." Zhao Yunsheng said.
"Well, this is Comrade Gu Mei, do you remember her?" Wang Ying said.
Zhao Yunsheng nodded. "Remember, female comrades who need to knit sweaters for their partners, hello, Comrade Gu Mei."
"Hello." Gu Mei and Zhao Yunsheng greeted each other.
"Why are there so many bicycles? Are my parents here?" Wang Ying asked.
"Yes, they are here. So are my eldest sister, my second sister and others. My two brothers-in-law said they were going to buy some snacks. Didn't you see them?" Zhao Yunsheng said.
"No, let's get ready for dinner. I'll put my bag down and go in to say hello. I'll go help in the kitchen later. You go ahead and get busy first." Wang Ying said as he walked towards the main room.
"Okay." Zhao Yunsheng said and went back to the kitchen.
Gu Mei felt that she had come at the wrong time, but since she was already there, she had no choice but to follow Wang Ying into the main room.
As soon as Wang Ying entered the room, Dongbao came running up to her, happily hugged her legs and shouted, "Auntie!"
Wang Ying picked her up and said, "Dongbao is here."
Dongbao pulled out the sweater from under his coat and said to Wang Ying, "This sweater my aunt knitted is beautiful!"
Zhao Yunfei came out of the room and greeted Wang Ying. Seeing that Wang Ying had not yet taken off her bag, she took Dongbao back.
Wang Ying took the bag and put it on the sofa.
Zhao Yunfang also came out of the room: "Yingzi is back. Who is this? Your sister?"
"No, this is my friend, Gu Mei," said Wang Ying.
Gu Mei was a little embarrassed: "I didn't know my aunt was injured, so I came here empty-handed."
"It's okay, it's okay." Zhao Yunfei said hurriedly, "Yingzi, your parents are here too, they're in the room."
Wang Ying took Gu Mei to Chen Xiuqin's room. As soon as she reached the door and saw her parents, she heard her father say, "Your mother-in-law is injured, and you didn't come back early to take care of her. Director Zhao is back, and you are busier than your boss."
In harmonious families, this kind of talk is usually deliberately told by parents to their daughters to be heard by their in-laws. But Wang Ying looked at Wang Yongren's face and felt that he was genuinely complaining about her.
Chen Xiuqin hurriedly said, "Oh, it's okay, it's not a big deal."
At this time, Gu Mei came out from behind Wang Ying and said, "Hello, Auntie. I am Wang Ying's friend Gu Mei."
Wang Yong and Li Fengju both looked at Gu Mei. How come they didn't know that Wang Ying had such a friend? It was obvious that this girl was not from an ordinary family.
"Oh, hello, hello, you are so pretty, just like our Yingzi." Chen Xiuqin said with a smile.
When Wang Yongren saw that Wang Ying’s friend had also arrived, he didn’t say anything else.
Wang Ying said, "Mom and Dad, you stay here and talk to my mom. I'm going to help Yunsheng cook."
Li Fengju heard Wang Ying calling her and hurriedly said, "Hey, go get busy. Yunsheng has been busy for a long time."
"Then I'll go and help too." Gu Mei said hurriedly.
Wang Ying took Gu Mei to the kitchen and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't know there were so many people at home today."
"It's okay, it's okay." Gu Mei said quickly, "We have a big family and many relatives. I'm used to it."
When we arrived at the kitchen, the three Zhao sisters were all there, and Dongbao was playing with the fire tongs.
When Zhao Yunfei saw Wang Ying coming, she said, "Yingzi, take your friends upstairs to play. We'll just take care of dinner."
"No, no, we can help together." said Gu Mei.
Wang Ying thought it would be better for Gu Mei to stay where there were many people, so she didn't take her upstairs, but she didn't ask her to help either. It was obvious that this young lady couldn't do anything, and she might not even have been to the kitchen.
Wang Ying and Zhao Yunsheng were used to working together, and they had a tacit understanding. As soon as Wang Ying raised her hand, Zhao Yunsheng knew what she wanted. The two of them were busy, and even Zhao Yunfei and Zhao Yunfang couldn't help.
Zhao Yunfang nudged Zhao Yunfei with her arm: "Look at them, they look like they came off an assembly line, skilled workers."
"This is called marital understanding," said Zhao Yunfei.
Gu Mei was watching from the side and felt a little envious, thinking how nice it would be if she and Chunlai got married in the future and could be like this. She completely forgot that she had never even cooked a bowl of noodles.
Wang Ying and his wife prepared a few hot dishes, and the two sons-in-law of the Zhao family bought a few cold dishes. They took advantage of Chen Xiuqin's injury to have a lively gathering.
The two fathers-in-law and three sons-in-law rarely sat together to have a meal, so they drank a little wine. They didn't drink much, but they talked a lot and it was quite lively.
Li Fengju kept staring at Wang Yongren, fearing that he would drink too much. When he drank too much, he would talk too much. With so many people here today, she was afraid that Wang Yongren would upset Wang Ying.
As expected, Wang Yongren started talking nonsense after a few drinks. At first, he was fine, just saying how difficult it was for them to raise Wang Ying and her sister. Then he started complaining, saying that Wang Ying didn't go back to her parents' home and didn't even tell her mother-in-law when she got into trouble...
Li Fengju stopped him from speaking, but he waved his hand and said, "This is my father-in-law, not someone else. We are only talking about our family matters."
"Yingzi is very busy at work. She was recently elected as the team leader. She has been leading her team members to the workshop these days, and it has been very hard work." Director Zhao said.
Wang Yongren was about to slam his fist on the table when he seemed to remember something. Instead, he picked up the spoon and said, "Look, she became the team leader without even telling us."
"You should say less. My father-in-law has already said that Yingzi is busy. If you miss your daughter, you should visit her more often." Li Fengju tried to make amends.
"I understand the heart of a parent, I understand." Director Zhao pointed at Zhao Yunfang and said, "My family's child is also causing me a lot of worry."
"Huh?" Zhao Yunfang was originally sympathizing with Wang Ying, but when she heard her father say that, she jumped up. "Why are you so worried? I still don't have a job!"
"Look, look," Director Zhao said hurriedly, "Just like that, she jumped up and shouted to me. Yingzi is already very sensible, sensible and capable."
The flames of war were drawn to Zhao Yunfang and Director Zhao. Zhao Yunfang threw down her chopsticks and called to her husband Dong Zhiyuan, "I'm not eating anymore. Let's go home!"
How could Dong Zhiyuan let her go like this, so he quickly called her over to the side and coaxed her.
Director Zhao and Wang Yongren were still discussing their father's painstaking efforts. Li Fengju, unable to persuade them, turned to Wang Ying.
Wang Ying acted as if nothing had happened, taking care of Gu Mei while she ate. Her in-laws would eventually find out what her parents were like, so she could just let her father make a fuss about it.
The three sons-in-law didn't know what to say at this time, but Zhao Yunsheng secretly replaced the wine bottle.
Wang Ying saw that Gu Mei had almost finished eating and asked her, "Are you full?"
"I'm full." Gu Mei nodded.
"Now that you're full, let me take you home." Wang Ying said.
"I can go back by myself." Gu Mei's and Wang Ying's homes were in a mess, and they didn't want to trouble her.
"That won't work. You're just a little girl, how can I be at ease?" Wang Ying said, "Come on, I'll take you home."
Wang Ying stood up and said, "Take your time to eat and drink. I'll take my friend home first."
Zhao Yunsheng hurriedly said, "I'll go too. I'm worried about Yingzi coming back alone."
"Go, go." Director Zhao said.
Wang Yongren opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but seeing that Wang Ying didn't look at him and Li Fengju was twisting him under the table, he didn't say anything in the end.
Zhao Yunsheng hid the bottle of wine behind him and left the table with Wang Ying and the others.
Wang Ying first went to Chen Xiuqin's room and took Gu Mei and Chen Xiuqin to say goodbye.
"Auntie, I'm going back first. I'm sorry for disturbing you today. Please have a good rest. I'll come to see you another day." Gu Mei said.
"Okay, come to my house when you have time." Chen Xiuqin had a good impression of Gu Mei and thought she was a polite and good girl.
The three of them arrived at the yard, and Wang Ying asked Gu Mei, "Where is your home? Should we ride our bikes or walk there?"
"It's a little west of the post office." Gu Mei said, "Just walk there, it's not too far."
Wang Ying didn't react for a moment, but Zhao Yunsheng glanced at Gu Mei. They lived near the post office, and they were not an ordinary family.
"Let's go for a walk. It's a good opportunity for us to talk about bread and love." Wang Ying said with a smile.
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