Chapter 27 Chapter 27 Yingzi, then Deputy Captain Qin, you...
Qin Zhanwu said that he also wanted to go back, so the two of them went out together. It was just after six o'clock at this time, and the courtyard of the family building was full of people coming and going. They would say hello when they met.
The nicer ones would just say "Yingzi" and walk away, but the gossipy ones would continue chatting for a while, smiling and asking, "Yingzi, is this the one Sister Wang introduced to you?"
Su Yan didn't want others to mistakenly think that she was already in a relationship, lest it become real, so she had to bite the bullet and explain, "No, no, we're just ordinary friends."
The man nodded in disbelief, and before leaving, he even praised, "This young man looks really energetic!"
After passing the family building and arriving at the factory office area, Su Yan finally felt a little more at peace. She touched the callus on her right middle finger. It was caused by years of using pens. She liked to touch it when she felt nervous.
After hesitating for a while, Su Yan said, "Don't come to our house to cook anymore. Seriously, we're not dating, and it wouldn't be nice if you kept coming to my house to cook for me."
Qin Zhanwu readily agreed: "Okay, if you don't like it, I won't go. I'll make whatever you like in the school cafeteria and bring it to you. Our military academy is not far from here anyway, so it will still be hot when it's delivered."
Su Yan refused: "No way."
Qin Zhanwu stopped and said, "That's fine. If you don't let me come to the machinery factory, then you can go to the military academy to find me?"
Su Yan immediately found an excuse to shirk her responsibility: "Do you think the military academy is like our machinery factory, where anyone can enter casually? I can't even get in!"
Qin Zhanwu refused to agree: "You don't go to the military academy to find me, and you don't allow me to come to the machinery factory to find you, so how can I see you? You don't like me that much in the first place. If you don't make us feel familiar, you will forget me in two months."
Su Yan complained in her heart. It wasn't that she didn't like him much, she didn't like him at all. At most, she didn't dislike him. She whispered, "Why do we always meet? It's as if we have nothing to do and are very idle."
Qin Zhanwu didn't hear it, and just shook his head and refused to agree: "If you don't come to the military academy to find me, I will have to come to the machinery factory to find you."
Su Yan thought for a moment and said perfunctorily, "Okay, when I'm free, I'll go to the military academy to see you. But you have to promise me that you won't come to the machinery factory again, especially not to cook. You haven't seen that the people in our factory love gossip the most. I don't want to be talked about behind my back."
Qin Zhanwu still disagreed: "You must be thinking, I'll just give him a perfunctory answer first, and then say I'm too busy to go to the military academy. If I can't wait and come to you first, you can turn the tables and say that I, Qin Zhanwu, am not trustworthy."
Su Yan choked on his words, glared at him, and made up a lie: "I already have someone I like, Deputy Captain Qin, it's impossible for the two of us to be together, don't waste your time."
Qin Zhanwu smiled and said, "That Jiang Dayan, right?"
Su Yan held her breath and said, "Of course not. He's my classmate from college. We agreed to get married after graduation. After graduation, he will come to Jiangzhou from Shanghai to find me."
Qin Zhanwu still smiled: "College classmate? What's your last name?"
Su Yan turned her head and curled her lips: "What does this have to do with you? Anyway, I already have someone I like."
Qin Zhanwu looked at her and smiled cunningly. He sighed, "Lu Yingzi, you're not very good at lying! You probably don't know that I, Qin Zhanwu, am an investigator by profession. I can tell at a glance if you're making up lies like this."
As he spoke, he looked at his watch and saw that it was almost seven o'clock. "I will wait for you at the gate of our military academy at ten o'clock this Sunday morning. Of course, I will not come to the machinery factory to disturb you during this period. If you don't keep your promise, then I won't keep my word either." After saying that, he took one of Su Yan's hands and still placed the bicycle key in her palm.
Su Yan shocked him and said stubbornly, "I won't get married anyway!"
Qin Zhanwu did not comment, but only reminded her: "Remember, Sunday morning at ten o'clock." After that, he turned and left. The moon was very round, and Su Yan stood in the distance and saw that his shadow was stretched into a long line.
When Su Yan arrived at the auditorium, Sister Wang hadn't arrived yet. A group of young girls gathered around and chatted, "Do you know? Jiang Dayan's mother introduced him to someone, but he disagreed and had a big fight with his family. I heard he moved out and is now living in the dormitory."
One of them asked, "Hey, when did it happen? I was wondering why I saw him in the dormitory today."
Someone else asked, "Yingzi, have you heard?"
Su Yan shook her head: "I didn't notice. Did he really move out of the house?"
A girl nodded. "Of course. I live next door to their house. I heard from the neighbors that the noise was so bad that even the flower pots at the door were broken. His mother introduced her as the daughter of the Youth League Committee Secretary. She's a nurse in the hospital and quite pretty."
Another one continued, "I know, I know. It's Chu Xiaoqin! She used to be in a relationship with Dayan, but for some reason it didn't work out."
As she spoke, Sister Wang walked in and clapped her hands. "Gathered, gathered, how come there's so much to say? We talk at work, and we talk after work?"
A few people reluctantly lined up and stood, and Sister Wang said, "Come on, don't be so tired. Let me tell you, if you win the prize this time, there will be a bonus from the city, and our factory will also give you some money."
The girls all cheered: "Really? Long live Director Wang, long live Director Wang!"
As soon as they heard there was a bonus, everyone became motivated. Su Yan only taught the movements three or four times, and most of them could remember 70% to 80% of them. Director Wang was very happy to see this and said, "That's great! I think they can reach this level with more practice."
After the meeting was over, she asked Su Yan to stay: "Yingzi, don't leave yet. I have something to tell you."
After everyone left, Sister Wang said, "Yingzi, what about Deputy Captain Qin? How are you two doing?"
Su Yan was speechless. If she said there was no connection, how could she believe it? If she said there was a connection, that wasn't true either. Su Yan was just thinking about how to answer when Sister Wang looked at her with a knowing expression and patted her hand: "I know, I know, there's nothing to be embarrassed about."
Su Yan said, "Sister Wang, we have nothing to do with each other. If he wants to come to the factory, I can't do anything about it. Why don't you tell the security department not to let such strangers in from now on."
Sister Wang smiled and gently hit her: "What nonsense are you talking about? What are you talking about? They are the People's Liberation Army. How can the People's Liberation Army be considered as outsiders?"
At the same time, she felt relieved: "Jiang Dayan's mother, oh, the teacher who taught me the dance that day, called me and asked if there was a girl named Lu Yingzi in our factory who was quite close to Dayan."
"When I heard that, I thought, isn't this a misunderstanding? That day, Deputy Commander Qin came to your house, carrying rice and a basket of vegetables. I saw it all. So, I immediately explained to Jiang Dayan's mother that they were not close friends, but just office colleagues. He already had a partner, a deputy commander of a military academy, and they got along very well." Sister Wang said as they walked, holding Su Yan's hand.
Su Yan's face darkened as she listened. Her initial annoyance and silence gradually calmed her down. She thought, "Having a boyfriend has its advantages. At least I only have to bother Qin Zhanwu, and Jiang Dayan won't bother me anymore. Those fussy, overly enthusiastic colleagues won't introduce me to anyone anymore, and I won't have to attend any introduction events or dances. And I won't be harassed for rejecting a blind date introduced by a colleague. Aside from the annoying fact that Qin Zhanwu comes to see me every day, it seems the advantages outweigh the disadvantages."
Sister Wang continued, "I heard you were transferred to the office. That's good. You won't be in the same place as Dayan anymore, and his mother won't be able to say anything anymore."
After hearing this, Su Yan was depressed the whole night. She woke up in the middle of the night, turned on the light, took out the map of Jiangzhou City, looked at the location of Xiaoyan River, and made up her mind to move there.
After work the next day, she asked Sister Wang for another night off and rode her bike to check out the location of Xiaoyanhe. The place was relatively remote, but not far from Xiaogang Primary School. It was just that Yan Zi went to kindergarten in the factory. Su Yan thought it was not difficult, she could just take her with her when she went to work. This was a residential house. The original residents had moved to the countryside, so it was reallocated to Jiangzhou Machinery Factory. There was an iron gate at the door, which was already rusty. When Su Yan pulled it, it creaked. Entering the yard, there was a locust tree, but no one had taken care of it for a long time. A large part of the branches had fallen down and were rotten in the yard, with a foul smell.
When she opened the door and walked in, she was covered in dust, which made Su Yan cough. Most of the doors and windows were broken and needed repairs. Su Yan nodded as she looked at it: "It's not bad. This is it. We can move in after we clean it up."
Sister Zhang was delighted: "Okay, I'll ask our family to come over and help you clean it up. I also know a carpenter who specializes in doors and windows." Then she started to praise: "Don't look at the house because it looks far away. It can still be lived in after some cleaning. The toilet and other things are all in your own house. You don't have to go to the public toilet outside."
Su Yan was satisfied, and so was Sister Zhang. The next day, she completed the paperwork herself and brought it over for Su Yan to sign. As expected, she also asked the men in her family to come and clean the yard for Su Yan.
As for the doors and windows, she also called an acquaintance in the countryside to repair them. If they couldn't be repaired, she asked a colleague at work to buy a piece of wood. In just seven or eight days, they looked brand new again. In the end, Su Yan calculated the cost and it was only more than 30 yuan, and she even got an extra large desk.
We chose a sunny day, and colleagues from the unit helped us move the furniture from the Suyantongzi building, so we finally settled down in Xiaoheyan.
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