Chapter 112
Chuxia looked back at Lin Xiaohan again.
The two looked at each other, and no one spoke any further.
After all, it’s not really anything remarkable that I saw.
They also don't understand what the real situation is. They can't judge anything based on what they see, and anything they say is just gossip and speculation.
Of course, no matter what the real situation is, it has nothing to do with them.
So they both quickly withdrew their attention and no longer took the scene they saw on the roadside to heart. They took the bus back to school and continued to focus on graduation matters.
There are only three months left in this last semester. Everyone is buried in piles of materials and books. Time flies, and it is the end of the semester unknowingly.
By the end of the last semester of college life, everyone completed their graduation thesis under the guidance of their assigned mentors, attended the graduation ceremony, and also determined their post-graduation destinations.
Some went abroad for further studies, while others stayed in school to continue their postgraduate studies.
Some of those who were directly assigned jobs went to newspapers, some to government departments, and some to policy research departments.
Four years ago in the spring, everyone gathered here from all over the world, carrying their luggage.
In the winter four years later, we packed our luggage, waved goodbye to each other, left the campus where we had been together for four years, and dispersed to wherever we were going.
***
The last tip of the sun dipped below the horizon.
The light on the ground quickly shrank, and the long alley soon fell into the darkness of the evening.
The windows were lit with warm orange lights, and the smell of fireworks mixed with noisy voices drifted through the alley.
A bicycle loaded with luggage and one person on board turned into the alley.
It was dinner time. Chuxia was sitting in the back seat of the car. When she passed Courtyard No. 1, she leaned her head forward and looked inside carefully for a while.
When we arrived at Courtyard No. 8, the Zhengyang Hotel was full of guests.
In addition to those who sit at the tables to eat, there are also people sitting on long benches chatting and waiting in line for their meals.
Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan got off their bicycles.
Lin Xiaohan pushed the bicycle and entered the courtyard gate with Chuxia, and then helped Chuxia take all the luggage to the main house at the back.
All the luggage was put away, and Chuxia was in no hurry to pack.
She and Lin Xiaohan went to the front yard again and entered the restaurant through the door in the front yard.
As soon as I entered and passed the screen, Wu Xuemei happened to be looking over here at the counter.
Seeing Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan come out from behind the screen and their eyes met, Wu Xuemei's eyes lit up and she smiled and said, "Oh, you're back. Did you graduate?"
The two of them walked towards Wu Xuemei.
Chu Xia smiled and replied: "Yes, this is the last winter vacation."
The restaurant was already full of guests, and the whole room was filled with noisy sounds.
Among the customers were people from the neighborhood and old customers. Seeing that Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan both knew each other, they smiled and greeted them without any awkwardness and asked, "Has this been allocated?"
They are the first batch of college students after the resumption of the college entrance examination. After all, there has never been such a situation before, so everyone is still very interested in their post-graduation assignments.
Chu Xia smiled and replied, "Yes, sir, the destination has been decided. It's assigned by the state."
Someone else asked, "Which unit were you assigned to in early summer?"
There were other people talking about other topics in the restaurant.
No one said anything else at this moment. Everyone was attracted by this topic and looked at Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan.
Wu Xuemei didn't know what work they were assigned, so she naturally waited to hear.
Chu Xia smiled and said, "I'm assigned to the National Price Bureau."
The old man said, "This is the highest level government agency. What level will you be after you join?"
Chu Xia replied again: "It's just a regular subject."
The old man tapped the table twice and said in an exaggerated tone, "Look, look, the college students trained by this famous university are different. They become leading cadres directly after graduation."
Chu Xia smiled and said, "This section chief can be considered a leading cadre in local areas, but not here. He has to be a deputy director at least to be called a leader."
After that, she directly changed the topic to Lin Xiaohan, "Xiao Lin is the deputy director."
Lin Xiaohan: “…”
With this change of topic, everyone's eyes turned to Lin Xiaohan.
Chu Xia just smiled silently beside them, watching Lin Xiaohan continue talking about this with them.
The department to which Lin Xiaohan was assigned was the Research Office of the ZY Political and Legal Affairs Commission.
The reason why he was able to become deputy director directly after graduation was probably because he did a good job in the student union at school.
Of course, their class of students is very diverse. Some of them had been leading cadres in local areas before being admitted to university. They performed better in all aspects in school and received better assignments after graduation.
Some graduates directly become department head officials.
Uncles love to talk about these topics the most.
Once we started chatting, we couldn't stop even if we wanted to.
They also chatted and praised, and from time to time they would say to Wu Xuemei and Tang Haikuan: "You two are so lucky!"
Tang Haikuan was cooking in the kitchen. He didn't see the faces of the people who were talking, but just listening to their admiring and envious tone, he felt his face flushed!
Wu Xuemei was naturally in a state where she couldn't even smile from the corners of her mouth.
She really wanted to appear calm and composed, but she couldn't control herself at all.
***
After serving the last table of guests, the night was already darkening.
Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei led three young people to clean the place, and Chuxia sent Lin Xiaohan out of the alley.
After saying goodbye, Chu Xia waved to Lin Xiaohan and watched him ride away into the night.
Then, before she turned around and walked into the alley, another person walked out into the night.
With the help of the light from Yard No. 1, I could clearly see that it was Su Yun.
I lived in the courtyard for three years.
I'm afraid Chu Xia and Su Yun didn't even say ten sentences to each other.
They never said hello to each other when they met, so naturally they just pretended not to see each other.
Su Yun walked directly past Chu Xia, and Chu Xia turned around normally and went into the alley.
There was a short distance between the two people, and they entered the main gate and then the second gate one after the other.
When Chuxia entered the second door, Su Yun just entered the east room, and then Wang Cuiying's voice was heard from the east room.
Wang Cuiying asked in a hoarse voice: "You came back so late again, what on earth did you go out for?"
Su Yun replied in a low and cold voice: "Don't mind my business. If you have the energy to do that, go take care of your own son. He often doesn't come home for a month or two. Why don't you ask him what he does outside every day?"
Wang Cuiying asked, "What do you think he does outside? Besides working hard to make money, what else can he do? If he hadn't been making money outside to support you, would you be able to live like this now?"
Su Yun sneered, "Why don't you ask him in person how much money he gives me every time he comes back? If I rely on him for support, I'm afraid I'll be left with nothing."
Wang Cuiying was very confident: "If he didn't support you, then where did you get the money for the clothes you wear, the things you put on your face, and the permed hair? Did you earn it yourself?"
Su Yun was too lazy to pay attention to her.
She went into the room, closed the door, and wiped the lipstick off her lips with toilet paper.
Wang Cuiying continued to curse outside: "You have nothing to say, right? People like you are afraid of hardship and fatigue and can't do any work. What kind of money can you earn by yourself? If my San'er hadn't been blind to marry you and raised you all these years, you would have starved to death! If you were left in your mother's house, your own mother would scold you and drive you out in a few days! Whoever marries you will be unlucky!"
Su Yun is too lazy to argue with Wang Cuiying now, it’s a waste of energy.
Wang Cuiying was tired of scolding, and after venting her anger, she went back to her room to sleep.
Wang Cuiying kept cursing with the same words.
Su Yun's ears were callused from listening so much, but she didn't care anymore.
When Wang Cuiying got tired of scolding and went back to her room, she would take a shower and go to bed.
***
After returning home in early summer, he packed his luggage first.
When they were almost done cleaning up, Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei also locked the door of the restaurant in front, took the bills collected that day, and sat down in their room to count the money and do the accounting.
Chuxia took this opportunity to wash up again.
After washing up, she didn't go to bed directly, but went to Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei's room.
Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei couldn't help but feel overjoyed when they saw her.
Wu Xuemei showed her joy in her expression and tone. She held Chuxia's hand and said happily, "After the New Year, Xiaxia, you will go to the unit to officially report. Then our family will have a cadre too."
Chu Xia still told her: "What kind of cadre is this? It's just that I was assigned to a department to do some work."
Wu Xuemei still said happily: "That's also a golden rice bowl given by the country. Didn't you see that the guests who came to eat tonight had a different attitude towards our family?"
Chuxia smiled and said nothing more.
Her current treatment is indeed the most decent, honorable and prestigious in this day and age.
Passing the college entrance examination and getting a job in a public institution is everyone’s biggest pursuit nowadays.
Chuxia, Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei discussed the distribution matters in detail.
Then Chuxia remembered what she saw outside Yard No. 1 when she came back just now.
So she changed the subject and said, "By the way, when I came back in the evening, I took a special look at Courtyard No. 1. I saw that it seemed that no one went to his house for dinner."
Speaking of this, Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei have something to say.
Tang Haikuan said, "It was OK in the first month after opening, but not so good in the second month. In the third month, it started to get quiet. I guess they saw that we had a lot of customers and that many people usually came to our alley to eat, so they wanted to open a restaurant like ours, and it would be enough to make money if the customers just gave some money to us. But who would have thought that these customers would not buy it."
Chu Xia said: "So the same thing applies. No matter what others do, we just need to do our job well and leave the rest to the customers."
Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei were very tired after a busy day.
It would have been fine if Wu Xuemei was only in charge of collecting bills, but Tang Haikuan was more tired as he was in charge of cooking.
So Chuxia didn’t talk to them for more. After a few words, she let them wash up and go to bed.
Chuxia went back to her room and lay down.
I closed my eyes, turned over, and soon fell asleep.
***
Because it was the first day of the holiday, Chuxia slept a little longer the next morning.
I woke up naturally and found Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei with three young people picking and washing vegetables in the yard. It was cold at the moment, so they naturally used warm water to wash the vegetables.
Coming out after washing up in early summer.
Wu Xuemei told her, "There are buns being heated up in the kitchen up front."
Chuxia responded and went to the front yard.
As soon as Ran walked into the yard, he happened to meet Su Yun, who was dressed in fashionable clothes, coming out of the east room.
Su Yun didn't say hello to anyone, put on sunglasses and went straight to the second door.
As she went to the second door, she could hear Wang Cuiying yelling and cursing in the east room.
When Chu Xia saw Su Yun going out, she naturally remembered the scene more than three months ago when she saw her walking on the roadside with a man, talking and laughing on the bus, and she even put her arm around the man.
He and Su Yun went out of the two doors one after another.
In early summer, I went to the front kitchen and ate a big hot meat bun and drank a bowl of porridge.
After washing the dishes after dinner, Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei brought the washed vegetables into the kitchen.
Chu Xia put the bowl away, and couldn't help but approach Wu Xuemei out of curiosity, and asked her, "Did Su Yun find a job outside?"
No one really knows this.
Wu Xuemei said, "I haven't heard of this. She doesn't talk to people in the alley, and she hasn't told Wang Cuiying that she's working. I only know that she goes out every day, and every time she goes out and comes back, Wang Cuiying scolds her to vent her anger. Han Ting is out all day and doesn't come back. Wang Cuiying scolds her as soon as she opens her mouth. Why does she stay at home? Argue with Wang Cuiying?"
Chuxia nodded after listening and didn't ask any more questions.
Wu Xuemei had just finished saying that Han Ting was out all day and didn't come back, but when it was almost noon, Han Ting came back from outside.
Every time he comes back, he doesn't stay at home for long, and today is no exception.
Wang Cuiying was the only one at home at noon, so he had lunch with her and told her what he had been doing outside recently and what new things he had seen. It is no exaggeration to say that today's society changes every day.
After dinner he went out to work again.
Since Su Yun was not there, he took out some money and threw it on the table in the room.
Not long after he left, Wang Cuiying came into the room, took the money he threw on the table and put it in her pocket.
***
Han Ting has made a little money recently and is feeling very proud.
In the afternoon, he and Chaozi Guogai looked for a place to play for half a day. In the evening, they gathered a group of brothers and planned to find a place to have a good meal and drinks.
There are only a few days left until the Chinese New Year.
They don't plan to make any more trouble during this period before the New Year.
This meal was the last gathering of the brothers this year, so they decided to have a good meal.
The best option is to go to a western restaurant.
About ten people gathered together in the evening and went to a western restaurant in great style.
They entered the western restaurant and asked for a long table. Han Ting sat at the head seat, and the others sat in a row on both sides.
We ordered some food, drank beer and wine together, and looked back on the past year.
I drank most of the wine and ate most of the food.
Han Ting and Chaozi got up from the dining table and planned to go to the bathroom and come back later.
The two of them went to the bathroom in a happy and satisfied mood.
However, when he had just walked halfway and had not yet reached the restroom, Chaozi suddenly stopped.
Han Ting saw him suddenly stop and be stunned, so he looked in the direction where his gaze was.
When he looked over, his face froze in an instant.
Because he followed Chaozi's gaze and saw Su Yun, who was dressed fashionably and had a beautiful smile, sitting at a table for two not far away.
Su Yun's bright and brilliant smile was directed at the man sitting opposite her.
Han Ting hadn't seen Su Yun smile so happily and sweetly in a long time.
So the moment he saw it, he was subconsciously dazed for a moment.
Then Su Yun's gaze happened to look over and met his across the air.
The moment their eyes met, the smile on Su Yun's face suddenly froze, but she quickly retracted her gaze, as if she didn't know Han Ting. With a natural smile, she stood up with the man opposite her, turned around and left the restaurant.
Han Ting and Chaozi stood there for a long time without coming back to their senses.
Then Chaozi came back to his senses first, looked at Han Ting and said weakly: "Brother Ting..."
Han Ting came back to his senses, and there was no expression on his face anymore.
But he didn't show any other reaction, nor did he get angry or lose his composure. After lowering his head and keeping silent for a moment, he continued to go to the bathroom with Chaozi, as if he hadn't seen anything just now.
After coming back from the bathroom, he continued to drink and eat with others as if nothing had happened, and responded to everyone's words with a smile.
After talking for a while, he picked up the glass and took a big sip of wine.
This time, after putting his wine glass on the table, he suddenly couldn't laugh anymore.
His fingers gripped the cup tighter and tighter, and then he suddenly threw the cup to the ground.
The glass fell heavily to the ground.
With a crisp "bang" sound, the cup exploded and fragments flew everywhere.
The originally lively and joyful dining table suddenly became silent.
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