Chapter 445 The Last Level Before the Single-plank Bridge
On weekends, Pengfei, Dongzhe and Xiaoting went to the garment factory to study. Huang Ling was busy, so Song Ying became the "Director of the Study Logistics Department". Not only did she not ask for salary, she also provided high-quality food and special kitchen services.
Huang Ling is very busy this year. She asked Li Yiming to rebuild the warehouse and stock up on goods. In order to avoid attracting attention, she arranged for people to obtain private licenses in various places and then make purchases in a dispersed manner.
Li Yiming started to feel nervous after buying it.
He couldn't help but ask, "Auntie, if you buy so much, it might be troublesome if you want to produce and sell a certain product in large quantities in the future."
Huang Ling smiled and said, "According to the objective laws of economic development, prices will soon rise, so don't worry."
After hearing her say this, Li Yiming felt relieved and continued to work according to the plan made by Huang Ling.
Chu Wanghai established a private freight company called "Dasheng", which was funded by Huang Ling and run by him.
He went to Fujian and got three trucks of different sizes and started running. In addition to the out-of-town delivery business of various factories, he was also responsible for delivering the inventory from various places to the designated warehouse according to Huang Ling's plan.
He has a good brain and can plan well to save time, distance, fuel and money.
Luo Zhao and Jiang Biao went from being odd-jobbers to full-time employees of the company, with a fixed salary and travel allowances, and they worked very hard.
Huang Ling could see that these two people were good people with good character and were loyal. Moreover, they had experience in selling goods outside and were good at dealing with thugs, bandits and road robbers, so they were very suitable for this job.
Chu Wanghai lamented that he had made the right judgment before and had clung to Huang Ling's thigh, which gave him the opportunity to show his talents.
When Huang Ling was in a meeting, he was so excited when he heard her talk about the company's prospects. He only regretted that he had not been educated enough. He did not quite understand many of the words Huang Ling said, but he understood the general meaning.
Now, he studies whenever he has time. Huang Ling gave him a lot of books, and numbered them from easy to difficult so that he could finish them one by one. At the same time, she taught him some methods of studying and taking notes.
He sighed and said, "So this is how you read!"
Huang Ling encouraged him, "You just haven't had the opportunity to learn. No one taught you how to learn. Otherwise, with your IQ, you would definitely be a top student!"
"It's good to go to college! But I don't have the chance anymore." Chu Wanghai's family was not well off, so he started working after graduating from junior high school.
"What do you mean there are no opportunities? Going to college is to learn knowledge. If you don't go to college, can't you learn knowledge? It's meaningful to use the knowledge and transform it into productivity and then into capital. Otherwise, no matter how many books you read, it's all in vain. You have to be the kind of person who can use and transform it." Huang Ling said with a smile.
So with Huang Ling's encouragement, he went to night school.
Chu Wanghai also came today, one to report on his work, and the other to ask about things he didn't understand with his books and notebooks.
He never makes a trip for nothing. Today he bought three boxes of pears.
Huang Ling invited the children to come out and eat pears.
The children liked this brother who looked like a gangster but was actually very funny, and they had a lot of fun chatting with him.
While chatting, Pengfei took the fruit knife from Xiaoting's hand and started to peel the pear, signaling her with his eyes to just wait.
He peeled one for Huang Ling, another for Song Ying, and the third for Xiao Ting. When he was about to peel more, he saw Dongzhe and Chu Wanghai had already started to nibble on the skin.
He put down the fruit knife and started to eat the skin.
Song Ying bumped into Huang Ling:
"Hey, don't you think Lin Dongzhe and Xiaoting are acting strangely? Are they having another fight? Anyway, Xiaoting feels differently about Pengfei."
Huang Ling munched on a pear and replied, "How can it be the same? Pengfei is related by blood! Xiaoting never considered Dongzhe a brother. Now that they're older, things are naturally different."
"Oh, that's good. The three of them grew up together. I always feel like they are just real siblings. Well, there should still be some differences." Song Ying nodded thoughtfully.
The two of them looked at the four people at the same time.
Xiaoting turned her head to look for something, and Dongzhe handed her a piece of paper to wipe her hands. Xiaoting naturally took it and wiped her hands.
As soon as she looked up, Dongzhe raised his chin in a direction where a cat was curled up, and Xiaoting ran over to tease the cat.
"See, even though he's not my biological brother, the tacit understanding we have since we were young is real. Just by lifting his butt, you can tell that the other one is pooping..." Huang Ling didn't finish the second half of her words. Song Ying rolled her eyes at her, and she retracted her words.
Indeed, since the second day of the Lunar New Year, when Dongzhe ran from Suzhou to Changzhou to bring radish cake to Xiaoting, Xiaoting's mood has indeed undergone some subtle changes, which has gradually dispelled the original thick fog.
Dongzhe's eyes also changed when he looked at her, probably because he felt the same way as her.
But both of them were extremely sober, so they tried hard to maintain their current state.
The most important thing is that I don’t have much extra time to think about anything else this semester. I don’t even have much time to slowly eat a pear or pet a cat like I do now.
Aunt Huang said that IQ is the basis and diligence is the key.
So, after a short while, the three of them had returned to the learning state.
Outside the window is the small tree that Huang Ling planted specifically for them, which is now full of the spirit of spring.
There is a big tree outside the senior high school classroom of No. 1 Middle School, so the senior high school classroom is always very cool.
Xiaoting straightened up from her desk. Her eyes were a little dry, so she looked out the window. She didn't know when, but the tender buds had grown into green leaves under the nourishment of the morning dew and the sunset.
Before we knew it, May has arrived.
The preliminary exam will be held next week, which is the last hurdle before the single-plank bridge.
Only after passing this level can you cross the single-plank bridge of the college entrance examination.
Although Xiaoting was confident, she was sometimes a little panicked, not because of herself but because of the other two.
In the past few days, she also felt the panic of Pengfei and Dongzhe. The two of them no longer talked and laughed during lunch, and the same was true for several students who ate with them. Some of them even started asking Xiaoting for help with questions.
After school in the evening, Zhou Huaiyi drove to pick up the three children and sent Dongzhe and Pengfei home in order. This was safe and the three children could rest on the way.
Every day, he would prepare some interesting things to share with the children, because he knew that the senior year was too boring.
Years ago, he finally removed the word "deputy" from his title. Director Zhou's work became even busier, but he did the same thing every day, rain or shine.
Dongzhe arrived first, and Song Ying was waiting at the intersection, often holding hot food in her arms, such as steamed dumplings, boiled corn, and small fried cakes... trying to change them up as much as possible.
As soon as the car window opened, she handed the food to Xiaoting and Pengfei, and then let them leave.
Next came Pengfei. Waiting at the intersection was Zhuang Hualin. Xiangdong was now going to pick up Zhu Xiu Yu, while Zhuang Hualin was waiting for Pengfei at home.
Zhuang Hualin would cook nourishing soup several times a week and give it to Xiaoting at this time.
Finally, Zhou Huaiyi took Xiaoting home.
Although Xiaoting would get home ten minutes late after driving around, the warmth she felt in these ten minutes was something no one had ever felt before, and she felt it was invaluable.
Many years later, she still remembers the period before the college entrance examination, the laughter in the car, and the gentle smiling faces that greeted her when the window was rolled down.
One day after the cicadas began to chirp, the three of them welcomed the day when the preliminary exam results were announced.
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