Fang Yingdi was silent all morning today. Even when she was working in the workshop, she just focused on her work and ignored people who came to talk to her.
Qiao Yi worked in the same workshop as her, so she naturally thought that she had offended her in the morning. So when she was leaving work for lunch, she grabbed her and said, "Xiao Fang, don't walk so fast. Wait for me."
Fang Yingdi pursed her lips and waited for her to change her clothes.
"I heard that the chef in the cafeteria made stuffed green peppers with meat today. I didn't get it last time, so I must get it this time." Qiao Yi pulled people to line up. She lined up behind Fang Yingdi and muttered to those who had already received their dishes.
"I've heard others talk about how delicious it is, and how it goes really well with rice. I'm already a little greedy." Qiao Yi looked eagerly at the long line ahead, "I hope it's still available when it's my turn."
Fang Yingdi lowered her head, one hand clenched into a fist in her pocket, the other holding a pickle, "Then I hope you can catch it today."
Qiao Yi chuckled.
When it was Fang Yingdi's turn, since everyone in front of her had already ordered this dish, the canteen waiter pointed at the remaining portion and a half of the stuffed green peppers and asked, "That's all there is left. Do you want to buy it all?"
Fang Yingdi stammered, feeling very conflicted.
Qiao Yi knew that she was reluctant to give it up, so she shouted from behind, "If you want to buy it all, Master, just hit it."
After saying that, she began to take out the meat tickets and money she had prepared and stuffed them into Fang Yingdi's hands.
But Fang Yingdi didn't answer this time. She took a few deep breaths and took her hand out of her pocket, holding her ticket and money. "Master, I want them all. I have the ticket."
The canteen chef smiled and said, "You two little girls are still fighting over the payment. Fine, I'll put it in her lunch box."
Fang Yingdi just ordered this one and a half portions of meat and rice and didn't ask for anything else.
Seeing this, Qiao Yi handed over her lunch box and got some other food, then hurried after her, "Xiao Fang, are you going to make ends meet? There's still a long time until the next paycheck, do you still have money?"
Fang Yingdi: "Yes, of course. If we save a little, we can make it to next month. Don't you like eating this? Eat more."
She put most of the stuffed meat into Qiao Yi's lunch box. "I haven't tasted it yet, but I can have it today."
Her voice was low, and there seemed to be a subtle cry in her voice. Qiao Yi didn't dare to eat. It couldn't be because she was making a fuss about eating meat. She said in the morning that she had rubbed her meat, so she had to pay herself back for it. There was no need for that.
Qiao Yi took out the meat ticket from her pocket and said, "Don't be afraid, I still have tickets here. This dish is mine."
"Look at you, why didn't you take my money just now? It's me who wants to eat, not you who want to eat. Now you're giving all the dishes to me. Aren't you losing money?" Qiao Yi handed over the ticket and money, and wanted to transfer some of the money back, and also give her some of the two dishes she ordered.
But Fang Yingdi refused to accept the money. "Qiao Yi, please eat. It's my treat. You've taken good care of me before. Don't take my words this morning to heart. They were just nonsense. You've been good enough to me."
Qiao Yi was stunned for a moment, "What's wrong with you?"
Fang Yingdi said, "You said I'm a good worker, earning the same salary as you every month, so why am I living such a hard life?"
When Qiao Yi heard this, she started eating and didn't want to answer.
Fang Yingdi slapped the table lightly. "Qiao Yi, come on, don't ignore me. Are you angry with me?"
Qiao Yi: "You know the reason yourself, what else can I say?"
Fang Yingdi ate a piece of meat angrily, "I know you all look down on me."
Qiao Yi: "I don't. If I looked down on you, I wouldn't be with you every day."
Fang Yingdi: "Comrade Xia looks down on me."
Qiao Yi: "No one looks down on you. If she looked down on you, she would have scolded you a long time ago. Why would she wait until now?"
Fang Yingdi: "She scolded me."
Qiao Yi thought of the previous incident. "Of course she scolded you if you caused trouble for her. She's not some living Buddha. If you provoke her, she'll scold you. It's a good thing she didn't hit you or report you to the police."
Fang Yingdi thought about it and came to her senses. After all, scolding was the most insignificant means Comrade Xia could use. He didn't even take any action.
"Do you also think I'm not up to standard?" Fang Yingdi ate the meat that she couldn't usually eat without any appetite. It was obviously delicious, but she felt very depressed.
Qiao Yi: "It's hard for me to judge, but the fact that you've worked hard to become a worker shows that you're quite capable. You can think about the rest yourself."
Fang Yingdi said, "I may not have told you about my family situation. I am the third of four daughters, and we have three sons. I am the only daughter in our family who has attended high school, and I haven't even finished it yet."
Qiao Yi's eyes widened. "How come you managed to get in even though you didn't graduate from high school?"
Fang Yingdi: "I came here two years earlier than you. At that time, the factory was short of people and came to our high school to recruit. My teacher felt sorry for me, so he recommended me for the position. Maybe because they were short of people, I took the exam and got a completion certificate, so the factory accepted me."
"My parents didn't really want me to finish high school, let alone junior high. But I had good grades, and after my teachers visited my home several times, they reluctantly agreed to let me go. After my first year, my family was ready to get me married. They wanted to collect a dowry so my eldest brother could build a new house and get married."
Qiao Yi covered her mouth and said, "This is too much."
Fang Yingdi: "It's not too much. I'm already the happiest daughter in the family. It's great that I was able to go to school for so many years. My eldest and second sisters were engaged and married off early. My parents paid for the betrothal gifts. They got married off in tattered clothes. By my age, they already had two or three children."
"My two older brothers and one younger brother are all bad at studying. They spent so much money repeating their studies, but they couldn't even graduate from junior high school. Good men working in the fields don't earn as many points as my two older sisters, the two daughters. If it weren't for my status as a worker, my older and younger brothers wouldn't be able to get married."
"And my sister, who is two years younger than me, was swapped for a wife so that my brother could get married. She married the idiot brother of the girl's family."
Qiao Yi was shocked: "Does your sister agree?"
Fang Yingdi: "How can I not agree? If you don't agree, just kidnap him and send him over. If you agree now, at least I can stay at my parents' house for a while longer. It's easier to serve my parents' family than to serve a fool. The elders in that family are not easy to get along with either."
Qiao Yi: "It's terrible, this is too terrible."
Fang Yingdi: "When you're looking for a partner in the future, don't look for someone from the countryside, especially our village. You can't imagine that women there have a lower status than a chicken raised by the brigade. Of course, a man's life is not as valuable as a pig's. However, as long as you don't do anything stupid, you won't end up in a dead end."
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