After Li Guifang finished her complaints, she began to tease Li Mingyuan, "Tell me, isn't it time for your director to change his reading glasses? Of all the people, why did you get promoted?"
When Li Mingyuan heard this, he immediately straightened his chest and the corners of his mouth almost stretched to the back of his head.
But before the smile could stabilize, it suddenly became like a frost-bitten eggplant, shriveled and squashed.
His face turned clear and then pale, and his expression was as wonderful as the face-changing in Sichuan Opera.
"What happened? Did you step on chicken shit?" Li Guifang pretended not to guess the reason for Li Mingyuan's change of expression and kept asking on purpose!
Li Mingyuan's ears burned from the question, and he rubbed his hands and stammered, "Mom, you don't know that I got promoted this time because of you!"
Once the words are opened, it becomes easy to talk.
"I have listened to you for the past six months and have been doing my job conscientiously. I haven't even dared to report an extra invoice." Li Mingyuan became more and more excited as he spoke.
"Guess what? Zhang Wei, that bootlicker, was always hanging around Director Zheng, but he ended up getting implicated in Director Zheng's case and is now suspended for investigation!"
Deputy Director Lin is even more outrageous, he used his connections to transfer before the New Year!
He almost laughed as he spoke, "The director saw that I had no major merits or faults and was honest and hardworking, so he promoted me!"
"Hahahaha!" Li Guifang laughed so hard her arms were bent over. "After all this fuss, it turns out you're the one who's pulled a general out of a group of dwarfs!"
She smiled enough, then put away her smile, grabbed Li Mingyuan's ear, and scolded him, "Look! What did I say before? Be an honest person, and God will help you!
All those Moutai liquor and Zhonghua cigarettes you had before, have they all been thrown away? "
Li Mingyuan's face flushed red with embarrassment, like a boiled lobster.
Li Jianghai puffed on his pipe nearby and added slowly, "Your mother is still your mother. Look at the flatterers, what a bad end they have. Director Lin was almost unlucky, and you're the only one left. An honest man picked up a camel!"
After saying that, he blew a smoke ring at Li Mingyuan, which made Li Mingyuan cough.
"Dad! Please stop making fun of me..."
If there is a hole now, Li Mingyuan has to drill into it without hesitation.
If he had known that he could get promoted without doing anything, why would he give away the rare and valuable things at home as a gift?
Now think about it, those leaders who accepted gifts might have passed the gifts on to others!
Maybe he doesn’t even know who Li Mingyuan is!
He also thought that now that he had been promoted, who knows, people might come to curry favor with him in the future!
Thinking of this, he straightened his back unconsciously.
Li Guifang then slapped him on the forehead with a slap on the head: "What are you so proud of! Remember this lesson, you must be clean when you are an official. Otherwise, you will end up like Director Zheng today!"
"Yes, yes, yes..." Li Mingyuan rubbed his forehead, but smiled like a child who had stolen candy.
As the old saying goes, one should be honest and do his duty. But now, all the good things that fall from the sky fall on the heads of honest people!
——
After seeing Li Mingyu off, the days passed peacefully, and in the blink of an eye, it was March.
Early that morning, Li Guifang was in the yard, drying her quilts when suddenly a gust of spring breeze blew in her face, carrying willow catkins, causing her to sneeze three times.
"A-choo! A-choo! A-choo!"
Li Guifang rubbed her red nose, muttering to herself, "This damn catkin is like a piece of money, it just keeps getting into my nose."
Li Guifang had just finished complaining about the willow catkins when suddenly another snow-white petal floated over the low wall shared by the two houses and gently landed on the sheets she had just dried.
"Oh, this is..." She opened her mouth to curse, but the words were stuck!
In the Zhang family's house in the next yard, there lives an 80-year-old lady who is very hard of hearing. It's useless to scold her.
Besides, in the spring, how could Li Guifang stop the pear blossoms from blooming?
Standing on tiptoe to look into the distance, I saw clusters of white flowers blooming happily on the branches of the pear tree sticking out from the wall of Old Zhang's courtyard.
Li Guifang curled her lips and said, "Well, now I have some yard to sweep."
The spring breeze blew, and the petals in the yard swirled.
But it’s nice. When the wind blows, the air is filled with a faint fragrance.
As soon as Li Guifang entered Guifangzhai, she saw Zhao Xiaomian, wearing a homemade floral mask, chatting with Huang Xiuying in front of the counter.
"Hey, Xiaomian, your mask is quite unique." Li Guifang greeted with a smile.
Zhao Xiaomian pulled her floral mask down, revealing half her face. "Aunt Li, you don't know, this spring, flowers are blooming like crazy. The air is full of pollen. As soon as I go out, I sneeze non-stop."
She pointed to the mask and said, "I sewed it myself. It's made of floral fabric on the outside, with gauze in the middle and a layer of soft cotton lining."
Huang Xiuying was tidying up the shelves while talking: "You young people are too particular. You make a fuss about even a sneeze.
Back then, if you sneezed, someone was thinking about you, and if you sneezed multiple times, someone would scold you!
Who cares about pollen or not!
"Aunt Huang, please don't say that." Zhao Xiaomian said seriously, "Nowadays, medical science says that it's actually the easiest time to get sick when the seasons change.
Pollen allergy is considered mild, but if you're not careful you might end up with a cold and a fever."
"No way, is it that exaggerated? I can't sneeze and break my nose."
"Don't disbelieve it!"
Li Guifang listened and nodded: "That's right. This morning I was drying my quilts in the yard, and the catkins were flying like snow. It made me sneeze three times in a row."
As soon as she finished speaking, Zhao Xiaomian interrupted, "Willow catkins are even more annoying! They're light and tricky, and they just go in people's nostrils!"
Yesterday, my brother was coughing for a long time because he inhaled willow catkins..."
Huang Xiuying shook her head and pulled out a feather duster from under the counter: "If you ask me, you guys are making spring sound like some kind of monster.
According to what you said, those poets who wrote about 'the beauty of spring in the garden cannot be contained' were probably just making it up with their eyes closed!
The three of them burst into laughter.
Coincidentally, at this moment, a spring breeze blew by, carrying a petal and dropping it in front of the door.
Zhao Xiaomian was sharp-eyed and saw it immediately. Her face immediately fell: "We just wiped the floor clean, and we have to sweep it again!!"
"Aunt Huang, are you going this time?" Zhao Xiaomian turned her head to look at Huang Xiuying, blinking her big eyes!
"Don't try that!" Huang Xiuying waved her hands, deliberately keeping a straight face. "Whoever sees me can go! I won't go if you go!"
"Shall we go together?"
"You go first!"
Li Guifang leaned against the counter, watching the two people bickering with each other, and the corners of her mouth unconsciously rose.
Outside the window, sunlight shines through the flying petals, casting mottled light and shadows on the ground.
At this moment, even the annoying spring catkins seem particularly lively.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
