Chapter 32: The Tong family came to inquire and met Zhang Huihong by chance (revised version).
Zhang Ze knew even more that this female educated youth named Liu Qiaoqiao was not a good match.
Although it is unknown why she did not return to the city and instead married Zhang Qinghe, the two divorced not long after that, and the woman went home with a big belly.
His good friend was so heartbroken over his divorce that he thought his wife left him because she despised the poor countryside.
In the end, it seemed that a relative of his was doing well in Nanfang, and he wanted to go there to make a living, but he disappeared after that.
"Why haven't I seen you recently? Where have you been? My dad wanted to assign you some work, but you refused?" Zhang Qinghe asked curiously.
"My uncle found something for me to do." Zhang Ze briefly mentioned his own affairs, then looked at the two people in front of him, deliberately showing a smile that all men understand, "What are you two doing?"
He really didn't know when the two of them got together. Their marriage was quite sudden.
"Ahem. The leg of a stool at Liu Zhiqing's house was accidentally broken, so he asked me to go over and help fix it." Zhang Qinghe looked a little unnatural and quickly explained the reason.
Nowadays, people are more reserved in expressing their feelings, and it is quite embarrassing if their feelings are exposed by others.
Seeing the two of them talking endlessly, Liu Qiaoqiao's eyes flashed with impatience, but she did not show it on the surface. Instead, she said to Zhang Qinghe with a bright smile: "Why don't you guys chat, I'll go home first."
Zhang Qinghe smiled foolishly and nodded: "Okay, then you go back first, I'll be there soon."
Liu Qiaoqiao smiled at him again, then twisted her waist and left.
In terms of appearance, she was indeed not bad. In fact, because city people know how to dress up, even Zhang Qian, who was coveted by many people, was a few points inferior.
Naturally, there are more men in the village who have feelings for Liu Qiaoqiao, especially those whose family conditions are considered good in the village.
When she smiled, Zhang Qinghe's eyes almost popped out.
It just had no effect on Zhang Ze. Who made him experience the influence of various beautiful young ladies on the Internet in the future? However, there was a little shock in his eyes at this moment.
Because when Liu Qiaoqiao left, he turned around to take a look, and with just this one glance, her back suddenly overlapped with the back of the woman he saw in the grove last night.
Zhang Ze never expected that the woman going to the grove would be her.
There was just one thing he couldn't understand. After all, this woman was a city dweller with good conditions. Why would she go out into the woods with a country man?
Could it be that the man last night was Zhang Qinghe?
Zhang Ze looked at him, who was half a head shorter than him, and knew that it was not him.
The man was almost a head taller than Liu Qiaoqiao, so she should be about the same height as him.
There weren't many people in the village who were about his height, but he couldn't guess since he hadn't seen them.
"Aze, you don't like Liu Zhiqing, do you?"
Zhang Qinghe's voice suddenly rang in his ears. Zhang Ze came back to his senses and saw that he was testing him and trying to pretend that he didn't care. He immediately shook his head and said, "How is that possible? I just seemed to see a person whose back looked very similar to Liu Zhiqing yesterday, so I took a few more glances."
"Is that so?" Zhang Qinghe smiled again. "By the way, it looks like you're going to work in the county, right? How's this job?"
"It's OK. I can make a living and at least give my family something to eat during the slack season."
"That's good. If you have anything to say, just tell me. Don't force yourself."
"Yeah, I got it!"
Zhang Qinghe patted his shoulder and said, "Okay, you look like you're going to the county town, I won't bother you anymore, just go!"
Zhang Ze teased: "What do you mean by not disturbing me? Are you impatient to go to Liu Zhiqing's house?"
"I was there to fix the legs of a stool, so don't say anything. You can't ruin Liu Zhiqing's reputation."
"Okay, okay, it's my fault. Go and fix your stool legs and stop keeping us waiting."
Watching Zhang Qinghe walking quickly towards the educated youth point, the smile on Zhang Ze's face gradually disappeared.
If possible, he naturally didn't want his good friend to repeat the same mistake.
However, Zhang Qinghe had to discover this himself. He thought that since they had already gone to the grove, they would probably continue doing it in the future.
If it really doesn't work, he can just remind the captain privately, and the other party will pay attention to it himself.
Zhang Ze did not stay in the village any longer. He hurried to the town, took the bus to the county, and went straight to the scrap yard.
Nowadays, lanterns are only used in rural areas, and only in places like cowsheds. Some students even go there specifically to read by the light of the lanterns at night.
The county town has electricity, and those with better conditions have flashlights, so there is naturally no need for lanterns.
There are naturally some discarded lanterns in the warehouse of the scrap yard, most of which have broken glass lampshades.
A small number of them have minor problems such as rusted bases and missing kerosene caps.
In fact, if these lanterns are assembled, they can be made into several usable old lanterns, but the people at the scrap yard obviously have no intention of dealing with these difficult-to-sell things.
Compared to lanterns, flashlights are more popular nowadays.
Speaking of flashlights, Zhang Ze also took a look and found that these broken flashlights only had minor problems and many of them could be repaired.
As a man of this generation, he would fix anything that broke at home by himself, so he really learned a lot of skills.
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A flashlight only has a few structures, so it is even easier to repair.
But he still wanted to choose a lantern, and when he asked the price, he found out that an old lantern that he had assembled and repaired using the parts here would cost fifteen dollars.
But a broken flashlight only costs one dollar. Of course, his is a large flashlight that can hold three No. 1 batteries.
The supply and marketing cooperative also has a small flashlight that uses No. 5 batteries and costs just over one dollar.
Zhang Ze knew that lanterns might be expensive, but he didn't expect that old lanterns were so expensive. No wonder the village chief treasured those lanterns in the village so much.
Although he is making quite a bit of money now, he is still reluctant to spend 15 yuan to buy a lantern.
So I looked through several flashlights and found one that had problems with the metal slide key and switch button.
This type of flashlight will still light up when using batteries, but you need to twist the tail to turn it on.
If the tail is loosened, the power will be cut off, and if it is tightened, it will light up, which is very inconvenient to use.
Just when he came to the county town to buy lamps, a middle-aged woman groped her way to Qinghe Village.
Coincidentally, Zhang Huihong just came out of Fang's house.
She had asked someone to go to Lumen Island to act as a matchmaker for her son, but just as she left, she was stopped by a strange woman.
"Hey, big sister, is this Qinghe Village?"
"This is Qinghe Village, who are you?" Zhang Huihong looked at the person coming down with a puzzled look.
Seeing that she looked kind and easy to talk to, the middle-aged woman asked with confidence, "It's like this, my niece is going on a blind date with a young man from your village, so my sister-in-law asked me to come and ask around."
Zhang Huihong was stunned for a moment, and then her curiosity was immediately aroused: "Oh, really? Which boy from our village?"
"That young man's name is Zhang Guodong, and I think his nickname is Er Gouzi?"
Er Gouzi is on a blind date again? How fast is Zhang Cuifen?
Zhang Huihong was extremely surprised, but she still told the other party about Ergouzi's situation according to the actual situation.
The relationship between the two families is not good, so it's good enough that she doesn't exaggerate. How could she say good things about the other party?
The middle-aged woman nodded in understanding after hearing this, and after a pause, she asked, "Is there another young man named Zhang Ze in your village? What do you think of him?"
Zhang Huihong was shocked. Did her in-laws send someone to inquire about this?
(End of this chapter)
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