Meeting is fate.
"My name is Ding Rong. What's your name?" Ding Rong stretched out her hand.
"My name is Ruan Mianmian." Ruan Mianmian reached out and held Ding Rong's hand. "Well, let's talk aside. The door of the state-owned restaurant is blocked."
Ding Rong followed Ruan Mianmian's advice and retreated to the wall on one side.
"You didn't go to work today?" "It's not the normal time to get off work yet."
Ding Rong shook her head, "I'm taking a rest today."
Ruan Mianmian was not really good at chatting, she was suddenly embarrassed and didn't know what to say. She could only stand there and laugh dryly.
Ding Rong picked up the conversation again, "You are here to eat at the state-owned restaurant, right? So am I. Why don't we go together?"
"Okay." Ruan Mianmian nodded.
I originally wanted to avoid Liu Shixian and Ruan Xiangxiang, but then I thought, why should I hide?
She no longer felt the fear and terror she felt when she saw Liu Shixian. Her mentality had stabilized.
Just as she thought, if he dared to provoke her again in this life, she could kill him again. There was nothing to be afraid of.
There were still quite a lot of people in the state-owned restaurant. There was only one empty table. It was in the corner, quite far away. And it was a half table placed against the edge, so it could only seat two people.
Ding Rong and Ruan Mianmian bought what they wanted to eat and sat down at that half of the table.
Looking at the braised pork ordered by Ruan Mianmian, Ding Rong felt a little envious. Comrade Ruan had a good family background and could buy a lot of things. He also ordered expensive food. He didn't seem to feel bad at all. Unlike her, she finally made up her mind to eat at the state-owned restaurant, but she was still stingy when ordering.
Although she got a job as a salesperson in the supply and marketing cooperative through her family's connections, she had to give almost all of her monthly salary to her mother for household expenses, leaving her with only two yuan a month.
Even so, her mother was still reluctant, saying that it was not worth it for her, an unmarried woman, to spend money in vain.
In order to earn more money, she takes private jobs every month, knitting sweaters for others. The labor fee for knitting a sweater varies according to the size and style, ranging from one to three yuan. Not only does she have to go to work every day, but she also has to knit sweaters. She is really exhausted.
"How about we split it up?" Ruan Mianmian saw Ding Rong staring at her braised pork, and she felt a little embarrassed.
"No, no, no, no, sorry. I was just thinking of something else." Ding Rong blushed.
She quickly picked up her meal and ate it.
"It's okay, I can't finish it all by myself." When they bought the meal just now, there was only one portion of braised pork left, so Ding Rong asked her to buy it.
Ruan Mianmian directly put some of the braised pork into her bowl.
The meat is already in the bowl, how can you take it out? That would be bad. Ding Rong took the untouched side of her dish and put it into Ruan Mianmian's bowl, "We take turns eating."
Ruan Mianmian nodded. This was also good, spending the price of one dish and getting two dishes.
While eating, the two chatted idly.
"You live far from the supply and marketing cooperative, right? I haven't seen you there since that incident."
"Yes. I don't live in the county town. I'm from the brigade below."
Ding Rong was shocked, "You are not from the city?" After saying that, she realized that her words were ambiguous, and quickly said, "I didn't mean anything else. I just felt a little surprised. Many girls in the city don't have the kind of temperament you have."
This is true, not an exaggeration. Ruan Mianmian doesn't look like a village girl.
"It's okay, I understand." Ruan Mianmian didn't care. Nowadays, rural people and urban people are clearly divided. But in a few decades, it will no longer be the hukou that distinguishes people, but money. Rich and poor.
"What are you doing here today?"
"I came to the post office to do something." "I should write more and submit more articles, otherwise this excuse will not be useful for long." Ruan Mianmian sighed inwardly. Is her writing so bad?! Why didn't she get any reply?
"You're not going to work today, why don't you rest at home?" Ruan Mianmian was also quite curious. Judging from Ding Rong's appearance, she was dressed very elegantly. She looked quite different from the one she saw at the supply and marketing cooperative that day.
"Don't mention it." Ding Rong's anger rose when she spoke of this. "It's my mother. She asked me to go on a blind date today."
"From your look, you don't like her?" Ruan Mianmian guessed. If she did, she probably wouldn't have met her today.
"I'm telling you, you don't know how unreliable the person my mom introduced me to is." Ding Rong's heart that wanted to complain was aroused, "He is just a regular worker in the machinery factory. There are hundreds of employees like him in the machinery factory, and no one is as arrogant as him. He doesn't look like an employee of the machinery factory, but like the director of the machinery factory."
Ruan Mianmian just smiled faintly and said nothing. Her eating movements gradually slowed down, which was her response to her.
"Do you know how much older he is than me? ! Ten years! Ten years! That's not all. He looks even uglier than my dad. He's only in his thirties, but he looks like he's fifty. He's bald all over, and yet he still thinks I'm too old. He said I'm already twenty-three, and if I don't get married, I'm afraid I won't be able to have children." Ding Rong became more and more excited as she spoke. Her voice unconsciously got louder.
Fortunately, he reacted before the last sentence came out and lowered his voice.
After a long sigh, Ding Rong continued to complain, "He also said that if I marry him in the future, I will not have my job anymore and it will be just right to hand it over to his sister. Then I can have my baby at home in peace. And, you know where I went for the blind date today? He asked me to go to the park. He just talked while we were walking. Not to mention buying me a bottle of water. There was not even a place to sit. My mother really missed my family like crazy. She just sent him to me like this."
After saying this in one breath, Ding Rong took a mouthful of rice fiercely. She gritted her teeth. It was as if she was not eating the rice, but the disgusting blind date man.
Ruan Mianmian didn't know what to say at this moment. She had never been on a blind date in her two lifetimes. She really had no experience.
After a long while, Ruan Mianmian finally spoke, "Why does your mother want you to get married so much?"
Ding Rong, who was filled with righteous indignation just now, suddenly became depressed as if she had lost all her energy.
"Can't say?" Ruan Mianmian didn't know if she had said the wrong thing.
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