After Lu Huaijiao and her group paid the bill, they only had a few tickets left.
Looking at the pitiful few receipts in her hand, she deeply missed the days of her past life when receipts weren't necessary. Back then, all you needed was money; with money, you could buy whatever you wanted. Unlike now, where you need receipts to buy almost anything.
It's 1975 now, and for negotiable instruments to completely disappear, we'll have to wait until 1980...
Lu Huaijiao felt a headache coming on just thinking about this time.
She walked forward with a few tickets clutched in her hands, her little face wrinkled. Behind her, a man carrying a large sack looked at her wrinkled face and sighed helplessly, "I'll try to get some more tickets if we run out."
So she shouldn't look so gloomy anymore. He can't stand it!
Just as Lu Huaijiao was about to speak, a voice rang out: "Fourth Brother Gu?"
After a young man in a Zhongshan suit and wearing a red armband called out, Lu Huaijiao and the others turned around. When Qi Yong saw that it really was his fourth brother, a smile appeared on his face.
The man strode over.
"Fourth Brother, you've come to the city to buy things? What did you buy? Have you eaten yet? Come on, let's go eat at the state-run restaurant." Qi Yong was a minor leader in the Revolutionary Committee. He had a connection with Gu Changzheng because Gu Changzheng had unintentionally helped Qi Yong once before, saving him from a catastrophic disaster.
Qi Yong always kept this kindness in his heart and treated Gu Changzheng like a brother.
Upon meeting, he immediately invited Gu Changzheng to have dinner at a state-run restaurant.
Gu Changzheng casually said that he had already eaten, politely declining Qi Yong's invitation.
Qi Yong wasn't embarrassed. He sighed and turned to look at Lu Huaijiao standing next to Gu Changyuan: "Is this your sister-in-law? Fourth Brother, when are you planning to hold your wedding banquet? You must let me know, I definitely want to attend your wedding banquet."
“We got married yesterday,” Gu Changzheng replied.
Qi Yong's smile froze. "Yesterday? I didn't hear anything!"
“We didn’t invite you over much, it was just a family meal, only two tables of people, so we didn’t notify you,” Gu Changzheng explained to Qi Yong.
He is currently engaged in speculative business, and although he has not been investigated yet, he has a complete plan to prevent investigation. However, Gu Changzheng is still trying his best to avoid deteriorating relations with these people in the Revolutionary Committee.
To avoid them disturbing his family's peace.
Therefore, Gu Changzheng was willing to say a few more words.
Qi Yong had initially felt that Gu Changzheng looked down on him and didn't care about his brother at all, but when he heard that Gu Changzheng hadn't held a big celebration and that it was just a family meal, his depressed mood was lifted again.
"Why not have a big celebration? Are you afraid of being investigated by higher-ups? Fourth Brother, you should give me a heads-up. As long as you give me a heads-up, I guarantee that no one in the surrounding villages will dare to have any complaints about you."
"Even if you cause the sky to fall, I'll still be here to support you in the Revolutionary Committee."
Qi Yong himself was a minor leader in the Revolutionary Committee, and his father, too, had worked in the Revolutionary Committee before—no, he was still an old man working in the Revolutionary Committee. It was because of himself, and the fact that his elders were all in the Revolutionary Committee, that Qi Yong dared to act so recklessly.
He felt that the whole world belonged to him.
Gu Changzheng nodded: "Thank you, Brother Qi."
"Don't mention it, we're brothers." Qi Yong patted Gu Changzheng's shoulder generously, then his gaze fell on the sack Gu Changzheng was carrying, and he remembered what he had come for.
"Now that Fourth Brother is married, I won't bother him any longer. I'll visit him another day when I have time and have a drink with him."
"Brother Qi, you go ahead and get busy."
Regarding Qi Yong's invitation to drink, Gu Changzheng neither agreed nor disagreed. Qi Yong, on the other hand, naturally assumed that Gu Changzheng was very welcoming.
"I have to go now. A sales clerk at the department store came to report that someone is living a life of extravagance and that capitalist practices are making a comeback. I have to go check it out." Before leaving, Qi Yong made sure to let Gu Changzheng know that he had important business to attend to.
Upon hearing this, Gu Changzheng's gaze fell on the sack on his shoulder.
Qi Yong finally realized what was happening. He looked at the department store behind Gu Changzheng, then at Gu Changzheng carrying a sack and holding a small sack in one hand. Qi Yong was stunned.
"Could it be that the woman reported you, Fourth Brother?"
Qi Yong carefully recalled what Zhang Qiulian said when she made the report. Through Zhang Qiulian's words, Lu Huaijiao and Gu Changzheng were portrayed as selfish, extremely extravagant, and corrupt officials who disregarded the suffering of others...
Qi Yong originally thought that this kind of person was perfect to be caught and used as a role model. He would force the other person to give a report at the mid-year report conference, so that he could also enjoy the glory.
However, knowing that the other party might be Gu Changzheng at this moment, the outcome is different.
"Fourth Brother, did you and your wife really buy a lot of things at the department store just now?"
Gu Changzheng nodded: "Not many, just here."
"..."
Qi Yong gasped, then nodded in agreement: "Yes, yes, not too much, not too much. It's a new wedding, so naturally there are a lot of things to buy."
As he spoke, he couldn't help but curse Zhang Qiulian.
"That woman is really something, all talk and no action. She's never seen anything like the sky, and she has to run to the Revolutionary Committee to report every little thing, wasting our time. She's really something."
After he finished speaking, he looked up and smiled at Gu Changzheng, saying, "Fourth Brother, I have something to attend to, so I'll go ahead and not see you and your wife off."
"Okay, go ahead and get busy."
Gu Changzheng saw Qi Yong off in a calm tone.
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