Zhang Qiang had no choice but to go to Dawan Village, whether he wanted to or not.
Zhang Qiang left Liu Aiguo's office.
He tried to figure out how to get to Dawancun without getting beaten up by Zhao Yanping and her gang.
Liu Aiguo glanced at the closed door and shook his head.
Zhang Qiang is no good!
He had actually thought that his ability to be so ruthless towards his first wife and unborn child was a rare talent.
After two years, it's clear that Zhang Qiang has some cleverness, but not much. He's capable of doing small tasks and running errands, but he's not yet capable of taking charge on his own or leading a small team.
Fortunately, Liu Aiguo has been looking for another true successor, and whoever that person is, it will not be Zhang Qiang.
Zhang Qiang was unaware that Liu Aiguo had already excluded him from the list of successors. After leaving the office, he encountered Gu Changzheng and his family on the school playground.
Gu Changzheng, the peasant he was so jealous of, was embracing his pregnant wife and taking a photo with her graduation certificate.
Look at them, it's only 1980 and they can already afford to buy cameras.
Looking at himself, he was all alone and had nothing... The more Zhang Qiang compared himself to the situation, the angrier he became.
He stood still, watching the spectacle unfold on the other side with a cold eye.
"Brother Qiang..."
Liu Meiling's voice came from the side. Zhang Qiang turned around, and Liu Meiling had already pounced on him.
Today is her graduation day, and she dressed up specially, wearing the latest summer clothes she bought from 'Jiao'. The bright colors made her complexion look much better.
However, she didn't have the porcelain-white skin; she had some freckles and was a bit overweight, so wearing this princess dress didn't make her look particularly graceful.
On the contrary, because the clothes were small, it was more like the clothes were covering her flesh... When she ran, all her fat jiggled.
She has the appearance of a woman.
Zhang Qiang felt disgusted.
Look at Liu Meiling, a woman without children, whose figure is not even as slender as Lu Huaijiao, whose belly is already quite big.
Not to mention temperament and appearance.
They're worlds apart.
Of course, the one in the sky is definitely Lu Huaijiao, and the one on the ground is Liu Meiling.
As the saying goes, if someone dislikes you or doesn't love you anymore, then in their eyes, all your problems and flaws will be magnified infinitely and become things they hate.
That's exactly how Zhang Qiang treats Liu Meiling now.
Unfortunately, Liu Meiling was unaware of this and even ran over with a smile to take Zhang Qiang's arm.
"Brother Qiang, did my dad say you should stay at the school as a teacher?" These days, even vocational school graduates have jobs.
However, most people are assigned to factories, or to grassroots positions as clerks, liaisons, or propaganda officers.
Unlike Lu Huaijiao and her classmates, who are regular college graduates, the jobs they are assigned after graduation are a level higher than those of them who graduated from vocational schools.
The opportunity to stay at the university and teach was not originally one that Zhang Qiang would have been given.
But Liu Meiling couldn't argue with the fact that her father was the school principal.
Anyway, there are already plenty of teachers at the school, so what's wrong with having one more Zhang Qiang? Her father is the principal, can't he at least reserve a position for his son-in-law?
To be honest, Liu Meiling even thought that once her father stepped down from his position as principal, Zhang Qiang should take over the principal's position.
Anyway, she's their only daughter, and she has absolutely no interest in being a school principal or anything like that.
Her family isn't short of money, she could just find any job and go to work. Why would she go and suffer like a teacher?
Liu Meiling's voice was quite loud, attracting the attention of many graduates nearby who were also talking to their families or classmates.
However, she did not think there was anything wrong with what she said.
To her, those people's stares were nothing but envy and jealousy. After all, they didn't have a father who was a school principal.
Even Lu Huaijiao turned her head slightly to look at Zhang Qiang and Liu Meiling in the distance because of Liu Meiling's words.
"Honey...why are you distracted? Is someone else more handsome than your husband?"
Gu Changzheng, who was thinking of taking more photos with his wife, immediately noticed that Lu Huaijiao was looking elsewhere, and he quickly complained in a wronged tone.
Lu Huaijiao looked away, glared at him with a pout, and wanted to retort, but she held back because she remembered that today was his graduation day.
"Yes, you're the most handsome man in the whole world. Who can be more handsome than you?"
Let's give him a half-hearted compliment, as a graduation gift for today.
Gu Changzheng chuckled.
Even if his wife didn't mean it sincerely, he was still happy. After all, she wouldn't have the chance to see other men more handsome than herself, right?
“I knew the baby liked her husband, but you should be a little more discreet and not let other women discover how handsome your husband is.”
"..."
Lu Huaijiao rolled her eyes at him.
This person really has a thick skin.
"Alright, let your son and the others take a few photos with you. What's the point of them taking pictures with me all the time?"
I bought this camera when I went back to Shanghai. It was the latest model at the time, and I no longer needed to hold up a reflector to add light. After selecting a position, I could just press the shutter button.
Then you can take the film to a photo studio to have it developed.
This is a product from an island nation, considered one of the most technologically advanced cameras available. It wasn't cheap, but Lu Huaijiao still bought it.
The main purpose is to record the child's growth and some important days, so that when we get old, sitting in a rocking chair and slowly flipping through the photos from our youth will be a very beautiful thing.
Gu Changzheng exclaimed "Hey!" and beckoned Sanbao over, but his other hand did not loosen its grip on Lu Huaijiao's waist.
"We took some pictures with the five babies."
With the three babies and the unborn twins in her belly, what else could it be but five babies?
Lu Huaijiao thought about it for a moment and then nodded in agreement.
"Let's take some pictures together, Mom and Dad." Since it's a group photo, the whole family needs to be there; no one can be missing.
Their family was taking pictures here, which attracted the attention of many students. Some of them shamelessly came up to ask Gu Changzheng to take some pictures of them as well.
Gu Changzheng glanced at the classmate he didn't recognize and was reluctant to agree.
Lu Huaijiao was the most straightforward one, asking Gu Changzheng to invite all the classmates so she could take a graduation group photo for them.
"Honey, film costs money."
Gu Changzheng started acting cute again.
It wasn't that he was stingy with the money for the film; he just didn't want to take photos with other people.
Lu Huaijiao rolled her eyes at him.
"This is a memorial, you know? A memorial. When you're older, in your fifties or sixties, and you want to reminisce about your school days, won't you feel regretful if you find that you haven't left anything behind?"
In short, Lu Huaijiao, who got a second chance, felt that she had many regrets in her previous life.
She deeply abhorred regret and didn't want Gu Changzheng to have any regrets.
She thought that he had lived a happy life and had no regrets when he looked back on the past.
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