With the comfort of Yunqiao and Gao Qian, An Xiaomei gradually stopped crying.
She wiped her tears with a handkerchief, raised her red eyes, looked at the two of them, and said, "Sister Xiao Gao, Doctor Qin, I'm really confused right now. I probably can't concentrate on my work. Can I take a leave this afternoon and go out to calm down?"
She originally wanted to come to the company to get some peace and quiet, but who would have thought that the words of her colleagues at work could be as offensive as those of her mother.
An Xiaomei was at a loss now. She really didn't know what to do, but instinctively, she didn't want to stay in the company anymore.
Yun Qiao and Gao Qian exchanged a glance and nodded, "Okay, if that's the case, then go ahead and think about it carefully."
An Xiaomei nodded and left the bathroom with red eyes.
Watching An Xiaomei leave, Gao Qian said with some regret: "Yun Qiao, weren't we a little too harsh in our words just now? Did it hit Xiaomei hard? I feel like she can't take it."
Yun Qiao waved his hand dismissively, "No, isn't everything we said true? We haven't exaggerated anything. If she can't even accept what we say, then when she marries into Xiao Zhang's family and faces these things directly, won't she find it even harder to accept?"
"That's true." Gao Qian sighed. "Based on my experience watching other people's affairs over the years, a mother-in-law who can't wait for her daughter-in-law to arrive and starts making trouble before the wedding, will start making trouble within three days of the wedding. We've given her a heads-up. If she insists on marrying, I hope she won't be easily angered by this mother-in-law."
Yun Qiao: "The man's family is already doing this before they even get married. If they do get married, she'll have to suffer in the future."
While they were talking, a patient came in outside, so Yun Qiao and Gao Qian stopped talking and did not discuss An Xiaomei's matter anymore.
Late in the afternoon, around four o'clock, when it was almost time to get off work, a young man came to the bathroom.
He has thick eyebrows, big eyes, a square face, a tall stature, and looks very energetic. He is the type that young people and mothers-in-law like nowadays.
It was An Xiaomei's boyfriend, Comrade Xiao Zhang.
He walked into the bathroom and politely asked, "Good afternoon, comrades. Sorry to bother you, but may I ask, An Xiaomei, is Nurse An here?"
This was Xiao Zhang's first time in the military uniform factory's guardhouse, but he had shown movies in the small auditorium in the family compound, so Yun Qiao and Gao Qian had seen him and recognized him.
Gao Qian stepped forward, looked him over subtly, smiled, and said, "Nurse Gao took leave yesterday afternoon. Comrade, who are you to her? What do you want from her?"
Xiao Zhang replied, "Nurse An and I are friends, and I had something personal to discuss with her. She didn't come. Did she tell me why?"
Gao Qian didn't even acknowledge the identity of "girlfriend" when she heard him say nothing more. She just said, "I don't know about that. She didn't tell us either."
Xiao Zhang asked: "Do you know where she went after taking leave?"
Gao Qian: "She should be at her house, right? I'm not sure, you can go look for her there."
Xiao Zhang: "I went to her house, but she wasn't home."
Gao Qian: "Then I don't know."
"Okay." Xiao Zhang said and left the bathroom.
Gao Qian lifted the door curtain and only lowered it after seeing him walk away. She turned to Yun Qiao and said, "This man isn't very good. Xiaomei has been dating him for two years, and I don't believe she hasn't told him about the situation in the bathroom. He came to our bathroom to look for Xiaomei, but he didn't dare to admit directly to us that Xiaomei was his partner. He doesn't seem like a very responsible person, and I guess he doesn't have much say in his family."
"You're right," Yun Qiao nodded, agreeing with Gao Qian's opinion, and said, "If he had just one of these two: responsibility and the right to speak, his mother wouldn't have gone straight to Xiaomei's house to make trouble."
"That's right. His mother still treats him like a child and is taking care of everything related to his marriage." Gao Qian said, "Didn't Xiaomei say before that he promised to let her choose a gift from among them? I guess he just said it casually without discussing it with his family. But he can't really make the decisions at home, so his mother is unhappy and that's why he did this."
"There might be other things going on. After all, a lot of what he said was just one-sided. Xiaomei doesn't really know how he communicated with his family, so the retelling would be even more ambiguous."
"It's irresponsible to speculate that he himself might not even dare to admit that he was the one who took the initiative to promise such a large betrothal gift. Seeing his family's anger, he turned around and said that it was Xiaomei's family who forced it to be given in order to avoid being scolded. It's not impossible."
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