Chapter 122 A Chance Encounter at the Movie Theater
Today, Yu Junsheng not only received his salary, but the department also gave bonuses to the employees who participated in the new project last time. Each member of the project received 100 yuan, and everyone was as happy as if it were New Year's Day.
Yu Junsheng was also rewarded with an extra bicycle ticket for his meritorious service in capturing Sun Zhengye.
Afterwards, Section Chief Liao called Yu Junsheng to his office alone and said that tens of thousands of yuan in embezzled funds had been found in Deng Guangming's home. Yu Junsheng was rewarded with one hundred yuan for his meritorious report. Yu Junsheng understood that Section Chief Liao was doing this for his own good, fearing that exposing his report on Deng Guangming would invite retaliation from Deng's accomplices. He was naturally very grateful to Section Chief Liao.
In summary, this paycheck included Yu Junsheng's basic salary, plus an extra 200 yuan bonus and a bicycle voucher.
When Yu Junsheng got home from get off work, he happily handed over all his bonus and bicycle ticket to his wife.
Cheng Jiajia jumped up in surprise, hugged him, and kissed him, followed by a string of compliments: "I have such good taste! My man is so amazing! He's so good at making money! No one in this neighborhood can compare!"
Yu Junsheng was very pleased and chuckled foolishly, "Of course! Who is your man? Can he compare to those 'hidden dragons and phoenixes' and 'ugly ducklings' in the courtyard?"
Just then, a bicycle voucher was issued, so Yu Junsheng decided to buy a bicycle.
Cheng Jiajia hesitated a bit. Buying a bicycle was certainly a good idea, as it would make it much more convenient to go anywhere in the future.
The problem is that no one in their compound has bought a car since the Ren family's car was stolen last time. If they buy one, wouldn't it be too conspicuous?
Yu Junsheng said, "Many people in the factory know that I issued a bicycle voucher. If we don't buy one, someone will definitely come and exchange it. Rather than letting others have their eyes on it, we might as well spend it ourselves."
"Let's buy one. That way, when I'm off work, I can take you out to play, go to the park, see a movie, and it'll be much more convenient. It'll save you from being stuck at home all day, honey." Yu Junsheng could tell that his wife didn't like walking. She'd rather stay home than walk.
When he said that, Cheng Jiajia remembered that the two of them hadn't gone on a special date since they got married.
Firstly, there were few forms of entertainment these days, and not much to do outside. Secondly, the two of them didn't own bicycles, so they had to walk everywhere. Gradually, Cheng Jiajia stopped liking to go on "long trips." Well, any place that was more than a 30-minute walk away was considered a long trip.
Now that Yu Junsheng has brought it up, Cheng Jiajia is actually starting to want to go see a movie.
The two hit it off immediately and decided to go see a movie that evening.
Yu Junsheng didn't feel like cooking that evening, so he took Cheng Jiajia to a state-run restaurant for dumplings, and then the couple went straight to the movie theater.
Although it's called a movie theater, it's actually just a two-story building. The lobby is where the ticket windows are located, while the back and the second floor are the screening rooms.
This was Cheng Jiajia's first time here, and she found it all very novel, her big eyes looking around curiously.
There were even some people sneaking around in front of the movie theater selling sunflower seeds and peanuts, wrapped in old newspapers, for one cent a bag.
Yu Junsheng couldn't help but chuckle. His wife was truly adorable; when her eyes darted around, she looked just like a fluffy squirrel. Yu Junsheng resisted the urge to touch Cheng Jiajia's head, reminding himself that they were outside, and he shouldn't make any unwanted advances.
Yu Junsheng coughed to cover up his embarrassment, "Honey, I'm going to buy some sunflower seeds so we can eat them while we watch the movie." With that, he strode over to the young man selling sunflower seeds on the right and returned shortly with two bags of sunflower seeds wrapped in old newspapers.
Cheng Jiajia took the bag and found that it was quite heavy. It was only one cent a bag, which was really affordable.
So, out of curiosity, he asked, "Aren't they okay selling melon seeds here?"
Yu Junsheng glanced at the two vendors selling melon seeds and peanuts, and while pulling Cheng Jiajia to the ticket window to buy tickets, he mumbled, "It's a small business, and it's the middle of winter night, there's no one to help us out."
Cheng Jiajia inexplicably understood; it meant that it was a cold winter night, and the red-sleeved woman was too lazy to come and cause trouble. Small businesses weren't worth the effort, and they didn't care.
Cheng Jiajia looked at the patched clothes of the two young men selling melon seeds and peanuts, and thought to herself, "Even though they say that, no one can guarantee that these people won't come back. Who knows when they might suddenly decide to patrol? So those who dare to do these jobs are all from poor families and have no other choice."
After queuing to buy their tickets, the two followed the flow of people to their respective screening room.
They arrived relatively late, so their tickets were for seats towards the back of the theater. There weren't many people there at that time, so Cheng Jiajia found a seat quickly.
The movie started soon, and Cheng Jiajia and Yu Junsheng stopped chatting and focused on watching it.
This is a film about the War of Resistance against Japan, which tells the story of how ordinary people and their daily lives fought against traitors and collaborators during the war.
Surprisingly, despite having watched many big-budget movies in her later life, Cheng Jiajia found the movie quite enjoyable, perhaps due to the lack of entertainment options here or the era she lived in. She quickly became engrossed in the story and watched with great interest.
Unfortunately, there was an eyesore couple in front of us who were openly flirting not long after the movie started.
Good heavens, his eyes were practically drooling.
Good heavens, if they're this tired after watching a war film, how would they be able to sit still if they watched a romance film set in the future?
Cheng Jiajia strongly suspected that if it weren't for these third wheels, the two of them could have started screwing things in right there.
It's very unsightly and affects the viewing experience of those behind.
Cheng Jiajia overheard the two girls next door quietly cursing the two men for being shameless, but they were too embarrassed to confront them.
As the light and shadow flashed by, Cheng Jiajia caught a glimpse of the two people's profiles.
Wow!
Cheng Jiajia's eyes widened slightly.
Unexpectedly, it was someone I knew.
It was Xu Dongliang, Dong Siwei's boyfriend. He and another woman were sitting three rows in front of them, diagonally in front of them, and they were kissing head to head.
Interestingly, the woman next to Xu Dongliang was neither Dong Siwei nor the saleswoman from the supply and marketing cooperative last time.
Cheng Jiajia was shocked, but also somewhat speechless.
Damn it, is this bastard some kind of time management master from the 1960s?
Yu Junsheng saw it too and immediately cursed, "You bastard, you haven't seen a woman in eight hundred years, and you can't even stand it for a little while."
Yu Junsheng was indignant. He thought that even though he wanted to kiss his wife, he had to wait until he got home. Why could Xu Dongliang kiss and kiss his female comrades all he wanted?
And they weren't even the same woman!
Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and a wicked idea popped into his head. He crouched down and prepared to go out.
He didn't forget to remind Cheng Jiajia, "Honey, I'm going out for a bit, I'll be right back, so don't wander off."
"Hey, no, where are you going?" Cheng Jiajia was completely confused.
As soon as he finished speaking, he disappeared in a flash.
Cheng Jiajia quickly found out where this person had gone.
Because just a moment later, just as the heads of the two people diagonally in front of them were touching again, a sharp shout suddenly came from behind.
"What are you doing? What are you doing? Who's being indecent in the movie theater?! You, you all, come out here!"
Everyone was jolted awake. Before they could react, a dark shadow darted forward like a ghost and grabbed Xu Dongliang and his female companion by the hair with its two hands.
Xu Dongliang: "!!!"
Lesbian: "!!!"
The next second, both of them screamed in pain, "Ah! What are you doing?! Let us go!"
The middle-aged woman wearing a red armband yelled, "What are you yelling about? You still have the nerve to yell! You two shameless people, acting like hooligans in public, what do you think a movie theater is? Our joint defense team is here to arrest shameless, hooligan, and promiscuous people like you!"
Xu Dongliang: "!!!"
Xu Dongliang never imagined that he would be caught kissing Hu Xiaoxiao in the dim light during a movie screening by the neighborhood watch team's aunties.
Panicked, she ignored the throbbing pain in her scalp and hurriedly protested, "No, we weren't being indecent, we're a couple..."
The older woman remained unmoved, her face stern. "I don't care if you're husband and wife or not, harassment is harassment! Come on, come with me, let's go receive some ideological education. Don't bother others here. Let me tell you, don't try to talk nonsense with me, or our joint defense team will report you to the Revolutionary Committee, and then it won't be..."
Two more middle-aged women wearing red armbands came in after them; they were clearly also from the joint defense team. The two of them immediately started twisting and turning, like wriggling pigs.
"Ahhh, let go! Let go! We didn't do anything indecent!"
Despite the desperate resistance of the unfortunate couple, they were still humiliatingly dragged away by three middle-aged women.
The screening room quickly fell silent, with only the sound of the film's protagonist delivering his lines with great emotion echoing through the room.
However, after this experience, Cheng Jiajia clearly felt that the ambiguous atmosphere between the men and women had completely disappeared. Everyone was sitting upright and straight, with serious eyes as if they were attending a class.
Cheng Jiajia's lips twitched. For some reason, she had a feeling that this was somehow related to Yu Junsheng. He hadn't returned since he went out.
As they say, people can't resist being nagged. The moment the thought crossed her mind, Yu Junsheng appeared out of nowhere, crouching low, with a wicked grin on his face.
He said furtively, "How's it going? Honey, those two eyesores are gone, right?"
Cheng Jiajia: "..." It really was you, the sixth one!
However, she gave a thumbs up and said, "Well done!"
Yu Junsheng smugly thought, "Hehe, let that Xu guy have an affair!"
It's one thing to have an affair, but to make it an eyesore in front of his wife and interfere with her movie viewing is unacceptable.
The guy surnamed Xu is going to lose face today, and he probably won't dare to come to the movie theater for a while.
In any case, he has benefited the vast majority of the people.
Oh, he's such a good person. Another day of being moved by my own actions.
...
On the other side, Xu Dongliang felt extremely aggrieved after being lectured by several middle-aged women with stern faces and spittle flying from their mouths.
He had never been insulted like this before in his entire life, and he really wanted to slap the old hag across the face.
Seeing the red armbands on the arms of several middle-aged women, Xu Dongliang was afraid of making a scene, so he could only endure it, nodding and bowing repeatedly, smiling ingratiatingly and saying that these were his fiancées. Unfortunately, the women remained unmoved, saying that even if they were husband and wife, they shouldn't act like hooligans in public, as it would have a bad influence on others, and so on and so forth.
In the end, Xu Dongliang had no choice but to grit his teeth and give each of the older women two yuan before they finally stopped.
The angry Xu Dongliang didn't notice the sudden brightening of the girl's eyes when he mentioned his fiancée.
Xu Dongliang wiped the sweat from his forehead, cursing inwardly at the meddlesome old hags and the person who reported him.
You little bastard, don't let me catch you!
...
When the two returned that day, the neighbors in the courtyard had already gone to bed, and the two quickly washed up and went to sleep as well.
As a result, when Cheng Jiajia got up to wash up the next morning, she heard Aunt Cao and the others talking about how the Qin family and the Bai family had fought again the night before.
Cheng Jiajia's eyes lit up, and she asked, "Ah, what's wrong? What's wrong? What did I miss?" She knew these two families wouldn't have any peace.
"Hey, it's all about money. I heard that Aunt Yan went to the factory to collect Qin Weimin's wages. When Qin Weimin came home from work, he was about to beat Aunt Yan, but his sons stopped him. Then Aunt Yan rushed up and grabbed Bai Zhenzhu's hair and started slapping her face. Uncle Qin came to the rescue, and the three Qin brothers defended their mother, and they ended up fighting."
Cheng Jiajia was heartbroken. She regretted not going to the idiot movie last night. Could that movie be as good as the show in the theater?
But somehow, the conversation drifted to the bicycle ticket in Yu Junsheng's hand.
Aunt Ma's small eyes gleamed with a sharp light. "Hey, Xiao Cheng, I heard that your son Yu Junsheng got a bicycle voucher. Anyway, you don't need it. I'll take a loss and give you some more grain coupons in exchange, how about that?" Her son was just missing a bicycle.
Cheng Jiajia's lips twitched. "You're really being too polite! You're not losing out? Can grain coupons compare to bicycle coupons?"
On the black market, a bicycle ticket can sell for over a hundred yuan.
Just as Yu Junsheng said, they couldn't hide the fact that they had bicycle tickets, and that's when someone started eyeing them.
Cheng Jiajia said with a forced smile, "Auntie, you're really honest. But we've been neighbors with Ma Gaosheng for so many years, how could I let you suffer a loss? How about this, we won't exchange this ticket, we'll buy bicycles ourselves. We can't let you suffer a loss, don't you think?"
Aunt Ma choked.
I have a feeling that what that little brat said wasn't nice, but damn it, she can't even refute it. How infuriating!
Everyone burst into laughter, "Hahaha, Aunt Ma, you've got a really sharp abacus!"
"Aunt Ma, how about I exchange your grain coupons for a bicycle ticket?"
Jiang Qiubai, who was washing up on the same side, looked at Cheng Jiajia with jealousy.
They both married into the same family, but Cheng Jiajia is still inferior to me because of my rural household registration. Why is it that her life is getting better and better?
Buy a bicycle again?
Bah! I don't even know if you're worthy!
Jiang Qiubai rolled his eyes, came up with an idea, and kept a close eye on the movements in the courtyard.
She watched Cheng Jiajia finish washing up and go home, and then she saw that the Yu family had guests, who seemed to be the fool who had been extorted by her mother-in-law last time. Jiang Qiubai curled her lips. Sure enough, Cheng Jiajia's relatives were not presentable.
Jiang Qiubai didn't take it to heart.
Just as Cheng Jiajia finished washing her clothes by the pool and was about to walk back, Jiang Qiubai's expression tightened.
She quickly took the laundry tub out and pretended to casually walk around behind Cheng Jiajia. As they brushed past each other, Jiang Qiubai gritted her teeth and rammed into her forcefully.
Jiang Qiubai's lips curled up subtly.
If I crash into her, not only will the "child" be gone, but I can also extort a large sum of money from Cheng Jiajia, and ideally, get the bicycle ticket back. Then I can buy a bicycle and become the most glamorous young wife in the neighborhood!
Jiang Qiubai was so engrossed in his thoughts that he didn't notice at all that Cheng Jiajia had dodged the attack at the last second.
Jiang Qiubai couldn't brake in time and crashed straight into the person behind her.
With a "bang," the two were knocked to the ground.
"Ahhh! Jiang Qiubai is pregnant! How could you hit her?! If something happens to the baby in her belly, can you afford to pay for it?!"
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