Chapter 28

Lin Xixi made up everything. How could she tell her real name? She hesitated: "I didn't see her face, so I don't know who she is." She

paused and raised her voice again: "I've only been here for a few days, how can I recognize her? Aunt Qiao, you should know everyone, right? You should be able to recognize them by their voices, right?"

"I can't recognize them." Qiao Wei said confidently, "I don't associate with them at all, I can't even remember their names, if you don't believe me, ask your sister-in-law."

Lin Xixi was choked again.

Because Sister Yang had already told her that Captain Yan's wife was educated, but arrogant, and usually didn't associate with uneducated people like us.

She was called Lin Xixi, so she shouldn't learn from Qiao Wei and be more enthusiastic towards people. We are neighbors, and the men are comrades-in-arms. How can we be so distant? It's so strange!

Qiao Wei was quite grateful for Qiao Weiwei's character of keeping strangers away, which saved her a lot of trouble when she traveled through time.

She said: "Then next time you hear them, grab them and don't let them run away."

"You are a good girl, how can you let others ruin your reputation like this. You came to your uncle's house, did you want your uncle to find you a partner in the army? If your reputation is ruined, how can you find a partner?"

Lin Xixi said with her neck stiff: "I have never done such a thing!"

I have been reborn, and I can no longer be pointed at and scolded as a slut like in my previous life!

Qiao Wei smiled and said, "I've thought about it, maybe the man they are talking about is your uncle and our old Yan."

"Huh?"

"Didn't we go to the bathhouse to take a bath on Tuesday, and you came out alone first. Were you standing together with your uncle and my husband? There should be no one else. The men are in the camp during the day, so we can't see them. When you come back at night, you are busy cooking for your uncle and sister-in-law and taking care of the children. You don't have time to see others, right?"

Lin Xixi nodded immediately and said angrily, "Yes, yes! I haven't seen many people in these days!"

She came here just for Yan Lei, but she didn't know that Qiao Wei was not dead and Yan Lei was living a normal life step by step. The so-called normal life is that if Lin Xixi wants to see him, she has to sneak out of the house early in the morning to see him secretly, and her uncle almost found out.

How difficult it is.

She never leaves the house and still gets talked about. How hateful.

"So you see, these people don't know anything, and they start making up rumors about you just because they see you standing close to two men." Qiao Wei said, "No one can believe it."

Lin Xixi suddenly calmed down.

Because she finally realized that something was wrong. Why did she seem to be led astray by Qiao Wei? Wasn't it about Qiao Wei's elopement? Why did this woman talk about her all the time? If

she continued to talk like this, who knows where she would go. Lin Xixi made up her mind and asked directly: "Are you really not running away with someone else?"

She stared at Qiao Wei.

Qiao Wei raised her eyelids: "Find me the person who said that, and I'll take her to the playground of the compound. Let's call out everyone, men and women! I'll confront her in front of everyone and see what she has the basis to say that!"

Lin Xixi shuddered.

She didn't expect Yan Lei's lover to have such a strong character. If she really spread the news of her (suspected) elopement, what would she do if she was caught and confronted in front of so many people in the compound? She

, she has no evidence, it's all based on her aunt's "hearsay" and "it is said", but that was more than 20 years ago, almost 30 years ago.

Lin Xixi couldn't help but feel angry. It feels like spreading rumors is not a feasible path.

Qiao Wei drank up all the sugar water in the bowl, wiped her mouth with her handkerchief, turned around and asked the two children: "Is it delicious?"

Yan Xiang had also finished eating the yellow peach, holding the bowl and nodded: "Delicious!"

Wu Ni hadn't even finished eating a single piece, she was holding up her chopsticks with a yellow peach stuck on them, and was chewing until her mouth and face were covered with sugar water. Hearing this, she held a mouthful of peach and said vaguely, "Delicious! Sweet!"

"Don't talk while eating, swallow it first." Qiao Wei rubbed her furry head, turned around and got straight to the point, saying to Lin Xixi, "You've made the right choice to come here to find a partner."

"It's not that I look down on peasant brothers. We are all proletarian brothers and there's nothing to look down on. It's just that for daily life, eating, drinking, defecating and urinating, it's definitely better to find a worker or a soldier." She said, "Especially the army, the treatment is so good. Among the company-level cadres, many young unmarried people have higher salaries than workers. It's definitely better for you to find a partner in the army than in your hometown. There's enough money to spend and enough tickets to use."

Qiao Wei saw that Lin Xixi seemed to be obsessed with Yan Lei, but still wanted to guide her not to hang herself on one tree. Yan Lei is not the only man in the world.

After all, she couldn't put herself in Lin Xixi's shoes. It was also because the original text always compressed the heroine's "previous life", quickly telling the outline and immediately entering a new life to make new choices. Going straight to sweet and doting can't show the more complicated side of the heroine's heart.

Qiao Wei thought that since Yan Lei was not good enough, she could go find Zhang Lei, Zhao Lei, Li Lei, and Wang Lei.

But for Lin Xixi, she didn't just want to find someone to marry.

Life is really too unpredictable. Back then, the educated youth from the city had such a strong halo in her eyes, but later she realized that he was just a mediocre person. If she

marries a Zhang Lei or Zhao Lei, who knows whether Zhang Lei or Zhao Lei will be unemployed like her educated youth husband.

Even the current military officers will mostly be demobilized and transferred to civilian jobs in the future. Most of them are mediocre.

The better ones, like her uncle, are just middle-level leaders in an ordinary public institution. The family lives a relatively comfortable life.

But they are far from being rich.

Sister Yang also told her niece Lin Xixi who came to borrow money at that time that they had no contact with Yan Lei and it was not enough for them.

Even the family of Captain Zhao only knew Yan Lei as a "big shot".

A person's status is like a pyramid, the higher you go, the fewer people there are. There are not so many outstanding people.

For example, in a factory, there is only one team leader for every five people, one section chief for every five teams, and one workshop manager for every two production lines. There is only one factory manager for the entire factory with thousands of people. The best of the best

are those who are chosen from among a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand, and ten thousand. The rich and powerful belong to very few people.

If Lin Xixi were to be reborn and marry a mediocre person and live a mediocre life again, it would be a joke. She even felt that it was meaningless to marry a slightly stronger person and live a comfortable life.

If she doesn't want to be a wife of a high-ranking official or a superior person, then what is the purpose of her rebirth!

According to the information she has, the only nobleman she could have caught more than 20 years ago is Yan Lei!

It's not Zhang Lei or Zhao Lei, it must be Yan Lei!

Qiao Wei didn't know what Lin Xixi was going through. She never gave up on guiding Lin Xixi to find another way out, and even gave her advice: "Otherwise, take a look at the chief's guards and drivers, they are also good choices. If you follow the chief, you will have someone above you in the future, and you won't have to worry about your way out..."

Lin Xixi's visit today did not achieve the purpose at all, and she was holding her breath in her chest. Hearing this, she couldn't help it and retorted: "The chief is unlucky, so we are all unlucky together! Unless we draw a clear line..." As soon as

she said this, she suddenly realized that she had said something she shouldn't have said, and her voice stopped abruptly.

Qiao Wei gently tucked the loose hair behind her ears and asked calmly: "What boundary? What do you want to draw?"

Lin Xixi hesitated: "It's just that it's okay to be with the leader, what if something happens..."

She had something to hide, and she avoided the question: "Wu Ni'er, Wu Ni'er, have you finished eating? Let's go back!"

Qiao Wei scolded her: "Let her finish the sugar water."

No one in the future will drink this sugar water, it's too sweet, who would drink it. But here, put a spoonful of sugar in the white water, and the children all drink it happily. This sugar water also has the taste of yellow peach, sweet, for Wu Ni'er, she would not trade it for anything else.

She held the bowl and drank it all in one gulp.

After drinking, she wanted to wipe her mouth with her sleeve, but Qiao Wei caught her quickly: "Hey, hey!"

She pulled Wu Ni'er to the hand-pressure well, fetched water for her to wash her sticky mouth, chin, face and hands, and threw her own hand towel to wipe her dry: "Remember to bring hand towel."

After cleaning up neatly, she pushed her to Lin Xixi: "Okay."

It was clean.

Lin Xixi grabbed her hand and scolded her: "You are greedy!"

What's so delicious about broken yellow peach cans.

She was a middle-aged woman in the 1990s, with a low level of education. She educated her children in the most traditional and old-fashioned way - let them run wild, beat and scold, and don't take it seriously.

Especially at this time, she was in a very bad mood, and she didn't control her strength when she pulled, and Wu Ni'er pulled her and made her stumble.

She came with Wu Ni'er in her arms, and left by dragging her along.

The three words "good stepmother" repeatedly emphasized in the original text cracked at this moment. Without sufficient interests, there is no motivation to maintain a face of loving children.

Qiao Wei watched her go out, and even the fake smile on her face faded.

After Lin Xixi left, she went over and closed the door.

Turning around, Yan Xiang was still sitting on the bench with a bowl of sugar water. When Qiao Wei went over, he said, "Mom, Sister Lin is scary."

Although Yan Xiang is young, he is very delicate and sensitive. Lin Xixi accidentally broke the character of "liking children", and he noticed it keenly.

So later, under the "love" of the stepmother, he became such a taciturn boy.

Qiao Wei felt distressed.

She squatted down and rubbed Yan Xiang's head: "Don't be afraid, she is someone else's family anyway."

Yan Xiang's small body relaxed.

Qiao Wei rubbed his head again.

Not only did Lin Xixi fail to find out the information she wanted to know from Qiao Wei, but she was also given a lot of suggestions on finding a partner. So

annoying, what kind of partner should she find. She only wants to marry Yan Lei. Who can compare to Yan Lei.

They don't know how high an official Yan Lei will be in the future.

Lin Xixi didn't expect that her uncle, Captain Zhao, was already arranging a blind date for her.

After returning in the evening and having dinner, Captain Zhao whispered to his wife: "Let's make arrangements for this Saturday night. You, dress up Xixi."

Why dress up? Because Lin Xixi came from the countryside, and all her clothes were brought from the countryside. Although she was young and pretty, and looked good even in a sack, for a formal occasion like a blind date, Captain Zhao still wanted her to dress more elegantly. He

was really worried about his own niece.

He said, "How about buying her a bra?"

Sister Yang slapped his arm and said angrily, "You're so poor. How can you get so many cloth coupons? Military No. 5 Ni'er's clothes are all patched."

Captain Zhao was also in a dilemma. It wasn't that he couldn't afford it, but that the cloth coupons were too tight. He had many children in his family and was particularly wasteful of cloth. He often had to find ways to get cloth coupons everywhere.

Sister Yang said, "Don't be embarrassed. I see that Xixi and Yan's family are about the same height. Xiao Qiao has a lot of beautiful clothes. I'll go borrow some from her."

If it was someone else, Captain Zhao thought it was okay, and it would be common for them to borrow things from each other, even clothes, to save face. But Qiao Wei... that woman, relying on her education and beauty, is cold and arrogant, and has no eyes for anyone, especially those of us who come from the countryside.

The peasant Captain Zhao doesn't like to deal with Qiao Wei either.

"Is it okay? Her?"

Sister Yang snorted, "You still don't allow her to make progress? I think she finally got her way after being bullied by her relatives in the provincial capital. At least she knows some worldly ways. I'll go find her now."

Sister Yang went to borrow clothes in a hurry.