Chapter 5 Chapter 5 First Meeting

Huang Qiuhong lives in the first room on the second floor of a three-story red brick house, which is one of the earliest staff buildings built in the factory area.

It's a one-bedroom, one-living room house, with the kitchen opposite the room and the public toilet at the end of the corridor.

"Meili, please bring some sugar and water to Auntie and Sister Wang Nian. I'm going to your father's office."

After leading the two men to her doorstep, Huang Qiuhong pulled out a girl of eight or nine years old from next door, then turned around and went downstairs angrily.

"Auntie, have some tea."

Zhang Meili was an outgoing child. After welcoming the two into the living room and sitting them down, she poured them tea and brought them sugar.

He first poured tea for Wu Ying, then poured a cup of boiled water with sugar, and even took out a sugar biscuit from the cupboard and handed it to Wang Nian.

"My mom said lesbians like to eat sweet things, so you eat it, sister."

"You want to eat it, right?" Wang Nian saw through the child's thoughts at a glance, took the candy cookie and put it to her mouth with a smile: "Eat it, I won't tell your mother."

"Thank you, sister."

Zhang Meili was impressed by the "considerate" Wang Nian. She sat down on the edge of the sofa and started to wolf down the candy biscuits.

In addition to a wooden sofa, there is also a bed against the wall in the living room. At night, you can pull the curtain and it becomes a bedroom.

So the small living room was very crowded, and it was impossible to get up and move around in the house.

"Eat slowly."

The way Zhang Meili was crunching the cake looked like a little squirrel. It must be because her parents were very strict with her, so she had to eat as much as she could when she got the chance.

The little girl stretched her neck, choking on the dry biscuits, but she was still reluctant to stop.

Seeing this, Wang Nian quickly brought the cup of boiled water that was poured for him to her mouth, and holding his head, he drank half of it.

Seeing that the popularity was good, I patted him on the back a few times.

"Sister." Zhang Meili drank another sip of water and winked at Wang Nian slyly: "I know that sister is here for a blind date."

"That's great. You can tell your sister what kind of person Comrade Shi is?" Wang Nian asked with a smile.

"Chief Engineer Shi walks really fast, and his arms are so long..."

Zhang Meili and Huang Qiuhong have similar personalities. Once they start talking, they chatter non-stop, describing Shi Xiangming in her mind completely from a child's perspective.

He was a man of few words, and all the children in the factory were afraid of him. He could lift a ten-year-old child with one hand.

Wu Ying and Wang Nian both laughed out loud at the lifelike performance.

Time passed by unknowingly...

It was not until Huang Qiuhong hurriedly pushed open the door that Zhang Meili seemed to have been paused and quickly sat aside obediently.

"I found out."

Huang Qiuhong sat down and grabbed Wang Nian's hand. She continued with a smile, "Comrade Shi did not agree to the blind date introduced by Wang Wenfang. She shamelessly brought the female comrade to the door of the dormitory."

The factory says it is very big, but any slight disturbance will spread everywhere in half an hour.

As soon as Huang Qiuhong arrived at the dormitory building, she was stopped by the head of the security department, who said that it was Wang Wenfang who brought an unmarried female comrade into the single men's dormitory building and was reported to the security department.

After receiving the news, they immediately rushed to the dormitory building and happened to run into Wang Wenfang cursing at the door of Shi Xiangming's dormitory.

"Do you know what Wang Wenfang cursed at?" Huang Qiuhong panted and wiped her eyes, "She cursed Comrade Shi for being blind. He deserved to be cuckolded."

Wang Nianwei was a little surprised: "What did Comrade Shi say? She actually didn't care and just exposed his scars."

"Comrade Shi's ancestors are from a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners. Mr. Shi was a doctor in the army before he retired." Huang Qiuhong deliberately kept the secret.

Wu Ying still didn't understand what Wang Wenfang's swearing had to do with Shi Xiangming's family background.

"Could it be that Comrade Shi has figured out something?" Wang Nian asked with a thought in mind.

"Comrade Xiao Wang is really smart." Huang Qiuhong patted Wang Nian's hand, sent Zhang Meili out first, and then continued in a low voice: "I heard... I heard it too, I heard that the girl is pregnant..."

Shi Xiangming politely declined Zhou Shanxiu's request to get to know each other first, but he did not expect this to anger Wang Wenfang.

First, he advised that the two kids needed a mother to take care of them, and then he said how good the girl was, and that she must be much better than the one Huang Qiuhong introduced...

Anyway, he just kept going around in circles and refused to leave, as if he would not stop until Shi Xiangming agreed.

Afterwards, Shi Xiangming called the two into the dormitory and talked to them privately for a few minutes.

He suggested that the woman should get married at the latest after three months, otherwise if she is pregnant, the Reform Commission will find out and she will be paraded through the streets.

Zhou Shanxiu's face turned pale after just a few words and he ran out without saying a word.

If anyone still can't figure out the reason, then he has wasted his years.

Wang Wenfang must have believed it in her heart, but she knew her own reasons and couldn't admit it publicly. Otherwise, no one in the factory would dare to ask her to be an introducer in the future.

Later, I don't know what I was thinking, I just cursed Shi Xiangming

Shi Xiangming did not retort, and finally apologized to Wang Wenfang, thinking that he was just talking nonsense.

"It's not that I was mistaken. I just didn't want someone with ulterior motives to find fault with me and cause trouble for that female comrade," said Huang Qiuhong.

Wang Nianshen agreed.

If you don't make a move, it's fine. But once you make a move, you will just trample your opponent into the mud and rub him.

I called her into the dormitory to talk about it privately because I didn't want to make a big deal out of it, but I didn't expect that Wang Wenfang would insist on making a big fuss and let the whole building know what they said.

In the end, he admitted his mistake, probably to protect Zhou Shanxiu's reputation.

What kind of person is Shi Xiangming?

An engineer with long legs and good education?

Or is he a descendant of a traditional Chinese medicine family who is a little soft-hearted but definitely not weak?

No matter who it was, Wang Nian's curiosity about this person became stronger and stronger.

"My husband has gone to the office to call Comrade Shi. They will be here soon..."

At this point, Huang Qiuhong's eyes flickered. She glanced at Wang Nian, cleared her throat, and suddenly said, "We don't have any food prepared at home. How about Comrade Xiao Wang and my daughter Meili go to the vegetable market to buy some?"

This meant to get Wang Nian and Wu Ying away so they could talk alone.

Of course Wang Nian could hear it, so he stood up and patted his wrinkled pants with a smile: "Then I'll go call Meili."

The two went downstairs chatting and laughing.

***

Just as Wang Nian and Zhang Meili were walking home after buying groceries as instructed by Huang Qiuhong, two men were walking about ten meters behind them.

The short, bald-headed middle-aged man kept talking, and the young gay just nodded silently and listened from beginning to end.

"Your sister-in-law is doing this for your own good." The middle-aged man wiped the saliva that had sprayed out of excitement with the back of his hand, and continued to advise earnestly: "Don't you really plan to never get married..."

The young man had a slender figure, with gentleness and calmness in his eyes. He raised his bony right hand and gently pinched his eyebrows. His every move revealed elegance.

"Even if you look down on lesbians, you are not allowed to say such nonsense."

Zhang Liang's eyebrows twitched wildly when he thought of what had just happened, fearing that the couple had offended the woman just like Wang Wenfang had.

"Don't tease me. I was forced into no choice!" Shi Xiangming smiled bitterly helplessly.

If Comrade Zhou had not been so aggressive and his words contained a threat that his reputation would be ruined if he did not get married, who would have mercilessly pointed out her pregnancy in public?

Reason and facts are completely vulnerable in the face of nonsense.

"The girl your sister-in-law Qiuhong introduced is different. I asked someone to inquire about her at the Red Flag Brigade. Guess what..."

You wouldn’t know unless you asked, but Wang Nian is a famous figure in the Red Flag Brigade.

Anyone in the brigade who had a daughter had learned to read and write from someone else. The mere fact that the female comrades in the brigade were literate was enough to attract many men when they reached marriageable age.

He is educated and popular in the team, and even when he feeds pigs, he can feed them fatter than others.

"I'm really good at teaching kids..." Zhang Liang was talking with saliva flying all over the place. He turned around and found that Shi Xiangming didn't listen at all. His eyes were staring blankly in front of him: "Did you hear what I said?"

Shi Xiangming heard it. Not only did he hear it clearly, he also matched the person Uncle Zhang was talking about with his appearance.

I was first attracted by Zhang Meili's laughter, and then I saw Wang Nian wearing a light blue shirt.

She smiled, her slightly raised lips full of youth, and her two long black braids swung behind her as she turned slightly to the side.

At just one glance, Shi Xiangming recognized Wang Nian as the good-looking lesbian he had just seen in the car.

What makes Wang Nian good-looking is not her outstanding appearance, but her pair of deer-like deep pupils, which make people feel like they will fall into her at first sight.

Shi Xiangming knew that describing a person like this seemed very empty, but when he looked back through the glass just now, that feeling was the only thing lingering in his mind.

And...the light blue color suits Wang Nian's fair skin very well.

“Isn’t that my home beautiful?”

Zhang Liang followed Shi Xiangming's gaze and saw the little daughter Zhang Meili at a glance.

"beauty!"

Zhang Meili's laughter while holding her stomach was so conspicuous that Zhang Liang didn't even notice Wang Nian next to her.

After the shout, Wang Nian and Zhang Meili turned around at the same time and were surprised to realize that the strange lesbian should be Shi Xiangming's blind date today.

Subconsciously, he turned to look at Shi Xiangming.

“…”

Shi Xiangming adjusted his collar with one hand and grabbed his hair with the other, a look of panic flashing across his face.

There's hope!

Zhang Liang laughed, took two steps forward, and extended his hand to Wang Nian: "You are Comrade Wang Nian, right?"

"Hello, Technician Zhang, I'm Wang Nian."

Zhang Meili whispered "Dad" in Wang Nian's ear, and Wang Nian immediately knew that the person coming was Huang Qiuhong's lover, a technician in the fifth workshop of Factory 431.

As for the gay man with really long legs, it should be... Shi Xiangming.

Wang Nian smiled faintly.

Shi Xiangming, who is favored by Zhou Shanxiu, is indeed good-looking.

A set of washed-out people's clothes seemed to fit him particularly well, making his figure more upright, with broad shoulders and narrow waist.

She must be a very shy person. When Wang Nian looked over, her ears immediately turned red with embarrassment.

"This is Comrade Shi Xiangming." Zhang Liang happily pulled Shi Xiangming, who was standing behind him, forward and said, "This kid is just tall and shy!"

Shi Xiangming: “…”

Unexpectedly, Wang Nian replied with a smile: "You can tell."

This time, Shi Xiangming's neck turned red instantly.