Chapter 7 Chapter 7 The relationship is thus established

Zhang Meili smiled and stopped eating secretly. She just kept circling behind Wang Nian, happily shouting, "I want to order this too."

Huang Qiuhong saw all of this.

My favorable impression of Wang Nian deepened a little bit.

Wu Ying said that Wang Nian was very thoughtful and could chat with anyone on the production team, young or old.

In just a few hours, he was able to make the girl obey him willingly. I have to say he really has some skills.

After the two meat dishes were cooked, Wang Nian also cooked some scrambled eggs with tomatoes, which made the children scream when they saw it.

At least Zhang Meili never stood still as soon as she saw the tomatoes being put into the pot. She had to get closer to smell the aroma of the scrambled eggs, and then she took a small bowl to leave more for the rice.

When Wang Nian took the last dish of stir-fried Chinese cabbage out of the pot, Sister Hu looked at the same stir-fried Chinese cabbage in her enamel bowl and felt that it was not as delicious as others.

Facts have proved that... Sister Hu was not wrong.

When the food was brought into the house, Wu Ying immediately stopped "interrogating" Shi Xiangming. At least in Zhang Liang's opinion, even the political review in the factory was not that strict.

But thanks to Wu Ying, Zhang Liang heard many things that he had never known before.

Because of Shi Xiangming's marriage, my parents rarely contacted my grandfather and my second uncle's family. They only went back once when my grandfather passed away.

Shi's father and mother hated the old man's feudal ideas that harmed their son, and they hated Uncle Shi's instigation even more.

Anyway, the two families have almost stopped communicating since Grandpa Shi passed away.

Shi Xiangming also has a house in Anhuai City, which was allocated to him when he first joined the Municipal Engineering Academy.

In the end...Shi Xiangming was actually receiving the salary of a mid-level administrative cadre.

The monthly salary is 180 yuan, of which 60 is subsidized by the National Academy of Engineering and 40 is subsidized by the Municipal Academy of Engineering.

Zhang Liang only knew that Shi Xiangming's salary was high, but he didn't expect it to be this high.

As a mid-level technician in the factory, Zhang Liang's salary is only 65 yuan, and the salary of Zhang Liang and his wife combined is not as high as that of Shi Xiangming alone.

If it weren't for Shi Xiangming's ability, the Municipal Engineering Institute would rather subsidize his salary than let him go.

After learning about these circumstances, Wu Ying was not unhappy at all. She put down the dishes and asked Shi Xiangming to start eating.

The small dining table was packed with five adults.

Zhang Meili did not sit at the table. She happily brought a bowl of rice to Wang Nian's side, waiting for the bowls to pile up into a small mountain. She immediately took the bowl and went to the next room with satisfaction.

"Everyone, start eating!" Huang Qiuhong called everyone.

"I have to work overtime tonight, so I won't drink this wine." Zhang Liang took the pork liver in front of his chopsticks first: "Tomorrow I will have a good drink of the wine that Xiang Ming treated us to."

The meaning of the words was self-evident. Wang Nian just smiled when he heard it, knowing that if he didn't express his opinion at this moment, it would mean that he agreed.

Shi Xiangming glanced to the side and smiled after a moment, "No need to change it to tomorrow. I'll treat Brother Zhang to dinner at the factory hotel tomorrow."

In this era, expressions of emotions are very subtle. There are no passionate confessions, let alone sweet talk.

As long as both parties are satisfied with the blind date, it means that they will start living together with the intention of getting married.

"That's great, then we two will go back tomorrow and try the food at the factory restaurant." Zhang Liang replied.

"The food in the hotel cannot be as delicious as that cooked by my second sister." Huang Qiuhong smiled and changed the subject, trying her best to steer the conversation back to the food.

Occasionally, he saw that Wang Nian, who was always calm and composed, had red ears. How could he expect the girl to eat her meal in peace if he made a few more jokes to her?

Wang Nian's shyness came from the gaze that was fixed on her profile.

I should overturn the impression I had when I first met Shi Xiangming. This guy... is not shy at all.

Just as he was thinking this, a handful of shredded pork fell into the bowl in front of him. Shi Xiangming laughed in a low voice, and obviously noticed Wang Nian's red ears.

“…”

"Second sister, you have to teach me how to stir-fry pork liver later."

It tastes sour, spicy and tender, but has no fishy smell. The stickiness that is unique to pig liver has also disappeared.

As you chew, the spicy taste goes straight into your throat.

Huang Qiuhong picked up the bowl and ate a few mouthfuls of rice, speaking incoherently.

I used to feel that spicy food tasted bland in my mouth, with no other flavor except the spiciness.

Today's pickled pepper pork liver really gave Huang Qiuhong a new understanding of spicy food. The spicy taste can have many levels, which are transmitted to the tip of the tongue layer by layer.

"Okay." Wang replied.

Although... Huang Qiuhong was in the kitchen from beginning to end and had already seen every step of Wang Nian.

Shi Xiangming ate in a very polite manner, holding the bowl in one hand and picking up the food with the other. There was no sound from his mouth when he chewed, and it was obvious that he was well-educated.

After taking a bite of shredded meat, his expression finally changed.

Speaking of today's blind date, Shi Xiangming was not very willing at first, and in fact he had rejected Huang Qiuhong's kindness long ago.

Plus with Zhou Shanxiu around, she was even more resistant to the upcoming blind date.

In order to avoid the blind date, Shi Xiangming hid in the workshop office to read, but was eventually found by Zhang Liang and had no choice but to make this trip.

After dinner, I must express my attitude to the lesbian...

The meal was not finished yet, and Shi Xiangming was not reluctant at all. He just wanted to get to know Wang Nian better.

You can say that he was "lusted by her beauty"; or you can say that it was just a startling glance.

In short...Shi Xiangming talked about a lot of family matters that he had never mentioned to anyone before, and he also specifically reported his salary.

In fact, Wu Ying didn't mention salary at all in her question just now. She asked about hobbies and future plans.

As if possessed by some strange force, he just blurted it out!

Now there is a new impression: the ability to cook.

Just as a few people were chatting happily, a burst of crying suddenly broke out in the next room.

"Yes, beautiful. I'll go see what's going on."

The sound was mainly howling and crying. Just as Huang Qiuhong stood up, Zhang Meili had already swept into the house like the wind.

Hold the bowl with one hand and cover the edge of the bowl with the other.

Behind her, a baby in open-crotch pants with tears on his face stumbled in, grabbing food with one greasy little hand and putting it into his mouth.

Everyone understood what was going on. Huang Qiuhong patted Zhang Meili's back, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. "It's just giving some to the third kid, so what?"

"I gave it to you." Zhang Meili also felt wronged: "If you give me more, I won't be full."

The third child was still calling out incoherently, "I want to eat." His eyes, like black grapes, were fixed on Zhang Meili's bowl.

Sister Hu followed a few steps behind and ran into the house, grabbing Sanwazi's collar with an apologetic look on her face.

"If you don't know, you might think I don't feed my children enough!"

Huang Qiuhong waved her hands: "I'll get a bowl to help the third child pick up some food so that he can eat slowly."

Why else...it's because my family's life is not going well.

There had been no meat in the Lu family's home for ten days or half a month, and they didn't know who to give the meat coupons issued by the factory to.

The third child is over three years old, but he is not as strong as the two-year-old girl downstairs.

Hu Lian and Lu Cuiyun were fighting, but in the end it was their own children who suffered.

Sister Hu felt a little embarrassed, but she couldn't bear to refuse, so she finally took the bowl back awkwardly.

"From now on, you are not allowed to visit other people's houses when you have meals." Huang Qiuhong immediately lectured Zhang Meili: "People who don't know would think you are showing off!"

Zhang Meili was not convinced, but when she thought of the dishes left by Wang Nian in the cupboard, her mood suddenly improved.

"If you don't want to go, then don't go!"

Zhang Meili simply ran behind Wang Nian and asked her to pick up some food.

The situation at Sister Hu's house, which is separated from the Zhang family by a wall, is completely different.

There were two stir-fried dishes on the table. The cabbage was overcooked in water, and the originally green leaves turned wilted and yellow and were unappetizing.

Lu Rong stretched out his chopsticks to the stir-fried cabbage, but couldn't help but turn it around halfway.

"Why are you snatching food from the child?"

He didn't dare pick up any meat with his chopsticks, but instead picked up a few stalks of celery. However, he still couldn't escape his wife's scolding.

Lu Rong put down his bowl and chopsticks in annoyance and knocked his bowl with his chopsticks: "Look at what they eat, and then look at what our family looks like!"

Sister Hu's mother-in-law put down her chopsticks silently.

"Their monthly salary is over 100 yuan for a couple, and we...we only make 90 yuan. How dare you want to eat meat every day?" Sister Hu rolled her eyes at her mother-in-law who looked like an old Buddha, and continued: "100 yuan is enough to support four people, and we have 90 yuan to support six people. If we don't save a little...it won't be enough."

When he said this, Lu Rong suddenly became silent and picked up the bowl without saying a word.

When Granny Lu saw her son's plight, she lowered her head and snorted coldly.

Lu Cuiyun is not here today. Otherwise, if she and her mother-in-law had not joined forces to instigate Lu Rong, no one would have been able to eat the lunch.

"Who cooked the dish at Zhang Liang's house today? It tastes really good."

The water celery that grows everywhere in the ditch behind the mountain tastes surprisingly good when stir-fried with meat.

"Sister Huang is her sister." Seeing that her son had finished eating and there was still some food left in the bowl, Sister Hu simply picked up some pig liver with her chopsticks and said, "I don't think so."

"What's not like?" Lu Rong asked hurriedly, his hands were not idle either, he picked up chopsticks for his mother as well.

Sister Hu looked on coldly and told about the person she had just seen in the Zhang family's living room.

"You said Chief Engineer Shi is here too?" Lu Rong was surprised.

"That's right. Chief Engineer Shi sat next to that female comrade and even helped her with food."

"Could it be... that this is Chief Engineer Shi's target?"

"I think so!" Sister Hu curled her lips and glanced at her mother-in-law's increasingly dark face, feeling extremely happy in her heart.

She doesn't even look at what kind of person her daughter is, and she's still planning on marrying Shi Xiangming. Her plan to become a cadre's mother-in-law has failed, and I wonder how angry she must be!

Seeing that her mother-in-law was unhappy, Sister Hu's anger was instantly dissipated.

"You know what, that young lesbian is pretty and generous, even an outsider likes her..."

Sister Hu happily praised Wang Nianlai to Lu Rong.

As they were talking, the couple unexpectedly started to eavesdrop on the conversation of the people next door.

There is a red brick wall in the middle of the house, so if you want to listen to what your neighbors say, you don't even need to build a wall.

Then... they heard Shi Xiangming actually took the initiative to offer to send Wang Nian back to the brigade.

They both stood up and watched them walk down the corridor.

"Don't say that! They are quite compatible."

Huang Qiuhong and Sister Hu couldn't help but sigh at the same time.