When she returned home in the evening, Bai Ruozhen looked at the empty house and suddenly missed Gu Changqing very much. Even though her man was too strong and had a strong temper, she couldn't wait to see her.
However, until he fell asleep, Bai Ruozhen was lying alone in the room.
The next morning, Bai Ruozhen went back to Xiahe Village, got a certificate and her household registration book, and then returned to school without stopping to register her household. From then on, she was truly a citizen of Yancheng and a person who ate rationed food.
After everything was done, Bai Ruozhen returned to her daily routine of going to work in the morning and eating alone after get off work in the evening. Occasionally, Gu Changlan would come over for dinner, and sometimes she would go to Wang Jun's house for dinner, but whenever it was late at night and everyone was asleep, she couldn't help but miss her man.
I don’t know where her husband is now.
The man that Bai Ruozhen thought about day and night was in Hotan in the northwest. As soon as they arrived in Xinjiang, Gu Changqing and Qiu Qiming separated. One went to unload and move the goods as usual, and the other took a car to Hotan.
At the end of June, the second-year high school students graduated, and Bai Ruozhen took a day off to help Gu Xiaoli pack her things.
Gu Xiaoli was very happy and pulled Bai Ruozhen towards the dormitory. "My fifth brother has finally left. Sister Zhenzhen, I will stay with you in Yancheng this year."
Bai Ruozhen was more than happy to accept the offer.
Arriving at the dormitory, Bai Ruozhen stared at the small room in a daze. "Are you going to live here?"
"Isn't it quite small?" Gu Xiaoli frowned. "I wasn't used to it when I first came here either. There were more than 20 people crammed into such a small room. I was lucky enough to have a bed to myself, but look at the others, they're all squeezed in with two people."
Bai Ruozhen nodded, looked at the bed which was only one meter wide and curled her lips, but didn't say much. Cloth and cotton were hard to buy these days, and you couldn't buy them even if you had money but no tickets. Generally, there were several children in a family, and if each child had to prepare bedding, it would be a big expense. However, two people sharing a bed could save half of the money. Before she went to the countryside, she shared a bed with Bai Ruoxin and Bai Liqiang.
Everyone in the room was packing up their things and looked very excited. After all, there were not many high school students in Yancheng, and most of them would be assigned to good jobs after graduation.
When Gu Xiaoli led Bai Ruozhen into the dormitory, she attracted the attention of others. Someone soon recognized her, "Isn't this the beauty from the cafeteria?"
"Yes, I have seen her."
"That's right, many male classmates go to see her."
Bai Ruozhen smiled awkwardly. Others saw her standing with Gu Xiaoli and asked, "Hey, Gu Xiaoli, how do you know her?"
Gu Xiaoli raised her chin and said proudly, "This is my fifth sister-in-law."
"Fifth sister-in-law?" Everyone was shocked. "Then, then the one who came to pick her up was your fifth brother?"
Gu Xiaoli nodded, "Yes."
The person who spoke was her classmate. They didn't have a very good relationship normally, but now he asked, "Is that the man in tattered clothes?"
Before Gu Xiaoli could refute, she heard Huang Meihong, who was good friends with her, retort, "Wang Qing, what are you talking about? His fifth brother is really good-looking. Don't talk nonsense if you haven't seen him."
"Why haven't I seen him before? I have seen him before. He was wearing a tattered coat and looked like a beggar." Wang Qing said unwillingly.
Bai Ruozhen blinked and watched the two little girls quarreling over her man.
"What are you talking about?" Gu Xiaoli raised her eyebrows and pointed at her face and said to Wang Qing, "Look at me like this, how could my fifth brother look bad? You are just blind and can't see that my fifth brother looks good."
"What's so good about it? Is it good enough to wear something tattered?" Wang Qing hated Gu Xiaoli the most. She was clearly at the bottom of the class in junior high, but suddenly became a superstar in high school, always getting first place on the exams. What irritated her the most was how many people praised her for her beauty. But can good looks really make a living? To be polite, she was both pretty and a good student, so Wang Qing always regarded Gu Xiaoli as a thorn in his side.
Gu Xiaoli rolled her eyes and refused to pay attention to her. She turned to Bai Ruozhen and said, "Sister-in-law, let's pack up and go back early."
Bai Ruozhen pursed her lips and smiled, and suddenly heard a gasp.
“So beautiful.”
Bai Ruozhen looked up and saw Huang Meihong staring at her blankly. Bai Ruozhen smiled, causing Huang Meihong to blush.
Wang Qing looked at her with disdain and snorted at her appearance, but he agreed in his heart that Gu Xiaoli's fifth sister-in-law was very beautiful.
Gu Xiaoli didn't have much stuff. She had taken her thick bedding back to her hometown long ago. All that was left was a mat, a thin blanket, a pillow, and a few pieces of clothes.
After packing up their things, some people left one after another. Bai Ruozhen and Gu Xiaoli each took a little and prepared to leave. Before leaving, Huang Meihong was reluctant to let them go, "Xiaoli, remember to come and play with me."
Gu Xiaoli patted her hands and said, "No problem, you can come and play with me. I'm staying in Yancheng for the time being and won't be going back."
"What are country bumpkins doing in the city if they don't go back to the countryside? Eating dirt?"
Bai Ruozhen looked up and saw that it was Wang Qing.
Wang Qing saw that she looked at him with some displeasure, "Why, wasn't what I said right? It's only natural to return to the countryside after graduation. You should go back to farming."
"Alas." Bai Ruozhen shook his head and sighed, "I thought high school students would be highly conscious, but I didn't expect them to be just this high. It seems even high school students are mixed. Some are highly conscious, believing that workers and farmers are one family, while others look down on farmers and have no awareness at all. It's really... they're not even as good as a junior high school student like me, who actively responded to support national construction after graduation."
Wang Qing was stunned for a moment and then said, "I don't look down on farmers..."
"Excuse me, are you a farmer's child?" Bai Ruozhen looked at Wang Qing with an innocent expression.
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