Chapter 85 Two in One
Ding Guo's rotation study returned to his own workshop to help other pastry groups.
After not coming back for a few days, I found three unfamiliar faces in the workshop.
After asking, I found out that it was the assistance mission, and that the people were arranged by a commune in the district or county below to come and study.
There were also some in the workshops where she had rotated and studied, but Ding Guo was in a new environment and had no time to take care of other things. Besides, most of the faces in other workshops were unfamiliar to her.
"How many days have they been studying here?" Ding Guo asked in a low voice.
The older sister who led her was about 36 or 37 years old. Her name was Zheng Lainan. She had participated in new product development activities before and had sent samples to Ding Guo's group. Although she was not in the same group, she was familiar with them. While sprinkling sugar into the milk, she said, "It's been four or five days. I heard that there are educated youth who went to the countryside there, and there are also girls from the local villages. I heard from Lao Hou from Group 5 that the locals were fighting fiercely for these places. Some people made trouble, some complained, and some exposed their shortcomings. Anyway, they used all means and almost broke their heads. Although they are fighting so fiercely, I heard that they are not formal employees yet, and the factory is not big. I heard that their commune leaders also came here and wanted to buy some old equipment from the food factory in Fengning. I don't know if the negotiation was successful."
This seems to be another plot that is not in the book...
Ding Guo just sighed in his heart when the system reminded him: "Host, it is in the book, but the length is not long."
"No, no matter how short the story is, it's still a plot. I can't have no impression of it at all."
System: "It is related to the main character, Yue Hongmei's niece, Yue Maisui."
After the system reminded her, a small plot finally flashed through Ding Guo's mind, and she suddenly realized: "Oh, the heroine's cousin who came to the city to study?"
It's no wonder that she couldn't remember. The book only said that the character came to Fengning to study, but it didn't say what he studied or where he studied. But whenever the food factory was mentioned, she remembered it.
Because the main purpose of this character's appearance is to point out the conflict between the heroine's mother Yue Hongmei and her natal family, as well as to cause trouble for the heroine's family. In the end, he had to leave Fengning because the heroine lost his study quota, completing a small plot of fighting against the best in the text.
"So it's this plot. They only wrote about the extremely good relatives, but didn't mention the female supporting role's study in the city at all. It was so brief that it can't even be considered a passing mention." Ding Guo took the time to look to the other side, glanced at the three unfamiliar faces, and said, "I wonder if Yue Maisui is in this workshop!"
None of these three faces looks like Yue Hongmei.
After all, they are aunt and niece, so there should be some similarities between their eyebrows and eyes.
"This niece Yue Hongmei seems to be a white lotus as well. Compared with the heroine in the book, her attributes are more straightforward, while the heroine's attributes are not so straightforward. But now that the plot has shifted so seriously, Yue Maisui should not be able to live in the Ding family, right?"
In the book, Yue Maisui moved into the Ding family crying and playing the emotional card, which then triggered some plots that made readers uncomfortable. In the end, the heroine personally eliminated Bai Lianhua.
But now, little Laoliu is already sharing a room with his parents, so where is the room for Yue Maisui to live in?
Now, affected by the misfortune of the Pan family, Ding Nianjun probably no longer has the leisurely mood in the books, and no longer often goes home for big meals. Then he comes into conflict with Yue Maisui, resulting in a series of conflicts.
Ding Guo is quite looking forward to how the butterfly wings will stir up the plot.
I had lunch with Zhang Xing'er at noon. Zhang Xing'er saw Ding Guo looking around and couldn't help but ask curiously: "What are you looking at?"
Ding Guo: "I want to see the people who come to our factory to study this time."
She had to recognize the female hero who caused trouble for Ding Nianjun and made him so angry that he lost his qualification to study.
However, there were many people in the cafeteria, and after looking around he couldn't find a face that looked like Yue Hongmei's niece, so he looked away and focused on eating.
At this time in the Ding family's living room, Yue Hongmei looked at her niece sitting on the sofa with a stern face.
The little girl sitting on the sofa just turned 16 this year. There were a few tears on her delicate oval face. She sobbed softly, and I felt pity for her: "Aunt, that dormitory is really not a place for people to live. There are more than a dozen people. I haven't slept well for two days. If I didn't have a severe headache, I wouldn't have come to bother you, aunt."
When Ding Jianguo got married, she not only did not invite Ding's family, she also did not notify her own family.
As one of the heroine's most important relatives, Yue Hongmei has a bunch of excellent family members.
The parents are patriarchal and good at sucking their daughter's blood, the elder brother is honest and incompetent, the elder sister-in-law is calculating, and the younger brother is spoiled but uneducated and married to a charming but lazy sister-in-law. This younger brother also gave birth to a daughter who is as beautiful as a little white lotus.
In Yue Hongmei's eyes, the charming sister-in-law was bought with the salary she earned in the years before her marriage.
What she couldn't accept the most was that her brother's wife was two years older than her brother, and they were classmates. Moreover, they were sworn enemies and hated each other. In other words, she spent several years' salary on the person she hated the most. How could Yue Hongmei accept this?
She hated her parents for spoiling her younger brother, and hated her parents even more for spending her money on her younger brother, so in recent years Yue Hongmei only went back home once a year during the Spring Festival, and had almost no contact with her family at other times.
It was precisely because she had suffered from the preference for boys over girls that she claimed that she did not have this problem. She used to boast to Ding Zhigang that she had not inherited her parents' shortcomings, but she ignored her eldest daughter who was sent to her mother-in-law's house.
She doesn't favor boys over girls, she just prefers a more unique style.
Yue Hongmei disliked this niece very much. Seeing her was as if she saw the person she hated the most back then. It happened that that person had seduced her brother's soul and drained away her salary for several years.
She took a deep breath, tried to force out a smile, and said, "Mai Sui, if it was half a month ago, it wouldn't be a problem for your aunt to let you stay at home, but your cousin Jianguo just got married, there's one more person in the family, and there's really no place to live. Your cousin Xiangxiang is already so old, but she's still sharing a room with us. Your cousin Nianjun is getting married soon, too, so she should move back home to get married, but there's no room, so you can only live in the company dormitory."
Yue Maisui sniffed, looked at Yue Hongmei pitifully, and whispered, "Aunt, can you help me ask cousin Nianjun if it's okay for me to squeeze into her dormitory? You always said that cousin Nianjun is kind-hearted, so she shouldn't disagree, right?"
Yue Hongmei: ...
She smiled stiffly: "Your cousin Nianjun is getting married soon..."
Originally, Junjun should have moved back home before getting married, but there was really no room for her at home. Yue Hongmei felt that Junjun had been wronged, and she would never agree to let her niece share a bed with Nianjun. How could two people sleep in a single bed and have a good rest?
Of course, she was not worried that Yue Maisui would not get a good rest, she was worried that her Junjun would not get a good rest.
Yue Mai Sui raised her little face and said seriously, "I know. I'm just staying with cousin Nianjun. I won't stop her from getting married!"
“…”
Yes, it was this feeling of powerlessness. Yue Hongmei seemed to have returned to her teenage years. Every time she confronted Sun Bocai, she felt this kind of powerlessness, unable to communicate and so angry that her heart ached.
Yue Hongmei suppressed her anger and directly refused in a cold voice: "No, your sister Nianjun will not be able to rest well. Although there are many people in the dormitory you live in now, at least everyone has a bed. It is more comfortable than two people sharing a bed, right? Mai Sui, I'm not saying anything to you, but don't learn from your mother. A person should be able to endure hardships. You can't even endure this little bit of hardship..."
The little girl opposite started sobbing again, her shoulders heaving, and she sobbed, "Aunt, I, I'm not afraid of hardship, and it's not that I can't endure hardship. I just, I just want to be close to Aunt and Cousin Nianjun."
The veins on Yue Hongmei's forehead were throbbing.
Suddenly, she vaguely remembered where her niece said she was studying when she came in just now.
"Which unit did you say you were studying in?"
Yue Maisui didn't care about her sudden question. She forgot to cry for a moment, raised her little face and said, "Food Factory."
Yes, yes, food factory.
Yue Hongmei's eyes lit up, and her heart, which had been blocked by choking, suddenly felt better. She asked, "Food Factory No. 1? That's Fengning Food Factory?"
Yue Maisui didn't understand, but she nodded while sniffing. Then she asked with expectation and surprise, "What's wrong, aunt? Can you let me stay in the food factory?"
“…”
Yue Hongmei's heart, which had just been cleared, was stuffed again. She said unhappily, "If your aunt had that ability, I wouldn't be sitting idle at home." Then she forced a kind smile on her face, "But there is a trick. You know your cousin Ding Guo, right?"
"I don't know!" Yue Maisui shook her head. "Who is this person?"
"Your cousin at home." Yue Hongmei said with a smile.
The little girl's eyes, red from crying, widened in surprise. "That poor little girl who was abandoned by her aunt and uncle? Isn't her name Ding Dani?"
Yue Hongmei choked and said unhappily, "What poor little thing? You must have heard your parents' nonsense again. Danier is her nickname, her real name is Ding Guo." After that, she continued, "Your eldest cousin is a regular employee of the food factory. She rents a house outside. Her place is spacious. Go back to the factory later to find your eldest cousin and tell her that you can move in with her."
"But, but I haven't even met my eldest cousin. It would be bad to disturb her without warning, right?" Yue Maisui twisted her fingers and said pitifully, "I would be nervous living with someone I don't know. Aunt, you should let me go find my cousin Nianjun. Or I can stay at your house and sleep on the sofa."
Yue Hongmei disagreed: "You are already such a grown-up girl, and your cousins are also old. What will it look like for them to come in and out if you sleep in the living room?"
Yue Maisui's eyes widened. "We can't let our cousin Jianshe and cousin Jiandang sleep on the floor in the living room. Xiangxiang and I can stay in their room, right? Is that appropriate?"
This is certainly not appropriate!
Yue Hongmei could hardly hold her expression. She took a breath and said, "Didn't I just tell you that your cousin lives outside by herself? The house is spacious. You two are both in the food factory. If you go find her, she will definitely not ignore you."
Yue Maisui lowered his head.
Didn't the poor little girl from my aunt's family go to the countryside? Her mother didn't say that my cousin was back.
Besides, her mother asked her to cause trouble for her eldest aunt, but didn't ask her to cause trouble for her eldest cousin.
Yue Maisui raised her head and looked at Yue Hongmei again, her eyes misty with tears: "I know, in fact, after all, Aunt just doesn't like me and doesn't want me to live at home. Aunt, don't you know that I didn't bring many food coupons this time, are you afraid that I will eat your family's food?"
Yue Hongmei: ...
Yue Maisui left the Ding family with five more kilograms of food coupons in his pocket.
In the afternoon, Ding Guo was working in the workshop. She noticed someone standing next to her from the corner of her eye. She asked hesitantly, "Excuse me, are you Ding Guo?"
Ding Guo looked up, and when she saw the person who was talking, she was immediately surprised. What a beautiful, standard little white flower face. She smiled and nodded: "I am, you are..."
Yue Maisui was also surprised. Didn't her mother say that this cousin also grew up in the countryside and was sent back to the countryside by her aunt and uncle not long after returning to the city? She didn't expect that she looked like her and didn't look like a country girl at all. She was quite pretty. She smiled sweetly and said, "Hello, cousin Ding Guo, my name is Yue Maisui, and Yue Hongmei is my aunt."
Ding Guo was still looking for this cousin at noon, but he didn't expect to meet her at this moment. He didn't expect that this little girl didn't look like her aunt at all. She should look more like her mother. But if you look closely, she still has some shadows of Yue family, but it's not obvious.
She smiled and said, "Hello Mai Sui, nice to meet you. Which workshop are you studying in?"
Yue Maisui smiled and said, "Cousin, I'm in a workshop." She twisted her body uncomfortably and said, "Cousin, can we go outside the workshop to talk?"
Ding Guo said something to his colleague next to him and followed him out.
She wanted to see what the little girl was going to do.
In the book, this body caused a lot of trouble for the heroine and Yue Hongmei. Now the plot has changed. This body did not marry and move to the capital, but became a worker in a food factory. Wouldn’t the target of this little white flower causing trouble have changed?
Walking out of the workshop, Yue Maisui looked Ding Guo up and down, smiled with squinting eyes and said, "You are really not like what my parents said!"
Ding Guo also laughed and said, "What did your parents say about me?"
"They said you were a poor little thing, but I don't think so now."
Ding Guo smiled and said, "And then?"
Yue Maisui was also at a loss.
Before coming, her mother said that if she couldn't directly trouble her eldest aunt, she would trouble that fake cousin. The eldest aunt's brain might have been flooded with manure when she was a child, so it doesn't work well. She doesn't love her own child, but loves the one she adopted. If she wasn't worried about indirectly affecting the reputation of other girls in the Yue family, her mother couldn't help but suspect that cousin Nianjun was the eldest aunt's child outside.
Later, I realized that the time was not right, so I stopped thinking about it.
Yue Maisui frowned her delicate eyebrows, as if she was considering this issue very seriously.
She had to call the village and tell her mother about this unexpected change, as well as her cousin Jianguo's marriage. Her family didn't know about it, but they were sure that she could no longer live in her aunt's house.
But I still have to go to my cousin Nianjun's house after get off work in the evening.
"I went to my aunt's house at noon. I didn't want to live in the dormitory arranged here. I wanted to live at my aunt's house, but the place was not spacious. My aunt asked me to live with you at home." Yue Maisui stared at Ding Guo softly and said in a low voice.
Ding Guo smiled and said, "You want to live with me?"
Yue Maisui shook her head. She suddenly remembered that her aunt seemed very happy when she mentioned that she should come to see her cousin.
That look was like she was throwing away a burden, and there was no doubt that she was that burden.
Therefore, going to my eldest cousin's place will not only not cause trouble for my eldest aunt, but will make her very happy.
"I'm not going. I'll go to see my cousin Nianjun in the evening." Yue Maisui figured out the problem and smiled with her eyes curved. "Cousin, you go ahead and do your work. I'm going to the workshop too."
As she turned to leave, Ding Guo stopped her and said, "What if your cousin Nianjun doesn't agree with you living with her?"
Yue Maisui turned around, as if she had heard something incredible, and said in surprise: "Impossible, cousin Nianjun is so kind, my eldest aunt always praises her every year when she goes back to grandma's house, and she almost says that cousin Nianjun is the reincarnation of a bodhisattva. If she doesn't solve my suffering, then my eldest aunt is lying? If my eldest aunt really lied, wouldn't it be equivalent to saying that cousin Nianjun is not that kind?"
After saying that, she turned back, a mischievous light flashed in her eyes, and asked Ding Guo: "Cousin, do you think my aunt is lying?"
Ding Guo: ...
She pressed Yue Maisui's shoulders, turned her around, and pushed her forward two steps, "Go study your lessons!"
No wonder in the book he hated Ding Nianjun so much that he cancelled her study place.
In the afternoon, the production of biscuits was approved, and the factory decided to produce a small batch first to see the market feedback.
Ding Guo followed and adjusted the material ratio.
While she was busy, the team leader came to find her and asked Ding Guo to go to Deputy Director Su's office.
"Deputy Director Su is looking for me?"
The two had no contact since the conversation before the Mid-Autumn Festival. After such a long time, Ding Guo almost forgot about this leader, so he was a little surprised when he heard that Su Dayong was looking for him.
"The new product you researched has been put into production. I think they're looking for you to learn more about it. Go ahead!"
Ding Guo nodded and left the workshop.
She thought that she shouldn't be asked about her new products.
Su Dayong was pacing back and forth in the office, feeling confused.
The last time he was asked to cooperate with the investigation, he broke out in a cold sweat. Since then, he has been paying attention to the progress of Qi Guangming's case. As the things involved in Qi Guangming's case became more and more complicated, Su Dayong was so scared that he couldn't even sleep well.
Whenever he thought about it, he was glad that he valued his future more than his friendship with Qi Guangming.
I went back to the village two days ago, and his mother also talked about Qi Guangming.
The fact that Qi Guangming was arrested was no longer a secret in the village. People from the Revolutionary Committee and the Public Security Bureau had investigated it. Although it was not a high-profile investigation, it was not kept secret either. When he returned, his mother also asked about it.
Because the affair of Qi Guangming's previous girlfriend was brought up, the mother and daughter talked about it. As they were chatting, the old lady suddenly told Su Dayong something that he didn't even know.
"The third brother of the deceased Wang Meiling was brought into the city by Qi Guangming?" Ding Guo looked at the slightly embarrassed Deputy Director Su opposite him in shock and confirmed again.
Wang Meiling is the girl who died at the hands of Qi Guangming.
She knew that Su Dayong was definitely not talking to her about production, but she didn't expect that he was talking about the case.
Su Dayong nodded, clasped his hands together, and rubbed them back and forth, saying, "I didn't know about this before, because Wang Meiling and I are not from the same village, and the two villages are quite far apart. I was chatting with my mother and mentioned this. But my mother didn't know where Qi Guangming arranged her to go. She heard it from Qi Guangming's mother by accident. I didn't think much about it at the time, and I thought Qi Guangming was responsible. After all, the girl died in an accident while looking for him, and Qi Guangming still took care of Wang Meiling's family. People say he is affectionate and righteous."
Ding Guo listened carefully, but was confused: "What does Deputy Director Su mean by telling me this?"
You should report this directly to the Revolutionary Committee or the Public Security Bureau!
Su Dayong looked a little uncomfortable, and did not answer directly, but continued: "I have thought about all the people I know Qi Guangming has arranged in the past two days, and I didn't find such a person. Of course, it is impossible for me to know all the people related to him. I just speculated based on my new understanding of Qi Guangming, and thought that it is more likely that he brought people out as hostages, rather than to compensate the Wang family. In order to settle this matter back then, he must have given a lot of compensation. But Qi Guangming..."
Su Dayong let out a long sigh. The more things Qi Guangming revealed, the more he realized that he didn't know this fellow villager very well.
"Qi Guangming can do so many incredible things. He must be a suspicious person. He is afraid that the Wang family will threaten him with this matter, so he brought the unlearned Wang San out."
Ding Guo nodded. Since they were already talking about this, she might as well ask one more question: "Who is this Wang Meiling, and what is her relationship with Qi Guangming?"
She never asked Xiao Haifeng.
Su Dayong: "The person he was engaged to before he joined the army found a new target after serving in the army for a few years. She called back to cancel the engagement, but Wang Meiling disagreed, so she went to the army to ask him for an explanation, and then..."
Ding Guo: "So, the Wang family knows the real cause of Wang Meiling's death?"
This is what Ding Guo judged from Su Dayong's words just now.
If the Wang family didn't know the real cause of death, they would definitely accept the explanation given to them by Qi Guangming, and the two parties would not have any further communication.
Qi Guangming was not only worried that the Wang family would use this matter to blackmail him, but also brought the Wang family's children out. Considering the unsuccessful progress on Uncle Xiao's side, it seemed that the Wang family was not cooperating. There was only one possibility: the Wang family knew about it, but received satisfactory compensation and was afraid.
Su Dayong: "They should know, because Wang Meiling didn't go to the army alone. Her eldest brother went with her. This is not a secret. I only know this much. As for what happened in the army, how Wang Meiling died, and how the matter was suppressed, I don't know. I only know that the Wang family didn't make a fuss and told the public that Wang Meiling died in an accident."
"What I want to say is that Qi Guangming would not arrange a proper job for a person who is uneducated and unskilled. Didn't Qi Guangming find out that he has a black market? This Wang San might be hiding among his subordinates in the black market!"
Ding Guo's eyes suddenly lit up.
"Deputy Director Su, why don't you report it directly?" You can't let her be the messenger.
Su Dayong took a deep breath and said, "I've already been to the Revolutionary Committee at noon! Ahem, Xiao Ding, um, I asked you to come here because I actually... wanted to solemnly apologize to you for what happened last time. I also, I didn't know him well. Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, I really didn't know what Qi Guangming had done. We weren't very familiar with each other in the village before, because our families lived far away from each other. We knew each other about this person, but we weren't childhood friends. We officially became familiar with each other after we were both assigned to Fengning after demobilization. In short, no matter what, I hope you don't have any grudges in your heart."
Ding Guo was stunned for several seconds before he reacted.
So, Deputy Director Su said all that before just to pave the way for the final apology?
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