"I..." Bai Mei opened her mouth, "No."
"It's only natural to pay back a debt. Since she borrowed the money from you, she should pay you back!"
Bai Mei's hands were sweating under the table. "I want to see Nian Nian and say a few words to her."
Yu Xiangyang said: "My sister doesn't want to see you. She said that she and you have been strangers since that day."
Baimei felt both ashamed and hateful at this moment!
She hated herself for saying those words on impulse that day. Otherwise, as Ding Yunfei said, they would go to Yu Xiangnian to apologize and say some nice words, and the matter would be over.
She hated Yu Xiangnian even more! It was Yu Xiangnian who forced her into this state! She wished she could tear her apart right now!
Yu Xiangyang added, "I've returned the money. Please give me the bicycle and watch."
Bai Mei sat in her seat, biting her lips tightly, motionless.
The onlookers couldn't wait any longer and started talking to each other.
"Comrade Baimei, please take out your bicycle and watch!"
"You and Comrade Yu Xiangnian agreed in front of everyone that day that one of you would pay back the money, and the other would compensate for the bicycle and watch!"
"Comrade Baimei, you're not going to compensate, are you? We don't see a new bicycle parked anywhere."
“······”
Bai Mei's face was pale and her eyes swept over everyone. She hoped in her heart that Ding Yunfei would stand up and help her at this moment.
At this time, Ding Yunfei was hiding in the dormitory building, pretending to repair the circuit.
He just avoided it on purpose.
Firstly, he was afraid that Bai Mei would use him as a tool again, and secondly, he was afraid that Yu Xiangnian would misunderstand that he was helping Bai Mei, so he simply left the logistics department early in the morning on the pretext that there was a problem with the dormitory building's electrical circuit.
Bai Mei searched for a long time but couldn't find the figure, and was extremely disappointed.
The people around were still talking.
"Comrade Baimei, please say something. Everyone is waiting!"
"You didn't buy it?"
"Even if you didn't buy a new one, you should at least give everyone an explanation."
“···”
Baimei was isolated and helpless, feeling wronged and humiliated.
With a cry of "Wow...", she lay on the table and started crying.
"No! Why are you crying? It was you and Comrade Yu who agreed to compensate you today. We didn't force you to do it."
"That's right! If you can't pay, just say it out loud. What's the point of crying?"
Yin Yuankai was in his office, listening to the noise outside.
He didn't want to get involved in this matter, but the noise of people watching outside was getting louder and louder, and Bai Mei was crying.
After all, Baimei is his niece and someone he recruited.
She was embarrassed, and he was embarrassed too.
He walked out reluctantly and squeezed in past the crowd of onlookers.
"Why are you crying?" he scolded Bai Mei. "What can't you say? Isn't it embarrassing?"
Bai Mei raised her head and said with tears in her eyes: "Minister Yin, I..."
Needless to say, Yin Yuankai knew that Bai Mei did not buy a new bicycle or watch.
What else can he say!
He could only discuss with Haosheng and Yu Xiangyang, "Comrade Xiangyang, how about giving Comrade Baimei a few more days? This new bicycle and watch will cost at least three hundred yuan. She definitely doesn't have enough money in a few days."
Yu Xiangyang is easier to talk to than Yu Xiangnian, and since it is a comrade-in-arms who is discussing with him, he cannot but give him face.
"Then give her three more days." Yu Xiangyang said.
Yin Yuankai originally planned to discuss with Yu Xiangyang for a week, but Yu Xiangyang had already given him face and extended the time, so he couldn't say anything more.
"Okay, then three days. Comrade Baimei will compensate Comrade Yu with something new next Tuesday."
Yu Xiangyang said: "What if she can't pay the compensation?"
The corners of Yin Yuankai's mouth twitched.
What to do? What can he do?
But now that he has stood up to speak for Bai Mei, he can't give up halfway and make a fool of himself.
"Well, I'll guarantee it for her. If she can't pay it back, you can come to me!"
After hearing this, Yu Xiangyang said, "That's settled. I'm leaving."
Yu Xiangyang wanted to take the two hundred yuan on the table, but was stopped by Yin Yuankai.
"Comrade Xiangyang, since Comrade Yu is returning the money to Comrade Baimei, please accept it first. Everyone, please be my witnesses. Comrade Yu has already returned the money. In three days, Comrade Baimei will compensate Comrade Yu with a new bicycle and watch."
In fact, everyone present knew that Bai Mei had no money to buy a bicycle and a watch, and Yin Yuankai wanted to keep the two hundred yuan and give it to Bai Mei.
Yu Xiangyang didn't say anything and left the logistics department, and the onlookers also dispersed.
Yin Yuankai and Bai Mei were the only ones left in the office.
"Uncle, thank you for what I did just now."
Yin Yuankai glared at her with dismay, "Keep these two hundred yuan and go buy a bicycle and a watch tomorrow."
Bai Mei said weakly, "I don't have any money."
"How much more is left?"
"I don't have a penny."
Yin Yuankai was so angry that he almost had a heart attack. "What have you been busy doing these past few days instead of trying to collect money?"
Baimei lowered her head and said nothing.
She didn't dare say that she pinned her hopes on Xiang Nian not to bother with her, nor did she dare say that she thought Ding Yunfei would come out to help her at the critical moment.
"You haven't told your parents about this?"
Baimei shook her head.
How could she dare to say that! With so much money, her parents would beat her to death!
Yin Yuankai reluctantly took out a stack of money from his pocket, kept a few dollars in change for himself, and put all six big unity notes on Baimei's table.
"Here's sixty yuan. Take it first. Add that to the two hundred, and it's two hundred and sixty yuan already. Talk to your parents and try to borrow fifty or sixty yuan. Buy the things first and compensate them!"
"Besides, you haven't suffered any loss. Yu Xiangnian will give you the new things. Your family can just consider it as buying these two things in advance, so you won't have to buy them when you get married. Besides, you work here and earn 18 yuan a month. At 40 or 50 yuan, you should earn enough in less than half a year."
Yin Yuankai walked to the office door, then turned back and said seriously, "Bai Mei, I'm your uncle, and I'm standing up to speak for you today. Next Tuesday, you must bring your bicycle and watch, or I won't let you go!"
When Yu Xiangyang returned to the group, he learned the good news.
The five people who went to hunt wolves each won a third-class merit, and were also awarded two hundred yuan and two kettles.
The reward order reads: Because they discovered and handed over 30 kilograms of gold, they have made great contributions to the country's development and are hereby rewarded!
This is a reward decision issued by the Southern Theater Command, which is more valuable than the reward decisions issued by the military region and the Army Corps.
Yu Xiangyang clutched the red certificate and third-class medal of honor tightly in his hands, grinning from ear to ear with joy.
He nudged Cheng Jingmo, who was standing next to him with an expressionless face, with his shoulder and said, "Cheng Jingmo, we won't smear that wolf shit in vain!"
Cheng Jingmo looked at the reward decision with a serious look and thought of Yu Xiangnian.
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