Chapter 35 Chapter 35 Fu Mingze: I have a friend

The students were on holiday on the weekend, and the gate of the commune primary school was locked. When Shen Moer arrived, there was no one at the gate. Probably because she was too early, Shen Moer was not in a hurry and waited under the shade of a tree not far from the gate.

Not long after, the gate of the primary school opened, and two people who looked like teachers hurried out from inside, talking as they walked.

The taller one said, "The higher-ups are just acting on impulse. Not to mention our Liuqiao Commune Primary School, even in the primary schools of the whole county, there are not many children who can draw. Can't the children of Dongfanghong Primary School participate?"

Another slightly shorter one said, "I heard that the great leader made a lot of important instructions during his inspection tour in the south. The province requires all walks of life to carry out vigorous learning and publicity activities. But you also know that many propaganda officers have been sent down to receive re-education in recent years. Isn't this the case that the school is the focus of attention?"

"That's true." The taller one probably wanted to complain, but he swallowed it back alertly and said, "Let's go to the kiln first. Didn't they say that there is a new person in their propaganda department who is very good at drawing? Let's go and meet him first. Let the principal communicate with the kiln factory, and strive to borrow people to assault the children. " He sighed again:" Temporary hugs, don't be too ugly. " This is a empty words

. Thinking . "Excuse me, is this Comrade Shen Moer?" The man's uncertain voice sounded. Shen Moer turned around, and when she saw the person clearly, she couldn't help but raise her eyebrows slightly. She had met this man in Sparrow City not long ago. He was the son of that unreasonable middle-aged woman. Shen Moer remembered later that the person she was going on a blind date today seemed to be called Zhang Junliang. It seemed to be the "Junliang" in front of her. Shen Moer nodded: "I am Shen Moer, hello Comrade Zhang Junliang." Zhang Junliang was also slightly stunned. He had noticed this girl in Sparrow City before. Although her clothes were a little shabby, she was really beautiful. However, Zhang Junliang never thought that she would be his blind date. He nodded quickly: "Hello, Comrade Shen Moer." After a hesitation, Zhang Junliang said: "I'm really sorry for being in Maque City before. My mother is used to being frugal and has a bit of a stubborn personality. Of course, it's also my fault. She also wants to help me save money." Shen Moer didn't have a bad impression of Zhang Junliang because of this incident. After all, he was not as unreasonable as his mother, and he was quite humble in dealing with people, so he said it was nothing. Zhang Junliang looked around and suggested: "How about we take a walk around?" Shen Moer looked at him and nodded. This man has a decent appearance and a gentle personality. Based on his own conditions, Shen Moer thinks he is okay. However, his mother is a bit difficult and unreasonable, and the relationship between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law may not be very good. Shen Moer asked straight to the point: "The introducer said that you have three brothers, the first two have already started a family, and you are the youngest, so are you willing to live with your father-in-law after marriage?" Xu Weiguo said that the Zhang family has three sons and housing is quite tight. Although Zhang Junliang is a formal worker, he is still young and doesn't know when he can get a house, so he is willing to live with his father-in-law after marriage. It means not marrying into the family, but living with them. Xu Weiguo persuaded Shen Shaoyuan that it was too difficult to recruit a son-in-law, and it was even more difficult to recruit a good young man. In fact, living with him without marrying into the family was almost the same as marrying into the family. In addition, people also said that since Shen Moer was an only child, it would be her father-in-law's responsibility to support them in the future, which was actually almost the same as marrying into the family. Shen Shaoyuan was persuaded. Zhang Junliang looked at Shen Moer and nodded: "My family is short of housing. I am afraid that I will not be able to live at home even if I want to after I get married." Originally, his family planned to rent another room from someone after he got married. Some families with young children were willing to squeeze out a room or a half in exchange for some money. As a result, a few days ago, his aunt came and said that there was such a girl. There was only one child in the family. The father and daughter depended on each other. The key point was that her father was in the publicity department of the kiln factory. He was a temporary worker now, but the head of the department revealed that he would be able to become a regular employee after working for a year. The girl herself was a private teacher in the brigade primary school and earned twelve yuan a month. Although the family's house is in the countryside, Yangliu Brigade is close to the commune, so it is convenient to ride a bicycle to and from work. Moreover, if her father can be converted to a regular employee, he will be a cadre in the Propaganda Department. The kiln factory has built many buildings, so maybe he will be able to get a house soon. With this calculation, he doesn't have to live in the countryside for long. Even if he can't get a house, he will have children in the future, and the children will have to go to the primary school in the commune. Whether they rent a house or something else, the father-in-law has money in his pocket and will not ignore the young couple. His aunt and his mother whispered for a long time, and finally made the decision. They both thought this marriage was good. As long as the girl doesn't insist on him marrying into the family, he doesn't have to bear the name of marrying into the family, and he can enjoy the benefits of his father-in-law. In fact, it is better than marrying a daughter of an ordinary family in the commune. Zhang Junliang was still a little hesitant in his heart, but now that he has met the girl, his last hesitation is gone. The two of them strolled casually on the streets of the commune. Zhang Junliang wanted to wait until noon to invite Shen Moer to the state-owned hotel for dinner. When he learned that Shen Moer would be going back with the brigade's donkey cart soon, he said he would go to the state-owned hotel to buy two buns for Shen Moer to take back. The buns in the state-owned hotel require food coupons, but they are cheaper than those at Qiaojie's place. Zhang Junliang bought six, and Shen Moer only took three. The food coupons were given by Zhang Junliang, but the money was paid by Shen Moer, so she didn't take advantage of him. As soon as they came out of the state-owned hotel, they ran into Zheng Jiamin, who was carrying a lot of bags. Zheng Jiamin happily waved the small package in his hand: "Comrade Shen Moer!" "Zheng Zhiqing." Shen Moer stopped and looked at the package in Zheng Jiamin's hand: "Zheng Zhiqing bought a lot of things?" Zheng Jiamin smiled and said: "Well, I didn't buy them, they were all sent by my family. Isn't it Mid-Autumn Festival soon? My family must have sent some food." Shen Moer knew that Zheng Jiamin's family conditions were good, so she was not surprised that his family would send things to her, but she didn't know why she thought of Fu Mingze, as she seemed to have never heard that his family sent him anything. Zheng Jiamin looked at Zhang Junliang strangely. He was not the kind of person who kept things to himself. He asked directly when he had doubts: "Comrade Shen Moer, who is this?"

Shen Moer then introduced the two parties: "This is Zheng Jiamin, the educated youth who joined our brigade, and this is Zhang Junliang, the comrade from the textile factory."

Zheng Jiamin looked at Zhang Junliang curiously and greeted him in a familiar way: "Hello, Comrade Zhang."

Zhang Junliang nodded modestly: "Hello."

Shen Moer saw that Zheng Jiamin was carrying a lot of bags and could hardly hold the things in his hands, so she said goodbye to Zhang Junliang and took the initiative to help Zheng Jiamin carry them back. Zheng Jiamin didn't bother to be polite with her, and immediately put the youngest one into Shen Moer's hand.

Zhang Junliang frowned slightly, caught up with Shen Moer, and asked, "Comrade Shen, if you are free next Sunday, let's go to the county to watch a movie together?"

Shen Moer was actually quite interested in watching movies. The original owner had two experiences of watching movies in her memory, but they were all outdoor movies shown by the movie team. When Zhang Junliang said to watch a movie in the county, he should have meant to go to the county's cinema to watch a movie.

At present, Shen Moer had a good impression of Zhang Junliang himself. His unreasonable mother would not have much impact if they did not live together, so she was willing to contact Zhang Junliang again.

However, thinking of the conversation she heard at the gate of the commune primary school, Shen Moer thought for a moment and said, "It's hard to say what will happen next Sunday. I'll ask my father to give a message to Section Chief Xu in advance. Do you think it's okay?"

Zhang Junliang didn't expect her to agree immediately. He felt a little uncomfortable, but still nodded, "Okay, I'll wait for your news."

After Zhang Junliang left, Zheng Jiamin immediately asked curiously, "Comrade Shen Moer, you and Comrade Zhang are not dating each other, are you?"

Shen Moer did not hide it and said that her father's factory leader introduced them and she met them for the first time today.

Zheng Jiamin nodded, then shook his head, feeling a little unhappy: "In theory, Comrade Zhang has good conditions, but I always feel that he is not worthy of you, Comrade Shen Moer."

Zheng Jiamin actually knew that his idea was a bit strange.

Nowadays, there is a big gap between urban and rural areas, and people who eat commodity grains are unwilling to marry rural people. Comrade Zhang is a skilled worker in a textile factory. Zheng Jiamin has many workers in his family, so he naturally knows that skilled workers are paid much more than ordinary workers. Comrade Zhang is also good-looking and has a good personality... In theory, Shen Moer should be marrying up based on his conditions.

But Zheng Jiamin had known Shen Moer for such a long time, and he always felt that Shen Moer was different from other lesbians. No matter how good Zhang Junliang was, he still felt that he was not worthy of Shen Moer.

However, although he was very outgoing, he was not the kind of person who would talk without restraint. He just let this one sentence slip and didn't say anything more afterwards.

Shen Moer didn't care. She had an okay impression of Zhang Junliang, just like an ordinary person. She didn't have to discuss marriage with this person, so there was no question of whether they were a good match or not.

When they returned to the donkey cart with the packages, everyone else was already there, so after the two of them packed up their things and got on the donkey cart, Uncle Liu drove the donkey cart away.

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At noon, when the sun was at its hottest, Zheng Jiamin returned to the educated youth point carrying large and small packages.

Fu Mingze was reading under the eaves. When he saw Zheng Jiamin enter the yard, he put down his book and stood up to take a handful of food. Zheng Jiamin looked over and asked quietly, "Are you all in the house?"

Fu Mingze nodded, and Zheng Jiamin said, "Then let's go to the kitchen."

Everyone else had already eaten lunch, and there was no one in the kitchen. When Zheng Jiamin was holding a kitchen knife to open the package, Fu Mingze took out a bowl of warm vegetable porridge from the pot. This was the meal left for Zheng Jiamin. The vegetables were a little yellow from being stewed, and they didn't look very good.

Zheng Jiamin had already unpacked the package. In addition to mooncakes, maltose, candies, and biscuits, there was also a very thick sweater and a pair of cotton shoes.

Zheng Jiamin was already hungry, so he opened the paper bag of mooncakes, took one for himself, gave another to Fu Mingze, and then stood there and ate them with vegetable porridge.

After eating half full, Zheng Jiamin finally spoke: "We bought this mooncake from Yue Laifang, a time-honored brand in Shanghai. Their mooncakes are always delicious."

Fu Mingze nodded and praised: "It's really good."

Zheng Jiamin: "..."

It was the first time he saw someone eating Yue Laifang's mooncakes with such a calm expression. To be honest, Zheng Jiamin actually sometimes suspected that Fu Mingze was some kind of poor young man who used to be rich and well-fed, so he looked so good no matter what he saw or ate.

"Oh, I should have left two mooncakes for Comrade Shen Moer to taste just now." Zheng Jiamin suddenly remembered.

When the house was built before, he ate a lot of meals at the Shen family. Although he did some work, Zheng Jiamin was very self-aware and knew that his little labor was not worthy of being treated to such a feast. He was just relying on others.

Fu Mingze raised his eyes: "Comrade Shen also went to the commune?"

Zheng Jiamin nodded: "Yes, we went together on the donkey cart of the brigade."

Speaking of this, he suddenly looked around, and said stealthily in a low voice: "Don't tell anyone, I ran into Comrade Shen Moer in the commune on a blind date with someone, a technician in a textile factory, she looks okay, but I think she is not worthy of Comrade Shen Moer, Comrade Shen Moer is so good-looking and dashing, and Comrade Zhang is okay, but just ordinary... "

Fu Mingze frowned slightly and interrupted him: "Didn't you say that Uncle Shen Qi wanted to find a live-in son-in-law for her, a skilled worker in the textile factory, who would be willing to come to her house?"

Zheng Jiamin scratched his head: "I don't know about that, and it's not easy for me to ask."

Fu Mingze laughed: "Are there times when you are embarrassed to ask?"

He was obviously smiling, but Zheng Jiamin inexplicably felt that he didn't seem very happy. However, before Zheng Jiamin could say anything else, Fu Mingze threw down a sentence "clean up yourself", turned around and left the kitchen.

Zheng Jiamin muttered "weird", drank a few mouthfuls of the remaining vegetable porridge, scooped water to wash the dishes, and then packed up the things he had opened, wrapped them in a cloth bag and kraft paper, and then carried the things into the house.

Fu Mingze came out of the kitchen and sat under the eaves of the corridor to continue reading. However, he had not finished reading a single line of words after reading for a long time. He thought about it and simply got up and walked out.

It was noon and there were not many people on the village road. Occasionally, he would meet an old lady carrying a basket returning from her private plot, or a child running home in a hurry, who would stop and say hello to him.

Since when did the villagers start to say hello to him on their own initiative? It seemed to have started from when he helped the Shen family build a house.

Fu Mingze couldn't help but think of when he first went to the countryside, the elders at home repeatedly told him to control his bad temper when he arrived in the countryside, to be low-key, and never to show off. After arriving at Yangliu Brigade, he continued to do so, having almost no contact with the other members and keeping as much distance as possible from the educated youth.

Who would have thought that the situation would change completely after just helping to build a house.

Fu Mingze walked while thinking, and unknowingly reached the entrance of the village. Facing the new gate of the Shen family, he hesitated for a moment, stretched out his hand and knocked on the door twice.

Shen Moer's crisp voice soon rang out from inside: "Who is it?"

Fu Mingze responded: "It's me."

When the voice came out, he found that it was low and hoarse. He was afraid that the people inside could not hear it, so he cleared his throat and responded again.

The gate opened, and Shen Moer saw Fu Mingze and smiled: "Fu Zhiqing, it's you, come in."

Fu Mingze walked into the yard. Shen Moer opened the gate as wide as possible and kicked a stone next to it against the door to prevent the door from being blown shut by the wind again.

The door was left open on purpose to prevent anyone from seeing and gossiping. This

was clearly a very normal action, and it was actually the same in the past, but today Fu Mingze inexplicably felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.

"Fu Zhiqing, have you eaten yet?"

Shen Moer asked casually, and went into the kitchen to get a bowl, and scooped out half a bowl of mung bean soup. She had stewed the mung bean soup over a low fire before she went out in the morning, and she didn't cook any extra food after she came back. She just heated up a few buns bought from the state-owned hotel and ate them with the mung bean soup, which was considered a meal.

The autumn heat is more unbearable than the midsummer heat, and Shen Moer thought the kitchen was too hot, so she moved the small table to the eaves outside, where there was a breeze, which was much more comfortable than the kitchen.

Fu Mingze: "I've eaten."

Shen Moer put a small stool in front of him: "Then have a bowl of mung bean soup, it won't take up too much space."

Fu Mingze sat down. He had just eaten a mooncake and walked all the way out of the village. He was indeed a little thirsty, so he didn't hesitate and picked up the bowl to drink slowly.

Shen Moer had only eaten half of the bun, so she picked it up and continued eating.

Fu Mingze glanced at the bun in her hand and couldn't help asking: "Didn't you buy this bun from Qiaojie?"

Even if they were all buns, everyone had a different way of making them, and the sizes of the buns were also a little different.

Shen Moer nodded: "I bought it from the state-owned hotel in the commune. It's a little cheaper than Qiaojie's, but it requires food coupons."

Fu Mingze knew that the few food coupons her family had were used up when building the house, and now was not the time to issue food coupons for wages. Thinking of what Zheng Jiamin said, it was self-evident who paid for the food coupons.

The mung bean soup didn't seem sweet anymore.

Shen Moer finished eating quickly. Before she started, Fu Mingze had already reached out and took away the dishes: "I'll wash them."

Shen Moer glanced at his hands. Fu Mingze followed her gaze and couldn't help but curled his lips: "It's ready."

Shen Moer didn't bother to be polite with him and said: "Then I'll trouble Fu Zhiqing."

When Fu Mingze came out of the kitchen after washing the dishes, he saw Shen Moer taking out a rattan box from the house: "I saw this at the market today. It's woven very solidly. , the key is that this box can be locked. Didn't Fu Zhiqing lose something before? I think this kind of lockable box should be quite suitable. "

Shen Moer smiled and said, "Fu Zhiqing helped a lot in building my house, especially the bathroom, which is very convenient to use. I have wanted to prepare a gift for a long time, but I have never seen a suitable one. I happened to see it today and bought one as a thank you gift."

Fu Mingze didn't expect that she would prepare a thank you gift for him, especially this thank you gift is really what he urgently needs at the moment.

When he went to the countryside, in order to match his identity as a pauper, his family didn't let him bring any suitcases or luggage bags, but directly gave him a cloth bag cut and sewn from old clothes.

There were more than ten people living in one room at the educated youth site, and putting things in the cloth bag was almost the same as putting them outside. In order to hide the money, he didn't know how much effort he had put in.

It is even more impossible to buy a box here. One reason is that the things are not easy to buy, and the other is that it is indeed not suitable for his status.

But if it is a gift from someone else, it is reasonable for him to use it.

At another time, he would definitely be happy if Shen Moer gave him this thank-you gift, but today...

Looking at the clear and bright eyes of the person in front of him, Fu Mingze was happy but also a little annoyed. He frowned slightly and said, "I didn't help much. Comrade Shen really didn't have to go to the trouble of preparing a thank-you gift for me." After

hesitating for a while, he couldn't help but say, "If Comrade Shen feels that it is inconvenient for us to communicate in the future, he can just say it clearly."

There is no need to prepare such a thank-you gift to sever the relationship.

Shen Moer was a little surprised: "Why would Fu Zhiqing think so?"

Fu Mingze looked at her with clear eyes and said: "I heard that Comrade Shen is dating someone, and I guess he may feel the need to keep a proper distance from other people. Regarding building the house, I didn't help much. Besides, your family has provided meals for a long time. Comrade Shen doesn't have to take it to heart."

Shen Moer opened her mouth, and finally said only one sentence: "I really didn't mean that."

Fu Mingze lowered his eyes, and after a while, he said: "Maybe I was thinking wrong." After

a few seconds of silence, he said again: "I came here today to confirm with you whether you will start high school courses tomorrow?"

Shen Moer responded, and then heard Fu Mingze say again: "Okay, I'll come again tomorrow." After that, he turned around and left.

After leaving Shen's house, Fu Mingze went all the way back to the educated youth camp. In the dormitory, Zheng Jiamin had already packed up his things and stuffed all the food and daily necessities into the suitcase he brought from home. When Fu Mingze came in, he was sticking his butt out to stuff the suitcase under the bed.

Fu Mingze glanced at him indifferently, and walked straight to his bed, lying straight on it without taking off his shoes.

Zheng Jiamin looked at him strangely. Fu Mingze loved cleanliness the most, but today he went to bed without taking off his shoes. Although his feet were hanging outside, he would not dirty the bedding, but this was indeed not in line with Fu Mingze's personality.

Zheng Jiamin came over and whispered, "What happened?"

Fu Mingze looked at him. Although he felt that Zheng Jiamin's brain was definitely not capable of giving him any advice, he was just a little confused at the moment and really wanted to find someone to talk to, so he got up from the bed and said, "Come out and talk."

A few minutes later, the two stood in the vegetable garden behind the educated youth site. Fu Mingze thought for a moment and said, "I have a friend whose family is quite well-off, but his background is not very good. He recently met a girl from a poor-middle peasant family, but he was afraid that his family affairs would be implicated in the girl, so he was a little hesitant."

After a pause, he said, "The girl recently met someone with acceptable conditions."

Zheng Jiamin felt that there was something wrong with this story, but he couldn't figure out what it was, so he scratched his head and said, "Since this is the case, and the girl has found a good boyfriend, let your friend give up."

Fu Mingze's face suddenly darkened: "..."

As expected, with Zheng Jiamin's brain, he can only come up with some bad ideas.