Chapter 113 Chapter 113 The cured lamb ribs and white radish stew are delicious...
Su Tianli was stunned.
In fact, when she was at home, she saw Qian Xiaoshuang like that, and heard from Old Lady Su that Mao Li was hospitalized because of her pregnancy...
Su Tianli already had a bad feeling in her heart.
She was wondering, was it because Mao Li was pregnant or feeling unwell that she was admitted to the hospital?
It was because Qian Xiaoshuang made me angry that I was hospitalized because I was not feeling well.
"What on earth is going on?" Su Tianli asked, "Ali, please tell me slowly..."
"Oh, by the way, man is made of iron and food is made of steel, I'd better feed you some food first!"
"Wait until you are full and have enough energy."
Mao Li nodded with tears in her eyes.
Just at this moment, Yao Meiyu hurried over, "Lizhi, you're back?"
"Well, luckily you're back!"
"You don't know, we were almost pissed off when you weren't around these days!"
"By the way, I didn't see Qian Xiaoshuang when I went back. Grandma said, did you call the police and have her arrested?"
"Good job, Lizhi, you're awesome!" Yao Meiyu started to quack.
Su Tianli first complained to Yao Meiyu, "How could you let her live in my room when I was not at home?"
Yao Meiyu cried out in injustice, "You weren't at home, and I didn't even go to sleep with you! I didn't know! They didn't tell me about this..."
Su Tianli shook her head.
Yao Meiyu turned around and asked Mao Li, "How do you feel today?"
Mao Li bit her lower lip and said nothing.
Yao Meiyu sighed and said to Su Tianli, "Lizhi, let me tell you what happened recently!"
In this way, Su Tianli fed Mao Li while listening to Yao Meiyu talking about what had happened recently.
Yao Meiyu first talked about Qian Xiaoshuang's situation:
——Su Tianli, Cheng Yu, Yao Meiyu, Mao Li and Zhang Wei attended primary school together at the school for children of chemical factory employees.
Then Cheng Yu dropped out of school.
Mao Li and Zhang Wei went to the town's junior high school, and were admitted to the town's high school together.
Qian Xiaoshuang was Zhang Wei and Mao Li’s classmate in junior high and high school.
In other words, Su Tianli and Yao Meiyu did not know Qian Xiaoshuang.
Qian Xiaoshuang and Su Tianli were in the same class, but Qian Xiaoshuang went to the countryside two years later and became an educated youth in the same class as Su Qianzi.
I don't know the specific reason.
However, after Qian Xiaoshuang returned to the city, like other educated youth who returned to the city, his life was not very good.
It is said that she could not find a good job, and her mother threatened her, saying that she should either obey the job assignment and go wherever she was assigned to, or get married... In short, her mother would not allow her to stay at home anymore.
So, when Zhang Wei, a good-hearted man, accidentally heard about Qian Xiaoshuang's story, he felt the same way and felt very sympathetic towards her.
Zhang Wei took Qian Xiaoshuang back home.
In the first two days, everyone was quite sympathetic towards Qian Xiaoshuang...
Gradually, everyone tasted something wrong.
Yao Meiyu said: "When Zhang Wei brought the people back, I asked Zhang Wei, what is the meaning of bringing them back?"
"Should we temporarily solve her food and accommodation problems? Or should we let her follow Cao Jinfeng's example?"
Then Yao Meiyu explained to Su Tianli:
"If we just want to provide Qian Xiaoshuang with food and shelter temporarily, this shouldn't be a big problem, right?"
"If Qian Xiaoshuang is compared to Cao Jinfeng, then we have to treat Qian Xiaoshuang as a temporary worker. Cao Jinfeng gets paid the same amount of money as she does work, so Qian Xiaoshuang is the same as Cao Jinfeng... That's right, right, Litchi?"
Su Tianli nodded repeatedly, "Yes."
In her opinion, what Yao Meiyu said was also what she thought.
Su Tianli herself was an educated youth who returned to the city. She remembered how much she had endured from her parents and elder sister.
So she could empathize with other educated youth who returned to the city.
As Yao Meiyu said,
If Qian Xiaoshuang just needed a place to stay temporarily, then everyone took her in, provided her with a few days of free food and lodging, and helped her through the difficult times...
Su Tianli had no objection.
And if Qian Xiaoshuang wanted to come here to work and get paid, then if he was working at the same intensity as Cao Jinfeng and getting the same salary as Cao Jinfeng...
Su Tianli had no objection either.
But, since Yao Meiyu said so, it proves that this matter is definitely not that simple.
As expected, Yao Meiyu said angrily, "But at the beginning, Zhang Wei told us that Qian Xiaoshuang had nowhere to go and was just staying with us for a few days as a transition..."
"As a result, Ajuan came to me the next day and told me that Qian Xiaoshuang asked her how much we earned and how much Cao Jinfeng received in a month!"
"Lizhi, don't underestimate Ajuan, she's only seventeen and still a child. But she's much more alert! She didn't tell us how much we can earn a month, but she told us Cao Jinfeng's salary."
"The next day, Zhang Wei came to me and said Qian Xiaoshuang wanted to work for us. I said, OK, then we can do the same as Cao Jinfeng! Zhang Wei didn't have any objections at the time, so I told Ajuan to assign some work to Qian Xiaoshuang."
Then--
Qian Xiaoshuang started to act up.
On the first day she said she felt unwell and was sick and couldn't work.
Everyone was quite considerate of her.
The next day she got up early to work, but within a minute she broke a bowl, and within five minutes she "accidentally" dropped all the prepared ingredients for everyone to use today on the ground, causing all of them to be scrapped!
Everyone also forgave her for being new and knowing nothing.
On the third day, she volunteered to help everyone set up a stall at the night market. However, she "accidentally" overcharged the customer, "accidentally" gave the customer less food, "accidentally" spilled ice powder on the customer, and "accidentally" heard the customer's order...
Everyone was so angry with her!
Qian Xiaoshuang herself understood that everyone had something against her.
So she started performing.
She found Zhang Wei and cried about how Ajuan disliked her. Zhang Wei foolishly stood up for her and went to talk to Ajuan first, saying that Qian Xiaoshuang was new and hoped Ajuan could take care of her. But Ajuan didn't buy it and pushed the blame onto Yao Meiyu.
The two leaders recognized by everyone are Su Tianli and Yao Meiyu.
Now Su Tianli is not here,
Of course, Yao Meiyu has to make the decision on everything.
Zhang Wei went to find Yao Meiyu again.
Yao Meiyu was unequivocal. She pulled Zhang Wei in front of Qian Xiaoshuang and said, "Zhang Wei, let me tell you, we can temporarily take in Qian Xiaoshuang for your sake, but we won't take in ancestors."
Then Yao Meiyu said to Qian Xiaoshuang: "Qian Xiaoshuang, I'll tell you too, we're taking you in temporarily because you're in a difficult situation in every aspect right now."
"Then you said you wanted to work, so we arranged for you to work, but you weren't good enough, and you didn't do the work well. Not only did you make things worse, you even caused us losses!"
"So Qian Xiaoshuang, I'm telling you now, we won't employ you anymore!" Yao Meiyu said.
Qian Xiaoshuang was stunned.
But Qian Xiaoshuang's first reaction was to cry to Zhang Wei, "Brother Wei, look at her..."
Yao Meiyu: ???
Zhang Wei was also extremely embarrassed.
In short, Yao Meiyu made it clear in front of Qian Xiaoshuang and Zhang Wei, "First of all, we won't pay Qian Xiaoshuang a dime, because Qian Xiaoshuang only worked for us for three days, but she broke our bowls, gave us the wrong change, and spilled the mushrooms, bean curd sticks, and kelp that we spent a whole night soaking... directly causing us to lose nearly fifty yuan in income! Anyway, I won't give her a penny!"
"Secondly, Qian Xiaoshuang has lived here for a week. I won't allow her to stay any longer. But considering her practical difficulties, I can let her stay for another three days. After three days, she must leave!"
At this point, Yao Meiyu told Su Tianli, "I had already made it very clear to Zhang Wei and Qian Xiaoshuang at the time... But I don't live on Shaou Street, so I don't know why Qian Xiaoshuang moved into your house."
——The main reason is that Yao Meiyu has been busy during this period. Her unit, which was originally very idle, has been so busy recently because of the order from her superiors to vaccinate students in various schools with hepatitis A vaccine that she has been unable to take care of everything.
At the same time, because Mao Li was in the hospital, Yao Meiyu was also busy in and out...
In addition, Mao Li was in the hospital and Su Tianli was out, so the team was short of manpower. Yao Meiyu had to go home after get off work every day to get her brother and sister-in-law to help at the Dadadi Night Market...
She really didn't know that Qian Xiaoshuang had moved into Su Tianli's room and stole Su Tianli's belongings.
At this time, Mao Li had finished her meal after being fed by Su Tianli, and said to Su Tianli, "I'm full of lychees, you should eat some too, A-Yu... I'll tell you the rest."
Su Tianli urged her, "Eat this bowl of steamed egg."
In fact, Mao Li had no appetite at all.
But Su Tianli and Yao Meiyu both came to persuade her.
She was grateful for the kindness of her good friends, so she took the bowl and slowly ate the steamed egg.
Su Tianli and Yao Meiyu picked up their lunch boxes and started eating dinner.
Su Tianli asked Cheng Chengyu to prepare today's dinner.
The main purpose is to prevent Old Mrs. Su from being so tired.
But Mrs. Su was used to being busy, and she couldn't stop even if she was asked to.
So when Cheng Yu cooked, Old Lady Su would help him, starting by washing vegetables on a small stool.
While the two were chatting, Old Lady Su told Cheng Yu:
That Qian Xiaoshuang is such a bad guy!
Originally, Ajuan ordered some fresh pork every day and then left a small portion for everyone to eat.
Every day, Old Mrs. Su would take that little bit of pork and use it to improve everyone’s food.
Since Qian Xiaoshuang came, she has neither worked nor set up the stall. She stays at home every day, either staring at the valuables at home (such as some of the more expensive ingredients bought by Ajuan), or trying to steal the soup that Old Lady Su cooks and the meat dishes she makes for everyone...
Old Mrs. Su also has to work when she stays at home, so how can she have the time to keep an eye on Qian Xiaoshuang every day to prevent her from touching her secretly?
She focused too much attention on preventing Qian Xiaoshuang from stealing, and failed to prevent Qian Xiaoshuang from stealing meat and vegetables.
The cowardly old lady Su also mustered up the courage to complain to Ajuan, and then Ajuan got angry and wanted to drive Qian Xiaoshuang away;
Later, Qian Xiaoshuang cried in front of Zhang Wei again, and Zhang Wei came to stand up for Qian Xiaoshuang again...
This happened several times and Mrs. Su got fed up.
She simply didn't leave any meat.
Anyway, Ajuan and the others are going to set up a stall, and eating some rice noodles with meat filling or something like that will be an improvement in their lives.
This is why there was no meat at home when Su Tianli and Cheng Yu returned home today.
So, for dinner today, Cheng Yu used the cured lamb chops that he and Su Tianli brought back from the Northwest, and stewed them with white radish in a pressure cooker. He then poured the mixture into a stew pot, added dried mushrooms and bean curd sheets, and stewed them for about ten minutes.
I got a big pot of cured lamb ribs stewed with white radish.
It’s really fragrant and delicious.
Mao Li, who originally had no appetite, could not resist such delicious food. After being fed by Su Tianli, she ate the whole meal in one breath!
At this moment, Mao Li was holding her hospital meal - steamed egg, and eating it slowly;
Su Tianli and Yao Meiyu were holding their lunch boxes and eating their meals.
Everyone heard Mao Li's version.
However, the relationship between Mao Li and Qian Xiaoshuang started from high school.
Mao Li, Zhang Wei and Qian Xiaoshuang didn't have much interaction in junior high school. Mao Li only knew that Qian Xiaoshuang was not popular. When they graduated from junior high school, no one was willing to write a yearbook for Qian Xiaoshuang.
After entering high school, most of the classmates were unfamiliar to Mao Li when she first entered the school. Naturally, she became closer to Qian Xiaoshuang and got a preliminary understanding of Qian Xiaoshuang.
Then Mao Li said three things:
One is the love letter incident.
When Mao Li was in her first year of high school, there was a senior in her third year who had excellent grades and was also very handsome.
At that time, at least half of the girls in high school had a crush on him.
Even though the senior already had a girlfriend at that time, countless girls still wrote love letters to him.
One day, the senior’s girlfriend suddenly came to Mao Li’s class, holding a letter in her hand, and asked in a stern voice who wrote it.
Everyone was surprised.
Because according to legend, this sister is generous and gentle,
She didn't get angry when other girls wrote letters to her boyfriend, but would just smile and remind them to study hard.
Then why is my sister so angry today?
Is the letter she is holding in her hand a love letter?
Then, my sister asked everyone to take turns reading the letter.
Mao Li also saw it and was shocked!
——When other girls wrote letters, they mostly just showed off their talents, and wrote very obscure things like "The young man on the bridge and the water under the bridge, when the little boat returns, he holds the red sleeve without saying a word", or "I wish I were like a star and you were like the moon, shining brightly every night" and so on.
But the content of the love letter that this sister asked everyone to circulate among each other was extremely vulgar.
To be honest, this "love letter" with only a few words is more like a sex appointment letter!
There was no signature on the letter, but it stated the time and place and the color of clothes the writer would be wearing.
And, there is also a sentence "Then I will dedicate my clean virginity to you, my dear"...
Mao Li was very frightened.
Then I looked at the agreed time on the letter. It was that evening?!
In other words, the sister's early response saved the reputation of the anonymous girl and prevented such a scandal from happening.
However, Mao Li felt a little puzzled and wondered why her sister came to their class?
Qian Xiaoshuang beside him suddenly began to tremble.
Mao Li thought Qian Xiaoshuang was making fun of the person who wrote the letter.
Unexpectedly, Qian Xiaoshuang suddenly said loudly: "Huh? This letter paper...isn't it from Mao Li?"
In an instant, everyone's eyes turned to Mao Li.
Mao Li was stunned.
She quickly took the letter and looked at it carefully...
Mao Li felt very disappointed - the letter paper was indeed hers, and the words "I will come wearing green clothes" in the letter also made her feel really depressed!
Because she does have a green dress!
Mao Li's sister said with a sad face: "This letter was not written by me, but the letter paper... is indeed mine."
"Mao Li, I believe this was not written by you." As she said that, the sister looked at Mao Li, then at Qian Xiaoshuang beside Mao Li, her delicate eyebrows tightly furrowed.
The reason why the sister believed Mao Li was because this sister named Song had known Mao Li and Zhang Wei for a long time.
Mao Li and Zhang Wei confessed their love to each other when they were in junior high school. They agreed to study hard together and get into high school together so that they would not be separated...
Sister Song lives upstairs from Zhang Wei's house.
In order to be able to get into high school together with Mao Li, Zhang Wei even went to ask Sister Song to give them extra lessons.
It can be said that Sister Song knows Mao Li inside and out.
When the situation reached a stalemate,
Qian Xiaoshuang suddenly snatched the letter and tore it to pieces, saying, "It's better not to let such a disgusting thing exist!"
After saying that, Qian Xiaoshuang even threw the scraps of letter paper into the mop bucket filled with dirty water at the door of the classroom.
Her sudden action surprised everyone.
Everyone looked puzzled.
And the love letter incident just ended like that.
However, a few days later, Qian Xiaoshuang asked Mao Li with a hint of sarcasm, "That letter...wasn't it really written by you? But in our entire grade one, you're the only one with that kind of letter paper! And you're the only one wearing a light green shirt! Tsk tsk tsk tsk, Mao Li, I never knew you were so passionate and unrestrained!"
Qian Xiaoshuang spoke to Mao Li openly in front of everyone with an attitude that he had nothing to hide.
Mao Li was ashamed and angry.
Other girls helped Mao Li to mourn Qian Xiaoshuang.
Qian Xiaoshuang smiled and said, "Even Mao Li dared to write it in black and white, so why can't I say it? Besides, hasn't Senior Sister Song stopped this? Our Lili didn't really devote herself to the senior! Oh, this top student is different, so courageous! I am different, I am so timid... let alone writing, even thinking about it makes me feel embarrassed!"
In this way, Mao Li's bad reputation spread.
Zhang Wei was very angry and confessed his love to Mao Li in public to clear her name;
He also found Senior Song and her boyfriend and asked them to witness his confession to Mao Li...
Later on, everyone stopped gossiping about Mao Li.
Later, Mao Li and Zhang Wei graduated from high school and went to the countryside to work together. One year, Mao Li came back to visit her relatives and met Sister Song, who had married her senior and had a child. Sister Song brought up the matter again.
Sister Song told Mao Li that she had suspected that the letter was written by Qian Xiaoshuang. "Think about it, you and Jiang Xiaoshuang were deskmates and roommates in the same dormitory. Isn't it very likely that she got your letter and your clothes? But I really have no evidence. This is just my guess."
The second thing Mao Li told Su Tianli and Yao Meiyu was the scholarship incident at school:
A few years ago, people were not very interested in reading.
Because after finishing school, I have to go to the countryside...
This leads to everyone just messing around in high school.
In order to restrain these energetic boys and girls, the school came up with a solution: a competition-style scholarship points system.
The rules are also simple. There are four full-subject exams every semester: the first January exam - the midterm exam - the second February exam - the final exam.
Each student will have a ranking, and at the end of the semester, the top ten students in the total ranking (cumulative) will receive a bonus of five yuan each;
The top three students in each subject ranking (cumulative) will be rewarded three yuan for the first place, two yuan for the second place, and one yuan for the third place.
For this, everyone is still working very hard.
After all, if someone can get first place in six subjects and rank in the top ten in the grade overall, they can get twenty-one dollars!
At that time, this was half a month's salary for an ordinary worker!
Who doesn’t want it!
Mao Li and Zhang Wei both have the ability to chase the prize.
Of course, it is still a bit difficult to get a full scholarship.
But if you just want to be in the top ten, or be second or third in one or two subjects, it’s not a big problem.
However, Mao Li only received the scholarship for the first semester of her freshman year in high school.
Starting from the second semester, Mao Li always had problems in exams in the subjects she was best at.
During the Chinese language test, Qian Xiaoshuang, a poor student, was absent. Then the invigilator heard that Mao Li had cheat sheets in her pencil case and drawer after being reported by "some classmates". So the teacher came to check, but in the end the cheat sheets were not found. However, Mao Li wasted her time, so she did not finish her composition and got a very low score.
When collecting the papers after the history exam, Qian Xiaoshuang took out the kettle to drink water and "accidentally" spilled the water in the kettle on Mao Li's paper, causing the ink to spread and the teacher who was marking the papers could not see clearly. Mao Li's score was pitifully low.
When taking a math test, Qian Xiaoshuang "accidentally" wrote Mao Li's name on her own test paper, which resulted in Mao Li having two test papers and Qian Xiaoshuang having no test paper. In the end, both Mao Li and Qian Xiaoshuang were given zero points in this test!
…
Every time Qian Xiaoshuang sincerely apologized to Mao Li for various "carelessness",
Mao Li felt very upset.
But Qian Xiaoshuang admitted his mistake very well, so she didn't know what to say.
It was not until the end of the semester, when Mao Li had not received a single cent of scholarship, that she reviewed her exams and was shocked to realize that the exams that had been ruined by Qian Xiaoshuang happened to be the subjects she was best at.
As a result, she not only lost the bonus for the subject, but also failed to make it into the top ten in her grade.
From then on, Mao Li began to hate Qian Xiaoshuang very much.
Next, the third thing Mao Li told Su Tianli and Yao Meiyu was the incident at the school’s art performance.
When Mao Li was in school, the May Fourth Art Festival and New Year's Day Art Festival were the most favorite activities for all students, without a doubt.
Mao Li is not good at dancing.
But Mao Li has a good figure - she is tall, about 1.67 meters, and thin.
So every time there is a cultural and artistic performance, the cultural and entertainment committee member likes to pull Mao Li to perform.
But Mao Li had such a good figure...
She was born with a lack of coordination.
Therefore, in every cultural performance, when the girls choreographed group dances, Mao Li basically appeared as the group's darling.
In other words, she would wear the most gorgeous dance costume, stand in the center and pose a few times at the beginning and end of the dance, and then repeat those not-so-difficult moves throughout the whole show...the exciting parts of the dance would be performed by other girls.
Mao Li has a good temper. When the cultural and entertainment committee member criticized her for her stiff limbs and lack of artistic talent, she did not get angry but was cheerful. She would also take the initiative to help everyone during rehearsals and did not think of herself as the "leading actor" at all. Everyone likes her very much.
Qian Xiaoshuang also wanted to join the performance team and become one of the glamorous and beautiful ones, but girls generally didn't like her, so the cultural and entertainment committee member would reject her every time.
Qian Xiaoshuang would go to the teacher, the head teacher, the grade leader, the dean of studies, the principal...
Under her tearful attack,
In the end, Qian Xiaoshuang became a member of the group dance performance.
And she will steal the show in every performance,
She either fights for the center position or fakes a fall after the performance, and then looks at the audience with tears in her eyes and a pitiful look.
Once at a cultural performance, the dance choreographed by the cultural and entertainment committee member of Mao Li's class was called Winter Peacock.
The dance tells the story of volunteer soldiers crawling in the snow, feeling cold and hallucinating, and then seeing a group of peacocks dancing, which eventually ignited their fighting spirit. They woke up, rushed to the battlefield, fought the enemy, and won the victory.
There is no doubt that Mao Li continues to serve as the town mascot.
She first had to wear gorgeous peacock clothes and hide under a raised chair. When the boys who played the roles of the volunteer soldiers finished their performance and fell into a "frozen state", she had to quickly climb onto the chair and stand there, playing the role of a beautiful peacock. She did not leave the stage throughout the whole process, but just did a few movements that symbolized the peacock and showed off her beautiful feathers from time to time.
Other girls with good dancing skills will wear simple peacock skirts to play the role of peacocks. They will have a wonderful performance and will try every means to wake up the frozen soldiers...
But Qian Xiaoshuang was probably jealous of Mao Li because she was wearing that extremely gorgeous feather dress and became the focus of the whole audience.
So Qian Xiaoshuang repeated his old trick and danced closer and closer to Mao Li.
Qian Xiaoshuang's first reaction was to kick the chair under Mao Li's feet - it was a pile of several chairs, and the center of gravity was not stable! Mao Li stood on it, and even if she didn't move, she was trembling with fear of falling.
However, there were several boys nearby who were playing the role of frozen soldiers. They quickly grabbed the legs of the chair firmly, so Mao Li did not fall down.
Qian Xiaoshuang was even pushed by Zhang Wei, who played the soldier, and almost fell down!
Then Qian Xiaoshuang got angry, did a few dance moves, and rushed towards Mao Li, trying to tear off Mao Li's gorgeous peacock dance costume.
to be honest,
In that era, there were no fancy dance costumes.
The costume that Mao Li was wearing was actually the same dance costume as the other girls. Then the girls in the class used waste newspapers and paint to paint peacock feathers and then glued them on the costume.
If you look closely, it's hilarious.
From a distance, coupled with the stage lighting effects...
It just looks bluffing.
So, if Qian Xiaoshuang wanted the dance costume on Mao Li, it would be very easy to get it.
But that would be a real farce.
At the critical moment, Zhang Wei was quick-witted and improvised - he was originally holding the chair under Mao Li's feet tightly, but he pretended to be almost frozen to death and then woke up, and kicked Qian Xiaoshuang over.
Qian Xiaoshuang cried out and fell to the ground.
At this time, the cultural and entertainment committee member quickly led the other peacocks to save the situation.
Zhang Wei whispered: Hurry up and dance around me and pretend that I am hallucinating!
Just like that, the entertainment committee member quickly led everyone to circle around Zhang Wei a few times...
Zhang Wei pretended to wake up from the hallucination and was surprised to see the peacock circling around him.
Finally, after everyone calmed down, they followed the familiar music rhythm and continued the previous performance...
The storm finally subsided.
Hearing this, Su Tianli said longingly: "You said that the dance of the winter peacock must be very beautiful! I really want to see it."
Yao Meiyu nodded repeatedly, "Especially the part where Zhang Wei kicks Qian Xiaoshuang, it must be super exciting."
Mao Li smiled bitterly. "Yes, our dance won first place in the whole school! Especially the part where Zhang Wei kicked Qian Xiaoshuang away... Everyone was discussing the greatness of the peacock with broken wings, who did not sacrifice himself in order to wake up the soldiers who were about to freeze to death..."
Yao Meiyu said: "From this perspective, Zhang Wei was quite clear-headed six years ago!"
"How come after six years, I'm actually going backwards?!"
"He's like a tyrant who believed the evil concubine's slander. He believes whatever Qian Xiaoshuang says and always protects her... It's so annoying!"
Mao Li's tears flowed down drop by drop.
She told Su Tianli and Yao Meiyu that she was angry with Zhang Wei the day he brought Qian Xiaoshuang back.
"In fact, he has always been a bystander in the previous feud between Qian Xiaoshuang and I."
"But he always told me not to be malicious towards others for no reason."
"I told him that you kicked her on the stage to protect me! But he said that we were all young at that time and Qian Xiaoshuang was jealous of me because she was ignorant. Now we are all adults and have worked for several years. It's different now. He even advised me not to dwell on the past..."
"He is just like that. Because he is kind, he always thinks others are kind too."
"I said he said too much. He said I was dark inside and that's why I always looked at others with suspicion."
"Seeing that I was angry, he tried to comfort me again, saying that I liked him because he was kind and enthusiastic. Then he asked me if I was going to force him to become a villain like He Jingdong?"
"I'm totally speechless!"
Then, Mao Li talked about the unhappy things that happened recently:
Ever since Qian Xiaoshuang came, Mao Li discovered that the relationship between Qian Xiaoshuang and Zhang Wei... seemed to be getting increasingly unclear.
——Old Mrs. Su said that Qian Xiaoshuang stole the food from home and also ate the vegetables.
Zhang Wei defended Qian Xiaoshuang, saying that Qian Xiaoshuang had just returned from the countryside and had not yet corrected his bad habits of taking advantage of others and hoarding things, so he hoped that everyone could be more tolerant.
——Ajuan said that Qian Xiaoshuang had a bad attitude towards work and he messed things up on purpose just to be lazy.
Zhang Wei defended Qian Xiaoshuang, saying that Qian Xiaoshuang was not very good at work, so he could do more as a subsidy for Qian Xiaoshuang.
——Yao Meiyu refused to pay Qian Xiaoshuang three days’ wages and wanted to kick Qian Xiaoshuang out.
Zhang Wei said that the three-day wages were only three yuan, and he should just pay Qian Xiaoshuang, and said that he did the work, but he just didn't do it well. But no matter what, he had put in the work, so it was not right not to pay him.
As for Yao Meiyu's suggestion that Qian Xiaoshuang move out, Zhang Wei disagrees and is currently arguing with Yao Meiyu, saying that the house is rented by Su Tianli and only Su Tianli has the right to decide whether Qian Xiaoshuang should live here.
Then Mao Li talked about how Qian Xiaoshuang jumped into Su Tianli's room:
"Lizhi, our house is really too crowded. The house is not big to begin with, and there are so many people living in it. There are three people living in our room. After Qian Xiaoshuang came in, Ajuan and Grandma slept on the lower bunk, and I slept on the upper bunk. Qian Xiaoshuang had no choice but to sleep on the floor in our room."
"Qian Xiaoshuang set her eyes on your room and said that since you were not here, what was wrong with letting her sleep in your room... Ajuan disagreed and scolded her for a long time."
"Later, it was probably because grandma went to clean your room... that's when she rushed into your room. She could only bully the elderly! However, at night, Ajuan would not allow her to enter your room. As soon as she entered, Ajuan would scold her, and the scolding was very ugly. Zhang Wei would go to persuade Qian Xiaoshuang, and Qian Xiaoshuang would come back to our room crying."
"I guess Qian Xiaoshuang only dared to go to your room during the day when Ajuan was not at home."
Su Tianli comforted Mao Li, "Don't worry, Qian Xiaoshuang can't take advantage of me."
"Even if Zhang Wei is here, even if Zhang Wei protects her... she still can't get past me."
"Maoli, I want to know now, what are your plans for yourself?"
Mao Li was stunned for a long while.
She lowered her head, touched her belly, and started to cry, "Lizhi, even I didn't expect... It turns out that I'm already more than three months pregnant!"
She talked about the reason for her hospitalization, "...it was still because of Qian Xiaoshuang!"
"Lizhi, the hair ornament your father made is so beautiful, even I like it. That day I spent money to buy a light brown hair ornament and tied it on the end of my hair."
"Then Qian Xiaoshuang told Zhang Wei that it was her birthday and she wanted a light brown hair flower as a gift. She started crying and said she envied me. Why was I so lucky? I had money, a boyfriend, and her favorite light brown hair flower..."
"Then that idiot Zhang Wei came to me and asked me to give the light brown hair ornament to Qian Xiaoshuang!"
"I refused, so he followed Qian Xiaoshuang's advice and said, "I have everything, why do I need this hairpin? Or do I need the money to buy a hairpin? It's Qian Xiaoshuang's birthday, so what if I give her a worthless thing... He also told me not to be so stingy!"
"Tell me, can I not be angry?"
As she spoke, Mao Li took the handkerchief handed over by Su Tianli, wiped her tears, and continued:
"I got angry and started arguing with Zhang Wei. When I brought up the past, he got impatient and complained that I kept bringing up the past."
"Then Qian Xiaoshuang rushed over and begged me in front of Zhang Wei, crying and begging me to let Zhang Wei go, saying that Zhang Wei was very tired after working all day, and asked me why I didn't cherish such a good man... She even said how happy she would be if she could have a boyfriend as good as Zhang Wei. In the end, she also cried and begged me to be nice to Zhang Wei and not to hurt his feelings..."
Hearing this, Su Tianli’s fists clenched.
Yao Meiyu kept shaking her head. "Oh my god! This woman's level is too high... What should I do? If it were me, I wouldn't be able to beat this woman..."
Mao Li sobbed and said, "I was so angry at Qian Xiaoshuang at the time that I reached out and wanted to hit her!"
"Then Zhang Wei rushed over..."
"He protected Qian Xiaoshuang, but he pushed me to the ground."
"I was having a terrible stomachache at the time, but Zhang Wei, under Qian Xiaoshuang's instigation, accused me of pretending!"
"Thanks to grandma! She told me not to quarrel with Zhang Wei, and asked Juan to take me to the hospital on a tricycle. Then grandma ran to the guard room and called Yu, who came to take care of me."
At this point, Mao Li felt so uncomfortable that she couldn't continue.
It took a while before he regained control of his emotions and continued:
"…When I got to the hospital, I found out that I was already more than three months pregnant!"
"My period has been unstable since I came back from Jiangxi. Sometimes it comes, sometimes it doesn't. Last month I had a little bit of it... but it was gone in one day."
"So I never thought I'd get pregnant!"
Su Tianli asked: "What do you think now?"
Mao Li said sadly: "I have been in the hospital for three days, and the doctor also asked me whether I want to keep the baby."
"The doctor said that my health is not very good. If I want to keep this child, I will probably have to stay in bed and recuperate..."
Mao Li was absent-minded for a while, and continued: "Zhang Wei is not here now, so I... will tell you what is in my heart!"
"To be honest, I really don't want to leave him."
"He and I are childhood sweethearts. We've known each other since we were young, and we've never been apart in this life..."
"I don't even dare to think about what I would do if he wasn't in my future."
Then Mao Li changed the subject -
"But Qian Xiaoshuang is a thorn in my heart and his heart!"
"I can't accept him defending another woman in front of me...even though I know that there is nothing between him and Qian Xiaoshuang."
"Lizhi, Ayu, I'm so sad!"
"I have known him for twenty-three years. I confessed my love to him when I was fifteen, and we have been in love for eight years now..."
"And I'm pregnant!"
"It's painful to separate, and it's also painful not to separate!"
"Lizhi, Ayu...please teach me, what should I do?" Mao Li burst into tears.
Yao Meiyu, "...If you ask me, I would definitely advise them to break up!"
"Humph, it's not like I haven't been heartbroken before!"
"Isn't it just a breakup? From a personal point of view, you just lost a man who didn't value you, but he lost the woman who loved him the most. Tell me, who lost more between you two?"
Mao Li: ...
Yao Meiyu, "As for your eight-year relationship, it would be a pity if you really gave up. But I just want to ask you, if you marry him, can you bear to live like this every day for the next forty years of your life?"
Mao Li: !!!
Yao Meiyu continued, "Think about it again. If you break up with Zhang Wei... Yes, your future may be full of uncertainty. Maybe you won't find another man as good as him, but you may also meet someone more suitable for you! Or, if you meet someone more suitable, you can fall in love and get married again. If you really can't meet someone more suitable, then just be alone..."
"Men may betray you, but friends like us will not betray you. The knowledge you have learned will not betray you either, and your career and work will not betray you either..."
"To put it bluntly, what's the point of having a man? The most important thing for us women is to make money!" Yao Meiyu said carelessly.
Then, Yao Meiyu poked Su Tianli with her elbow and said, "Hey, Lizhi, tell me, am I right?"
Su Tianli pursed her lips and smiled, "You said it very well!"
Yao Meiyu suddenly remembered something. "I heard from grandma that after you and Cheng Yu went on a trip to the Northwest, you two... hooked up?"
Su Tianli's face flushed, but she still nodded.
Yao Meiyu looked disdainful, "Humph! You're a traitor who betrayed our Singles Alliance!"
Mao Li looked at Su Tianli in surprise, "Lizhi, you and Cheng Yu..."
Su Tianli patiently said to Mao Li: "My business is not important. What's important now is you."
"If the fetus is more than three months old, you need to make a decision immediately."
"Otherwise, if you delay it any further... until you are older, it will be more harmful to your body to have it removed."
Mao Li nodded, tears rolling down her cheeks, "Give me a few more days to think about it."
Then she asked shamefully, "Lizhi, Ah Yu... will you, will you look down on me? Do you think I don't love myself?"
Su Tianli sighed, "I don't know what others think, but I understand you."
Yao Meiyu said: "I hate Zhang Wei more in this matter."
Mao Li held her face and started crying.
At this time, Zhang Wei hurried into the ward, "...Lili!"
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