Chapter 35 Chapter 35 Wuyang Ice Cream Cone is rich in milky flavor and refreshingly sweet...
Su Tianli drank the delicious red date chicken soup.
How should I put it? If the chicken is not cooked by myself, I always feel that the taste is not that authentic.
But the good thing about the stew produced in the cafeteria is that it gives people a kind of spiritual comfort that comes without any effort.
After all, you don’t have to pay for the soup yourself!
All you need to do is block out Tian Xiu's murderous eyes and ignore Su Youzi's pouting mouth...
She can drink the soup very comfortably.
After drinking chicken soup and eating lunch,
Su Tianli started talking nonsense, "I met Zhang Wei today. He said that the chopstick factory was about to close down, and he was busy looking for a job. I asked him if it was easy to find a job, and he said it wasn't difficult, after all, he had a high school diploma..."
Then, Su Tianli changed the subject and asked Su Youzi, "By the way, sister, don't you have a high school diploma? Why do you have to stay in the message room as a temporary worker? The message room is only for retired old men, and you are only in your twenties!"
"In my opinion, instead of staying here as a temporary worker, it's better to find a job that pays more, such as a spinning mill or a garment factory. The salary is higher, there are more young people, and it's easier to find a partner..."
"What do you think, sister?" Su Tianli asked.
Su Youzi rolled his eyes at Su Tianli and said, "Mind your own business! You are a person who only makes 28 yuan a month. What qualifications do you have to look down on me who makes 22 yuan a month?"
This time, Su Tianli's target was not Su Youzi.
So, she let Su Youzi go!
Su Tianli turned to Tian Xiu and asked, "Mom, I remember you also have a high school diploma, right? Normally, with your education... you can be a cadre, right? How come..."
Tian Xiu felt a little uncomfortable, "I only have a junior high school education!"
Su Tianli was stunned.
——Junior high school education?
That……
Why does Tian Xiu appear in the "53rd grade graduating class photo of Shuita Township School, Ning County, Hunan Province"?
Tian Xiu’s name was even on that photo!
Su Tianli did not continue to ask.
After lunch, she left home.
But she didn't really leave.
Instead, he went to the convenience store in the family compound.
At noon, the yard was quiet and there was not a single ghost in sight.
However, there were cool electric fans in the store, so there were still several women sitting in the store, chatting and knitting while enjoying the fans.
Seeing Su Tianli, the women hurriedly greeted her.
"The lychees are here, come sit down, come sit down, turn on the fan, it's so hot!"
"Lizhi, why haven't I seen you these days? Have you already started working? So soon?"
"Wow, you're starting work so soon? That's why I told you that people who are professional and skilled in technology are the most popular..."
"Lizhi, did you go to the Municipal People's Hospital to be a nurse?"
…
Su Tianli spent ten cents to buy a vanilla-flavored Wuyang ice cream cone and prepared to eat it herself;
I spent another three cents to buy six mung bean popsicles, and shared one with all the aunts present...
Everyone was eating the icy, fragrant and sweet popsicles, and they were all smiling from ear to ear.
Su Tianli ate the milky ice cream cone while answering the aunts, "How can I be qualified to be a nurse in the Municipal People's Hospital!"
"The current employment situation is already quite severe. Many urban youth are unemployed. It is even more difficult for us who have returned to the city without any connections!"
"Besides, our family is very poor, how can we afford to pay that 'custom'..."
Just when she said this, Su Tianli pretended to speak out of turn, covered her mouth with her hands in surprise, and pretended to have said something wrong.
The aunts looked at each other.
They are all smart people.
Although Su Tianli did not specify what "convention" means,
But considering this context,
——That is to say, Su Tianli really wanted to go to the Municipal People’s Hospital, but she didn’t make it.
The reason is that it is stuck on "common practice"!
And according to Su Tianli, "convention" represents "money" or "backstage"...
At this moment, the aunts sympathized with each other deeply.
An auntie asked Su Tianli in a low voice, "...how much is it?"
Su Tianli pretended to be annoyed and said nothing. She just quickly stretched out a hand, spread out five slender white fingers, shook them, and then quickly clenched them into a fist.
The aunts immediately understood, and they all exclaimed, then looked at Su Tianli with sympathy.
Then Su Tianli took the initiative to ask the aunts: She has a high school education. If she wants to find a temporary job, what kind of job would be best? How much is the highest salary?
When talking about this, the aunts' eyes lit up and they immediately started talking about what they had seen and heard...
Their opinions were relatively consistent, all saying that people with a high school education are very capable and are generally leaders in their workplaces.
So Su Tianli brought the topic back to the chemical plant, asking the factory director what his education level was, and asking He Jingdong, a key engineer in the technical department, what his education level was...
If the aunts were a bit hypocritical when it came to "what kind of good job you can get outside a chemical plant with a high school degree";
But when it comes to the current leadership team of the chemical plant, they seem much more familiar!
So Su Tianli soon found out:
The director of the chemical plant is a college student, a rare figure in this era, who is a chemistry major and has a lot of experience;
The secretary only has a junior high school education, but he is a retired soldier and was appointed by the higher authorities;
He Jingdong, a key engineer in the technical department, only has a high school diploma;
Yao Xingang, the head of the Finance Department, is actually a college student;
Aunt Cao, the person in charge of the factory guesthouse, claimed to be a high school student, but according to reliable information, Aunt Cao actually only attended high school for one year and did not have a high school diploma at all...
Su Tianli began her performance.
She said naively, "I heard from my eldest sister that my mom is also a high school student! I didn't even know this... Actually, I really want to know, since my mom is also a high school student, why didn't she become the head of the guesthouse?"
The aunts were still friendly to Su Tianli.
But when it comes to Tian Xiu, people are not so polite anymore.
After all, how did Tian Xiu favor the eldest daughter and how did she wrong the second daughter?
They know it very well and have it all figured out!
Then the aunts began to chatter:
"Hey Lizhi, don't think too much! If your mom really has a high school education... with her ba-zha (which means 'unreasonable' in Cantonese), she would have told everyone about it a long time ago! There's no way we didn't know about it!"
"That's right! If she had a high school diploma...she would have stamped her feet and insisted on becoming a leader. It's impossible for her to be an ordinary employee in obscurity."
"Lizhi, even though she is your mother, I still want to be fair - if your mother is really a high school student, how could she possibly like your father! Your father is illiterate!"
The last sentence made Su Tianli suddenly enlightened!
She began to review the situation at her grandmother's house.
Before marrying Su Dejun, Tian Xiu was already an employee at a chemical plant.
But Tian Xiu is not from Guangzhou.
She is from Hunan Province, but seems to have a bad relationship with her mother's family.
In Su Tianli's memory,
My grandpa passed away many years ago, and my grandma lives with her three uncles.
However, Tian Xiu never returned to her parents' home.
Su Tianli had never met her uncle, aunt, or other relatives there.
As for her grandmother, she had only seen her twice.
In Su Tianli's memory, her grandmother was a slim person. She dressed decently, always wearing a suit and leather shoes, carrying a leather bag in her hand. She spoke without an accent and her voice was standard and pleasant.
Grandma was quite strict with Su Youzi. Every time she came, she would ask about the academic performance of Su Youzi and Su Tianli (they were the only two in the family who went to school at that time). When she heard that Su Youzi's academic performance was very poor, her face turned very unhappy. She would only smile when she saw Su Tianli's grades...
In the past, Su Tianli really hoped that her grandmother could live in Guangzhou for a long time so that someone would protect her.
Unfortunately, every time, grandma would come and stay for one night before leaving in a hurry.
Every time her grandmother came, Tian Xiu would be very upset for a long time.
Su Tianli was young at that time and thought that her mother and grandmother had a bad relationship. She didn't dare to ask or say that she wanted her grandmother to stay longer.
So here comes the question:
Why does it seem like Tian Xiu and her mother's family have severed their ties for so many years?
Also, the aunts are right. If Tian Xiu was a high school student, why would she fall in love with the illiterate Su Dejun?
Also, her step-grandmother Liu Fang and her biological grandmother have very different temperaments. It feels like one is a poor peasant woman who makes a living by farming, and the other is a female cadre from a wealthy family.
So, why did Tian Xiu, who came from a cadre family, fall in love with Su Dejun, a farmer who could not read a single word?
Of course, even Su Tianli didn’t know about these things, let alone the aunts in the factory.
Su Tianli came to chat with the aunts on purpose. Her most important task was to spread the "convention" of Wang Aiqin's 500 yuan...
As for Tian Xiu's matter, she had no intention of getting anything out of her aunts' mouths.
After all, as Tian Xiu's biological daughter, she didn't know much about Tian Xiu's past...
I even had to find out about Tian Xiu's life from outsiders.
This is quite ironic.
So after finishing the ice cream cone, Su Tianli stood up and said goodbye to the aunts.
After walking a few steps, she heard her aunts talking about her again:
"Lizhi is really pretty. She's young and a nurse! I don't know which handsome guy she'll be with in the future!"
"You like her? Then marry her and make her your daughter-in-law! Isn't your son about the same age as Litchi?"
"That won't work! No matter how good lychees are... I get annoyed at the thought of becoming in-laws with Tian Xiu! Forget it!"
"That's right! No matter how pretty and capable Lizhi is, it doesn't matter! With a mother who sucks blood like that...anyone who knows her background well will not choose her as a daughter-in-law!"
"Hey, you say, after Tian Xiu gave birth to the first child, she also gave birth to the second, third, and fourth children. Was it so that the three younger ones could support the first child?"
…
Su Tianli smiled and didn't take it seriously.
She went to the post office again.
The post office has a yellow book (a directory of telephone numbers of enterprises and institutions in provinces and cities across the country).
Su Tianli spent a lot of time to find the phone number of the Ning County Education Bureau in Hunan Province, and then she paid to make a long-distance call, claiming that she was the child of a retired teacher from Shuita Township High School in Ning County, and that she was now working in another place and wanted to find her father in an emergency, but she had forgotten the phone number of her father's workplace...
The staff member who answered the phone at the Ning County Education Bureau was quite enthusiastic and helped her find the phone number.
that's all--
The first step was that Su Tianli got the phone number of Shuita Township High School in Ning County.
The second step was that Su Tianli spent money to make a long-distance call to Shuita Township High School to find a teacher named Hu.
The name of this teacher Hu appeared in Tang Hui's graduation photo.
The teacher who answered the phone heard Su Tianli call out Teacher Hu's name and asked Su Tianli what was the matter without any suspicion.
Su Tianli said: "Hello, teacher. To be honest, I'm actually looking for a man named Tang Hui. He is a senior student of your school, Class of 54, and also my classmate's father. Now I have something urgent to do and want to find classmate Tang. Do you know... how to contact Uncle Tang Hui?"
In fact, Su Tianli was not sure whether she could find out the whereabouts of Tang Hui in this way.
If not,
At least it is the fastest way to rule out Tang Hui's whereabouts...
but!
Su Tianli's luck is still very good.
The person on the other end of the phone asked Su Tianli to wait. About ten minutes later, the other party reported the name of a company to Su Tianli and said, "I just checked the alumni directory, and the name of Tang Hui from the 54th class is indeed recorded on it... What I just read to you is Tang Hui's workplace. If you have any urgent matters, please call the company to find him!"
Su Tianli quickly thanked him.
In this way, after much trouble, she finally found Tang Hui's whereabouts.
In the third step, Su Tianli ran back and flipped through the big yellow book. According to the index of Tang Hui’s work unit, she finally found the phone number of Tang Hui’s unit.
She paid to make another long-distance call, "Hello, I'm looking for Tang Hui."
The other party was silent for a moment, and seemed a little unhappy. "Where are you?"
Su Tianli was silent for a moment, "I'm in Guangzhou... Comrade, I have something urgent to discuss with Tang Hui."
"Then wait a minute. I'll go find Chief Tang."
So far——
Su Tianli finally confirmed that Tang Hui would work in this unit.
She hung up the phone directly.
Then, she bought an envelope at the post office and asked someone to write down Tang Hui's work address on the envelope. She then put a photo of Su Youzi that she had just received from the Su family into the envelope, sealed it, and sent it out by expedited registered mail.
After finishing all this, Su Tianli breathed a long sigh of relief.
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