Looking closely, I saw someone walking around the village with a torch, a small person...
When she got closer, the little man actually ran towards her holding a torch.
It’s Zhiyuan!
"Zhiyuan! Why are you here?" She hurried to meet him.
"It's dark, why don't you come back..." Zhiyuan held the torch high to illuminate the road in front of her.
Lin Qingping then remembered what she had lied to the child: She was afraid of the dark...
She suddenly felt that a place in her heart was also illuminated by the torch, bright and warm...
Some people, really, if you just show a little kindness to them, they can illuminate you like the sun.
"Thank you, Zhiyuan, let's go home." She took the torch from Zhiyuan, held his hand, led her second sister, and strode towards home.
When her parents-in-law saw that she had brought her younger sister back, they treated her as just relatives staying for a while, which was common in the countryside. They said nothing, and even heated up the food that they had left for Lin Qingping and added two fried eggs for them to eat.
When they finally settled down at night, Lin Qingping saw that her sister had fallen asleep. She put away the document with her mother's fingerprints, and sat down to write a letter to Gu Juncheng, explaining what had happened today.
She wrote down her name neatly: Juncheng.
Looking at the two words on the letter paper, she felt both familiar and unfamiliar.
It seemed like she had never written his name...
After being stunned for a while, she started writing, without telling a single lie. She clearly stated in the letter that she had spent 500 yuan, and also said that the matter was urgent and she had not discussed such a large sum of money with him.
At the end of the letter, there was still a reminder: Be sure to pay attention to safety.
The next day, she took the written letter to the brigade and asked the branch secretary to mail it.
When the branch secretary saw that it was a letter sent to the army, he agreed without hesitation.
She thought it would take a long time to receive his reply, but unexpectedly, a few days later, Xiao Wang from the brigade came running over and asked her to answer the phone, saying that Chengzi called from the army.
She ran after him, not knowing why he called. Was he going to blame her?
After all, 500 yuan was a large portion of the money he gave her.
There was only one telephone in the village, the one connected to the brigade, and the signal was very poor. She called for a long time before his voice came through.
"Hello." A low voice.
"Juncheng!" She spoke in a crisp voice, anxiously.
"Don't worry, I received your letter. Don't feel pressured. The money is for you to spend. Just make the arrangements and let my second sister live at home peacefully without any burden. I will write to my parents to explain it clearly."
He spoke quickly, but every word was clear and powerful, as if he was speaking right into her ear.
"Well, okay..." Suddenly I felt my eyes getting hot.
I actually guessed he would say that, he’s such a nice guy, but it was different to hear him say it in person.
He seemed ready to hang up after he finished speaking, and Lin Qingping quickly said, "Juncheng, I want to go to the army to see you, can I? I want to visit my relatives!"
"What are you doing here? Don't come..."
The signal started to become a little unclear.
"Is...is it not allowed?" She was not sure.
"No, you..."
Lin Qingping walked around the brigade office holding the phone but couldn't get a signal back. Finally, the call was disconnected, leaving only a beeping sound.
Lin Qingping hung up the phone helplessly and went back home dejectedly.
When I got home, I found that there were guests.
She was not a guest either, but her sister-in-law, Gu Juncheng's sister Gu Youlian.
Gu Juncheng is the second child in the family. He has an older sister who married into the next village and gave birth to a daughter.
In her previous life, Lin Qingping didn't care about the Gu family and never called her elder sister-in-law sister. After Gu Juncheng's death, she left the Gu family and was not very clear about her elder sister-in-law's later fate.
Gu Youlian was leading her daughter Xiaomai to look at the new clothes of Lin Qingping's second sister, and she was talking with saliva flying, "Your sister must have bought them for you at a department store. They are so expensive in department stores. I tell you, we can buy them at the factory price, which is really cheap. Look at me, and then look at what Xiaomai is wearing. She bought them for you, and they are at least half the price."
As Lin Qingping listened, an idea suddenly occurred to him.
"Sister, what factory price are you talking about?" Lin Qingping asked quickly.
As soon as Gu Youlian saw her coming back, she grabbed her and asked, "Did you buy this at a department store? I compared them, and they are exactly the same, but the price is more than half the difference. Look at mine, it's just a different color."
Gu Youlian's face was filled with pride at her husband's ability.
"Sister, I want to go and take a look. Can you and your brother-in-law take me to see it?" Lin Qingping, who was originally listless, suddenly became energetic.
Of course Gu Youlian was willing. Isn't this a good opportunity to show off her manliness?
You know, in the past, her husband Dugen was always said to be lazy, not fond of work, and hanging out outside all day long, unable to stand up.
One was anxious and the other loved to show off, so they immediately decided to go look for the clothes at factory price the next day. When the eldest sister went back, Lin Qingping even stuffed a handful of candy into her niece Xiaomai's pocket.
The next morning, Lin Qingping set out as planned, taking her second sister with her to meet her eldest sister's husband.
Du Gen is tall and thin with a very fair complexion. He is definitely not cut out for farm work. It is said that his ancestors were peddlers, so perhaps he inherited this gene and loves to travel around the world. There is no place in the world that he has not been to.
"It's a clothing factory in another county. There's a whole warehouse full of clothes. I can take you to have a look, but it's far away. Aren't you afraid?" Du Gen asked.
"Let's go, the sooner we go, the sooner we can come back!" Lin Qingping was a little impatient.
"Okay!" Dugan was also very straightforward.
It was indeed very far; they set out early in the morning and arrived in the afternoon.
But Lin Qingping overestimated Du Gen's ability. Du Gen only knew the warehouse manager in the factory. If he wanted to buy so many goods from the warehouse, he had to meet the person in charge of their clothing factory.
After a lot of nice words, the warehouse manager agreed to take them to meet the sales manager.
This was the first time the sales manager had encountered such a thing. “Our clothes are only sold to department stores and shopping malls, not to individuals.”
Who would buy clothes at the factory instead of at the mall?
To speak is to refuse.
"What if I buy a hundred pieces, or even more!" Lin Qingping said in a loud voice.
But Gu Youlian and her husband and second sister were all frightened.
Gu Youlian was already desperately pulling at the corner of her clothes.
The sales manager almost thought she was a scammer.
"Section Chief, let's exchange the money and the goods. We can make the deal today. How can I cheat you?" Lin Qingping threw out the money, a thick stack of ten-yuan bills, "I want to buy autumn and winter clothes."
The sales manager hesitated for a long time, and finally took them to the warehouse. "These are all autumn and winter items. Take a look at what styles you want, and tell me when you've picked them out."
There are no samples, so I go to the warehouse to choose...
Is there any business done this way?
But Lin Qingping didn't care and plunged into the warehouse.
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