Chapter 651: Educated Youth Gathering
"How about this, you write me your address, and let Akai find a restaurant on Saturday, and we'll give him a good meal."
"Will it take up your time?"
"No matter how busy you are, you still have time to eat a meal."
Wang Menghan took the paper and pen handed to her by Song Fuyu and wrote the address to her.
"It's settled. See you on Saturday. I'm leaving now."
Yan's mother had already picked out the gifts. Seeing that she was talking to someone else, she didn't come over, but stood there waiting for her.
"Xiao Yu, do you know that girl just now?"
"Well, we were both educated youth in the same village before, and we came to Beijing to play during the summer vacation."
"We have to treat them well."
Yan's mother understood her. If they didn't have a good relationship, she would not pay any attention to her, let alone talk and laugh with her.
"We have an appointment for dinner on Saturday. I'll invite Akai and Youyou over. We know each other."
As soon as Song Fuyu and Yan's mother left, Wang Menghan's cousin came over.
"Cousin, who were you talking to just now?"
"A friend who was an educated youth with me in the countryside before."
"The other party is from Beijing? Why didn't I hear you mention that before? If we had known you had friends in Beijing, why would we stay in a guesthouse? It would have been a waste of money."
"How can I live in someone else's house? Isn't this just like asking for money?"
In fact, she didn't want to come here at all, but she couldn't resist the constant requests of her cousin and aunt.
She said that she and Tong Tao were both college students, and they came here to save face for her cousin first, and it would be easier to talk about the bride price later.
If she were to ask herself, if the relationship had really reached that level, why would they need to be so calculating towards each other?
Moreover, she soon discovered that her cousin was determined to marry him, and the man's attitude was not very good at all. He did not consider them as relatives at all.
Not only were there no activities arranged for them, they were not even taken to visit any free parks. They had to pay for their own accommodation in the guesthouse and their daily meals.
If the return ticket had not been booked for next Monday, she and Tong Tao would have wanted to go back today.
On Saturday morning, Yan Ziyuan and Jin Kai each drove a car to the address written by Wang Menghan.
Originally, he could just drive one car, but Yan Ziyuan didn't want to stay at home alone, nor did he want his wife to sit in the same car with others.
"You guys wait downstairs, Youyou and I will go upstairs to call for help."
At the corner of the stairs in the guesthouse, I met Wang Menghan and Tong Tao who were about to go downstairs.
"Sister Menghan, long time no see~"
Tong Youyou happily gave her a hug.
"Youyou, why do I find that you have become a lot more plump than before?"
She already had some baby fat on her face, and now there was even more fat on her face.
"Why? I'm pregnant."
"Congratulations, are you okay?"
Wang Menghan looked at her belly. Her clothes were very loose and at a glance, there was no sign of pregnancy at all.
"It's okay. It's been three and a half months."
"Thanks to you coming here, I've been confined at home this summer and I'm almost suffocating."
In fact, it was because she had severe sleepiness symptoms and didn’t want to go out at all. At most, she would just hang out at Yan’s house.
After leaving the guesthouse, Wang Menghan and Tong Tao were amazed to see two Mercedes-Benz cars parked at the door.
How much does this cost!
"Wang Zhiqing, Tong Zhiqing, long time no see."
"Jin Zhiqing, long time no see."
"Don't stand at the door and talk, get in the car, the hotel has been booked."
Wang Menghan and Tong Tao were a little hesitant, fearing that they would dirty the car.
"What are you two doing? Do you want me to open the car door for you? I've never seen you two be so reserved before."
Jin Kai joked with a smile.
His joke eased the tension between the two of them, and they opened the door and sat in the back seat.
The two of them never considered getting in the car that Song Fuyu was riding in, because Yan Ziyuan's face in the driver's seat clearly said: Don't disturb me and my wife.
"You two are so mean. You came to my place but didn't even contact me in advance."
"Isn't this because you're afraid of disturbing Director Jin?"
"When we were in the village before, you two often disturbed me and Youyou."
After Song Fuyu went with the army, the four of them became closer in the village.
"You don't know until you come out. Once you come out, you'll be shocked. Beijing is too good."
"Then come to Beijing to work after graduation."
"Are you kidding?"
"We are just an ordinary family. We don't have the connections to come to Beijing."
“It doesn’t necessarily have to be distributed.”
Tong Tao actually wanted to try his luck in a big city, but Menghan was studying in a teacher training program and wanted to be a teacher after graduation.
"You and Song Zhiqing should not want the jobs assigned by the state, right?"
"Well, I hang out with my sister-in-law."
"The car we are riding in now was earned by her taking me there."
“Hiss~~”
It would be a lie to say I wasn't envious.
Although they are all college students, the gap between them is as big as the Pacific Ocean.
"Didn't they say that Song Zhiqing was an outsourced employee of the Qin City Garment Factory? Does he make that much money?"
"Haha, that was a hundred or eighty years ago."
"After dinner, I'll take you to visit the factory run by my sister-in-law."
The car stopped in front of the century-old roast duck restaurant. Jin Kai had already booked a private room in advance.
"Have you visited any tourist attractions in the past two days?"
"Yesterday we went to the Forbidden City and then wandered around the park near the guesthouse. We plan to climb the Great Wall tomorrow and go back on Monday."
"Didn't you say you were here to meet your cousin's future in-laws? Why are you two staying at a guesthouse?"
Tong Youyou didn't think too much and asked directly.
This sentence triggered Wang Menghan's anger, and she couldn't help but complain to them.
"That family looked down on us because we were from outside the area. Apart from the first day when we came to their house for a meal, we had to take care of everything else on our own. We even paid for our accommodation in the guesthouse."
"She clearly knew that this was our first time here and we were unfamiliar with the place, and she didn't even bother to find someone to accompany us. She just left us alone, but my cousin just kept coming up to us and wouldn't listen to anything I said. When I talked too much, she even accused Tong Tao and I of meddling in her business. Her kindness was really taken for granted."
Wang Menghan was so angry that she wanted to continue complaining, but Tong Tao beside her pulled her clothes under the table, and she realized that she was too excited and a little out of control.
"Is the person your cousin is dating from a well-off family?"
"They live in the rubber factory's staff quarters. Their parents are both employees of the rubber factory. I think one of their uncles is a section chief in the municipal party committee office."
"Oh? What's your last name?"
Yan Ziyuan, who had been silent, asked.
"Surname Su."
He nodded thoughtfully.