Chapter 62 Bai Lili was bullied
According to the villagers who came home to report the news, Cheng Zhujun was blocking the long-distance bus station, asking everyone he saw, "Fellow villagers, do you know Uncle Bai Zhenggan and Aunt Tang Liren from Ruyi Village?"...
Finally, the question came to the villager.
This villager was from Jixiang Village. When Bai was building a new house, Uncle Tang led the crowd to help, and this villager also came. Not only did he know Bai Zhenggan, he also knew where Bai Zhenggan's home was.
So Cheng Zhujun took out a dollar and asked the villager to go to Bai's house and tell him: The pears are not good, come quickly.
When the villagers arrived at Taotao's house, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening.
Tang Liren's legs immediately went weak...
Fortunately, Taotao and Xingxing supported me.
Tan Fenghui took out some warm roasted sweet potatoes from the stove, handed them to the villager who brought the news, thanked him repeatedly, and sent the man out.
Tang Liren burst into tears, "My pear! What's going on?..."
Bai Zhenggan was also worried.
After thinking for a while, he said to Song Zhi, "Tomorrow you will accompany your aunt and Tao Tao to go to the city to see what is going on."
Song Zhiyi responded.
The next day, before dawn, the three of them went out to the village entrance to catch the bus.
Along the way, everyone was in a heavy mood.
It was still around three or four o'clock in the afternoon before Taotao got off the car with her mother and Song Zhi.
As soon as they got out of the station, everyone saw Cheng Zhujun guarding the bus station exit.
"Xiao Zhuzi! What's wrong...what happened to my sister?" Taotao asked anxiously.
Cheng Zhujun was even more anxious than her, "Stop talking and get in the car. I'll take you to her dormitory to find her!"
car?
When everyone looked, they saw a half-used tricycle parked next to Cheng Zhujun.
Cheng Zhujun explained: "I borrowed this, get in the car!"
Taotao and Tang Liren got in the car.
Song Zhi said to Cheng Zhujun, "You sit in the cart too, tell me how to go, and I'll pedal."
Cheng Zhujun saw that the man was tall and had long legs, and the tricycle bed was not big, so she estimated that he could not fit in. Besides, he was a man and had more strength to pedal, so she quickly got on the bike and sat with Taotao and Tang Liren, pointing her finger forward and giving directions from time to time.
At the same time, she also took the time to say to Taotao: "This is what happened..."
Bai Lili came to the city to work, and her workplace was not far from Cheng Zhujun's home, so the two often visited each other.
There is electricity in the city at night, and after Bai Lili finishes her work during the day, she often reads books and learns to read at night. It just so happened that Cheng Zhujun was also learning on her own under Taotao's guidance.
So every night after Cheng Zhujun finished setting up her stall, she would run to Bai Lili's dormitory to find her. The two would spend half an hour checking each other's learning progress, and then Cheng Zhujun would leave.
But one night a few days ago, when Cheng Zhujun went to find Bai Lili, she found Bai Lili crying.
When Cheng Zhujun asked her what was wrong, she said she felt a little uncomfortable and asked Cheng Zhujun not to interfere too much.
The next night Cheng Zhujun went to find Bai Lili again. Well, Bai Lili was covered in wounds, even her face was bruised and swollen! Cheng Zhujun quickly asked her what was going on, but Bai Lili just covered her face and cried...
Cheng Zhujun had no choice but to ask other people who shared the same dormitory with Bai Lili, but everyone was silent and no one dared to speak! Cheng Zhujun looked carefully again and found that the wound on Bai Lili's hand had festered!
She couldn't stand it any longer, but as the year was coming to an end, Uncle Qin and his wife took leave and went back to their hometown, and Cheng Zhujun couldn't find anyone to find out the situation.
Two days later, the scars on Bai Lili's body became more and more serious, and she couldn't even walk...
Cheng Zhujun was anxious, so she had to go to the long-distance bus station early in the morning to block people. Finally, she found a villager who knew Bai Zhenggan and sent a message to him.
After hearing what Cheng Zhujun said, Taotao and Tang Liren became even more anxious.
Song Zhi also increased the speed of pedaling the tricycle.
After a while, under the guidance of Cheng Zhujun, Song Zhi rode the tricycle to the back door of the state-owned hotel not far from the train station.
The family dormitory area of the state-owned hotel is here.
It is now a little after four in the afternoon, and lunchtime is in an hour. Almost all the employees are busy in the restaurant in front.
There are not many employees in the state-owned hotel, only about 20 to 30 people, and the dormitory compound is not big. At this moment, there are only a few elderly people with children sitting there bored.
Tao Tao stood at the entrance of the dormitory compound, looked inside, observed for a while, then went outside to buy a handful of fruit candies for five cents. She asked her mother and Cheng Zhujun to wait outside, and she went in to find an elderly man who looked relatively friendly, and asked, "Old man, is Bai Lili here?"
The old man, "She's not here. It's working time now. She's working in the front!"
Then he looked at her again, "Who are you?"
Taotao smiled and said, "I am from the same village as her. It's almost the New Year, and I wanted to come over to ask her when she will go back to the countryside. I want to take the bus back with her."
Then she saw two dirty children crawling around the old woman's feet, so she took out a few candies from her pocket and handed them to the children, "You are so beautiful, come here, Auntie will treat you to some candy!"
The old man quickly said, "Oh, you are too polite!"
Tao Tao asked with a smile, "Grandma, are these your grandchildren? They look so smart and clever at first glance..."
She coaxed the old lady into a happy smile with a few words, and then asked tentatively, "My fellow villager has just started working in your company not long ago, and I don't know if she is used to it..."
The old man looked around and lowered his voice and said, "When Chef Qin was still here, Bai Lili was living a good life. Now Chef Qin and his wife have asked for leave to go back to their hometown for the New Year... Bai Lili has been bullied! Alas, she is still young, and her parents are not around... You should send a message back and ask Bai Lili's parents to come and pick her up... Forget about leaving! She can come back after the New Year when Old Qin comes back!"
After a pause, the old man continued, "But at this critical juncture, the company just happens to be hiring, and Bai Lili is a temporary worker. If she leaves now, if she has the opportunity to become a regular employee in the future, I'm afraid others will use this to say something about her..."
Seeing someone coming from afar, the old man stood up and prepared to leave with his grandchildren.
Taotao quickly asked another question, "Mother-in-law, who is making trouble for my fellow villager?"
As she spoke, she grabbed another handful of candy from her pocket and stuffed it into the old woman's hand, "Grandma, keep it and use it to coax your grandson."
The old man clenched the fruit candy in his hand and lightly said a few words, "...Zhang Zhifa's wife." Then he left with his grandchildren.
Taotao left the yard.
Tang Liren and Cheng Zhujun came over and asked, "What's going on?"
Taotao told her everything, and Tang Liren said, "Mom, go ask who Zhang Zhifa's wife is." As she said that, she took out a handful of fruit candies she had just bought and stuffed them into her mother's pockets.
Tang Liren nodded.
She has her own way.
Tang Liren stood at the gate of the family compound of the state-owned hotel for a while. When she saw a middle-aged woman, she went up to her and said, "Hello, comrade. I want to trouble you with something. I want to ask you... do you know Zhang Zhifa from Tongzi Village?"
The middle-aged woman said, "Zhang Zhifa? He's Chef Zhang from the state-owned restaurant, right? But his hometown doesn't seem to be Tongzi Village, it seems to be... Nankou Village!"
Tang Liren, "Ah, that might be a mistake, thank you!"
——Then she knew that Zhang Zhifa was the chef in a state-owned restaurant and his hometown was Nankou Village.
Tang Liren walked aimlessly for a few steps and saw a few middle-aged women standing on the street corner not far away and chatting. Tang Liren remembered very clearly that when Song Zhi rode his tricycle to take them into this alley, these women were chatting here. Why were they still chatting now? It's already been more than half an hour!
Tang Liren went over and said, "Hello, elder sisters. I came to ask you something!"
The women looked at Tang Liren and asked, "What do you want?"
Tang Liren said: "Excuse me...where is the dormitory compound of the state-owned hotel? I came from Nankou Village and I want to find Chef Zhang..."
Woman A: "The dormitory compound of the state-owned hotel is over there!"
Woman B: "He's at work now!"
Woman C: "What do you want to do with him?"
Tang Liren, "He's at work? Then, I can find his wife... Well, anyway, I was asked to deliver a message, and I'll have completed my mission if I deliver the message, hahaha! By the way, sisters, do you know his wife? Can you help lead the way? Or help pass on a message, that's fine too."
Several women looked at each other and asked, "What's the message?"
Tang Liren, "The elders in his family asked me that I hadn't sent money back for more than half a year. Recently, the village suffered a disaster and life was difficult. They asked me to bring some money back for emergency."
- First of all, Tang Liren didn’t know how old Zhang Zhifa was, or whether he had parents at home, so she used the word “elder”; secondly, when she said that the village had suffered a disaster, she attracted people’s attention.
This year, the harvest in the surrounding area is indeed poor, so it is normal for people from my hometown to come and ask for money.
The women immediately became very excited and started talking at once:
"Then I will definitely not go and deliver the message for you!"
"That's right, go by yourself!"
"Zhang Zhifa's wife is very barbaric! You shouldn't go either. If you go, you might get beaten!"
"Whoever asked you to deliver the message probably has bad intentions, right?"
When Tang Liren heard that there was a play, she immediately asked, "Old sisters, to be honest, I am not from Nankou Village. My relative married to Nankou Village, and she knew that I was going to the city today, so she asked me to pass this message on... But I can't offend this relative right now. So I beg you to be kind and tell me about the Zhang family, and I will see how I can pass this message on... without offending anyone..."
As she spoke, Tang Liren took out a few candies that Tao Tao had just handed to her and handed them to the women one by one, "Old sisters, have some candy... Oh, I'm really a little scared, please give me some advice!"
The women took the candies, unwrapped them and ate them, then started chatting.
It is said that Zhang Zhifa's wife is greedy, has a hot-tempered and unreasonable temper, and is particularly jealous. No matter who it is, as long as it is a woman, as long as she says one more word to her man...it's over, this woman will definitely be tortured to death by Zhang Zhifa's wife!
In the past, there was a temporary girl working in a state-owned canteen. She was helping Zhang Zhifa. One of her questions was, "Master, how long should the onions be cut?" Then Zhang Zhifa's wife went crazy and told everyone that the girl was trying to seduce her man. Finally, the girl had no choice but to jump into the river to prove her innocence. Fortunately, she was rescued by a passing PLA soldier, so she didn't lose her life.
Zhang Zhifa's wife also gave birth to a son and a daughter, the daughter is nine years old and the son is seven years old.
She is extremely patriarchal and has spoiled her son to the point of being lawless. Her daughter is like a slave in her family. She has to do all the housework at home and find ways to earn money outside... I heard that she has also stipulated that her daughter must earn a certain amount of money every day. If she doesn't, she will be beaten and scolded. In the middle of winter, she makes her daughter kneel at the door with an empty stomach and bare chest. Anyone who dares to go over and secretly give her a bowl of rice or a piece of clothing to cover herself... Well, Zhang Zhifa's wife will tear down other people's homes!
The daughter was forced into a desperate situation. Sometimes she stole, sometimes she robbed... When the owner of the lost items came to their house, Zhang Zhifa's wife pushed her daughter out and said: She stole or robbed, it has nothing to do with me. Why don't you kill her?
Others can't really bother with a child of a few years old, they can only blame themselves for their bad luck.
Tang Liren has always loved her children, but when she heard this, she was so angry that her fists clenched.
Another woman said that Zhang Zhifa himself is a good-for-nothing. He and his wife are like a broken pot with a rotten lid. It's terrible!
Zhang Zhifa's wife kept a close eye on him because this man was not disciplined and had a criminal record, and the person he had hurt was his own cousin. That cousin was an orphan, both her parents were gone, and she had lived in his home since she was a child. She didn't dare to tell anyone even when he bullied her. He still had the nerve to find a partner for his cousin and even accepted a large sum of money as a betrothal gift from the other party... But on the night before the wedding, his cousin left a suicide note to her fiancé and jumped into the river and died.
The man came to Zhang Zhifa to argue and asked him to return the betrothal gift. Zhang Zhifa said that the money would not be refunded but the body could be given to you. The other party refused and they started arguing. Later, Zhang Zhifa picked up a kitchen knife and injured several people on the other side. The other party called the police and the police came to mediate, but Zhang Zhifa would rather go to jail than pay the money.
So he went to jail for a year. The first thing he did after he was released from prison was to go to the man's house and make another scene. The second thing he did was to sell his cousin's body to another family for a ghost marriage!
——Is this Zhang Zhifa still a human?
Tang Liren was so angry that she was gasping for breath.
At this time, another woman said, "Hey, have you heard that the state-owned restaurant has a new temporary worker recently, a country girl, who is very pretty, and is also very sweet... I heard that Zhang Zhifa wanted to have sex with this girl, so his wife kept a close eye on him and bullied the girl to death, probably to force her to leave... How pitiful!"
Tang Liren's heart tightened immediately, "That little girl is..."
"I don't know whether her name is Apple or Pear. She is a good girl, but she is so unlucky!" said the woman. "Oh, it's time. I have to go home and cook!"
The women hurried away.
Tang Liren gnashed her teeth as she reunited with Taotao, Cheng Zhujun and Song Zhi, and told them everything she had heard.
Taotao first asked Cheng Zhujun if she knew Manager Xu and Section Chief Feng from the state-owned hotel.
Cheng Zhujun doesn’t know him.
She went to ask around and came back a short while later, saying, "Section Chief Feng isn't here either. Like Uncle Qin, he's also gone back to his hometown for the New Year. Manager Xu is here... Zhang Zhifa's wife is Xu Fengjuan, and she's Manager Xu's niece. Manager Xu's mother has been in the hospital these days, and Manager Xu hasn't been to the office for several days."
Taotao thought: No wonder.
Tang Liren asked, "Is Xu Fengjuan also an employee of this hotel?"
Cheng Zhujun went to ask again, and then hurried back, "Xu Fengjuan is not a formal employee, she is also a temporary worker in the state-owned restaurant."
Everyone suddenly realized.
——Zhang Zhifa bullied Bai Lili because of her gentleness and beauty and wanted to take advantage of her; Xu Fengjuan and Bai Lili were both temporary workers, so there was a conflict between them over the competition for the job!
So, how to solve it?
Tao Tao said, "Mom, it's already time for dinner, let's go eat!" Then she said to Cheng Zhujun, "Is your brother's illness recovered? You don't have to go back to cook, let's go to the state-owned restaurant to eat together."
This time Cheng Zhujun did not refuse and said, "Then you go first, I will go home to pick up my brother."
Everyone went their separate ways.
Tang Liren discussed with Song Zhi, "Xu Fengjuan is Manager Xu's niece, so it's probably unfair to treat her equally. What should we do about this..."
Song Zhi thought for a moment and said, "I am familiar with the director of the Red Star Factory. He has a good relationship with the mayor. Do you want to..."
Tao Tao said, "It sounds like these two are not good people! Why don't we find a way to see for ourselves first? If they are really bad people, we must root them out and not let them continue to harm people!"
As they were talking, the three of them walked to the state-owned hotel.
Sitting at the door was a burly woman in her thirties with a fierce look on her face.
She saw these three people: Song Zhi was dressed decently, Taotao was also beautiful and elegant, but Tang Liren was dressed simply and looked like a country girl?
The waitress at the restaurant looked very proud and said, "Want to eat at a state-owned restaurant? Do you have money? If you don't have money, get out! Don't stand here and block our business!"
As they were talking, a young couple with a small child also walked into the state-owned restaurant.
When the husband heard the waiter's bad attitude, he couldn't help but frown and said, "Comrade, you are a hotel employee, engaged in the service industry, can you be more friendly? We come here to eat, not to be bullied."
The waiter took a look at the young couple and saw that the husband was wearing neat trousers and a Zhongshan suit, the wife was wearing leather shoes and a Shanghai brand watch on her wrist, and the child in her arms was also dressed brightly. Her attitude became a little better, and she spoke less loudly, "Hey, I didn't say you can't come in to eat... Come in, come in!"
But when the family of three entered——
The waiter still stopped Tang Li and her group, glaring at them and saying, "Country people are not allowed in!"
Tang Liren was angry. She took out a handful of banknotes from her pocket and slammed them on the table in front of the waitress. "Can you count how much money is here?"
The waiter took a look and saw that there were at least ten big unity tickets.
Her arrogant attitude subsided a little, "...Come in! Hey, I'm telling you, you are not allowed to order only vegetarian dishes in our restaurant, otherwise you'd better get out! If you don't want to eat, don't eat!"
Tang Liren was so angry that she thought to herself, if my Lili wasn't working here, I wouldn't have come even if you invited me just because of your service attitude!
It was dinner time, but there were not many people in the restaurant.
Taotao and her group of three found a seat and sat down, and the family of three also sat down at the table next to them.
The fierce waitress came over carrying a small basket.
——Her basket was filled with chips, with different colors representing different prices.
The waitress stared at Tang Liren with sidelong eyes, as if to say, "If you don't pay a little more, I'll kick you out."
Tang Liren exchanged chips for ten yuan.
The waiter's expression eased a little, but he urged impatiently, "Hurry up and order! What are you taking so long for?"
Tao Tao looked at the wooden signs on the wall with the names of various dishes written on them, and ordered the braised pork and steamed egg that she wanted to eat; Song Zhi ordered homemade tofu and fried eggplant, and Tang Liren ordered a boiled chicken and a bowl of loofah meatball soup, plus two bowls of rice for each person, a total of ten bowls of rice...
After calculating the bill, the total amount was three dollars and sixty cents.
The waitress took away the three dollars and sixty cents in chips, then took out the small signs for the dishes from the basket, threw them on the table rudely, and went to the next table.
Tao Tao, "The business here is so bad, is it because of this woman's service attitude?"
The woman turned her head angrily and looked at Taotao.
Tang Liren, "Forget it, forget it... Song Zhi, hand over the cards!"
Song Zhi took the small card and went to the food receiving window to register.
As a result, the young couple at the next table had already started arguing with the waitress!
Taotao heard it carefully because the young couple wanted to order a bowl of soft white porridge, a stir-fried vegetable dish, a tomato and egg drop soup and two bowls of rice.
The fierce waitress started to scold, "How dare you go to a restaurant with just these few dishes? I see you two are dressed quite decently, do you have no job? No company cafeteria to eat at? You come here to enjoy yourself for less than one dollar?"
The wife couldn't help it, "Why are you like this? What do you care about us?"
Waitress, "Poor bastard! If you can't afford the food, don't come..."
The husband also got angry, "We only want these few things, just tell me whether you will give us the chips or not? It's OK if you don't want to, I'll go find your manager Xu!"
"It's only 85 cents, you still have the nerve to go to a restaurant!" The waitress rolled her eyes, took the money angrily, and gave them a few small-denomination chips as change and threw them on their table, which was equivalent to change.
However, she threw with too much force, and the two or three bamboo chips bounced a few times on the table and fell to the ground with a bang.
The husband was furious. "Is this how you treat your guests? Pick it up and apologize to me!"
The waitress said, "You're sick!" She rolled her eyes and walked away.
The husband was furious and wanted to chase after the waitress to argue with her, but the child in his wife's arms was probably frightened and started to cry, weakly calling for daddy...
The wife also said, "Forget it, forget it, don't bother with this kind of person! Hurry up and hand over the sign, Jiaojiao is starving."
The husband suppressed his anger, and hurried to the window to hand in the small wooden sign and register. Then he returned to his seat and was about to bend down to pick up the bamboo chips...
The waitress came over again and stepped on one of the bamboo chips!
The husband's already somewhat calm emotions were stirred up again, and he could not help but be angry, "You!"
The waitress glared at the young couple with disdain and walked away haughtily.
The wife comforted her husband, "Don't worry about her. It's my fault. We came here for a meal during a company gathering and were amazed by the beauties! So I tried to convince you to come over for a meal, but who knew their attitude was so bad? Let's never come here again, okay..."
The little girl timidly called out "Dad" again.
The husband finally calmed down, took his daughter from his wife's arms, and coaxed her in a low voice.
The family of three gets along quite warmly.
Tao Tao saw this scene and thought that the waitress was really sick, so she said, "Why is the waitress's attitude like this?"
Just then, another waiter came over to deliver the dishes, which were steamed eggs and fried eggplants.
After hearing Tao Tao's words, the waiter who served the dishes looked at the fierce waiter sitting at the door and said, "This is because it is the end of the year soon, and many people in our restaurant have asked for leave to go back to their hometowns for the New Year. Even the cashier has asked for leave! We are short of staff, so she took over!"
"She is just a temporary worker...but she is lucky. She is the niece of our hotel manager, so she can do this job as a substitute cashier. How about it, isn't it glorious? It's a pity that after the Chinese New Year, when the regular workers with stable jobs come back, she will still have to go to the kitchen to wash dishes and pick vegetables!"
After saying that, the waiter who served the food turned and left.
Tang Liren, Taotao and Song Zhi looked at each other.
——Is that fierce waitress a temporary worker or the niece of the hotel manager?
Xu Fengjuan? !
At this time, Cheng Zhujun took her brother's hand and prepared to walk into the restaurant.
Xu Fengjuan, with a face full of flesh, stood up at once and asked, "What do you want to do?"
Cheng Zhujun was frightened, "Eat, eat!"
"Eat?" Xu Fengjuan looked at Cheng Zhujun and her brother. She felt that the brother and sister were not the kind of people who could afford to eat at a state-owned restaurant, so she yelled at them, "I think you two want to eat shit, right?"
Cheng Zhuping was still young, and he was frightened and started crying with a "wow" sound.
Tang Liren shouted, "Xiaojun, come in quickly!"
Cheng Zhujun quickly ran in holding her brother's hand, her face still in shock, "Oh my God, this waiter is so fierce, I was scared to death..."
Cheng Zhuping was sobbing.
Taotao took out some candies to comfort him, "Don't cry, little brother. Take this..."
Cheng Zhuping looked at Taotao with sparkling eyes. He first glanced at his sister, and when he saw her agreeing expression, he took the candy from Taotao and said, "Thank you, Sister Taotao!"
Tao Tao touched his head and said, "You're welcome, but we're going to eat soon. Take this candy and don't eat it until after dinner, okay?"
Cheng Zhuping was stunned, "Why?"
Tao Tao, "Because you won't be hungry after eating candy. We ordered braised pork. If you get full after eating candy, you won't be able to eat braised pork... wouldn't that be a loss?"
Cheng Zhuping nodded repeatedly.
The little girl at the next table was also making a fuss, "Daddy, Jiaojiao is hungry, hungry..."
It was obvious that the husband was not good at taking care of children and could only coax the child; the wife frantically rummaged through her bag, trying to find something to eat to coax their daughter, but found nothing.
Taotao took out three fruit candies, held them in her palm, and showed them to the little girl, "Little sister, let's play a game! I'll ask questions and you answer them. If you answer one question correctly, I'll give you one candy. If you answer three questions correctly, I'll give you three candies, okay?"
The little girl was no more than two years old. She was very pretty but thin, with sparse yellow hair. She looked at Bai Taotao for a while, then looked at her mother, and when she saw that her mother had no objection, she nodded.
Taotao clenched her fist and asked the little girl, "First question: How many candies do I have in my hand?"
"Three candies--" the little girl said sweetly.
Taotao smiled and spread out her palms, counting one by one, "One, two, three... Wow, you are so smart! Congratulations on guessing it right! Then I will give you a candy as a reward!"
She really handed the little girl a candy.
The little girl was very surprised. She held the candy in her little hands and waited eagerly for the next question.
Taotao clenched her hands into fists again, "Second question: How many candies do I have in my hand now?"
"Three candies--" the little girl said sweetly.
Everyone laughed.
Taotao also smiled, spread out her hands and counted, "One, two... Oops, you guessed wrong!"
The little girl was shocked, "There's another one?!"
People think the little girl is cuter.
Taotao also smiled, "There is one more candy... I owe you one, okay? Congratulations on getting the answer right! I'll give you another candy as a reward!" As she said that, she handed another candy to the little girl.
Now Taotao only has one candy left in her hand.
She quietly asked the little girl, "How many candies are left now?"
The little girl saw it clearly, "One!"
Taotao clenched her fists again and asked, "Okay, let's start guessing... How many candies do I have in my hand now?"
The little girl said in a baby voice: "A candy——"
Taotao breathed a sigh of relief, "Luckily you guessed it right, otherwise... if you had guessed three, I would have had to pay you two more candies!"
Everyone laughed.
Taotao gave the candy in her hand to the little girl, then took out another candy and handed it to the little girl, "Here, this is the candy I owe you, keep it!"
The little girl's hands were too small to hold on.
Taotao helped her hold it tightly.
The little girl's mother laughed and said, "Comrade, this is not good. I have to thank you for entertaining the child, but it is inappropriate to take so many candies from you." Then she said to her daughter, "Jiaojiao, auntie is joking with you. Can you give the candies back to auntie?"
Tao Tao smiled and said, "It's okay, let her play with it! But it's almost time for dinner, so let the child eat it after dinner!"
The two families started chatting.
Taotao only said that she came to the city to visit relatives. The other young couple, the wife was called Dong Mingchun, who worked in the county party committee; the husband was called He Zhaoguo, who worked in the municipal party committee. The couple were usually apart, and the child lived with Dong Mingchun. This time, He Zhaoguo went to the countryside to do some work. He passed by Song County Railway Station and made an appointment with his wife to have dinner together near the railway station. He mainly wanted to see his wife and children.
The waiter served Taotao's table and told Dong Mingchun, "Comrade, our chef said we don't have any white porridge anymore. Can you try something else with the same price?"
Dong Mingchun was stunned. "But my child has been sick these days and can only eat white porridge!"
Waiter: “That can’t be helped!”
Turned around and left.
Dong Mingchun was anxious, "Wait a minute! Why are you doing this?"
Tang Liren also called the waiter, "Comrade, could you please help call Bai Lili out?"
The waiter responded and went into the kitchen.
After a while, someone poked his head out from the kitchen. After seeing Tang Liren and Taotao clearly, he shouted in surprise, "Mom? Taotao!"
Taotao, "Third sister!"
Cheng Zhujun, "Third sister!"
Bai Lili hurried over, "Mom, why are you here?"
Tang Liren clearly saw the bruises on her daughter's face and asked in surprise, "Did someone bully you?"
Bai Lili suddenly remembered the wound on her face and quickly covered her face with her hands, "No..."
However, in doing so, Taotao also clearly saw that her third sister's hands were covered with scars, like scratches, and maybe burns?
"Third sister, your hand..." Taotao exclaimed.
Bai Lili hurriedly hid her hands behind her back and said in embarrassment, "I, I'm fine... By the way, what are you doing here?"
Song Zhi advised in a low voice, "Auntie, Taotao, it's Li Zi's working hours now, don't disturb her for too long."
Tang Liren took a deep breath, and then another deep breath, and said to her daughter, "The little girl at the next table is sick and wants to have a bowl of white porridge. Just now your colleague said that there is no white porridge. You can think of a way!"
Bai Lili looked at the little girl at the next table who was nestling in the arms of her young mother and nodded, "Okay, I'll go make her some porridge right away. Don't worry, it'll be ready in ten minutes... By the way, I get off work at 8:30 pm. Where are you staying? Or the train station guesthouse?"
Seeing that her mother and sister nodded, Bai Lili said, "I'll come to see you after work." Then she hurried away.
It is basically impossible to cook a bowl of soft white porridge in ten minutes.
However, there was rice soaking in water in the kitchen, ready to be steamed.
Bai Lili scooped a spoonful of rice that had been soaked for at least three or four hours and put it in a wooden bowl. Then she used the handle of a kitchen knife to gently pound the soaked rice into rice paste, then poured it into a small pot along with the rice water, boiled it, stirred it a few times, scooped it up with a spoon and took a look -
Although it does not have the thickness of white porridge, at least the rice grains are soft and suitable for sick children to eat.
Bai Lili poured the soft white porridge in the pot into a large bowl and took it out.
Sister Lu, who is in charge of serving the food, is not here.
Bai Lili brought the porridge to her mother and sister, put the bowl down, and said kindly, "It's cooked in a hurry, so it may not be as thick as the porridge, but it should be fine for children. You can just use it. By the way, be careful with the heat."
Dong Mingchun scooped up some porridge with a spoon and was very satisfied. "This is very good. Thank you, comrade!"
Bai Lili smiled at her, turned around and saw Sister Lu sitting at the door, seemingly whispering to Xu Fengjuan?
Bai Lili didn't think too much about it and shouted towards the door, "Sister Lu, I've already served the white porridge for table number three!"
Xu Fengjuan rushed over like crazy and said angrily, "Didn't I tell you that there's no more white porridge? Where did you get this porridge?"
Bai Lili was puzzled, "It's freshly cooked!"
Xu Fengjuan, "There was no porridge cooked in the kitchen today! Tell me! Did you use the public funds for your own benefit because you knew all these people? Did you use the collective money to make food for your relatives?"
Bai Lili was stunned, "They originally ordered this white porridge..."
Xu Fengjuan pressed on, "But our restaurant doesn't have any white porridge today!"
He Zhaoguo couldn't stand it, "You are a restaurant! You can make porridge if you have rice! And we don't know this female comrade... We just want to eat a bowl of porridge, and the menu in your restaurant also says that you have soft white porridge, and then this comrade made us a bowl of soft white porridge, how could she use the collective's money privately? Didn't you take my money code?"
Xu Fengjuan put her hands on her hips and cursed, "Shut up! Did I ask you a question? If you don't want to eat, get out! You have the nerve to go to a restaurant when the meal costs less than one dollar..."
At this time, Dong Mingchun saw that his daughter was so hungry that she was biting her fingers, so he took a spoon and scooped a spoonful of hot porridge, blew it cool and was about to feed the child.
Xu Fengjuan overturned the bowl of boiling porridge and shouted, "This porridge has an unknown origin, none of you can eat it!"
Little Jiaojiao was so scared that she burst into tears.
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