Chapter 64: Song Zhi, who knows how to live (1)
After Cheng Zhujun left, Taotao pushed Song Zhi.
Song Zhi was stunned for a moment, then obediently was pushed into the house by Taotao.
Taotao also entered his room and locked the door.
Song was delicate and soft, and could be easily pushed down. Zhi's heart began to beat wildly.
Boss: She, she, she, she...she wants to eat me, right?
I got nervous for no reason.
——Will he have bad breath and make her unhappy?
——After taking a long-distance bus all day today, do his clothes smell of sweat?
——Her sister is next door, will she suddenly come in?
——Her mother might come back any minute...
Taotao really pulled him and pushed him towards the bed.
Song was weak and powerless. His whole body was stiff with tension.
Taotao pushed him so hard that he fell weakly on the bed. His breathing quickened involuntarily, and his heart was pounding.
Taotao sat down next to him, took out a stack of banknotes from her pocket and stuffed it into his hand.
Song Zhi: ...
No, not a kiss?
The flaming fire dancing in his eyes gradually faded away.
"What?" There was a hint of grievance in the boss' tone.
Tao Tao, "I'll use the money you gave me these past few months to help Xiao Zhuzi start a business, and let money make money... Here, there's 528 yuan, plus your capital... a total of 728 yuan, take it! You have to learn how to make money on your own in the future."
——Song Zhi used to give Taotao 20-30 yuan every month. This time when she sold the clothes, Taotao gave Cheng Zhujun 200 yuan. Of the 200 yuan, half was the money Song Zhi gave to Taotao, and the other half was all of Taotao's savings.
Song Zhi, "You take it."
Taotao was a little surprised.
Of course she heard the frustrated tone in his voice.
But she is helping him make money! Isn't he happy making so much money?
Taotao, "Isn't the money you earn enough?"
Song Zhi was stunned and shook his head, "How could it be... You and Cheng Zhujun are amazing. I can't think of these ways to make money, and you make a lot of money."
But no matter how much money I make, it's not as good as a kiss from you.
Taotao blinked and understood. She patted his shoulder and comforted him, "Every profession has its specialties!"
She was a little excited in her heart: Song Zhi is very capable, he knows everything and can do everything, but he is not as good as her at making money! Hahahaha, she finally has an advantage that can surpass him!
But seeing him lowering his head and looking lost, Taotao thought: He is so pitiful!
She leaned over and pecked him lightly on the cheek.
Song Zhi's eyes were like a flashlight that had just been replaced with new batteries, instantly emitting a strong light!
——No, a kiss on the face doesn’t count, you have to eat it!
Taotao giggled and lowered her voice to whisper in his ear: "No, my sister is next door, she will come to call me..."
Song Zhi's face turned red from the sweet breath she exhaled.
As if to verify Taotao's words, Bai Lili knocked on the door of the room.
"Taotao? Taotao!"
Taotao stuffed the thick stack of money into Song Zhi's hand and said, "Take your money seriously..."
Song Zhi, however, stuffed it back to her even faster, "I've already given it to you, it's yours. I will continue to give you half of the money I earn every month."
Tao Tao was a little unhappy, "This is your money!"
——She didn't want to give him half of the money she earned.
Song Zhi's eyes were dark, "Then you should keep this money first. When we get married, we will buy a house and furniture... It will all depend on you."
Taotao: What marriage? What to buy a house?
Bai Lili, who was standing outside the door, became anxious when she saw that the two were taking a long time to open the door. "Taotao? Taotao, open the door quickly! Mommy is coming back soon!"
As the matter was urgent, Taotao stood up and wanted to hand the money to Song Zhi.
Song Zhi took it, put it back to her naturally, and walked her to the door and opened it.
Lili, "Taotao?"
Taotao, "Song Zhi..."
Song Zhi, "I don't want it!"
Taotao sighed and followed her sister.
Back in the room with the mother and daughter, Lili asked her, "How far have you and Song Zhi come to terms with each other?"
Why is the door closed?
Taotao thought for a moment, "Indestructible revolutionary friendship?"
——After all, she used his money to make money, and he and she were already grasshoppers tied to the same rope!
Lili: ...
“Knock knock knock—”
Someone knocks on the door.
Taotao ran to open the door.
Song Zhi stood at the door, holding a glutinous rice cake wrapped in tung leaves in his hand, "You forgot to take this."
Taotao took it, touched it, and it was still hot.
——No one had a good or full dinner today, but Taotao now prefers to eat glutinous rice cakes.
She took the glutinous rice cake and said, "Wait a minute." Then she ran back to the house and handed Song Zhi two full lunch boxes of food that she had just packed from the restaurant. "Take it and eat it. It may be cold. Soak it in hot water before eating!"
Song Zhi responded and carried the lunch box back to the next room.
Taotao saw that there were four glutinous rice cakes, so she and her sister each ate one. She was lucky, as she picked up a brown sugar glutinous rice cake; Lili was also lucky, as she got a salty one, a fried glutinous rice cake with sour radish cubes in it, which was delicious.
The two sisters chatted while eating glutinous rice cakes.
Tao Tao asked casually, "Third sister, do you have a date in the city?"
Lili: ...
Her face turned red and she didn't know how to answer.
Tao Tao saw that there was a play, and asked quickly: "Are you really dating?"
Lili hesitated, "Not really... I, I didn't agree to his pursuit."
"Who is he? Is he a good person? What does he look like? What's his family background like..." Taotao asked in one breath.
Lili hesitated for a long time before she whispered, "He...Xu Jianhua, he's Manager Xu's son."
Taotao was stunned.
Lili said quickly, "But I've already rejected it... I had a crush on him. But then I met his cousin Xu Fengjuan, and I thought, if I get together with him, won't I have to deal with Xu Fengjuan for the rest of my life? Plus, his grandmother is pretty weird, so forget it!"
Tao Tao understood a little, "So Xu Fengjuan asked you to help look after her son, just to show you a warning? In other words, she has the final say in the Xu family?"
Lili nodded, "Maybe!"
Taotao looked at her sister's lost expression and asked, "Sister, what kind of person is Xu Jianhua?"
Lili blushed. "He's quite tall, fair-skinned, has attended junior high school, and is one year younger than me. He works in a labor protection products factory as a regular employee. He's a nice person..."
At this time, Tang Liren came back and said, "Wow, what a delicious smell of glutinous rice cake!"
Taotao, "Mom! Our sister has already eaten! You can eat too!"
Lili, "Mom, I left two glutinous rice cakes for you. They are still hot. Come and eat them!"
Tang Liren, "Did you buy glutinous rice cakes? Oh, and where are the meals we packed back?"
Tao Tao, "I asked Song Zhi to eat the leftovers, and he bought some glutinous rice cakes for us... Mom, eat quickly, I have something to tell you! Let's go take a shower after we're done!"
Lili was shocked and tried hard to wink at Taotao: Don’t tell mom about Xu Jianhua! Neither he nor I succeeded!
Taotao just pretended not to know.
Tang Liren opened the two tung leaves and saw: one was a sweet glutinous rice cake with sugar peanuts and sesame fillings; the other was a salty glutinous rice cake with leek and egg fillings.
Tang Liren also had a big appetite. She ate two glutinous rice cakes in two or three bites and asked Tao Tao, "What do you want to tell me?"
Taotao took out a thick stack of money and said, "Look, Mom!"
Tang Liren stared at the stack of money, stunned, "Where did this money come from?"
Bai Lili was also startled!
Tao Tao said proudly: "This is what Xiao Zhuzi and I earned together!"
Tang Liren knew that Taotao had deposited ten dollars with Cheng Zhujun, and then the two of them started a reselling business together. Cheng Zhujun is a very financially savvy person, very good at doing business, and can earn more than ten or twenty yuan every month...
However, the stack of money in Taotao's hand now is at least seven or eight hundred yuan!
Tang Liren, "What did you two do to earn so much money?"
Tao Tao smiled and told Cheng Zhujun about her partnership in the clothing business. She added, "The dress Guan Haifu wore on the day she watched the movie was designed by me and made by Xiao Zhuzi! Our cost was less than one yuan for a set of clothes, but Guan Haifu spent twenty yuan to buy it from a peddler!"
Tang Liren: ...
Bai Lili: ...
After being shocked for a long time, Tang Liren asked again, "Where did you get the capital?"
Tao Tao confessed everything, "The total capital is 200 yuan. Song Zhi contributed more than half, and I contributed less... After we make money, we will return the capital to Song Zhi, and the money will be divided equally among the three of us, with each of us getting more than 500 yuan! Mom, Xiao Zhuzi wants to buy a house, and she and her brother can't survive the winter in that place. Please help her, I'm afraid she will be bullied if she goes to look for a house and buy one alone."
Tang Liren, "I'll go find her tomorrow!"
But she was still confused, "Taotao, how did you come up with such a way to make money?"
Tao Tao said confidently, "Because I want my whole family to eat meat! And I want to let everyone in my family eat meat every day, every meal! Eat it however you want!"
Tang Liren was amused and sad, "How can we eat meat every meal?"
Tao Tao added: "If other families are poor and we can't show off our wealth, then we should make others rich, and then we can eat meat every meal!"
Tang Liren: ...
What's up with feeling a little bit touched?
Tao Tao, "Mom, I've asked Xiao Zhuzi to help us order 100 kilograms of rice, 100 kilograms of flour and half a pig. These will cost a lot of money, so take this money... This is 500 yuan. I still have 300 yuan in my hand, I have to keep it for myself, if I think of any other way to make money, I will have the capital!"
Tang Liren, "You should keep the money you earn for yourself! I have money to buy rice, noodles and pork..."
Lili said, "Mom, please save it for her. When Taotao gets married, you can give her some good dowry!"
Tang Liren, "I can't bear to let such a good girl get married..."
Taotao shook her head seriously, "The money I gave to my family wasn't for me to get married off! I gave it to my family to live a good life!"
Tang Liren smiled, "Okay! I'll take the money. I'll buy a few bags of milk powder later, and everyone in our family can drink a glass of milk every day, okay?"
Taotao was happy, "This is good! I like the sweet taste of Daqing milk powder! No, it's not sweet enough, I want to add another spoonful of white sugar!"
Lili also smiled, "Buy more exercise books. We need to make Hongdou and Huangdou study hard! Buy a stack of newspapers for our dad. He loves them. Expired newspapers are fine... And sister-in-law! She has been in our house for so many years. She has suffered a lot and has not tasted much sweetness. Let's bring something back for her, too?"
Tao Tao, "Buy new clothes for my sister-in-law! Dress her up beautifully! My brother has gone to the provincial capital to study. There must be a lot of little fairies surrounding him. Hehe... When he comes back and sees how pretty my sister-in-law is... Tsk, wild flowers are not as fragrant as flowers grown at home!"
Tang Liren slapped her and scolded her with a smile, "What on earth are you thinking about in your little head?"
Lili giggled.
Taotao rubbed her forehead which was hurt by her mother's poke and asked again, "Mom, are houses in Kyoto expensive?"
Tang Liren was stunned again, "Why, you still want to buy a house in Kyoto?"
Tao Tao, "Song Zhi's money is also with me!"
Tang Liren didn't think about "buying a house after getting married", but just felt that it was natural for Song Zhi to buy a house in Kyoto. But she didn't know what the housing prices in Kyoto were like. After thinking for a moment, she said, "It's probably still quite expensive. After all, it's Kyoto! Let him make some money and buy a house for himself. Then he won't have to go back to the Guan family anymore!"
After a pause, Tang Liren felt a little strange again, "Isn't his biological father in Nandu? Why didn't he think of buying a house in Nandu?"
Lili found it even more strange, "Since his biological father is in Nandu, why does he need to buy a house?"
Tang Liren: ...
"I was confused!" Tang Liren said with a smile, "Okay, let's go take a shower! After taking a shower, go to bed early. Tomorrow I will accompany Zhujun to look at houses, and you two can go shopping by yourselves and buy some New Year's goods... Remember to weigh some fruit candies to bring back. It's New Year's Day, let the children at home be happier!"
The mother and her two daughters went to the public bathroom in the guesthouse to take a bath.
After taking a shower, Tang Liren slept on one bed, Taotao and Lili slept on another bed, and the three of them chatted about some random things...
Lili couldn't help herself.
——Taotao told her mother the big secret that she made so much money, does she...really want to hide the matter of Xu Jianhua?
Today something happened suddenly.
When Manager Xu comes to deliver her salary tomorrow, Xu Jianhua will definitely come with him!
Lili thought: She probably can't hide it from her mother, otherwise when Xu Jianhua comes tomorrow, who knows how embarrassing it will be!
But she was too embarrassed to speak.
After thinking it over, Lili plucked up her courage... and reached out to poke Taotao in the waist.
Taotao was startled and twisted her body. She was already a little tired and immediately woke up, letting out a mournful howl.
Tang Liren, "What are you two doing? Can't you sleep peacefully?"
Lili whispered to Taotao: "Xu Jianhua!"
Taotao: Huh?
Tang Liren: "What kind of flowers are they?"
Taotao understood and said loudly, "Mom! Manager Xu's son Xu Jianhua is pursuing my third sister! He wants to date my third sister!"
"What?" Tang Liren woke up instantly, sat up from the bed, wrapped herself in a quilt, and asked, "What's the matter with this boy?"
Bai Lili suppressed her shyness and told everything.
——Xu Jianhua would come to see her every day, talk to her and bring her small gifts. Most of them are a small bunch of flowers picked from the roadside or a hair tie bought from a street vendor. He liked to talk to her about Shakespeare's sonnets, and it just so happened that Lili had read Shakespeare's Selected Works...
——Xu Jianhua is a very nice person, gentle, modest and polite. All the employees in the state-owned restaurant knew him, and no one said anything bad about him.
——Xu Jianhua is very careful. Sometimes when Lili accidentally cuts her finger while cutting vegetables, he always finds it in time, applies iodine to the wound, and bandages it carefully with medical gauze.
——Xu Jianhua is very caring. He likes children and small animals and is very patient. Whenever anyone in the staff family compound encountered difficulties, he would always help.
In the darkness, Tang Liren asked, "Does Xu Fengjuan know that he bullied you so much?"
Bai Lili answered in a low voice: "He knows... but after all, Xu Fenggu is his cousin, so he can't do anything about it. Besides, he has his own job and doesn't often stay in our staff dormitory. If he were here, he would help take care of Xiaopang."
Tang Liren, "What about normal times? Have you told him about Xu Fengjuan bullying you? What's his attitude?"
Bai Lili hesitated for a while and said, "He asked me to be patient."
Tang Liren sneered, "Lili, just because of this sentence, I cannot agree with you and him!"
Lili was silent.
"Your father and I worked hard to raise you brothers and sisters. We hope that you will be well and that your future life will at least be better than ours... If your future husband allows you to be bullied, do you think I would be willing to hand you over to him?" Tang Liren said.
Lili felt like crying.
Tao Tao, "Third sister, let's go home and relax. We don't want to think about the past anymore!"
Lili groaned in a depressed tone and hugged the quilt tightly.
Tang Liren lay down again and said, "Don't worry... I will carefully look for you. If you really don't like it, don't be impatient. There are better things to come!"
In fact, Lili is also very conflicted.
Xu Jianhua was the first young man who pursued her seriously. He was good in every aspect, so it was impossible for her not to be tempted. But Xu Fengjuan is Xu Jianhua's cousin. If Lili marries Xu Jianhua, she will not be able to avoid Xu Fengjuan in the future.
This is what makes Lili feel most uncomfortable.
Now that her mother had helped her make a decision that she had already agreed to deep down in her heart, the last bit of hope in Lili's heart was completely shattered.
The next morning, Song Zhi came and knocked on the door, calling them to go to the cafeteria downstairs for breakfast.
There are not many varieties of breakfast in the guesthouse’s canteen, but the quantity is sufficient.
But Taotao was very greedy. She wanted to try the noodle soup and also wanted to eat some sugar buns... In the end, Song Zhi bought one of each of the breakfast varieties and piled the table full of them.
Taotao ate a sugar bun and frowned - when the people in the cafeteria made the sugar buns, did they just use white sugar as the filling? White sugar dissolves directly into water, and it tastes sweet and hot when you take a bite! After two more bites, the bun skin becomes tasteless without the sweetness...
The noodle soup wasn't good either, but it was ok with the chili sauce.
The only delicious things are fried dough sticks with soy milk, white flour buns with pickled vegetables...
That's because Taotao's family was reluctant to use so much oil to fry the dough sticks, and there wasn't much time in the morning to ferment the dough and steam the buns.
Tang Liren and Bai Lili were also not satisfied.
Tang Liren looked disdainful, "Breakfast in the city is just this standard, not even as good as ours!"
Bai Lili also murmured, "No wonder people want to go to restaurants when they have a little money and eat this kind of food every day..."
Song Zhi said seriously: "Aunt, it's not that the food in this city is not as good as yours, it's that the quality of food in all parts of the country can't catch up with yours."
Even so, he still cleared away all the leftover breakfast, and then said: "I have to go to the Red Star Factory today, and I won't be back until noon. Let's eat dinner here?"
Taotao agreed very much.
Now we can no longer go to the state-owned restaurant at the train station to eat, so we just buy some braised dishes on the street, and then go to the canteen to get some rice and vegetables, which is enough for a meal.
So after the meal, everyone went their separate ways.
Song Zhi went to the Red Star Factory, Tang Liren went to find Cheng Zhujun, Taotao and Lili went to the bus station first, found a familiar villager from the neighboring village, gave him one dollar, and asked him to take a message back home.
After finishing this task, the two sisters went out to buy New Year's goods.
The Chinese New Year is approaching, and most people in the city want to go back to their hometowns to celebrate the New Year. There are a lot of people setting up stalls to sell things for cash, and the urban management and police turn a blind eye.
It turned out that the black market at the train station was already crowded. The people setting up stalls had even spread out outside, forming a circle around the train station like a coiled snake.
Taotao and Lili walked and looked around.
The large markets have a wide variety of items and prices, and they have everything you could imagine! And because there are so many people selling things, everyone is competing with each other. If you can reduce the price by one cent, I will reduce it by two cents...
Tao Taohua generously bought each family member a pair of hand-knitted woolen trousers, and then bought two pairs of new autumn trousers for each family member, corduroy trousers to wear over the woolen trousers, and also bought socks of various colors... These are things that take a lot of time to make by yourself. Isn’t it good to dress warmly in the winter? Whether it is working or studying, it will be more energetic!
Lili bought a thick stack of elementary school exercise books, a total of two hundred books! I bought another big bundle of pencils, a hundred in total!
The two sisters moved their things back to the guesthouse breathlessly, then ran to the train station to continue shopping.
They ran back and forth four times throughout the morning, and the room in the guesthouse was already filled with all kinds of New Year's goods and things. They were so tired that they took their enamel bowls out, sat in front of a wonton stall, and each bought a bowl of seaweed wontons to eat.
Eating and eating——
Suddenly someone called out, "Hui Xin?"
Bai Lili responded and turned around, stunned.
Taotao also turned around and saw a handsome young man.
The young man stood out in the crowd.
He was wearing trousers, a white shirt and a jacket, and he looked at Lili with a sad and anxious look.
Bai Lili glanced at Taotao subconsciously.
Tao Tao asked: "Xu Jianhua?"
Lili nodded.
Taotao wanted to ask: Then why did he call you Huixin?
But she couldn't ask because Xu Jianhua had already crossed the road and came over.
"Why did you leave without saying anything?" Xu Jianhua asked.
For some reason, Lili seemed to feel guilty. She didn't dare to look up at him. She lowered her head and said, "I can't stay here any longer. I have to go back."
Xu Jianhua, "I heard from my cousin that you might have some misunderstandings about her..."
"There is no misunderstanding," Lili said. "Your father was here last night, and we have already made it clear face to face. I signed a temporary employment contract with the hotel, and agreed to a three-month probation period... Now it's only a few days away from the full three months. This is a two-way choice. The hotel can choose not to have me, and I can choose to leave..."
Xu Jianhua sat down next to Lili, "What about me?"
Lili: ...
Xu Jianhua, "If I didn't come to see you, would you just... leave like this?"
Lili was a little flustered, "I, I..."
Xu Jianhua, "Huixin, you..."
Tao Tao couldn't help but ask, "Who is Hui Xin?"
Only then did Xu Jianhua see Taotao.
Lili quickly introduced the two, "Taotao, he is... my friend Xu Jianhua. Jianhua, she is my sister Bai Taotao."
Xu Jianhua looked at Taotao and nodded, "Hello!"
"Hello!" Tao Tao asked curiously, "Why do you call me sister Hui Xin? Don't you know her name?"
Xu Jianhua smiled and said, "The name 'Hui Xin' is given to your sister by me... She is very beautiful and kind-hearted."
Bai Lili blushed.
Taotao remained silent.
Xu Jianhua glanced at Taotao and said to Lili, "Huixin, can you... come over here for a moment? I want to talk to you alone."
Lili stood up as if possessed by a ghost, followed Xu Jianhua for two steps, then came to her senses and said to Taotao, "I, I won't go far, I'll be back soon, you eat first!"
Sure enough, the two did not go far, only about thirty or forty steps away from Taotao.
But Taotao couldn't hear what they were saying.
Taotao could only see the changes in her sister's facial expressions - first she was extremely shy, then she felt lost, then she was torn, hesitant and entangled, and finally she shook her head firmly.
I don’t know what she said to Xu Jianhua, but in any case, Xu Jianhua looked disappointed.
Soon, Bai Lili walked towards Taotao. After a few steps, she turned back and waved to Xu Jianhua...
Taotao had already finished her seaweed wontons and urged her sister, "Eat them quickly! If you don't eat them now, they will get cold."
Bai Lili's eyes turned red and she said "hmm" and lowered her head to eat the wontons.
Taotao heard that her sister's voice was a little muffled, as if she was crying?
Turning back to look——
Xu Jianhua was still staring at this side in a daze.
Tao Tao, "Sister, did you tell him... to break up?"
Bai Lili sniffed and uttered "hmm" again, and tears fell one by one into the soup.
After eating the wontons, the two sisters also brought back a lot of New Year’s goods.
Because they were so tired, they lay on the bed and took a nap.
Taotao woke up and felt full of strength. She was about to ask her sister to get up and go to the market to do some shopping, but when she turned around, she found Lili was still staring at the ceiling with her eyes wide open?
Tao Tao asked, "Sister, why did he give you such a weird name? Did he think Bai Lili doesn't sound nice?"
——Taotao thinks her sisters’ names are very nice: White Pear Blossom, Pink Peach Blossom, and Red Apricot Blossom. These three kinds of fruits are beautiful when they bloom, and the fruits they produce are also very delicious.
When I first heard it, I thought their parents named them carelessly, but when I thought about it carefully: they didn’t let them be called Grape, Watermelon, or Pomelo! I think this is also the reason why parents think that pears, peaches and apricots are not only beautiful and delicious, but also easy to raise.
This is the blessing from their parents to the sisters.
How could anyone think their names are bad and give them new ones?
Bai Lili smiled. "When he saw me for the first time, he called me 'Hui Xin'. I was also very surprised. Later, when we got to know each other better, he told me that when he saw me for the first time, he thought I was a kind-hearted and elegant person who would be suitable for a family. I... He also told me that he wanted to call me Hui Xin from now on. He said that this was a little secret between him and me. He gave me this name, and I was the only one who could use this name from now on..."
Recalling the past, Bai Lili was clearly smiling, but tears were streaming down her face.
Taotao doesn't quite understand her sister's feelings.
She got up and poured her sister a cup of boiled water, asking her to drink it. Then she looked at the time, sorted out her morning accomplishments, and decided to go to the street again.
This time she wanted to buy some various plant seeds to take home.
Lili didn't object, she wiped away her tears and prepared to leave -
Taotao picked up the lunch box again and planned to go to the street to buy some braised food for dinner.
The two sisters went to the seed station next to the supply and marketing cooperative. Maybe because few people go to the seed station to buy seeds, the salesperson was quite enthusiastic and asked Taotao what kind of seeds she wanted.
Following the salesperson's introduction, Taotao asked for a large bag of seeds of various melons, vegetables, and fruits, as well as a lot of flower seeds, all of which are not produced locally in Song County. Because of this, the salesperson gave her a lot of brochures, telling her how to plant seeds of various melons, vegetables, fruits and flowers, what precautions to take and so on.
Taotao was very satisfied.
However, after the two sisters bought the seeds and were about to leave the seed station, someone suddenly walked in from outside and met Taotao and Lili.
It was a middle-aged woman. When she suddenly saw Lili, she subconsciously called out, "Hui Xin?"
Bai Lili was stunned.
Taotao also widened her eyes.
The middle-aged woman held Lili's hand in surprise, "Huixin, you're back? School is on vacation, right?"
Perhaps it was because he saw Bai Lili's shocked expression——
The middle-aged woman looked at Bai Lili again, with an expression of sudden enlightenment, "Ah, this, this... I'm sorry, comrade, I recognized the wrong person!"
Tao Tao asked quickly, "Sister, who is Hui Xin?"
The middle-aged woman laughed dryly. "Wang Huixin... is from our unit. She was selected as a worker-peasant student and went to the provincial capital to study at a university. Isn't it winter vacation now? I thought she was back... Oh, you two look so alike, exactly the same!"
The second half of the sentence was directed at Bai Lili.
Bai Lili's face was extremely embarrassed.
She guessed something, but it seemed unlikely...
Could it be such a coincidence?
On the other side, Tao Tao had already asked the middle-aged woman, "Really, big sister, there is such a thing... There is actually someone who looks exactly like my sister? Which unit does Wang Huixin work for?"
The middle-aged woman also seemed to be a gossipy person. "Wang Huixin is from the seed center of our supply and marketing cooperative! Her parents are employees of our unit, but she is not. But she was selected as an advanced worker, so she was selected to be a worker-peasant-soldier student..."
"Really? She is an advanced worker! What advanced things did she do?" Taotao asked again.
Middle-aged woman, "Don't you know? She saved people! She saved two people, one big and one small, who fell into the water. It was quite a sensation at the time! Oh, yes, no wonder you didn't know. When she saved people, it happened to be the time when Secretary Bai from Ruyi Village bravely rescued overseas Chinese... Later, everyone's attention was diverted to that, and not many people paid attention to her! Oh, I have something else to do, let's talk later!"
With that, the middle-aged woman left.
Taotao looked at Lili.
Lili was very confused.
Taotao took her sister's hand and found a vendor pushing a cart selling braised food. She weighed out two pounds of braised pork head, a braised duck, and ordered a portion of braised peanuts and six braised eggs. She packed them in her own lunch boxes, and then they returned to the guesthouse together.
Then Taotao made another excuse, saying that she forgot to buy something, and asked her to stay in the room, and she would come back after buying it...
Taotao ran back to the seed station.
She looked around for a while, and finally saw a young woman. She hurried over and stopped her, "Hello, sister! Can I take up a few minutes of your time?"
Young girl, "What's going on? Are you lost?"
"No, no! I, I heard that the advanced young woman Wang Huixin lives nearby. I heard about her advanced deeds and want to learn from her. Can you tell me how to find her?" Taotao didn't really want to find Wang Huixin, she just wanted to get to know more about Wang Huixin indirectly.
The young girl's expression suddenly changed, and she cursed: "Seeking fame and reputation!"
Taotao was stunned.
The young girl looked at Taotao and said, "If you want to learn from the advanced, go learn from Secretary Bai of Ruyi Village! He really saved people, and he was seriously injured... At that time, he kept his name secret and said nothing. Later, our whole county launched a campaign to find this brave man, and the injured Secretary Bai was found by the people! And the overseas Chinese said at the time that he would give Secretary Bai a reward of 10,000 yuan, but he refused. Later, the overseas Chinese forced him to pay, and Secretary Bai donated the money right away..."
"Why don't you learn from this ready-made advanced deeds, learn from Wang Huixin?" The young girl frowned, "...Her deeds of saving people are totally untenable. Do you know who she saved? She saved her boyfriend and his nephew! Besides the three of them, there was no fourth person present at the time... Wang Huixin couldn't even swim, how could she save people?"
Taotao was stunned.
Actually... is this?
Tao Tao rolled her eyes and asked again, "Where is her boyfriend from? Why is he so protective of her?"
Young girl, "I don't know her boyfriend, I heard he works in a glove factory... Well, don't look for her, she's not here, after being named an advanced worker, she got a place in the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers Student Program, she went to the provincial capital to study at university!"
The young girl left.
Taotao thought to herself - Xu Jianhua worked in a labor protection products factory. Because the largest item produced in the factory was labor protection gloves, many people called the labor protection products factory the glove factory.
Taotao seized the opportunity and asked six or seven people in a row, both young and old.
Among these people, only two people had a positive attitude towards Wang Huixin, and the rest had complaints about her, believing that she sought fame and reputation and committed fraud to obtain the advanced deeds title and then to get the place as a worker, peasant and soldier student.
Someone even told Tao Tao clearly, "Wang Huixin's boyfriend is called Xu Jianhua, and he's the son of the manager of the state-owned hotel at the railway station!"
Taotao returned to the guesthouse.
The bad thing is, Lili is not here? ? ?
Taotao became anxious and ran to find Lili. But where does Xu Jianhua live? She had heard from Lili before that Manager Xu and his family did not live in the staff quarters of the National Labor Hotel.
Just when Taotao was extremely anxious, she suddenly saw her sister again.
Lili and Xu Jianhua were hiding behind the guesthouse, and the two seemed to be arguing - to be precise, Bai Lili was crying and Xu Jianhua was hanging his head, not saying a word.
Taotao went over and heard Sister Lizi say, "...You think of me as a stand-in? Wang Huixin's stand-in? So, when you saw me injured and you bandaged my wound, you were actually feeling sorry for Wang Huixin? When you were discussing Shakespeare with me, I was clearly standing in front of you, but you were thinking about Wang Huixin in your heart? Xu Jianhua, you disappoint me! Disgusting! Go away and never come to see me again!"
Xu Jianhua, "Lili, I'm sorry."
Bai Lili, "You don't call me Huixin anymore?"
"I admit that when I saw you for the first time, I really thought... Huixin came back. I, I was out of my mind at that time, and really... I thought you were her, so I said such words... Lili, can you forgive me?" Xu Jianhua said in a low voice.
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