Chapter 19 This Bad Temper
"You usually like to eat white flour and rice, with meat and eggs for every meal. Ha, how many days can you squander the food you earn from those seven or eight work points? Aren't you just like a giant baby asking for money from home?
A man who can't even support himself, how could I be so confused as to rely on you?
Don't you know how the elders in the village see you? Do you really think you are a rich son-in-law that everyone wants to marry? How can you be so shameless! " She said this in a chopped-off manner without even taking a breath.
The people watching in the courtyard were a little stunned when they heard this, and thought about it, it was really true. In the past, they thought that people from the Shanghai compound were superior, but now they think that they are just reincarnated experts, who don't need to work hard, but can rely on their parents' labor to live a life that others can't reach.
Now people in the courtyard straightened their backs immediately, no longer awe-inspiring towards the children of Shanghai's big courtyards, but instead looked down on them. They didn't know what it meant to be a parasite, but that didn't stop them from labeling Hang Xianglei and Nie Yichang as prodigals.
Hang Xianglei's face turned red, and he started coughing and sneezing again, making it impossible for him to speak normally.
Nie Yichang was angry and embarrassed, and said to An Zhixia: "Don't confuse me! We have a good family background, and we will return to the city early to become cadres in the future. We have a bright future. Even in Shanghai, we are the rich son-in-laws that others are fighting for. But you, haha, a dark-skinned yellow-haired girl, as long as Lei Zi has good eyesight, how could he be interested in you?"
A dark-skinned girl with yellow hair? !
An Zhixia was really angry. She had the foundation of her peerless beauty. She just needed to have a good winter, so that the frostbite would go away and she would get enough nutrition. She would even be more beautiful than her previous life.
"Oh, return to the city?" She walked out with a sneer, hugged her shoulders and glanced at the two of them. "Why should you return to the city first? There are so many educated youth here, who doesn't work harder and have a more positive attitude than you? Or have you already taken down the village party secretary with your sugar-coated bullets?"
Hang Xianglei suppressed Nie Yichang who was about to jump up in anger, and his voice became hoarse: "Our parents have made great contributions to society, so they will naturally be given recruitment quotas. The village party secretary has approved a note for you to return to the city. If you don't have a job arrangement, you will be forced to go to the countryside again.
It was indeed my fault just now. I sincerely apologize to you.
However, since we all live in the same courtyard, it is better for us to live in peace. We cannot fight and quarrel over a little thought and affect the unity of the Youth Institute.”
"Heh, why are you, a grown man, learning to be a peacemaker? Do you understand the whole story? Just relying on Chen Sike's insulting words, you put all the blame on me? Could it be that the two of you are so close that..."
"Shut up, whose mouth is as poisonous as yours? Chen Si is our fellow villager, and they are just fellow villagers. In these three years, they have never been alone!" The two men blushed and their necks were thick.
An Zhixia said softly, "I was just joking, why are you so excited? Chen Sike also said something like this about my reputation, so I can't control my temper, right? Girls fight, you go back and forth, no one suffers, and you are so eager to stand up for them, tut tut, I really think too much.
After all," she said with a smile, "Sister Yiyue said that Chen Sike became the warehouse manager because of you."
"Xiao An Zhiqing, I, I just said that Chen Zhiqing was the warehouse manager," Liu Yiyue was watching the excitement with great interest, but she didn't expect the fire to get to her. She waved her hands and stammered to explain. Why did An Zhixia make such a fuss over a few private complaints?
“Well, I’m also telling the story seriously.”
Qi Yunlan quickly said, "Chen Zhiqing did make a couple of jokes, but Xiao An Zhiqing was the first to start. Both of them were wrong in this matter."
Playing with a girl's reputation is as bad as a knife.
Hang Xianglei and Nie Yichang were silent, and it was the eldest brother Qin Dapeng who stood up and said, "You two are such idiots. Why are you meddling in other people's affairs? Xiaoan, the educated youth, has a bad temper, but she is right."
Hang Xianglei's eyes were swollen and his nose was red, so he couldn't say an apology. He just stiffened his neck and continued to wash his face and drink water.
Nie Yichang coughed lightly and said uncomfortably: "Xiao An, the educated youth, I'm sorry. Lei Zi encountered many persistent female comrades when he was in Shanghai, and he overreacted. I apologize to you on his behalf. You see, he has also been punished. Let's put this matter behind us. We will still be good comrades in the future!"
An Zhixia hummed: "In order to prevent you from thinking of me as a persistent lesbian, we should keep a distance of more than one meter from now on. This will save us from disgusting each other."
Everyone left the scene in embarrassment.
An Zhiqiu took the girl back to the kitchen, asked about the situation, and was also very angry: "Do they really think they are so important that they are praised wherever they go? In the future, we will try not to work with them. When there is a chance, we will move out and live on our own."
An Zhixia nodded repeatedly. There were more than ten people living in the yard, and it would definitely be very noisy in the future. She had a lot of good things from the supermarket, but she couldn't use them openly.
Chen Sike didn't come back all night, but no one mentioned it. She was not a child, she had to be responsible for her actions, and she had to know her limits when she was willful.
In the morning, An Zhixia took her brother for a run as usual, and ran into Fang Yuan on the way back.
He came over with a rabbit in his hand. When he saw the two people, he extended his hand forward and said coldly, "Thank you, Xiao An, the children like those comic books very much. They insisted that I bring a rabbit in exchange. This is what the children want. You should accept it, otherwise they will develop the habit of getting something for nothing."
Having said that, An Zhiqiu took it with a smile, "How much are a few comic books? My sister is a good cook. I'll bring you a bowl of the rabbit when it's ready."
Fang Yuan nodded, said a few more words and left.
"Has he always been like this?" An Zhixia asked, pointing at Fang Yuan who was walking away.
There were kids last time, so his expression was relatively gentle.
At this moment, he seemed like a walking corpse, without a trace of life in him. The oppression was so condensed that she felt short of breath.
An Zhiqiu sighed and said, "Although he is only 23 years old, who can be considered a normal person if he has experienced the tragic death of his relatives one by one, his wife ruthlessly abandoning him, and being banished to a cowshed in a small mountain village, with insufficient food and clothing, and endless dirty and tiring work to do every day, and his children also suffer, with no hope of turning things around?"
Such a life is indeed hopeless. She looked at her brother seriously and said, "No matter what others say, brother, we can't give up hope, nor can we go against our conscience for the sake of hope."
So, brother, you must not marry the village chief's daughter just for the chance to return to the city, and then abandon your wife and children to be a heartless man!
(End of this chapter)
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