Chapter 274 Regret?

Lin Shu hurried to the registration office and saw through the glass window that a young female officer in military uniform was sitting on the sofa in the registrar's room. She crossed her legs, with her upper body straight and her chin slightly raised, with a somewhat arrogant look.

Seeing Lin Shu coming, she put down her crossed legs and stood up.

The registrar immediately put the military green long wool coat hanging next to her on her shoulders, "Captain Yuan, where are we going later?"

She is the deputy director of the art troupe.

Yuan Lei glanced at Lin Shu outside and curled her lips, "Ask her to go and broaden her horizons."

She stepped out of the room with a crisp click of her heels, stood in front of Lin Shu, took off her wool gloves, and stretched out her hand to Lin Shu, "Hello, my name is Yuan Lei, Zhai Lie's lover."

Lin Shu stretched out her hand and shook hers, "Hello Comrade Yuan, nice to meet you."

After she finished speaking, she wanted to pull her hand back, but Yuan Lei held it tightly.

Yuan Lei was a little taller than her, and she was wearing leather shoes with heels, so she could look down at her.

Originally, I thought that even if the young wife from the countryside had a prettier face than others, her details would not stand up to scrutiny, such as her skin would definitely be rough, especially her hands that had been working for many years.

But the hand she held felt soft and smooth, so soft that she couldn't help wanting to pinch it a little more.

If Yuan Lei wasn't a lesbian, but a man, and he held her hand like this and rubbed it with his fingertips on the palm and back of her hand, Lin Shu would have slapped him.

Isn't this a hooligan?

Seeing Lin Shu's face flushed, Yuan Lei let go of her hand and chuckled, "What are your plans today?"

Lin Shu: "Just a casual stroll."

Yuan Lei: "Let's go, I'll accompany you to Wangfujing Department Store to shop for clothes or something."

Lin Shu smiled and said, "You are very busy at work, I just need to stroll around, there is no need to waste your time."

Yuan Lei grabbed her hand and said, "My job today is to accompany you well, so that Lu Shaotang and Zhai Lie won't say that I neglected you."

Lin Shu didn't believe that Lu Shaotang would ask her to come and accompany him. They were an old couple, not unmarried men and women in an ambiguous stage, and they didn't know that each other would be provoked by others.

This man must have had something with Zhai Lie and Lu Shaotang.

Although the original plot did not explain Lu Shaotang's interpersonal relationships in the capital, wasn't the original owner always said that he was not worthy of Lu Shaotang, saying that he was originally going to marry the daughter of the chief's family?

This person is a bit yin and yang, could it be... Lin Shu's eyelids jumped immediately, and she was glad that she was afraid of being tired and sunburned, liked to hide and not work, and liked to take care of herself, so her skin was still fair and delicate, without wrinkles and acne on her face, and she didn't become a yellow-faced woman.

Otherwise, think about it, if my face was rough and dark yellow, my cheeks were highland red, there were fine lines at the end of my eyes, my lips were dry and bloodless, and my hands were full of frostbite and acne...

How much superiority and contempt would Yuan Lei look at me with?

Just thinking about it makes me suffocate!

Since the other party didn't come to treat her sincerely, Lin Shu also put away her sincerity.

In the past few years in the countryside and Qizhou, the people she met were basically sincere to each other. No matter Yang Shumin, Zheng Jie, Zhan Qiuran or Wei Ling, they all worked together and chatted well. There was no awkwardness in private.

Now she felt it.

Whether Yuan Lei was competing with Lu Shaotang for Zhai Lie's face, or because she had competed with Lu Shaotang, she would... accompany him one by one!

Yuan Lei drove here, personally opened the passenger door for Lin Shu and sent her up, then sat in the driver's seat and started the car.

On the way, Yuan Lei looked at Lin Shu calmly, and chatted with her from time to time, "Lu Shaotang often comes to the capital on business trips. Why didn't he bring you here to play before?"

Lin Shu tilted her head and smiled at her politely, "He is busy with work on a business trip. I can't disturb him. Besides, I am busy all the time."

Yuan Lei: "You are busy too? What are you busy with?" What

can a woman who is supported by a man be busy with? Busy taking care of children? Washing clothes and cooking?

From what Zhai Lie said, Lu Shaotang did not hire a nanny or arrange an orderly for her.

Lin Shu: "I'm busy reading and learning to improve myself. My family was poor and I couldn't afford to go to school when I was young. I started to teach myself after I married Lu Shaotang. I can't let

people laugh at his wife for being uneducated, can I?" She turned her head and smiled harmlessly at Yuan Lei, "Ms. Yuan, don't you think so? You know a lot of people here. Is it possible that any of Lu Shaotang's old acquaintances laughed at him for marrying a country woman? Although I'm a country person and don't have much knowledge, I also understand an old saying: some people just look down on others."

Yuan Lei's sense of superiority on her face could no longer be maintained. She almost swore, and her fingers gripped the steering wheel tightly to hold back her temper.

Lin Shu continued with a smile: "Ms. Yuan is definitely not that kind of person. You are beautiful and elegant. You are a knowledgeable, educated, and well-educated new-era woman. You are a role model for us uneducated women to learn from."

Yuan Lei felt uncomfortable instantly. She was immediately held up by Lin Shu. She couldn't even express her dissatisfaction with Lin Shu.

This woman!

Yan Xin said that she was a country woman, uneducated and ignorant. She only knew how to calculate with her sister-in-law all day long, and she was afraid that other women would snatch Lu Shaotang away.

This is fucking...

Yuan Lei had a lot of words in her mind, but they were blocked in her throat by Lin Shu's words. She couldn't say a word, and didn't know how to respond for a while.

"Be careful!"

Yuan Lei was distracted for a moment and didn't pay attention to the road. She almost hit an old lady who was staggering across the road. Fortunately, Lin Shu reached out and held the steering wheel to steer her. The front of the car went around the old lady and turned back to avoid a bicycle.

Yuan Lei was frightened and broke out in a cold sweat. She quickly gathered her mind and drove seriously.

She couldn't help but be surprised and said, "You can drive?"

Lin Shu smiled sweetly, "Lu Shaotang taught me. Sometimes he would let me drive from my hometown to Qizhou."

When the two of them were rushing on the road, Lu Shaotang was not in a hurry at all. He would stop halfway and take her for a stroll to appreciate the scenery in the mountains. When

the two of them were wandering around, he taught her how to drive step by step, and then she learned it.

Yuan Lei: "..."

Is he showing off to himself?

The car stopped next to the department store. Yuan Lei and Lin Shu stood at the door of the Capital's No. 1 department store. She wanted to see surprise and shock in Lin Shu's eyes.

Unfortunately, although Lin Shu's eyes were bright and curious, she didn't have the uneasiness and shock of a country bumpkin seeing the world.

She introduced Lin Shu with a proud tone: "The Capital's First Department Store was newly built in 1959. At that time, there was a slogan 'The whole country supports the capital, and the capital prioritizes the building'. This department store is the only retail unit that has the right to purchase goods nationwide and enjoys the treatment of a second-tier wholesale station. It can directly purchase goods from first-tier wholesale stations in major cities such as Tianjin, Shanghai, and Guangdong at preferential prices. If you can't buy things here, don't look for them anywhere else."

Lin Shu nodded, "It's amazing."

Being able to travel through history and see the scenery of this era made her feel like her blood was boiling.

Although the world in the book she traveled through did not completely overlap with the real world she lived in, and there were some discrepancies in the facts, this feeling was real. The fact that

the present, the past, and the future could be presented in front of her made her feel very proud.

Facing Yuan Lei, who was trying hard to show off the capital city to her, she felt a sense of superiority - have you seen the future?

Lin Shu's eyes were clear, with a smile on her lips, and there was a mysterious feeling on her face that Yuan Lei could not understand, which made Yuan Lei feel a little uncomfortable.

She walked inside and said to Lin Shu, "Has Lu Shaotang taken you to the fourth floor or above? There are special supplies there. Only cadres of a certain level can go up to buy them. Ordinary people can't go up."

Lin Shu didn't feel annoyed at all for being discriminated against as an ordinary person. She looked curious and smiled, "I haven't been there. What are they selling there? Are they all foreign goods?"

She wanted to go up there to broaden her horizons!

Knowledge is priceless!

Yuan Lei glanced at her and knew that Lin Shu had never seen it. She felt much better and took Lin Shu to the fourth floor.

Lin Shu asked again: "Do I need to use the Overseas Chinese Remittance Coupons to buy things? I don't have any, so I can't buy anything."

Yuan Lei: "You know a lot."

Lin Shu: "Yes, yes, Lu Shaotang told me."

Aren't you here for Lu Shaotang? I would be so sorry if I didn't mention Lu Shaotang.

Lin Shu didn't believe that Zhai Lie asked his lover to accompany her.

Yuan Lei's forehead veins were jumping, and she felt that Lin Shu was a dodder with no ability to survive, clinging to men.

"Now there are no overseas Chinese coupons, you can buy them with money. Lu Shaotang has been away from the capital for too long and doesn't understand." If Lu Shaotang had been willing to stay in the capital with her, with the help of her family, he would not have to go through life and death like he does now, and at least he could get more rewards.

Unfortunately, he didn't have that blessing.

The fourth floor was indeed more upscale and luxurious, and the salespersons here were more arrogant, even more arrogant than the proud peacock in the elementary school textbook.

They looked down on people. If they were the ones who needed service, they would bend down with a smile on their faces. If they were not qualified to go upstairs, they would immediately send them down coldly, without caring about the workers, peasants and soldiers' unity.

At this moment, two pretty waitresses were scolding a customer who had mistakenly entered the fourth floor without knowing the rules. Their words were so harsh and unpleasant.

The customer did not dare to refute them. He blushed and apologized, then turned around and went downstairs.

One waitress rolled her eyes and sneered, "You dare to come up here without even looking in the mirror."

Lin Shu raised her eyebrows slightly. The waitresses of this era were at the top of the contempt chain. There was absolutely no such thing as customers being God and serving customers. They could scold and blame customers at will, and even beat them up when they were angry. Customers are now a vulnerable group.

Some state-owned hotels have signs that prohibit beating customers.

Lin Shu often saw sales clerks insulting customers at the commune supply and marketing cooperative, even in Qizhou.

The reason why she was on good terms with Zheng Jie was because Zheng Jie was an exception.

It goes without saying that ordinary farmers dared not enter such high-end shopping malls. If they came in with muddy shoes and stepped on a few muddy footprints, they would be insulted and kicked out.

Yuan Lei brought her up here just to see her make a fool of herself and to see the waiters look down on her, right?

Lin Shu was still smiling, but she knew everything in her heart.

In fact, Yuan Lei was not qualified to buy things in the special needs department on the fourth floor, but she knew the manager here, and the waiters also knew her, and she was wearing a military uniform, so naturally no waiter dared to scold her casually.

The waiters scolded ordinary farmers and citizens.

The counters on the fourth floor are not as crowded as those on the first floor. The space is large, and there are sofas and tea tables for rest. The counters are filled with high-end goods, such as cigarettes, alcohol, sugar, tea, clothes, shoes, socks, satin, and even cosmetics, underwear, jewelry, etc.

Lin Shu saw high-end chocolate, brandy, caviar and other goods.

In addition to the special needs office, the high-end goods on the counters outside the fourth floor can be purchased at high prices, of course, you need a certain level to get up there.

Lin Shu saw the lace underwear imported from the West and wanted to buy a set for Zhan Qiuran as a wedding gift.

Although she can draw the style and make it, there is no such good elastic fabric now.

There is still a blank in this fabric in China.

However, in fact, it can be woven with fine wool. Just design the pattern and the number of stitches, and then you can knit it directly.

Yuan Lei saw Lin Shu staring at the two sets of lace bras hanging there, her face was not red, she was not out of breath, and her eyes were still staring.

Wow, you are really shameless.

I was embarrassed when I saw it for the first time.

She asked Lin Shu: "Do you like it? I'll buy it for you."

Lin Shu shook her head, "Can I buy it with money? Do you need another ticket?"

Yuan Lei: "No ticket is needed, twenty-eight per set."

I can't scare you to death!

One month's salary is gone, right?

Lin Shu nodded slightly, "It's okay."

Yuan Lei: "???"

It's okay? Why are you pretending?

Lu Shaotang's reporting work went smoothly. The other captains and Chen Yanming had basically reported in the early stage. He only needed to check for omissions and

make up for the gaps, and then report his own action concepts and some thinking processes. Let the leaders know why he arranged it this way, know that success is not accidental, and know why the comrades who died died. Then review whether there is a need for improvement and whether the casualties can be reduced.

In the end, everyone found that there was no way to reduce casualties, even if Lu Shaotang did it again. Some casualties were necessary.

The leaders were very interested in how he led five team members to escape after luring the enemy away.

The reason why they were able to escape was due to his understanding of the terrain and making the team members familiar with it.

The six of them fled separately to disperse the enemy's firepower.

In the end, no one was arrested, but two were shot and injured and needed treatment, so he still asked Tom for help and owed him a favor.

The follow-up was that they hid in Tom's factory and cooperated with him to help him clean up the troubles in the dark.

Tom really wanted them to stay there and work together, and he was willing to give Lu Shaotang 30% of the business.

He arranged a legal fake identity for Luk Shao Tang. Tom had a little cousin named Jerry, who was an adventurer. He had been out and about for 360 days a year since his only father died. Tom hadn't heard from him for a year and thought he might have died somewhere. Tom gave his

cousin's identity to Luk Shao Tang because Jerry also had black hair, was tall, had thick eyebrows and deep eyes, and had a big beard.

Luk Shao Tang could dress up and put on some fake beard to make it look real. After all, a full beard would reveal his nose, eyebrows, and eyes, so he could tell that he looked like Luk Shao Tang.

In the end, because of Luk Shao Tang's insistence, Tom helped them return home, escorting a cargo ship to Great Britain, and then going to Hong Kong to return home.

Tom said that he would always regard Lu Shaotang as a brother, and took him back to his home in Great Britain to meet his wife and children.

He hoped to have the opportunity to continue to cooperate with Lu Shaotang.

The old chief flipped through the report record, "Since Nie Fei did not sacrifice, why didn't he return to China?"

Lu Shaotang: "I think Tom is a businessman who dares to break the convention. We can continue to cooperate with him."

The old chief stared at Lu Shaotang with his fierce eyes: "For example?"

Lu Shaotang: "We can import some mechanical parts that cannot be produced domestically through him."

After the transportation, domestic engineers can understand the internal structure by disassembling and assembling, and slowly try to manufacture their own parts, thereby transforming the entire industrial chain.

Weapons cannot be stolen, but machine parts from factories can be tried.

Nowadays, the international community has imposed a technological blockade on China, and industrial production lines are strictly prohibited from being exported to China, so the domestic industry is very backward.

If it can be improved, productivity will be greatly improved, and the economy and people's livelihood will not be so tight.

The old leader's eyes became brighter and brighter, and he nodded frequently. He turned his head and whispered with the two leaders next to him. This is indeed a method worth a try.

They didn't expect Lu Shaotang to be so capable. Not only did he complete the rescue mission, but he was also able to expand other people's network and contribute to import and export trade.

The reform of the industrial line is also a very difficult task.

Nie Fei stayed there, but he was a pile.

Lu Shaotang hesitated for a moment, but still reported truthfully, "For Nie Fei's safety and to better carry out his work in the future, I allowed him to marry into the Helbing family of the United States."

The actual situation was that Nie Fei was seriously injured at the time and was rescued by a capitalist lady. Instead of exposing him, she fell in love with him at first sight.

Of course, he did not reveal his identity, but only said that he was a stowaway.

Nie Fei's ancestral home is in the southwest. He is an orphan who grew up eating at many families' homes and has developed a set of skills since he was a child growing up in the mountains.

Lu Shaotang and Chen Yanming discovered this seedling when they were on a mission and took him with them.

His loyalty is beyond doubt.

The key is that the Helbing family can give him a legal identity in the United States, and he has the opportunity to return to China with his wife and children.

The three chiefs looked at Lu Shaotang in astonishment.

Lu Shaotang stood up and bowed his head slightly, "Chief, I acted without asking for instructions, and Nie Fei just followed the arrangement. If there is any punishment, I will bear it."

The old chief stared at him for a long time, stood up, patted his shoulder, "You are right, the arrangement is very good."

The other two chiefs also smiled, and finally couldn't help laughing.

The old chief allowed Lu Shaotang to keep his fake foreign identity, and if necessary, he could continue to go abroad with this identity.

Of course, under the premise of the security of his identity.

The old chief was about to invite Lu Shaotang to have lunch together and continue the briefing in the afternoon, when his subordinate knocked on the door and came in, whispering an important news in his ear. The

old chief's face changed, and he immediately gave Lu Shaotang a half-day holiday, asking him to rest first and continue tomorrow.

Lu Shaotang saluted and left the inquiry room.

Zhai Lie had been waiting outside. He was assigned to accompany Lu Shaotang for the next few days.

He put out his cigarette and said to Lu Shaotang, "Yuan Lei invited my sister-in-law to dinner at the hotel. Do you want to go with her?"

Lu Shaotang paused while putting on his coat and glanced at Zhai Lie. "Did you ask her to go?"

Zhai Lie looked apologetic and smiled bitterly. "To be honest, how could Yuan Lei listen to me?"

When the boy was ignorant of sorrow, he followed the goddess around and wanted to be her dog. But after marriage, he felt bad when she ordered him around.

The initial excitement was soon extinguished.

You can understand the feeling yourself.

He would never admit to his other buddies that he felt frustrated after marriage, but in front of Lu Shaotang, he seemed... not to care.

Because he knew that Lu Shaotang would not laugh at him, and because Lu Shaotang was good enough and was the one they looked up to back then, it was not shameful to expose his shortcomings in front of him. When

he went home at night, he just sighed a few words about how lucky Lu Shaotang was to marry such a beautiful wife.

Yuan Lei did not ask much at the time, but who knew that she would come to block him today.

But he knew that Yuan Lei had the temper of a big lady, arrogant but not bad, and would not bully Lin Shu. At most, she would go... to show the gap between the city and the countryside or prove that Lu Shaotang would suffer a great loss if he did not marry her.

In fact, both Zhai Lie and Yuan Lei knew that Yuan Lei didn't like Lu Shaotang that much, and it couldn't even be called love. After all, she was only fifteen or sixteen years old, a little brat, just beginning to fall in love, rebellious.

The rebellious girl was attracted to the even more rebellious Lu Shaotang, thinking that she liked him, so she flirted with him, but he looked down on her. She felt insulted and unwilling, but he didn't take any chances at all and went away to carry out his mission.

Rather than saying that Yuan Lei liked Lu Shaotang, it's better to say that she regarded Lu Shaotang as a thorn, a thorn that pierced her proud and perfect image, causing her to fall from the altar and become less confident.

She wanted to prove that Lu Shaotang's rejection of her was a big mistake and a big loss.

She wanted to prove that Zhai Lie would be a thousand times happier marrying her than Lu Shaotang.

With the arrogant temper of a young lady who never grew up, Zhai Lie felt that she and Lu Shaotang were not on the same level at all.

Although Lu Shaotang was rebellious when he was a child, he knew very well what he wanted and was not confused at all, let alone rebelling without a purpose.

He had a clear goal and concentrated all his strength towards that goal.

They were not worthy of being his opponents.

In other words, Lu Shaotang did not judge people by appearance at all. Even if Yuan Lei had a good family background and beautiful appearance, in his eyes she was just a child from a rich family, no different from other people.

Zhai Lie felt that based on this point alone, he was far inferior to Lu Shaotang, even if he did not want to admit it.

Since he was fourteen or fifteen years old, he was really led by Yuan Lei's nose. It was as if he couldn't see anything else. In his eyes, there was only Yuan Lei, and her joys and sorrows were the standard.

Later, he didn't know when that kind of obsession began to retreat, and he himself found it incredible.

Why was he such a dog?

In fact, besides being beautiful and arrogant, she didn't have any other more outstanding advantages?

But at that time he fell for it and was fascinated by it.

Now it seems that Lu Shaotang may like gentle ones?

That's not right. Yan Xin was gentle as water at the time, but Lu Shaotang still didn't like her.

He was puzzled and could only attribute it to Lu Shaotang's filial piety. He only liked the daughter-in-law his mother married. His mother also loved her son and would definitely marry her a beautiful, gentle and virtuous daughter-in-law.

When walking out, Zhai Lie asked, "Do you want to invite a few more people to get together?"

Lu Shaotang: "No."

He has nothing to say to them, why get together?

Zhai Lie thought about it and it was true. Lu Shaotang never paid any attention to them. They were the ones who talked about him and analyzed him behind his back all day long.

It was really... self-indulgent. Lu Shaotang domineeringly filled their youth, but they never walked into his heart.

What a cold man.

Zhai Lie wanted to drive the car, but Lu Shaotang stepped into the driver's seat first and motioned him to get in the car. "Lao Mo'er?"

Zhai Lie nodded. "You drive?"

Lu Shaotang: "Yeah, you drive slowly."

Zhai Lie: "..."

I didn't complain about your slowness when I was your driver before. Are you so anxious to find a wife?

Yuan Lei can't eat her!