The weekend has arrived in the blink of an eye.
Wen's mother asked Wen Ruan to go to the street together to buy some necessities for the wedding.
The department store was packed with people, especially the fabric counters, where people were crammed together. Apparently, a new batch of fresh goods had just arrived.
Wen's mother wanted to select several bolts of silk to make clothes, quilt covers, and other items for Wen Ruan.
Wen's mother told her to go and browse around first and to queue up by herself.
As soon as I walked up to the third floor, I heard, "Ruan Ruan, is that you? We haven't seen each other in so long."
Wen Ruan turned around and saw a short woman with a square face and a haggard appearance walking towards her.
Wen Ruan took a closer look and recognized her as Li Min, the original owner's junior high and high school classmate and "best friend".
This person deserves much credit for bringing the original owner and the pretty boy together.
Later, Li Min, through some unknown means, successfully married the mentally challenged son of the Revolutionary Committee director and stayed in the city. Yes, she became the wife of Dong Yan's stepson.
Despite being just a simpleton, Li Min was highly sought after in the marriage market due to her father's status. Unfortunately, her good days didn't last long; the Revolutionary Committee collapsed, and it's said that she didn't fare well afterward.
Wen Ruan didn't plan to have much contact with this kind of person. Some people have bad intentions; you don't need to do anything to target them. Heaven will naturally take care of them.
"Ruan Ruan, you're here to buy something?" Li Min looked at the girl in front of her, whose eyebrows and eyes were like paintings, with delicate features, and who was wearing the most fashionable pink and white checkered long dress in Beijing. Thinking that she had only been in the countryside for a year, she felt as if she had aged several years, and she felt very jealous.
Li Min used to follow the original owner around, freeloading off her, but she was ungrateful and extremely jealous of the original owner.
She has three older sisters and one younger brother, and can be said to be one of the least valued people in the family.
Li's parents had two daughters in a row. Li's mother, in particular, was constantly tormented by her mother-in-law until she became pregnant with Li Min.
The Li family even went to find someone to take a look, and the person looked at Li's mother's belly with certainty and said it was a boy. Li's aunt was very happy and took great care of Li's mother. In the end, it was still a girl.
Because of her mother-in-law's increasingly harsh treatment, Li Min was neglected by her mother from birth, who frequently beat and scolded her, and she had to take on all kinds of housework at a young age.
Although her two older sisters didn't have an easy life at home either, they were much better off than her.
If it weren't for Li's parents' concern for their reputation—the Li family is a dual-income family, and Li Min is a good student, so they didn't want others to gossip that they couldn't even afford to send their child to school—they wouldn't have spent money to send Li Min to high school.
After graduating from high school, Li's parents didn't try to find her a job. Instead, they registered her at the educated youth office and sent her to the countryside as an educated youth. They even sent her to the southwest, far away from home. For this, the Li family was praised as a family with high ideological awareness.
Therefore, Li Min was extremely jealous of Wen Ruan from the moment she met her. She couldn't understand why, even though they were both girls, Wen Ruan could live a carefree life. Not to mention her parents' doting on her, she also had two childhood sweetheart brothers who protected her fiercely.
Wen Ruan didn't want to have too much contact with such a malicious person, so she replied perfunctorily, "No, I'm here to keep my mother company. I need to go see her now. Please go ahead."
Li Min was a little confused and didn't know what was going on. She felt that Wen Ruan had become distant from her, probably because she hadn't been in contact with her for too long after she went to the countryside.
"Hey, Ruan Ruan, I'm on sick leave and back in the city these days, so I can stay home for a few days. If you're free, you can come visit me. I ran into Xing Wei yesterday, and he specifically asked about you, saying that we should all get together sometime." Li Min said to Wen Ruan with an ambiguous expression.
Xing Wei is the pretty boy who deceived the original owner and eloped with her.
"I don't have time. I'm busy with my wedding these past few days. You guys go ahead and get together," Wen Ruan said, declining.
Li Min was quite surprised. The two of them had only graduated not long ago, and Wen Ruan was already getting married?
Who will she marry? Given how protective Wen Ruan's parents are of her, they'll definitely find her a good match. Li Min felt a pang of jealousy again.
Before Li Min could even try to stop her, Wen Ruan continued, "You took sick leave to return to the city, right? You don't look sick at all, and you still have the leisure to wander around."
After Wen Ruan finished speaking, she turned and left, leaving Li Min standing there with a face full of shame and anger.
When Wen Ruan went downstairs and saw that her mother was still shopping at other counters, she suddenly remembered that the educated youth office seemed to be not far away. She squeezed next to her mother, told her that she wanted to go to the toilet and would come back later, and then turned around and walked out of the department store.
He wrote an anonymous letter of complaint and, taking advantage of the absence of others, left it at the entrance of the educated youth office. The letter accused Li Min, an educated youth residing in the Beijing Textile Factory's residential compound, of shirking labor during the autumn harvest, feigning illness to return to the city, and failing to actively cooperate with socialist construction.
When she got home, Wen Ruan paid special attention to the textile factory's residential compound. Sure enough, the next day, Li Min was taken back to the place where she had been sent to the countryside by the people from the educated youth office. The reputation that the Li family had worked so hard to build was ruined in an instant, and they resented this troublesome little daughter even more.
Li Min guessed that the person who reported her must be Wen Ruan, who harbored deep resentment towards her. Before leaving, she hurriedly wrote a letter and asked her second sister to help send it out.
Wen Ruan didn't care whether Li Min guessed it was her or not. Even if she guessed it, there was no evidence. So what if she guessed it? She just liked seeing Li Min resent her but couldn't do anything about it, so as to stop her from causing trouble every day.
After that, Wen Ruan didn't go out. She planned to write her article carefully and try to submit it this week. In the past few days, after delivering meals, she would sometimes wander around the steel factory, and she had almost figured out the specific ideas.
Finally, Wen Ruan spent a day writing the article and another day carefully revising its imperfections. While delivering lunch to his father at noon, he went into the post office and submitted the article to the Beijing Daily.
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