Li Weihong had already started drawing her eyebrows and applying lipstick before she got off work.
When it was time to get off work, she changed into a beautiful blouse and rode her bike to the living area.
As soon as she left, Zhang Wei came looking for her, but found her empty-handed.
It was time to get off work, and Li Weihong was submerged in the flow of traffic, being swept forward. The dust raised by the wheels went straight into her lungs.
She couldn't help coughing and frowned, hating the damn gravel road.
When she was waiting to cross the railway, she happened to encounter a coal car train, which blocked her at the railway crossing.
Among the crowd of people wearing various work clothes who were stuck like her, there were occasionally a few bored men who whistled at her, making her feel uncomfortable.
"Haicheng is not a place for people to stay. If there is a chance, I will ask my father to find a way to transfer my cousin to the city." She thought bitterly.
After wandering around the living area for more than ten minutes, she finally found the Yuelai Hotel and happily parked her bicycle at the door.
It was dinner time, and Chen Xiulian had no time to pay attention to her. Seeing that she was wearing a flowery dress and her face was wiped like a monkey's butt, she just asked her to sit outside and wait. She still had to make 200 dumplings, and she would pay her attention when she had time.
Li Weihong found a table and sat down.
After a while, all the other tables were full, but she still occupied a table. He Xiang felt a little embarrassed and came over to ask her what she wanted to eat.
Li Weihong thought, since I haven't had dinner yet, I might as well eat something now, so I asked:
"What do you have here?"
She has never been used to eating outside and is very picky when eating in the cafeteria. Most of the time, she only eats the beef sauce she brings from home.
He Xiang smiled stiffly: "Our staple food is dumplings and rice, and the dishes are braised pork, fat pot pork, braised cabbage..."
"I don't like dumplings. The meat is too greasy. Let's have some braised cabbage!" Li Weihong interrupted her. "When will my aunt finish her work?"
"Okay." He Xiang wrote the name of the dish on a piece of paper and turned around. "After eight o'clock!"
Li Weihong ate her meal slowly, watching groups of people coming and going at the table next to her, wondering why Shen Ze never came to help her mother.
If Chen Ze came over, she could help clean the table like He Xiang did and perform well.
It was almost eight o'clock when Li Weihong finished her meal and most of the other customers in the restaurant had also finished their meals. The only thing left was to pay the bill. Chen Xiulian took off her white tall hat and walked out from the kitchen.
"Oh, Wei Hong, you were coming but you didn't tell me in advance. If I had known, I would have closed the store at night."
Chen Xiulian smiled and said so, but her heart was in another world. In her memory, this niece seemed to look down on the Shen family in the past, so why did she take the initiative to visit them now?
Since guests are here, a few words of greeting are inevitable.
Chen Xiulian asked about her sister Chen Xiumei's situation, and asked Li Weihong whether she was adapting to her job at the chemical plant, saying that she should have invited her to dinner a long time ago.
While they were talking, He Xiang brought a bowl of noodles to Chen Xiu Lian and asked her to eat while talking so as not to starve herself.
Li Weihong thought, fortunately I had eaten just now, otherwise I would have been hungry all the time.
"Wei Hong, have you eaten?" Chen Xiu Lian asked casually as she picked up her chopsticks and started eating.
He Xiang was eating at the table next to her and said, "She started eating as soon as she arrived."
I thought to myself, this guy is too ignorant. If he really came to see my aunt, he would definitely wait for her to eat together. Why would he eat first?
Chen Xiulian curled her lips inwardly, but she still looked kind on the outside. After all, he was just a distant relative whom she rarely met, so she just had to be perfunctory.
Li Weihong didn't think so much. She always had others do as she pleased and didn't understand these etiquettes. She only had Chen Ze in her mind.
"Aunt, there is something I want to discuss with you. I want to invite you and my cousin to dinner at my home this weekend." She waited for several hours just for this purpose.
Chen Xiulian paused while eating her noodles, then smiled and said, "I have to look after the store this weekend, so I don't have time. As for Zeze, you'll have to ask him."
He probably didn't have time. During the time she ran the restaurant, he appeared only a few times.
Li Weihong pulled Chen Xiulian's sleeve and acted coquettishly:
"Aunt, just take a day off. If you don't go, your cousin will definitely not go."
Chen Xiulian's sleeve was pulled by her, and the noodles almost fell on the table. "Wei Hong, stop it. I definitely don't have time. I'll call your mother and apologize someday. As for Zeze, I still say the same thing. Talk to him yourself."
Li Weihong stepped back, feigning anger. "In Haicheng, I only know a few of your relatives. I don't have a single friend. And my cousin is always avoiding me. It's so boring!"
He Xiang, who had been listening to their conversation, sneered, "I heard that there are quite a few people chasing you. That supply and marketing director, what's his name... yes, Zhang Wei, he always listens to you."
After hearing this, Li Weihong glared at her and said sternly:
"Bah, auntie, don't listen to some people's gossip. How could I possibly like someone like Zhang Wei? He used to be a bicycle keeper, and his family has been poor farmers for generations. If I'm going to date someone, I'm going to date someone like my cousin."
She didn't know that when she said this, Zhang Wei was hiding outside the door, his face red and green.
He Xiang rolled her eyes in her heart after hearing what she said. With your current condition, you still want to find someone like Chen Ze? You might as well dream on.
Chen Xiulian didn't care what kind of person Li Weihong was looking for. She had to close the shop quickly and go home to rest.
Although the restaurant makes money, it's really tiring. I don't have time to listen to her chatter.
With just a few words, Chen Xiulian sent Li Weihong away.
Li Weihong pushed the cart sullenly on the dimly lit street, feeling unhappy.
It seems that it is not easy to take down Shen Ze through Shen's mother.
When her mind drifted away from these things, she realized that she was walking at night.
Although it was not too late, the street lights were sparse, almost non-existent, and she took every step with fear.
Moreover, her intuition told her that someone was following her.
Just when she was terrified to the extreme, someone called her name. She turned around and found it was Zhang Wei. Her heart finally settled down.
…
At this moment, there was a burst of laughter in the Jane family's house.
Ever since Jian Xia was fired from the chemical factory, Jian Xiaoxing found it boring to live alone in the dormitory, so he decided to go home every day.
Besides, every time she read high school books and did exercises in the dormitory, she was secretive, for fear that others would know that she was going to take the college entrance examination. This problem would not exist if she went home.
Her uncle and aunt encouraged her to take the college entrance examination.
Her grades have always been good, but her health has been holding her back. Now that she is in much better health, it is time for her to get back to studying.
In this day and age, going to college is funded by government or with scholarships, and you only need to pay a dozen yuan a month for living expenses, which is still affordable for your family.
Besides, Jian Xia was making a lot of money from her street stall. If anyone needed money, she would be the first to give it to them.
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