Chapter 371 Some are happy, some are worried
The snow that is about to fall has not yet fallen. After all, it is not the right time.
The fallen leaves blown by the wind were thrown back to the ground, and the bowls, basins and buckets placed by Tian Meiling were damaged again.
Even the Bodhisattva’s kind heart would be moved.
Hearing the loud shouting and cursing in the yard, Lin Yiyi looked through the window at her cousin's wife sweeping the yard with a big broom, her watery almond eyes curved into a crescent moon as she smiled.
Seeing her happy, Zhao Sheng seemed to be infected with that emotion as well, and said something that made her even happier, "Kitty, starting from next month, I will increase your monthly pocket money to six yuan."
Lin Yiyi found it incredible and looked up at him, "...Why?"
The sun was rising in the west, and the bad guy actually took the initiative to increase her pocket money.
The man took out the wish book from the drawer and looked through it. "Guess."
Lin Yiyi shook her head and deliberately said, "I don't want to guess. I took too many stupid pills."
I said something to her before the meal, and she still remembers it now. Zhao Sheng smiled in his dark eyes, "If nothing unexpected happens, I will be promoted to a level 5 employee starting next month."
Lin Yiyi's eyes suddenly widened, she pulled up her chair and sat closer to the man, exclaiming in surprise.
"You were a level 4 worker before, and now you've been promoted to level 1. How much will your salary increase be?"
Zhao Sheng looked at her and was happy for him. He looked proud and said in a low voice, "You will get an extra seven yuan a month, and the other benefits will remain the same."
"You are really amazing, no wonder you have been so busy these days."
Lin Yiyi looked at him, her eyes sparkling with approval, her hand resting on her chin to support her sleepiness, "It's so difficult to upgrade the employee level, how long have you been in the factory and you've already become a level 5 worker?
It turns out that I have good taste, and you are more capable than most men."
Although she usually stayed at home, she often heard about other people's families from Aunt Sun and her cousin's wife. There was no other man in the whole Ze County who was willing to take care of children and earn money to support the family like Zhao Sheng.
Zhao Sheng didn't say anything, just hummed, and his arrogant expression showed that he agreed with her words.
After a long while without her taking the initiative, the man put a finger on his chin to indicate her further approval.
Lin Yiyi smiled tenderly, reached out to pull the man's collar, forced him to lower his head, and then offered her lips to him in recognition.
It's lingering and sticky, layer upon layer.
Walking and moving, the sweet dream covers the starry sky.
There were clothes piled on top of each other on the screen rack, and she was pressing on him, and he was sticking to her, and they were huddled together in a hug, unable to tell who was who.
The man had a satisfied look on his face. He wrapped his strong arms around his sweetheart who was sleeping on his chest. His long eyelashes drooped down, blocking his cold eyes.
My heart, which had been softened for her, could never be hardened again.
In the afternoon, Zhao Sheng rode his bicycle to the steel plant, received his work assignment, and then drove to the mining area.
Repeating yesterday's work, I habitually touched the bracelet wrapped with black cloth on my left hand.
provincial capital.
After driving for several hours, I asked people along the way.
Ma Dongmei finally arrived at the Jiaotong University in the provincial capital. She put her things in a nearby guesthouse, changed into clean clothes, re-braided her hair, and then carried two jars of sauce in a net bag to the school gate.
She was stopped by the gatekeeper, asked to fill in her name and register, and then asked to wait in the pavilion.
She came at an unfortunate time because today was not the weekend and she had classes at school, so she couldn't come and go freely like on holidays.
After waiting for a long time, as the sun was about to set, a figure appeared in front of me.
Zhao Li was unhappy and asked, "Dongmei, why are you here?"
He came to see him without telling him in advance.
"I was worried about you, so I came to see you. I want to know what urgent matter you encountered." Ma Dongmei said directly what she had been holding back for a few days, but her voice became lower and lower. "This is the sauce I brought you."
Zhao Li quickly glanced around and said, "Have you arranged a place to stay? It's inconvenient to talk here."
Ma Dongmei took Zhao Li to the guesthouse one after another. The two were husband and wife, but they didn't look like it.
The guesthouse staff's words "sister and brother" made both of them silent.
But no one denied it.
Zhao Li feels ashamed and Ma Dongmei feels inferior.
Zhao Li's mental outlook has been completely renewed. He has not been doing physical labor for a long time, or perhaps because he is accompanied by books, he has a bit more vigor and vitality.
Ma Dongmei, with her hunched shoulders from years of labor, seems to be several years older than her husband. She has never been to the provincial capital and is timid and cautious, and even when she is trying hard, people can feel it.
"Can you explain it to me more clearly? What's the urgent matter? I want to know." Ma Dongmei insisted on asking a question.
She herself couldn't tell whether it was because she was stubborn about this issue or for some other reason.
Zhao Li didn't sit on the bed, and kept two steps away from her. "My classmate's family had an accident and asked everyone to borrow money. I thought my family had some saved money, but I had no place to use it at the moment, so I lent it out temporarily."
Afraid that she would ask again, he added, "My classmate gave me an IOU."
After the words were spoken, the room fell into silence.
After a long while, Ma Dongmei finally responded woodenly, "Oh."
"Are you...are you okay?...Are you not having any trouble?"
Zhao Li said coldly: "No."
"Why didn't you reply? Didn't you receive it?" Ma Dongmei racked her brains to think of what to ask so as not to make a wasted trip.
Zhao Li asked back: "What letter? I'll ask again when I get back to school."
It turned out that he didn't receive it, not that he didn't reply. Ma Dongmei breathed a sigh of relief, "I'm glad you're okay. I'll go back tomorrow morning."
Seeing that Zhao Li was not happy to see her, Ma Dongmei also knew that he must be embarrassed by her. She lowered her head and looked at the cloth shoes on her feet. They were stained with dust, making the already faded cloth shoes even dirtier.
She unconsciously hid her feet backward, as if hiding herself.
After that, there was a long silence, and no one knew what to say next.
What distance separates them from each other is not the joy of reunion, but also the awkward strangeness between them.
Finally, watching Zhao Li's back as he left with the net bag, Ma Dongmei did not step forward. She didn't even have the courage to pull his clothes.
A cold look was enough to make her retreat.
The next morning, she left quietly as she came.
Before sunrise, he fled in despair.
After taking two buses and walking to the gravel dirt road back to the village, Ma Dongmei looked down at her old cloth shoes that were covered with footprints, and thought of Lin Yiyi's leather shoes that were always clean and new.
For the first time, she felt infinite desire and yearning. She wanted to be her. Lin Yiyi went from being an educated youth who could not earn many work points and slept in a straw hut to a woman that the whole village envied.
She used to think that she was content as long as she had enough food and clothing, but only she knew that it was not the case.
She remembers clearly what clothes Lin Yiyi wore and what braids she had every time she appeared.
She is so dazzling, so what she says must be right, right?
......
Mirage.
The trustee once again received the latest urgent task commissioned by Hong Kong City, and the tall man and the man with glasses took the train to the north the next day.
I guess this is also the last case of evidence collection commissioned before the New Year.
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