After Song Wenyin finished speaking, she raised her chin halfway with a proud look on her face, as if to say, praise me quickly, praise me quickly.
Huang Wanzhen was so amused by her appearance that she burst out laughing.
"That Zhang Jiayi is both a board member of the vocational school and the general manager of the Women's Commercial Savings Bank. She must be a very powerful person. Otherwise, even if she has financial support, without the ability, she won't be able to survive in this chaotic world."
"I know you want me to praise you, but we can't improve ourselves by belittling others. That would be like 'Old Wang selling melons and boasting about himself.'"
"Well, you've really worked hard, especially in the second half of the year. You've been even more active than me. Not only have you grown our company, but you've also discovered new business opportunities for it."
Huang Wanzhen stood up, smiled, shook Song Wenyin's hand, and shook it vigorously up and down. "Chairman Song, let's continue to work hard next year and strive to reach new heights."
Song Wenyin's eyes sparkled with tears of excitement, and she shook Huang Wanzhen's hand tightly, "Yes."
A few days later, Beiman Girls' High School once again faced final exams. This time, the students' conditions were very different. Those who were preparing for the college entrance examination were really working hard, while those who were not preparing to go to college were much more relaxed, either attending banquets or going out together.
On this day, Huang Wanzhen suddenly received an invitation from the Shen family. She was a little surprised and eager to read it, but her hands and feet were frozen stiff. Huang Wanzhen waited for Zhao Dahua to give her a hot water bottle. She put her hands on the hot water bottle to warm them for a while before opening the invitation and reading it.
Unexpectedly, it was Shen Junru's engagement invitation. Huang Wanzhen was stunned for a while, then looked at the date, which coincided with the time of her final exam. Huang Wanzhen closed the invitation, sighed deeply, took out paper and pen from the drawer, and wrote a reply letter.
After writing the letter, Huang Wanzhen went to find Li Chunhua again and asked her to find out the sizes of clothes that Shen Junru had used in the store. She then carefully selected a bright red cheongsam from the booklet and asked Li Chunhua to arrange someone to make it as soon as possible.
After the letter and cheongsam were sent to the Shen residence, Huang Wanzhen never received a reply. Although she was a little worried, she was too busy with too many things to do and had no time to pay attention to the worries in her heart. She thought that after the winter vacation, she would ask Shen Junru out to chat and have some fun.
After two days of exams, He Lanshan's wedding was coming soon. Huang Wanzhen and Song Wenyin were busy preparing wedding dresses for He Lanshan. Huang Wanzhen designed two, a taffeta wedding dress and a tweed coat, and Song Wenyin designed two, a fur coat and a dress.
Huang Wanzhen was very serious about He Lanshan's wedding because He Lanshan invited her and Song Wenyin to be bridesmaids.
What is a bridesmaid? Probably similar to bridesmaids in later generations. This was the first time Huang Wanzhen had taken on this important responsibility in her two lifetimes.
The Qi family lived in a Western-style building with three floors. As soon as the entrance to the first floor was a hall that could accommodate a hundred people. It was decorated magnificently, which made people sigh that officials were richer than businessmen.
The hall was filled with elegantly dressed people coming and going. Compared to the icy and snowy weather outside, it was as warm as spring inside.
Huang Wanzhen and Song Wenyin, wearing identical pink dresses, were chatting and laughing with a few classmates in the lounge. At this moment, the waiter ushered someone in. Everyone turned to see Tian Xiangyu, wearing a yellow dress.
Song Wenyin acted very unfriendly and snorted coldly, "Hmph, Lanshan said she would never invite you. Are you coming here uninvited? How can you be so shameless?"
Tian Xiangyu is a veteran in the social scene. She can deal with the scolding of her elders without changing her expression or heartbeat, let alone the ridicule from her classmates.
"Ouch! How did I offend Miss Song? I'm late today. I'll serve tea and water to make amends."
As he said that, he actually went out and brought in a tray of drinks. He smiled and replaced the drinks for everyone. When he got to Huang Wanzhen, she took the highball glass and said expressionlessly, "I dare not trouble Miss Tian."
Tian Xiangyu smiled and said, "I was wondering why Miss Song was so upset with me. It turns out she was just trying to vent her anger on the deputy monitor. Okay, I'll punish myself three times as much as I can to make amends to the deputy monitor."
Huang Wanzhen sneered, "You also know that you've let me down, don't you? I thought you didn't know, but it turns out you've been pretending to be confused. What? Seeing that I have no background or family background, you just take my money and don't do anything for me?"
Song Wenyin continued, "That's right, classmates, you might not know this yet, but Tian Xiangyu is a terrible person. She has no credibility at all. She's been eating and drinking with extra money, taking advantage of the deputy monitor's hundreds of dollars without doing anything for him. She has no classmate camaraderie at all. You'd better avoid associating with her in the future. Her character is so bad that even our school's moral education classes have become useless."
Huang Wanzhen sighed, "I've been studying at Beiman Girls' High School for so many years, and I've always cherished the friendship between us classmates. And you say I'm a stingy person? Which classmate doesn't have a discount card for our store? If it were for money, I wouldn't have done this to Tian's face. It's mainly because she's such a mean person. If I hadn't cared about our friendship, I would have hired some scoundrels to help me vent my anger!"
The classmates began to talk about it. Su Jingyi stood up and frowned at Tian Xiangyu. "Tian Xiangyu, you are too shameless, aren't you? You even cheated your classmates? Look at the deputy monitor. You cheated him out of so much money, but he didn't punish you. If it were someone else, you can try and see if they will hire someone to break your legs."
"That's right, that's right. Everyone knows that the deputy monitor is good friends with Lanshan and Wenyin. There's no need to find gangsters. Just ask them to avenge her. That will be enough for you." Lin Qinghui covered her mouth with an ivory fan and said with a look of disgust.
"The deputy monitor has never mentioned this matter in the class. If she reveals a few words, we will no longer have anything to do with you. People's hearts are unpredictable and hard to tell, and they often do small evils." Xu Xuanying's voice was cold and her expression was difficult to read.
Tian Xiangyu suddenly regretted her decision. Her wedding date was set for the 16th day of the twelfth lunar month, only seven days before He Lanshan's wedding. She had not received He Lanshan's invitation and was afraid that if she did not show up, her classmates would have opinions about her and would not attend her wedding. Unexpectedly, she ended up making things worse.
She thought that since it had been so long, Huang Wanzhen hadn't bothered with her, and that the matter was long over. Thinking about it, she couldn't help but look at Huang Wanzhen with a complaint, "Deputy squad leader, I really wanted to help you at that time. I even took a leave and asked my brother to do something for you. You can't ask me to pay you more, right?"
"Bang!" Before Huang Wanzhen could object, Song Wenyin slammed her hand on the table and stood up. "You took the money but didn't do the job. Not only do you think you're not wrong, you even blame the deputy squad leader. How can there be such a shameless person like you in the world?"
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