Yao Youjun scratched his head awkwardly. "Director Liu, you're really too polite. I was just doing it casually, and I think anyone who saw it would have helped."
Director Liu shook his head, thinking to himself, "Silly boy, not everyone will come forward to help you when they see you. Many people are afraid of getting into trouble, so they try to stay as far away from you as possible..."
"Okay, I remember you have tomorrow off, right?"
Seeing Yao Youjun nodded, he continued, "You know where my home is, right? Come to my house for lunch tomorrow. Your aunt said she's changing shifts tomorrow, so she'll cook for you at home..."
After saying that, without waiting for Yao Youjun to refuse, he told him to go back to work and turned around and left.
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Yao Youjun looked at Director Liu walking away and scratched his head helplessly, thinking to himself, it’s really not a big deal, why should I specially invite him to dinner?
In the evening, as soon as Director Liu arrived home, his only daughter, Liu Jiali, came to greet him.
"Dad, have you invited me?"
Director Liu caressed his precious daughter's hair lovingly and said, "Yes, yes, he's coming to our house for lunch tomorrow."
Liu Jiali showed no sign of hiding her joy, "Okay, then I'll go line up early tomorrow to buy meat."
At this time, Director Liu's eldest daughter-in-law, Liu Jiali's sister-in-law, came over with food and interrupted, "Little sister, where is the meat at the butcher shop these days? I talked to my eldest sister after get off work today, and she said that the state-owned restaurant will have mutton tomorrow. I asked her to buy some meat for me from the back hall tomorrow. You just need to pick it up before noon."
Mrs. Liu came over with a plate of flatbread. "Little sister, the supply and marketing cooperative will deliver a batch of grapes from Turpan tomorrow morning. I've already ordered two kilograms. When you go to the state-owned restaurant tomorrow morning, please stop by the supply and marketing cooperative."
Liu Jiali's eyes lit up. "Mutton? Grapes? There are grapes now? Oh, thank you, sister-in-law, sister-in-law, you are so kind!"
Director Liu's wife came over soon after. After hearing what the eldest and second daughters-in-law said, she said helplessly, "Eldest daughter-in-law, second daughter-in-law, please stop pampering Jiali. She's already a grown-up girl..."
Mrs. Liu smiled and said, "Mother, it is precisely because my little sister is a grown-up girl that we should treat her better. This way, she won't be coaxed away by some men with a little favor."
Director Liu nodded in agreement. "The eldest daughter-in-law is right! Jiali is the only girl in our family. We can't let her be easily deceived by those stinky men..."
After hearing what her sister-in-law and father said, Liu Jiali blushed and stamped her feet unhappily. "Dad, sister-in-law, I'm only seventeen this year. Why are you saying these things?"
After saying that, he walked out embarrassedly, and ran into Brother Liu and Brother Liu who had just returned from get off work, as well as a few little boys who had just returned from playing with their friends. The two of them looked at their little sister/sister-in-law with messy steps, and looked at the four people standing in the room in surprise.
"What's wrong, little sister?"
Liu Ersao smiled and said, "What else can I do? You're a grown-up girl now, so you know how to be shy."
The men in the family, both big and small, looked at each other, not understanding what their wives/sisters-in-law/mother/aunt meant.
Early the next morning, Chu Tian, Chu Jun, Chu Jie, and Sun Jianjun, who was kind enough, or rather, had ulterior motives, so they drove a carriage to the city's train station.
"Jianjun, aren't you going to work today? Didn't we agree yesterday that if anyone wanted to help, it would be Weiguo?"
Chu Min glanced back at Sun Jianjun, who was also driving the carriage, with a puzzled look on his face. Thinking of her grandmother's admiring look at Sun Jianjun earlier in the morning, he was a little confused for a moment. He thought, even if someone wanted to help, it should be Sun Weiguo, who was more familiar to them. Why Sun Jianjun?
Sun Jianjun was nervous, but he pretended to be calm and explained, "Ah, there's nothing to do in the company today, and Weiguo happened to be going to the regiment with my uncle to work, so I came here in his place."
Chu Min nodded thoughtfully, "Ah, okay."
Chu Tian turned his head to look at Sun Jianjun who was driving the carriage side by side with him, and couldn't help laughing out loud.
Sun Jianjun's ears turned red unnaturally, and he looked at Chu Tian embarrassedly, "Tian, Tian brother, what's wrong?"
Chu Tian coughed and waved his hand, "No, it's okay. I just think you and Wei Guo are good brothers!"
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Sun Jianjun's face flushed. Actually, he lied. He had account books to verify today, but when he got home from get off work last night, he met Sun Weiguo who had returned from Chu Tian's house. He told him that Chu Lifang's parents were coming today, and Chu Tian was afraid that three carriages would not be enough for them, so he asked him if he could catch a carriage and make the trip.
Upon hearing this, he immediately took the job from Sun Weiguo. Sun Weiguo knew what his cousin was thinking, so he generously gave him the job of picking up people.
Chu Jun looked back at the blushing Sun Jianjun, then at Chu Min, who was driving the carriage alongside him, and asked in confusion, "Second brother, what's wrong with Jianjun? I didn't say anything just now, why is he blushing?"
Chu Min looked back and didn't answer, but became thoughtful.
When Chu Tian and the other three were rushing to the train station, Yao Youjun also left the dormitory of the steel factory with money and bills in his pocket, ready to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to see what to buy. He couldn't just go empty-handed, right?
Anyway, he gets 18 yuan a month as salary, and he gives Chu Tian 15 yuan. The remaining 3 yuan is for daily pocket money. He has been receiving salary for several months, and after deducting the few yuan he spent, he still has more than 11 yuan on him!
When Yao Youjun was about to reach the supply and marketing cooperative, he heard that they were selling grapes, but when he asked, he was told that they had already been reserved. He had no choice but to buy two cans of canned yellow peaches for two yuan.
Outside the city's train station, Chu Jun tied up his carriage and saw Chu Tian coming out of the train station. When Chu Tian approached, he hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Little brother, how is it? Is the train late?"
"Yeah, it's a little late, but not that late today. The staff said it'll be there around one."
Chu Tian finally discovered that in this era, all trains are late, it’s just a matter of how long they’ll take!
Chu Min asked Chu Tian, who had a watch, "Little brother, what time is it now?"
Chu Tian glanced at the watch on his wrist, "It's only half an hour until one o'clock."
Chu Jun was pleasantly surprised, "Then we'll be there soon, let's wait a moment!"
Chu Ren, who was on the train, nervously grabbed Chu Jie and asked, "Xiao Jie, are you sure Xiao Shi will know when we arrived after receiving the letter?"
Chu Ren felt that the train was getting slower and slower, and he felt a little uneasy. There was nothing he could do. There were more than 40 people in these two families, big and small. If no one came to pick them up, he really didn't know what to do.
Chu Jie nodded, "Don't worry, Dad. Xiao Shi is very reliable. You can rest assured."
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