Before dawn the next day, Chu Tian borrowed a carriage from the team to take Yao Youjun and Liu Jiali back to the steel plant.
Mrs. Chu took Liu Jiali's hand and said, "Jiali girl, come to our house and play next time you have a break."
Liu Jiali smiled and nodded, "Well, I'll come and bother you next time!"
Yao Xiujuan smiled and said, "What do you mean by disturbing me or not? Xinxin and Pingping both like you and welcome you to come anytime."
Liu Jiali nodded, "I like Xinxin and Pingping too."
After a pause, he looked at Yao Xiuli and said, "Sister Xiuli, come to the steel factory to play with me some other day."
Yao Xiuli pursed her lips and smiled, "Okay, I'll come find you another day."
Liu Jiali was very happy. She kept reminding him while sitting in the carriage, "You must go. I will take you to visit the steel plant..."
Chu Tian sat on the shaft of the carriage, watching the others bid farewell reluctantly. He turned his head to look at Yao Youjun and whispered, "Youjun, you've fallen out of favor. Usually, when you were about to leave, I would pull you aside to talk."
Yao Youjun, “…”
Chu Tian raised his hand to check the time and urged, "Grandma, stop chatting. It will be too late if we don't leave now."
Mrs. Chu uttered an "Ah," and quickly patted Liu Jiali's hand again, "Jiali girl, let's go."
Liu Jiali nodded, turned around and got on the carriage.
On the way back to the steel mill, Chu Tian glanced at Yao Youjun and said, "Youjun, you've saved quite a bit of money, haven't you?"
Yao Youjun nodded. "Well, besides the two hundred yuan I gave to my parents, I have more than two hundred yuan on me now."
"What's wrong with my brother-in-law? Do you need money? Then I'll give it to you..."
As he was about to take out money from his pocket, Chu Tian saw this and quickly held his hand down. He smiled and shook his head at his puzzled look.
"I'm not short of money. I'm saying, you've been working as a regular employee for over a year, and you've been receiving a salary of over 30 yuan for over a year. If you have some spare money, you should buy a bicycle. That way, it will be convenient for you to go home and do whatever you want, right?"
Yao Youjun was stunned for a moment when he heard this, but then he reacted and said quickly, "Ah, I want to buy a bicycle too. Last time I went home to give my parents money, they only took 200 yuan and left the remaining 200 yuan, just to let me buy a bicycle."
After a pause, he continued, "But, brother-in-law, you know that bicycle tickets are very difficult to get. For ordinary regular workers like us, we may not be able to get one in a year or two!"
Chu Tian thought for a moment and said, "I sent one last year. I asked you if you wanted one, but you said you didn't want to buy a bicycle. Coincidentally, someone I knew wanted to buy a bicycle at that time, so..."
At that time, Sun Jianjun knew that Chu Tian had a bicycle ticket, so he privately contacted Chu Tian to see if he could sell it to him. When he asked, he had already asked Yao Youjun first, and seeing that Yao Youjun didn't want it, he thought, who can I sell it to? So he sold it to him at a low price!
"But if you really want to buy it, I can help you figure out where to get you another one!"
Before Yao Youjun could say anything, Liu Jiali, who was sitting behind him, interrupted, "Brother-in-law, Youjun, my family has bicycle tickets!"
Chu Tian was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look at Liu Jiali, then turned his head to look at Yao Youjun, turned his head back without saying a word, and quietly flicked the whip.
Yao Youjun reacted and turned to look at Liu Jiali, saying seriously, "I don't want your bicycle ticket. I have money and can buy it myself!"
Liu Jiali was anxious, "I have it at home, why are you spending more money to buy it?"
Yao Youjun replied stubbornly, "No reason."
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Liu Jiali wanted to bite the man in front of her to death. Why was he so stubborn? Buying one outside would cost at least thirty or forty yuan, and with the cost of the bicycle, it would be two hundred and twelve yuan! Her family's bicycle ticket was a special reward given to her eldest brother because he won first place in the technician assessment last quarter!
Besides, her family doesn’t lack bicycles, and the ticket is just there, so why not take it?
Chu Tian understood Yao Youjun's thoughts. Although he looked naive, Yao Youjun had a strong sense of self-esteem. He knew that he and Liu Jiali had no official status now.
No, it should be said that even if they were an engaged couple, Yao Youjun would not want to take the Liu family's things for nothing, otherwise people who knew would definitely talk about him behind his back.
What are you talking about? It's nothing more than being a gigolo, or something like that...
Chu Tian sent them to the gate of the steel plant. After they jumped off the carriage, Chu Tian handed the two baskets on the carriage to them respectively.
"I've put a watermelon and some grapes for each of you. Take them home and eat them."
Yao Youjun was already used to his eldest sister's brother-in-law giving him something whenever he came back from his eldest sister's house, so he took it calmly and said, "Thank you, brother-in-law."
"Thank you, brother-in-law."
Liu Jiali blinked, thought for a moment, and then reached out to take it. She thought to herself that her second sister-in-law seemed to have said a few days ago that the supply and marketing cooperative had purchased a Dacron jacket for children. The price was not cheap, costing five or six yuan, but she was not short of money. She could buy one for Xinxin the next time she went to Chu Tian's house.
Chu Tian smiled and nodded, "Okay, you guys go in quickly, I'm leaving."
After saying this, he waved to them, turned his horse around and left.
When Yao Youjun saw his brother-in-law leave, he reached out and took the basket from Liu Jiali. "Let's go. It's more than half an hour before work starts. I'll take you home first."
Liu Jiali was stunned for a moment, then a suspicious blush appeared on her face. She said "hmm" softly and followed Yao Youjun in her direction.
"Jia Li? Yao Youjun?"
As soon as Liu Ersao went downstairs, she saw Liu Jiali, who looked like a young wife, following Yao Youjun.
Yao Youjun stopped and asked, "Sister Liu, are you going to work?"
Liu Jiali blinked, "Second sister-in-law..."
Liu Ersao looked at Yao Youjun with a smile and said, "Well, I'm running out of time. I have to go to work first. We'll talk next time..." Then she left. When she passed by Liu Jiali, she gave her a meaningful look.
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Liu Jiali understood what her second sister-in-law meant, and her face turned even redder.
Meanwhile, inside the Liu family, when Director Liu sighed for the third time, his mother finally couldn't stand it anymore and said, "Jia Li's father, are you done yet?"
Director Liu turned helplessly and looked at Liu's mother. "Why did you agree to let Jiali follow the friendly forces to his eldest sister's house? What if, what if something happens?"
Mother Liu glanced at him and said calmly, "That Youjun guy has been working in your workshop for quite some time. How could you not know his character? If he really had any improper thoughts about our beauty, would he have waited until now?"
Director Liu, “…”
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