I don’t know what Sister Li said to the short-haired woman. The short-haired woman hesitated for a moment, looked at Sister Li scrutinizingly for a while, then waved and called Xiao Ding to follow her.
After the people left, Sister Li looked at the old lady and said, "Thank you for troubling you today."
"It's no trouble at all," the old lady said with a smile. After a pause, she asked, "Reporter Xiao Li, Reporter Xiao Su, when will your report be published? I'd like to buy a copy of your newspaper that day."
Sister Li cannot guarantee this. Although the newspaper will reserve a certain amount of space for more important emergencies, if there is not enough space, other manuscripts will be withdrawn to reserve space for important matters.
"How about this, if the interview transcript is accepted, I will send it to you, or ask Xiao Su to bring it to you after get off work. Is that okay with you?" said Sister Li.
The old lady hesitated for a moment and shook her head. "Forget it. I'd better keep an eye on the nearby newsstand for the next two days. That way it will be convenient for you and I can be the first to see it."
Sister Li nodded and wrote down the approximate time the newspaper deliveryman would deliver the newspaper. She said, "That's fine too. I'll write the time on a piece of paper for you. Please pay attention to the time."
Sister Li's handwriting is usually very vigorous, but today she used regular script for the first time. After she finished writing, she handed it to the old lady with both hands.
The old lady smiled gently, with some of the grace of a lady from the Republic of China era. In the end, she invited them to visit her home when they had time.
The two of them politely agreed.
After they were out of the old lady's sight, Sister Li waved her hand and told Su Qinghu to go home quickly. "Don't forget to submit two topics tomorrow morning."
Su Qinghu responded with a smile: "Okay!"
Sister Li looked at her, smiled, and shook her head. Perhaps it was because young people have active minds and many ideas, so she was happy to ask her to submit two topics, as if it was no difficulty at all...
It was hot and crowded, so the buses and taxis were either full or not on the way. By the time Su Qinghu walked home, it was completely dark.
The nights are short and the days are long in the summer, and with the street lights, the darkness doesn’t really feel that bad.
But it's a bit of a waste.
Su Qinghu wiped the sweat from his forehead and nose, stood at the door for a while, and then pushed it.
The door is open for display.
Before he could say anything, Su Qinghu had already stuffed the bag into his hand. Like a wilted seedling in the sun, she stared at him eagerly, "Chen Lie, I worked overtime today. I walked back home after work~~~"
Chen Lie held the bag in his arms with one hand and asked, "Are you tired?"
"Yeah." Su Qinghu nodded and reached out to grab his arm. "Do you have any boiled water?"
Chen Lie said, "Dinner is ready, can you have some porridge?"
Boiled water... not prepared, no.
Su Qinghu paused while taking off her high heels and looked up at him, "I'm thirsty."
She also doesn't drink raw water.
Perhaps it was the light from the yard that made Chen Lie think Su Qinghu's eyes were too beautiful, just like the starry sky he saw during night training, twinkling, fragmented, mysterious and clear.
"There's hot water in the kettle," Chen Lie wanted to say, "The water's hot, or maybe some cold water to drink." But when the words reached his lips, he paused and said tentatively, "Shall I cool you a cup?"
Su Qinghu nodded heavily, then gave him a generous smile, "At this moment, you are so damn charming!"
Chen Lie was about to help her walk into the house, but when he heard that, his hands trembled. If he hadn't been well-trained and his body hadn't already developed a set of reflexes, he would have stumbled on the spot.
His throat moved, and he glanced at the living room inconspicuously. Seeing that there was no movement, he silently breathed a sigh of relief.
"Try to speak more normally next time." Chen Lie frowned slightly, supported her, and slowly walked towards the living room.
Su Qinghu's men tightened their grip on his arm, "What do you mean by try to speak normally? What did I say that was abnormal?"
“…What I just said.”
"What did you say just now?" Su Qinghu narrowed his eyes. If you have the guts, say it out loud.
Chen Lie opened his mouth and wanted to repeat it to her, but found that no sound came out of his mouth.
A bit shameful...
"No." Chen Lie quickly changed direction and said, "You always speak very...nicely."
Su Qinghu: "..."
This man is very good at avoiding the sharp edge. If he had just said, "What you said is very normal," she would 100% reply, "Then why did you ask me to speak as normally as possible? Was what I said before abnormal?", and show him what it means to be unreasonable.
But the other person changed his words and even gave me a compliment, so how could I still get angry?
The performance is unreasonable? Not happening!
Su Qinghu praised sincerely, "Comrade Chen Lie, you are also very nice to hear."
Chen Lie exhaled silently, and as he walked, he asked, "Are you going on a mission today?"
"Yeah." Su Qinghu finally didn't take off her high heels and walked barefoot into the house. She put her weight on Chen Lie's hand that was supporting her and shared her daily life with him. "I thought that on the first day of reporting in, I would just get familiar with the process and the job I was about to take over, sit in the office and listen to my seniors explain the work content, and I wouldn't have to do anything else. But in the end, I went on a mission with Sister Li in the morning, wrote a manuscript in the afternoon, and finally got to leave work when I received another temporary task..."
She speaks neither hurriedly nor slowly, but when she gets to a certain point, the emotion in her tone can easily infect others.
There is a sense of relaxation that relieves worries, like lying comfortably in a chair on a spring afternoon and feeling the warm spring breeze.
"The director is an old classmate of Teacher Sun. Sister Li must have received his advice and is very caring towards me." Su Qinghu said, as if remembering something, looking at him sideways, "There's another person who said that Teacher Sun was also his teacher. I even wrote a manuscript for him..."
"So, whose relationship did you and Mr. Sun rely on?"
The director? Or that senior student who was a few years older than her?
Having already reached the living room, Chen Lie reminded her to pay attention to the threshold. After the person entered the living room, he said, "I used my parents' connections to ask for help. If I'm not mistaken, he should have contacted your department director directly."
Chen Lie spoke softly, just loud enough for Su Qinghu beside him to hear. "Teacher Sun was talking to students about your work when the director heard you."
"No wonder then." Su Qinghu nodded, "Once we understand these relationships, things will be easier in the future."
After Su Qinghu finished speaking, she urged Chen Lie to get her some boiled water.
Chen Lie didn't move, seeming to want to say something but stopping himself before finally saying in a flat voice, "The two kids had a fight today and ruined the clothes you bought for them."
Su Qinghu smiled and said, "Fight?"
Was that a fight? That was stolen!
However, after hearing this, Chen Kenliang didn't know whether he deliberately didn't mention the fact that the clothes were damaged, or he didn't notice it.
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