Zuo Xiaoqing came out of the ward carrying a tray and saw a tall figure in the corridor, "Brother Lin, are you back from the south?"
Zuo Xiaoqing was a little surprised to see Lin Yi.
"Brother Lin, why did you come to the hospital? Are you feeling uncomfortable in any way?" Zuo Xiaoqing walked to Lin Yi and asked with concern.
Lin Yi looked at Zuo Xiaoqing and smiled,
"I'm here specifically to find you. I'm going to get off work soon. I'll treat you to dinner tonight."
"Ah, why do you want to invite me to dinner?" Zuo Xiaoqing was a little surprised.
"No reason, I'll go out and wait for you." After Lin Yi finished speaking, he left the hospital building and came to the courtyard. He found a place to sit down and took out a book from his pocket to read.
Zuo Xiaoqing returned to the nurse's station with the tray. From the window, he could see the courtyard. Lin Yi was sitting on a stone pier reading a book.
The girl stared at Lin Yi for a long time.
half past five,
It's getting dark outside.
Zuo Xiaoqing took over the shift, took off his white coat and put on his own clothes, quickly arranged his hair in the mirror, and hurried to the courtyard.
"Brother Lin, I kept you waiting for so long." Zuo Xiaoqing stood in front of Lin Yi handsomely.
Lin Yi looked at the girl.
youth,
pretty.
smiled,
"It's okay, let's go, let's go eat."
Lin Yi got on the car.
Zuo Xiaoqing chased after him for two steps, jumped up and sat on the back seat. Because he was shy, he did not dare to hold Lin Yi's waist with his hands and only grabbed the corners of his clothes.
"What do you want to eat?"
Lin Yi asked while riding his bike.
"I, I can do anything."
"Can I eat beef and mutton?"
"Eatable."
"Then I'll take you to eat hotpot."
There is a good hot pot restaurant in Lubei District. It is state-owned. In the 1980s, eating hot pot was definitely considered expensive. Last time, Lin Yi brought Jiang Wu, Li Xiangqian, and Ma Dan over and had a great meal. It cost a lot of money.
Dozens of dollars.
The bicycle is parked in front of the hotel,
Zuo Xiaoqing looked at it,
"Brother Lin, I heard that a meal here is very expensive. How about we change to a restaurant and just order from any restaurant."
"Mainly because I'm craving for this today." Lin Yi said with a smile.
"oh."
Zuo Xiaoqing said nothing more.
Follow Lin Yi into the hotel.
The waiter took the two of them to find a place to sit down. Lin Yi ordered a copper hot pot, several plates of meat and several plates of vegetables.
You want something else.
Sorry, no.
"Do you want to drink?" Lin Yi asked Zuo Xiaoqing.
Zuo Xiaoqing shook his head vigorously.
"The waiter will bring me two bottles of orange water, thank you."
The waiter nodded and left.
Not long after, the copper pot came up, the charcoal fire had been lit, and red flames came out of the mouth of the pot. Several plates of meat and vegetables were also served, as well as sesame sauce, fried chili sauce, tofu and chive flowers.
"You can eat the meat yourself, but for the sake of hygiene, I won't help you fish it out."
"No need, Brother Lin." Zuo Xiaoqing quickly picked up the vegetables and put them into the pot.
Lin Yi picked up a piece of meat, blanched it in the pot for a few seconds, dipped it in the sauce and put it in his mouth. Well, the meat tasted so good, and he felt full of satisfaction.
Zuo Xiaoqing also took a bite of meat.
"Brother Lin, the hotpot mutton is so delicious."
Lin Yi looked at Zuo Xiaoqing and said: "When you are full, your mood will get better."
Zuo Xiaoqing was stunned.
His eyes were a little dodgey.
Lower your head and continue eating meat.
Eating hot pot in winter is definitely a kind of enjoyment. Lin Yi was really greedy and decided to wait until he was full to talk about anything.
The fire is strong,
Delicious hotpot,
Zuo Xiaoqing's face turned pink after eating.
"It's hot, take off your coat when it's hot," Lin Yi said.
Zuo Xiaoqing took off his cotton coat, and underneath was a slightly slim-fitting sweater. The style of the sweater looked very old, and the wool was a little discolored.
But even so,
Lin Yi still couldn't help but look at it twice.
I have to say,
Zuo Xiaoqing is really quite talented.
After finishing a meal,
It cost more than nine yuan to settle the accounts.
After going out,
Zuo Xiaoqing said to Lin Yi: "Brother Lin, I'll treat you to dinner next time."
"OK."
Lin Yi smiled, of course it would be nice to treat a beautiful woman to dinner.
Zuo Xiaoqing said a little coyly: "I can't afford such a nice person, how about I buy vegetables for you to cook at home?"
"That's better, get in the car."
Lin Yi got on the car, and Zuo Xiaoqing skillfully jumped into the back seat. Lin Yi didn't say anything, and just rode away.
"Brother Lin, didn't you take me to the hospital?"
Looking at the route Zuo Xiaoqing took, it didn't seem like he was going back to the hospital.
"Go to my house. It's still early. I'll teach you for two hours and then I'll take you back to the hospital." Lin Yi said on his own initiative.
Zuo Xiaoqing said nothing more.
Sit obediently in the back.
Not long after, he arrived at Lin Yi's house and asked Zuo Xiaoqing to open the door. Lin Yi moved his bicycle into the yard and came to the house to turn on the lights. Zuo Xiaoqing was surprised to find that Lin Yi's house had been renovated, the house had been repainted, and the furniture and furnishings in the house were
The beds were also changed.
"Brother Lin, have you replaced the furniture in your home with antique furniture?"
During this time,
Master Qin helped Lin Yi collect a lot of furniture, and put some of it here. Zuo Xiaoqing had been going to Hanzheng Street to find Lin Yi a few days ago. He hadn't been to Lin Yi's house for more than a month. When he came this time, he found that the house had changed.
Looks like.
"This bed is so beautiful. It's full of withered flowers." Zuo Xiaoqing looked around the big bed and exclaimed in admiration.
The bed that Master Qin collected is indeed very beautiful. The grain of the Hainan huanghuali wood itself is beautiful. There is a roof above and a corridor below, with wooden railings around it and flowers. The big bed is spacious and curtains can be hung around it. The bedding on it is all from Hanzheng Street.
Newly made, soft and warm.
After looking at the furniture, Zuo Xiaoqing sat back at the table, "Brother Lin, I didn't bring a notebook. Why don't you call me English speaking today?"
Lin Yi looked at Zuo Xiaoqing and said, "Why don't you tell me why you are unhappy recently? Is there anything difficult about you?"
Zuo Xiaoqing was stunned.
The relaxed smile on his face gradually disappeared.
He looked at Lin Yi.
"I, I have nothing to be unhappy about."
Lin Yi shook his head.
Looked at Zuo Xiaoqing.
The girl and Lin Yi looked at each other and lowered their heads slightly.
"Did Doudou tell Brother Lin?"
"It's what Xiao Wu said. Doudou and Xiao Wu said that since you went back to your hometown on New Year's Day, you always look wrong when you come back."
"Why don't you tell me what happened? If something happens, you don't have to hold it in and worry about it. If you talk about it, you might be able to find a better solution."
Zuo Xiaoqing was silent for a few seconds.
"Actually, someone is chasing me, and I don't want to, but his uncle is the deputy mayor of the town, and my brother finally found a job at the agricultural machinery station..."
Zuo Xiaoqing spoke slowly.
Going home on New Year’s Day,
Zuo Xiaoqing was originally very happy.
Zuo Xiaoqing's eldest brother picked her up at the county long-distance station and rode dozens of miles on dirt roads before finally returning home.
The Zuo family is an authentic rural family.
Zuo Xiaoqing's parents both worked on the team to earn cents. Zuo Xiaoqing also had an elder brother and a younger brother.
Zuo Xiaoqing came home. The whole family was very happy and had a meal happily. After the meal, Zuo's mother came to Zuo Xiaoqing's hut, made a bed for her daughter, and talked to her, but she always hesitated to speak.
feeling.
"What's wrong, Mom?"
The mother looked at her daughter, sighed and said, "Xiaoqing, do you still remember a man named Luo Zhijun?"
"Luo Zhijun?"
Zuo Xiaoqing thought for a while, "It seems that when I was in junior high school in the town, there was a boy named Luo Zhijun in the next class."
She still had some impressions of this Luo Zhijun, but it was definitely not a good impression. When she was in school, she heard people say that this Luo Zhijun was a repeater. He was several years older than their classmates, and when he was in school, he always got into fights, smoked and drank, and looked for trouble.
Female classmates are in trouble.
Still ugly.
Zuo's mother nodded, "Yes, that's your classmate."
"What's wrong?"
Mother Zuo paused.
"That Luo Zhijun, please find someone to come to our house to talk matchmaking."
Zuo Xiaoqing's face froze.
"Mom, do you agree?"
In her heart,
In fact, there are already people.
Although I am just ignorant and secretly feeling,
She would never want to marry just anyone.
"Mom, I don't agree."
Zuo Xiaoqing said directly.
Mother Zuo sighed.
"Your father didn't agree at the time. He told the matchmaker that he would come back and ask for your opinion, but, but."
"But what?"
Zuo Xiaoqing asked anxiously.
"Your brother is working at an agricultural machinery station now. It was only through hard work that the family asked someone to find connections that he found a place like this to work."
Zuo Xiaoqing knew this.
After his brother graduated from junior high school, he had been working at home as a farmer. Last year, she went to Jiangcheng to work as a nurse. She also found connections in the family and found her brother Zuo Dahong a temporary job at an agricultural machinery station. Although it was a temporary job, it was better than earning work points in the fields in the village.
Much stronger.
Zuo Xiaoqing received a letter from home, knowing that her eldest brother had gone to work, and she was happy for several days. There are two people in the family who work to make money, and the family will definitely get better and better in the future.
"Your brother has a job, and there are more matchmakers. Your brother also met a girl in the past two months. Both of them thought she was good. Your dad and I will get your brother engaged in the spring."
"That Luo Zhijun asked someone to talk to you, but your father didn't agree. Within two days, that Luo Zhijun went to the agricultural machinery station to find your brother. He told your brother that if our family didn't agree with him and you, your brother wouldn't agree either.
I want to work at an agricultural machinery station."
Zuo Xiaoqing was very angry after hearing this.
"Why should he?"
"His uncle is the deputy mayor of our town, and his father is the director of the seed station. Whether your brother can go to work is not a matter of words for their family." Zuo's mother sighed.
Zuo Xiaoqing bit her lips angrily.
"They, they are bullying people."
Mother Zuo said helplessly: "Daughter, this person is very powerful and we can't afford to offend him. Your eldest brother's job is just a matter of words."
"Not only that, two days later, the village cadres in the village came to your dad again and persuaded your dad that this was a good marriage. Finally, they also said that if this doesn't work out, it will be difficult for him to live in the village in the future."
Zuo Xiaoqing felt that her heart was extremely blocked.
This is just the beginning.
the next day,
Village officials came to visit.
"Oh, Xiaoqing is back. She is really a big girl. She is getting more and more beautiful as she grows. She's only 20 yuan now. It's time to find her husband's family."
Zuo Xiaoqing could tell that these words were not concerned at all.
afternoon,
The leader of her eldest brother's agricultural machinery station came.
They said they cared about the workers' families and came to take a look, but what Zuo's family felt was pressure.
This is called all-round pressure.
Zuo Xiaoqing wanted to escape,
But what to do with this family?
The deputy mayor and the seed webmaster are all important figures to ordinary rural families. It is simply too easy to take advantage of you, a common man. Even if they don't attack you directly, many people will pop up around you to help them speak up. Ordinary families face