Chapter 11: Duplicity

Haiping: No, the mosquitoes here are only in winter, all year round, look at the marks on my calves, they were bitten by mosquitoes when I first came, I scratched it and that's it, it's been a year since the marks are still there, the mosquitoes here are very poisonous.

"No, I didn't use mosquito nets at home, and in the environment of my hometown, mosquitoes were as big as bees, and they weren't bitten!"

I thought, Haiping is exaggerating!

Wu Fang seemed to have seen through my thoughts.

Wu Fang: I believe it, I heard that the rats in Guangdong are very big, bigger than cats!

Me: But Guangdong is very big, I don't think every mouse is big, it's scary!

Haiping: I haven't seen a mouse, but there are frogs here, and they're delicious.

Wu Fang: Third sister, have you eaten it? Anyway, I heard that this Cantonese people eat all kinds of animals, it's disgusting!

Me: Who do you listen to, don't talk about all this stuff so that I don't have an appetite for anything.

Haiping: I told her, and I've heard about it, but I've eaten frogs, and they're delicious, stir-fried and congee-cooked.

Me: What is porridge?

Haiping: It's porridge, it's just very nutritious, anyway, the food here doesn't look like it has chili peppers, but it's really delicious.

Wu Fang: Don't talk about it, let's go, the more I talk about it, the hungrier I get.

Haiping: Okay, let's go, let's go, it's almost done!

We finally got out of 502.

When I went downstairs, I happened to meet Sister Xintong, Sister Xinran, Zeng Xing, Uncle and Aunt Zeng Pei.

Xinran: You haven't bought it yet?

Me: I've bought it, let's go out for a walk, and the dorm room is all ready.

Haiping: I took them to dinner, and I haven't eaten since the morning.

Sister Xinle: What are you going to eat?

Zeng Pei: Lao Ping, you take them to eat the fried noodles at the gate of the factory, we often eat that.

Haiping: I'm going to take them to eat cold skin, they all want to eat the cold noodles from their hometown!

Sister Xinle: Then you guys go quickly, we have to go back to rest and rest, I'm so tired!

The same brother wore a sky blue short-sleeved pair with a pair of washed white girl shorts, and a pair of black sandals on his feet.

Me: Brother Xintong, your clothes are so handsome, I can't believe it's you!

Brother Xintong: Hehe, Sister Xinran bought it for me, you guys go out to eat, I'll go back to the dormitory to clean up.

Me: Okay

Zeng Xing: When you come back in a while, I'll come to you, Xiao Ning.

Me: Oh, what are you looking for me?

Zeng Xing: I have something to ask you.

Me: Oooh, okay.

"Qi Rong's business," he thought

After separating them, we continued to walk towards the factory gate.

Me: Just now when I was making the bed, Lao Huang and the others said, the two Hubei people in our dormitory are very annoying, and it is difficult to get along, what should I do?

Haiping: There are difficult people in every dormitory, do you think we don't have a dormitory? I whispered to you, before you came, our dormitory was divided into two factions, Ji Xinle, Ji Xinran is one faction, mainly Ji Xinran and Sister Haiyan quarreled, and then Ji Xinle helped Ji Xinran, they didn't talk anymore, you didn't see that they were all separated today.

Me: So who are you?

Haiping: Then let's say that there are three factions, Ji Xinle, Ji Xinran faction, Wu Haiyan, Wu Haiqiao, they are one faction. I'm left, Sister Haiqiu, Ji Lele, Zeng Pei, we are two-faced, we talk on both sides, and we don't dare to be too good, in fact, it's so tiring.

Wu Fang: Why don't they change their bedrooms if they don't talk, stay in one dormitory and don't pinch them!

Haiping: You think it's easy to change the bedroom, you have to apply, and the old Zhu who is in charge of the bedroom is so annoying to us, every time I look for him, he says that there is no empty bed, and he obviously tells him that there is a bedroom with a vacant bed, but he just doesn't agree.

Wu Fang: Then move in by yourself, those beds are empty anyway.

Haiping: Lao Zhu is stingy, he will go to sue, and if he wants to be fined, Ji Xinle will be deducted 200, and Ji Xinle quarreled with him very fiercely that time, so he was deducted, so it's good to be yourself.

Me: What if someone makes things difficult for me for no reason?

Haiping: Just quarrel back, don't make people feel bullied, it's a big deal, there are so many factories here, it's easy to find a job, the salary of the electronics factory next to it is higher than ours, and the overtime pay is two more than ours, and I don't go to work on Saturdays and Sundays!

Wu Fang: Then why didn't they go to the factory next door?

Haiping: They have been in this factory for a long time, and they all have seniority wages, so they are reluctant to leave.

Me: What is seniority pay and how much is it? Do you have it?

Haiping: The seniority salary is the basic salary that you will increase if you stay in this long time for a long time, I have more than a year, and now the basic salary is 1000, and you just came to the basic salary of 800, anyway, 200 a year.

Wu Fang: Wow, then they all have 1600!

Haiping: Well, Liangpi didn't have a stall, so I couldn't eat it, and I usually set up a stall here, pushing it with a cart.

Haiping pointed to the location on the street and said.

Haiping: Let's go, I'll take you to eat fried noodles.

Wu Fang: Let's go, let's go, as long as you can fill your stomach.

followed Haiping to the small shop of "Xiao Zhang Fried Noodles".

Haiping: The boss came with three servings of egg scrambled noodles, the same as before.

Boss: Okay, you're here?

Haiping: My two sisters.

Boss: Are the two of them twins?

"Did the boss ask me and Wu Fang?"

Haiping: No, how do you say they're twins!

The boss is a chubby middle-aged woman.

Boss: I look at the two of them look alike!

"I look like it, too"

The girl who was eating next to her also said the same, I didn't take a closer look, the girl's skin was quite white, as the saying goes, a hundred covers a thousand ugliness, and then I came into contact with her at work, and I knew that her name was Li Linli, with some buck teeth and a big tongue when she spoke.....

Haiping: Indeed, both of them are tall and thin, with similar hair and similar styles of clothes, so it's no wonder you say that!

The boss put sour chili peppers in the fried noodles, which are not spicy and taste very good

After eating, I left the store.

Wu Fang: Where are we going now?

Haiping: I'll take you for a walk!

Me: Let's go and don't buy anything, the prices here are not expensive, I will come to eat fried noodles every day when I have money in the future, it is delicious!

Haiping: In the factory, it will not be very expensive, and the salary is not high, the main thing is to repeat customers!

Wu Fang: When will the second sister come back, it's been a long time, and it should be 4 or 5 o'clock in the afternoon, right?

Haiping: Let's go to the phone booth and make a call.

Wu Fang: Second sister has a phone?

Haiping: No, her phone was broken, so she called Sun Qihang.

Wu Fang: Oh

Wu Fang and I stood outside the phone booth waiting for Haiping, Haiping went in to make a call, and the phone booth space was low, only enough for one person to sit inside.

After a while, Haiping hung up the phone and came out.

Wu Fang: How do you say that you are coming back?

Haiping: I'm going to take the bus right away, it's going to take an hour at most, let's go for a walk first!

Along the way, I walked through many factories, and all the French plane trees planted on the side of the road were planted.

Me: In autumn, when the leaves are yellow, this street should be beautiful, and there are golden leaves everywhere.

Haiping: It's okay, I rarely have time to come out to see it every day.

Me: What about weekends? Aren't you not at work on Sundays?

Haiping: It's hard to rest, I must sleep lazy first, and go to the supermarket when I get up, who loves to watch this!

Me: I just love to see it, and I must take a good look at it in the fall!

Wu Fang: You're fantasizing in your fairy tale world again!

Me: What's wrong with fairy tales, I like them anyway.

Along the way, I also met people in the factory, and every time I walked a section, I would meet one or two and Haiping to say hello, and walked around the factory for more than an hour.

When I returned to the factory, the sky began to darken, and the wind blew up not as hot as earlier, with a hint of coolness.

Haiping: Let's go back to the dormitory first, and then go out and call you later.

Me: Okay

Zeng Xing: Do you still want to go out?

Walk with Uncle to the far edge of the corridor.

Me: Well, he said he was taking us to eat sugar water, and it was delicious.

Zeng Xing: I think it's average, are you still in touch with Qi Rong, is she good, what is she doing?

Me: Hehe, uncle, do you remember her? Didn't you get in touch, I thought you were okay, and you were still in touch!

Zeng Xing: We haven't been together, she has always disagreed, she said to study hard, after reading the book, she gave me her family number before, I called it wrong after I came here, I have been here for almost three years, there is no news of her, how is she now?

"Yo, Zeng, you're really good" A few boys at the door of the dormitory looked at us and whistled.

Instantly, I felt my face become hot and dry.

Zeng Xing: Hang Mao, it's your business, stay where it's cool.

"Yo yo" whistled again and started to laugh.

Zeng Xing: Ignore them.

Me: Well, Qi Rong went to Kunming for a while and came back, she is going to Tongzhou No. 4 Middle School to study in high school, she still has to study, she hasn't gone before I came, so I don't have her contact information yet, wait until it's settled, let's contact after a while!

Zeng Xing: Then do you know that she is looking for a boyfriend?

Me: I don't know, when we got together, the time was too urgent, and we didn't have time to talk too much.

Zeng Xing: She may have it, so many people like her.

Me: So what do you do?

Zeng Xing: I want to go to her, I have earned money now, I have saved all the money in the past few years, I can provide for her to study, I can go to work near her school, and take care of her.

Me: What if she has a boyfriend?

Zeng Xing: I still want to go and see her, and try again, if you communicate, you tell her that you are in the same factory with me, or you give me her contact information, and I will contact her.

Me: Okay, she'll tell you about it.

Zeng Xing: Is she fat or thin now?

Me: It's the same as it used to be, I see.

The uncle took out his wallet from his pocket and took out a photo, a photo of Qi Rong standing on the school basketball court in her school uniform.

Me: Why did you have this photo, I remember it was taken one day after school in the first year of junior high school, but I took a picture with her next to me.

Zeng Xing: I robbed it with her, she probably doesn't remember it!

Me: Hehe, it's so good, it's so good that you guys are like this, I'm thinking if you get married together, when you're old, how nice it would be!

Zeng Xing: Hehe, I want to do that too!

Me: Uncle, how many years have you been here, do you have a favorite girl?

Zeng Xing: No, I only like her, so she contacted you, you must tell me.

Me: Okay, I think it's a very happy thing to like someone or be liked by someone!

Zeng Xing: Well, I feel happy anyway, even if it's my unrequited love....

Me: I can't understand this, hahaha!

Zeng Xing: Don't you have a favorite person? There should be a lot of people who like you!

Me: No, I don't know, haha, it's a little embarrassing

Zeng Xing: No, anyway, you are still young, and you will meet all kinds of people in the future, those you like, those who like you, and those who like each other.....

Me: I didn't think about that, but the focus was to get used to the factory work and earn more money.

Zeng Xing: Yes

After chatting with my uncle for a while, I went upstairs.

As soon as I turned around and went upstairs, the boys ran over and tortured my uncle to extract a confession, asking me who I was, only to hear him say that I was his niece......

Actually, I think the uncle is very handsome, and he is a good match for Qi Rong, a handsome guy and a beautiful woman..... But many things are not clear to outsiders.

By the time of 502, Sister Haiqiu had already returned

Wu Fang: Xiao Ning, come on, the second sister bought a lot of delicious food from the supermarket, come and eat.

Sister Haiqiu: Xiao Ning, come and eat, I'm so tired after a day of shopping today, I'll take you to drink sugar water in a few days.

Sister Xinle: Come on, we bought Liangpi.

The people in the dormitory are all there, and at the moment it feels like being in my hometown, all of them are from the village.

There are a lot of stories stacked on Sister Haiqiao's bed, everyone is eating, and Sister Haiqiao is lying down and reading seriously

Me: Wow, Sister Haiqiao, have you read all these books?

Sister Haiqiao: I've seen it here, but I haven't seen it here.

Sister Haiqiao stood up and pointed to the stacked books and said to me.

Me: Sister Hai Qiao, then lend me two of these books you have read!

Sister Haiqiao took three books from the pile on the left and handed them to me.

Sister Hai Qiao: Here, here you go, I'll get it after reading it.

took the book in Sister Haiqiao's hand and was very happy.

Me: Thank you, Sister Haiqiao, I'll give it back to you after reading it.

Then I'll go back to my dorm.

Wu Fang: Then you won't eat it?

Me: Enough, I'm not hungry.

As he spoke, he walked out of 502

Behind him was Ji Lele's voice

Ji Lele: I heard that my sister-in-law took the second place in the township in the middle school entrance examination, why didn't she go to high school, if our grades were so good, I would have to study.

Sister Haiqiu: I don't have any money, her sister wants to study, and her parents are not in good health.

Hai Qiao: It's a pity, but the results should be freer, right?

Wu Fang: It's not enough to be free, she's so sad, if she takes the first exam, she can get all free, and there are scholarships.

Sister Xinle: What's the use of just being able to read?

Wu Juan: Anyway, she was so good when she was studying, why did she only get the second place in the township.

Sister Haiyan: It's really amazing that people got the second place in the exam, and I'm afraid that there are thousands of people in the township.

Wu Fang: We have a lot of candidates this year, more than 27,000.

Wu Juan: It seems that yes, there are a lot of people who come out to work and are called back to complete the nine-year compulsory education!

Haiye: It's still amazing, and you started working at such a young age......

By 507, they were no longer heard chatting.

The toilet door is closed, and there are people taking a bath inside, except for Chen Lihua and Huang Susu, who I saw in the morning, everyone else is lying on the bed in the bedroom, some are reading, and some are talking on the phone

After a brief greeting to everyone, I took the water from the faucet on the balcony to wash my feet, climbed into bed, and lay down and couldn't wait to open the story I had just brought to look at it with relish

After reading two books quickly, the person in the toilet came out, it was Chen Liping.

Chen Liping: Ji Xin'an, are you going to sleep?

Me: Sister Liping, I just borrowed a few books from Sister Haiqiao and read them, and after a day of shopping outside, it is still comfortable to lie down.

Chen Liping: Oh, let me see what books you read?

I put the book together so she could see the title.

Chen Liping: Oh, Wu Haiqiao likes to read these ghost stories, and I'm very scared.

Me: She seems to have only these books there.

Chen Liping: You ask Xinran to borrow it, Xinran has a lot of readers there, and she buys every issue.

Me: Ah, her mosquito net was tightly pulled just now, I can't see it, I don't know there is.

Chen Liping: Come, here you go, these are all used by her and me to kill time.

As she spoke, Sister Liping took out two books from under her pillow and threw them on my bed, turned around and went to the balcony to wash her clothes

Put down the story in your hand, pick up the reader, stroke the cover carefully, when I was studying in school, I occasionally circulated one or two books in the class, and the books would be crumpled and rotten, and the last page of the reader would have the popular songs of the moment, and these lyrics would always be copied on the empty pages of the book, Chinese, mathematics, English, politics, physics, chemistry, geometry, algebra would be copied on it, and the books were always densely packed, except for myself Very few people can read my notes, only history textbooks, no lyrics, and no textbooks are copied to explain history exercises...... Put the reader gently under the pillow and continue to read the story in his hand, when everyone is going to turn off the lights and go to bed, the three stories will be finished, in the bedroom, there is gradually a gentle snoring, there is a buzzing mosquito sound in the ears, can't sleep, dare not turn over and over, there will be a creaking sound when the bed is moved, and it will be tormented until dawn, everyone gets up one after another, and to 502 also returned the story of Sister Haiqiao, Haiping took us to the canteen for breakfast, breakfast has red bean porridge, mung bean porridge, pumpkin porridge, fried noodles, steamed buns People come and go in the canteen, mediocre and lazy, no one is in a hurry, eat breakfast, heart with brother, Wu Haiche, and our four girls followed Haiping to the third floor of the workshop, everyone gathered at the entrance, we also followed everyone to line up and stand, familiar people are only, Sister Xinle, and Haiping, the three sisters of the Qiu family who know the same bedroom, Le Huan and Le Le are in the sewing unit, and the heart is the same brother and heart