Qi Shufang looked at her, her appearance and dress had not changed, she was still the unpretentious girl, but her momentum had changed, and she had a confident demeanor from the inside out, no longer as taciturn as before.

It's like...... A pearl, a pearl that wipes away the dust.

Yun Bai never came back after leaving Gupeng City that year, not once, Qi Shufang went to the capital to attend Xue Feng's wedding and failed to see each other because she went on a mission, fortunately, the two have been in contact with each other, and they know each other's recent situation better, and their friendship has not diminished because of the separation of the two places.

Yun Bai only arrived home in the early hours of this morning, but what happened at home made her unable to stay, she didn't sleep very peacefully, and when she woke up, she came out directly, she didn't expect to meet Director Li to marry her daughter, and she didn't expect to see Qi Shufang and He Shengnan so soon.

Hearing Qi Shufang ask, she smiled, "I got off the car in the middle of the night, and I came to eat something after I woke up." ”

"It's just right, it's just right, we have two tables here, and there are a lot of empty seats, you don't dislike us for eating for a while, just sit down and eat." He Shengnan beckoned her to sit down and asked the waiter to send a pair of dishes and chopsticks.

Gupeng City is not small, but it is not big, because the vast majority of residents live in that area, scattered in the vicinity of various state-owned units and government agencies.

Therefore, Mother Li saw that Yun Bai was very affectionate, sat next to Yun Bai with chopsticks and a bowl, asked long and short, and asked about the things in the special train, "You have worked for so long, how many chiefs have you seen?"

Yun Bai smiled faintly: "Our mission needs to be kept secret, please forgive me." ”

didn't get what she wanted to know, Mother Li returned to her original seat, and let the three young women chatter, talk and laugh, but didn't dare to show dissatisfaction.

After the meal, the three of them moved to He Shengnan's house with Panpan and continued the previous topic.

He Shengnan's residence is the closest to the state-run hotel, although it is small, it is full of internal organs, and it is also very clean.

"Seeing that your eyes are bloodshot, I am embarrassed to ask you in the hotel, have you not rested?" Qi Shufang asked with concern.

Yun Bai sat on the chair and said with a wry smile: "How can I rest?" This one said, that one said, my head was about to explode, as if I would be guilty of a great crime if I didn't come. ”

He Shengnan rushed the milk powder to Panpan and asked, "Hearing you say this, what problems did your parents give you again?"

She has always been jealous and hateful, and Yun Bai is gone, so like Qi Shufang, she rarely cares about the Yun family. Although the character of the Yun family is not very good, it is not a person without ability, he was stunned to find a job for Yun Bai's brother Yun Song, although he is a manure digger in the manure pipe office, but there is a salary and supply every month, and the manure is very valued by the following production teams and farms.

With Yun Song's salary and the vegetables he occasionally brought underneath, plus the monthly salary he asked Yun Bai, the Yun family had a good life, so He Shengnan didn't know why the Bai Yun family was embarrassed by Yun Bai again.

Qi Shufang's mind turned around a few times, touched the past, and asked, "It won't be your brother's business, right?"

"Her brother, what's the matter?" He Shengnan hadn't heard.

Qi Shufang also heard Ye Cuicui say a few words last month, under the instructions of Yun Baiqian, spruce who volunteered to go to Xishuangbanna to receive re-education of poor middle peasants, still got married there, married a beautiful, enthusiastic Yunnan girl who can sing and dance, although her home is in Xishuangbanna, she is not a Dai person, but a Miao person.

"I've heard that Spruce gave birth to a daughter after getting married, and only after giving birth to a daughter did she send a letter to her family. The reason why I wrote the letter seems to be asking for money, right?" Qi Shufang remembered that Ye Cuicui said so.

Spruce's life can't go on, and the work alone is not enough to support the family, and he still owes a lot of money.

He Shengnan was very surprised, "Why is this happening? I remember that Yun Bai said many times that he should not get married for at least seven or eight years, hoping that he would return to the city one day, and now he ......."

"Let him be, he is an adult, I have my own life, I can't care about him for a lifetime, whether the consequences are bitter or sweet, he will bear them. Yun Bai has already seen it.

He Shengnan nodded, "Where's the money?"

"Don't give. Yun Bai said indifferently, "I send half of my monthly salary to my family, what else do I want? I'm just one person, let me take care of the food, clothing, and housing of ten people, isn't this embarrassing for me? I have left home in the past few years, and I have only saved more than 200 yuan in total by saving money, but they are 300 in one mouth!"

"Three hundred?" Qi Shufang was startled, "But I heard from Sister Ye that Spruce wrote to ask your parents for a hundred!"

Triple in a row, ruthless enough!

Yun Bai was stunned, "Is it really a hundred? Not three hundred?"

Qi Shufang was very sure, "It's a hundred! Now a pound of the best rice is less than a dime or two, if it is to buy grain, even if it is to buy high-priced grain, a hundred yuan is not a lot." Miao girls weave and embroider their own cloth, and your mother shows off the spruce cloth to your neighbors, saying that it was woven by your brother and daughter-in-law. ”

Yun Bai sneered.

He Shengnan said: "Yunbai, you won't give it, right? Three hundred yuan, my salary for most of the year." ”

"No, I didn't promise it. Yun Bai was extremely angry, but he didn't get angry, in a word, he didn't.

She has long been disappointed in her family.

After she came back, no one asked her if she was doing outside, she just cared about asking for it, and Mica also complained about her, saying that if she didn't find a partner to marry quickly, she would be an old girl around, which would make the family lose face.

"Listen, is this what a mother should say? Could it be that when she said this, she forgot her own conditions? A bride price of several hundred yuan will have to be given to my mother's family thirty yuan every month in the future, and I don't dare to get married because of this condition? Up to now, the conditions have not only not changed, but have also increased, and they think that I am working on the special train, and I often see the old chiefs, so they ask the other party to buy three turns and one ring as a dowry! Do you think that when the three turns and one ring are delivered, there will be a chance to take them away?"

"This ...... It's hard to say. Qi Shufang and He Shengnan both thought so.

A hint of self-deprecation flashed across the corners of Yun Bai's mouth, "I think so too." ”

Therefore, she decided, after going back this time, she will fall in love freely in the capital, and many people will be her matchmakers, and she will talk about marriage without the consent of her family.

Qi Shufang agreed, "If there is any problem that is difficult to solve, write a letter and say it." ”

Originally, I was old and it was not easy to be selected, but Comrade Liu Xiaomei helped me intercede, and then I passed the exam, and then I entered the training camp of the special train conductor, and passed the final assessment with my own efforts. Yun Bai was extremely glad that he spoke according to his own will during the Zhang Xiaodie incident on the train, and thus met Qi Shufang, a good friend.

Qi Shufang said: "We are friends, why should friends say such kind words. ”

Yun Bai bent his eyes, like a crescent moon in the night, shining.

After she made up her mind, in addition to visiting her old colleagues and friends, she went to Qi Shufang's house, rarely faced her parents, brothers and sisters-in-law who were already dissatisfied, and waited until the end of the holiday, without saying a word, to embark on the train to the capital. If it weren't for the fact that the leader said that she had worked hard and never missed work in the past few years, and specially approved family leave, she would not have wanted to come back at all.

There are close friends here, friends who are more considerate than family, and Gupeng City should not be excluded from the heart, but there are also insatiable family members here, and Gupeng City is also a place of its own suffering.

Soon after she returned to the capital, she accepted the object introduced to her by her colleagues, and soon talked about marriage.

Qi Shufang received the news of her marriage in December, and knew that she had no plans to inform her family, so a few good friends pooled money and industrial vouchers to buy tea trays, enamel basins, spittoons and other things to send her. Everyone has their own family, so they are worried about Yunbai alone, and now that Yunbai is married, their hearts are over, they originally wanted to buy a pair of thermos bottles for Yunbai, but they were worried about damage on the road, so they gave up this plan and bought other necessities.

At this time, He Shengnan suddenly found out that she was pregnant.

It's been four years, Panpan is already four years old, He Shengnan said that he didn't care, and he was very anxious, not to give birth to a boy, but to feel that only giving birth to Panpan alone would be very lonely in the future, and he was worried that something was wrong with his body if there was no news for four or five years, so after confirming that he was pregnant, the tight strings were loosened all of a sudden.

"Whether it's a boy or a girl, now that I'm pregnant, it means that I'm fine, and I hope that I won't be alone in the future. He Shengnan said this to Qi Shufang, his eyebrows fluttered, and he didn't care about her in-laws' wish to give birth to a son.

Qi Shufang chuckled, "Congratulations, you have to pay attention and eat more nutritious." "When will you go back to your hometown, come back with some prey, and send her some, the Li family is indeed not poor, but now that the food supply is tight, the supply in the black market will naturally decrease significantly, and it may not be able to get enough things for He Shengnan to replenish his body.

He Shengnan grinned: "Isn't this here to beg you? You can give me the supply of non-staple food for one or two months before giving birth, eggs and sugar or something." Your family is so smart to build the country, and I don't know how many people follow his method now. ”

"No problem, I'll keep the supply for you for those two months. Qi Shufang agreed.

He Shengnan thanked her repeatedly, and when Li Wei came to pick her up, she followed Li Wei back, and Pan Pan wanted her mother to hug her, but Li Wei stopped her, holding her wife with one hand and her daughter with the other.

Their backs fell in Qi Shufang's eyes, which was very warm.