In a blink of an eye, the day of high school graduation was ushered in, the school held a graduation ceremony in the auditorium, Yulan and Bai Li sat under the stage with their classmates and sang the graduation song of "outside the long pavilion, by the ancient road, and the grass is green", the beautiful melody echoed in the auditorium, which inspired some students to parting with sadness, and the beautiful campus life has since ended, everyone will run to a new life, some students will work, some students will farm, and some students will join the army to go to the frontier.

The principal of the school stepped forward and delivered a "Graduation Message" to all the graduates:

"Students: Congratulations on completing your high school studies and getting your graduation certificate, and I would like to congratulate you on behalf of all the faculty and staff!

From now on, everyone will leave the campus, go out into society, and devote themselves to the great cause of socialist construction. No matter what work you do in the future, whether you are a worker, a peasant, or a People's Liberation Army, you are all talents and pillars of our socialist construction period, and you must apply the knowledge you have learned on campus to the building of the ranks of workers, peasants and soldiers, add bricks and tiles to socialism, and live up to the hard work of your teachers for many years.

'There are many new people coming out of the country. A generation of romantic figures still looks at the present. All the faculty and staff look forward to all of you showing your talents in all walks of life, making contributions and bringing glory to your alma mater." The doors of the school are always open for you, and you are always welcome to come back to the school to have a look and talk with the teachers about your life aspirations. ”

Everyone applauded warmly, and then the homeroom teacher began to roll call, giving everyone a graduation certificate, and the students walked up to the stage one by one, received the bright red graduation certificate from the principal, and bowed deeply in the face of the principal's deep expectations. Yulan was the last to take the stage to receive her graduation certificate, and then delivered a graduation speech on behalf of all the students:

"Dear teachers and students, our campus life ends here, and our life begins here. First of all, on behalf of all the students, I would like to thank the teachers for their earnest teachings over the years, which have enabled us to learn knowledge, master culture, and clarify the direction of life.

For many years, when the day of graduation finally came, we felt that time had flown by. It is hard to forget the familiar campus, the classrooms where classes are held, and the classmates at the same table, let us cherish our youth and cherish the good times together, apply the knowledge we have learned, and serve the cause of socialist construction.

'The sea has a confidant, and the end of the world is like a neighbor. Let us devote ourselves to the construction of the motherland with full enthusiasm, strive to make new achievements in all walks of life, and repay the hard work of the teachers. ”

The students burst into loud applause again, and then the president announced the end of the graduation ceremony, and all the staff gathered outside the auditorium to take a group photo of the graduation. The students got up and picked up the stools and walked out of the auditorium, arranged the stools in front of the auditorium, and sat down in the order of the teachers sitting in the middle, the female students squatting in front, and the male students standing behind.

"Ready, everyone, one, two, three, click."

After taking the graduation portrait, the students took the stool and walked back to the classroom, solemnly put the stool back into the desk that will no longer sit from tomorrow, some students looked stunned, some students had tears in their eyes, several female students couldn't help but hug each other and cry, Yulan and Bai Li were also infected, the two of them clasped their hands, and their eyes were filled with tears. At this time, the head teacher came and asked Yulan and Bai Li to go to the principal's office. The two of them couldn't help but be stunned, they didn't know what the principal was looking for them, they guessed that they came to the principal's office hand in hand, and when they opened the door, they saw the principal and a male comrade sitting and talking, and when they saw them coming in, they hurriedly beckoned them over.

"This is the two classmates Yulan and Bai Li recommended by our school to your unit, who are excellent in character and learning, and have always performed well." The headmaster said to the gay man.

"Oh, I remember, this is the classmate who danced "Sing a Mountain Song to the Party" that year, and he performed so well." The gay man said.

"I was there at the time, and I was dancing in the back." Bai Li blurted out.

"Oh, is it? Would you like to come to work in our department store? The gay man asked.

"Ahh Going to work in a department store? Yulan and Bai Li were visibly taken aback, the news was too unexpected for them.

"That's right, our department store lacks tellers, especially female tellers who can plan to calculate." The gay man said.

"Then in this way, the two of us can be together every day without being separated." Bai Li jumped happily and said.

"Is there a difference between a department store and my cloth shop?" Magnolia asked timidly.

"Of course, your cloth shop only sells cloth, and the department store sells more things, your store is private, and the department store is a state-owned unit." The principal said to Magnolia.

"And when are we going to work?" Bai Li asked anxiously.

"You can go tomorrow, bring your graduation certificate and household registration booklet, and report to the office of the county commercial bureau." The gay man said.

After Yulan returned home, she told her parents about it, Lingzhi and Hong Shun also seemed very happy, Lingzhi was always worried that Yulan would choose to leave home to farm after graduating from high school, but she didn't expect the school to recommend Yulan to go to the department store, which is the most conspicuous unit in the ancient city, especially when it comes to the rush day, the department store will be surrounded by the crowd who come to buy things, at this time the salesperson has become the expectation in the eyes of everyone, and Lingzhi was born with a flower and moon appearance, standing on the counter, it is naturally a beautiful scenery. Hong Shun asked Yulan if she wanted to accompany her to the unit tomorrow to report for duty, Yulan quickly shirked and said that she wanted to go with Bai Li, they could find the unit, Hong Shun had to give up.

The next day, Yulan wore a plain dress and waited for Bai Li at home, Bai Li wore a big red dress, sang and danced all the way to Yulan's house, pulled up Yulan and walked out, the two passed Kichijoji, went down to the wharf, took a ferry to cross the river, walked up the stone steps, came to a three-story office building next to the government, the sign of the Commercial Bureau was hung in front of the door, after entering the gate, there was a one-meter-wide wooden staircase in the middle, the floor distribution map was pasted on the left wall, and the doorman sitting in the window on the right was in charge of sending and receiving, Seeing the two of them asking who they were looking for, Yulan and Bai Li stood and looked at the floor distribution map, and found the office of the County Commercial Bureau on the third floor, the two told the doorman that they were coming to report to the unit, and walked towards the staircase, just walked to the corner of the stairs, Bai Li accidentally bumped into a gay man who was coming downstairs, a stack of materials in the gayman's hand was scattered by Bai Li, and the data was scattered all over the ground, Bai Li panicked all of a sudden, Yulan quickly leaned down to help pick it up, only to see the gay man sigh at Bai Li, Then when he squatted down to pick it up, he happened to touch Yulan's hand, the two looked at each other, and suddenly the gay man was stunned by Yulan's delicate appearance, and he forgot to slide the information in his hand to the ground, Yulan was also attracted by the gay's handsome and simple appearance, and blushed shyly, and hurriedly lowered his head and handed him the information he picked up.

When Bai Li blushed and embarrassedly picked up the information at her feet and handed it to him, she was also attracted by his appearance, and said sorry again and again, and the male comrade said to the two of them after collecting all the information:

"You're new here, aren't you?"

"Yes, we are here to report today, my name is Bai Li, and her name is Yulan." Bai Li hurriedly said.

"Yulan, such a beautiful name, my name is Chen Gang."

"Isn't my name good?" Bai Li said mischievously.

"It's good, then you go upstairs first, I'm busy, and we'll see each other often in the future." After Chen Gang finished speaking, he looked at Yulan, turned around and walked downstairs.

Bai Li stood on the side of the stairs and looked at the background of Chen Gang's disappearance stupidly, and whispered to Yulan:

"Hey, do you see? There are also good-looking boys in department stores. ”

"You're not shy, aren't you?" Magnolia reached out and poked Bai Li's head, and the two ran upstairs with a smile and a happy smile.

According to the arrangement of the leaders of the unit, Yulan was divided into the fabric counter, and Bai Li was divided into the stationery counter, both of which were first brought by the master on the counter to familiarize themselves with the work process for a month, and then decided to go to the counter independently depending on their familiarity, and the two nodded frequently.

The lesbian on the fabric counter is surnamed Peng, in her fifties, with a fat body and a bold personality, showing a smiling face and two rows of white teeth all day long, always happy when receiving customers, everyone is used to calling her Aunt Peng. When Aunt Peng saw the beautiful Magnolia coming to join her for an internship, she was happy and happy, and pulled Yulan and asked enthusiastically:

"You're so beautiful, what's your name? Where do you live? ”

"My name is Hong Yulan, my family lives in Kichijoji, my father's name is Hong Shun, he works in the government, and my mother's name is Lingzhi, and she sells cloth to make clothes in the Hong's cloth shop she owns." Magnolia replied shyly.

"Oh, ouch, it turns out that you are a girl from the Lingzhi family, no wonder, I have seen you dance on stage." Aunt Peng said loudly.

"Aunt Peng, from today on, I am your apprentice, you can only tell me if you have any work, and if you don't understand or do not do well, please give me more advice." Yulan bowed deeply to Aunt Peng solemnly, and Aunt Peng hurriedly pulled her up.

"Look at what you said, your mother has been selling cloth for many years, and her experience is more than mine, you must learn it quickly, now I can relax." Aunt Peng said.

Yulan walked into the fabric counter while talking to Aunt Peng, Yulan looked around, walked to the corner of the house and picked up the basin and mop, and began to clean the counter.

"Aunt Peng, leave these things to me in the future, you just have to see where I haven't done a good job, just give me instructions." Magnolia said.

"Let you do it alone, I don't want to go." Aunt Peng said.

"Auntie is an elder, and it's nothing for me to do more as a junior." Magnolia said as she mopped the floor.

Aunt Peng couldn't twist Yulan, so she had to sit on the chair and watch Yulan clean up, then open the drawer and sort out the rulers, scissors, bills, pens, iron clips, etc. to be used one by one and prepare.

Bai Li stood outside the stationery counter and waited for a long time, only to see an old comrade wearing a dark blue old-fashioned Mao suit, with a hunched back, a pair of reading glasses on his face, and a newspaper in his hand.

"Buy things outside, you can't go in here."

"You are Master Wu, my name is Bai Li, and the leader asked me to intern with you." Bai Li introduced herself.

"Oh, why don't you say hello in advance? You go and close the door first. Master Wu put down the newspaper and said to Bai Li.

"Hey." Bai Li turned around and closed the door.

"What's your name?" Master Wu sat down and asked.

"Master Wu, my name is Bai Li, please give me a lot of advice." Bai Li said.

"Where can I talk about any advice? Just be smart. Master Wu said.

Bai Li was speechless for a while, and saw some pencils scattered on the counter, so she started to tidy up, who knew that as soon as it was tidied up, Master Wu came over and said that the wrong box was loaded, and then poured it out again and packed it separately, Bai Li watched from the side, and puffed out her lips gently.

When the door opens, Yulan because she has watched her mother sell cloth since she was a child, she is very familiar with the amount of cloth and the cloth, but it is rare to open and draw tickets, because the whole department store only has a cashier counter, which is located in the middle of all the containers, no matter which counter opens a good ticket, together with the money, it will be clamped with an iron clip, and then hang the thin wire on the head, slide hard, the iron clip will slide to the cashier counter with the bill, the cashier just reach out and take it down, check it with the abacus, and then use the pen to make a "√" on the bill, and then collect the money and change, and then clamped with the iron clip, slid back hard, and the sound of the iron clip scratching on the thin wire was heard from time to time in the whole store.

Yulan watched Aunt Peng's every move seriously, and handed Aunt Peng rulers, scissors, etc. from time to time, making Aunt Peng more handy, and Yulan quickly became familiar with the operation process of the work, when Aunt Peng went to the toilet conveniently, Yulan worked independently, and when Aunt Peng came back, Yulan took the bill to Aunt Peng for a look, and Aunt Peng re-used the abacus to calculate correctly, and nodded approvingly.

The stationery counter is often the counter that students patronize the most, often a group of students, around the counter looking at the various pens, ink, paper, fingers and pointing, Bai Li and Master Wu are sometimes too busy to greet them, Bai Li is not familiar with the price of all kinds of stationery, looking at the various prices densely pasted in the cabinet, always inaccurate, afraid of mistakes, had to ask Master Wu from time to time, Master Wu had to run back and forth at both ends, tired and out of breath.

"Master Wu, why don't we rearrange this item and write the price a little bigger, so that the students can see it clearly at a glance, so that they don't keep asking." Bai Li said.

"You put it lightly, how long does it take to put so many goods back on the table? Unless you don't buy goods, how can you have time to send you slowly? After Master Wu finished speaking, he turned around and went to work.

Bai Li sighed, admitting that she was unlucky, thinking about how the leader would arrange for her to talk to this Master Wu, without speculating for more than half a sentence, no matter what she did, she would not be able to meet his wishes.

After getting off work, Bai Li came to the Yulan counter and waited for Yulan to go home together, Yulan cleaned up with Aunt Peng, and said goodbye to Aunt Peng before coming out.

"How? Are you still adjusting to going to work today? Yulan asked Bai Li with a smile.

"Adapt? Don't talk about it, I'm so unlucky that I met an old man with a strange temper. Bai Li said angrily.

"What's going on?" Magnolia asked in surprise.

Bai Li told Yulan all the unhappiness, Yulan hurriedly persuaded her to dissipate her anger and comfort her to take her time, as long as she was willing to study seriously, maybe after a long time, Master Wu would slowly change his attitude towards her, Bai Li didn't say anything, and the two walked to the door of Yulan's house before parting.

"How? Are you busy going to work in a department store? Hong Shun asked with concern when he saw Yulan.

"It's all Aunt Peng doing it today, I'm just watching from the sidelines, I'm not busy." Magnolia picked up the cup and took a sip of water and said.

"You've been watching me sell cloth in our own store for so many years, it shouldn't be difficult for you." Lingzhi said.

"It's nothing to sell cloth, it's just that it's interesting to open and draw tickets, and I hear the sound of noise all day long." Magnolia said as she made movements to show them both.

"This is a state-run store, and collecting money is not as simple and direct as ours, and after a period of time, the door will be closed for a few days to take inventory." Lingzhi said with a smile.

"Aunt Peng, the master who took me, is very fat, and she is a good person, and she is smiling all day long. Bai Li followed a Master Wu, saying that he had a strange temper, which made Bai Li depressed. Magnolia said.

"There are many people in department stores, there are people of all kinds of personalities, you only go, you must learn from the old comrades with an open mind, and you must be diligent in your hands and feet, so that others are willing to take you, and you must not lose your temper. You can persuade Bai Li well. Hong Shun said cautiously.

"Well, okay. Dad, don't worry, I won't disgrace you. Magnolia nodded.

The next day, Yulan and Bai Li went to the department store early in the morning, while Aunt Peng had not come, Yulan cleaned up as usual, Bai Li saw Yulan so diligent at the stationery counter, so she also found a mop to learn to do, cleaned up the stationery counter inside and out, and deliberately took Master Wu's teacup to rinse it, wiped it dry and still put it back in place, tried the thermos, carried it to the boiling water room to fill it with boiling water and brought it back, and when Master Wu came, he took the initiative to make tea for him, Master Wu saw that Bai Li was so enthusiastic, lost a little stereotype, her attitude eased a little, and Bai Li's mood also became more relaxed.

At this time, a male comrade came over with a stack of bills, Bai Li looked up and saw that it was Chen Gang, she was very surprised, and hurriedly waved her hand and greeted:

"Hi, hello, is there something wrong?"

"It's you, I'm here to match Master Wu. Are you at this counter? Chen Gang asked.

"Yes." Bai Li nodded in agreement.

"Then you need to learn more from Master Wu. By the way, where is that classmate of yours? Chen Gang continued to ask.

"No, on the other side of the fabric cabinet." Bai Li craned her neck and gestured.

Chen Gang turned around and looked over, and saw that Yulan was sorting out the fabrics with Aunt Peng, and wanted to walk over immediately, but suddenly thought that he had not yet checked the goods with Master Wu, so he quickly stopped his steps, took out the bill of goods from the stationery cabinet in his hand, handed it to Master Wu and said:

"Master Wu, do you see what goods you are going to buy this month?"

"It's mostly pencils and exercise books, which students use a lot more when they start school." Master Wu took the bill of goods and said while scratching the list.

"Okay, nothing else? That's it. Chen Gang put away the bill and turned around, and then walked towards Yulan.

Bai Li has been looking at Chen Gang intently, looking at him from a distance and walking over, with a reluctant look on his face, at this time someone came to buy a ballpoint pen, called her a few times and didn't hear it, until Master Wu came over and knocked on the counter with his hand, Bai Li came back to her senses, quickly took out a box of ballpoint pens from the cabinet and put it on the counter, selected by the customer, his eyes still looked at the Yulan side from time to time, Master Wu saw her like this, simply received the customer by himself, and helped the customer choose.

Chen Gang walked straight to the fabric counter, and when Aunt Peng saw him, she greeted with a smile:

"Xiao Chen, it's time for the right goods again, and you can't go to the Three Treasures Hall if you have nothing to do."

"Aunt Peng, I'm still satisfied with this new apprentice, I see that your mouth is smiling." Chen Gang quipped.

"Of course, the Yulan family itself sells cloth, and I can get started quickly, so I can worry a lot. Hahaha. Aunt Peng said with a smile.

Although Chen Gang was talking to Aunt Peng, his eyes looked at Yulan from time to time, and when the two looked at each other, Yulan was so ashamed that Yulan quickly lowered her head and rubbed the corners of the fabric with both hands. Seeing this, Chen Gang smiled and took out the manifest from his hand and handed it to Aunt Peng and said:

"Aunt Peng, what are you going to buy this month?"

"I want to buy some thinner and breathable fabrics, but every time the goods arrive late, when the goods arrive, the weather will become cooler, and I can't sell them and put a backlog down." Aunt Peng said.

"If you have a long turnaround time, let's get some autumn fabrics." Magnolia said tentatively.

"Hey, I want to ask, is your mother's stock fast?" Aunt Peng said casually.

"My mother's side is a small shop, where can it be compared to here, my mother fills the warehouse every time she buys, and then sells it slowly." Magnolia said.

"Your mother makes good clothes, and when the fabric comes to her, she can make beautiful clothes." Chen Gang couldn't help but say.

"I think according to what Magnolia said, let's bring in some autumn fabrics." Aunt Peng marked it on the manifest and handed it to Chen Gang.

"Okay, then I'll go back and summarize it." Chen Gang took the manifest, glanced at Yulan again, nodded, and then walked towards the back door.

"Hey, Yulan, I think Xiao Chen seems to be a little interesting to you." Aunt Peng whispered with a smile.

"What do you mean?" Magnolia asked shyly.

"As soon as he came over, he was talking to me in the open, but in fact, he kept looking at you secretly, how could that demeanor hide from me." Aunt Peng said.

"Aunt Peng, are you joking?" Magnolia smiled shyly.

"Don't be embarrassed, you two have to stand together, you are really talented and beautiful, or I will help you test him one day." Aunt Peng continued.

Yulan turned around and walked away to sort out the other fabrics, Aunt Peng smiled to herself, turned around and picked up the teacup and took a sip of water.

A month later, Yulan is very familiar with the workflow of the fabric counter, and can be on duty alone for the entire counter, which makes Aunt Peng a lot easier, especially when the customer chooses the left side of the fabric and hesitates, Yulan will be very patient and serious to the customer as a counselor, asking about the purpose of buying fabric, how old the person is to wear, whether it is male or female, etc., when the customer does not know how many feet of cloth to buy to make a dress, Yulan will make reasonable suggestions according to the object described by the customer, Let the customer happily agree to buy cloth according to what she said, Magnolia skillfully and fluently started to calculate the account, the open bill together with the wallet, "swish" a beautiful action, the bill and money slid along the wire to the cashier, the cashier reviewed the order to make change, and "swish" back at once, the whole process is fast and smooth, there has never been any error, won the unanimous praise of the company's employees and customers. Aunt Peng praised Yulan for being beautiful and smart, and hated that she had no son in this life, otherwise she would marry Yulan home as her daughter-in-law. Yulan had long been accustomed to Aunt Peng's chatter, and she didn't say anything, just smiled.

And Bai Li often can't remember the price of all kinds of stationery in the stationery cabinet, sometimes Zhang Guan Li Dai, was found by Master Wu to correct many times, at the beginning Master Wu was more patient to teach her how to remember the price of various items, but seeing that she frequently made mistakes, she had to shake her head and give up, when there were few customers and not many things to buy, Bai Li was still able to deal with it, once the customers came more, Master Wu did not dare to take it lightly, and arranged Bai Li to be responsible for invoicing, and told her the items, unit price, total, etc., Bai Li just opened the ticket according to Master Wu's dictation, and clamped it together with the money paid by the customer, but when the iron clip was sliding, the force was insufficient or it was not hung up, and the iron clip only slipped halfway and did not move, so Master Wu had to walk out of the counter and use a bamboo pole to pull the iron clip halfway through, which delayed the customer for a long time.

"It takes half a day to buy a pen, little comrade, come down and practice hard." The customer said unhappily.

"I didn't mean to, who doesn't want to hurry." Bai Li said angrily.

"Hey, what's your attitude? As if you had a point. The customer couldn't help but say loudly.

"Isn't it just a delay, is it worth your shouting like this?" Bai Li also raised her voice and said.

"Find your leaders to judge." The customer shouted angrily.

Master Wu hurriedly ran back from the cashier with the bill and change, handed the pen bought by the customer to the customer, and at the same time persuaded him, turned his head to Bai Li from time to time, asking her to talk less, Bai Li turned around and walked towards the corner of the counter, after Master Wu sent the customer away, he turned around and said to Bai Li:

"When the salesperson is enthusiastic and patient with the customer, like you, you will quarrel with the customer at every turn, who will buy you something in the future, the thing can't be bought, and our sales target will not be completed. You're too careless to do things. ”

"Master Wu, I was wrong." Bai Li said in a low voice.

"It's good to know that you're wrong, you have to practice a little skill as a salesperson, you have quick eyes, quick hands, and careful heart, you look at your classmate, how good they are." Master Wu pointed to Magnolia and said to Bai Li.

Bai Li looked up at Yulan, Yulan was skillfully pulling the cloth and sliding the account, completely ignoring the scene of Bai Li quarreling with the customer just now, Bai Li stood up, hung up the iron clip seriously, and swiped towards the cashier when there was no one, the iron clip stopped steadily on the cashier, and the cashier who was burying his head in counting the money heard the sound of the iron clip rowing over, and habitually reached out to get it, but found that it was empty, looked around and shouted:

"Who's paddling the empty clip?"

"I'm sorry, it's me, I'm learning to practice." Bai Li hurriedly replied.

"I'm busy right now, so I don't have time to practice with you." After the cashier finished speaking, he buried his head and continued to count the money.

Bai Li walked over angrily, took the iron clip and swiped it hard, the iron clip returned to the stationery cabinet, and Bai Li repeatedly stroked the iron clip back and forth alone. When Yulan was a little free, she looked up and saw Bai Li coming over like this, and greeted her with a smile:

"Very good, let's take a break."

"I don't believe I can't draw this iron clip." Bai Li said, and after taking care of herself for a while, she didn't stop until Master Wu beckoned her to enter the cabinet.

After getting off work, Yulan walked home with Bai Li, and Yulan saw that Bai Li was not in a good mood, so she asked with concern:

"Are you still at odds with Master Wu?"

"That's not it, in fact, Master Wu is very good. Alas, I don't think I'm a salesperson, and if my mother hadn't persuaded me to come, I'd rather go farming. Bai Li said with a sigh.

"Look at what you said nicely, if you really go to the countryside to farm, I'm afraid you won't be able to endure that hardship." Magnolia said with a smile.

"You don't know, the price of those bits and pieces of stationery makes my head really big, I don't know if there is any other work to do in the department store, I want to find the leader to change it for me." Bai Li said.

"We've only been here for a short time, so I'm going to go to the leader to make a request, I'm afraid it's not good." Magnolia said hesitantly.

"Then let's wait and see." Bai Li said.

One morning, after Yulan cleaned the inside and outside of the counter, she still didn't see Aunt Peng coming, and was thinking about it, when she saw Chen Gang hurriedly come and say:

"Yulan, Aunt Peng can't come today, she is sick and has asked for leave, you may have to be on duty alone today, I will go and tell the company leaders."

"Huh? Aunt Peng is sick, is it serious? Magnolia asked in surprise.

"It's a cold and flu, and I'm old, not like young people can bear it. Hey, can you do it alone? Chen Gang asked with concern.

"It's okay, don't worry." Magnolia smiled and agreed.

"If you are really busy, I will tell the leader to come and help you." Chen Gang said kindly.

Yulan looked at Chen Gang's concerned eyes, lowered her head shyly, and stroked her hair with her hand casually, that subtle and coquettish demeanor made Chen Gang can't help it, until a customer came to pick up the fabric, Chen Gang just turned and left.

After a while, Chen Gang accompanied the two leaders of the company to the fabric counter, and the leader told Yulan that from today onwards, it was decided to let her be on duty at the fabric counter independently, and Aunt Peng would be adjusted to the company's financial office after she recovered from her illness. The leader encouraged Yulan to continue to work hard and not to live up to the company's expectations, Yulan nodded solemnly, Chen Gang also cast an approving look at her, and the salespeople and cashiers at other counters saw the company's leaders praising Yulan on their counters, and they all praised Yulan for her solid work.

Then the leaders walked straight to the stationery counter, Master Wu hurriedly greeted him, and Bai Li followed closely.

"Hello leaders." Master Wu said with a smile.

"Old Wu, is your body okay?" A leader asked.

"Thank you for the leaders' concern, it's okay." Master Wu replied.

"You have to pass on your good experience to young people, you can't keep it." Another leader said with a smile.

"Don't worry, I will." Master Wu said.

"This is the new Bai Li?" The leader asked.

"Good leader, I'm Bai Li." Bai Li hurriedly replied.

"Young people can calm down and learn from the old comrades, treat customers patiently, can not quarrel with customers, you salespeople stand on the counter, on behalf of the image of our department store, department stores are for the majority of customers to serve, to be sincere, careful and patient, to use a smile service to infect every customer. According to the company's regulations, the internship period will be extended for you for one month, and I hope that you will strengthen your business learning and strive to be on duty independently at the counter as soon as possible like Magnolia. The leader said earnestly to Bai Li.

Bai Li kept her head down, biting her lip, intertwining her hands and twisting her hands to listen to the leader's speech, and nodded silently after the leader turned around and walked away, only to look up and see that all the people in the store were looking at herself at this time, Chen Gang was also looking at herself, and felt uncomfortable for a while, so she turned around, turned her back to everyone, closed her lips, and didn't say a word. Yulan wanted to come over to comfort her, but because Aunt Peng was not there, she couldn't leave the counter, so she had to look at Bai Li's back from a distance. Master Wu knew that Bai Li was unhappy, so he softly called her to the corner of the counter and persuaded her:

"It's normal for leaders to criticize, don't be angry because you are criticized, do what you should do, and use more snacks in your work in the future to reduce the difference."

"I see, Master Wu." Bai Li said in a low voice.

After getting off work, Yulan cleaned up the counter, locked the drawers, uncovered the aisle board, and walked to Bai Li's side, Master Wu knew that Yulan was here to invite Bai Li to go home from work, so he said to Bai Li:

"You and Yulan go first, I'll clean it up."

Bai Li didn't say anything, put down the things in her hand and walked out, Yulan pulled her, and the two walked out of the door together, and after coming to the street, Bai Li let out a long breath and said:

"It's the first time I've grown so big and been criticized in front of so many people."

"It's all over, you want to drive some." Magnolia persuaded her.

"Yulan, I'll just tell you, I really don't want to come to the white goods company, it's all my mother's fault, when the department store went to the school to recruit people, it asked for a beautiful, excellent character and learning, and the school recommended you, after my mother knew, she came to the door to find someone to intercede, and she insisted on sharing me with you. For my mother's sake, I can't go against her will. Actually, I made up my mind to go to the countryside to farm, and I thought that was the right place for me, in the wilderness on all sides, uninhibited, and free from my mother's nagging all day long. Bai Li said to Magnolia.

"Really? But if you really go to the countryside, will you be able to endure all those hardships? I think it's good for us to be together. If you really don't like the stationery cabinet, find a leader to change it another day. You see, Aunt Peng will be transferred to the finance room. Magnolia said.

"The leader asked me to strengthen my business learning, and he wouldn't change it for me, unless it was ......" Bai Li wanted to stop talking.

"Unless what?" Magnolia asked anxiously.

"Unless I'm transferred to join you in the fabric cabinet, will you want me?" Bai Li asked.

"Look at what you said, as long as the leader agrees, how dare I not?" Magnolia said with disgust.

"I believe that. Alas, it's just that today I was so embarrassed for Chen Gang to see me being criticized. Bai Li said as she walked.

"Why are you still thinking about this at this time? Forget all the unpleasantness of today, and from tomorrow, it will be a new starting point. Magnolia encouraged Bai Li and said.

"Well, yes, start again tomorrow, with you with me, I don't believe it can't be done." Bai Li regained her confidence and said.

"That's right, this is the Bai Li I know." Magnolia said with relief.

Since then, Bai Li has indeed changed, carefully memorized the prices and placement requirements of various stationery in the counter, and simply took a small notebook to write down the ones that are not easy to remember, and her attitude towards customers has also changed.

One day, Master Wu asked for leave due to ill health, Bai Li was on duty at the stationery counter alone, a group of primary school students wearing red scarves, went out to work and came back, and poured into the stationery counter of the department store together, lying on the counter and looking at the stationery in the counter chattering non-stop, so busy that Bai Li would run here and there for a while, just open a ticket to the students here, and the students over there were shouting, so Bai Li took the money and put it on the iron clip, and crossed it towards the cash register, when the cashier reached out and took off the iron clip, Seeing only the money but not the ticket issued, he cried out:

"Which counter transferred the money?"

Bai Li was busy introducing various pens to the elementary school students, and she didn't hear the cashier shouting, until the elementary school student who opened the money reminded her that she remembered.

"Ah, it's the money I transferred, I forgot to clip the ticket, please scratch the clip." Bai Li shouted to the cashier.

"You haven't heard you shouting for so long? Really, it's not your own money that doesn't take it seriously. The cashier said angrily.

"I have so many students here picking things, and you don't see it." Bai Li braided.

"I'm paddling by myself, I'm not free." The cashier said.

Bai Li wanted to say something, but after thinking about it, she endured it again, and told the student who opened the money to look at the other classmates for her, and then walked out of the counter and ran to the cashier, stretched out her hand and slashed the iron clip back, turned her face to the cashier and walked away with a fierce "hum".

"What are you humming? I am negligent and want to blame others. Not to be outdone, the cashier said.

"What's so great about you, aren't you just a money counter? What's the spirit? Bai Li finally couldn't help but burst out, turned around and yelled at the cashier.

The two quarreled loudly in front of the cash register, attracting other salespeople and customers to watch, Yulan called Bai Li at the fabric counter, but Bai Li couldn't hear it at all, fortunately Aunt Peng came over, and persuaded Bai Li to return to the stationery cabinet, and the students who bought things were also stunned by this sudden scene, after Aunt Peng gave the elementary school student who opened the money to take the pen and change, the students left slowly, Bai Li sat at the counter and hummed, Aunt Peng persuaded her for a while before walking away.

Soon after, Bai Li was transferred out of the stationery cabinet and transferred to the company's warehouse as a custodian.

One day Chen Gang came to check the goods with Bai Li, and when he saw her lazy and heartless, he couldn't help but feel pity, and took her around the warehouse, and after counting the mountains of inventory one by one, the two sides signed the manifest, Chen Gang was not in a hurry to walk away, but tried to chat with her.

"Look at your listless appearance, and you are like two people when you first came to the department store, why are you so negative? How old are you? Cheer up. Chen Gang persuaded Bai Li.

"I know that the whole department store looks down on me and doesn't want to associate with me, and I was sent to the warehouse to fill the army." Bai Li said angrily.

"The people in the company don't look down on you, it's you who think like this, even if everyone ignores you, Yulan won't ignore you." Chen Gang said.

"I'm embarrassed to see Yulan, and I don't want her to be pointed at by others because of me." Bai Li said.

"With all due respect, you are just too caught up sometimes. People make mistakes sometimes, and after this time, I believe that you will be transformed, and you must have faith and determination. Chen Gang persuaded.

"Thank you for caring for me like this." Bai Li was grateful.

Looking at Chen Gang's distant back, Bai Li saw a glimmer of hope in the boundless gloom, thinking that she would get such care from Chen Gang when she was so lonely, tears flowed unconsciously.

Later, because Chen Gang was in charge of the purchase of goods in the department store, he had to check the goods in the warehouse with Bai Li every once in a while, Bai Li was also happy to be able to get along with Chen Gang alone, and took the initiative to find a topic to chat with Chen Gang every time, Chen Gang saw that Bai Li's mental state was getting better and better, and she was no longer as depressed as in the past, and she was very happy for her change. It's always unbearable to be separated from Chen Gang.

Bai Li saw that Chen Gang did not have a trace of disgust for herself, and felt that it was rare to meet Chen Gang in the department store of Nuoda who could still treat herself as a friend, so she cherished every time she got along with Chen Gang, and humbly asked Chen Gang for advice on the methods and skills of keeping the warehouse. Everything is in order in the warehouse, all kinds of goods are stacked in a standardized manner, once Chen Gang also took the leader to the warehouse to inspect it, and the leader expressed satisfaction with Bai Li's work, which made Bai Li even more grateful for Chen Gang's selfless help.

After Yulan went out early and returned late every day, after returning home, she felt that the bones in her whole body seemed to be falling apart, which made Hong Shun and Lingzhi feel distressed, Hong Shun jokingly teased her that she should not go to work in the department store, rather than being so tired, it is better to go back to her own cloth store to do it, so that she is protected by her mother, and she is not tired.

"How's that going to work? I can't let you protect me for the rest of my life, can I? Department store leaders and colleagues value me, and I can't afford to lose face. Magnolia said as she ate.

"You, like your mother, are so strong." Hong Shun said.

"Really? But I think she's as submissive as you. Lingzhi said with a smile.

"Hey, dad and mom, let me tell you, our department store counter is going to evaluate the mobile red flag bearer, and everyone is optimistic about me." Magnolia said proudly.

"Really? Our daughter is promising. Well done. Hong Shun praised.

"What about Bai Li?" Lingzhi asked.

"She? I quarreled with the cashier at work, and I was transferred to the warehouse as a custodian. Magnolia lowered her voice for a moment.

"Huh? Is that so? Lingzhi worried.

"However, she did a good job in the warehouse, and the leader praised her last time." Magnolia said.

"Alas, Bai Li's child is actually good, but he can't calm down." Lingzhi said.

"If she keeps doing a good job, maybe the leader will transfer her back, and Master Wu on the stationery cabinet is not in good health." Magnolia said.

"And do you still play together a lot?" Hong Shun asked.

"It's rare to be together during this time, because I have to tidy up the counter before I get off work, and by the time I go to find her after tidying up, she's already home from work." Magnolia replied.

"You're not going to be estranged from each other, are you?" Lingzhi asked.

"How so? The employees in the department store know that we are good friends who work together. Magnolia said with a smile.

After a month of sales evaluation, plus customer voting, the fabric counter where Magnolia is located really lived up to expectations, won the first place in sales and customer voting, the leaders of the department store personally came to the counter of Magnolia to hang the small pennant of "mobile red flag hand", and congratulated her, everyone also sincerely praised Magnolia for deserving the name, and Magnolia bowed to everyone again and again to express gratitude.

On this day, Chen Gang came to the warehouse to check the goods with Bai Li, the two of them counted while walking, and when they walked to a pile of wooden cabinets, Bai Li saw that one corner of the canvas covering the wooden cabinets was lifted by the wind, Bai Li found a chair and wanted to stand up, but was stopped by Chen Gang.

"I'll do it anyway." Chen Gang said.

"No, I can." Bai Li pushed Chen Gang away, stood up by herself, stretched out her hand to grab the corner of the canvas, and pulled it hard to cover the wooden cabinet, who knew that her feet were not steady, and the whole person fell sideways, Chen Gang saw it, and hurriedly stepped forward to help Bai Li, and Bai Li fell into Chen Gang's arms.

Bai Li was frightened at first after she fell down, but after being caught by Chen Gang, she looked shy, and then she hugged Chen Gang tightly with both hands, staring at Chen Gang with a pair of hot and eager eyes, full of girlish love. Chen Gang was worried that Bai Li would fall, so he hurriedly reached out to hug her, but he didn't expect Bai Li to hug her tightly with both hands, and stared at himself tightly with affectionate eyes in his eyes, Chen Gang panicked, and quickly twisted his head to the side and didn't dare to look directly at Bai Li, and then pushed Bai Li away hard, and said in a hurry:

"Don't be like this, it's not good for people to see it."

"There's no one here." Bai Lijiao said angrily.

"Don't, don't, don't, let's keep the relationship between colleagues better." Chen Gang said.

"Don't you like me?" Bai Li asked stupidly.

"I, I, that's not what I mean, don't think about it." Chen Gang picked up the manifest as he spoke, turned around and walked out of the warehouse, leaving Bai Li at a loss.

Later, when Chen Gang came to the warehouse to check the time of the goods with Bai Li, he was stunned, and he came over several times, and when he saw Bai Li's infatuated eyes staring at him tightly, Chen Gang always dodged, perfunctory Bai Li, and left quickly after the inventory. But Bai Li was not discouraged, thinking that Chen Gang was still hesitating, thinking that as long as he was sincere, he would impress Chen Gang, so he didn't mind Chen Gang's dodging, and every time he saw Chen Gang, he was as enthusiastic as ever, often finding various excuses to keep Chen Gang, and trying his best to stay with him for a while.

On this day, several large truckloads of goods came in the department store, and after the driver stopped the truck, he pulled out the car keys, closed the door, and several people invited them to find a place to rest. Bai Li instructed the porter to unload the goods on the truck in the designated place in the warehouse, and then moved a chair to sit down at the door of the warehouse, holding the tea jar while drinking tea while watching the porter unload, knowing that at this time Chen Gang would definitely come over to check the list with her, so he looked outside from time to time, but Chen Gang was never seen, and after the porters finished unloading, they stood together and shook off the dust on their bodies, and patted each other with cushion cloth from time to time, one of the porters came over and handed over a triplet of the purchase list to Bai Li, Asked her to count the goods unloaded in the warehouse, Bai Li only thought about why Chen Gang didn't come to the warehouse yet, so she casually clicked and signed it, tore off one copy and returned it to the porter, and the other two were placed on the container, and the porter took the manifest and left the warehouse with the others.

Bai Li picked up the teapot and looked outside while drinking tea, and found that there was no water in the teatank, so she turned around and walked towards the boiling water room, a gust of wind blew, and Bai Li's manifest on the cargo box in the warehouse was blown away and floated into the corner full of goods.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time, why are you here now?" Bai Li asked when she saw Chen Gang.

"I should have come earlier, but there was a delay in the finance room." Chen Gang hurriedly explained.

"I know you're definitely coming, so I haven't closed the warehouse door, let's go, order the goods." Bai Li said.

Chen Gang followed Bai Li into the warehouse and walked towards the goods that had just been unloaded, Chen Gang said to Bai Li as he walked:

"You bring me the manifest first, and we'll count it while we look at it."

"Okay." Bai Li readily agreed, and ran towards the container where the manifest was placed just now.

"Hey, I just left it here, why is it gone?" Bai Li said in surprise.

Chen Gang stood on the other side and saw Bai Li looking for it back and forth around the cargo box, and suddenly became puzzled, so he followed over and asked:

"What's wrong?"

"I obviously put it here just now, so I went to get some boiling water, and there is no one else here, why is it gone?" Bai Li shouted.

"Are you sure you put it here? Am you not mistaken? Chen Gang asked.

"It's here, absolutely." Bai Li said.

"Did you take something and put it on the list?" Chen Gang asked.

"Oh, no." Bai Li realized her negligence, and lowered her head in embarrassment for a moment and replied.

"Well, I said you, why are you so careless. Let's look again. Chen Gang said with a sigh.

The two of them separated and began to look around the cargo box, and reached out to find the slits, corners, gaps and other places, and after looking for a while, they still didn't find it.

"What to do? Chen Gang. Bai Li began to get anxious.

"This time there are a lot of purchases and a lot of variety, and it can't be recorded without a list." Chen Gang said.

Bai Li squatted on the ground with a dejected look, thinking to herself that she must be finished this time, Chen Gang leaned over and still looked for it with a glimmer of hope, and the stack of goods in his hand slid to the ground.

"If you don't think so, use the new goods list in your hand to write a new copy against the new goods in the warehouse." Bai Li said to Chen Gang.

"How's that going to work? Let the leader know that we are making a mistake. Chen Gang said cautiously.

"Just help me, there's no one here, no one will know." Bai Li begged Chen Gang hard.

"It's not that I won't help you, it's that I can't let you make mistakes." Chen Gang refused.

"You? I didn't expect you to be such a hard-hearted person, count me as sentimental. Hum. Bai Li stood up and said angrily.

"I advise you to take the initiative to make it clear to the leader, and I can accompany you." Chen Gang said.

"I don't need you to pretend to be merciful, I will take care of my own affairs." Bai Li left without looking back.

A week later, the department store held a staff meeting, Yulan sat with Bai Li, listened to the company's leaders make speeches, the leaders commented on the operation of the department store in recent times, praised Yulan's achievements in the work, and then reported Bai Li's loss of the warehouse goods list incident, and criticized by name, Yulan looked at Bai Li regretfully, saw Bai Li's indifferent expression, it was not good to say anything to her, and finally the company leaders arranged the next step of the work before announcing the meeting.

The employees got up and walked out of the venue one after another, and when some passed by Bai Li, they didn't forget to turn their heads to look at her, and then walked away softly. Bai Li sat without saying a word, letting everyone point fingers, Yulan knew that Bai Li was uncomfortable, so she sat with her, and only after the employees had left, did she try to pull her sleeve.

"Let's go." Magnolia said.

Bai Li stood up and let Yulan pull her out of the venue and into the street.

"It's all over, be more careful in the future." Magnolia said softly.

"I didn't mean to, who would have thought that I would be punished like this." Bai Li said aggrievedly.

"If such a large bill of goods is lost, the country and the unit will suffer. My mother often warned me that at the counter, bills, money, and goods must be 'three clear', which is the foundation of doing business. Magnolia said as she walked.

"I envy you, you are good-looking, and your parents feel so sorry for you." Bai Li hadn't finished speaking, but suddenly stopped, it turned out that she saw Chen Gang walking towards her, and she felt embarrassed for a while, and turned her face to the side one by one. Chen Gang didn't mind seeing Bai Li like this, and greeted them with a smile:

"Are you going home?"

"Where else can I go if I don't go home?" Bai Li pouted and said, but Yulan pulled the corner of her clothes to stop her.

"Let's go home, what about you?" Yulan asked Chen Gangdao.

"I'm going to go to the Commerce Bureau. It's so hot this day, why don't I treat you to a bowl of cold noodles first. Chen Gang said.

Yulan looked at Bai Li with a smile, and saw that Bai Li did not object, so the three of them walked to the street side of the cold powder stall and sat down around the table, Chen Gang ordered three bowls of cold noodles, and said to them while eating:

"Bai Li asked me to give a replenishment order that day, and I was wrong, I should have accompanied you to look around again, but I was too busy doing my own thing and neglected it."

"It's my fault, I don't care about you." Bai Li said.

"The two of you came to the department store together, and you are classmates, so you two will help each other more in the future. I also only joined the work two years before you, my family is in the countryside, my parents let the landlord die before the liberation, after the liberation of the government sent me to the city to finish studying, and arranged to work in a department store, so I cherish the current work and life, I hope we all have to be like Comrade Lei Feng, put our limited lives into unlimited service to the people. Chen Gang said with emotion.

Yulan and Bai Li were moved by Chen Gang's words, their eyes were full of admiration for him, and they forgot to eat cold noodles.

"You eat slowly, I still have to go beforehand, and we will communicate more when we have time in the future."

Yulan picked up the materials he put on the table and handed them to him, Chen Gang took it with a comfortable smile, Yulan blushed all of a sudden, Chen Gang turned to leave, Yulan looked at his back stupidly, all this was seen by Bai Li, and her heart was like knocking over the five-flavor bottle, and she kept stirring the cold powder with a soup spoon.

A year later, Yulan was selected as the outstanding employee of the year because of her hard work, and was elected as the secretary of the Youth League branch of the department store, Chen Gang was also elected as a member of the Youth League branch, and the two often organized meetings and activities for the young people of the department store together.

In order to organize the young people in the department store to celebrate the "May Fourth" Youth Day, Yulan first called a meeting of the members of the group branch to listen to everyone's opinions and suggestions on the Youth Day activities.

"Youth Day is a festival for our young people, I think it is meaningful to live, Taiguo just arranges to play is not much fun, I suggest that in the morning we organize everyone to go to the martyrs' cemetery to lay wreaths, lead the new youth to take the oath, and then plant trees in the martyrs' cemetery, return to the company in the afternoon after the conference room is arranged, and invite all the leaders and employees of the company to participate in the party in the evening. Do you think that's okay? ”

As soon as Chen Gang finished speaking, everyone applauded in approval, and Yulan sincerely admired Chen Gang's thoughtfulness and meticulousness, so she arranged the matters in the activity to each committee member one by one according to Chen Gang's proposal, and everyone went back to prepare separately.

On the way home, Yulan was still discussing the specific matters of tomorrow's event with Chen Gang, when a cool breeze blew, Yulan couldn't help but shiver, and Chen Gang hurriedly took off her coat and put it on her.

"You're not cold?" Magnolia asked with concern.

"It's okay, I'm fine." Chen Gang said.

"During this time, Bai Li didn't pay much attention to me, and always hid away when she saw me, I don't know why?" Magnolia said.

"She's too careless, and the two of you are so different." Chen Gang didn't want to tell Yulan about Tong Bai Li in the warehouse.

"But I've known her since I was in the first grade, we grew up studying together, and I don't want to lose her as a good friend." Magnolia said thoughtfully.

"You are now the branch secretary, take the initiative to communicate with her at work, and talk to her more when you have activities tomorrow." Chen Gang persuaded.

"Okay. You're always very careful about things, and you're much better than me. Magnolia praised.

"Where, you're the secretary of the League I worship." Chen Gang grimaced as he spoke.

When Yulan saw it, she smiled and wanted to reach out to hit him, Chen Gang turned around and ran away, and did strange things while running, causing Yulan to chase him with a smile and a trot, and soon arrived at the door of Yulan's house, Chen Gang stopped, Yulan handed him back the clothes he was wearing and told him to be careful on the way back. Chen Gang took the clothes and watched Yulan push the door into the house before turning around and returning to his residence.

The next day, the young people in the department store lined up, the leading young man held high the team flag, the young man who walked in front held a wreath, and the rest of the employees carried shovels, some held saplings, and walked towards the martyr's cemetery under the organization of Magnolia. When Yulan saw it, she took the initiative to stop and wait for Bai Li to come to her and walk side by side with her.

"Why are you always so unmotivated? Let's come out and have fun today, okay? Yulan persuaded Bai Li.

"As you can see, everyone looks down on me now, and I don't want to make everyone unhappy." Bai Li said.

"Look at what you said, everyone doesn't look down on you, but you don't look down on yourself." Magnolia said.

"That's it for now." Bai Li said.

"Bai Li, the two of us have been good friends for so many years, looking back on the past, it was you who took me to play everywhere, no matter what you encountered, you rushed to the front to protect me, and I will remember you for the rest of my life." Magnolia said.

"Yulan, I know that you treat me sincerely, but I blame myself for being unlucky, and I have made mistakes again and again, and I am afraid that I will affect you because of me." Bai Li said.

"Don't think so, in my heart, you'll always be my best friend, won't you?" Magnolia said to Bai Li.

Bai Li was ashamed of Yulan's sincerity, so she took the initiative to take Yulan's arm and walked forward with her.

After arriving at the martyr's cemetery, the young man holding the flag leaned the flag against the tombstone, and went to find a convenient place, the young man holding the wreath respectfully offered the wreath in front of the tombstone, Yulan commanded everyone to line up in order, ready to take the oath of joining the group, suddenly the flagpole behind Yulan fell over, and it was about to fall on Yulan, the young people were stunned, Chen Gang was the last to walk up to the martyr's cemetery to see this scene, and couldn't help but let out an "ah". But Bai Li couldn't help but say, one rushed over with a brisk stride, pushed away Yulan, grabbed the flag with both hands, the young people couldn't help but admire Bai Li's actions, after Yulan reflected, she walked over and hugged Bai Li with both hands, and was so excited that she couldn't speak for a while.

Then Bai Li held the flagpole with her palm, and went to facilitate the young man who came back to pull the flag, the three new young people raised their right hands in front of the flag, Yulan unfolded the materials in her hand, and took the three young people to solemnly swear to the regimental flag word by word, the blue sky was floating with white clouds, the sun was shining on the earth, the spring breeze was blowing the bright flags and the hair and clothes of the young people, and everyone was infected by this solemn atmosphere at this moment.

After taking the oath, Yulan led everyone to plant trees along the perimeter of the martyrs' cemetery, the young men waved shovels to dig the tree pits, the young women put the saplings in them, palmed them with their hands, and the young men filled in the soil. Not to be outdone, Bai Li dug as hard as the young men, Yulan saw it in her eyes and knew that she couldn't persuade her, so she let her. Chen Gang found a discarded pot, went to a nearby ditch to fill it with water, and brought it over to water it one by one.

In the afternoon, Yulan led the company's young employees to arrange the venue in the company's large conference room, the young women folded the red paper, and then cut out the ribbon pattern with scissors, and glued it together with paste one by one, the young men moved the ladder and hung the ribbon on the ceiling of the conference room.

"Well, I didn't expect that with such a layout, our company's conference room would be so beautiful." A young man said.

"At night, the girls have to put on their bright and beautiful clothes, and the boys have to clean up their spirits, or the girls won't dance with you." Magnolia joked.

"At night, Chen Gang can't monopolize our league secretary, and he has to let the other boys get some light." Another young man said with a smile.

"I suggest that in the first half, you boys line up to invite Yulan to dance, and we girls take turns to invite Chen Gang to dance, and we won't let them go until the end of the party, okay?" A young woman said with a smile.

"That's a good idea, I'm in favor of it." Everyone shouted in unison.

Yulan and Chen Gang looked at everyone helplessly, shook their heads with a smile, and then arranged for everyone to prepare snacks such as peanuts, melon seeds, and fruits.

In the evening, the large conference room of the department store was brightly lit, and the employees of the company came to the conference room early after dinner, and their faces were filled with the joy of the festival. After a while, the company's leaders also came to the scene one after another, Magnolia wore a Bragi light blue floral dress made by Lingzhi, combed two chest-length braids, and tied with two flower cloth belts reserved by her mother when she made a dress, looking handsome and elegant, Chen Gang was wearing a white shirt and blue pants, full of energy, the two of them stood in a corner of the stage as the host of the party, watching the leaders and employees enter the conference room one after another and sit down, the leader gestured to Yulan and Chen Gang, indicating that the party could start. I saw Yulan and Chen Gang walking up to the center of the rostrum together, and after the two of them gave everyone a salute, they reported in unison:

"The department store's 'May Fourth Youth Day' party starts now."

The crowd looked at them and burst into applause.

"First of all, I would like to invite the company's leaders to give you a speech." Magnolia said.

"Young friends,

First of all, on behalf of the department store, I wish you all a happy holiday!

Since the establishment of department stores after liberation, there are too few young people to hold such events. In recent years, with the care of the county party committee and the county government and the support of other units, the young people of our company have gradually increased, and the Youth League branch has also been established, which is a good thing.

Young people are the future of the motherland and the future of our company, and the development and prosperity of the company depends on your young people to work hard and climb the peak.

This morning, you went to the martyrs' cemetery to take the oath of new members, which is very meaningful, and our happy life today is not easy to come by, so we must cherish it even more.

The primary task of department stores is to serve the broad masses of the people, and we must all devote our limited lives to serving the people without limits, as Comrade Lei Feng did. “

After the company's leader finished speaking, Chen Gang walked to the center of the rostrum and said:

"The party starts now, young friends, let's sing and dance to our heart's content!"

As the "Youth Waltz" sounded on the gramophone, the young men took the initiative to invite the young women to dance, Yulan was invited by a young man first, smiling and dancing with the young man into the center of the conference room, Bai Li took the initiative to invite Chen Gang, Chen Gang was stunned at first, and then politely jumped up with Bai Li, Yulan turned sideways to see them, showing a pleased smile.

"You can't dislike me and avoid me, do you?" Bai Li said as she jumped.

"How so? I was stunned when I saw the scene where you sacrificed your life to save Magnolia. Chen Gang said.

"That's nothing, Yulan and I have been good friends for many years, as it should be." Bai Li said lightly.

"You're not still angry with me, are you?" Chen Gang asked tentatively.

"If you think too much, I won't, you are a good match for Magnolia, I bless you." Bai Li replied briskly.

Chen Gang was moved by Bai Li's frankness, and his dancing posture was more open than before, and the two of them walked through the crowd until the dance music ended. Then the Soviet song "Red Plum Blossoms" resounded in the conference room, and the sitting crowd involuntarily hummed along, Chen Gang was about to invite Yulan to dance, but was preempted by the young men, and from time to time they grimaced at him, Chen Gang smiled helplessly, a young woman came over to invite him, and Chen Gang had to dance with the young woman again.

"Hey, do you remember the dance "Sing a Mountain Song to the Party"? It caused a sensation that year, and I proposed to let Hong Yulan dance for us, okay? The company leader stood up and said to everyone.

"Good, good, good." Everyone responded with a round of applause.

"I haven't danced for a long time, I'm afraid that I can't dance well and make everyone laugh." Magnolia said modestly.

"Hong Yulan, jump one, Hong Yulan, jump one." Everyone cheered together.

"Then I'll dance one for everyone, but I'm going to invite Bai Li to dance with me, she also participated in this show back then." Yulan couldn't postpone it, so she walked over and pulled Bai Li and said to everyone.

"Okay, everyone applauds and welcomes." The company's leader said.

So the gramophone played the song "Sing a Mountain Song to the Party", everyone calmed down, looked at Yulan and Bai Li together, Yulan gave Bai Li a look, Bai Li smiled and nodded, Yulan stood up straight and held her breath, then opened her arms, stepped forward, and gave everyone a beautiful appearance, won a burst of applause from everyone, Bai Li also danced behind Yulan with the rhythm of the music, the two cooperated tacitly, complemented each other, and let everyone look at it intently, Chen Gang sat on the side and sincerely admired their performance. At the end of the dance, Magnolia pulled Bai Li to bow deeply to everyone, and the conference room resounded with long-lasting applause.

Finally, the gramophone played "Friendship Lasts Forever", the young people quietly agreed not to invite Yulan and Chen Gang to dance, to leave this last piece of music to them, Chen Gang saw everyone's strategy, smiled and took the initiative to walk towards Yulan, Yulan saw Chen Gang coming, blushing shyly and lowered her head, Chen Gang stretched out his hand, gently pulled Yulan, and slid her to the center of the conference room, the other young dance partners all stopped, gave up the open space, watched them dance together elegantly, and the company leaders also cast approving glances at them.

After the party, Chen Gang sent Yulan home, and the two walked hand in hand on the street where the lights were sparse and quiet in the dead of night, the cool breeze blew Yulan's dress, and Yulan looked graceful in the night.

"Why do you keep looking at me? Don't know me anymore? Magnolia asked.

"You don't know how beautiful you are tonight." Chen Gang said with a smile.

"You're talking nonsense." Yulan glared at Chen Gang coquettishly and said.

"I don't lie to you, really, you're the focus of the whole company tonight, and I'm a little jealous of you." Chen Gang said.

"Today's party was a success, thanks to you." Magnolia said.

"With such a beautiful and capable women's league secretary, it's hard to succeed." Chen Gang said.

"You're here again, and if you say that again, I'll ignore you." Magnolia said deliberately.

"Don't, don't, don't, if you ignore me, I'll have to jump into the river." Chen Gang hurriedly said.

"The river doesn't have a cover, and I watched you jump." Magnolia stopped and said.

"I'm going to jump into the river, who's going to take you home? Aren't you afraid alone? You see, it looks like there's a figure there. Chen Gang pretended to be mysterious and said.

"Huh? Where is it? Magnolia asked in disbelief.

While Yulan was not paying attention, Chen Gang kissed her on the face, Yulan reflected, stretched out his hand and pretended to hit him, but Chen Gang hugged her tightly with both hands, and a pair of affectionate eyes looked at her, Yulan resisted at first, but was gradually moved by Chen Gang's gentle passion, the two stared affectionately, Chen Gang slowly kissed Yulan with his lips, and the figures of the two reflected the quiet street.

Lingzhi and Hong Shun have been waiting for Yulan at home, Lingzhi walked to the door from time to time to look, Hong Shun comforted her that Yulan would be fine, department stores are engaged in activities, young people are together, it is normal for people to be greedy for fun, but Lingzhi is still not at ease, walked back and forth a few times, and finally pulled up Hong Shun, saying that he had to go out to see, Hong Shun reluctantly put on his clothes and followed Lingzhi out of the living room, and when he just walked to the door, he saw Yulan and Chen Gang walking hand in hand.

"Why did you come home so late? Who is this? Lingzhi asked.

"Mom, this is my colleague, his name is Chen Gang."

"Oh, let's go inside the house and sit down." Hong Soon invited.

"Thank you, uncle and aunt, it's late today, don't disturb your second elder's rest, I'll visit you another day." Chen Gang glanced at Yulan after speaking, and then turned to leave.

Looking at Chen Gang's back gradually moving away, Lingzhi and Hong Shun winked at each other, and closed the door with his backhand after walking into the house with Yulan, Yulan was clever, guessing that Hong Shun and Lingzhi were going to ask her, so she quickly rushed to the front, ran into her room and closed the door at once, and said loudly that she was tired and wanted to go to bed first, Lingzhi and Hong Shun shook their heads impatiently.

"Yulan has really grown up and started to fall in love, you see her shy appearance." Lingzhi said with a smile.

"It's a matter of time, as long as she's happy." Hong Shun said.

"I look pretty sensible about that boy." Lingzhi said.

"The important thing is to be good to our Magnolia." Hong Shun said.

"Another day, you pay more attention to this boy to understand his situation, and I will also find an opportunity to ask Yulan." Lingzhi said.

"You, you just can't finish up, there's still a long time, go to sleep." After saying that, he turned off the lights.

Due to the very successful organization of the May Fourth Youth Day event in the department store, the young people of the company are still talking to each other about their feelings and feelings when participating in the event, and some praise Yulan's effective organization through the counter, and ask Yulan to lead the Youth League branch to organize more young people in the company to carry out such activities in the future, Yulan nodded with a smile and thanked everyone for their support to the work of the company's Youth League branch. The leaders of the department store are also very satisfied with Yulan's performance this time, combined with her excellent work performance on the counter, the company leaders encouraged her to continue to work hard, actively move closer to the party organization, and set a good example for the company's young people. (To be continued.) )