At 12 noon, the Xidan compound has begun to come and go in and out of the workers who are holding lunch boxes. The compound has no gates, only two piers that resemble tower pillars. On either side of the pier are two four-storey buildings running north-south, with gray brick walls and pointed roofs, which look like two large train carriages. There are unique doors on the sides of the two-story houses, and the doors on the two floors are facing each other, reminiscent of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. The north gate is the cowherd, and the south gate is the weaver girl. Because the north building is inhabited by male single workers, and the south building is inhabited by female single workers. However, male singles are not as pitiful as the Cowherd, and they are not like the Cowherd who carries their children to chase after them by boat, not only because they are all single and have no dolls. The crowd of people who go in and out of the canteen to eat is not the Milky Way drawn by the Queen Mother. It's a bit like a magpie, and the bustling crowd is often like a colorful bridge between the single buildings in the north and south, and from time to time a pair of young men and women meet on the Tianhe in the staff canteen.

Xu Li, who came out of the door of the North Single Building, glanced at the gate a few times, and someone greeted him with an aluminum lunch box and clattering: "Xu Li, eat." ”

"Haha, child labor, how much did you fight last night?"

"Hey, you kid ran really fast, I said last night, let's play a few cards together, I can't wait for the left to come after work, I can't wait for the right, where did I go?"

"Me? Hi, there happened to be something last evening——— I sued Xiao Wu, he didn't sue you? What the hell do you mean? How many hits? As Xu Li spoke, he turned his head and looked at the gate again. Two more young men with glasses walked past and greeted Xu Li. Xu Li and the young man called the child laborer put their shoulders on each other's two spring doors in the canteen, and the child worker pointed to a tall middle-aged man in front of him and whispered: "Alas, the new factory director." ”

Xu Li was stunned for a moment, and almost shouted: "This big guy in front? ”

The child worker hurriedly put his index finger on his mouth, squeezed his eyes, and said anxiously: "———,Shhhhh ”

Xu Li was surprised: "Okay, my mother...... looks very powerful, what's your surname?" Why am I not impressed? ”

"The surname is Geng, and his name is Geng Zhuangqi."

"What? Geng Zhuang, which word? Xu Li was suddenly interested.

"The bureau of the mechanical bureau, next to a gold word on the left."

"Good fellow, it's not ordinary when you hear this name. The shearer, it is said that he suggested it, isn't it? ”

"That's not necessarily, it seems that the former former factory director was clamoring to get on the shearer two years ago, and at that time, Geng Zhuangqi was the deputy factory director."

"Well, I don't think I've seen it in the cafeteria." Xu Li looked at the back of the big middle-aged factory director, and suddenly was a little surprised, "Hey, it turns out that the new factory director is coming to the canteen to eat, I thought it was an inspection." Damn, it's definitely not ordinary. ”

"I haven't seen anyone come to the single canteen to eat, maybe I became a factory director and took the mass route."

"Do you know each other?" Xu Li asked child laborers.

"I don't know, we've only been here for two years, how can we know each other. I heard that a few years ago, he went from the research institute to the tool workshop as a director, and later became a deputy factory director. ”

Xu Li has no regrets: "Hey, it would be nice if I knew each other." ”

The child worker laughed: "You kid thinks well, just know it, what can we do as a college student who has just arrived?" At least a few years of training at the grassroots level. What to eat? Wire surface again? The child worker asked a man who came out of the window with a lunch box.

"Hey, if you don't eat steel wire noodles, what will you eat?"

Xu Li joked: "That's it, if you don't eat steel wire noodles, do you want to eat steel steel noodles, hehehe." The line of steel wire noodles was long, so I went to get some food first and asked for a bowl of rice. With that, he asked the child laborers to line up first and went to the window of the rice bowl himself. Xu Li lined up behind the two people, and when he turned around, he saw Zhen Fengwei who had just entered the door of the canteen, and Xu Li began to wave vigorously. The child laborers in the tightrope team smiled when they saw this scene. and said to the colleague in front of him: "What did I say, Xu Li, this guy, took two lunch boxes today, and also bought rice, it turns out that this kid is far-sighted, hey, let him explain honestly later, haha." Hey boy, it's so far away, hiding from us. Shout, which workshop is that woman from? It's beautiful, no wonder Xu Li buys rice. ”

Xu Li was already holding two lunch boxes, smiling and dodging left and right in the crowd, like a grass carp walking through a school of fish, not in a hurry, directly to a square pillar and sat down.

He stood up straight, so that Zhen Feng didn't see him. In fact, Zhen Fengwei had already walked quickly to the front. "Oops, trotting all the way, exhausted." She looked left and right, "Oh, there are so many people, it's the first time I've come to the single cafeteria, it turns out that our students who live in the technical school come, and we don't live in the school and go home every day." ”

Xu Li smiled and said, "Sit down, sit down, this is yours, I'll eat noodles." ”

Zhen Fengwei was disgusted: "Oh, no, you eat this, what about me eating noodles ——— noodles?" "There are two lunch boxes open on the table, one for vegetables and one for rice. Xu Li stood up and beckoned gracefully: "Alas, child labor, do more——— you eat first." As he spoke, he poured the vegetables into the lunch box containing rice and asked Zhen Feng to eat it first. Then he took the empty lunch box and walked briskly towards the child laborers who were still in line.

At this time, Zhen Fengwei's eyes inadvertently swept from Xu Li's back to the crowd crowded at the window, and suddenly, a figure made her gasp. Yes? Why is he here? Suddenly, her chest sank like a lump of lead, depressed and aggrieved. She quickly turned her face sideways and moved the stool so that the pillar next to her blocked half of her body. She could feel her face slowly getting a fever, and it was turning from fever to heat.

She didn't react for a while, thinking to herself, the more she didn't want to see anyone, the more she wanted to show up. She nervously thought about what to do, he was coming for me? It should be, or he wouldn't have come with a machine. Maybe he came to Guo Guozhu, yes, maybe. However, no, I have never heard of Guo Guozhu coming to the factory canteen to eat at noon, and they work in three shifts, so they don't get off work at noon, and they bring lunch by themselves. Thinking of this, she couldn't help but quietly poke out half of her head from behind the square pillar, wanting to see who the person she didn't want to see was with. However, when I looked again, the target I was looking for in the crowd was gone. She couldn't help but look left and right, full of suspicion.

At this moment, Xu Li came over with a lunch box of noodles and said with a smile: "Hey, why haven't you moved yet, eat quickly, it's cold." ”

Zhen Fengwei smiled: "It's okay." You eat tightrope noodles, I eat rice, I'm so embarrassed, come, I'll dial some for you, don't, why are you so annoying. She was a little inexplicably anxious.

Xu Li laughed, and hurriedly said, "Okay, okay, I'll just order food." I like to eat tightrope noodles. ”

"Then I also like to eat tightrope noodles——— so let's just do it, you can dial me with the tightrope noodles too." When I was in technical school, I heard from my classmates about steel wire noodles, but I never tasted them, so I tasted what steel wire noodles tasted like. In this way, we are equal. ”

"Okay, okay, it's better to be respectful. Steel wire noodles are a unique taste of machinery that looks like steel wire, tastes more fragrant, and chews with a unique chewy head. Xu Li laughed. The child laborer and a few young men not far away made funny faces and gesticulated.

Zhen Fengwei was still thinking about the unhappiness in his heart just now, and asked Xu Li: "Alas, you called me here, won't you just eat in the canteen?" Well? ”

Xu Li's face, which was still sunny just now, was lightly smeared with a little cloud at this time. He hesitated and said, "Yesterday evening, at the gate of Xidan, there was a person I didn't know and asked me, a little puzzled. ”

"Ask you what? Who? Zhen Fengwei didn't care at first.

"I just asked a few words, and then left."

"What do you ask?" Zhen Fengwei was a little anxious.

"Well, inexplicably, I asked coldly. I didn't even react at the time. ”

"Oh, why are you panting all of a sudden, what are you asking?"

Xu Li glanced at Zhen Fengwei and said, "At that time, I thought that it might be someone you knew, so I said, I know." ”

"Hey, good college student, I haven't understood it for a long time, who is it, I know?"

"He said he knew you. Ask me if I know you. ”

"What's his name? What does it look like? Zhen Feng was not confused, his thin mouth pouted, and he complained a little about Xu Li.

Xu Li said, not knowing what the other party's name was: "Man, young man, medium, short hair, well, single eyelid is a little swollen...... At that time, I was a little bored, and before I could react, the man left. ”

Zhen Fengwei thought about it, isn't that who? Not like that. So who should it be? I don't have such an impression. Something strange began to stir up in her. But for a moment, a not-so-good feeling popped up in her heart, and she suddenly thought of the person she had just seen here———Xiong Erbo? Her heart thumped. Moreover, the more I thought about it, the more panicked I became.

Xu Li seemed to see that Zhen Fengwei was unhappy, and hurriedly said a little apologetically: "It's okay, it's okay, you eat quickly——— I originally wanted to ask you, who should it be, hey, blame me, I didn't have time to ask carefully yesterday, hehe." After all, Xu Li has only been working for two or three years, and there are some things that he also wonders. He kept explaining, "Okay, that's not his business, let him go." You hurry up and eat. I'm sorry! Hahaha. ”

However, Zhen Fengwei buried a small knot in his heart.