After eating, Gu Zhanyan hurriedly sent some food to the kindergarten.
Children in mining areas can be placed in kindergarten after weaning, which is free and worry-free.
Several women who were slightly older than Gu Zhanyan did not leave after sending their children off, but gathered at the door to talk.
Compared with the outside world, the mining area is like a paradise, with no worries about food and clothing, and free medical education.
In this era of relative isolation and lack of entertainment, men's energy is used to play cards, and women's energy is used to gossip.
Gu Zhanyan was transferred to the mining area in 1978. Within a few days after arriving, he slept with Li Wenjun during a social gathering, then hurriedly got married and had children. He completed two major life events before he was eighteen years old, and relied on Li Wenjun's family connections to advance.
He became a teacher in a school for children in mining areas.
In everyone's eyes, Gu Zhanyan is a woman with means and no shame.
Naturally, she is indispensable in the gossip of these women.
Gu Zhanyan knew it very well, but he pretended not to hear the strange comments and didn't see the sarcastic and contemptuous eyes.
These women said she was arrogant and put on airs and ignored her.
Today, someone took the initiative to greet her: "Hey, Comrade Gu Zhanyan, you still don't know about Comrade Li Wenjun's heroic rescue of the beauty this morning."
Gu Zhanyan stopped and looked sideways at the speaker.
It turned out to be Wang Xiaolan, the mine manager's apple.
Wang Xiaolan volunteered to send her brother's little daughter to kindergarten today just to block Gu Zhanyan here.
Gu Zhanyan's eyes were like lake water in winter, beautiful but clear and cold.
Wang Xiaolan was stared at by her and felt inexplicably guilty and inferior. She was a little angry and frowned, but was about to speak.
Gu Zhanyan replied: "Oh." He planned to continue walking.
Wang Xiaolan was unwilling to give in and asked again: "Do you know who he saved?"
Gu Zhanyan shook his head: "I don't want to know."
But Wang Xiaolan didn't seem to hear, and replied to herself: "It's Qin Hongling."
She stared at Gu Zhanyan, her eyes excited and gloating, waiting to see Gu Zhanyan's shocked, sad and collapsed appearance.
Gu Zhanyan replied calmly: "Oh." Then he walked away slowly.
Wang Xiaolan suppressed it until her face turned red. After a long time, she whispered angrily: "Broken shoes, just pretending."
Hu Chuntao next to Wang Xiaolan snorted: "That's right, who can show Ao? It seems that no one knows how she trapped the young master."
Hu Chuntao is Wang Xiaolan's follower, and she will agree with everything Wang Xiaolan says.
Someone next to him immediately fanned the flames: "Oh, it's such a pity, Master Jun, that he got entangled with her at such a young age. I don't know how many girls in the mining area liked him before, and any one I picked would have better conditions than her."
Gu Zhanyan is an educated youth from Haicheng. If not for his poor family background, how could he be employed in such a difficult job as mining? Besides being pretty and being able to speak English, what other conditions are there?
The more this happens, the less everyone can understand her arrogance.
"But the temper and conduct of the young master are really... the only advantage is that he looks good."
"I even suspect that the young master really just wanted to kill that cockroach this morning. When did he ever mind his own business and stop teasing girls?"
"Oh, so, these two are gangsters and shabby shoes. They are a perfect match. They don't want to harm others. It's just right."
"Maybe he and Qin Hongling hooked up again?"
Wang Xiaolan suddenly shouted: "Okay!"
Everyone stared at her in surprise.
Wang Xiaolan said with a straight face: "You people, making irresponsible remarks like this behind others' backs, have no sense of the unity and friendship of revolutionary comrades."
She was obviously the one who started talking just now, so why is she saying these words again?
Everyone exchanged thoughtful looks.
Everyone knows that Wang Xiaolan likes Li Wenjun. But she didn't expect that Li Wenjun has been married for two years and she is still like this.
Hu Chuntao smiled apologetically: "That's right, Li Wenjun is handsome and responsible, and he is a good comrade."
Wang Xiaolan glared at her: "Nonsense, he is a big bastard and a big hooligan."
Hu Chuntao didn't expect that her flattery would hit the horse's leg, and her smile froze.
Wang Xiaolan walked away with a puff of sleeves.
The remaining people stared with big eyes.
"Young lady has such a difficult temper." Someone muttered. She didn't dare to say the second part. If it weren't for the fact that your father is the mine manager, who would care about you?
Someone tugged at the corner of her clothes.
Hu Chuntao imitated Wang Xiaolan and made a serious face: "You people, you are making irresponsible remarks like this behind other people's backs. You have no sense of the unity and friendship of revolutionary comrades." Then she chased Wang Xiaolan.
Only then did the others dare to speak openly and spat in the direction Hu Chuntao left.
"A follower, a flatterer."
"It's just that it makes people unhappy so early in the morning. It's really annoying."
Gu Zhanyan knew that Wang Xiaolan was specifically provoking and irritating her.
It's a pity that she has no feelings for Li Wenjun at all, and of course she won't be jealous.
Seeing Li Wenjun coming out of the post office from a distance, Gu Zhanyan stopped.
The words of those people just now flashed through my mind: "Maybe he and Qin Hongling have hooked up again?"
Gu Zhanyan frowned slightly, his stomach churning.
She wasn't angry, but she was quite disgusted.
A country is easy to change, but a person's nature is hard to change.
Li Wenjun will not get better.
She must be wary of him and not be tricked by him again.
Back at school, the office was quiet, as all my colleagues had gone to class. Only Yu Mingjie, the head of the teaching and research team, was there.
Yu Mingjie's face was gloomy: "You are really comfortable. You just came at this time."
Gu Zhanyan said nothing. The school is a little more free than other units and does not require roll call in the morning. So if there is no early reading and there is no class in the first period, the teachers will come late.
Yu Mingjie added: "Don't think that just because you have a higher diploma than others, you can be lazy and behave like a young lady. From now on, you must arrive early in the morning before studying, otherwise I will deduct your allowance even if you are late." A teacher's basic salary is very high.
It is low, with allowances and class fees accounting for the bulk. The heads of the respective teaching and research groups have the right to evaluate the teachers in their groups.
Gu Zhanyan bit her lip secretly.
This is not the first time Yu Mingjie has given her little shoes to wear.
Yu Mingjie was also an educated youth from Haicheng, but she arrived in the mining area more than ten years earlier than Gu Zhanyan, and was still unmarried in her thirties. She had suddenly grown from a pretty girl to a thirty-year-old girl.
Although more than ten years have passed, her arrogance is still there. At that time, she refused to give in, so she never got married, so she looked down on Gu Zhanyan, who had no principles and did not want to climb onto Li Wen's army bed with dignity.
So she, who was supposed to be closer to fellow countryman Gu Zhanyan, was harsher on Gu Zhanyan than anyone else.
Yu Mingjie glanced at Gu Zhanyan's hands, which were rough from doing housework, and snorted, "You asked for it." Then she went out with her head held high.
Gu Zhanyan took a deep breath, raised his head, and forced back the tears that had surged out for a moment.
Anyone who belittles her will laugh it off
Only Yu Mingjie could stick to her heart every time.
Because Yu Mingjie is also from Haicheng, she knows her pain, grievances and weaknesses best.
