Noticing that her face suddenly turned very pale, Xiao Jinbao, who was sitting next to her, was startled and asked anxiously: "Sister Damei, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?"
"without……"
Just when she was about to shake her head, Xu Damei thought for a moment, nodded and said, "Well, I'm a little uncomfortable. I won't eat. You can eat."
After saying that, without waiting for Jinbao to respond, she stood up and opened the door of Su's house. Unexpectedly, Uncle Su and her father happened to be standing outside the door at this time.
Su Jianmin raised his hand slightly, obviously preparing to open the door.
He didn't expect that the door would be opened just in time, and he was a little surprised, "Damei? Where are you going?"
Xu Qiang also asked at this time: "Where are you going? Why don't you sit quietly inside? Zhiyuan has come back, right?"
"Well, I'm back..." After responding in a low voice, Xu Damei said, "I'm sorry, Uncle Su, I don't feel very well. I want to go back and rest first. You can eat. You don't have to wait for me."
"Do you feel uncomfortable? Where do you feel uncomfortable? Is it okay?" Su Jianmin asked hurriedly.
Xu Qiang immediately approached his daughter and found that her face was really ugly. He worriedly said, "Shall I take you to the health center?"
"No, it's nothing serious. I guess I didn't sleep well last night. I'll just go back and take a nap."
Xu Qiang thought that he had made an agreement with Lao Su before and asked Zhiyuan what he thought in the evening, maybe he could bring the two children together, so he couldn't help but get entangled, "Why don't you go back to bed after dinner?"
"I really don't want to eat..."
Lin Yulan heard the conversation outside, hurriedly put down the kitchen knife, and walked out of the kitchen in a hurry. She asked her daughter doubtfully: "What's wrong? Wasn't it fine before? Why are you feeling uncomfortable all of a sudden?"
Xu Damei didn't know how to explain it, and lowered her head with a guilty conscience.
"Are you embarrassed that you haven't seen Zhiyuan for a long time?" Lin Yulan asked, holding her daughter's arm.
Her voice was very low, and she said close to Damei's ear: "Don't think too much, just have a meal."
Xu Damei lowered her head and bit her lip hard.
Yes, mom is right...
It's just a meal. Brother Zhiyuan doesn't like her in the first place. No matter who he ends up with, it has nothing to do with her. Why should she put on such a sad look and embarrass everyone?
Seeing that her daughter seemed to be persuaded by him, Lin Yulan smiled and smoothed things over and said: "Today's young people are much weaker than our generation. At this young age, they either have headaches or stomachaches, and there are always some problems with their bodies.
"
With that said, she pulled Da Mei back to the house, "Aunt Bai and I made a big table of delicious food today. Eat more and have a good sleep after eating. I'm sure nothing will go wrong with you."
After she finished speaking, Su Jianmin immediately answered: "How can these children compare with us? I didn't know how much farm work I had to do when I was a child. After school, I had to go to the mountains to collect firewood. If I didn't collect enough, I would freeze to death in the winter.
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"Is that so?" Xu Qiang also mentioned his childhood, saying that children today are much happier than they were back then.
The adults were chatting, and the atmosphere became harmonious again. The incident of Xu Damei being unwell and wanting to go home seemed to have never happened before.
Su Zhiyuan hesitated for a while before taking the initiative to speak to Xu Damei and asked: "Is your body okay?"
Xu Damei shook her head, "It's okay, I just didn't sleep well. I went to bed too late last night."
"What about working in a machine shop? Will it be busy?"
Xu Damei shook her head and said: "I was quite busy in the past few years, but this year I am particularly leisurely. There is not much work in the factory. I work for one or two hours on weekdays, and the rest of the time is spent in political classes. We not only have to listen to the lectures, but also take notes.
Then take the exam.”
Su Zhiyuan was curious when he heard this, "Test? What is the content of the test?"
"Materialism and Empirio-Criticism, "The German Ideology", "On the Problem of Dialectics", etc., are all Marx's books."
"Oh, we have classes occasionally, but most of the time we are in the oil well."
Xu Damei tried hard to put her sad emotions behind her, as if she were facing a long-lost good friend, and asked Brother Zhiyuan about life in the oil field, such as whether there is a supply and marketing cooperative nearby, where they usually go to buy things, and so on.
Common questions.
"It's a good thing you didn't go. There is drought and water shortage there, and sometimes it takes ten days and a half months, or even months, to wash your hair and take a bath," Su Zhiyuan said. "Many girls couldn't stand it. They cried so much when we first went there that they didn't wait for a while."
He left after half a year."
Xu Damei's eyes were slightly lowered, thinking that if she had gone there...
If she works hard to stay in the oil field like Song Xiaomei, will she have a chance with Brother Zhiyuan?
In high school, Song Xiaomei and Brother Zhiyuan didn't even exchange a word, just because they both worked in the oil fields, so...
"Sister Damei," Jin Bao pulled Xu Damei's sleeve, "I think Sister Damei will definitely be able to work hard to stay in the oil field, but it's also good for you to work in a machinery factory, and not everyone has to.
You don't have to regret going to the oil field."
"Jin Bao is right, you don't have to regret it, Dame. Everyone's life is different."
After listening to what Jinbao and Brother Zhiyuan said, Xu Damei tried her best to calm down her feeling of loss and sadness.
"Yes!" Finally, she nodded, "Yes, I have learned a lot in the machine factory in the past few years. I know what kind of parts are qualified, and I also know the process of picking and inspecting goods. If
If I have the opportunity, I would like to change my job to a management position."
After hearing what she said, her father smiled and said, "Look at what this girl said. Do you still want to be a supervisor?"
"Of course I do! All the supervisors in the factory are men. If I become a supervisor, I will be the only female supervisor."
"Do you know why there are no female supervisors? Because women will have to have and raise children when they get married, so how can they have the energy to do the work of a supervisor? It is a headache for a supervisor to manage a bunch of people..."
Before her father could finish speaking, Xu Damei interrupted: "Then I won't get married."
Xu Qiang frowned, "Do you want to be laughed at if you don't get married? You are twenty-two now, which is still young. In a few years, when you are twenty-eight, nine, or thirty, you will not be able to get married. Everyone
Everyone will gossip about you behind your back, you know?"
Jinbao said: "Uncle Xu, there is a difference between not wanting to get married and not being able to get married."
"Jin Bao, you are still young. You don't know how unpleasant the gossip outside can be. People who don't want to get married and those who can't get married are the same in the eyes of others. There is something wrong with unmarried women." Xu Qiang sighed.
Having said this, he was a little confused about his daughter's current attitude.
It's strange, why did Damei react like this when she saw Zhiyuan? She also said she didn't want to get married?
Oops, he really doesn't understand what his daughter is thinking now. Doesn't she already like Zhiyuan? It's impossible. She was still so happy when she learned that Zhiyuan would be back today, as if she was a girl in love with her.
Why now...
Xu Qiang stared at his daughter for a while, feeling that she seemed to have seen through the world of mortals and was about to become a monk.
Xu Damei really had a feeling of despair. Since she couldn't marry the person she liked, it would be better not to get married forever and live alone. It was better than living tied up with someone she didn't like for the rest of her life.