Xie Shuting was impatient to wait and said angrily: "Who is the brother who lives in your house? You lied to me, right? In fact, you just like Wen Nian, and you want me to relax my vigilance and stop staring at you, so you deliberately made it up
There is such a person."
"No, I really didn't lie to you. The person I like is... Brother Yunfan..."
"Brother Yun Fan?" Xie Shuting thought the name sounded quite nice, "Is he more handsome and talented than Wen Nian?"
Hua Wenli shook her head, "He looks very ordinary, he is only a little taller than me, and he has no talent. He helps with work at my house and has never read a book, but he can read, and the word he recognizes is me."
I teach him every day."
"Help your family work? Oh, I understand, he is your domestic helper, right?"
Seeing that Hua Wenli did not deny it, Xie Shuting put her hands on her hips and said, "I just said that your family has big problems. You even hired a helper. Your parents are exactly like the old society, enslaving the people..."
"No, it's not. In fact, when I was ten years old, my parents dismissed all the servants at home, leaving only Brother Yunfan and his mother because they had no relatives and were homeless. My mother
Seeing how pitiful they were, I couldn’t bear to drive them away.”
"I don't believe it! Who would be willing to be a slave after finally becoming the master?"
Before Xie Shuting could continue to scold arrogantly, Jinbao interrupted: "Maybe Sister Wenli's parents did not treat them as slaves, but provided them with a job?
Since there is no deed of sale, I don’t think earning money through labor is considered a slave.”
Her fourth brother nodded and said: "That's right! If you can be considered a slave if you work voluntarily, then the salesperson of the supply and marketing cooperative is also a slave? The people in the production team have also become slaves, as well as factory workers, hospital doctors, etc.
They are all slaves."
Xie Shuting was furious, "You, you actually insulted us..."
"I'm not insulting, I'm just telling the truth!"
After Su Xiaosi finished speaking, his fifth brother also joined the debate, "The prerequisite that my fourth brother just said is that you are willing and I am willing. As long as you are not forced, you can't be considered a slave."
Feeling that what they said made sense, Xie Shuting was convinced, "Well, only those who are unwilling to be oppressed can be considered slaves. This time you are right."
Xie Shuting did not continue to blame Hua Wenli's parents for the helper matter, and said doubtfully: "But I still don't understand. That guy named Yun Fan looks average and has never gone to school. How did you fall in love with him?"
Hua Wenli spoke in a long tone and said slowly, "I am introverted and have not had many friends since I was a child. Brother Yunfan is two years older than me. We grew up together. He is very good to me. I am always very friendly when we are together.
Relax, talk about anything, and feel very happy.
More than a year ago, something happened to my family, all the money was taken away, my grandfather died of illness, and my dad was also...
Anyway, my mother and I are the only ones left in the family. We can’t even afford food, let alone pay my aunt’s salary. My mother wants to let her leave after giving her her last month’s salary, but my aunt and brother Yun Fan can’t.
Don't want to leave us.
Later, Brother Yun Fan kept looking for jobs for us, but he couldn't find any.
Until one day he ran home happily and said that he finally found a job and bought us a big bag of rice. But no matter how I asked him, he would not tell me what the job was for.
In addition to buying rice, he also gave most of the money he earned to my mother and me.
About a month later, I tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. I got up before dawn and went out. Suddenly I saw a man pushing a manure truck passing by on the roadside. What I never expected was that that man turned out to be a man.
Brother Yunfan."
Hearing this, Xie Shuting was shocked and said in surprise: "What? He actually went to push a manure truck? That kind of work..."
As she said this, she frowned subconsciously. Although she didn't want to discriminate against the dung pushers, they did stink too much.
They usually work at night because they are afraid that the smell will disgust others.
"It's strange that you can't smell the manure pusher's body so smelly?" Xie Shuting wondered.
Hua Wenli explained, "Brother Yun Fan is afraid that we will smell it, so he will change his clothes before working, take a bath in the river after work, and then change into clean clothes. Moreover, he works at night but does not stay at home to sleep during the day, pretending
It’s also very busy during the day.”
"It's no wonder, the smell is difficult to completely wash away even if you take a shower every day."
"Brother Yun Fan does the dirtiest job that people in the city don't want to do. He saves money to support us. I feel really sad. He obviously doesn't need to care about me and my mother, but he doesn't abandon us...
…”
Speaking of this, Hua Wenli looked at Xie Shuting and said with red eyes: "Shuting, you scolded me for being thick-skinned before, saying that a family like mine had the nerve to apply to join the Corps. In fact, I just wanted to earn more money to send home.
I heard that the Corps paid high wages, and I thought that by joining the Corps, I would save Brother Yun Fan from having to do such hard and dirty work. However, my application was rejected many times, and in the end I had no choice but to accept the arrangement.
Go to the countryside and jump in line..."
Wiping away the tears from the corners of her eyes, she took a deep breath, "But at least I can support myself with my own hands now, and I don't have to drag Brother Yun Fan down anymore. He should be able to relax a little without me."
Seeing her red eyes, although Xie Shuting didn't think she was at fault, she suddenly felt that her previous behavior towards Hua Wenli seemed a bit excessive.
The fact that Hua Wenli's family has problems has been determined...
Xie Shuting believed that she had not wronged her. This was how everyone treated these people before.
She just cursed a few words, but if it were anyone else, she might have gone too far.
She was clearly thinking this in her heart, but Xie Shuting felt that something had changed. The Hua Wenli in front of her gradually turned into a flesh-and-blood, living person instead of a pure enemy.
After coughing slightly, Xie Shuting borrowed what Jin Bao said before and said: "Although you have a bad background, now that you have settled down and joined the queue, you are a farmer like us. I will improve your ideological consciousness.
In short, don’t be too anxious for quick success. When you perform well in the future, you might be able to apply to join the Corps and get approved."
"Shu Ting, don't you hate me so much?" Hua Wenli asked nervously.
"As long as you don't compete with me for Wen Nian, then I barely hate you," Xie Shuting said, and couldn't help laughing, "Hey! If I had known that you were not interested in Wen Nian, I wouldn't have stared at you every day
Yeah, my eyes have been so tired lately from staring at it.”
Seeing that the relationship between the two girls had eased, Jin Bao couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.
From this incident, she saw that Xie Shuting was not as bad as she thought, and she could still get along with her.
Now after comparing with Liao Feihong, Jin Bao is more sure that among the new educated youths, Liao Feihong needs to be more careful.
Xie Shuting just fell in love with the third brother. After all, the third brother is a man, and generally speaking, he will not suffer. Liao Feihong is different. It seems that he has a kind of prejudice and hostility towards the third brother, and the aura he exudes is very dangerous...