After Gu Zhanyan had eaten, he hurriedly sent Diandian 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, 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 these women's gossip.
Gu Zhanyan knew very well, but he pretended not to hear the strange comments or 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 turns out to be Wang Xiaolan, the mine director'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 felt inexplicably guilty and inferior after being stared at by her. She became a little angry and frowned as she 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."
Wang Xiaolan didn't seem to hear her, 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, who was next to Wang Xiaolan, snorted: "That's right, who are you showing off? It seems like no one knows how she managed to trap the young master."
Hu Chuntao is Wang Xiaolan's follower. She will agree with everything Wang Xiaolan says.
Someone next to him immediately fanned the flames; "Oh, it's a pity that Young Master Jun 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 was an educated youth from Haicheng. If his family hadn't been from a poor family, how could he have been forced to do such a hard job as mining? Besides being pretty and being able to speak English, what other qualifications are there?
The more this happens, the less everyone can understand her arrogance.
"But the young master's temper and conduct are really... the only advantage he has is good looks."
"I even suspect that the military commander 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 behind other people's 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. I just didn't expect that Li Wenjun had been married for two years and she was 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.
"The young lady's temper is really difficult to take care of." Someone muttered. She didn't dare to say the second half of the sentence. If it weren't for your father being 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, making irresponsible remarks like this behind others' backs, 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 Chantao 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 hooked up again?"
Gu Zhanyan frowned slightly, his stomach churning.
She wasn't angry, but she was 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 went to class. Only Yu Mingjie, the head of the teaching and research team, was there.
Gu Zhanyan hurriedly greeted Yu Mingjie: "Good morning, Teacher Yu."
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 morning 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." The basic salary of a teacher is very high. It’s low, and the stipend and class fees are the big ones. The heads of the respective teaching and research groups have the right to evaluate the teachers in their groups.
Gu Zhanyan bit his lip secretly.
This is not the first time Yu Mingjie has given her little shoes to wear.
Yu Mingjie is also an educated youth from Haicheng, but she arrived in the mining area more than ten years earlier than Gu Zhanyan and has not yet gotten married in her thirties. She suddenly transformed from a flowery girl into a thirty-year-old girl.
Although more than ten years have passed, her arrogance is still there. She never got married because she refused to give in, so she looked down on Gu Zhanyan, who had no principles and no dignity to climb onto Li Wen's bed.
So she, who was supposed to be closer to fellow villager 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.
