After Gong Linglong left the dormitory, she went straight to the door. When she passed by the canteen, she saw Meng Xiaoying talking to a middle-aged woman standing in the corner. The woman wiped her tears while talking. The two seemed to be familiar with each other.
She wanted to hide and eavesdrop, but the Meng family's parents came over from the other side. Meng's mother called to her: "Xiaoying, your cousin and aunt are leaving, let's leave together."
Auntie?
Gong Linglong guessed that the cousin she was talking about was Xue Hailin's mother-in-law, and a cold curve appeared at the corner of her mouth.
"Got it, come right away."
Meng Xiaoying replied, and did not go over immediately, but took the time to talk to the middle-aged woman next to her.
The distance was a bit far, and Gong Linglong couldn't hear clearly what they were talking about. He had no intention of going over to eavesdrop anymore and walked toward the gate.
Bai Narcissus came out of the house about five minutes later and took her lunch box to the canteen to get food. By this time, her expression had returned to her natural state.
"Darcissus, didn't your daughter come just now? Didn't she have dinner with you?"
Meeting a colleague on the road, Bai Narcissus smiled lightly: "I left something at home yesterday morning, and she just took the time to bring it to me. She was busy with work at her workplace and was in a hurry to go back to work, so I didn't ask her to have dinner with her. .”
"Your daughter looks like you, very beautiful." The other party praised with a smile.
Bai Narcissus smiled, and seeing that she was holding a lunch box in her hand, she changed the subject at the right time, "Sister Juan, wait for me, I will bring you some food to eat with you. I brought chili meat sauce from home yesterday. I am busy. I haven’t eaten it yet, why don’t you try it together?”
"Okay, I'll wait for you here." The other party responded.
Bai Narcissus made a meal and came out. On the way, he met two other colleagues. He also smiled and invited them to eat hot sauce. He quickly ran back to the dormitory to get the meat sauce.
Four people were sitting in the pavilion in the rest area eating. Halfway through the meal, a middle-aged woman wearing regular clothes came over. She was also holding a lunch box in her hand and asked with a smile, "What delicious food should I eat?"
"Sister Yu."
The person who came was Yu Nan, an accountant at the nursing home. He was about the same age as them. They worked in different jobs and they didn't often meet each other.
Seeing her coming with a lunch box, Bai Shuixian said with a smile: "Sister Yu, I brought some chili meat sauce from home. My daughter made it. I just asked everyone to come and taste it. If you don't mind it, Let’s try some too.”
"It looks delicious. I'll try it too."
Yu Nan sat down next to her, took a spoon and tasted it. After taking a bite, he said, "It tastes good. It goes well with rice."
"Sister Yu, if you like to eat, eat more."
Bai Narcissus took a spoon and scooped some more for her, and also pushed the small jar to the others with a kind and gentle smile: "You scoop it out yourself, I won't greet you anymore."
"Don't worry, we won't be polite to you." The lesbian sitting opposite smiled.
Among the five people, there was a gay man who was from the security department. He ate quickly and almost finished the food in his bowl. He also spoke, "Sister Yu, I heard that you submitted your resignation report. Why did you suddenly resign?" ah?"
Sister Yu paused when she heard this, her expression stiffened for a moment, and she twitched her lips: "My husband was transferred to the Northeast for work, and he has been there for at least five years. It's not a problem for the two of them to be separated for a long time. I won't just leave my job now." Dealt with it.”
No one else knew about this. Another senior lesbian asked quickly: "Sister Yu, why haven't I heard you talk about this before? Why was your man's job suddenly transferred?"
"It was temporarily arranged by the unit, and he only received the notice two days ago." The corners of Sister Yu's mouth were slightly stiff.
"That's it." The other party didn't ask her more about her husband's work, but asked her again: "Then when will you leave?"
"I'll leave after finishing the formalities today."
Sister Yu was smiling, but there was some unnoticeable discomfort in her eyes.
Bai Narcissus was sitting side by side with her. He was listening to her words and caught the look in her eyes.
She was a little puzzled, but she was not familiar with Sister Yu, and they had met less frequently in the past two months at work in the same unit. They only said hello briefly every time they met, so she did not take the initiative to ask her about her personal affairs.
Everyone chatted casually, and after finishing the meal, they went to the canteen to wash dishes.
After washing the dishes, Bai Narcissus was about to go back to the dormitory to rest. Just as she turned around, a figure suddenly slid over and a bowl of water was thrown at her face.
She instinctively stretched out her hands to cover her face, and a bowl of boiling water poured onto the back of her hands.
"ah!"
The boiling water fell on the back of her hand, causing her to scream in pain.
Bai Narcissus shook the water off her hand in a panic. Then she saw that the back of her hand was still steaming. She glanced at Sister Yu who had slipped on the ground, quickly turned around and rushed to the faucet to rinse the back of her hand with cold water.
"Darcissus, are you okay?" Sister Juan immediately came over to help her.
"fine."
Bai Narcissus frowned and kept rinsing with cold water. He turned back to look at Sister Yu, his eyes a little more probing.
Sister Yu had already gotten up. When she looked at her, there was a twinkle in her eyes, and she apologized: "Comrade Bai, I'm sorry, the ground is slippery. I just slipped and fell. Didn’t it burn you?”
Bai Narcissus glanced at the place where she had just slipped, then looked at the back of her red hands, and said in a low voice: "Sister Yu, luckily I blocked it with my hands. If I had reacted slower, my eyes would have been burned and my face would have been burned. It will be burned and disfigured.”
"Comrade Bai, I'm so sorry. Let me accompany you to the infirmary to get some medicine." Sister Yu said hurriedly.
"No, I can just go by myself."
White Narcissus works with both hands. If hot boiling water is poured on your hands, it will bubble even if it is handled in time, which will affect the subsequent work.
She immediately handed the bowls and chopsticks to others, "Sister Juan, please take down the lunch box for me. I'll go to the infirmary to apply some medicine."
"Hey, okay, go quickly."
After watching her run away, Sister Juan turned her head and glanced at Sister Yu. Seeing that she had a strange expression on her face, she did not follow her to the infirmary and said: "Sister Yu, you just fell, you don't have to." Go to the doctor and prescribe some medicine?”
"I slipped, I didn't get hurt, it's fine."
Sister Yu quickly picked up the enamel bowl on the ground and said with a stern expression: "I'm going to see Comrade Bai Narcissus. I'm leaving first."
Bai Narcissus took the medicine in time in the infirmary, but the boiling water was a bit heavy and a layer of blisters had formed. She could not continue working in the afternoon and had to go to the leader to ask for leave.
When the senior cadres at the nursing home learned that she had burned her hands, they were all considerate of her and allowed her to take leave. They all asked her to go home and rest for a few days, and then return to work after her hands recovered.
