Chapter 17
"Ring,,,,,," the bell ringing for get off work rang, Xiaoli quickly ran out of the workshop. Today is Liu Fan's birthday. She had already asked for leave tonight and stopped working overtime.
Xiaoli pushed the bicycle and walked out of the factory gate, and she rode home quickly. Although she knew that her mother and Wei Xiaohua had prepared a rich meal at home and waited for her and Liu Fan to go back from get off work and eat, Xiaoli was still willing to make two special dishes herself to help Liu Fan celebrate her birthday.
Xiaoli rode her bicycle quickly and shuttled through the traffic (of course it was a bicycle flow, not a small traffic now. In that era, most of the things you saw on the road were bicycles, and small cars were very difficult to see.), she seemed to vaguely hear someone calling her name. Xiaoli didn't dare to respond. She heard from the older generation that when she heard someone calling you, she would never answer if she didn't see clearly who was calling you. It was possible that those unclean things were calling you, and you would leave with him if you answered.
Xiaoli stopped the car and listened carefully. It seemed that someone was calling her. She turned around and saw a little girl in old clothes running towards her while shouting Xiaoli's name.
Xiaoli looked at the little girl running to her. No matter how she thought about it, she couldn't remember who the little girl in front of her was dressed in a tattered dress like a little beggar.
"Xiaoli, I am the eldest daughter of your uncle's eldest son. We met him during the Chinese New Year last year. I asked your mother for your address to join you." The little girl said in a fucking voice.
"Oh, I remembered that you are the eldest daughter of my cousin." In fact, Xiaoli couldn't remember that she had seen this person at all.
"Yes, yes, yes, I'm the eldest sister." The little girl said quickly.
"You just took my job address and ran over. What if I no longer work in this factory? If I work overtime until ten o'clock tonight, will you wait for me until ten o'clock?" Xiaoli said remorsefully.
"I really have no choice. After thinking about it, I never thought about who to surrender. I can only try my luck with you. If I can't find you, I will sleep on the streets. My dad only gave me the fare for the trip, and I have no fare for the trip back." The eldest sister said sadly.
"Big sister, let's talk about it with me first." Xiaoli was determined to go home soon, but she really didn't expect Cheng Yaojin to come out halfway.
"Then you ride a bike in front and I'll run with you behind. I can run very quickly." said the eldest girl.
Xiaoli really believes that the eldest girl can run very quickly. Just now, Xiaoli rode her bicycle so fast, and the eldest girl almost caught up. Xiaoli can take people with her bicycle, so why did she have the nerve to ask the eldest girl to run behind her bicycle?
"You'd better sit in the back seat of my bicycle! I'll take you." Xiaoli said, pointing to the back seat of the bicycle.
"Thank you Xiaoli." The eldest sister carefully sat down to the back seat of the bicycle.
Xiaoli rode her bicycle on the road smoothly. The eldest girl grabbed Xiaoli's clothes tightly with both hands. Xiaoli could feel the eldest girl's hands trembling while holding her clothes.
"Big girl, don't be afraid. I'll ride a bike, don't worry! I won't throw you out of the car." Xiaoli said with a smile.
"Xiaoli, you're so good! You can ride a bicycle." The eldest girl said enviously.
"Can't you ride a bicycle?" Xiaoli asked curiously, but Xiaoli looked back and thought that she bought a bicycle after she came to work in Shenzhen to learn how to ride it. She used to be unable to ride a bicycle in her hometown.
"Not to mention riding a bicycle, this is the first time I ride a bicycle! We are all mountain roads everywhere, and we can't even ride a bicycle, so we can only walk with two feet." The eldest girl sighed.
"When you come here, you can learn to ride a bicycle. When you make money, you can buy a bicycle." Xiaoli comforted.
Xiaoli thought about it before, she had come to Shenzhen to work at the age of the eldest girl, and she also wore clothes that were made up again and again like a big girl, like a little beggar. She threw away all the torn clothes for the first time she got her salary, and took all the money for a month to buy new clothes.
"I heard that you all made a lot of money here. I have graduated from elementary school and my dad didn't plan to support me in school anymore, so I quickly came to join you to make money." said the eldest sister.
"Don't think about working too well. You will know the sadness of working hard and tired. The little money you earn can only be frugal. Buy a few clothes and a bicycle, but don't think about what big things you want to make." Xiaoli said with emotion.
"I didn't think so far. I was very happy to be able to make money to buy clothes and bicycles as you said." The eldest girl said happily.
Xiaoli and her eldest sister were talking all the way back to Xiaoli's rented house. Xiaoli's biological mother had already sat down for her meals and Liu Fan had already returned home.
Everyone watched Xiaoli bring back a little girl dressed like a little beggar. Everyone looked at Xiaoli and waited for Xiaoli to explain what happened to this little beggar.
"She is Big Girl, and she is my cousin's eldest daughter. She came here to join me and wanted to find a job here." Xiaoli briefly introduced Big Girl.
"Let's have dinner first!" Xiaoli's mother greeted everyone.
The eldest girl looked at the table of dishes and exclaimed: "Do you have a banquet today? But we don't have more dishes than you have in our hometown."
"No, today is Liu Fan's birthday. Let's make more dishes to help him celebrate his birthday." Xiaoli's mother said.
"I cook so many dishes on one birthday. In our hometown, only elderly people are qualified to celebrate their birthdays. At most, we can kill a chicken to add dishes. I have never cooked a birthday since I was a child, and I don't remember that my own birthday was that day." said the eldest sister.
"I have never celebrated my birthday before. Next month is my birthday. I will take out the money to hold a table with a sumptuous meal to celebrate my birthday. When you make money in the future, you can add vegetables to yourself every year to celebrate your birthday." Wei Xiaohua said.
"Is your family very poor too? Only children from poor families have no money to celebrate their birthdays." The eldest sister looked at Wei Xiaohua and said.
"Poor, my family is really poor, but now I have the help of my aunt, Xiaoli, sister, Liu Fan, and I have started to make money now and can get rid of poverty soon." Wei Xiaohua said happily.
"Are you here to defect to Xiaoli and the others?" The eldest sister looked at Wei Xiaohua and said happily. She felt that she had found a like-minded friend.
"Come and eat chicken legs and fatten your body." Xiaoli's mother picked up a chicken leg and gave the big girl who was as thin as skinny as she was.
"Thank you, aunt, I have never eaten chicken legs. The chickens we killed during the New Year and the festival are all eaten by my brother." The eldest sister said happily as she looked at the chicken legs.
"In the future, when you make money, you will have any kind of chicken legs you like to eat." Xiaoli said.
"I will definitely work hard in the future and make a lot of money." The eldest sister said very seriously.
"You'd better think about how to find a job first!" Liu Fan said sarcastically.
"I have seen many factories along the way today! It's not difficult to find a job!" said the eldest sister.
"There are many factories, but you haven't seen people from all over the country flock to this small place in Shenzhen. Do you think there is still a place for you to stand?" Liu Fan sighed and said, how many people mistakenly think it's easy to find a job in Shenzhen! (It's easy to find a job in Shenzhen now, but in that era, it's really not easy to find a job in Shenzhen.)
"Stop talking about this. Big sister, go take a shower after dinner, rest early, and go find a job tomorrow." Xiaoli's mother said.
The eldest girl came out to change her clothes after taking a shower, but it was no different from not changing her clothes. She had been nailed several times, and she looked old and dirty.
Wei Xiaohua gave her two sets of clothes she didn't wear often to the eldest girl, and Xiaoli also found two sets of clothes for the eldest girl and asked her to change the clothes immediately.
Liu Fan and Xiaoli returned to their room, and Liu Fan said, "Your family has so many poor relatives."
"So what? Why don't you think about your cousin and cousin last year how long did it take to live here before you found a job?" Xiaoli said bluntly.
"Oh, forget it, let's stop quarreling for those irrelevant people. It's time to exercise after eating." Liu Fan had climbed up Xiaoli's peaks with one hand, and his other hand had entered Xiaoli's secret passage. Xiaoli gasped and there was still strength to curse.
Looking back at the era when I was wearing several times and nailing clothes, I looked at the clothes in the wardrobe now. I really feel so happy,,,,,,
(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!