sjar Chapter 1052 The Wave of the Times
Chapter 1052 The Wave of the Times
The boy who was called wiped the sweat from his forehead, veins bulging under his sports wristband: "Okay, I didn't have lunch either." When he turned around, his basketball shoes made a harsh sound on the concrete floor.
After the figure disappeared around the corner, Tian Xiaoyi stamped her feet and glared at him: "Are you crazy?"
"what happened to me?"
Zhou Qi smiled and hooked her little finger: "Isn't this what all young couples do nowadays? I'll take you to Xinjiekou someday to see how people kiss in the street."
"You rascal!"
Tian Xiaoyi shook off his hand and hid in the shade of a tree, but his heart felt like it was bursting with popping candies.
Zhou Qi leaned against the sycamore tree and raised his eyebrows: "That boy often bothers you? How about I..."
"Don't! His father works in the district education bureau."
Tian Xiaoyi kicked the gravel at his feet and said, "Ever since my dad was transferred to be the city leader, he has been able to sell milk tea to a chain store."
"What if there is no such relationship?"
"Who knows? Anyway, he has seven colors of hair bands in his drawer." The stone rolled into the gap of the sewer.
"It seems I have to keep an eye on you more often."
Zhou Qi unscrewed the iced soda and handed it over: "Stop someone from stealing the beauty of our Department of Economics and Management."
"Don't give me that! It's just a cosmos flower in the green belt at best."
Tian Xiaoyi laughed while biting the straw, and the sparkling water reflected tiny spots of light in the sunlight.
In the dormitory building three hundred meters away, Zhang Zhengyue threw his jersey into the laundry tub, and the screen of his mobile phone lit up with an arrival notification from a luxury store.
Cicadas were chirping outside the window. He stared at the word "busy" in the top chat box from three days ago. Suddenly, he grabbed the dumbbells and slammed them against the locker.
For couples who are just beginning a relationship, they have endless things to talk about, but they simply cannot afford to talk on the phone for an hour or two at a time.
Walking on the campus of Jinling University, Zhou Qi seemed to have returned to his student days, those carefree days.
"What are you going to do during the summer vacation?" Zhou Qi asked while sitting on the bench.
"When I have nothing to do, I go to the library to read, and do some odd jobs during the day to earn some extra money. You know, I want to buy a house for my mother in Jinling." Tian Xiaoyi replied.
Even though houses in Jinling are not expensive now, it still costs several thousand yuan to buy one, which is a huge amount of money for a working student.
"Do you think that if you bring your mother here, your father will remarry her? Besides, they didn't even get a marriage certificate when you were born, so this matter has no legal effect."
"Maybe you want to take her back, but she may not want to come!" Zhou Qi continued.
"I don't care. I know my mother's life in the countryside very well. Ever since my father left, the neighbors have been saying behind his back that he is a high-ranking official in the city, and my mother is said to be an unwanted woman."
"Will taking mom over solve the problem?"
Zhou Qi asked, "Your father's career is on the rise, I'm afraid this incident won't affect his future."
Tian Xiaoyi was silent, not knowing what to say.
Zhou Qi knew that after the Down to the Countryside Movement ended, situations like that of Tian Xiaoyi's mother were not uncommon.
A popular song at that time, "Xiao Fang", tells the story of these young people's longing for their rural lovers after returning to the city.
"There is a girl in the village named Xiaofang, with bright eyes and long braids..."
Zhou Qi suddenly hummed a tune with a local accent and tapped his fingers lightly on his knees.
Tian Xiaoyi held his chin up and listened intently until he heard the words "beside the creek the night before returning to the city". He suddenly picked up a stone from the ground and threw it into the pond:
"This tune sounds nice, but if my father dares to abandon my mother, I will definitely make sure he can't even be an official!"
Zhou **'s head jumped. He was counting on Vice Governor Tian to approve his development zone project by the end of the year.
He quickly broke off a willow branch and handed it to her: "Calm down, let me tell you, your parents are not the same kind of people. It's like trying to pair you up with Zhang Zhengyue, do you want to face that poker face every day?"
"But why did they get married in the first place?"
Tian Xiaoyi loosened her grip on the willow branch, remembering that Zhang Zhengyue always buttoned his white shirt to the top button, and suddenly she found it difficult to breathe.
"The tide of the times pushes people forward."
Zhou Qi looked at the ripples on the water and said, "How many educated youth divorced in order to return to the city in the 1980s? Your father is going to be promoted to a ministerial-level cadre now, and he can't still have a country wife..."
Before he finished speaking, hurried footsteps were heard in the distance.
Zhang Zhengyue rushed over with a wet crew cut and a meat bun he had just bought from the cafeteria in his hand.
When he saw two people almost touching each other under the sycamore tree, the oil paper bag fell to the ground with a "thump", and the white shirt was splashed with gravy.
Zhou Qi's back teeth were clattering, and he clenched the gravel in his trouser pockets, his knuckles turning white and then loosening his fists.
At this moment, two dry coughs suddenly burst out behind him. Zhang Zhengyue was standing under the paulownia tree with his arms folded.
Tian Xiaoyi shuddered as if she had been electrocuted, and before she could react, Zhou Qi pulled her into his arms.
A warm breath with the smell of soap wafted towards her, and her whole face was pressed into the other person's shoulder. She heard a laughing voice from above her head:
"Isn't Mr. Zhang too nosy? This is my serious partner, the one I'm going to marry in the future. We can do whatever we want with each other!"
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly leaned over and bit Tian Xiaoyi's lips hard amid the exclamations of the surrounding students.
"It's going to kill me!"
Zhang Zhengyue's eardrums were buzzing as he watched Tian Xiaoyi's red ears tremble in the twilight. The sycamore leaves he had just picked in his hand were torn into pieces.
When the street lights came on one after another, Tian Xiaoyi pulled Zhou Qi's sleeve and walked towards the dormitory building, saying in a floating voice: "How about I take you to the school gate..."
Before she could finish her words, her bangs were ruffled: "Silly girl, I'll come again tomorrow. I'll stay at room 203 of your Dongmen Guesthouse. Remember to bring me the sugar-coated cakes from the cafeteria."
After turning off the lights, Tian Xiaoyi stared at the ceiling and made pancakes. The handkerchief she was holding in bed was still stained with the smell of tobacco.
As the sky was just turning pale, she was already wandering downstairs in the guesthouse, carrying an aluminum lunch box. Zhou Qi opened the window with a toothbrush in his mouth, and the girl's ponytail was gilded in the morning light.
"I'm going to the daily newspaper and the People's Broadcasting Station to discuss advertising today."
Zhou Qi wiped his face with cold water and said, "TV sets are very expensive nowadays. There are only two black-and-white TV sets in every thousand households in the glass factory.
But which government agency doesn’t subscribe to newspapers? Besides, radio is much more popular than television.”
He took out his notebook and scribbled some numbers: "First, build up a good reputation in Guanglin Province. When 'Prosperous World' becomes a standard for wedding banquets, then expand to the north..."
Yesterday he went to the Trademark Office and the Patent Office. Both sides clearly stated that he could use the "Shengshi Tianxia" trademark to start production first, and there was no problem with advertising.
“You even run a liquor business?”
Tian Xiaoyi looked at Zhou Qi with eyes wide open, feeling that this man was omnipotent.
Zhou Qi was wiping his face with a towel. "It's just a small business. I have to go to two newspapers and radio stations today. I think I'll be busy until dark."
"I'll go with you!"
Tian Xiaoyi's ears turned red after she finished speaking. After being secretly kissed last night, the girl tossed and turned all night without sleeping.
In this age when people would blush even if they held hands, that sudden kiss made her identify with the man in front of her.