sjar Chapter 18 The protagonist's scumbag brother
Chapter 18 The protagonist's scumbag brother
Now that they have ordered so much furniture, Uncle Zheng has to work overtime again. Although he is busy, he is happy in his heart because he can earn more this way.
Wenxi picked out three baskets and three backpacks, and paid for the baskets and backpacks first. As for the other furniture, he would pay for it after he got it.
Coming out of the carpenter's house, Jiang Yue took Wen Xi's arm and said gratefully and sincerely, "Xiao Xi, thank you!"
Wen Xi asked for three of everything, including her share of course. Her family gave her thirty yuan when she went to the countryside, and she also brought a bunch of old things, but they were still not as much as what Shen Jiaojiao stole from home. Living with Wen Xi and Shen Jiaojiao, she was the one who took advantage.
From now on she could only do more work to repay them.
Wen Xi patted Jiang Yue's hand without saying anything. Everything was implied.
Wenxi brought nearly five hundred yuan from home, three hundred yuan of which was pocket money given to her by her second brother, and the remaining two hundred yuan was saved from childhood. Now that the big items have been arranged, she should not have to spend money in the future because she has a sign-in system and does not need to spend money on many things.
In the evening, Wenxi stir-fried some wild vegetables, but she didn't stir-fry all of them. She only stir-fried three kinds: dandelions, wild onions, and toad greens. She stir-fried them all directly, and only added a little bit of oil and salt.
She didn't want the group of people at the educated youth site to take advantage of her, and she didn't want them to think she was rich and pester her.
After it got dark, the three of them each carried a basket and walked towards the Youth League Home. Knowing that there were no extra bowls and chopsticks there, they brought their own!
Soon they arrived at a big house in the Ping'an Brigade.
This was originally the house of the richest man, but it was later torn into pieces and after some repairs it became the place where the educated youth lived.
At this time, the educated youth who had arrived earlier were already cooking dinner inside. Hearing the noise coming from outside, a male educated youth walked out. Wen Xi recognized him as the protagonist's good brother, Lu Xiaoyun, the culprit of Shen Jiaojiao's misfortune in her previous life.
Wen Xi subconsciously pulled Shen Jiaojiao behind her, preventing Lu Xiaoyun from seeing Shen Jiaojiao at first sight. Instead, she acted as if she was interested in Lu Xiaoyun.
If Lu Xiaoyun wanted to flirt with her, that was fine, because she was mentally prepared and could handle it, but Shen Jiaojiao had never experienced anything like this, so she was easily fooled by a man.
Lu Xiaoyun noticed Wen Xi at the first moment. She was so beautiful, with fair skin, a small and delicate nose, bright red lips, and a pair of black and sparkling eyes that seemed to be filled with starlight, which made people fall deeply in love with her. It was like the mysterious night sky, making people want to explore the mystery.
Lu Xiaoyun had seen many girls, but none of them was as good as her.
However, when he saw the surprise in the girl's eyes quickly turn into disgust, Lu Xiaoyun felt a sense of frustration for no reason. Did he do anything wrong just now?
Why did she feel so disgusted when she first met him?
"Hello, comrade. We were also the new educated youths who arrived yesterday. We heard that the Youth Institute will hold a welcoming banquet tonight, so we came here with the dishes we cooked."
"So you are the educated youth who just arrived yesterday. Welcome, welcome. Hello, I am Lu Xiaoyun, the educated youth who came before. It's getting dark, everyone please come in!" Lu Xiaoyun said with a smile.
When Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue heard Lu Xiaoyun's name, they remembered the gossip that Wen Xi told them. They looked at each other and exchanged glances.
It turns out that this is Lu Xiaoyun, the two-timing guy who has a boyfriend in his hometown and another one outside. He looks like a decent person, but he actually did such a despicable thing.
Wen Xi had lived here for two years in her previous life and was very familiar with every tree and blade of grass here. Just by listening to the sound, she knew that everyone was gathered in the kitchen. She didn't ask Lu Xiaoyun to lead the way. She directly led Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue in and walked towards the direction of the sound.
It had snowed before and the snow on the ground had not melted completely yet. We didn't have to go to work as everyone was at the educated youth site. The kitchen was warmer so everyone gathered there.
"Wen Zhiqing, Shen Zhiqing, Jiang Zhiqing, you are here!" Hearing the voices, Song Lan guessed that it might be the three of them coming. As soon as he came out, he saw them and hurried over to greet them.
Walking into the kitchen, Wen Xi took out some stir-fried wild vegetables from a basket and handed them to Song Lan, "Hello, I'm also Wen Xi, the educated youth who just arrived yesterday. We didn't bring anything good, so we only brought three dishes. I'll add one dish for everyone, and I hope you don't mind!"
"Don't mind, don't mind. How could we mind such delicious food?" Song Lan hurriedly stretched out his hands to take the stir-fried wild vegetables, then brought it into the kitchen and put it on the table.
Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue also quickly put the wild vegetables in the basket on the table.
Seeing the wild vegetable porridge, pickles, fried radish and fried cabbage on the table, Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue looked at each other. Fortunately, Wen Xi had the foresight to not cook meat dishes, otherwise these old educated youth would have gotten a great deal.
They were planning to host a welcoming banquet, but ended up using dishes like these to entertain them. There wasn't even an egg soup. Even with just one egg and some cabbage, one could make a pot of egg soup, but they didn't make anything.
There were a total of eighteen people, including new and old educated youth, and one table could not accommodate them all. Everyone moved out the small tables from the boys' and girls' dormitories and put them together, which was just enough to seat everyone.
The people in charge of cooking today brought all the food to the table. One of the girls smiled and said to everyone, "Today, in order to welcome you five new educated youths, I have made a few simple dishes. Even a skilled cook cannot cook without rice. We don't have much here, so we can only do this. I hope you don't mind!"
Wen Xi smiled faintly, "This is already very good. We have used up all the resettlement funds to buy a house and furniture. We won't be able to eat such good food in the future."
After everyone sat down around the table, a male educated youth stood up and said, "Hello, I'm Zhu Jiawen, the male leader of the educated youth center. We all went to the countryside to support national construction, so we should help each other and take care of each other. If you have any problems in the future, you can come to the educated youth center to find us."
Chu Wan'er, the leader of the female educated youth, also stood up, looked around at everyone, and said, "Zhu Jiawen is right. Although we don't live together, we are all educated youth. We are one. We really need to unite so that we won't be bullied."
Wen Xi just smiled in her heart, and her words were quite frank, but in fact, she was just trying to be non-partisan, or she was just trying to smooth things over, otherwise she wouldn't have felt so depressed in the educated youth center for two years in her previous life.