Chapter 439 Ji Ling's Love Lesson
Zhang Yunqi knew that some of the words he said tonight were quite ruthless to the uncles and aunts in the village. As for his original intention, it was nothing else but that he, Zhang Yunqi, hoped that Yunxi Village could be better.

University was about to start, so he went to the provincial capital, Lijin City, and devoted most of his energy to Aiwa Electronics. It was unlikely that he had time to take care of the trivial matters in the village. Many of his ideas depended on these uncles and aunts who were born as farmers. He still hoped that they could understand his ideas.

As they talked about this, the food on the stove had been waiting for a long time. Zhang Haijun's wife waved the spatula and said, "You grown men, stop talking. It's rare for Yunqi to come to the village. Eat first! You'll have plenty of time to talk to him tomorrow."

As they were talking, several village women who were helping in the kitchen cleared the fruit, vegetable and peanut shells from the wooden table and brought more than ten dishes to the table. Each bowl was filled to the brim, and the food was both hearty and rich, with the rich aroma of local tea oil and round chili peppers, all of which were the taste of home.

The atmosphere in the main room became lively.

Zhang Yunqi ate very well. His favorite dish was stir-fried wild rabbit meat with radish, which was added with Yunxi's specialty Fangyuan pepper and topped with homemade camellia oil. It was very spicy, but also very delicious. The wild boar meat was also good and very chewy. He and a group of fellow villagers also had two more glasses of homemade sweet potato wine.

After dinner, Zhang Yunqi went out for a stroll.

Yunxi Village is changing with each passing day. Unknowingly, many of the buildings and scenes from his childhood seemed to have disappeared suddenly, like the fish pond behind the old auditorium where he used to catch bullfrogs and snails, and the rows of tobacco curing houses on the left side of the current cultural center that he hated as a child. He didn't know when they were demolished. He couldn't keep his childhood, his youth, or even the last second of the past. There were no memories worth remembering. Looking forward, his life would be better.

The threshing ground in front of his house is still there. At night, the children in the village like to run and play on the threshing ground. When he was a child, he often wore ragged clothes and ran around in this field chasing a broken ball.

Zhang Yunqi found a haystack to lie down on, while Ji Ling, Xiaoxiao and a group of other children were playing hopscotch in the threshing ground. Although it was already a little after nine o'clock in the evening, it was not dark. It was a midsummer night, the sky was full of stars, the evening breeze was warm, and there were the sounds of insects chirping, frogs croaking, and the girls' clear laughter.

"The clouds are rising."

Zhang Yunqi suddenly heard someone calling him. He turned around and saw a girl with a ponytail and a floral dress.

The girl is Zhang Haijun's daughter, Ji Ling's cousin Zhang Xiaomei. She is the same age as Zhang Yunqi, almost 19 years old, but she looks much more mature. They are neighbors across the street and grew up together. When they were young, they played and fought with each other and had a very good relationship. Just now, Zhang Xiaomei was busy cooking and entertaining guests, so the two didn't talk much.

Zhang Xiaomei had poor grades and stopped studying after junior high school.

The year she graduated from junior high school, Zhang Yunqi went to Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School, while she went to work in the coastal area of ​​Guangdong for a year, working on an assembly line in a shoe factory. Later, seeing that their village was developing well and her father was the chairman of the cooperative, she returned to Yunxi in the middle of last year and used her connections to get a job in the Longjingyuan Agricultural Industrial Park. It seemed that the position was a clerk, which was relatively easy.

Zhang Yunqi heard that Zhang Xiaomei found a partner in the factory, who worked in the technical department and had a local hukou in Jiangchuan City. He was pretty good in all aspects and he had even met her parents.

Zhang Xiaomei brought a cup of tea and handed it to Zhang Yunqi. She sat on the haystack next to her with a smile on her face, but she was not as carefree as she was in front of Zhang Yunqi when she was a child. She said, "Should I call you chairman?"

Zhang Yunqi took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "It seems that there is nothing wrong with calling me that, but what is our relationship? Just call me the same as you used to call me. By the way, I heard that you have a partner?"

Zhang Xiaomei blushed, but she looked calm and composed: "Yes, we plan to hold a wedding banquet at the end of this year."

Zhang Yunqi nodded. In the 90s, a 19-year-old rural girl was considered an adult. It was normal for her to find a partner and get married. "That's great. Remember to notify me before you get married."

Zhang Xiaomei immediately said happily: "Will you, a big shot, come to my wedding? It would be such an honor."

Zhang Yunqi said happily: "It's too formal to say that. If I have time, I will definitely come. If I don't have time, I have to come even if I get a big red envelope."

Zhang Xiaomei smiled and said, "You are still trying to shirk your responsibilities, but you are a busy person, so I understand. By the way, Yunqi, there is something I would like to ask you to do for me, but... I don't know if it is appropriate."

Zhang Yunqi smiled and said, "You say."

Zhang Xiaomei hesitated for a moment, and finally said, "I want to change my job. Although being a clerk is easier, it is difficult to have good development."

Zhang Yunqi didn't say yes or no: "The general manager of Longjingyuan Industrial Park is my brother-in-law Niu Fen, right? Your father has such a good relationship with him, it shouldn't be difficult to transfer him to another position."

Zhang Xiaomei sighed: "You don't understand my father's stubborn temper. He can't afford to lose face."

Zhang Yunqi nodded: "I'll talk to my brother-in-law."

Zhang Xiaomei's heart was relieved and she said with a smile, "That's great, Yunqi, thank you."

Zhang Yunqi said: "No need to be polite."

Now it is difficult for him to participate in the operation and management of the company. Based on this, he will not easily open the back door to others to arbitrarily insert people or transfer employees. However, Zhang Xiaomei grew up with him. He still remembers that when he was in elementary school, because his family was too poor, it was common to have no food. Zhang Xiaomei's family conditions were much better, and sometimes she would give him some corn, sweet potatoes and the like to eat. Just for this kindness, it is right to transfer her job.

But he felt that in just three years, Zhang Xiaomei had matured a lot and would consider issues and her own interests from an adult's perspective. There was nothing wrong with that. Isn't that what people live for?

After chatting for a while, it was almost ten o'clock in the evening.

Rural people are used to going to bed early. The lights in the deep of the village gradually dimmed, the stars in the sky were silent, and on the threshing ground, the village women took brooms to drive the crazy children home. Ji Ling took the little hand and skipped back from the threshing ground. There were beads of sweat on her delicate face, full of the vitality and clarity of a young girl: "What are you two talking about?"

Zhang Yunqi smiled and said, "Where are we going to play tomorrow?"

Ji Ling said, "Have you thought about it?"

Zhang Yunqi said: "You will know tomorrow."

Ji Ling pouted: "Xiao Zhang's bad check is here again, right?"

"It's been taken care of this time." Zhang Yunqi smiled. Sometimes, this girl made people feel that she had not grown up. There was a pure aura around her, but her emotional intelligence towards others was ridiculously high.

It was getting late, so Zhang Yunqi took Xiaoxiao back to his old house to sleep.

Ji Ling naturally lived in Zhang Haijun's house, and she and her cousin Zhang Xiaomei slept in the same bedroom.

After taking a shower, Ji Ling changed into pajamas, lay on the bed and listened to music with earphones in her ears. Her slender white legs were crossed, and she was holding an Ericsson GH337 in her hand and sending text messages, but no one knew who she was sending to.

When Zhang Xiaomei came in and saw it, she looked a little surprised: "Is this a cell phone?"

Ji Ling said casually: "Yeah."

Zhang Xiaomei sat down on the bed and said, "This is very expensive, right? Did your uncle buy it for you?"

Ji Ling smiled and said, "No, classmate Xiao Zhang bought it. It cost about five or six thousand yuan."

Zhang Xiaomei took a deep breath. Five or six thousand! This was equal to her two-year salary at Longjing Garden. Although the village was developing well and her father was a major shareholder of the cooperative, and was considered a first-class wealthy family in Yunxi Village, it was absolutely impossible to spend five or six thousand yuan to buy such a small thing.

You know, just tonight, Zhang Yunqi personally decided on the funding plan for the village's unified villa construction project. Each household can invest 1.5 yuan to get a villa. This mobile phone is equivalent to one-third of a villa for the villagers.

The world of the rich is indeed different. Of course, Zhang Yunqi's excellence can no longer be measured by money. No one knows where the limit of that boy's sky is.

Zhang Xiaomei glanced at her cousin.

She didn't know why, but she always felt that her cousin was a little slow in emotions and seemed ignorant. However, she was already 17 years old, which was not young. In rural areas, it was very common for girls of this age to get married and have children.

Zhang Xiaomei sighed inwardly and stood up to get the clothes she wanted to wear from the closet. But just as she opened the closet, she stopped, thinking that she needed to have a heart-to-heart talk with her silly cousin. If it was any later, it would be too late.

She turned around and said, "Cousin, I heard that Zhang Yunqi has a girlfriend?"

Ji Ling turned over and said, "Yeah."

Zhang Xiaomei listened to Ji Ling's careless voice. For some reason, as a bystander, she felt inexplicably angry: "Don't you really care about this kind of thing?"

Ji Ling was stunned: "What do you care about?"

Zhang Xiaomei sighed, "You and Zhang Yunqi have been childhood sweethearts since you were little! If you were just a snack, who could snatch him away from you? Yes, in the past, it could be said that Zhang Yunqi and you were from two different worlds, but now, are you really going to give up such a boy with such lofty ambitions, a bright future, and such a deep emotional foundation with you?"

Ji Ling opened his mouth.

Zhang Xiaomei sighed, took clothes from the closet, turned around and walked out of the bedroom, but her voice floated in from the door: "We are no longer children, we have grown up, and we have to take our own happiness into our own hands. Cousin, after all these years, I don't believe you have no feelings for Zhang Yunqi!"

As soon as Zhang Xiaomei left, the bedroom became very quiet.

There are sounds of insects and frogs outside the window.

Ji Ling's five fingers gripped the phone tightly, feeling depressed.

For some reason, she suddenly remembered what Lin Shiyu had said to her a long time ago: "Girls, never claim to be friends with boys."

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(End of this chapter)