Luo Xiao Qing didn’t care about all that, she directly pressed Shen You Tian on the supply and marketing cooperative bench, grabbed her ankle, and took off her worn cloth shoes and socks.
Luo Xiao Qing looked at Shen You Tian’s feet and was slightly stunned. The jade feet were gently lifted, white and slender, the toenails trimmed neatly and rounded, like exquisite pearls, crystal clear and translucent.
Luo Xiao Qing couldn’t help but squeeze them twice, causing Shen You Tian’s cheeks to flush red, but she dared not speak.
She changed her into clean shoes and socks, and Shen You Tian shrank beside Duo Duo and Guo Guo, like a little ostrich.
Back home, Luo Xiao Qing gave the fish to Luo Hui Zhen.
That night, Luo Hui Zhen cooked a table full of dishes: braised pork, steamed fish, spicy tofu, and fried loach.
Luo Xiao Qing turned on the radio, and the family listened to the radio while eating dinner happily.
“Come, let’s raise a toast to Xiao Qing finding a job today!”
The aroma of the food and the melodious sound of the radio spread throughout the entire courtyard.
In the front courtyard, Yan Bu Gui smelled the fish, looked at the three small crucian carp in his bucket, the size of a palm, and lay on the bed in frustration, unable to eat.
In the middle courtyard, Jia Zhang Shi grumbled: “He’s the First Uncle, you can’t just ignore this, Luo Xiao Qing’s family is eating delicious food and drinking every day. Why can’t they help our family a little?
My poor grandson is growing, he’s hungry and crying, his mother doesn’t have enough milk.”
Jia Dong Xu looked at the steamed buns at home with a black face, never had he found them so hard to swallow.
Yi Hai Zhong sighed: “Jia Po Po, wait a little longer, let’s wait until everyone has a job, I’ll discuss holding a courtyard meeting, and see what everyone thinks.”
It’s still the beginning of the new year, if he asked people to donate to Jia’s family, it would be no different from begging for money, and then he, the First Uncle, would be the one to be criticized.
Qin Huairu sat on the bed, watching Bang Geng who wasn’t full and who wasn’t getting enough milk, her tears welled up:
“Dong Xu, my milk isn’t enough, what should we do?”
Jia Dong Xu: “How would I know what to do? Why are you so troublesome!”
Jia Zhang Shi: “Crucian carp soup is best for increasing milk, I saw Luo Xiao Qing carrying a bucket with several crucian carp just now.”
Qin Huairu: “Dong Xu, why don’t you go to Luo’s family and borrow two crucian carp?”
Jia Dong Xu: “Huai Ru, you have a good relationship with Xiao Qing, I remember she was pretty good to you.
Why don’t you go and ask Xiao Qing?”
Qin Huairu was so angry that her chest ached. Why did she have to choose such a spineless good-for-nothing like Luo Xiao Qing.
The child wasn’t full, and he didn’t care.
Qin Huairu was sitting in confinement, naturally she couldn’t go out and borrow fish from Luo Xiao Qing.
Confinement sickness could leave you with lifelong problems.
The Jia family could only eat steamed buns and corn mush in frustration.
In Liu Hai Zhong’s family, Liu Hai Zhong smelled the fragrance and slammed his chopsticks down in anger: “What is Luo Xiao Qing’s family showing off for?
Eating fish and meat every day, are they letting people live?”
The people in the courtyard each had their own lives, Luo Xiao Qing wasn’t interested. After dinner, she went to bed.
Early the next morning, Luo Hui Zhen made breakfast for Luo Xiao Qing.
Shen You Tian took Luo Xiao Qing’s woolen Lenin suit and used an enamel cup filled with hot water to iron it flat and neat.
Luo Xiao Qing rode her bicycle to work.
The neighbors in the courtyard looked at this scene and were all envious.
“Luo the Widow was really lucky to adopt Xiao Qing!”
“I knew it, I should have adopted a child too! Look at the new house Luo’s family built, it’s so spacious and grand.”
At the Nan Luo Drum Lane Police Station, Bai Ling had completed her onboarding procedures before the new year, and today was her first day of work.
As soon as she entered the office, Zhang, the chief of the Nan Luo Drum Lane Police Station, took Bai Ling to the office:
“Everyone, let me introduce a new comrade to you, her name is Bai Ling, she returned from studying abroad in the Soviet Union, from now on, she will be a colleague just like all of you!
Bai Ling, you can sit over there for now!”
Bai Ling looked at the small window by the window that was vacant: “Chief Zhang, is that seat taken?”
Chief Zhang: “It’s taken, this is a very important comrade’s seat!”
Bai Ling could only reluctantly sit in the corner, looking at the seat by the window, feeling indignant.
She was a high-achieving student who returned from studying abroad in the Soviet Union, and she had also made meritorious achievements by carrying out missions.
How could she not be important?
“Comrade Bai Ling, hello, my name is Sun Lian Cheng! I’m the captain of our police station!”
“Captain Sun, hello! Captain Sun, who’s this seat for?”
Sun Lian Cheng: “He’s also a new comrade, just like you. I haven’t met him yet, but he’s starting work today.”
Bai Ling muttered in her heart, who is so important, even before starting work he’s the focus of attention at the police station? Is he even more important than her?
Bai Ling was unhappy, but she didn’t say anything. She secretly decided that in her daily work, she would definitely prove herself and get that seat.
Bai Ling sat at her desk, looking out the window, a familiar figure flashed by.
“It’s just like seeing a ghost, I think I saw Luo Xiao Qing again!”
“Alright, everyone, let me introduce another new comrade!”
As he spoke, Chief Zhang led Luo Xiao Qing, who had just reported for duty, into the office.
“This is Comrade Luo Xiao Qing, who helped solve the big procurement problem for our martyrs a while ago.
From today onwards, he’s the procurement officer of our Nan Luo Drum Lane Police Station! Let’s give him a warm welcome!”
The police officers in the entire office stood up and applauded enthusiastically.
Luo Xiao Qing was dumbfounded, he was just starting his first day, and he was already so famous?
Luo Xiao Qing was stunned, but Bai Ling was even more stunned than Luo Xiao Qing.
She had rejected Luo Xiao Qing because he had no job and no future, she was instigated by those people in the courtyard and regretted the marriage.
She had put in a lot of effort and worked hard for a long time before she could stand here and become a police officer at the police station.
But how could Luo Xiao Qing, that good-for-nothing poor boy, also become a police officer?
It seemed that he was even more valued by the police station than her.
Bai Ling was shattered.
Luo Xiao Qing didn’t see Bai Ling at all, after all, there were more than ten people in one office.
The logistics and patrol officers were all in one office.
Chief Zhang: “Xiao Qing, this is the seat I specially reserved for you, you can make do with it for two days.
When the office is vacated in the back, you can go to the back, Vice-Bureau Chief Feng has instructed.
Your main task is still procurement, here’s this month’s food requirements.”
Luo Xiao Qing took the order, “Okay, thank you Chief Zhang!”
“I should thank you, during the Spring Festival, if it weren’t for you, everyone’s families wouldn’t have had meat to eat.
And those brothers who sacrificed themselves to capture enemy spies, if it weren’t for you, several families would have starved to death.
Xiao Qing, on behalf of all the families of the comrades who sacrificed themselves, in Nan Luo Street, I sincerely thank you!”
“Thank you, Comrade Luo Xiao Qing!”
Everyone saluted Luo Xiao Qing, and Luo Xiao Qing quickly returned the salute: “Chief Zhang, Captain Sun, don’t be so polite, it’s just a small effort, just a small effort!”
“Sun Lian Cheng, you’ll be in charge of Xiao Qing from now on, familiarize him with the work of the unit.”
“Yes!”
“Comrade Luo Xiao Qing, this is your uniform, this is your daily necessities.”
After joining the job, Luo Xiao Qing realized that the pork he had bought before the new year had helped the police station comrades and the families of the martyrs have a fat year.
It also made Luo Xiao Qing the darling of the Nan Luo Drum Lane Police Station on his first day of work.
Everyone took good care of him, the tea on his desk was always hot, every time they went to eat, Luo Xiao Qing’s lunch box was always the fullest.
If there were errands to run, they would all compete to do it for Luo Xiao Qing!
Luo Xiao Qing still didn’t notice Bai Ling’s presence.
It was Bai Ling who, seeing Luo Xiao Qing’s current ability, felt bitter in her heart.