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109. Huaguo Society
Seeing Xi Junjie's pitiful appearance, Zhen Zhen squatted on the ground holding her stomach and laughed wildly, Xi Junjie looked at her helplessly with a huge bouquet: "Do you think I'm stupid?"
Zhen Zhen nodded, she was almost speechless when she laughed: "You've been to more than thirty times...but...you didn't find...the cave...haha..."
When Xi Junjie thought of doing such a stupid thing, he couldn't help laughing: "It's over, there is a black history just after the marriage proposal, do you have to laugh when you think about it in the future?"
Zhen Zhen stood up on her knees and nodded vigorously: "When our children grow up, I have to tell them."
Xi Junjie opened the car door, put the rose on the back seat, waited for the heat in the car to dissipate, and then blocked the frame with his hand: "Okay, stop laughing, get in the car quickly."
Zhen Zhen lowered her head and sat on the co-pilot, fastened her seat belt, and watched Xi Junjie sit on the cab from the other side: "You are quite a gentleman."
Xi Junjie stretched out his face and kissed Zhen Zhen's face: "It depends on who you are with, you must be a gentleman with you, and your daughter-in-law must be taken care of. If you go out with other girls , then it can't be so gentleman, you know that a handsome man like me, as long as you are more considerate, it is easy for people to have other ideas."
"Oh!" Zhen Zhen smiled and patted Xi Junjie on the shoulder, looking at him narrowly: "Why are you so narcissistic."
Xi Junjie started the car and glanced at Zhen Zhen with a smile: "The main reason is that you praise me every day for how good-looking I am, and the praise for me is all inflated."
Zhen Zhen held her chin and looked at Xi Junjie carefully, she couldn't help but praise again: "It's really good-looking, well, for the sake of your face, I allow you to be narcissistic in front of me."
Xi Junjie laughed, reached out and pinched Zhen Zhen's ear, and said indulgently: "Oh, I am so happy to praise, so I decided to take you to eat delicious food."
Zhen Zhen wrinkled her nose and deliberately made a fierce expression: "If it doesn't taste good, be careful I will punish you on your knees on the washboard."
"This starts exercising the rights of a daughter-in-law?" Xi Junjie put on the block: "Then I have to buy a few more washboards and put them at home. If one is broken, I can replace it, so as not to make my daughter-in-law angry."
Zhen Zhen covered her mouth with joy, Xi Junjie stepped on the accelerator, and while paying attention to the road conditions, he discussed with Zhen Zhen: "I have already booked restaurants for lunch and dinner, let's go to lunch first, do you have anything to do in the afternoon? Yes? You can watch a movie or go shopping for wedding clothes.”
The car drove along the dirt road from the suburbs to the outer city and then into the inner city, and finally stopped at the entrance of the Imperial Hotel. Xi Junjie helped Zhen Zhen out of the car and looked at her face with concern: "I have been in the car for too long today, Do you feel dizzy or nauseous?"
"I don't feel dizzy." Zhen Zhen flickered her long eyelashes very honestly: "It's just that I was hungry all the way, I think I can eat a cow now."
Xi Junjie put his hand in his pocket, and heaved a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, I brought enough money today, otherwise I might have to stay and wash the dishes according to your appetite."
Although Zhen Zhen has never been to the Imperial Hotel, she also knows the price of the super expensive dishes here. She stretched out her hand to hold Xi Junjie's arm and asked worriedly, "Do you really have enough money?"
Xi Junjie looked at her dumbfounded: "How poor am I in your heart?" He reached out and squeezed Zhen Zhen's cheek, Xi Junjie whispered in her ear: "Don't worry, my investment income in France is high enough, I can still invite you to eat here." He said a number in Zhen Zhen's ear, Zhen Zhen looked at him in astonishment: "This is much faster than starting a business, or I can invest in France. "
Because they arrived early, there were not too many guests in the restaurant. The two found a quiet and hidden place. After ordering, they looked at each other and suddenly laughed together.
Xi Junjie stretched out his hand and scratched on Zhen Zhen's finger: "When are we going to have the wedding?"
Zhen Zhen thought for a moment and said, "I'm going to report to the unit tomorrow, I guess it will be busy at the beginning, why don't we put the wedding in October, when the work should also start, so we won't be in a hurry. The weather is just right, the autumn is high and airy, Perfect for marriage."
Xi Junjie immediately took out a yellow calendar and showed it to Zhen Zhen: "In that case, it would be more suitable to have a date, how about September 26th? The lunar calendar is the tenth day of the eighth lunar month, which is a good day for marriage, and it is just right It's Sunday."
Zhen Zhen looked at this calendar from August to October, with a lot of days in each month, she looked at him dumbfounded: "You have prepared enough, no matter how you look, I can't tell you. People who will believe in Huang Li."
"The old man believes it." Xi Junjie said with a serious face: "After all, it is a major event for the two families, and everyone has to be satisfied."
Zhen Zhen stretched out her hand and held Xi Junjie's hand, feeling warm in her heart: "You are so attentive, I feel like I didn't help at all."
Xi Junjie put his other hand on the back of Zhen Zhen's hand, with a warm smile on his face: "You just need to feel at ease to be a beautiful bride."
The waiter came over with a bowl of braised shark fins in hand, and saw the two of them looking at each other affectionately, and suddenly they didn't go in or go out, Zhen Zhen quickly pulled her hand back when she saw this: "I'll go to the bathroom first."
Braised shark fin is one of the signature dishes of Tan Jia Cai of the Imperial Hotel. It uses high-quality ingredients such as shark fin, whole chicken, duck, Jinhua ham, and scallops.
When Zhen Zhen came back after washing her hands, the other dishes she ordered were served one after another. Two-color prawns, steamed chicken with straw mushrooms, sunflower duck, live fish in soy sauce, grilled black ginseng, silk chowder, and poached squid crowded the table. Full to the brim.
Looking at a delicious dish with all the colors and flavors, Zhen Zhen couldn't help swallowing her saliva, her eyes straightened: "Did we order a little too much?"
Xi Junjie filled a bowl of braised shark fins and handed it to her: "Not much, I believe in your fighting ability."
Zhen Zhen took a spoon and scooped a spoonful of braised shark fins into her mouth, only to feel that the tender shark fins slipped into her mouth, and the taste was rich; then try the prawns cooked in two different ways, the entrance is fresh, tender and delicious Refreshing; and the stewed chicken with straw mushrooms is not only tender and delicious, but also the fragrance of straw mushrooms is melted into the chicken, making people move their index fingers...
After eating each delicious dish, Zhen Zhen was in a good mood. When she looked at the exquisite dishes, she thought of savoring the taste of each dish carefully, and then she was discussing with Xi Junjie, don't let this beautiful Ambience and romantic atmosphere. But after taking a bite, Zhen Zhen had no idea what to do, she just focused on eating hard, her mouth was full, don't talk, even breathing Zhen Zhen was wasting her time.
After a meal of wind and clouds, the two of them ate the eight dishes cleanly, rubbing her bulging belly, Zhen Zhen leaned on the back of the chair and felt that she couldn't move: "No wonder it's so expensive, it's because it's so delicious. ."
Xi Junjie poured a cup of Xiaoshi tea for Zhen Zhen, his eyes were full of smiles: "I think watching you eat is a kind of enjoyment. Whenever you eat delicious food, your expression is very cute and very satisfying."
"Really?" Zhen Zhen wiped the oil remaining on her mouth with a handkerchief, and looked at Xi Junjie in disbelief: "I've eaten so much that you still think I'm cute? Isn't it easy to use my eyes?"
Xi Junjie smiled extremely happily: "That's why I said that there is a xi Shi in the eyes of a lover."
The two sat for a while and then left the Imperial Hotel. Originally, Zhen Zhen planned to go to the movies with Xi Junjie after the meal, but because she was too full, Zhen Zhen really didn't want to stay in the cinema, so she decided to go to the nearby Take a look around the mall. Nowadays, it is more popular for married men and women to wear suits, but Zhen Zhen still thinks it looks better in skirts. The two of them walked around for an afternoon and finally chose a red dress with a small delicate shawl on it, which was festive and beautiful.
By the time I got home after a romantic candlelight dinner, it was already nine o'clock in the evening. The car stopped outside Li's house, Xi Junjie got out of the car and opened the car door for Zhen Zhen, looking at her reluctantly: "Suddenly I feel that getting married at the end of September is still a bit late, if only I would get married tomorrow."
Zhen Zhen stood on tiptoe and kissed Xi Junjie on the face, then pushed him back to the car with a smile: "While you are not under my control at this time, I will allow you to enjoy the happiness of being a single young man for the last time." Xi Junjie grabbed Holding Zhen Zhen's hand, she tried her best to pout her mouth a little higher: "It's okay to kiss here." Zhen Zhen smiled and leaned over and said "Boom", Xi Junjie released Zhen Zhen's hand contentedly.
Zhen Zhen waved to Xi Junjie, hummed a song, and ran into the main courtyard in a circle, Mrs. Li, Wang Sufen and the others usually went to bed at eight o'clock in the evening, but only when Zhen Zhen entered the main courtyard did she find Mrs. Li The lights are still on in the house.
Mrs. Li was sitting under the window dozing off. She lowered her head suddenly and woke up suddenly. She opened her eyes just to see Zhen Zhen entering the yard. Mrs. Li hurriedly opened the door and shouted, "Why did you come back? Come here quickly."
Zhen Zhen looked at Mrs. Li with a smirk: "Honey, you haven't slept yet?"
"If I don't come back in the middle of the night, how can I sleep?" Mrs. Li yawned: "You hurry into the room, I have something to ask you."
"Okay, I'll put the things in the house first." The roses in Zhen Zhen's hands had disappeared as early as when Zhen Zhen picked them up, and when Zhen Zhen entered the house, she couldn't find anything to put so many roses in. , can only be placed in space first.
When Zhen Zhen entered the main room, Mrs. Li was holding the water glass and pouring water violently. Seeing that Zhen Zhen was busy dragging her into the room where she was sleeping, she couldn't wait to ask: "Have you and Junjie set a wedding date?"
"It's settled." Zhen Zhen asked Mrs. Li and Wang Sufen to sit on the bed, and she sat on the chair beside her: "It's set on September 26th, the lunar calendar is the tenth day of the eighth lunar month, and it's a Sunday."
Sure enough, Mrs. Li and Wang Sufen laughed when they heard this day: "It's a good day, it's all even numbers."
"Well, you guys are relieved after hearing this, I went back to the room to sleep." Zhen Zhen said that she stood up and was about to go out, Mrs. Li hurriedly grabbed her and asked in a low voice, "Is Junjie today? Proposing to you?"
Zhen Zhen looked at Mrs. Li with a smile, and gave her a thumbs up: "Grandma, you didn't watch TV in vain, you already know that you have proposed marriage."
"You can pull it down. It's not played on TV." Mrs. Li rolled her eyes: "I heard what your mother-in-law said. What, Junjie really knelt down?"
Thinking of the scene during the day, the smile on Zhen Zhen's face could not be hidden, she looked at herself with two pairs of eyes in front of her, and felt a little embarrassed for a while: "Mother, why are you asking everything? Excuse me?"
"This is kneeling." Mrs. Li nodded firmly, then turned her head and muttered to Wang Sufen: "You said that the people in this imperial capital are really different from those in our small place. If you leave us alone, if the gentlemen treat their daughter-in-law in a bad way. I'm not too embarrassed, I just knelt down before getting married here, I think her mother-in-law is quite happy."
Wang Sufen pondered: "I guess her mother-in-law has a big heart. I think her temperament is usually carefree, and she doesn't pay much attention to these things."
Mrs. Li nodded, and immediately said to Zhen Zhen: "Although your mother-in-law has a good temperament, you can't just bully Junjie, what a good child, he looks so nice and has a good temperament, don't let it go next time. He knelt down, you know?"
Zhen Zhen looked at Mrs. Li with tears in her eyes and nodded heavily: "I see."
"It's not too bad." Mrs. Li breathed a sigh of relief, but couldn't help but be amused again: "Zhen Zhen in our family is blessed, and after traveling so far to find such a good man, he still lives next door. You don't know. When Zhen Zhen was a child, I was worried about her marriage, and I was thinking at the time, what would I do if I couldn't see Zhen Zhen when she married into someone else's house, and what would I do if I was bullied?"
Wang Sufen interrupted Mrs. Li's memories honestly: "Mother, I think if someone carelessly wants to bully Zhen Zhen, then the designated person will be kicked on the wall by Zhen Zhen, there is nothing to worry about."
Zhen Zhen nodded: "Or just kick the tree."
Mrs. Li glanced at Wang Sufen and Zhen Zhen, and all her emotions disappeared in an instant. She kicked her shoes aside, and Mrs. Li lay on the bed and closed her eyes: "Sleep, I don't like chatting with you."
Zhen Zhen held back her laughter and helped Old Madam Li turn off the light. Before she and Wang Sufen reached the door, they already heard Old Madam Li's snoring. Wang Sufen closed the door gently, lowered her voice and said to Zhen Zhen, "Your mother has been sleepy long ago, just thinking about your wedding day."
"I know." Zhen Zhen smiled, squeezed Wang Sufen's shoulder and sent her back to the house: "Mom, hurry up and go to bed, it's getting late."
"Okay." Wang Sufen took two steps and suddenly remembered that Zhen Zhen was going to work tomorrow, and quickly asked, "What time do you go to work tomorrow? I'll cook for you when I get better."
"No, I'll just go to the street and eat the flatbread and fritters. If you sleep late tonight, don't worry about me tomorrow morning." Afraid that Wang Sufen would not be happy, Zhen Zhen added: "Junjie and I are on the way to work, we will eat together. "
"That's fine." The daughter and son-in-law went out together, then there was nothing to worry about, Wang Sufen instructed: "Then ride your bicycle slowly, don't fall or anything." Zhen Zhen responded and walked to the door Turn off the lights and go back to your house.
Although it was not too late, what happened today, Zhen Zhen lay on the bed and couldn't fall asleep. Thinking that the roses were still left in the space, Zhen Zhen simply sat up and took out a dozen antique vases from the Ming and Qing Dynasties from the space, each filled with half a bottle of water, trimmed the roses and put them in different vases. in a vase.
There is a bottle on the bedside table, a bottle on the dresser, a bottle on the desk, a bottle on the picture table, and every window sill in the house. Smelling the fragrance of roses, Zhen Zhen lay on the bed and quickly fell asleep.
As a state-level news agency, Huaguo News Agency is the mouthpiece of Huaguo, to be able to work in such an important news agency as soon as she graduates, Zhen Zhen is both nervous and excited.
Although it was an hour earlier than the time to go to work, many people have already written and written in their own positions. Half of the students in Zhen Zhen's class were assigned to Huaguo Club, including several girls in Zhen Zhen's dormitory. Seeing the familiar faces, their nervousness was relieved a lot.
A reporter led the students to an empty conference room, Wei Yujin, Xu Jiajia and the others had already arrived, Zhen Zhen put her bag on the table and asked softly, "You have all moved to the staff dormitory of Huaguo Society. ?"
"Yeah." Xu Jiajia said excitedly: "The environment is better than when we were in college. Sister Wei, Meng Xiaoran, and Han Xiaoru share the same room. There is a bathroom in the room, and everyone has a wardrobe."
Among the eight girls in Zhen Zhen's dormitory, only Wei Yujin is married. When Wei Yujin came to the Imperial Capital to go to university, the children were two years old, and now they are almost at the age of preschool.
"Eldest sister, have you ever thought about taking the child over? After all, the teaching environment in the Imperial Capital is much better than that in the Northwest." Zhen Zhen couldn't help but ask when Wei Yujin looked distracted.
"Well, I'm also thinking about this." Wei Yujin was a little worried when she thought about it: "I just went to work, and I haven't been able to apply for a family dormitory. Men and children can't live here even if they come here. There is a lot of money for food and lodging, let’s talk about it later.”
Zhen Zhen and Wei Yujin have lived together for four years, especially like this eldest sister, Wei Yujin broke her heart for the girls in the dormitory when they were at school, she had to touch their clothes one by one before class in winter, for fear that they would love each other. The pretty clothes are less cold. When the weather is hot in the summer night, help them fan one by one, and the girls are embarrassed.
In the past, because everyone was a student, Zhen Zhen was not very good at asking about other people's family affairs, but now that everyone graduated and started working, Zhen Zhen wanted to help Wei Yujin.
Seeing that it was still early, Zhen Zhen pulled Wei Yujin and dragged her to the bottom of the corridor in the yard: "Eldest sister, I really want to ask you a question, you have to be honest with me."
"What's the matter, it's so mysterious?" Wei Yujin looked at Zhen Zhen's serious face and said happily, "Go ahead and tell me whatever you ask."
Zhen Zhen smiled embarrassedly: "I just want to ask you, do you really want your brother-in-law to bring the child over, or do you have other ideas?"
"Then the designated person really wants him to come." Wei Yujin sighed: "I also know that like us educated youths, some people divorced from men in the countryside in order to go back to the city and some to go to university. But I thought that since we are all having children together, how can we live a good life for ourselves and not be good for men and children? If we do that, how is it different from Chen Shimei in the past? Are you right? ?"
Zhen Zhen smiled, Wei Yujin continued: "It's alright, don't worry about my sister, after a few years, when my sister gets her job and has the opportunity to apply for a house, I will take them over. Your brother-in-law's carpentry skills are quite good, and he is willing to Even if you endure hardship, you can find a job.”
Zhen Zhen nodded: "I remember hearing from my eldest sister that your man is a good carpenter. That's right. I know Director Sun of our Tengda Furniture Factory. When I talk to him, I will arrange for my brother-in-law to go to work."
"Tengda Furniture Factory?" Wei Yujin's eyes widened: "Is it the largest furniture factory in China now? I heard that the masters there are very good, so can you ask me for a man?"
"You can start with a small job first, if the craftsmanship is no problem, you can directly participate in furniture production." Although Zhen Zhen didn't go to the factory, she still knew the operation mode of the factory very well: "And there are several family buildings built in the factory. , those who can’t live in local homes can apply to live in from other places, and the furniture is fully furnished. I remember that another one was just built this spring, and I talked to Director Sun and approved a set for you. ."
Wei Yujin was so excited that she didn't know what to say, she held Zhen Zhen's hands and her eyes turned red: "Zhen Zhen, thank you for this, whether it's a success or not, but I also know that that factory is very difficult to enter. Don't be embarrassed if you're not happy, my sister doesn't want you to be humble for me."
"Where do you want to go." Zhen Zhenxiu thought about it and said: "In this way, the furniture factory is not too far away anyway, you can go directly with me after get off work at night, and you can rest assured when you get the key to the house. Let's call my brother-in-law." Seeing that Wei Yujin's tears were falling down, Zhen Zhen pushed her narrowly: "Did you cry with joy at the thought of the couple's reunion without having to stay alone in an empty room?"
Wei Yujin laughed through tears and said, "I see that they are about to get married, and their face is getting thicker and thicker."
Seeing that it was almost time to go to work, Wei Yujin wiped away her tears and returned to the conference room with Zhen Zhen. Not long after the two sat down, a man with glasses walked in with a notebook between them. The meeting room fell silent immediately, and everyone watched the man waiting for him to arrange work.
"Hello everyone, I'm Yu Shoujing, the editor-in-chief of the domestic news department. Welcome everyone to work at Hua Guoshe. We will be colleagues in the future. If you have any difficulties or don't understand at work, you can ask me, and I will actively help you. Everyone answer."
After a simple opening remarks, Yu Shoujing first introduced the situation of the Huaguo Society, and then emphasized: "Everyone is a top student majoring in journalism at Imperial College, and I think everyone has understood the importance of journalism through four years of study. Now, in your future work, I hope that you can apply what you have learned and report on the principles and policies of our country, current affairs at home and abroad, military affairs, diplomacy and other news as soon as possible."
Yu Shoujing took out a blank piece of paper from the notebook, on which was the names of all the recent students in this batch, sorted by their academic performance over the past four years.
"Compared with the local media, the reports of the Huaguo News Agency are more serious, rational and calm, so when you enter the Huaguo News Agency, you must first learn. Next, I will take you to the domestic news department and give it to each of you. Find a teacher."
The students stood up in twos and threes, followed Yu Shoujing to a very large office, Yu Shoujing opened the blank paper, pointed to an elder sister in her fifties and said, "Zhang Xiaoran, Xu Jiajia, you two are studying with Teacher Wang Yuchun; Wei Yujin , Guo Xiaoqiao, you all learn from Teacher Zhang Minghan..."
After reading it for a while, everyone had a teacher, only Zhen Zhen was silently following behind Yu Shoujing, Yu Shoujing went back to his office, and when he looked up, he found that he had forgotten this very beautiful girl, so he quickly let Zhen Zhen sit down Next: "I almost forgot about you. The editor-in-chief has seen your file and said that your French and English are very good, so I will let you study with me for a while, and then I will transfer you to the foreign news editorial department."
Zhen Zhen looked at Yu Shoujing: "Then Chief Editor Yu, what do you think I should do now?"
Yu Shoujing handed Zhen Zhen a piece of paper: "It has been four years since our country's reform and opening up, and the domestic economy has undergone great changes. I would like you to interview some state-owned and private enterprises. Through the comparison and changes before and after the reform, come Write a story."
Zhen Zhen was also very interested in this kind of content, she put the paper in her bag and replied seriously: "Make sure to complete the task."