Beautiful beauties in the 80s courtyard

Chapter 426 Is the food you steal the most delicious?
Liu Yu retorted angrily, "Don't think I don't know! I secretly asked around, and that Li Zhuzi you mentioned is only a few years younger than my dad! How old is my sister? She's still studying at night school and might even go to university someday. She's not going to get married so early!"

"Oh dear, what do you know, you little kid? Boys should marry when they're old enough, and girls should marry when they're old enough! You'll be in a hurry when you're over 16!"

A middle-aged woman's voice rang out again.

Lu Qiaoge pushed open the half-closed courtyard gate and stood quietly at the entrance, her gaze indifferently falling on the middle-aged woman who was being held back outside the house by Liu Yu.

Sister Qiao frowned: "Old Peng, what are you doing? Who are you introducing someone to?"

Unexpectedly, the middle-aged woman was fine when she saw Sister Qiao, but when she saw Lu Qiaoge, her heart skipped a beat and she immediately changed her tune.

"Oh dear, so-and-so asked me to introduce Liu Xia to someone. I don't know what Liu Xia thinks, but this guy doesn't agree, so never mind. Liu Yu may be young, but he's capable of supporting the family, and his sister will definitely listen to him. If he doesn't agree, that's fine, it's alright, it's alright, just pretend I didn't say anything, and pretend I wasn't here. I'm leaving now!"

As she walked out, she didn't forget to flatter them, saying, "Oh my, you street office cadres are really working hard, visiting every household in the dead of winter. You've worked so hard!"

Sister Peng then turned to Lu Qiaoge, her face beaming with smiles: "Oh, Qiaoge, I saw you last month, and you're even more beautiful than last month! You're so pretty, you're the most beautiful girl in our military factory."

Lu Qiaoge smiled slightly: "Aunt Peng, won't you stay a little longer?"

"No, no, I'm leaving, I'm leaving, it's alright, it's alright." After saying that, she quickly left the Liu family's courtyard, her back view could be described as fleeing in panic.

Sister Qiao said helplessly to Lu Qiaoge, "Just standing there, you don't even need to say a word, you're intimidating."

Liu Yu breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing Lu Qiaoge, then pointed somewhat aggrievedly at Lao Peng's departing figure: "She's come several times already. At first, I thought it was really good news, so I secretly asked a classmate to help me find out. Turns out, that guy is almost forty, and he's not even from our military factory; he's from a town down here..."

Lu Qiaoge followed Liu Yu into the house, saying as they walked, "There will be more things like this in the future. You need to keep your eyes open. If you don't know what kind of person someone is, you can investigate. They don't live in this world alone; there will always be people around them who know them. And you should not only investigate them personally, but also their family situation."

"Sister Qiao Ge, I've got it."

"This is a small benefit provided by the neighborhood committee to a few special families. It's not much, but it's a token of the neighborhood committee's goodwill."

As she left the Liu family home, Sister Qiao sighed, "What if neither of the children has their own opinions and agrees?"

"That's okay. Life is a series of choices between right and wrong, and no one does anything that is 100% correct."

Sister Qiao said, "Then why do I feel like Qiao Ge, you're always 100% right?"

Lu Qiaoge really wanted to tell her that what she was doing now was the result of countless people's trial and error, and that she was standing on the shoulders of giants.

But even if I say it like that, Sister Qiao probably won't understand.

So Lu Qiaoge said with a smile, "How can you say you don't have regrets? I have mine too."

"What is that?"

Before Lu Qiaoge could answer, Sister Qiao suddenly realized: "I know, it must be because you shouldn't have gotten engaged to Liang Aishu back then. Luckily you pulled back from the brink in time."

Then, lowering her voice, she gossiped, "I heard that they're not as affectionate as they used to be when they were sneaking around. When they walk together, neither of them looks happy. Shen Yun is also very delicate; she's always complaining of something..."

Lu Qiaoge wondered to herself: Is this what they mean by "the stolen food tastes the best"?
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Lu Yun and Chen Liangsheng returned by train. Qin Hengzhi picked them up at the station and then took them to the Lu family home.

Lu Yun has been gone for several months. Although the old lady didn't say she missed her, how could she not worry about her?
She was especially worried about what the two of them would be like after so many years apart. When she saw the two of them sitting in front of her, the old lady suddenly remembered how her daughter had brought Chen Liangsheng to her back then.

It's as if time hasn't moved forward, or perhaps it has gone backward, recreating that scene from back then.

The Qin family's living room was small, and Qin Hengzhi was tall, so when he stood at the door, he seemed to block most of the light.

Lu Qiaoge quietly pulled the person aside.

Meng Xia said, "They're all our own kids, no need for so much formality. You two go to your room and talk for a while, I'll go cook."

Qin Hengzhi knew that Lu Qiaoge's room was very small. Although he really wanted to go, he still said, "Auntie, let me help you."

"No need, no need, most of it is ready-made. Especially the new small iron stoves that our factory just gave us, it's so convenient to cook rice, it's done very quickly. We're all family here, no outsiders."

Lu Yun stood up and said in a practiced tone, "Sister-in-law, my cooking skills are really good now. I'll cook today."

Meng Xia's eyes reddened, and she said, "Okay, come on, let's cook together."

Qin Hengzhi then sat down and chatted with Chen Liangsheng. The two of them ended up talking about heavy industry. At first, they seemed a little reserved, but as they talked, no one else could get a word in edgewise.

Chen Liangsheng looked into Qin Hengzhi's eyes with satisfaction.

He knew that Qin Hengzhi was not only the military representative stationed at the factory, but also the deputy director of the military research institute and the deputy commander-in-chief of the heavy industry base.

It's fair to say that she's young and already holds multiple important positions.

Some might say it's because his grandfather is capable, but that's not the case. This kid is an absolute genius in heavy industry, especially insightful in the research and development of certain mechanical equipment for oil bases.

Lu Qiaoge poured tea for the two of them and then set the table.

A short while later, Lu Da and Lu Zhiguo returned, followed by Su Hui and Lu Qiaoling.

Lu Qiaoling handed something to Lu Qiaoge and whispered, "This is a scarf that Zhang Huixin knitted for you."

Zhang Huixin has now officially joined the food factory.

However, because she was pregnant, the factory took care of her as an educated youth and arranged for her to do a relatively easy job.

There were rumors circulating behind her back, but for Zhang Huixin, it felt like she had been given a second chance at life. These so-called rumors couldn't affect her at all, and she really didn't care.

Lu Qiaoge took the scarf.

People really like red scarves these days. This one is also made of wool, knitted in a baozi stitch, and it's very warm to wear.

She hung the scarf on the coat rack, then remembered something and asked Lu Qiaoling, "I heard Zhao Jinbao got married and he wants you to attend his wedding?"

Lu Qiaoling said indifferently, "I'm not going. I can't go empty-handed. I don't have any money to give him as a gift."

(End of this chapter)