Transmigrated into a deeply affectionate male supporting role in a period novel - Chapter 10

On the way home, Zhao Lihui kept sorting out the plot in his mind. When the bus arrived at Tongxin Lane, he got off one stop early, then walked to the gate of the supply and marketing cooperative and peeked inside.

Then he saw his girlfriend packing something with her back to him. She was so thin. He has to find a way to make her fatter.

Ye Guidong, who was packing up to go home after getting off work, was poked by Sister Lin. At the other party’s signal, she saw someone sneaking around the door.

“Comrade Zhao?”
Haven’t I seen you this morning?

“Ah, I’ll take you home from work.”
Zhao Lihui suppressed his blushing and spoke confidently.

“Oh, you are so considerate. If you had come a few minutes later, Xiaoye would have been home,” Sister Lin joked with a smile.

Ye Guidong’s face turned red, and she quickly opened the small cabinet and walked out with the cloth bag.

“Let’s go,” She didn’t ask the other party why he came to pick her up from work. It was undeniable that she was surprised and delighted when she saw him. This person really wanted to have more contact with her.

“Here,” Zhao Lihui waved to Sister Lin. He first took the cloth bag from Ye Guidong’s hand, then took out the little wooden dog from his pocket and handed it to her. “I carved it when I had nothing to do this afternoon; I hope you like it.”

Before Ye Guidong could recover from the daze of seeing the cloth bag being taken away, she was already struck by the cuteness of the little wooden dog that was handed to her.

“I love it! You’re amazing!”
Ye Guidong took it happily and touched the little wooden dog’s head carefully. She liked dogs very much, and she even secretly brought a puppy home when she was a child. However, her grandmother found out and said that raising a dog was a waste of food. So she threw the puppy away before she got up the next morning.

Thinking of this, Ye Guidong held the little wooden dog in her hands, looked at Zhao Lihui with sparkling eyes, and said again, “Thank you; I like it very much.”

“As long as you like it,” Zhao Lihui scratched his head with a red face, then asked her to walk inside, keeping a distance between them, and sent her to the door of her house. After handing her the cloth bag, he said, “I’ll deliver lunch tomorrow. Remember to ask Auntie not to deliver lunch to you.”

“Okay,” Ye Guidong saw a neighbor looking at them from the corner of her eye and lowered her head a little embarrassedly, but still said, “Would you like to come in and sit down?”

“No,” Zhao Lihui said softly, although he was very tempted, “See you tomorrow then.”

“good.”
Ye Guidong nodded and watched the other party walk away from the corner, looking back every few steps. The neighbor immediately came over.

“Gui Dong, isn’t that the boy from the Zhao family? How can he send you back?”
Ye Guidong smiled lightly and said, “We are in contact.”

The meaning of contact is similar to dating. Upon hearing this, the neighbor’s eyes widened, “Is that so?”

“Yes,” Ye Guidong nodded and walked into the yard.

She went back to her room first and gently placed the little wooden dog on her bedside table, saying, “How cute.”
She squatted beside the bedside table and looked at it for a long time.

Zhao Lihui was in a very good mood when he returned home. He rolled up his sleeves to help cook dinner and answered Chen Cuifang’s questions while working.

“My second sister said that my brother-in-law treated her very well. When I was about to leave, her mother-in-law invited me to dinner, although it was just a polite remark.”
Chen Cuifang heard this and patted him in the face, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. “You don’t need to say it if you know it. They have a big family and four brothers, and their life is pretty tight.”

“Well, so I politely said no,” Zhao Lihui grinned, “Don’t worry, I will visit my second sister often.”

“Xiang Yi is a very steady kid; I feel confident in him,” Chen Cuifang nodded.

When Zhao Dagen came back, the first thing he did was to ask how the blind date went.

Zhao Lihui blushed as he said that they were in contact, which surprised Zhao Dagen. When he went back to his room to rest, Zhao Dagen took off his clothes and said to Chen Cuifang, who was making the bed, “I think the third brother may have mistakenly thought that he liked the third girl of the Sun family. I have never seen him blush because of the third girl in the Sun family. Today, he looks like he’s really dating.”

“You are so quiet in front of our son. No one talks as much as you when you return to your room,” Chen Cuifang said, looking at him with some amusement. “But to be honest, I think the girl from the Ye family is pretty good, much better than the girl from the Sun family. You don’t know that she even brought the cloth shoes she made for someone else to our third child today. I don’t believe it if you say that there is no connection between the few hundred dollars.”
Zhao Dagen’s face suddenly darkened. “Hasn’t everything been sorted out? Why is she still coming?”

“The third brother was very ruthless in his words this afternoon. If she has any dignity, she won’t come close to him again. By the way,” Chen Cuifang thought of the man Zhao Lihui mentioned, “Do you have any impression of Chen Wansheng?”

“He’s our factory’s young accountant. His cousin is our deputy factory director. He’s a very good-looking guy who knows how to behave. Although we know he got into the factory through the backdoor, he still has some skills and is not a freeloader. What’s wrong?”

“The third brother was talking about that pair of shoes…”
Zhao Lihui, who had no idea that his parents were gossiping, took a warm bath, went back to his room, laid down, and started thinking about finding a job.

Most job searches these days are by recommendation or assignment, with a few requiring one to go for interviews on their own.

In the original text, there was a job that the original owner gave up again, and it was given to the male protagonist at the request of Sun Baozhu.

That was a worker in a machinery factory only three kilometers away from home. The original owner got this job through his own interview and with the recommendation of his high school class teacher’s wife.

Zhao Lihui was born an orphan, and he has done most of the jobs. He is also very familiar with modern machinery factories and automobile factories, so he is very confident that he can get this job.

After thinking of the plan, he thought of Ye Guidong again. It was great that his partner was Ye Guidong, hehehe…

The next morning, Zhao Lihui got up early, washed, and rushed to the meat processing factory to buy meat without even having breakfast.

Nowadays, there are two ways to buy things, one with a ticket and the other with money. The ticket has fixed types and weights, and the money is much more expensive than what is on the ticket.

And when you queue up together, you are divided into two sides, one for those with tickets and one for those who have money to buy tickets. Those who have tickets will be taken care of first. If the tickets are sold out, you cannot buy anything even if you have money and can only wait until the next day to continue queuing.

Zhao Lihui took the two kilograms of meat coupons that Chen Cuifang had stuffed into his hand when he was leaving, came to the entrance of the meat processing factory, looked at the red words “Ticket Line” in front, and stood behind several people in line.
Some people came earlier than him.

After buying the meat, he went to the vegetable sales point in the market to buy some tofu. There were still edible vegetables in the vegetable garden in the backyard of his home, so he didn’t buy anything else and walked towards Shuijing Lane with his things.

At the entrance of the alley, Zhao Lihui ran into Sun Baozhu, who was going to work.

Sun Baozhu looked very haggard. When she saw Zhao Lihui, who was in high spirits, she thought of Ye Guidong, whom the neighbors were talking about. She gritted her teeth and stopped him.

“What’s up?”
Zhao Lihui frowned.

“Brother Lihui, please stop being angry with me, okay?”
She couldn’t believe that she was no match for an ugly girl.

Zhao Lihui looked at her expressionlessly and uttered three words, “Chen Wansheng.”

Sun Baozhu: “…Don’t think too much; I have nothing to do with him!”

“Chen Wansheng.”
Zhao Lihui nodded and spoke again.

Sun Baozhu felt that she was seen through by the other party’s eyes. She didn’t dare to stop him and ran away quickly.

“Don’t look for me again, or I’ll go find Chen Wansheng and talk about how you teased me in the past and how you took my job away from me. I mean what I say.”
Zhao Lihui gave a warning and went home with his things.

Sun Baozhu’s face turned frighteningly pale before she had even run a few steps.