Yuying looked at her watch and saw that it was already 6:10 pm. She said to Xiaomei,"Let's go. There was a Cantonese restaurant in the back street. Although the restaurant was not big, the Cantonese food was very authentic. I'll take this opportunity to bring you to have a good taste and see what's different from the Huaiyang cuisine in our hometown.”How could Xiao Mei still be in the mood to taste Cantonese and Huaiyang dishes? But when she thought about it, if she said goodbye tomorrow, she wouldn't be able to see Yuying for at least a year. She had come here for Yuying. Tomorrow, she would go to Zhang Jingye's place. It would be like going to prison and losing her freedom. She would never be able to get out again. She would not even have the chance to meet her only classmate from the same hometown in Guangzhou and talk to him. It was her last night, and it was a rare opportunity. She just wanted to take advantage of the limited time before she left to have a good talk with Yuying. She also felt that Yuying had the same intention when she treated her to this meal before she left. She had been working alone in Guangzhou until now and had achieved such impressive results. Naturally, she had many unknown hardships. Thinking of this, he agreed to go with Yuying.
Xiao Mei followed Yu Ying to the back street. They found a Cantonese restaurant and asked for a small single room. The two of them followed the waiter in and sat down. The waiter brought two cups of hot tea and then handed the menu to the guests to order. "You don't understand Cantonese cuisine, so I won't stand on ceremony. I'll order a few representative dishes for you to taste," said Yu Ying.”She flipped through the menu and ordered four famous Cantonese dishes: oyster king chicken feet, peony fried snake breast, Chaozhou bittern platter, clear soup crab balls, and two bottles of beer.
Soon, the dishes and wine were served. Yuying filled two glasses of beer, then picked up her chopsticks and pointed at the " Peony Pan-Fried Snake Pork "."Guangzhou has a sub-tropical climate. It's hot and humid, and there are many snakes, but most of them are not poisonous. They are edible and delicious. Therefore, snake dish became a famous dish in Cantonese cuisine. It was available in all restaurants and hotels. There were also snake restaurants that specialized in using snakes as ingredients. They used snakes as their main food for stir-frying, cooking, and stewing. The snake meat I ordered was made with water snake, crab roe, crab meat, shrimp paste, and egg white. The meat was tender and the soup was fresh. It was indescribable. Try it and see how it tastes.”
When Xiao Mei heard that it was a dish made by a snake, she did not dare to eat it and said,"I'm usually the most afraid of snakes. I'm scared when I see them. How could I dare to eat their meat?”"When I first came to Guangzhou, I didn't dare to eat snake vegetables either," said Yuying."I heard people talking about how delicious they were, so I boldly tried them. Nowadays, when they came to restaurants to eat, they could not leave this dish. Go ahead and eat it. I'm sure you'll like it.”Xiao Mei listened to Yu Ying's words and carefully picked up a small piece of snake meat and put it into her mouth. She slowly chewed and tasted it carefully. Then she scooped a spoonful of soup with a spoon and drank it. She felt that it tasted good, so she nodded and felt relieved.
Yuying said,"Cantonese cuisine is one of the four major cuisines in China. It was developed from the specialties of Guangzhou, Chaozhou, and Dongjiang. Although it started late, it had a far-reaching influence. Most of the Chinese restaurants in Hong Kong, Macau, and other countries around the world focused on Cantonese cuisine. Cantonese cuisine is different from Huaiyang cuisine in our hometown. Huaiyang cuisine focuses on the soup being wide and the meat being soft, warm and delicious. Cantonese cuisine emphasized freshness, tenderness, and taste, but it was fresh and not ordinary. It was tender but not raw, clear but not bland. You will understand it when you savor it seriously.”
Hence, Xiao Mei ate another large piece of snake meat and savored it carefully."It's indeed delicious. The taste is indeed different from our hometown's Huaiyang cuisine. Now that he was in Guangzhou, he was not afraid of death. What was there to be afraid of?”She put down her chopsticks and picked up her beer glass."Come, drink! Getting drunk could solve a thousand worries! When a person was drunk, they would forget everything. They would forget all the hardships and worries, and they would not be afraid of anything. Tomorrow, I'll go to Boss Zhang's place. No matter if it's a dragon's pool, a tiger's den, a bear's cave, or a wolf's den, I'll go there.”Then, without waiting for Yuying to say anything, he finished it in one gulp.
Seeing that Xiao Mei was agitated, Yu Ying knew that she was also extremely dissatisfied with Zhang Jingye's harsh conditions. However, in order to get the one million yuan reward and save her son's life, she had no choice but to risk her life to apply for the job. Although she had tried her best to get Zhang Jingye to be more lenient and allow her to call home at least once a month or allow her to visit him, he had rejected all of them without giving her any face. Now that she saw Xiao Mei's expression and said such words, she could not help but feel a little guilty.
Yuying thought for a moment, then put down her glass and said,""Xiao Mei, do you hate me?"
"No, I don't hate you at all. I only hate myself for being too useless. I actually don't have the money to treat my son's illness. Tell me, am I too useless? What right do I have to hate you? If you hadn't introduced me to this job and gotten to know Boss Zhang, Dasheng and I would have had no choice but to watch Yulang's illness worsen day by day until he died without treatment. Now, with the down payment of 300,000 yuan and the 100,000 yuan borrowed from his family, Yu Lang could immediately go for surgery when he found a suitable bone marrow match. Dasheng and I will no longer be in pain, despair, and regret because we don't have the surgery fees to operate on Yulang. In the future, regardless of whether it succeeds or not, I will have no regrets in this life! How can I hate you? I can't thank you enough!"
"No, you should hate me. The job I introduced to you is too, too dirty, humiliating, and undignified.”
"Decent? What's the use of talking about dignity? Can you earn so much money by talking about dignity? Can dignity save my son's life? Now that I've completely thought it through, it's useless to talk about dignity. That's what the high-ranking officials, nobles, and big shots pay attention to. The poor can't afford to pay attention to it. There was only money and silver! It was the most powerful and useful! At critical moments, it could save lives! It was not easy to earn money, but it was even harder to earn big money! Low investment meant low income. High investment meant high income! If I take one million from them, it's not a small amount. A rural person can't earn that much money in their lifetime. If I don't make a huge sacrifice, will they agree? What was perverted? I'm not a member of the upper class. I want to be a member of the upper class. I want to do something decent, but I also want to get a lot of money. Can I do it? Can I get it? What did he mean by doing it as a last resort? It was referring to my current situation: If she wanted to stay at home and be a good wife, a good mother, and a noble person, she could only watch her husband worry and cry. Her son was seriously ill and died. Otherwise, this was the only way. This was fate. This is your fate, and this is all you can do: Embarrassed, humiliated, disgraceful."
Yu Ying knew that Xiao Mei was complaining and resisting, but she couldn't comfort her. She could only nod silently to show that she agreed with Xiao Mei's opinion, but she couldn't say a word. She filled Xiao Mei's glass again, then raised her glass and drank with Xiao Mei. She picked up the chopsticks and gestured for Xiao Mei to eat. Then, she picked up the spoon and gestured for Xiao Mei to drink the soup. Xiao Mei's tears were flowing, but she rarely touched her chopsticks or spoon. After a long time, she could only sigh and say,
"Sigh! It's not easy for rural people to come out and do things, especially women like us. We have to give more, more, and more hardship than men! Covered in scars, full of bitterness, full of bitterness, but still pretending to be relaxed and happy, beautiful and moving, not daring to reveal a single bit, afraid that others would look down on us and say that we are obscene and cheap.”
"You, have you had a similar experience?”Xiao Mei wiped her tears and asked in surprise.
"Earlier than you. Let me tell you, you must keep this a secret for me! Actually, I'm not a virgin anymore."
"You, why?" Xiao Mei nodded solemnly, indicating that she would keep it a secret for her. Then she looked at Yu Ying and asked.
"For my vanity, for my Guangzhou dream, for living a better and more dignified life than the average person, for earning more money, faster, and easier.”
"What do you need so much money for? Did something happen to your family? Do you need a lot of money urgently?"
"Look at what you're saying. Don't tell me that I don't need a lot of money if nothing happens to my family? Look at my house, my car, my clothes, and my jewelry. Which one of them is cheap? Don't you need to spend a lot of money?"
"Could it be that you want to live a better life? It was not worth it just for this.”Xiao Mei shook her head repeatedly, indicating that she did not agree with her actions.
"Not worth it? Not to that extent? Why? I don't think so. It's not easy for us to come to this world, so we can't treat ourselves too badly. Look at the people in the world. Who doesn't want a better life? Those foreigners and people from Hong Kong and Taiwan are not as smart or beautiful as us, but why are they so rich? Should he live in a bungalow, sit in a luxury car, wear luxurious clothes and gold jewelry, go to high-end shopping malls and hotels every day, be arrogant, spend lavishly, and spend thousands of gold? Should we be slaves to them and live our lives like little scoundrels? I'm just jealous of them and unconvinced!”
"How can we compare to them? He was a big boss with a rich family and a lot of money. It was only natural for him to live a high-class life. After all, we are farmers. It's already not bad that we can eat, wear, and have a house to live in. You're not like me. My son is seriously ill and needs money to save his life. You just want a better life. You can slowly work to earn money, and you don't have to do those shameful things and ruin yourself?”
"Work to earn money? How much money could he earn? I've worked before, and I've been working hard for a year. The money I have left is not enough to buy a decent piece of clothing. He wanted to buy some jewelry or send some money to his parents, but he couldn't afford it. She could only watch as those rich people bought all the high-end clothes and beautiful jewelry in the mall one by one. Thinking of sending some money home. To show filial piety to his parents and repay the kindness of raising him, but his heart was willing but his strength was insufficient. He could only sigh and sigh. Nowadays, the prices in the city were so high. Buildings and luxury cars were even more expensive! However, the rich people still fought to buy them. They bought more and better. How many workers have you seen buying houses and cars in Guangzhou?”
"Why are you arguing with them? We're not from Guangzhou, and we don't plan to settle down in Guangzhou. What's the point of buying a house or a car in Guangzhou? When we earn money and go home, we can still build houses on the ready-made homesteads at home. We can even bring honor to our ancestors!”
Yuying shook her head." You're saying that because you don't understand the situation in Guangzhou. How many people are born and raised here?" Most of them were from other places. Guangzhou was rich, and money was easy to earn. After they settled down here, they had their own businesses and earned a lot of money. They bought houses and cars and settled down. Over time, they became Guangzhou people. Why can't we? Must he go home, wear cloth clothes, live in a thatched cottage, face the yellow earth and the northern dynasty, and fight hard? If she missed home, she could go back and visit. She could buy some gifts for her parents and brothers and give them some money. They would be equally happy. She might not be able to stay at home with them forever. We girls have to get married. What's wrong with coming to Guangzhou to find one?”
"From what you said, you want to find a husband in Guangzhou?”
"I have such plans. However, he had yet to find a suitable one. Anyway, I don't want to look for it at home.”
"Why?"
"You still don't know?"
Yuying said that after graduating from high school, she returned to her hometown and did farm work for a year. She really couldn't stand the dirty, tiring, and bitter work, so she wanted to go back to school to review her lessons and continue to take the college entrance exam. At this moment, someone tried to matchmake her. The person was the son of the township head. He had graduated from junior high school and relied on his father's face to work as a market manager on the street. He collected stall fees from small stalls and hawkers. He was domineering and had a bad reputation. This person was in junior high school one year earlier than her. He was a bit of a hooligan and was a famous gangster. She had known him since school and did not have a good impression of him. He had a good impression of her and said that he had taken a fancy to her since school. This time, after being introduced, he came to visit her often. Every time he came, he would bring gifts in big and small bags. He even bought her a gold ring. He also said that after they got married, his father promised to let her be a substitute teacher at the Central Primary School. Her parents saw that he was the son of the township head and had a good family background, so they agreed not to let her go back to school to review her lessons. But in less than three months, he requested to get married. She did not agree, saying that they had not known each other for too long and did not know each other well enough. She would make a decision after a year. He was annoyed." The situation is obvious. What else do you not understand? My family lives in a town. It's a building. My father is the head of the township, my mother is the director of the women's department, and I'm the city manager. Your family is in the countryside and lives in a bungalow. Your parents are farmers. You are an educated youth who returned to the countryside and are also a farmer. No matter how much he understood, could he reverse it?”It was obvious from his tone that he looked down on her parents, family, and herself. She was angry and said,"If you don't turn it around, who are you better than?" Aren't you just a city manager? How much higher are you than a farmer? If you want to get married, then perform well, wait patiently, and come back to ask for my opinion in a year.”He was also angry." If you want to marry my family, don't say anything. Get married within half a year. If you don't want to be married, make it clear now. I won't wait a day!”When she heard that, she was annoyed. She returned the gold ring to him and said,"In that case, you don't have to wait a day.”When her parents found out, they blamed her for being too willful and wanted her to take back what she had said, go to his house to apologize, admit her mistake, and promise to get married within half a year. She firmly disagreed, so she went out to work in a fit of pique and made a living. "Since I've made this bet, I'm thinking that if I don't make a decent living, I won't have the face to go home and see my parents," Yuying finally sighed. Just like that, he held his breath and worked hard to earn money until now.”
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