Chapter 265: After all, she is a nanny
Aunt Wanru is neither cold nor hot about my arrival, ordering Sister Xiao Mei to pour tea and wash fruit for me, while she herself holds a beauty magazine and reads it regardless.
The longer I sit, the more guilty I feel. Aunt Wanru's attitude fully shows that she knows something. Sure enough, the third time my butt leaves the chair, she speaks: "Little Feng, do you have something to do back here?"
I quickly say no, I'm on a business trip to Hengyue City and took the time to come see my uncle and aunt, and to express my mother's longing. In their generation, only the two of them are left now. The older people get, the more people they miss. No matter what the relationship was in the past, as long as they know each other, they will pop up unexpectedly when they are lonely, making people feel a sense of inexplicable melancholy.
The more they miss, the sadder they feel. They just want to see each other every moment, not for feelings, but for peace of mind!
"Jiaxiao going abroad, I originally wanted to tell you and let you see him off. It's just that things happened too quickly, and the other party's school was urging tightly. If he didn't report, he would have wasted the opportunity," Aunt Wanru explains, speaking realistically and sincerely: "You two brothers only met not long ago and haven't gathered many times. With him going out this time, the chances of you meeting might be even fewer."
I probe: "Is younger brother Jiaxiao going out to study?"
"Yes. Learning more abroad is more comprehensive than the education received domestically."
"Which country is Jiaxiao going to? What major is he studying?" I ask, pretending to be very relaxed.
Aunt Wanru looks at me vigilantly, hesitates, and says: "Jiaxiao is studying international economics."
She didn't tell me which country he went to. My aunt clearly suspects me, knowing I came to probe?
After a silence, I stand up to take my leave. Aunt Wanru firmly insists on keeping me for a meal, saying she has already told my uncle, and he will take time to see me. Finally, she says with double meaning: "The matter your uncle is looking for you about might also be the matter you are looking for him about."
I cannot ignore Aunt Wanru's retention, not to mention that Secretary He, my uncle, will be back. I don't go to his office to find him, but insist on finding him at home, which is to remind him that I am not a cadre who has no relationship with him! I am his family!
Aunt goes upstairs to rest, instructing Sister Xiao Mei to entertain me well.
Sister Xiao Mei waits until Aunt goes upstairs, then winks at me to go to her room. I hesitate for a moment and follow her.
As soon as I enter the room, Sister Xiao Mei takes out a bright red graduation certificate to show me. The certificate is issued by the Hengyue City TV University, with a junior college degree and a major in administrative management.
"I graduated!" she says, full of joy, the smile extending from the corners of her eyes to every corner of her face, like a small flower blooming in the spring breeze.
"I must congratulate you, Sister Xiao Mei," I say sincerely. I have to admire her efforts. Sister Xiao Mei didn't even graduate from junior high school, yet she was able to get a junior college graduation certificate. I don't know how much effort she put into this.
"I accept your congratulations," she beams and leans into my ear: "Secretary He said he would help me arrange a job. What do you think?"
"That's a good thing!" I exclaim: "My uncle is an upright person. He took the initiative to say he would find you a job, which shows that your work has been recognized by my uncle."
Sister Xiao Mei's face is flushed, and she says with infinite yearning: "If I really have a fixed job, how should I repay Secretary He? Without his encouragement, how could I have passed the graduation certificate exam?"
"My uncle is not a person who needs others to repay him," I say righteously: "My uncle is a high-ranking cadre of the Party. Because of your excellence, he will arrange for you."
"I know," Sister Xiao Mei says gloomily: "Actually, I am willing to be a nanny in Secretary He's house for a lifetime. I don't want to work outside at all."
"People move to higher places!" I persuade her: "You have already got your graduation certificate. If you don't go outside to display your talents, wouldn't it be a waste of your studies? It's meaningless."
She stops talking, sits down along her small bed, and points to a chair by the bed, signaling me to sit.
We sit opposite each other, our eyes meet, she suddenly blushes, turns her head, and bursts into laughter.
"What are you laughing at?" I ask in surprise, thinking there is something wrong with me. I look around and find nothing unusual, then look up at her again, finding her covering her mouth, laughing until she is shaking.
I blush for no reason in her laughter, but my skin is thick now, and no one can see it.
"Your cousin He Jiaxiao has caused trouble, do you know?"
"What trouble did he cause?" I ask nervously, scanning her, and my eyes stop at the head of the bed. By the pillow at the head of the bed, a pink bra is stretched out exaggeratedly.
"Do you really not know? Or are you pretending not to know?" Sister Xiao Mei sits up straight, quietly reaching out to stuff the bra under the pillow, leaving my eyes with nowhere to stay.
"I really don't know," I say, feeling bored, my eyes scanning the bra strap exposed under the pillow again.
"Jiaxiao got Secretary Chen's daughter pregnant," she says, calmly and indifferently, as if talking about a distant matter that has nothing to do with herself.
"How do you know?" I feel guilty and confess without being asked.
"Let me tell you, in the Municipal Committee family compound, whose cat stole a piece of fish, whose dog went to find another family's dog, and even what family eats what today, there is nothing we don't know. Because we are nannies!" Sister Xiao Mei laughs proudly, her voice extremely low: "Secretary Chen's daughter thought we didn't know, but her family's nanny had already betrayed her."
"How did she betray her?" I am so scared that my hair stands up.
"Her family's nanny discovered that Secretary Chen's daughter hadn't had her period for more than a month. And she likes to eat spicy and sour things she didn't eat before. A woman's change lies in her taste," she is still proud, analyzing it in detail.
"What can liking spicy and sour things represent?" I say: "Maybe her taste has changed, it's not strange."
"It's not strange. But if she doesn't have her period for a month, besides being pregnant, what else could it be? It can't be an illness, right? Look at Secretary Chen's daughter, she's like a little heifer in our countryside, frolicking." Sister Xiao Mei warns me with a serious expression: "I'm only telling you, don't go around saying it."
I nod, feeling a sense of desolation in my heart. I originally thought that only the three of us knew about Chen Meng's pregnancy. Who could have expected that among all the nannies in the Municipal Committee compound, this had already become an open secret.
"Sister Xiao Mei!" I call out solemnly: "You must not talk nonsense about this, it will cause trouble."
"I know," she raises her eyebrows and says disdainfully: "I'm leaving in a few days anyway. Your aunt is not easy to get along with. It just so happens that Secretary He found me a job as an expressway toll collector."
I congratulate her again. She says indifferently: "Jiaxiao going abroad is your aunt's ghost. She forced him away! Jiaxiao didn't want to leave at all. Look, he left so hurriedly, he didn't even tell you, just because he was afraid you would stop him."
"This matter has something to do with me?" I ask in surprise, feeling the deeper the water, the more I hear.
"It has something to do with you, a lot," Sister Xiao Mei smiles shallowly and asks me: "You know the female manager of the Xinlinyin Hotel, right?"
"I know. What's wrong?" My heart sinks.
"Nothing, she came to the house several times and said she knew you. Jiaxiao seems to have a problem with her. As soon as he sees her coming, he hides. I don't know why," Sister Xiao Mei says gloomily: "He is a big man, scared by a girl to the point of not daring to see anyone. It's really unbelievable."
I have nothing to say, so I have to smile shallowly along. I know I am smiling without laughing, and it must be uglier than crying.
"You men, that thing is just trouble!" she makes a concluding statement, and after speaking, she giggles.
"Then what's going on with Jiaxiao and Secretary Chen's daughter?" I pretend to be stupid.
"They are in love, you don't know?" Sister Xiao Mei looks at me exaggeratedly, her eyes showing disbelief.
I shake my head.
"You must be fooling me!" she points at me and laughs.
"I really don't know."
"You're fooling ghosts," she seems a little unhappy: "Jiaxiao couldn't have hidden this from you. He told me, you know."
"He even told you this?"
"Is that not allowed?" she tilts her head, suddenly blushes, fidgets, and says in a mosquito-sized voice: "He is a man, you brothers, you are all the same."
I don't understand what she means, so I have to follow her words: "I am the same as Jiaxiao, how do you know?"
Her face turns even redder, and the charm unique to a young woman is fully exposed.
"He..." she stops, thinks for a while, and gathers the courage to say: "He has seen my body. You have seen it too."
After saying this, she is so ashamed that she buries her head in her chest and refuses to lift it again.
I am also ashamed by her words. Sister Xiao Mei is indeed plump, and she is beautiful. Her figure after giving birth to two children hasn't changed at all, but instead, she expresses the most tender charm of a woman vividly. But after all, she is a nanny!
Why He Jiaxiao saw her body, I don't know, and I don't dare to ask. I feel uneasy. Could it be that the playboy He Jiaxiao has touched the charming Sister Xiao Mei?
Sister Xiao Mei feels uneasy because of my unblinking gaze, and she moves her body restlessly, seemingly wanting to avoid my probing eyes.
"What are you looking at?"
"Looking at you."
"What's good to look at about me?"
"Everything is good to look at."
"Where is it good to look at?"
"Everywhere is good to look at."
My eyes sweep over her magnificent chest, and I quietly swallow a big mouthful of saliva.
My appearance is seen by her, she purses her lips and smiles, sighs, stands up, and tidies her hair: "Everyone has a fate! What is meant to be will be."
I change the subject: "Sister Xiao Mei, do you really intend to go to the expressway toll station?"
"This is an opportunity, of course I want to go. In a person's life, opportunities are hard to come by," she smooths the bangs on her forehead and says softly: "I don't want to be a farmer for a lifetime. Since there is an opportunity to change my destiny, I will bravely grasp it, no matter what the price."
As soon as I hear this, my heart skips a beat. ===== CHAPTER 266 =====
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