Years: Salted fish life since going to the countryside.

Chapter 1624 Ru Kiln in the Past Two Years

When Han Li pushed the door open, the door knocked against the wind chimes hanging above, making a crisp sound that made the two people who were working look up.

Lan Jieying, all smiles, called out as she put down what she was holding and came to greet her.

"Brother Han."

When Ye Zimei saw the familiar face and tall, imposing figure of the newcomer, she was stunned. After a long while, she pointed at Han Li and said...

"You're a cunning idiot who takes advantage of others' misfortunes!"

At this moment, Lan Jieying had already taken Han Li's arm and was about to introduce Ye Zimei to him when she heard this and was a little confused.

Han Li did not respond to that sentence. Instead, he put his left arm around Lan Jieying's shoulder, walked up to Ye Zimei, and then chuckled as he touched her cheek with his right hand before speaking.

"Big Mimi, how can you say you took advantage of someone in distress? It was clearly you who knocked over my herbal tea, soaked my clothes, and then ate a big meal off me. This was just a mutual compensation between us."

Ye Zimei: "You"

Lan Jieying: "Brother Han, you two know each other?"

Han Li: "It was an acquaintance. Due to some unexpected circumstances, we had a brief two-day exchange."

Next, Han Li briefly recounted his chance encounter with Ye Zimei, including seeing her being bailed out of the police station by her family.

However, when Han Li mentioned that the two of them were going to go to the hotel after dinner, Ye Zimei interrupted the conversation.

"Sister Lan, let's hurry up and finish cleaning up before we go eat, otherwise Accountant Kang will be back soon."

Even if Han Li didn't continue, Lan Jieying already knew what had happened. At that moment, she didn't know how she felt, but she still responded.

"Don't rush, just take your time to pack. Brother Han is our company boss, so you don't need to worry about Accountant Kang nagging you with him around."

Ye Zimei: "Boss?"

Han Li: "Haha, yes, I'm the boss of this company. From now on, you'll do whatever I tell you to do, and you'll use whatever I tell you to use, or I'll dock your pay."

Everyone present understood what Han Li meant. Lan Jieying looked at the person she had personally recruited as a comrade-in-arms with complicated feelings but said nothing.

After hearing this, Ye Zimei recalled the two days she spent in the hotel. She felt her cheeks burning, her heart racing, and her legs going weak. She gave Han Li a big eye roll in annoyance, picked up the mop without a word, and continued mopping the floor.

As Lan Jieying tried to continue tidying herself up, Han Li patted her arm and said something.

"Go ahead and get busy. I'll take you out for a big meal later. You can think about what you want to eat."

After Han Li finished speaking, he sat down to read a book. Lan Jieying and Ye Zimei did not discuss it with him, but they worked faster. Han Li hadn't even read two pages before they had finished tidying up.

Next, Han Li had Lan Jieying leave a note for the accountant Kang Cuilan, locked the door, and then took the two of them to dinner.

However, neither of them had any ideas about what to eat, so Han Li took them to a rather upscale Western restaurant for a Western meal.

Although Han Li doesn't approve of Western food, to be fair, young people in Hong Kong love it, especially girls. Eating Western food when dating has almost become a standard practice.

To downplay his intention of enjoying the company of the most beautiful woman on Mount Wutai while sipping bubble tea, Han Li repeatedly urged the two to drink alcohol during the meal. Of course, he didn't force them to drink; Han Li wouldn't do something so tasteless. He simply ordered one bottle of each type of drink: aperitif, accompanying wine, dessert wine, and after-dinner wine.

Ye Zimei hadn't seen Han Li for a long time, and given their current superior-subordinate relationship, she felt she had ordered too much alcohol, but she was too embarrassed to say so.

However, Yammie Lam had no such concerns and spoke up directly from the side.

"Brother Han, we've ordered too many drinks. We can't possibly finish four bottles."

Han Li: "This isn't about how much or how little; this is the real rule for eating Western food."

Among the English nobility, if you were to invite someone to dinner, it would be considered disrespectful to the guest to omit any of the four types of wine: aperitif, accompaniment wine, dessert wine, and after-dinner wine. Such a person would be ridiculed for not knowing the proper etiquette.

This is the first time I'm treating you two to a Western meal, so this rule can't be broken: you must order all four types of wine. If you can't finish them or don't want to drink them, then we won't drink them.

After Han Li said that, neither of them said anything. Later, because these kinds of wines were not very strong, they drank and drank until they were drunk.

Of course, the three of them talked about many things during the meal, but most of the time it was Han Li and Lan Jieying asking Ye Zimei about her life over the past two years.

(Han Li first came to Hong Kong at the end of January 80, and interacted with Ye Zimei in early February. The current time period is mid-September 82.)
After Ye Zimei had an unexpected encounter with Han Li, she returned home and never went back to school.

One reason is that Ye Zimei can't understand or concentrate on what's being said at school, so she doesn't want to go to school at all.

Another reason is that Ye Zimei had not been seen for more than two days since her father bailed her out of the police station. Her family was disappointed in her and never mentioned sending her to school again.

After that, Ye Zimei basically stayed in that small house. It wasn't that she didn't want to go out and play, but that she had no money and her family wouldn't give her any.

Even after graduating from high school, Yammie Lam couldn't find a good job, so it was even harder for Yip Tsz-mei with her educational background. After hitting a wall several times while looking for work, she ended up staying at home, just waiting to die.

However, this good fortune didn't last long; Ye Zimei's life was disrupted after about half a year.

Although Ye Zimei's parents were not happy with their daughter's behavior, they didn't say anything. They thought that she would get married in a couple of years and it wouldn't hurt for her to stay at home for a while.

However, Ye Zimei's two sisters-in-law were not happy about it. Every day when they came home, they would either make sarcastic remarks or do things like banging pots and kicking stools to express their dissatisfaction.

Under these circumstances, Ye Zimei's parents did not continue to let their daughter eat and drink for free at home.

Ye Zimei had no choice but to leave her comfortable living area and go out to continue looking for work.

However, jobs were not so easy to find, so Ye Zimei had no choice but to help out at her father's small barbershop, which barely managed to shut up her two sisters-in-law.

But not long after, Ye Zimei's mother became unwilling for her daughter to work in the shop.

Because the people who came to their house for haircuts were mostly laborers and thugs, and they not only spoke in a lewd manner, but some of them would also take advantage of their daughters.

So they asked someone to find Ye Zimei a job, because in those days, hairdressing and beauty were closely related, such as connections and supply channels.

So, Ye Zimei got that job at the beauty salon. It was sheltered from the wind and rain, the work wasn't strenuous, and there were no male customers. Apart from the low salary, everything was pretty good.
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(End of this chapter)