Go back to the prosperous days and become a layman

Chapter 522 Chapter 521 Love
Monday, April 12th.

Tang Zhitong did not send Xiao Wang and his two sisters off today. He left early, using the excuse that he had something to do at school.

The old ailment Mr. Zhou mentioned a few days ago is most likely stomach trouble caused by hunger.

Tang Zhitong planned to send some cornmeal to Teacher Zhou. Teacher Zhou had always been very nice to him, both when he was in the part-time technical secondary school and when he was at the Post and Telecommunications College.

Although I was not able to use the college entrance examination materials that Teacher Zhou prepared for me, Tang Rong is using them now, so I have to repay this favor.

Tang Zhitong did not go through the west gate of the Post and Telecommunications College, but chose to enter the family quarters from the south gate.

After showing his student ID at the door and handing over a cigarette, Tang Zhitong successfully got the house number of Teacher Zhou's residence.

After putting the bicycle downstairs, Tang Zhitong entered the building.

"Hello, I am Tang Zhitong, a student of Teacher Zhou. Is Teacher Zhou at home?" It was a woman who opened the door, and Tang Zhitong greeted her politely.

"Oh, yes, come in." The woman was very polite. She stepped aside to let Tang Zhitong in, then called out to the inside, "Mr. Zhou, your student is here."

Teacher Zhou was washing up. She came out of the kitchen, wiping her face. She put on her glasses before recognizing me: "Why are you here? Sit down."

"Hello, Teacher Zhou. I took a leave of absence a while ago. I bought some food from another place and sent it to you." Tang Zhitong said as he took out the cornmeal he had prepared from his arms and crushed it using space. Although it had the skin, there was no sand.

"You kid, food is so scarce now, why are you taking it from me? Take it away, take it away." Teacher Zhou waved his hand and drove the person away without even looking at him.

"I didn't take much, just about ten pounds of cornmeal. I have some left at home, let's share it, and live one day at a time." Tang Zhitong did not listen to Teacher Zhou, but turned to look at the woman who opened the door for him.

From the way she addressed him as "Old Zhou" just now, Tang Zhitong judged that this person was Teacher Zhou's lover, and handed over the bag of flour in his hand: "You are Teacher Zhou's wife, right? Please pour it out. I don't have enough flour bags at home, so I have to take this one back."

"Old Zhou, look..." Teacher Zhou's lover did not respond, but looked at the head of the family, waiting for instructions.

"Teacher Zhou, I will always remember your kindness. In the past, one had to pay a tuition fee to become your disciple, so just consider this little cornmeal as a treat from me." Tang Zhitong said to Teacher Zhou with a smile, and without further ado, handed the bag of flour to the teacher's wife.

Because they were too close, Teacher Zhou's lover subconsciously stretched out his hands and supported her.

"Hey, what can I say about you? How much is it? I'll give it to you." Seeing that his wife had accepted it, Teacher Zhou also made concessions.

"You are slapping me in the face when you say that. I give you the tuition fee and you give me money? That's not right in this world." Tang Zhitong waved his hands repeatedly.

"I've let you say both the real and the fake. Don't do this next time." Tang Zhitong had said so much, so Teacher Zhou didn't insist any more.

Tang Zhitong didn't stay long. He said goodbye and slowly returned to the dormitory.

It’s cold now and no students are eating outside anymore. Since there is no heating in the cafeteria, many students choose to go back to the dormitory to eat.

When Tang Zhitong returned to the dormitory, he just happened to catch his roommates having breakfast. Luo Zhiping was holding a book, which was rare for him. He held a book in one hand and a fast food cup in the other. Gu Mancang and Lu Shi were by his side, like two generals.

"Wow, so hardworking? You don't even forget to study while eating." Tang Zhitong was quite surprised to see this scene after entering the room.

"Hey, the boy is just starting to learn." Fang Qingliang replied with a chuckle.

When Fang Qingliang said this, Gu Mancang and Lu Shi blushed immediately and turned their heads away embarrassedly.

Luo Zhiping was a little more shameless and argued: "We are studying, this is a serious book published, we are young people with aspirations who are committed to protecting the health of the general public, you can't be so prejudiced."

"Okay, okay, it's my fault. Is it okay if I'm wrong? I apologize to the three aspiring young people." Fang Qingliang was not angry, and said perfunctorily with a smile.

Fang Qingliang's words made Gu Mancang and Lu Shi even more embarrassed, while Luo Zhiping chuckled and said, "That's more like it."

"What's going on? How is it related to young people with aspirations?" Tang Zhitong had a bad feeling.

"Hey, a barefoot doctor's manual." Luo Zhiping raised the book in his hand and asked, "There's also a Tang Zhitong on it. Teacher Tang, it's not you, is it?"

Hearing what Luo Zhiping said, Tang Zhitong immediately guessed that the young people were reading the chapter on human physiological structure, but he denied it flatly: "It's a duplicate name, right? How can I publish a book? Let me take a look."

Tang Zhitong knew about this chapter when he was reviewing it, but he did not raise any objections at the time because it was necessary from a medical point of view, not to mention that the starting point at the time was to serve the majority of women and children.

However, Tang Zhitong had never expected that a group of naive college students would use this to popularize knowledge about gender, and this was not his original intention!

The barefoot doctor got it, and it was exactly the same as the one he had at home, three or four centimeters thick, and priced at 1.8 yuan.

The most read chapter in the entire manual is about the physiological structure of men and women. The outer side of the chapter on the female structure has been worn black. How thirsty must these aspiring young people be to learn? ?
It seems that these virgins are treating the manual as a pornographic book??? Is this really worthy of the title in front of it???

Although he had a lot of complaints in his mind, Tang Zhitong didn't say them out loud. He flipped through the first few pages, pretended to look at the list of people, and handed it back: "You guys are really so serious. You only study these few pages?"

However, this situation is normal. After all, there is currently no regular publication targeting the general public that has similar content.

Tang Zhitong remembered that before he came here, when he was in junior high school, many male and female classmates read that chapter in the biology textbook.

Tang Zhitong remembers that the atmosphere in that biology class was very depressing. At the beginning, the students were acting out of character, laughing and joking, and were too embarrassed to learn. The biology teacher got angry, and after rectifying the class order, he kept a stern face for the entire class before he finished teaching that chapter.

The first time I came into contact with the description of actual combat was in high school, when I read "Norwegian Wood". It was a book that a girl in the first year of high school brought from home, and it became the focus of the whole class's competition to borrow.

After many years, Tang Zhitong still clearly remembers that the most obvious black border on the side of the book was at one-third of the thickness, which were the pages describing the story between the male protagonist Watanabe and Naoko.

After college, Tang Zhitong watched "White Deer Plain", looked at picture albums, watched some practical film and television works of famous artists, and went back to review "Norwegian Wood" and felt it was very simple...

"Just skip around and read it. You will learn it all later." Luo Zhiping also felt embarrassed. He took the manual and hid it under the pillow.

"One dollar and eighty cents, you're really willing to spend that." Tang Zhitong didn't pursue the matter further, but instead sighed at the spirit and attitude of college students these days who are willing to pay for knowledge.

"Hey, it's going viral on College Road. I heard that every dormitory has one." Luo Zhiping's expression turned serious. I wonder if he was thinking of dragging other college students into this so that his behavior would not be so conspicuous.

"Okay, let's eat, the class will start soon." Tang Zhitong couldn't verify it, but he didn't rule out the possibility of this situation. Otherwise, how could 30 copies be sold out in just a month? However, these college students' thirst for knowledge is too strong, right?

While Tang Zhitong was chatting with his roommates, Ma Wei got two letters from the guard. Although Ma Wei's family was well-off, she never thought that this was a reason for her to be late or leave early, so she always came to work early and never left early unless there were special circumstances.

One of the two letters was for Tang Zhitong, and the other was his own.

When she arrived at the office, Ma Wei lit the stove first.

Ma Wei was not very skilled in lighting the stove. She had had some experience with it when she was a child, but not much. It was only after she came to the escort department that she asked someone at home to teach her this skill.

After the fire was lit, Ma Wei filled a kettle with water, squatted over the stove, washed her hands, and then sat down at the desk to carefully examine the letter.

Both the handwriting on the envelope and the mailing address were unfamiliar. Who could it be? Ma Wei was a little confused.

She held the letter upright and flicked it, letting the paper fall as far as possible. Then Ma Wei picked up the scissors and cut it open at the seal.

The letter was addressed to Comrade Ma Wei, and the content was all over the place, almost like it was copied from a newspaper. It was not until the end of the letter that the sender introduced himself as Qin Luming from the Logistics Department.

Ma Wei was a little surprised to see this name. She had some impression of Qin Luming, a very energetic young man.

Ma Wei is not stupid. Although the content of the letter is general, Qin Luming's purpose is as obvious as Sima Zhao's heart.

Ma Wei is knowledgeable. She has received such letters since college, some of which were even more passionate than this one.

Ma Wei only blushed and felt shy when she first received such letters. After receiving so many, she became numb. She did not reply to most of the letters, and naturally gave up on most of them.

However, there are always some students who can persevere and write one letter every two or three days, and can even keep up for a year or two.

At the beginning, Ma Wei was a little afraid of delaying others, so she replied with a very clear message that she needed to study hard and would not consider anything else.

Who would have thought that this reply was like a shot of stimulant, and the number of letters I received went from every two or three days to one a day...

In the end, it was Ma Wei's mother who stepped in and the problem was successfully resolved.

Since then, Ma Wei has never replied to such letters.

After working, Ma Wei only told her address to a few good friends and asked them not to tell anyone else, so she has been very quiet recently. Unexpectedly, he came back again, and he was a colleague from the same unit.

Ma Wei didn't want to pay attention to Qin Luming and wanted to burn the letter directly, but she finally put the letter in the drawer. As for the reply, there was definitely no reply.

But Qin Luming was in a difficult situation.

In order to ensure that Ma Wei would receive the letter early on Monday morning, Qin Luming stayed up most of the night on Saturday.

The letter was written very carefully, and the content was drafted, revised carefully, and finally rewritten.

As soon as Qin Luming got to work on Monday, he felt a little absent-minded. He really wanted to go to the Finance Department to see Ma Wei's reaction through the glass, but he restrained himself. Wasn't it just to leave some wiggle room for himself that he adopted the letter-writing method and wrote his home address as the return address?
When he went to the cafeteria to get food at noon, Qin Luming stole a few glances at Ma Wei, and watched her and a female colleague from the sorting department enter the door of the finance department before he reluctantly withdrew his gaze.

"Someone was secretly looking at you just now." Fu Caiyun, a colleague from the sorting department, entered the room, hid behind the wall, and looked for the source of the gaze through the glass.

As a man, Qin Luming didn't know how sensitive women are to gazes, and he thought he was being very covert.

In fact, not only Qin Luming, but many male comrades do not know this. When a man's eyes are glued to the rear wheels, car lights, trunk and other places, other people can actually notice it, but they just don't want to make it public.

"Are you looking at you? What's so good about me?" Ma Wei put her freshly packed lunch box on the desk, tidied up the things on the table, and made room for Fu Caiyun.

Fu Caiyun is the female colleague who has been accompanying Ma Wei after get off work recently. She is a strong-looking person.

Since Tang Zhitong is not at work at noon, the two of them have been eating like this for some time.

"I'm nothing good to look at." Fu Caiyun put down her lunch box, pulled over a chair and sat down, very self-aware.

"Master Gao's cooking skills are great. I didn't expect a simple dish of cabbage could be made so flavorful." Ma Wei didn't want to dwell on this issue any further. After tasting a bite of the dish, she changed the subject.

"I heard that Master Gao learned his cooking skills from Section Chief Tang." Fu Caiyun said as she ate a steamed bun and a mouthful of vegetable.

"Section Chief Tang? Which Section Chief Tang?" Ma Wei was stunned when she heard that.

"Who else could it be? Section Chief Tang." Fu Caiyun raised her head towards Tang Zhitong's workstation.

“He has this ability?” Ma Wei was a little surprised. In her impression, a cook is either a chef or a cook. However, this situation is unlikely to happen to a young man who is a college student and a deputy section chief. What’s more, this person participated in the compilation of an acclaimed manual!
"Yes, Section Chief Tang has made great contributions. He is also very tall and strong, and many girls in our section have discussed him privately." Fu Caiyun said mysteriously.

"What are you discussing? Looking for a date with Section Chief Tang?" Ma Wei asked with a smile.

Ma Wei knew that Tang Zhitong was married, because when they were chatting before, Tang Zhitong had revealed it to her subtly, such as: "Oh, my wife asked me to go home early today and buy something on the way."

"Hehe, there must be people who think so. Once the discussion was a little loud, Shu Qing from our department couldn't help but say a few words. Oh, you didn't see it, some girls were so sad after hearing it, their eyes were swollen the next day." Fu Caiyun said exaggeratedly.

"What did she say?" Ma Wei arrived late and there were only a limited number of people she could talk to about these things, so she was very curious.

"She said Section Chief Tang got married, and his wife is not only tall but also very beautiful. She praised her like a flower and said how well they matched each other." Fu Caiyun said, thinking about the scene that day.

"She has seen it before, right?" Ma Wei asked speculatively.

"That's for sure. She said they had dinner together." Fu Caiyun nodded. This was something Shu Qing admitted in person in order to dispel the girls' improper thoughts and increase her own persuasiveness.

"Hey, did you cry?"

"Who? Me? How is that possible?! I know myself well. I'll be thankful if I can find someone who won't hit me next time."

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(End of this chapter)