In the 1970s, it started with contracting out communal dining.

Today, Lin Xiaoyan is wearing a trendy light pink polyester dress. The cuffs of the dress hug her round arms, making her skin appear even whiter and smoother, shimmering gently in the golden sunlight.

Her long, jet-black hair was simply braided into two thick braids, hanging heavily down her chest.

The undulating landscape carries the gentle and graceful charm unique to girls from the 1970s and 80s.

Just as Chen Wei looked at her, she also looked back at him with a slight smile.

For some reason, Chen Wei's heart suddenly started beating a little faster, his cheeks felt hot, and he quickly looked away.

"Uncle...please stop talking! Comrade Lin is still sitting at the table! This is all baseless speculation..."

Chen Wei coughed lightly and quickly tugged at Chen Jianguo's sleeve, signaling him not to say anything out of line.

But Liu Rufang picked up the conversation immediately.

"Your uncle is right, Xiao Wei! You're not getting any younger, it's time to find a wife! Lin is such a good woman, beautiful, with a respectable job, and a generous personality! Anyway, I really like Lin, do you think she's not good enough for you?"

"No, no!" Chen Wei was forced to sweat profusely and waved his hands repeatedly.

Where did the idea of ​​being unworthy come from?

It's obvious that I didn't have those feelings for her.

Chen Jianguo had already paired Chen Wei and Lin Xiaoyan up in his mind after only meeting twice at the Quanyechang shopping mall, but the problem was that they hadn't even talked about it!

What does this even mean?!

Chen Wei was extremely anxious and kept trying to signal to Lin Xiaoyan at the dinner table to clarify the situation.

But then she heard Lin Xiaoyan laughing heartily.

"Great! I've been wanting to ask Comrade Chen to go to the movies with me for ages, but I've never had the chance!"

The three people at the table all turned their heads and looked at Lin Xiaoyan.

Chen Wei's eyes widened in surprise. What was this girl saying?

What do you mean by watching a movie? What's the big deal?

He really has nothing to do with her!

Liu Rufang, on the other hand, smiled broadly and reached out to push Chen Wei away.

"Look, Comrade Lin has already agreed, what are you, a grown man, doing acting so coy! You'll make him laugh! Didn't Comrade Lin say he'd been wanting to see a movie? To be honest, it doesn't matter whether we eat this meal or not, why don't you two go see a movie now!"

As she said this, Liu Rufang actually took out two movie tickets from her pocket and handed them over.

The series of actions left Chen Wei dumbfounded.

What the hell!

Cosplaying Doraemon?

Where did Liu Rufang get the movie tickets?

These days, movie tickets are a rare commodity. There are only two cinemas in Jinshi: Hongqiao Cinema and Wangchuanchang Cinema. Both of them are state-owned enterprises. Sometimes, when two popular movies are scheduled for screening, you have to pull strings to get tickets.

Basically, all of them ended up in the hands of people with connections in various state-owned factories. Where did Liu Rufang get them from?

Chen Wei took the movie ticket and looked at it. Goodness, this movie ticket was quite hard to get!

Tickets for "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" are hard to come by now; the movie is incredibly popular, and tickets are extremely difficult to obtain.

"Auntie...this..."

Chen Wei scratched his head, wanting to explain, but Lin Xiaoyan grabbed his clothes.

Lin Xiaoyan said first, "Thank you, Aunt Liu! We're leaving now!"

Liu Rufang and Chen Jianguo naturally agreed, wishing the two of them could disappear on the spot and give them some space.

Upon hearing Lin Xiaoyan's words, Liu Rufang and Chen Jianguo naturally waved their hands frantically.

"Go on, go on! Xiao Wei, remember to take Comrade Xiao Lin home after the movie!"

As Lin Xiaoyan pulled Chen Wei out of the state-run restaurant, he could still hear Liu Rufang giving him earnest advice from behind.

This is a huge misunderstanding!

The two left the state-run restaurant and walked side by side down the street. Chen Wei was completely dumbfounded, still pushing Chen Jianguo's old bicycle.

To give the two young people space to date, Chen Jianguo even gave Chen Wei his bicycle.

If the two of them were really dating, Chen Wei would be extremely grateful to Chen Jianguo, but the problem is that this is a huge misunderstanding.

Speechless, Chen Wei turned to look at the girl walking beside him and couldn't help but ask.

"Why don't you explain to them that we didn't even talk!"

As a young woman, shouldn't she care most about her reputation?

To everyone's surprise, Lin Xiaoyan laughed heartily and said, "I actually have something I wanted to talk to you about! It's good to avoid the elders."

There are many excuses for avoiding elders, so it's not like people would misunderstand that the two of them are dating!

Chen Wei thought helplessly.

But he asked aloud, "What do you want?"

"Of course I want to eat your cooking!" Lin Xiaoyan blinked and said earnestly, "That braised pig's trotter soup you made at the competition earlier, how come I've never seen you make it before? The soup was so white, and I could smell how delicious it was from far away! When will your factory canteen start making that dish? Can I come over and eat it?"

This girl actually wanted to find out about my dishes!

Chen Wei gave a wry smile, utterly baffled by Lin Xiaoyan's train of thought.

There's nothing we can do now, since we've already been misunderstood, and it won't make a difference what he says to Chen Jianguo.

Forget it, let them misunderstand.

Chen Wei had no choice but to steer the conversation back to his mother's pig's trotter soup.

"This stew requires 1.5 pounds of pig's trotters per serving. Even if I could make it, the cafeteria might not be willing to buy it! This dish was specially designed for the competition and isn't suitable for the cafeteria. If you want to eat it, let's find a place sometime and I'll make it for you."

Knowing that this girl was a big glutton, Chen Wei simply drew the pancake as a circle.

"OK!"

To everyone's surprise, the next moment Lin Xiaoyan said excitedly, "Then come to my house now! We can buy some pig's trotters when we pass by the supply and marketing cooperative. It's payday today, let's go! Let's go to my house for pig's trotters!"

"ah?!"

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Chen Wei was dragged along by the wrist by Lin Xiaoyan without a word, and when they passed the supply and marketing cooperative, the girl didn't forget to buy five catties of pig's trotters.

He really did get paid, but during the competition he could only afford to buy three kilograms.

Lin Xiaoyan's home is an old-fashioned tenement building with three floors, each housing several families.

The conditions were naturally not as good as those in Chen Jianguo's country, but in this era, being able to live in a tenement building was not bad either.

Upon entering this residential area, you can see that bicycles are parked in front of every household.

It's clear that these are houses within the factory area of ​​a certain factory.

Sure enough, Lin Xiaoyan then pointed to the small building in front of her and introduced it.

"This is the house my dad's textile factory used to allocate. My family lives on the second floor. Come with me!"

With that, Lin Xiaoyan took the lead and climbed up the dark stairwell.

Chen Wei quickly followed, went up two flights of stairs, and turned a corner to reach the second floor. The apartment right next to the stairwell was Lin Xiaoyan's home.

Without saying a word, Lin Xiaoyan pushed open the door and saw a teenager rush out.

"Sis! You're back!"