The Sweetness of the Seventies
Chapter 159: The Little Girlfriend’s Intention_1

Chapter 159: Chapter 159: The Little Girlfriend’s Intention_1

Huo Yingjie had been living quite comfortably these days, as his little girlfriend had sent him fried wild pine nuts.

The taste was just right, leaving a fragrant aftertaste, and his heart was even sweeter.

When colleague Zhou Yuanchao came back from outside, he saw the always serious Huo Yingjie, looking like a little old man, actually squinting and smiling, with his mouth moving from time to time. He knew this guy was secretly eating pine nuts again.

"Huo Yingjie, grab a handful for me!" Zhou Yuanchao was full of envy and jealousy!

Huo Yingjie had only given him a handful when he first received the package, and since then, he hadn’t had any of those pine nuts. He wanted to sneak some, especially since there were plenty, but before he could, that thousand-year-old fox, Huo Yingjie, found a lock from somewhere and hid the goods inside a cabinet.

Huo Yingjie simply turned his body away, doing the see-no-evil, hear-no-evil act!

"Favoring your girl over your friends, huh!" Zhou Yuanchao muttered, shaking his head, "It’s just pine nuts. It’s been almost a month, haven’t you finished them yet?"

Huo Yingjie kept silent until he finished the pine nuts in his palm, dumped the shells into the trash bin, and then finally turned to look at Zhou Yuanchao, slowly saying, "If I let you grab a handful, then I’ll have a catty less!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Yuanchao’s face turned red.

There was a reason Huo Yingjie said this. When Huo Yingjie received the pine nuts, he let him grab them himself. Zhou Yuanchao had always liked to eat snacks and had big, thick hands. With one grab, he made a dent, taking a lot.

"Heh, I just have big hands," Zhou Yuanchao said sheepishly, "You eat first. When I go back to Mongolia for the holidays, I’ll bring you some top-quality beef jerky. That should be good enough, right?"

"No deal!" Huo Yingjie refused. He didn’t like snacks, and if he were to have any, he’d only eat the ones Tiantian sent.

However, just a few days later, Huo Yingjie received another letter from He Tiantian, and amazingly, there was a black and white photo inside.

Two braids, sparse bangs, big watery eyes with a hint of a smile, a small upturned nose, little mouth, and a slender neck.

Huo Yingjie stretched out his finger, gently touching the shadow printed on the photo, and said, "How beautiful!"

If he could, he’d want He Tiantian to come back from Qijia Village right now.

However, there had been a slight complication, and he hadn’t prepared everything yet. Since He Tiantian was his greatest weakness, he couldn’t ask her to come back yet.

With this photo, Huo Yingjie felt even closer to the girl he loved.

He kept it in his wallet, carrying it with him at all times, making sure to look at it every day.

One day, Zhou Yuanchao rushed in from outside and asked, "Huo Yingjie, are we good brothers or not?"

Without losing his composure, Huo Yingjie replied coldly, "If you think so, then it is!"

"Since you say that, then I believe we really are good brothers. Your girlfriend sent a photo, why won’t you show me?" Zhou Yuanchao, brimming with hormones, asked angrily, accusing Huo Yingjie of his shameless behavior in favoring his girlfriend over his friend!

"There’s no need!" Huo Yingjie said concisely, why should he show others his girlfriend’s photo?

But perhaps Director Liu from the logistics department was having an early menopause. Why did the whole research institute know about the photo his girlfriend sent after just three days?

"Why is there no need, Huo Yingjie? We’re like good brothers who are in perfect harmony. There’s a saying, brothers are like limbs, women are like clothes. How can you abandon me, your good brother, over a woman and treat me like an outsider?" Zhou Yuanchao intensified his accusation against Huo Yingjie.

Huo Yingjie tossed out a careless remark, "Nobody dies from losing limbs, but everyone needs clothes."

"You..." Zhou Yuanchao felt deeply hurt, "I don’t want to be your brother anymore."

Zhou Yuanchao didn’t see the photo, grabbed his lunchbox, and scurried off to the canteen, turning his sorrow into strength, and ate two extra bowls of rice.

Huo Yingjie shook off the goosebumps on his body, thankful that the guy was interested in women; otherwise, he definitely wouldn’t want to share a room with him.

Huo Yingjie touched his own face, he was so handsome, it would be trouble if that guy took a liking to him!

A few days passed, and Huo Yingjie received another letter and package from He Tiantian.

The frequency of Huo Yingjie’s letters and packages sparked rumors throughout the research institute that his young girlfriend was no simple character, able to get her hands on many scarce items.

Pine nuts, edible without any processing.

But the air-dried wild rabbit couldn’t be eaten as is; it was taken straight to the kitchen. Master Chef prepared it with the entire department. Two air-dried wild rabbits, cooked with potatoes, made a huge panful.

Zhou Yuanchao got a taste of the delicious rabbit and, in front of his colleagues, fawningly asked, "Big brother, does your sister-in-law have any other sisters? Look, I’m not any worse looking than you, and I’m even more built. Introduce me, will you?"

Huo Yingjie laughed, pointing to his own head, "What you lack most is up here! Here, have the rabbit head!"

"Big brother, if you’re not going to introduce me, that’s one thing, but to say I lack brains..." Zhou Yuanchao was displeased, yet his chopsticks were busy; he grabbed a rabbit leg. The head was not small, but it had no meat. He was no fool.

The crowd roared with laughter. That Huo Yingjie and Zhou Yuanchao, two people with completely different personalities, had become close friends and even roommates were quite interesting.

After the meal, Huo Yingjie began swapping shifts, working overtime continuously. Huo Yingjie was smart; often, his ingenious ideas could help everyone open new doors, avoiding many detours, so despite his aloof nature, he was very popular in the institute.

Especially Director Liu, who had seen the letters Huo Yingjie exchanged, favored the lovey-dovey contents between them; ah, to be young was wonderful. Each time she saw Huo Yingjie, she was exceptionally warm!

That gossip-thirsty gaze, itching to peel Huo Yingjie down to his core.

However, Huo Yingjie was extremely busy during this period, working overtime for three weekends in a row.

Upon hearing this, Director Liu, the considerate big sister, called for Huo Yingjie to understand the situation.

"Yingjie, you’re an outstanding member of our unit. Although we’re regularly swamped with tasks, your health is also very important. A balance of work and rest is what brings efficiency. You can’t be working overtime all the time," Director Liu said earnestly, oh boy, if her daughter weren’t so young, she might have already dragged this handsome young man home to be her son-in-law.

Huo Yingjie brought out a piece of paper with a request written on it, "Director Liu, you’ve misunderstood. That wasn’t overtime; it was me swapping for time off. I have eleven days of holiday at the end of the year, plus the three days I swapped, making two weeks total. I request your approval."

It finally clicked for Director Liu, thinking of Huo Yingjie’s sent-down girlfriend coming home for the New Year. This lad probably couldn’t wait any longer.

"So that’s the situation. Are you planning to leave three days early, or come back three days late after the New Year?" Director Liu asked, taking out a notebook to jot this down. There were always generous exceptions for the nation’s special talents.

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