What does it feel like to like someone?
This question suddenly perplexed her.
"Missing them, I guess!"
Tan Yunrou didn’t notice Ren Jianing’s expression; otherwise, she would have realized how Ren Jianing knew about it.
"Cousin, I don’t know, it’s really complicated. When I see Qian Fangfang trying to pry into Brother Zhao’s matters from me, it makes me feel very uncomfortable."
Is my cousin feeling affection for this comrade because he saved her life?
"School is about to start. Let’s go buy some things," Ren Jianing said as she pulled Tan Yunrou out of the house.
But they hadn’t even left the family courtyard when they ran into a male comrade.
"Comrade Ren, Comrade Tan."
This male comrade lived in the same large courtyard as Ren Jianing. After seeing Tan Yunrou last year, he wanted to find more opportunities for "chance" encounters.
He was a public security officer at a police station in the Capital City.
Ren Jianing’s gaze fell on the public security officer, and her face blushed, revealing a touch of a young girl’s shyness.
The public security officer they called Officer Lu was named Lu Junan, who had recently retired and joined the police station, unmarried.
After graduating from high school, he immediately enlisted in the military, and had only retired last year.
"Brother Lu..." Ren Jianing called out with a smile on her face.
They didn’t leave immediately.
"Brother Lu, aren’t you busy at the station?"
Why was he in the large courtyard?
"I’m off today," Lu Junan replied, his gaze falling on Tan Yunrou again, though he responded to Ren Jianing’s question.
"Are you two going shopping?" Lu Junan knew that girls liked to shop. He was just unsure if Comrade Tan had grown accustomed to the cold of Capital City. Now that spring had arrived, the weather had warmed up a bit. As long as there was no snow or wind, it wasn’t very cold.
"Yes, school is about to start."
Lu Junan knew that Tan Yunrou was a student at Capital City University.
He didn’t run into them every time.
"Brother Lu, we should get going," Ren Jianing said, feeling it wasn’t appropriate to chat any longer.
"Okay," Lu Junan said, his eyes drifting back to Tan Yunrou. She avoided eye contact, appearing to wait for him to finish his conversation with Comrade Ren.
"Cousin, are you very close with him?"
Ren Jianing explained, "Brother Lu also lives in this compound. We grew up together. He was a classmate of my brother. If it weren’t for his mother’s insistence on him retiring, he would still be serving in the squadron."
My cousin is currently serving in the military.
"Brother Lu had an older brother who met with an accident. Their mother was afraid Brother Lu might have an accident too, so she forced him to retire. There were originally two brothers in his family, and now he’s the only one left," explained Ren Jianing.
Tan Yunrou suddenly understood.
"Cousin, let me treat you to a movie and a meal." Tan Yunrou quickly pushed Lu Junan to the back of her mind, planning to take her cousin out for a movie and dinner.
Tan Yunrou’s parents were very good to her. Even though the school provided a subsidy, they still gave her money.
Meanwhile, Qian Fangfang went down to the street where the electrics store was located to "accidentally" run into Zhao Tianlei again, but still didn’t see him, frowning deeply.
Had that man stopped running his shop here?
Nowadays, there were quite a few individuals running their own businesses. Even if they didn’t make much money, many people still looked down on them, thinking a steady job was better.
They didn’t realize that the secure jobs they cherished could one day be lost.
In the mid-eighties, late-eighties, and early-nineties, many workers were laid off.
Qian Fangfang also knew the allure of running an individual business.
But she didn’t have much capital. Even if she wanted to start her own business, she couldn’t.