Chapter 5

The next morning, after the three members of the Mo family had breakfast, they each got busy as they had agreed.

The sun is still shining brightly in Beijing today. Mo Yutong is wearing a white-bottomed floral blouse, black leather shoes, and carrying a red flip-top leather bag as she walks towards the Youth League Office.

After a brief understanding of the various policies, Mo Yutong went straight to the final destination of the day, Jingshi Department Store.

After getting off the shaky bus, Mo Yutong raised his head and looked at the six-story building in front of him with great emotion. This was the “First Store in New China” that had stood in Beijing for decades and had a business area of 18,000 square meters.

Not only does it enjoy the unique treatment of “the nation supports the capital, the capital’s priority building”, it is also the only retail enterprise in Beijing that has the right to purchase goods nationwide and enjoys the treatment of a second-level wholesale station.

“Dengdengdeng” Mo Yutong walked in happily in her small leather shoes. Instead of wandering around other areas, she stopped directly in front of the counter selling men’s clothing.

Zhongshan suits made of combed cotton were hung on the rack behind the counter. The straight suits looked very smart. Mo Yutong imagined how her Mr. Yan would look when he put them on. He must be as steady, generous and affectionate as in his previous life.

I’m so shy and my whole body is burning. I will meet her Mr. Yan tomorrow and I miss him so much!

“Hello, comrade, do you have a larger size of that color?” Mo Yutong asked with a red face, pointing to a navy blue Zhongshan suit.

The salesperson didn’t think there was anything strange about her blushing. Instead, he thought the girl was very nice and knew how to be shy and embarrassed. She was a good girl.

If she knew that at this moment the good girl was thinking about how to put the Zhongshan suit on her Mr. Yan, no matter how she unbuttoned the buttons one by one, she would probably scold her: “Female hooligan.”

“Yes, little girl, are you buying this as a gift?” The salesperson smiled and took out a folded large-sized Zhongshan suit from under the counter and spread it in front of her.

The sales clerks in department stores are much better than those in supply and marketing cooperatives. They have received relatively professional training and are not arrogant or look down on people. Although they are not as welcoming as the spring breeze, at least they are not offensive.

“Well, I’ll give it to my brother.” Mo Yutong’s face turned even redder as she thought of the time when she and he went on vacation to the beach in her previous life.

It was a gentle night. He held her hand and walked in the moonlight. The brilliance of the moon fell into his eyes. She listened to him humming Teresa Teng’s “Small Town Story” softly and pulled her to spin slowly.

Gradually she was bewitched by him and followed him behind a rock. Then, kisses as gentle as flying flowers fell all over her body. Then, the flower was nourished by him and bloomed to its fullest.

That night was crazy and unrestrained. She called him “good brother, good brother” over and over again in a hoarse voice, but he was not satisfied and sealed her lips. He baptized her with a storm until she was carried back to the hotel in a daze.

“You are such a good sister.” The salesperson’s words made Mo Yutong’s neck start to turn red.

After being rejected by her coquettish behavior, her Mr. Yan would sometimes gently say: “Good sister, can you let me see it? I want to see it!” She couldn’t resist his gentleness, so she would foolishly believe his words, and then another intoxicating lovemaking would begin.

“Please take one of this color and one of the army green ones, thank you!” Mo Yutong raised her rosy face, took out the money and tickets from her small leather bag and handed them to the salesperson.

The salesperson wrapped the item in brown paper and handed it to her. Mo Yutong took it and continued to the next men’s clothing counter.

Overalls, sailor shirt, Warrior shoes, cotton trousers and cotton coat. Mo Yutong looked at the increasingly deflated leather wallet and decisively turned around and went downstairs with the things in his arms.

When they reached a deserted alley, Mo Yutong quickly put all her things on the bench in the space square, then returned to the department store to continue shopping.

After three or four trips, Mo Yutong had spent almost all the small amount of cash and tickets she had saved over the years.

After eating a bowl of fragrant mixed noodles in a state-owned restaurant, Mo Yutong saw that it was getting late and planned to take the bus home. But just as she put her hand on the strap of her bag and prepared to walk quickly to the bus stop, a Toyota Crown stopped in front of her.

The backseat window rolled down, and a gentle-looking young man wearing glasses asked with a smile, “Where’s the stuff?”

“What is that?” Mo Yutong looked at him in panic. She never thought that she would meet her second brother here, who was “smiling on the surface but MMP in her heart”. If she had known, she would not have been greedy and eaten this bowl of mixed noodles.

“You have to tell me here.” Mo Wen stopped smiling and looked serious.

Didn’t you ask me that first? Mo Yutong lowered her eyes and pursed her lips, but she made no move to get in the car.

“Get in the car, I’ll take you home.” Mo Wenzhe’s tone that brooked no refusal made Mo Yutong’s heart tremble, but she still stubbornly did not move.

The second brother is the eldest son of the third uncle and the most powerful among the seven brothers. She didn’t dare to be alone with him in the back row, for fear that the “MMP” in his heart would make her depressed.

“Get in the car.” Mo Wenzhe’s tone turned colder. Mo Yutong got scared and said angrily, “Just get in the car. Who’s afraid of who?”

After opening the car door and sitting in the back seat, Mo Yutong turned her face towards the car window, holding the flap of her leather shoulder bag with both hands, and kept opening and closing the hidden buttons.

“Where are the things you bought at the department store?” Mo Wen became even angrier when he saw her nervous look. She bought a lot of men’s clothes and went into the alleys several times. Every time she went in with a big bag, she came out empty-handed. Even if he didn’t want to think about the relationship between men and women, he couldn’t help it.

“Click…” Mo Yutong was confused. What should he do? How should he make it up?

“Yutong, you are only seventeen years old. You should be careful in your relationships.” Mo Wenzhe has been very busy today and has not received the news that she is going to the countryside. If he knew, he probably would not have been patient enough to reason with her like he is now, but would have slapped her on the butt.

“Second brother, you are right, I understand.” Mo Yutong nodded rapidly. She understood very well that “a man who knows the current affairs is a hero.”

“I won’t ask who that person is, but anyone who asks you for something is not a good person. Let’s cut off the relationship!” Mo Wen said earnestly.

As for privately, he would definitely investigate and let him know who that man was. Without the seven brothers, he alone could beat that man to a pulp.

“Ah? Oh!” Mo Yutong was furious. Second Brother had misunderstood her deeply! Should he explain himself? Forget it, let him go and fight that imaginary man to the death!

Mo Wen was quite satisfied with her attitude, and the corners of his lips gradually curled up.

Because he had a dinner party in the evening, Mo Wenzhe did not send her to the family compound. He just stopped the car at the entrance of the alley and told her to be careful on the road.

Mo Yutong nodded again, and when he rolled up the car window, he ran into the family compound without looking back.

After dinner, her parents asked her to go to bed early, and she obediently prepared to conserve her energy so that she could meet her Mr. Yan in the best possible condition tomorrow.

The next morning, Mo Yutong boarded the train to Sichuan Province with joy in her heart, with her parents’ reluctant eyes on her.

My Mr. Yan, Brother Li, I’m here, are you ready?