Chapter Nineteenth: Delicate Eyebrows

  "Qing Min, originally Uncle Fan Dongyang's factory is quite far from the city, and even if you take a bus from school, it'll still take two hours. Why don't I send you there after I'm discharged?" Xiao Ye Sheng's voice came over, somewhat anxiously, "It's not very safe for a girl like you to take a bus all the way there."

  "I'll go myself, that's all." Ning Qingming was a bit moved by Xiao Yesheng's enthusiasm, but didn't want to trouble others too much, her tone firm. "Don't worry, I'll call you as soon as I arrive to let you know I'm safe."

  Put down the phone, Zhou Ling came over and pushed Ning Qingming: "Or, I'll send you there and then go back home. You're directionally challenged, what if you get lost?"

  "No need, if you send me over, Jiang Mingzhi will definitely follow and bring a bunch of people, it's not very convenient." Ning Qingming smiled, "Fan Dongyang told me in detail which bus to take and how to go, I won't get lost."

  "Then be careful yourself!" Zhou Ling reminded Ning Qingming, muttering to himself: "Xiaohong and Meimei ran away quickly, I'm going home by bus tomorrow afternoon and no one will see me off!"

  "Don't worry, Brother Mingzhi will definitely be happy to send you!" Ning Qingming said in Jiang Mingzhi's tone: "Ling Mei, that light bulb Ning Qingming has finally run off to another place, my suffering is over!"

  Zhou Ling laughed and came over to pinch Ning Qingmian, who cried out "Save me!"

  "Go ahead and shout! Shout your head off, no one will come to save you!" Zhou Ling sneered, his ugly face twisted in a scowl as he pinched Ning Qingmian's neck, but didn't use much force.

  The next day, Ning Qingmin got up early and Zhou Ling sent her downstairs, complaining: "Just going to work for ten days, why bring an English book, the luggage is so heavy."

  "Ding, ding, ding..." Someone rode a bicycle over from the front and rang the bell. Zhou Ling and Ning Qingming were about to dodge to one side when they saw that the person on the bicycle was actually Guo Shangliang.

  "I'll send you to the school gate and take a taxi!" Guo Shangliang smiled slightly in the morning light, his face as gentle as spring dawn. "Your dormitory is still 15 minutes' walk from the school gate, and with luggage, it will probably take 20-30 minutes."

  Zhou Lingyi saw Ning Qing had someone to see her off and waved his hand before going upstairs first.

  "How did you know I'm going to the factory by bus today?" Ning Qing's eyes sparkled with delight. Guo Shangliang was concerned about her!

  "Someone has informed on me!" Guo Shangliang got off his bicycle and helped Ning Qing tie her luggage to the back seat.

  "Hmm, news travels fast! I only called Mom. My uncle knew right away." Ning Qingming adjusted her glasses and suddenly said in surprise: "The luggage is on the back seat. Where am I supposed to sit?"

  "Get on the front rack!" Guo Shangliang was already sitting on the bicycle, gesturing for Ning Qingmian to sit on the front rack.

  Ning Qing felt embarrassed and tongue-tied. She was a bit ashamed.

  "What's wrong? Is there a problem?" Guo Shangliang's eyes sparkled brightly, his gaze clear and transparent.

  "No, no problem!" Ning Qingming carefully sat down on the horizontal bar, feeling a bit nervous and a bit sweet, sitting in front of the horizontal bar, just like being held in Guo Shangliang's arms.

  The wind on a winter morning came rushing towards her, but Ning Qing didn't feel the chill. Instead, she felt warmth all over her body and her heart was racing like a deer.

  Guo Shangliang's breath brushed against the back of her neck, carrying a sweet and silky scent.

  This is a beautiful morning.

  The bicycle sped forward quickly and suddenly arrived. Ning Qingming felt for the first time that the road from the dormitory to the school gate was too short.

  With joy, Ning Qingming easily found Uncle Fan Dongyang's factory.

  "Xiao Ning, you're quite handy!" Inspector Qiong walked over, watching as Ning Qing carefully examined the connection of the eyebrow tweezers, and smiled: "Not bad, already an expert after just two days."

  Ning Qingmin smiled and quickly attached a qualified label with her work number on the inspected eyebrow tweezers.

  Qiong sister walked away, and Afang, a colleague in the same dormitory, whispered: "Xiao Ning, it seems that Qiong sister likes you, why don't you talk to her? This eyebrow clip is sold for 80 yuan outside, but internal staff can buy it for only 20 yuan.

  "Alright, I'll talk to her after work." Ning Qing said in a low voice, then quickly lowered his head to examine the eyebrow clip again.

  Originally, Ah Fang saw that the eyebrow clips made by the factory were exquisite, so she wanted to internally purchase one, but didn't dare tell Qiong Jie, and instead asked Ning Qingmin to speak on her behalf.

  After getting off work, Ah Fang pulled Ning Qingming again to talk about this matter. Ning Qingming smiled and said: "You've been working here for so long, why don't you dare to tell Qiong Jie yourself?"

  "I love to slack off at work, and was caught by Qiong Jie a few times. She dislikes me, and if I tell her about this, she'll definitely ignore me." Ah Fang pouted, looking unhappy.

  Ning Qing saw that the quality of the eyebrow tweezers was not bad, and she also wanted to buy one for herself. Just then, she saw Qiong Jie passing by in front of her, so she went up to her and said she wanted to internally purchase two pairs of eyebrow tweezers.

  Qiong jie took a look at Ning Qingmin's eyebrows and said, "The shape of your eyebrows is still good, it's time to get them trimmed. Just go to the finance department, pay the money, get a receipt and give it to me."

  When the eyebrow tweezers were handed over, Ning Qingmin and A Fang were in the dormitory, each facing a mirror to trim their eyebrows.

  Ah Fang fixed her own eyebrows, turned her head and saw Ning Qingming, exclaimed: "Xiao Ning, I didn't expect your eyebrows to be so elegant after a trim!" She tilted her head again to look at Ning Qingming, "Is the food in the factory good? I feel like your complexion is much rosier than two days ago."

  Ning Qingmin looked at her own face in the mirror, pursed her lips and smiled slightly, a bit distracted. Why didn't she understand the importance of dressing up before?

  "Wow, it's almost time, let's go!" Ah Fang put away her eyebrow pencil and muttered: "Working overtime every night is exhausting!"

  "Ring, ring, ring......", the internal phone on the platform rang. Qiong sister went to pick up the phone, "What? The mold room is too busy, borrow a handy one to use? You're all technical workers, how can our quality inspection team do it?"

  "Helping to trim the edges of the fur?" Qiong sister was extremely unwilling, but the other party was more powerful and said it was the manager who let them come to borrow people, so she had no choice but to agree.

  "Qiong jie, I'm not going, one day in the mold room and my fingers are thickened by several inches." Afang said hastily as soon as she saw Qiong jie looking at her. Others also busied themselves with excuses, all saying that they had only heard it was for quality inspection when they first came to work.

  Qiong's gaze shifted to Ning Qingmin. Ning Qingmin put down the eyebrow clip in her hand and stood up, it was just a matter of a few more days, nothing big would happen anyway.

  Wu Shibao in the mold room pointed to a pile of iron blocks that had been ground smooth and shiny, about the size of dried tofu, next to the drilling machine and said: "Hold the iron block with your left hand, turn the handle with your right hand, and drill holes at all four corners. Each corner of the iron block has a fixed point, take a good look yourself!"

  "Isn't it just deburring the edges? Why is it drilling?" Ning Qingmin saw that everyone in the mold room was busy as could be, with machines roaring away, and had to shout to Wu Shibo: "I don't know how to drill!"

  "Then you'll eat?" Wu Shibao was measuring the size of something on the drawing, looked up at Ning Qingmian, and demonstrated it once with a bad tone.

  After the drill bit pierced through the iron block, it had a great deal of residual force and brought the iron block floating upwards. Ning Qing didn't have experience, his left hand couldn't press down on the iron block steadily, the iron block was flung into the air by the rotational force of the drill bit, with a "pa" sound, in a perfect diver's pose, it jumped into a bucket of oil used for cooling beside him.

  Ning Qing quickly and quietly said it was no good, and hurried over to use the fire tongs to pick out the iron block. She stole a glance around her, and couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief - it was okay, everyone was busy and hadn't noticed her disheveled appearance.

  When he drilled into the third iron block, the iron block was thrown into the oil barrel for the third time. Ning Qing was extremely depressed, first sneaking a glance around, then running to the edge of the oil barrel in the posture of a small mouse stealing oil, and using fire tongs to pick up the iron block.

  Fortunately, no one noticed. Ning Qing continued to feel lucky and straightened up, just about to let out a sigh of relief when a smiling voice sounded from behind her:

  "I saw it all!"