Liu Mei didn't expect that she would be laid off one day
It took her 25 years since she entered the factory at the age of 20. The sudden layoff of Qi has not recovered for several months. A woman who is already 45 years old this year is confused about starting over again. She has no skills and looks like she has no extraordinary appearance. She is difficult to find a stable job. She has to go out to work. There is also a child in the family who needs tuition and living expenses. The family is only those children who have left behind by his father in the past. Every time Liu Mei thinks of this, she feels uncomfortable. Why does fate treat us, mother and son like this!
Liu Mei has been working all the time, she seems to have forgotten the joy of life. What she most hopes is that she hears her son coming back and opening the door every day and asks her mother to feel some comfort.
Liu Mei's son Li Xiaoyong is exactly 20 years old this year. His son is very successful in the college entrance examination and was admitted to the national key university in the city. Whenever he thinks of his son, this also gives Liu Mei some comfort in the hardship. Now his son is everything to her, and it is also the hope of her in the second half of her life. When Liu Mei heard that her son came back, she quickly covered up her sad thoughts and ran to cook for her son.
Let me introduce our protagonist Liu Mei
Liu Mei is a worker from a Si County factory in T City. She has white skin and tall skin, with big watery eyes, and looks like she can speak. She was once known as a flower in the factory. When the factory was still prosperous, her leader ordered her to transfer her from the workshop to the factory radio station to be a broadcaster. However, Liu Mei herself wondered why such a good thing was her turn, because Liu Mei didn't know a (the factory leader or the real power figure in the factory) had expressed anything to her, and no one came to ask for anything.
This incident caused a lot of rumors in the past: Someone fell in love with Liu Mei, but a leader in the city. When he came to inspect work, he fell in love with Liu Mei on the spot, so he greeted the factory manager. In this way, Liu Mei went to the position that the young girls in the factory longed for the most: the broadcaster in the broadcast room
Liu Mei was less than 30 years old at that time. Speaking of which, Liu Mei's husband was a very mysterious person. No one knew who he was. He had never come to the factory to see Liu Mei. He knew that she had a very cute son. Liu Mei picked up and dropped off her children to kindergarten every day. Every time Liu Mei needed it, a red sedan appeared in time. There were very tall people, and they looked more handsome. There were 27 or 8 boys who helped her pick up and drop off her children. But the boy-like person always kissed her very gently when she left.
One day, my colleague heard Liu Mei's child call him the handsome boy and above and everyone knew that he was Liu Mei's husband. Only then did people know that he was her husband.
But when someone asks about her husband, Liu Mei always smiles very happy and will not give positive answers. Over time, there will naturally be fewer people asking. However, in this way, everyone will be more curious about her family in her life, and she has become the focus of people's discussion.
However, with the country's reform and opening up policy, state-owned companies and factories went bankrupt one by one. In 2002, Liu Mei's factory also broke down and declared bankruptcy. Liu Mei became a member of the laid-off worker. Only then did she know about her mysterious family situation. Liu Mei's husband was an undercover policeman who unfortunately died while performing a mission. Once her husband died, she was left at home with Liu Mei and her son Li Xiaoyong who was studying.
All the guesses that everyone had in the past were confirmed to be foolish. Liu Mei became a martyr's family member, but when her husband left, no matter what family member you were, and if he made too good contributions for the country, he would become a silence once he left. Besides, Liu Mei's husband was a policeman who always wanted to be undercover. There were very few people who knew him. After the people died, there was nothing else to take care of except for some policy pensions. After Liu Mei was laid off, her family's economy began to deteriorate continuously, and her son's high tuition and living expenses were also the high tuition and living expenses of her son. Liu Mei did not apply for scholarships in order to take care of her children's face. Liu Mei felt that if she applied, she would leave her own soul shadow.
In this way, Liu Mei struggled to live a life of odd jobs. Until April this year, a company recruited some middle-aged mature women with good temperament and image as a promotional ambassador for the company. She set up a program to teach housewives to do some home-cooked meals on TV. Liu Mei took the exam and successfully defeated her competitors and got this job that helped her get out of trouble. This time, the family life took a turn.
This kind of work is usually very late to get off work
The formal filming of makeup test shots was a series of processes. It was already very late after get off work. It should be because of work, Liu Mei could not take care of her son Li Xiaoyong's life as before. Fortunately, Li Xiaoyong was very successful and took a exam in a key university very smoothly. She usually lives in school, which means she comes back on holidays.
I also have to explain the exam in April this year
Which company that recruits Liu Mei is particularly good at doing business? It has been opening new products to do some advertising with less investment and influence. This time, it recruits mature women as promotional ambassadors and chooses suitable TV programs as the company's promotional tool. This proposal determines the charming mature women who are about 40 years old this time.
This proposal was adopted by the manager who had just returned from studying abroad. This led to Liu Mei's application, which changed Liu Mei's fate. Liu Mei didn't know that the person who made this suggestion was Li Xiaoyong, the son of the child, who thought he was the child.
In this way, Liu Mei successfully passed the various tests of recruitment interviews. She became the image ambassador of the company's products and the host of the company sponsorship. She became a beautiful host who is a common woman on the screen every day for the audience. Liu Mei's job is very late every day. Fortunately, her home is not very far from her workplace, and it takes only ten minutes to walk. If she takes a shortcut, she will be closer. It is a bit quiet and there are no people. There are not many street lights on the road. It can only save more than ten minutes and you can go home.
This was September 2005. The weather was hot and hot. Liu Mei, who worked until 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, had just recorded the upcoming program and walked home. She didn't know how to ride a bicycle. When her husband was there, she thought that women would let men see their spring scenery, so she didn't learn to ride a bicycle. Now she is close to home. She can exercise when walking home every day. By the way, it's good to think about it.
In a flash, she has been recording the trial for several months and has become familiar with her face on the screen. She should be a good meal that is beautiful and has made good food. The ratings of the program have increased very quickly, and Liu Mei has also been loved by everyone. She has become the gentle and virtuous sister-in-law in the minds of many people. This effect is unexpected by the director of the TV station who was skeptical at the beginning.
Liu Mei felt happy during this period of work, but there was always something in her heart that she couldn't let go. During this period of time, her son was in a bad mood every day and looked depressed. She didn't know what her son had.
Last weekend, my well-behaved son was drunk and came home drunk alone. He didn't say anything when he got home and went back to his room and closed the door. He was worried that his son would go in and take a look. Seeing that his son was sleeping with his head covered, he obviously didn't want to tell her.
This incident made her feel uneasy. She has cherished such hard-earned jobs. She strives to do the best job every day, which has neglected her beloved son. Now that she thinks about her son's situation for nearly 3 months, she has always wanted to take time to talk to her son once.
In the past, my son would come to talk to him whenever he encountered something or a problem. Although he had no education, now that the child grew up, he could no longer enlighten his son like before. She felt that what his son needed was a person to talk to. She knew how to feel his son's feelings with his heart, listen to his son's voice, and be in pain and joy with him. This is enough. His son wanted such a person to talk to, and only her mother in this world can do it.
So for so many years, she has always felt that her heart and her son are closely connected.
But now it has become like this? Work is really so important? Isn’t it just that I work so hard that my son wants to live a better life?
Why is this happening? I found a job that everyone envies, but I became increasingly alienated from my son? If so, wouldn’t it be worth it for my work so hard?
While she was thinking about it, she walked onto the small road by the river. She wanted to go home sooner and see if her son was back today? She didn't think that there were no street lights on this road, very dark
Fortunately, it is very close to my home, and I am very familiar with it, so I don’t have to go through it with too much effort.
Just as she was walking beside the woods on the road, a man suddenly jumped out of the woods. He looked tall and thin. He could not see the face clearly without the street lights. He squirted out of his mouth with an unpleasant smell of alcohol and a hoarse voice, but he gave her the feeling that this person was not very big. He took a knife in his hand and came out and the knife hit Liu Mei's throat and said to her: Go in! Liu Mei's mind was blank when she saw this situation and could only listen to him and went to the woods.
Liu Mei was very panicked. The random thoughts in her mind disappeared all of a sudden. She thought so much that she suddenly became stupid, and her mind was blank.
Liu Mei didn't know how she walked into the woods. The light here became darker and she couldn't see anything. She only felt a chill rising, and she completely unconsciously how she walked in. However, she could feel that the man's knife was not taken away from her neck, and the chill was revealed. Even if it was midsummer night, it made her shudder. She seemed to have accepted her fate and had never thought of any sense of resistance, but she also felt a little strange. It seemed that after a long time, the criminal seemed to not know what to do, and she never asked for it. It was useless to say whether to rob her or rob her wealth. Seeing that he was really drunk, he didn't know what to do!
At this time, Liu Mei's intention suddenly became lively. She grabbed his negligence and suddenly used her best to push the criminal with her hand. The criminal was pushed to the ground without standing firmly. Liu Mei didn't expect that such a push could be piled up. When the criminal saw that the time to escape was coming, she immediately raised her legs and ran out of the woods desperately. However, she was a little panicked and tripped by a stone on the ground. The criminal got up and threw herself onto Liu Mei's body and pressed on her. The criminal seemed to understand what to do next. She couldn't hear what she said in her low voice. She just took a knife to cut off Liu Mei's dress. In order not to be scratched by him, Liu Mei could only avoid hiding the sharp blade.Growing low, let Liu Mei take off her clothes and obey him. It should be that Liu Mei's failure to struggle soon, her underwear was roughly taken off by the criminal and threw it on the ground. At this time, Liu Mei was completely desperate and no longer struggled to resist the invasion of the criminal. Liu Mei felt that the criminal took off her pants and took out her thick penis. Her legs were roughly separated and she was unable to enter. At this time, her breasts were also constantly kneaded with force. The hard pinching made Liu Mei feel pain, but she was afraid that the criminal would hurt her and dare not resist. After the criminal did not enter the hole he wanted to penetrate, she roared and threatened Liu Mei to help, otherwise she would disfigure her and ruin her for the rest of her life.
At this time, when Liu Mei heard the threat, she could only obediently help the criminal's penis with her hands and aimed at the flower hole that had not been moistened for a long time. The criminal inserted the thick and bloody penis into it with force. Liu Mei felt that her lower vagina was suddenly burst into in by a thick and hard cock, full of support!
ah!
Liu Mei was lying there in a big shape, her mind was blank and she had no thoughts. She was like a doll and she was hitting the gangster again and again and again, and then she hit the buds in her deepest. After being fucked for a while, Liu Mei felt that the gangster's voice was very similar to someone she was familiar with. She had thought about electricity in her mind, but she immediately denied it. It could not be him, he was so obedient!
It's definitely not him!
At this time, Liu Mei felt that she was raped and seemed to be less important. She firmly denied her thoughts, but she still had some doubts and began to constantly try to induce the criminals to speak: I know who you are! I think it was the first time you stopped quickly! I have seen your face!
But the gangster was not talking at this time, just trying hard to thrust his penis in Liu Mei's vagina. He had no skills at all, just a rushing rampage. It was obvious that he was a young man without any experience.
Liu Mei had no way to attract the attention of the criminal. She suddenly thought of one attention, but hesitated again: If I bite him, would he kill me?
No matter what, you must find out if it is him!
At this moment, she felt that he had obviously accelerated the speed of thrusting his cock, and her own body also reacted. A burst of pleasure current accompanied by the filling of the cock spread to her whole body along with her nerves. At this time, Liu Mei raised her head uncontrollably and bit the gangster's shoulder deeply.
The criminal was not feeling the pain due to the anesthesia of alcohol, so he just buried his head and worked hard with his cock. Suddenly, Liu Mei felt the movements of the person lying on her stopped suddenly, and a comfortable roar was made from the criminal's mouth. Ou!... At this time, Liu Mei also felt a strong pleasure spread from her private parts to her whole body. At the same time, the hot semen ejaculated from the criminal was watered on her own stamen. As soon as her stamen opened, a stream of her own vaginal fluid was leaked out!
At this time, Liu Mei felt an orgasm that she hadn't experienced for a long time, and at the same time she felt ashamed that she had reached a happy orgasm when she was raped
Liu Mei began to scold herself for being a lewd person in her heart!
Feeling that the man is no longer moving, he pushes away the man pressing against him with his hands
I found my underwear that I had to push off on the ground and ran out of the woods desperately. I didn't dare to look back when I was running, thinking that it was just like I was afraid that the criminal would be caught and raped once!
Liu Mei ran desperately for the long journey, and ran home in one breath. She opened the door and found that her son was not at home. She felt like she was giving a burden to the bottom lane.
It took her 25 years since she entered the factory at the age of 20. The sudden layoff of Qi has not recovered for several months. A woman who is already 45 years old this year is confused about starting over again. She has no skills and looks like she has no extraordinary appearance. She is difficult to find a stable job. She has to go out to work. There is also a child in the family who needs tuition and living expenses. The family is only those children who have left behind by his father in the past. Every time Liu Mei thinks of this, she feels uncomfortable. Why does fate treat us, mother and son like this!
Liu Mei has been working all the time, she seems to have forgotten the joy of life. What she most hopes is that she hears her son coming back and opening the door every day and asks her mother to feel some comfort.
Liu Mei's son Li Xiaoyong is exactly 20 years old this year. His son is very successful in the college entrance examination and was admitted to the national key university in the city. Whenever he thinks of his son, this also gives Liu Mei some comfort in the hardship. Now his son is everything to her, and it is also the hope of her in the second half of her life. When Liu Mei heard that her son came back, she quickly covered up her sad thoughts and ran to cook for her son.
Let me introduce our protagonist Liu Mei
Liu Mei is a worker from a Si County factory in T City. She has white skin and tall skin, with big watery eyes, and looks like she can speak. She was once known as a flower in the factory. When the factory was still prosperous, her leader ordered her to transfer her from the workshop to the factory radio station to be a broadcaster. However, Liu Mei herself wondered why such a good thing was her turn, because Liu Mei didn't know a (the factory leader or the real power figure in the factory) had expressed anything to her, and no one came to ask for anything.
This incident caused a lot of rumors in the past: Someone fell in love with Liu Mei, but a leader in the city. When he came to inspect work, he fell in love with Liu Mei on the spot, so he greeted the factory manager. In this way, Liu Mei went to the position that the young girls in the factory longed for the most: the broadcaster in the broadcast room
Liu Mei was less than 30 years old at that time. Speaking of which, Liu Mei's husband was a very mysterious person. No one knew who he was. He had never come to the factory to see Liu Mei. He knew that she had a very cute son. Liu Mei picked up and dropped off her children to kindergarten every day. Every time Liu Mei needed it, a red sedan appeared in time. There were very tall people, and they looked more handsome. There were 27 or 8 boys who helped her pick up and drop off her children. But the boy-like person always kissed her very gently when she left.
One day, my colleague heard Liu Mei's child call him the handsome boy and above and everyone knew that he was Liu Mei's husband. Only then did people know that he was her husband.
But when someone asks about her husband, Liu Mei always smiles very happy and will not give positive answers. Over time, there will naturally be fewer people asking. However, in this way, everyone will be more curious about her family in her life, and she has become the focus of people's discussion.
However, with the country's reform and opening up policy, state-owned companies and factories went bankrupt one by one. In 2002, Liu Mei's factory also broke down and declared bankruptcy. Liu Mei became a member of the laid-off worker. Only then did she know about her mysterious family situation. Liu Mei's husband was an undercover policeman who unfortunately died while performing a mission. Once her husband died, she was left at home with Liu Mei and her son Li Xiaoyong who was studying.
All the guesses that everyone had in the past were confirmed to be foolish. Liu Mei became a martyr's family member, but when her husband left, no matter what family member you were, and if he made too good contributions for the country, he would become a silence once he left. Besides, Liu Mei's husband was a policeman who always wanted to be undercover. There were very few people who knew him. After the people died, there was nothing else to take care of except for some policy pensions. After Liu Mei was laid off, her family's economy began to deteriorate continuously, and her son's high tuition and living expenses were also the high tuition and living expenses of her son. Liu Mei did not apply for scholarships in order to take care of her children's face. Liu Mei felt that if she applied, she would leave her own soul shadow.
In this way, Liu Mei struggled to live a life of odd jobs. Until April this year, a company recruited some middle-aged mature women with good temperament and image as a promotional ambassador for the company. She set up a program to teach housewives to do some home-cooked meals on TV. Liu Mei took the exam and successfully defeated her competitors and got this job that helped her get out of trouble. This time, the family life took a turn.
This kind of work is usually very late to get off work
The formal filming of makeup test shots was a series of processes. It was already very late after get off work. It should be because of work, Liu Mei could not take care of her son Li Xiaoyong's life as before. Fortunately, Li Xiaoyong was very successful and took a exam in a key university very smoothly. She usually lives in school, which means she comes back on holidays.
I also have to explain the exam in April this year
Which company that recruits Liu Mei is particularly good at doing business? It has been opening new products to do some advertising with less investment and influence. This time, it recruits mature women as promotional ambassadors and chooses suitable TV programs as the company's promotional tool. This proposal determines the charming mature women who are about 40 years old this time.
This proposal was adopted by the manager who had just returned from studying abroad. This led to Liu Mei's application, which changed Liu Mei's fate. Liu Mei didn't know that the person who made this suggestion was Li Xiaoyong, the son of the child, who thought he was the child.
In this way, Liu Mei successfully passed the various tests of recruitment interviews. She became the image ambassador of the company's products and the host of the company sponsorship. She became a beautiful host who is a common woman on the screen every day for the audience. Liu Mei's job is very late every day. Fortunately, her home is not very far from her workplace, and it takes only ten minutes to walk. If she takes a shortcut, she will be closer. It is a bit quiet and there are no people. There are not many street lights on the road. It can only save more than ten minutes and you can go home.
This was September 2005. The weather was hot and hot. Liu Mei, who worked until 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, had just recorded the upcoming program and walked home. She didn't know how to ride a bicycle. When her husband was there, she thought that women would let men see their spring scenery, so she didn't learn to ride a bicycle. Now she is close to home. She can exercise when walking home every day. By the way, it's good to think about it.
In a flash, she has been recording the trial for several months and has become familiar with her face on the screen. She should be a good meal that is beautiful and has made good food. The ratings of the program have increased very quickly, and Liu Mei has also been loved by everyone. She has become the gentle and virtuous sister-in-law in the minds of many people. This effect is unexpected by the director of the TV station who was skeptical at the beginning.
Liu Mei felt happy during this period of work, but there was always something in her heart that she couldn't let go. During this period of time, her son was in a bad mood every day and looked depressed. She didn't know what her son had.
Last weekend, my well-behaved son was drunk and came home drunk alone. He didn't say anything when he got home and went back to his room and closed the door. He was worried that his son would go in and take a look. Seeing that his son was sleeping with his head covered, he obviously didn't want to tell her.
This incident made her feel uneasy. She has cherished such hard-earned jobs. She strives to do the best job every day, which has neglected her beloved son. Now that she thinks about her son's situation for nearly 3 months, she has always wanted to take time to talk to her son once.
In the past, my son would come to talk to him whenever he encountered something or a problem. Although he had no education, now that the child grew up, he could no longer enlighten his son like before. She felt that what his son needed was a person to talk to. She knew how to feel his son's feelings with his heart, listen to his son's voice, and be in pain and joy with him. This is enough. His son wanted such a person to talk to, and only her mother in this world can do it.
So for so many years, she has always felt that her heart and her son are closely connected.
But now it has become like this? Work is really so important? Isn’t it just that I work so hard that my son wants to live a better life?
Why is this happening? I found a job that everyone envies, but I became increasingly alienated from my son? If so, wouldn’t it be worth it for my work so hard?
While she was thinking about it, she walked onto the small road by the river. She wanted to go home sooner and see if her son was back today? She didn't think that there were no street lights on this road, very dark
Fortunately, it is very close to my home, and I am very familiar with it, so I don’t have to go through it with too much effort.
Just as she was walking beside the woods on the road, a man suddenly jumped out of the woods. He looked tall and thin. He could not see the face clearly without the street lights. He squirted out of his mouth with an unpleasant smell of alcohol and a hoarse voice, but he gave her the feeling that this person was not very big. He took a knife in his hand and came out and the knife hit Liu Mei's throat and said to her: Go in! Liu Mei's mind was blank when she saw this situation and could only listen to him and went to the woods.
Liu Mei was very panicked. The random thoughts in her mind disappeared all of a sudden. She thought so much that she suddenly became stupid, and her mind was blank.
Liu Mei didn't know how she walked into the woods. The light here became darker and she couldn't see anything. She only felt a chill rising, and she completely unconsciously how she walked in. However, she could feel that the man's knife was not taken away from her neck, and the chill was revealed. Even if it was midsummer night, it made her shudder. She seemed to have accepted her fate and had never thought of any sense of resistance, but she also felt a little strange. It seemed that after a long time, the criminal seemed to not know what to do, and she never asked for it. It was useless to say whether to rob her or rob her wealth. Seeing that he was really drunk, he didn't know what to do!
At this time, Liu Mei's intention suddenly became lively. She grabbed his negligence and suddenly used her best to push the criminal with her hand. The criminal was pushed to the ground without standing firmly. Liu Mei didn't expect that such a push could be piled up. When the criminal saw that the time to escape was coming, she immediately raised her legs and ran out of the woods desperately. However, she was a little panicked and tripped by a stone on the ground. The criminal got up and threw herself onto Liu Mei's body and pressed on her. The criminal seemed to understand what to do next. She couldn't hear what she said in her low voice. She just took a knife to cut off Liu Mei's dress. In order not to be scratched by him, Liu Mei could only avoid hiding the sharp blade.Growing low, let Liu Mei take off her clothes and obey him. It should be that Liu Mei's failure to struggle soon, her underwear was roughly taken off by the criminal and threw it on the ground. At this time, Liu Mei was completely desperate and no longer struggled to resist the invasion of the criminal. Liu Mei felt that the criminal took off her pants and took out her thick penis. Her legs were roughly separated and she was unable to enter. At this time, her breasts were also constantly kneaded with force. The hard pinching made Liu Mei feel pain, but she was afraid that the criminal would hurt her and dare not resist. After the criminal did not enter the hole he wanted to penetrate, she roared and threatened Liu Mei to help, otherwise she would disfigure her and ruin her for the rest of her life.
At this time, when Liu Mei heard the threat, she could only obediently help the criminal's penis with her hands and aimed at the flower hole that had not been moistened for a long time. The criminal inserted the thick and bloody penis into it with force. Liu Mei felt that her lower vagina was suddenly burst into in by a thick and hard cock, full of support!
ah!
Liu Mei was lying there in a big shape, her mind was blank and she had no thoughts. She was like a doll and she was hitting the gangster again and again and again, and then she hit the buds in her deepest. After being fucked for a while, Liu Mei felt that the gangster's voice was very similar to someone she was familiar with. She had thought about electricity in her mind, but she immediately denied it. It could not be him, he was so obedient!
It's definitely not him!
At this time, Liu Mei felt that she was raped and seemed to be less important. She firmly denied her thoughts, but she still had some doubts and began to constantly try to induce the criminals to speak: I know who you are! I think it was the first time you stopped quickly! I have seen your face!
But the gangster was not talking at this time, just trying hard to thrust his penis in Liu Mei's vagina. He had no skills at all, just a rushing rampage. It was obvious that he was a young man without any experience.
Liu Mei had no way to attract the attention of the criminal. She suddenly thought of one attention, but hesitated again: If I bite him, would he kill me?
No matter what, you must find out if it is him!
At this moment, she felt that he had obviously accelerated the speed of thrusting his cock, and her own body also reacted. A burst of pleasure current accompanied by the filling of the cock spread to her whole body along with her nerves. At this time, Liu Mei raised her head uncontrollably and bit the gangster's shoulder deeply.
The criminal was not feeling the pain due to the anesthesia of alcohol, so he just buried his head and worked hard with his cock. Suddenly, Liu Mei felt the movements of the person lying on her stopped suddenly, and a comfortable roar was made from the criminal's mouth. Ou!... At this time, Liu Mei also felt a strong pleasure spread from her private parts to her whole body. At the same time, the hot semen ejaculated from the criminal was watered on her own stamen. As soon as her stamen opened, a stream of her own vaginal fluid was leaked out!
At this time, Liu Mei felt an orgasm that she hadn't experienced for a long time, and at the same time she felt ashamed that she had reached a happy orgasm when she was raped
Liu Mei began to scold herself for being a lewd person in her heart!
Feeling that the man is no longer moving, he pushes away the man pressing against him with his hands
I found my underwear that I had to push off on the ground and ran out of the woods desperately. I didn't dare to look back when I was running, thinking that it was just like I was afraid that the criminal would be caught and raped once!
Liu Mei ran desperately for the long journey, and ran home in one breath. She opened the door and found that her son was not at home. She felt like she was giving a burden to the bottom lane.
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