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Chapter 2

Before Su Chen could reply, Su Weiguo had already said, "Let's wait for the results of the college entrance examination first, there is no need to worry."

"That's right." Cao Weimin didn't continue this topic.

Su Weiguo turned his head to look at his son, and took out two cents: "Don't forget the time when you go out to play, remember to come back for dinner."

This is to drive Su Chen away in disguise.

"That's it." Su Chen took the two cents and walked away.

After his son disappeared, Su Weiguo and Cao Weimin chatted again in a low voice.

Su Chen wandered out from the alley, comparing the current Rongcheng with the later generations, there is naturally no way to compare it.

The street is small, and most of the houses on both sides are low and old, and there are policemen in white coats and blue trousers in the sentry boxes at the main intersection.

It's like walking through old photos frame by frame.

There are few cars on the street, not even bicycles.

The former car has no money to buy, and the latter car is difficult to buy.

As for other things, such as TV sets, you can’t buy them with money alone. You have to go to the unit to register and rank first. In a unit, only one or two tickets can be distributed in a quarter, which is really a rare item.

Walking around the street twice, there is really nothing to do.

Don't even want to see any white flowers, these days are long clothes and trousers.

Looking around, everything you see in your sight has a strong sense of historical vicissitudes.

He simply turned back into the house.

As soon as he walked to the door of the house, he happened to meet Cao Weimin coming out of the house.

"Uncle, do you want to sit down for a while?" Su Chen greeted.

Cao Weimin shook his head: "No, I have something to do when I go back."

After finishing speaking, he left Su's house and walked to his house.

Wei Hong was busy preparing the dishes for this noon, and Su Weiguo was also helping.

But Su Weiguo has been restless.

"What's the matter?" Wei Hong glanced at him, "You're absent-minded, what's wrong with you?"

"It's okay." Su Weiguo came back to his senses and continued to help choose vegetables.

Wei Hong said: "He said it's okay, look for yourself, you throw the rotten leaves into the basket."

"Really." Su Weiguo hurriedly picked out the rotten leaves he threw into the vegetable basket, and after a moment of silence, he said, "Weimin wants to ask me to go to the capital for a walk."

"Dad, are you going to the capital?" Su Chen came over curiously: "Why are you going to the capital?"

At the gate of Cao's house just now, I saw two people talking with their heads down, but they didn't know what they were talking about.

"That's right, why are you going to the capital?" Wei Hong also asked.

Su Weiguo hesitated for a moment, and said slowly: "Weimin said he found a way to get rich in the capital, and he wanted to ask me to go and have a look..."

Huh.

Su Chen suddenly understood that it must be Cao Weimin's appointment with his father to go to the capital to do speculative business. After all, these days, this kind of business is basically the only one that can be done.

Can't do anything else.

The top wants to do it, but they don’t know how to do it. They can only cross the river carefully by feeling the stones.

But without context...

Therefore, when Su Weiguo said that he was going to the capital, Su Chen had to pay attention.

Wei Hong shook her head hastily: "No, I will definitely not allow you to go to the capital with Cao Weimin. It's not like you don't know that he is too detached and has too many thoughts."

"I just said that casually." Su Weiguo replied: "I haven't seen him in these years. He has indeed changed a lot. Just now he came to borrow money, why did you borrow it?"

The couple would never hide anything from each other, and they were very strict with each other, so Cao Weimin dared to challenge Su Weiguo to go to the capital to make a fortune.

"Borrowing money is borrowing money." Wei Hong said: "Anyway, don't even think about going to the capital, our son just took an exam, and if he passes the exam, if something happens to you, it will definitely affect him. "

Su Weiguo rolled his eyes: "Can't you hope for me?"

He turned his head and glanced at Su Chen: "It's as long as you two know about this, don't go out and talk nonsense."

"What did you just say?" Wei Hong pretended to be stupid: "I went to cook."

As he said that, he picked up the vegetable basket and was busy cooking.

Su Weiguo put the stool at Su Chen's feet: "Sit down, we two are chatting."

"Dad, what do you want to talk about?" Su Chen sat down and asked seriously.

"Are you sure about this exam? After you came back from the exam, I didn't ask you about it."

Su Weiguo said seriously: "If you don't pass the exam, you can study again and take the exam again. Your father will suffer from being uneducated in this life. Look at how many years I have been in the factory. It costs 36 yuan for a month's full wages."

"It should be no problem." Su Chen replied seriously, as if his father had never asked this question after he came back from the exam.

Su Weiguo nodded: "That's fine."

With that said, he patted Su Chen on the shoulder, stood up, turned and returned to the house.

The mother in the kitchen has already started washing rice and preparing to cook.

I don’t have an electric rice cooker at home. Although electric rice cookers have been around since 76, the current electricity can’t support them at all, and the price of electric rice cookers is still very expensive, so it’s not always possible to buy them.

Honeycomb briquettes are used for cooking and cooking, and the streets have their own briquette factories.

Moreover, the purchase of honeycomb coal is also supplied by ticket. Therefore, although this collective unit looks inconspicuous, because it involves thousands of households to cook water and cook, not everyone can afford to offend the workers with iron rice bowls.

It takes a lot of time to order briquettes.

Wei Hong turned her head and shouted, "Son, help me and light the stove."

"I'm going out to borrow a fire."

Su Chen put a few candies into his pocket, and went out with a pair of long pokers.

The right turn is Cao's house, but it is estimated that there is no fire to cook.

So Su Chen turned left, took about ten steps, and knocked on the door.

"Who?"

A nice, clean voice came from inside the door.

"I, Su Chen." Su Chen responded outside: "Is your house on fire? Let me borrow a fire."

"Su Chen?"

The voice inside the door was a bit joyful.

After a while, the door opened.

An eleven or twelve-year-old girl with short hair ran out. Although she was young, she was not short, and she had delicate features.

Su Chen glanced at her: "Brother, big or small, is your house on fire?"

"No, I'm going to call you Su Chen." The little girl rolled her eyes with big beautiful eyes, and said, "Did you bring me anything delicious?"

"Here." Su Chen took out candy from his pocket: "I'll give you candy, you want to call me brother, you know?"

"Just a few candies and you want to buy me off?"

Even though she said so, the little girl had a smile on her face, and the pair of dimples looked very sweet.

Peeling off the candy wrapper, putting the candy in his mouth, he said, "Our house is on fire."

"it is good."

Su Chen walked into her kitchen in a familiar way, took off the kettle on the stove, and used long tongs to take out the top piece of briquette and put it aside.

He took out another piece in the middle, put the original one back, and added another piece, and then put the kettle on.

Holding the red-hot coal, Su Chen didn't care about the little girl who was greedy for the sugar on her body.

Turn around and leave her house, go back to her own house, put the borrowed briquettes into the stove, and cook with my mother.

After the mother and daughter tidied up, they began to eat at the table.

The Su family’s house is an old house with three rooms. The husband and wife live in one room, the son lives in one room, and the other room is the living room. There was originally a younger brother or younger sister, but it just happened to be a big movement in those years. up.

Meat is in short supply these days, so I didn't eat all the meat I bought this morning. I only cut a small part to fry the peppers, and fried the rest into oil residue.

In this way, it can be preserved for a longer time, and it can also be eaten for a longer time. A pot of Chinese cabbage, with a few oil residues, will be more fragrant.

At the dinner table, the couple talked almost exclusively about the affairs of the factory, rarely at a higher level.

While chatting, Su Weiguo suddenly said: "I just thought of something..."

(End of this chapter)