I rewrote family history

Chapter 53 Old Knife Brand Cigarettes

She... might never buy a Barbie doll again in her life.

"Hello? Dad, what's the matter with you calling?" Just when Xu Qing was about to continue chatting with the old man, the screen of the mobile phone in her pocket lit up and began to vibrate, and she connected the call.

"You come back suddenly, don't come to my place."

Xu Jianwen's voice came from the microphone of the mobile phone.

"Not coming. I'm short on time."

Xu Qing replied subconsciously.

Her father works as a tower crane driver at the construction site, and she doesn't know the uncles at the construction site.When you go there, you have to ask questions.Although her personality is not withdrawn, she doesn't really want to talk to people she doesn't know.Secondly, it is not an urgent matter to bother to go to the construction site to see Xu Jianwen.

After all, her father is still very young, and he has plenty of time to watch, so he is not in a hurry.

The other end of the phone was silent for a while, "Okay, I will take a leave of absence next week and come to see the old man. I should have time next week."

"If you don't have time, video will do."

Xu Qing added a sentence.

"Well..., if you have time, video is also fine."

The voice fell, and there was a busy tone on the other end.

Looking again, the phone has been hung up.

"What's going on, Dad?"

Xu Qing was puzzled for a moment.

In the past, it was she who felt that she had nothing to say, and said "I have something to talk about", even if it ended the topic.But what happened today, Xu Jianwen was the first to hang up the phone.

"He is too busy."

Xu Cong let out a sigh of relief.

He remembered the scene where Xu Rong called Xu Jianwen and Xu Jianwu in the corridor outside the ward.Xu Rong thought he was deaf, and it was true that he lost his hearing 40 years ago.Therefore, when Xu Rong was on the phone in the corridor outside the ward, she didn't deliberately avoid him.

Also, the location in the corridor is already safe, there is no need to deliberately avoid it.

Xu Rong is an old man, and she uses a mobile phone for the elderly and uses a hands-free phone.

The microphone is very loud....

"No! Dad is usually not busy, although he is working on the construction site..."

Xu Qing was about to defend herself, but she fell silent after speaking halfway.

She is not some ignorant student.It was because of Xu Jianwen's "unfilial piety" that she had to rush back to Xijing by plane to stay with the old man.

In a family, there must always be one person.

Dad doesn't have time, it's aimed at the old man.

For her... there is always time.

"Qing'er, you don't need to say, I understand." Xu Cong understands Xu Jianwen very well, just as he understands Xu Er's fool now, "I don't use silk or cotton as the material for the new clothes. Coarse cloth. It only cost me 270 and [-] coppers to make the long gown. Since I got the job of copying books, I have saved about one yuan and seventy cents. When I have money, I... don’t bother to go home.”

Busy, Xu Er is too busy.He was so busy that he didn't have time to go back and see Xu San'er.Anyway, dad is there, he can't run away, and he can't die for a while.I was in a hurry to go home to see what my father was doing.

"With money, there is less communication."

Xu Qing was silent.

After she went to college and had money, she made fewer and fewer calls to her family.When I was a freshman, I had to make a phone call to ask for living expenses at least once a month because of my livelihood.But later on, she no longer needed alms from the family.

……

"Xu Cong, have you changed into new clothes?"

"What are you doing with this money? My wife also sewed one for you."

On the second day after changing into new clothes, after morning class, Xu Er went to the lecturer's apartment in Dongyu to find his husband.One is to submit homework.He and his husband are real teachers and students, and his husband is more strict with him.The second is to "show off" the new clothes, so that the husband does not have to worry too much about his life.

But when she opened the door and saw the mistress, the mistress scolded, "It's so expensive to make clothes outside, and the mistress's female celebrity is famous in Los Angeles. Come over and have a look, the clothes that the mistress sewed for you fit or not. .”

She let Xu Cong in.

Liu Changda was sitting on the grand teacher's chair near the door. He was puffing, with a long and thin cigarette between his middle finger and index finger.Seeing Xu Cong coming in, he was about to say hello, but unexpectedly, some smoke was stuck in his throat, his lungs were blocked, and he coughed violently a few times, "It's Xu Cong..., cough cough..."

He hastily poured a cup of tea into his mouth before calming down.

The gray-white fox glanced at the rosewood desk. A sailor with his left hand on his hip and a knife in his right was printed on the cigarette carton.It is a foreign cigarette produced by the English Wells Company, with the English label of "Pirate Cigarette" written on it.

It knows this cigarette, it is a cigarette of Laodao brand, which is very well-known.

It was sold on the Shanghai stock market around the Guangxu period.

"Xu Cong, take a look, does it fit well? My wife saw that you have been wearing a navy blue gown, so when choosing the material, she chose navy blue cloth for you. What do you think..."

The woman with small feet took a double-layer navy blue gown from inside.

"Sir ordered, I was in a hurry."

she said.

"Thank you, Ma'am, it fits well." Xu Cong took the navy blue gown, measured it on his body, and felt that it was similar in size to his own blue gown, so he folded the gown and hung it on his left elbow , and then bowed deeply forward, thanking him.

"I thought you liked navy blue, but I didn't expect you to like blue too. In winter, I'll sew a padded jacket and make you a blue one..."

The little-footed woman spoke casually.

For her and Liu Changda, a pair of autumn clothes and winter clothes is not a big deal.Liu Changda taught Shiwuzhai in Hongwen Academy, and his monthly salary was 12 yuan.Regardless of the family background of the two, they are not people who are short of money.

Ordinary lecturers are eight yuan.Liu Changda has stayed abroad, and his salary is higher.

"I……"

Xu Er stunned to refuse.

"You are my student, and you are your own. From now on, you just have to remember me as a gentleman. It's a waste of interest to mention money. From now on, just remember to be filial to me. I'm waiting for your treat."

The gentleman took another puff of the cigarette, exhaled the smoke, and said.

The white smoke lingered on the round-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose for a while, then gradually dissipated.After he finished smoking, he ate another piece of persimmon frosting sugar and took a sip of tea.

The cigarette butts dropped on the ground were blown by the autumn wind outside the house, and they became bright again, and sparks burst out at random.

In a moment, disappear.

"How did sir learn to smoke?"

Xu Er was stupefied.

It's just that it's hard for him to figure out Mr.'s thoughts.Smoking, what? Can a gentleman who has stayed abroad not be allowed to smoke?Dad smokes, master smokes, and there are very few adults who don't smoke.he thought to himself.

"Yes, sir, Xu Cong remembers it."

Xu Er replied in a daze.

He knew that the treat Mr. refers to refers to the time when he went to teach fasting.

He doesn't like to take too much good intentions, such as the master and the young master, but the kindness of the master will not make him feel too depressed, just like that cup of lotus root and pear porridge, it can cool off the heat.

(End of this chapter)