Reborn 1990's Fat Wife Should Be Self-Reliant

Chapter 28

"Uncle Li has just been laid off, don't be as knowledgeable as him."

As Lu Changqing said, he rolled up his sleeves, picked up two stacks of briquettes and walked into the alley.

laid off?

Zhou Huilan was stunned.

She knew about the wave of layoffs in the 90s, but that Uncle Li just now was at least fifty, and he was about to retire, how could he still be laid off?
At the moment of doubt here, Lu Changqing had already run around and turned back, picked up two stacks of briquettes and reminded Zhou Huilan, "The briquettes can't be placed on the open space. You can go to my house and get a few pieces from the wooden boards in the corner of the backyard. I'll help you build them." A coal shed to keep out the wind and rain."

"Don't bother!" Zhou Huilan hurriedly picked up a pile of briquettes and followed into the alley.

"It's not troublesome, it's all about neighbors, it's a matter of taking care of you." Lu Changqing didn't blush or pant, moved twice as much as Zhou Huilan, and walked much faster.

When he put down the briquettes and turned back, Zhou Huilan arrived at the door. Lu Changqing took the briquettes in her hand directly, and grinned, showing a mouthful of neat white teeth. come out?"

Regarding the man's attention, Zhou Huilan was really at a loss, "It's just a few home-cooked dishes. It's not a matter of asking for anything, but Mr. Li just now, thank you for helping me out."

Although Zhou Huilan was sure she could handle it, but the other party helped her after all, and she would not be stingy with that thank you.

"A lot of old employees of the state-run restaurants on this street were laid off a few days ago. The smell of gunpowder is important, but they are all good people. Don't be as knowledgeable as them."

Zhou Huilan asked directly: "Layed off? Are you going to be laid off at the age of Uncle Li?"

"The unit paid compensation. I don't know how to say it, but I heard that the state-run hotel can't continue to open. More than half of the people on this street who used to work there have been laid off."

A large number of layoffs is the trend of the times, and no one can do anything about it.

When Lu Changqing said this, Zhou Huilan suddenly understood that there were obviously more vendors near the Drum Tower than the ones she had known in her previous life, and most of them were laid-off workers. Selling snacks is also the easiest way to start a business.

Zhou Huilan is not worried that her soy milk cannot be sold. After all, although she only soaked a small part of it with well water, it is more fragrant than ordinary soy milk, and grinding soy milk is very tiring. .

During the time of talking, the two of them were so helpful, they had already moved a cart of coal briquettes.

"I'll go back and get the wooden planks." Lu Changqing said as he wiped his sweat with his hands, and immediately there was a coal-black streak on his fair forehead. If he wanted to go out like this, he might make a lot of laughs.

So Zhou Huilan pulled off the towel on the rope and wanted to hand it to him.

But Lu Changqing thought that Zhou Huilan was going to wipe it for him, after all, his sister-in-law did it for him when she usually worked at home.

As soon as her handsome face moved forward, Zhou Huilan also felt that she was an old aunt in her 50s, and she didn't feel uncomfortable at all, so she just wiped him clean.

"mom!"

Yaoyao and Granny Duan were in the corridor, and saw this scene clearly.

The little girl immediately became upset, rushed over like a calf, pushed Lu Changqing away, turned around and hugged her mother's waist, "This is my mother!"

Lu Changqing followed Yaoyao's words and said: "It's your mother." After speaking, he reached out to touch Yaoyao's head, but she slapped it away.

Only then did he realize that the little girl was angry.

Having never dealt with children before, he subconsciously wanted to please the chubby little girl in front of him.

Searching around in my mind, my eyes suddenly lit up, snapped my fingers and bent down to look at Yaoyao: "A nest of ducklings just hatched in my backyard, uncle will give you one, okay?"

Yaoyao was completely dumbfounded.

She grew up so big, Wang Jianye, the father, was actually missing in her growth, so that she could handle the relationship with the elderly elders with ease, but she didn't know how to get along with the opposite sex of her father's generation.

When she lost her temper like this before, those men always scolded her and even taunted her mother, but today this man, not only was he not angry, he even said he wanted to give him a duckling?

Yaoyao looked at her mother expectantly but slightly worried.

Although Zhou Huilan didn't know what her daughter was thinking, she remembered that Yaoyao liked these little furry guys.

In the past, I also helped her raise chicks that cost ten cents at the entrance of the kindergarten, but at that time, she was small and fat at home, and then she was accidentally crushed to death, and Yaoyao was sad for a long time.

"If you like it, go get it with uncle." She smiled and nodded at her daughter, "After a while, uncle will bring things to build a coal shed, and we can also build a nest for the ducklings by the way."

"Mom is awesome!" Yaoyao jumped up, hugged Zhou Huilan's face and kissed her, then dragged Lu Changqing and ran away.

Lu Changqing, who was completely unresponsive, was staggered by her. The tall man of more than 1.8 meters seemed unable to keep up with the pace of a child.

Zhou Huilan also laughed.

Lu Changqing brought back a complete set of materials, including hammers and nails, and also brought a walking stick to Granny Duan.

Yaoyao followed Lu Changqing to nail the coal shed there and pass tools, and there was no need for Zhou Huilan to do it, so she picked up the hoe and tidied up the yard.

The rockery and paths used to make landscaping in the garden are still there, and we can only follow the original trend to dig out small plots of land. However, such natural divisions are also convenient for distinguishing vegetable species.

Zhou Huilan had only grown beans in her previous life, so she was not very good at growing vegetables.

It was only after digging the ground that she secretly took the seeds into the space and passed them in the well water before taking them out and planting them in the soil. Water spinach, bitter gourd, celery, beans, and eggplant were planted in separate areas one by one before watering. , Although the originally bare courtyard is still bare, the tidied up field ridges seem to have a little more life invisibly.

Lu Changqing's coal shed and duck shed were almost finished.

Seeing that Zhou Huilan cleaned up the whole yard in such a short time, Lu Changqing was also embarrassed to let Zhou Huilan go to his house to cook.

Seeing that he was about to leave, Zhou Huilan hurried into the room, changed her clothes, and came out in a neat suit.

Lu Changqing even felt that she was a little brighter than before. Although she was still a little fat, she was so radiant that people couldn't take their eyes off her.

"Mother-in-law, I'm going to teach Dr. Lu's sister-in-law how to cook a few home-cooked meals, and I'll be back soon." She explained to her mother-in-law that Yaoyao was making out with the duckling, and she didn't want to go with her.

It's just that Zhou Huilan took a few steps, only to find that Lu Changqing was still standing there in a daze.

She reached out and shook Lu Changqing's eyes, "Doctor Lu?"

"what!"

Lu Changqing suddenly came back to his senses, and felt that the woman in front of him coincided with the face in his dream.

The person in his dream that he had been dreaming about for many years but couldn't even see his face clearly was impossible. It must have looked like Zhou Huilan...

(End of this chapter)