break out of the ice

Chapter 41 The Liu Family
Because there is a stove in the counter, Lu Hongmei only wore a blue floral jacket and a black sweater today, and folded the outer coat and put it on the counter.

I patted it on it and looked outside the door. It was clear that the weather was fine tomorrow, but at this time it was slowly snowing again.

At this moment, Liu Guodong opened the door and walked in.

The fur collar of the coat on his body was covered with a thin layer of snow, and his face was flushed from the cold.

Lu Hongmei hurriedly came out from the counter and reached out to help Liu Guodong pat the snow on his body.

Complaining: "Why are you here when it's snowing? Come over here to enjoy the fire."

Pulled his arm and was about to go behind the counter.

Liu Guodong stomped his feet again and said, "The soles of the shoes are muddy, clean them up, or you have to clean them up."

While Lu Hongmei said it was okay, she went around and pushed his back, and pushed him behind the counter.

There were two stools beside the stove, one belonged to Lu Hongmei, and the other was for Liu Guodong to sit on.

Only then did Liu Guodong unbutton his coat, and took out the stinky tofu from his arms.

"Today our factory opened in Zhengzhou. I went there. When I came back, Qinqinrang brought you this."

Receiving all calls, Liu Qinqin had called Lu Hongmei a long time ago, and knew that the Xiangxi shop selling stinky tofu was far away from the Lengdie refrigerator store.

I knew it in my heart, but I didn't tear it open. I opened the tightly wrapped stinky tofu, and found that the outer packaging was warm, but the inside was cold.

Immediately understood what was going on, and said to Liu Guodong: "Brother Guodong, it's been a few hours from Zhengzhou to Mincheng, and the stinky tofu has been frozen cold for a long time, why do you still hold your hands in it, and put ice cubes in your arms?" It's not cold to cover it."

Liu Guodong scratched his head: "I didn't think to put it in my arms to cover it at first, but then I put it in my arms to cover it when I felt cold. Next time I should give it to me, so I will put it in my arms."

Lu Hongmei took out an aluminum lunch box from under the counter, put it on the stove, spread the stinky tofu piece by piece on the bottom of the lunch box and ate it hot.

Said: "Isn't it hot? Why cover your arms? Besides, it doesn't smell good."

Liu Guodong nodded: "Yeah, good."

The light from the stove imprinted on Lu Hongmei's face, covering her face with a soft pink.

Liu Guodong swallowed a few times, and finally made up his mind to ask: "Do you have time this Sunday?"

Lu Hongmei only felt her heart pounding, and said, "Yes, I will rest that day, Brother Guodong, what's the matter?"

Maybe he wanted to ask her to go somewhere, Lu Hongmei's face turned even redder.

"Qinqin and I usually go home for dinner no matter how busy we are on Sundays. If Qinqin is not here, I am afraid that my mother will be sad. Can you come to my house that day?" Liu Guodong finished speaking in a stuttering manner, bowing his head and waiting for the landing Hongmei responded.

"Okay." The girl's cheerful voice came, Liu Guodong raised his head, met the girl's smiling face, and laughed too.

Because of this smiling face, the coldness in the room became brighter and brighter.

After Shi Jingqi hesitated for a while, he still didn't get on his bicycle and went to the TV station.

He took the stinky tofu to the workshop and gave it to two female workers who were working the night shift as a midnight snack.

I walked around the workshop by myself, asked Wen Xuefeng about the inventory, and then went back to rest.

It wasn't until I had free time on Sunday that I rode my bicycle and went to the TV station.

Liu Guodong also took Lu Hongmei to Liu's house on this day.

The Liu family is in the southeast corner of Mincheng, next to the edge of Mincheng. In fact, it is not far from the agricultural machinery factory, and it takes about 10 minutes by bicycle to get there.

But Liu's house was tight. Liu Guodong moved to the factory dormitory as soon as he went to work. Later, Liu Qinqin was also assigned to the agricultural machinery factory after graduation, and moved to the factory dormitory.

Liu's father and Liu mother were the only ones left in the Liu family. They were both in their 40s and almost 50 years old, and they were still in good health.

Liu's father works in a nearby timber factory, and Liu's mother does odd jobs.

Liu Guodong greeted Liu's father and Liu mother early, saying that a friend of Liu Qinqin was coming today.

Mother Liu asked who it was, and still had some impressions of Lu Hongmei, and said, "That little girl has been pretty since she was a child, and I haven't seen her since her grandma passed away."

Then he teased his son: "Are you two dating?"

Liu Guodong quickly took his hat and gloves and ran out: "No, no, don't guess, it's Qinqin's friend who came to play, I went back to the factory, and it's still busy there."

Without waiting for Mother Liu to say anything else, she got on her bicycle and left the house.

Liu's mother wanted to catch up and ask, but was stopped by Liu's father: "Okay, okay, the child is shy, why are you still asking, hurry up and get ready to meet the future daughter-in-law."

Mother Liu tidied it up happily, her whole body was in good spirits.

When she asked a neighbor who had a good relationship with her on weekdays, she didn't hide it, and said that her son was going to bring his girlfriend to the house for dinner.

As a result, Lu Hongmei sat on Liu Guodong's back seat with two boxes of snacks, and someone greeted Liu Guodong from the moment he entered Liu Guodong's street.

Someone else joked directly: "Guodong has brought his partner back?"

At first Liu Guodong justified a few words, but later he stopped defending.

Perhaps because of being too shy, Lu Hongmei felt that Liu Guodong's bicycle was not pedaling as fast as before.

Walking unsteadily through the big and small alleys, he came to the front of Liu's house.

Mother Liu was waiting at the door. When she saw someone coming, she hurried over to hold Lu Hongmei's hand: "Son, is it cold? There's a stove in the room, hurry up and sit in the room."

Father Liu also came out of the house and stood under the eaves to greet Liu Guodong: "Guodong, let the girl come in, it's cold outside."

Liu Guodong supported his bicycle and said to Lu Hongmei, "Go in quickly."

Lu Hongmei followed Liu's mother into the house.

When I went in, I saw a small hall, which was neatly tidied up. There was a small square table on the floor, and on the square table were melon seeds, sugar, and peanuts.

Mother Liu grabbed a handful of candy and stuffed it into Lu Hongmei's hand: "Eat candy, eat candy. I'll cook."

Lu Hongmei hurriedly stood up: "I'll help you."

"No, no, you just wait here in this room, I'll be ready in a while..." Mother Liu pressed Lu Hongmei on the stool again.

After a while, there was the sound of chopping meat in the kitchen in the yard.

For a whole day, the Liu family's hot and hot voice didn't stop.

As the New Year gets closer, the business of the sales department is getting better and better, and the requirements for the efficiency of the refrigeration workshop are getting higher and higher.

It was originally planned to discuss expanding the size of the staff after the next year, but it had to be put on the agenda.

Shi Jingqi and Gao Tuanjie dragged Li Guangming to discuss for a whole day, and finally redistributed the remaining idlers from the original agricultural machinery factory according to their respective directors.

Everyone is set.

But when he showed it to Yan Weidong, he was suppressed by Yan Weidong.

(End of this chapter)