Siheyuan: There are three little cats at home

Chapter 28
Xu Qing made up his mind in the kitchen, got up and returned to the front room.

Glancing at the clock hanging on the wall, he realized that it was past nine o'clock in the evening, so he asked the three little ones to get off the kang to wash their feet and go to sleep.

The night passed.

In the early morning, Xu Qing went out fully dressed.

The snow outside the house finally stopped falling, but it was still dark, cold, and freezing.

Exhaling, Xu Qing rubbed his hands and walked out of the front yard.

When passing by the middle courtyard, he saw Sha Zhu standing in the middle of the middle courtyard, waiting for Qin Huairu.

Silly Zhu had a cold two days ago, so he didn't dare to get up early, but he got up early today, presumably because he took medicine, and he was fine.

Seeing Xu Qing coming from the backyard, Sha Zhu turned around, greeted him, and reached out to take out a cigarette from his body.Pass one to Xu Qing.

Shazhu doesn't look very good, he always quarrels with Xu Damao in the courtyard, but he has a clear love and hate, Xu Qing has always kept in his mind the matter of Xu Qing delivering him the medicine the day before yesterday, and giving Xu Qing cigarettes is an expression of gratitude.

Xu Qing took the cigarette, but didn't smoke it.It was too cold, and it was early in the morning. Xu Qing didn't have a cigarette addiction like Shazhu, nor did he have the habit of smoking early in the morning.

At this moment, Qin Huairu came out of the house, and the three of them walked towards the factory together.

At noon, as soon as Xu Qing came out of the cafeteria in the factory after eating, he saw snow falling sporadically from the gray sky.

Then, until the afternoon, when Xu Qing got off work from the factory, the snow never stopped.

The goose-feather-like snowflakes fell from the sky in white, fast and urgent, which made people's sight somewhat obstructed.

Xu Qing made up his mind yesterday that he would go to Ma Jiefang's house to pay back the bicycle ticket today, so as soon as he came out of the factory, he walked in the direction of Ma Jiefang's house.

The snow kept falling all the way, but fortunately it wasn't raining, so it wouldn't wet the clothes, but it was fine.

But when Xu Qing walked to the gate of Ma Jiefang's compound, his feet were already numb from the cold.

Rubbing his cold red hands, Xu Qing shouted, and Ma Jiefang quickly ran out of the house.

Xu Qing was a little surprised when he saw that Ma Jiefang was wearing a new suit and his hair was still in order.

When Ma Jiefang saw Xu Qing coming, he quickly let the room warm.

Xu Qing didn't refuse, and followed Ma Jiefang into the house.

There was no one else in the room, not even Ma Jinghong, Ma Jiefang's fifth sister.

However, the room looked like a lot of people had come before. On the red-painted coffee table, there were three bottles of Maotai liquor, two sticks of Peony cigarettes, and two net bags, one filled with eggs, and one filled with fruit candies and fruit candies. some other stuff.

"Are there guests at your house?" Xu Qing asked curiously.

Ma Jiefang turned his head to look at Xu Qing, picked up the thermos and poured water, and said:

"Hi, my fourth sister is getting engaged today, and my future fourth brother-in-law and his family are here. No, I just had the engagement wine at a restaurant outside at noon. I came back after dinner. My parents, my sister, and the others are here. I'll probably still be at the restaurant later."

Xu Qing groaned, took the teapot from Ma Jiefang, and covered his hands.

Ma Jiefang sat aside, grabbed a handful of peanuts and melon seeds, and handed them to Xu Qing.

"It's all brought by my future fourth brother-in-law, eat whatever you want!"

Xu Qing was not restrained, put down the tea mug, and chatted with Ma Jiefang while knocking on melon seeds:

"Jiefang, I remember your fourth sister is in college, isn't she? Why are you engaged now?"

"I'm not too sure about this." Ma Jiefang stretched out his hand and scratched his hair, "Anyway, someone came to the house today, and my dad said he was engaged to my fourth sister."

"Then what does your fourth brother-in-law do?"

"He seems to be a cadre of some department. My fifth sister told me so. As for what he does, hey, who knows."

Ma Jiefang threw the peanut kernels into his mouth, chewed them, and said, "Now my four brothers-in-law can all play mahjong together. I don't bother to ask what they do."

Xu Qing chewed melon seeds and nodded. In the past, Ma Jiefang's three brothers-in-law were able to fight landlords. Now, if we add one more, the four of them can form a mahjong table.

After chatting for a while, Xu Qing finished cracking a handful of melon seeds, picked up the teapot and took a sip of hot water, then reached out and put the bicycle ticket and the five yuan he had prepared in advance on the coffee table.

When Ma Jiefang took a look, his eyes widened immediately, he looked at the ticket and then at the money, his face instantly showed surprise, a little unbelievable, but very happy.

"Brother Qingzi, you are still awesome!" Ma Jiefang said with admiration: "Brother, I will hang out with you from now on!"

Xu Qing couldn't laugh or cry at Ma Jiefang's words, so he quickly waved his hands.

"Don't tell me, your dad has planned your life course for you, why are you messing with me?"

"Hey, my dad said that to me because he was afraid that I would stop studying and hang around outside. I didn't take it seriously at all."

Xu Qing took over, grabbed a handful of peanuts, peeled them open and ate them.

Ma Jiefang put the bicycle ticket in his pocket, looked at the money in his hand, smashed it and said:

"Brother Qingzi, this money is really a good thing!"

Xu Qing smiled, chatted with Ma Jiefang for a while, then got up to leave.

Seeing this, Ma Jiefang grabbed two handfuls of melon seeds and two handfuls of peanuts, and asked Xu Qing to wait back for the three little ones to eat.

Xu Qing didn't decide, anyway, these things were sent by Ma Jiefang's fourth sister for her engagement, and taking them back would just be a good time for her younger siblings to satisfy their greed.

After Xu Qingma came out of the courtyard of Jiefang's house, he felt that the snow seemed to be getting lighter. Passing by a stall selling horseshoe biscuits, Xu Qing sold another fifty cents as usual and planned to take it back to the three little ones.

After the old man sold sesame seed cakes to Xu Qing, he started to clean up the stall.

Xu Qingchao looked around and found that there seemed to be few people on the street except for himself, so he divided the sesame biscuits he was carrying in the dark and hurried back to his courtyard.

When returning to the alley outside the compound, Xu Qing bumped into Qin Huairu.

There were no street lights in the alley, it was dark, Xu Qing didn't smoke, and Qin Huairu didn't take a flashlight when he came out in a hurry.The black light was blind, and no one could see the other. The two hurried away, and they didn't see each other until they bumped into each other.

"Ouch."

Qin Huairu called out.

Xu Qing hurriedly asked, "Sister Qin, are you okay?"

"It's okay, I just knocked my arm against the wall." Qin Huairu said while rubbing his right arm, "Xu Qing, what did you do at night and why did you come back?"

"I went to my classmate's house."

"No wonder I went to your house to look for you earlier, but I didn't see you at home."

"Sister Qin, what do you need from me?"

Qin Huairu said: "My flashlight suddenly stopped working, and I was going to let you see what was going on. But when you were not here, I happened to meet the second uncle. He said that the battery was dead. Just buy two new ones and replace them. Isn't that right?" , I came out to buy batteries, but I didn’t expect it”

A trace of embarrassment appeared on Xu Qing's face, and he understood why Qin Huairu came out in the dark.

Seeing that Qin Huairu was still rubbing her arms, Xu Qing said: "Sister Qin, why don't you go back first, take my flashlight and go out to buy batteries, otherwise it won't work if there is no light to illuminate the road at night."

Qin Huairu hummed, turned around and followed Xu Qing back to the compound.

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(End of this chapter)