Siheyuan: There are three little cats at home

Chapter 293 Honghu's Ambition
At noon, Ma Jiefang, who just got married yesterday, drove Wu Yuemei to the courtyard with a net bag full of things on his bicycle, and entered Xu Qing's house.

At this time, everyone in Xu Qing's house had left one after another and returned to their homes.

After Ma Jiefang and Wu Yuemei came in, they didn't see Xu Qing, nor Xu Aiguo.

However, in the kitchen, there was the sound of chopping vegetables and cooking.

Ma Jiefang put the net bag in his hand on the table, walked to the edge of the kang, leaned over and looked at the sleeping little guy in Jinghong's arms, and chuckled:

"Fifth sister, it's noon, why did he fall asleep?"

Before Ma Jinghong could speak, Ma Guohua reprimanded in a low voice: "Go away, you bastard. Your sister finally managed to get her to sleep. Why are you so loud? Why don't you go to the kitchen and help your brother-in-law cook."

Ma Jiefang curled his lips, seeing that his father was about to get angry, he hurriedly turned and walked towards the kitchen.

Reaching out to lift the curtain, Ma Jiefang smiled and said to Xu Qing, who was standing in front of the chopping board, who was busy cooking:

"Brother-in-law, Yuemei and I are here, you can cook more food for lunch."

Ma Jiefang finished speaking, and then said: "Brother-in-law, I brought a bottle of good wine, let's drink some later."

Xu Qing turned to look at Ma Jiefang and said, "Okay."

Ma Jiefang had a happy look on his face. Seeing that Xu Qing and Xu Aiguo were too busy, he immediately rolled up his sleeves, went into the kitchen, and helped them make lunch.

And Wu Yuemei, sitting on the kang in the front room, chatted with Jinghong and her mother-in-law in low voices, while Ma Guohua, enduring his addiction to cigarettes, stretched out his hand to signal his daughter Jinghong to give him the child so that he could hold her for a while.

Seeing that her son was sleeping soundly, Ma Jinghong gently handed it to her father.

Ma Guohua looked cheerful, holding his grandson carefully, his brows were full of joy.

More than half an hour later, Xu Qing, his second brother Aiguo, and his brother-in-law Ma Jiefang made lunch in the kitchen, and with Wu Yuemei's help, they brought it to the kang in the front room.

Xu Qing fried a dish of fried pork, a dish of vinegared cabbage, a dish of hot and sour potato shreds, and a pot of stewed vegetables.

There are potatoes, vermicelli, pork, cabbage, radish.

In addition, Xu Qing boiled millet porridge at the bottom of the pot, so that his daughter-in-law could nourish her stomach.

Then the whole family sat on the kang and had lunch.

Ma Jiefang took the opportunity to take out the liquor he had brought, opened the lid, and poured a cup for Ma Guohua, then for Xu Qing, Xu Aiguo and himself.

During the meal, Ma Guohua asked Xu Qing and Jing Hong, "What are you going to name my grandson?"

Xu Qing and Jing looked at each other and smiled wryly at the same time.

"What?" Ma Guohua said with a surprised look on his face: "You haven't thought about it yet, have you?"

Ma Jinghong said: "Dad, Xu Qing and I have thought about it before, but we haven't made a choice yet."

Xu Qing continued: "Dad, if you think of a nice name for my mother, please tell me."

Ma Guohua suddenly frowned and thought, and turned his head to look at the little guy who was lying quietly not far away.

Ma Jiefang grinned and said, "Fifth Sister, brother-in-law, please contact me for this kind of matter, and I will help you."

Ma Jiefang became interested, rolled his eyes and said: "Xu Fugui, Xu Dongyue, Xu Hongxing, Xu Wengong
Brother-in-law, Fifth Sister, what do you think? "

Ma Jiefang said a series of names in one breath, and said triumphantly: "There are so many names, you can choose whatever you want."

Xu Qing shook his head directly, and his brother-in-law came as soon as he opened his mouth, but he didn't have a nice name.

Ma Jinghong was even more dissatisfied, her eyebrows were slightly frowned, what name did her younger brother have, she might as well not have said it.

Wu Yuemei glared at Ma Jiefang, and said, "You are so good at naming names, well, you can think of names for our future children now."

Ma Jiefang slapped his thigh and said, "That's so simple, I've already thought about it. Our son will be called Ma Fugui, and our daughter will be called Ma."

Ma Jiefang was suddenly dumb, stretched out his hand and scratched his head, for a moment he didn't know what a nice name his daughter should have.

Wu Yuemei rolled her eyes, and snorted, "Just showing off with this little ink, I can't even name my son or daughter, and I even help Fifth Sister and brother-in-law to name them."

After being scolded by Wu Yuemei, Ma Jiefang lowered his head, ate in silence, and stopped talking.

Xu Qing looked at the young couple who were quarreling just after they got married, and smiled without saying a word.

At this time, Ma Guohua was still thinking, but he didn't say a single name.

Seeing this, Xu Qing said: "Dad, Mom, what do you think of the Xu Hongzhi I and Jinghong think about?"

"Hong Zhi?" Ma Guohua repeated, and asked, "Which Hong, which Zhi?"

"The Hong of the swan goose, the ambition is lofty."

Hearing this, Ma Guohua nodded and said, "Xu Hongzhi, not bad!"

Ma Jinghong's mother was not well-educated, so she complied and said, "It's pretty nice, and my grandson will be called Hongzhi from now on."

Wu Yuemei looked sideways at Ma Jiefang and said, "Did you hear that, the name my brother-in-law gave to Fifth Sister is really good-sounding, what rich and noble are you talking about, how vulgar, didn't you go to high school like your brother-in-law, why don't you have many?" Think about it better."

Ma Jiefang looked at Wu Yuemei faintly, feeling very wronged in his heart. He just improvised, of course it was normal, so he hurriedly said:
"Brother-in-law is now a first-level clerk in our factory, so the name he gave is naturally better than mine. When I am promoted to a first-level clerk, I will definitely name our child well."

At this time, Xu Aiguo, who had been silent all this time, silently read "Xu Hongzhi" several times, raised his head, looked at his eldest brother Xu Qing and his sister-in-law Jinghong and said:
"Brother, sister-in-law, I think the name Hongzhi has a good meaning!
Isn't there a sentence in "Chen Sheng's Family": The chick knows the ambition of the great swan.

The little nephew is called Hongzhi, and he will surely become famous and achieve extraordinary achievements in the future! "

Ma Jiefang suddenly understood and said repeatedly, "Yes, you are right about patriotism, and you have great ambitions."

Xu Qing and Jinghong heard that their second brother was patriotic and liberated, Yuemei, and their parents agreed, so they decided on the name of their son——Xu Hongzhi.

In the front yard, Yan Bugui met Xu Qing and Jinghong's children at Xu Qing's house in the morning. Now that he had finished lunch, he sat alone in his own small study room, devoted himself to research, and gave Yu Li And Yan Jiecheng's unborn child's name.

The Chinese New Year will be celebrated in three or four days. In the past few days, Yan Pugui would go to the street to set up a stall to help people write Spring Festival couplets to make money.

But now, the holiday of "Spring Festival" has been abolished, and it is still in the period of the change of weather, Yan Pugui has not set up a stall for several years.

I have nothing to do today, so I will name my grandson or granddaughter in advance.

As for the teacher Yan Bugui, choosing a name is simply a piece of cake.

After all, as a teacher, this kind of thing is naturally easy to come by.

Regardless of whether it is a boy or a girl, Yan Bugui picked up the brush and flicked it on the newspaper, and a dozen names appeared on the paper in an instant.

Looking at the names with good connotations, Yan Bugui felt very proud.

It's just that Yu Li and Yan Jiecheng don't necessarily listen to him and use his name for the child.

Yan Bugui also expected this, but no matter what, he wrote it down anyway.

As for whether the eldest son and daughter-in-law liked it or adopted it, Yan Bugui didn't want to argue too much about it.

Anyway, in addition to the eldest son, there are also the second son Yan Jiefang and the third son Yan Jiekuang. After they have children, they can also use it.

Putting the writing brush in a pen holder made of cans, Yan Bugui held a cigarette in his mouth, held up the newspaper with wet ink in both hands, and gently put it aside. After admiring it again, he suddenly remembered that Xu Qing and Jinghong My child, I don't seem to have heard of a good name this morning, so why don't you go and have a look, maybe you can help me with a name and get a pack of cigarettes.

Thinking of this, Yan Bugui was overjoyed, secretly feeling that the opportunity to make money had come.

But before he walked out of the study, Yan Bugui immediately thought that Xu Qing had a high school education, although he didn't graduate, he still had some education.

Besides, Patriotic, Feng Ming, and Xiaoya of Xu Qing's family all graduated from high school, and all four of them have a high school education, so there is no need to help them choose their names.

Yan Bugui reached out to put the cigarette in the corner of his mouth, held it in his hand, blew out the smoke ring in a long breath, and sighed secretly in his heart.

As a teacher, he has become less and less present in the courtyard. In the past few years, people in the courtyard wanted to write something, and whoever turned to him, but now, almost all the younger generations in the courtyard have read books. , especially He Yushui from the middle school, who graduated from a junior college, and has a higher level of education than him, the third master.

Yan Bugui was a little depressed, the more he smoked the cigarette in his hand, the more tasteless he became. In the end, he only felt bitter in his mouth and bitter in his heart.

In the afternoon, when Xu Qing sent the father-in-law, mother-in-law, and brother-in-law Ma Jiefang out of the compound, Yan Bugui stood in the front yard and heard Xu Qing name his son "Hongzhi".

For a moment, the whole person was stunned.

"Xu Hongzhi, Xu Hongzhi"

Yan Bugui recited it twice, smacking his lips, thinking that the name Xu Qing chose was quite good, not only pleasant to hear, easy to remember, but also very deep in meaning.

For a moment, I felt a little lost, and suddenly felt that I was really old, and all the juniors in the courtyard were catching up with him.

Yan Bugui turned around silently, went back to the house, lay down on the kang, and didn't want to talk for a while.

In the evening, when the little girl came home from get off work, she heard her second brother Aiguo say that the eldest brother and sister-in-law named the little nephew 'Hongzhi'.

The little girl's pretty face was flushed with a cold smile, and her watery eyes were full of joy. She reached out and hugged the little guy who had just woken up, and said affectionately: "Xiao Hongzhi, do you like aunt?"

Ma Jinghong was lying on the kang, covered with a quilt, and she was very happy to see that her sister-in-law loved her son so much.

Seeing the little girl came back, Xu Qing said, "Hurry up and wash your hands, brother is heating food for you in the kitchen pot, hurry up and eat."

"Don't worry, big brother, I'll hug Xiao Hongzhi first."

After the little girl finished speaking with a smile, she sat on the kang, hugged the little guy, and couldn't put it down.

Xu Qing smiled and didn't urge him any more.

at the same time.

Shazhu and He Yushui from the middle courtyard came to visit Xu Qing's house after dinner.

Silly Zhu and He Yuyu had bought all the New Year's goods. The brother and sister couldn't stay in their room at night. Xu Qing's family had a child, so Yuyu wanted to come over and sit there.

And when Shazhu and Yushui had just entered the backyard and walked to the door of Xu Qing's house, Xu Damao, who hadn't shown up in the yard for a day, came back wobbly pushing his bicycle.

Xu Damao went out early this morning and just came back, so he didn't know about the birth of Xu Qing and Jinghong's child.

But yesterday, Shang Xiaoya and Xu Aiguo were the first to know about it, but they stayed in the hospital until very late before returning to the compound. At that time, they didn't tell the people in the compound about the birth of their little nephew.

If it was replaced by Shazhu, then even in the middle of the night, everyone in the courtyard must know about it.

However, he is patriotic and has a steady temper. When he came back with the little girl on his bicycle last night, the three uncles and the third aunt in the front yard were all asleep, and all the cats in the middle yard and backyard were in their own houses, so no one followed them. explain.

At this moment, Xu Damao saw Silly Zhu and Yushui entering Xu Qing's house, and heard a little girl happily calling "Xiao Hongzhi" from Xu Qing's room. He frowned instantly, wondering if Xu Qing's family came from the countryside or what up.

At this time, Qin Jingru walked out of the room, saw the man Xu Damao coming back, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to drag him into the room:

"Why did you go today? I haven't been home all day. I'll make lunch, but I've been waiting for you for a long time."

Xu Damao ignored Qin Jingru's words, raised his hand to pick up the scarf around his neck, and said coldly: "Don't ask about my affairs, and serve me food quickly, I'm starving to death."

After Xu Damao finished speaking, he shouted to Qin Jingru who turned to go to the kitchen: "By the way, Xu Qing's family is here today, right?"

"En." Qin Jingru nodded.

"Who's here? Those poor relatives from Qingzi's countryside?"

"No, it's Xu Qing's father-in-law and mother-in-law, as well as Ma Jiefang and Wu Yuemei who we went to have a wedding banquet yesterday."

"Oh, they, who did I think?"

Xu Damao threw the scarf onto the kang, stretched out his hand and unbuttoned the collar of his thick padded jacket, and said, "Go and pack the food, I haven't eaten all day."

Qin Jingru let out an oh, and quickly brought out the hot dinner in the kitchen.

And just when Xu Damao was holding the steamed buns and was about to open his mouth to bite, he suddenly heard the sound of a baby crying from Xu Qing's house, and he was startled instantly.

"Qin Jingru, who else has come to Xu Qing's family?"

"No one." After Qin Jingru finished speaking, realizing that Xu Damao was asking about the cry, she smiled and said, "Hey, Jing Hong gave birth to a son in the hospital yesterday, and she came back from the hospital today, and the child is crying. "

Hearing this, Xu Damao threw the steamed buns in his left hand into the vegetable bowl, and put the chopsticks in his right hand on the dining table. He stood up and walked out of the house, heading straight to Xu Qing's house.

However, when he walked to the door of Xu Qing's house, he suddenly remembered that Sha Zhu and Yu Shui had gone to Xu Qing's house just now, so he turned back to his home and asked Qin Jingru:
"Qin Jingru, let me ask you, did Jinghong really give birth to a son for Qingzi?"

"Yeah." Qin Jingru nodded and said, "This morning, that little guy even peed on Yan Xiecheng's face in the front yard."

Xu Damao's complexion suddenly darkened, his heart was full of thoughts in an instant, he stared at Qin Jingru coldly, raised his right hand suddenly, and slapped Qin Jingru hard on the face.

(End of this chapter)