Siheyuan: There are three little cats at home

Chapter 316
After four years of absence, Peking University finally welcomes the long-lost freshmen to enroll again.

Without Patriot and his group of worker, peasant and soldier students, this university might be like a shop on the street, closed.

After Xu Qing sent his younger siblings to school, he waited for them to sign up, and then sent their luggage to their respective dormitories.

Because Sha Zhu and Ma Jiefang came together, Xu Qing and the two of them watched and helped each other, so after a short time of work, the six of them gathered together again at the school gate.

There are a lot of freshmen who come to the school to register today, from all walks of life and all ages, some freshmen are as young as a little girl, and some look older than a silly pillar.

However, since it is a recommendation system and not the previous high school students who have completed the college entrance examination, there is nothing surprising.

Xu Qing took his younger siblings, as well as Sha Zhu and Ma Jiefang, and found a restaurant not far from the school, had a meal, and then gave Aiguo, Feng Ming and the little girl some instructions.

In fact, Xu Qing didn't need to tell them. They had grown up, and there were fewer and fewer things for him to worry about.

It's just that everyone has come, so I can't just turn around and leave without saying anything.

In fact, Xu Aiguo and Xu Fengming didn't need Xu Qing, the big brother, to talk too much, and they would take care of the little girl in school.

After Xu Qing said a few words, he pushed his bicycle and prepared to leave. Ma Jiefang said to the patriotic trio:
"Study hard, if you have time, I will come to see you with your eldest brother."

Silly Zhu, with a cigarette in his mouth, grinned and said, "You three are promising, but don't dawdle in school."

Silly Zhu rarely speaks quality words, but today's words, although very straightforward, are also very good.

The little girl stood between Aiguo and Feng Ming, watching her elder brother Xu Qing ride away with Sha Zhu and Ma Jiefang on a bicycle, her eyes were moist, she stood at the school gate, stopped and watched quietly for a long time, and finally Under patriotic persuasion, he turned around and walked into the school.

When Xu Qing returned to the compound with Silly Zhu, it was already past four o'clock in the afternoon. The third master in the front yard saw Xu Qing sending his younger brothers and sisters back, walked up to Xu Qing and said:
"Xu Qing, Nijia Aiguo, Feng Ming, and Xiaoya are all in school?"

"Ah."

Xu Qing pushed the bicycle and nodded to the third master.

At this time, Yan Jiecheng also came over with his daughter in his arms, and said to Xu Qing, "Qingzi, why don't you think about going to college yourself? If I were you, I would go too."

Xu Qing felt thorny when he heard Yan Jiecheng's words, but he didn't know why Yan Jiecheng was having a fit today, so he said, "I'm not in a hurry, I'll go later when I have time."

Yan Jiecheng was stunned, hugged his daughter for a while and said nothing.

Yan Bugui felt a little perplexed by what his eldest son said just now. The elder deliberately asked Xu Qing not to go to school, what did he mean?

Yan Bugui glanced at Yan Jiecheng from the corner of his eye and pondered secretly in his heart.

Silly Zhu laughed and said:

"Yan Jiecheng, what's the matter, you want to go too?"

"What, I don't care about going. What's so good about going to school? It's so boring to be supervised every day!"

Yan Bugui suddenly heard such a sentence from his son, so he didn't bother to think about it.

Anyway, the university has started to register new students one after another. Even if Yan Jiecheng is begging to go to university now, he has nothing to do.

Xu Qing stood in the front yard for a while, then walked towards the middle yard with Sha Zhu.

Walking into the courtyard, Sha Zhu asked Xu Qing with a cigarette in his mouth:
"Qingzi, what Yan Jiecheng said just now is correct. Aiguo and Feng Ming have both gone to college, and now there is such a good opportunity. It would be great if you also go to college."

Xu Qing smiled and said, "Brother Silly Zhu, let's see it later."

It's not that Xu Qing hasn't thought about it, but it's really not the time for him to go to school now.

Although the "workers, peasants and soldiers" engaged in by the state go to college, they don't care about their previous qualifications, and they don't need to take exams. They can enter college for further study as long as they are recommended.

This is indeed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for him who dropped out of high school.

And at this time, when going to university, tuition fees and so on are managed by the state, and subsidies are distributed every month, so there is no financial burden at all.

But his son was born just over half a year ago, and Xu Qing couldn't get away.

The family cannot be left to the care of daughter-in-law Jinghong alone.

What's more, Xu Qing knew that from then until 77, during this period, the country recruited college students through recommendation every year, so he didn't have to worry at all.

Three years later, his younger siblings have graduated from college, and his son, Xiao Hongzhi, will be three or four years old by then. He doesn't have to worry about the family anymore. It won't be too late for him to go to college by then.

Xu Qing is not as desperate as Yan Jiecheng, who wants to save face and suffer. People will laugh at him for getting married and having children, and then going to college.

What happened to being laughed at?Going to school by yourself, what's in the way of them.

Besides, Xu Qing sent his younger siblings to school today, and saw people who were older than Shazhu, and even a few in their 40s. The children were in their teens, and they still didn't go to college for further study.

Of course, Xu Qing also has a good face, but in his opinion, this kind of thing has nothing to do with good face.

If Xu Qing hadn't married Jinghong the year before last, and he wasn't a cadre in the factory, as long as he got the recommended quota, without those entanglements, he might have gone to college right away, so there's no need for Yan Jiecheng to be ambivalent in the front yard.

It's just that now and then, Xu Qing has no plans to go to university for further study.

Days passed, and more than half a month passed in the blink of an eye.

The courtyard completely returned to the peace and tranquility of the past.

However, many people in the courtyard have left this year. Banggen from the middle courtyard went to the countryside, Yuyu got married, and Xu Qing’s younger brother and sister from the backyard went to school.

All of a sudden, there were five people missing, and it felt like nothing, but as soon as there were fewer people, the bustle also decreased, and the courtyard suddenly became a little deserted.

Now it was autumn again, and the continuous autumn rain made the desertedness of the compound even deeper.

But everyone should go to work as usual, and everyone is still busy with their own affairs.

Xu Qing's younger brother and sister went to college, and everyone in the compound, unknowingly, looked at Xu Qing's family with admiration, and at the same time secretly wanted to curry favor with Xu Qing.

The one who bears the brunt is Yan Bugui, who is the most calculating in the courtyard.

Yan Bugui, the third grandpa, knew that Xu Qing's family would make a name for themselves in the courtyard and shine.So the three mothers took some cheap and fresh vegetables they bought from time to time, and gave them to Jinghong and Xu Qing in the backyard.

And Yi Zhonghai, the eldest son of the Intermediate Court, saw the behavior of Yan Bugui's family, which also made the elder mother occasionally visit Xu Qing's house; the second elder Liu Haizhong lived in the backyard with Xu Qing, and he was close to the water, so he would go to Xu Qing's house if he had nothing to do. Qing chat.

No way, Xu Qing is a cadre. Waiting for Aiguo, Feng Ming and the little girl, the three of them graduated from university, they are also cadres.

The four Xu Qing brothers and sisters are all cadres, as is Jing Hong, who works in the art troupe.

In this way, who can compare Xu Qing's family in the compound? !
The other families in the compound naturally have to look at Xu Qing's family with admiration.

During this period of time, Xu Damao often went to drink with Xu Qing.

For a shrewd person like Xu Damao, it is naturally impossible to think that he, a deputy director, can compare with the cadres of Xu Qing's family.

It's just that every time Xu Damao looks for Xu Qing, he has to look for an opportunity to avoid Liu Haizhong and Sha Zhu.

However, when Xu Damao was married to Yushui, he followed Yushui's side, and Sha Zhu didn't hate him as much as before, and the relationship between the two eased slightly.

However, Sha Zhu still didn't want to see Qin Jingru, even in a large courtyard, every time Sha Zhu saw him, he didn't want to talk to him.

And Qin Jingru dismissed Sha Zhu, she married Xu Damao, and drank spicy food with the popular ones, Sha Zhu didn't care if he waited to see her or not.

Now Qin Jingru only cares about one thing, and that is to make her belly bigger as soon as possible, so as not to make Xu Damao angry and drive her away if there is no movement at the end of the year.

But as the autumn rains fell and the temperature dropped again and again, late autumn came to an end. Qin Jingru was still Qin Jingru, and her clothes were changed from long sleeves to sweaters, but her belly remained unchanged.

Xu Damao also took traditional Chinese medicine for several months, but the two still failed.

Xu Damao and Qin Jingru had a small quarrel every now and then, and occasionally they would make big noises.

But after winter, Xu Damao suddenly stopped arguing with Qin Jingru, and he seemed to have changed his sex, as if he had figured everything out.

But in fact, Xu Damao was on good terms with the one outside him, and he didn't work hard to produce results.

Xu Damao knew that the problem was really his own, so he could only calm down, and then secretly asked his old classmate to prescribe traditional Chinese medicine for him.

After Ma Jiefang got married, he came to the compound less often to see Xu Qing than in the previous years. After all, he was also a married man with a family, so he could not be as leisurely as he was before he was married.

But when Xu Qing was in the factory, he could see Ma Jiefang and Wu Yuemei every day.

The work in the factory is still the same, not busy and leisurely.

The change of the sky is not over yet, the big and small affairs in the factory are still controlled by Director Li, the top leader of the 'G Committee'.

Under Director Li's "wise" leadership, it is impossible for the thousands of people in the factory to be busy.

Xu Qing spends most of his working time talking with Chen Guodong, Tian Zhongqing, Qian Bing, Wei Shengli, and Wu Yuemei in the office.

The other option is to get off the workshop, wander around, and sit for a while in the third workshop where Master Lao Zhang and Er Mazi are.

Er Mazi's free day was not only smoking, but sitting around waiting to get off work. Every time he saw Xu Qing, he would ask.

"Hey, Qingzi, how is your second brother Aiguo doing in college?"

Xu Qing smoked a cigarette, sat beside Er Mazi and said, "It's all right."

Lao Zhang and Wang Dequan, Zhou Pingtai sometimes asked, after all, Aiguo has been with them for a long time.

After the first snow in the winter of 70, Ma Jiefang found Xu Qing and said:

"Brother Qingzi, my mother told you to send my little nephew to my house with Fifth Sister. Since the weather is getting colder and colder, you and Fifth Sister have to go to work. She is worried that Xiao Hongzhi will grow old in your yard." Ma'am, it's freezing."

Xu Qing heard the words and said, "Well then, the day after tomorrow weekend, I will carry my son and your Fifth Sister to your courtyard."

Early the morning after tomorrow, when Xu Qing was holding his son and taking his daughter-in-law Jinghong to his mother-in-law's house, the old lady in the courtyard stood at the door of her own house with a cane, looking reluctant to give up.

The old lady is getting old and has no children all her life. She stays alone in the house and is indescribably lonely. Finally, Xu Qing and Jing Hong have a child. She helps Xu Qing and Jing Hong take care of her if she has nothing to say happy out.

However, Xu Qing's mother-in-law wanted Xiao Hongzhi to go to her, and the old lady suddenly felt disappointed.

But there's nothing to be done about it. Xiao Hongzhi's grandparents miss him, so she has the nerve to not let him go.

But Xu Qing pushed the bicycle, and before he took his wife Jinghong and his son out of the backyard, Ma Jiefang rode a bicycle and brought his mother to the yard first.

Ma Jiefang stopped the car, grinned and said to Xu Qing and Jing Hong:

"Brother-in-law, sister, please save yourself the trouble. I sent my mother to you."

Ma Jinghong held her son in her arms and saw her mother coming early in the morning and said hurriedly:

"Mom, why are you here?"

"What if I don't come? You don't take my grandson home, so I have to come over to take care of you."

After Ma Jinghong's mother said this, the old lady on crutches in the yard showed joy instantly.

When Xu Qing heard what his mother-in-law said, he quickly turned around and parked his bicycle at the door of the house. Then he tidied up the little girl's cabin so that his mother-in-law could stay temporarily.

Nowadays, the little girl, Ai Guo and Feng Ming have been studying at the university, so the small house at home is naturally vacant.

At noon, after lunch, Xu Qing said hello to his mother-in-law and daughter-in-law Jing Hong with food stamps in his pocket, and then rode to the state-run store to buy food.

Since the little girl went to university and stopped working in the state-owned store, Xu Qing and Jing Hong did the food and vegetable shopping at home.

Now Xu Qing has accumulated a lot of food stamps.

Enough to buy [-] catties of white flour and [-] catties of stick noodles.

Aiguo, Feng Ming and the little girl have all gone to school. Just Xu Qing and Jinghong, plus Xiao Hongzhi who has not yet been weaned, a family of three for a month. In terms of food, even a meal of white noodles can't eat much.

Therefore, whenever Xu Qing issued food stamps and distributed them with his ability, most of them were saved up.

The only thing that worried Xu Qing was that the demand for these food stamps in Forty-Nine City was not as many as seven or eight years ago, and few people wanted to exchange them for money.

As for Xu Qing's money, because he is a first-level clerk, his monthly fixed salary is still 78 yuan.

Coupled with Jinghong's monthly salary of tens of yuan, the two of them can earn more than 100 yuan a month.

It costs more to raise a son, but these days prices are low, Xiao Hongzhi is still very young, and he has been eating breast milk. Xu Qing wants to buy milk powder for his son, but there is only Zhonghua brand in China.

The price is not expensive, but for some reason, Xiao Hongzhi keeps spitting milk.

I don't know if it's because I drank breast milk from the beginning, I'm not used to formula milk, or some other reason.

After discussing with Jinghong, Xu Qing could only wait for his son to be older before feeding him milk powder.

Therefore, the place where the family spends money is not much for the time being, and the family's monthly expenses are less than 30 yuan.

All the rest of the money was saved.

Xu Qing lay on the kang last night and counted the family's money. He and his wife Jinghong had already saved more than 500 yuan.

This does not include the pension left by the death of the parents.

As for the pension, Xu Qing originally planned to divide it into four when he was sending his younger siblings to college for further studies, and he would keep it for himself, and give the remaining three to his younger siblings respectively.

However, at that time, Aiguo, Feng Ming and the little girl all said, "Brother, you can keep this money for us."

Xu Qing had no choice but to let his parents' pensions continue to lie in his passbook, and he would give them to his younger siblings when they graduated from college and each wanted to succeed.

As for the meat tickets at home, they were almost moonlight. Even after Xu Qing divided them with his ability, he seldom saved them, and just bought meat and ate them.

This caused Jia Zhang of the Jia family in the Intermediate Court to always look at Xu Qing with strange eyes, and complain to everyone in the compound in private, saying that Xu Qing's family is living a good life, so why not help her family.

But face to face, Jia Zhang did not dare to say anything.

Xu Qing and Jinghong are both cadres, and Xu Qing's younger brother and sister are all in college, and they have been cadres for a few years. The Jiazhang family is half buried in the earth. How can they not know that Xu Qing's family is hers? Can't afford to offend.

Even if he is jealous and jealous of Xu Qing's family, he can only complain.

Xu Qing didn't bother to pay attention to this, Jia Zhang was just such a person, she had been like this all her life, breaking up with her would only add to her troubles.

Everyone in the courtyard laughed at Jia Zhang's complaints, and Shazhu helped their family, and it was not unknown in the courtyard.

After all, no matter how covertly Shazhu did it, it has been so many years, how can no one in the courtyard notice it, that's just embarrassing to say it in person.

Xu Qing's family is doing well, and everyone in the compound can see it.

The shrewd monkey-like Yan Bugui in the front yard did the calculations, and the final result was that both Xu Qing and Jing Hong were cadres. It's normal.

The rest of the people saw that Yan Bugui, the third master who likes to help other people's calculations, said so, so what else could they say.

When Xu Qing pushed his bicycle out and passed through the front yard, he saw that the third uncle Yanbu was packing his bicycle again in the cold weather, so he said hello:
"Third uncle, it's so cold today, why don't you clean the car?"

"Hey, I have an appointment with the old Zhaotou in the alley next door to go fishing in the afternoon, so let's clean up the car first."

"Can you fish in this cold day?"

"Xu Qing, you don't understand now," Yan Bugui said with a proud face about his fishing experience:
"It's cold, and the fish in the water have less food to find. Fishing at this moment, but every time you catch it, you can be sure."

Xu Qing didn't know much about fishing, and he didn't know whether the third uncle's theory was correct, but for the third uncle to say this, he must have some skills.

"Xu Qing, why don't you go fishing with me in the afternoon."

Xu Qing shook his head with a smile and said, "Third Master, I don't know how. I don't even have a fishing rod at home, so I won't go."

Seeing this, Yan Bugui had no choice but to give up, but after a second thought, he whispered to Xu Qing again:
"Xu Qing, third master, I'm going fishing today, so don't tell the rest of our courtyard."

Xu Qing smiled, pushed the bicycle out of the compound, rode it in the alley, and went out towards the entrance of the alley.

But just as Xu Qing was about to turn onto the street, a figure suddenly flashed in and hit the front wheel of the bicycle directly.

(End of this chapter)