Siheyuan: There are three little cats at home

Chapter 317
"Xiuying, why is it you?"

Xu Qing was not riding very fast, and he was at the entrance of an alley. Seeing that the person coming was Wu Xiuying, he quickly pressed the brake and stopped the bicycle.

Therefore, Wu Xiuying was not injured, but she looked haggard and looked like she had not rested for many days.

"Brother Xu Qing, are you going to take to the streets?"

Wu Xiuying's voice was tired, and her eyes looked at Xu Qing, but they were very empty. She stood in front of the front wheel of the bicycle and did not move away.

Xu Qing had no choice but to get off the car, push the bike back, lean against the wall and say:
"Well, I'm going to go to the State Store."

After Xu Qing finished speaking, he saw Wu Xiuying's eyes were dull, her face was almost bloodless and pale, and she couldn't help but said: "Xiuying, are you okay?"

"I'm not. Nothing."

Xu Qing frowned slightly and looked at Wu Xiuying carefully. Seeing that she was not in a good condition, he turned the bicycle around and took Wu Xiuying back to the compound.

Everyone in the compound was no stranger to Wu Xiuying, at least they had some impression of her, because when Xu Qing celebrated her son's full moon, Wu Xiuying, Hui Lihua, Luo Hongjuan and others came to the compound.

And the one who still remembers Wu Xiuying is Yan Jiecheng in the courtyard. Yan Jiecheng was playing with his daughter in the courtyard today. He saw Wu Xiuying who had a meeting at the beginning of the year, but he hadn’t seen her for half a year. He followed Wu Xiuying from the front courtyard into the middle courtyard.

If Yu Li hadn't coughed with a dark face, Yan Jiecheng would have been able to hold his daughter and follow her to the middle courtyard and backyard.

Silly Zhu in the middle courtyard was sitting on the threshold of his own house holding a cigarette without a handle. Taking advantage of the nice weather, he held a shoe brush and lowered his head to brush the mud stains on his shoes.

The first snow fell a few days ago. After the snow melted, the mud mixed with snow water stuck to the soles of the shoes and splashed on the uppers.

Silly Zhu suddenly raised his head and was stunned when he saw Xu Qing pushing a cart and Wu Xiuying coming from the front yard.

"Qingzi."

Sha Zhu shouted to Xu Qing. Xu Qing stopped and looked at Sha Zhu, while Wu Xiuying's eyes were distracted and dazed, as if she didn't remember Sha Zhu.

Silly Zhu was shocked to see Wu Xiuying in such a state. He stood up, dropped the shoe brush and cloth shoes in his hand, walked to Xu Qing, and wanted to say hello to Wu Xiuying.

But Wu Xiuying lowered her head and walked into the backyard alone.

Silly Zhu was stunned, and asked Xu Qing in a low voice:

"Qingzi, what's wrong with Wu Xiuying? She seems to be a different person. Look at her drooping head, she doesn't have any energy at all."

Xu Qing hummed and said, "I don't know either."

Xu Qing didn't say anything about Wu Xiuying and Cao Xiaojun. After all, this was the second time he met Wu Xiuying this year. He hadn't seen her since her son was a full moon later.

Although Xu Qing often heard some news about Wu Xiuying from Jinghong, he also knew that Wu Xiuying and Cao Xiaojun's divorce had not been smooth. It had been almost a year and the two were still entangled.

However, Xu Qing was not sure whether Wu Xiuying became like this because of her quarrel with Cao Xiaojun.

Besides, Xu Qing couldn't tell Silly Zhu whether it was yes or no.

Xu Qing parked his bicycle in the middle courtyard, returned to the backyard alone, and told his wife Jinghong to take care of Wu Xiuying first. He returned to the middle yard again, pushed his bicycle, and went out to the state-owned store to buy food.

When Xu Qing came back with Sixty White Noodles on the crossbar of his bicycle, he saw Wu Xiuying lying next to Ma Jinghong and crying loudly.

Xu Qing looked puzzled, saw that the mother-in-law was not in the house, but carried the son to the old lady's side, and quietly put the noodles into the kitchen and poured them into the noodle urn.

Xu Qing actually bought thirty kilograms of these sixty kilograms of white flour at a state-owned store with food stamps. On the way back, he used his ability to divide it in a deserted place.

After pouring white flour into the noodle urn, rolled up the flour bag, and stuffed it into the small wooden box next to the cabinet, Xu Qing walked out of the kitchen, came to the front room, and asked what was going on.

Wu Xiuying burst into tears, tears soaked her hair in front of her eyes, so Ma Jinghong had no choice but to help her and said:
"It's not that bastard Cao Xiaojun, who refused to divorce Xiuying, and beat him again today."

Xu Qing didn't say anything. He sat aside and thought to himself: "That grandson of Cao Xiaojun is really nothing. I've already had my officials fucked, and yet he's still so arrogant."

In the evening, Wu Xiuying stayed in the compound and stayed at Xu Qing's house.

Xu Qing did not stay at his own home, but went to Sha Zhu's house.

As for the hut where the little girl lived before, Xu Qing had tidied it up for her mother-in-law today, but Wu Xiuying only came to stay at home for a few days. Xu Qing was too lazy to live in the hut so that he could clean it up again.

Then go to Sha Zhu's house to deal with it.

Seeing Xu Qing coming to live with him, Silly Zhu looked enthusiastic and cooked three special dishes, then took out the wine in the house and had a drink with Xu Qing.

The night was as dark as ink, with no light at all, and the northwest wind was howling and blowing, constantly raging in the courtyard.

In the backyard, Xu Damao wandered outside all day and came back after it got dark at night. Originally, he wanted to tell Xu Qing something, but when he learned that Xu Qing had gone to the Silly Pillar House, he had to wait until he arrived at the factory tomorrow. Find Xu Qing.

The next morning.

After Xu Qing returned home, he saw that his mother-in-law had made breakfast for him and Jinghong, so he took a quick bite and then took Silly Zhu to work in the factory by bike.

As for Wu Xiuying who came to the courtyard yesterday, she followed Jing Hong after breakfast, and the two of them left the courtyard together to go to the art troupe.

At noon, Xu Damao found Xu Qing in the cafeteria of the Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill and told Xu Qing what he wanted to tell Xu Qing last night. Afterwards, he asked curiously:
"Qingzi, how long will Wu Xiuying stay at your house?"

Xu Qing held the finished lunch box and said to Xu Damao:
"Brother Damao, why are you asking?"

In fact, Xu Qing knew that Xu Damao was not just curious. After all, Wu Xiuying was quite beautiful. Although she was not in good spirits and looked very bad when she came to the hospital yesterday, in the past, Xu Damao had long thought about women like Wu Xiuying who worked in the art troupe. Flirting.

Xu Damao grinned and said, "Hey, just ask."

Xu Qing shook his head: "I don't know about this. It might have been just one night last night, or it might have been three to five days."

Xu Damao nodded and became thoughtful.

In the afternoon, when Xu Qing got off work and returned to the compound, he saw his daughter-in-law Jing Hong had come back ahead of him.

In addition, Wu Xiuying is also there, as well as Hui Lihua and Luo Hongjuan.

Xu Qing smiled wryly in his heart, knowing that tonight he had to spend the night in Sha Zhu's house again.

Xu Damao, who also rode back to the courtyard early, saw Hui Lihua and Luo Hongjuan coming to Xu Qing's house again. He stood in the courtyard and while Xu Qing was going out to get briquettes, he walked quickly to Xu Qing and said:
"Hey, Qingzi, two more of your wife Jinghong's female colleagues are here today. Your house will be busy these days."

Xu Qing said with a grimace: "It's lively, but it has nothing to do with me."

Xu Damao clicked his tongue and said, "That's not necessarily..."

Xu Qing knew that Xu Damao had other wild thoughts in his mind, and said directly:

"Brother Damao, don't think wrongly, they live in my house, and I will live in Shazhu's house."

Xu Damao nodded, "That's right, your mother-in-law is also in our courtyard."

Seeing that Xu Damao still knew this, Xu Qing didn't want to say anything more.

However, thinking that it would be bad if Xu Damao had an idea of ​​Wu Xiuying and the others, he lowered his voice and reminded:
"Brother Damao, I don't want to know or take care of what you are doing with women outside. However, don't even think about flirting with my wife's sisters. If your wife Qin Jingru makes trouble with our family in the courtyard, don't say anything. I don’t talk about brotherhood.”

Xu Damao nodded again with a cigarette in his mouth, "Hey, Qingzi, brother, I do things in a measured way."

"It's best to be modest, I don't want people in the courtyard to watch the excitement."

Seeing what Xu Qing said, Xu Damao quickly restrained his thoughts.

However, at around nine o'clock in the evening, Hui Lihua and Luo Hongjuan left the compound.

For seven days in a row, for a whole week, Wu Xiuying lived in Xu Qing's house, and Xu Qing lived in the silly pillar house in the middle courtyard for a week.

On another weekend, at around ten o'clock in the morning, Hui Lihua and Luo Hongjuan, as well as Zhao Ailing and Li Shuzhen, came to the compound.

This caused Yan Jiefang, Yan Jiekuang, Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu, who were not yet married, to stand in the backyard and keep glancing into Xu Qing's house.

And Yan Jiecheng, who was married, did not dare to run to the backyard because of being stared at by Yu Li.

As for Xu Damao who lives in the backyard, after hearing Xu Qing's words a few days ago, he gave up the idea of ​​flirting with Wu Xiuying and the others.

He saw that the beautiful girl couldn't walk, but he also knew that since Xu Qing told him that, it was best not to provoke her.

Although Xu Qing is still a first-level clerk in the factory today, he is not as senior as a deputy director.

Perhaps Damao knew that Xu Qing's ability, knowledge, popularity, and prestige were higher than his own, whether in the factory or in the compound.

As for him, the deputy director, although people in the factory would be polite to him when they saw him, no one said a 'nice' word about him in private.

And everyone in the courtyard treated him the same way.

Xu Damao was very unhappy about this, but there was nothing wrong with being unhappy.

He didn't do anything worthy of respect, so naturally no one would think well of him, let alone be praised.

Only Yan Pugui, the third master in the front yard, saw him from time to time and took the initiative to chat with him.

Xu Damao stretched out his hand and scratched his head, standing in the courtyard smoking a cigarette, glanced coldly at the two brothers Yan Jiefang and Liu Guangtian, then pushed his bicycle straight out of the courtyard to talk to his old friend.

But Shazhu and Qin Huairu are close, and their relationship is unclear, especially since they went to the countryside to jump in the team, their relationship seems to have improved a little bit.

Therefore, for Wu Xiuying and the others, Shazhu didn't pay as much attention to them as before.

In the backyard, after Xu Qing entertained Hui Lihua and the others in the house, he took his son and went to visit the Silly Column House in the middle courtyard.

Silly Zhu looked at Xiao Hongzhi, who was about to turn one year old, and while holding briquettes with tongs and stuffing them into the stove, he said:

"Qingzi, your life is getting better and better now, your wife and children are on the bed, and they are all alive. Brother, I am envious from the bottom of my heart."

Xu Qing smiled and said: "Brother Silly Zhu, are you and Sister Huairu getting close?"

"Xuan!" Silly Zhu put the fire pliers behind the door, shook his head and sighed:
"Qingzi, brother, I am really unlucky. I used to want to find a young girl, but I couldn't find the right one. Later, Sister Qin finally introduced her cousin to me.

Hey, that boy Xu Damao was in the way, not only causing trouble, but he himself abducted Qin Jingru into his bed. "

Silly Zhu said with an angry look on his face, reached out and grabbed the tea vat, took a big gulp of hot tea into his mouth and said:
"Qingzi, it's hard for me to tell Sister Qin. It's been so long and Sister Qin hasn't given me any accurate information. Her mother-in-law, Aunt Zhang, you don't know. Guarding against me is like guarding against thieves. Alas."

Silly Zhu let out a long sigh, put his right hand in his trouser pocket, turned to look at Xu Qing and said:
"By the way, let's not talk about my affairs. Wu Xiuying lives in your house. What's going on with her? It's been a week. I look at her. She must have had a quarrel with her man."

Xu Qing hugged his son and sat in the warm room burned by Shazhu. Seeing that Shazhu made some eyebrows, he said:

"Xiuying had a quarrel with her family and wanted to divorce her husband, Cao Xiaojun. No, Cao Xiaojun didn't agree. They had an affair last weekend, so she had to come to my house to stay temporarily."

"What? Wu Xiuying married Cao Xiaojun's grandson. Damn, this God is really short-sighted."

Silly Zhu stretched out his hand and scratched his head, and then said: "Qingzi, why didn't that Wu Xiuying go back to live with her natal family? What's the matter with coming to your house?"

Xu Qing shook his head and said, "Brother Silly Zhu, I really don't know. If she comes, I can't just blow her away."

Sha Zhu nodded and said: "Yes, your wife Jing Hong and Wu Xiuying both work in the same regiment, and they have a good relationship. If you drive her away, your wife will not look good."

"Then her man won't come to the hospital to find her?" Silly Zhu asked again.

Xu Qing shook his head again.

The briquettes in the stove were burning fiercely, and the reflected stove gradually turned red.

At this time, in the courtyard, the cold wind was biting, and snowflakes as fine as salt grains were quietly falling from the gloomy sky on the wind.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, a group of people suddenly broke into the courtyard with a fierce momentum. When they passed the front yard, the third uncle Yan Bugui was shocked. He thought that the young students who had been wandering the streets and causing trouble in the past few years were again. He came to the courtyard to trouble people.

But when Yan Bugui's eyes widened and he saw the group of people asking him where Xu Qing's family lived, the third uncle suddenly looked confused.

"Are you looking for Xu Qing?"

"Well, look for him!"

Yan Bugui was shrewd and sophisticated, seeing that he was not looking for trouble, he immediately calmed down and asked:

"Which unit do you belong to?"

"Damn, you old guy, you answer whatever I ask you. Stop talking nonsense and tell me quickly, where in your compound does Xu Qing live?"

When Yan Bugui saw that the other party was rude, his enthusiasm for being a teacher suddenly surged in his heart.

But seeing the large number of people on the other side, he immediately felt timid.

However, when Yan Bugui caught sight of his own elder son Yan Jiecheng coming out of the room opposite the door with his daughter in his arms, he hurriedly beckoned and said:
"Boss, come here too. These people are looking for Xu Qing. Please show me the way. I'll go to the backyard first."

After Yan Bugui finished speaking, he winked at Yan Jiecheng with his eyes hidden behind the glasses, turned around and hurried to the backyard.

(End of this chapter)