Siheyuan: There are three little cats at home

Chapter 335 Master scolds
Yi Zhonghai made up his mind and stepped out of the house. The first mother saw it from the kitchen window and hurriedly shouted:

"Master, dinner will be ready soon, what are you doing?"

"You eat first, I'll go to the backyard and eat later when I come back."

Yi Zhonghai didn't turn his head, and walked straight to the backyard after speaking.

After passing through the Crescent Gate and entering the backyard, Yi Zhonghai raised his head and looked into Xu Qing's room, his steps were not too fast or slow.

The moon appeared in the dark night sky, and the wind blew away a lot of the sultry heat.

When Yi Zhonghai entered Xu Qing's house, Xu Qing was having dinner with his younger siblings and daughter-in-law Jinghong.

"Hey, Master, why are you here? Come sit down and have something to eat together."

Xu Qing said hello, and turned to let Jinghong go to the kitchen to serve the uncle. Xu Aiguo and Xu Fengming moved towards the little girl to make room for Yi Zhonghai to sit down.

It's just that Yi Zhonghai didn't want to eat. Although he saw that Xu Qing's family was eating noodles with soybean paste or meat, he was worried. He came here to find out the truth from Xu Qing, so he waved his hand and said:
"Xiaoqing, eat it, I just ate it at home, come and sit here."

Xu Qing let out a groan, turned around and turned on the electric fan placed on the kang head, and let the old man sit down and let the wind blow for a while.

Xu Qing took a bite of garlic and asked Yi Zhonghai again:
"Master, don't you really want to eat?"

"No."

While looking at the whirring electric fan, Yi Zhonghai said to Xu Qing:
"Xiao Qing, I heard from your aunt that Silly Zhu wants to go to college with you. What's going on?"

Xu Qing put the half-bitten garlic in his noodle bowl, and when he heard that Yi Zhonghai came to the house to ask about this matter, he thought to himself:
"Brother Silly Zhu's mouth is really padded waistband. It only took a day, and everyone in the compound knows about it!"

It's just that if you know it, you know it, and it's not something shameful.

What's more, it won't take long to hide it, and it will be known in the end.

Xu Qing thought for a while, looked up at Yi Zhonghai and said:

"Master, I plan to go to university to further my studies. Brother Silly Zhu has never been able to find a wife, so I asked him if he wanted to go to university together and asked him to see if he could find a wife in university, but he hasn't found one yet. promise."

When Yi Zhonghai heard what Xu Qing said, he nodded slightly, knowing it in his heart.

Xu Fengming picked up the bowl of rice, picked up the noodles with fried sauce and put them into his mouth with chopsticks, turned his head sideways to look at Yi Zhonghai and his elder brother Xu Qing, without interrupting in a hurry.

The eldest brother is talking to the first uncle about something, so he can eat quietly.

Xiao Hongzhi was holding a small enamel bowl by himself, sitting beside Jinghong and the little girl, looking at Yi Zhonghai with a pair of innocent eyes, and said softly, "Hello, Grandpa!"

"Hey, little guy, it took you a long time to remember to call me grandpa, okay?"

Yi Zhonghai stretched out his calloused right hand and pinched Xiao Hongzhi's face gently. He stood up and said to Xu Qing without sitting down again:
"Xiao Qing, you guys eat first, and I'll go to your second uncle's house for a walk."

Yi Zhonghai found an excuse to turn around and leave, Xu Fengming belched and said:
"Brother, Master, are you concerned about brother Yu Zhu going to school?"

"Isn't that a good thing?"

"Brother, that's not possible."

Xu Fengming shook his head and put the empty noodle bowl in front of him, "Brother, the first uncle and the first aunt have no children. They care a little too much about Brother Yuzhu."

"Third brother, let's eat your food. If you want to care about Brother Yuzhu, then do so. Anyway, Brother Yuzhu lives in the Central Courtyard, and the First Master is in charge of the Central Courtyard. I don't think it's a bad thing for Brother Yuzhu."

After the little girl finished speaking, she continued: "Third brother, are you full? My sister-in-law and I also left some extra noodles and fried sauce in the kitchen for you."

Hearing this, Xu Fengming smiled and said, "Assuming you have a conscience, Third Brother's pain is not in vain. I can eat another bowl!"

As always, Xu Fengming eats a lot. He was like this when he was a child. Now he is in his 20s and is a young man. His appetite is bigger than before.

Slip down from the edge of the kang, put on your shoes, and head for the kitchen with a noodle bowl in hand.

After a while, Xu Fengming poked his head out from the kitchen and said, "Brother, sister-in-law, second brother, younger sister, whoever you want, I'll save some for you."

Ma Jinghong said: "Feng Ming, you can put all the noodles in your bowl, Xiaoya and I haven't finished cooking the noodles, if someone doesn't have enough later, I'll make them."

Xu Fengming groaned, put down the opened floral curtain, turned around and scooped all the noodles in the pot into his bowl with a strainer in the kitchen, scooped up a large spoonful of pork fried sauce, and happily brought it to the front room .

But he didn't eat in a hurry. He looked into Xiao Hongzhi's small bowl, grinned, and picked two pieces with chopsticks to give to his nephew.

Xiao Hongzhi hurriedly put the rice bowl in his arms and said to Xu Fengming: "Uncle Third, I'm full, don't want it!"

Seeing this, Xu Fengming changed his mind, put the enamel bowl in his hand on the kang, and touched Xiao Hongzhi's belly with his right hand.

"It's not even round yet. Third uncle will give you two more noodles, otherwise I won't accompany you to catch crickets in the yard later."

Xiao Hongzhi pursed his lips, widened his shiny black eyes and thought for a while, then nodded his head vigorously, agreeing.

However, when Xu Fengming finished the large bowl of noodles he had just scooped up, there was still a lot of noodles left in the little guy's bowl.

At this moment, crickets chirped in the yard, Xiao Hongzhi was a little anxious, looking at the noodles in the bowl, he couldn't eat anymore, so he asked Jinghong for help.

"Mom, help me eat it."

Ma Jinghong lowered her head and smiled, "If you can't finish eating, your third uncle won't help you catch crickets."

Seeing that his mother didn't help him, Xiao Hongzhi rushed towards Xiaoya with the bowl in his arms, "Auntie, help me eat it secretly."

The little girl shook her head and said with a pretty smile: "Auntie is full, you are a man, eat your own food, otherwise if your father finds out, he will spank your ass!"

When Xiao Hongzhi heard that he was about to spank his butt, he was so frightened that he quickly picked up noodles with chopsticks and stuffed them into his mouth.

At this time, Xu Qing, Aiguo, and Feng Ming had already left the house, spread out a mat in the courtyard, and were enjoying the cool air with the old lady, the second uncle and the second aunt.

The moon is very bright, the sky is very dark, the stars are twinkling, and the fan is shaking, bringing a cool breeze.

Ma Jinghong cleaned up the bowls and chopsticks in the house, and Xu Xiaoya helped, but mainly to wait for her little nephew to eat.

The little guy is naughty and always doesn't eat well. Of course, he has been beaten by Xu Qing for more than a year.

The ass has to suffer from the soles of the shoes every now and then, and when he starts to cry, the whole backyard is unsettled.

It's not that Xu Qing's actions are indiscriminate, it's just that when his son was young, he was taken by his mother-in-law or the old lady in the courtyard. It's easy to discipline.

Seven or eight minutes later, Xiao Hongzhi finally finished the noodles in his bowl, jumped out of the room, threw himself on Xu Qing, smiled and looked at Xu Fengming who was lying on the mat smoking, and said:

"Uncle Third, please accompany me to catch crickets."

Xu Fengming tilted his head, blinked twice at his little nephew, turned over and sat up, and said:
"Okay, I'll catch a few with you tonight."

Xu Fengming took Xiao Hongzhi to the base of the wall. After Ma Jinghong and the little girl cleaned the pots and pans in the kitchen, they also came to the courtyard.

Xu Damao didn't come back to the compound after get off work today. Qin Jingru had dinner alone. At this time, she lifted the curtain and walked out of the house, closed the door, walked to the little girl and Jinghong, and sat down.

Xu Qing turned to look at Qin Jingru and asked, "Brother Damao hasn't come back yet?"

"No, I don't know where he died!"

Qin Jingru spoke casually, eating melon seeds, and didn't pay much attention to Xu Damao like when she was just married.

After all, Xu Damao never talked to her about having children in the past few years, nor did he ever mention driving her away.

Qin Jingru has gained a firm foothold in the city.

Xu Damao can go wherever he falls in love. She doesn't care at all whether his love comes back or not.

Xu Qing asked a question, but didn't ask any more. He waved the fan in his hand, secretly thinking that Xu Damao might be looking for his old friend again.

In any case, Xu Damao likes to surround women by nature, and now he is the deputy director of the factory.

With this title, Xu Damao probably doesn't need to flirt, there are only a lot of women in his arms.

The night passed.

In the early morning, Xu Qing had breakfast with his wife and younger brothers and sisters, and when they went out to work together, they saw that Xu Damao had not come back because his bicycle was not in the yard.

Like everyone else, Qin Jingru came out of the house with a cloth bag on his shoulders, greeted Xu Qing and Jinghong, twisted his waist, and walked towards the middle courtyard alone.

In the middle courtyard, Jia Zhang talked to Qin Huairu about Shazhu again early in the morning, worried that Shazhu would go to college, and no one would help her family in the future.

Qin Huairu stood at the door of the house, and said in a low voice with a sullen face: "Mom, have you said enough, I have to go to work."

Jia Zhang still wanted to chatter a few more words, but with a glance, she saw Sha Zhu coming out of his own room yawning, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to poke Qin Huairu, and said in a low voice:
"Si Zhu is out. When you are on the way, be sure to tell him not to go to school!"

"okay, I get it."

Qin Huairu was terribly annoyed, glanced sideways at Sha Zhu, and told Jia Zhang to go back to the house quickly.

Mrs. Jia Zhang reluctantly returned to her home. Qin Huairu arranged her clothes and then looked at Shazhu again.

"Morning, Miss Qin."

When Si Zhu saw Qin Huairu, he opened his mouth and said hello.

Qin Huairu hummed, and when there was no one in the courtyard, he was about to ask Sha Zhu if he really planned to go to school with Xu Qing.

But at this moment, Qin Jingru came from the backyard, Qin Huairu had no choice but to swallow the words that slipped to his lips, turned to Qin Jingru and said:

"Did Xu Damao come back last night?"

"Sister, why do you care about him?"

Qin Huairu gave his cousin a white look, "Is it because you married him that I care about him, otherwise I wouldn't bother to ask."

Qin Jingru let out a groan, curled her lips and said, "It's okay, sister, don't bother about me and Xu Damao."

When Si Zhu saw Qin Jingru, he didn't give a good face. He said something to Qin Huairu, kicked the heel of his left shoe with the toe of his right foot, turned around and walked towards the front yard.

noon.

Silly Zhu scooped a big spoonful of meat and vegetables into Xu Qing's lunch box in the back kitchen of the cafeteria.

Xu Qing is a deputy department in the factory, and the food is no longer what it was when he first joined the factory.

What we ate were meat dishes and white flour steamed buns.

Others saw jealousy, but no one dared to find fault like Zhao Er's idiot before.

Standing behind Xu Qing, Er Mazi saw the food in Xu Qing's lunch box, which contained a lot of meat slices, and was a little greedy. When it was his turn, he blinked Sha Zhu's eyes twice on purpose.

Silly Zhu understood, and the big iron spoon in his hand scooped up a little more for Er Mazi's lunch box, but it was not a meat dish, but a vegetarian dish, stewed potatoes with cabbage and vermicelli.

Er Mazi is now a fourth-level fitter in the workshop, and his wages are much higher than before. However, his son and daughter have already started studying, and the family's expenses have increased.

He and Chen Xiaojuan didn't dare to have a good meal in the factory at noon.

But even though it was vegetarian dishes and steamed buns mixed with stick noodles, Er Mazi was still very happy. After finishing the meal, he said to Silly Zhu: "After we finish our work later, let's smoke together."

Silly Zhu responded, waved the iron spoon, and continued to make food for the next person.

Er Mazi followed Xu Qing with the food, walked to the dining table where Lao Zhang was sitting, then sat down, eating the food with big mouthfuls, and said:

"Qingzi, silly Zhu is interesting enough."

Xu Qing bit the steamed bun, smiled at Er Mazi, and said nothing, but picked up two pieces of meat with the chopsticks in his hand, and put them into Master Lao Zhang's lunch box.

"Brat, do you think Master, I have never eaten meat?"

Lao Zhang used chopsticks to pick up the slices of meat Xu Qing gave him and put them back into his apprentice's lunch box.

Seeing this, Er Mazi hurriedly said, "Old Zhangtou, Qingzi kindly gave you meat, but if you don't eat it, put it in my lunch box, what are you doing?"

"You bastard, you can't even keep your mouth shut while eating, can you? How do we love each other? It's your turn to talk?!"

Lao Zhang glared at Er Mazi angrily.

Er Mazi was scolded and stared at, so he lowered his head and did not dare to speak any more.

Lao Zhang didn't pay any attention, looked at Xu Qing and said:
"Stinky boy, I heard from your old man that you are going to go to college, what's the matter, you're getting tired of living a good life? It's not good to be a section chief, is it?"

Seeing Master talking to him, Xu Qing hurriedly stopped the chopsticks in his hand, quickly swallowed the steamed buns in his mouth, and said:
"Master, look at what you said, I want to go to university for further studies."

"For further study, you are now the section chief in our factory, how many people are jealous of your position, you are not honest, why are you messing around!

Listen to me, be your section chief in a down-to-earth manner, don't mess with those who have nothing, and raise your son well with your wife, and strive to have another one in one or two years! "

Xu Qing smiled wryly in his heart, he really didn't know how to explain it to his master and the old man.

Also, the cafeteria is not the place to say this.

However, Lao Zhang continued: "Stinky boy, I'm a bad old man. I don't understand state affairs, and I don't have much culture, but I have lived most of my life. If you do this, you will be in trouble!"

Xu Qing stretched out his hand and scratched his head, knowing that the master was doing it for his own good.

But the problem is that the situation will change drastically in the future, and if you want to make money in the future, there will be no way out if you stay in the factory.

Once the country starts to reform and open, the domestic economy will develop rapidly, and the family's life will not be able to make a better life just by relying on the dead wages in the factory every month.

Just when Xu Qing was thinking about how to get his master to accept his idea, Ma Jiefang ran over with a lunch box, sat on Xu Qing's right hand, and said with a smile:
"Brother Qingzi, it's done!"

(End of this chapter)