Siheyuan: There are three little cats at home

Chapter 342 University Registration
Yesterday afternoon, when Ma Jiefang was off work in the factory, he heard from Xu Qing that today he wanted someone from the post office to install a phone at his home. After finishing his work today, as his brother-in-law, he rode a bicycle to have a look .

On the bicycle, Ma Jiefang brought two large watermelons that his parents asked him to bring to Xu Qing and Jinghong, which filled the net bag.

When Ma Jiefang sat at Xu Qing's house in the backyard, Xu Qing took one of these two watermelons into the kitchen and cut them into teeth, and brought them to the front room with Li Guohua, third brother Feng Ming, Er Niu, and his son and Ma. Liberated and ate one piece.

In the scorching summer, Xu Qing and the others drank a lot of wine just now, eating watermelon at this time is indescribably comforting.

Xiao Hongzhi was holding a small piece by himself, running around the room, eating in small bites, spit watermelon seeds all over the floor.

But it doesn't matter. There are already a lot of cigarette butts on the ground. I'll just clean them up after drinking.

Ma Jiefang came late, and saw that one bottle of Erqu had run out, and the other bottle was mostly drunk, so he ate the watermelon and yelled:

"Brother-in-law, you invited Erniu and Guohua to drink at your house, and you didn't notify me in advance. If I had known, I would have come to you early in the morning."

Xu Qing ate the watermelon and said, "Will Yue Mei let you drink?"

Ma Jiefang put down the newly installed telephone with his right hand, turned to look at Erniu, Li Guohua and Xu Fengming, straightened their waists, and said proudly:

"Can my wife control me?!
If I want to drink, I can drink, and I can drink wherever I want. A bitch, can you control us old men? ! "

Xu Qing smiled and said nothing, not exposing Ma Jiefang's bragging.

Er Niu and Li Guohua didn't believe Ma Jiefang's words.

Ma Jiefang finished eating the watermelon in two bites, threw the watermelon skin into the dustpan on the ground, put his right hand on Er Niu's shoulder and said:
"Er Niu, bro, you know what my temper is. If I say one, who dares to say two, right?"

Er Niu drank some tea before, and now he ate watermelon again. He was almost sober, and laughed and said:
"That is, who should we liberate, the boss in the sky, the second child in the earth, and the third child in him, how can we let the daughter-in-law control it."

Li Guohua ate watermelon with a smile, looked at Ma Jiefang, and echoed:
"Er Niu is right. We Jiefang can marry Yuemei to give her face. She still wants to take care of it. Is there any law?!"

When Ma Jiefang heard what Er Niu and Li Guohua said, before he drank the wine, he suddenly felt a little dizzy. He turned his head and gave Xu Fengming a look, "Boy, pour the wine!"

Xu Fengming smiled and put down the half-eaten watermelon in his hand, picked up the wine bottle and filled Ma Jiefang's wine cup.

Then continue to grab the watermelon and eat it.

Ma Jiefang first toasted with Xu Qing, Er Niu, and Li Guohua, one of the four left first.

"Our four knights from Class 8, Grade [-], have finally reunited successfully. Come on, don't go home until you're drunk today!"

After Ma Jiefang finished speaking heroically, he raised his head and suffocated the wine into his stomach, and Xu Qing and the other three did the same.

Ma Jiefang picked up the bottle of wine and served Xu Qingman first, then poured wine for Li Guohua and Erniu.

"By the way, guess who I met on the way here just now?"

"Who?" Er Niu looked curious.

"Guess, we used to be in the same school."

Ma Jiefang said deliberately and deliberately.

Li Guohua grinned happily, "Jiangfang, did you meet that Dong from our class?"

Li Guohua didn't think of the name for a moment and said to Erniu:
"Er Niu, what was the name of the girl you secretly liked at that time?"

"Dong Wenwen."

"Yes, she is what I want to say."

Li Guohua put a piece of cucumber in his mouth with chopsticks, chewed and said, "Liberation, right?"

"That's right, buddy, I have lost contact with the girls in our class. What I met was Liu Hama from our school. He was in the same class as us at the time, and he was a senior in high school."

"He, hey, who did I think he was? What's the matter? Did that kid ask you for a cigarette again?"

Li Guohua joked.

Ma Jiefang waved his hands, "What's the matter? I didn't pay attention while I was riding. He took the initiative to greet me. If it weren't for his eyes, I wouldn't have recognized him."

"Then what?" Erniu said while smoking.

"I stopped the car and had a few words with him."

"What is that boy doing now?"

Ma Jiefang grabbed the peanuts with his chopsticks and said, "I'm going to work. I'm working as a technician at the [-] Machinery Factory. Let me come and sit with him whenever I'm free."

Li Guohua groaned, stretched out his hand for Er Niu to throw the cigarette to him, took out one, lit it and said:

"That kid Liu Toad was really nothing at first. If he and his mother hadn't gone to school to make trouble, there would be no point in dropping out of school when you were liberated."

After Li Guohua finished speaking, he took a puff of cigarette, and then said: "But Qingzi and you are going to university soon, so it's okay."

Ma Jiefang picked up the wine cup, took a sip and said, "That's it."

After Ma Jiefang finished speaking, he suddenly remembered something, looked at Li Guohua and said:

"Guohua, you don't work in the county, why do you have time to run back to the city today? Are you going to the city for a meeting?"

"No, transferred to the city."

"Guohua, you are fast enough. You have only worked in the county for a few years, and you have been transferred back. Are you promoted?"

"Ah."

Ma Jiefang stopped drinking and asked, "What did it become?"

"Hey, it's nothing. Just like Qingzi, I'm a deputy major."

"Isn't that nothing?" Ma Jiefang opened his mouth wide and reached out to poke Erniu.

"Erniu, do you see that kid Guohua secretly worked hard to throw us away, isn't he being kind?"

Erniu nodded in agreement: "That's right, there are four of us. Qingzi and Guohua are both deputy departments now, and we are still the second-level clerks. We don't know when it will be our turn."

Xu Qing had been listening to Jiefang and the three of them talking, and suddenly felt that the room was a bit stuffy, so he turned around and turned on the electric fan, then grabbed the cigarette case next to Li Guohua, shook out one, and as soon as he put it in his mouth, Li Guohua lit the lighter , came together.

Xu Qing took a few puffs and lit the cigarette, sending out wisps of gray smoke.

After drinking every drop of the two bottles of liquor, Erniu, Li Guohua and Ma Jiefang went together. The three of them helped Xu Qing and Feng Ming pack the dishes in the house into the kitchen, sweep out the garbage, and then ride out of the courtyard. , each went home.

At this time, the sun was already setting. The second aunt was standing in the yard, packing the clothes to be dried into the house. When she saw Xu Qing sending Ma Jiefang, Li Guohua, Er Niu and the other three people leaving, she immediately returned to the house with the clothes and said to Liu Haizhong road:

"Old Liu, did you see that Xiaoqing's classmates came to our hospital to look for him? They were all riding bicycles. They all look like cadres."

Liu Haizhong was lying on the kang and said lazily: "Xu Qing is a cadre, and the people who come and go must be cadres. What's the fuss? Before, our factory's paid officers came to our hospital, and they all rode bicycles. .”

The second aunt folded the clothes washed in the morning and sighed: "Why are the two boys in our family just not living up to expectations and not making friends with cadres? Only the eldest brother is better, but he is not in the courtyard. Otherwise, we would be able to do it from time to time." Officers are coming."

Liu Haizhong sat up from the kang, snorted and said:

"As for Guangtian and Guangfu, you still expect them to make friends with cadres. With their worthless looks, no cadre would be willing to associate with them. If they don't do anything serious, they only know how to get money from me. As soon as they get married, separate their families as soon as possible to avoid causing harm to us two."

The second aunt thought for a while, stopped what she was doing, looked sideways at Liu Haizhong and said:
"Yes, these two boys are disobedient and let them study instead of studying. Now they have nothing to lose. When they get married, they will separate immediately."

The second aunt and Liu Haizhong whispered in the room. The setting sun had disappeared from the end of the sky, and the courtyard became cooler.

In the courtyard, Yi Zhonghai and Da Ma were chatting with Jia Zhang and Qin Huairu.

When Li Guohua and the others came to the backyard to find Xu Qing, they naturally had to pass through the front yard and the middle yard. How could the people in the middle yard not know about it.

At this time, in the front yard, Yan Bugui and the third mother were taking Yan Jiecheng's daughter while talking about Xu Qing's visit to the yard today.

For everyone in the compound, they watched the four Xu Qing brothers and sisters grow up year by year.

I also know that Xu Qing's parents died a few years ago, but almost no one came to visit them in the courtyard.

But now, people come to Xu Qing's house every now and then, and they are not Xu Qing's colleagues, friends, or classmates.

They are colleagues, friends and classmates of Xu Qing's wife Jinghong.

Furthermore, there are Aiguo, Fengming and the little girl’s friends.

And none of them are ordinary workers, almost most of them are cadres.

It seemed as if all the cadres in Forty-Nine City knew Xu Qing's family.

On the contrary, for them, having two or three cadres at home all year round is considered a blessing.

There is no way, Xu Qing's family is now a cadre, and naturally the people they interact with are also cadres.

Whether everyone in the courtyard is envious or jealous, it's completely useless.

There were no cadres in the family, and no matter how jealous they were, the cadres who came to the courtyard would still go to Xu Qing's house, and would not go to their house.

In mid-August, Xu Damao, who was working in the office, returned to the compound.

The factory tried to cover up his affairs.

There is no way, Director Li needs to employ people, and Xu Damao is his right-hand man, so he can't help but get them out.

What's more, Xu Damao gave him a small yellow croaker, how dare Director Li not wipe Xu Damao's ass.

If Xu Damao breaks him out, Director Li will give up his promotion.

After Xu Damao came back, he didn't show up in the courtyard for a day.

As for the people, they were not in the house. Instead, they took the money and went to a restaurant to invite Director Li alone to thank him.

The next morning, Xu Damao, like a normal person, rode a bicycle and took Xu Qing to work in the factory.

In the factory, Xu Damao was only notified of his bad life style through the radio, and he was punished once and stayed in the factory for inspection.

Xu Damao was still the deputy director, so nothing happened.

No one dared to say anything, and things just ended like this.

In the afternoon, Xu Damao flirted with a female worker in the factory who had just joined the factory not long ago. The girl looked about eighteen or nineteen years old, with a simple face, obviously just out of society, and didn't understand anything.

Xu Damao took the opportunity to flirt, making the girl elated.

When Xu Qing passed by, Xu Damao restrained himself a little and asked the girl to come to his office to find him before leaving get off work, and then he would give her some advice on work matters.

But the girl actually nodded and accepted it happily. Before leaving, she didn't forget to turn around and said to Xu Damao:

"Deputy Director Xu, you are so kind!"

Xu Qing looked helpless, while Xu Damao smiled brightly, took out a cigarette and handed it to Xu Qing:

"Qingzi, I really didn't talk nonsense to her. It's all about work. The little girl was scolded by her workshop director just now. I helped her out of good intentions."

Xu Qing took the cigarette, looked at Xu Damao and said, "Brother Damao, take it easy, don't fall into the hands of women again."

"Hey, Qingzi, last time it was an accident, definitely an accident." Xu Damao took out his lighter, lit a cigarette for Xu Qing, and changed the subject:

"By the way, Qingzi, it's already more than August, do you really want to go to university for further study?"

Xu Qing smoked, nodded his head and said, "Think it over."

Xu Damao said oh and was speechless for a moment.

Half a month passed in the blink of an eye, and at the beginning of September, the matter of Xu Qing, Ma Jiefang and Sha Zhu going to college was completely finalized.

After the three of them completed the formalities at the factory, they each prepared to go to university.

The day before Lin Xu Qing left for college, at five or six o'clock in the afternoon, Qian Bing, Tian Zhongqing, Chen Guodong, Wei Shengli and other cadres in the factory, especially those who were deputy section chiefs and in the same office as Xu Qing, all Came to the compound.

In addition, people from the third workshop, including Er Mazi, Wang Dequan and Zhou Pingtai, also came.

A large group of people, each carrying something in their hands, including cigarettes, wine, fruits, and snacks, poured into the yard, which really shocked Yan Bugui who was cleaning the car in the front yard.

Fortunately, seeing that they were all familiar faces, and they were all from the Red Star Steel Rolling Plant, Yan Bugui regained his composure a little.

It's just that there are so many people, except for Er Mazi, who are not cadres, and the rest are all, which makes Yan Bugui, who is in charge, standing in the front yard, not in the mood to clean the car for a while.

The third mom opened the door curtain, held a half-peeled onion in her hand, and stood beside Yan Bugui, watching all the people go to the backyard, and said to Yan Pugui with a puzzled face:
"Master, what's the matter? Why do so many people come to our courtyard?"

Yan Bugui put the rag on the crossbar of the bicycle, turned around and said:
"What's the matter? Xu Qing will report to the university tomorrow. They will come to see him off in advance today."

The third mother looked at the backyard, and whispered: "The head of the family, Xu Qing is very popular in their factory. He is in college, so many people come to our yard."

Yan Bugui reached out to take off his glasses, took out a handkerchief and wiped the lenses and said, "It goes without saying that Qingzi doesn't like to blush, so he must be very popular."

Just as Yan Bugui put his glasses back on, he turned his head and saw Shazhu's apprentice, Ma Hua, coming in from outside the compound with two bottles of Erguotou in his hand.

Obviously to see Shazhu.

After all, Shazhu will also report to the university tomorrow.

But only MCA came.

From Yan Bugui's point of view, it was incomparable to those who were looking for Xu Qing just now, and it was better if no one was looking for Shazhu.

But Ma Hua respects Sha Zhu very much. In any case, he is an apprentice with Sha Zhu. It cannot be said that he has learned the craft very well, but Sha Zhu has always treated him well and taught him very attentively.

Ma Hua entered the middle courtyard and sat in the silly column room. The master and apprentice drank wine and ate appetizers. Although the sound of clinking glasses was small, the friendship was deep.

In the backyard, it was like a pot was exploding. There were many people in Xu Qing's family, and it was lively and noisy.

Compared with the silence in Silly Pillar's house in the middle courtyard, the voices of Xu Qing's family could almost lift the roof.

Liu Haizhong and his second aunt stood at the door of their house, looking at the lively scene in Xu Qing's house, and turned to glance coldly at their two unsatisfactory sons.

Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu each had cigarettes in their mouths, ignoring Liu Haizhong and the second aunt, pouted and said:

"What's the matter? Isn't that kid Xu Qing going to college tomorrow, so what's so special about it."

Liu Haizhong hated iron and steel, and cursed in a low voice with a sullen face, "Open your dog eyes and take a good look. How many bicycles are parked at the door of Qingzi's house? Each bicycle has a cadre. Count them carefully!"

Liu Guangtian reached out to touch his head, gave Liu Haizhong a bored look, threw the cigarette butt in his hand, turned and went into the house.

Liu Guangfu glanced at Liu Haizhong and his second aunt from the corner of his eye, and followed Liu Guangtian into the house.

How could the two of them not know what their parents meant.

The excitement at Xu Qing's house lasted until about nine o'clock in the evening, when Xu Qing sent them off.

The people enjoying the cool air in the middle courtyard and the front courtyard couldn't help but whispered.

Jia Zhang in the middle court complained, and Chao Yi Zhonghai complained that Xu Qing was the section chief, so many people gave him things just now, not to mention sharing some with the big guys.

Yi Zhonghai ignored Mrs. Jia and Zhang, waving his cattail fan and said to Shazhu, "Zhuzi, your disciple Ma Hua is here to see you today. I have seen both bottles of Erguotou."

Sha Zhu chuckled, "Master, you are sharp-eyed, you can't hide anything."

Yi Zhonghai interrupted what Jia Zhang was saying, and Silly Zhu continued, not bothering to argue with Jia Zhang.

Why should the things in Xu Qing's house be shared with the courtyard?

When Jia Zhang saw that Yi Zhonghai and Yima were ignoring her, she turned around and complained to Qin Huairu, Xiaodang and Huaihua.

However, Qin Huairu didn't want to hear that at all.

In all fairness.

Over the years, Xu Qing's family has helped her family a lot.

I never asked to return the rice, noodles and oil I borrowed, which is enough benevolence and righteousness.

Besides, Si Zhu is going to school, so Qin Huairu has no intention of listening to Jia Zhang's complaints.

As for Xiao Dang and Huaihua, they didn't want to talk to their grandma, because they knew that once they talked, it would be endless.

In the front yard, Yu Li held her daughter in her arms and sat in the yard complaining that Yan Jiecheng had no future and just lived in the workshop.

But Yan Bugui looked at his children, and his heart was full of anger.

Why is there such a big gap between them and Xu Qing's peers? Look at Xu Qing, he has quit working in the factory, and there are still so many cadres coming to the courtyard.

Looking at the few in his family, none of them are promising. There is a great opportunity in front of him, but he, the father-in-law, will not go to college even if he is forced to do so.

Really piss him off!

The night was clear, the moon was shining brightly, and the sound of insects under the wall came and went.

The night passed.

Early in the morning, Xu Qing was in the house with his brothers, sisters, wife, and son. The family had just finished breakfast.

Li Guohua and Er Niu came together.

"Qingzi, I got a car and parked it at the entrance of your alley. Once we put the things in the car, we'll pick up Jiefang."

The car Li Guohua was talking about was naturally a four-wheeled car.

He became the deputy section chief, and it was not easy to get a car.

Er Niu greeted Jinghong, Aiguo, Feng Ming, and Xiaoya, and hurriedly asked where the things were so he could move them into the car.

It's just Xu Qing's things, so there's no need for him to move them, Feng Ming and Aiguo put them into the car for their elder brother.

Because Shazhu also went to university for further studies, he got rich, and Er Niu helped to get some things.

At the entrance of the alley, Ma Jinghong took her son, Aiguo, Fengming and the little girl, and said to Xu Qing:
"In a few days, we will go to school to see you."

Xu Qing picked up his son and said to Jinghong and his younger siblings:

"it is good."

Xu Qing hugged his son for a while, then got into the car and waved goodbye to his wife, son and younger siblings.

The car left, and Jinghong held her son, unwilling to go back for a long time.

Aiguo, Feng Ming and the little girl stood beside the sister-in-law, watching the car disappear into the crowd of people on the street.

The car quickly picked up Ma Jiefang, and then went straight to Peking University.

Sitting in the car, Shazhu was in a turbulent mood, indescribably excited. He never thought that he would still have this day, and he would be able to go to school again, and still go to university.

Ma Jiefang and Xu Qing were much more peaceful. After all, the two of them had been in school for many years, which was longer than Shazhu's.

In less than half an hour, the car took Xu Qing and five people to the school gate.

Today is the day when the new batch of workers, peasants and soldiers college students register for duty. There are quite a few people.

Li Guohua found a place to park the car, and Erniu helped Xu Qing, Ma Jiefang and Shazhu carry their luggage into the university and go to register.

(End of this chapter)