Siheyuan: There are three little cats at home

Chapter 436 How about getting a motorcycle to ride this year?
The wedding car that picked up the bride left, and Xu Xiaoya, who was dressed dignified and beautiful, disappeared from everyone's sight.

Xu Qing, Ai Guo, Feng Ming and three brothers, accompanied by their respective wives, watched for a long time before returning to the compound.

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, the relatives and friends who came to the compound left one after another after finishing the wedding banquet.

Xu Qing, his second and third brothers, his daughter-in-law Jinghong, and his two younger brothers-in-law, with the help of everyone in the courtyard, worked with their second father and aunt to clean up the courtyard.

As for the bowls and chopsticks borrowed from other families, Jinghong, Aiqian, and Xiujuan cleaned them with their two aunts before returning them to each family.

At around five o'clock, the sunset dyed the sky red. Xu Guangjin, Xu Xuemei and Xu Xuehong were anxious to go back to the countryside.

Grandpa and grandma are leaving too.

Xu Qing hoped they would come back early tomorrow morning.

But Xu Guangjin was thinking about the work in the fields, sighed and shook his head:
"Xiaoqing, Xiaoya is getting married today. Your third and fourth aunts and I have been in the city for several days. We have to go back early. Things in the fields are still waiting for us."

Xu Xuehong also said: "Yes, we are busy now. Xiaoqing, Aiguo, Fengming, it's not that my aunt and your second father don't want to stay in the city longer, but we really can't go back as soon as possible."

After Xu Xuehong finished speaking, she continued, "How about this? Let your grandparents stay in the city for a longer time. The three of us will go back today."

Seeing this, Xu Qing had no choice but to follow his aunt's advice and ask Feng Ming to drive and take his second father and the others back to the countryside.

It was already getting late, and Xu Fengming drove out of the city in almost darkness.

There was nothing he could do. His second father, Xu Guangjin, and his two aunts were in a hurry to leave, so he could only work harder.

Xu Fengming returned from the countryside the next morning.

As soon as I got back to the city, I quickly went to work.

Although it was a long morning, Feng Ming worked as a director in a hardware factory, so he filled out a leave request and everything was fine.

Xu Qingze went to the warehouse early in the morning and asked the workers to start working and continue processing grain.

Jinghong takes care of the grain station, and she, Sanhuzi's wife, Meijuan, and Ermazi are busy working at their own grain station.

Xu Xiaoya just got married yesterday and was newlywed. Xu Qing had told her before that as soon as she got married, there was no need to rush to the grain station and she would rest for a few days.

Therefore, the accounting work for the next few days at the grain station fell on Ma Jinghong.

Ma Jinghong stood at the counter, flipping the abacus beads with her fingers, her deftness was no less than that of her sister-in-law Xiaoya.

They are all people who have gone to school and learned to use an abacus since childhood. Although she is not as proficient in accounting as Xu Xiaoya, who majored in accounting.

It doesn't matter if I replace him for a few days.

The grain station is operating normally. Er Mazi drank Xu Xiaoya's wedding wine yesterday.

Standing in the grain station, when there was no one around noon, I was holding a cigarette, helping Sanhuzi's wife and Meijuan carry the bags of millet and rice to dry outside the grain station, while talking about the excitement of Xu Qing's wedding to his sister yesterday. scene.

"Sister Wang, Meijuan, I didn't see you two yesterday. You don't know. Xiaoya got married yesterday. The courtyard of Qingzi's family was like going to a market. There were so many people."

Sanhuzi's wife held the dustpan, picked out the debris in the millet, and said with a smile:
"Er Mazi, sister, I, Meijuan, and my man saw you. You and your wife squeezed in the crowd. During the wedding banquet, you sat next to Xu Damao, begging for nothing. We Sitting in the front yard, I didn’t even say hello to you.”

Hearing this, Er Mazi stretched out his hand to scratch his head, leaned against the door of the grain station and said:
"Sister Wang, since you saw me yesterday, why didn't you come to the middle courtyard? I thought you were busy and couldn't drink Xiaoya's wedding wine."

Sanhuzi's wife, silent, lowered her head and plucked the millet in the dustpan with her hands.

She didn't tell Er Mazi about her family's holiday with Xu Damao.

It's not a good thing. Tell me why you are going out.

Meijuan didn't mention it, but squatted in front of her sister-in-law, holding a dustpan, shaking it up and down, and turned to Ermazi and said:

"Brother Mazi, there were so many people yesterday. My brother's car repair shop was also very busy. We had a wedding banquet and a wedding banquet, and left first after the gifts."

Er Mazi let out an oh, snoring at the sun lazily, bending down and squatting aside, grinning and saying:

"By the way, Sister Wang, Meijuan, Qingzi and their two brothers gave Xiaoya their dowry, did you see it yesterday?

Good guy, the three major items, a bicycle, a television, and a sewing machine, are all better than what my wife and I bought when we got married. "

Meijuan smiled, "Brother Mazi, what time is it now? When did you get married? There's no comparison. Besides, Brother Qingzi and Sister Jinghong opened a grain station and bought Xiaoya's dowry for her wedding. Okay, that's normal. If you make a lot of money in the future, you can also buy it well for your daughter when she gets married."

Er Mazi chuckled, nodded, flicked the ashes of the cigarette in his hand and said:

"That's true, but my daughter is still young. It will be more than ten years before she gets married. I just don't know if I will have money by then."

Er Mazi, San Huzi's wife and Meijuan were chatting at the entrance of the grain station.

In the grain station, Jinghong carefully checked the accounts, put away the abacus beads, and walked out. The four of them sifted through the debris in the millet and chatted together.

Four cats were lying on the edge, sleeping lazily with their eyes narrowed.

Er Mazi raised his hand and patted it. His hair was all blown up in shock, and he scurried back to the back of the grain station and hid.

The weather was clear, cloudless, and the sun was high in the sky. It was a perfect day.

There were a lot of people on the street, coming and going, and it was noisy.

Although it has entered autumn, it is not raining, so people who are not working are naturally wandering around the streets.

In the warehouse in the suburbs, Xu Qing and his workers were working hard to process grain.

He couldn't do it unless he kept an eye on it. During flour processing, a dust explosion would occur if he wasn't careful.

The workers have no awareness of this, but Xu Qing has the memory of later generations and understands this very well.

If an accident occurs, it is very likely to cause death.

As the boss, he has to be concerned.

You must have production safety awareness. Once something goes wrong, you will be in big trouble.

Xu Qing stayed in the warehouse in the suburbs all day long until the workers got off work in the afternoon. He carefully checked everywhere in the warehouse and found no problems before riding back to the city with him.

At around six o'clock in the afternoon, the sky gradually became dark.

The stars are twinkling, night is falling, and the entire Sijiu City is enveloped in the coolness of autumn at this late hour.

After all, once summer is over, the days get shorter every day.

At this time, cyclists can be seen everywhere in Sijiucheng.

Don't worry, we will be 80 years old in two or three months.

But bicycles are still the main form of transportation.

However, it is worth mentioning that although there are not many cars in Sijiucheng, apart from buses, there are cars from various units, and there are not many private cars.

But occasionally we can see motorcycles.

Compared to buying a car, a motorcycle is much cheaper.

Of course, compared with a bicycle, buying a motorcycle is still prohibitively expensive.

It’s just that there are very few motorcycles, even rarer than cars.

And it's all for military use.

There are almost none for civilian use.

But with the implementation of the reform last year, domestic motorcycles began to be converted from military to civilian.

Xu Qing parked his bicycle next to a telephone pole, looked at the young man riding a motorcycle, and secretly thought that he might as well get a motorcycle to ride this year.

My younger brothers and sisters are all married, and the business at the grain station is developing well.

I won’t collect grain this year and use the money I earn next month to buy a motorcycle, no problem.

Xu Qing learned from the newspaper a few days ago that the state-owned Jialing Machinery Factory had developed a civilian motorcycle.During the National Day on October 50st, the CJ[-] motorcycle produced by Jialing Machinery Factory made its debut at the national celebration.

It was also published in the newspaper for several days.

The price is six to seven hundred.

To others, it's a lot of money.

But for Xu Qing, it's not a problem.

The grain station has several branches of Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill as major customers.

He is not worried about money.

But before, Xu Qing was thinking about buying a car and driving.

But now, domestically produced motorcycles are coming out.

It is still for civilian use, its output is higher than that of cars, and you can buy it if you have money.

Xu Qing smoked a cigarette in front of the telephone pole.

I secretly made up my mind to buy a motorcycle first, and then a small axle.

After all, motorcycles are much cheaper than small axles.

After making up his mind, Xu Qing pedaled his bicycle and went to the grain station first. After closing the door with his wife, he rode his bicycle side by side and headed back to his courtyard while secretly thinking about buying a motorcycle.

At around eight o'clock in the evening, the two of them returned to the compound. At this time, Aiguo and Aiqian accompanied their grandparents, had dinner with their son, nephew Hongzhi, niece Qiaoxin, and Aunt Feng.

As soon as Xu Qing and Jing Hong pushed their bicycles into the backyard and stopped at the door of their house, grandma, accompanied by the nanny Aunt Feng, brought the hot meals from the kitchen pot to the front room.

As soon as Xu Qing and his wife entered the main house of their house, they saw grandma busy preparing food for them. They quickly took the bowls and chopsticks and said:
"Grandma, just sit on the kang and rest with my grandfather. Aunt Feng is here, so you don't need to be busy."

But the old man has been working hard all his life, so how can he have any leisure time?

On his wrinkled face, he squeezed out a smile and said, "It's okay. I'm idle. You guys came back so late. Grandma will pack the food for you. You should wash your hands quickly and eat it while it's hot."

Xu Qing and Jinghong responded and helped their grandma sit on the kang before washing their hands and eating.

Grandpa and grandma didn't go back with their second dad yesterday.

He planned to stay in the city to help Xu Qing and Aiguo take care of their children.

This played into the hands of the three Xu Qing brothers.

The two old people are getting older and it’s time to enjoy themselves.

Living in the country all the time is not a thing.

Moreover, the conditions in the countryside are poor in all aspects. If you get sick or something, it is a long way from the village to the clinic in the town, which is not convenient at all.

Living in the city, if you have a cold or a fever, Xu Qinghe, Patriot and Fengming can send you to the hospital for treatment in no time.

Especially my grandfather, who has been coughing for many years, is getting worse and worse.

It's impossible to rely on the second father and aunt to take care of them in the village.

Grandpa and grandma, under Xu Qing's arrangement last night, lived in the small house next to their own home.

That is the hut where Xu Xiaoya used to live.

After Xu Qing and Jing Hong had dinner, they packed the dishes into the kitchen, cleaned them, and returned to the front room, where they sat on the hot kang and chatted with their grandfather and grandma.

Aiguo and Ai Qian did not bring their son over. Tonight, colleagues from Ai Qian’s work unit came to their house and they were busy entertaining them.

So Aiguo took the time to come over to his elder brother Xu Qing and take a look around.

Seeing that his eldest brother and sister-in-law were back, he sat there for a while and then went back again when he heard Aiqian calling him.

Xu Qing had previously built two houses in the backyard with his second and third brothers.

To this day, Aiguo and Aiqian still live in one room, and nanny Aunt Feng lives in another room.

The old lady in the courtyard left the small house to Xu Qing after her death, and Xu Qing has been renting it to Bang Ge.

The rent is still two or three yuan a month and has not changed.

The house built by Liu Haizhong's second son Liu Guangtian was left idle after Liu Guanggu moved out of the compound.

There are several empty houses in the compound now.

In the front yard, the third uncle Yan Bugui's family occupied the front yard exclusively. After Yan Jiefang and Yan Jiedi got married, they lived outside.

Only Yan Jiecheng and Yu Li lived in the front yard with the third uncle and the third aunt.

There are three empty houses in the front yard alone.

In the middle courtyard, the small house of Shazhu's family has not been inhabited since Yuyu got married.

During the holidays, Yuyu's family went back to the courtyard to visit Shazhu, and stayed there occasionally.

In the backyard, the second uncle Liu Haizhong's house has a room, and the main house of the deceased old lady is also empty and no one has moved in.

Speaking of which, the old lady passed away only a few years ago.

But things have changed.

At just [-]:[-] in the evening, grandpa and grandma went to sleep in the cabin next door.

After their son Hongzhi and daughter Qiaoxin fell asleep, Xu Qing and Jinghong turned off the lights and lay on the kang, whispering about Wu Yuemei's upcoming second child.

Yesterday Xiaoya got married. Ma Jiefang was busy taking care of his daughter-in-law Yuemei in the hospital, so he came for a visit, drank the wedding wine and left quickly.

Wu Yuemei's due date is within these days.

A few days ago, they were busy preparing for their sister's wedding, and neither of them bothered to go to the hospital.

Xu Qing was lying on a buckwheat pillow and covered with a quilt, looking at the dark roof, hugging Jinghong and saying:
"You buy some fruit at noon tomorrow and go to the hospital. Let's see if Jiefang and Yuemei need our help."

Ma Jinghong snuggled into Xu Qing's arms and nodded gently.

Xu Qing continued to whisper: "This weekend, let's go to Xiaoya's place with Aiguo and Feng Ming."

Ma Jinghong hummed, indicating her approval.

My sister-in-law is married, and as a sister-in-law, she naturally wants to visit her.

To prevent my sister-in-law from being bullied as soon as she got married.

Early in the morning, Xu Qing got dressed and was alone. Taking advantage of the newly dawned sky, he pushed his bicycle and quietly left the compound.

In the autumn morning, the chill seems to be stronger than at night. Holding the bicycle handlebars without gloves feels like holding two pieces of ice.

Ma Jinghong, Ai Guo, Ai Qian, and the three of them had breakfast cooked by Aunt Feng, and then she took her son to Hongxing Primary School on a bicycle, then turned around and headed towards her own grain station in Dongdan.

When Hongzhi first went to school, Yan Bugui was able to use his bicycle to take Hongzhi and Yu Li's daughter Niuniu to school together.

But when Hongzhi grew up, Jinghong felt it was inappropriate to sit on the back seat of Yan Bugui's bicycle with Yu Li's daughter.

Just send it yourself.

She no longer has to work in the art troupe, and she doesn't have to bother the third uncle all the time.

At noon, Ma Jinghong left the grain station as she told Xu Qing yesterday.

Let Sanhuzi's wife, Meijuan, and Ermazi keep an eye on her, while she rode her bicycle on the street to buy some fruit, and then headed towards the hospital.

(End of this chapter)