Siheyuan: There are three little cats at home

Chapter 447: Coming from the east to meet Chen Xiufang

The way Ma Jinghong gritted her teeth as she spoke made Xu Qing's heart palpitate.

He knew that his wife's jealousy was brewing again.

It's just that he was a little confused. He didn't tell Chen Xiufang his home phone number. Where did she get it?

However, Xu Qing soon figured out that these days, the post office would count the number of telephones installed in the [-] cities and make a phone book.

This measure has been implemented across the country.

If you want to find someone, you can quickly find it by opening the telephone directory issued by the post office and sorting it by area and other categories.

Chen Xiufang's family is well-off, so she will definitely not lack such things.

Xu Qing did have a copy at home, but it was from three to five years ago.

Not to mention old and outdated, the telephones installed in Sijiu City in recent years are not registered on it.

Xu Qing seldom flipped it.

At this moment, I remembered that Xu Qing was going to let his son Hongzhi show it to him, but his wife looked unhappy.

Let it go.

At this time, he thought it would be better not to offend his wife.

If Jinghong is like a firecracker, and it goes off at the drop of a hat, then he will be poking a hornet's nest tonight.

Liu Aiqian saw that the relationship between her eldest brother and her sister-in-law was filled with the smell of gunpowder.

He frowned slightly, feeling that what he just said might offend his sister-in-law Jinghong.

He quickly added: "Sister-in-law, there is one more thing. I forgot to tell you. Your brother Jiefang came to our hospital today. When Aiguo answered the phone, he happened to be there and chatted with the people over there."

Ma Jinghong rolled her eyes at Xu Qing, took off her gloves, turned to look at Ai Qian, calmed down her temper and said:

"What is my brother doing here?"

Ai Qian let go of her son Hongfu beside her, took out 100 yuan from her body, handed it to her sister-in-law and said:
"Sister-in-law, he came over to pay back the money to you and my eldest brother. He said he would pay back one hundred first and pay back the rest slowly later."

Ma Jinghong took the money from Ai Qian and hummed, but did not become happy.

Grandpa and grandma, together with the nanny Aunt Feng, were in the kitchen serving Xu Qing and Jing Hong hot meals in a pot. They didn't know much about what had just happened in the front room.

The two old people were old, had hearing loss, and were somewhat deaf. They could neither hear clearly what Xu Qing, Jinghong, or Ai Qian said, nor did they know who Chen Xiufang was.
After bringing out the food, Xu Qing and Jing Hong were urged to wash their hands and eat.

Aunt Feng heard it clearly, but it was the first time she heard the name Chen Xiufang, and she didn't even know who it was, let alone see it.

I thought it was a woman from the name, so I didn't say anything and pretended not to hear.

As a nanny, she has no right to interfere in the affairs of the master's family.

Xu Qing washed his hands, sat at the dinner table, and asked his sister-in-law while eating:
"Aiqian, where are the patriots?"

Liu Aiqian said: "He was dragged out to drink by Brother Jiefang and Brother Damao from our hospital."

Xu Qing said oh and said nothing more.

Ma Jinghong said angrily: "Liberation is real. Yuemei has just given birth not long ago, and he still has the heart to drink."

Xu Qing looked at his wife and did not dare to speak.

Today he has already angered his wife, how dare he speak for his brother-in-law.

Liu Aiqian didn't answer either.

In fact, she was quite unwilling to go drinking with Aiguo, but Ma Jiefang was her sister-in-law's younger brother, and there was Xu Dazai, so she couldn't stop him and had no choice but to let Aiguo go.

Not long after Xu Qing and Jinghong finished eating in the house, Aiguo helped Xu Damao and they came back from the dark courtyard.

Xu Damao's drinking capacity has never been very good.

Just take a sip.

One drink and another fragment.

If he hadn't been patriotic, I'm afraid Xu Damao would have been drunk and spent the night on the roadside tonight.

Qin Jingru heard Xu Damao's drunken nonsense and came out of the house with a sullen face. While complaining, she reached out to take Xu Damao's patriotic support and dragged her into her house.

Xu Aiguo, Xu Damao and Ma Jiefang drank two kilograms of Erqu, which was about half a kilogram each.

This amount of wine is nothing for Patriot. If Xu Damao hadn't gotten drunk first and slipped from his chair to under the table, he and Ma Jiefang could have drank another pound each.

The snow had stopped at this time, but the night sky was dark. The snow falling in the courtyard reflected little white lights under the light from the windows in the houses.

Xu Qing walked to the middle of the yard with a cigarette in his mouth and asked his second brother:
"Patriot, did Chen Xiufang call me?"

Xu Aiguo, who had walked back all the way, had dissipated the smell of alcohol. When his elder brother asked him, he nodded and said:

"Brother, that Chen Xiufang said that she has booked a seat at Donglaishun and will have dinner with you alone at noon tomorrow."

"alone?"

Xu Qing frowned, feeling a little cold. He stood up slightly and took a puff of cigarette, thoughts racing in his mind.

Chen Xiufang invited herself to dinner alone. Xu Qing really couldn't understand why?
He really had no contact with Chen Xiufang. When Chen Xiufang graduated from university, he was still studying at university. After Chen Xiufang worked for a year, he graduated with Jiefang and Silly Zhu.

After graduation, I have been busy with work and family affairs. I have neither actively looked up Chen Xiufang's contact information nor asked others.

On the day I bought the motorcycle, we met by chance.

That's it.

If it was because they knew each other and hadn't seen each other for many years, Xu Qing felt that it would be okay to have a meal with Chen Xiufang and catch up on old times.

After all, we studied in the same university, in the same department and major.

But alone, Xu Qing had to think about it.

Turn around early in the morning.

When Xu Qing went out, he passed by the front yard and still didn't see the third uncle getting up early.

When he and Jinghong came back last night, they didn't hear the third uncle talking in the front yard.

Xu Qing glanced at Yan Bugui's door, shivered, and pushed his motorcycle out of the compound.

The alley was dark, and the snow on the ground was frozen hard, making it creak when you step on it.

During the day, the morning and evening are the coldest and freezing.

Xu Qing wore a cotton jacket, cotton trousers, cotton shoes on his feet, a scarf around his neck, a hat on his head, and black leather gloves on his hands. He was fully armed. As soon as he arrived at the entrance of the alley, he set up a stall along the street to sell breakfast. Amidst the shouts of the small traders, I got on my motorcycle and walked slowly towards the Dongdan Grain Station.

Er Mazi came earlier than usual today. As soon as Xu Qing arrived at the entrance of the grain station, he saw Er Mazi curled up and wearing a sheepskin hat, already waiting for him.

"Qingzi, why are you here so late today? Hurry up and open the door. I'm almost freezing."

As soon as Xu Qing unlocked the door of the grain station with the key, Er Mazi rushed in first.

"Damn it, it's so fucking cold on this shitty day!"

Er Mazi complained, and when he saw the four cats staying in the food station surrounding him, he bent down and blew out a puff of smoke from his mouth. After choking the four little guys away, he quickly started to light the stove.

When Xu Xiaoya came, Sanhuzi's wife and Meijuan had just arrived, and they were just starting to worry about things.

Xu Qing and Er Mazi lit the stove for a while, and the store became warm.

Xu Xiaoya took off her scarf and put it together with Sanhuzi's wife's and Meijuan's in the drawer under the counter.

At this moment, Er Mazi was sitting at the table near the stove, drinking scalding hot tea. She didn't care whether the tea leaves were brewed or not. Anyway, she warmed her stomach with hot water first.

Er Mazi drank a cup, picked up the teapot and poured another cup. He sat on a chair, holding a cigarette in his right hand. While smoking, he used his left hand to touch the white cat Xiaobai lying at his feet.

The four cats were all lying around the stove.Sanhuzi's wife, Meijuan, and Xiaoya were also teased by each of the three women.

Xu Qing was also smoking, but he was standing at the door of the grain station.

The sky was already getting brighter, and pedestrians were coming and going on the street. Many uncles and aunts, carrying vegetable baskets, rushed to enter the noisy vegetable market.

Xu Qing finished smoking, threw the cigarette butt on the ground, stubbed it out with his feet, looked up at the gloomy sky, and took a long breath.

At noon, Xu Qing told Jinghong, Xiaoya, Sanhuzi's wife and Meijuan that he had something to do when he went out.

Er Mazi also wanted to go out for a walk on the street, and had already put a sheepskin hat on his head.

Ma Jinghong said loudly: "Brother Mazi, what are you going to do? Your brother is going to meet his old friend. He is going to Donglaishun for dinner. It is inappropriate for you to follow him. You don't even dare to go without seeing me."

As soon as Ma Jinghong said these words, the air in the entire grain station instantly became cold.

Even though the fire in the stove did not go out, everyone felt that the temperature had dropped several degrees.

Er Mazi was stunned, looking at Xu Qing and then at Jing Hong, confused.

"Since when did Qingzi have a crush?"

Er Mazi took off his hat, full of doubts in his heart.

Sanhuzi's wife, Meijuan, and sister-in-law saw that the shopkeeper and the landlady were having trouble, and wanted to help smooth things over.

But when the words came to her mouth, she saw Ma Jinghong's face was cold, and she didn't know what was going on. She didn't know what to say for a moment.

Xu Xiaoya heard the thorn in her sister-in-law's words and stopped moving the abacus in her hand. She was so frightened that she didn't dare to say anything. She raised her head and glanced at her elder brother and asked what happened.

Xu Qing sighed helplessly and explained to everyone:

"Chen Xiufang came to our grain station a few days ago. She is a college graduate like me. She invited me to dinner to catch up with old classmates."

As soon as Xu Qing finished speaking, Ma Jing gave her man a red look and said with a crackle in her mouth:
"Is he an old classmate?

Are they in the same class?

Are they from the same class?
How do I remember that my brother Jiefang said before that Chen Xiufang is one level higher than you? "

Seeing that his wife was angry, Xu Qing smiled bitterly in his heart and couldn't help but secretly said:

"It's really unusual for a woman to be jealous!"

Er Mazi finally understood what was going on, stood up, and said with a smile:
"Jinghong, don't be angry. Qingzi is not that kind of person. If he has a crush, I will write my last name backwards from now on."

After Er Mazi finished speaking, he walked to Xu Qing, put his arms around his shoulders, and continued to Ma Jinghong:

"Jinghong, I guarantee you that if Qingzi has an affair with that Chen Xiufang and dares to do anything that is sorry for you, I will be the first to fight him!"

Xu Xiaoya took the opportunity to say to her sister-in-law: "Sister-in-law, Brother Mazi is right. You still can't believe my elder brother. He does things in a measured manner. Unlike Brother Damao in our courtyard, my brother doesn't do random things."

In fact, Ma Jinghong herself didn't believe that Xu Qing would go around behind her back.

Even if she doesn't believe in her man, she still has confidence in herself.

After all, she was once the pillar of the art troupe, and she was the top among a group of beautiful female colleagues.

She still has that confidence.

But Chen Xiufang first came to her own grain station a few days ago, specifically looking for her man.

I called home again last night.

How could any woman not have doubts about this?

Xu Qing stood at the door of the grain station, looked at his wife Jinghong, and said:
"I'm not going."

Xu Qing said, took off his scarf, turned to look at Er Mazi and said:
"Brother Mazi, please help me go to Donglaishun and tell Chen Xiufang that I want to go to the warehouse to receive the food sent by the country. I am not free today."

Hearing this, Er Mazi stood up to leave.

Seeing this, Ma Jinghong thought about what Er Mazi and her sister-in-law had just said, thought for a moment, raised her hand to stop Er Mazi, and glanced at Xu Qing.

"You better go ahead!
If someone wants to talk to you about their friendship as classmates, we can't let them go. I'm not as narrow-minded as you think. "

Xu Qing smiled bitterly in his heart, are you still naughty?
But he didn't dare to say these words for fear of angering his wife.

Xu Qing wrapped the scarf around his neck again, turned around and left the grain station. Looking at the sky with scattered snow again, he stood up and walked towards Donglaishun.

Dong Laishun is in Wangfujing, next to Dongdan.

There is no semicolon these days, just an old store.

In 55, under the call of the state, Quanjude, Liubiju and other time-honored brands all became public-private partnerships.

Xu Qing walked not far from his own grain station.

At lunch time, the cook who had been soliciting business in the morning was no longer standing at the door of Dong Laishun's shop cutting mutton.

As soon as Xu Qing walked into the store, he saw Chen Xiufang wearing a woolen coat and waving to him.

"Xu Qing, this way."

Xu Qing nodded from a distance and walked towards the door of the private room where Chen Xiufang was standing.

Entering the private room, Chen Xiufang looked at Xu Qing with a happy face and said:
"I called your home yesterday and it was your second brother who answered the phone. I was worried that he forgot to tell you."

Xu Qing took off his scarf and hung it on the back of the chair while saying:

"Comrade Chen Xiufang, if you call my home, no matter who answers the call, they will tell me. However, I hope you will stop calling my home in the future and go directly to the grain station to find me, so as to save my wife from misunderstanding."

Chen Xiufang pursed her lips and smiled, sat opposite Xu Qing and said:
"Why, my sister-in-law punished you last night?"

Xu Qing sighed, adjusted his sitting posture, rubbed his hands that were not wearing gloves and were slightly red from the cold and said:
"No, we haven't seen each other for many years. When you called my house, it's a good thing it wasn't my wife who answered the phone. Otherwise, I might have a bruise on my face today."

Chen Xiufang apologized and said, "I didn't expect it would be like this. If I had known, I would have invited you and your siblings to come over."

Xu Qing waved his hand and said: "Hey, it's not that serious. I'm just bragging. My wife is a sensible person and doesn't think it's anything. She just misunderstood our relationship."

"Then it's up to me to make amends to you today."

While Chen Xiufang was talking, the clerk from Dong Laishun brought in the red-hot copper pot.

Xu Qing moved it so that the clerk could place it on the table easily.

Immediately afterwards, two clerks brought two plates of mutton, one plate of fried lamb tails, one plate of fried sesame tofu in mutton oil, and one plate of meatloaf.

After the clerk left and closed the door, Chen Xiufang said:

"Xu Qing, one pound of mutton, plus these, is enough to compensate you, isn't it?"

Xu Qing shook his head directly: "It's not enough to stuff the gap between your teeth. I'll have to add another two pounds later."

Chen Xiufang smiled and said: "That's no problem. Sister, I will let you eat freely today."

After a while, the copper pot began to boil gurglingly, and white steam kept rising.

Xu Qing picked up two pieces of mutton with chopsticks, rinsed them and said:

"Sister Xiufang, are you serious about inviting me to dinner? If not, I'll start eating."

Seeing Xu Qing say this, Chen Xiufang put away the smile on her face and said:

"Sister, I'm looking for you today because I really have something to do."

Xu Qing put the cooked mutton into the prepared dipping bowl, put down his chopsticks and said:
"I knew that when you came to me, you definitely didn't want to reminisce about old times. Just tell me what's going on."

Xu Qing leaned back on the chair, took out his cigarette, lit it with a lighter, took a puff, and signaled Chen Xiufang to speak directly.

(End of this chapter)