Siheyuan: There are three little cats at home

Chapter 468 Haruyuki
It was four o'clock in the afternoon when we returned to the compound. When Xu Qing and Jing Hong stepped into the front yard, the first spring snow suddenly appeared in the sky that had been gloomy for nearly a day.

It was destined not to be very big, and it came to an abrupt end within half an hour.

No one in the courtyard paid much attention. It was New Year's Eve the day after tomorrow, and everyone was busy buying new year's goods and preparing various things in advance.

Whether the snow is falling or not, the adults have no intention of taking another look.

Xu Hongzhi took his sister Qiaoxin, Hongfu, who was patriotic, and Yu Li's daughter Niuniu, and several other children to run around in the courtyard when it snowed.

Today we are making tofu in the courtyard. Xu Qingyin and Jinghong were busy with the grain station in the morning. The tofu at home was made by Patriot and Aiqian, Fengming and Xiujuan under the guidance of their grandparents.

Of course, Shazhu also helped. He sent the brine for ordering the tofu to Xu Qing's family.

At the same time, this year was no exception. Silly Zhu did his best trick for everyone in the courtyard.

As for the location, it was at the grand master's house in the middle courtyard.

Anyone who wants to eat can take a bowl of tofu to Yi Zhonghai's house and he will watch it being cooked.

Xu Qing and Jing Hong came back too late and had no luck.

Ai Guo and Feng Ming, Ai Qian, Xiu Juan, Hong Zhi, grandparents, they all ate it.

Aiguo and Fengming bought a lot of New Year's goods at home in the past two days, accompanied by their respective wives to accompany their grandparents.

For example, I bought more than 30 kilograms of melon seeds and peanuts each.

Apples, pears, fruit candies, milk candies, twenty kilograms each.

There are a lot of people in the family, so we don’t buy enough. There is not enough food at all.

The oranges and bananas shipped from the south were also weighed fifteen kilograms each.

The price is a bit more expensive than Apple's, but there's nothing you can do about it.

Transporting it all the way from the south to Sijiu City, a journey of several thousand kilometers, the cost is there, how can it be cheap?

But this is nothing.

Aiguo is the director of the factory, and Fengming is the director of the hardware factory.

Aiqian and Xiujuan also have units.

As the eldest brother, Xu Qing, not to mention Jinghong, has been operating the grain station for one year and the business is booming.

Nowadays, life at home is getting better.

Of course there is no big money, but there is no shortage of small money.

There is no need to save on food and clothing.

After Xu Qing opened the grain station, his family no longer needed to buy white noodles or stick noodles.

If there wasn't enough, he would get it from the grain station.

Twenty kilograms of stick noodles, I haven’t finished it after half a year.

Almost every meal is white noodles.

Others dare not eat like this, but Xu Qing dares.

After opening a grain station, I naturally started eating fine grains.

Aunt Feng, the nanny, took leave at 25 and left. The New Year's goods and the freshly made tofu were all placed in Aunt Feng's house.

There hasn't been a fire over there lately, and the room is cool, so it's just the right time to put it.

Without Aunt Feng, Ai Qian has been doing the cooking for the past two days.

When Patriot is not busy socializing, he will also help out at home.

But for dinner tonight, Ai Qian was busy in the kitchen with her sister-in-law Jinghong and Feng Ming's daughter-in-law Xiujuan.

Because Xiujuan is pregnant, she is mainly responsible for helping out, washing vegetables, chopping vegetables and so on.

There was no need to do the work of bending down, it was like sitting in front of the stove to light the fire, so it fell naturally on Xu Hongzhi.

Xu Qinghe, Patriot, and Feng Ming would sometimes go into the kitchen to help keep an eye on it.

To prevent the fire from burning too much.

It was past five o'clock, the meal was ready, and Jinghong and Aiqian were preparing to go from the kitchen to the front room to clean up.

As a result, Yan Bugui and Shazhu came, so they had to wait.

It's not that people from the courtyard are reluctant to let them eat when they come over.

But he knew that the third uncle would come to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, so he must have something to say.

Wait for things to be finished first, and then sort them out.

Yan Bugui did have something to do. Seeing that the three Xu Qing brothers were there, he entered the room and sat down next to Xu Qing with a smile. After exchanging pleasantries, he got down to business.

"Xiao Qing, my family is running out of food. I wasn't in a hurry to buy it a few days ago. Can I go to your food station to get some tomorrow?"

Xu Qing said without thinking: "Okay, third uncle, I don't have much food at home. I'm going to pick up a few kilograms tomorrow. If you and third aunt want as much as you want, I'll bring it back for you tomorrow."

Yan Bugui rolled his eyes and thought: "Thirty kilograms, enough for the New Year."

Xu Qing hummed and said, "No problem."

Silly Zhu sat at the table and teased Xu Hongzhi.

He was an idle man with nothing to do. He had dinner at Yi Zhonghai's house and came to visit.

Hearing Yan Bugui's words, he grinned and said:
"Third uncle, you and my third aunt are out of food. Why did Xincheng come to the backyard in person? Two days ago, I saw Xincheng and bought a bag of white flour from nowhere. I brought it back to the yard at night. , anyway, it’s not from Qingzi Grain Station.”

Yan Bugui didn't answer, his face showed embarrassment. He was my father and he naturally knew about this.

He stretched out his hand to hold his glasses, rolled his eyes at Silly Zhu, changed his mind, and opened his mouth to add: "Well, I can't control him now. He separated from Yu Li and me. What he wants to do is their business. I With Aunt San, we live our lives and they live theirs."

Yan Bugui tried to prevaricate, but after finishing speaking, he was afraid that Sha Zhu would catch him and keep talking, so he turned to:

"Si Zhu, I heard someone say that you are working as a back cook in your factory cafeteria, and you seem to be about to be promoted, right?"

Silly Zhu hugged Xu Hongzhi and grinned, "Third uncle, you are really well-informed about this information. Even the people in our courtyard who work in the factory may not know everything. You have never been in the factory for a day." People and teachers, in addition to caring about national affairs, you also know a lot about the affairs of our factory!

Yes, the factory intends to promote me to be the director of the kitchen in our canteen. "

After Sha Zhu finished speaking proudly, he blinked at Yan Bugui twice and asked:
"Third uncle, do I know that your son Yan Jiecheng and Yu Li still don't know about this matter. Who did you listen to?"

Yan Bugui didn't sell it, and said with a smile: "Who said it, Xu Damao."

Hearing this, Silly Zhu chewed his teeth and said: "Hey, I knew it was him. I haven't told the first uncle or the second uncle yet. Just before the factory holiday, when the factory leader went to the cinema to watch a movie, he was I found out."

Xu Qing had just ignored Sha Zhu's remarks about Yan Jiecheng buying food from elsewhere. At this time, seeing Sha Zhu admit that he was about to become the canteen director, he was happy and said:
"Brother Silly Zhu, from now on, I have to stop calling you Director He."

Xu Fengming echoed: "Yes, Brother Yuzhu, you will be Director He in the future. Do we have to celebrate today?"

Xu Aiguo also said: "Brother Yuzhu, congratulations."

Silly Zhu's face turned red when he was told that, and he was very happy. He waved his hands and said, "No, I'm not here yet. The factory hasn't issued any notice. We'll talk about it after the New Year. We'll celebrate after the factory notices it."

Yan Bugui sat on the edge of the kang. When he saw that Sha Zhudu was now the director, he thought that his son Jie Cheng had not even mentioned it.

I couldn't help but sigh secretly in my heart.

It is said that Shazhu's life is not good, but he followed Xu Qing to university for further studies.

All the way up.

First, I was promoted to a job in the factory. Within three or four years, I was about to become the canteen director.

As for his son Xie Cheng and Yan Bugui, his heart aches just thinking about it.He didn't listen to what I said, and he didn't take the initiative to have a relationship with Xu Qing in the past few years.

Now he is just an ordinary worker, living in confusion day by day.

Yan Bugui looked at Shazhu secretly, then glanced at Xu Qinghe Aiguo.

I knew that Shazhu could not achieve this achievement without the help of the three brothers Xu Qing.

But, he knew what to say.

Silly Zhu and Xu Qing's family have been close for many years.

Especially in the years after Xu Qing's parents passed away, Shazhu often went to the backyard to help Xu Qing's brother and sister.

In the [-]s, the two families were even together during the Chinese New Year.

The four Xu Qing brothers and sisters have achieved their own achievements now, so they will naturally pull their weight.

Yan Bugui thought of it without even moving his eyes.

But after thinking about it, in addition to jealousy and envy, I can only hate that my sons are not living up to expectations.

Obviously he is a teacher, but none of his children have become successful.

On the contrary, Xu Qing paid all the money for his younger brothers and sisters to go to college, and continued his studies himself.

Let Shazhu follow along, and now he is more promising than his own boss.

Yan Bugui was a little distracted. After sitting for a while, he made an excuse and went back to his front yard.

Silly Zhu was not in a hurry to leave, and still sat in Xu Qing's room chatting.

When Jinghong saw the third uncle finishing his business and leaving, she went into the kitchen with Aiqian and Xiujuan to serve the food.

Xu Hongzhi broke free of Si Zhu's hands and ran into the kitchen to get the dishes from the cupboard.

After a while, all the food was placed on the hot bed.

Xu Qing said to Silly Zhu: "Brother Silly Zhu, wash your hands and eat."

Silly Zhu waved his hands and said: "I ate it at Master Yi's house. You guys eat yours. I see that the sweet potatoes that Hongzhi put on the stove are almost cooked. I'll eat a roasted sweet potato."

Seeing this, Xu Qing smiled and said, "That's alright, Brother Silly Zhu, you sit down on the kang with the roasted sweet potatoes and order some food."

Silly Zhu did not refuse this time. He responded, turned over all four sweet potatoes on the stove, picked out the one that had been roasted first, held it in his hand, kept blowing on it, and walked to Xu Qing's side. , sitting on the edge of the kang.

Xu Qing handed the extra pair of chopsticks that Jinghong had brought to Shazhu, and helped put the rice soup that Ai Qian had scooped up on the kang.

"Qingzi, please don't worry about me. I'll just eat a sweet potato, drink the rice soup, and then have a few bites of the food."

After Si Zhu finished speaking, he broke open the sweet potato, handed half of it to Xu Hongzhi who pouted, and teased:
"Boy, I'll give you the one with the nicest scream."

Xu Hongzhi immediately smiled and said: "Hello, Uncle Yuzhu!"

Silly Zhu nodded and said happily: "Boy, your mouth is sweeter than your third uncle's when he was a kid."

Xu Fengming chewed the steamed buns and looked at Silly Zhu.

"Brother Yuzhu, I didn't let you eat the sweet potatoes I baked when I was a kid."

Silly Zhu snorted, peeled off the burnt sweet potato skin and said: "Come on, how can I remember what year it was? Qingzi and Aiguo went to the coal station, and you and Xiaoya were there. You two secretly roasted the sweet potatoes. I stood there. I even smelled it in the backyard, but you said no, is this the case?"

Xu Fengming frowned, thought for a moment, grinned and said, "Brother Yuzhu, you definitely remembered it wrong."

Silly Zhu took a bite of the sweet potato and said while eating:
"Brother, I don't have a bad memory. You should have given one of the baked sweet potatoes to the old lady back then. I remember that the old lady seemed to have left half of it for me."

"Brother Yuzhu, are you eating my sweet potatoes? I roasted them myself."

Silly Zhu took a bite of shredded potatoes with chopsticks, tasted it, stopped chatting with Feng Ming, pointed at the shredded potatoes and said:

"Jinghong, did you fry it? There was not enough vinegar."

Hearing this, Ma Jinghong thought for a moment and said, "Then next time, if I speculate again, I will put more money in it."

Silly Zhu hummed, "You can have more chili peppers."

Liu Aiqian, who was sitting next to Jinghong, looked a little shy because she was the one who fried the shredded potatoes.

Not static red.

But no one in the family felt jealous, and she felt quite good eating it herself.

If Silly Zhu hadn't said it, she wouldn't have known that it would taste better if there was more vinegar and chili.

Turn around early in the morning.

Snow is falling in the courtyard again.

It was still not big, and it disappeared before it even hit the ground.

After Xu Qing had breakfast in the house, he took his wife Jinghong, his second brothers Aiguo and Aiqian, and his third brothers Fengming and Xiujuan who returned to the compound early in the morning, together with his grandparents, son Hongzhi, and daughter Qiaoxin. The whole family left the compound and went to the streets to buy new year's goods.

The street was very lively, and the children started to set off firecrackers, and the sound of kicking their feet came one after another.

Small stalls selling New Year's goods are located next to each other along the streets as far as the eye can see.

Yan Bugui, the third uncle, and his wife, the third aunt, set up a table on the street near the entrance of the alley to help people write and buy Spring Festival couplets.

Business was good, and many people gathered around, waiting to order.

Xu Qing hugged his daughter and said hello:
"Third Aunt, when did you and Third Uncle go out to the stall? It's just after nine o'clock."

After Yan Bugui finished writing his Spring Festival couplets, he asked the third aunt to collect the money and said with a smile:
"I came out at eight o'clock. Your third aunt had cooked the meal early in the morning. After we finished eating, we had nothing to do in the house, so we came out and took a place. It was too late and there was no place to put it."

Xu Qing smiled and saw that someone asked the third uncle to help write Spring Festival couplets again, so he moved aside and said, "Third uncle, you and my third aunt are busy, we are leaving."

After saying that, Xu Qing hugged Qiao Xin and turned to leave. While looking at other places, he strolled towards his own grain station.

Feng Ming was riding a motorcycle and wanted to take Xiujuan for a spin on the street.

However, there were so many people on the street that it was impossible to ride.

There are more vendors selling things and more people buying things.

In addition, there are buses honking their horns and coming from a distance.

Making the streets even more congested.

Besides, on the street at this time, children were running around from time to time and setting off firecrackers everywhere.

Xu Fengming had to give up the idea of ​​riding a motorcycle and push forward slowly with the flow of people.

It took nearly two hours for everyone to arrive at the entrance of Xu Qingkai's grain station in Dongdan.

As soon as Jinghong opened the door, the four cats squatting inside the food station started meowing.

When Xu Hongzhi saw the four cats, his face showed a happy look. He squatted down and touched each one, then took out the steamed buns he had brought at home from the yellow cloth bag on his body and fed them.

Qiao Xin and Hong Fu squatted aside. The three little guys looked very excited looking at the four cats.

Xu Qinghe, who was patriotic, helped his grandparents on crutches to sit on the chair, and then lit the stove with Feng Ming.

Jinghong, Ai Qian, and Xiujuan went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables.

The stove was on and the grain station was getting warm. After Xu Qing packed the one hundred kilograms of white flour that he wanted for his family, he also packed the thirty kilograms that the third uncle's family wanted.

The other families in the courtyard didn't say anything, so he didn't care.

But just when he was about to go to the street to buy some brown candies and other snacks for his grandparents to try, Bangge ran over on Shazhu’s bicycle. As soon as he entered the grain station, he smiled and said:
"Uncle Xu Qing, my mother asked me to buy [-] pounds of white noodles and go home."

(End of this chapter)