Siheyuan: There are three little cats at home

Chapter 496
The night had fallen for a long time before Xu Qing returned to the compound. The payment for the last quarter's goods at the grain station was settled by several branches, making his face, which had been slightly haggard due to recent busyness, regain its luster.

But in the front yard, Xu Qing did not stop, but went directly to the middle yard, ready to return the 1000 yuan to the first uncle Yi Zhonghai.

Yan Bugui is not in a hurry, this third uncle is too stingy.

He had taken the initiative to borrow money before, and when he learned that neither Yi Zhonghai nor Shazhu asked for interest, they also refused to ask for interest, but they made demands.

Since there was no interest, Xu Qing decided to take it easy on the third uncle.

Furthermore, the third uncle is stingy, but he is still a very particular person. He has been teaching for many years and has learned a lot of principles from books. He has a very personal set of rules on how to do things.

Yi Zhonghai is different, he doesn’t want interest, but he has a purpose.

Xu Qing had already realized this when Yi Zhonghai and Shazhu took the initiative to go to the backyard to borrow money.

Yi Zhonghai wanted to take the opportunity to let him accept the favor so that he could help him and his third aunt take care of themselves in the future.

This idea and abacus are more clever than the three uncles in the front yard who are good at calculations.

Of course, Xu Qing can also understand.

The eldest father and the eldest mother had no children, and everyone in the hospital knew that they wanted to find someone to help them take care of them in their old age.

It's just that understanding is understanding, but Xu Qing doesn't want to have too much involvement with the uncle's family.

When he first started working in the factory, Yi Zhonghai refused to accept him as his apprentice.

There was no help in the courtyard.

Xu Qing will never forget that the man who seemed kind-hearted at the time was actually so hard-hearted that no stone could compare to it.

Anyone can default on the favors in the compound, but Xu Qing and Yi Zhonghai will never default on them.

If there hadn't been such a thing, if he had been an apprentice with Yi Zhonghai, then he could have taken care of the elderly care of Yi Zhonghai and his wife with Jinghong and his younger brothers and sisters.

Unfortunately, things did not develop in that direction.

Therefore, as soon as Xu Qing pushed his motorcycle into the middle courtyard, he went directly to Yi Zhonghai's door.

"Master, are you at home?"

Xu Qing parked the motorcycle beside him, shouted, took off the five kilograms of pork hanging from the handlebars of the motorcycle, carried it in his hand, and walked towards Yi Zhonghai's house.

At this time, Yi Zhonghai and his aunt had just put away the dishes after dinner into the kitchen. When they heard Xu Qing calling him, he responded, raised his hand to lift the curtain and walked out of the kitchen, extending his hand to say hello:
"Xiao Qing, you just came back from get off work. Sit down quickly."

As soon as Xu Qing sat down, the aunt made a cup of tea from the kitchen and brought it over.

"Xiao Qing, what do you want from your uncle?"

The aunt, who hadn't even washed the dishes, asked with a smile, her eyes full of kindness.

But it was more than ten years late.

Yi Zhonghai took out his cigarette, gave it to Xu Qing, and asked:
"Xiaoqing, what do you want me to do with you?"

Xu Qing did not beat around the bush, took the cigarette from Yi Zhonghai, took out 1000 yuan from his trouser pocket with his right hand, placed it in front of Yi Zhonghai and said:

"Master, mom, I've been in trouble recently, so I'll pay you back today."

After that, Xu Qing handed the five kilograms of pork specially brought back from the meat factory to the aunt and said:
"Auntie, this is me, the uncle and Silly Zhu. Last month, we agreed that you should take it into the kitchen and put it away. Don't let my cat smell it and run into the house. , I stole it for you."

When the aunt saw the pork, her deep-set eyes shone with light, and she felt very happy, but suddenly she felt empty and said hurriedly:

"Xiaoqing, you kid, you and I are the only two in our family. We don't have much money to spend. It's only been three months since your meat factory opened, so why bother to pay it back? If you are short of money, Just take it and keep using it."

Yi Zhonghai smoked a cigarette, looked at the money, and then at Xu Qing. When his old lady stopped talking, he slowly said:

"Xiao Qing, do you plan to pay Zhuzhu's money back today?"

Xu Qing pretended to be thoughtful and said: "Brother Silly Zhu, let's give it a few days. He is still living alone and doesn't have much money. I'll pay it back to you and my aunt first."

Yi Zhonghai's heart suddenly skipped a beat. He understood that Xu Qing didn't want to accept his kindness, so he immediately returned it to him as soon as he had money.

The whole person suddenly lost all energy, his waist was slightly hunched, he nodded and said nothing.

At this moment, the three aunts in the front yard came to ask the aunt to borrow yeast for kneading noodles. With sharp eyes, they saw the 1000 yuan on the edge of the kang in front of Yi Zhonghai, and he suddenly let out a startled ouch in his heart.

But she didn't hear what Xu Qing said and mistakenly thought it was Yi Zhonghai and Auntie who wanted to borrow money from Xu Qing. She twisted her body and said to Auntie:

"Sister-in-law, I don't have any yeast for making dough at home. If you have some, lend me a small piece. You talk to Xiaoqing and I'll wait in the courtyard."

The third aunt turned around and walked out of Yi Zhonghai's house. Standing in the middle courtyard shrouded in the dark night sky, she secretly sighed that the old Yi couple had really saved up money. Today, they borrowed another pile from Xu Qing while waiting for the first aunt to give her some money. Send out the starter.

In Yi Zhonghai's house, the aunt saw Lao Yan's wife in the front yard coming to borrow something, so she returned to the kitchen, took a piece of yeast, and planned to leave the house quickly to give it to her.

Seeing this, Xu Qing stood up and was about to leave, but Yi Zhonghai stopped him and said:

"Xiao Qing, I don't want to buy anything big right now. You can still take the money and put it in your meat factory. If your mother and I really need money, you can pay it back to us. "

Yi Zhonghai didn't want Xu Qing to repay the money so quickly, let alone Xu Qing to return the favor.

But his persistence was destined to be meaningless.

Xu Qing smiled and waved his hand: "Master, it's okay. Our meat factory has stabilized for the time being, and the grain station has not encountered any trouble recently. You can just keep the money."

After saying that, Xu Qing walked out of Yi Zhonghai's house without looking back. He saw the third aunt standing in the middle courtyard, said hello, and prepared to go back to his home in the backyard while pushing his motorcycle.

The third aunt stood in the middle courtyard for a long time. She stood outside and heard what Yi Zhonghai said in the room just now. She understood what was going on. She took the starter that the first aunt gave her and pulled Xu Qing aside. Asked in a low voice:

"Xiao Qing, you paid back the money to your first uncle's family. When can you pay back the money to my family?"

Although the third aunt's voice was low when she asked this question, Yu Li, who came from the front yard to find her mother-in-law, stepped into the middle yard and listened to it without any bias, and immediately said:
"Mom, when did you and my dad lend money to Qingzi?" The third aunt was startled, and the yeast in her hand almost fell to the ground. She turned around and saw her daughter-in-law, with panic on her face. Fortunately It was night, covered by darkness, so I quickly calmed down and made up my mind with words:
"Daughter-in-law, you have misunderstood. Your father and I have not dared to buy new clothes every year in the past few years. How can we still have money?"

The third aunt casually lied to her daughter-in-law, and then said:
"Just now I went to your aunt's house to borrow some yeast, and Xiaoqing happened to be paying your eldest uncle the money, so I just asked him casually."

How could Yu Li, a thoughtful person, believe what her mother-in-law said? She put her hands in her pockets and glanced at Xu Qing, although she didn't ask anything.

But she didn't know whether her parents-in-law had money.

She is not a new daughter-in-law who just came to the house.

Yu Li firmly believed that she heard correctly.

Xu Qing smiled bitterly at the scheming between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law beside him. Without saying anything, he turned around and pushed the motorcycle back towards the backyard.

When the third aunt saw Xu Qing leaving and her daughter-in-law did not catch up to ask, she suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. She held the yeast in her hand, looked at Yu Li and asked:
"What are you doing in the middle courtyard at night?"

Yu Li responded: "Mom, I'm here to see you. Tomorrow isn't the weekend. Xie Cheng and I are going to go to my cousin Haitang early tomorrow morning. You and my dad can help take care of my daughter Niuniu."

The third aunt listened to her daughter-in-law's words and returned to the front yard with the starter.

Yu Li followed her back to the front yard, finished talking about the matter, and then entered the house where she and Yan Jiecheng lived.

"Xie Cheng, your parents seem to have lent money to Qingzi!"

As soon as Yu Li opened the door curtain, she said to Yan Jiecheng, who was lying on the bed with his legs crossed and teasing his daughter.

"Yu Li, who did you listen to?"

Yan Jiecheng sat upright from the bed suddenly, with a look of disbelief on his face.

"Who said that? I heard what your mother said. It's true. She asked Qingzi herself when she and your father would pay back the money."

Yan Jiecheng frowned, touched his neck with his hand, and thought:

"Daughter-in-law, did you really not listen?"

Yu Li rolled her eyes at her man and snorted: "You are indeed your mother's big boy. You speak exactly the same thing. I am so big and not deaf, so how can I hear it wrong?"

Yan Jiecheng moved his right hand that was touching his neck to his face, rubbed his chin, glanced at the window, looked across the courtyard to the house where his parents lived, and thought:

"Daughter-in-law, it's impossible. I don't know how much money my father has. Jiefang and Xie Kuang ran back to our courtyard and asked for it several times before, but they didn't get it. How can they lend it to Qingzi?"

Yu Li glanced at Yan Jiecheng angrily and snorted:

"How much money have your parents and mom saved? You're the only loser to know!"
Your dad has been teaching for so many years, and this summer, he went to help in the warehouse of the grain station in the suburbs of Xuqing. Can you tell me how much salary Qingzi offered? "

Yan Jiecheng was speechless for a moment.

Yu Li tilted her head and glanced coldly, pinched the feather duster in her hand, and continued:
“You don’t even know this, but you still tell me whether your father and mother have money in their hands, do you know exactly?
Let me tell you, Qin Huairu told me before that on the night when Qingzi’s college classmate came to our hospital, Xu Qing gave your father’s salary to your mother, 30 yuan. "

Yan Jiecheng looked shocked and said in surprise: "Why didn't I listen to what Sha Zhu said?"

Yu Li grabbed the feather duster and asked her daughter to play. She leaned over and dusted the bed and said:
"Yan Jiecheng, I am really blind, marrying you is a good-for-nothing, Silly Zhu is so stupid, apart from acting like a girl and knowing how to cook, what else can he do, but he is related to Xu Qing Okay, I went to university for further studies, and when I came back I was promoted to the factory director. This year I was promoted to canteen director. You are the worst in our hospital. You are still stuck in the workshop, and you have not even become a workshop director. Silly Zhu, as the director, do you think you are still as open-minded as before, talking to you and telling you everything?!"

When Yan Jiecheng saw his daughter-in-law criticizing him like this, he felt unconvinced and said:

"It's not all your fault. It's not like my dad didn't let me go to university ten years ago. He said I didn't need to worry about it. As long as I nodded, he would figure out a way for me to solve the quota for workers, peasants and soldiers. Now you blame me, why did you go there earlier?"

Yu Li stopped her feather duster, looked at Yan Jiecheng with wide eyes, and said sternly:
"What's wrong? It's all my fault. I delayed you, right? Our daughter was just born not long ago. If you go to university for further studies, what will my daughter and I do?"

Yan Jiecheng took out a cigarette from his jacket with a sullen face, held it in his mouth and puffed:
"Then Qingzi and Shazhu went to college in 73, and my father asked me to go with him. Our daughter was already quite old that year, right? You haven't let her go yet. Jinghong can take her son at home, so why did you do that? No, do you have to let me stay at home by life or death?!"

When Yu Li saw that her man refused to talk back to her tonight, her face became angry and she screamed:

"Yan, you bastard! Tell me again if you have the guts?"

Yan Jiecheng saw Yu Li getting angry and smoking, but did not dare to speak.

He is a scheming and stingy man who inherited his father's legacy, but he is not strong-tempered and soft-tempered. He talks like a man and is very tough. He is better than Liu Guangfu, but not as unruly as Liu Guangtian.

When I was in my early twenties, I met Shazhu Funhun in the courtyard, and he immediately withered away.

In terms of ability, he doesn't even have the skills of Xu Damao, and compared with Xu Qing, he is even worse.

As for the daughter-in-law, she cannot say that she will obey her words, but when Yu Li asked him to go east, apart from shouting a few words, she still walked west obediently.

He is considered to be the most henpecked among his peers in the compound.

Yu Li was annoyed, she grabbed the feather duster in her hand and stabbed Yan Jiecheng's waist with all her strength, but Yan Jiecheng couldn't bear it and didn't dare to dodge.

After all, he had fought with Yu Li once before. As a result, Yu Li returned to her parents' home in anger. It was not easy for him to talk to his father before he took her back.

How dare you confront me again?

Yu Li poked it a few times, and her anger was half gone. She didn't continue anymore. She threw the feather duster aside, her eyes rolled around for a while, and she whispered:

"Your father and mother must have borrowed money from Qingzi in the past two months. It's only around nine o'clock in the evening. If you don't go to the backyard and ask Qingzi, just say that your father asked you to borrow the money for him.

If Qingzi didn't say anything and just gave you the money, you would take it back. Qingzi and Xu Damao have been doing business in the past two years and have made a lot of money. Qingzi bought a motorcycle last year, Radar Table, Xu Damao also bought a TV set for his family. Let's use your parents' money to make a small living.

Anyway, you have been in the factory for many years and you haven’t made a name for yourself. It’s in vain that you still went to high school. Last year, I asked you to invite the cadres in charge of your workshop to drink. How did you do it for me? After drinking, you can accompany others. You don't have any eyesight when playing cards, you don't lose money, and you win a lot from others. As long as the cadre is still in charge of your workshop in the future, can you stand out and become the workshop director?
It is better for us to follow the trend, resign and go into business. "

Yan Jiecheng rubbed his waist. Hearing what Yu Li said, he took a few puffs of cigarette and felt that it made sense.

He grabbed the Doliang blue cloth jacket behind him, put it on his body, opened the door of the house, and walked towards the backyard.

(End of this chapter)