Siheyuan: There are three little cats at home

Chapter 516 Returning to the Friendship Store

The street was noisy, with the rumble of trucks, the ringing of bicycle bells, and the laughter of pedestrians all mixed together. Xu Qing started the motorcycle again, and he didn't hear the female salesperson's shout at all.

Within five or six minutes of leaving the Friendship Store, Xu Qing bumped into his old classmate Li Guohua who was off work on the street.

Li Guohua now has a high status and has become the second-in-command in their unit.

But these days, even the second-in-command can only commute to get off work by bicycle.

When the two met, they both stopped their cars and moved towards the road.

"Qingzi, are you going home?"

Li Guohua was wearing a Chinese tunic suit, but the color changed from dark gray to dark blue. He looked very neat and tidy. There was a brand new black briefcase hanging on the handlebar of the bicycle. Even the bicycle was spotless and tidy.

Xu Qing responded: "Yes, I just returned to the city from the meat factory and went to the Friendship Store."

Li Guohua parked his bicycle on the side of the road, took out his Peony cigarettes, handed one to Xu Qing and said:

"Qingzi, what good things did you buy? Let me see it too."

Xu Qing continued: "I haven't bought anything. I don't have enough foreign exchange coupons. I originally wanted to buy a pair of hearing aids for my grandparents, but there is still a gap of twenty or thirty."

Xu Qing stood under the locust tree with almost all the leaves, raised his hand and patted Li Guohua on the shoulder and said:

"What about you? Just got off work?"

Li Guohua smiled and hummed, took out his lighter, lit Xu Qing's cigarette, lowered his head and lit the cigarette he held in the corner of his mouth, took a puff and said:

"I get off work at this time every day. I have been busy with work in the past two months and have never come to your hospital to ask for help. Why, your grandparents are not hearing well now?"

Xu Qing nodded and said, "I'm old and a little deaf."

Li Guohua leaned on his bicycle and looked at the bicycles, cars, and pedestrians coming and going on the street. He smoked side by side with Xu Qing:

"Qingzi, let's see. Brother, I happen to have forty foreign exchange coupons with me. I met Er Niu yesterday and got it from him. If you need it urgently, you can get it first."

As Li Guohua spoke, he reached out from his inner pocket and took out four ten-yuan foreign exchange coupons, photographed them to Xu Qing and said:

"Isn't it still close? Is this enough?"

Xu Qing was planning to go back to the courtyard to ask Silly Zhu if he had any foreign exchange coupons. When he saw his old classmate, he handed four to him and immediately said:

"Guohua, you showed up just in time today. Thank you in advance. I'll get it back after a while."

Li Guohua said happily: "Qingzi, Er Niu, you can return it to him directly when the time comes. When I asked for it for him yesterday, Er Niu was very reluctant."

Xu Qing then laughed and said, "If it works, I will pay him back when the time comes."

Li Guohua nodded, turned around and put the bicycle on the parking rack that had just been parked for five minutes, kicked it up with his feet, and pushed it along the driveway:

"Qingzi, let's go. I'll also stop by the Friendship Store to see my sister-in-law. My wife's birthday is tomorrow night, so I just happen to go over and say something. This will save me the trouble of running out to say it at noon tomorrow."

Xu Qing faced Li Guohua, got on his motorcycle, started it, and said curiously:

"Guohua, your sister-in-law is at the Friendship Store, why didn't you tell her earlier?"

Li Guohua straddled the bicycle crossbar and said, "Qingzi, you didn't even ask me. She just graduated from college last year and studied foreign languages, so she was assigned to work there."

Xu Qing said "Oh" and slowly rode his motorcycle toward the Friendship Store with Li Guohua.

At this time, there were more people on the street. People who had got off work were all pouring onto the street from factories and work units. Bicycles were densely packed on the street. The buses were also full of people. The lama kept pressing the button. The conductor wore a red hoop. He stuck his head out of the car window and shouted at the top of his lungs.

"Please move to the side and let us pass first. There are a lot of cars behind us."

Xu Qing and Li Guohua took a look and drove towards the edge of the road at the same time, letting the bus go first.

Then follow behind and continue to the Friendship Store.

The sky was completely dark, the street lights were on, emitting an orange light, and voices were heard on the street. Students who had not returned home from school and were playing on the road, all wearing blue autumn clothes and carrying military green schoolbags, saw Xu The motorcycle Qing rides is different from the bikes others ride, so he keeps looking around.

It's just that Xu Qing and Li Guohua had something to do. After the bus turned around the intersection and drove away, they speeded up and left behind all the students who had been chasing them for a long time.

Arriving at the door of the Friendship Store, Xu Qing locked the motorcycle again, and then walked in with Li Guohua.

As soon as Li Guohua entered, he shouted: "Liu Yan'er, come here."

"Brother-in-law, why are you here?"

Xu Qing saw that the female salesperson who greeted him earlier was called Li Guohua's brother-in-law, and immediately said to Li Guohua:

"Is she your sister-in-law?"

Before Li Guohua could respond, Liu Yan stood at the counter and saw Xu Qing, who was very familiar with her brother-in-law, coming back, and said with surprise:

"Do you know my brother-in-law?"

Xu Qing couldn't help but smile and said: "Not only do we know each other, we are also high school classmates."

Liu Yan was stunned, looking at Xu Qing, then at Li Guohua, and hurriedly walked out of the counter and said:

"Brother-in-law, why have you never mentioned you as a classmate to me?"

Li Guohua turned to face Xu Qing and said to his sister-in-law:

"When I got married to your sister, Qingzi was there at the time. I went to your house to pick up your sister with me. Did you forget?"

Liu Yan showed embarrassment on her face, raised her hand to brush her hair, lowered her head slightly, and said to hide her embarrassment:

"Brother-in-law, you are serious. How old was I when you married my sister? How can I remember it?"

Hearing this, Li Guohua said: "Okay, let me reintroduce you. This is the Xu Qing I often tell you, my good buddy."

Liu Yan looked up at Xu Qing, grinning slightly, showing her white teeth and said with a smile:

"Hello, brother Xu Qing. My name is Liu Yan. You can call me Yanzi from now on. I called you before, but you seemed to have left without hearing me."

Xu Qing pinched the foreign exchange coupons he had gathered together and said, "Sorry, when I left, there were many people on the street and the noise was so loud that I didn't hear it."

"It's okay, it's okay," Liu Yan said with a smile, turned back to the counter, took out the hearing aid she had just returned and said:

"Brother Xu Qing, when you come here this time, you have collected the foreign exchange coupons, right?"

Xu Qing lay on the counter, handed the 350 yuan foreign exchange coupon to Liu Yan and said:

"We've got it together, I want this one worth 350 yuan."

Liu Yan took the foreign exchange certificates and counted them familiarly, while Xing and Li Guohua lay on the counter, playing with their hearing aids.

Within two minutes, Liu Yan put away the foreign exchange coupons, issued a receipt, and handed it to Xu Qing.

Xu Qing put the receipt and the hearing aid into his trouser pocket, straightened up from the counter, and said to Li Guohua:

"Brother, I bought the hearing aid, what's your business?"

Li Guohua also straightened up, looked at Liu Yan and said:

"It's your sister's birthday tomorrow night, remember to come to my house early."

After Li Guohua finished speaking, he pointed at Liu Yan and said: "Don't buy cakes tomorrow. My son will eat it like crazy when he sees it. These days, your sister is giving him a sugar habit. He is not allowed to touch sweet things. As an aunt, you can't You have to help us keep a check."

"Brother-in-law, I understand."

Liu Yan pouted and responded.

Li Guohua said: "Okay, you go ahead and do your business. I don't have anything else to do, so I just came over to tell you and leave."

After saying that, Li Guohua turned around and walked out of the Friendship Store with Xu Qing. Liu Yan sighed, "Brother-in-law, don't leave yet. I have something to ask you."

Li Guohua turned his head and looked at Liu Yan, "What's the matter?"

"Brother-in-law, I."

Seeing this, Xu Qing said: "Guohua, my brother is going back first. I bought the hearing aid. I have to go home quickly and put it on for my grandparents."

Xu Qing waved to Liu Yan and walked out of the Friendship Store alone. Under the cold night, he took the hearing aid he just bought, got on his motorcycle, and headed back to his compound.

As soon as Xu Qing left, Liu Yan left the counter, stood next to Li Guohua, and whispered:

"Brother-in-law, that high school classmate of yours is so rich. He wears a leather jacket, last year's latest radar watch, and rides a motorcycle. Is he some kind of high-ranking official?

Is he married? "

Li Guohua moved his left foot slightly forward half a step, assumed a comfortable posture of taking a rest, took out his cigarette, stared at his sister-in-law and said:

"Do you want to ask him what kind of official position he is, or do you want to ask him if he is married?"

"Brother-in-law!" Liu Yan said coquettishly: "You are serious, I want to know, can't you?"

Li Guohua held the unlit cigarette in his mouth, turned his head and looked outside the Friendship Store, and saw that Xu Qing had disappeared.

He turned around and said, "Yanzi, did you fall in love with Qingzi because of her decent appearance?"

Liu Yan lowered her hands in front of her body, rubbed each other, and lightly stamped her feet: "I hate it, brother-in-law, I'm asking you, why are you asking me again."

Li Guohua laughed and said, "If you don't tell me, forget it, then I'll tell you what you want to know.

Qingzi is not an official. Two years ago, he was an official. He was the director of the fifth factory of the Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill in our city.

However, after the business was re-opened at the end of the year before last, he resigned and now runs his own business. Last year we opened our first private grain station in Sijiu City, and in the first half of this year we opened a meat factory. "

Liu Yan screamed in surprise, "Brother-in-law, he has been the head of the branch factory a few years ago, why should he resign to start a business?"

Li Guohua held the lighter and said, "You said he rides a motorcycle and is generous. If he doesn't resign, he will be the head of a branch factory and get a fixed salary every month. Where will he get the money to buy those things?"

Liu Yan looked at Li Guohua, who still rides a bicycle to and from get off work, and said:

"Brother-in-law, let's not talk about this first. You haven't told me yet, is he married?"

Li Guohua lit the cigarette, took a sip and said:

"You little girl, Qingzi is about the same age as me, what do you think?"

"So are you divorced?" Liu Yan blurted out and asked.

"Are you looking for a fight?" Li Guohua immediately raised his eyebrows, "What nonsense are you talking about? Qingzi and his wife have two children. How can they get divorced? What are you talking about?"

Liu Yan pouted, "Brother-in-law, this has been changed. Marriage is free. My classmate with whom I have a good relationship got married as soon as she graduated last year. She just went through the divorce procedures last month. It's not like before. There were more people getting married and divorced." Go, it’s nothing.”

Li Guohua choked and coughed repeatedly at his sister-in-law's words.

"Yanzi, let me tell you the truth, even if you fall in love with Qingzi, there's no chance of him getting along with you or divorcing his wife. Do you know where his wife worked before?"

"where?"

"Art Troupe."

"So what? Just be more beautiful."

Li Guohua saw that his sister-in-law didn't take it seriously, and then said: "Let me tell you this, Qingzi's wife used to be the pillar of their group, and none of the women here can compare to her. Come to my house tomorrow night, If you ask your sister, you have never seen it, but your sister has."

Liu Yan still looked unbelieving, and Li Guohua was too lazy to say anything more. He turned around and walked out of the Friendship Store. Before leaving, he said:

"Yanzi, if you want to find a husband for your mother, I won't stop you. But don't fight Qingzi's idea. Find a single young man to marry him, and go slowly with him. Don't worry about it. On married men.

If your sister finds out, watch how she deals with you! "

"Brother-in-law, when you go home later, don't tell my sister nonsense about me. I'll just ask you casually."

Li Guohua left the Friendship Store without looking back, took out the key, unlocked the bicycle, and rode away.

Liu Yan leaned against the store door and took out the note Xu Qing left when he left for the first time. She thought about it and wanted to throw it away.

After all, Xu Qing had already bought the hearing aid.

But after thinking about it, I didn't want to throw it away, so I put it in my pocket and put it away.

At this time, Xu Qing had already entered the courtyard alley on his motorcycle.

She had no idea what Liu Yan, who was working in the Friendship Store, said to Li Guohua.

Of course, he didn't want to know.

He was buying hearing aids. What Li Guohua and his sister-in-law would talk about next was their family's business.

As an outsider, Xu Qing had no time to wonder.

As soon as he entered the front yard, Xu Qing saw the third uncle standing in the yard, coming towards him with a cheerful face.

"Third uncle, what makes you happy today?"

Yan Bugui said with a smile: "Xiaoqing, what's the matter? Your third brother Fengming is now the director of the factory. Do you think it's worth making everyone in our hospital happy?"

Xu Qing suddenly realized, pushing his motorcycle to the front yard and saying:

"Third uncle, Feng Ming is only the acting factory director, not officially appointed yet."

Yan Bugui adjusted the glasses on the bridge of his nose and said:

"Xiao Qing, the acting director is also the director of the factory. Your two younger brothers really follow you as the eldest brother, and they bring glory to our hospital.

Aiguo succeeded you as the director of the fifth factory, and Fengming himself was the current director of the hardware factory where he worked.

Look, our hospital has two factory directors. We are the only ones in this field! "

After Yan Bugui finished speaking with a happy face, he was busy again:

"Oh, by the way, Xiaoqing, you were also the director of the fifth branch of the factory before. Counting all of these, our hospital has successively held the position of three.

It’s you three brothers! "

Xu Qing smiled and said: "Third uncle, my second and third brothers and I are just lucky."

"Xiao Qing, don't be modest. Who doesn't know that the most promising people in our hospital are the three of you brothers? I have discussed it with your first and second uncles. Take some time this week and let the three of us in charge go to the streets. Let’s do it, let’s tell you that all three of you brothers are factory directors, and try to get an advanced hospital banner for our hospital.”

When Xu Qing heard what Yan Bugui said, he said:

"Third uncle, then you and I, the first and second uncles, you three can take care of it. I will not participate and go back to the backyard first. I just bought hearing aids for my grandparents. I will go back and let them try it on. "

Xu Qing pushed the motorcycle through the front yard, passed the middle yard, and returned to the backyard. Before he reached the door of his house, he heard the laughter of Silly Zhu, the first uncle, the second uncle, and Xu Damao. Voice.

(End of this chapter)