Siheyuan: There are three little cats at home

Chapter 536: Aren’t you the same? You still have the nerve to tell me

The sky in the courtyard was completely dark, there was no starlight at all, and the wind was freezing and blowing everywhere.

Silly Zhu sent Xu Qing and Ma Jiefang out of the house. Standing at the door of the house, he saw Xu Hongzhi and the three little guys looking sensible, with smiles on their faces and smoke in their mouths: "Hongzhi, quickly take your sister and Hongfu, and your father." Let's go back."

"Brother Silly Zhu, my brother-in-law and I will go to the backyard first."

Ma Jiefang stamped his feet and breathed in the cold and biting air.

At this moment, in the backyard, the two brothers Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu strolled from the backyard into the middle courtyard together without incident, and saw Xu Qing bringing his son, daughter, nephew, and Xiao Ma Jiefang at the door of the Silly Pillar House.

The words spoken by the two people suddenly stopped.

The fact that Xu Qing's motorcycle was taken away by others aroused heated discussion among everyone in the compound today.

After all, the matter was in the newspapers, and almost everyone in Sijiu City was talking about it, not to mention the neighbors who lived in the same compound as Xu Qing.

As soon as Xu Qing's motorcycle disappeared, the two brothers Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu gloated over the misfortune.

They had never ridden a motorcycle and had no money to buy one.

Xu Qing has been riding a motorcycle for a year, but it made the two of them move back to the compound at the beginning of the year, and they have been envious and jealous to this day.

I read the newspaper today and learned that Xu Qing's motorcycle was gone.

Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu, who were already jealous, were naturally filled with joy.

In recent years, these two brothers have been the worst in the compound.

Among the young peers in the compound, the three brothers Xu Qing are the best, followed closely by Sha Zhu and Xu Damao. No matter how bad the three brothers Yan Jiecheng are, Yan Jiefang and Yan Jiekuang have not yet said that they are like the two of them, so they moved back to the compound in dejection from outside. hospital.

The two brothers Liu Guangtian, who were at the bottom, were not as good at school as Aiguo and Fengming.

Nowadays, it is still not as good as after work.

As the eldest brother of Patriot and Fengming, Xu Qing has taken care of his two younger brothers for many years.

Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu watched in the courtyard every day, feeling uncomfortable.

They are not people without big brothers.

It's just that their eldest brother doesn't go back to the compound a few times throughout the year.

He even had no contact with these two brothers.

The two brothers Liu Guangtian hated their eldest brother in their hearts, and they naturally also held a grudge against Xu Qing, who lived in the same backyard and was also the eldest brother.

After all, whether Xu Qing opened a grain station or a meat factory, neither of them could do it.

In addition, Xu Qing's situation is the best among all the families in the compound.

But they are both the worst.

The gap between the best and the worst is like two worlds.

How could the two brothers Liu Guangtian not harbor resentment?

However, even if they were dissatisfied with Xu Qing, the two of them did not dare to criticize Xu Qing.

They knew that Xu Qing was not someone they could mess with easily.

Liu Guangtian has a typical prickly hair, and he even dared to say the name of his father Liu Haizhong before they got married.

There were very few things that he could not dare to do.

But in front of Xu Qing, I really didn't dare to make a mistake.

In early October, what happened to the three Yan Jiecheng brothers was a lesson to him.

None of the three Yan Jiecheng brothers could get any advantage from Xu Qing.

How dare Liu Guang shout and challenge in front of Xu Qing.

As for Liu Guangfu, his courage is not as good as that of Liu Guangtian.

Just know how to hide when something happens.

I also inherited Liu Haizhong's cowardly nature. It's not that I don't have my own opinions, but I know I can do many things by myself, but I'm always too timid to do them.

Just now, Liu Guangtian and I were whispering in the backyard that Xu Qing's motorcycle was gone, and we were very happy. I felt that Xu Qing was in bad luck this year. He deserved it for giving away a motorcycle worth several hundred yuan for nothing!

However, when he followed Liu Guangtian to the middle courtyard, he immediately fell silent.

Even though it was dark, there was still a panic look on his face.

He was afraid that Xu Qing would hear the insulting words he just said to his second brother.

Unexpectedly, Xu Qing had no intention of talking to them at all.

Xu Qing, his brother-in-law Ma Jiefang and Silly Zhu briefly chatted in the courtyard, then pushed their bicycles and led Hongzhi, Qiaoxin, and Hongfu back to their homes in the backyard.

Liu Guangfu turned his head and looked at Xu Qing's back, his heart lifted up in his throat before it fell into his stomach again.

Liu Guangtian had to calm down. When he saw Xu Qing going back to the backyard, he let out a cold snort in his nose.

But in fact, before Xu Qing turned around and walked to the backyard, he was so frightened that he didn't dare to say a word.

He was exactly the same as Liu Guangfu beside him.

Seeing Xu Qing leaving the middle courtyard, Liu Guangtian said to Liu Guangfu with disdain:

"Look at how cowardly you are!

What are you afraid of? Xu Qing’s motorcycle was gone yesterday, how can he still eat people? ! "

Liu Guangfu twitched the corner of his mouth and looked at Liu Guangtian. He said nothing, but said in his heart:

"Isn't it the same for you? You still have the nerve to accuse me."

At this time, in the middle courtyard, Silly Zhu returned to the house, rolled his eyes, stood under the light of the first man's window, and talked to Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu before closing the door.

In Jia's house, Jia Zhang, Qin Huairu, Xiaodang, Banggan and Sophora japonica were all having dinner in the house.

Yi Zhonghai and his wife heard Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu talking outside the window, but neither of them went out.

The cold weather is one thing.

On the other hand, Yi Zhonghai, the grand master of the compound, had never been impressed by the way Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu behaved.

Also, Yi Zhonghai knew that Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu were unfilial to their parents, just like the three Yan Jiecheng brothers in the front yard.

Yi Zhonghai, who was worried about having no one to take care of him in his old age, had not even completely solved the problem of his own old age care. How could he care about Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu outside the window.

The night was as dark as thick ink, and the weather was so cold that it made people shiver.

When Ma Jinghong and Wu Yuemei came back together, they met Aiguo and Fengming who were returning from buying briquettes at the entrance of the alley.

The four of them carried the briquettes back to the backyard together.

Because Xu Qing and Ma Jiefang ate chicken stew in Silly Pillar's house, they asked Jinghong, Yuemei, Aiguo and Fengming to go back to the house to eat quickly.

The two of them placed the briquettes neatly one by one at the door outside the house.

No one was rubbing the briquettes themselves at the beginning. With the development of the times, briquettes have been replaced by briquettes from coal stations year by year, and coal stations can no longer easily sell coal ash to the outside world.

Shaking briquettes by oneself has become a thing of the past.

But people in Sijiucheng still like to call briquettes briquettes.

Liu Haizhong came out of the house wearing a cotton-padded jacket and carrying dirty black cotton shoes. He saw Xu Qing wearing white thread gloves and Ma Jiefang stacking briquettes. He looked at them and opened his mouth to ask about the motorcycle.

But after thinking about it for a while, I gave up.

He lowered the thick door curtain and retreated back into the house.

The second aunt came out from the kitchen after washing the dishes, glanced at the courtyard outside the house through the newly opened curtain in her bangs, and whispered:

"Old Liu, don't you ask about Xiaoqing's motorcycle?"

Liu Haizhong put his hands behind his back, walked to the edge of the kang, and looked into the courtyard through the window. Xu Qing and Ma Jiefang were busy saying:

"What are you asking about? Xiaoqing's motorcycle is gone. Isn't it causing trouble now?"

The second aunt whispered:

"How can this be causing trouble? Our family is quite promising except for the eldest brother. Guangtian and Guangfu don't have any skills, so they just know how to make trouble. In recent years, our relationship with Xiaoqing's family has become estranged. Go and ask, isn't it? It can show that you, the second uncle of our compound, care about the neighbors."

Liu Haizhong rolled his eyes, sat on the edge of the kang and hummed:

"I'm the head of the family. I can't think of what you're saying. Okay, ask whenever you want. I know what's going on. Don't make the decision for me!"

The second aunt said nothing, turned around, picked up the kettle sitting on the stove, poured the newly heated water into the wash basin where the dirty clothes were thrown into before eating, and started washing them.

Fifteen minutes later, there was no movement in the backyard. After Xu Qing and Ma Jiefang put away the briquettes, they turned back to the house, took off their white-lined gloves stained black by cinders, threw them in front of the stove, and walked to the washbasin to wash them.

Aiguo learned from Ai Qian and Xiujuan that his eldest brother, his son, nephew, niece, and Ma Jiefang all had dinner at the Silly Pillar House. At this moment, he was having dinner with his sister-in-law Jinghong, his second brother Fengming, Xiujuan, and himself. The daughter-in-law, Wu Yuemei and Aunt Feng were eating.

Xu Hongzhi was lying on the kang writing his unfinished homework.

Xu Hongfu and Xu Qiaoxin, two little guys, hugged the civet cat Xiao Hui, tucked their feet under the quilt, and played among themselves.

In the quilt next to Xiujuan, the little one, who was only a few months old, was sleeping soundly.

After Xu Qing washed his hands, he dried them with a dry towel. He handed the towel to Jiefang, turned around and asked Jinghong:

"Daughter-in-law, is the business at our grain station good today?"

Ma Jinghong looked a little haggard after a tiring day, but she felt happy in her heart. She stopped picking up the food with her chopsticks and said:

"Brother Qing, our motorcycle was in the newspaper today. There were no people at the grain station from the morning until Yue Mei and I came back. If Yue Mei hadn't come over to help after get off work in the afternoon, there would have been so many people at the grain station just before night. Xiaoya, Sister Wang, Lihua and the others almost couldn't greet them."

Seeing his wife's tired face, Xu Qing felt very distressed, but he still asked a question he really wanted to know.

"Daughter-in-law, how much grain did our grain station sell today?"

There were no outsiders in the room, so Xu Qing didn't think there was anything he couldn't ask.

"Xiaoya has always been responsible for the accounting," Ma Jinghong said thoughtfully: "Today, nearly 13,000 kilograms of stick noodles and white noodles were sold, and more than 2,000 kilograms of mung beans, rice, and red beans were sold."

After saying that, he added: "People here today are all here for the lottery. Many people buy tens of kilograms. I'll make an appointment to touch it. I'm afraid there will be more people tomorrow and the weekend."

Xu Qing nodded and agreed with his wife.

At the same time, he secretly calculated in his mind.

Thirteen thousand jins of staple grains and more than 2,000 jins of miscellaneous grains were sold.

Counting today, I can easily earn back 15,000 yuan from selling grain and a motorcycle.

He divided his ability into two and divided the stick noodles and white noodles in the warehouse in the suburbs.

At least half of the thirteen thousand catties has no cost, so selling it will make a net profit.

The remaining 6,500 kilograms, and more than 2,000 kilograms of miscellaneous grains, were sold on behalf of the country, without cost.

Although the profit per kilogram is not high, just a few cents, but for a quantity of more than 8,500 kilograms, you can still make a lot of money.

Xu Qingzheng was roughly calculating in his mind. When Ma Jiefang heard his fifth sister's words, he was stunned and said. He forgot to put the towel in his hand on the washbasin shelf and said in disbelief:

"Fifth sister, your grain station sold more than 15,000 kilograms of grain today. Isn't that too exaggerated?"

Ma Jinghong looked at Ma Jiefang angrily and said:

"People from the east, west, south, and north of the city are coming to buy. How many thousands of people do we have in Sijiu City? Do we sell more than 15,000 kilograms a day?

Go to the state-owned stores and ask the supply and marketing cooperatives to find out if the grain there is not sold tens of thousands of kilograms on any day. "

Ma Jiefang grinned, knowing that he had asked the wrong question.

The incident about Xu Qing's motorcycle was published in the newspapers today, and many people in the city came to the Dongdan vegetable market to buy food at the grain station run by their fifth sister and fifth brother-in-law.

More than 15,000 kilograms of grain is simply a drop in the bucket in front of today's urban population of one million.

Ma Jiefang lowered his head and did not look at his fifth sister. He stretched out his hand to take out the cigarettes on his body, handed one to Xu Qing, and then gave one to Xu Fengming. Then he raised his head and said:

"Fifth sister, tomorrow is the weekend, won't you, Xiaoya and the others have to be busy all day long?"

As soon as Ma Jiefang finished speaking, Liu Aiqian and Tang Xiujuan said in unison to Jinghong:

"Sister-in-law, I will go to the grain station with you early tomorrow morning to help."

Seeing this, Wu Yuemei bit into the white-faced steamed bun in her hand and couldn't help but hesitate.

Since she started working, she was assigned to the No. 3 Hongxing Steel Rolling Plant, but she has not done much physical work.

I got off work this afternoon and helped out at the grain station for several hours. Now I'm so tired that I don't even have the strength to hold chopsticks.

I didn't know for a moment whether I should open my mouth and say that I would continue to help at the grain station tomorrow, or I should remain silent and refuse in silence.

However, Ma Jinghong, a delicate person, saw the hesitation on Wu Yuemei's face subconsciously and said:

"Aiqian, Xiujuan, you two just go about your business tomorrow. In addition to me and Xiaoya, there are also Sister Wang, Meijuan, Lihua, Shuzhen, Xiuying, and Hongjuan at the grain station. There are quite a few people there."

Then he turned to face Wu Yuemei, with a smile on his face and said:

"Yuemei, don't come tomorrow. You, Aiqian and Xiujuan have all been working for a week. It's rare that you can have a day off on the weekend. You helped a lot this afternoon. Your second son is still young, so he will be here tomorrow. Rest at home and take good care of your children.”

Wu Yuemei hurriedly responded: "Fifth sister, I will ask Jiefang to help you tomorrow. If he doesn't help me take care of the children at home on weekends, he just goes out and fools around. He hasn't listened to what my parents have said in the past two years. I can't control him." , it just so happens that you can help me clean him up at the grain station tomorrow."

Ma Jiefang suddenly raised his head, opened his eyes wide, and looked at his wife, and then at his fifth sister, with a sad look on his face.

Xu Qing smoked a cigarette and said to his brother-in-law:

"Liberation, I won't go to the meat factory and warehouse in the suburbs tomorrow, let Er Mazi keep an eye on me, I will stay at the grain station for a day."

When Ma Jiefang heard what Xu Qing said, he relaxed his frown, puffed on his cigarette, and said thoughtfully:

"Brother Qingzi, if you are at the grain station tomorrow, then I will go too."

When Xu Aiguo saw that his eldest brother and Brother Jiefang were going to the grain station tomorrow, he put down his chopsticks, scratched his head and sighed:

"Brother, I also want to go to the grain station tomorrow to help you and my sister-in-law. The main factory issued a notice on Wednesday this week, saying that tomorrow morning I and the directors of several other branch factories will go to other places to study and exchange. I will There’s not even time to rest.”

Seeing his second brother say this, Xu Fengming on the side swallowed the steamed bun in his mouth and said:

"Second brother, you are busy with your business. I will go to my old factory manager's place tomorrow morning to check on you. Everything will be fine. I will go to the grain station to help our elder brother, sister-in-law, and Xiaoya."

Xu Qing looked at his two younger brothers with a smile, and was about to say, "You all go about your own business, don't worry about the grain station."

Suddenly, the closed door was pushed open.

(End of this chapter)