Siheyuan: There are three little cats at home

Chapter 543 Settlement of Accounts

"Xu Damao, what do you mean?"

Qin Jingru's eyes pierced Xu Damao fiercely, with an angry look on her face.

She didn't expect that Xu Damao could push her because of a little foreign exchange coupon.

At any rate, she and Xu Damao had a history of getting married, and she immediately said angrily:

"Xu Damao, please tell me clearly today. Did you not like me from the beginning?"

Xu Damao straightened his body, stretched out the collar of his stand-up sweater with both hands, raised his head, and said proudly:

"Qin Jingru, what you said is really right. I am not afraid of jokes in front of Qingzi. To tell you the truth, I have never liked you at all. I am from the city, and you are a rural girl. Nothing worthy of my care!"

After Xu Damao finished speaking with a look on his face, he reached out and took out a cigarette, handed one to Xu Qing, put it in the corner of his mouth, looked at Qin Jingru with disgust and said:

"Qin Jingru, you have been with me all these years, apart from washing clothes and cooking, what else have you done for me?

Even the job you are working for now was all done by me, but you don’t thank me and you still embarrass me at home every day.

It's New Year's Day and I'm too lazy to argue with you. The foreign exchange coupons that Qingzi returned are useful to me. Don't touch them. There were thirty industrial coupons in the pocket of the pants I wore yesterday. You can go out and buy two for your home later. If you dare to spend one on the footbath and the others, see how I deal with you tomorrow! "

Xu Damao is a person who likes to flirt around. Getting him to be faithful in marriage is even harder than getting a mute to speak.

"Xu Damao, you are a bastard!"

Qin Jingru cursed angrily, her face gloomy, and she felt angry and annoyed. She walked back to the edge of the kang, grabbed the lady's leather bag that she and her younger brother bought on the street a few days ago, and rushed out the door angrily.

Xu Qing was left speechless. When he saw Qin Jingru leaving, he raised his eyebrows and said to Xu Damao:

"Brother Damao, why don't you go out and take a look?"

Xu Qing sat on a chair aside and said:

"Qingzi, that stinky bitch Qin Jingru will go to the house and lift the roof after three days without fighting. Don't worry about it. She wants to imitate Yan Jiecheng's wife and fight with me. She's so tender!"

Seeing this, Xu Qing took a puff of cigarette, thought for a moment, did not persuade Xu Damao anymore, reached out from his pocket and took out fifty yuan of foreign exchange coupons and six hundred and fifty yuan, put them together in Xu Damao's hand and said:

"Brother Damao, there are seven hundred in total, please order."

Xu Damao's eyes shone brightly. He quickly put the cigarette in his hand in his mouth. He raised his hand to grab the money and foreign exchange certificates. After counting them, he put them in his trouser pocket and said with a smile on his face:

"Qingzi, that's interesting. It's only New Year's Day and you can pay me back. Brother, I know I don't have to worry about lending you money."

Xu Qing responded with a smile:

"Brother Damao, I promised you before that you don't want the interest. I'll send a few kilograms of pork to your house. I'm afraid it won't work today. I won't go to the countryside. I have some foreign exchange coupons in my hand. It won't be of any use to keep them for the near future, so I'll just throw them away." for you."

Xu Damao smiled brightly and raised his hand to put on Xu Qing's shoulder, "Hey, Qingzi, what does that mean? Pork is not as popular as foreign exchange coupons. Feng Ming helped you borrow the sixty-nine yuan of foreign exchange coupons from me some time ago. Everything has been paid back. When you said you were paying back the foreign exchange coupons, I knew you were here to pay back the money to my brother and me."

When Xu Qing heard this, he smiled, took two puffs of cigarette, stood up and prepared to go to the middle courtyard to pay back the money to Sha Zhu.

Xu Damao raised his hand to stop him and said:

"Qingzi, don't leave in a hurry. Brother, I have something else I want to ask you to help me with."

"What's the matter?" Xu Qing asked.

Xu Damao glanced out of the window, then looked at the door of the house. Seeing Qin Jingru closing the door when she went out, he lowered his voice and whispered:

"Qingzi, can you help my brother get some more foreign exchange coupons? It's almost the end of the year, and the price of foreign exchange coupons is ridiculously high. One piece of foreign exchange coupons can be exchanged for 40 cents more in private. This is comparable to doing You can make money from any business."

Xu Damao said, crossed his legs, frowned and said:

"It's just this period of time. I'm afraid it won't be this high after the New Year. But now, if we take advantage of the opportunity, if we two brothers form a partnership, we will definitely make a lot of money. By then, it will be 50-50."

When Xu Qing heard what Xu Damao was talking about, he shook his head and said:

"Brother Damao, I don't have the time to spend money on foreign exchange coupons, and I don't have the energy to make money anymore.

The two stalls of the grain station and the meat factory have kept me busy, so how could I have time to do this? "

Xu Damao's eyes rolled in his sockets. After thinking for a while, he had to give up.

"That's it, Qingzi, just keep busy with your business, and I'll find someone else."

Xu Qing hummed, walked out of Xu Damao's house, and walked straight towards the middle courtyard.

At this time, people in every house in the courtyard had already had breakfast, were walking in the courtyard, or going shopping.

When Xu Qing walked into the courtyard, Yi Zhonghai was standing outside the door of his house, taking advantage of the bright sky, holding a mirror in his left hand and a razor blade in his right hand, shaving carefully.

As neighbors who live in the same compound, Xu Qing said hello to Yi Zhonghai.

Yi Zhonghai did not dare to respond directly, nor did he dare to lower his head. He stopped the blade in his hand and said:

"Xiao Qing, didn't you go to the meat factory this morning?"

"No, sir, it's New Year's Day. I've given the meat factory and the grain station warehouse a holiday, so I'll take the opportunity to have a day off."

Yi Zhonghai nodded and continued to use the razor blade to shave off the remaining stubble.

In Jia's house, Xiaodang and Huaihua were each dressed in clean clothes and dressed very delicately. They urged Banggeng to come out quickly. When they saw Xu Qing coming to the middle courtyard, they smiled and said:

"Uncle Xu Qing, Happy New Year!"

Xu Qing is actually not much older than them. He is thirteen or fourteen years older than Huaihua, but he is the same generation as Qin Huairu.

Therefore, when Xiaodang, Sophora japonica and Banggian grew up, they all liked to call him Uncle when they saw him.

Xu Qing responded with a smile on his face, muttering secretly in his heart, "It's really not good to be older,"

The sun shines in the courtyard, not too warm, but very dazzling.

The air was as dry and cold as ever.

Xu Qing went into Shazhu's house. Shazhu opened the door. He was wearing a new suit and was well-dressed. He was shaving with the razor he bought for Rainwater.

"Qingzi, look at your chin, is it clean?"

Xu Qing lowered his head slightly and said, "Pure."

Silly Zhu touched it with his hand, grinned, closed the door, put the razor into the steaming enamel washbasin, turned around and walked into the kitchen, made tea for Xu Qing, brought it out and said:

"Qingzi, today is New Year's Day, and your business at the grain station will probably be busy all day. When I saw Jinghong leaving the compound, your son was dragged away to arrest the young men."

Xu Qing couldn't help but smile when he heard the word 'strong man' coming out of Sha Zhu's mouth.

"Qingzi, you drink tea first and warm yourself up while I wash the razor and put it away."

"Brother Silly Zhu, you are busy with your business, I will talk about mine, and it will not be in the way."

Silly Zhu grinned and said happily: "Qingzi, what do you want from me, brother?"

"I took Er Mazi to collect the payment in the past two days. I will pay you back the five hundred you borrowed from me. It's almost the Chinese New Year, so I'll clear the accounts on hand so that everyone can have a good New Year and I can have a stable New Year. "

Xu Qinggang finished speaking, bent down to clean the razor in the washbasin, straightened up suddenly and said:

"Qingzi, why are you so anxious? You can use the little money I have for you. Brother, I won't have a wife these days, and I won't use it during the Chinese New Year. Just keep it with you and save it for me."

Xu Qing smiled and said: "Brother Silly Zhu, are you not afraid of leaving it here for me to take and use again?"

Silly Zhu took out the razor from the washbasin, opened the door, and stood outside the door shaking the water channel above:

"Qingzi, you can use it as long as you want. Brother, I'm sorry to say that I'm still a bachelor. I can't even spend half of my monthly salary except on cigarettes.

Yu Yu and my brother-in-law always bring things back to me during the holidays. Recently, I have accumulated a lot of money. Didn’t you just set up the meat joint factory? If you want me, brother, I can give you some more support. "

Xu Qing laughed and said: "Brother Silly Zhu, forget it. Over the past six months, the operation of our meat factory has been slowly getting back on track. There is nothing too expensive. You can use your money alone." Save it well.”

After that, Xu Qing took out five hundred from his body and placed it on the kang beside him.

Silly Zhu tilted his head and took a look, grinning and saying:

"Okay, Qingzi, since you are neither in a hurry to use money at the meat factory nor at the grain station, I will keep it, brother." Xu Qing nodded, took out the Peony cigarette from his trouser pocket, and handed it to Shazhu who came to him. One stick.

After sitting for a while, he returned to his home in the backyard, told Aunt Feng that he was going out, picked up his daughter Qiaoxin, kissed her pink little face twice, then put on a scarf, pushed the bicycle, and headed out of the courtyard. go out.

Everyone in the compound took the initiative to borrow money, and he completely repaid it today.

The first person to return the favor was Yi Zhonghai, the first uncle, followed by Yan Bugui, the third uncle in the front yard.

Just now we cleared out Xu Damao and Silly Zhu.

The second uncle Liu Haizhong, together with the two brothers Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu, and the Jia family did not borrow it, so Xu Qing did not have to pay it back.

When he walked into the middle courtyard again, Banggan, Xiaodang, Huaihua, and the three siblings had already run into the street.

Qin Huairu was standing at the door of the house, comforting Qin Jingru who was constantly complaining, and blaming Qin Jingru for not listening to her and having to be with Xu Damao secretly.

Now I finally see who Xu Damao is.

Xu Qing passed by Qin Huairu and the two sisters without stopping. He just said hello to Qin Huairu and walked to the front yard.

In the front yard, Yan Bugui and his wife went out early in the morning.

Yan Jiecheng and Yu Li are not here either.

The front yard was quiet. As soon as Xu Qing pushed his bicycle out of the yard, he met his brother-in-law Ma Jiefang.

"Brother Qingzi, what are you doing?"

"I'm looking for you to pay back the money to you and our dad."

Xu Qing saw his brother-in-law coming, stopped and held on to the bicycle.

"Jiefang, why are you here? Has the promotion to deputy director been finalized?"

"It should be settled. We just need the main factory to issue a formal announcement. Before the Spring Festival, if nothing unexpected happens, I can go up."

Xu Qing smiled and turned the car around, heading back to the courtyard of the Jiefang Dynasty.

"Jiefang, why are you here?" Xu Qing asked again.

"Hey, don't my dad and mom know that your motorcycle is gone? The day before yesterday, you went to the third factory to meet my dad. Today, on New Year's Day, they asked me to pick up some canned beef that my second sister just sent yesterday afternoon. Let me bring it to you and my fifth sister early in the morning so that you can have a taste."

Xu Qing lowered his head and glanced at the net bag hanging on the handlebar of Ma Jiefang's bicycle. He saw that there were five or six cans in it and frowned:

"Liberation, how much did the second sister and her family send? Why did you bring so much?"

Ma Jiefang chuckled and said:

"Brother Qingzi, isn't the second sister following our second brother-in-law in Shanghai? She mailed a box directly."

Xu Qing said oh, took Jiefang back to his backyard, asked Aunt Feng to pour tea, then took out the money he was going to pay back to his father-in-law, and gave it to his brother-in-law Ma Jiefang and said:

"Liberation, this is for you and our dad. When you go back, remember to tell our dad."

Ma Jiefang hugged his niece, who ran to him and acted coquettishly, and said in his arms:

"Brother Qingzi, what are you doing? Last time you went home, you paid back half of it, and there isn't much left. You and my fifth sister need to use it first. My mother gave me a death order today and asked me to give you the canned food." After it was delivered, he asked me to help him at the grain delivery station, saying that if I dared to go back until dark today, I would be beaten to death."

Xu Qing smiled when he heard this and asked Ma Jiefang to put the money aside and put it away.

Ma Jiefang hugged Xu Qiaoxin, who was nestling in his arms, with his right hand. He grabbed the money with his left hand and stuffed it into his trouser pocket without counting it.

He couldn't count the money given by his brother-in-law, so he said:

"Brother Qingzi, where are Aiguo and Fengming?"

"Both of them accompanied their wives to their father-in-law's place."

Ma Jiefang hugged Xu Qiaoxin, raised his hand and took out two fruit candies from his body, peeled off the candy wrapper and fed it into the little guy's mouth. At the same time, he used his feet to tease the civet cat Xiao Hui who was hiding under the edge of the kang and said:

"No wonder I didn't see them."

Aunt Feng walked out of the kitchen with a teapot that had just been filled with tea, placed it next to Xu Qing and Ma Jiefang, took Xu Qiaoxin from Ma Jiefang's arms, and carried her to Aiguo's side to clean up the house.

Xu Qing took a sip of hot tea and said, "Jiefang, where are your wife and children at home?"

"No, Yuemei also took the two boys from my family to live with her parents.

I wanted to come to your place, so I didn’t follow you. "

Xu Qingle said: "Your wife didn't complain?"

Ma Jiefang shook his head and said, "Why are you complaining? My second sister sent four cans of beef back to see her parents. My wife was so happy that she didn't pay any attention to me."

Xu Qing smiled and took out his cigarettes and gave Jiefang one. After a while, they pushed the bicycles out of the compound and headed to Dongdan.

Today, New Year's Day, the streets are very lively.

There are many people, many cars, and many vendors setting up stalls.

It was almost 11 o'clock in the morning, and the weather was getting warmer. The place where people were buying candied haws was crowded with children, all of whom had their eyes wide open and licked the corners of their mouths eager to eat.

Next to the clay figurine, children were squatting in a circle.

Xu Qing and Ma Jiefang rode their bicycles and stood at the entrance of the alley for a long time. Seeing that there were so many people that they couldn't even move around, they got off the bike and pushed the bicycles for a long time before riding them again and blending in with the crowd. , pedaling towards the grain station.

Xu Qing knew that his grain station would be very busy today.

Since the news of the motorcycle being stolen was published in the newspaper, his business at the grain station in Dongdan has been getting better and better day by day.

Many other individual grain station owners in the city followed suit and started activities for their own grain stations.

But without Xu Qing's generosity, he only dared to use a bicycle as the first prize, although it had little effect.

But all in all, it's still far from enough.

Xu Qing’s first prize for his own grain station is a motorcycle.

Although bicycles are not cheap these days, they are considered to be large items.

But compared to motorcycles, the price is still far behind.

Neither bike is half as expensive as a motorcycle.

In addition, the news that Xu Qing sent motorcycles continued to spread in the city after it was published in the newspapers.

Everyone in the city already knew about it.

It is self-evident that if you spend money to buy food, you can also win a lottery. Bicycles are more attractive than motorcycles.

When Xu Qinghe and Ma Jiefang came to the door of his grain station, he was surprised and ecstatic when he saw that Wuyang Wuyang people surrounded the grain station and even blocked the street.

(End of this chapter)