Siheyuan: There are three little cats at home

Chapter 546: People in the courtyard keep changing

In the afternoon, just after 2:30, while Xu Qing was busy doing business at the grain station, Xiaodang, Sophora japonica, and Banggeng, three brothers and sisters, came.

Behind them were Qin Huairu and Qin Jingru.

However, at this time, there were more people coming in and out of the grain station than in the morning. Xu Qing responded to Xiaodang and Huaihua who were crowded in the crowd and called him. After asking what they wanted, Xu Qing asked his brother-in-law to immediately After liberation, he and his wife Sanhuzi went to load food.

Qin Jingru also ordered some stick noodles, and the net bag she held in her hand contained two enamel basins. Xu Qing noticed it from the corner of his eye and knew that Qin Jingru had bought it in compliance with Xu Damao's wishes.

After all, Xu Damao is very capable of pinching Qin Jingru.

He has a good way of dealing with women.

Although Qin Jingru always showed dissatisfaction mentally and behaviorally, she really wanted to leave Xu Damao.

But he didn't dare.

Because she left Xu Damao, she only had Qin Huairu as a relative in the city.

"Qingzi, can you draw a lottery for thirty kilograms of grain? I want to draw once."

Qin Jingru said aloud, looking at the people squeezing towards her from the left and right, giving a fierce look with her eyes, showing that she was not someone to be trifled with, and then she and Qin Huairu walked towards the big lottery vat on the edge of the counter.

Qin Huairu asked her son and daughters to buy sixty kilograms of stick noodles. She had a large family, including three children, plus her and Jia Zhang.

A family of five needs more than 200 kilograms of food per month.

Today I ordered sixty kilograms of stick noodles, and I can win two draws.

Xu Qing did not receive him. Liu Jianjun was in charge of the lottery. No one dared to take advantage of the crowd.

Qin Jingru enthusiastically put her hand in after an elderly woman finished fucking her.

Unexpectedly, he directly picked up a mung bean and said loudly:

"I won!"

Qin Jingru's shout shocked everyone, and with a cheer, they all gathered around Qin Jingru.

"Did you win the first prize? Oops, the boss is going to pay to death. The last time someone won the first prize, it didn't seem like a long time ago, and now there's another one. Oh dear, that's incredible!"

"So fast? I haven't smoked yet."

"It's his uncle's, why didn't I win?"

Various voices erupted from the crowd

But when everyone saw that Qin Jingru had just a mung bean in her hand, they all immediately lost interest.

"What are you making all this fuss about by winning a mung bean? It's just the second prize!"

Someone concluded the coffin. In an instant, the person who stretched his neck and saw nothing immediately turned around and stopped looking.

Qin Huairu looked at her cousin helplessly, "Did you hear what that person said? Mung Bean, it's not the first prize, look at how beautiful you are!"

Qin Huairu said, but her face also showed joy.

Since Xu Qing opened the grain station the year before last, most of her family's food, and even other families in the compound, bought food from Xu Qing.

On New Year's Day last year, Xu Qing started a lottery. On that day, she and her mother-in-law Jia Zhang came to buy food together with people from the courtyard. It was Banggeng who drew the lottery that day. Since then, Banggeng has been coming to draw prizes and buy food.

However, Bangge has never won the first prize or the second prize.

Today, Qin Jingru won the second prize and got ten pounds of white noodles. As her cousin, she naturally had a bright face and was happy in her heart.

Xiaodang held his mother's arm and said with a smile:

"Auntie, you are so powerful. When my eldest brother can draw twice, he will try to draw mung beans, so that my family can get twenty kilograms of white flour without spending any money."

Huaihua is younger than Xiaodang, but her thoughts are more delicate. Standing on the right side of Banggeng, she secretly turned her head in the crowd and glanced at Xu Qing, who was busy at the counter. After turning back, she whispered to Banggeng:

"Brother, if you win the mung bean twice, our family will be prosperous, and our uncle Xu Qing will lose his business, right?"

Banggeng raised his hand and scratched his hair, feeling that this made sense, but he didn't think he was so lucky that he would hit the white noodles twice, so he opened his mouth and said:

"I don't know what I'm going to win yet."

After saying this, he rolled up his sleeves and reached out to draw the prize.

However, what came out both times was rice.

Qin Jingru patted Banggan's shoulder with her hand and said:

"Banggan, you can't do this. Just look at me, auntie, and you'll hit the mung bean."

Qin Jingru's face was filled with triumph, and her eyes were filled with excitement.

Banggian looked troubled, looked at his mother, and praised Qin Jingru repeatedly.

After a while, Qin Huairu, Qin Jingru, Banggan, Xiaodang, and Sophora japonica who were holding the grain prepared to leave the grain station and go out.

Before leaving, he said hello loudly to Xu Qing, Jinghong and Xiaoya in the noisy grain station.

But as soon as they walked out of the grain station, they met Yan Jiecheng's family of three and Yu Haitang's family.

"Hey, Sister Qin, you and Qin Jingru came over to Qingzi to buy food today."

Yan Jiecheng was wearing a thick blue khaki cotton-padded jacket and a military coat that was exactly the same as Bang Gang's, holding a cigarette in his mouth and saying.

Qin Huairu stood still and hummed with a smile, "It's not New Year's Day today. It's the beginning of the month again. There's nothing to eat at home. What's the point of going back if we don't buy some food."

Yan Jiecheng nodded, puffed on his cigarette, and wanted to say more. Yu Li glared at him, and was immediately frightened to the point where he did not dare to say another word to Qin Huairu, and turned his head to look at Banggeng.

Seeing this, Qin Jingru became thoughtful: "How did Yu Li make Yan Jiecheng be so obedient?

Why can't Xu Da just obey me? "

Qin Jingru fell into deep thought.

Qin Huairu felt happy at Yu Li's obedience to Yan Jiecheng, but didn't take it to heart, and said with a smile:

"Yu Li, your family also came to Qingzi to buy food today?"

Yu Li glanced at the corner of her eye and loaded a lot of food on her bicycle. She didn't answer Qin Huairu and asked:

"Sister Qin, your family bought a lot today, three bags and hundreds of kilograms of grain, right?"

Qin Huairu didn't care that Yu Li ignored her words.

They are all residents of the same compound.

It’s not that I don’t understand who Yu Li is. She’s a bit strong, but has no ability. She has brains, but she only knows how to be petty.

I pretend to be awesome all day long, paint my eyebrows and dress fashionably, but I have been working in the No. 3 Factory for many years, and I have not been able to get out of the workshop.

That means he can handle Yan Jiecheng.

"The bag with more grain belongs to my family, and the other two bags of grain belong to Jingru and Xu Damao's family."

After Qin Huairu said to Yu Li, she smiled at Yu Haitang as a greeting, and then took Qin Jingru and the two girls, pushing the handle of the bicycle, and followed the pedestrians coming and going on the street to go elsewhere. .

Yu Li snorted, rolled her eyes, moved her head closer to Yu Haitang and said:

"Haitang, have you seen that Qin Huairu in our hospital has managed to survive even though she is a widow? Not long after the two girls started working, the situation at home changed. There is also that awesome guy who almost couldn't come back when he went to work in the countryside. If it weren't for the help of Qingzi who runs the grain station in our hospital, I would still have to stay in a rural area somewhere this year."

Yu Haitang had no prejudice against Qin Huairu. He worked in the third factory and knew Qin Huairu more or less, but he was just as thoughtful as Yu Li. He asked abruptly:

"Sister, the fool in your courtyard has been very good in our factory in the past few years. He became the director of the cafeteria. Why haven't you seen him getting close to Qin Huairu? He has always been a bachelor. Didn't you say that he was pursuing many things in the past? ?"

Yu Li crossed her arms and said, "I guess they were having fun before, but then Qin Huairu's mother-in-law of the dead man, the Jia Zhang family of our hospital, kept interfering in the middle. Think about it. , they can go together."

Yu Haitang said nothing, and Yu Li continued:

"Later on, that boy Si Zhu went to the university with our courtyard Qingzi to study, and he was promoted to work in our factory as soon as he came back. Since then, it seems that the two of them have never seen each other, but I am always in our courtyard. I can see Qin Huairu's two daughters, and they go to Shazhu's house from time to time to help Shazhu clean up the house and wash the clothes."

Yu Haitang shrank his slightly cold body and responded:

"Sister, let's not talk about them anymore. Didn't you say that if you buy thirty kilograms of grain at the grain station opened by Xu Qing, you can get a lottery? Let's go in quickly."

The sun in the sky gradually slid to the west. Yu Li took her daughter and followed Yu Haitang towards the entrance of Xu Qingliang Station and walked in. Yan Jiecheng and Yu Haitang followed behind, smoking cigarettes.

The two families came here today to buy food for their family needs, mainly for the lottery.

Everyone in Sijiucheng knows that the first prize at Xu Qingliang Station is a motorcycle.

Both Yan Bugui and his wife came in the morning.

Yan Jiecheng and Yu Li naturally would not give up this great opportunity.

Furthermore, Yu Li still wants to repair the relationship with Xu Qing's family.

The reason for the unpleasantness was that she heard her mother-in-law talking to Xu Qing about borrowing money.

Yu Li didn't know whether Xu Qing borrowed the money from her parents-in-law or whether her parents-in-law borrowed the money on their own initiative.

However, she asked Yan Jiecheng to trick her two brothers-in-law into causing a scene in the backyard, but it was her own doing.

Now, not only is she being punished, but Yan Jiecheng's three brothers are also punished.

Not only did she offend Xu Qing's family, she and her two brothers-in-law's families also had no contact with each other for the rest of their lives.

Of course, Yu Li had never cared about her two incompetent brothers-in-law, nor was she afraid of them.

But the punishment she received was related to her future promotion in the factory, and the same was true for Yan Jiecheng.

In this way, how could Yu Li try her best to get closer to Xu Qing's family.

Besides, Xu Qinghe is patriotic, and Feng Ming is now the most promising person in the compound.

Ai Guo and Feng Ming became factory directors, and Xu Qing's business grew bigger and bigger.

Grain stations and meat factories are blooming at both ends.

Yu Li saw it and was envious in her heart. Her man was hopeless and she could only hope that if something happened in the future, the three Xu Qing brothers could help him.

She watched helplessly as Silly Zhu in the compound was promoted step by step from a cook to the director of the factory canteen along with Xu Qing.

Become the person with the highest official position in the compound after Ai Guo and Feng Ming.

When Sha Zhu was promoted to the canteen director, everyone in the courtyard praised Sha Zhu a lot. However, when Yu Li heard people in the courtyard praising Sha Zhu, they all pointed at Xu Qing secretly.

If it weren't for Xu Qing, with Sha Zhu's stubborn and stubborn temperament, he was not very good at dealing with people. No matter how good his cooking skills were, how could the leaders in the factory, who were often offended by Sha Zhu, give up the position of canteen director to Sha Zhu? Column made.

The reason, Yu Li thinks, is that Sha Zhu has a good relationship with the three brothers Xu Qing.

Aiguo is the director of the fifth factory, Xu Qing casually talks to Aiguo, and Aiguo talks to the director of her third factory. Shazhu, not to mention being the canteen director, might be able to get promoted in the future.

Also, the three brothers Xu Damao and Xu Qing both live in the backyard, and their relationship is not bad.

Xu Damao's life today is also moist.

The only two brothers, Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu, who lived in the backyard, had a bad relationship with Xu Qing's family, and their lives were very difficult.

Yu Li is not blind, so how can she not see and understand.

Unfortunately, Yu Li had many calculations, but when she walked into the grain station and looked at the people squeezing around, she was dumbfounded.

She didn't expect that Xu Qing's grain station business could be so good.

Well, she could only stand sideways at the entrance of the grain station.

This person held up food stamps, and the other shouted for a lottery draw. She couldn't describe how lively it was.

"Hey, comrade, please let us go out. What do you mean by blocking the door?"

A young man wearing a sheepskin hat looked at Yu Li and his party with a look of disgust on his face. He walked past Yu Li while carrying a bag full of stick noodles and yelling.

Yu Li wanted to have a chat with him, but thinking that this was at the Xu Qing Grain Station, she suppressed the anger in her heart.

She is not stupid. The quarrel at Xu Qing Grain Station was not an obvious way to make Xu Qing and Jinghong look ugly.

This is contrary to the purpose of her coming here today.

He moved the corner of his mouth twice but said nothing. After some people who had bought food and drawn prizes walked out, he got into the crowd and squeezed towards the counter.

at the same time.

Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu, who had been idle in the courtyard all morning, strolled to Xu Qingliang Station with cigarettes in their mouths.

The two brothers didn't want to come. In the more than two years since Xu Qing opened the grain station, the two of them had come here less than three times.

Knowing that Xu Qing Grain Station was holding a lottery, the news that Li Laosi from the vegetable market won Xu Qing's motorcycle was published in the newspaper a few days ago, and they also read it.

But they didn't dare. They had never gotten along well with Xu Qing's family in these years.

The commotion caused by the three brothers was not as big as that caused by Yan Jiecheng.

That's a lot.

They had fought with Aiguo and Fengming in the alley when they were young.

When Feng Ming bought a camera, he wanted to build a darkroom for developing photos in the backyard, but Liu Guangtian stopped him.

On the opening day of the Xuqing Meat Factory, another incident almost occurred.

Not to mention the rest, just these three things alone made Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu look shameless on Xu Qingliang Station.

But I still came, because the news that my aunt won the second prize and got ten pounds of white flour came back to the courtyard and told the whole hospital.

Their lives were tight, and they didn't have any spare money. They were about to celebrate the New Year, so they encouraged each other and came to draw some stick noodles.

"Second brother, let's go in."

Liu Guangfu stood on the crowded street, stamping his slightly cold feet and said.

Liu Guangtian put his hands in his trouser pockets, holding a cigarette from the corner of his mouth, staring at Liu Guangfu and saying:

"You go in, I haven't finished smoking yet, you help me buy the food, and you can call me again later when the lottery is held."

Liu Guangfu said quietly, "Second brother, aren't you afraid?"

"Afraid?" Liu Guangtian's eyes suddenly widened, "What am I afraid of?!"

"Second brother, you know it yourself."

Liu Guangfu rubbed his hands that came out without gloves and said, looking away.

Liu Guangtian threw the cigarette from the corner of his mouth to the ground. Liu Guangfu, who had not had much courage since he was a child, glanced at him and strode into the Xu Qing Grain Station, feeling slightly frightened at the same time.

(End of this chapter)