My Courtyard Refuge

Parents’ Meeting

When Xu Dong arrived home, brother-in-law Ma Jie came back around the same time.

Yang Lina brought over a wet towel, and Xu Dong took it and wiped his face. Recently, the wind and sandstorms have become more and more frequent. Whenever he goes out, he will be covered in ashes.

“Brother-in-law, is the journey going well?”

Ma Jie nodded: “There was a traffic jam in the middle, but everything else is fine.”

traffic jam?

This is a rare thing. Since the outbreak of the big flare, the number of cars on the market has dropped by almost 70%. Unless there is a sandstorm, it is difficult to have traffic jams in urban areas.

“Where is the traffic jam?”

“At the intersection of the Liangjing Expressway and the South Sixth Ring Road, what kind of pipeline is being laid there, and there are more construction vehicles, accounting for half of the road.” Ma Jie introduced.

“It’s probably working on underground cables. This is what our company is mainly focusing on recently.” Xu Dong speculated.

The construction of underground cables in the capital area has actually started long ago, but it has been promoted in the core urban areas in the past few years, and it is rarely involved in remote areas.

But now, with the widening temperature difference between day and night, coupled with occasional extreme weather, in order to ensure the safety of transmission lines, Yanjing has begun to fully popularize underground cables.

Ma Jie suddenly realized: “I said, if you dig a pipe, you can dig a pipe. Why did you tear down the electric poles? That’s what happened!”

Skipping this topic, Xu Dong asked about the cornmeal again: “Brother-in-law, I’ve got the cornmeal for you, what are you going to do with it?”

“That’s great.” Ma Jie couldn’t help but say, “I’ll post it later, it’s better to send it back as soon as possible.”

“Send them back all at once?” Xu Dong hesitated.

“Uh, is there something wrong?”

“Brother-in-law, I still suggest that you send it back in batches. It is enough to send 50 catties a month. If you send too much, I am afraid that the post office will deliberately lose the goods.”

In his previous life, Xu Dong had heard a lot of news about this, and later, some of them would not let go of even a few catties of rice.

Ma Jie slapped his thigh.

He really didn’t think about it, his brother-in-law’s suggestion was very timely, and the food is so precious now, if he really lost it, then he wanted to die.

“Dongzi, you are right. From now on, I will only send back thirty catties a month, and fifty catties is still a bit much.”

Ma Jie also suddenly thought that in addition to his parents, there is an older brother and a younger sister in his hometown. If they send too much at one time, the parents will definitely not be able to keep it.

“Brother-in-law, just think it over.” Xu Dong said with a smile.

Yang Lina on the side seemed hesitant to speak. Of course Xu Dong knew what the other party wanted to say, but it was impossible for him to agree, so he could only act as if he didn’t see anything.

…

At two o’clock in the afternoon, “revenge” came, and Yang Lina woke up her husband who was taking a nap in the vegetable garden.

“What are you doing at noon?” Xu Dong rubbed his eyes and complained.

“Ke Ke and her class have a parent-teacher meeting in the afternoon, and you happen to be at home, so go for me!”

“Can’t you go? I haven’t attended any parent-teacher meetings, so I have no experience at all.” Xu Dong said shamelessly.

“If you don’t have experience, then you have to go. The children’s education is not my business alone. You, a father, can’t push it all to me.” Yang Lina said righteously.

Xu Dong smiled bitterly: “Isn’t it just a formality, why are you so serious?”

“Stop talking so much nonsense, are you going?”

“Can’t I go!” Xu Dong had no choice but to bite the bullet and agree.

Yang Lina did not forget to remind at the end: “Remember to change into the police uniform, your two girls have already boasted in class, you can’t tear them down.”

“Understood.” Xu Dong said weakly.

After some freshening up, when I came to the school, I first signed in, and then I was taken into an empty room by the teacher in charge.

Fortunately, there were no students listening in, so Xu Dong breathed a sigh of relief.

Li’s mother next to him was acquainted, probably because she saw Xu Dong’s eyes, and she was the only male parent at the scene, so she couldn’t help chatting with her.

“This father, I don’t seem to have seen you before. Which student’s parent are you?”

“Xu Ke and Xu Le.” Xu Dong nodded.

“Yo,It turns out that you are the father of the twins. Your two daughters are so cute, but their academic performance is a bit poor. “Mother Li said with a look of regret.

Xu Dong said embarrassingly: “The child is still young, it will be better if he is older.”

“Father Xu, your thinking is wrong. Let me tell you, elementary school is the most critical moment. If you don’t learn well in elementary school, it will be even more difficult to learn in junior high school.”

“Really? Then I will pay more attention in the future.” Xu Dong responded with a smile.

A mother next to her interjected: “Seeing that you are wearing a police uniform, which sub-bureau are you from?”

“I don’t belong to any branch office. I work in the security department of the electric power company. Now I can barely count as half a policeman!” Xu Dong quickly explained.

“Father Xu, your unit is fine. It’s much easier than being a policeman.” Mother Li exclaimed.

“It’s okay, where to work is not a job.” Xu Dong said modestly.

Li’s mother was more serious: “This is not the same. The guy in our family is from Yanjing Construction Engineering. He has been so busy these past few months that he can’t go home once a month.”

“Is he on a business trip?” Xu Dong asked curiously.

“Where is the business trip? The construction site is over there in Rong’an New District. I heard that the higher-ups are urgently urging them to build a large-scale planting base.”

“I know that.” Another mother interjected, “Not only the planting base, but the entire Rong’an New District has been planned, and it is said that it is going to build the world’s largest indoor planting base group.”

With such a reminder, Xu Dong quickly recalled the relevant content of his previous life. A few years later, the Rong’an New District seemed to have really become the largest grain production center in the north.

“Really? If it’s true, then we won’t be short of food in the future.” Mother Li said happily.

“It’s true. My husband is from the Ministry of Construction. Their unit issued the documents a few months ago, but it will take at least several years before the completion of the project, so there is no large-scale publicity.”

“How long will it take?” Li’s mother said disappointedly.

“With an area of ​​2,000 square kilometers, you think it is a child’s play house. If it is not for the foundation laid in the past few years, it may not be completed in ten years.”

Xu Dong echoed: “This kind of indoor planting base has stricter technical requirements and involves more upstream and downstream. It is indeed not a one-off process.”

“Father Xu, I didn’t expect you to know a lot. No wonder you can join the power company.” Mother Li said unexpectedly.

“Our company is in the Rong’an New District, and there are many key projects, so we know more about it.”

When Xu Dong was at work, although he always liked to touch fish, he still knew a little about some major projects of the company under the influence of his ears and eyes.