dognovel Chapter 1113 Why is the girl so fond of him?
Chapter 1113 Why is the girl so fond of him?
Chapter 1113 Why is the girl so fond of him?
"Every family does this now, otherwise you will be sweating all over after working so hard in the morning."
Qin Huairu had just washed her face and poured water into the sink. When she saw Li Xuewu coming from the backyard holding Li Shu, she greeted them.
Li Shu found it curious to see that every household in the yard set up a small stove to cook.
Even Li Xuewu couldn't help but take a few more glances, and then he came up with Qin Huairu's explanation.
"I still have to say that Guodong has a good heart!"
Qin Huairu explained: "Who would be willing to use this iron bucket as a coal stove? He asked for a paint bucket from the construction site and cut it to fit perfectly."
As she introduced it, Li Xuewu knew what it was at a glance.
In later generations, small vendors used iron buckets to set up their stoves. They would put cement inside and then dig a hole on one side to make a flue, which was very convenient.
A piece of coal briquettes or a piece of honeycomb coal is enough to prepare breakfast for the whole family.
"Wow, this yard has all kinds of flavors, sweet, sour, bitter, spicy, and salty—"
Li Xuewu smiled and nodded, saying, "I don't think I need to eat. I'll be full after just one turn."
"That would be like starving to death."
Jia Zhang smiled as she scooped up a large spoonful of stir-fried pickles and called out to Li Xuewu, "You two just got up, didn't you? I saw Doctor Gu carrying the child over early in the morning."
"It's a rare weekend with nothing to do, so I slept in."
Li Xuewu looked at the girl in his arms and said with a smile, "She refused to sleep last night and insisted on staying with me in the back room. She didn't get up in the morning."
Li Shu also knew that her father was talking about her, so she felt embarrassed at the moment.
"Hey, look, you're still embarrassed."
Qin Huairu teased her and smiled, saying to Li Shu, "Eat here with your aunt in the morning. She will boil eggs for you."
"No, I want to eat with my brother."
Li Shu hugged her father's neck and avoided Qin Huairu's hand, but her eyes were still looking around the yard curiously in the morning.
It's time, once April is over, the weather will get hot.
You can do whatever you want with the lunch, after all, it's very sunny at noon and it's hot in the yard.
How can I not feel full just by eating the leftovers from the morning?
Another thing is that most of the people who eat at home at noon are the elderly or children.
If there is no production, the distribution of daily necessities will not be sufficient.
But you can’t mess around with the two meals in the morning and evening. Both those who go to work and those who get off work should eat at home.
It’s easier for cadres like Qin Huairu who are engaged in service. In the past, no matter how difficult her family was, they had to ensure that she had enough to eat.
The same goes for other working-class families. If the money they earn cannot be eaten, can they ever earn it back?
If you can’t earn enough money to support your family, your whole family will starve to death.
So, it is very common that as long as the family is not in special difficulty, the meals for both morning and evening are very good.
Don't even think about frying three and flipping two, that's unrealistic, but at least the calories are there.
Coming from the backyard, Li Xuewu saw that every family had set up a stove in the yard. From what he saw passing by, he could tell that the quality of the food this year was higher than last year.
If you say that the large-scale learning activities have had a certain impact on people's lives, this is inevitable, but that is only generally speaking.
This group of people includes hundreds of millions of people who do not live in Beijing and have workers at home.
Although everyone’s wages have not increased, the market supply level has improved, and the tickets that were previously in their hands are now empty.
It's like a situation where you are given a certain ticket, but it's extremely difficult for you to buy it.
After entering May, the first batch of greenhouse vegetables began to be supplied, which greatly alleviated the tension in people's food supply during the lean period.
Another thing is that the industrial economy is developing and advancing in a positive direction. Although the completion rate of industrial indicators in the first quarter was not as high as last year, it was also exceeded.
Qin Huairu now invites Li Shu to her home for breakfast and boiled eggs, something she would never have dared to say before.
Not only did her family not have the conditions before, she couldn't even afford eggs.
In 1965, the year Li Xuewu returned, it was very difficult to buy eggs for Li Shu to supplement her nutrition.
It’s not that there is no product on the market, but by the time you go there, the stalls have already sold out.
Unless you have special circumstances, you can only buy it with a ticket or special documents.
In just two years, the market situation has changed dramatically.
If you go to the market to find eggs now, you can’t say that you can find them everywhere, but as long as you get up early and queue up, you can definitely buy them.
Eggs are just a microcosm of the richness and prosperity of the life market. Other foods including meat and vegetables are also constantly increasing their supply levels.
If wages and prices remain unchanged, the supply will increase and the virtual value of the goods will decrease.
To put it bluntly, eggs are meant to be eaten.
It is needed because of its nutritional value.
But when supplies are in short supply, this nutritional value is infinitely magnified, and eggs become hard to come by.
When prices return to their original levels, look back at the egg and realize that it is still alive even if you don't eat it.
This impact trend and fluctuations in market value can clearly reflect the current economic development status.
If you say that Li Xuewu just got up late in the morning and was just wandering around with nothing to do on the way out from home, thinking about random things in his mind, then you would notice that each family had their own set of breakfast arrangements.
Knowledge comes from knowing the worldly affairs. Li Xuewu is not a local official, and his concern for his neighbors' rice and vegetable baskets does not mean he is concerned about people's livelihood and economy.
Within the planned economic system, the industrial economy is an important link.
This courtyard is like a small society, with all kinds of people here.
Cadres, workers, and temporary workers.
The elderly, children, and young boys.
These cadres and workers were divided into workers from the Red Star Factory and workers from other factories.
Li Xuewu wanted to see the living standards of the workers at the Red Star Factory and then compare them with those of other factories and other workers.
There is a special department in the Red Star Factory that will investigate this, and there are also local statistical departments that compile reports.
But what you hear is false, and what you see is true.
Looking at this kind of data while sitting behind a desk and looking at it while walking among the masses and employees are two completely different things.
"Hey, Sister Seven, what a good breakfast!"
Li Xuewu carried his daughter through the third gate and saw the seventh son's wife making breakfast outside the gate.
Corn porridge, stir-fried Chinese cabbage, and a bowl of fermented tofu.
These are certainly not the main dishes, and they are not worthy of Li Xuewu’s praise for being delicious.
Looking into the pot again, I saw yellowish white flour buns and three salted duck eggs on the steaming curtain.
White flour steamed buns are of course white in color. The yellow tint is not because Li Xuewu is dazzled, but because it is mixed with corn flour.
Drink liquid food and eat dry food, one cold and one hot, and have salted duck eggs.
"You're laughing at me, aren't you—"
The seventh child was sitting in the corridor of the third courtyard. There was a small dining table in front of him and a circle of children were gathered around the table.
He smiled and greeted Li Xuewu, "Does this food appeal to your taste?"
"Seventh Uncle, Seventh Lady——"
Li Shu has a very sweet mouth, especially after playing with the old lady in the yard for a long time.
When people from Northeast China take their children out, their last words of advice are: "Call people when you see them, don't act like a mute."
I'm not making this up, but it's true that if a child doesn't call out to you when you take him/her out, it's embarrassing for the adults.
When it comes to how well they are doing, Li Xuewu in this courtyard is not as good as his daughter.
When the seventh brother and his wife heard the shout, they immediately smiled and felt very proud.
The seventh brother's wife reached out and grabbed a piece of the steamed bun that had just been taken out of the pot and stuffed it at Li Shu.
Li Shu was sensible and just refused, but she felt embarrassed for the seventh brother's wife.
"Qiniang gave it to me. Take it and eat it."
"Thank you, Qi Niang..."
When Li Xuewu saw his daughter looking at him with a steamed bun in her hand, he smiled and nodded, and taught her to say thank you.
Li Shu imitated her father's words, looked at the seventh daughter-in-law and said, "Thank you, Qi Niang!"
"Hey - what are you thanking me for!" The seventh daughter-in-law said with a smile: "Try Qi Niang's cooking. If you like it, Qi Niang will give it to you."
"You bastard, why didn't you call for help?"
Seeing Li Xuewu teaching the children, hearing Li Shu calling for help, and then looking at his own children who were all busy scrambling for food, the seventh brother felt ashamed.
He slapped his eldest son on the back of the head and scolded him in dissatisfaction.
The eldest brother was already accustomed to his father's sudden attacks. He didn't care when he was hit. He raised his head with a smile, and called Li Xuewu "uncle".
Li Xuewu agreed and nodded at Lao Qi, saying, "I heard from people that Yang Lao Qi from Workshop 8 is amazing. His skills are top-notch this year."
"That's - don't you see what kind of skills we have!"
The sudden increase in the food standard at Yang Laoqi's home was absolutely related to the promotion of his salary grade.
In fact, this matter had already passed a long time ago, and he had been bragging about it in the hospital for the past two months.
But now that Li Xuewu brought it up again, he felt very proud.
"In the workshop, I will say no problem. If this thing comes to my hands, I will definitely be able to do it. If I can't do it, no one else can do it."
"Look at what you can do--!"
The seventh brother's wife is very respectful and reverent to her husband. You see she is being modest now, which is actually the opposite of what she meant.
Nowadays no one understands what Versailles means, but the cooperation between the seventh brother and his wife is definitely a classic Versailles combination.
Li Xuewu naturally knew what kind of person he was. As he carried Li Shu out, he said to him, "Okay, you've been promoted to level four this year, so you're considered a backbone. I'll find you if there's a mission later."
"No problem, no problem—"
When Lao Qi heard what Li Xuewu said, he stood up excitedly and waved his hand, saying, "I'm always ready!"
"Silly woman, why are you so stingy!"
After watching Li Xuewu pass through the hanging flower gate, the seventh brother sat down again and scolded his wife in a low voice, "Didn't I wink at you?"
"What's wrong with winking?" The seventh wife said unhappily, "Just give me a steamed bun!"
"I really want your steamed buns!"
The seventh brother glared at his wife, picked up the salted duck eggs from the basket and cracked them, muttering to himself, "These are just two things, and you're still eyelid-raising!"
"If you don't want it, don't eat it—"
The seventh son's wife was a tough one. She said, "This is what my mother brought for the children. Are you asking me to take it as a favor?"
"Besides, he was just saying a few words to you, but you really took it too seriously!"
"What do you mean by slinking away from me? What do you mean by being on top?"
The seventh brother said dissatisfiedly: "People are just teasing me. Who am I to deserve their roundabout praise?"
"Since they all said they learned it by hearing it, it means my skills are really good!"
"Stop talking nonsense."
The seventh daughter-in-law curled her lips and said, "I don't know you, but you don't know yourself?"
She glanced at the backyard and said, "If it weren't for the fact that a great man was assessing your group, would you have been able to take advantage of this? And you would have passed it easily!"
"Just talk about it in your own courtyard. Don't believe what others say."
"Hey - you silly old woman, what are you talking about!"
The seventh brother was hit in the soft spot by his wife, and he angrily scolded: "I passed the exam with my uncle, how come you think I was being taken care of!"
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The bustling life at Old Seven's house in the front yard did not attract the attention of the neighbors.
Because this morning, starting from the bright light of five o'clock, there was no lack of noise and bustle.
Even if the sound of parents shouting to wake up their children is not loud, the sound of the spatula and the iron pot quarreling is loud enough.
A large group of people also eat breakfast in the back house every morning, but cooking is still done in the kitchen.
Sha Zhu is the chef, and he has to cook wherever he says.
The people in the courtyard asked Shen Guodong for help and bought some old iron barrels to make stoves. Shen Guodong also asked Sha Zhu if he wanted the recycling station to make a few as well.
What Shazhu means is that cooking on the stove in the kitchen is the minimum respect for the food.
Lighting up a whole stove in the yard, isn't that like begging for food?
In the past, beggars squatted on the streets and went door to door begging for food. The leftover rice, vegetables, and soup they collected were all cold and could not be poured directly into the body.
Three bricks, half a casserole, and just collect whatever is convenient in every corner.
Add firewood and heat up the food together. Eat something hot to keep yourself warm.
This beggar is just cooking and eating outside.
Look, when Sha Zhu works for other people, such as at weddings or funerals, they need to set up a stove outside, which has to be made of bricks, not with a bucket.
Xiaoyan'er and the others all said that Shazhu was a poor and fussy person who was stubborn but still willing to stick to his guns.
Early in the morning, a fire was lit in the kitchen to cook breakfast for more than ten or twenty people. The big pot of steamed buns alone was hot enough.
Sha Zhu is a serious person. He will endure any heat, saying that this is what being a chef is all about.
He also talked about the factory cafeteria. Even though it was so hot, he never saw the chefs moving the kitchen utensils outside to cook.
Therefore, as soon as you enter the back room, you can clearly feel that the corridor at the entrance is hot and steamy.
"What are you eating? Give me a bite!"
Shen Guodong was like a beard. When he saw Li Xuewu carrying Li Shu in, he came over and threatened him.
He did it on purpose. Li Shu was pinching a steamed bun and putting it into her mouth, and was almost startled by his sudden move.
Yu Li came over from behind, slapped him, and scolded him for being a stupid uncle. Then she took Li Shu from Li Xuewu's arms.
Li Shu was not afraid of this. She imitated her aunt and glared at Uncle Guodong, chirping, "I'm not afraid of you——!"
"Aren't you afraid of me?" Shen Guodong raised his hand and threatened her, "If I beat you up, you'll know you're afraid of me!"
"If you keep teasing me, I'll make you laugh—"
Liu Yin waved her hands and told Shen Guodong not to tease her anymore. Li Shu was no longer afraid of being frightened.
One is Shen Guodong and the other is Sha Zhu. They tease and pamper the children without any restraint. The children are amused to the point that they are not afraid of them anymore.
"Who gave you the steamed buns? Tell me, auntie, is it delicious?"
Yu Li wiped Li Shu's mouth with a handkerchief and asked with a smile, "Why are you still eating one meal at a time?"
"Qi, Qi Niang gave it to me—"
Li Shu ate the steamed bun in her mouth, chattered away and explained, then stuffed the remaining steamed bun in her hand into her aunt's mouth.
She was reluctant to give the food to her uncle Guodong who always teased her, but she was willing to share the delicious food with her aunt.
Yu Li was not greedy for this steamed bun, but it was given to her by Li Shu, and she ate it with great relish.
"Go through the third gate. The seventh son's wife forced it on her."
Li Xuewu said this with a smile and sat down at the long dining table.
Just like last night, the same people were having breakfast, and they were sitting in the same seats.
Yu Li held Li Shu and sat opposite him, smiling and asking, "Can you see that the seventh son's wife is pregnant again?"
"What the hell? Again?"
When Li Xuewu heard the news, he was more shocked than when he heard that Yu Li was pregnant.
He asked in surprise and amusement, "What do these two want to do? They are almost having a class, and they want to have another one?"
"Old Seven said, more children, more blessings."
Yu Li joked, "He said having a baby is like planting crops. You don't know which crop will bear the best fruit, so just plant a few more ridges."
“This is a very strange idea!”
Li Xuewu picked up the chopsticks and bowl and joked, "Has he ever thought that the fertilizer in the field is limited, and if there are too many crops, they won't grow—"
"Go, stop talking nonsense—"
Liu Yin smiled and said to him, then came out of the kitchen and gave each of the children an egg.
Fei Shanying and Diliya wanted to be more polite, but she stopped them with a wave of her hand.
The Li family is used to it. They eat three meals a day here. How can Zhao Yafang feel embarrassed to eat eggs alone?
Normally at home I feed my children egg yolks and eat the leftovers myself, but today I have come here and I want to leave no one behind.
Li Shu also got one, which was handed to her by her grandmother, and her aunt helped her peel the egg.
Breakfast is also simple, but there are many people and plenty of food, so it seems lively.
On the kang table and the floor table, there were two large basins, one containing rice porridge and the other one containing sleeve-slapping soup.
Li Xuewu was not very hungry, so he did not touch the rice porridge and scooped himself a bowl of egg and cucumber soup with a spoon.
However, although this bowl of soup looks like it has a lot of eggs and cucumbers, when you actually drink it, the taste is not that strong.
He pinched the steamed bread and looked back at the pot of soup on the kang table. It was the same. He asked, "How many eggs did you beat in these two large pots of soup?"
"A few more eggs? What are you thinking of--!"
Sha Zhu finished making breakfast, holding a large bowl of rice porridge and a steamed bread in his hand, and said with a smile: "Today is Sunday, and I just asked the director of finance for an egg just in time for you to come."
He pointed at Xiaoyan who was eating on the kang and said, "Just for this, Director Chen complained to me a lot, saying that bourgeois ideas had emerged and that I needed to do a long-term ideological study."
"An egg? Is it real?"
Li Xuewu looked at the cucumber and egg drop soup in the bowl, raised his hand and gave Sha Zhu a thumbs up.
He said, "What a waste of talent! With your skills, if you were in our army and were assigned to the logistics and cooking squad, you would have at least been awarded a third-class merit!"
"Hahaha--!"
Sha Zhu couldn't help but laugh out loud when he heard Li Xuewu's teasing.
Shen Guodong tasted the soup and laughed, "That's right. With just one bucket of water, half a cucumber and an egg, I made enough for twenty people!"
He winked at Li Xuewu and said, "It should be at least a second-class merit!"
"The third-class merit is enough for him!"
Li Xuewu pouted and said with a smile: "For someone like him, it's a blessing to be able to retire from the kitchen squad alive."
"Don't say sarcastic words--"
Sha Zhu took a few mouthfuls of rice porridge, picked up some fried river shrimp and pickled vegetables with chopsticks, and emphasized, "I am doing this for the sake of all the staff at our recycling station."
"You don't know, Director Chen has repeatedly stressed to me that our logistics pressure is very tight!"
He said in a strange way: "As the top manager of the recycling station kitchen, I have the responsibility and obligation to do a good job in logistics. One egg should produce the results of ten eggs!"
"Brother Zhuzi, please humiliate me!" Xiaoyan was so happy that she couldn't eat while sitting on the kang. She said angrily, "When did I tell you that?"
The recycling station’s account books and financial rights are still in my grandfather’s hands.
Xiaoyan is only responsible for the purchase of supplies or the management of daily expenses.
Sha Zhu was just joking on purpose, saying that Xiaoyan was the financial director of the recycling station. There was no such position in the recycling station, and there was no top manager in the kitchen either.
"I think one egg is a bit too much!"
Li Xuewu teased him and said, "Use half an egg to make a bowl of egg custard later. Egg custard tastes better."
"Just kill me--!"
Sha Zhu said angrily: "Huang Shiren is not as cruel as you!"
"Hahaha--!"
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"Hey - Xuewen is back."
"Hey, Auntie, please go out."
Li Xuewen pushed his bicycle into the gate and greeted his neighbors with a smile.
An old man came out of the hanging flower gate and was stunned for a moment when he saw Li Xuewen pushing the cart. Then he asked with a smile, "Why didn't you go to the west courtyard?"
"I was just saying that the west courtyard gate is not open yet—"
The hanging flower door faced the window of the back house. While Li Xuewen was answering his uncle, he looked into the back house, but there was no one there.
"It's quite lively in the morning. The whole family is eating here after returning from martial arts training."
The uncle also took a look and nodded, "Ask Xiyuan'er. I just came here and there's no one at your house."
This courtyard is like this, there is no privacy.
The Li family's side faces the sun, and the windows are clean and bright. One can see whether anyone is home just by walking through the yard.
Li Xuewen nodded in agreement and pushed the cart through the outer courtyard, through the screen door, and headed towards the west courtyard.
He muttered, "The gate is usually open at this time."
It was not until I passed the gate of the west courtyard that I saw people sunbathing in the west courtyard.
"I was just saying, I didn't see you this morning, and I thought you wouldn't be back this week."
Zhao Yafang sat on a stool, hugged Li Tang and greeted Li Xuewen.
Beside her were Gu Ning, Sha Zhu and Fei Shanying who were holding their children, as well as Liu Yin and the old lady.
Is there some weird person mixed in with this group of people?
That’s right, after Shazhu became a dad, his circle was suddenly adjusted to the group of moms.
He Zhuang in their family is truly strong. He weighs almost 20 kilograms. He Yushui asked for mercy after holding him for a whole morning.
The grandma at the recycling station has long stopped doing carpentry work, and the furniture production is now under the unified and large-scale responsibility of Chadian.
However, there are still some tables, chairs and benches in the west yard. They are not made by my grandmother, nor are they second-hand. Instead, they are defective and were thrown off a car.
My grandmother felt sorry for the furniture, so she used her free time to repair and polish it, and then put it in order before selling it.
At this moment, Sha Zhu worked hard to put four eight-immortal tables together, just like a big stage, or you could call it a doll fighting arena.
Because several children were placed on the octagonal table to learn to crawl and sit, the parents stood in a circle around the square table and just watched the children have fun.
Li Xuewen goes home every week, but only comes back on Sunday morning and leaves on Monday morning.
He was reluctant to leave such an excellent reading environment in the prison, and even more reluctant to leave those studious and inquisitive "students".
It must be said that regardless of their foundation or quality, the students in the training class he hosted in a prison had the best learning attitude he had ever seen.
Really, if those "students" can't learn or keep up with the progress, they will cry in frustration.
Graduating from the electronics training class is equivalent to entering an electronics factory in a prison, which means that they can do light work, eat well and sleep well.
I can't guarantee anything else, but for a student who graduates from an electronics training class in a prison, there will be absolutely no problem for him to be in charge of a home appliance store after he is released.
Li Xuewen even thought, if all students studied and worked as hard as the prisoners in a prison, would there be no illiterate people in the world?
Of course, no matter how reluctant he was to part with those books and students, what he was most reluctant to part with was his son.
"Who's back, fat boy?"
Li Xuewen parked the car, walked to the square table, found his son and called him twice.
But Li Tang is still young. He does recognize people, but there are so many children today that he is dazzled and has no time to see his father.
After the child called out a few times, Li Xuewen finally had no choice but to pick the child up from the table and look at him fondly, which made everyone laugh.
"Why are you all here for a tea party today?"
Li Xuewen took a look and found that there were not only his family members gathered here, and not only children, but also some old ladies who came here to sit and bask in the sun.
It's almost nine o'clock, and the sun is very strong now. Children need to bask in the sun, but not for more than half an hour.
When he comes back, everyone is leaving.
Sha Zhu felt a little awkward standing there, but after finally meeting Li Xuewen, he explained the situation.
"You're back late. Guodong and his team collected the cars yesterday at the big warehouse and moved them there today."
He pointed to the warehouse in the courtyard and said, "There are many people here today. He is going to clean up the things in the warehouse and sell what can be sold and deal with what cannot be sold."
"Moving away now?"
Li Xuewen had heard of this matter. He glanced around the courtyard and asked, "Did he go to learn martial arts as well?"
"He went to the club. He said he had something to do."
Sha Zhu nodded and said, "It's more convenient to go to the big warehouse. I went to see it. The courtyard is much brighter than this one."
"I said I wouldn't open the door today, but it turns out the cars are not here anymore."
Li Xuewen glanced at the gate and asked, "We won't store waste here anymore. Did you say what you're going to do with it?"
“We store the things that are collected from the store, and we also store the things that are sold from the store.”
Sha Zhu introduced: "Guodong hasn't decided what he will do specifically yet. When I heard about it, he also said that he wanted to borrow an apprentice from you to do electronic appliance repair and assembly."
"Borrow my apprentice? What do you mean?"
Li Xuewen didn't understand what he said. He held his son in his arms and asked, "Aren't all the electrical appliances repaired in the same prison?"
"Maybe it's inconvenient. Didn't they tell you?"
Zhao Yafang took over the conversation and said, "Liu Guangfu is back. He said he has learned a lot of skills. Guodong likes him and thinks it would be a good idea to open a bedding factory."
"What is he thinking?" Li Xuewen asked with a smile, "He is thinking of recruiting people from the prisoners who have been released from prison?"
"This is a task given by the street. Isn't this killing two birds with one stone?"
Zhao Yafang was afraid that Sha Zhu and Li Xuewen would talk nonsense, because not all the people sitting here were people they could trust.
She took over the conversation and said it in a much more secure way.
"The street office doesn't just have to look after unemployed young people, they also have to look after those who have finished their labor camps and have been released. If there is a small group willing to take them in, they would be delighted."
"Isn't that a wild idea?" Li Xuewen was skeptical. He shook his head and said, "The management environment is different now. Can we control those people?"
"Shen Guodong is afraid of this?"
Zhao Yafang stood up and asked everyone to go to the yard, saying that if they continued to bask in the sun, the children would get tanned, which made everyone laugh.
She found an opportunity to warn Li Xuewen: "Don't get involved in these matters!"
"You know how ruthless Guodong and his gang are. Now they have the support of the street to run a small group. Anyone who dares to mess with them may end up being sent back to the prison."
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"Did you really ask Liu Guangfu to go to the West Courtyard to work?"
Yu Li handed Li Xuewu a cup of tea and asked, "Aren't you afraid that he will cause trouble for you again?"
When she came out in the morning, she saw Liu Guangfu, but she didn't know when Liu Guangfu came back, and she didn't know that Liu Guangfu came to work in the West Courtyard as soon as he came back.
"It doesn't count as work. There is no work for him in the West Courtyard." Li Xuewu looked at the account book in his hand and said, "Whoever has the ability can go to the recycling station to earn this money."
"Did Guodong arrange the tricycle?"
Yu Li reminded: "There are so many people waiting in line to arrange a tricycle. If he comes, he will take it immediately. Be careful not to make people feel dissatisfied."
"Shen Guodong is not his father, so why would he arrange a tricycle for him right away?"
Li Xuewu raised his head and glanced at Yu Li, explaining, "His father arranged for the tricycle, and he spent a lot of money on it."
"Liu Haizhong bought it? Is that true? Would he be willing to invest this in his son?"
Yu Li also found it funny. She sat opposite Li Xuewu and asked curiously, "What did Liu Haizhong tell you? Why did you agree to help him?"
"They live in the same courtyard, and it's not murder or arson," Li Xuewu explained casually, raised his head and looked at Yu Li, picked up the teacup, and asked while drinking tea: "Why do you suddenly care about their family? Do you have a grudge?"
"No, what hatred can I have——"
Yu Li pursed her lips, stretched out her hand and tapped on the table with her fingernails, and asked in a low voice: "Liu Haizhong met me at the doorman's place the other night. Do you know what he said to me?"
"What? Say I like you?"
Seeing Yu Li staring at him, Li Xuewu curled his lips and smiled: "I'm not a fortune teller, but I can guess!"
"He told me that he wanted to introduce me to someone."
Yu Li looked at Li Xuewu meaningfully and asked, "Do you know who he introduced me to?"
"Well, he really likes you!"
Li Xuewu raised his eyebrows, and in an instant he guessed who Yu Li was talking about, and said with a smile: "A girl who is three years older than me, holding a gold brick, I think it's just right."
"Can you please be serious--"
Yu Li glared at him in reproach and said, "Tell me what he was thinking, I'm so cheap that no one wants me?"
"Not necessarily. It's hard to say who is at a disadvantage in this matter—"
Li Xuewu sat back in his chair, swinging his right leg and said, "If I really find you a sixteen-year-old, you'll be secretly happy."
"If you keep saying that, I'll get angry!"
Yu Li looked at him angrily, stood up and said, "Be careful, it's too late to regret if you let a wolf into your house!"
"Hey! Are you really angry?"
Li Xuewu looked at Yu Li who left like a stingy person, smiled and called out, but he didn't call Yu Li back, but called Zhou Xiaobai in instead.
"When did you come back? You didn't go home again?"
"What's wrong? You don't welcome me?"
Zhou Xiaobai also figured it out. When getting along with Li Xuewu, you can't be too reserved.
Be open and frank. The more straightforward the better. If you like someone, just go for it and bite him. Even if you bite him, he won't dare to hit you, let alone scold or hit you.
So, as soon as she entered the room, she didn't care about Li Xuewu's attitude, she walked around the desk and sat on it on tiptoe.
Li Xuewu pursed his lips helplessly, tapped the table with the pencil in his hand, and reminded: "Girl, you are wearing a skirt, how can you face me like this?"
"You are a gentleman, you won't look at it." Zhou Xiaobai swung his calves and teased Li Xuewu, saying, "Unless you admit that you have improper thoughts about me."
"I admit, I want to strangle you."
Li Xuewu raised his hand and pushed the unfortunate kid's thighs away, pulled out the document from underneath and continued to read it, asking, "What happened to Tianjin?"
"What are you asking about?"
Zhou Xiaobai leaned one arm on the table and looked down at the document in Li Xuewu's hand. He didn't care whether he could understand it or not, or whether it was inconvenient or not, and just wanted to make a fuss.
"Teacher Wu's matter? Or Yang Zhao's matter? Or the matter of the agency stationed at the recycling station?"
"Well, you came prepared!"
Li Xuewu didn't even raise his head when he heard Zhou Xiaobai talking about the recycling station, but his words were somewhat teasing, and he asked, "Why, do you feel terrified, as if you were sitting on pins and needles, or treading on thin ice?"
"Come on, there are only a few people and a few guns. You are worse than Hu Chuankui." Zhou Xiaobai looked down at Li Xuewu and said, "Is that why you are so cautious?"
"Hmm? Did you misunderstand something?"
Li Xuewu raised his head, looked at Zhou Xiaobai and said, "Red Star Factory is Red Star Factory, the recycling station is the recycling station, I am me, you are you, do you understand?"
"I understand—I understand very well!"
Zhou Xiaobai sighed helplessly, reached out and touched Li Xuewu's hair, and said with concern: "Brother, you have worked so hard."
"are you crazy?"
Li Xuewu frowned, leaned back in his chair, looked at Zhou Xiaobai as if he were a fool, and asked, "What are you looking at, or who said something to you?"
"No one told me, I figured it out on my own."
Zhou Xiaobai rested his hands on the table on both sides of his thighs, stared at Li Xuewu with a sharp gaze, and asked, "You set up that seafood supply chain and recycling station, all for me, right?"
Seeing Li Xuewu's surprised look, she raised her hand and tapped Li Xuewu, saying with an expression as if she had guessed it: "I knew it would be like this!"
"You arranged for Teacher Wu and Yang Zhao to go to Tianjin to help me because you wanted to train me and teach me how to do things, right?"
"Hiss—Zhou Xiaobai, when did you become so smart?"
Li Xuewu was frightened by the startled child. He thought she had figured out something, but he didn't expect that after all the yelling, she would only figure out this!
"I've always been smart—"
Zhou Xiaobai's lips curved, but he looked at Li Xuewu very seriously and said, "You think I'm too young, too naive, and too stupid to do things, so you arranged it this way, right?"
She supported herself on the table with both hands, suddenly jumped down, and directly rode on Li Xuewu's legs. She put her arms around his shoulders and said, "You just want me to grow up quickly, right?"
"…Hey, Xiaobai, why don't you come down first?"
Li Xuewu really didn't know how to explain it to her. He was confused by the girl's train of thought.
"Let's talk about growing up. You can raise any opinions you have."
"I don't--! I've made up my mind. I have to do something for you."
Zhou Xiaobai put his arm around Li Xuewu's shoulders and assured him earnestly, "You have done so much and paid so much for me."
She gradually approached Li Xuewu, who had nowhere to retreat, and said softly, "Seafood supply chain, you've been busy all the time, and you gave me your salary. Now you're worried that I'm too tired, so you want to find someone to help me..."
"Ahem - Hey, are you whispering something?"
There were joking voices coming from the door. Li Xuewu had already noticed that while Zhou Xiaobai was talking, Huang Gan was standing at the door watching the fun.
Zhou Xiaobai was startled by the sound behind him and jumped off Li Xuewu's legs.
When she saw that it was Huang Gan who was saying bad things at the door, she walked out with a red face, and even said "hateful" to Huang Gan when she passed by him.
"Hey, hey, hey--am I disturbing you?"
Huang Ganji came in from the door with his eyes wide open, sat opposite Li Xuewu and teased, "I really can't tell what's so good about you that makes girls like you so much."
"You know you're disturbing me, but you still come?"
It was only because Li Xuewu saw Huang Gan appear that he did not push Zhou Xiaobai away, for fear of hurting the girl's self-esteem.
As for Zhou Xiaobai sitting on his lap, it was nothing if Huang Gan saw it. He was very clear about Zhou Xiaobai's identity and knew that he would not overstep the line.
"You look so proud. Is it because the red flag at home is standing firm, or is it because the colorful flags outside are flying smoothly?"
"What red flags and colorful banners? Don't compare me with you. I'm a serious person!"
Huang Gan rolled his eyes and said seriously, "I talked to her frankly."
"Then what?" Li Xuewu threw away the pencil in his hand and asked, "We'll be friends in the future?"
"Bullshit..." Huang Gan sighed helplessly and said, "She said she hated me and would never forgive me in her life."
(End of this chapter)