Chapter 109 How did he know I was 37?
Beijing, 9:15 in the morning.
Lao Lu stood up from the chair in the communication room, stretched his arms and legs, and began to organize a wooden shelf specially designed to hold letters and telegrams.
There are still a few letters on it that have not been taken away. Lao Lu made a special note of them. When the recipient comes in after get off work in the afternoon, he will remind them to take away the letters.
“Ling Ling Ling~”
At nine twenty-five, the post office deliveryman arrived at the COFCO compound reception room on Lao Road on time.
"Master Lu, how are you doing now? Please help me!"
The deliveryman was a young man. He was talking to Lao Lu with a smile while picking up the parcel from his bicycle.
In fact, there are only a few kilograms of things in total. He just likes to be poor.
Lao Lu was very familiar with this monkey, and he immediately curled his lips and said, "How can you tell I'm free? I'm so busy, put down your things and leave quickly! Don't be in a state of giggling all day long."
"Hey, Master Lu, if you don't have leisure here, then there will be no leisure place in the whole capital.
It's a day for you to sit and a day for you to lie down. By the end of the month, your salary will be higher than my three-month salary. .We don’t carry anything so irritating.”
The deliveryman handed the parcel through the window of the delivery room, and couldn’t stop complaining.
He works hard every day in wind and rain, and his salary is twenty-two and a half yuan a month. He sits and enjoys leisurely in the reception room as usual, but he gets seventy-three and six yuan a month. Do you think that's annoying?
“Jealous of me? That’s easy to handle!”
Lao Lu rolled his eyes, pointed to the left side of his chest and said, "I'll give you a punch here, and then you'll be able to get a hundred yuan when you're my age."
"Okay, okay, I'll I can't resist you," the deliveryman hurriedly left, saying something He muttered: "I just didn't catch the good time, otherwise I would get a special grade and show it to you"
"You fart! Get out of here!"
The little deliveryman is very fast. He got on his bicycle and was so scared that he pissed his shit.
He just likes to tease old guys like Lao Lu to add some motivation to his boring life.
Lao Lu couldn't get over his anger even after cursing a few words. He muttered to himself while sorting out letters and parcels.
"A good time? How dare you say that you are really good at making wine? I will give your father and mother a tutu, and then I will throw you into a pile of dead people to see if you are still in a good time."
Two minutes later, Lao Lu sorted out the letters and parcels, and then wrote the names of the recipients on the small blackboard outside the delivery room to remind them to check them.
The postman is not allowed to enter this compound, and he will not deliver the letter to the door through his old way. If it disappears in the private mailbox, won't it cause conflicts between the neighbors?
In five minutes, Lao Lu had finished most of his most important work of the day.
He made a cup of tea, picked up the newspaper that had just arrived, and began to enjoy his leisure time.
The Monkey Deliveryman was right, Lao Lu’s job was really relaxing.
Ever since he was shot in the chest decades ago, Lao Lu's body has been weakened and he has been in a state of being "taken care of". He can choose any leisure work.
But if you are idle at work, your position will not be promoted. This will happen when you get old and fall into the job of looking after the door.
But don’t look at this job of guarding the door. Some people are jealous.
Just in the past few months, a man named Mei came to No. 3 Courtyard next door. He felt that he was older than Lao Lu and wanted to switch with him. Let Lao Lu go to see No. 3 Courtyard while he went to see No. 1 Courtyard.
Lao Lu threw a chair at that person.
"CNMB, you are too old to do the same shit to me? You have sweated for XX, but I have shed blood!!!"
Although they are both in the COFCO system compound. , but there are hundreds of families living in No. 3 Courtyard, all of them are grandfathers, big or small, and their family members and relatives, so the relationship is extremely complicated.
Even if nothing happens all day, does it bother you that there are so many people who have come down from the battlefield and can brag better than you?
The current No. 1 courtyard in Laolu is completely different.
There are eight or ten families living in it, and "the bigger the official, the less things to do," and the two parties basically don't talk to each other.
Usually the old road is very quiet, and it's the New Year and the festival. His share of the things is indispensable. If you ask him to exchange them with Lao Mei, isn't that a fool?
After two cups of strong tea, Lao Lu was in high spirits and bored, his eyes patrolling everywhere.
He is actually responsible for everything during the day. There are special security personnel in the compound at night, so if a mosquito flies over, he has to look at the male and female.
"Leng Leng Leng~"
A brand new bicycle drove out from the depths of the compound and parked staggeringly at the door of the communication room.
The little girl on the bicycle looked at the blackboard carefully twice before getting on the bicycle again and riding awkwardly out of the gate of the compound.
Lao Lu couldn't help but smile knowingly as he watched the little girl riding her bicycle up and down the small street outside the compound.
This girl just moved here. I heard that her parents are very capable, but it’s obvious that life in the first few years was very hard. When she first came here, she couldn’t even ride a bicycle.
[Oh, this kid’s parents are really like that. Why would a girl get a 28-inch bumper for her? Isn’t it hard to buy a 26 Phoenix? 】
However, a bitter child also has the advantage of a bitter child, that is, resilience.
Under the hot summer sun, the ride lasted for two hours, and there were two sacks on the back seat of the car, which seemed to weigh no less than one hundred kilograms.
This is training your leg strength!
These two calves are really long, straight, and strong, just like the health workers in the army back then.
Wen Leyu rode a bicycle for two hours at a stretch. She felt hungry before returning to her compound.
When passing by the door, she unconsciously glanced at the small blackboard again. I felt melancholy in my heart.
【It’s been a few days, why haven’t you received a letter yet? 】
However, apart from being melancholy, Wen Leyu also has some small expectations. He can already carry a hundred kilograms on his back. If he practices for a few more days, he is guaranteed to be able to carry Li Ye all over the city.
Lao Lu in the communication room also noticed Wen Leyu’s eyes. He really wanted to tell this little girl that he would send it to you as soon as he got your letter.
But in the end, Lao Lu didn't say much. People should be friendly, but they should be measured.
"Tu tu tu tu tu tu tu~"
A roar of motorcycles sounded from the end of the street, approaching quickly.
Lao Lu looked around and saw that he was a green knight with a green motorcycle that was similar to the German devil in the movie.
This is the post office's expedited telegram delivery man.
In the 1970s and 1980s, there were two types of telegrams at the post office. One was the ordinary telegram. If you were lucky, it would be sent in the morning and delivered in the afternoon. If you were not lucky, it would be delivered the next day.
But expedited telegrams are different. They are delivered by dedicated motorcycle riders at any time. As long as you are willing to pay, the expedited telegram fee is not as simple as 10 or 20 cents.
“Squeak~~”
The green motorcycle came to a sudden stop and stopped handsomely at the door of the reception room on Laolu.
Wen Leyu heard the sound of braking and turned to look at the door of the compound. Unexpectedly, the handlebar shook and the bicycle suddenly fell to the ground.
When Lao Lu saw Wen Leyu falling to the ground, he immediately scolded the postman angrily: "You're showing off, you're scaring the children, you know?"
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The postman blinked and didn't dare. Talk back.
Expedited telegram couriers these days ride big motorcycles and wear goggles. They usually look so arrogant, but they can’t do this job even if they don’t have anything to do with it.
But arrogance also has its own place. You can't be arrogant at the entrance of this compound. "There is an urgent telegram. It was sent in a hurry. Please bear with me."
The deliveryman handed a telegram to Lao Lu, asked him to sign for it, and then left.
Logically speaking, the urgent telegram needs to be delivered to the individual, but since he cannot get in, he can only hand it to Lao Lu.
Lao Lu took it over and took a look, then stretched his head out of the reception room and shouted to Wen Leyu who had just helped the car up.
"Girl, your surname is Wen, right? There seems to be a telegram from your family."
Wen Leyu was stunned for a moment, quickly parked the bicycle with great difficulty, and then walked back quickly.
Taking the telegram, the cold little girl's mouth suddenly curved slightly.
【Why are you in such a hurry? Doesn't it cost more to send an urgent telegram? 】
It only took a moment to blame and complain, and then Wen Leyu felt more relief and joy.
I hurriedly pushed the cart home and entered my room before opening the telegraph.
The 500-word telegram was shown in front of Wen Leyu, which surprised her for a long time.
This is not a telegram, this is obviously a letter!
After a while, Wen Leyu opened a locked drawer and took out a black leather diary.
On the first page of the diary, I wrote a very literary poem.
On the second page, there are action memos one by one from top to bottom.
1: Take him to see Tiananmen Square and go shopping in Houhai.
2: Take him to the National Library and the Beijing Planetarium.
3: Take him to Huguo Temple and treat him to his favorite snacks. (Three days)
4: Take him to a friendship store and give him a small gift. (35 foreign exchange coupons)
6:.
Wen Leyu took out his pen and carefully updated one of the memos.
10: Have a good talk with him, do not allow wanton waste, and learn to be frugal.
After writing this, Wen Leyu was silent for a moment, added a bracket after the word "frugal", and wrote the words (Only when you know your mistakes and can correct them, you will be a man),
Then Xiao Nizi nodded with satisfaction, smiled again, and locked the black leather diary again.
After doing all this, Wen Leyu started to read the telegram. It was strange to say that the moment she got the telegram, she could not wait to read it carefully at the door of the compound.
But after getting it, I became more and more calm.
[Classmate Xiaoyu, I’m really sorry. I traveled to the great places of my motherland some time ago, and I just saw your letter today]
At the beginning of the telegram, I used the word Bunraku Yu's unexpected way of address.
You said he was close, right? He calls his classmate, tell me his birth date! He also calls himself "Xiao Yu", which is very contradictory.
This kind of small contradiction is not uncommon in messages of four to five hundred words.
Wen Leyu herself didn't notice that as she read the telegram, her newly condensed peaceful mood rippled slightly like a stream of spring water under the warm wind.
When he saw the last sentence, Wen Leyu was stunned.
"How did he know that I am 37 feet?"
Wen Leyu was surprised for a reason.
Because she and her mother had a very hard life in the past few years, all the cloth shoes on her feet were made for her by Teacher Ke.
If these cloth shoes want to be durable, they must be slightly larger and lined with thick cloth or cotton several times at the front.
If they are made to fit perfectly, they may not last for a few months. Wen Leyu's are big. My toes broke the shoe.
So Wen Leyu was very surprised. How did Li Ye see through her 38's shoes that there were a pair of 37's feet?
A faint blush appeared on Xiao Nizi's cheeks, just like the peach blossoms in spring, blooming tenderly.
. . . . . .
"Xiao Yu, are you riding a bicycle again?"
A call from the door woke up Wen Leyu, who had been quiet for an unknown period of time.
She quickly put away the telegram before going out to the living room.
Teacher Ke was carrying a large bag of things and had just entered to change his shoes.
Wen Leyu hurriedly took it and asked smoothly: "Mom, why did you come back at noon?"
Teacher Ke said with a smile: "I went to have a meeting outside Jianguomen today and bought some things by the way. I will go back in the afternoon."
"Oh, then I will cook, just eat tomatoes and eggs. Let’s have some noodles!”
“No, I bought some cooked food. Let’s just deal with it. You try which pair of shoes fits first, and I can take them back later.”
Teacher Ke took out two shoe boxes and handed them to Wen Leyu.
Wen Leyu opened it and said in surprise: "High heels? Mom, why did you buy me these?"
Teacher Ke said funny: "You're still asking me? Yesterday when Xiaoqin came over, you stared at the shoes on her feet. Why did you forget about them today?"
"I just took a look."
Wen Leyu muttered a few words in a low voice, and while trying on the shoes, a little thing suddenly occurred to him.
One night a few months ago, at the Erliang Store in Qingshui County, Wen Leyu forgot something and went back to get it.
Then I heard Jin Peng, Li Dayong and Li Ye discussing excitedly about the "charm of high heels",
As a result, a childhood friend came to see Wen Leyu yesterday. He was wearing a pair of beautiful high heels. Wen Leyu naturally took a second look.
Teacher Ke, who has always felt that he owed his daughter, saw it and bought it back today.
Buy one pair or two pairs, one pair is 37, one pair is 38.
Wen Leyu tried them on separately and found that the 37 size was the most comfortable. It was a little bigger and just right without squeezing the feet.
“It’s really rare for someone as tall as you to have shoes that are 37cm big.”
Teacher Ke smiled, put away 38's shoes and prepared to go back, then he saw Wen Leyu's face was slightly red.
“What’s wrong, Xiaoyu, are you feeling uncomfortable?”
“No, I was just out of breath while riding a bicycle just now.”
“Oh~~”
Teacher Ke squinted at his daughter and suddenly asked: "Is there a letter from Li Ye?"
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Wen Leyu, who was not an opponent, was stunned for a second, smiled and said: "No, just a telegram came."
"Oh~~~"
Teacher Ke prolonged the ending, which made my daughter angry.
(End of this chapter)