Chu Guangming choked on his own saliva and looked at Dabao helplessly.
Dabao patted him on the shoulder: "If you lose money and avoid disaster, just use the twenty yuan to help you avoid disaster."
At this point, Chu Guangming can only comfort himself, "But I still want to thank you and Erbao, and by the way, Brother Sensen."
Geng Sensen was lying on the Arhat bed and raised his hand, saying, "It's a small matter, you're welcome."
Erbao asked: "Brother, shall we go to the new home in the afternoon?"
"What are you looking at?" Dabao wondered, "Isn't it still being renovated?"
Erbao: "See if there is a suspended ceiling."
Dabao shook his head: "Morning. Mom said to move the things out of the main house and the back room first, check the walls and roof, and if the walls are cracked, remove the tiles, knock down the walls and rebuild them - it's a big project anyway, and I won't be able to finish it this summer. .”
Geng Sensen crossed his legs and asked, "Do you have a room for me?"
The decoration renderings were drawn by Erbao, and she knows best: “It’s all there.”
Geng Sensen sat up to make sure his grandma was not in the room, and asked in a low voice: "Where is my sister-in-law?"
Dabao thought he was worthless, so he gave him a blank look and pretended not to hear. Erbao nodded: "Yes. But it will not be so convenient for my uncle to go there to rest in the future."
Geng Huihui was also there. Hearing this, he glanced behind him and said, "We will move away but we won't move back. Aunt Ginkgo's stationery store is close to here, so we have to live here forever."
People can live in the stationery store owned by Yu Gingxing's husband, but it's not convenient for cooking because of the inventory. Yu Gingxing was also worried about catching fire, and the stationery store did not hire thieves and did not need anyone to live in it, so the couple simply continued to live in the house that Yu Wentao gave to Ye Fan.
Chu Guangming asked: "Is it far from here?"
Dabao: "Our school is in the south. If you don't want to come back, just discuss with my mother and give her a dollar to eat at my house on Sunday."
A warm current surged into Chu Guangming's heart, which made his eyes feel numb. "One dollar is enough for what you are doing. You really don't use Aunt Ye's money as money."
Dabao: "It's enough to buy steamed buns. Vegetables are not valuable."
Geng Sensen got out of bed: "Your aunt gave me the money."
Chu Guangming instinctively wanted to ask when, but also wanted to ask how it was possible. When he saw Geng Huihui, he suddenly realized: "Aunt Feng He?"
Geng Huihui nodded, turned her head subconsciously when she heard the footsteps, froze, and then stood up: "Benben!"
The tanned Geng Benben came in with his luggage. Dabao was confused, Erbao was dumbfounded, and he was stunned. Geng Benben glanced at his brothers and sisters and wondered what was going on.
Chu Guangming asked in disbelief: "Why are you so dark and thin?"
Dabao came to his senses and stood up, blinking hard: "Are you digging coal or burning charcoal?"
Geng Benben threw down his luggage and punched him in the chest: "You are the one who burns charcoal and digs coal!"
"Then you, why are you like this?" Dabao was confused, "Aren't you an officer? Why are you working harder than a conscript?"
Erbao wanted to cry: "Brother Benben, is someone bullying you? Tell me, and I will tell daddy to transfer you back."
"No!" Geng Benben almost cried when he saw his sister was uncomfortable. He turned his back to hold back the things in his eyes, opened the refrigerator, and concealed his discomfort, "Do you have popsicles?"
Geng Sensen suddenly realized that he was thirsty after a long journey: "Yes, there is soda, and I will get it for you." He ran to the kitchen. There was water in the kitchen bucket from the morning, and several bottles of soda were frozen in it.
Geng Huihui went to get the watermelon. Chu Guangming was not familiar with him, but he often heard Dabao and Erbao mention it, and because Benben was Chu Fenghe's son, he was considered his cousin, so he asked, "Do you want to eat cucumbers and tomatoes?" without waiting for Benben's answer. Go out and pick tomatoes and cucumbers. The melons planted in the corner were fragrant, and he picked another white cantaloupe.
Erbao poured water for Benben, and Dabao wet a towel for him to wipe.
Geng Benben wanted to cry again when he saw this, so he spoke loudly to cover up his discomfort: "I only have one belly!"
Chu Guangming said: "Eat slowly!"
Geng Benben thanked him and asked casually: "What were we talking about just now? I didn't even notice it when I entered the hospital."
Dabao first answered that his mother had bought a three-bedroom courtyard house and was renovating it to move in next year. Then he expressed that Brother Ben Ben was curious, and he took Brother Ben Ben over to have a look.
Erbao added: "Brother and mother have agreed that the back room will be ours. There are ten back rooms, two with each door. Sister Huihui, brother, and brother Sensen and I have two rooms each, and the remaining two rooms are Study room and game room. You will live with brother when you come back, and brother Leile will live with brother Sensen when he comes back occasionally.”
Geng Benben was surprised: "Has it been arranged?"
Erbao nodded: "There is an Arhat bed in the study, and Chu Guangming sleeps in the study."
When Chu Guangming met Erbao, he didn't ask for his opinion or treat him as an outsider. He was angry and funny: "I thank you for thinking of me."
Erbao nodded: "Grandma, my father and my mother live in the main house, and the side room is reserved for my aunt, second mother and aunt."
Benben asked: "Where are you cooking?"
Erbao: "Pantern rooms. There are transepts on the east and west ends of the main room. There are also transepts on the south side of the wing room. There is no main room in the courtyard at the entrance, but there are transepts on the east and west sides. There are several rooms on both sides of the main door corridor. My mother said that two of them should be used as guest rooms. The rest is used as a storage room and utility room. The south wing of the wing is converted into a bathroom. Since we have a large family, we built two toilets and shower rooms.”
Geng Benben was surprised: "Is there a toilet?"
Erbao nodded: "Mom said we will live here for many years. If the government doesn't demolish it, we may live there forever. Of course we have to do it in one step."
When Chu Guangming heard that it was so convenient, he was full of expectations for Ye Fan's new home.
Geng Benben said: "My future houses will also be decorated like this."
Dabao: "You want to go back to the capital?"
Geng Benben was asked, then he smiled bitterly and scratched his head: "Forget it. I don't know when I will come back."
Dabao: "I haven't said yet how you became like this."
Geng Benben didn't dare to say anything and couldn't help but stare down at the popsicle in his hand.
Dabao stood up: "Is my little brother back?"
"I said, I said!" Zhang Xiaodi and Geng Benben were assigned to the same unit. Because they were in different companies, they could take vacation together. They were together last year, and they are still together this year. I met Aunt Li in the alley just now. Aunt Li also teased: "You two are so weird."
Geng Benben bit off the last bite of the popsicle, swallowed it and coughed again. He hesitated for a moment, and when he saw Dabao going out to find his younger brother, he quickly said: "We are not in the south now, but in the Northwest Military Region. Not long after we got there, there was a military operation. Above The chief wants to train us, and we also want to gain experience, so let’s see.”
Dabao frowned and asked: "What does participation mean? Are you two on the battlefield?"
"Keep your voice down!" Geng Benben hurriedly looked outside, "Don't let grandma hear it!"
Dabao pointed at him angrily, gritted his teeth and said angrily: "You - you are really not afraid of death!"
"This is what I say, why do you want to be a soldier if you are afraid of death?"
Dabao choked.
Chu Guangming first persuaded Dabao to calm down, and then said: "Now the wars are all small-scale conflicts——"
Dabao couldn't help but say: "That will also kill people!"
Erbao nodded: "Not releasing the news does not mean that the years are peaceful."
Yes, one person can't speak for two people, so Chu Guangming shut up.
Geng Huihui slapped her brother on the head. Geng Benben covered his head as a reflex: "Sister, I have worked so hard, and you still-"
"What else?" Geng Huihui pointed at him, "I'll tell my parents later."
Geng Benben: "Do you think dad's job is not dangerous? A little negligence may cause an earthquake."
Geng Huihui didn't care to argue with him: "Please tell me clearly, what kind of earthquake?"
Dabao: "Of course it's the shock caused by the weapon explosion."
Geng Huihui breathed a sigh of relief: "In this case, they were not serious about their work, and they deserved to die in an accident." Fortunately, she thought there was an earthquake where her father was.
When Chu Guangming heard this, he said in his heart, Sister Huihui is really big-hearted. So we can't blame Benben for being bold, maybe he learned it from her.
Geng Benben added: "Don't tell my uncle and aunt either."
Dabao shook his head: "Impossible!"
"But it's useless for them to know." Geng Benben said.
Dabao: "That's not necessarily the case. During the two sessions next year, my dad will meet the officers of the Northwest Army and chat with them for a few words. Even if he does not promote you under the exception, the head of the army will not let you be wronged."
"How can I be wronged?" Geng Benben wanted to laugh, "My younger brother and I both graduated from the Zhenger Eight Classics Military Academy. As the saying goes, don't look at the Buddha before the monk. When the army bullies us, it depends on whether our teachers and principals agree."< br>
Dabao suddenly realized: "That's right. The principal of your school should have been on the battlefield, and he has soldiers all over the world, right?"
Geng Sensen nodded: "Because there are fewer officers willing to go there, it is not as prosperous as the south, and the climate and environment are not as good as the south, so my brother and I have more subsidies than before. It is impossible for the superiors to ask an officer to stay in one place for more than ten years , maybe we can be transferred back to the capital before we are thirty.”
Dabao was happy for him when he heard this, but he was also very angry when he thought that he dared to go to the battlefield: "Brother Ben Ben, you are not afraid that grandma will kill you if she finds out."
"You don't know where grandma is going if you don't tell me?" Geng Benben said.
Chu Guangming had a doubt in his mind: "How many months do you think the military operation will last?"
Dabao shook his head: "He said he participated in a military operation after being transferred there last year, but did not say the specific time. If he arrived there in May, went to the station around September, and came back not long ago, the middle period would be more than half a year, which is not a short time. .”
Geng Benben was shocked: "How do you know?"
"Did I guess it right?"
Geng Benben: "The specific time is a little different."
Dabao: "I'm not from your army, so it's strange that my guess is accurate. You want to know how I know it? It was mentioned once in the news. Although it only released the departure time, your uncle once said the return time, so I calculated it. Most of the year.”
Geng Benben was speechless. No wonder the leader did not allow him to disclose information related to the army. Geng Benben once thought that the chief was too cautious. Dabao can infer it from just a few words, so a spy who specializes in this business can infer it exactly.
Geng Benben: "Stop! Talking about the second treasure, the second treasure, how did you do in the test?"
"You're still worried about me."
Geng Benben: "Have you filled in your application? What to study?"
"Foreign Affairs College." Erbao said.
Benben was shocked: "Which school?"
"I want to be a diplomat!" Erbao said.
Geng Benben felt like he didn't recognize her anymore.
Erbao smiled and said, "Guess what Chu Guangming studied." "Which school?" Geng Benben asked.
Chu Guangming glanced at Dabao.
Geng Benben: "Either he is his direct junior brother or he majored in computer science."
This time Chu Guangming was in disbelief.
Benben proudly broke open the cantaloupe and asked Erbao if he wanted it. Erbao took it and asked him how he guessed it. Benben told the truth: "It feels like there was a person in our family who went to normal school before, and relatives and neighbors wanted to enroll in normal school. Guangming comes here often and is in the same school as Dabao. His major must be related to our family or Dabao."
Chu Guangming nodded: "I originally wanted to be Aunt Ye's junior student, but I was worried about slipping, so I chose Dabao's school to be on the safe side. Although Hangzhou University's scores are also high, they are not as extreme as Beijing University."
"It's better to be steady." Geng Benben said this in an old-fashioned way. Geng Sensen couldn't help but chuckle. Geng Benben turned to see what he was laughing at. Seeing him busy eating, Geng Sensen said: "It's nothing."
Geng Benben asked: "Where is grandma?"
Erbao was very surprised: "Not under the tree on the roadside?"
Geng Benben shook his head.
Erbao: "Then it's in the park. My little cousin doesn't like being in the house. It's too hot outside and the roadside is noisy. If grandma wants to be quiet, she pushes her to the park."
"My sister-in-law's daughter?" Geng Benben asked.
Erbao nodded. Geng Benben stood up: "Which park is it in? I'll go take a look."
Geng Huihui grabbed him and looked outside. No one came in, so she said that her sister-in-law had changed.
Last year, Geng Benben felt something was wrong as soon as he got home. At that time, Geng Benben asked Dabao that it was a rare occasion for him to come back and his sister-in-law did not come to see him.
Dabao couldn't explain clearly. Geng Benben asked his sister, and Geng Huihui told him frankly that her sister-in-law made her cry on her wedding day. From then on, my sister-in-law didn’t like to come back.
Geng Benben: “It’s been so long and you’re still angry?”
Geng Huihui shrugged nonchalantly: "I sat with my aunt at the wedding banquet. My aunt may have watched me talking to her and thought that my aunt was on my side. Maybe she also suspected that my aunt encouraged me to deliberately anger her. There are two people in a family. It’s normal for someone she hates not to come back.”
"Then just throw the little cousin to grandma?" Geng Benben frowned, does the little aunt have no words? If you have doubts in your heart, you won’t ask.
Geng Huihui: "Grandma sends you there every evening. If grandma knows you are coming back, she will definitely ask my sister-in-law to take care of you."
Geng Benben hoped that grandma would not have to work so hard, and immediately said: "I will go find grandma."
Dabao goes with him.
Although they didn't know which park Yu Wentao was in, they were talking a lot. They went to the roadside to ask the neighbors, and the two brothers went to South Park. Yu Wentao cried on the spot when she saw that the grandson she had raised looked like a ghost. Then she sent her granddaughter back and asked Geng Zhiqin to take care of her. She also told Geng Zhigong not to disturb her before Ben Ben left.
After returning from Geng Zhiqin's house, Yu Wentao went to the vegetable market to buy a chicken, a fish, and a piece of meat.
At half past six, Yu Wentao started cooking. Chicken stewed with mushrooms, squirrel mandarin fish, braised pork, a few vegetarian dishes and a bowl of egg custard. The table was full and it wasn’t ready until eight o’clock. Geng Benben didn’t know which one to eat first.
Yu Wentao gave him a chicken leg, a few pieces of braised pork, and a piece of fish, and piled his bowl high. Ye Fan couldn't stand it anymore: "How can he eat it?"
Yu Wentao said: "Eat slowly."
Geng Benben must eat slowly. If he eats it a little faster, the meat on the rice will fall off. Even though Geng Benben repeatedly expressed that he was full, Yu Wentao still gave him some food, and in the end he was full without any surprise.
Geng Benben had to hold on to the wall when he wanted to go out and wipe his sweat.
Worried that grandma would ask him to drink something again, Geng Benben wiped off the sweat from eating and went out. When he arrived at the alley entrance and saw Brother Zhang coming from the west, Geng Benben was curious: "At Brother Xiao Ming's house?"
Zhang Xiaodi nodded: "I went to my brother's house in the afternoon. My sister-in-law asked my brother to close the door early and go to her house to eat in the evening."
"Everyone is gone?" Geng Benben glanced in the direction of Zhang's house. It was clear that there was no one in the courtyard.
The younger brother nodded: "My sister is helping my sister-in-law clean up, and my brother-in-law and father are talking to my brother about the house."
Geng Benben was confused.
Zhang Xiaodi thought that the house of Ye Fan's family belonged to Ye Fan, and there was no need to talk about it to anyone. There was no need for Ye Fan's family to talk about it. Ben Ben might not know it yet, so he said he heard that it was going to be demolished.
Geng Benben clicked his tongue: "Your second brother wants to share a room?"
Zhang Xiaodi nodded: "Brother-in-law said that the second brother came to him a few days ago and said that the house where brother-in-law lives now belongs to him."
"What did your brother-in-law say?"
Zhang Xiaodi sneered: "What can I say about my brother-in-law who has a foreign surname? Of course I can't say! Maybe it's far away and the smell is too close. My father feels that it should be given to the second brother. As I said just now, I have the final say in my house. The second brother The household registration has been moved out , no matter how much I share, if my mother dares to give it to the second brother, my father will be very angry and ask me to come back first."
After the words fell, Dabao came out. Dabao accidentally listened to the second half: "Brother, don't be angry. My mother said it won't be so fast. When the day of demolition comes, maybe your parents will be gone."
Zhang Xiaodi just came back today and is not sure about the specific situation: "Isn't it recent?"
Dabao shook his head: "The superiors are going to designate our area as a development zone, and then there are rumors that this area is going to be demolished. Even if the demolition is done, it will be around the wasteland in the north first. It will be easy to plan in a continuous area. It may be the Year of the Monkey or the Horse in our place. Otherwise, my mother will also I won’t ask the decoration team to take their time.”
Geng Benben explained for Dabao that his aunt bought another house south of Dabao school and was still renovating it. It was more spacious and brighter than the current house.
Zhang Xiaodi was surprised: "You haven't written the eight characters yet?"
Dabao nodded: "I haven't heard that the street strictly checks household registration. I guess it's not based on head count. It may be that housing subsidies are allocated based on the size of the house."
Zhang Xiaodi: "Then why is my second brother worried?"
Dabao: "If you make trouble early, if you make trouble for a long time, you will have to compromise. Won't he have a share in it?"
"Dream!" Zhang Xiaodi said coldly.
Dabao said: "You are an adult and the head of the household. Your father cannot go behind your back and add your second brother to the family. No matter how high he jumps, it will be in vain."
Zhang Xiaodi felt relieved, thanked Dabao, and asked Benben where he was going to play tomorrow.
Tomorrow, Chu Guangming was going to tutor Dabao's younger brother, a schoolmate. Dabao thought that he was still thinking about the twenty yuan, so he took the opportunity to ask Benben and his younger brother if they wanted to catch the thief.
The next afternoon I didn't meet the thief, but I met the aunt who had been robbed of money. The aunt asked Erbao what his name was and where his home was. Dabao raised his hand and pulled his sister behind him.
Auntie was speechless and wanted to laugh: "Auntie is not a kidnapper."
"Then you can ask me."
Auntie was about to ask when the bus came. Auntie gets in the car. The sun sets at seven o'clock, and it's not yet five o'clock. Dabao wants to wait a little longer. So the bus drove away, and each of them stayed in one place, leaving Erbao alone.
There are few buses these days, and it’s still half an hour before the next bus shows up. At Erbao Station, I squatted on the ground when I got tired. After getting tired from squatting, he stood up and saw someone coming out of the alley opposite. He seemed to be walking like an honest person, so Erbao had no intention of "fishing". But she wanted to finish her work early and go home early to take a shower. She pretended to look left and right to see if there was a bus, and took out a few dollars from her pocket, as if looking for change for taking the bus.
Erbao laughed at himself in his heart, he was so anxious that everyone wanted to give it a try. A gust of wind blew by, and the money in his hand disappeared. Erbao was stunned for a moment, and then shouted: "Brother!"
Dabao had noticed it and immediately ran towards Erbao. The hooligan hurriedly ran towards the residential area.
Zhang Xiaodi came out of the alley unhurriedly and reached out to grab the little gangster.
Chu Guangming's students struggled to learn at first, but after surviving the most difficult days, they now take the initiative to ask questions. Although it seemed to Chu Guangming that all first-year junior high school students knew it well, he still patiently explained it despite being paid by others.
The student's brother kept shaking his head at the side. He wanted to scold his brother for being stupid several times, but he swallowed his words because Chu Guangming was present. I kept asking questions for more than half an hour. The student's brother found out that he was about to postpone a class and asked Chu Guangming to go back so that he could give his brother a lecture. His brother looked frightened and hurriedly hid in his house.
Chu Guangming advised the student and his brother to be patient, but it took a while until the police came and Chu Guangming showed up. Chu Guangming pointed at the person being suppressed by the police and exclaimed: "That's him!"
The policeman was startled, stopped, and turned around with confusion on his face.
Dabao grabbed Chu Guangming and said, "Don't be impatient. Speak slowly. Is he robbing you of your money?"
Chu Guangming nodded: "It's him!"
Dabao took him to the police: "Didn't you just wonder why it's us again? Because he robbed my friend of his hard-earned money. I've been here recently just to squat with this kid." As he spoke, he became angry, " He has no parents and no mother to support himself, and he finally made some money and you still rob him. I'll kick you to death——"
"Dabao!" Benben hugged him quickly.
The policeman advised: "Comrade, don't be impulsive!" He slapped the little gangster on the head and said, "They rob everyone?!"
The little hooligan opened his mouth: "But he looks like-"
Dabao interrupted: "My clothes!"
The little gangster was shocked, as if he couldn't believe he could see it wrong.
Dabao: "He wears everything mine from head to toe. Didn't you see that I'm half a head taller than him?"
The little hooligan saw it, but he didn't expect it. He hesitated for a moment and said with shame on his face: "Brother, I'm sorry. I - I used the money. I don't have the money to pay you back. From now on, if someone robs you, you will repay me The name——"
The policeman slapped him on the head again: "It's not enough to steal money, but you still want to form a gang and start a gang?"
Geng Benben wanted to laugh: "It's time for us to go home. You guys should go back too."
The police officer was a veteran. One look at Geng Benben's crew cut and dark skin and he knew he was a comrade in arms. He politely told Chu Guangming that he must call the police if something similar happened again. Although the chance of getting it back is slim, just in case it happens.
Chu Guangming nodded and bowed in thanks.
After the police officer left, Dabao hooked his neck and said, "Are you feeling happy?"
Chu Guangming nodded.
Dabao rolled his eyes at him: "Look at how stingy you are."
Chu Guangming can now face this kind of ridicule calmly. In the past, he could not help but reflect on whether he was really stingy: "Thank you, Dabao."
"Call me brother!"
Chu Guangming kicked him.
Dabao ran towards the platform.
Erbao chased after him: "Brother, wait for me!"
Zhang Xiaodi clicked his tongue, shook his head and sighed, with a very mature look: "Benben, your aunt and your uncle taught Dabao and Erbao very well."
Benben: "I'm not bad either."
Zhang Xiaodi laughed and scolded him and gave him an elbow.
However, no one thought that this matter would never end. On the first weekend of August, Chu Guangming was eating cucumbers at Ye Fan's house. Aunt Li ran in: "Dabao, Erbao, come out quickly. Someone will give you a banner!"
(End of chapter)