Chu Guangming really wanted to beat Geng Dabao.
However, when Geng Dabao saw it, Geng Dabao ran out the door and shouted loudly: "I'm going to starve to death if I go out to eat. Erbao, are you ready to cook?"
Erbao disliked her brother very much and complained to her cousin: "Can't he lower his voice? The neighbors can hear him."
Geng Huihui asked: "Is Dabao hungry?"
Erbao: "Aren't you doing it? You can't wait for a while."
"Yes!"
Erbao was so frightened that she stopped breathing. After a while, she came to her senses and turned around to see her brother standing at the door: "What are you doing? Are you trying to scare me to death?"
"That's right. Without you, I would be an only child. My parents are mine alone." Dabao didn't want to scare his sister, but since he scared her, she didn't believe it if he didn't mean it, so he might as well admit it to save himself the trouble of talking.
Erbao took a deep breath and picked up the big knife on the table.
Chu Guangming, who then caught up, hurriedly pulled away from Dabao: "Er Bao, calm down, your brother is a bitch!"
"So I'm going to cut his mouth off." Erbao was like a black Li Kui, so much so that Chu Guangming didn't dare to gamble even if he knew she was scaring Dabao, and quickly shouted: "Aunt Ye, Uncle Geng, come out quickly!"
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Geng Zhiye came out first: "Er Bao, put down the knife!"
Erbao put down the knife and pointed it at her brother: "I'll deal with you another day."
Dabao sneered: "Have I been too nice to you recently? You dare to use a knife on me, you are very courageous!" He walked over and hit his sister on the head.
Erbao picked up the kitchen knife again, but in the blink of an eye it was in Dabao's hand. Erbao was so frightened that his tongue was tied: "You, you, put it down! You - what are you going to do?"
"Are you afraid?" Dabao hit his sister on the head with the back of his knife. "Aren't you afraid of hurting yourself?" Then he gave the knife to his cousin.
Erbao relaxed and dared to shout again: "It's not because you yelled and made me have a headache."
"Come here and let me treat you." Dabao hooked her neck and took her away.
Erbao didn't want to, Erbao was afraid that her brother would tease her: "Dad, save me!"
Geng Zhiye sighed and grabbed Dabao's arm. Dabao resisted instinctively, as if he had hit a huge boulder. He didn't dare to confront him head-on, but he couldn't help but wonder: "Dad, are you over fifty?"
Geng Zhiye dragged him into the courtyard and let go: "Not even fifty."
Ye Fan just came out of the hall and laughed when he heard this: "Yes! Forty-nine years old."
Chu Guangming was stunned, looking like "Uncle Geng actually cares so much about his age."
Dabao was speechless for a moment.
Geng Zhiye couldn't help but clicked his tongue: "What are you doing out here?"
"I'm afraid you'll be harsh." Ye Fan came over and pulled him back to the main room. The moment he entered the door, he turned back and glared at his son.
Dabao scratched his nose uncomfortably.
Chu Guangming asked in a low voice: "What does Aunt Ye mean?"
"Don't make any more trouble." Dabao whispered, "I made my dad angry. Don't expect her to help."
Chu Guangming: "Does Uncle Geng have strong hands?"
Dabao: "Be confident, the '?' can be removed."
"No, isn't he almost fifty?"
Dabao nodded: "So I wonder how he can still be so energetic at such an old age. I am in my prime in my early twenties. Even if I am not as strong as him, I won't be able to hit him like an egg against a stone."
Erbao came out and gave him a basin: "You have so much time to wash vegetables! You hide every time you cook. Are you a rat?"
"It's a pity that you are not a cat. I am not afraid of you." Turning on the light in the yard and seeing the faucet next to the vegetable field, Dabao went to get the water.
Chu Guangming went over to help pick vegetables and asked by the way: "Can you cook?"
"Just because I can, doesn't mean I want to do it." Dabao said.
Chu Guangming was speechless.
Dabao: "Let me tell you, whoever can resist doing these tasks at home will enjoy the blessings."
Chu Guangming was very proud of his tone and couldn't help rolling his eyes at him: "Then why do you wash clothes and shoes every weekend?"
"Isn't it true that if you don't wash or brush, you won't be able to wear it?" Dabao looked resentful, "If I don't wash this week, I will still have to wash it if I save a lot of money next week." After a pause, "It's all my mother's fault. She called me that when I was five or six years old. Wash your own socks. Do you think there is such a child abuser? It makes me feel uncomfortable when I see dirty clothes.”
Chu Guangming didn't want to pay attention to him: "You can wash it yourself. I'll go to the kitchen to see if I can help."
Erbao, grandma and sister were both in the kitchen. Geng Sensen was sitting aside doing nothing, so there was no need for his help. Geng Sensen handed him a small Maza: "Dabao is crazy. If you ignore him, he will calm down after a while."
Chu Guangming thought about Dabao's temperament and wanted to ask: "How can he stay in the laboratory for a whole day like that?"
"Don't tell me, my aunt didn't expect him to choose Aviation University." Geng Sensen said: "I thought he would study economics and management and help my aunt's company after graduation."
In fact, Geng Sensen did not expect that he could last more than a year in the company. He thought that he would be unable to resist resigning in half a year.
Chu Guangming used to be obsessed with making money early. He even thought about going to a technical secondary school before graduating from junior high school. His grandfather insisted on letting him go to high school and take the college entrance examination, and Chu Guangming also wanted to major in teaching to make money.
Thinking about the past, Chu Guangming couldn't help but sigh: "It's really surprising."
Geng Sensen didn't know that he was referring to himself, so he said: "Maybe Dabao thinks that there is no need to go to school to do business. Or maybe he thinks that if he wants to change careers one day, he can learn on the job, so when he applied for a volunteer, he filled in what he was most interested in at the time. ”
Dabao came in with a basin: "I'm also interested now."
Geng Sensen frowned: "Can't you pretend not to hear us chatting?"
Dabao put down the vegetable basin and squeezed in between the two of them with a small horse in his hand.
Geng Sensen was speechless: "I'm going to wash my hands!"
Dabao pulled Chu Guangming up: "Let's go too."
Erbao whispered: "So childish!"
"Er Bao, I heard you."
Erbao was startled: "You, you, who do you belong to?"
"I have clairvoyance and ears for the wind." Dabao made a gun gesture and said "biu" before going out.
Erbao felt tired: "Sister Huihui, are boys always so childish?"
"Maybe." Geng Huihui said, "My colleague is mature in front of students, but also very naive in the office. Grandma, you know why I don't want to fall in love."
Yu Wentao: "I'm not urging you. Grandma is afraid that you will wait until you are thirty. It is easier to find someone in your thirties than in your twenties. Your sister-in-law and Laifu happened to be together."
The house is bustling, Geng Huihui is not lonely, and she is not looking for a partner. However, because her parents have a good relationship and her uncle and aunt have supported each other all these years, Geng Huihui is not resistant to talking about marriage, whether it is her uncle or her aunt: "If there is a suitable one, I will look for it."
Because of her words, Yu Wentao ate half an extra piece of steamed bun at night. After the meal, she complained that she had eaten too much and asked Huihui to walk with her.
Geng Huihui looked at the time and saw that there was still more than half an hour before the TV series started, so he went out with her.
Unexpectedly, it was closed during the day and many people came out at night. But no one was chatting in the alley. They were all wandering around the alley, chatting while walking.
Yu Wentao looked at the two old men in front of them who were leaning on crutches, and whispered: "You are still out at such an old age, and you are not afraid of falling."
Geng Huihui really wants to ask, how long do you live?
In case she said anything more and was overheard, Geng Huihui walked around and persuaded her to go back to the house and wash up.
The next day, Chu Guangming and Dabao went to school. Dabao sat in the car and moved slowly while Chu Guangming used his two legs. Dabao thought he was being annoying and said, "You should also buy a bicycle later."
"I have no money!"
Dabao glared at him: "Say one more thing!"
"What I mean is that I have no money in the eyes of my classmates."
Dabao sighed: "You don't want to buy what everyone usually rides? Everyone knows that you make up lessons for others anyway. When you buy a bicycle, your classmates think you are doing it for the convenience of making up lessons."
"It seems so."
Dabao shook his head helplessly.
"Don't call me stupid!"
Dabao almost couldn't breathe, and said angrily: "Don't come to me if you have any minor problems in the future!"
Chu Guangming gets a headache when he thinks about Fa Xiaojia.
But he had to take care of it even if he didn't want to, unless he wanted to lose this friend.
On Saturday afternoon, Fa Xiao came to school to wait for him, and Chu Guangming told him Dabao's idea. Fa Xiao hesitated: "Do we have to make a scene?"
Chu Guangming: "Your parents and your brother and sister-in-law may hate you because of this incident, but your brother and sister-in-law have a new house and move out, so your parents don't have to cook at the bedside. Think about eating, cooking and sleeping in the summer We are all in the same room, and the flies and mosquitoes are buzzing, don’t you feel uncomfortable?”
When Fa was a child, he lived in a bright and clean building, and his parents were crowded in a large courtyard. He was indeed so ashamed that he couldn't sleep well: "If you hate it, just hate it. As long as they live a good life."
On weekend morning, Chu Guangming's family was all in the courtyard. He confessed to his parents that he had a small house with one bedroom and one living room.
As soon as he said this, before his parents, brother and sister-in-law could react, the neighbors yelled. One asked, "How much does the house cost?" Another asked, "Where can I buy it?" Another asked, "Are you so rich?"
Fa Xiao answered perfunctorily: "The location is not good, it's 40 square meters, which is actually two rooms. It didn't cost much. But I borrowed some from Guangming. I only paid it off during this summer vacation."
The neighbor asked again: "Didn't you buy it recently?"
Fa Xiao: "I saw it years ago and bought it at the beginning of the year."
After the words fell, his parents, brother and sister-in-law changed their faces at the same time, with extremely complicated expressions. When Chu Guangming saw this scene at the door of his house, he felt that his father was going to yell. Since the neighbors were all coming out of the house, he was not jumping and screaming like a lunatic, so he tried his best to endure it.
The little mother hesitated to speak, perhaps unable to find the right words.
The expressions on his brother and sister-in-law's faces were so strange that even though Chu Guangming had tasted all the bitterness and sweetness in the world, he still couldn't understand their expressions.
Fa Xiao added: "It's actually quite spacious. There is a balcony, and the sundries can be placed on the balcony. When friends come, they can set up a bed in the living room." He looked at his brother and said, "It can barely accommodate a family of four."
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Chu Guangming: "It's not very reluctant. Because the kitchen and bathroom are separate. There are two single beds in the living room and a dining table. But this way you can't put a sofa and a TV. But you don't have the money to buy them."
Chu Guangming knew that Faxiao was rich, and Faxiao understood that he said this deliberately and looked at him gratefully.
When he was young, his brother immediately understood why his younger brother dared to persuade him to buy a house. Buy a house in an average location, priced at 700 per square meter, and the whole family can keep their belts tight, and then borrow some from my wife's parents' family, and I can get it.
But colleagues and neighbors say that house prices will fall, and if they fall by four or five hundred, it will be a big loss. In the afternoon, the thief secretly asked his brother when he would go to see the house, and his brother decided to wait. Fa Xiao's eyes went dark. He hesitated for a moment and said nothing. He went to Chu Guangming's house and asked him what to do.
Chu Guangming sighed: "Your brother's brain."
Fa Xiao also wanted to sigh: "Sometimes people cannot blame society for being poor!"
"Yes." Chu Guangming nodded helplessly.
Posted a small question: "How about forgetting it? Don't bother Aunt Ye and her family anymore about my family's affairs. People are generous and don't care about it, so we have to be particular about it."
Chu Guangming thought for a moment: "The last resort is to go to your brother and tell him that if he buys it recently, you can give him two thousand yuan without having to pay it back. If it is after the New Year, he will have to raise the money himself regardless of whether it goes up or down, because there are people I want to introduce you to someone and get married as soon as possible after graduation.”
"Is this okay?"
Chu Guangming: "I will be twenty-two after the New Year, and you are still a little older than me."
"It seems okay. My brother got married early, and my sister-in-law is already my nephew when he is so old." After posting the novel, he went to his brother's room.
His sister-in-law was also at home. His sister-in-law told her mother-in-law that the third child would have found a partner if he wasn't in school, so she had no doubts about what her brother-in-law said. His sister-in-law also knows that once her brother-in-law has a partner, whether or not to borrow money is not his decision alone.
Fa Xiao's brother said: "Dad doesn't agree. I can't afford it with just a few thousand dollars saved."
"I'll go to my parents' house and ask. Then ask my brother and sister to borrow some." Fa's sister-in-law immediately returned to her parents' house when she saw that it was still early.
The next day happened to be the National Day and it was a holiday. Chu Guangming had something to eat and ran to Dabao's house.
Dabao shook his head and sighed: "Here he comes again, here he comes again, Chu Da Guangming is here again!"
Chu Guangming ignored him and walked towards Ye Fan: "Aunt Ye, good morning."
Ye Fan had just had breakfast and was walking back and forth in the courtyard for exercise. He stopped when he heard this and said, "I'm in a good mood. It seems that you have settled your affairs with Xiaojia."
Chu Guangming thought about how to describe it: "It can be said that there is no way out of the mountains and rivers, and there is a bright future in the village. Because I wanted to give his brother some money when I was young, and he wouldn't let his brother pay it back, so his sister-in-law went to her parents' house to raise money. My mother-in-law just found out that her brother’s company has built a new house, and all regular workers can buy it at a discount, which is like two hundred to three square meters, regardless of their working years. His brother’s mother-in-law suggested that he buy an employee welfare house.”
Ye Fan was surprised: "Don't you know that your brother is younger?"
"There should be no notice yet. I suspect that because the National Day holiday cannot be announced, and there is no Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, employees will be happy to announce this." Chu Guangming said.
Ye Fan: "His mother-in-law knows about it, but does your father know about it when you were a child? The old employees have a lot of connections. It seems that his father hasn't retired yet, right?"
Chu Guangming was stunned, remembering something with a complicated face: "His father won't wait for room allocation like some people, right?"
Ye Fan nodded: "Maybe he thinks it's his turn based on his qualifications."
"But if we really want to divide it, how can the factory still ask employees to buy it?"
Ye Fan: "There is another possibility. His father thinks that no one will take advantage of him, and he will have to give it to employees for free in the end."
Dabao couldn't help but said: "When his dad first heard the news, he thought the leader was fooling around. He kept waiting to see the leader's joke and felt there was no need to tell his brother, so his brother never knew about it."
"It's broken! If his father knew that his brother was waiting to buy a welfare house in the factory, why would he still try his best to stop him?" Chu Guangming ran out as he spoke, not caring to say "goodbye" to Ye Fan.
Dabao quickly grabbed him: "Ride my car back."
Chu Guangming didn't know how to ride a bicycle before. During the time when Dabao was familiar with mountain bikes, Chu Guangming saw that his bike was fresh and could not help but learn it after trying it a few times.
Chu Guangming thanked him, got on the car and walked out.
Dabao didn't look at it: "The threshold!"
Chu Guangming hurried down and carried the car out of the front yard.
Fortunately, he found that his younger brother and sister-in-law were busy cleaning up the room, doing laundry and washing dishes, and had not had time to discuss the matter with the two old people. His younger brother didn't think his father was someone who took pleasure in misfortunes. After drying his clothes and shoes, he asked his father to test it out. As a result, Chu Guangming could hear his father roaring in his own room.
After a while, he came in feeling weak, fell weakly on the bed, and asked: "Guangming, are my parents usually very good?"
"Who says otherwise? On New Year's Eve the year before my father passed away, your family cooked two kilograms of meat, and your mother even gave me a bowl."
"There are only a few pieces in total."
"It can also mean that she is kind."
Fa Xiao sat up and sighed: "I really envy Geng Dabao."
Chu Guangming: "Many people in our courtyard say that Aunt Ye is powerful. No man can stand her except Dabao's father."
"This - Aunt Ye does have a strong personality, but she can also listen to advice. Besides, she is courageous but also cautious. You are not saying that some of her relatives asked her to buy antiques. She doesn't understand and never touches it. Even if she buys, she is so Even if you have money, fifty yuan is too expensive.”
This was also a coincidence. Before Ye Fan moved, Chen Xiaohui once went to see Ye Fan. Chu Guangming and him were preparing to play with Dabao when they were young. Fa Xiaohui had never seen Chen Xiaohui before, so he asked if he was a relative of Dabao's family.
Chu Guangming heard Dabao complain that Chen Xiaohui was eager to eat good things when he saw them, so when he saw that he was curious, he couldn't help but say a few words. "I didn't expect you still remember?" Chu Guangming said, "Even if someone knows that she is cautious, they still don't like her character."
He whispered: "I don't think so. As Aunt Ye is willing to take me north, no matter how she criticizes me in the future, I will never forget her kindness. Unfortunately, I am not familiar with her, so she must be too lazy to meddle in her own business."< br>
Chu Guangming really wanted to say, yes. But when he saw that Fa Xiao was similar in age to him and Dabao, but acted like an old man in his twilight years, he was reluctant to tell the truth: "If your father doesn't get a house in the future, your father must blame it because your brother bought a house and occupied the quota."
He shivered and shook his head: "It doesn't matter if it's newly built. The dormitories are single dormitories one by one, that kind of tube building. In the past, the factory had dormitories. When the factory leaders knew that my family had a house, they discussed with my dad and arranged for those who didn't have a house. , my dad gave it to his colleagues. It seems that my brother was promoted to a regular position because of his high integrity. If the factory leaders knew that my dad was talking behind his back this time, he would definitely regret giving my brother a regular job.”
As the words fell and footsteps approached, Chu Guangming hurriedly swallowed back the words that were on his lips.
When I was young, his brother came in. He had gone out after a quarrel with his father. There were his colleagues nearby, and he asked his colleagues about the house.
Colleagues told him that each room had one price, and the one with the better orientation was more expensive, so that because the prices were the same, some people thought he was taking advantage and she would suffer.
When he was a child, his brother asked Chu Guangming: "There is a house with two bedrooms and one living room, a bathroom and a kitchen, but it is very small, only a few square meters in total. The living room is also small and faces north. Only one of the two bedrooms has a balcony facing south. , Not counting the 40 square meters of the balcony, it’s 210 square meters, what do you think?”
Chu Guangming: "Can one bedroom be divided into two?"
His brother nodded: "Okay. Add a plywood board from the middle of the window. My colleague said that we can also put two small desks and two small wardrobes."
Chu Guangming: "It's nice to be able to live a family of four without setting up a bed in the living room. If your son and daughter find the room too small and uncomfortable, buy a couch and sleep in the living room when they get tired of sleeping in the house."
"But we need eight thousand. Our family only has four thousand. Including my brother's two thousand, there is still a shortfall of two thousand."
Chu Guangming was young: "Your mother-in-law, five hundred, and your sister-in-law, brother-in-law, and sister-in-law each have five hundred, isn't that enough? You and your sister-in-law both work, and you can pay it off in a few years."
Faxiao's brother sighed: "Actually, there is no need to borrow money."
Chu Guangming vaguely understood something: "You mean to ask your brother to go with you to find your father? No, big brother, this is your business. You can't let your brother contribute money and effort. He made your father half angry to death, and you become What a good son.”
Fa Xiao's brother also felt that he was not authentic and was too embarrassed to talk about it directly.
Chu Guangming: "I want four thousand yuan from your father. If you keep asking for a few more days, your father will definitely give you two thousand yuan."
When he was young, his brother suddenly felt that there was no need to end up having a family just for a small house. The father was not the father and the mother was not the mother. He responded casually and went home.
If he couldn't afford it, his wife would be too embarrassed to make a fuss. Seeing the opportunity, she still had two thousand yuan that she didn't have to pay back. The daughter-in-law, who had never dared to speak loudly in front of her parents-in-law, saw that her husband hesitated, and she was so angry that she made a fuss with her parents-in-law.
No matter how hard the neighbors tried to persuade him, it was of no use, so he persuaded the two old men instead - since his son's money was in his hands, he could just give it to his son. In the end, he was only given three thousand yuan.
Fa Xiao heard it clearly at Chu Guangming's house and couldn't help but say: "My brother's salary is five to six thousand. My dad must feel that after deducting the living expenses of his family of four, he only owes my brother three thousand."< br>
"Your nephew and niece are only in elementary school and don't eat much. How much can your brother and sister-in-law spend if they don't come back at noon? Your father is very generous to me, an outsider, so why is he so stingy to your brother?"
Even as a child, he couldn’t figure it out: “It’s okay to have an extra thousand dollars, I can buy furniture.”
Chu Guangming was always afraid that something unexpected would happen at the end of the day, which would bring him to tears because of minor worries, so he only stayed at Dabao's house for half a day in the morning on weekends, went back to the courtyard to cook at noon, and stayed at home to read in the afternoon, while keeping an eye on Fa Xiao's house.
At the end of October, when the house was bought, Fa's father learned about it from the old leader. The leader praised his family's high consciousness. He couldn't tell the truth. When he got home, he yelled at his son for being stupid and insinuated against his daughter-in-law, as if she had incited him to buy the house.
The daughter-in-law was so angry that she just asked someone to paint the walls, asked Zhang Xiaoming to borrow a three-bouncer to buy a few small things, and bought a few beds. When she heard that she didn't even buy a dining table or chairs, she took the children and moved away.
Within a few days, Chu Guangming used the excuse of being busy at school to lock the door and go live on campus. In fact, he went to his home. He found that his eldest brother and his family moved out and his parents lived in a spacious place. He didn't have to feel guilty, so he stopped going back to the courtyard.
The neighbor was envious of his two sons for moving out, but was sad that they had raised them in vain.
Chu Guangming didn't know about this, but Ye Fan heard what Zhang Xiaoming said. Zhang Xiaoming stared at his little daughter playing at the door in the evening. Because he lived close by, people from the courtyard chatted with him, saying that his son was sometimes less useful than his daughter, and then they brought up Chu Guangming's childhood.
Ye Fan came back from the north and gave Zhang Xiaoming his share. Zhang Xiaoming took Ye Fan's ride to the bank and they chatted about it.
Zhang Xiaoming sighed: "I heard from people in the courtyard that Guangmingfa's father had 10,000 yuan in his hand. Both sons were angry with him, so what's the use of keeping the money."
Ye Fan: "I hired a nanny."
Zhang Xiaoming: "If he has the consciousness to hire a nanny, he can't object to his son buying a house."
Ye Fan was very happy: "It's all the same."
Wei Jianshe was also in the car, and Ye Fan said: "Jianshe, follow me to Yongcheng in two days. The mold is ready. Because we need to test the mold, we have to stay there for a few days. Just tell Xiaoru."< br>
"Is the mold pulled this way?"
Ye Fan nodded: "When computers become famous, we will set up a factory in Yongcheng."
"Aren't you going to Hangzhou? I heard Su Yuanhang said that."
Ye Fan: "He is also happy with Yongcheng. When Yongcheng develops, only when the city has money can we build schools on the island. If Su Yuanhang really wants to choose between Yongcheng or Hangzhou, he will definitely prefer Yongcheng because of the people on the island. You can work in the factory.”
"Hey, as long as he doesn't have any objections, it's fine. No matter where you go, no one will dare to bully you with him."
Ye Fan nodded: "Yes."
"What date?"
Ye Fan: "I'll call home in the afternoon and ask."
In the afternoon, Ye Fan called the mold factory, but they were hesitant. Ye Fan guessed that they wanted to delay the call again, so he said he would be there in five days.
Five days later, Ye Fan was unable to try out the mold, and he had to wait another day before he could barely do it. Ye Fan took out the contract with a cold face: "Refund it!"
Everyone changed their faces collectively.
Then the factory leader explained that he was too pressed for time.
But it's already a week overdue.
Ye Fan asked Su Duofu to inquire. Under normal circumstances, he could test the model ten days in advance because the contract originally took factors such as accidents into consideration, so there was plenty of time. Ye Fan didn't understand what he was doing and was not interested in knowing: "Then let's go to court?"
The factory leader nodded without thinking: "Yes!"
Ye Fan sneered and asked Wei Jianshe to accompany her to the city hall after leaving the door.
(End of chapter)
The author said: Probably not at nine o'clock