sbdcsierra Chapter 1419: Pie in the sky
Chapter 1419: Pie in the sky
Chapter 1419: Pie in the sky
"Woof woof woof..." Amid the continuous barking of dogs, Li Ruhai escorted the two people out of the Zhao family compound.
The moment he stepped out of the hospital gate, Li Ruhai stopped, raised his hands and clasped his fists, with a smile on his face.
"You two!" Li Ruhai said with a smile, "I'm sorry I can't see you off."
After seeing off the man who came to sell yellow leaves, Li Ruhai turned around and walked happily into the yard.
While Zhao Youcai and Wang Qiang were overwhelmed by the welcoming and seeing off of guests, Li Ruhai was doing it like a fish in water.
After entering Zhao's house, Li Ruhai walked into the east room and saw Xing San lying on the kang with his legs hanging outside the kang.
"Oh my god!" Li Ruhai rushed over, and his shout scared the old man. Xing San raised his head and asked, "What are you shouting for? You scared me!"
"Uncle, are you okay?" Li Ruhai let out a long sigh and said, "You scared me. Where did you go? I thought you had a heart attack."
"I..." Xing San was about to get angry, but thinking that this boy cared about him, he thought about it and let it go.
Li Ruhai was also perceptive. He went over to help Xing San up and said, "Uncle San, you always want to lie down. You are lying down right now. It's not comfortable to lie like this."
"How can I lie down?" Xing San frowned and said, "You've been talking all day, but there are still people coming."
Li Ruhai smiled faintly, looked up at the clock on the wall, and said, "Oh, it's already half past two. This day has passed too quickly."
"How can time go by so fast? I feel like it's going by so slowly!" The old man murmured to himself with a sad face, "How can my second brother do such a job at home?"
As soon as Xing San finished speaking, he heard the sound of dogs barking from the house.
Xing San shuddered and stretched his neck to look outside. When he turned back to instruct Li Ruhai to go out to greet the guests, Li Ruhai had already reached the door.
"Oh!" Xing San sighed.
After a while, Li Ruhai came in with an old man. As soon as the old man entered the room, he recognized Xing San and immediately said with a smile: "Hey, Brother Xing San, why are you here?"
"Ah, I'll show them the house." Xing San simply responded, and then Li Ruhai said, "Old Uncle Liu, it's great that you know my Third Uncle. Hurry up and get on the kang. It's cold, isn't it?"
The old man surnamed Liu got on the kang, and Xing San, who was sitting opposite him, handed him a small basket of tobacco leaves and said, "Have a smoke."
Old Liutou responded and took the small basket. Meanwhile, Li Ruhai had already poured water for Old Liutou.
After placing the teacup in front of Old Liutou, Li Ruhai sat sideways on the edge of the kang outside Xing San.
"Mr. Liu," Li Ruhai asked with a smile, "Where are you from?"
"From Shenjia River..." Old Liutou just started to speak when Li Ruhai said, "Ah!", "Shenjia River, isn't it almost Fenghuang Mountain? Did you walk here?"
"Ah." The old man smiled. Li Ruhai asked again, "How old are you this year?"
"Sixty-five." Old Liutou answered. Li Ruhai praised him, "You are in pretty good shape."
"Not bad, not bad." Old Liu had already finished rolling up his cigarette while speaking. At this time, Li Ruhai asked again, "How many people are there in your family?"
At this time, Xing San put his hands in his sleeves and turned his face to the window. If he was not afraid of ruining the Zhao family's business, the old man would have scolded him long ago.
According to Xing San's idea, when someone comes, he will look at what he wants to sell, take out something and inspect it. If he feels the goods are good, he will buy them, and after buying, he will send him away.
But as soon as someone came, Li Ruhai started talking incessantly, his mouth was never idle. Xing San felt tired just listening to him, but Li Ruhai became more energetic the more he talked.
Xing San had known that Li Ruhai was a chatterbox, but he had never thought he would go to such an extent. Whenever someone came today, this guy would check their household registration, asking about their personal situation, family situation, interpersonal relationships, and financial sources.
Finally, he even asked about people’s food rations and the storage of autumn vegetables.
From early morning till now, whenever Xing San heard Li Ruhai talking, the old man felt his head buzzing.
Suddenly, there was a sound of a dog barking outside the house. The barking was rapid, and Xing San, who had stayed at the Zhao family for two days, could easily distinguish the dog's barking.
The dog's barking sounded like someone coming home. Xing San stretched his neck excitedly to look outside the house, while Li Ruhai's little face showed some disappointment.
A motorcycle drove into the Zhao family's yard. Wang Qiang parked the motorcycle in front of the warehouse, and then he and Zhao Youcai hurried into the house.
At this time, the temperature outside was as low as minus 30 degrees Celsius, and the two men were frozen after riding the motorcycle.
Seeing Zhao Youcai and Wang Qiang running towards the door, Xing San hurriedly got off the kang and prepared to hand over the shift to Zhao Youcai.
Zhao Youcai and Wang Qiang came in. Although they didn't know Old Liutou, they knew that visitors were guests, so they nodded to him.
Then, the two of them hurriedly took off their freezing coats.
After taking off his clothes, Zhao Youcai turned around and saw Xing San handing the account book to him.
Zhao Youcai was stunned, but Xing San didn't wait for him to react, he stuffed the account book into his arms and said, "Second brother, get on the kang and warm up."
After saying that, Xing San quickly walked towards the west room, leaving Zhao Youcai stunned.
After Zhao Youcai sent Old Liutou away, Wang Meilan came back with the women. Each of them was carrying a water bottle filled with ground soy milk.
Since there was nothing to do today, and mainly because there was nothing to eat at home, Wang Meilan took people to the Zhang family's villa to grind beans.
The Zhao family's little donkey didn't need anyone to lead it. It held the reins in its mouth and followed Wang Meilan home.
After entering the yard, the little donkey quickened its pace and went back to the backyard.
Seeing that everyone had returned, Xing San came out of the west room. It wasn't that the old man was lazy, but that Xing San had to beg for mercy on this day.
After entering the house, Wang Meilan was busy cleaning the pot and cooking soy milk. Seeing Wang Qiang coming out of the east room, Wang Meilan asked, "Qiangzi, how are you and your brother-in-law doing today? Did you catch the big claw?"
“I didn’t catch up.” Although he didn’t catch up, Wang Qiang didn’t show any disappointment. He smiled and said, “The big claw went to the other side of the dawn.”
Wang Qiang is very satisfied with the current result. The big claw ran to the Shuguang forest area, and the security guards of Shuguang Forest Farm will take care of it.
"Ah..." After hearing what Wang Qiang said, Wang Meilan asked again, "How long have you been back?"
"I just came back a little while ago." After saying this, Wang Qiang lowered his voice and said, "That's it, my brother-in-law hasn't come back yet, and he has to go to Shuguang to kowtow."
Wang Meilan's mouth twitched, and she suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly asked Wang Qiang: "Hey, Qiangzi, you didn't eat lunch, right? Well, I'll cook two dumplings for you two."
"Why are you still cooking dumplings?" Wang Qiang pointed to the tip of the soy milk bottle on the ground and said with a smile, "Cook soy milk, it will be great for us to drink."
"That's right!" Wang Meilan said with a smile, "I'm going to go out and tie up the donkey. I'll get you some trough cakes to eat with soy milk."
As soon as the homemade soy milk is boiled, the house is instantly filled with the aroma of beans.
Wang Qiang stood aside on the ground branch in the outer room. There were many large bowls on the table. Li Tongyun held a small helmet filled with sugar in one hand and used a small spoon to scoop sugar from the helmet and pour it into the bowls.
When the soy milk was boiling, Wang Meilan used a gourd ladle to scoop the soy milk into the bowls. She poured more than half a bowl into each bowl, and everyone picked up their bowls and drank the soy milk in small sips.
After taking a sip, a white circle appeared around the mouth. In the blink of an eye, everyone in the room had a white mouth.
At some point, the little lynx ran to Wang Meilan's legs, tilted its head and rubbed her calves twice.
"You don't want to drink it." Wang Meilan said, but she still handed the bowl to the little lynx. And the little lynx did as Wang Meilan said, sniffed it, turned around and left.
"Oh my!" Wang Meilan picked up the bowl and sighed, saying, "If Xiao Hei was at home, he would definitely be able to drink this."
"I wonder what happened to that little thing?" Xie Sun muttered. Jin Xiaomei said, "I think it was in the circus a while ago."
……
Zhao Weipeng’s home in Jinxi.
It was still the room where Zhao Jun and the other two slept yesterday. Zhao Jun, Li Baoyu, Jie Chen, Zhao Jinhui, and Wen Ming were sitting in a circle on the kang, with the little black bear gnawing on crabs in the middle.
"Oh my, this little thing is really powerful!" Seeing the little black bear biting open the crab's claws with its teeth and gnawing on the meat inside with its head tilted, Zhao Jinhui pointed at it and said in amazement: "Look how useful its little teeth are. It just snapped the claws open in one go."
After hearing what Zhao Jinhui said, Zhao Jun laughed and said, "When it grows big, it will bite people's heads with a crunching sound."
Zhao Jinhui and Wen Ming: "..."
The lunch lasted until five o'clock, until it was dark. Zhao Weipeng was so drunk that he refused to let the Wen family father and son leave.
Zhao Weipeng's house has six large rooms, so there is no shortage of room for guests. Liang Xuemei cleaned up the rooms for the Wen father and son and the driver. Wen Ming and Zhao Jun, his peers, chatted for a while, and then yawned unconsciously.
The alcohol is taking effect.
So Wen Ming went back to his room to rest, while Li Baoyu, Jie Chen and Zhao Jinhui all lay down to sleep.
As expected of father and son, Zhao Jinhui not only resembles Zhao Weipeng in body shape, but also snores with a "hum hum" sound, which the little black bear feels very familiar with.
Zhao Jun was the only one sitting in the room. He got off the kang and went to the bathroom.
These days, Boss Zhao's house has an indoor bathroom. Although the toilet is either a sit-down or squat toilet, it can flush and has automatic water supply.
Not only that, they had a separate boiler room at the back, and hired someone to run the boiler for them. A small cart of coal was used every day to keep the six large rooms warm.
Zhao Jun came out of the bathroom. Liang Xuemei, who heard the noise, came out and asked, "Xiaojun, what are you going to eat tonight?"
"I don't want to eat anything, auntie." Zhao Jun said with a smile, "It's only been a while since we left the table. You're still full now."
"Then I'll wash the fruit for you." Liang Xuemei said so, and Zhao Jun quickly refused. He really couldn't even eat the fruit.
At this time, there were sounds of dogs barking outside the house. Liang Xuemei went out to take a look, then returned to her and Zhao Weipeng's room and called Zhao Weipeng out.
Zhao Weipeng's plaid figure was not in vain. Although he drank a lot, he just put on a cotton jacket and went out staggeringly.
"Uncle, where are you going?" Zhao Jun asked, "Where are you going, you drunkard? I'll go with you."
"Okay!" Zhao Weipeng's body tilted, but his mind was clear. He knew that he might not be able to leave, so he did not refuse Zhao Jun's kindness.
At this time, Liang Xuemei came out from the inner room. When she heard that Zhao Jun was going to accompany Zhao Weipeng, she looked at Zhao Jun with gratitude.
"What is Dapeng doing?" Old Mrs. Zhao came out and asked when she heard the voice. Liang Xuemei said, "Mom, call him."
"Xiaojun will go with him?" Looking at Zhao Jun who was going out with Zhao Weipeng, Mrs. Zhao said, "This child is really good."
"Yes." Liang Xuemei said, "I thought about going with him, but he was so shaky and I couldn't do anything about him. Xiaojun is going, so I don't have to go."
"Yes!" Mrs. Zhao nodded, and then said to Liang Xuemei, "See which family has gone out to sea in the next two days. Pick out the best crabs, shrimps, and fish, buy more, and take them back for the three children after they leave."
"Mom, I know." Liang Xuemei said, "Jin Hui's father told me a long time ago, and I finalized it with Xiao Liangzi the day before yesterday."
……
Zhao Jun helped Zhao Weipeng to the village office. Zhao Weipeng picked up the phone and talked for a long time before hanging up.
Then, Zhao Weipeng handed a cigarette to the man who was watching the house, thanked him, and then walked back with the help of Zhao Jun.
After arriving home, Zhao Weipeng actually followed Zhao Jun and walked towards the room where Zhao Jun and others were resting.
Zhao Jun felt something was wrong, but he didn't dare to ask. At this moment, Liang Xuemei chased over, pushed Zhao Weipeng, and said, "Are you drunk? Why are you walking towards your son's room?"
"Ah, let me talk to Xiaojun." Zhao Weipeng sent Liang Xuemei away and went back to the room with Zhao Jun.
As soon as I entered the room, I heard snoring sounds one after another.
Among them, Zhao Jinhui's snoring is the loudest.
Hearing the snoring sound, Zhao Weipeng frowned and said, "This child's sleep sounds like thunder."
Zhao Jun blinked his eyes twice without saying anything, and Zhao Weipeng asked him to sit down, then said to Zhao Jun: "Uncle has something to tell you."
"Go ahead, uncle." Zhao Jun finished speaking, and then he heard Zhao Weipeng say, "I told you this morning that the 212 has dropped in value again."
"Ah?" Zhao Jun was stunned, and then he heard Zhao Weipeng continue: "Sixteen thousand."
"How much?" Zhao Jun was shocked by the price.
When the Zhao family went to the city to buy their first TV, Wang Meilan asked the salesperson and learned that a 212-inch TV would cost to yuan. If they could buy it for yuan, they would save nearly yuan, more than half.
At this price, a used car would be fine too!
But Zhao Jun felt that this kind of pie-in-the-sky thing was unreliable and he was afraid that there must be something wrong.
"Uncle," Zhao Jun asked Zhao Weipeng, "Is the car okay?"
"Absolutely no problem." Zhao Weipeng said firmly: "I've driven that car before. I bought it new... only half a year at most."
"Uncle, then..." Zhao Jun frowned slightly, and after thinking for a while, he said, "What is your relationship with the man who sold the car?"
After saying this, Zhao Jun quickly added: "Uncle, if this person is your relative or friend, then I dare to buy this car. Otherwise, I dare not, because I am afraid there is something fishy going on."
Hearing what Zhao Jun said, Zhao Weipeng smiled and said, "It is certain that there is a buckle."
"What?" Zhao Jun was shocked and wondered what this meant.
There will be an update today, but it will be a little late. Brothers, you are sleepy, so go to bed first.
(End of this chapter)