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Liu Chuan came here with Liu Wei. Liu Wei had finished her exams a few days ago. Because of the heavy rain, Liu Chuan was afraid that the road to the kiln would be dangerous, so he was not allowed to go, and asked him to wait for Su Xiaohui to finish her work after the college entrance examination. Ended up walking with her.

As soon as Liu Wei saw the cat, she asked excitedly: "My third uncle said that you have been assigned to a fund-raising house. I can't believe it. Is it real?"

The cat dragged him out of the house, leaned on the railing and pointed to the new building opposite: "Did you see, the building on the east, the first floor, the third balcony from the east, it's big and beautiful, three big rooms , the living room can also be large, and there is also a large dining room, which is not used for anything, and is dedicated to eating there.

Brother Xiaowei, when my uncle and I move in, you and Brother Xiaorui will also come to live here, and then grandma and mother will also come, and our house will live together, so lively. "

Liu Chuan stood in front of the electric fan and fanned his undershirt for a while, then sat in front of Liu Xia, took out a kraft paper envelope from his bag and put it on his lap: "Boy, this is 1000 yuan, plus these, how much is the difference now? "

Liu Xia looked at Liu Chuan and said nothing.

Mao'er and Liu Wei just opened the curtain and came in, saying, "That's enough for Third Uncle, and there's seven hundred more."

Liu Chuan laughed happily: "Your work unit is really awesome, boy, you have been working for half a year as third brother in a month, and the traffic team with the highest bonus in my bureau can't compare with you. If they can pay 100 a month I am extremely happy, usually more than [-] points."

Liu Xia leaned against the wall, stretched out his long legs, and got cool on the clean concrete floor: "Brother, where did you get the money?"

Liu Chuan pulled Liu Xia's head by his ears and turned him to face him: "Xiaoxia, you underestimate third brother so much, the Public Security Bureau is a good unit in Rongze, and your third brother also goes to work five or six times anyway. It’s been a year, can you still save 1000 yuan?”

Liu Xia nodded seriously: "You can't save it, I heard Ma Xiaojun and the others said about the salary and bonus situation in your unit, just because you subsidize the family so much every year, and Xiao Wei put Rong Ze to school and you take care of the children's meals, I'm a pig brain It can also be calculated, and it is impossible for you to have any extra money at all."

Liu Chuan let go, and patted Liu Xia's head: "Well, if you think so after hearing Ma Xiaojun's words, then you're right, he smokes and drinks a lot, and he wants to buy everything fashionable, let alone If he saves it, he has to ask his uncle to subsidize dozens of yuan every month to get through the end of the month. Your third brother doesn't have his bad habits.

Boy, after having Xiaoyun and Xiaolei, my uncle and my mother said that I don’t want any money from me and your third sister-in-law. I only spend about [-] yuan a year to buy food for my family. The canteen at my unit is cheap. You also know that the teacher's cafeteria in your third sister-in-law's unit is also cheap. We usually eat at the unit, so it really doesn't cost much.

Xiaowei came to Rongze to go to school, I should have spent more money, but every time before you left, you would secretly write some money to Xiaowei and our elder brother, our elder brother never let Xiaowei lack money, and the child also Sensible, usually very economical, except for school supplies, I don't want to spend a penny, I haven't spent a few dollars on him, and the baby is right here, if you don't believe me, you can ask him. "

Liu Wei looked at the TV and said, "You have bought my clothes and all my school supplies for the past few years, and you have paid for my tuition fees. My uncle won't believe me if I make up nonsense."

Liu Chuan said helplessly: "Xiaowei, you just deliberately demolished the third uncle's platform!"

Liu Wei said: "What I say is true!"

Liu Chuan had no choice but to pretend that he didn't hear Liu Wei's words, and continued to say to Liu Xia: "I don't care about your third sister-in-law, but our family has many brothers, and our uncle and mother are getting older, so I still think it's worth it. Save some money.

In the past two years, my unit’s bonus has also been a bit higher. I set a rule for myself that no matter how nervous I am every month, I must save 30 yuan. I didn’t even touch this money when your sixth brother went abroad. I was afraid that my uncle, my mother, or my family In case of any accident, I'm close to home, and I can't lose a penny in a hurry.

It’s really not easy for you to get a room this time, baby, we have to ask for everything, I’ve thought about it for the past two days, my uncle and my mother are not bad now, and I’m sure we won’t need the money for a while, so……"

Without saying a word, Liu Xia picked up the envelope and lay down, resting his head on Liu Chuan's lap, turning over and over to look at the envelope in his hand.

He knew that Liu Chuan's words were half true and half false. The 1000 yuan must have been saved by Liu Chuan himself, but he must have borrowed it. Otherwise, if it was really all private money saved by Liu Chuan himself, he would definitely know that Liu Xia didn't have enough money. Send the money as soon as possible, it is impossible to wait until now.

The few days that were missed in the middle were the time when Liu Chuan was weighing who was the most suitable to borrow money from.

Liu Xia accepted Liu Chuan's money, and he knew that he couldn't push it away, so he didn't make those vain concessions. In the future, he will have a long life, and he will have many opportunities to help the third brother.

But Maoer thought of another question: "Uncle San, you gave all the money to my uncle. Xiaoyun and Xiaolei will go to kindergarten in a few days. What are you doing? I heard that kindergarten is only a few days a month." Ten."

Liu Chuan seemed to be relieved and said: "Those two brats won't be able to go to kindergarten this year. People from the office of my unit contacted the kindergarten in the office. What they said they needed to check and accept was the acceptance of their system.

But the old houses in the kindergarten were too bad. They were red-tiled houses built in the 60s. They were the same as the old wards in Wangning Health Center. The walls were still earthen walls, which didn’t meet the requirements. The government had approved them to build a new building.

I passed by your school for work early this morning. I went to the kindergarten to have a look. Their house has been completely demolished, and there is a notice posted at the door. The kindergarten will be closed for one year and will not start enrolling students until next year.

In addition to government kindergartens, Rongze has a private kindergarten run by the labor union. I inquired about it today, and they said that there are only a few wives in their 60s and [-]s in that kindergarten. It’s okay to retire, and the family is not rich, so they opened it together. opened a kindergarten.

If I send Xiaoyun and Xiaolei to them, I'm afraid that some old ladies will be killed, so I'd better tell them to stay home and let our mother and sister-in-law look at it. "

Hearing that the two little guys don't need to go to kindergarten, even Liu Xia and Mao'er felt relieved.

Not to mention how noisy those two little Hades might be when they came back, think about the last time I went home and said that I would take the two little guys to Rongze to go to kindergarten, it might take about half a month to go home once, Sun Chang'e and Xiumei Tears began to fall at that time, and Liu Xia and Mao'er couldn't bear to look at it.

At the same time, those two little fellows are also quite annoying, as long as they leave Liujialing, they will lose their souls.

During the summer vacation last year, Su Xiaohui's parents missed their grandchildren and asked to take them back to live for a while. Liu Chuan and Su Xiaohui managed to bring them out, but the two little things wanted to abduct them before they arrived in Rongze. Finally, they got their grandma At home, the two of them stopped working after less than three hours, and they had to go back to find grandma and mother after making a fuss, and their voices were hoarse from crying.

That day Su Xiaohui had just walked for tens of miles in the morning, and she couldn't walk anymore in the afternoon. Liu Chuan sent the two little Hades back to Liujialing overnight by himself, and was almost tortured to death by the two little guys along the way.

Liu Xia said: "It's just right, I think when you are older, your child should sleep until he wakes up naturally every day, and play casually all day long. When you are young, you ask your child to sit in the classroom and learn this and that every day. It's so pitiful."

Liu Chuan looked at Mao'er: "Did you hear that? Your uncle is just coquettish. It's so pitiful to see other children going to school."

Mao'er said innocently: "I'm not delicate. Grandma said I'm like a stone egg. I'm the most down-to-earth. I wanted to go to school with my uncle when I was two years old."

Liu Xia said: "No, I just look at our family and feel distressed when the child wakes up to go to school early in the morning. I don't feel it at other people's family."

Liu Wei smiled and said to Liu Xia: "Uncle, you don't dare to say it anymore, the cat doesn't want to go to school now, you say it again, he really dares not to go to school at home, anyway, you don't want to slap him. "

Liu Xia said very seriously: "Who said that? If he dares not go to school, I would be willing to slap him ten times."

Mao'er jumped on Liu Xia all at once, stuck his head in the crook of his neck, and said, "Hey, I'm not going to learn now, you hit and hit and hit!"

Liu Xia was so arched that his neck was itchy, he laughed and slapped his ass twice.

The cat went crazy, yelling "How dare you hit me", kicked and kicked Liu Xia more fiercely, Liu Chuan almost fell down because of the quarrel between the two of them, Liu Wei hurried over to pull him, and the room laughed and shouted. There was a lot of noise.

Liu Xia didn't expect that what Liu Chuan said casually, he would get in touch with their unit within a few days.

When Liu Xia went to Ma Qianli's office to hand in the final measurement report, Ma Qianli was talking on the phone about the project cost. Ma Qianli said that he had passed by the kindergarten for some business before, and knew that the kindergarten was about seven or eight mu. It doesn't cost much money to complete a small project, so there is really no room for discounts.

Ma Qianli put up the phone, and when Liu Xia handed him the report, he asked directly: "Captain, if we accept the kindergarten project, I would like to participate."

Ma Qianli flipped through the report and glanced at him: "I don't have enough rent for a job outside in such a hot day?"

Liu Xia smiled: "It's almost."

Ma Qianli nodded: "The unprogressive bastards in the construction company have done us a good job. Recently, we will not be short of projects to do, and we all work nearby.

I originally wanted you to rest for a while and finish the report of the Yellow Commission first. If you don’t worry about it, it’s been more than half a year, and you have to give them an explanation. But if you really want to do engineering, you can do it anyway. At the door of the house, go early in the morning, come back when the weather is hot, and get all kinds of subsidies. "

Liu Xia said: "Most of the Yellow Committee has already come out. Projects like kindergartens will only take a few days, and there will be no delay. At most half a month, I will definitely hand over the complete report to you."

Ma Qianli asked: "Is it enough for you to become a regular in one year?"

Liu Xia said: "There are still eight days left. I followed you to report on the 23rd last year."

"That's enough. Tell Chu Yuan to complete the procedures quickly. You can lead the team independently for small projects in the future. However, for large projects, you have to run a few more times with the old engineers to accumulate some experience."

Liu Xia suppressed his heartbeat: "I know."

Two days later, Liu Xia started the kindergarten project with Wu Xiaolin and a few workers from the first construction team who had just finished a project and were about to come back to rest.

Mao'er scratches his head every day and wants to go to the construction site to watch Liu Xia's homework, but if he goes out, Liu Xia will not have rock sugar mung bean soup and delicious lunch when he comes back. The little guy is quite depressed because of this. Ma Pengcheng and Chu Hao, who were doing homework with him, were very upset. They both wished that the adults at home would go out at dawn and come back when they should go to bed. Otherwise, they would be repaired countless times a day.

But within two days, the cat discovered that he could have made porridge and fried vegetables early in the afternoon to find his uncle, and then came back with him. When he came back, the porridge and vegetables were cold, and he was eating comfortably.

From that day on, Maoer went to the construction site to find Liu Xia at around 20:[-] pm every day. From the kindergarten to the traffic bureau and labor bureau, for [-] consecutive days, Liu Xia and Maoer went home together at dusk every day. Both are very fond of it.

Mao'er secretly thought, if he goes to college in the future, should he also apply to his uncle's school, so that he can go to work with his uncle every day like Wu Xiaolin in the future.

However, unlike Mao'er's pure and carefree happiness every day, Liu Xia has been secretly worrying in his heart. His regularization procedures have been completed, and now he is independently leading the work of these small projects, but even With an extra 4000 yuan per month as a team leader's subsidy, he still wouldn't be able to earn [-] yuan for the house payment by the National Day.

The time has entered August in the solar calendar, and the dog days are extremely hot. Except for the two surveying and mapping teams led by Bu Ming and Luo Shuiwang, the team has not stopped working because Party A has requirements for the construction period. The team led by Liu Xia has been working non-stop. The ground is dry, and most of the other front-line personnel are resting.

This afternoon, when Liu Xia and several other members of the team were about to finish work in the new office area of ​​the department store, Liu Chuan drove over. He didn't let Liu Xia and Mao'er go home, and Liu Xia went to a construction site not far away. On the way, I washed it under the tap, then got into Liu Chuan's car and arrived at Gudu intersection.

When Liu Xia got out of the car, he saw a large table selling mutton skewers, a few people sitting at the table closest to the street, Liu Changxing, Su Xiaohui, Jin Huan, Yin Huan, and the second sister Liu Yuzhi.

Liu Xia and Mao'er ran over excitedly, and Liu Changxing and the others also stood up.

Mao'er used to see his two aunts two or three times a year, but he was still relatively close to his aunts, especially his second aunt Yuzhi.

After Liu Xia and Yuzhi greeted each other affectionately, they talked to Liu Changxing first, while Yuzhi held the cat and couldn't bear to let go: "Boy, I haven't seen you in half a year. You have grown so much taller, and you are so much whiter. Li Haier is exactly the same, no, she is more foreign and beautiful than Li Haier in the city!"

Mao'er was wearing the blue sports shorts and white sweater that Liu Xia bought for him in the Yuancheng Sports Clothing Store. He looked clean and fresh, and his small face, which inherited the advantages of Liu Mao and Xu Xiaohong, was very handsome. The expression she exudes is too wild and mischievous, and her appearance is more attractive than that of a girl.

What Maoer likes most is when people praise him for being taller. Hearing this, he straightened his back and stood in front of Yuzhi: "Let's compare, I'm going to be taller than you, Ergu?"

Yuzhi is about 1.6 meters five, and Maoer is about 1.5 meters now. He couldn't compare, so he jumped up and said, "It's almost over you. Look, it's over Ergu."

Yuzhi smiled happily and said: "That's right, my child is only 12 years old and he will soon surpass my aunt. In two years, I will surpass your uncle. My child, stop jumping. I'm so hot. If you want to eat, my aunt will give you something." .”

The cat said: "Just eat mutton skewers, sprinkle more chili and cumin, my uncle is delicious and spicy."

It was a coincidence that these people got together. Yuzhi belonged to the private teachers who had just become full-time teachers in the past two years. The county education bureau asked them to go to the training school for two weeks and report today.

The training school is in the old city, west of Rongze High School, very close to where Liu Chuan lives now. When she went to visit Liu Chuan, she happened to meet Liu Changxing who also went to Liu Chuan to discuss Jin Huan's marriage.

Jin Huan's father is Liu Chang'an, and Liu Changxing is the uncle of Jin Huan and Yin Huan.

Liu Changan has never left Liujialing for many years, and he knows little about the outside world. Now that his daughter has met someone in Rongze and is going to talk about marriage, it was time for him and his wife to meet their future in-laws and talk about the progress of the marriage. Some necessary procedures and gifts, but he felt that if the husband and wife came forward, it would embarrass the daughter in front of her husband's family, so he refused to come, and finally had to let Liu Changxing come and the husband's house. discussion.

Jinhuan's target, Li Weidong, is a maintenance worker in a clothing factory. His family is in Donglong Township, east of Rongze County. He is a contract worker.

It turned out that Li Weidong's parents disliked Jinhuan as a temporary worker, and they didn't agree with their marriage, but Li Weidong was determined not to marry Jinhuan.

Li Weidong's mother secretly went to the clothing factory behind his back, and asked the guard at the gate to call Jin Huan out. Originally, she planned to say something nasty, so that Jin Huan would respond, and then took the initiative to ask Li Weidong to cut off love and concern.

As soon as she saw the handsome Jin Huan herself, the shrewd woman immediately changed her mind, she gently reprimanded her son for being young and rude, and did not tell his parents about his relationship with Jin Huan earlier. So much so that they neglected their future daughter-in-law without knowing it, and they felt very sorry, and now she came to invite Jin Huan to their home.

Then this particularly assertive woman prepared generous gifts for Li Weidong to go to Liujialing to seek marriage, showing a high degree of sincerity, and she didn't mind the isolation and poverty of Liujialing at all.

But the third grandfather was still worried about his great-granddaughter's marriage. He asked Liu Changxing and Liu Chuan to meet Li Weidong's parents in person to see if they really didn't mind that Jin Huan only went to elementary school, and he didn't mean to look down on Jin Huan's natal family. .

The elders believe that if the man’s parents dislike the poverty of the woman’s natal family and look down on the woman’s low education level, then even if she is married, the girl’s character is strong enough to barely earn a place for herself in the family, and her daily life may not be able to Peaceful and smooth.

You can't expect someone who genuinely despises you and your family to actually care about you in life.

A girl married into another completely unfamiliar family alone, if she does not get the approval and care of her in-laws and other family members, and only relies on the temporary love of her newlywed husband, it will be difficult to be happy for a long time.

The old man didn't want his granddaughter to break free from the impoverished Liujialing, but lived in an ostracized family all his life. He felt that a harmonious family atmosphere was as important as food and clothing.

The sixth master went to Liu Changqing's house in person. If Liu Changxing and Liu Chuan felt that Li Weidong and his family were really satisfied with Jin Huan, then they would ask Su Xiaohui to help, and together with Liu Changxing and Liu Chuan, make decisions about Jin Huan's marriage. .

According to the local customs, when getting married, the woman's family should have several close elders or older relatives of the same generation to witness. First, it means to examine the man's character, appearance and sincerity. The most important thing is to make the man feel Going to the woman's family attaches great importance to engagement, and at the same time it shows that the girl is valued and loved by her family in her natal family.

There is also an indescribable meaning: our daughter has a strong natal family as the backing, if you dare to bully her, you will look good on her.

Su Xiaohui has met Li Weidong several times.

Before Jinhuan and Yinhuan came to Rongze, the third grandpa specially called them to him and explained many rules and details about dealing with people. After Jinhuan and Yinhuan arrived in Rongze, they would go to the old town of Liuchuan and Su Xiaohui in about half a month Look, at the beginning, because they had very little money, they would go and talk for a while and then leave. Later, when the two of them became proficient, their salaries and bonuses were higher, and they would buy some fruits, snacks and other gifts when they passed by.

The two girls are very sensible, and they keep in mind the words of their great-grandfather: You can’t always go to Liu Chuan’s when you have nothing to do, and you can’t go to Liu Chuan’s for advice and solutions just because of trivial matters. bring yourself into a lot of trouble;

But you can't always avoid seeing each other. After someone introduces you to a job, just throw him aside and forget about him. That's ungrateful.

After Jin Huan felt that the relationship with Li Weidong was relatively stable, Liu Chuan was usually not at home, so she took it to Su Xiaohui to see. Su Xiaohui thought that the young man was very nice, he didn't talk much, and he was very steady. , looks and Jin Huan also match well.

At noon today, Liu Changxing and Liu Chuan have met Li Weidong and his parents. They think that the young man and his parents are good people. Li's father looks peaceful and kind, and Li's mother is shrewd but not mean. The child has an honest and kind mother-in-law, but a mother-in-law like Li's mother is also acceptable.

There must be a savvy person in the family, or they won't be bullied outside.

Generally speaking, it is better to have a smart, capable and kind mother-in-law than a kind but useless mother-in-law, especially if the girls in my family are not useless.

At noon the next day, Liu Xia, Mao'er, and Liu Yuzhi also attended the engagement banquet with only one table of banquets as the woman's natal family.

Sit upright, follow the crowd to pick up teacups filled with boiled water again and again, clink glasses with the people next to them in the rigorous toasts of the deacons and elders on both sides to express congratulations, carefully pick up a little bit of food on the plate in front of you with chopsticks, and slowly send it to the table. mouth, and then gently put down the chopsticks to wait for the next polite way to eat...

Liu Xia felt that his back was stiff and aching, and Mao'er had secretly asked him several times: "Why isn't it over? Why is engagement so ugly?" He wasn't even allowed to eat.

Liu Xia couldn't take it anymore, he pretended to go to the bathroom and left the private room, the cat followed him and slipped out, Liu Xia said: "Hold on for a while, be good, let's eat stewed noodles later, uncle will bring you half a catty of sauced beef A plate of shredded tripe in red oil."

The cat was so hungry and pitiful: "The stewed noodles are all good, but the sauced beef and tripe are expensive."

After two o'clock, the banquet finally broke up. As soon as Jin Huan and Li Weidong's family left, Liu Xia immediately asked, "Mao'er and I are always hungry, and we are going to eat stewed noodles. Who else wants to join us if we are not full?" to eat?"

Liu Changxing laughed: "Let's go, I don't think I'm full, old uncle invites you to eat braised noodles!"

All of Liu Xia's romantic fantasies about the engagement were sent into his stomach today along with this big bowl of stewed noodles and red oil tripe, and then they were completely digested.

Don't say any affectionate words of love, just a simple promise like "I will be good to her (him) for the rest of my life" which is a little bit shy. Some unnutritious polite words, looking at a few fashionable clothes, and eating a banquet that didn't taste like food or even satiated his stomach, all of them completely subverted his understanding of love.

Mao'er was full of resentment towards the engagement ceremony: "Your freshman table is full of delicious food, and you don't even dare to say it out loud. It's so awkward, uncle, we won't be engaged in the future."

Liu Xia said, "Of course, I'm a celibate!"

Liu Changxing stayed at Liuchuan's place for one night, and returned to Liujialing with Su Xiaohui the next day.

Yuzhi has been living in Liu Chuan's house where Liu Wei and Liu Rui used to live, and goes to the training school every day.

Liu Xia and Mao Er went to see Yuzhi in the old city with Liu Chuan for three or four nights in a row. They talked and chatted every day before returning home very late. They didn’t have time to calculate the data collected that day, which Liu Xia had never done before. of.

But Yuzhi is far away from Liujialing, and it is not easy to go back. After getting married, Liu Xia rarely met her, especially in the past few years when he went to college. He hadn’t seen Yunzhi and Yuzhi for two years. They are so close, we must get together more, Liu Xia is very close to the two sisters who loved him very much since childhood.

On Saturday afternoon, Yuzhi went home, and Liu Xia hurried to calculate and draw in the evening. The cat sat opposite him to write, and there was a yellow dog alarm clock next to him.

At 10:30, Maoer stood up on time to help Liu Xia close the stall.

This is when Liu Xia made a rule for him to sleep no less than ten hours a day during the summer vacation. Maoer gave Liu Xia the conditions: Liu Xia should sleep no later than 10:30 in summer, and no later than [-]:[-] in winter. Ten o'clock, otherwise, he wouldn't sleep either.

Liu Xia lay on the ground and grabbed the little guy's earlobe and said, "Actually, my uncle is an adult, so it doesn't matter if you go to bed later."

The cat said: "Actually, I've grown up too. Grandma said I'm already [-] or [-]. It doesn't matter if I go to bed later."

Liu Xia said: "The law stipulates that eighteen years old is considered an adult."

Mao'er said: "Grandpa said that grandpa became a father at the age of 16."

Liu Xia said: "Now that you have grown up, you are not good, and you will argue with my uncle. My uncle is very sad."

Mao'er said, "You're getting old, and you're starting to sell yourself on your old age. You'll be as irritating as Xiaoyun and Xiaolei. I'm very worried."

Liu Xia turned over and scratched the little guy's neck: "Wow, you dare to say that my uncle is getting old, and you actually want to despise my old uncle, you stinky kitten..."

Mao'er struggled and laughed: "Ahaha... my uncle is not old, my uncle is young and handsome... aha - I dare not... my uncle, my good uncle, my dear uncle..."

Wan Jianye, who came back from the cold, said to Guo Liping: "How many happy things do these two people have? Why are they so happy every day?"

Guo Liping opened the door and said, "If you have an uncle who is as capable as Liu Xia and loves you, wouldn't you be happy? Anyway, if I have a nephew who is as sensible as Liu An, I'd be so happy."

Wan Jianye said: "That's right!"

Hearing that the neighbor next door had returned home, Liu Xia and Mao'er stopped playing, and Mao'er obediently leaned on Liu Xia's arm and closed his eyes: "Uncle, let's go to sleep! You have to get up tomorrow so you can go to the construction site early Lie!"

The author has something to say: Wife: old lady.