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Liu Chuan looked at the big bed that was put together, it was really big, 2 by 2.4 meters by visual inspection, and the two cabinets and two three-drawer tables on the west wall, the colors were actually matched.

The sound of rushing water and the cat's voice came from the side: "Uncle, will I really stay here from now on? Will this be our home from now on?"

Liu Xia's voice: "Silly boy, I don't want you to stay here, why did my uncle bring you here? This apartment is allocated to my uncle, it's my uncle's house, isn't my uncle's house my cat?" Miles?"

Mao'er laughed: "I just think it's so beautiful and beautiful here, hehe, I'm always afraid that people won't let us live again."

Liu Chuan took over the words: "Who stipulates that a good-looking place is not a place for us to live in? This is what your uncle earned for you with a diploma from a key university. Boy, you just need to live in a down-to-earth place!"

Liu Xia and Mao Er, who were squatting and cleaning the bathtub together, turned their heads at the same time: "Third Brother?" "Third Uncle?"

Liu Chuan felt that the room was quite clean, so it was a bit strange to see Liu Xia and Mao Er sweating profusely.

Liu Xia said: "I always feel that someone else has used something, and I have to wash it again to feel comfortable."

When Liu Xia and Mao'er arrived at around ten o'clock this morning, the things he was looking at yesterday had already been carried to his dormitory. Because there were no personal belongings of Liu Xia in the room, the key was stuck on the door.

Knowing that such a large room and beautiful chairs and benches belonged to Liu Xia, Maoer was so excited that he only smirked. It was just such a small space, three spaces, and he ran to look at it several times.

Then he urged Liu Xia to move the two small beds together and started cleaning,

It's not a big thing, Liu Xia can move it around the house by himself, let alone a cat to help, when Liu Xia came, he bought a mop and other cleaning things at the gate, he first put the The southeast corner of the bed was mopped up, and then two small beds with scarlet headboards were placed side by side.

When Liu Xia was cleaning the window, the cat wiped the bed several times, and before the water stains were wiped off, it rolled on the empty bed a few times: "Hey, old beauty, I still sleep with my uncle, just Don't sleep by yourself!"

At noon, the two of them didn't go to the canteen of the hydrology team to eat, but went to the street for half an hour to eat stewed noodles, bought a big watermelon and came back, the two of them continued to work, and now they are basically finished, the kitchen and The room has been wiped spotless, the floor has been mopped several times, and the bathroom is the final finishing touch.

The two wiped the bathtub and washbasin at high speed, and followed Liu Chuan out.

Liu Chuan looked at the spacious room and was very satisfied: "Baby, you can get such a good house as soon as you go to work, work hard, your unit should be good!"

Regarding Liu Xia's return to work in Rongze, Liu Chuan and his family felt very complicated.

Emotionally, they all hope that Liu Xia will live in a place close to them. In their hearts, Liu Xia will always be the youngest child in the family, who knows nothing about life and needs to be taken care of by family members;

But from a rational point of view, they felt that Liu Xia went to such a good university, but finally returned to a small county like Rongze, which really wronged their children.

Who wouldn't want their children to live in a bustling big city?That is a world completely different from Liujialing and Rongze, it is the dream of all young people!

Liu Chuan has always felt aggrieved for his little brother, until today he saw that he was assigned such a good dormitory before he officially started work after entering the work unit, and he finally felt better.

Liu Xia snorted: "That's right, my captain said, my unit's bonus is several times the salary, so I don't have to worry about that, I can still earn over two hundred in the last month of making up lessons, if I work for a month Just sending 46 yuan, I really feel a little unacceptable. Third brother, why are you here now?"

Seeing that both of them were covered in sweat, Liu Chuan said, "I'm in a hurry to see you sharing a new house! Boy, you two are hot, and there is a bathroom, so convenient, why don't you just take a shower? After washing, let's see." What’s missing, I’m driving the car, let’s go out and buy everything.”

Liu Xia and Mao'er glanced at each other, yelled loudly, turned around and went into the bathroom again, and soon there was the sound of splashing water and the cat's happy cry: "Ah, the shower is so beautiful, Uncle, we can take a bath together again, I can wait to see you take a bath together!"

Liu Chuan shook his head with a smile, picked up the watermelon and walked into the kitchen: "Yao'er just happened to return to his hometown, so don't borrow the tuition fee in Rongze County, or I really don't know what will happen to the cat."

He waited for the warm water to run out before plugging up the water drain in the vegetable sink, filled half of the pool of water, and put the watermelon in, so that the watermelon would be cold when he came back.

When Liu Xia and Mao'er were about to come out with their buttocks naked after taking a bath, the three of them discovered a problem: there was no curtain, and light would leak.

To the south, there is a large open space in the courtyard of the hydrographic team. Outside the courtyard wall is another unit's office building, a three-story antique building, which can just be seen from their side.

It was very hot, and the two of them were in their own room. They were going to lie down on the mat naked and cool off for a while before putting on clothes, but now they had to put on the shorts honestly.

Liu Chuan said: "The curtains are waiting for your third sister-in-law to come back and ask her to pull some cloth for you to make one. I'll come over when it's done. We will use large nails to tighten the wires. The curtains will hang neatly and beautifully. Let's just order it first.

I think the two of you are almost buying small things for jelly, even bought watermelon knives, but your four bowls and plates are a little short, you will know later, if you cook by yourself, you need five or six for a little movement Plates and bowls, buy some more;

There must be an electric fan. This is the second floor of yours. It is hotter than my house. It is not grounded. Even if you sleep on the floor, it will not cool you much. It is better to have an electric fan. "

When mentioning the electric fan, both Liu Xia and Liu Chuan thought of Shao Yan, and Shao Yan's electric fan was still in Liu Chuan's place.

Liu Xia asked Mao'er: "Boy, do you still remember that uncle who bought you a Rubik's Cube during the Lantern Festival that year, took you to Zhizhi Building with me, and ate stewed noodles with us? You hug me!" He grabbed me by the neck to prevent him from hugging me, so he snatched you over by relying on his size and strength to scare you, do you remember him?"

The cat thought for a while: "Well, remember, he didn't ask you to hug me, he carried me from Zhizhi Building to Zehe, and I beat him hard, but he didn't put me down, he laughed and yelled" The little cat is catching people, the little cat is catching people', so many people on the road will look at us."

Liu Xia said: "It's him, he's Uncle Shao Yan; third brother, I don't know where he is now? Why did he leave without saying a word? The more I think about it now, the more I feel something is wrong."

Liu Chuan said: "I don't know, he left so suddenly, and then there is no news at all, and I can't figure it out.

However, I think Shao Yan is a very assertive and self-disciplined kid. He has been in Rongze alone for more than two years, and his studies are getting better and better. Don't tell him to play truant from school or chase girls, but apart from fighting with you, I have never heard you say that he has done any other outrageous things in more than two years.

In the past few years, more and more children have gone out to rent houses in Rongze High School. Your third sister-in-law said that the school is afraid that they will have accidents, and often asks the Political and Education Office and the class teacher to make a surprise attack to check where they live. The teacher said that they have been there , those children have made the place where they live in a bad shape, almost like a pigsty;

The same goes for the girls, they are all dressed up when they come out, the place where they live is full of dust, dirty clothes are thrown everywhere, and you can't even look at them. Your third sister-in-law said that they are 'phoenixes flying out of the chicken coop'.

But Shao Yan is not, the place he lives in has always been tidy, I remember that Saturday I went to him to find you, and he was going to take it home so that his mother’s dirty laundry would be neatly tidied up.

I always feel that nothing serious will happen to this kind of kid, but it is really puzzling for him to leave like that and not write you a letter for four or five years. "

It is very close from the hydrology team to the Rongze shopping mall. When they entered the shopping mall, they were still thinking about Shao Yan. When they were choosing a floor fan, Maoer suddenly said: "Uncle Shao Yan must be because you were admitted to a key university. He didn't." Come on, I'm sorry, that's why I don't write to you."

Liu Xia said: "He didn't even write me a letter, how did he know that I was admitted to a key university?"

Mao'er rolled her eyes twice, and said, "He must have come back secretly to see you. Surely, my third aunt said that you would write a Kodali Honor Roll and post it at the gate of Ronggao whenever you were admitted to any school!

He must have come to take a look: "Oh, Liu Xia has been admitted to the University of Surveying and Mapping. My family is still in Yuancheng. I haven't been admitted to a key university. I'm so ugly!" 'Hurry up and run away. "

Liu Xia was amused by the cat and laughed loudly: "Boy, if Shao Yan hears you say that, he will probably be ashamed to come to Rongze again for the rest of his life."

Yanagawa tried to turn the fan to the highest setting, and said, "Mao'er, you're almost an expert in criminal investigation, you even have a criminal psychological analysis, it's just like reappearing on the spot.

However, I don't think your Uncle Shao Yan is such a narrow-minded person. If he knows that your uncle has been admitted to a key university, he will only be happy for him. "

Mao'er said unconvinced: "Then my uncle misses him so why doesn't he come to see my uncle?"

Yanagawa turned off the electric fan, and said to the boss: "That's it, it's cheaper." He said to the cat while paying for it: "You are still a child, and you don't know what it means to be involuntary, although I don't want it to be like this." , but I think there might be some big accident in his family, otherwise, Shao Yan doesn't look like a heartless person."

Liu Xia pushed Liu Xia's hand away, and put his own money into the boss's hand: "Here, [-]% off, you can't lose. He definitely isn't."

The boss almost threw the money out with a trembling hand: "Hey, baby, I have more than 60 yuan for an electric fan, you give me [-]?"

Mao'er immediately pointed to a floor fan that looked similar to this one in the nearby shop and said, "That one only costs 39."

The boss said: "Yes, he only wants 39. Why don't you go to see his? It's not that you don't like his stuff. It's not as good as mine. Mine is a famous brand."

Liu Chuan was pushed with one hand by Liu Xia, refusing to let him pay. He knew Liu Xia's temper, so he didn't insist anymore, and said to the boss: "The famous brand is not so different, and I also work in a nearby unit. , I often come here to buy things, you can earn almost as much as you want, you can’t ask too much, add another five yuan at most, if you don’t want to, I’ll go buy that one.”

In the end, the floor fan was sold for 35 yuan, and they had already moved to the car. The boss chased them out again, and said to them in a low voice: "Rongze is only this big, you can't tell others that you bought it at this price. , or I wouldn’t be able to do this business.”

After putting away the floor fan, the three of them turned back to look at the bicycle, and Liu Chuan said, "Yaoer, you've become a master by following Mao Jianyong. How dare you bargain with him. If I, 63, would ask him to take away three yuan at most, How dare you cut him down!"

Liu Xia said: "I still can't do it. If it is Mao Jianyong, he can win it for 25 at most, but there is such a piece of steel pipe more than the table fan. The table fan is only a dozen yuan, and he will need more than 60.

I'm still not thick-skinned enough. I originally wanted to say twenty miles, but I couldn't say it when I got to my mouth. I changed it to thirty, and I lost ten yuan in vain. "

There was only one shop that sold bicycles, and there were many rows of bicycles of several brands. Liu Xia went directly to the "Phoenix brand".

Mao'er followed Liu Xia, and casually flipped through a price tag hanging on the handlebars for a look. He didn't believe it, so he looked at several next to each other, and then went to another sign to look at a few more. His little face puffed up, he hummed, and ran back to Liu Xia: "Uncle, I don't want to go to school by bike, I can run soon, the road in Rongzeli is so beautiful, I want to run to school every day!"

Liu Xia and Liu Chuan were looking at a black "Twenty-six" women's cantilever bike. The cat is still small and less than 1.5 meters tall, so riding up and down the beam bike would be very difficult.

They were both very surprised to hear Maoer say that suddenly. Maoer was very excited when he heard that he was going to ride a bicycle. When he came out of the house just now, he was eager to try. Learning, why did you change your mind after a while?

Liu Xia asked him: "Don't you want to learn to ride a bicycle? You also said that you learned to play with me, why don't you suddenly want to ride?"

Mao'er pulled Liu Xia out: "I forgot that the road in Rongzeli is so wide and beautiful. It's different from Wangning. Wangning Street is always dirty. Every time I pass by, I want to run over quickly." , Now that I see the road in Rongzeli is so good, I don't want to ride a bicycle anymore, I think it's beautiful to run to school; Uncle, let's go, I want to go back to our house, I want to go back and eat watermelon!"

Liu Xia held Mao'er to stop him from going any further: "Boy, did you look at the price and think it's too expensive, so..."

"No!" Cat replied very simply: "I just want to run to school. I don't know how to ride a bicycle yet. What if I fall?"

He broke free from Liu Xia's hand and turned behind him, put his hands on Liu Xia's spine, and pushed Liu Xia out with his head on Liu Xia's back: "Let's go, let's go, I don't want to see you riding a bicycle, let's go home chant!"

Liu Xia was chased out of the shopping mall by the cat like a little rogue, bought two big watermelons at the gate of the hydrographic team, and went home.

A large mat brought from home was spread on the cleanly mopped floor. The cat sat on it holding a small half of watermelon and ate it with a spoon. Looking at Liu Xia and Liu Chuan who were sitting opposite and talking while eating watermelon, He was secretly proud of his wit: just a few iron rods and two wheels, and I want more than 300 for my uncle, huh, so beautiful!Hey, I can be coaxed back by my uncle, so I don’t need to spend so much money, how beautiful! "

But Maoer didn't expect that the next morning, Liu Xia went to the east office building to report officially at [-]:[-]. After writing calligraphy for two hours, he had nothing to do, so he ate a big melon, and put the table at home. Wipe it again, and when he was mopping the floor with his little butt pouted, he heard Liu Chuan calling his name in Mandarin from below.

He ran to the corridor and looked down. Yanagawa was pushing a brand new black bicycle, standing in the shade of a big pagoda tree downstairs, looking up at him with a smile.

Liu Chuan waved and said in Mandarin: "Liu An, come down quickly and take a look at your uncle's new bicycle."

The cat ran down in a hurry, looked at the tall new men's beam bicycle and asked: "Uncle, what are you talking about? This is my uncle's bicycle? Are you buying it for my uncle?"

Liu Chuan patted the car seat: "The money your uncle gave me, I bought it from an acquaintance, two hundred and three, you said you don't know how to ride a bicycle, and you are afraid that you will fall when you ride, so your uncle decided to buy a big bike In the future, I will drive you to school by myself."

The cat pouted so hard that it could tie a donkey: "Third uncle, what are you doing? You know that I don't want my uncle to spend so much money; you must be coaxing me. I will let you go when you leave later at night. Two miles away, I never saw my uncle give you money."

Liu Chuan tapped him on the head with his fingers: "You are only a little kid, third uncle used to be a scout, but now he is a policeman, if such a small trick can't be hidden from you, I'm afraid you will go home to farm your grandfather Everyone thinks I'm stupid."

Liu Xia felt that all his family affairs had already been arranged, so he went to Ma Qianli to arrange a specific place today. It happened that several leaders of the unit were there, so Ma Qianli introduced him next to him, and then arranged for Pan Liucheng, the deputy captain in charge of business, to take him with him. Report to the business department three.

Section Three is on the first floor of the office building in the south. The office is the same as his dormitory, which is beyond his expectation. The office with five desks is similar to the large office used by Yanagawa and the others for nearly twenty people.

The desk used by Yue Desheng, a senior engineer and section chief, is the most popular large desk in hazy color. The desks of the others are slightly smaller, but in Liu Xia's opinion, they are big enough.

When Liu Xia came in, there were three people who were immersed in writing and drawing. Yue Desheng introduced him one by one: "This is Li Jiyue and Li Gong; Ge Xiyou and Ge Gong; this is Xiao Zhang and Zhang Shubao. Personally, I haven't come yet, I will introduce you when I come later."

Several people raised their heads and nodded to Liu Xia with a smile. Liu Xia simply introduced himself: "Liu Xia, the willow of the willow tree, the hero of the knight."

He listened to what Yanagawa said, he just came here, he said as little as possible, and the simpler the self-introduction, the better. Anyway, the whole unit already knew about his situation.

Yue Desheng pointed to a desk next to the large window on the east wall and said, "That's your desk. From now on, try not to put the materials you handle elsewhere, so that it's easier to manage."

Liu Xia nodded, walked over and opened the large drawer in the middle to have a look. Inside were a rather large calculator, two pens, various drawing tools, and a few manuscript papers, on which were "Central Plains Geological Survey Bureau" Geological and Hydrographic Surveying and Mapping Three Brigades".

Yue Desheng took out a stack of papers from the filing cabinet behind him and said, "Mr. Sun has been unwell for the past few days and hasn't come here. These are his field data from the past few days. If you have nothing else to do, see if you can help him with the calculations." part."

Liu Xia wished he had something to do, otherwise he would feel uncomfortable if he had nothing to do, so he took the things and said, "No problem, when will the calculation be finished?"

Yue Desheng said: "Don't worry, just calculate slowly, the temperature is too high these days, basically the whole team is resting, there is no field work, you come to do calculations at noon every day, and you can rest at home in the afternoon.

The rules in our team: When there is work, there is no distinction between night and day, day and holidays, and when there is no work, you can sign in and don’t need it. Take a good rest and adjust.

Of course, this refers to the front-line staff, and office staff must sign in and go to work on time every day. "

Liu Xia nodded, took a deep breath secretly at the stack of materials, sat down and began to concentrate on calculations.

After eleven o'clock, Yue Desheng came over, picked up the pieces of paper that Liu Xia had calculated and placed next to him, then switched his gaze back and forth between the calculated data and Liu Xia several times, and finally put the things on the table, yes Liu Xia said: "Young man, it's not easy, get off work, don't come in the afternoon."

Liu Xia found out that at some point, only him and Yue Desheng were left thinking about in such a big office. It must be very boring in the middle of the day, so he immediately put away his things and handed them to Yue Desheng and left the office. He planned to go back and call the cat, and then go to the mall to buy him a pillow and pillow towel.

It was too hot last night, the two of them laid out mats and slept on the floor, and when they lay down, they found that they only had a pillow that Liu Xia brought back from Jiangcheng. Liu Xia asked the cat to sleep on it, but the cat refused.

Because it was too hot, he didn't want to sleep on Liu Xia's arm as a pillow. He was afraid of getting prickly heat from covering Liu Xia's arm, so he just lay down on the ground with a grunt, only put his right hand in Liu Xia's hand and let him hold it, feeling very happy. Said: "That's it, as long as you don't tell me to sleep alone, I can be beautiful without a pillow."

Liu Xia forcibly pulled him over, pillowed on his left arm, the little guy was so happy that he fell asleep with the corners of his mouth still curled up.

Liu Xia was thinking about where to go to buy a long-brimmed sun hat for the cat. When he walked out of the office building, he saw the cat squatting on the ground and playing with the pedals of his bicycle. When he came closer, As soon as the cat saw him, it stood up and ran over, but when it came to him, it didn't jump up and hang around his neck as usual, but stood there pouting and pouting.

Liu Xia poked his head with a smile and turned him around: "Uncle doesn't know what you are thinking, it's okay baby, it's not like you don't know, uncle still has a lot of money, buying a bicycle doesn't count at all What, but, I really didn't expect that your third uncle can do things so quickly, and you can buy it back today."

The women sitting in the corridor on the first floor, choosing vegetables and the men playing poker around the table all looked at them with strange eyes.

Liu Xia and Mao'er didn't understand why his ordinary words aroused so many people's ideas. They continued to walk forward, and heard a woman's voice deliberately lowered: "This is the one assigned by Jiangcheng University of Surveying and Mapping." That college student? It looks very foreign, why do you speak like that!"

Liu Xia suddenly realized.

Although the hydrology team is based in Rongze, all of them are foreigners, and all the people here speak Mandarin. This is indeed out of the need for communication itself, but it does not rule out that some provincial units deliberately show their status in this small place. Different sense of superiority.

The pure old-fashioned dialect of Liu Xia and Mao'er is really very special and harsh here.

Mao'er also sensitively realized what the problem was, his little face flushed with embarrassment, and he looked at Liu Xia uneasily, wondering if he should continue talking to him.

Liu Xia blew a gentle and upward whistle, solemnly, and said in a tone like an announcer: "Please speak Mandarin!"

Then he laughed himself first, and still said to the cat in the local dialect: "Baby, it's just talking. You read the text in class, and read the post that grandpa asked you to read. Don't you all use Mandarin. It's not difficult. This Everyone in there speaks Mandarin. If you follow this environment, you will get used to saying it yourself in at most three or four months. It’s okay. Uncle Zhang Fusheng of yours didn’t learn to speak Mandarin when he graduated. I have a beautiful daughter-in-law!"

The cat looked at the people in the yard and whispered, "If I say something with a foreign accent, people will laugh at you and say that you brought an old scumbag to live here."

Liu Xia said: "Anyone who speaks dialect in his hometown, what kind of scumbag? However, if you go out, or if everyone lives together in different places like now, it's better to speak Mandarin. No, everyone doesn't understand what other people mean, misunderstandings will occur, and it will be inconvenient at work.

It’s okay, baby, speaking Mandarin is just like when you just started learning to write. Holding a brush always feels uncomfortable, and the characters you write are always different from what you think. After you write a lot, the brush is just like your own hand. Painting is the way you want it to be, and speaking Mandarin is the same. If you speak more, you will be fluent. After a while, when you return to our house, my uncle will start telling you that you will be fluent in a few days. "

Mao'er nodded vigorously: "Well, I will study hard and not embarrass my uncle."

The two of them had already walked to the bicycle, and Liu Xia patted the seat of the bicycle: "Sit behind me, my uncle will take you for a walk;

Boy, it's good to be able to speak Mandarin, but if you can't speak it, there's no shame in it. You can't learn it in your life, and my uncle won't think you'll embarrass me. "

Liu Xia stretched his long legs and sat straddling the car, and Mao Er straddled the back seat with his hands pressed together: "I can learn it, if you don't believe me, just wait and see, I will learn it in a few days."

Liu Xia stepped on his foot, and the bicycle sped out, Liu Xia laughed loudly: "Baby, you just have to wait and see and say it; let's go, eat stewed noodles, go to the mall after eating stewed noodles, and buy flowered pillows—— "

The cat was taken aback when he heard the words, and then wanted to jump down: "I don't want to see a pillow, I don't want a pillow, uncle!"