Volume 5: The Age of Storms Chapter 0641: Continue Popularity
"Why didn't you bring your son back when you came back? It's been half a year since I last saw my son." Liu Zhen started complaining while eating.
"Grandma hasn't seen her great-grandson for a long time, so she asked him to stay in Xiangkeng to accompany her."
"How long will you stay?"
"Don't worry, grandma will send the person back when she gets annoyed."
"Okay." Liu Zhen picked up some food from the bowls and gave it to Nan Yi. "Eat quickly. Go out to digest the food later. Come back early to take a shower and go to bed."
"Comrade Liu Zhen, it shouldn't be that serious. I just came back and you're already thinking about asking me to pay my taxes? Huang Shiren didn't push me as hard as you do."
"Who told you, Yang Bailao, to be so busy? You have to work as a farmhand for several families and even go abroad. What? Do foreign landlords pay you more?" Liu Zhen pinched his throat and said in a sarcastic tone.
"The pay isn't that great, but there are more options."
Liu Zhen gave Nan Yi a glance and said, "You have a lot of tricks, right? I'll let you try some new tricks later."
"Forget it, let's just respect tradition and stick with the old three."
Nan Yi's hair stood on end and his heart trembled. He had a premonition that things would not be peaceful tonight. The enemy had surrounded him on three sides and was about to drive him, a wild dog, into a dead end.
"No, just try something new."
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Although he hadn't slept all night, Nan Yi still went to the park he used to go to exercise the next day.
Qiu Hanmin is still alive and in good health, and Nan Yi has resumed their broken master-disciple relationship.
After exercising, the two found a newly opened breakfast shop to have breakfast together.
The breakfast shop is opened by a southerner. It sells steamed dumplings, wontons, and porridge. It also provides side dishes to go with the porridge. These are not pickled vegetables, but freshly fried dishes. They cost one cent a plate and can be mixed and matched as you like.
After ordering two bowls of porridge, two baskets of steamed dumplings, and three or four dishes, Nan Yi and Qiu Hanmin found a seat and sat down.
"Nan boy, what are your plans for this trip back?"
"I don't have any plans. My wife goes to work to earn money, and I stay at home to take care of the kids, walk the birds, read the newspaper, play chess in the alley, and have some free time."
"You are only 25 this year, and you are planning to retire early?" Qiu Hanmin said with a frown.
"Mr. Qiu, what do you think this person is working for?"
Qiu Hanmin said without thinking: "For the prosperity of the country and for the realization of the four modernizations."
"I'm not that conscious. I used to work so hard just to have a day without working. Now that this goal has been achieved, why should I still work?"
"Your idea is not right. If everyone is like you and doesn't work, the country will be in chaos."
"Mr. Qiu, you worry too much. Not many people can eat without working like me. This is all thanks to my good wife. She earns several hundred dollars a month and I can eat meat every day."
"Nonsense, isn't Xiao Liu's salary enough to fill up your car?"
"Almost, almost." Nan Yi gulped down the porridge, put down his chopsticks, and said, "Mr. Qiu, I heard that your pension has increased again. Can you come to this meal?"
"You should come, I don't have any money."
"Really didn't bring it?" Nan Yi asked doubtfully.
Qiu Hanmin said with a smile: "Hey, Nan boy, it's just a breakfast, why would I be so stingy?"
"It's hard to say. Before liberation, eight out of ten people who lent money at high interest in Beijing were named Qiu."
"Just make it up."
"Haha, take your time eating. I'm leaving first. Liu Zhen asked me to take her to work today."
"You go first." Qiu Hanmin waved his hand and said.
Nan Yi said goodbye to Qiu Hanmin and returned to the old villa, then he moved a Phoenix bicycle from the second floor to the yard.
First, I wiped the bike with a rag, then pumped up air into both wheels, added some sewing machine oil to the chain, turned the bike to one side, and shook the pedal, and the chain made a crisp clicking sound.
"The tires aren't old, are they?"
"It's only been a few years, and I don't use it often, so how could it age so quickly? Get ready, I'll wash my hands, and we'll go." Nan Yi put the bicycle down, gathered up the odds and ends, stood up and clapped his hands.
"I'm ready now, waiting for you."
"One minute."
Nan Yi walked to the sink, washed his hands, and walked back to his bicycle.
"Sit in or jump out of the car first?"
"I'll sit on the side and you push me out."
As Liu Zhen spoke, a woman went up to the shelf and sat steadily on the backpack rack.
Nan Yi held the faucet and pushed the cart out of the yard, muttering, "You too, you keep thinking about things. It's so hot today."
"I didn't do it on a whim. Other people have husbands who send them home on bicycles, but I never do."
"Then why don't you ask them whether they would like to ride a car or a bicycle." Nan Yi said disapprovingly.
Liu Zhen patted the cushion and shouted, "Stop talking and get in the car."
"Okay!"
Nan Yi looked at a yellow dog peeing, lifted his right leg, crossed the crossbar and stepped on the pedal, tapped the ground with his left foot, the wheel rolled forward, then tapped a few more times, and he sat on the cushion, and the car moved forward steadily.
"I had a donkey that I never rode. One day, I rode it to the market on a whim. I had a whip in my hand and was feeling very proud. But then I fell down and got covered in mud."
"Liu Zhen, you are so arrogant. You dare to treat me like a donkey."
"I wish you were as obedient as a donkey."
"You are really getting carried away. Looks like we can put our divorce on the agenda now."
"I won't divorce you." Liu Zhen hugged Nan Yi's waist and rested her head on his back. "If you talk about divorce again, I will feed you medicine."
"Oh, speaking of taking medicine, I think of Wu Dutou. Have you been in touch with him recently?"
"I received a phone call before the New Year to wish you a happy new year."
"Oh." Nan Yi responded, and then said: "I can't eat at home in the next few days."
"I see. Is a week enough for you to gather all your relationships?"
"That's enough."
"You are going to buy a house. I have heard about it. It won't be long before I go down."
Nan Yi asked: "Do you know where to go?"
"I don't know. I'm waiting for the personnel department to talk to me."
"Then wait until the news is confirmed. It would be better if it goes to the south. If it goes to the north, it will be troublesome for me to run."
"Basically, there are no positions that match my position in the south or north."
"Good. "
Nan Yi stepped on the brakes and the car stopped in a flood of bicycles at an intersection.
"Didn't you get a house? Where is it?"
"Southeast District."
“Zhongguancun?”
"That's great. It will be more convenient for Wuwei to go to school in the future."
"Are you really planning to let him study in the capital?" Liu Zhen frowned.
"Of course, otherwise why would I keep his household registration in Beijing? Although Wuwei's cleverness is not needed, it is still advantageous to take college entrance exams in Beijing. We also give him an extra layer of insurance."
Liu Zhen pinched Nan Yi's soft flesh and said, "That's not what I meant. You know what I mean."
"Let go, let go." Nan Yi slapped Liu Zhen's hand away, rubbed the sore spot, and said after a while: "Youqiong has advantages that Wuwei doesn't have, so let Wuwei stay in China. In the future, he can inherit the family business in China, or serve as a soldier or a civil servant."
"If he doesn't inherit the family business, who else do you want to give it to?"
"To Wuwei's son, don't worry, as long as you don't torture me, I will definitely live a long life, and I can also teach our grandson personally."
"Go to hell." Liu Zhen punched Nan Yi with her pink fist, "What if Wuwei gave birth to a daughter? Do you still want him to raise an illegitimate child outside?"
"Oh, Wuwei was born in the 1980s. Just wait and see. He will be exposed to new things throughout his life, and will passively or actively accept changes throughout his life. You, your grandchildren will have them in the future."
"Will it?"
"Yes, you don't have to worry about your son. I will pave the way for him."
"You said it, if you break your promise in the future, I will be angry with you."
"Rest now. You are the mother of honor because of your son. If you hadn't given birth to Wuwei, I would have thrown you into the Houhai Sea. You only eat and have no contribution to the Nan family."
"Go, didn't you want a daughter in the first place?"
"Yes, if you give birth to a daughter, you will be invaluable. I will praise you to the sky."
Nan Yi looked at his watch. More than two minutes had passed and the traffic light hadn't changed color. Looking at the intersection, he saw a long line of bicycles still moving, and some were waiting.
"I think the traffic light should be changed to an automatic one, with a countdown. When the time is up, it will switch to the other side. You can't just pass on one side."
"So what if it's automatic? There are so many people and it's so crowded, don't we need someone to maintain coordination?" Liu Zhen said disapprovingly.
"Too."
After waiting for a long time, it was Nan Yi's turn to pass. Nan Yi rode his bike through three traffic lights before he dropped Liu Zhen off.
"Should I leave the bike to you or should I ride it away?" Nan Yi asked after putting Liu Zhen on the ground.
"You ride away. I can't ride such a long way."
"Okay, when I'm not on my turn at the dinner party, please invite Lin Qin back to eat."
"I understand. Now you can go."
Nan Yi rode his bike back to the old villa with a creaky sound. He was sweating all over, so he took a shower, changed his clothes, and sat comfortably in the back seat of the car to go out.
Gong Xue's house is in Baiwanzhuang, Chou District.
Baiwanzhuang is a square in shape with a spiral pattern, surrounded by nine areas, namely Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei and Shen, which form the central commercial area. In the past, there were grocery stores, department stores, grain stores, barber shops, hospitals and schools in the commercial area. Although small, it has everything.
All the people living in Baiwanzhuang are new Beijingers, including various engineers and technicians transferred from other places after liberation. The elderly speak with accents from all over the country, and the second generation who grew up in the capital speaks Beijing dialect, which is different from the inner city and very close to Mandarin.
Although the house here was built in 1958, its specifications are much higher than those of the expert building of the Nan family.
There are two bedrooms and three bedrooms, independent kitchens and bathrooms. The ceiling height is more than 3 meters and each room is about 70 square meters. Gong Xue's house is on the top third floor. She bought the two rooms opposite and opened a door in the corridor, so the third floor became an independent space . The 140-square-meter house is very spacious to live in.
Nan Yi parked his car in an open space in the community and walked towards Gong Xue's building.
After walking a few steps, I saw Gong Xue's dazzling Tiangang Daihatsu with the rear door open. Gong Xue was bending over and holding something.
"Isn't there a vegetable market in the community? Why are you driving?" Nan Yi came forward and asked.
