Men and women eating in the courtyard

The history of temple fairs in these four-nine cities has a long history. This festival has been held since the previous dynasty.

Even after liberation, temple fairs in Sijiu City continued to be held. Li Xuewu remembered that the temple fairs in his childhood were still very lively.

Longfu Temple Fair, Huguo Temple Fair, White Pagoda Temple Fair, Earth Temple Temple Fair, Huashi Temple Temple Fair, these are the most historic temple fairs in Sijiu City.

Other large and small temple fairs are attended by both young and old alike.

But starting from the age of eight or nine when Li Xuewu was eight or nine years old, many temple fairs gradually ceased, and the Changdian Temple Fair that persisted until the end was also suspended for three years at some point.

The year before last, which was the second year after Li Xuewu joined the army, the relevant departments reopened the Changdian Temple Fair, which caused a sensation in the city. There were mats, tents and tents lined up in rows, and stalls and vendors stood shoulder to shoulder.

The temple fair that Li Xuewu is going to take his sister to today is the only temple fair in Sijiu City at this time.

Actually, Li Xuewu had already made plans today. He took his sister to buy things in Wangfujing and went directly to Liulichang.

This was just along the way, but Aunt Ding saw it and took it home, which was considered an extra trip.

Why do you say that?

Because the Gu family lived near Andingmen, which was still north of Li Xuewu's house, and that was on the North Second Ring Road.

And where is Wangfujing? It’s almost to East Chang’an Street.

If you walk southwest along Qianmen Street, you will find the temple fair that Li Xuewu and his sister will attend.

Now it's like running another trip from home to Wangfujing.

After more than 400 years of historical development, the Changdian Temple Fair is famous in the capital for its unique charm of "promoting both culture and business, elegance and folklore, and business and entertainment."

The Changdian Temple Fair is held every year from the first day of the first lunar month to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, with Liulichang as the central axis, starting from the Hepingmen intersection in the north, to the Hufangqiao intersection in the south, to the South and North Liuxiang in the west, and to Yanshou Temple Street in the east.

The core is Neptune Village Park located on South Xinhua Street, which was later known as the Chinese Bookstore.

The entire temple fair area will be closed and no motor vehicles will be allowed to pass.

There are all kinds of stalls on the roadside, offering all kinds of food.

At the temple fair, there were people running land boats, people playing with flags, and people using big copper pots to make tea soup in small bowls. These things were not seen in ordinary times.

Therefore, whether old BJ people are rich or poor, the Spring Festival is not a Chinese New Year if they don’t go to temple fairs.

As mentioned just now, the temple fair officially starts from the first to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Today is the first day of the year, and there are still two days until the Little New Year. Can there be a temple fair?

have.

Because people have the custom of buying new year's goods during the New Year, the temple fair has started setting up stalls since the New Year's Day, but not many vendors or people came.

Nowadays, the stalls in temple fairs are all under the collective system of supply and marketing. Collective organizations organize stalls and individuals are not allowed to set up stalls.

Of course, craftsmen with business licenses issued by the Ministry of Handicrafts and Industry and Commerce can also set up stalls.

For example, those who repair shoes, make keys, and make baskets. These handicrafts cannot form a collective management model, so the operating rights are opened to craftsmen.

Therefore, do not make a comprehensive identification of an industry or status based on policy requirements for certain periods of time.

The market is changing, and so are people, so policies are also changing. We need to look past the fog of history to see what happened at a specific time.

Just like now, Li Xuewu took Li Xue and drove the car directly to Liulichang and found a place to store the car.

Because there was something on the car, Li Xuewu found a place to store the car and paid three cents more than the bicycle.

As soon as she got off the car, Li Xue saw two foreigners taking photos with cameras.

"Second brother"

Li Xue looked at Li Xuewu nervously. Li Xue had not seen foreigners before, but it was rare to see someone walking around with a camera.

Li Xuewu walked around the back of the car to Li Xue, and let his sister take his arm.

Seeing that Li Xuewu was wearing a leather jacket, cotton hat, sunglasses, and leather shoes, which was somewhat different from the gray, black and blue surroundings, the two foreigners, a man and a woman, moved the camera over.

Li Xuewu was also walking inside with his sister. When he saw that Li Xue had previously reminded the two of them to take photos of themselves, he blocked the direction of the camera with his hand.

"Excuse, Would you like me taking a picture of you?"

Seeing that the man Huang Mao was speaking English to Li Xuewu and wanted to take pictures, the three young men in Mao suits following the man and the woman took a step forward.

One of the lesbians wearing glasses and with short ear-length hair was about to step forward to translate for Li Xuewu.

Unexpectedly, Li Xuewu waved his hand that had been facing the camera with a serious look on his face, indicating to several people not to get close, and politely rejected Huang Mao's request.

"Sorry, I don't like to be taken into the camera."

Seeing Li Xuewu replying to Huang Mao in fluent English, not only Huang Mao was surprised, but even the lesbian who came forward to translate was stunned.

There are not many people in China who can speak English so fluently. They either work in the foreign affairs department, have education in this field at home, or are engaged in teaching, but Li Xuewu looks a bit young.

Looking at Li Xuewu's clothes and the car he drove, the three of them also guessed that Li Xuewu might be a person with an identity or background, or a descendant of these people.

"Why? Just take a picture"

Huang Mao frowned and spread his hands to express doubts about Li Xuewu.

Because he saw that Li Xuewu could communicate with him, he didn't talk to the staff around him.

“Personal privacy”

Li Xuewu, wearing sunglasses and looking like a stranger, replied, "Personal privacy."

This made Huang Mao a little embarrassed. Even the three young men in Chinese tunic suits who came with them noticed Huang Mao's unnaturalness.

"Comrade"

It was this young woman with short-cropped hair who spoke up and said, "They are journalism scholars who came to visit us, so they need to collect some materials. You see."

Li Xuewu shook his head at the young woman and said: "We have a splendid traditional culture, a rich and colorful urban life, and excellent model representatives. Please invite them to take pictures of these. I am just an ordinary citizen. No need to take pictures”

"this……"

Nowadays, it costs a few cents to take a small-sized photo. Taking pictures is a fashionable thing. Are there any people who don’t want to be photographed?

Seeing that the young woman was in trouble and that her companions who wanted to take pictures were about to leave, Huang Mao, who had been silent just now, suddenly asked Li Xuewu: "Can I ask you a question?"

Li Xuewu took Li Xue and was about to leave, but Huang Mao asked and stopped.

He didn't say yes or no, he just looked at that woman.

The meaning is obvious. If I want to answer, I will answer. If I don’t want to, I won’t answer.

"I see that your dress is extraordinary and you must have a high status in your country. The car you drive is a Willys Jeep. Do you like cars from the United States?"

This yellow-haired woman can also speak Chinese, which is rarer than people in China who can speak Chinese. She may have worked or studied in China.

"No"

Li Xuewu shook his head and said: "First, my clothes are not new here, they are a little different. The most beautiful clothes are the clothes of the three people around you. You can understand the culture they represent. I won't say more."

"Second, we don't care about status here, we care about comrades. The people who are in charge are not the rich, but the people who walk with confidence on the streets. I am also a member of the people."

Li Xuewu said to the woman who had changed her expression: "Third, the vehicle I work on is our domestically produced 212 Jeep. I like that one very much, but it is a work vehicle."

Under the surprised expressions of several people, Li Xuewu said helplessly: "In my life, I can only drive the antiques that my elders seized from the Americans."

Even when he saw the yellow-haired woman's face turned ugly, Li Xuewu still said: "There is no way, we pay attention to diligence and frugality, these captured things are also things, just use them as waste."

After he finished speaking, he ignored the reactions of several people and walked into the street with his sister Li Xue.

As soon as you enter the inner street, there is a festive atmosphere, and stalls have been set up along both sides of the street.

Those selling couplets, New Year pictures, firecrackers, calendars, lanterns, diabolos, windmills...it's all dazzling.

Because today is Sunday, there are many people not going to work, and it is the last Sunday of the year, so everyone came to buy new year's goods today.

The stalls are also filled with things related to the Chinese New Year.

The most representative of this era is candied haws.

Hey, the candied haws at this time is different from what is common in later generations. It is really long.

How long can it be?

Haha, a child can wrap the candied haws around his waist twice and a half.

It's just that long.

The younger children swayed when they bought a bunch of them.

Xiaoyou also held it up, as if he was drunk, walking happily.

This means that I am awesome and can afford to eat candied haws.

After they had all come this far, Li Xue looked back behind her, and then she had the courage to ask: "Second brother, what did you just say to them?"

Because there was noisy in the street, Li Xuewu pulled his sister closer and said: "I won't let them take pictures, so I can brag about it, hahahaha."

"Cluck cluck"

Li Xue only felt that it was really interesting to hang out with her second brother. She could see people and things she couldn't see at school or at home.

"Second brother, you are so shameless"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah"

Li Xuewu nodded and said: "So don't imitate me. Don't ask me for anything for a while."

"I don't!"

"Hahaha"

Li Xue feels that the longest road in the world is the second brother's routine.

"Second brother, how come you speak foreign languages?"

Li Xue laughed for a while, and then remembered her second brother's chirping of birds just now.

This was the only advantage Li Xuewu had in his previous life, and that was his talent for language.

Li Xuewu studied English when he was in school. He could always memorize a word after reading it three times. He could know the pronunciation and general meaning of unfamiliar words by looking at their structure.

It may be that he has mastered a certain method, or it may be his talent, so Li Xuewu's English foundation is very good.

In addition, I was sent by the government to work somewhere in Africa for a year, so I can speak, read and write English very well. By the way, I also learned French to a near-perfect degree.

This thing sounds very mysterious, but for some people learning language is very simple.

Li Xuewu, the eldest brother in the dormitory, suffered from the fact that there was no translation when watching movies, and even if there was one, it was almost uninteresting, so he found a book to study on his own.

Hey, how about interest being the best teacher? With hard work and talent, this big brother really learned Japanese clearly.

Every time the dormitory collectively "criticizes" the island nation's action movies, it's when this big brother performs.

That translator was really full of emotion and sound, and the sound transmission was enchanting. It was more than a hundred times better than the sound of a serious translation and dubbing.

Not to mention those girls who have learned Korean well by watching Korean dramas.

"Hi, we have Chinese and English documents in our reading room. You can read them slowly."

Li Xue curled her lips and said, "It's just a liar. Second brother, can't you tell the truth?"

"Ha ha ha ha"

Li Xuewu laughed for a while and took his sister to the New Year painting stall.

New Year pictures are an indispensable festive element for the people of Sijiu City.

Where is this place? This is Liulichang. This is a place where cultural people gather.

The most popular shops on the left and right streets are stationery stores and antique calligraphy and painting shops.

Therefore, these New Year paintings also have different styles, each with its own merits.

There is no need to doubt whether the stalls built with broken doors now have high-quality products. Hey, if you go shopping on the street now, you may meet someone whose paintings can exceed 100 million yuan in later generations. His works can also be found in shops and stalls.

What Li Xuewu is looking at now is a painting by Yue Fei.

In the New Year painting, Yue Fei is riding on a horse. Zhang Bao in front of the horse and Wang Heng behind the horse each hold weapons to protect Yue Fei in front and behind.

The New Year paintings belong to the meticulous style of painting, with lifelike characters, majestic shapes and bright colors.

Lao Biaozi has been fond of this stuff since he was a child. We used to look at it when we went shopping together, and it was an eye-opener.

This year, several people said they would celebrate the New Year in the upside-down house, so Li Xuewu thought about buying the New Year paintings from the upside-down house.

"how much is this?"

I saw the old man behind the stall raising a finger.

Depend on!

Why don't you give me this set?

Li Xuewu felt that this gesture was very familiar. Could it be that Director Wu put on makeup and came here to find the accountant?

"One penny, okay, give it all to me, it's all right."

"Ha ha ha ha"

Li Xuewu's words made the people around him laugh. Looking at Li Xuewu's clothes, they thought he was a distinguished master, but he didn't expect that he was also a bad boy.

"Man, you're kidding me during the Chinese New Year, right? You won't even get back a penny for the materials. This is hand-painted."

"Hehehehe"

When Li Xuewu saw that the uncle was serious, he smiled and said: "Who knows how much your finger represents? What if it is one dollar, hahaha"

"Come on, you are bad"

The uncle rolled up Yue Fei's New Year picture and asked, "Do you want anything else?"

Li Xuewu looked at the New Year pictures on the table and picked one with a golden boy holding a fish, and another with fish every year.

"Okay, I'll charge you thirty cents."

The uncle took the New Year picture scroll, took Li Xuewu's money, and handed the picture scroll to Li Xuewu.

In this way, Li Xuewu took Li Xue to buy New Year pictures, red paper, red lanterns and other things for the New Year.

Snacks such as pea yellow, donkey rolling, aiwowo, bean juice, and jiaohuan also stretched Li Xue's belly.

When he came out, he saw a toy seller on the roadside again. Li Xue took the initiative to pull Li Xuewu to stop.

"Second brother, Li Shu's big carp doesn't like to play with anymore. Let's buy another one that can withstand being dropped."

Li Xuewu had red paper under his arm and a lantern in his hand. He really didn't want to buy any more.

"I'm so tough that I can't help but throw her, so what can I buy?"

Li Xue pointed to the wooden horse on the ground and said, "Buy this one."

Li Xuewu looked at the Trojan and fell into deep thought.

"Sister, have you forgotten something?"

"What?"

"Our grandpa is a carpenter."

"..."

I saw Li Xue standing up with a red face and walking out quickly, as if she was walking faster and would not be embarrassed when she left here.

"Hahahahaha"

Li Xue was laughed at by her second brother, and even the belly-exploding king didn't ask her second brother to eat it.

Finally, they bought some candied fruits at Xinyuanzhai, and then the two brothers and sisters walked back.

When we got to the car, Huang Mao's group had already left.

I handed the ticket to the man who was watching the car, put my things in the back seat, and then hurried home with a sigh of relief.

Looking at the back cabin full of goodies, Li Xue said with a smile: "It would be great if it could be like this every weekend."

"Hehehe"

Li Xuewu asked with a smile: "Then can you be the first in the grade in the final exam every weekend?"

"How can it be"

Li Xue pinched her nose and said: "There is only one final in a semester, how can it be possible every week?"

"That's right. There is only one Spring Festival every year. How can we buy New Year's goods every week?"

"Second brother, you are so talkative, why don't you have a partner yet?"

Li Xuewu laughed angrily and said, "You can't afford it, right?"

The two returned to the courtyard talking and laughing.

Seeing the car entering the alley, Xiao Yaner helped Li Xuewu open the gate of the west courtyard.

When Li Xuewu entered the hospital, he had to close it again.

"No need to close it, I have to go out in a while"

When Xiao Yaner saw what Li Xuewu had said, she opened the door.

The second master was watching in the store at the moment, and Yu Li and Xiaoyan came out to help Li Xuewu unload the goods.

Li Xue went home first holding her toy box and shoe box.

When Li Xuewu finished packing the things in the car and entered the house carrying his cigarette pouch and his parents' shoebox, Li Xue was being scolded by Liu Yin.

"Look, what did you buy for this? Is this thing so good? Your second brother's money came from the strong wind."

"What is this for?"

Li Xuewu put the things in his hands on the kang in the north room. Looking at the somewhat wilted Li Xue and Liu Yin on the kang, he must be talking about Li Xue's ethnic doll.

Li Xue also wanted to show off, but she didn't expect that when she asked about the price, she got angry.

"Grandma, this is the pipe pot I bought for you. Take a look."

As he spoke, Li Xuewu handed the pipe pot in his hand to the old lady who was supporting Li Shu.

The old lady smiled and handed Li Shu to Liu Yin, and took the cigarette pot bought by her grandson.

When I first opened it, I didn’t think it was just a cigarette holder.

But when I pulled out the pipe and pot, I saw how extraordinary this pot was.

"You've spent a lot of money, you know how to buy white copper?"

"Hehehehe"

Li Xuewu smiled and wisely did not tell the price.

"The brass one smells like copper. You told me earlier."

The old lady smiled and nodded, looking at the cigarette rod in her hand that was longer than the one she broke.

"Come on, my grandson bought it for me, so I don't need to ask about the price, haha."

Li Xuewu clicked on the cigarette pocket and said, "Mistress, you have to be more careful with this pocket."

After saying this, she picked up the shoe box that Li Shu asked for and handed it to Liu Yin: "These are the shoes I bought for you."

Liu Yin looked at her son in surprise, and then she was surprised by the leather shoes in the shoe box that Li Shu opened.

"What... why are you buying such good shoes? I can't spend it like this even if my salary has increased. I'm just living my life."

Li Xuewu ignored his mother's nagging, picked up the shoe box on the kang, walked to the main room, and said to Li Shun who was sitting on the chair: "Dad, I bought you a pair of shoes. You can try it."

As he spoke, Li Xuewu knelt down to help Li Shun take off his shoes.

Li Shun originally wanted to say something to Li Xuewu like his father, but when his second son knelt down to help him change his shoes, he suddenly got a lump in his throat and didn't know what to say.

"Then I'll change it myself"

Li Xuewu had already helped Li Shun take off the cotton shoes from his feet, picked up the leather shoes in the shoe box and put them on Li Shun's feet.

When Li Shun saw that his son was silent, he left Li Xuewu alone.

After changing his shoes, Li Xuewu stood up and said to Li Shun, "Dad, stand up and try to see if they fit."

“Quite suitable”

Seeing Li Shun's uncomfortable expression, Liu Yin also knew that his wife was a little embarrassed.

Then he got off the ground and advised: "My child asks you to try it, just try it. Why are you so stubborn?"

Li Shun had no choice but to stand up and take two steps.

“Very good, not cramping my feet”

Liu Yinxiao looked at Li Shun walking in the house wearing leather shoes and said: "You really stood at attention, this time you are awesome, he is wearing leather shoes."

Li Shun walked around twice before sitting back on the chair and preparing to take off his shoes.

"Just wear it"

"What are you wearing? How can such good shoes be worn like this?"

Li Shun replied to his son, and then let Liu Yin help him change his shoes.

At this moment, Li Xue came over with Liu Yin's shoe box and took the initiative to help Liu Yin change her shoes.

Li Xuewu knew that his sister was showing positive behavior, so he stood aside and watched with a smile.

Liu Yin also smiled and said to Li Xue: "My old girl still loves my mother very much."

"Hehehehe"

Li Xuewu's smile made Li Xue blush a little, but he still helped his mother stand up and tried on the shoes.

"It's so soft, look at the upper of this shoe, it's really bright."

Liu Yin praised, then raised her head and asked: "Your father has one pair, I have one pair, and Li Xue has one pair. How much did you spend today?"

Li Xuewu didn't dare to report the bill to his mother. If he told the truth, his mother would have walked to the store and returned the shoes.

"Not much, it's the Chinese New Year, you two elders have troubled me."

"Uh-huh"

Liu Yin nodded and said, "This sounds pleasant to my ears."

Li Xuewu took advantage of this moment to escape quickly.

"Mom, I have to go out to visit a friend. I'll be back later."

"Come back for dinner?"

This was not because Liu Yin wanted to take Li Xuewu home to eat, but to ask Li Xuewu if he could come back before eating.

"Let's talk about it then, it won't be too late"

As he spoke, Li Xuewu had already left the door.

When I walked to the back room, I saw that Yu Li was packing the new year's goods bought by Li Xuewu into the east room.

"Sister-in-law, after you finish cleaning up, come to the backyard and help me clean up. I have to leave in a while."

After Li Xuewu said this, he went to the backyard again.

Yu Li didn't pay much attention to Li Xuewu's words. She had just put away the lanterns and firecrackers, and then went to the backyard to help Li Xuewu clean up the house.

As soon as he entered the house, he saw that Li Xuewu had changed into the old military uniform he had returned from changing jobs.

"What are you going for?"

Li Xuewu was currently packing his clothes in front of the mirror.

"Meet a friend, not far from here, to practice wrestling."

Yu Li saw that the house had been tidied up in the morning and it wasn't messy, but this bad guy said he had to come.

He stepped forward and helped Li Xuewu smooth out his clothes.

"You're just full, so it doesn't hurt if you fall."

"Hehehe"

Li Xuewu looked at Yu Li looking like a housekeeper, and said with a smile: "Masters compete with each other, and if they hit it as hard as they can, they can still make a killing move."

He explained, then pointed to the shoe box on the desk and said, "I bought this for you, try it out to see if it suits you."

"What?"

Yu Li didn't expect that this man actually bought something for herself. It looked like a pair of shoes, but she still couldn't help but ask.

"You'll know if you open it and take a look."

Li Xuewu packed up his clothes, turned around and was about to leave.

Yu Li walked to the desk and opened the box, and saw a pair of shiny black leather shoes with low heels placed in the box.

"Yeah~ It's leather shoes!"

At this time, no woman can resist the temptation of leather shoes.

If there is, it must be a woman you can’t get.

Yu Li raised her head and looked at Li Xuewu in surprise and asked, "Did you buy it for me?"

Li Xuewu turned around and said with a smile: "Can you buy it for me?"

"You are bad~"

Yu Li came over and threw herself into Li Xuewu's arms.

This was the first time Yu Li dared to be so close to Li Xuewu during the day.

Li Xuewu smiled and patted Yu Li on the back and said: "You are young, go home and take a look, just use the money I gave you."

"No, that's money to buy supplements for you."

Li Xuewu was also afraid that the white gauze curtains would not block his view, so he patted Yu Li on the shoulder and said, "I'll give it to you later."

While talking, Li Xuewu walked to the entrance door and put on yellow rubber shoes.

"Don't bring my food tonight, maybe at what time?"

"Learn martial arts"

Yu Li took a few steps forward, hugged Li Xuewu's head and kissed him.

Li Xuewu was surprised by Yu Li's initiative and responded with a smile.

After a while, the two of them separated while panting.

"You try on the shoes, they should be the right size. I have to hurry, otherwise it will be dark soon."

Seeing Li Xuewu go out, Yu Li certainly knew that Li Xuewu knew her shoe size.

Even if there was no equipment, Li Xuewu would have been able to help Yu Li make a customized insole.

Technician No. 8’s feet…

As soon as Li Xuewu drove out of the west courtyard, he saw Qin Huairu entering the alley with Banggeng.

He drove the car out, stepped on the brakes when he got to the girls, and asked, "What are you girls doing here?"

Qin Huairu looked at Li Xuewu wearing a military coat and looking like he was about to go out, so he pulled the stick that was about to touch the car and backed away.

"Isn't it the Chinese New Year? Why are you taking him out for a walk?"

Li Xuewu turned around and took out the shoe box from the cover of the back cockpit, then turned around and handed it to Qin Huairu.

"A friend in Dongsi Liutiao invited me to practice wrestling. These are the shoes you asked me to buy. Let's see if they fit."

Qin Huairu looked at the shoe box in her hand and was stunned. When had she asked him to buy shoes?

But I heard my son exclaim: "Uncle Wu, are you going to wrestle? Take me with you."

Only then did I realize that it was Li Xuewu's excuse, but he was actually giving his shoes as a gift.

"What are you going to do? Your uncle Wu is going to wrestle. Are you going to wrestle too?"

Bangge pulled the door handle of the jeep and begged her mother, "I want to learn wrestling."

The expression on Qin Huairu's face was happy, and she couldn't control the stick.

Li Xuewu smiled and asked the big fat face: "Why are you learning wrestling?"

Banggeng said to Li Xuewu: "There are always senior students who bully me..."

Before Banggeng finished speaking, Qin Huairu asked nervously like a hen guarding her chickens: "Who bullied you? Why didn't you tell the teacher? When school starts again, I will..."

Looking at Qin Huairu's appearance, Banggeng was a little nervous.

"Hey hey hey"

Li Xuewu interrupted Qin Huairu and said, "You can't use your tricks on boys, are you going to spoil them?"

After saying something to Qin Huairu, Li Xuewu said to Banggeng: "It's okay to play with me, but it's not certain whether you can learn or not. Another thing, you are not allowed to bully others, you know?"

"I know Uncle Wu"

Banggeng looked at Li Xuewu with expectant eyes.

Li Xuewu waved his hand to Banggeng and said, "What are you doing standing there in a daze? Get in the car?"

"Why!"

Bangge jumped up and down with joy, walked around the front of the car and got on the jeep.

"Learn martial arts"

Qin Huairu was not worried that Banggeng would follow Li Xuewu, but she was worried that Banggeng would cause trouble to Li Xuewu.

I didn't think that after studying and interning in the guest house for so long, my understanding of Li Xuewu's identity became clearer and clearer.

His feelings for Li Xuewu also had the flavor of an agency.

Li Xuewu didn't care. Instead, he blinked at Qin Huairu with his stick on his back and said, "Don't leave his food tonight. Eat it outside with me."

After saying this, Li Xuewu drove out of the alley and headed to Dongsiliutiao.

Qin Huairu watched Banggeng shouting and laughing with Li Xuewu, and she felt sad.

Qin Huairu also knew that two women in the family could not raise a man, but with the conditions like this, what else could he do.

Now that I see Bangge and Li Xuewu getting along fairly well, I feel more and more that my choice was the right one.

Not to mention Li Xuewu's help and arrangements for him, let's just talk about it.

Ever since she started "hanging out" with what her mother-in-law called "Li Erscar", Bangge actually made her worry less.

It's strange to say that Li Xuewu is not as good as Silly Zhu, who is always obedient to Bangge.

But Li Xuewu, who threatened and scolded him at the same time, even hurt his son from time to time.

It's even more common to fool your son, but it's better to follow Li Xuewu.

I just think that Li Xuewu is more manly than Shazhu, and people at home often say that men should be like Li Xuewu.

It's awesome that a kid knows what a man is, but he doesn't just have to follow whom to learn.

If Bangge also had a father, he wouldn't imitate Li Xuewu.

Qin Huairu held the shoe box in her hand and looked at the entrance of the alley for a long time.

I also thought about a lot in my mind, including my relationship with Li Xuewu, including Bangge’s sensible son, and my current independence and changes.

After Li Xuewu left home, Liu Yin began to torture Li Xue.

"How much did your second brother spend? Where did you eat for lunch? Did he take you to a restaurant? Look at the taste of wine in your mouth."

Liu Yin nodded at Li Xue's forehead and said: "Your second brother separated the family and went there on his own, so he just used his salary to save money for his wife, but you can't help it."

Forced by his mother, Li Xue, who was inexperienced, could only sell his second brother.

After talking about the money to buy shoes, he added: "I didn't go out to a restaurant at noon. I ate at an aunt's house."

Liu Yin was thinking about talking about buying shoes, but suddenly she heard that she was eating at an "aunt's" house for lunch, so she stopped talking and asked: "What aunt?"

Li Xue recalled the magical experience in the morning and said: "It was living in a large courtyard with security, and living in a small courtyard within the large courtyard."

The more Li Xueyue said, the more confused Liu Yin, Li Shun and others became.

"What kind of big courtyard or small courtyard? What kind of place is this?"

Li Xue shook her head and said: "I don't know, even in a courtyard with service personnel and guards, Aunt Ding lives in a two-story building."

Liu Yin asked: "Service staff? Security guards? Where do they live?"

"Oh, it's just Aunt Ding's family."

Li Xue nodded and said, "They live in their own home. They also have a car. My second brother's car was given to me by Uncle Gu."

"Um?"

Li Shun frowned and asked, "Didn't Xuewu say that the car was transferred from the scrap company?"

"It does not seem"

Li Xue shook her head and said: "The license plates of that car belong to Uncle Gu, and Aunt Ding who I met at the entrance of Wangfujing Mall today."

Li Xue started from the beginning and told her experience of following her second brother to the Gu family today.

Everyone in the Li family heard a personal name, something different from their own lives, and what Li Xue said about the family dinner.

Especially since Li Xue said that Gu Ning might be his second brother's lover, and his second brother even called Aunt Ding mom.

"this kid"

Liu Yin complained, and then said: "Why didn't you tell us that you have a partner? We have changed our words. We haven't met the in-laws yet. What's the matter? Doesn't this mean that we are rude?"

Li Shunze still frowned, thinking about the Gu family's environment that Li Xue mentioned.

From Li Xue's expression, Li Shun could still hear something was wrong, but he didn't say it in front of Liu Yin.

"Let's ask Xuewu when he comes back. Maybe the child has his own ideas."

Seeing what Li Shun said, Liu Yin could only put it down temporarily, but her actions of looking outside from time to time still revealed Liu Yin's worry.

"What does Gu Ning look like?"

When Li Xue saw his mother looking at him again, he knew that his second brother's four toys and leather shoes were not for nothing.

"Um……"

Li Xue thought about Gu Ning's appearance for a moment, and then said: "It's very tall, almost as high as my second brother's ears."

"Then what?"

Li Xue nodded and said, "She's pretty good-looking, with an oval face, big eyes, and double eyelids."

Li Xue has never been exposed to the problem of describing people, unlike these old ladies in the courtyard.

His vocabulary is definitely not as good as Li Xue's, but when it comes to describing people, he only uses analogies and metaphors, and his rhetorical techniques would put even writers to shame.

Listening to her daughter's description, Liu Yin felt like a kitten scratching her heart. She pulled Li Xue and asked in a low voice: "Who is my sister-in-law?"

"Um?"

Li Xue looked at her mother with wide eyes. Can this be compared?

Hell mode?

Looking at his sister-in-law who was reading in the south room, Li Xue also replied in a voice that could be heard by the two of them: "It's much nicer."

"Um"

Now Liu Yin is satisfied, that's right, I can't describe it, so I can compare it.

Li Xue whispered: "You are easy-going, don't like to talk, tall, wearing a girl's coat, but you stand at attention."

"Uh-huh"

Liu Yin was now more satisfied and asked in a normal voice: "Do you know what their family does?"

Li Xue frowned and thought for a while and said, "The service staff called Aunt Ding Editor Ding. She should be an editor, right?"

"You kid"

Liu Yin smiled and said to Li Xue: "What else can an editor be? Where are the others?"

Li Xue replied: "Gu Ning and her sister-in-law are both doctors. I heard my brother call me, that..."

Li Xue hesitated for a while, shook his head and said, "I don't know what Uncle Gu does."

Just what Li Xue said was enough for everyone in the Li family to imagine.

"Do you think they are in a relationship?"

Li Xue shook her head and said, "I don't know how to read."

Liu Yin complained: "You kid, aren't you very smart? You just talk and hold hands."

"How can it be"

Li Xue shook her head and said, "I asked my second brother when I came out, and my second brother said it wasn't true."

"Oops~"

Liu Yin lamented and said: "Tell me, the second child. If you want to find a partner, you have to find one when you are young. There is a lot of chaos. But when you reach a serious age, you start to have difficulties again."

The old lady put Li Shu into the car, pushing and coaxing her slowly.

"We'll ask you when the child comes back. There's no point in worrying now. The second boy has a good idea, so don't miss the point."

After hearing what the old lady said, Liu Yin stopped talking about it.

But Li Xue was liberated.

Seeing that her mother no longer asked herself, she immediately hugged the four babies and was about to run away.

"What are you going for?"

Seeing that her daughter was about to leave again, Liu Yin asked.

Li Xue turned around and said, "I'll put the doll at my second brother's house. I'm afraid Li Shu will drop it if I put it at our house."

“It’s like a treasure”

Liu Yin smiled and said to her daughter, "Go ahead."

Li Xue responded and went to the backyard.

As soon as he entered the house, he saw Yan Jiecheng's wife leaving with a shoe box.

"sister in law"

Li Xue said hello and then looked at the shoe box in Yu Li's hand.

It looks a bit familiar.

When Yu Li saw Li Xue looking over, she said a little unnaturally: "Come to your second brother's place to play. Just stay here. I'll be back."

Saying this, Yu Li quickly stepped out of the door with Li Xue.

Li Xue looked back at Yu Li while holding her baby, and murmured in confusion: "What are you guilty of?"

After muttering this, he entered the house and hid his doll in the tea cabinet in Li Xuewu's living room.

Yu Li held the shoe box in her hand like a red-hot briquette.

Originally, she wanted to put it in Li Xuewu's shoe cabinet and wait to pick it up later.

But just as he was about to put it away, he saw Li Xue coming in, so he had to come out with the shoe box.

What was quite uncomfortable was being stared at by Li Xue, as if someone had been staring at him.

Hey, how about Qiao'er's mother opened the door for Qiao'er, Qiao'er is home.

As soon as Yu Li entered the Moon Gate, she saw Qin Huairu coming in from the third gate.

Coincidentally, both of them were holding shoe boxes in their hands. Not to mention the similarities in the packaging, they were exactly the same.

Now they are both walking towards the middle courtyard, and they live right next to each other, so the atmosphere in the courtyard is extremely awkward.

"Sister Qin"

"Hey, are you cleaning up the backyard?"

"Yes, just finished cleaning up"

"Okay, you should be busy."

"good"

The two of them had a tacit understanding not to look at the things in each other's hands, and neither of them said any random words.

Yu Li entered Yuyu's house, and Qin Huairu returned to her home.

As soon as Yu Li entered the house, she put the shoe box under the bed. She felt it was not safe, so she put the shoe box in the cupboard again.

I moved around, always feeling uneasy, and finally the shoe box returned to the bottom of the bed.