Scholars in the courtyard

Backyard, Liu Haizhong's house.

boom

The second uncle put the wine cup on the table and made a noise, which made everyone in the room startled.

Especially the two brothers Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu kept their heads down, fearing that they would be provoked and forced to endure a stick education.

The second aunt was stunned, "Old man, what's wrong with you?"

"Isn't she just Qin Jingru? You don't need to be familiar with her. She is a country bumpkin with no education. Let's leave her alone."

The second aunt thought that Qin Jingru's lack of expression just now had annoyed Liu Haizhong, so she gratefully opened her mouth to persuade her.

"No, I'm not talking about her." Liu Haizhong suddenly laughed, "Who is there in the middle courtyard?"

The second aunt looked ahead and said, "Who else is there? It's just those families."

"There is also Lou Xiao'e from the Zhou family."

Liu Haizhong nodded and filled a cup, "Yes, that's her, haha."

"Look at this opportunity, it will be delivered to your door."

The second aunt still didn't understand, "Old man, what do you want to do?"

"You don't understand, it's none of your business."

The second uncle did not explain, but turned to look at Liu Guangtian, "How was your matchmaking last time?"

Liu Guangtian took a bite of pickles and said, "It's not bad. I know you are from a steel rolling mill, so I'm very satisfied."

Liu Haizhong nodded, "As long as you're satisfied."

"Let their family choose as soon as possible. If it's over, it will be a high climb when your father starts his official career."

Liu Guangtian was stunned for a moment, then continued to eat with his head down.

He has heard this so often that he has become immune to it.

Yang family.

After eating, Zhou Kui returned home with the child in his arms.

The three women were talking about this and that in the room, which was very lively.

"Qiuye, did you get your pressure cooker back?"

Liu Yulan asked.

Ran Qiuye shook his head, "There was no sound the last time I took it away, and I don't know where it is now."

"I know this." Lou Xiao'e put down the tank, "There was an accident in the workshop last time. The steel rolling mill was in a mess. The people sent from above were still pressing hard. Later, the superiors assigned this task to the machine repair shop."

"You don't know that at that time, the deputy director of the machine repair shop personally brought someone to pick it up. The director and director of the steel rolling mill didn't want to see it and were hiding."

Lou Xiaoe felt funny when she thought of the scene at that time, and she was a little angry at the same time.

It's really frustrating that he can't say anything even though his factory director's flesh has been robbed.

"It's all those bastards' fault."

Lou Xiao'e said on the side, and Liu Yulan nodded, "Don't look at how pitiful they are, they are all asking for it."

"Okay, let's not talk anymore. I'm not in a hurry to use it now anyway."

Ran Qiuye tried to smooth things over, saying that since Yang Xiaotao was not at home, she would use less of the pressure cooker.

The three of them talked and Liu Yulan returned home.

It's cold at night now, and there's only Ran Qiuye at home, so Lou Xiao'e didn't leave and stayed at Yang's house.

The stove in the room was lit and the hot water kettle was beeping. Little Dragon Boat Festival was already lying on the bed and fell asleep. The two of them were sitting in front of the stove chatting.

"Xiao'e, are you really planning to do this?"

Ran Qiuye was holding a ball of wool and was knitting a sweater. Judging from the pattern, it should be for Yang Xiaotao.

Lou Xiao'e was helping to comb the wool, and when she heard Ran Qiuye's words, she shook her head without any hesitation.

"Qiuye, I'm different from you."

His voice was a little low, "I feel like someone is targeting me these days."

"You also know my family's background. Although I became a worker in a steel rolling mill,..."

"The way I am now, I will harm anyone I follow. It's good to just be like this. As long as my parents are healthy."

Lou Xiao'e looked at it openly and said, "You don't know, my dad's health has gotten much better since he had nothing to do. He used to have a cough in winter, but this year he played chess and walked with the elders in the courtyard. His mood improved, and his health also followed. alright."

"So, all I can do is take good care of the one who gave birth to me. As for the one who gave birth to me, let's forget about it."

Ran Qiuye looked up at Lou Xiao'e and suddenly smiled.

"Why are you laughing? Are you laughing at me because I can't give birth?"

"No, no, no, no."

Ran Qiuye didn't dare to joke about this matter.

She just had a faint sense of crisis.

Lou Xiao'e, however, pretended to be generous and said, "It's okay, it's the truth anyway. After so many years of marriage, I've wanted a lot, but there's been no movement."

Ran Qiuye put down the needle and said hesitantly, "Xiao'e, I have no other intentions."

"Besides, it's not necessarily your problem that you can't give birth."

"My family member told me that this person was made up of half male and half female. If a woman can't give birth to a child, it's probably because of the male half."

"Look, how long have Qin Jingru and Xu Damao been together, haven't there been any movements?"

"I heard from Aunt Wang that she has been looking for folk remedies."

Lou Xiao'e immediately remembered after hearing this, "Yes, I went to the hospital for a checkup, and it was obviously fine."

"Xu Damao, this bastard went to check it out and brought back a bunch of medicine. Haha, he really can't do it."

Lou Xiao'e laughed loudly.

"Keep your voice down, don't wake the child."

"Yeah, hahaha."

The two laughed for a while, and Lou Xiao'e got angry thinking about Xu Damao going to the countryside behind her back to have sex.

But thinking about Xu Damao never having children in his life, he felt angry again.

"Fortunately, I jumped out of the fire pit."

Lou Xiao'e felt happy mentally and talked to Ran Qiuye again, from home life to work, and finally talked about the steel rolling mill.

Speaking of which, the thought of the other party's exploration of her origin made her uneasy.

Lou Xiao'e is not stupid either. On the contrary, assisting Yang Xiaotao in handling work matters during this period has opened her horizons. Coupled with the influence of the family environment, under the guidance of Father Lou, I felt vaguely that the purpose of coming to her this time was not simple.

Especially in the current situation of the steel rolling mill, the secretary and the director are not on eye-to-eye with each other, and it is very likely that he is targeting Director Yang.

As his immediate superior, Yang Xiaotao is likely to be implicated as well.

Thinking of this possibility, Lou Xiao'e looked serious.

"Qiuye, during this time, I want to stay at home with my mother, so I won't just come to see you."

Although Lou Xiao'e was smiling, her big eyes were twinkling and she looked worried.

Ran Qiuye didn't say much after hearing this, just hummed.

Both of them understood psychologically.

"By the way, Qiuye. When you two have nothing to do, just talk about how to make humans! Are you ashamed?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? This is called exploring knowledge and having children."

"Hey, don't be shy!"

"Why were you blushing just now because you were shy..."

The night is deep.

Yang Xiaotao lay helplessly on the bed, feeling filled with failure.

Sure enough, some things cannot be accomplished overnight with plug-ins.

Next to the head, Xiaowei also followed suit, humming with her little mouth, which was particularly funny.

However, Xiaowei was indeed very tired.

Compared with the experiment on Yangcun No. 1, this time it was more difficult.

According to what Yang Xiaotao once said, one is genetic recombination, which can be traced and Xiaowei can adjust it bit by bit.

But what is happening now is genetic mutation. Mutating corn genes into drought-resistant and salt-alkali resistant ones is simply making something out of nothing.

Xiaowei has been busy for a long time, even with the genes of Populus euphratica, she is still working in vain.

"Forget it, let's rest. We'll talk about it tomorrow!"

"At this point, Ran Qiuye should be asleep! It would be great if it's summer, hehe!"

Stretching and turning on the lamp, Yang Xiaotao lay on the bed, his thoughts confused.

He needed to find some comfort and relax his brain, so he forced Xiaowei to turn on her phone and started "peeping" remotely.

Siheyuan, Yang Family.

Ran Qiuye lay on his side on the bed, putting one hand on his abdomen and protecting it carefully.

Behind her, Lou Xiao'e hugged Ran Qiuye, and the two fell asleep without caring about the image.

On the small bed opposite, Little Dragon Boat Festival was breathing evenly.

The room was quiet, and the wind outside was blocked, so there was no movement at all.

At this moment, a faint green light emerged from the bed, and everything in the room was reflected in Yang Xiaotao's mind.

"Bastard Lou Xiao'e, that's my wife!"

Yang Xiaotao shouted angrily, but the scene was frozen on a pair of mountain peaks.

The next day, nine o'clock in the morning, steel rolling mill.

A truck drove in from the gate and quickly stopped in front of the office building. Then an old man with a haggard face walked out of the car.

In front of the office building, Wang Fuhan and Yang Youning led people to wait here early.

After the old man came down, he looked at everyone with excited eyes.

"Liu Gong! Thank you for your hard work."

Wang Fuhan stepped forward and held Liu Daming's hand with a soft and friendly tone.

Liu Daming had already known something about the steel rolling mill through his driver. Now that he saw this person standing in front of Yang Youning, he must be the new secretary.

"Secretary Wang. No hard work, no hard work."

"Liu Gong, let's go in and talk."

Liu Daming nodded, greeted Yang Youning and others, and then walked to the conference room.

Yang Youning frowned and came to the driver.

"Xiao Liu, only Liu Gong?"

"Director, yes, there is only one Mr. Liu." The driver quickly replied, "By the way, I asked Mr. Yang, and Mr. Liu said he had another task."

"Any other mission?"

Yang Youning thought for a moment and then didn't ask again.

These tasks were secret to begin with, and he wouldn't tell them even if he asked.

Turn around and walk quickly towards the office building.

second floor

When Lou Xiao'e came to work today, she met Wang Guodong and then heard that Liu Daming was back.

Liu Gong went out with Yang Xiaotao. Last night, he even asked Ran Qiuye, when will Yang Xiaotao come back? Don't delay the Chinese New Year and so on. Who would have thought that he would come back today?

Lou Xiao'e quickly tidied up the office, mopped the floor and wiped the tables, then filled up the hot water and waited.

After a while, I heard a lot of noise in the corridor, and Secretary Wang's hearty laughter.

Lou Xiao'e lay down in the crack of the door and looked, but after checking it again, there was no figure of Yang Xiaotao.

Opening the door, I happened to meet Yang Youning who was coming back.

"Factory director, where is our section chief?"

Lou Xiao'e stopped Yang Youning, still looking at the corridor.

Yang Youning saw that it was Lou Xiao'e, and he knew this woman well. He could only say that he could not choose the family into which he was born.

"Your section chief is not back, he has another mission."

Yang Youning didn't say much and walked quickly to the conference room.

Lou Xiao'e stood at the door disappointed, with decadence in her eyes.

Turn around and walk to the office.

But at this moment, Lou Xiao'e saw someone staring at her.

Frowning, he looked around and saw that it was Qiu Yuan who had followed Secretary Wang.

This person has been very active recently, and last time he said that he was the daughter of a capitalist, especially his small eyes, which were even more comical under the cover of his big nose.

With a cold snort, Lou Xiao'e closed the door heavily.

Qiu Yuan chirped, and also snorted coldly when passing by the door.

"A capitalist's daughter can join the revolutionary ranks. Who is behind this and what are their interests? Haha."

"I'll dig them all out for you."

Qiu Yuan sneered and walked towards the conference room.

In the room, there was constant cheer.

Liu Daming enjoyed Secretary Wang's warm reception and kept asking for help.

Of course, I didn't mention the specific situation, I just asked how my life was and whether the task was completed.

Liu Daming nodded, "The mission was successfully completed."

As he spoke, he took out a certificate from the bag and an iron box.

"Secretary Wang, Director Yang, this was sent to us by our superiors after we left."

"Everyone has one."

With that said, Liu Daming spread the certificates on the table, and several people nearby looked at him immediately.

"Comrade Liu Daming has made outstanding contributions to the construction of the motherland. He is awarded the third-class personal honor and is specially issued with this certificate as a reward."

"Third-class merit? Lao Liu, you are awesome this time."

Chen Gong looked at the iron box in Liu Daming's hand and immediately took it over to look at.

The moment it was opened, a red medal appeared in front of the eyes, and everyone stared again.