Siheyuan: Garbage King

When Qin Jingru saw someone in the room, she stood quietly in the dark and waited.

The cold wind was howling outside, and Li Fang couldn't bear to let the girl wait outside for too long, so he found an opportunity to send Silly Zhu and the third uncle away.

Welcoming Qin Jingru into the house.

Normally, it would not be a good thing for two young men and women to be alone in a room in this era, but it was dark and cold, and everyone was staying at home, so no one would notice, and no one would mind their own business.

"Brother Fangzi, have you eaten?" Qin Jingru's face turned red from the cold, and her white hands were frozen.

Li Fang originally wanted to pour her a cup of hot water, but he looked around and couldn't find the cup.

"I ate steamed buns, what about you?" Li Fang looked at her and said.

Qin Jingru pursed her lips and smiled, taking out a steamed bun from her sleeve: "You haven't eaten enough, I've left this for you."

Li Fang looked at the steamed bun in the girl's hand and was stunned for a moment.

When leaving Qinjiazhuang, he remembered that Qin Daping also brought two steamed buns to Qin Jingru. After all, although Qin Jingru was going to her cousin Qin Huairu's house, in this era, no one had enough food to eat, so she couldn't go there to eat and drink for free.

When visiting relatives and friends, everyone will bring their own food in a tacit agreement.

The buns this girl gave him must have been left for him on purpose, and she ate one herself.

After walking so long, Li Xingxin felt an inexplicable feeling in his heart as he ate one just to save it for him.

He felt warm in his heart and said softly: "You can eat, I'm not hungry. By the way, I heard the eldest sister from the street office said that you had a quarrel with your cousin today...what's going on."

When Qin Jingru heard Li Fang's words, her lips moved a few times and her cheeks turned slightly red: "My cousin... wants to introduce me to someone."

Li Fang was stunned for a moment, and then he thought of how, in the plot of the Siheyuan, Qin Huairu said she wanted to introduce Qin Jingru to him in order to deal with Silly Zhu.

If we were still an audience, we would just introduce Qin Jingru to Silly Zhu... After all, it is all a story in the play.

But when this incident actually appeared around Li Fang, he felt somewhat uncomfortable.

First of all, he felt that Sha Zhu was not a good match. He had been in contact with Qin Jingru for so long and knew that she was an innocent girl. If she married Sha Zhu, she would definitely be eaten to death by Qin Huairu.

Secondly, there is such a big age difference between Qin Jingru and Sha Zhu, so Qin Jingru is definitely wronged.

However, this kind of thing still depends on Qin Jingru's own ideas. After all, from the perspective of this era, Sha Zhu is a cook with an iron rice bowl and has his own house.

Although he is older, he is still the man that rural girls want to marry.

Li Fang looked at Qin Jingru and asked proactively: "What do you think?"

Qin Jingru lowered her eyes. She remembered the man named Xu Damao she met when she came to the courtyard during the day. He said many bad things about Sha Zhuer, which made Qin Jingru have a very bad impression of Sha Zhuer.

As for her cousin's attitude towards Silly Zhu, Qin Jingru is already a sixteen-year-old girl, so she can still see some clues.

She felt that neither Silly Zhu nor Xu Damao, who swaggered like a big cock, were as good as her Fangzi brother.

That's why she quarreled with Qin Huairu because of this matter. She didn't want to marry Shazhu, nor did she want to meet Shazhu.

However, Qin Jingru would not say this directly. After all, girls are shy and embarrassed to express their feelings.

She stuttered and said: "I think... I want to go home, Brother Fangzi, let's go home tomorrow."

The girl looked at Li Fang with her shining eyes.

Since Qin Jingru was embarrassed to say it, Li Fang stopped asking.

He paused and said, "Okay, let's leave early tomorrow morning and get home before dark."

Staying in the capital is undoubtedly a joke to them now. After all, they came from the countryside without food, and they didn't have food stamps with them, so they couldn't even eat.

After all, I have food to eat when I get home. Only when I am full can I have the strength to do other things.

Qin Jingru looked at the small house curiously: "Brother Fangzi, is this the house you rented? You will live here from now on, it's great."

The girl's voice was full of envy.

It is the dream of many rural people to work as workers in the city and eat commercial food.

She looked at Li Fang in front of her, and suddenly she felt depressed. The distance between herself and Brother Fangzi was getting farther and farther.

"When you are looking for your cousin in the future, you can stop by my place and have a look." Li Fang said with a smile.

Qin Jingru hummed, and the girl couldn't help but ask: "If I don't find my cousin, can't I just play with you alone?"

Seeing the serious look on her face, Li Fang laughed out loud: "Okay, okay, you are welcome to come anytime. I will come to the city to work next week. When my first month's salary is paid, I will treat you to meat buns."

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Qin Jingru's cheeks were red and she nodded vigorously.

She was already looking forward to the meat buns.

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It was another early morning, and the two of them walked back to Qinjiazhuang in the cold wind.

When they came back, their stomachs kept growling. In the end, Li Fang couldn't bear Qin Jingru's nagging, and the two boys and girls shared the food on the road.

A single steamed bun would definitely not fill their stomachs, but as they ate the steamed bun and the strong wind blew into their mouths, the two of them were quite satisfied.

The two of them walked home while chatting.

"Brother Fangzi, see you later." Qin Jingru stood at the door of her house, waving her little hand to say goodbye to Li Fang.

Li Fang nodded in response.

He traveled a lot during this trip to the capital, and he didn't sleep well in the courtyard house last night. Li Fang was hungry and sleepy at the same time.

As soon as he entered the room, he said hello to Zhang Yurong, got into bed and fell asleep for a long time.

It was already early the next morning when I woke up.

Zhang Yurong was cooking breakfast for the family in the kitchen.

Li Fang opened the lid of the pot, and sure enough, it was still stick noodle porridge that was three parts thick and seven parts thin.

"After you left yesterday, Xiaohe and his uncle sent ten kilograms of stick noodles in total. We must remember this favor and return it when life gets better." Zhang Yurong muttered as he watched Li Fang come in.

Li Fang nodded and showed Zhang Yurong his steel rolling mill work permit.

When the work permit was taken out from the steel rolling mill, it only contained simple personal information. The column for the work department was still empty. It would be filled in after Li Fang was assigned it on the official day of work.

Zhang Yurong attended a literacy class and knew some words, but not many.

She glanced at her work permit and gave it back to Li Fang.

She said: "Did you give that thing to the leader?"

Li Fang grunted and said, "Yes, if the leader promotes me, I won't have to go to the workshop to be a worker. I'll go to the logistics department and I'll go to work next week."

Zhang Yurong snorted and said: "It's good to be a workshop worker, learn a trade, and get tired when you are tired. When you get to the city, take care of yourself, you have a mother at home. Work hard, don't quarrel with your colleagues, listen

The words of the leader.”

She is a simple rural woman. She will not teach Li Fang how to please his leaders, nor will she bring much help to Li Fang's career. However, she will still teach her son the principles and rules she knows.

This is the most simple teaching from a mother.

Li Fang was not impatient. He listened to his mother's speech carefully. When Zhang Yurong finished speaking, he said slowly: "Mom, I will earn a salary from now on, except for rent and food. I will bring you the remaining money when I go home on Sunday."

return."

Zhang Yurong looked at his son and shook his head: "You are old too. Bring home some food every month. You can keep the rest yourself and don't spend it randomly."

Li Fang said nothing.

He knows that his mother always reports good news but not bad news, just to save himself worries.'

But with three children still crying for food, how could he abandon this large family?

He is still far from the state where one person can have enough to eat and the whole family will not be hungry.

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