MMB Chapter 1066: Slow Cooking on Low Heat, High Heat to Heat Up
Chapter 1066: Slow Cooking on Low Heat, High Heat to Heat Up
Chapter 1066: Slow Cooking on Low Heat, High Heat to Heat Up
Mr. Lin has a relatively famous modern poem called "You are the April on the World".
Gu Ning really likes reading poetry. All young people of this era like it, except Li Xuewu.
Sometimes he would see Gu Ning writing a couple of short poems, which sounded graceful and elegant, reflecting the sensibility and thinking unique to a young woman.
The words are not difficult to pronounce and the meaning is easy to understand. The words are not deliberately polished, but they have a sincerity and simplicity.
Of course, Li Xuewu could only read it secretly, because these were Gu Ning’s inner private garden, which would not be easily exposed to others.
Although Li Xuewu does not read poetry, he has a very delicate mind and can understand a person.
Why do we mention April when our family is gathering together and enjoying seafood?
In Li Xuewu's view, poetry, whether ancient or modern, is the release of the poet's accumulated emotions.
If you were like Emperor Qianlong, who wrote a poem every time he went to the toilet, that would be a bit pretentious and deliberate.
He could not write poems like "When people are idle, the sweet scented sweet osmanthus falls, when the night is quiet, the spring mountains are empty", but he truly felt the arrival of spring.
There are no mosquitoes in the octagonal hall. You can boldly open the windows and feel the warm spring breeze blowing into the house and into your heart.
April in the world should be filled with family, laughter, and affection.
Therefore, the spring breeze is light, the spring light is bright, and the spring colors are changeable, whether it is sunny or rainy, it is always this.
“I don’t really like eating this kind of shelled fish.”
Liu Yin gently patted Li Shu, who was anxious to grab the food, and while speaking, she fed her small mouthfuls of the abalone and rice porridge that she had chopped into small pieces.
Li Shu was a person with an impatient temper. While she was eating the porridge fed by her grandmother, she saw her father, uncle and aunt eating it with relish, and she felt that her mouth was not full enough.
"I want that—"
She pointed to the swimming crabs in the basin and said to her grandmother, "I want to eat some too, crab."
"It's no use saying thank you, I just can't give you any—!"
Liu Yin smiled and tapped her forehead and said, "That's too cold. You'll have a stomachache if you eat it. Let's not eat it."
"It's not cold!"
Li Shu tried her best to explain: "Aunt's food is already hot, it's in the pot, and it's sizzling."
"Hahaha--"
Seeing Li Shu getting angry, her little mouth not keeping up with her thoughts, and anxiously imitating the sound of a steam boiler, everyone laughed.
Li Xuewu threw the crab shells he had just picked out into the basin, which was already full of crab shells and mantis shrimp shells.
Qin Jingru wiped her hands with a rag, stood up to pour the food, but saw Li Xuewu handing the peeled crab meat and crab roe to Aunt Li. She was surprised and understood at the same time.
When I first met Li Xuewu, I only thought he was domineering, cruel, and unruly, especially after listening to my cousin's mother-in-law talk about his past.
As soon as he became a cadre, he appeared calm and steady, and became a person of status.
Everyone thought that he was a male chauvinist in life, or that he was domineering in character.
In fact, it is not the case. The longer I live here, the more I can feel his attentiveness.
He is gentle and tolerant to children, considerate to Gu Ning, and respectful and filial to the elderly.
If you ask her if she still has feelings for Li Xuewu, she wouldn't know how to say it because it has nothing to do with marriage.
It is a manifestation of a person's maturity at a young age, and it is the charm that surpasses his peers, which will make everyone fall in love with him.
Of course, such admiration or respect does not necessarily have to be expressed in the form of love.
"Brother Li follows you"
Qin Jingru came back with an empty bowl and said with a smile: "He won't eat the ones with shells, unless Sister Xiao Ning wants to eat them, then he will eat them."
"I'm just lazy, me too, haha"
Liu Yin smiled and scraped the corner of Li Shu's mouth with a spoon, and said jokingly: "He was like this when he was a child. You say he is naughty, sometimes he is quite heartwarming. You were moved just now, but he got into trouble again. It's a waste for people to follow him.
"Naughty and sensible?"
Li Xuewu tapped his daughter's nose and made her laugh: "Aren't you talking about Li Shu, right, daughter?"
"no--!"
Li Shu knew what was good and bad, so she held her neck high and said in a tender voice, "I, I'm very good!"
"That's right, no one is as obedient as our Li Shu, our Li Shu is the best."
Qin Jingru teased her, "Li Shu always washes her hands after meals, takes a bath by herself before going to bed, and falls asleep obediently without anyone coaxing her."
"What did you say, auntie?"
Li Shu stared with her eyes wide open and pretended to be confused and said, "Why don't I understand?"
"Hahaha--!"
This little thing is very clever. She understands everything the adults say and even knows how to play rogue.
It's no wonder that Li Shu is so cunning at such a young age. From the Li family to here, Li Shu grew up among people and has been exposed to the language environment since childhood.
She watched everything the adults said and did, and learned as she went along.
"Mm, this crab meat is really delicious and delicate"
Liu Yin tasted the crab meat peeled by her son and praised it, saying that not only was the crab meat delicious, but her son’s intention was also good.
Li Shu felt greedy when she saw her grandma eating. She stared at her with her eyes wide open and her saliva was watering.
Li Xuewu had no choice but to pick up a piece of sea bass, remove the bones, mash it up, and feed it to her with her small spoon, telling her that they all tasted the same.
As a result, Li Shu stretched her neck and pushed the sea bass prepared by her father away from her grandmother, pointing at the crab meat in front of her grandmother and asking for a taste.
"If you were a little older, I wouldn't be able to fool you. You're too cunning."
Qin Jingru ate quickly. When she was full, she went to the kitchen to wash her hands, then came back and carried her to the other side to eat, giving Aunt Li time to eat.
Li Xuewu brought back only a few kinds of seafood. They were not very rich, but they were fresh.
Abalone, swimming crab, sea bass, mantis shrimp and some shellfish.
The good ones were kept for one or two meals, and the rest were given away, mostly to the courtyard houses and hospitals, and some were delivered to various households by Shen Guodong.
As in the past, he would personally deliver the gifts to his godmother and Han Shu.
But it’s a bit awkward with my godmother. I just hope time can dilute everything.
He had no opinion towards Zheng Xicai and Zheng Xiaoyan, and he would not bear a grudge, but the old couple thought too much and would always talk about them every time they saw each other.
Not to mention festivals, he would always think of the other party if there was anything new and delicious on weekdays. As long as there was something for Han Shu, there would definitely be something for them. If he didn't go, Shen Guodong would send it to them.
The weather at the recycling station foot job entrance is smooth and favorable, and it can be said that the godmother is providing shelter from the wind and rain.
He is thinking about the old couple, and the old couple is also thinking about him. The most important thing in a relationship is to be genuine.
As for Han Shu, the age difference between the two is too small. It sounds like she is calling her teacher or teacher's wife, but actually she should be calling her sister.
Especially when talking to Gu Ning, Li Xuewu is the one who respects his teachers the most. Even if they are relatives, he still respectfully calls them teacher.
Han Shu took no less care of him than Zheng Shusen and his wife.
In his work, he promoted the cooperation between the steel rolling mill and the Steel Institute, which brought great convenience and results to his work.
In personal matters, Dong Wenxue was the matchmaker between him and Gu Ning, and also provided a lot of help in his studies and growth.
There were some private awkwardness and privacy issues between Dong Wenxue and I when we were dealing with the Gangcheng incident, and I always felt awkward sitting together.
It was okay with Han Shu. She really helped a lot when Gu Ning gave birth.
Especially during the few days when my mother-in-law lived here, she came to visit almost every day.
They are not precious things at all, but due to the limitations of the times, these things that are inconvenient for ordinary people to eat have become good things.
Han Jiankun is familiar with Li Xuewu, and they don't pretend when eating at home.
Eat when it’s time to eat, drink when it’s time to drink, and don’t need anyone to tell you when to work, let alone rush you to work.
One of the couple can make a lot of noise while the other can work quietly, which often makes Liu Yin laugh.
After dinner, Gu Ning coaxed the younger one upstairs to feed, while Li Xuewu coaxed the older one to read a book or look at pictures in the living room.
Gu Ning was very concerned about Li Shu's education and enlightenment. He not only collected children's picture books, but also taught her to draw himself.
The relationship between mother and daughter is more meaningful and interesting than that between father and daughter. After all, she can only learn to be spoiled by following her father.
Li Xuewu spoils his child, and even Liu Yin can't stand it, not to mention Qin Jingru.
Some of Li Shu's little bad habits were caused by him, such as playing barefoot on the floor.
Or playing with sand or soil. Whose child would move the sand pit into the house to play?
For Li Xuewu's family, he not only went to the river to find quartz white sand, but also cooked it in an iron pot when he got home to remove all the dirt. Then he scattered it in the sandbox for Li Shu to play with.
Just in terms of playing, Li Shu's childhood was definitely better than all the kids around her.
Who has as many toys as she does? She has so many toys that she needs a basket to put them all in.
Before going home every night, Qin Jingru would pull a bamboo basket and collect toys in every corner like a little girl picking mushrooms.
Dig out everything in the flower pots, under the piano, in the corners of the cabinets, and even in the sand pit.
This child is like a naughty monkey. He plays with toys as grenades and can even fish out small tin mice from the fish pond.
After everything was packed, the couple said goodbye to Li Xuewu and went home.
Li Shu had already fallen asleep at this time. Although she also had to take a nap during the day, she was full of energy and had to use up all her energy before nine o'clock and go to bed.
After washing up, Liu Yin came out to see them off, and they chatted and laughed for a while at the door.
After watching the couple ride their bikes across the street, Li Xuewu and his mother went back into the house.
It’s not that the couple have worked so hard that I should personally see them off and watch them leave before returning.
It's cool in the yard right now, and the evening breeze makes people feel lazy.
His mother was sleepy, so Li Xuewu turned off all the lights downstairs. The two of them went upstairs while talking about going home tomorrow.
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On the second floor, the light in the study was still on.
However, Gu Ning was not reading in the study, he was just taking advantage of the light from there.
Children are still very sensitive to light, especially at night, and I’m afraid he will get used to not sleeping.
Watching his mother return to her room, Li Xuewu closed the windows of the small living room, leaving only half of the study window open for ventilation.
It is impossible to open the master bedroom, and even the door has to be closed, for fear that the children will catch a cold.
After hearing him coming up the stairs, Gu Ning came out of the master bedroom and pointed in the direction of the study.
Li Xuewu glanced at the child, followed her to the study, and asked, "What's wrong?"
"I have something to tell you..."
Gu Ning hesitated a little, turned around and sat down behind the desk.
Li Xuewu did not urge her, but poured her a cup of warm water in the small living room and handed it to her.
"Is it a difficult thing?"
"Well, my boss talked to me today."
Gu Ning held the cup in his hand, lowered his head and explained with a somewhat lost look: "He asked me if I wanted to be transferred from the front line to a management position."
When he said this, Gu Ning raised his head with some concern, looked at Li Xuewu and said: "Go to the Political Science Department. The leader said that it will be convenient for me to take care of the children and also for me to take care of the family."
She looked at Li Xuewu's indifferent gaze, lowered her head, tidied the hair by her ears and said nothing more.
Li Xuewu moved a chair and sat opposite her, holding her hand holding the cup.
"what are you thinking?"
"I...I didn't think much about it."
Gu Ning stammered, "What the leader said is right. The child is still young, and you are busy with work. You also want to trouble my mother-in-law to help me take care of the child. I just want..."
“Your leader is taking care of you.”
Li Xuewu nodded and said, "But our family doesn't have any real difficulties, so we don't need him to take care of us. After all, we only have one child."
He squeezed Gu Ning's hand and said, "Don't the other seven or eight children also go to work?"
Gu Ning looked up in surprise, looked at Li Xuewu and asked, "Don't you want me to have more time to take care of the family?"
“No, that’s not the question I was hoping for.”
Li Xuewu looked into her eyes seriously and said, "I hope you pursue your career and ideals, not that you have to accommodate your family."
"The mother comes to take care of the children out of her love for her grandchildren and because she has the conditions."
He looked at Gu Ning and nodded, encouraging him: "Do whatever you like, whether it's on the front line or in a management position."
Seeing Gu Ning's eyes drifting towards the master bedroom, I knew that she was reluctant to leave her child and was thinking about him.
Her personality is quite unique, and is seen as somewhat different by the public in this era.
But in later generations, such a character is rare and good. Who can calm down and open a book?
Many people don’t finish reading a book in a year, even a classic novel.
"The child will grow up eventually. He is not everything to you and me. He is a member of the family and he will also have his own life and ideals."
"Hmm, let me think about it."
Gu Ning understood his opinion, nodded seriously and said, "I'm not ready to be his mother yet."
“You’ve done a great job.”
Li Xuewu knew that the woman would feel a little melancholy and sentimental at this time, so he just smiled and comforted her, cared about her, and did not put pressure on her.
"Li Shu said you are a good mother, which is enough to prove that you are excellent in this matter!"
"She would just talk—"
Gu Ning couldn't help but smile when she thought of Li Shu's cuteness, then looked at him and asked, "Is Mr. Wu from Tianjin okay?"
"Well, he said he wanted to work."
Li Xuewu explained frankly: "Guodong just happened to say that he wanted to open a recycling station in Tianjin, so I introduced her there."
"Where's the child? Is he left in the care of a babysitter?"
Gu Ning frowned slightly and said: "Actually, it's not a pleasant feeling to leave the children to go to work."
"Well, it's left to the care of the nanny."
Li Xuewu nodded, and then explained: "The working hours there are more relaxed, mainly for business. I can handle some work even at home, so it's quite suitable."
Looking at the surprised Gu Ning, he smiled and said: "If you like, I can arrange for you to do this, but it will be more difficult."
"I can't do it. I'm used to the job of a doctor and don't really want to change my environment."
Gu Ning picked up the cup and took a sip of warm water, then said, "I have been like this since I was a child. I am afraid of changing to a new environment, even going to school."
She explained somewhat embarrassedly: "I was very scared when I went to junior high school after graduating from elementary school, and it took me a while to get used to it."
"The same thing happened when I was promoted from junior high school to high school, and it was Gu Yan who encouraged me."
"Brother-in-law? How is he doing?"
When Li Xuewu heard her mention Gu Yan, he smiled and asked, "Last time I told him to rest at home for a few more days, but he didn't stay. I didn't see him go out to play with his old friends."
“I have my own thoughts and my own life.”
Gu Ning shook his head slightly and said: "He said he was busy with training. He might want to finish his studies as soon as possible so that he would have the opportunity to lead troops. This is his ideal."
"Well, it's a good thing to have ideals and the courage to strive for them. People always have to grow up."
Li Xuewu followed Gu Yan's lead and asked Gu An, especially since Mu Hongyan was about to give birth.
"Oh, by the way, my sister-in-law is due next month, and my mother has passed away."
Gu Ning said somewhat embarrassedly: "She called me this afternoon and scolded me."
"She said we didn't contact each other before we had children, and that now that we have children, we don't know how hard it is to be a mother... She said a lot of things, and also said that it was inconvenient for me to call her and I didn't know how to write letters."
After hearing her reminder, Li Xuewu shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I was too busy and forgot to call or write a letter. I'm sorry."
"It's not your fault, I should have been the one writing it."
Gu Ning took out a pen and paper and said, "Even if it's just to prevent her from scolding me, I have to write it."
Li Xuewu took a pencil from her hand, tore off two pages of paper and wrote with her.
When the two were writing letters, Gu Ning suddenly seemed to remember something and looked up and asked, "What happened to your school? Do you need tutoring?"
“Yeah, I’m still learning from the teacher.”
Li Xuewu sighed deeply. Studying in university was really too difficult.
He is tired, and the teacher also suffers and has to accommodate his schedule.
Fortunately, there were no classes in school at that time, otherwise who would teach him like this.
On weekdays, I would go to the teacher's house on Sundays to ask about my homework and receive the content and homework for the next week. This happened once a week.
The reason he is so tired is that his work is too troublesome and he is under a lot of pressure from studying.
This method of learning has no semester system and no holiday system. It is a completely self-study and inspiration method. It is a good opportunity for some people, but for him it really tests his time management ability.
Fortunately, he has some experience in this area.
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On Sunday, the sun is still bright and beautiful.
Last night Gu Ning was worried that his studies would be affected by going home today.
Li Xuewu was already used to using time in such extreme situations and didn't care at all.
In the morning, he took his daughter for a walk by the lake, played with the old man, and then took Li Shu home for breakfast.
Maybe because she was going home, mother Liu Yin was in a good mood and was smiling all morning.
That’s how old people are. When they coax one person, they think of that person, and when they coax that person, they think of this person again.
"Are you sure you don't want to go?"
Li Xuewu watched his mother pack up her things, including the child and Li Shu's things, and asked Qin Jingru when he saw her coming out of the restaurant.
Last night at the dinner table, I mentioned that I would go back to the courtyard to play for a day, so she said she would stay at home to tidy up the house and do a thorough cleaning.
Because Qin Huairu also lived in the courtyard, every time the family went back, Li Xuewu would ask her if she wanted to visit her sister.
But most of the time, Qin Jingru was reluctant to go back to the courtyard for many reasons.
During the time she lived there before, the people in the courtyard did not leave a good impression on her.
Of course, she didn't leave a good impression on the people in the courtyard.
Everyone said she was lucky, just like her sister, and found a good marriage in the city.
It's not necessarily envy or jealousy, but mostly gossip and resentment, or pure gossip.
The city people's pride looked down on the country girl, and she also couldn't stand the city people's pretentiousness.
Another thing is that her past with Sha Zhu is a "dark history" after all, and it would be bad to make Han Jiankun embarrassed.
So, when Li Xuewu asked her, she just shook her head and said she didn't want to go, using the spring cleaning as an excuse.
Maybe you really want to thoroughly clean upstairs and downstairs, and even if you pay attention to hygiene on a daily basis, there will still be dead corners.
When seeing them off, Qin Jingru specifically asked Han Jiankun to come back quickly so that he could help her clean up the house.
Han Jiankun was used to being bullied by her, so whatever she said was the truth.
On the way, Li Xuewu asked him with a smile why he could tolerate Qin Jingru's nagging and domineering.
Han Jiankun smiled awkwardly and didn't say much, just saying that she worked hard and had a sharp tongue but a soft heart.
Liu Yin understood. Qin Jingru worked with her lover to earn money to support the family. She took care of everything inside the house and had to serve him when she got home.
Such a daughter-in-law is a basic requirement in the eyes of rural people, but in the eyes of city people, she is already very qualified.
If Qin Jingru was a city dweller with some culture, she would not have trouble finding a husband even if she had an eccentric personality.
In the car, Gu Ning held the child, Li Xuewu held Li Shu, and the family of five returned to the courtyard.
She was also afraid that her mother would miss her children and the old lady after being away from home for a long time, and she was even more afraid that the old lady would miss her and her children.
Although the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had some conflicts when they were young, they still care about each other and talk about each other as they get older.
Since this morning, she has mentioned the old lady several times, worried about her mother-in-law's health.
The weather was dry in winter, and the old lady had been coughing for a few days from smoking her pipe. She felt better when she came out.
Although my mother-in-law has always been in good health, she is old after all.
Although Zhao Yafang takes care of the children at home, she always needs the old lady's help.
If she's tired or something, she's not there to show any concern.
This worry was relieved when the car stopped in front of the courtyard gate.
Some neighbors were talking at the door, and some greeted the car when they saw it approaching.
Liu Yin took the child from Gu Ning's arms with a smile, said a few words to them and then went into the courtyard.
She must be missing home, otherwise she wouldn't have walked so fast. When Li Xuewu was holding Li Shu and carrying the bag, they disappeared.
Gu Ning closed the car door with amusement, and followed him into the yard carrying Li Ning's diaper bag.
Because Li Xuewu was holding Li Shu, he did not chat with the neighbors at the door.
He has now quit smoking and tries to reduce this kind of ineffective social interaction.
If you know someone, just two words of greeting are enough. No matter how much you say, it will be dull without cigarettes and it will lose the fun.
Hearing the noise, grandma came into the yard from the recycling station sales department, and took Li Shu from him with a smile and started teasing her.
Li Xue also came out of the house and greeted them and took the bag from Gu Ning.
"I told you, it's already this late, why haven't you come back yet? If you don't come back soon, grandma will go to the fields to pick you up."
"Hahaha," Liu Yin said with a smile, "I came out right after breakfast, and hurried back in a hurry, without wasting any time at all."
Liu Yin carried the child into the house and started chatting with Zhao Yafang and the others.
Li Xuewu stood in the yard with his grandmother, coaxing Li Shu to play, and the laughter in the house could be heard from this side.
"Guodong is not at home?"
I looked back at the back house. The windows were open, but it was very quiet.
Grandma just came back from the west yard. Apparently, there are only a few people at home.
"I followed Warden Huang to Chadian, saying that I was going to meet some friends and take a look at the preparations over there."
Chadian Farm finally accepted Li Xuewu's suggestion and gave up the small winery.
Their loose liquor can only be supplied to small supply and marketing cooperatives in the surrounding areas.
The taste and alcohol concentration are difficult to control, and without professional and skilled technicians to control it, every sip tastes different.
Yes, there are prisoners who know how to make wine, but will they show off their ancestral skills?
Nowadays, people who can get in are all cunning. Only simple and honest people will not stay in the fence.
Another thing is that prisons are not suitable for quality-controlled products because they are inherently uncontrollable.
The most suitable one is the product proposed by Li Xuewu, which is simple, practical and has immediate effects.
For example, furniture, breeding, papermaking, printing, etc., the quality can be told at a glance.
Shen Guodong has caught the toad and is determined to squeeze out a handful of fans from the prison and the farm.
After seeing the successful examples of "labor reform" in Prison No. 1 and Prison No. 3 and the results they achieved, these related prisons also followed suit.
It’s not like they haven’t done any economic revenue-generating projects before, but they just don’t have the channels to process and cash out quickly.
Production costs and commodity detention will put tremendous pressure on the prison’s already weak financial management.
Therefore, now that we have the supply chain to provide means of production, we can also return the products produced to the supply chain channels for sales and monetization.
The hardware and software conditions of these prisons are still based on those they received earlier and were built after simple repairs.
Funds are urgently needed to renovate prison cells and management buildings, and even more so to improve the treatment of supervisors and the living conditions of prisoners.
Shen Guodong often went there to discuss business and saw the prisoners eating. In some places, the food was not even as good as pig food.
It's not that we are punishing them, but the current economic situation is already stretching the limits of maintaining and managing so many people.
Many prisons send people to farms, or the prisons themselves engage in minor industries.
Brick factories, tile factories, clay pot factories, as long as they can get a foothold in the market, they want to do it.
It is rare to see clay basins in later generations, but at this time, and even in the 80s, clay basins were still an important washing tool in rural areas.
It is profitable, but it is easy to get into trouble.
That thing deals with soil, and it not only has machinery, but also a kiln.
Not only can it easily tire people to death, it can also easily cause serious personal injury accidents.
This is different from feeding pigs, feeding cows, doing carpentry, and printing.
The second master still takes care of all the big and small matters at home. Although he doesn't go out to do business, all the logistical work is his responsibility.
Shen Guodong couldn't catch Li Xuewu now, and no one talked about it, so he followed his grandfather and second grandfather to discuss these matters.
He gradually got used to it. When he had important questions, he would go to the old foxes in the mountains for consultation, and when he had general work, he would consult the two "treasures" at home.
The father and son were talking about business in the courtyard outside the Chuihua Gate when Ge Shuqin came in from outside, holding the child in her arms and a basket of vegetables in her hands.
"Deputy Director Li, you are back"
"Yes, are you going to buy groceries?"
It was rare for Li Xuewu to hear her say hello on her own initiative. This was a behavior he only saw after she started working.
When she saw him in the past, Ge Shuqin would either walk away with her head down or hide aside timidly.
He didn't care about the petty minds of the people in the courtyard, or the trivial "grudges and love-hate relationships", including those towards Yan Fugui.
There is only so much space in a person's heart. If it is filled with all these unnecessary things, what can one do with it? What can one be?
Ge Shuqin must have become more sensible after she started working and experienced so many ups and downs.
They all emphasize breaking down and then building up, and then becoming an adult.
Of course, what we are talking about here is not about being a slut first, then pretending to be a virgin, and finally becoming that kind of person.
It is unclear what will happen to Ge Shuqin in the future, but from now on, it is clear that she has learned how to be a good person.
"Buy some groceries. It's the weekend now. Take the kids out for a walk."
"The little girl looks so quiet, what's her name?"
Li Xuewu looked at the child in her arms with a smile. The child was six months old and looked like a grown-up child.
But the more he looks at me, the more he looks like Lao Biaozi. Is he seeing things?
"Her name is Yan Fang. Her grandfather gave her that name."
Ge Shuqin smiled and pointed to the lively Li family in the courtyard and asked, "Dr. Gu and Aunt Li are back too? Are they back with their children?"
"Well, I haven't been back for a long time, and my mom misses home too."
Li Xuewu nodded with a smile and motioned to her, "Come home and sit for a while. Our child is still young and can't even lie down."
"Okay, go ahead."
Ge Shuqin agreed with a smile, and went back to the yard carrying the vegetable basket and the child.
When Li Xuewu saw that she was returning to her own home, he looked at his grandfather with some surprise.
Grandma nodded in understanding and explained softly: "They had another fight the other day. Yan Jiefang was quarreling with his mother. Now he is cooking by himself, and Guodong even asked someone to help him move the pots and pans."
"Wow, their house is so lively"
Li Xuewu shook his head slightly and said, "It's like performing a big opera. Big operas don't last longer than this, and they last two to three years."
"They say the food is too bad. The only good food we can eat when the couple is not around is rotten food in the morning and evening."
Grandpa wasn't just there to watch the fun, he was just feeling emotional.
He also shook his head and said: "He also talked about the replacement of houses. He said that there seemed to be some problems with the construction of the house in your factory, and his parents wanted to take back the house."
"Haha~ It's quite interesting. The Third Master knows the situation of our factory very well."
Li Xuewu glanced at the front yard with amusement. Yan Fugui had already lost a son because of money, and now he was going to lose another one?
This is not throwing away, this is chasing out.
"Grandma, look at that child..."
He raised his eyebrows hesitantly and whispered to his grandmother, "Why do I look like Biaozi, especially my eyebrows and eyes?"
"do not talk--"
The grandmother looked up and signaled him, saying helplessly: "When Guodong saw this child, he was also frightened and worried to death."
"Did you call Biaozi?"
Li Xuewu's eyebrows moved. He didn't expect that his brother would run forward and give birth to the child in his head.
Grandma shook her head and said nothing.
Why are you calling? The evidence is right there on the kid's face.
If you say that Lao Biaozi looks like a pig and is extremely ugly, that is not absolutely true.
Even if you cover his entire face, leaving only his eyes and eyebrows exposed, he's still quite handsome.
He just has these good-looking eyebrows and eyes, which are really inherited from his ancestors. Anyone who has seen him will definitely remember him.
Li Xuewu also took a look at the child. She had her mother's pretty face and her eyes were like Lao Biaozi's. She might be a beautiful girl when she grows up.
Perhaps the third aunt did not see even a trace of Yan Jiecheng in this child, so she refused to help take care of him.
The cause of the incident was not a big fuss, probably because of his consideration for his deceased son and his current son.
Yan Jiefang was really encouraging. He went hungry one day and never let the mother and son suffer any injustice when he got home.
It would be fine if the child isn't looked after, but if the food is not good, I'd feel bad paying the money.
In a fit of rage, he set up a separate group and really put Yan Fugui and his wife in a difficult position.
This family has demonstrated to the people in the courtyard and the neighbors what filial piety and unfilial piety mean.
Li Xuewu could only say, what a sin.
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I stayed in the courtyard for a while in the morning and talked with the neighbors I met.
He hasn't come back for a long time. Even at the factory, the number of times I can see him is limited, and even when I see him, I can't talk to him.
He finally got the chance, and Li Xuewu was polite to everyone who tried to curry his favor.
After coming out of the courtyard, Li Xuewu rushed to the club.
There is work to be done at the recycling station, and there are also things to report to Yu Li.
The work here was a bit trivial, and he was busy until noon. Ou Xin came to ask him to have lunch together, so they went to the restaurant.
Li Bai, Pei Pei and others were also there, intending to have dinner together.
Li Xuewu chatted with them for a while, talked about their recent life, and his mentality returned to what a young person should have.
Ou Xin felt a little disappointed when she heard that Li Xuewu would not be here in the afternoon and was going to visit the professor.
She also thought about asking him to exercise together in the afternoon. For him, Ou Xin even learned tennis.
Li Xuewu could see what she was thinking, but he didn't think they had any close relationship.
He already has enough "friends" and he is unable to take care of them all, so how could he eat grass in his own backyard?
As he walked him to the parking lot, Ou Xin mentioned his desire to help him.
This help certainly did not mean being a waiter in the club, or managing a waiter, Li Xuewu could tell that.
Perhaps she also knew that Li Xuewu was still in charge of a business that could make money, otherwise why would Zhou Xiaobai and Luo Yun leave their service positions.
Ou Xin also knew that there were prospects for development working in the club, but it was definitely not as promising as following him, in terms of money.
Li Xuewu was somewhat surprised at the girl's thoughts and thinking.
Shen Guodong is in charge of delivery in the service department here, so it’s not surprising to know some of the work he is handling.
But few young people are so decisive as to give up the "serious job" in the club and choose to do business at this time.
Li Xuewu did not agree with her, but just told her to study more and accumulate more now, as there will be opportunities in the future, and development is not necessarily achieved by doing business.
Luo Yun's situation did not apply to them, unless it was as she thought.
How to integrate into Li Xuewu's small circle, one is for him to take the initiative to invite, the other is to become a daughter-in-law or woman in their circle.
Yu Li's ability to be a manager in the club is not entirely due to her talent, or in other words, she does not have any extraordinary management skills to demonstrate, of which Ou Xin is very sure.
Then how is she able to manage such a large number of things and even gain trust and respect when interacting with the members?
Ou Xin felt that since she wanted to take this path, she should do it absolutely. She didn't want to usurp the throne and take over Yu Li's position.
She thought that since Yu Li had the opportunity to get her current position, she was educated, had ideas, and liked Li Xuewu, why couldn't she be more resolute?
In fact, she didn't know that Yu Li's relationship with Li Xuewu was not just that kind of relationship. She worked wholeheartedly at the recycling station and served him for such a long time, so she had been through many tests.
Everyone wants to be Yu Li, but not everyone has the opportunity that Yu Li has, and not everyone necessarily has her patience.
After returning from the professor's place in the afternoon, Li Xuewu went straight back to the courtyard.
It's a rare weekend to spend with his family, and he wants to relax for a while.
What I miss most is probably the time when I was the security chief. Every Sunday afternoon, I could take a nap with little Li Shu in the backyard of my home.
There wasn't so much pressure at that time, and there wasn't so much work to do.
Knowing that he was coming back, Sha Zhu waited for him at the recycling station. When he saw him, he started talking about the factory relocation.
This matter has become a hot topic now, and many people are thinking about what to do if the steel mill really moves away.
For local residents, even if the factory is gone, their homes cannot be moved.
Some people are brave enough to move and follow the factory because survival is the most important thing.
Those who have families with them dare not leave. A broken home is worth a fortune, and moving would be a huge loss.
For the workers and their families at the steel mill, it is no exaggeration to say that they are in a state of panic.
Maybe this is the effect Li Huaide wants. He won’t curse, but the workers will.
If he cursed in the streets, people would laugh at him for being uncultured and lacking depth, but when the workers cursed them, it was not as simple as cursing in the streets.
This incident made Li Huaide furious, but in dealing with the matter, he chose to simmer it over low heat and then finish the job over high heat.
Old Li is very good at cooking. He is very particular about food and drink on weekdays, and he definitely has the patience to compete with the city.
The city was gambling that he would fail to control the timing and fail, and then he would have to bow to them.
But Lao Li is not afraid of this, because there is enough "water" in his "pot". If these big brothers get angry, the situation will be "boiling like a raging fire".
What Sha Zhu wanted to ask was how this matter would be handled. He was not afraid of the factory relocating. At worst, he could really come back to be in charge of the kitchen at the recycling station.
Li Xuewu would never leak the secret to him. Shazhu's mouth is looser than the waist of his cotton pants.
"I heard from grandma that Yu Shui went on a blind date?"
Some time ago, I encountered a bottleneck in my creation. You may have also felt it. Lao Wu talked with friends. They suggested that I write another book to find the feeling, especially the part of staying cool. So Lao Wu found a fan fiction theme that is easier to write. Of course, I can't write Siheyuan, there will be conflicts in ideas, so I wrote Harry Potter fan fiction, and the effect is indeed obvious. After accumulating more than 200,000 words of manuscripts for the new book, I have ideas and passion for Siheyuan again. I have been working on the detailed outline and plot for several days in a row, and I have a continuous motivation for the new book. In particular, I have a clearer idea for the next original work. Friends suggested that I should not be out of the "mainstream" of writing for too long, otherwise I will have no passion and can't keep up with the trend. I will be blind if I start a book again. The book Siheyuan will insist on updating 10,000 per day, and the Harry Potter fan fiction will depend on the results. If the results are better, it will also be 10,000 per day. Everyone knows Lao Wu's hand speed. The two ideas complement each other. I also hope that readers who like fan fiction can support it.
(End of this chapter)