Chapter 121
Chen Huayao remembered that he had just dropped out of school, joined the neighborhood committee to make a living, and went to Liuxiang to investigate the living conditions of residents. The shy little girl who always liked to follow her, her big eyes were so cute. Now, four years have passed by and they have become a big girl. Then hesitated and said, "Well, it's not easy for acquaintances to start."
"What acquaintance is hard to deal with! It's time for you to be a family if you are not young!" Aunt Huang shouted, "There is another one here. Boss Zhou from Jinyu Shoe City wants to introduce you to his niece Zhou Haimei. His niece is 1.65 meters tall and weighs 180 kilograms. Which one do you want to choose?"
"I, I'm considering the head office?"
Aunt Huang slapped the table: "No need to think about it, it's Liu Mengni. That girl is obedient. I have watched her grow up. She is gentle and virtuous, and she has a big butt. I promise to have a son for you in the future! Grandma Chen came to the office last month and asked you, you have never been here. Go back and discuss with your dad. It's best to start dating next week and get engaged at the end of the year. Next year, Mengni will get married when she turns 20, and hold her son the next year. What's the shame you are afraid of, really?"
"Auntie, it's too sudden. I'm not mentally prepared."
"What mental preparation should be done for marriage? As soon as the firecrackers were set off, I would have been so successful when I worshiped the heaven and earth and entered the bridal chamber. Didn't the aunt come here like this? I immediately went to Grandma Chen and said, don't leave, hey, hey!"
The next day, I took 50,000 yuan in the Crab Vault and bought a pair of 6,500 jade bracelets from the jewelry store. This was a gift to my mother when I went home, and drove the young guards back to my hometown in Lihua Town. Tomorrow is a weekend, so there is no need to ask for leave.
Fengchen returned home after a long time. The old man was staying in the room watching TV. When he saw him coming back, he was happy at first, then his face closed and he snorted heavily: "Why did you come back at this time?"
"I recently led a giant research project and was tried hard to keep it away by my supervisor. I really couldn't get rid of it. What if a heavyweight like me left the school? Who are the leaders crying?" Chen Huayao boasted first, putting the Amani suit shopping bag and jewelry box on the table, "Is this what I bought for you and mom. Where is my mom?"
"Your mother is still in school, and she is not qualified. She really thinks she is a soul engineer." The old man snorted, picked up the shopping bag and looked around, and murmured: "What kind of broken things did you buy?"
Chen Huayao crawled into the bathroom and wiped his face, and sang: "That's a high-end suit! It's a 26,000-1 set!"
The old man was startled: "What? Twenty-six thousand? Could it be the Vietnamese Dong?" He picked up the suit and looked left and right, but he didn't realize what was going on.
Chen Huayao changed his clothes, sat proudly on the sofa, and smiled and said, "How is it?"
"Twenty-six thousand, are you really willing to buy it? It's worth my annual salary, how many bowls of pork can I make?" The old man couldn't stop talking and felt aching for a while, and said, "Can you go and get it back? I can't afford to wear such expensive clothes."
"I bought it all, where can I get it back?" Chen Huayao found the old man's unwilling expression. In order to calm his mood, he had to brag: "Actually, it was given by a female boss of a company. The female boss was deeply in love with your son. When she heard that I was going home, she was in a hurry to come back with me, so she bought this suit and said she wanted to give it to her future father-in-law. Just accept the filial piety of your future daughter-in-law."
The old man immediately had his eyes lit up and he leaned over, "What's the name of the female boss of the company? How old is he? What's his character? How do you know him? No matter how busy he is at work, he will bring it back to see it."
"Why can't you cling to it? When the time is right, I will take it home. The company is big and I have to take care of hundreds of people for dinner. Can I easily take it off?"
The old man was very pleased and smiled and said, "Okay, since I'm sure, I won't care about you for now. In short, I must bring you back during the winter vacation. Can my grandson be held by the end of the year?"
"Strive for it before graduation." Chen Huayao handed the old man cigarette, took out another 40,000 yuan in cash, and said, "I earned this money. I can buy whatever I want, so don't worry too much."
The old man knew that his son had great supernatural powers and would give his family a lot of money every time he went home. However, the situation was different this time, and asked in confusion: "Aren't you studying? Why do you still have time to make money? Could it be that you didn't go to school and you were lying to me in the past?"
Chen Huayao calmly said with a finger: "The scholarship issued by the school, the excellent paper award issued by the tutor's research team, the individual award of outstanding public security contributions issued by the street police station, the advanced residents award of police and civilian co-construction issued by the district public security bureau, the outstanding worker award issued by the neighborhood committee, etc., all the prizes combined are so many. Alas, I didn't want it, and they insisted on giving it, which made me embarrassed."
The old man, Lao Huai, felt that his son had indeed grown a lot, and smiled and said, "I just said that going back to study is a good thing. Learn knowledge, cultivate sentiment, and save you from wandering around outside all day." He didn't care about this amount of money, but was happy that his son took the right path.
After a while, the old man stood up and said, "I'll go out for a walk. Don't run around, stay at home honestly and don't think about going anywhere."
The old man planned to go to the market to buy a few kilograms of his son's favorite beef brisket and sour bamboo shoots.
Every time his son Chen Huayao goes home, his favorite food is the buckles he makes, fried beef with celery, braised pork feet, and beef stewed with sour bamboo shoots.
Cut the beef brisket into pieces, and add sour bamboo shoots, tomatoes, old ginger, star anise, rice wine, cinnamon, garlic, mushrooms, and red peppers to a pot and simmer for two hours on low heat. The taste is sweet and sour and spicy, and it is the most delicious.
Chen Huayao always ate and licked the bottom of the bowl cleanly.
The old man was stern on the surface, but he really loved his son very much. He put a dozen yuan in his pocket and went out happily.
Neighbors all greeted him: "Why is Uncle Chen laughing so happily? Where are you going?"
"My son is back! Go out to buy something."
"Oh, it turns out that Xiaoyao is back. Uncle Chen, I heard that Xiaoyao was invited back to repeat the school by Xiangjing University. Isn't it true?"
"Of course, of course, it's full of real gold!"
"Xiao Yao is so proud. I can't do that little bastard like my little bastard. I'm stealing outside every day and don't do good things, alas!"
"Where is, your Xiaoliang is also promising. If you teach well, you will definitely be a high-ranking official in the future." The old man grinned with a smile and headed towards the market.
The market is not far away, only two thousand meters away, and it takes ten minutes to get there. It is a large agricultural and aquatic products market built by the government. It has four floors, mostly concentrated on the first floor, and various stalls are uniformly planned.
On the west are fresh fruits and vegetables, on the south are aquatic products, poultry and eggs, on the east are fresh pork, cattle, mutton and dog meat, rice and grain, and on the north are cooked braised food, cured flavors, and groceries.
The second, third and fourth floors are stalls for farmers to do cheap clothing business. In recent years, living conditions in rural areas have been getting better and better, and no one is willing to choose clothes in the smelly market, so the business is very bleak.
It was two or three o'clock in the afternoon, neither morning nor evening at rush hour, and there were not too many people.
The old man wandered around and bought some sour bamboo shoots and other side dishes, and came to the meat stall. By the afternoon, the good beef brisket had been purchased. The "white flower belly" with white gluten on both sides of the brisket with white gluten on both sides of the brisket has the best taste. It has always been the target of restaurants and restaurants. It was sold out just after the market opened in the morning, leaving only the fat belly with a poor taste.
The old man looked around here and walked to the east entrance. Hey, there was a stall selling beef with white beef. He hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Boss, how do you sell this?"
The boss's name is Liu Si. He switched from building materials business to sell meat only two years ago. He was a young man in his thirties. He was of medium size, with wide shoulders, slightly bald forehead, and a greasy apron tied to his belly. He was sitting bored and saw a customer coming to the door, and he smiled and said, "Old man, the best white-flowered beef brisket, it's getting late now. I'll calculate 24 yuan per pound for you."
Beef is not as good as pork. Ordinary pork is only about ten yuan per pound, but the price of beef is much more expensive.
The old man saw that the pieces of meat on the stall were all bright in color and full in flesh, and nodded and said, "The price is fair, weigh me two pounds."
The boss briskly carried the pig-killing knife and cut a piece, threw it on the electronic scale and weighed it, saying, "Two pounds, one ounce, you can count two pounds, forty-eight."
The old man felt quite painful, but thinking that his son liked to eat it was nothing. He handed over a hundred-dollar bill, and the boss asked for fifty-two pieces to fill it with him in a plastic bag.
When the old man walked to the exit, he felt that his hand was light and something was wrong. He re-weighted it with a peddler selling apples around him, and it was only one pound and four taels.
The beef brisket was squeezed with hand, and it was wet and relish, and it turned out to be a piece of water-filled meat.
The more I thought about it, the more strange it became. I took out the fifty yuan RMB that the beef boss had asked for to make up. It was a blurry watermark, loose paper, and unclear texture. It turned out to be a fake banknote.
The old man doesn't often walk around the market. His wife usually goes out on the streets. He is neither experienced nor dizzy. How could he have ever been deceived? He was so angry that he rushed back to the beef stall angrily, and his white slim was placed on the countertop and said, "Hey, boss, why are you short and less, selling water-filled meat, and even asking me for fake money?"
Liu Si was holding a cigarette butt in his mouth and was annoyed and cursed: "Old ghost! Once the goods leave the counter, I am not responsible. Even the bank does this. What do you want? Who knows if you go out and deliberately cut a piece of meat and make trouble, and you are specializing in causing trouble? Get out quickly, even if you make trouble at the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, there is no place for you to make sense!"
The old man worked hard for most of his life and had never seen such a arrogant and unreasonable person. He just shook all over and said, "You, you are short and you are giving me fake money. Is there any reason for it?"
Seeing that the crowds around him were gathering more and more, Liu Si was afraid of hindering his business, so he carried the bag of beef brisket and threw it on the old man, shouting: "I'm short of a pound? I'll make up for you for fake money? Then why didn't you point it out in person? Then he made a noise again, thinking I was a fool?"
Several nearby stalls agreed and accused him: "This old guy is not seen normally, so he must be a liar. He doesn't even understand the rules that he is irresponsible for leaving Taiwan?"
The old man was so angry that he trembled and said, "I am a liar? You, you are short of money and you are giving me fake money..."
Liu Si immediately rushed out of the stall, raised his hand and slapped the old man in the face, cursing: "You dare to cheat on my stall, you are looking for death!"
The old man fell to the ground, and tomatoes, old ginger and other seasonings rolled all over the ground. Liu Siyu was still angry and kicked the old man lightly or hard. A knowledgeable person next to him grabbed him and whispered: "Old Si, forget it, that's Chen Huayao's father on Nanmen Street."
Chapter completed!