Chapter 3: The Eunuch's Little Brother
"Handsome father, let me tell you, a little brother of a eunuch just came and got a New Year's card~" Qi Yu's children, who must say "yes", held a wad of cash and displayed it in front of Qi Tiechuan.
In the hearts of Qi Xiaoyu's classmates, Qi Tiechuan, who is not particularly outstanding in appearance, is the only man in this world who can be described as handsome.
Aesthetics has always been a very subjective thing, and it is not illegal to think that your father is handsome.
Even if he really committed, Qi Yu also thought that his father could be handsome and split the universe.
In 2008, compared with Alipay, which was just starting out, and WeChat Pay, which had not yet had time to be born, cash and bank cards were still people's preferred options when paying bills.
Qi Yujia's "minimalist" car wash is so simple that it doesn't even have a POS machine that can swipe a card.
The reason why Qi Yu strongly suggested that the eunuch enjoy the card that was only ten times was for the sake of the little brother, mainly because she guessed in her heart that a "underage" little brother would definitely not bring too much cash when he went out.
If you choose an annual card of 1,000 yuan and end up with no money, it is very likely that you will only pay 25 yuan for a single payment.
In this way, it is very likely that the car wash expert will lose a long-term customer.
Qi Yu, who has been dependent on his handsome father for eight years, is more precocious than children of the same age.
When Qi Yu couldn't even do the job of a car washer when he was a "child", Handsome Dad had to make money and take care of her, which was very hard.
At this time, Qi Yu, who thought that she had grown up, thought that she could do more, so that she could take care of her handsome father.
"Little brother eunuch?" Father Qi didn't quite understand what Qi Yu's words meant for a while.
"Hahahahaha ”
"At first, I thought that little brother was surnamed Guan, but later I learned that his surname was eunuch. ”
Qi Yu was a little excited: "Obviously he is the eunuch of the eunuch, he still has to say that he is the eunuch of the eunuch, how can he put the surname behind the name?"
"Because of this, scientific truth, isn't the little brother the same surname as the eunuch?" Qi Yu's super eight-year-old logical ability is on the line.
"Brother eunuch, brother eunuch, hahahahahaha. Qi Yu's singing laughter rang out again.
Qi Tiechuan was amused by his daughter.
Thinking about it, I feel that laughing in this situation is a bit unauthentic, so I can only pretend to be serious and say:
"Qi Xiaomei, eunuch is also one of the hundred family surnames, no matter what the surname is, it is just a surname. ”
"When you know more words, you will find that there are even surnames of sauce and vinegar. ”
"You can't just call someone else's eunuch little brother, it's rude, you know?"
After Qi's father finished educating Qi Yu, he began to enter a thoughtful state, muttering: "We used to live next door to a family surnamed eunuch." ”
"Next door to our house?Which house is next door?Is it next door to our [Qi Family Iron Shop]?" Qi Yu was a little puzzled, the neighborhood was almost demolished, where was there a door she didn't know.
And if there is such a strange family with a surname living nearby, even if Qi Yu doesn't know the words, he must have heard it.
"Yes, just a little earlier, if you have to cross the newly built road, isn't there a house with a separate courtyard wall over there? Dad Qi stretched out his finger.
Following the direction pointed by Qi Tiechuan, Qi Yu saw the roof of a house with high courtyard walls from the cracks of several high-rise buildings.
Qi Yu had doubts about the true meaning of the three words "almost" in Qi Tiechuan's mouth.
The opposite side was also in the nineties of the last century, in the demolition operation in full swing, which was pushed to the rebuilt downtown plot.
The demolition on the opposite side was completed two years earlier than Qi Yujia's side.
All the aboriginal resettlement houses were assigned to the Qi Yu family across the street.
The demolished plots over there were not like Qi Yujia's side, where dense high-rise buildings were built, but were rebuilt into a high-end villa area.
The house that Qi Tiechuan said was in a similar situation, compared to the dilapidated three-story building of Qi Yu's family, it was simply a heaven and an underground.
If there is anything similar, it can only be said that it is also an old mansion, which looks different from the brand new villa in the back.
It was a large five-story mansion with a strong European style.
Baroque reliefs, Romanesque columns, Gothic spires.
Such a "Museum of International Architecture", no matter what, can not use the word "worse" to associate it with the three-story small broken western-style building of the Qi family.
It is also very different from the style of the house next to it, and the house is next to the villa, so it will not look like Qi Yujia, a dilapidated and dilapidated house surrounded by newly built residential buildings, so out of place.
The mansion across the road with high courtyard walls can only be seen from a distance with a Gothic spire, which blends perfectly into the surroundings of the newly built European-style villas.
Except for the courtyard wall, there is nothing else to find fault with.
"Poor~no~much~ah, hahahahahaha, it seems to be really about the same~" This sentence is obviously against his will, Qi Yu said it without confidence at all.
Handsome Dad's words, in Qi Yu's heart, for the first time, there was a huge bias.
Qi Tiechuan's reaction became more and more determined:
"The eunuch mansion opposite was built at the same time as our [Qijia Iron Shop]. ”
"After our family's ancestral house was built, it took another three and a half years to complete the renovation inside and out. ”
"That family is an overseas Chinese house like ours, so it's a similar situation. ”
Father Qi finished explaining almost, and then went on to tell Qi Yu about history:
"I heard your grandfather say that when my father was born, there was still a sign of eunuch house hanging outside the courtyard wall of the overseas Chinese house opposite. ”
Qi Tiechuan shook his head and smiled as he spoke: "It's really, it's not a family, and you don't enter a family." ”
"Ah, a family, did our family also have the surname Eun before?" Qi Yu's young heart was hit by 10,000 points.
Even if she is a girl, she doesn't want to have the same surname as the eunuch.
The preconceived idea made Qi Yu resist this surname belonging to the "little brother of the eunuch" for no reason.
"Qi Xiaomei, how can the surname be said before? You used to be surnamed Qi, now your surname is Qi, and you will also be surnamed Qi in the future, how can this be changed?"
"Dad remembered that your grandfather said that when he was young, the first time he saw it, he thought that the house was an official house. ”
Qi Tiechuan is accustomed to Qi Yu's out-of-the-box thinking.
"Your grandfather also said that at that time, most of the neighborhoods in the neighborhood called that house an official residence. ”
The blacksmith of Grandpa Qi's era didn't know too many words, which was normal.
After all, it was not an era when there was already compulsory education.
Qi's father may have hoped that Qi Yu would not be embarrassed because of his mispronunciation, so he casually told a story that everyone called wrong.
"Are the adults as illiterate as I am? The laughter of the children like a standard scale resounded once again in the old [Qijia Iron Shop].
Qi's father's intimate comfort, for the children who were born with a big heart, there are only three words with a capital letter: no-need-want.
Even if the little sister of the Qi family has been embarrassed, it will be a matter of one second at most.
"Maybe the adults are used to it, or those two words are not written in block letters, so they can't be seen?" Qi Tiechuan must have no impression of what happened before he was two years old, and he can only guess based on what Grandpa Qi told him before, and there is no way to give a definite answer.
"So that's the case, but what happened later? Grandpa, how did they know later?" Qi Yu likes to listen to his father tell stories about the past.
"Your grandfather said that when Dad was just learning to walk, the owner of the house across the street came back once. ”
"I stayed with an elderly man for more than a month, and gave a lot of gifts to the neighborhood. ”
"At first, everyone was still curious about how the family could live in the official residence. ”
It wasn't until the host came out to explain that it was a eunuch mansion that was not an official residence, and the neighbors knew that eunuch was also a surname. ”
Qi Tiechuan explained the reason why he just said that it was not a family and did not enter the door.
"Hahahahaha, thinking so, it seems to be good that the surname eunuch is often misunderstood. Qi Yu began to think diffusionally again.
"Who's to say it isn't? The owner of that house, who hasn't been around for almost forty years, doesn't rent or sell. If it weren't for regular care, it would have been even more dilapidated than our house. Qi Tiechuan simply followed his daughter's words.
"Where is our house broken? Our house is much older than all the same classmates I've ever been to. ”
"Go and see those people, who can install a blacksmith furnace in their house, who can have an ancestral [Qi Family Iron Shop]?" Qi Yu thought from the bottom of his heart that his house was invincible in the world.
was happy for only two seconds, and Qi Yu's mood took a sharp turn for the worse, and she thought of something she might have done a mess up with a little depression:
[The little brother's surname is so strange, he should be from the weird family on the opposite roof. 】
[In this way, does the little brother really drive over every day to wash?]
[And it's the kind that rotates to drive different cars?]
[If not, why does the little brother have to do a thousand yuan?]
Qi Yu, who has always prided himself on being smart, realized for the first time that he might have made a loss-making deal.
"Handsome Dad, we have to change our membership application form in the future, you can't only have a place for people to write their names, but also write license plates, otherwise if there are many cars in a person's name, we will die." ”
There is no way to change the content of the card that has been done, but a "successful" businessman must learn the truth of stopping losses in time.
Qi Yu was annoyed:
[Why didn't other uncles and aunts think of using such a method to take advantage?]
[Because of this, scientific truth, the little brother is definitely not a good person. 】
Qi's father saw his daughter's wilting appearance after doing a "loss-making business", and he wanted to laugh a little:
"We're not a regular car wash, we're all acquaintances' business, just look at it. ”
"That is, you are a little girl, and you went to someone else's car wash once and came back, so you have to say what kind of membership card you want to get. ”
"Otherwise, I wouldn't even be able to print these forms for you. ”
"Dad, I don't expect our minimalist car wash to make any money. ”
The people who came to Qijia Iron Shop to wash the car really didn't have anyone who wanted to take advantage of an eight-year-old girl.
It was only when she saw that she was clever and that the car wash was indeed clean, so she became a regular customer of [Qijia Car Wash].
In fact, in the second year after Qi Yu was born, Qi's father did not rely on car washing to support Qi Yu.