Qi Jingtao roughly allocated the room, and looked at the time at almost 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and the time he agreed with Qi Jinghong, the second brother of the village party secretary, was almost up. Looking at Su Min, who was full of interest in decorating their new nest, said: "Amin, you arrange it first, I'll go to my parents' side, and the second brother should come over soon." ”

"Go quickly, don't let the second brother of the branch secretary wait, we will arrange it here, you don't have to worry about it. ”

Su Min is the second brother, and he knows that Qi Jingtao and the village party secretary Qi Jinghong have made an appointment, and they will come to the orchard today to discuss things, urging Qi Jingtao to go quickly. Decorate the room, in addition to carrying large items, will Qi Jingtao arrange it? Don't stay here and make a mess.

How to arrange and take care of the room is Su Min's own business, Xu Manli will worry about the study, and Qi Jingtao has no room to interfere. Qi Jingtao didn't worry about it anymore, and as soon as he went downstairs and came to the outside of the main building, he saw his father and Qi Jinghong sitting in the long pavilion by the reservoir, each holding a hookah and smoking a hookah.

The promenade-style pavilion that was originally built on the edge of the reservoir has now almost become Qi Zhengming's exclusive resting spot, smoking spot, reception spot, and office spot.

In the pavilion, there are seventy or eighty hookahs of all kinds, large and small, and the scene is spectacular when you slip against the long pavilion. This hookah is a terrible object, and in most rural areas of Caiyun Province, as long as there are men, there will definitely be a hookah.

Caiyun people are not strange about hookahs and don't need to explain. If you don't know the hookah, don't say that you are a Caiyun person, Caiyun doesn't have you, we Caiyun people don't recognize this kind of fool. People from other provinces don't necessarily know what a hookah is and what it means to Caiyun people. How to describe it? Let's put it this way, I don't know if I can give people from other provinces a clear idea and a certain understanding of hookahs.

In the rural areas of Yunnan Province, people who have been tired from a day's work gather in groups. Holding a hookah made of bamboo or some column-shaped object in his arms, and putting a pack of tobacco shreds next to him, grunting, grunting, purring, chatting about the growth of crops in the field, the weddings and funerals of the neighbors, while passing the hookah, you have a few sips, I have a few sips. Harmony and nature, make people fascinated.

When guests and friends come to the house, several people sit in the hall or courtyard, holding a hookah in their arms, purring, purring, purring, chatting calmly, swaying freely, without the embarrassment of the cold scene.

When a person has nothing to do or is tired of work, when he goes to set up a stall on the street to do business, he holds a hookah, pinchs a pinch of tobacco in his hand, gurgles, gurts, gurts, kills time, cultivates himself, and waits for visitors.

In the city, there are also hookahs everywhere, and those institutions, enterprises and institutions, as long as they are not very high-end public places, can always see men holding hookahs. Many offices have the presence of hookahs.

Not to mention in the family, even if no one in the host's house smokes, the hookah is also a must-have, otherwise what if the guests who smoke the hookah come here?

The hookah is in central Yunnan and even the whole province, that is, the "little wife" of men. If people from other provinces visit some Bazi villages in Yunnan Province and hear men wandering around, their mouths are still crooked: "My little wife pinch?" "Where is my little wife?" "Who took my little wife away?" and "Compensate me for my little wife." Words like that.

Don't get me wrong, he's just looking for his own hookah, maybe, it's a problem for him to raise himself, what kind of little wife can he afford there. He may not be able to support himself, but the hookah is an essential item for him.

Many smokers come home from outside, not busy washing the dirt and dust on their bodies, not busy eating and drinking tea, and not busy making love with their wives, but hugging their "little wives" and taking a few puffs. The hookah is always held in your arms and smoked, and the time spent holding the hookah is definitely more than the time of holding your wife!

You see on the street begging professional beggars with hookahs, grunting, purring, purring, and purring, and you are very happy to see it. Whoever prescribes a beggar can't, grunt, that's normal.

There are more magical classics in the hookah, Qi Jingtao used to hear a World War II veteran of the Qi family in the village brag, saying that they went out of the province to fight the war of resistance and fight the little devils. In the early days of the 60th Army, which was adapted from the well-equipped Dian Army, was almost scared to pee in the early days of the province.

Why? The 60th Army was fully equipped with French-style equipment, which was well equipped enough, and each soldier carried two magic weapons - Caiyun Baiyao (called Baibaodan at that time) and hookahs.

The hookah resembles the special shape of a small steel cannon and is relatively large. In order to facilitate the carrying on the march, the soldiers of the Dian army sewed a backpack with a cloth bag and carried it on the march. Those little devils who were so frightened that they didn't know why they thought that the Dian army had been extravagant enough to equip them with a small steel cannon. They only know that the Chinese army has the famous double spearmen, but they don't know that there are any artillery units equipped with small steel cannons.

After Qi Zhengming managed the granary river orchard, there were more things to do, and more people were looking for him. Those who work in the orchard also like to come and sit in the gazebo when they are resting. The old men in the village who come to wander around the orchard are more accustomed to coming to the long pavilion to sit. They are all old brothers and old-timers in the village, who come to serve with natural hookahs. There is something to talk about, nothing to smoke, rest, chat and brag. A lot of the work in the orchard, big and small, is handled in this gazebo.

Therefore, there are many hookahs that need to be prepared in advance. There are hospitality cigarette tubes prepared by Qi Zhengming, his own special cigarette tubes, spare cigarette pipes brought by people who often come here, and Qi Jingtao saw novel styles of cigarette pipes when he ran to the county, so he bought them back for his father. The pavilion of the promenade is almost becoming a hookah showroom.

Without further ado, let's get back to business.

Qi Jingtao saw that the guests he invited had already come, and he couldn't let the guests only smoke hookahs, he was a village party secretary and an official.

Qi Jingtao had a few more bottles of fruit juice drinks in his hand, went straight to the pavilion, and greeted him with a smile: "Second brother, are you here?"

"You kid, if you don't make it clear on the phone, I have to climb the mountain and come to your orchard on a hot day. Your kid is getting bigger and bigger now, dare to play with your second brother?" Qi Jinghong, who was smoking with a hookah, raised his head and scolded with a smile.

"Hehe, I'm too lazy to climb the mountain to find you, drive to the village committee to find you, don't you want to say that I'm setting up a score and putting on a show? Come on, drink a bottle of drink to quench your thirst. ”

Qi Jingtao smiled and laughed with the second brother of the village party secretary, sat on the stone bench next to the secretary of the Qi branch, put the bottles of juice drinks in his hand on the stone table, unscrewed one and handed it to Qi Jinghong.

At noon in September in central Yunnan, the weather was hot, and Qi Jinghong, who had climbed the mountain, was also thirsty. Drink half a bottle in one go before smashing it and smashing your mouth: "It's still your juice drink to quench your thirst, the taste is also pure, cool and thirst-quenching, good thing." ”