Chapter 42: Small Gatherings

The summer time is relatively long, and it only takes ten minutes to wait for the crabs to be steamed, and Chen Shu drove all the way back for four and a half hours, and it is now less than six o'clock in the afternoon, and there is still more than an hour to wait for dark.

Chen Qiang put half of the steamed crab into a bag, and then rode a motorcycle to his sister-in-law's house without making a phone call in advance. The sister-in-law saw Chen Qiang driving a motorcycle into the yard, and hurriedly walked out of the house: "Why are you here now?

"Chen Shu has just come back from Tangshan, and he has brought back fresh crabs, which have just been steamed, and I will bring you half of them, so that you can taste them too. Chen Qiang said.

"You can just eat it and take it here, it's expensive, right?" asked my sister-in-law's mother.

"It doesn't matter if it's expensive or not, it's food when you buy it, I heard them say it's better to eat seafood and drink beer, you can eat it, I'll go back first." When Chen Qiang spoke, the crab had already been handed to Hu Jingxuan's mother, and then she was about to push the motorcycle to turn around.

"I'll send you!" After speaking, Hu Jingxuan accompanied Chen Qiang out of the courtyard, and when he got out of the courtyard door, Hu Jingxuan asked: "How much is this crab a catty?"

"Twenty-five and fifty-one catties, Chen Shu won't care about this if he buys it, just eat it!" Chen Qiang said with a smile.

"As far as your heart is big, how much money does your brother earn now can afford to spend so much, is it also from him that the gift money is also from him?" Hu Jingxuan then asked, but Chen Qiang did not continue to answer.

"I don't know what your brother does now, but I've never seen someone who can make money like this, let's pay him back soon after we earn money. I know you must be under pressure from the exam, and the village says that you don't work well, and you know how to mess around at home all day long, so we just know what we're doing. Hu Jingxuan comforted Chen Qiang and said.

"I know, he will come back and he may plan to build a house in the family, and I heard his idea is to tear down the old house and build it anew. When I asked him what he was doing, there were almost more than 100,000 in the year. He only told me that he worked in a steel pipe factory and was now a sales manager, and nothing else was mentioned. Chen Qiang said.

"No matter how good he works and how high his income is, the money we take will have to be repaid sooner or later, and it is not ours after all. We can take care of our temporary face and make a show in front of outsiders, but this is not a reason for us to ask for money from him!" Hu Jingxuan accompanied her brother on the street, talking about her thoughts.

"I understand! Chen Shu called last time to say that all the expenses for the wedding banquet were paid by him, so let him do it. In the future, when he gets married, we can do as much as we can. Chen Qiang said.

"Okay! You are brothers, don't mess with money, just drive slower on the road, it will be dark for a while!" Hu Jingxuan instructed again, and then watched Chen Qiang drive away on a motorcycle.

As soon as I got home, I found that a few classmates from Chen Shu's junior high school came over, Chen Qiang smiled and let everyone into the house, and when he saw a few classmates coming, Chen Shu simply moved the table with crabs to the yard, and then took out a few bottles of beer from the refrigerator. Dad didn't see much beer, so he rode to the village shop and brought back two more bundles.

"It's a coincidence that a few of us came, but this crab still has to leave a few for your brother and parents, or our brother will be embarrassed to do it!" Zhao Ming was the first to speak, and the other guys simply took out six of them and sent them to Chen Shu in the house. A few guys don't treat themselves as outsiders, and Chen Shu is also happy.

"You guy will say it in advance next time he comes back, if he hadn't seen you driving, it is estimated that your kid might have slipped away tomorrow!" Liu Hailong said.

"Okay! Next time I come back, I'll say hello to you in advance, and our brothers will have a good time!" A few people were talking, and my father bought beer from outside, and at the same time bought five or six side dishes and five catties of fritters, saving a few guys from drinking and not eating, and having to get food when they went home.

Although there are occasionally a few children who come to play at home, they rarely eat, on the one hand, because of the conditions, and on the other hand, the conditions. Although Chen Qiang's income can only be regarded as good, it has not yet reached the point of completely transforming his family.

What can bring about these changes can only be Chen Shu and his work, and more importantly, Chen Shu's future status and wealth. After sending these classmates away, the family began to eat, and the grandfather also sat down at the dining table to eat.

"Poor no one asks, rich distant relatives, everyone toasts, respect the rich!" Grandpa nagged a few words, but he didn't say anything, and the family, especially Chen Shu, heard it very clearly.

After eating, Chen Shu and everyone went to the street to enjoy the coolness, the early night of summer in the countryside is still a bit sultry, the energy gathered by trees and crops during the day has not yet dissipated, the closer to the night, the air begins to become cooler.

At nine o'clock in the evening, Chen Shu returned home, turned on the fan and whined, still did not feel much coolness, used to the days of air conditioning, and now suddenly became unaccustomed.

The lights are still on, a gecko runs back and forth around the lamp, and a small flying insect becomes the thing in its belly, which is the survival rule of the gecko, and why not the survival rule of the enterprise? Watching the market invest its own funds into it, in the end there are profits and losses, and some are swallowed up.

The current Rongwei industry is just a huge empty shell, an empty shell blown up by many friends, and it needs to be filled step by step. This needs to be achieved step by step, and the little capital of oneself cannot be missed, otherwise the last bit of support of this empty shell may collapse.

The lights were still on, but Chen Shu slowly fell asleep, it had been a long time since he had slept so reassuringly and comfortably, and the sparrows chirping in the yard in the morning woke up Chen Shu for the first time, instead of making the annoying alarm clock every day. After Chen Shu finished washing, the meal was already on the table, peanut oil baked flatbread, fried cabbage and a plate of pickles, and then a large bowl of millet porridge for one person.

The newly cooked flatbread is Chen Shu's favorite, and it is precisely because of the countryside that peanut oil has become not so precious, so it is common to make flatbread, after eating, Chen Shu asked his father: "Have you used the stick stick (corn) seedlings (fertilization)?"

"Two days ago, the seedlings were gone, and there was nothing in the field, and tomorrow your brother and a few people in the village are ready to leave together, and they have discussed going to Beijing, and the work has been found. Now that the policy has changed, it can open more than 200 a day, and if the contractor gets it right, it can be combined to more than 300 a day. Dad said happily.

"I heard about it when I worked there, and it was much better to stay at home in the future. Chen Shu smiled and said.

"No, if you hire people to work in the fields now, only one hundred and fifteen people will go a day, or no one will go. Dad said with a smile, because Dad occasionally went to help, and there were two nurseries in the village, so it was inevitable to hire someone to hoe the weeds.

"How much does it cost to build the second floor in the village now, and how long will it take?" asked Chen Shu.

"The labor at home is cheap, if the village construction team builds, it will take less than a month to build, and it takes more time to lay the foundation, about 200,000 yuan, you plan to build this old house? Although he said so, who in the village did not envy people who built buildings.

There is not a decent villa in the village now, they are all ordinary square two-story buildings, this kind of building is not what Chen Shu wants, especially after seeing Zhang Qiang's villa.