Tons of things to go over to eat at noon, Chen Anxiu said hello to Liu Bo in the morning, now I don't go, how do I want to go over to say, Chen Anxiu now lives in this place behind the Nanli community, speaking of which also belongs to the land of Nanli Village, it used to be a vegetable garden, when the Nanli community was just developed, it was not sold well, and the developer was not interested in the second phase, this land was empty, the situation in Dongshan District has been good in recent years, some people want to develop, and the people of Nanli Village are not in a hurry, there are university towns, large supermarkets, shopping malls, and banks are open nearbyIt has long been rumored that the city government intends to build this neighborhood into a new CBD in Ludao City, and Nanli Village guards the most lull of this land and sells it at a price. But before the sale, there was no money for the grass growing in the field, so a series of three-story small buildings were raised, ordinary cement buildings, spaced into small rooms, without any decoration, mostly used for rent, rented to migrant workers, rented to students in nearby university towns. In the future, if the land is sold, you can get a lot of demolition money.

Chen Anxiu's aunt Chen Jianhong said in Grandma Chen's words, your aunt has grown two more than others from the careful eye, so this kind of good thing naturally can't fall into her part, and I don't know how she dredged up the relationship, but the fact is that she built two small buildings next to each other in this place where everyone is jealous, and when Chen Anxiu was going to move out of the Nanli community, his aunt took the initiative to say that they would give their father and son a place to live, free of charge, and let Chen Anxiu live there to help her look at the house.

It's already noon, although it's still raining, there are still a lot of college students and workers who come here to eat, the streets here are paved with yellow sand and gravel, it's not very difficult to walk, it's a lot of mud and water in the rain, the trouser legs are wet without two steps, the shop opened by Liu Bo is called Chengdu snacks, similar to such a shop, there are Lanzhou ramen noodles on this street, Shaxian snacks, Tianjin Goubuli buns, Shanxi knife noodles, Shaanxi meat buns and cold skin or something, authentic or not authentic, people who live in this kind of city corner who will really care, cheap and affordable can eat enough。 Liu Bo's Chengdu snack bar is a simple room, guests eat in the house, he is outside the shed to support the gas tank to fry vegetables, his wife will make some simple fried rice and fried noodles, and there is also a seventeen or eighteen little girl he brought out from his hometown to work, Liu Bo has a son named Xiaojun is seven years old this year, has not yet gone to school, said that the cost of school on the Green Island is too high, and he wants to send it back to his hometown during the New Year, and go to school at home.

"Uncle Chen, Brother Tonton. Liu Bo's son Xiaojun trotted all the way from a small supermarket not far away with a big bag of soy sauce and vinegar and other things, and the umbrella was not supported.

"Xiaojun went to help your dad buy things again? "The child looks very energetic, with a round face and big eyes, capable and sensible, but the parents are too busy and have too little time to take care of the child, Chen Anxiu has seen Xiaojun's clean appearance, just like now, the front and sleeves of the small down jacket on his body are shiny and shiny, and his face and hands are ash that has not been washed off, such a child is not a family on this street, and such a family is not a family on this street. Tiannan Haibei came out to beg for a living, and there were all kinds of them everywhere.

After living here for a long time, Chen Anxiu will think that if there is someone who can accompany him and the family is safe, there is nothing wrong with such a day, but he is a man after all, he has children and parents to support, and his future wife also needs to be raised.

Noon is the busiest time in the shop, Chen Anxiu did not waste time and Liu Bo said hello, just out of the door just met Zhou Yuan three from the opposite lottery station out, he heard Zhou Yuan say, ten yuan per period to buy the same number, bought for two years, the best one won more than three thousand, ten yuan eight dollars when there are, of course, not the most time. He hopes to win five million one day, and then buy a house, a car, and a daughter-in-law in this city.

"Brother Chen, tonton, we have ordered food inside, you haven't eaten yet, come in together." "It's Zhou Yuan who speaks, and there are a lot of young men from the engineering department who rent houses in this neighborhood, the house prices are cheap, and they are close to the hotel where they work, so they don't have to worry about finding a place to eat.

"Brother Chen, how was the job you went for an interview today?"

"What kind of person is the boss?" asked the other two.

The engineering department is so big, Chen Anxiu did not deliberately hide the matter of applying for this temporary assistant, seeing that a group of people blocked the door of the store, he proposed to go in and talk about it in detail, the store was already full, and on a table in the middle was a colleague named Liu Huizhong, he was normal here, strange that it was the girl next to him, Xia Fei, the secretary of the engineering department.

Xia Fei is a new employee who joined the company with Chen Anxiu last year, sensitive and introverted, almost all men in the engineering department, or a group of men with not very high education and quality, how much can you pay attention to if you are married, but not an unmarried young man, I think that after being familiar with other girls, I have no scruples about talking, and I like to pat people on the shoulder when I am happy, but I am used to being cheap, but I don't have any ideas, I am estimated to slap off a spicy girl directly, like Xia Fei, who is obviously very annoying and unclear, turned around and cried secretly, Director Han met a few times, talked to her, and she said it, Director Han vaguely mentioned at the department meeting that he should pay attention to proportions when getting along with female colleagues, and the engineering department was a female colleague of Xia Fei, and everyone understood it at once, and then automatically kept a distance from her. But this doesn't work, once Chen Anxiu and they are all men and they got together and talked about colored jokes, seeing her enter the door, considering that she was an unmarried girl, and hated these very much, she spontaneously stopped, who knew that she went back to her office and cried again, Chen Anxiu was sent by everyone to condolence as the person who had known her for the longest time in the department, and the result was that she thought that everyone was saying bad things about her behind her back. Chen Anxiu felt that it was not wrong for a girl to be delicate, but this one was too sensitive.

For a while, Chen Anxiu could feel that Xia Fei was a little interesting to him, and often used excuses to talk to him and help, and bought a small sweater for Ton Ton in the name of gratitude, although Ton Ton refused to wear it once afterwards. But that's about it. Last winter, I heard that she and a male supervisor in the sales department went out to rent a house to live together. Once Chen Anxiu accompanied his mother to go shopping and met Xia Fei once, Chen's mother was old and spicy, and said in one sentence that this girl was too small. Chen Anxiu didn't mean much to her, and he didn't pay much attention to what happened after that, but when the New Year holiday was approaching, Xia Fei took the initiative to talk to him once, saying that if he was willing to hand over tons to others to raise after getting married, there was still room for maneuver between them. Finally, the tutor was okay, Chen Anxiu didn't jump on the spot, but since then, like everyone else, he has been hiding from this girl as far as he can. So last time Zhou Yuan proposed to let Xia Fei help sort out the report, Chen Anxiu didn't even think about it.

When the others saw Xia Fei here, they looked at each other, obviously as strange as Chen Anxiu, people who never fit in were actually appearing at their dinner table, but they were all colleagues who met every day, and the basic face work still had to be done, Chen Anxiu sat in the position farthest away from Xia Fei with a ton of tons, and simply said a few words to everyone The application process was quite smooth, and then seeing that Xia Fei wanted to talk, he excused himself to take tons to see his throat and leave.

Is it really a sore throat, Chen Anxiu, who is a father, can still distinguish a little, Ton Ton is born with a little bronchial sensitivity, but after these years of careful conditioning, he has basically recovered, the doctor said that there is nothing wrong, the family is careful, or try to keep him away from irritating things such as smoke and dust.

However, the spring is dry, Chen Anxiu bought some small fragrant pears on the way home, and bought a catfish, there was still half a winter melon left at home last time when cooking, and this time I just made winter melon stewed catfish, and the slippery mouth was defeated.

"Third Master. A limping old man came out of the corner in front of him, holding an umbrella in one hand and a duffel bag in the other.

"Third grandfather. "It's Jiang Xinbao, the old man in the village who lives in front of Chen Anxiu, 80% of the daughters-in-law and children in Chenjia Village are surnamed Chen, and there are a few surnames next to them, and now this old man is surnamed Jiang from only four or five families in the village.

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"Third grandfather, why did you go down the mountain by yourself on a rainy day, if you have anything you want to buy, just let my parents help buy it when they come down." Chen Anxiu led the old man home, he and Ton Ton lived on the first floor, a small room of more than twenty square meters, a double bed, a second-hand TV, and valuable things were the Xiaoice box and computer.

"On a rainy day, there was no one in the store, and the seasoning was not complete, so I came down to buy some. "This old man is more than 60 years old, opened a small restaurant in the village, almost 30 years, ancestral good craftsmanship, home cooking, nourishing medicinal food are done, all know the way of the four miles and eight towns, the business has been successful, that is, when he was a teenager, he went up the mountain to collect firewood and was met by a wolf, his leg was lame, and he also left a long scar on his face, although the family conditions are still good, the daughter-in-law is not married, and when he picked up a foreign woman from the city, he ran away with the little guy in the store after less than two years. Since then, he has lived alone until now, Chen Anxiu's family and his neighbors have been for many years, and where they can help, they will help them.

This old man is also good to Chen Anxiu, Chen Anxiu was very busy when he was a child, he was responsible for going to kindergarten to bring his younger brothers and sisters back after school at the age of seven or eight, and then cooking on the fire, at that time people were slightly higher than the pot at home, firewood is wheat stalks, corn stalks, branches, branches, branches, and branches at the beginning, the fire could not be lit, and the smoke choked tears.

"Isn't there a guy in the store to help?" Chen Anxiu soaked the catfish in hot water and scalded it, so that the stewed fish would not be very greasy.

"He talked to a partner a few years ago, and the two of them were getting better, like honey blending oil, and there was nothing in the store recently, so I gave him two days off. ”

"Tons, get Daddy's cotton slippers out from under the bed. ”

"Oh. ”

"Third grandpa, I'm off duty today, you eat here with me, I'll send you to take the bus after eating, your shoes are wet, wear mine first, I'll put it on the stove and bake it after cooking." ”

"Don't bother, Zhuangzhuang, eat late in the morning, and I'm not hungry at all now. ”

"The third grandfather and I are polite, and it's not in someone else's house, if the third grandfather wants to be tired, just go to bed and rest, or let tons of tons accompany you to watch TV, I'll go outside to fry the stove first, and it'll be fine for a while." ”

"That Zhuangzhuang, don't make too many dishes. Just our grandfather, I'll just look at two dishes. Jiang Xinbao nodded and smiled, it's been almost thirty years in a flash, he just ordered a little doll, he didn't think much of it, he grew up, and now he is a father, he has been like this since he was a child, he is intimate with people, he doesn't have any points at all, he likes this child in his heart.

"Okay, I know the truth. Third Grandpa, also try my craftsmanship, is it better?"

"Third master, give, shoes. "Except in front of Chen Anxiu, Ton Ton has always been a sensible and polite good boy.

There is a small east house in the yard, there were originally some broken bed boards, bricks and other sundries, Chen Anxiu cleaned it up, bought a coal stove and some coal in it, usually can fry a vegetable at home, most of the tenants upstairs are female students from nearby universities, his aunt said that girls love clean, and would rather rent a cheaper rent to girls, there are two rooms on the third floor that are rented with boyfriends, but they mostly use induction cookers for cooking, and occasionally someone comes to borrow a stove, Chen Anxiu has not cared about it, the relationship between each other is not very deep, but they live in the same yard and get along。

Chen Anxiu stewed rice, stewed fish on the stove, cut the winter melon into pieces and prepared it, and went to the street to buy two soft and rotten braised vegetables and a few cucumbers.

The catfish meat is fresh and tender, the stewed dish, a lot of fish meat is melted into the soup, the soup is fragrant and thick, directly scoop a spoonful and pour it on the rice, moist, just eat the rice is very fragrant. It can be eaten by both the elderly and children.

In the afternoon, he played computer games, Chen Anxiu carried things and sent the old man to the bus station, watched him get in the car before going back, called his mother on the way, and wanted her to come down to live with Ton Ton for a few days, Chen's mother is now retired and has more free time at home. Chen's mother listened to him explain the reason on the phone and said that she would come over tomorrow morning. This side of the family is done. At night, when Chen Anxiu was packing up his things, he talked about it with Ton Ton, he didn't say a word, covered his head with a quilt when he slept angrily, curled up by the wall, Chen Anxiu went to grab the quilt, he twisted around and didn't touch it.

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"Let's experience old age in advance. After Chen Anxiu worked by Zhang Shinian's side for five days, he comforted himself so much, this Mr. Zhang is happy and quiet, and his life is very regular.

Every morning at seven o'clock must get up, around half past seven, all kinds of newspapers in the hotel will be sent over, the time to read the newspaper is about half an hour, and then there is breakfast, after nine o'clock, he must be in the study to deal with documents, lunch at half past eleven o'clock at noon, he will take a lunch break at one o'clock in the afternoon, after getting up at two o'clock, most of them read a book in the reception room in the afternoon, six o'clock is dinner, after dinner he will go to the beach for a walk, and then he will watch TV for about an hour, basically the news, after nine o'clock, continue to go back to the study to deal with things, sometimes it is a phone, sometimes it is a video, if there is no accident, he will go back to the room on time at eleven o'clock in the evening, in addition to the afternoon of the next day, Chen Anxiu accompanied him to a trip to the Green Island Crude Oil Terminal, and the rest of the days were like this, where did this seem to be a vacation.

In addition to being too boring, Chen Anxiu can barely accept such an old age, the days are dull and quiet, and the regular life makes the whole person relax, but there is always a trace of weirdness in this tranquility, and he thinks that it may be that the person who is with him is wrong. This kind of life of getting up in the morning, resting at sunset, and relying on each other, husband and wife are right together, and there is always something missing when they are replaced by two strange men.