74

Xiao Yan hasn't been home for two weeks, and the family hasn't changed much, but everyone in the family is thinking about it tightly, especially the younger brother Xiao Hui, who heard his mother say that his sister is coming back today, and he sat at the door of the house early in the morning and waited.

They still live in a small courtyard behind a rented storefront, there is a small gate behind the courtyard, and the door is a secluded alley, there are almost no people, but they usually go in and out of this gate.

Although the front façade can also go directly to their backyard, after all, it is not very convenient for people to come and go.

When Xiao Yan came back, she saw her little brother sitting at the door with a look of eagerness.

As soon as Xiao Yan's figure appeared in the alley, Xiaohui came over with a tiger pounce, "Sister, why did you come back, I want to kill you!" ”

The family conditions are better, the children's living standards have also improved a lot, Xiaohui used to be cheerful, and now he is even more lively and active, Xiao Yan looks at him like that, it is estimated that he will not only be active in the future, but also have the potential to become a bear child.

"Sister misses you too, why didn't you go out to play today?" Xiao Yan said as she entered the door.

Xiaohui pouted, "It's not fun here, Wang Xiaocui is in my hometown, and no one plays with me." ”

Xiao Yan entered the house and saw that her mother was busy in the kitchen, "It's so fragrant!" Mom, what do you do? ”

Zhao Guoying is now the director of the technical department of the canning factory, usually focusing on technology, in fact, it is how to make delicious canned food, the factory has other shares, Zhao Guoying is a serious character, and then go back to Chenjiang's not necessarily marketing methods The canning factory has not been open for a long time, and the products have been sold in several nearby counties.

So the factory is generally busy.

Because her daughter came back today, Zhao Guoying specially asked for leave from the factory, bought a fish, cut two catties of meat, and bought prawns, and made a lot of Xiao Yan's favorite vegetables, and now that the family has made money, Zhao Guoying is very willing to eat, in her opinion, whether it is her husband or her daughter, work and study are so hard, how can you keep up with nutrition if you don't eat something good.

"Get a fish, stew a meat, go wash it for a while, and then you can start the meal when your dad comes back!" Zhao Guoying said to her daughter.

Xiao Yan nodded, went to the outhouse to wash her face, and said to her younger brother while wiping her face, "You didn't make any new friends at school!" ”

"Originally, there were, but Wang Dazhuang stopped playing with me again." Xiaohui looked indifferent.

"What's going on? Why don't I play with you? Xiao Yan said strangely.

"I don't know! He doesn't play with me, I don't play with him, anyway, I don't like to play with him too much, sister, do you know, he never washes his hands when he eats, and his face is estimated to be washed only once a month, but it's dirty. "Xiao Hui counts the shortcomings of his playmates.

Xiao Yan touched her little brother's head, comforted him a few words, and ran to the kitchen to help her mother.

She followed her mother's instructions while peeling green onions and said, "My dad and my brother have gone out to work?" ”

"Yes! Recently, business is getting better and better, and it's almost too busy, and it's not enough to recruit a few more people, so your dad plans to open another branch? Zhao Guoying was beaming, and her family's business was struggling, so she was naturally the happiest.

"Oh, that's good! However, our county is such a big place, even if we open a branch, we will open one or two more, whether we are trying to develop in other counties or cities, the cost is not high anyway. ”

"I don't understand this, you can discuss it with your dad later!"

The mother and daughter talked while cooking, and the meal was good after a while, and when a few vegetables were ready, they just put them in the pot and fried them.

At noon, Xiao's father came back with Xiao Gang, and after a while, his third uncle also came back, and the other employees generally went home directly after finishing their work in the morning, and came to the store after eating.

Now the work is busy, these days Xiao's father almost does not come back for lunch, that is, today his daughter came back, he brought his son back, his third brother has been working with him for more than a month, all the skills have been learned, and now he can go out to work independently.

"Xiao Yan is back!" The third child of the Xiao family greeted him with a smile when he entered the door.

Stretching out his hand not to hit the smiling person, although Xiao Yan felt average about his third uncle, and he hadn't seen it a few times in his previous life, he still called out obediently, "Third uncle." ”

"Hey!" Xiao Xing agreed with a smile and entered the house.

The family sat around a large round table to eat, Xiao's father was happy and drank a glass of wine, if he didn't have to work in the afternoon, he would have drunk directly and fell asleep.

Xiao Gang was also very happy to see his sister, and the most direct manifestation was to keep piling vegetables into his sister's bowl, and it was all meat, lean, fat, fat and thin.

Xiao Yan couldn't cry or laugh, looking at the eldest brother who was obviously much more cheerful, she was also very happy.

At night, she lay on a bed with her mother and talked about the latest situation at home.

"Your brother recently went out to work with your father, and they all got tanned, I heard Xiaodong say, what sunscreen is used in the south, you can prevent tanning, I asked Xiao Chen to buy two bottles, one for your brother and one for you, who knows that your brother is too fragrant, he is willing to use anything, you can take both bottles!" Zhao Guoying opened the drawer of the table next to the bed, pointed to the two bottles of yellow carton packaging inside, and said to Xiao Yan.

When Xiao Yan heard this, this old mother was actually very particular, "Sunscreen? Now that it's almost winter, why do you need sunscreen, Mom, why did you think of buying this? ”

"Hey, isn't it a few days ago, the autumn tiger is in full bloom, your brother is already relatively white, and he will become red when he is sunburned, and he has sunburned his skin, which is not easy to deal with, if he breaks the phase again, how can he get a daughter-in-law!" Zhao Guoying said worriedly.

Xiao Yan immediately grasped the point of her mother's words, "Mom, has someone protected my brother?" ”

Zhao Guoying was silent for a while, and only after a long time did he say, "Well, yes! ”

"What's the situation?" Xiao Yan didn't have the heart to sleep now, so she hurriedly asked.

In her brother's situation, no one had ever kissed her brother in her previous life, maybe they were still young at that time, but there were only more people in the countryside who didn't go to school and got married at sixteen or seventeen. And if the conditions of her family are good in this life, there may be people who take a fancy to the conditions of her family, but she is afraid that people will only fancy her family, not her brother, and worry that her brother will be deceived, so she is really not entangled.

But looking at her mother's appearance, she must also have such worries.

"Mom, is the other party very bad?" She saw that her mother didn't speak again for a long time, so she asked tentatively, she must be too dissatisfied with the other party's conditions, so she guessed that it was a normal girl who was willing to find a man with a defective IQ.

"Poor," Zhao Guoying said softly.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Yan hurriedly continued, she wanted to say that the conditions were almost out of the way, but presumably her mother also thought of this, her mother was not a person with eyes above the top.

Who knew that her mother's words changed, "Bad, it's not bad!" ”

"Mom, can you talk well, what's going on, say it quickly! I'm in a hurry. Xiao Yan said dissatisfied.

Zhao Guoying reluctantly talked about the other party's situation, the woman is from the county, the family conditions are really not very good, a single-parent family, and a younger sister, but the most important thing is that the woman is a mute!

"Dumb?" Xiao Yan's eyes widened.

"Yes! The matchmaker was a former customer of the store, and our family moved to her family, introducing her former neighbor's daughter! Zhao Guoying continued, "I asked, and she said that she was not born dumb, but also acquired. But I'm still not at ease. ”

Xiao Yan understood her mother's thoughts, her brother became like this because he was sick the day after tomorrow, and he would not worry about genetics if he wanted children in the future, but most of the other party's dumb diseases were not acquired, although the matchmaker said it clearly, but her mother's worry was not unreasonable, after all, the matchmaker was not familiar with her family, and it was indeed the neighbor of the woman, if people tried to deceive her, it would be fine, so she said, "Mom, what do you want to do so much, it's not the past now, don't you have to meet!" See you first! ”

Zhao Guoying sighed, "I can't see this kind of thing even when I meet!" Let's find someone to inquire first! ”

"Then it's okay to inquire first, Mom, my third uncle has been working for a while, what's the matter." After saying that, she began to change the subject.

"Oh, it's good, I heard your dad say that he works very hard, and those who have studied in college don't think that our work is dirty and tiring, and many employers praise him for his good service attitude. Now I leave him to eat at our house at noon every day, and I have to pay for food, but I didn't ask for it, so I bought things for Xiaohui and Xiaogang every once in a while, and I stopped him from being unhappy, so I let him go. Zhao Guoying said.

She didn't know much about her third uncle before, and she never came back when she went out to work in her previous life, but it seems that the third uncle can do more things than her second uncle.

"Oh, what a courtesy! Buy some and buy some, otherwise he will be forbearant! Xiao Yan said again, "Didn't the third uncle bring Xiao Cong?" ”

"Not really!" Zhao Guoying said, "But...? ”

"But what?"

"Once when I came back from the factory, I saw your third uncle coming out of my room with your father, as if he was looking for something, and asked him, but he only said that he was looking for medicine! But then I saw it again, but there was nothing missing in the house! Zhao Guoying wondered.

"Looking for something?"

*****

Xiao Yan went home here, Chu Tiancheng would go to the factory to see how the processing was going, those old workers were really much more skilled than novices, although the patterns were all new, they had never done it, but after making a few pieces, they were very proficient.

Watching them sew beautiful patterns with stitches and threads, Chu Tiancheng felt that he didn't understand this world, and he had nothing to do when he came out of the factory, so he decided to go home, and the last time he promised Xiao Yan to borrow her Walkman, it has not happened, and now if he doesn't mention it, it is estimated that people should think that he is joking!

He can't make that impression.

He went in the afternoon, he was usually not at home, his aunt who was a part-time worker usually went home after cleaning, and he used to go home for lunch, but now it is estimated that he doesn't have to make lunch.

When he got home, it was empty, but luckily he still had a spare key.

He opened his room, the room was still the same, all kinds of furnishings had not changed, but there was no dust, presumably the part-time worker aunt was cleaning every day.

He pulled out a large box from under the bed, which contained small items, and his Walkman had used it a few times, and then he had placed it in the box, and he found it after a few clicks.