Section 6: Family Affairs
Skillfully riding a bicycle and sliding in the flow of people, Zhao Guodong felt the faint aroma brought by the flow of people.
This is a special taste brought by the soap and shampoo mixed with body odor on countless female surnames, only in the textile factory, which is filled with a large number of young unmarried female surnames, you can enjoy this strange feeling, Zhao Guodong can detect the gaze projected by many female surnames, surprised, surprised, and more curious.
After all, there are not many people riding bicycles in the factory, and the whole factory is like a self-sufficient closed circle, except for the nearby vegetable farmers who come to the vegetable market to sell vegetables, almost all of them are well-known, even if they are newly recruited female workers, but they have established their own circle of friends in a year and a half.
And Zhao Guodong's image is obviously not very much like the children of the vegetable farmers nearby, and the children of the factory do not seem to have him, an outsider who has been out of this circle for many years.
The girls in early summer fully showed their beautiful body curves in the air, and the vast majority of female workers were unmarried girls or newly married young women, or T-shirts, or short-sleeved shirts, or dresses, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black and white, the colorful colors were fully released at the moment of getting off work, and they were slender, and they also made Zhao Guodong reminisce about the feeling of a few years ago.
Some old brown wooden doors, with greasy kitchen windows are still floating a few traces of oil smoke, the original honeycomb coal has been changed to natural gas the year before last, which makes all the housewives in the factory full of praise for the leaders of the factory, in a trance Zhao Guodong rushed to the door to wake up, slammed the bicycle brake, and braked hard in front of the threshold.
"Mom! Father! I am back. As soon as he stepped into the door, the familiar smell that came to his nose made Zhao Guodong feel indescribably warm, Zhao Shang's pot was stewed with pig's trotters, the tempting aroma made Zhao Guodong couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, and the iron pot was frying fungus slices, which was also Zhao Guodong's favorite.
"Gordon is back?" The father's back is also a little bent, he has worked for decades, and the family has not saved anything, but he has brought up the five children, and Zhao Guodong is also a little sentimental.
"Gordon, why did you come back at this time? Do you think you're coming back at noon, you're busy at work? Mother Xu Xiuqin's face is always so kind, Zhao Guodong seems to feel the warmth of going home for the first time, he used to come and go home in a hurry to stop a kick, there is rarely such a feeling, and his father and mother seem to have more of a vague impression.
"Well, Mom, I was transferred to the Jiangmiao Police Station, and it will be convenient for me to go home in the future." Zhao Guodong nodded and put down the bag in his hand.
"I heard Changqing say, today is the weekend, and your father and I also estimate that we will come back today." Mother's words are always the most considerate, and she didn't ask herself why she was transferred back to the Jiangmiao Police Station, which made Zhao Guodong's heart warm.
"Guodong, the criminal police team did a good job, why did you transfer back? Did you make a mistake? "His father's serious face used to be Zhao Guodong's greatest fear, but now he has lost the power of the past.
"It's nothing, it's all because of the needs of work, Jiangmiao lacks people to do cases, the bureau has to send one from the criminal police team, and my family is from Jiangmiao, of course it has become the first choice." Zhao Guodong didn't want to answer this question, but in the face of his father's caring eyes, he couldn't help answering.
seems to be a little dissatisfied with his son's answer, but seeing that his son doesn't seem to want to say more on this issue, Lao Zhao Tou can only sigh and say no more, his son has grown up, and he is also a public security policeman.
"Brother, are you back? When did you come back? A figure with a strong smell of sweat broke in, the basketball in his hand was still rotating flexibly in his hand, and he immediately shouted in surprise when he saw Zhao Guodong.
"Well, you just got home and you're going to play basketball again?" Zhao Guodong snatched the opponent's basketball with his hand, slapped it twice on the ground and threw it back to the opponent, "Won, or lost?" ”
"Hehe, brother, when did we lose?" The person who came was Zhao Guodong's second brother Zhao Deshan, who was 1.83 meters tall, more than 170 pounds, ** upper body chest muscles and abdominal muscles were like being fitted into plates, dark blue sports shorts were also a little whitish, and the sneakers under his feet were bought when he was in the police, this kid has grown a lot in the past two years.
The slight unhappiness of being assigned to Jiangmiao was quickly annihilated in the warmth of the family, and when the family of six sat down at the dinner table, Xu Xiuqin asked casually: "Lingshan, why didn't Xiao Liu come?" Didn't you call him? ”
Zhao Lingshan glanced at Zhao Guodong, and her face suddenly turned red, "He has something to do, and he has to work overtime in the factory." ”
Zhao Guodong paused for a moment, and then looked at the other three younger brothers' somewhat mysterious looks, and immediately understood, "Oh, the eldest sister also has a partner?" ”
"No, no, it's not sure yet." Zhao Lingshan blushed suddenly, and hurriedly distinguished.
"Look at Liu Cheng's unpromising kid, even my brother doesn't dare to come to see him, and he still wants to marry you? I told him a long time ago that if you want to enter my house, you must first pass my brother's pass, and if my brother can't look down on it, then he will die as soon as possible. Zhao Deshan's face showed disdain, obviously not very satisfied with his eldest sister's object.
"You!" A trace of anger flashed on Zhao Lingshan's face, the second brother was dissatisfied with Liu Cheng, she had known for a long time, but this was her own partner, not her family's search for a partner, Zhao Deshan openly talked about her object in such a contemptuous tone, especially when the eldest brother knew it for the first time, of course it made her very angry.
"Okay, second brother, do you need to take care of the eldest sister's affairs? Do you still have a say here? I haven't been back for a few days, and you're not too old or small? Get out of the way! ”
Seeing that the eldest sister's face was swollen and red, and there were faint tears in her eyes, Zhao Guodong hurriedly scolded Zhao Deshan, this guy's mouth has always been smelly, and when he was studying, his brothers didn't know how many such senseless fights he had fought with this mouth.
Snorted heavily, Zhao Deshan didn't say much, and just buried his head in eating.
Since graduation in this family, except for the eldest brother, Zhao Deshan has not been pleasing to anyone, more than two years after graduation, and now there is no play in the factory recruitment, Zhao Deshan is flustered, like a wild horse swaying outside, and someone at the door comes to complain in three days, but where can the old Zhao Tou control him now, plus he feels that he is not able to let Zhao Deshan enter the factory to work, and he also feels guilty in his heart, so he has to compensate everywhere in private.
Zhao Guodong saw that the atmosphere had become a little cold because of this topic, and hurriedly accosted: "You are about to graduate from the third child, how can you be sure of the university entrance examination?" ”
"Big brother, the teaching quality of Jiangmiao Middle School is also average, and my grades in the class are only in the middle, so I really don't have much confidence." Zhao Changchuan looked at his eldest brother looking at him, and his eyes became a little evasive, he knew his own affairs, and he didn't dare to talk nonsense in front of Zhao Guodong.
"Hmph, whether you can pass the exam or not, you have to study hard for me, if you can't get into college, just give me a self-exam, these days, I don't have the ability and no diploma, I see how you mix? Could it be that the family is waiting for the factory to arrange work? ”
Zhao Guodong also knew that Zhao Changchuan's grades were okay in the children's school, but it was very ordinary in Jiangmiao Middle School, and there were only a dozen or so people in Jiangmiao Middle School who went to college and technical secondary school a year, and Zhao Changchuan was obviously not among them.
I have a family of five, the eldest sister has fortunately been arranged to enter the factory, the female workers are in large demand, and it is good to arrange, this male worker, the factory children are arranged quite tightly, if they do not get out of the test, I am afraid that the family will really be miserable.
It's so difficult now, the second child is messing around, and my mother has told me a few times that I want to come back to discipline Deshan, but I was too busy in the first half of the year to ask about it, and now I finally have some leisure to pull the rope around the neck of Zhao Deshan's wild horse, otherwise I don't know if something big happens one day.
The family is only the fourth Zhao Yunhai is still competitive, and now he is in the first year of high school in Jiangkou County Lieutenant Colonel, and the whole family is counting on him to be able to pass the exam like himself, and it can be regarded as fighting for the old Zhao family.
A meal was greatly reduced because of Zhao Deshan's two sentences, Zhao Guodong also realized that there seemed to be some not so harmonious factors in his family, and he didn't go home for a long time, but he didn't expect that his own family, which had always been harmonious, would also have a problem, and Zhao Guodong also had a headache.
The father didn't say a word at the dinner table, obviously he couldn't suppress Zhao Deshan, and his mother was also worried about what he wanted to say, Deshan didn't have a job, Changchuan was about to graduate from high school, and the family had two strong laborers who were unemployed at home, no wonder my father and mother were worried.
After the meal, only Zhao Guodong and his mother were left in the living room, washing dishes has always been the eldest sister's business, and his father went to find a few chess friends to kill a few games, and the other younger brothers quietly slipped out of the door, as if they knew that their mother and eldest brother had something to discuss.