When Zheng Liangyu just retired, the family was still relatively lively, and there were many calls from outside, and the son and girl were afraid that the old man would be lonely, so they took turns to talk to him at home at night and weekends. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info especially after the little grandson came to the house, all the drawers had to be opened, and all the things inside had to be turned out, making a mess in the house. After the children left, he and Xu Ping had to work for two days to sort out the mess of their little grandson.

"Tell my daughter, don't mess with the drawers when the child comes!" Xu Ping said to Zheng Liangyu with some impatience.

Zheng Liangyu smiled and said: "What does a child know, he dares to pull the string of a grenade in front of him." I didn't like it when he came to pull things before, but now let him pull it, anyway, we have time to clean up. ”

A month later, everyone who should have come came, all the calls that should have been made, the son and girl have their own affairs, and they can't always accompany him, and there are only two people left in the family, Zheng Liangyu and Xu Ping. Sometimes the couple gossip and watch TV, and sometimes they just sit on the sofa, Zhang Fei takes the mouse and stares at it with big eyes.

When Zheng Liangyu was in office, he often couldn't sleep at night when he had something in his heart, and now he has nothing to think about, and he often can't wake up at dawn. The tense strings in my brain are loose, but the flesh on my body is tight.

"Fat grows faster than fermented feed," Zheng Liangyu mocked himself.

"Lao Zheng, you can't stay at home like this, otherwise your body will be bad, life lies in sports, you have to follow me out for a walk. The day before yesterday, I saw a lot of clothes suitable for you in a place, let's go and change a set of retired cadres together! Xu Ping persuaded her husband.

Zheng Liangyu nodded and agreed.

In a small alley between the compounds of the two military offices, there is an inconspicuous gate, and when you enter it, you can see the noisy and noisy free market. Zheng Liangyu had heard of this free market in the past and passed by the door many times, but he had never entered.

The small stalls in the free market are one after the other, shouting and shouting, like a country temple fair with a hundred sound ensembles, and it seems that everyone can find confidence here. The stall owners are all "boards" regardless of thickness or thickness, no matter how much money is called "money", and no matter how long or short their arms are called "wrists". Buyers with thirty or fifty dollars in their pockets can also wander around here for half a day and go back with a few things to their heart's content. Even if you don't have any money, you can be a god, pick a bone in your eggs, make irresponsible remarks about the vendors' goods, judge your head, and earn a few words of begging and flattery.

Xu Ping seems to be familiar with the road here, Zheng Liangyu followed her, and felt that everyone was shooting at him in the face with the firepower net formed by their eyes, which made him a little embarrassed, in fact, no one had the time to pay attention to him, and everyone did their own business. Xu Ping took him straight to a middle-aged man's stall and asked him like an old acquaintance: "Boss Wang, do you have any jackets that our old man is wearing, help choose one." As she spoke, she pulled Zheng Liangyu from behind and showed her figure in front of Boss Wang, who was actually a small trader.

The middle-aged vendor was more enthusiastic when he saw Xu Ping than when he saw his sister, and he took out several jackets of different colors and styles. Just listening to his introduction, it seems that every piece has just been made for Zheng Liangyu in the garment factory.

Zheng Liangyu picked out a coffee-colored one and tried it to compare the fit.

"One hundred and sixty dollars." The vendor said to Xu Ping.

Zheng Liangyu was taken aback, once he went on a business trip to the Northeast, due to the sudden change in the sky, a colleague bought a jacket like this in the mall, a full 700 yuan.

"Why is it so ------?"

Before he could say anything, Xu Ping gently touched him with her elbow.

"It's too expensive," Xu Ping said, "and I can only give you eighty yuan." ”

"Alas, eldest sister, one hundred and sixty yuan for you is the price of jumping!" The vendor had a bitter look on his face.

"Everyone of you who sells things here has said that they jumped off the building, and they have not seen a single one who has fallen and been injured, and all of them are strong in all fours; Everyone said that blood was sold, but I didn't see a single yellow face, and all of them were full of red light. ”

"Look at the face of the old customer, you give one hundred and forty yuan."

"That's eighty dollars!" Xu Ping didn't give an inch.

"Okay, one hundred and twenty dollars."

"Eighty bucks!" Xu Ping remained silent.

"Sell it to you for a hundred dollars!" The middle-aged vendor said that he was about to put his clothes in a paper bag.

"No, it's eighty dollars!" Xu Ping still didn't let go.

"You add another ten dollars!" The vendor blushed and pleaded.

Zheng Liangyu pulled Xu Ping's shirt, Xu Ping ignored him, raised his leg and was about to walk out.

The vendor was anxious, and shouted behind them: "Sister, don't go, don't go, take eighty yuan, I will lose money today." ”

After buying clothes, Zheng Liangyu said to Xu Ping: "In order to save ten yuan and eight yuan, do you blush and argue with others for a long time!" ”

Xu Ping said with a smile: "It's also fun to bargain with small traders in the free market, I've bought clothes at this stall a few times, and it's said that it's okay to give him 90 yuan, what's wrong with saving 10 yuan in a verbal fight!" If you, the cadres who hold the property rights, spend the public's money as seriously as your own money, the state does not know how many billions of dollars you can save in a year. ”

"You should have said these things while I was in office."

"It's not that I didn't say it when you were in office, it's just that you didn't care about listening. Besides, if it weren't for retirement, you wouldn't have put down your shelves and followed me here to see how the people's money is spent. Hey, by the way, I have an idea for the past two days, let's go out for a walk in a few days, and then you can plan your retirement life when you come back. ”

Zheng Liangyu thought about it, nodded and said, "I think it's okay, we'd better go back to our hometown first." (To be continued.) )