Bao Qingyan sat in the wheelchair pushed by Xiao Cui, walking slowly on the road between the buildings, followed by a small pet dog that a friend had just given him. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Feng Changping was watering the freshly planted tomato seedlings in the small vegetable garden in front of the building, and when he looked up and saw Bao Qingyan, he hurriedly straightened up and greeted him: "Old Bao, you are really good, and you still have a 'police dog' when you go out." ”

"This is not a police dog, this is my godson, my own son has gone abroad and doesn't care about me, my godson has been with me for the past few days, come here, Huanhuan, call Uncle Feng!" Bao Qingyan said, leaned over and patted the puppy next to him, pointed at Feng Changping and said to it.

The puppy seemed to understand the owner's words, and barked twice at Feng Changping.

Feng Changping walked out of the small vegetable garden, rubbed his water-soaked hands on his clothes, praised the puppy and said, "What a good 'child', your godfather is really good at teaching 'son'!" ”

Bao Qingyan was aggrieved in the house for most of the day, and when he came to the outside of the building, he was in a good mood, and when he saw Feng Changping, he opened the conversation again: "I was still very proud back then, my two sons graduated from famous universities in China, and later one of them went to the United States and the other to the United Kingdom. When my wife and I were in good health, we didn't feel that anything was missing, and when we were in poor health, we felt that we shouldn't let them all go. ”

"When your son has developed well abroad and made a lot of money, you and Lao Guan can go out together to open foreign meat." Feng Changping comforted Bao Qingyan and said.

"When we go abroad, we are not opening up foreign meat, but suffering foreign crimes." Bao Qingyan said disapprehantly, "Think about it, I can't even recognize dozens of English letters with Lao Guan, I can't speak a foreign language, and when I go abroad, I am blind, deaf and dumb, and I have become a super-crippled, so I might as well sit in a wheelchair in China every day to review TV programs!" ”

Feng Changping and Bao Qingyan were talking, Lao Guan came over from the other side with a thermos cup, she smiled and said to Feng Changping: "Minister Feng, look at you dressed like a soldier today, did you find out the clothes you wore when you first became a soldier again?" ”

Feng Changping looked down at the really good green military uniform and liberation shoes on his body, and said to Lao Guan: "Sister Guan, don't look at my clothes, which are not good-looking, but they are dirt-resistant and easy to wash." Yesterday I was also wearing this clothes, and I also wore an old straw hat, and wanted to pick up some dry branches in front of and behind the building to build a rack for tomato seedlings, and Director Qin's wife, who lives upstairs, shouted at me from afar on the balcony, 'Hey, waste collector, where is your tricycle, ride here, we have scrap to sell!' As soon as I looked up, she burst out laughing and asked me if I was going to give a hard and simple traditional lesson to the students of a certain school. ”

Bao Qingyan took the tea handed to him by Lao Guan, took a sip, and said to Lao Guan: "Now you think Minister Feng doesn't look good in this dress, think about how many young women became the family members of soldiers because they envied this green military uniform with four jacket pockets, didn't you also chase me for this reason!" ”

Lao Guan pursed his lips and said: "You speak upside down, it wasn't me chasing you back then, but you chasing me, your troops were so nervous about construction, and they also took the soldiers of the company to our village to find young women to have a party at night." Let Minister Feng take a look, your stupid black and rough appearance, I will chase you? ”

Bao Qingyan said seriously: "I was neither 'stupid' nor 'black' back then, mainly because I was busy with work and didn't have time to clean up, if I had such conditions as now, I would have a rhinoplasty, cut a double eyelid, and then pull out my buckteeth, buy two bottles of alabaster and apply a few more layers on my face, I can also be regarded as a handsome guy." ”

The conversation between the old couple made Xiao Cui laugh on the side.

Bao Qingyan said to Xiaocui embarrassedly: "You take Huanhuan over there to play for a while, and I will chat with your Grandpa Feng here for a while." ”

Feng Changping saw Xiaocui walking away, and said to Bao Qingyan with a smile: "Brother Bao's appearance is indeed a bit 'that', I heard that Sister Guan was a 'flower' in the village when she was young, and she married you, not flowers inserted in cow dung, but also flowers in ****." At that time, Sister Guan was still the women's captain of the production team and a leading cadre of the revolution. ”

Bao Qingyan also followed Lao Guan's example, pouted and said: "What kind of 'leading cadre' is she, her level is below the horizon. Once, she asked me, "Why haven't you seen you bring your soldiers to the village lately?" I said that I went to the regiment to participate in the reading class, and she asked what book she was reading, and I said "The State and Revolution", and she said that I had never heard of this book, and who wrote it? I deliberately said that Vladimir . Ilyich. Lenin, she said that the book must be very important, and Lenin was so famous that he was the third among the authors. ”

Lao Guan blushed and said: "What's the shame of this, wasn't I poor at that time, when I was young, I cut grass, picked up dung, and collected firewood every day, and took it to primary school for two years." Didn't you finish junior high school before you joined the army? ”

Bao Qingyan argued: "At that time, most of the soldiers who enlisted in the rural areas had graduated from primary school or had not completed primary school, and some were illiterate, and there were few high school students. When a college student like Minister Feng came to the army, he was running a camel in the flock, and as soon as he became a soldier, he was an administrative cadre of the 22nd level, with a salary of 60 yuan a month, which was equivalent to the income of two young workers. ”

Feng Changping said: "Don't mention those things, Sister Guan married you at that time, in today's words, I won't think you are ugly, but love your spiritual beauty." You have received awards for meritorious service at the grassroots level every year, and after you were transferred to the organ, you were energetic in your work, you played basketball well, you were positive in criticism, and you spoke loudly. ”

"What you said is true, the hero doesn't mention the courage of the year, and now, 'Bao Qingyan' can only be regarded as a personal name at best." Bao Qingyan said to Feng Changping with emotion, "Let's continue the topic just now, if we want to carry forward the glorious tradition of hard work and simplicity, our family is comparable to you." When the nanny hired by my family was about to go back to his hometown to get married, Lao Guan wanted to look at the nanny market and find another one when the time came. When she arrived at the nanny market, a young man asked her, 'Auntie, we have a pair of eight-month-old twins in our family, four thousand yuan a month, would you like to bring them?' Lao Guan knew that he had seen the wrong person, and joked to the young man, 'If you can take care of our old man with paralysis, I will go to your house and take care of the twins.' When the young man understood what she meant, he walked away embarrassed. ”

Lao Guan was embarrassed by Bao Qingyan's words, and said to Feng Changping with a red face: "There is such a thing, this should not be a shame!" I used to be poor, I didn't talk about food or clothing all my life, I don't want to waste, and I can't see others waste, just now I made up two pants for Lao Bao at home! ”

Bao Qingyan pointed to his wife and said to Feng Changping in an appreciative tone: "Many people have asked her, what do you want so much money for?" In fact, this is not a matter of more money and less money, it is a good habit that has been cultivated for most of her life. ”

Lao Guan said happily: "You are saying a fair word. ”

Bao Qingyan continued: "Of course, some people are not like this, they have enough money in their hands, and they want to go out to earn some more, or to make a profit, like Lao Lin ------ of the Ministry of Direct Affairs."

"Which old forest?" Feng Changping asked.

"It's the original Vice Minister Lin, and we have been in the same army for many years. After he retired, he wore suits and leather shoes every day, and delivered cars to cars, and I heard that he is now a senior consultant for a trading company. I know him best, he can't settle the accounts when he buys a few things in the mall, and he dares to work as a senior consultant in a trading company, not because he wants to turn the working relationship he established when he is on the job into economic benefits after retirement. ”

Lao Guan blamed Bao Qingyan and said: "Tian Tianjing talks nonsense and doesn't let you take care of other people's affairs, why can't you help it!" ”

Bao Qingyan said unconvinced: "Nonsense is a fart, let it go, you can be smooth, otherwise you will feel uncomfortable in your stomach." What I just meant was that a person can do whatever he can, don't pretend to be a ghost, don't pretend to be a god, don't think that if you wear a toad glass, you will become a frog, and if you put on a small vest, you will become a king, and you must make money with your real skills. ”

Feng Changping knew that Bao Qingyan had contradictions with Vice Minister Lin in the handling of cadre issues when he was in office, and also persuaded him: "Sister Guan is right, we are retired now, and we don't care about other people's affairs, and we mainly take care of our own health." ”

A few people were talking, and they saw Fang Jie coming back from outside with a vegetable basket.

Fang Jie asked Lao Guan with a smile: "Are you and Minister Bao here to visit the small vegetable garden of my family's 'self-reserved land'?" ”

Lao Guan said: "We are not visiting the small vegetable garden today, we are 'remembering the bittersweet ones'. ”

"Don't remember the 'bitterness' anymore, let's go, go upstairs to 'Sitian', I bought a lot of fruits and vegetables, and I will eat dinner at my house today." Fang Jie said.

Lao Guan said: "Let's go back to eat leftovers at noon, it's inconvenient for Lao Bao to go upstairs, so I won't go to your house." ”

"It's inconvenient to go to my house on the second floor!"

Qiao Xin'an walked over from the direction of the office area with a briefcase under his arm, he heard the conversation between Fang Jie and Lao Guan, and said to Lao Guan with a smile.

Bao Qingyan adjusted the direction of the wheelchair and said happily to Qiao Xin'an: "Vice Minister Qiao works hard, I heard that you have recently done another good thing, the institute has renovated an old dormitory, formed a reception capacity with the life service center, and undertook meetings and personnel training within the army, which can increase a lot of income." ”

"This work was personally handled by Vice Minister Yin, and I just made a suggestion to Minister Qiu." Qiao Xinan said. "Let's have something to say at home, I still have a few bottles of aged Moutai, Long Chuanzhen didn't come back from abroad, I called Secretary Cui to order a few dishes from the canteen, today is the weekend, and the two old leaders have a good drink."

"How embarrassing this is!" Bao Qingyan looked at Lao Guan with an inquiring eye and said.

"As soon as the old man of our family heard that Vice Minister Qiao's family had good wine, he didn't want to leave, I usually don't let him get drunk, since Vice Minister Qiao has this intention, let you improve your life today, I will let Xiaocui take Huanhuan home and get some food by myself."

Fang Jie also said happily to Qiao Xin'an: "You just ask Secretary Cui to help buy some cooked food, I'll go home and go upstairs to fry a few hot dishes and bring them down." ”