(Due to the excessive number of words in this chapter, it has been updated in two parts, and the following is the second half of "39a".) ）

The father and son were discussing the birthday celebration tomorrow, when suddenly the mobile phone rang.

"My grandma's video call!" Tsai Tsai whispered to his father.

"Hey, Grandma!" After answering the phone, Tsai Tsai happily went back to the room to chat with his grandmother.

The old lady on the mobile phone asked her grandson in pure Hunanese: "Boy! How have you been making up for your last lessons? ”

"Just go to class every day! Six days a week, closed at night. The boy was lying on the bed grinning.

"Is it another birthday?" Grandma Tsai called at the right time.

"Uh-huh......" The boy scratched his head and smiled.

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The grandfather and grandson chatted happily in the house, but the two sons-in-law in the living room were cold and speechless. Zhiyuan didn't understand it, so he went to do housework - scrubbing the tea-stained rice grains on the dining table, sticking the hair on the sofa, coaxing Yangyang to sleep, boiling hot water and storing hot water...... The old horse looked at his coming and going, and a wet fire gradually rose in his heart.

After chatting with her grandmother, the old lady gave her grandson a big red envelope as a birthday gift. Tsai Tsai received the red envelope and was as if his feet were on a spring, and he followed his father and chatted with his grandmother. The father and son sat down and waited for her mother to come back to discuss tomorrow's birthday, who thought that Gui Ying hadn't come back after ten o'clock. Seeing that his mother hadn't returned, Tsai Tsai went back to the room in disappointment, and Zhiyuan was doing housework again.

The old horse was lying on the sofa watching TV, and couldn't help but glance at it a few times, catching a glimpse of his son-in-law's feet speeding around the house. First I dried the laundry in the washing machine, then I sorted out the bookshelves in the living room and the shoe rack at the door, and then hurriedly packed up the toys in the living room...... Lao Ma was troubled in his heart, wishing that he was in Majiatun at the moment - his ears were clean and his eyes were not annoying.

When Zhiyuan was sweating profusely and sweeping and mopping the floor in the living room, Gui Ying came back. When the old horse looked at his watch, it was already half past ten. Isn't the work in the city based on brains and mouths? How can you rely on your brain and mouth to work until eleven o'clock in the evening-Lao Ma wondered.

"Oops, dear, I'm tired! I came back and drove all the way yawning! As soon as Gui Ying came back, she went straight to He Zhiyuan, and then generously hugged He Zhiyuan's stomach from behind in the living room.

The old horse was so angry that he touched the ice, and the old farmer was so ashamed that he hurriedly turned his head and didn't dare to look at it.

"Daddy is there!" Zhiyuan reminded in a low voice, and then broke free from Gui Ying's embrace.

"Your daughter-in-law hugging you—what are you afraid of?" After Gui Ying finished speaking, she glanced at the old man, strode towards the living room, and then collapsed on the sofa with a thud - paralyzed.

"Oops, I'm tired! Today, I ran two customers during the day, and I got one, but the scale was very small, and there were very few booths booked! At night, a salesman was going to leave his job, chatted with him for a long time, and then invited him to have a casual meal with a few salesmen, I was so tired on the road that I didn't want to come back, I thought about sleeping directly in the car for one night tomorrow must be energetic! Gui Ying was lying on the sofa, her feet cocked high.

"Mom, when are you coming back tomorrow night?" Tsai Tsai heard that his mother was back, and he went out of the house and came to the living room.

"Tomorrow...... I don't know! Recently, there have been a lot of customers, and I am annoying and busy...... It's not easy! The commission in the second half of this year is estimated to be closed! Gui Ying said weakly.

Zhiyuan put down the mop and changed into a pair of dry slippers, and he sat on the armrest of the sofa with Gui Ying's headrest.

"It's okay, you're busy, my dad and I have set up a meal for tomorrow, and maybe Aunt Hyosung will come over tomorrow!" Tsai Tsai sat beside his grandfather and comforted his mother.

"Hey......" Gui Ying sighed, looked back at Zhiyuan and said, "Dear, help me press my neck, my shoulders and neck have been stiff for a day, sore and swollen!" I can't even shrug my shoulders lately - it's all hard! Gui Ying pointed to the place, and Zhiyuan stretched out his hands to press his wife's shoulders.

The old horse silently glanced at him, holding his breath and not speaking.

"Oh yes, the refrigerator is broken, it should be a problem of regulation! My dad won't get it, I call customers at night and people get off work, Mom, you will take a look later, tomorrow the cake will come early and may have to be put in the refrigerator. Tsai said to Gui Ying while looking at his phone.

"Your mother is tired like this, what kind of refrigerator are you repairing!" The old horse grinned.

"Uh...... I'm going to fix it now! Gui Ying puffed up and got up, father and son followed behind and walked to the refrigerator, Gui Ying was trying according to the method in the previous manual.

If you don't work and don't make money, forget it, the water pipes won't be repaired, the light bulbs won't be replaced, and now the refrigerator is broken, and you are counting on the mother-in-law to come back and get it! The old horse breathed a sigh of relief, and secretly thought in his heart: Hurry up and hurry up! If you stay here, you may find something wrong!

A few minutes later, Gui Ying adjusted the temperature of the refrigerator, and the three of them came over again, sitting on the sofa as they were, and Zhiyuan continued to press Gui Ying's shoulders and rub her neck. Zhiyuan and Tsai Xu didn't notice the old man's face, Gui Ying glanced at him and knew that he was unhappy, she didn't ask, she talked to her husband and children by herself, and didn't bother to pay attention to the old man's grievances.

At half past eleven, Tsai went back to the room to sleep, Zhiyuan cleaned up the house and made the bed, and Gui Ying lay on the sofa and fell asleep.

"You're tired and go back to sleep! I've got to work tomorrow! Lao Ma said to Gui Ying.

"Hmm." Gui Ying snorted softly in her half-asleep sleep.

Lao Ma saw that she could hear her even if she was not asleep, so he said solemnly: "You are a woman who runs outside every day, and he is a big man who is locked in the house every day without seeing anyone!" What is this called? How can a man mix without stepping into society? Hey, I'm worried that the longer he goes by, the more difficult it will be for him to integrate into society. I haven't seen him talk to anyone in two months – his social circle isn't big yet! He can't never see people, can he? If you have a wife and children, you have to support your family, don't you? You can't always let a woman keep it! How long do you have to raise it after four or five years? It's hard to let you have a mother-in-law to raise him for a lifetime! I'm not happy if you're happy! ”

Anyway, I'm leaving, don't say anything, don't pick and choose, Lao Ma said what he wanted to say the most.

Gui Ying sat up unkempt, clasped her hands on her chest, and stared at the old man, afraid that Zhiyuan would hear her deliberately lower her voice and say, "I said it a hundred times, for the sake of the child!" For the sake of the children, for the children! Do you think he's willing to quit his job? He's writing novels right now, working on it, adjusting to it, haven't you heard the term midlife crisis? Gui Ying said excitedly, and her left hand clenched into a fist and kept pounding the sofa.

The old horse closed the fan, sat up straight and said, "Bullshit, a mid-life crisis!" Sentimental! It's obviously a personality problem, a ability problem, and an attitude problem, what kind of midlife crisis is it! How can there be a middle-aged man in his forties who has been at home with a baby for several years? I'm thinking about you, and you're still speaking for him! How long can you stay with Yang Yang throughout the day? The baby is waiting for you every night, how many times did she not sleep and you came back? Do you calculate how many days a week you can spend with her? How old does he work if he doesn't work now? Fifty or sixty? As soon as I say him, you are anxious, and when I say him, you are anxious, and you can't tell the difference between good and bad at the age of forty! ”

The father and daughter lowered their voices and quarreled in the living room, Zhiyuan had already noticed it, although he couldn't hear what he was saying, but he guessed that it must be related to him.

"I'm happy to live like this at home, okay? Why are you talking about this when you're leaving? Gui Ying asked as she glared at the old man.

"Hmph, I'm not happy if you're happy! As long as I'm here, I'm going to overdo it and break this over! Hum! The old horse clasped his hands on his chest and looked at his left foot.

"You're not here next week, is that interesting?" After Gui Ying finished speaking, she hugged her chest and went back to the house.

"Humph!" The old horse snorted through his nose, and he sat in the living room for a long time, and only went back to sleep when he was slightly calm.

After Gui Ying fell asleep at night, she fell asleep immediately when she touched the pillow, but when the old man said this, she couldn't fall asleep. I don't know if I'm used to being busy and tired, going out early and returning late, or if I really think that the structure outside the female protagonist and the male protagonist doesn't matter, or if she has subconsciously regarded raising a family as her own business.

It's just that the business is good, but there have been too many withdrawals recently, and everyone in the company is in danger, and it is rumored that the exhibition in the second half of the year will lose a lot. If it is really a loss, she, the business manager, must bear the brunt. What to do? Gui Ying sighed and couldn't sleep, and Zhiyuan couldn't help her at work, so she could only rely on herself. But she has worked for so many years, and it is the first time that she has faced this kind of declining and sharply declining economic adversity.

After midnight, in the darkness of the night, the middle-aged woman remembered another person - Wang Fuyi. He has followed Mr. Qian since the beginning of the Anke Exhibition, and has seen the ups and downs of the company, and also experienced the ups and downs of the industry. Thinking of Wang Fuyi, Gui Ying felt like she had found a savior, her heart was no longer tense, and she slowly relaxed before falling asleep.

After arriving at the office the next day, Gui Ying dialed Wang Fuyi's phone without hesitation. Wang Fuyi, who had arrived at his factory early, was very happy to see that it was Gui Ying calling, so he quickly connected the phone and found a quiet place to talk to her. After Manager Ma explained the situation, Wang Fuyi on the other side comforted, analyzed, and instructed in an orderly manner, and finally gave some valuable suggestions. Manager Ma held up the phone and the corners of his mouth crooked, and hurriedly remembered it in his hand while listening, lest he miss one. The two of them chatted for more than an hour before hanging up the phone.

Gui Ying looked down at the flustered notes on the paper and nodded frequently. Fu Yi is right, the general trend is like this, and accepting the status quo is the first step to changing the status quo. It is indeed necessary to hold a special business meeting to talk about this matter, and the more they avoid talking about it, the more panicked the salesmen become. If the salesman leaves one by one, the loss of small and medium-sized customers will be more. Vaccination, placebo, and then bucking the trend, striving for the least number of lost customers, and seeking stability - this is the ultimate goal of this year's Acme exhibition. If you are greedy for growth, thinking that every year is better than the year, and this year will always earn more than in previous years, then the salesmen's self-confidence will also be greatly hit.

The woman in the workplace had to sincerely admire Fuyi's wisdom, Manager Ma sorted out her thoughts, and notified the administrative colleagues to arrange the conference room in the afternoon, and a meeting to ensure stability and stabilize the morale of the army was imminent.

Recently, Gui Ying has been busy with her own business, and she has indeed neglected the management of the business department, which has led to the fact that several salesmen have left and their respective businesses have been lost. At this juncture, we should indeed focus on the overall situation and let go of the interests of the ego. Gui Ying held the piece of paper, her heart was much more cheerful, and she secretly admired Wang Fuyi.

At nine o'clock in the morning, He Yiming was listening to a chemistry class, and suddenly a note came from the table, opened it, and wrote: "He Yiming, I'm sorry, my father won't let me go to your birthday in the afternoon, so ...... I'm sorry! After Yiming held the note and read it, he knew that it was Gu Shuyu's handwriting, he turned his head to look at Gu Shuyu, only to see Gu Shuyu pouting and shrugging his shoulders, with a helpless face.

"It's okay, it's okay!" He Yiming pretended to be nothing and laughed and quietly lip-stowed Gu Shuyu, then turned his head and continued to look up at the blackboard, but his heart was cold.

In order to look forward to Gu Shuyu's arrival, he began to decorate his small room a few nights ago, thinking that she would be refreshed, smile and even praise a few words when she came again; In order to make her look at him differently, he was figuring out what clothes to wear on his birthday and what accessories he wore half a month in advance; When he and his father decided on the menu last night, the five dishes he insisted on ordering were all Gu Shuyu's favorite food; Even, in order to thank her for her computer, He Yiming even bought a small gift in return, and just waited for her to come......

"He Yiming, I'm sorry, my dad won't let me go to your birthday in the afternoon, so ...... I'm sorry! ”

"He Yiming, I'm sorry to ......"

"He Yiming......"

The young man raised his head, but his eyes kept hanging down and scanning the note on the book. The words are so beautiful, the words are very polite, and the three words "He Yiming" are really good-looking...... The cardamom boy silently repeats in his heart over and over again, picking comfort in loss, and fantasizing hope in frustration.

It's not that she doesn't want to come, it's that her father won't let her come, the girl should be stricter, he can understand, he can understand - He Yiming comforted himself.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Lao Ma was tired of watching TV, turned off the TV, put down the remote control and picked up the mobile phone again. The old man has only been in Shenzhen for more than a month, and he is already accustomed to using smartphones and WeChat and other common software at the moment. Lao Ma inadvertently clicked on the WeChat circle of friends and looked at the pictures in the circle.

I was watching the phone ring, it was the second child Xingsheng calling.

"Hello? Big! "Prosperity shouted to his father like a child.

"Hey! What's wrong? The old horse asked.

"What's the matter! Tomorrow's Midyear Day, when I was sweeping the graves of my mother and my mother-in-law in the morning, I ran into my Uncle Jianmin. When I looked at him, he had lost a lot of weight! ”

When it came to Ma Jianmin, Lao Ma grabbed the dragon head crutch in his hand - that was given to him by Jianmin. Jianmin is Lao Ma's cousin, the son of the second uncle in the family, a few months older than his third brother Ma Jianji, and now he is also a sixty-year-old man. People will lose weight when they get old, and the old horse doesn't know how thin Xingsheng said "lost a circle".

"Oh...... Did your Uncle Jianmin come back from the county and give him a grave? The old horse asked.

"Hmmm! When I came back from my mother's grave, I ran into him, so I went with him to my third master's grave. I cleaned all the graves, pulled out the grass and covered it with soil, and then I came back in two! ”

"How's he doing?"

"It's not a big deal, but I don't think it's as good as last time!" Xingsheng squatted in the yard and recalled.

"What's the big deal at home?" The old horse sat in the rocking chair and inquired curiously, unaware of a cat-walking villain beside him.

"Some time ago, the sow in our house gave birth to pig babies - twelve, and one died! It's been eighteen days now, and several people have come to me to ask for a price during this time! One of them came out for four hundred dollars! Xingsheng stretched out his four fingers, and his face was incredible.

"Pigs give birth to babies - why didn't you tell me in advance about such a big event?" The old horse was not happy.

"Busy! With so much work, how can I have time to make phone calls! When I came back from the field at eight o'clock that night, it had already given birth to seven! After a busy night's work, the next morning after feeding the sows and hurried to the orchard! It's too busy! ”

"Oh! I heard Zhiyuan say that the price of pork has risen, but I didn't expect it to be so expensive! Now these people are all over the place day by day—hateful! Recently, there are more than 30 pounds of pork in Shenzhen! Huh? ”

"It's also more than thirty! The day before yesterday, I asked if it was thirty-eight and one pounds! The beef in our village is only forty-two and one pounds! Tell me about it! "Prosperity is incomprehensible and rejoicing.

"Babble! Gee! Whatever! Anyway, we caught up! During this time, you are optimistic about the pig baby, and when the moon comes out in a few days, you can sell it quickly, and you will be dragged by tens of millions! Hurry up and sell! The expression on the old horse's face was heaven and hell for a while.

"Hmmm! This litter of pigs can be sold for some money! Oh also, a few days ago, Xingxing's green spicy seeds were sold at a price - one pound and one piece of seven! That day, I drove with Xingcheng and Xingbo to pick spicy seeds for her family, and she also hired two people from her village to pick them together, and more than three acres of spicy seeds were sold for more than 90,000 yuan that day! Gee! Mrs. Beauty! Xingsheng nodded, his heart was extremely excited.

"Babble! Flirtatious! Xingxing caught up this year! I haven't caught up with it for several years, but I caught it this year! It's very flirtatious! You remind Xingxing that if her sister Xinghua borrows money from her, she will give it to her! Give Xinghua her mother-in-law 10 million yuan to Xinghua two! Those two are very floating! After the old horse finished speaking, his mouth was a foot long.

"Hmm!" Xingsheng nodded again and again, silently remembering this in his heart.

Xingsheng suddenly remembered another thing, and muttered: "Uh...... My brother ...... Called me two days ago! He asked about the situation in the house and said that he had returned to Shaanxi, and he had left after a few days, and he had not returned to our house! I want to see him...... See above...... Ay! "Xingsheng is very disappointed.

"Tsk! Never mind him! Never mind him! Take care of your business! Is the orchard too idle to work? And worry about him! It's okay to get busy in the field! The old horse was angry, and his words immediately changed his taste. Yangyang, who was playing next to her, heard something wrong, and turned her head in fright to stare at her grandfather.

"Got it, got it!" Xingsheng said timidly.

"Okay, what's the matter, I'm hanging!"

"Hmm!"

Lao Ma hung up the phone and sighed. I often think of the boss Ma Xingbang, and I sigh every time. The most annoying thing is that he runs around everywhere, he is stunned to run around - he has been running for more than 20 years, and he has not run out of any famous hall, and he has been delayed for half his life in vain. To stay in the village, he still relied on his identity as the village chief to find a good family for him, and now he has not seen anyone for several years - he does not return to the village or the province, and he is not willing to make phone calls...... Every time, when he thought of this son, Lao Ma's heart suddenly welled up with infinite sorrow, and his breathing inadvertently became heavy and sluggish.