The small courtyard that Wu Chengzhi said was so barren that it seemed that no one had ever lived in it.

Chu Xi carried a small burden, stood at the gate of the small courtyard, looked at it silently for a while, let out a long breath, and stepped into the courtyard.

It is already the third month of the lunar calendar, and the ice and snow in Xinjiang Province have melted, although it is not warmer than the coastal zone, but the minimum temperature is about 10 degrees. The open space in the small courtyard next door has been planted with vegetables, the vegetable beds are neat, and the vegetable seedlings inside are also glowing with a pleasing green.

But Chu Mingguo's courtyard ......

Chu Xi forcibly took his eyes off the calf-high grass in the yard, and with a single step, he entered the kitchen.

Then, those beautiful phoenix eyes widened, did her nominal father Chu Mingguo take the laboratory as his home?

Not a single dish is missing, not even a pot!

What a shabby life!

Seeing this, Xiao Jin, who was sent by Wu Chengzhi, scratched his head embarrassedly, then stood in the courtyard and shouted, "Who took the iron pot of Chu Gong's family?" Come back soon! ”

After yelling, he hurriedly explained to the good-looking white and tender little girl who made people blush: "Actually, we have prepared everything for Chu Gong, there is no shortage of pots and pans, and there are even thermos!" ”

Xiao Jin saw that Chu Xi wrung his eyebrows and didn't speak, and was oppressed by her inexplicable aura, and his heart was a little panicked, "Chu Gong almost treats the laboratory as his home, and no one from your hometown comes, so I borrowed ...... from him if someone in the base is missing."

That is, even if you borrow it for a long time, you don't pay it back.

"If they want to use the pots and chopsticks, they will buy them at 80% of the original price, and they will have to pay for cash." Chu Xi couldn't wait to turn around and leave, but when he thought of Chu Mingguo's current situation, he still held on, and said with a small face, "It's the same with quilts, it's just that some tools, such as shovels and coal stoves, will be taken back today." ”

After speaking, Chu Xi hung a small and poor burden on the living room door, rolled up his sleeves, looked at the weeds in the yard for a while, and finally found a tattered basin, took the water and entered the house.

There are no tools to weed, so I have to clean up the house first.

She found a jacket with patches in her baggage, removed one sleeve to use as a rag, and began to clean up room by room.

Xiao Jin looked at her face, didn't dare to say anything at all, and only moved back the things originally prepared for Chu Mingguo from other people's houses one by one.

Chu Xi glanced at the things piled up in the yard between cleaning, and continued with the work at hand. The nose and mouth were covered by another dismantled sleeve, and although it was still dusty, it was much better.

After Xiao Jin ran a few times, the family members of the base came to help clean up, and the speed was much faster, and at three or four o'clock in the afternoon, the home was completely new, and even the dead grass in the yard was pulled out and placed on the courtyard wall, which was kept for her to be used as a fire.

Chu Xi wrote down their faces and names, said words of thanks, and stood in the courtyard in a daze.

Almost none of the things that Xiao Jin wants to come back are complete, the dishes and basins have been bumped and bumped for many years, and there are stains on the cracks and knocks on them, but they are still clean.

Shovels and other tools were sent back, but supplies that were relatively scarce in the era, such as pots and quilts, as well as thermoses, were bought.

So, the house is still empty.

Chu Xi did a lot of psychological construction before he suppressed the mood of robbing other people's parents, and said, "I...... Does my dad still have any tickets? ”

She has a passbook of 12,000 yuan, 10,000 is the pension sent back before, and 2,000 is the debt owed by the uncle and the aunt.

There is money, but some grain and oil stamps and industrial stamps are not.

Xiao Jin hurriedly took out his pocket, "We don't know where to put Chu Gong's tickets, but the political commissar gave some bills, saying that you want to buy something, and asked me to take you to buy it." ”

Even there are not many tickets......

Chu Xi breathed a sigh of relief, it would be good to have a ticket and a place to buy things, otherwise she would have to go to the hospital to find a bed to make ends meet tonight.

Chu Xi used up all the tickets, and asked Xiaojin to wait, only then followed a local aunt, turned around an alley, bought all the things that needed to be purchased most at the moment at a slightly higher price than the market price, and got in the car and returned to the base.

With the help of Xiao Jin, all the things were put together, and Chu Xi sent the people away and lay down directly to sleep.

On the way, she ate two vegetarian buns and drank some hot water, and then she lay down and closed her eyes, she felt like she was still on the train, swaying.

She once heard people say that some people have been on the train for a long time, and they have the sequelae of taking the train. Now I really feel it, and people can't stand it at all.

At seven o'clock in the afternoon, the sky in Xinjiang Province was still bright, Chu Xi directly pulled the curtain and fell asleep. I slept until dawn the next day, then I quickly washed some rice noodles, washed up and rushed to the hospital.

Chu Xi is a rare beauty, white and translucent, quiet and generous, so the people in the hospital almost know her.

By the time she got to the door of the ward, her hands and pockets were already stuffed with things, red dates, pears, apples, and breakfast.

Pursing her lips and smiling, she put her things on the head of the bed, then sat on the edge of the bed, looked at Chu Mingguo, whose cheeks were sunken, and said the first thing to him in the real sense, "Dad, I'm Chu Xi." ”

After speaking, she looked at Chu Mingguo's face, but she didn't find the trace of reaction she wanted.

Then she said the second sentence: "I didn't go to college. ”

Chu Mingguo still didn't react, but the attending doctor who rushed over was stunned, and the base had heard that Chu Gong and his daughter's university major belonged to the competition and reservation by various units before graduation.

When I went to college, the state gave me a subsidy, but I didn't go to school?!

"The notice has been ......," Chu Xi said, suddenly looking up at the white coat at the door of the ward, stopped talking, stood up, and greeted the doctor.

The doctor came in, put down the things in his hand, and said with concern, "If you want to go to college, you can continue to take the exam, and we will pay you the rest of the fees, and the matter of student status will also be handled for you." ”

Looking at what a beautiful and smart child, it would be a pity if he didn't go to school and went out.

Chu Xi glanced at Chu Mingguo, stood beside him, and raised his voice slightly, "Besides, when will my dad wake up, when will I take the university exam again, if he doesn't wake up, then I won't take the university exam in my life." ”

The doctor was massaging Chu Mingguo, and when he heard Chu Xi's words, he directly put two fingers on his pulse, and when he felt Chu Mingguo's pulse slightly faster than before, he laughed silently and said in a serious tone, "The country is now short of technical talents, your grades are so good, and you are young, if you really learn it, you will be the pillar of the country, and you can't say such childish words again!" ”

After Chu Xi left yesterday, he kept talking in Chu Mingguo's ear, talking about how good-looking, smart, and pitiful his daughter was. I came all the way to see him, and I didn't care about studying......

Looking at it now, it is not in vain that he talked about it until the early hours of the morning yesterday.