When Li Qing arrived home from the county seat, Song Nanzhi was squatting at the gate of the courtyard to pull weeds.

Li Qing: "When... When..."knocking on the iron door,

"Mom~Mom~"

"Qing'er, why did you come back today?"

Song Nanzhi looked up at the door, stopped what he was doing, got up and pulled the bolt,

"I'm free for the next two days, come back and see"

Li Qing saw that the yard was paved with cement except for the vegetable patch, and the new kitchen in Xitou had been basically completed.

"Qing'er makes a cup of tea and drinks"

Li Qing opened the screen door of the hall outside, walked into the hall, and took out a white teacup with a handle from the round tray on the book.

Pour some boiling water into a water bottle against the wall and wash it and pour it out.

There is a round iron tea bucket on the dining table, Li Qing uncovers the lid of the bucket, shakes the small iron bucket, picks up a pinch of tea leaves from the upper layer with his fingers and puts it into the cup, lifts the water bottle with his right hand, unplugs the bottle with his left hand, the boiling water, and rushes straight to the bottom of the cup, a hot air rises from the mouth of the cup, and the tea leaves roll in the cup, and some sink to the bottom of the cup.

With a loud sound, Song Nanzhi opened the door and walked into the hall.

Li Qing asked with a smile

"Is the new kitchen ready?"

"Well, it's not finished yet."

"Oh, I'll see"

Li Qing followed Song Nanzhi to the west, and Song Nanzhi pushed open an ordinary maroon security door and walked into the new kitchen.

The range hood has not arrived, the two holes in the wall have been opened, the kitchen cabinet door has not been installed, the countertop marble has not been paved, and the bathroom door on the north side has not been installed.

"Not finished yet?" Li Qing was puzzled.

Song Nanzhi was on fire and told the story.

Since the construction started in March, I asked Li Yun to give me 2,000 yuan and asked Li Yun to find a bricklayer master, a bricklayer master (Jia Ren's wife's uncle)

said that a new tiled house and three old houses were replaced with new tiles, and the total salary was 10,000 yuan.

Hou Jiu helped me buy yellow sand, a car costs 200 yuan, I asked the sand factory to sell sand, they said that only 150 yuan, I went to the sand factory to buy it.

Hou Jiu said that he would give the cement, and the cement was also pulled into the courtyard.

I bought all the red bricks and red tiles and sent them to the courtyard.

Li Yun and Jia Hao ran in a rage, the green tendons on their necks bulged, their eyes glared, and they roared

"Uncle, stop working! Stop it! Don't do it! ”

"Mom, you want to build a new kitchen, you have to let Qing'er and Feng'er take out the money before building it."

Jia Hao hurriedly picked up the phone and called you, why can't your phone get through, Jia Hao hurriedly dialed Ouyang again, and said Let Ouyang call the money, Ouyang said

"The eldest sister will put on the mat at home first, and then calculate it when I go home during the holidays, and I will give as much as I want."

Jia Hao's eyes stared at the round, how high he jumped, "Don't do it, stop!" Don't do it! ”

I'm trembling with anger, Qing'er, woo,

Cement, yellow sand, red bricks, and red tiles are all piled up in the yard, and the bricklayers are all on the baseline, and suddenly they don't build it again, and others will say that our family is not three!

I said to the master bricklayer categorically, "Don't listen to Li Yun and Jia Hao, keep working, there is no money, I will borrow money to build this kitchen!" ”

When the bricklayers saw that I was resolute, they went back to work.

I cook my lunch for the bricklayers to eat, and I don't have an official for breakfast and dinner.

The house was finally built, and the tiles of the three old houses were replaced with red tiles.

Hou Jiu said, "Mom, take the interior decoration materials of this kitchen and bathroom from me, and I will do the work." ”

I said, "Of course." ”

Li Yun said to me, "Hou Jiu can't work, he worked in my house last year, and he hasn't done two hours of work yet, so he called two or three people to eat and drink desperately at noon, and he didn't know where to go to sleep in the afternoon, and he didn't see anyone in the afternoon!" It's too unsteady! The next day I found someone else to do it again. ”

Who knows when Hou Jiu stood at the door of the kitchen, he heard it all!

The bricklayers also said that the quality of the hanging tiles was too poor, but the price was not cheap. The hanging tiles were handled by Hou Jiu.

The floor tiles in the kitchen, the color recommended by Hou Jiu is too light and not resistant to dirt, I said I didn't like it, Hou Jiu was not happy at the time, he straightened his face, left half of the work, walked quickly to the outside of the hospital, rode the electric car and left.

The next day, Hou Jiu ignored me and didn't come to work.

I had to let Jia Ren continue to do it, Jia Ren opened a store in the county seat, and he was busy with work, so left day and right day long, and it has not been done well until now.

Hou Jiu also blamed Jia Ren for coming to work and ignored Jia Ren.

You all told me to build a new kitchen, and now you don't care, don't you have no money? If I have money, I don't ask you.

Li Qing said with a smile

"Mom, you said that the old kitchen is far away from the hall in the first month, and it is inconvenient to serve food, so build a new kitchen, who knows that you will do it, and the action is so fast, I thought you would start construction in the second half of the year."

Mom, don't worry, the house is almost finished, tell me what money you owe now? ”

Song Nanzhi pouted and walked to the East House and took out a small book from the cabinet

"Qing'er, you see, every payment, whether it is materials or wages, I have kept a detailed account.

The cement was all supported by Hou Jiu, totaling about 3,000 yuan.

There are also kitchen and bathroom interior decorations, which Jia Ren took over and is not finished. (Five-meter floor cabinet, the countertop is quartz stone, aluminum alloy cabinet door, a range hood, three aluminum alloy windows, bathroom aluminum alloy sliding door, bathroom glass door, kitchen and bathroom ceiling.) ）

The bricklayer was paid 10,000 yuan, which was not paid.

I'll pay for everything else. In the past few years, the state has subsidized some money, and the money that my relatives and you gave me during the New Year's holidays have been saved and saved, and this time I spent it. “

"Mom, now that is to say, Feng'er Hou Jiu supports more than 3,000 yuan; Jia Ren's is not yet finished, and it is estimated that it will not exceed 10,000 yuan; I'll give you five thousand dollars now, and I'll settle a portion of the bricklayer's wages first. Next time I go home and see that everything is finished, let's calculate it together, anyway, the eldest sister Feng'er and the three of us are stalling, and I will make it up to you if it's not enough. All right? ”

"Row"

Song Nanzhi's mood was slightly better, and the wrinkles on his face also relaxed.

"Make a phone call and ask the eldest sister, Jia Hao, Feng'er, and Hou Jiu to come over for dinner."

"Mom, I'll fight"

Li Qing opened the screen door of the East House and approached the East House,

Next to the door is the bedside table, or a landline installed by my uncle after moving back to the old house that year.

Li Qing looked at the phone book on the wall and found Li Yun's phone and dialed it, the phone did not respond, but the indicator light was on.

Li Qing dialed it twice, but there was still no response.

"Mom, why can't you make a phone call?"

"The phone is broken,"

"Broken?"

Li Qing took out his mobile phone and called Li Yun and Li Feng.

"Let's go out on the streets now and help you buy a mobile phone, which is easy to carry and can fit in your pocket."

"Buy a mobile phone?"

Song Nanzhi showed a hint of excitement on his face.

Li Qing and Song Nanzhi washed their hands, dried them, picked up the old telephone in a plastic bag, locked the door, walked down the street, and entered a mobile phone store.

Li Qing was lying on the counter and looked into the cabinet, there were three kinds of old people's machines:

The first, one hundred and ninety-eight yuan, the screen is too small;

the second type, 298 yuan, the screen is OK, and the color of the mobile phone is dark;

The third, three hundred and ninety-eight, has a larger screen than the second, big red.

"What phone do you want?"

"Oh, buy one for my mom,"

"Boss, take these two out and take a look."

"Good"

The shopkeeper smiled and took out the second and third mobile phones.

"Mom, which do you like?"

"This color is beautiful and bright."

"I'll adjust it for you, and the number is still the original, take out the phone card and put it in the phone."

"I'll turn up the volume, download the first call ringtone, and then set your family's phone to a shortcut key, 1, 2, 3..., Auntie, you just need to press 1 or 2 or 3, you don't need to pull 11 numbers." It's much more convenient, and now a lot of older people are set up like this. ”

"Try the call, listen, the voice is so clear"

Song Nanzhi picked up the phone and said to Li Qing in his hand

"These few hundred dollars are nothing to you, but to me it's a lot of money."

Li Qing smiled

"Is there any activity in the boss right now?"

Li Qing asked

"Now only a charger and an electric board are given. There are no other promotions. ”

"Boss, can that phone still work?"

"It's broken, it can't be used."

"Then I'll take it home and put it away."

As soon as I crossed the road, I met Li Yun and Li Feng.

"Let Hou Jiu come to dinner with you. Why are you alone? ”

"He's drinking wine today, so he's not coming."

Li Feng blinked his eyes and bared his teeth in response, and saw Song Nanzhi holding a mobile phone box in his hand

"The second sister bought me a mobile phone, but it turned out that the phone was broken and couldn't be used."

"Big red? It's bright. ”

"We seniors should use brighter colors"

Li Yun came up and looked at it, silent.

"Where's the big weight?"

Song Nanzhi asked Li Yun

"Today, Sunday, her mother took her to the county seat to play."

The four of them went to the old house, there were vegetables in the refrigerator at home, and they picked a handful of vegetables to fry, Li Yun put on an apron and was about to stir-fry, when someone knocked on the door of the courtyard

"Dangdang" "Dangdang"

A woman's voice was heard

"Big sister! Eldest sister. ”

"Fourth Mother"

Li Feng smiled and ran to pull the bolt of the door.

"Yo~ Feng'er, Qing'er, you're all here, hehehe."

Li Qing, Li Feng and Zhang Ju shook hands and hugged before walking into the old kitchen hand in hand.

"Li Yun stir-fried today?"

"Fourth Mother" Li Yun smiled,

"What a coincidence, I knew we were going to have dinner, hahaha"

"Yes, big sister, I came to smell the fragrance."

"If you don't talk about it earlier, we don't buy vegetables, it's all vegetarian dishes"

"Okay, big sister, hehehehe"

"Fourth mother, drink tea."

"Yo, thank you, girl Feng'er."

"Fourth mother, when did you come home?"

"The day before yesterday, it was my father's birthday. Seventy-nine years old."

"Oh, godfather is usually home alone?"

"I'm not at home alone, there's no way. For the time being, I can still move on my own, and my body is okay.

I have to take care of your fourth uncle again, and the fourth uncle has a heavy life! I often take time to go home and have a look. It's so far, running around, the fare is unbelievable,"

"Forty or sixty years old, right? I will work for another two years and go home and stop working. ”

"My eldest sister, the fourth child is reluctant, but now she can still do it and earn two dollars for retirement. What can you do at the door? ”

Zhang Ju's two thin lips kept chatting, and her eyes purred to the rhythm of her lips.

"The dish is fried, let's go to the hall and sit,"

"Okay, big sister."

Song Nanzhi brought out a bottle of wine from the cardboard box in the East House.

"Let's have two drinks"

"Hee-hee-hee, okay."

The dishes, chopsticks and wine glasses were hot, the dishes were brought to the table, and several women sat down.

"There are so many dishes, the eldest sister said that she didn't buy vegetables? How many more vegetables do you have to buy? Hahaha"

"Come on, come on, eat vegetables, let's move our chopsticks"

"Fourth mother, where is your niece Xiaolin now?"