Kou Xi returned home on an empty stomach and beckoned Deputy Director Zhou to come into the house to drink a cup of hot water.

Deputy Director Zhou waved his hand and said, "No need, no need, I'll go back to the grain depot." ”

Kou Xi gave Huo Dagui a look, Huo Dagui stepped forward and pulled Deputy Director Zhou and said, "Oh, brother, it's so cold, you don't have a hot water to eat when you go back." Hurry up and go into the house to warm up, and eat a bite of coarse tea and light rice at home before leaving. ”

Deputy Director Zhou was about to excuse himself, but Kou Xi hurriedly said: "Brother Zhou, did my brother-in-law stab your heart with his words today? ”

Of course, Deputy Director Zhou waved his hand and said: "It's like this when you are in a hurry to give birth to a child, can I go to my heart." At this point, Huo Dagui's hospitality was overwhelmed.

Fortunately, Gao Liman's usual Li Cuilian* is not bad, although he dare not say that the house is spotless. But when Zhang Yao and the others left, she still picked up a broom and cleaned the inside and outside of the house.

Therefore, as soon as Deputy Director Zhou entered the house, there was no garbage on the ground of Huo's house, and the kang did not dare to say that it was clean and clean.

Huo Tianyi and Huo Tianfeng, the two children, sat on the kang and watched TV, laughing and laughing, which made people's hearts warm.

Huo Dagui invited people in, and beckoned Gao Liman: "Hurry up, go and cook something." We didn't even drink a saliva in the city!"

How can you rush to cook first?

Kou Xi beckoned Gao Liman to boil water to make tea first, and went next door to take out the money to Huo Xinyu: "You go buy some cooked food and come back, buy some fried peanuts, pig's head meat, and pine nut tripe!" Buy me two catties of tenderloin, you can take the money." ”

Huo Xinyu took the money to the supply agency to buy cooked food, and Kou Xi turned around and went to the tofu workshop to get a piece of water tofu.

Boiled water with boiling water, peeled a green onion that had been dried in autumn of the previous year, and made a green onion mixed with tofu.

Listening to Huo Dagui chatting with Deputy Director Zhou in front, dinner was being prepared here.

Gao Liman leaned against the door frame and was curious while knocking on the melon seeds: "Who is that person outside?"

"The senior deputy director of the grain depot!" Kou Xi said lightly.

"Ah, why are you inviting him to dinner?" Gao Liman didn't understand: "How do you know?"

"Today, Xinyu came to me and asked me to borrow the car in the unit, and the car in our unit was not in front of me, so I went to buy the stationmaster to borrow it. He didn't have any, so he borrowed it from the grain depot for me. Gao Liman pouted and said, "I pulled down the box of cigarettes, and invited the family to dinner." How much does it cost to go back and forth?"

Kou Xi didn't say anything, and after a while, Huo Xinyu came back. Kou Xi put the peanuts on the plate, cut the pig's head meat, cut the pine nut belly into small pieces, and brought it to the green onion and tofu he made.

The two of them were scalded with white wine, and smiled and let them eat the vegetables first. Back in the kitchen, I shredded the tenderloin, scooped a spoonful of homemade soybean sauce and made a shredded meat sauce. Brush the pot and boil the water, take out the noodles and cook a small pot over the water.

Lian Dou brought the noodles to the table with shredded meat sauce, and said to Deputy Director Gao with a smile: "Brother Gao, come and try our family's noodles, they are delicious!

Hongqi Town said that it is not big or small, and it is not small or small, and who can know what happens to every household. But if you have a heart, you can't hide some changes in anyone's house in the town.

"I've heard for a long time that your family can make somen noodles, but I've never had a chance to eat them. Try it today!" Deputy Director Gao said with a smile, and Kou Xi immediately filled a bowl of noodles. He scooped a spoonful of shredded meat and poured it on top and brought it to him.

He sat down and looked at Deputy Director Gao's expression while eating.

"Well, this noodle is no worse than the one rolled out at home. No wonder you can sell it for money, brother, you are still very capable!" Deputy Director Gao took two large bites and tasted it carefully, and praised Huo Dagui sincerely.

Huo Dagui only saw that Kou Xi wanted him to keep the deputy director Gao for dinner, and originally thought that he had nothing to please as the deputy director of a grain depot. Later, I thought about it, maybe Zhang Yao would have to use someone else's four-wheeled after being discharged from the hospital, so I let him in.

Kou Xi said with a smile: "I won't tell you, our family makes this noodle just to maintain." You also know that although there are supply and marketing cooperatives with supplies now, you still have to take the grain book and the grain stamps to the grain depot to buy the grain. Everyone has just a few catties of noodles, and our family makes noodles from materials. How expensive the surface of the materials is, the cost is high, and the price is not low. But if you sell it too expensive, no one will buy it. ”

Deputy Director Gao nodded solemnly: "What you said is true, the noodles sold for materials are still much more expensive than those in the grain depot." ”

When Kou Xi said this, Huo Dagui and Deputy Director Gao both understood her intentions. This is to get a relationship from Deputy Director Gao, Huo Dagui's eyes lit up.

Kou Xi didn't mention this stubble, and kept letting Deputy Director Gao eat vegetables, eat noodles, and drink alcohol. She is a non-drinker, and for a while she asks Deputy Director Gao about the study of the children at home, for a while she inquires about the situation of his work unit, and for a while she complains that things can't be sold now, and for a while she thanks Deputy Director Gao for her help. The deputy director of Gao was so happy that he was dizzy from drinking.

Huo Dagui didn't dare to really let Deputy Director Gao drink high, what if he drove the four wheels into the ditch?

It happened that it was already dark, and Huo Lu came home from gambling outside, so he asked Huo Lu to follow Deputy Director Gao home.

Kou Xi took four packets of somen noodles from home and filled him with some dried tofu. said to Huo Lu: "You can send Deputy Director Gao home, and the four wheels can be driven directly to his house." Be careful, you haven't driven much, so be safe!"

Huo Lu nodded: "Sister-in-law, don't worry, I'll just open it carefully." ”

Seeing off the slightly drunk Deputy Director Gao, Huo Dagui couldn't wait to ask: "Why didn't you just ask him to help, I think he seems to have that meaning!"

"It's better not to say some things so clearly. Isn't it to thank people for sending their second sister to the hospital for inviting them to dinner? This time we made this friend, and we will talk about the next time we do things. You can't just ask someone to do two big favors with one meal. If he is willing to help, there will be more times to beg him in the future!" Huo Dagui thought about it, and said in his heart that Kou Xi, this little girl, has a lot of eyes. casually beg someone to drive, and you can hand over people, why don't your children have such a powerful one?

Zhang Yao stayed in the hospital for two days and only returned on the third day of the second lunar month. But they didn't come back with the child, and an acquaintance came out of the bus station to ask, Zhang Yao grinned and cried: "My child died of illness two days after birth!"

Good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles, and Kou Xi was at work in the unit, and someone was in a hurry to pass this gossip to her.

Kou Xi was very sad when he heard this, if he wasn't at work, he really wanted to go home and ask immediately. As a woman who didn't have the opportunity to give birth, she really regretted the lost child, and she couldn't figure out why it was gone!