"Uncle Li has just been laid off, don't be like him."

Lu Changqing said as he pulled up his sleeves, picked up two stacks of briquettes and walked into the alley.

Laid off?

Zhou Huilan was directly stunned.

She knows the tide of layoffs in the 90s, but the Uncle Li just now is at least fifty years old, and he is about to retire, can he still be laid off?

At the moment of confusion here, Lu Changqing had already run around and turned back, picked up two stacks of briquettes and reminded Zhou Huilan, "The briquettes can't be placed in the open space, you go to my house, take a few pieces of wood in the corner of the backyard wall, and I'll help you build a coal shed to protect yourself from the wind and rain." ”

"No need to bother!" Zhou Huilan hurriedly picked up a stack of briquettes and followed into the alley.

"It's not troublesome, it's all neighbors, piggybacking on it." Lu Changqing's face was not red or panting, he moved twice as much as Zhou Huilan, and he walked much faster.

When he put down the briquette and turned back, Zhou Huilan arrived at the door, Lu Changqing directly took the briquette in her hand, grinned, and showed a neat white tooth, "I don't still have to ask for help, I have to take it out first, right?" ”

Zhou Huilan was really a little at a loss for men to be attentive, "It's just a few home-cooked dishes, and I can't talk about asking for anything, but just now Uncle Li, thank you for helping me out of the siege." ”

Although Zhou Huilan herself is sure to get it, but the other party helped her after all, she will not be stingy with that thank you.

"There are many old employees of state-run hotels on this street, and many people have been laid off after the restructuring a few days ago, and the smell of gunpowder is very important, but they are all good people, don't be like them."

Zhou Huilan asked directly: "Laid off?" At the age of Uncle Li, he is also going to be laid off? ”

"The unit gave compensation, I don't know exactly what to say, but I heard them say that the state-run hotel can't be opened, and most of the people who used to work there on this street have been laid off."

Mass layoffs are the trend of the times, and no one can do anything about it.

As soon as Lu Changqing said this, Zhou Huilan suddenly understood that there were obviously more vendors near the drum tower than she knew in her previous life, and eighty percent of laid-off workers accounted for a large number, after all, those who used to work in state-owned restaurants should have some cooking skills, and selling snacks is also the easiest way to start a business.

Zhou Huilan is not worried that her soy milk will not be sold, after all, although she only uses a small part of well water to soak it, it is more fragrant than ordinary soy milk, and grinding soy milk is very tiring, if she didn't piggyback on it in order to lose weight, she wouldn't want to do this.

Speaking kung fu, the two of them are so helpful and accommodating, a cart of briquettes has been moved.

"I'll go back and get the plank." Lu Changqing raised his hand to wipe his sweat as he spoke, and a coal black immediately appeared on his white forehead, if he wanted to go out like this, he was afraid that he would have to cause a lot of laughter.

So Zhou Huilan ripped off the towel on the rope and wanted to hand it to him.

But Lu Changqing thought that Zhou Huilan was going to help him wipe it, after all, he usually worked at home, and his sister-in-law helped him wipe it like this.

The handsome face was sent forward directly, and Zhou Huilan also felt that she was an old aunt in her fifties, and she was not at all uncomfortable, so she helped him clean it up.

"Mom!"

Yaoyao was under the corridor with Granny Duan and saw this scene clearly.

The little girl was immediately unhappy, rushed over like a calf, pushed Lu Changqing away, turned around and hugged her mother's waist, "This is my mother!" ”

Lu Changqing followed Yaoyao's words and said, "It's your mother." After speaking, he reached out and wanted to touch Yaoyao's head, but she slapped it away.

Only then did he realize that the little girl was angry.

He has never dealt with children, and he subconsciously wants to please the fleshy little girl in front of him.

After searching around in his mind, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he snapped his fingers and bent down to look at Yaoyao: "I just hatched a nest of ducklings in my backyard, can my uncle give you one?" ”

Yaoyao was completely stunned.

She grew up so big, Wang Jianye's father was actually missing in her growth, so that she could easily cope with the relationship with the elderly elders, but she didn't know how to get along with the opposite sex of her father's generation.

In the past, when she lost her temper like this, those men would always scold her and even ridicule her mother, but today this man, not only was he not angry, but he also said that he wanted to give himself a duckling?

Yaoyao looked at her mother with expectant and slightly worried eyes.

Although Zhou Huilan didn't know what her daughter was thinking, she remembered that Yaoyao liked these fluffy little guys.

In the past, I also helped her raise a dime a chicken at the entrance of the kindergarten, but at that time, she was small and fat at home, and then she was accidentally crushed to death, and Yaoyao was sad for a long time.

"If you like, go get it with your uncle." She smiled and nodded at her daughter, "Uncle will bring something to build a coal shed in a while, and we can also build a nest for the ducklings." ”

"Mommy is awesome!" Yaoyao jumped up directly, hugged Zhou Huilan's face and kissed her, dragged Lu Changqing and ran.

Lu Changqing, who didn't react at all, was staggered by her, and he was more than 1.8 meters tall, and he didn't seem to be able to keep up with the pace of a child.

Zhou Huilan also laughed.

The materials Lu Changqing got back were very complete, with all kinds of hammers and nails, and he also brought a cane to Granny Duan.

Yaoyao followed Lu Changqing to nail the coal shed there and deliver the tools, and there was no need for Zhou Huilan to do it, so she picked up the hoe and cleaned up the ground in the yard.

In the past, the rockery and path in the garden are still there, and you can only follow the original trend and turn out a small piece of land, but such a natural partition is also convenient to distinguish the vegetable species.

Zhou Huilan had planted beans in her previous life, and she was not very good at growing vegetables.

It's just that after turning the ground, she secretly took the seeds into the space and went through the well water, and then took them out and planted them in the soil, water spinach, bitter gourd, celery, beans and eggplant, planted in separate areas piece by piece and then watered, the original bare courtyard, although it is still bare, but the ridges that are cleaned up have a little more vitality invisibly.

Lu Changqing's coal shed and duck shed are almost cleaned up.

Seeing that Zhou Huilan had cleaned up the entire yard after such a while, Lu Changqing was embarrassed to let Zhou Huilan go to his house to cook again.

Seeing that he was leaving, Zhou Huilan hurriedly went into the house to change her clothes and walked out cleanly.

Lu Changqing even felt that she was a little brighter than just now, although she was still a little fat, but she was so radiant that people couldn't take their eyes off it.

"Mother-in-law, I'll teach Dr. Lu's sister-in-law to cook a few home-cooked meals, and I'll be back in a while." She explained to her mother-in-law that Yaoyao was making out with the duckling, and she didn't want to go with her.

It's just that Zhou Huilan took a few steps, but found that Lu Changqing was still stunned and didn't move.

She stretched out her hand and shook it in front of Lu Changqing's eyes, "Doctor Lu? ”

"Ahh

Lu Changqing came back to his senses violently, and felt that the woman in front of him coincided with the face in his dream.

The dreamman who he had dreamed of for many years but couldn't even see his face clearly, it was impossible, it was Zhou Huilan's appearance......