Half an hour later......

Nanluoguxiang, the entrance of the courtyard.

Li Yan came back from the street office and was just about to enter the courtyard.

I met Xu Damao, who was pushing a bicycle and was about to go out.

"Brother Da Mao, are you going to the countryside to show a movie?" Li Yan said curiously.

Xu Damao, who looked depressed, came back to his senses, nodded dejectedly: "Yes, I really don't want to go!" ”

"On this hot day, the road is not easy to walk, the key is that over the years, the countryside can't even take out three melons and two dates, it's boring."

After a pause, he glanced at Li Yan a few times and discussed, "Why don't you learn to play movies with me?" ”

He didn't know that Li Yan was already working in the security department of the rolling mill, and he also pulled Li Kuiyong and Zhou Changli in.

Because Li Yan has been studying in the security unit recently, and he has not interacted with the birds in the yard, Li Yan's parents are not people who like to brag.

So no one in the yard knows except for a few of them.

Li Yan said when he heard this: "No need Brother Da Mao, I have a job." ”

Xu Damao didn't know what Li Yan wanted, and he didn't want to teach Li Yan about his skills and let Li Yan help him work for free.

However, it is not easy to learn a craft at this time, no matter what you learn, you must seriously kowtow to the teacher.

You also have to help the master do a few years of apprenticeship for free, and the master will teach you things when he sees you pleasing to the eye, and most of them will keep a hand, and will not let you learn too much.

As apprentices, they have to take things to honor their masters during the New Year's holidays, and some even have to provide for their masters.

Sometimes even family skills will be passed on to men and not women, and most masters are afraid that they will starve to death if they teach their apprentices.

Seeing how Li Yan answered, Xu Damao could only ride away on a bicycle with a sad face.

Li Yan smiled at Yan Bugui and went back to his home.

When the family had dinner together in the evening, Li Yan told him about today's incident, and by the way, he asked Li Kuiyong if they wanted to decorate it too.

After all, I'm also preparing for the New Year, and it's not easy to survive in winter.

Hearing Li Yan's words, Li Kuiyong and Zhou Changli were also moved, and said that when Li Yan came over tomorrow to find a decoration master, he would let the master also see how the price was.

If it's suitable, they will decorate together, anyway, sooner or later they will have to decorate, and now they have a decent job with Li Yan.

Although there is not much money now, it will not be the same as before, and they all feel that life is really getting better and better.

It's all because of Li Yan, thinking that these two people are silently grateful to Li Yan in their hearts.

Now they eat meat every day, because it is a hot day, and there are many people in their houses, so they eat directly in the yard.

This can be regarded as a hornet's nest, this week has passed, and the people in the courtyard have scolded them behind their backs.

It was also because Li Yan gave them a dish last week that they could barely endure it.

After eating, Li Yan Zhou Changli Li Kuiyong, the two Li fathers sat on the edge of the coffee table and drank tea, seeing that they were all their own families,

Li Yan took out a pack of Chinese from his pocket, scattered it around, and then lit it together and smoked it.

Quietly enjoying a cigarette after my meal, Li Yancai asked:

"What have the two Hongqi brothers been doing lately?"

"What are you doing, now that we also have money, we don't go to the black market like before, we are all waiting for your news.

By the way, didn't you let them stare at Lei Ye, they are basically staring at Lei Ye now, and nothing else. ”

Hearing Zhou Changli's answer, Li Yan nodded, last time because of Zhou Changli's matter, he offended Lei Ye,

Li Yan saw that he was in the black market, and he knew a lot of people from the third-rate and nine-way roads, and he was afraid that they would secretly retaliate against his family, so Li Yan asked the Xiao brothers to help keep an eye on it.

"Let's do this in a week, and if it's okay, call the red flag and them back." Li Yan felt that this matter was basically over, and Lei Ye should not dare to provoke him.

But it was a matter of family, so I decided to be safe and stared at Lei Ye for a week.

Hearing Li Yan's words, the two nodded and did not speak.

Li Yan remembered that there was a bicycle ticket given by Li Huaide last time, so he gave it to Li's father with two hundred yuan.

Tomorrow, my brother Li Hong will come back and ask him to buy a bicycle for him, and it will be convenient to go back and forth to school.

Originally, Li's father didn't agree, he was afraid that it would be too high-profile and hateful, and Li Yan was now considered to have a foothold in the rolling mill.

Just let Father Li not worry, and explained for a long time.

Seeing Li Yan's tough attitude, his father had no choice but to nod and agree.

Seeing that everything was over, everyone continued to drink tea and chat about the gossip and news in the neighborhood.

Li Yan saw that it was getting late, raised his hand and looked at his watch, and found that it was ten o'clock, thinking that he had something to do tomorrow.

I just broke up with everyone, and when everyone responded, I went back and fell asleep.

The next day, Li Yan came to the street office after breakfast, found the clerk yesterday, and explained the situation to him.

He said that he couldn't decide, but he still met with Director Su of their street office later, and he wasted a lot of words to get the street office to agree.

When the time comes, they have to notify them to go over and watch when the construction is on, but since Director Su agrees, their clerks will also go through the motions at that time.

Li Yan went out of the street office and found a few people at the mouth of the alley to inquire about the people who could decorate nearby, and most of the passers-by recommended him a person named Lao Liu.

It is said that this person called Lao Liu's craftsmanship is OK, and most of the work around the decoration is from his hands, I heard that the reputation is not bad, the only thing that makes people dissatisfied is that the price he called is at least twice as much as others.

If the craftsmanship is good, the price will naturally be high.

If the price is the same as that of others, how can it reflect his value?

Li Yan came to a courtyard according to the address given by passers-by, gave a child two pieces of milk candy, and led him to a family in the middle courtyard.

There was a knock on the door.

The door was opened by a woman in her forties, her eyes were red, and she looked like she had just cried.

"Excuse me, may I ask if this is the home of the sixth master?"

The middle-aged woman glanced at Li Yan and said angrily,

"Unlucky, Sensei is looking for it, and the person is dead."

He's dead?

How can it be so coincidental?

Looking at the indifferent look on your face, eldest sister, I almost took it seriously.

The middle-aged woman looked at Li Yan with a puzzled look, so she leaned her head over and asked in a low voice,

"You...... Didn't you come to ask for a debt? ”

"Asking for a debt? What kind of debt do you want? ”

Li Yan was stunned when he heard this, thinking that the eldest sister might have misunderstood, so he directly said that he came to him to decorate after hearing that the sixth master had good decoration skills.

"Renovation of the house?"

The middle-aged woman muttered, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she turned back to the house and shouted, "Come to live, don't get out yet." ”

There was a noise in the room, and then I saw a dark-looking rough man cautiously coming out of it.

He first leaned on the side of the door panel and stretched out his head to look out, and then came out from behind, the muscles on his face suddenly piled up into a chrysanthemum, and asked with a smile,

"Renovation of the house?"