"Hey, the child's father, why haven't I seen your figure recently, I get up early every day and are greedy for darkness, I see you riding a tricycle out early, and I see you come back after dinner time, and I stink all over my body, this can't be done!"

In the courtyard, Cheng Nuo's cook Xiuni was pulling the bellows in the kitchen and lighting a fire for dinner.

After hearing the movement outside, he quickly looked out, and after seeing that it was his own man, his voice was not so polite:

"Hurry up and take a hand, show me the fire, I'm good at stir-frying, you two are really the same, when you cook to find you to light the fire, no one can touch the figure, but after it is really served on the table, it will be like a starving ghost, thanks to our husband's measurement, otherwise we would have been driven out of three miles away."

Li Laosan has not finished the work at hand, where must he be in the kitchen: "Hey, just because we are working for Mr., then we have to have eyesight, we can't wait for Mr. to do everything, it will be too useless." ”

As she spoke, her hands clanged, and Xiuni, who was resting in the kitchen, didn't know what the other party was busy with.

Fortunately, this clangling sound didn't last long, and after a while, I saw Li Laosan open the thick door curtain and come in from outside.

"Oops, it's still warm in this kitchen, and it's so cold outside that my snot is almost freezing."

Unexpectedly, the front foot just came in, and the back foot was still outside, this Li Laosan was immediately stopped by Xiuni, rolled his eyes, and threw an old towel directly:

"Hurry up and shake off the ashes on your body, I've been with Mr. for so long, don't you know if it's clean and sloppy? Get your body clean before you come in! ”

Li Laosan knew that he was at a loss, took the towel with both hands and smiled, then quickly retreated outside, holding on to the window sill and shaking the dust off his body.

"Child, you don't know, the current life of the Manchurian is really difficult, what to say, I can't go on, what smoke/opium/tablets,/morphos/coffee, alcoholism, gambling, playing more than one flower, what is the place where they often live...... What is ...... outside. ”

Through the window paper, the shadow in the kitchen paused, and then an angry sentence came out: "That's called the firearms camp, and that place is full of flag people, what are you doing in that place if you have nothing to do?" ”

"Yes, it's called the Firearms Battalion!" Li Laosan took the towel and threw his trouser leg to the ground: "In the past, the days of the flag people were called a beauty, they didn't have to worry about eating and drinking, and they could do whatever they wanted, but now it's different, there is no silver, it's a sack for a straw bag - a bag is not as good as a bag." ”

Speaking of Xingtou, regardless of whether the children in the house or his mother replied, Li Laosan said to himself: "No matter how rich you are, you can't help the banner people to make such a method, sell furniture first, and then pick up the house, and there are many desperate thieves, if you are behind, it will not be far to sell your wife and children, otherwise you will freeze to death on the street sooner or later!" ”

At this moment, I suddenly heard a clanging sound from inside the house, and the water scoop knocked the lid of the pot, and then the door curtain was opened, and Xiuni rushed out of it directly, directly grabbing Li Laosan's ear: "Okay, you Li Laosan, I have been with you for so many years, and I gave birth to a son and a half daughter, and you have other ideas when it comes?" ”

Li Laosan was stunned for a moment, and he couldn't stand still after feeling the sharp pain in his ears: "Let go, let go, you crazy woman, what are you doing?" I'm about to pull my ears off, what do you look like! ”

Xiuni was angry, and the spittle in her mouth was about to soar to the other party's face, and the strength in her hand was even greater: "Li Laosan, you are really not a man, I thought I was worried about you before, don't be hungry and freeze outside, I didn't expect you to still have the idea of a little mother-in-law, what's the matter, you have to add another two and three rooms?!" ”

"No, where did you say that?" Li Laosan didn't care about his ears, and he was so anxious: "When did I say that I was going to add a second and third bedroom?" Our Lao Li is not that kind of person, don't deduct pots! ”

Xiuni glared: "Give me back the basin, if you don't have this idea, how can you think of the idea of beating someone's little mother-in-law?" Forget about fighting, and pick up other people's broken shoes, don't blame me for looking down on you! ”

"It's not...... This...... Alas! What are you thinking? Li Laosan completely understood, just because he got up early and was greedy for darkness, and he didn't say what he was doing, and the last sentence was wrong, so that his mother-in-law misunderstood that she was looking for a little mother-in-law, and made a big joke.

The reason is that I understand it, but it's not so easy to explain, plus this woman is a sensual animal herself, and she can't listen to anything at all, so Li Laosan originally wanted to explain.

But after seeing that the other party really didn't eat oil and salt, his temper came up directly.

Can't you argue, aren't you? Then I simply didn't say anything, it was useless to say it anyway.

This is good, and it has confirmed the image of a negative man in Xiuni's eyes, and she has to go to Cheng Nuo for comment.

Fortunately, Cheng Nuo got off work early enough and bumped into this scene after pushing open the door.

"Sir, don't you know this man in my family, that's not a good thing, I'm cooking at home, he went outside to hook up with the wild fox, and he came back late and deliberately angry with me, you have to give me a good evaluation!" Seeing Cheng Nuo coming back, Xiuni cried and screamed.

Although Cheng Nuo was still a little confused, it was obviously uncomfortable to see that Xiuni's hands were still knotted on Li Laosan's ears, and they were red as if they had been scalded with boiling water.

"Sister-in-law, what do we have to say, listen to my advice, can you let go first?"

At this time, Xiuni realized that she was still twisting an ear in her hand, although she was a little distressed, but thinking of the other party's "betrayal" to herself, she couldn't help but turn half a circle in her hand before letting go.

It was this half circle, and the pain made the corners of Li Laosan's mouth twitch, and he was so angry that he turned his face away, not wanting to look at his mother-in-law.

Cheng Nuo himself has just taken off the single, and basically has no experience in dealing with emotional disputes.

However, with his understanding of Li Laosan, he didn't think he would really do anything foolish, so he asked the reason first, and between the three words, he understood what was going on, and in the end it was just a misunderstanding.

It's good now, it's Xiuni's turn to blush, but this time it's not angry, it's ashamed.

"I told you a long time ago, things are not what you imagined, but you are a tendon, you have to think about me badly, it is Mr. who has to be judged by us, if you were an outsider, you would have been laughed at a long time ago." Li Laosan snorted coldly.

Xiuni lowered her head and clutched the corner of her apron in her hand: "I...... I know it's wrong, and next time you tell me in advance, I won't have to worry about you. What, sir, I'm still steaming buns in the pot, let's go see if the fire is out. ”

After saying this, he turned his head and hurriedly trotted towards the kitchen.

Looking at the back of his mother-in-law, Li Laosan hated iron and said: "It's really long hair and short knowledge!" ”

Cheng Nuo shook his head helplessly, patted the other party's arm and persuaded: "Okay, it's over, just say what, but then again, Lao Li, what kind of firearms camp do you have nothing to do?" ”

Back to business, Li Laosan's mood eased a lot, and when he saw that no one was paying attention, he secretly pulled Cheng Nuo to the backyard and said mysteriously at the crop straw stack: "Sir, this is what I'm busy with these days?" ”

"Is that all there is to it?" Cheng Nuo was a little surprised, and said puzzledly: "Are you going to reserve firewood?" Or use it to burn to ashes, so that it can be pickled with salted duck eggs? ”

Again and again, he was misunderstood, and Li Laosan couldn't sit still: "No, it's not, it's all hidden underneath, it's just what I use to cover up, and it's a good thing underneath." ”

As he spoke, Li Laosan directly moved the crop stalks above to the side, and after a while, he left pieces of neatly stacked building materials, including tiger skin stones, steles, stone steps, etc., and even a bunch of stone lions, plus a few stone plaques.

"Where did this thing come from, it couldn't have been from the firearms camp, right?" Looking at these historical things, Cheng Nuo was surprised.

Patting these porcelain guys, Li Laosan said a little proudly: "Sir, you don't know, the houses of the firearms camp are all inhabited by the flag people, a water of blue bricks and tiles, the bungalows are facing the sun, the square bricks are paved, and the courtyard wall is made of tiger skin stone, a specialty of the West Mountain, but now the flag man is not without money, and he is so poor that he can't open the pot." ”

Cheng Nuo reacted a little: "So you went and bought all their things?" ”

"Not really." Li Laosan was hot and said with a smile: "Since the Manchu Dynasty is gone, the rations of the banner people have also disappeared, and the salary has been changed from once a month to once every three or four months, and it is completely gone this year, but people can't starve to death, right?"

Those banner people who live in the firearms camp don't have any skills, and they can dismantle and sell the house materials, and even the tiger skin stone for building the courtyard wall has been sold out, I look really cheap, not more expensive than the green bricks we burn at home, so I will take advantage of the purchase of more, and there are many people who know it late, and we can't buy it. ”

Looking at Li Laosan, whose eyes were full of fine light, Cheng Nuo couldn't help but stretch out a thumbs up: "It's okay, Lao Li, I'm going to a foreign country, your brain is so bright, even I can't imagine that there is this stubble." ”

The reason for Li Laosan's red face this time was finally not because of his earache, and he grinned: "Sir, you are usually busy with big things, how can you get this corner in your eyes, I also think that we went to buy land last time, and I want to pay more attention to the stones you like when you see Zaitao's stones." ”

In order to prove his words, Li Laosan simply clasped his hands together, and after taking a breath in his palm, he was about to move the pair of stone lions out.

With such a heavy thing, where was Cheng Nuo willing to let the other party really move, and quickly stopped it: "It's good here, you don't have to really move it, Lao Li, you have a heart." ”

However, after Li Laosan's mouth, Cheng Nuo still remembered Zaitao, and there were some things that could just be contacted by him. After a few words of encouragement, Cheng Nuo found a reason to leave.

Watching Mr. go away, recalling the words of Mr. Praise just now, Li Laosan felt a joy in his heart.

While whistling, he covered the crop stalks again, and when the last piece was covered and he was about to turn away after admiring the masterpiece, he was startled by the sudden appearance of the figure.

However, after seeing the visitor, his eyebrows couldn't help but knot, and he was about to leave with a cold snort.

The person who came was none other than Xiuni, who had just knotted his ears.

"Are your ears alright?" Xiuni caught up and said with concern.

"Hmph, I'm fine, you don't know?" couldn't help touching his ears, and Li Laosan suddenly felt a hot pain on it.

"It's all my fault, I made a joke on you without asking anything." Xiunie wanted to touch the ear, but it hurt him again, and timidly reached back again, and thought about taking off her headscarf to put it on for the other party.

Li Laosan was a little confused now: "What are you doing?" ”

Xiuni was still busy with the movements in her hands: "It's cold, when the wind blows, you should freeze your ears, I don't want the child's father to lose an ear." ”

That's not all, I don't know where to take out a hot egg, stuffed it to Li Laosan: "Oh, today's red eggs just laid by the hens at home, except for the gentlemen and dolls, this is more for you." ”

After saying this, he turned around and left directly, without giving the other party a chance to refute.

Feeling the warmth of the eggs in the palm of his hand, Li Laosan's cool heart immediately became hot, and he ripped off the headscarf on his head and chased after his mother-in-law:

"What does it look like for an adult to wear a mother-in-law's headscarf? I don't like to eat eggs, if there are more eggs next time, you will keep them, and you will not live when you see it! ”

"Will you live? If there is no rooster, it is a widow, how can it hatch a chick baby? My headscarf is ugly, and that's what I bought! ”

"You wait, when I come back from work tomorrow, I'll pull you a piece of foreign cloth......"

The next day, Cheng Nuo found Zaitao, who he hadn't seen for a long time, early in the morning, but he didn't expect to see him helping others at the door of his home.

waited until he was done over there, and Cheng Nuo appeared.

"Mr. Zai, long time no see."

Cheng ...... Dean Cheng?! After seeing the people, Zaitao was very excited, and he was far away and came forward to greet him: "Why are you here, if you want to come and notify me directly, I will receive you, or simply I will come to the door to find you, which is more convenient!" ”

Cheng Nuo waved his hand again and again, and said with a smile: "Don't dare to be it, it seems that I am too rude, but I just saw that you were still busy?" ”

Looking at the direction in which those people left just now, Zaitao put away his smile and sighed: "Alas, this world is different, it is no longer realistic to want to sit and wait for someone to deliver food to the door, don't I still have a few relatives, thinking of selling me something, or exchange some money." ”

Although he knew that Zaitao had some research on cultural relics, he also knew the economic strength of the other party at the moment, even if someone sold him good things, I am afraid that he would not have much money to buy them, how could he think of selling them to him, so he was puzzled: "If it is a large item, someone's bid will be higher than ours, right?" ”

Unexpectedly, Zaitao smiled bitterly: "The dealers who buy antiquities are also human spirits, and they have long joined forces to lower prices. When you are desperate, you will find me. ”

This scene just happened to implicitly coincide with Cheng Nuo's thoughts, and he directly ordered Zaitao to pay attention to these cultural relics.

It's too expensive to afford, but some materials that are historically significant and can verify some historical facts can be considered.

After all, at the moment, it is the period when a large number of our cultural relics are left abroad, and it is not Cheng Nuo's style to sit idly by.

However, this matter is only one of Cheng Nuolai's purposes, and the second is the key.

"Mr. Zai, do you know that now that the Nobel Prize has been announced, Planck is the Physics Prize, and who is the Chemistry Prize?"

(End of chapter)