Chen's house.

Chen Liping sent these old friends out of the house, carried a long robe and a cane, returned to the hall, sat on the Taishi chair, and exhaled a long breath.

Picked up the gold-rimmed porcelain cup on the table and took a sip of tea, Yu Guang glanced at the gifts on the table, and said lightly: "These are all human spirits, and they are estimated to contain good things." ”

Xu Fugui nodded and told him about the gold bars.

"Tut-tut, one person sent six gold bars, a lot of money, these old guys have shed a lot of blood in order to catch your relationship."

"It's a pity, they don't know that the way of the world has changed, and the old ways of the past don't work now."

As he spoke, Chen Liping shook his head, suppressed the sad feeling of the rabbit dead fox in his heart, and asked, "Fugui, will it affect you if you receive these things?" The New Rabbit organization seems to be impersonal. ”

Xu Fugui deliberately looked at him with puzzled eyes, "Dad, isn't it just some cigarettes and tea, what impact can it have?" ”

Chen Liping stared at him twice, turned his head, "You can do it in your own heart." ”

Xu Fugui pushed the box containing the tea leaves, "Dad, this tea looks really good, you have time to brew it and taste it." ”

Xu Fugui pushed the tea back, and said lightly: "I don't lack these three melons and two dates." ”

Xu Fugui was speechless and choked, he didn't force it, the Chen family has a big business, and these more than ten gold bars really don't need to be taken into account.

He took a sip of tea, took out all the gold bars in the cigarettes, tea leaves, and red wine, and stacked eighteen small yellow croakers neatly on the black table.

Xu Fugui rubbed his hands and picked them up one by one to check the authenticity.

Tut-tut, the real big boss is really expensive, a full eighteen gold bars, almost the family background of Long Er's life.

Chen Liping looked at him as if he had fallen into the eyes of money, and rolled his eyes angrily, "As for it, I think your Xu family was also a well-known landlord at the beginning, and there were only more than ten gold bars." ”

"Hehe, Dad, you don't know this, my family really didn't have so many gold bars before, we are not the bosses of business, we rely on those few acres of land all year round, and we can't sell it for a few dollars."

It is true that although the landlord is stable, he does not have as much money as the merchants in the city.

After making sure that each gold bar was genuine, he vacated the cigarette case and filled all the gold bars into it, ready to find an opportunity to put it in the space later.

Picking up the cigar that had been vacated, he curiously pulled out one.

Much thicker than regular cigarettes, almost the thickness of a thumb, tan in color, and smelling of a strong tobacco flavor.

Xu Fugui recalled the plot he had seen on TV before, asked his subordinates to bring a pair of scissors, subtract one piece, light it with a match, and then sucked a few puffs hard.

"Ahem."

As soon as he took two puffs, Xu Fugui was choked and coughed constantly, he didn't expect the cigar to be so strong, even stronger than the local dry tobacco.

After a good breath, he took two more puffs and gradually got used to the taste of the cigar, and unexpectedly found that it tasted good.

Turning his head to see Chen Liping looking at him, he handed over a cigar, "Dad, try it?" ”

Chen Liping turned his head, "If you don't have a blessing, you will eat immediately, don't let Jiazhen and them wait for you." ”

With that, he got up and walked towards the backyard on crutches.

When he walked out of the hall, Xu Fugui put the cigar box containing the gold bars into the space, then took a cigar in his mouth and strode towards the backyard.

"Brother, what are you smoking?" Walking into the backyard, Lai Shun looked at the cigar in his mouth and immediately leaned over to smell it.

Chen Jiaming stood up and pushed his gold-rimmed glasses, "This is a cigar, right?" I've smoked in provincial towns before. ”

"It's hard to buy this thing, it's only available in foreign countries, brother-in-law, where did you get it?"

Xu Fugui took them a box of cigars, "Na, that's all, it's gone after smoking, and I can't get used to it." ”

Chen Jiaming smiled, "That can't be." He then took out a cigar and put it under his nose and sniffed it carefully.

Laishun didn't pay so much attention to it, just lit a match and lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, and closed his eyes in enjoyment.

"Well, good stuff." Lai Shun passed a circle of lungs, exhaled a large cloud of white smoke, looked at the cigar in his hand and said very seriously.

"Dad, I want to spit smoke too."

Youqing ran over and hugged his calf.

Before Xu Fugui could speak, Jiazhen immediately admonished: "Youqing, you can't learn from your father." ”

Youqing turned his head and said stubbornly: "Why can't I learn from my father?" ”

Jiazhen said casually: "If you smoke, you can't study, do you still want to go to school with your sister?" ”

Youqing's little face was full of confusion, and finally let go of his calf in silence, "I want to go to school with my sister." ”

Jiazhen comforted: "Children can't smoke, and when you grow up in the future, you don't care what you want to do." ”

"Why can't children smoke?" Youqing asked rhetorically.

Jiazhen was stunned for a moment, "Anyway, children just can't smoke, I don't believe you ask your father." ”

Facing Youqing's puzzled eyes, Xu Fugui spit out a puff of white smoke, "Your mother is right, the little doll can't smoke, as soon as he smokes, Xiaoshan will come to him." ”

"I don't want Xiaoshan to come to me!" Youqing shook his head, hurriedly hugged his legs, and looked around vigilantly, for fear that there were hills hidden around.

Xu Fugui touched his head, "I'm afraid to beg, is it possible that you know what Xiaoshan looks like?" ”

Xiaoshan is their local name for a kind of ghost, and adults like to use it to scare children, and over time, these children are frightened when they hear the word Xiaoshan.

Xu Fugui also grew up listening to Xiaoshan's ghost stories when he was a child, and he didn't know when he started, he knew that these were all scares, so he was naturally not afraid.

Youqing hugged his leg tightly and said what Xiaoshan looked like.

"Xiaoshan is very short, like a doll in his teens, with no eyes, no nose and no mouth, but he has six hands, and wherever he goes, the house is on fire."

Xu Fugui asked him curiously, "Son, have you really seen Xiaoshan?" ”

Xu Fugui shook his head, "Grandpa Changgen told me." ”

Xu Fugui laughed, and Youqing looked up at him, "Dad, does Xiaoshan look like this?" ”

"Haha, when you grow up, you'll know, Dad has never seen Xiaoshan, as long as Youqing obediently listens to his father's words, Xiaoshan won't dare to come to you."

"It's time to eat." Aunt Chen, who was wearing an apron, came over and shouted.

Everyone moved to the dining room, it was almost evening, the light was dim, and several tung oil lamps were burning in the dining room, reflecting the sumptuous meals on the table clearly.

After eating a half-full, Xu Fugui slowed down and asked casually, "Jiaming, what do you think about studying medicine?" ”

"Alas, brother-in-law, the thought of going to a foreign country thousands of miles away makes me feel unsure."

(End of chapter)