At that time, he was five years old and vaguely remembered some things, but he Xu Zhijie said in his conscience that he had been treating them as his biological parents for so many years, and there was nothing to be sorry for them.

But they ...... But he has always guarded himself like a thief, except for spending ten yuan on himself when he got married, and he usually supports himself.

When he was looking for a job in a rolling mill, he remembered that he had spent a total of 175 yuan on the personal relationship, and his parents agreed with him to let him pay back five yuan a month, for a total of four years.

After the daughter-in-law knew about this, she didn't know how many tears she wiped behind her back, and the money hadn't been repaid until now.

Xu Zhijie is just a temporary worker, and his salary was 17.5 a month at the beginning, but fortunately, their section chief is good, and he has been raised to 22.5 in the past two years.

However, I pay back 5 yuan to my parents a month, and I have 17.5 yuan left, not to mention the rest, the two eldest children are going to school now, plus daily life, how can such a little money be enough?

The daughter-in-law takes care of the housework every day, and she also has to find time to do some needlework for others to make up for the family, the size of the cloth shirt, the short trouser legs, the exposed wrists and the neck, and the cold in winter is full of sores.

If it weren't for this, would he Xu Zhijie be forced to pull down his face to calculate Xu Qiang's things?

Thinking of this, Rao is a seven-foot man, and he couldn't help but shed tears with red eyes, it's okay for him to suffer and suffer by himself, but four children......

Xu Qiang rode his bicycle into a small alley, with a small courtyard in the innermost part and an iron general hanging on the door.

He took out the key and unlocked it, the yard was not big, two main houses, one wing room on the left and right, all with locks, Xu Qiang opened them one by one and went in to see, the room was empty and obviously useless for a long time, and there was dust everywhere.

Xu Qiang looked at it for a while, then simply rolled up his sleeves and took a broom in the yard to clean it briefly.

Although there was no stove in the house, it was as cold as an ice cellar, but Xu Qiang kept holding the broom and didn't feel too cold.

When he finished cleaning up, it was already noon, so he simply locked the door, rode his bicycle out of the small alley, found a small restaurant and went in to eat a bowl of noodles, and then went home.

Just after the supply and marketing cooperative, he caught a glimpse of the bathhouse next to him, Xu Qiang thought about it, and immediately went to the bathhouse to park his bicycle and go in.

Although the bathhouse was open at noon, there was no one, Xu Qiang paid the money and went in, took off his clothes and got into the steaming water, only to feel a lot more comfortable up and down.

The bathhouse is not small, but he is alone, Xu Qiang just leans against the edge of the bath and closes his eyes and soaks for a while.

Under the steaming heat, he took a nap in a daze, opened his eyes and found that his body was soaked red, he simply called a back rubbing master to rub it, and finally shaved his beard and trimmed his face, and the whole person became a lot more energetic.

When he came out of the bathhouse, Xu Qiang only felt warm all over his body, and his muscles and bones seemed to be kun again, and he was very comfortable.

As a result, as soon as he went out, as soon as the cold wind blew, he immediately shrank into a sugar triangle again, rode his bicycle and went straight to the supply and marketing cooperative.

Zhou Lili was muttering to a few old ladies at the counter, and she didn't know what to say, and she laughed out loud from time to time.

As soon as he saw Xu Qiang coming, he immediately walked over to him and teased with a smile: "Oh, I said Uncle Xu, you have come to the supply and marketing cooperatives for three days and two ends, and you don't marry a daughter-in-law to live?" ”

Xu Qiang also smiled, took off the gloves and put them on the counter: "My brother is not married yet, what am I anxious about, I want to buy a coat, I can't stand the cold!" ”

"Cheng, the coat is over there, go over and see what you want."

Zhou Lili said as she walked over to the counter where the clothes were placed inside, and Xu Qiang also followed to look.

I saw a few coats hanging on the counter, some of them were tweed, some were cotton, some were dark blue, some were black, and the middle one was tweed, which looked warmer than the other two.

He stretched out his hand and pointed to it, "Look at that one." ”

Zhou Lili took a bamboo pole and picked off the clothes and put them on the counter to show him, while saying:

"This is a tweed-faced coat, and the inside is a black dog with fur outside the gate, and it is warm to wear, but it has a lot of money."

Xu Qiang touched the inside of the hair, and sure enough, his hands were cold at all, and he didn't understand anything else, but there were no fakes in these years, saying that the black dog skin was the black dog skin.

"Okay, that's it, how much does it cost? I want two, or my brother will snatch it before I get back this one. ”

"Hey, it's really magnanimous, one eleven, two twenty-two."

Zhou Lili lowered her head to invoice him while talking, and waited for Xu Qiang to pay the money and wrap her clothes.

"Well, I'm wearing this!"

Xu Qiang was not polite, he directly took one and wore it on his body, went to look at the big mirror on the counter next to him, thick eyebrows, big eyes and high nose bridge, he had just shaved his beard and trimmed his face, his skin was white with a hint of red (mainly frozen), plus he was 1.8 meters tall, he was a handsome good guy.

"Don't forget the Sunday dinner!"

Zhou Lili couldn't help but smile when she saw Xu Qiang looking in the mirror, and reminded her by the way.

Xu Qiang removed the mirror, buttoned up the tweed coat, picked up another one on the counter, and nodded to Zhou Lili while leaving the supply and marketing cooperative.

Sure enough, as soon as the tweed coat was worn, the cold wind outside could not enter the body, it was much warmer than just now, and it was already afternoon when I returned to the courtyard.

As soon as I entered the front yard, I saw the three masters wiping the bicycle at the door, and the three masters bought the bicycle the year before last.

The money alone cost a small 200, not to mention a bicycle ticket!

Later, everyone went in and out to borrow bicycles from the three masters, and the three masters were not ambiguous, that is, it cost two cents to use once, not only for outsiders to use, but also for solving it.

"Oh, three masters, what about your maintenance bike!"

Xu Qiang talked to the three masters while pushing the bicycle inside, and the three masters looked up and saw that it was Xu Qiang, smiled and answered and prepared to continue wiping the car, but as soon as he lowered his head and stared at Xu Qiang, he stared at Xu Qiang:

"Hadron, is this a tweed coat?"

As the third master spoke, he put down the rag in his hand and got up and came to Xu Qiang's side, reaching out to touch Xu Qiang's coat.

However, remembering that he had just wiped the bicycle with a rag in his hand, he quickly took out a handkerchief from his trouser pocket and wiped his hands carefully, so he smiled and touched Xu Qiang's tweed coat.

"Oh, it's really a tweed coat, it's still hairy here, and it's warm to wear, right?"

The third master looked envious, this one is estimated to cost more than ten yuan, but he is reluctant to buy it.

"The three masters have good eyesight, this is the fur of the black dog outside the gate, blocking the wind, eleven yuan a piece."

Xu Qiang deliberately showed off in front of the three masters, and at the end he patted the bag hanging on the handlebar: "There is another one here, I bought it for my brother, and I went to the countryside to wear it warmly." ”

"Hey, this is good, this is good, your brothers have such a good relationship!"

The third master looked envious, thinking that if he could wear such a piece, it would be considered a face.