Fang Caihe also stared at Jin Xiaoju's hand tightly and said, "I thought you all knew this rule, so I didn't come over to remind you." Otherwise, I would have told you a long time ago, the sooner you do this, the better, your economy will not be mobilized for a while, everyone does not blame you, and I will never go outside to publicize it. Also, Sister Xiaoju needs help when she arrives, and my Caihe didn't say a word. ”

Jin Xiaoju folded the quilt and seemed to be very moved and said: "Sister Caihe, we will do it immediately, we will do it immediately, since this meal is a reunion meal, it will definitely not disappoint everyone." ”

Fang Caihe walked out and turned back and instructed: "In this case, if you comrade Brother Guo discuss it again, tell me, and my mother and I can come over to help." And your quilt has also been refurbished, and it can be covered so badly like this? Otherwise, let me introduce you to the master who made the quilt and renovate it? ”

Jin Xiaoju shook her head resolutely and said, "I don't need this, it will be another month or two, and I won't need it as soon as the weather is warm." ”

Fang Caihe said dissatisfiedly: "It doesn't cost much to renovate it, you don't have it for a while, I'll pay for you first, people can't afford it if they freeze out, I'll make decisions for you." "Just leave.

Two days later, Fang Caihe really took Jin Xiaoju's quilt away, and Jin Xiaoju was not at home yet.

Xu Zhiguo went home, Xiaoju told her husband about Fang Caihe's reminder and the quilt to be renovated, Xu Zhiguo said a little unhappily: "This Fang Caihe, you will have less contact with her in the future, I think this woman is not a fuel-efficient lamp, don't be fooled." ”

Xiao Ju was dissatisfied with the man's bad words about others in such detail: "I told you that I expect you to solve these things, not to gossip, you are not as good as us women, control the general direction well, you must settle down in the next few days?" ”

Xu Zhiguo is not happy to be begged by others to do such a thing. But thinking about his wife's words, there is some truth in it, although he will not be said by others if he does not entertain others, but Fang Caihe is very difficult to say. So he said, "I'm going to borrow it today, and I've been able to borrow money, so we'll finish it tomorrow." And Fang Caihe has always been worried about renovating the quilt for his family.

Jin Xiaoju understands her man's temper, as long as Zhiguo says to do it, he will still do it.

Having a meal is not a trivial matter. After Xu Zhiguo borrowed the money, he had to plan the personnel arrangements of his neighbors. Each family first preliminarily determines one person to come down. In this way, there is less than a table, and a few more people need to be arranged to fill the seat, but this time you can't invite relatives and friends outside the big courtyard to come, and it will be a little embarrassing to invite everyone.

Jin Xiaoju said seriously: "I think Secretary Fang Rende's family should arrange two people first, after all, Fang Rende is our village cadre, not to mention the upper owner who sold the house to us, there is no reason not to arrange for two people from his family, and I can't say who has more family and who has one less." ”

Xu Zhiguo agreed: "This is also reasonable, let's take our time to line up, and if it feels more reasonable, we will arrange one more person, and if it is not necessary, it will be good." ”

Xiao Ju continued: "The difficulty is that we are all neighbors, and we should treat everyone equally, so that others will think that we are close to whom we are distant from others, but instead of the best policy." ”

Xu Zhiguo smiled and said: "You are not unreasonable, although we don't mean this, but it is completely possible for people to guess like this, but there is no way, it can't be served as smoothly and steadily as a bowl of water." Forget it, anyway, it's just a number, this time call one more from this family, and let another family come over next time. ”

Jin Xiaoju also felt that this was the only way, so Xu Zhiguo found paper and a pen, listed the list of neighbors one by one, and added a plus sign and name to his wife to show whoever added one, and his wife agreed with a casual glance. And so it was decided.

There are a total of eight families in the whole courtyard, in addition to Xu Zhiguo, there are seven households, Fang Rende's family arranges two people, and the rest has to add two places to come in. Fang Yunqing, Fang Benquan and Xu Zhiguo are neighbors, and the house is "glued" together, so Xu Zhiguo naturally arranged for one more person from their family to come over, and the time for the treat was set at 6 o'clock the next night.

Xu Zhiguo was responsible for buying wine and food, and he asked Jin Xiaoju to greet the neighbors one by one in advance.

At five o'clock in the evening, everyone happily went to Xu's house to catch up. The people were almost there, and I don't know who said, "Open the meal." ”

Everyone talked and laughed and poured the wine in turn down, and Fang Yunqing was the first to take the wine in the cup and raise his neck to drink it all. Everyone found out that no one from Fang Caihe's family had come over.

Fang Yunxin said: "Li Kemin is really right, eating a meal is also so slow, delaying our time, you wait for me, I'll call him." ”

After less than a quarter of an hour, Li Kemin was pushed and dragged into the Xu family by Fang Yunxin. A few quick-eyed neighbors came over and pressed him to the nearest stool near the door, shouting that he should be punished for drinking a few glasses of apology. Only Fang Yunqing and Fang Rende sat and did not move. Fang Rende smiled and said, "If you delay everyone's drinking time, you should be punished for drinking." Li Kemin said: "I haven't had a good cold recently, and I can't drink alcohol, so I will apologize to everyone by sharing cigarettes." ”

Fang Yunqing was afraid that Xu Zhiguo's wine would not be enough for these people to drink openly, Li Kemin himself first said that it was in line with his heart not to drink, so he was naturally eager to agree. Son Fang Qiuping motioned to his father with his eyes not to rush to express his opinion, Fang Yunqing would notice his son's eyes. Fang Benquan is Fang Yunqing's nephew, and now Fang Yunqing's opinion cannot be directly overturned, what he cares about is smoke, so he also agreed. Fang Benquan's wife, Bao Yumei, was also among the guests who should have attended the dinner in the evening, but she didn't bother to get together with the neighbors, so she excused herself and said that she was too busy to come. Fang Yunxin knew that Fang Ben was all about his uncle's face, so he had a pimple in his heart and said: "You know all about Yunqing's thoughts, don't you know my Yunxin?" He deliberately raised his voice and said: "Benquan, don't be in a hurry to express your opinion, none of us have spoken yet, besides, aren't there elders still sitting at this table, let's ask my uncle's opinion first." ”

Fang Rende was actually dissatisfied with Fang Yunqing's drinking behavior for a long time, and Fang Yunqing only cared about himself drinking and did not greet everyone, which was a manifestation of impoliteness. But he only hated it in his heart, and there was no trace of it outside, only to see him say: "Today is Zhiguo inviting us all to dinner, punishment or not, none of us say it counts, Zhiguo is the master, it should be decided by him, we are still guests as the host." ”

Fang Yunxing is the lone seedling of Fang Rende's brother Fang Renyi. Now I am sitting next to my uncle, and I also agree with the suggestion of the other party's Rende uncle. But due to some stuttering reasons, he usually doesn't like to talk much, but now he feels that no outsiders are involved, so he wants to say a few words. Just followed my uncle's words and said: If you want to be punished for drinking... Just by... Xu ··· Zhi Zhiguo··· It's up and down. Night···· Who's at night... Said... It's all... No... with. Fang Yunhai also expressed his appreciation for his father's suggestion: "Ke Min will definitely be punished for being late, and it is up to Brother Zhiguo to decide how to punish him." ”

Everyone is gossiping about this and that, and the messy opinions can't be unified, which is the best result for Li Kemin.

The pack of cigarettes in Li Kemin's pocket is almost bottoming out, and the neighbors at a table are still pushing cups and changing lamps, bustling and noisy, talking, laughing and laughing endlessly. At this time, Xu Zhiguo came over with a wine bowl to beat the Taiping: "Tonight, I will call everyone to have a light meal, one is that I Xu Zhiguo has just arrived in Guibao Land and needs to be taken care of by my neighbors and uncles; Second, my family has become a member of the Fang family's compound, and in the future, everyone in the courtyard will share blessings and hardships, and share life and death; Three, no matter who it is in the future, as long as there is a chance, you must not forget everyone, you will stick to him to benefit from the light, thank you. ”

Fang Yunxin said with red eyes: "Brother Zhiguo, you said very well and levelly, and said what everyone was thinking. Although the Fang family compound is surnamed Fang except for you, and you are also the descendants of the same ancestor, you are the same, you also have a share in the public treatment of the Fang family that you should enjoy here, and we will never bully a good neighbor like you. ”

Everyone was having a good time. At this time, Fang Caihe pushed her little daughter Pingping and walked over and stood at the door of Xu's house. The youngest daughter, Fang Pingping, was still sobbing and babbling, refusing to stop. Fang Caihe was greeting Li Kemin with his hand. Li Kemin turned his back to the door and didn't notice at all. Fang Yunhai tugged at the corner of Kemin's clothes and said, "Kemin, your wife is calling you." Kemin turned his head and saw their mother and daughter, so he came out and asked what was the matter? Fang Caihe rolled her eyes and said, "You eat and drink for nothing, enjoy big fish and meat, Ping'er at home has been crying all night, can't you take her with you?" ”

Li Kemin lowered his voice and said: "People have a treat, what are the children crying about, wait until I finish eating and go back." Fang Caihe said: "Kemin, you are in my Caihe family, our Fang family has never treated you badly, do you want to be content?" When Li Kemin heard this, he became a little impatient: "Caihe, what do you mean by saying such things now?" Let's wait until I get home, and don't make jokes at someone's doorstep. "Walk as you talk. Fang Caihe grabbed him, pushed Fang Pingping on top of him, and walked away angrily. Jin Xiaoju walked over with a smile, picked up Fang Pingping and sat on the table, helping her wipe her tears while coaxing. Fang Pingping was still sobbing, her nose was lifted and closed.

Xu Zhiguo drove his children upstairs and shut them up before the meal began, because he was afraid that a few children would make trouble in the kitchen. Xu Yuntao heard the sound of a child sobbing downstairs, so he asked his brother and sister whose child had entered his house? Yun Qin said, it must be Fang Caili, this stinky and shameless person, every time our family has something, she has to come over to make trouble. Sister Yunxiang said, it's not hers, the cry is so small, the child is not too big, she said that it seems to be Fang Pingping at the door of the stage. When Fang Yuntao heard this, he became indignant: "What kind of thing does her family have to eat?" It is so shameful to come to our house to eat, and if there is one more person to eat, we will have one less to eat. Yun Qin was a little more sensible after all: "If it's Pingping, she's so small that she can't eat much, so let her be." Yun Tao and Yun Xiang didn't dare to speak anymore.