Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Gift
"You kids nowadays know how to play with your phone and laugh like something every day. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info" Lou Cheng's mother Qi Fang took the lead and walked to the unit where her sister Qi Yan's house was, and was reluctant to put down her mobile phone when Lou Cheng was in the car.
Lou Cheng carried wine, cigarettes, chickens, fish and other New Year's greeting items, but he didn't dare to reply, so he could only laugh dryly.
Fortunately, my mother has a generation gap with herself, and I didn't find out that this is a manifestation of "rape fever"!
As for whether it is hot to shave his head and burden, judging from Yan Zheke's performance and the interaction during this time, he vaguely feels that he belongs to "more than friends", and the lover is not yet full of that, so don't have the illusion, you are good at yourself, and you make mistakes, which ruins the good situation.
The revolution has not yet succeeded, and comrades still need to work hard!
"You don't understand, the younger generation now has online interpersonal interactions, just like we used to. "Lou Zhisheng is also a big bag.
"Why don't I understand? If I don't understand, can I just say two words? I watch TV, and some parents are really ruthless and irresponsible, sending their children to some Internet addiction treatment center. Qi Fang babbled, came to the third floor in a blink of an eye, and rang the doorbell.
For his aunt's family, for the small supermarket that their family has developed little by little from the grocery store, Lou Cheng has an unusually good impression, and he loved to play here when he was a child!
Every time she looked at a snack pitifully, Qi Yan, the little aunt with a knife mouth and a tofu heart, couldn't help but give it to herself, so that she who rarely had snacks due to family difficulties satisfied her appetite.
The door opened, Qi Yan, who was dressed in a white down jacket, took the things in Qi Fang's hand with a smile, glanced at Lou Cheng, and teased: "Chengzi, your mother is willing to let you do heavy work!"
Qi Yan and Qi Fang look six or seven points alike, but there are almost no crow's feet, and they look like they are in their early thirties, not nearly forty, and they are quite good at maintenance.
"It's not a kid anymore, of course I have to help carry things. Qi Fang skillfully changed her shoes and entered the house.
In junior high and high school, she felt sorry for Lou Cheng's hard study, and rarely let him do housework, even when visiting relatives and friends, the things she carried were definitely the lightest and least shared.
Lou Cheng raised the items in his hand, swung his muscles, and said with a smile: "I have a lot of strength now, these are all small meanings." ”
Talking and laughing, the family of three entered the house and saw Lou Cheng's grandparents and sister-in-law Chen Wenguo.
"Grandpa, grandma, uncle. Lou Cheng said hello one by one, and he regretted that he was not at his grandfather's house this time.
Although the uncle-in-law is considered a son-in-law, my grandfather and grandmother are just sixty, with a strong body and strong spirits, and they still live in their rural hometown, tending to a few acres of land, raising a few chickens, and are reluctant to leave the familiar environment and relatives and neighbors who have been with them for many years.
There, there is a small river at the door, the deepest part is only a little above the ankle, luckier, you can really catch a small fish, and further up, it is a reservoir, you can fish, along the mountain road, there are relatives contracted land, planting all kinds of fruit trees, next to the ditch, tadpoles looking for their mother, every year when they go to play during the holidays, Lou Cheng is like a wild horse that scatters joy.
However, in addition to his love, he is a little "afraid" of his grandfather's house, because there is only a dry toilet, and he always feels dirty and smelly, and he is not very happy to use it until he can't hold it back.
Lou Cheng's grandfather's face was ruddy, and he said with a full temperament:
"I don't say that I will come over to play for a few days during the holidays, I have to wait for the New Year, come and come, sit down, there are melon seeds, peanuts and gummies, and pick your favorite. ”
Lou Cheng wanted to say that he didn't love peanuts, gummies, or melon seeds, but looking at the eager and enthusiastic eyes of his grandfather and grandmother, he swallowed this sentence back into his stomach and ate a gummy candy.
Maybe because I am the first of the children, my grandparents are very fond of me.
And my grandfather didn't read much, it was a decathlon, the furniture here, the furniture of the old house in the countryside, he made it by himself, and he made a good cook, he could farm, raise chickens, fish, catch birds, and was his idol when he was a child.
The whole family sat down separately, chattered for a long time on the topic of Lou Cheng's college life, and only moved elsewhere after a while, so that Lou Cheng was free.
"Fei Fei and Xiaoxiao?" he asked his two cousins first.
The two girls are still in junior high school, one is in the third year of junior high school and the other is in the first year of junior high school, the older one is called Qi Yunfei, and the younger one is called Chen Xiaoxiao.
Aunt Qi Yan said angrily: "I don't know where to run early in the morning, I'm crazy, wait for noon, if you dare not come back to eat, discount your legs!"
Lou Cheng turned to the topic: "Auntie, where can I buy the original wine and Maojian green bud tea from Ningshui Distillery?"
"Don't we have it in the supermarket?" said the brother-in-law Chen Wenguo, who interjected suspiciously.
He and Lou Cheng's grandfather's family is a village, and he likes Qi Yan since he was a child, because he has an older brother at home, so he impressed his father-in-law and mother-in-law by being a son-in-law, and he is also diligent, and Qi Yan and his wife have worked hard in the county for many years, from part-time workers to grocery stores, from grocery stores to small supermarkets, bought a house, and paid off the loan.
Lou Cheng couldn't help but say: "Uncle, don't I know what the original wine and hairy green sprouts in your supermarket are?
Chen Wenguo laughed and said: "Don't look down on it, the original wine in our supermarket is also koji from Ningshui Distillery, plus the sorghum of the surrounding farmers, it tastes very good." ”
"Why do you ask these two? There are few ones that are sold out, and the ones on the market are either fake or shoddy, and they can't be real if they don't matter. Qi Yan asked suspiciously.
Lou Zhisheng and Qi Fang also looked at their son in surprise, not understanding why he asked this.
Lou Cheng said half-truthfully: "I have a friend who is going to pay New Year's greetings to his elders, and his elders went out from Ningshui, so he took a sip of the original wine and Maojian green buds of Ningshui Distillery, and I heard that I was going back to Ningshui, so I asked to see if I could buy it." ”
Directly said Director Xing, didn't that expose his shortcomings and scare his parents?
"It's okay, you can only rely on luck, and now it's the New Year, hey. Qi Yan was embarrassed.
At this time, Lou Cheng's grandfather Qi Jiayu said: "Yanzi, isn't that Deng Laosan a man with a wide range of people and can eat openly?
"Phew, that Deng Laosan's eyes are on the top of his head, every time we meet, I look like that, I can't wait to beat him, and he speaks in a weird way, why do I have nothing to do in front of him?" Qi Yan said angrily.
Lou Cheng also smiled: "Don't be so troublesome, anyway, it's just that a friend asked me to ask, it doesn't matter if I can't buy it." ”
"If you help Chengzi ask, you'll die!" Lou Cheng's grandmother, Kong Meizhen, gently twisted Qi Yan.
"Okay, okay, I'll ask, Chengzi, come with me, it's on the second floor. Qi Yan pouted.
Auntie is really a standard knife-mouthed tofu heart...... Lou Cheng got up with a secret smile and followed behind.
A few steps away, the two quickly went down the stairs and came to the door of Deng Laosan's house.
Qi Yan rang the doorbell and said angrily: "Chengzi, you wait a little longer, Deng Laosan doesn't speak very well, just think it's a mad dog barking at you." ”
"Uh-huh. After yesterday's incident, Lou Cheng felt that most of his recklessness and impulsiveness had been worn away.
After a while, the dark red door opened, and a man with thinning hair sighed: "Qi Yan, you have nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, what do you have to trouble brother?"
He brushed one side of his hair to the other to hide the blankness in the center, and there were several pimples on his face, and he seemed to be quite angry.
"Deng Laosan, didn't you say that you have a wide range of people, can you get the original wine and Maojian green buds from Ningshui Distillery?" Qi Yan was not polite.
Deng Laosan looked her and Lou Cheng up and down a few times, and said with a smile: "You also want to buy these two things? Is it necessary? Can your relatives and friends afford to give these two things? Why bother slapping a swollen face and becoming fat, wasting money and human favors." ”
"I'll just ask you if you can buy it, does it matter!" Qi Yan took a deep breath and said.
Lou Cheng only felt that his aunt was about to explode, so he hurriedly pulled her and smiled: "We asked for help." ”
Deng Laosan didn't let them enter the house, so he stood at the door and let out a long sigh: "Then I'll tell you the truth, I can get it, but I can't get it for you, these two things don't seem expensive, but they are priceless, they rely on relationships, understand, relationships, with my relationship, what I can get is limited, it's not enough for me to do favors myself, what do you have to do with me, how much money can I give, why should I be cheap for you?"
"Okay, okay!" Qi Yan was furious.
If you refuse, refuse it, why bother saying it so ugly, if there is no Lou Cheng to pull it, she may have to quarrel.
Lou Cheng didn't mean to buy it from Deng Laosan at a high price, which went against the original intention of the small gift, and when he returned home, Qi Yan complained in front of his mother like a cannon, and Deng Laosan said that there were sores on the top of his head and pus under his feet.
"Auntie, there's no way here, I don't know anyone in Ningshui, who else can I find?
If Wang Xu is still there, it is not difficult to get the original wine......
Except for Yan Zheke, who is in Jiangnan, among the other people he knows, it is estimated that Tao Xiaofei, Qin Rui and Dai Linfeng may have gotten ......
Lou Cheng was still a student, and there was no doubt that his social circle was dominated by classmates, so he walked to the balcony, called up the address book, and called Tao Xiaofei.
After the long ringing, Tao Xiaofei had a heavy nasal voice, and his sleepiness was obvious:
"Brother Lou, what are you looking for me?"
"Haven't gotten up yet?" Lou Cheng greeted first.
Tao Xiaofei smiled bitterly: "I didn't sleep until six o'clock." ”
"You're really young, not afraid of physical loss. Lou Cheng quipped and turned to the topic, "Do you know where to buy Ningshui Distillery's original wine and Maojian green buds?"
Tao Xiaofei said strangely: "Brother Lou, why are you asking this?"
"The previous matter was more troublesome Director Xing, I made an appointment to visit the New Year, thinking of getting something he liked. Lou Cheng said truthfully.
Tao Xiaofei laughed out loud when he heard this: "Brother Lou, you are the right person! You wait, I will bring it to you directly, are two bottles and two boxes enough?"
"Enough is enough, I'll give you the money when the time comes. Lou Cheng said happily.
"What is the relationship between the two of us, do you still need to talk about money? Hehe, don't hide it from you, my dad is also good, there are a lot of families, I plan to smuggle it to you, anyway, he is not bad, and he can get it when he goes back." Tao Xiaofei said with a grin.
Lou Cheng couldn't help laughing: "You're not afraid that Uncle Tao will beat you?"
"Don't be afraid, thick skin!And he wants to beat me every day!" When he said this, Tao Xiaofei was like a normal eighteen or nineteen-year-old young man, not a social person who had been in the bar for a long time, "By the way, Brother Lou, where are you, I'll bring it to you directly?"
"No need, I'm in Ningshui, you can just give it to me before the seventh day of the new year. Lou Cheng smiled.
Tao Xiaofei said: "Then I'll send it to you, it's only a matter of a few minutes, my mother is going to the South China Sea for the winter and the New Year, maybe I won't be in Xiushan when I don't know." ”
After explaining the address to him, Lou Cheng returned to the living room and chatted with his grandparents, aunts, and aunts.
Forty minutes later, his mobile phone rang, and Tao Xiaofei arrived.
While answering the phone, Lou Cheng walked out of the unit building, came to the door of the community, and saw the BMW 7 Series.
"Brother Lou!" Tao Xiaofei got out of the car, greeted him, and handed over the bag containing two bottles of original wine and two boxes of hairy green buds.
The original wine is poorly packaged, just like the small workshop next door.
"Don't look at it ugly, the less packaging it has, the more mellow it is. Tao Xiaofei said with a smile.
Lou Cheng looked at it twice, held it in his hand, and said sincerely: "I'm sorry for you." ”
"What's the trouble, it's easy. Tao Xiaofei said briskly, "We are old classmates." ”
Speaking of this, he tapped his lips:
"I'm not trying you to help me fight, after seeing that scene yesterday, I really, really got a big shock, I don't like to find excitement like I used to dance, I'm a good guy in the bar, last night, someone robbed my favorite girl last night, I didn't say anything? Love to rob, anyway, it's not my daughter-in-law and my girlfriend, there will be a lack of girls in the field? Why bother to be angry for this, fight for this?"
Lou Cheng glanced at him unexpectedly: "It's good that you have this awareness, your family has money and connections, if you lose yourself for the sake of fighting for a girl in a bar, isn't it a big wrong?
Tao Xiaofei nodded solemnly: "People, life is the most important thing, and life can be enjoyed." ”
"Haha, you're like this, seventy or eighty. Lou Cheng quipped.
Tao Xiaofei returned to normal, and said with a smile: "Brother Lou, I don't ask you for anything, with your current strength and current age, you may be a famous master on TV in the future, don't pretend you don't know me at that time, let me brag to my friends, look! That Lou Daxia and I grilled skewers last night, and we had a small friendship!"
"No problem, hehe, you speak so nicely. Lou Cheng agreed with a smile.
Seeing Tao Xiaofei drive away, he first told Yan Zheke about it with a smile, and then returned to his aunt's house with his things briskly.
When he was about to reach the door, he heard Deng Laosan's voice coming from inside.
"Okay, you give a word! This is your luck, I just have a friend who didn't give a gift, thinking about converting it into money, a bottle of original wine is eight hundred, a box of Maojian green shoots is one thousand two, a total of two thousand, do you want it, in a word!"
"Let me tell you, it's a lot more expensive than normal, but I guarantee it's true, after this village, there will be no more this shop! What does it matter to your family? If you don't rely on luck, you won't be able to get it in this life!"
Lou Cheng smiled dumbly and pushed open the hidden doorway:
"No, I've got it. ”
Qi Fang, Qi Yan and the others all looked at each other, and their faces were surprised.
Chengzi answered the phone, went out for about ten minutes, and got it?
"Did you get it? Is it fake?" Deng Laosan's face sank, and he walked to Lou Cheng's side, regardless of whether others wanted it or not, he took the bag quite recklessly, flipped through it carefully, and then fell into silence.
After a moment, he wondered, "How much did you spend on it?"
Lou Cheng smiled and said:
"It didn't cost anything, someone else gave it. ”