Small Shop Owner in the 1960s

Chapter 88

Lin Qingbai stared at Lin Qingsong and shrank his staring neck.

Looking at Li Wan again, "You don't know." After a brief comment, I didn't intend to continue this topic.

Li Wan choked, her gentle face was a little helpless, and she sighed, "Qingbai, this place is for her own freedom, but your father has always wanted you to go back to the capital. And some of your uncles and uncles also have people of the right age at home. Object..."

"Auntie, you are here this time to pick up Qingsong. This kid is really bad lately and should have gone back long ago."

Before Li Wan finished speaking, Lin Qingbai directly pushed Lin Qingsong out. There was a smile on his face, and there was no sign of displeasure.

Seeing Lin Qingbai like this, Li Wan didn't say anything, she smiled, "In addition to picking up Qingsong, I am also going to stay here with Li Shu and Aunt Li for a while, after all, they rarely come back once."

Lin Qingsong answered the conversation this time, "Are you looking for relatives? Do you want me to help."

The two elders of the Li family glanced at each other, but they didn't speak.

Li Wan smiled, "You don't need to worry about this."

Lin Qingsong curled his lips.

After a meal, there is no taste.

After all, Li Wan is a family member of a military officer from the capital, and she is a teacher in the art troupe, and she has a rank, so the county party committee arranged a small two-room temporary residence.

After Lin Qingbai sent the person back to the residence, he left directly. Lin Qingsong stayed behind to speak with the two elders of the Li family.

His father did not love his mother or his mother since he was a child. The two elders brought him up, and he was no different from his grandparents.

Aunt Li looked at the children she brought up, "They are all thin, staying at home well, so I will come out. Nowhere is better than home."

"Where did I get thinner, I have been eating and drinking all day, and it's a mess." He exaggerated.

"A liar, we live in the compound, and we haven't been so horrible, can you still be horrified in this place?" Aunt Li said with a look of disbelief.

It is the Chinese cabbage at home, which they grow in the yard. Otherwise, there is not enough food in the cafeteria. Don't look at the official head of Lin's head, the normal supply is just about food and clothing. There is not much meat. To eat meat, you have to think differently. Chief Lin usually doesn't care about his family, and always runs around. Xiaowan doesn't dare to walk outside, worrying about discrediting people, and the food at home is not as good as when he was the landlord.

Aunt Li was sighing, and Li Wan came over with the tea cup. He was still wearing a military uniform. Lin Qingsong felt hot when she looked at it.

Li Wan frowned as she looked at her son's dignity, but still resisted not teaching him, "What is going on with your brother's object, when was it on, and to what extent?"

A series of questions came over, all about Lin Qingbai, Lin Qingsong suddenly became a little unhappy, "You ask my brother to go."

Who knows when he was on the job, he had known that he would have been...cough cough, as to how much... people are sticky every day, how much more can they be, just to get married, he listened to the supply and marketing agency. His brother made a big pork leg a while ago, and people asked him if it tasted good, bah, he didn't even see a pig hair. Who did it for? He didn't doubt that he had no doubt that if Yu Guan reached his age, his brother would definitely get the marriage certificate right away.

"Qingsong, why do you talk to your mother like this?" Uncle Li worried. Xiaowan is such a son, how can she not kiss her.

Lin Qingsong is still very patient with the two elders, "This is my brother’s business, and I’m not too good to say. Let her ask my brother if it’s good. Anyway, she has cared about my brother the most since she was a child, so why not go now? Do you care?"

Li Wanqi's heart fluctuates.

"Xiaowan, don't be angry, this kid has been this temperament since he was a child." Aunt Li hurriedly persuaded.

"He is digging my heart." Li Wan flushed her eyes.

I have been thinking about this child all my life, and I want him to live well since he was a child. Have a great time. He was used to everything, but in the end he didn't care about him anymore. Didn't he know that he was unstable and worried that he would not be able to live in the army when he was not allowed to join the army? The result is still hateful.

There is also Qingbai, this time obviously more rusty than before. She is all for this family, for these two children. Can't understand her painstaking efforts.

"Come on, I won't accompany you anymore, I still have to go to work." Lin Qingsong didn't see her crying, so he just got up and prepared to drive away. Anyway, his dad at home likes this tune.

Before Li Wan could speak, he went out without even turning his head.

The two elders of the Li family looked at Li Wan like this, a little worried.

But they are outsiders, what can they say? If this is the old society, Li Wan is the master, can they take care of the master's affairs? Li Wan is also raising them now, better than her daughters. They don't even know what to say.

Lin Qingsong was caught by his brother as soon as he left the door of the county party committee.

Seeing his brother's stern face, he shrank his neck, "Brother, I didn't say anything, really."

Lin Qingbai let go of him, "Don't let people know about Nannan. I don't want anyone to disturb her."

"I know I know. Don't worry." Lin Qingsong said quickly. As soon as he was in the restaurant, he saw that his brother didn't want to mention it, so naturally he didn't say a word.

"But brother, isn't the matter between you and Yu Gu, sooner or later, you always have to let the family know..."

Seeing Lin Qingbai's face was cold again, he dared not say anything. He hurriedly broke the topic again, "Listen to Xiao Zhu from the Mining Committee... Oh, Xiao Zhu is a good friend of Yu Gu, and he is like the two sisters. Xiao Zhu said that Yu Gu has sent a telegram back, and is coming back today. I guess it will be tomorrow. I'm going to work."

Look, I can tell you about it when I go to the mine.

Lin Qingbai's face finally loosened a little, "I see."

After talking, he left with his hands behind his back.

"If you have a daughter-in-law, forget your brother!"

After resting at home for a long time, Xu Nannan went to the post office to pick up the goods early the next morning, and followed the cart that pulled the goods back to the mine for work.

"Nannan, you came back quite early this time. What are you harvesting? The last time I went to harvest these things, I almost broke my legs." These things are not easy to harvest. No one grows these things. They are all fellow villagers. Go to the mountain to find it.

Xu Nannan smiled and said, "I also happened to meet it. I guess it won't be so good next year." Worried that Sister Liu will ask again, she broke the topic, "Right, how is the mine okay these days."

"It's all good. Didn't you suggest a way for the union to organize workers to exchange cloth tickets and industrial tickets? Now that the union is working, Chairman Liu wants to borrow you. We didn't agree with Section Chief Xiao. That's right. One more thing. Recently Director Xu’s house was making trouble. It seemed that Director Xu’s wife had borrowed their food stamps. It was not the end of the month, and they were also short of food at home. They were asked to return it, but Director Xu’s wife did not take it out. "

Hearing this news, Xu Nannan thought of what was going on. Xu Hong borrowed food stamps to invite dinner, but really had a problem with eating.

It seems that Lin Qingsong is not polite to this girl.

At noon, Xu Nannan followed Zhu Fang and Li Weiming for dinner in the cafeteria, and Lin Qingsong came over with a rice bowl. Looking at Xu Nannan with a smile, "Gu Gu, you finally came back from this business trip." His brother was not happy these past two days.

Zhu Fang smiled and said, "Oh, Instructor Lin, why do you care about Nan Nan so much." This Instructor Lin looked pretty good, and it would be nice to be really married to Nan Nan.

When Lin Qingsong heard this, his head was like a rattle, "It's nothing, don't I watch the mine workers get hot all day, thinking that Yu Gu's bitter tea will come back to relieve the heat."

How can people think that he and Yu Gu are side by side, if he wants to let his brother know, he still can't beat people.

Seeing Lin Qingsong's repulsive behavior, Zhu Fang thought he really didn't care about Nan Nan at all, and he looked like he was afraid of being misunderstood by others. This was disgusting Nan Nan, and he didn't even bother him immediately.

Lin Qingsong: "..."

Xu Nannan couldn't help laughing as he watched him deflated. He deliberately asked, "By the way, I heard that Director Xu's house is making trouble because of food stamps. Do you know about this?"

"Is there anything like this?" Lin Qingsong pretended to be confused, "I don't know, I'm busy lately, but I don't have time to care about these news."

"I know I know." Zhu Fang said immediately with a look of gossip, "I heard that Director Xu's wife borrowed the food coupons, and it seems to be used for inviting people to eat. Even the meat coupons have been used up."

"Cough cough cough cough..." Lin Qingsong choked suddenly, coughed, eased a little, and said, holding the rice bowl, "I'm going to clean the dishes."

Zhu Fang looked at him with a puzzled look, "What's wrong?"

Guilty conscience. Xu Nannan pursed his lips and smiled.

At this time, Xu Jiansheng was sitting in the single dormitory with a dark face.

In order to repay the food stamps that Li Jing lent, he took out all the food stamps he had left. Now it is useless to even go to the cafeteria to eat.

Li Jing carefully poured him a bowl of corn vegetable leaves. He made half a bowl of vegetable leaves for the other children.

Xu Jiansheng snorted, and Xu Hong and Li Jing shivered next to him.

"Old Xu, just for a while, the food stamps were issued at the beginning of this month, isn't it all right? It's not two days now." Li Jing persuaded in a low voice.

"Is this a food stamp matter? This is a face issue. Now the whole mine knows that Xu Jiansheng borrowed someone’s food stamp and did not return it. Am I young every month? Now people are laughing at me, even my wife and children. Can't feed it!"

Xu Jiansheng felt that he had never been so embarrassed in his life.

Since when, he has become more and more embarrassing. The girl changed her surname, the family lived in a single dormitory, the children were hungry, and they borrowed food stamps... How many jokes are there for people to talk about.

When people mention Xu Jiansheng, he is not saying that he used to be a military officer and retired, nor that he manages production well. Just talk about these messy things in his family.

"Li Jing, tell me what happened to our house. It wasn't very good before, so I've gotten to the point where it is today."

I used to raise five children, and they all came here. Meizi doesn't need to be burdened by the family anymore. With four children, it's getting worse and worse.

"This is not the girl Nan Nan's trouble, if it weren't for her, our house would be..."

"You still blame others for this. She is not our family anymore, and she is not in our family anymore, so why can you push things to others' heads!" Xu Jiansheng looked at her with a headache.

Li Jing reddened her eyes, "Why don't you blame her, any of these things have nothing to do with her."

Xu Jian's heart hurts angrily, and he suffocates his breath, "That's OK, I'll ask you, why is this food not enough?"

"If it weren't for the girl's troubles, wouldn't we be able to distribute more food in our hometown?"

Kang Dang——

Xu Jiansheng kicked over the small table. Fortunately, he was holding both the bowls and chopsticks, or else the lunch would be soaking. Xu Jiansheng's own bowls and chopsticks fell to the ground.

Li Jing was too scared to speak.

Xu Jian's face turned blue and stood up with an angry face, "The food I left this month, I save food at home, and I will definitely be able to eat it until the beginning of the month when my salary is paid. As a result, you have spent it before the end of the month, and you still owe it so much. Lots of food stamps. There are also meat stamps. Have we eaten meat?"

Li Jing's lips trembled, and she looked at Xu Hong. Xu Hong shook his head vigorously.

"What's wrong, I dare not say it? Okay, it doesn't matter if you don't say it. But in the future, you will not be able to control the money and food in this family. I will take how much food the family will eat in the future, and I will take the money and keep it in my home. I keep the food stamps!"

If Xu Ling hadn't told him, he wouldn't know that his family tightened their belts just to get the eldest niece to stick to the man. They didn't talk about such things, and he didn't bother to talk about it. Shame!

"Old Xu, I've been with you for so many years, and I've been in charge of the house. Aren't we good?" It's her protection to control the money and food of the family. This doesn't let her take care of it, isn't it killing her?

Xu Jian smiled angrily, "Okay? Where is it? The whole family is in a mess. If you want to make trouble again, you can go back to the country and go farming." Before, she was asked to take care of the children and the family. . Looking at it now, it seems that I can't take care of it.

After a big deal, I took the children to eat in the canteen.

When Xu Jiansheng said this, Li Jing didn't dare to say a word. If Xu Jiansheng really wants her to go back to the country, I'm afraid the old lady will agree with her with both hands. It's hard to think about going back to the city anymore.

Thinking of going back to be tortured by the old lady and going to work in the field, life is better than death if you think about it.

Xu Jiansheng strode out, and Xu Ling hurriedly followed out.

Xu Long looked at Li Jing's eyes with a bit of resentment. When his sister gave Wu Jiange food stamps, he was beaten and scolded by his aunt. I changed my sister Honghong, so I won't say anything. The eccentricity is like this, and it deserves to be taught by the uncle.

Regardless of the troubles at home, he turned around and went out to find Xu Meizi to eat. This half a bowl of squishy is not enough to fill your stomach.

Xu Lei also followed when he saw it, so as not to be in trouble.

As soon as the two children left, Li Jing wiped away tears and asked, "Hong Hong, how are you and the chief's son? Why didn't you see someone coming to you. Is this meal for nothing? But our rations for several days. And that meat ticket, our family hasn't eaten meat for a while."

Xu Hong came back that day and said that after eating the food stamps and meat stamps, she felt pain in the meat. But when I thought of being reluctant to let the child lay wolves, I could not eat anything when I became in-laws with the chief's family. Tighten the waistband and endure it.

In the end, there was no movement.

Xu Hong felt guilty when she heard Li Jing mention it.

After the last meal, Lin Qingsong kept avoiding her, saying why she shouldn't hurt her. She was Liu Hongjun's object, let people know, and then gossip. Lin Qingsong couldn't touch her, and Liu Hongjun ignored her. I went there several times, but I didn't look good. Now both sides are hanging. Naturally, she didn't dare to talk to Li Jing anymore, so she could only say, "He has been very busy lately, and it will be fine later. Auntie, isn't this the way things happen to this object? Take your time.

Li Jing sighed, "Hong Hong, I can count on you."

When Xu Hong went out, Li Jing looked at the empty house outside the door, and recalled how warm the family lived when he lived in the two small staff room. The children were so obedient, and the aunts screamed all day long. Said she was good. Why is it different now?

Xu Nannan just listened to the old Xu family's affairs, as if listening to other people's gossip, completely disregarded.

When I was about to get off work, there was another ding-ding sound in my head.

[Old Antique]: "Is that bottle on your side real?"

Xu Nannan couldn't help but feel a headache when he saw that he was still struggling with this problem. "Fake, not for sale, it looks good!"

[Old Antique]: "...Looking at the picture, the degree of imitation is very high."

Xu Nannan didn't want to discuss this issue with him, so he simply went offline, and when he opened his eyes, it was already time to get off work. Sister Liu was clearing her desk, and when she saw her opening her eyes, she smiled and said, "Are you tired from a business trip."

This is because she thought she was just sleeping. Xu Nannan blushed, and hurriedly packed his things and got ready to go.

Just out of the mine, I met Lin Qingsong. Seeing Xu Nannan, it was like seeing a family member, with bright eyes running over, "Yu Gueran."

He is not as annoying as before, and he is Lin Qingbai's younger brother. Xu Nannan didn't dislike him like before. He glanced at him, "What's the matter?"

"Hey, just talk to you. Don't get me wrong about Xu Hong's thing. She is related to Liu Hongjun. I happen to know Liu Hongjun. So we ate a meal. As for the next meal, others Kindness is difficult, don't you think?"

"It's none of my business."

"Of course it's your business, if you become a family in the future..."

Xu Nannan paused and squinted at him, "What are you talking nonsense?"

Lin Qingsong was stunned, this reaction...this is shy, right? "You and my brother..."

"Instructor Lin, please don't talk nonsense." Xu Nannan said hotly on his face. I thought she had something with Brother Lin.

The more I thought about it, the more I felt it was messy, Xu Nannan hurried forward, not planning to pay attention to Lin Qingsong's disregard. She and Brother Lin did nothing, neither said anything.

When I walked to the intersection of the county seat, I saw Lin Qingbai pushing the car by the side of the road and waiting. The sun hasn't set yet, and I don't know how long it has been here.

I don't know if it was the words Lin Qingsong said just now. Xu Nannan felt that seeing Brother Lin this time would be different from before. I always feel uncomfortable in my heart. The steps that have gone past are not much.

Lin Qingbai looked up and saw her coming, with a smile on her face, but she slightly pursed her lips when she saw her usual restraint.

"I met after a few days?" Lin Qingbai smiled.

"No..." Xu Nannan looked at him, not knowing what to say.

Lin Qingbai also noticed something was wrong, got in the car and said, "Come on."

Xu Nannan thought for a while and sat on it. It's just that this time I was a little far away from Lin Qingbai, and didn't grab his clothes like before.

Seeing Xu Nannan sitting down, Lin Qingbai bends his lips. Xiao Nizi is not at home these days, and after get off work every day, he feels that something is missing. Only now I know that this reception has become a habit. After a day, I always feel uncomfortable.

When the car moved, it felt much cooler. The wind was blowing, making me feel comfortable everywhere. I just feel that something is missing. Xiao Nizi didn't even speak.

In peacetime, Xu Nannan twittered and talked about different things, but she didn't say a word at this time. Lin Qingbai held the head of the car tightly. He didn't know what went wrong, it seemed that Xiao Nizi met for the last time before going on a business trip, and it started like this.

What's the matter? Do you have something on your mind or... do you have someone you like? !

Lin Qingbai's heart was confused. Thinking about this possibility, I felt quite uncomfortable. It feels impossible again. I came to pick it up every day, and I didn't see any suspicious people. Unless you met in the mine. I didn't listen to Qing Song. Or should I say that I just got acquainted and fell in love secretly in my heart, but the two have not touched yet?

Lin Qingbai was thinking wildly, so he listened to Xu Nannan, "Brother Lin, it's a hot day, otherwise you don't come to pick me up in the future."

"It's okay, anyway, I have nothing to do after get off work." Lin Qingbai said lightly.

"No, I think, is this inappropriate?"

Inappropriate? Why is it inappropriate? I'm afraid of being seen by others. I didn't think it was inappropriate before, but now I say it is inappropriate. Is it true that I am afraid of being seen by a **** man?

Lin Qingbai suddenly felt a little hot.

I stepped on it faster and faster.

When I was separated from usual, I had to say something different for a while. This time I got out of the car, and before Xu Nannan said goodbye, Lin Qingbai stepped heavily on the car and hurried away.

Xu Nannan had time to look at one of his backs and wondered, "What's wrong, don't I just say that I don't need to pick it up? Is this angry?"

Lin Qingsong just arrived in the courtyard of the county party committee and found his brother's bicycle parked in the courtyard.

This is really strange. How long has he been back in normal times, and his brother hasn't come back yet. He quickly ran down the road, opened the door, and saw his brother reading a book.

I came closer and saw that the book hasn't been opened yet.

"Brother, what's wrong with you, isn't it sent to the secretary? Why did you come back so late?"

Hearing Lin Qingsong's voice, Lin Qingbai came back to his senses and looked at Lin Qingsong sharply, "Have you been to the girl again recently?"

"No, how long have I been honest." At most I can chat with other people's girls, no way, people like to talk to him, can he refuse? Among the girls he had met, Yu Gu didn't like to chat with him.

Lin Qingbai looked at him for a long time before throwing the book on the table. There was a bang. It's not easy to ask Qingsong about this, so is it possible to ask Nannan? She must be embarrassed. Is it possible to leave it alone? No, the little Nizi is still so young, he can't help but stare at him, what if he is cheated? Just like the little policeman last time, everything looks good, but when you look closely, it doesn't look good anywhere. There is also Qingsong, which looks attractive, can you be a target? Can't!