After a while, Huang Eryuan finally returned.
Yeah, he came back empty-handed, head down. No need to ask, he obviously didn't have any stock.
Ignoring his sadness, Chen Zhaodi urged him desperately, "Hurry up and wash your hands and eat. We've been waiting for you. The food is getting cold."
Huang Eryuan felt like the sky was falling. He was so upset, and his wife hadn't even offered a single word of comfort!
It's faded, it's faded after all. So many years of feelings, gone just like that. Huang Eryuan stared at Chen Zhaodi with a look of resentment, as if he had ultimately given his heart to the wrong person.
Chen Zhaodi was speechless under his gaze, thinking that men were just pretentious.
He was so upset that he could barely eat, so he reluctantly comforted her, "Alright, alright, it's not a big deal. I'll go with you to take a look tomorrow, okay?"
"We'll try to buy the bicycles as soon as they arrive! Let's eat!"
Huang Jianguo and Huang Qinqin found the food particularly appealing today, so they didn't want to look up at all.
Huang Qinqin was afraid that if she looked up and saw her father's mournful appearance, she wouldn't be able to eat. Just hearing him, a grown man, acting coquettishly was enough to make her eyes water, let alone seeing him.
In the past two years, I don't know if it's because I'm getting older or what, but I occasionally see these scenes of tough guys acting cute, and I feel uncomfortable no matter how many times I see it.
My mom is truly skilled; she can keep a straight face.
As for her two older brothers saying that their father learned to act cute from them, Huang Qinqin said that's absolutely impossible! Her acting cute isn't that cringeworthy!
Huang Qinqin quickly ate the rice in her bowl, put down her chopsticks, and said, "I'm full. Dad, Mom, Big Brother, you can continue eating. I'm going back to my room now!"
After saying that, she ran back to her room as if a dog was chasing her.
Huang Eryuan asked Chen Zhaodi curiously, "What's wrong, girl? You're full so quickly. Are you feeling unwell?"
Chen Zhaodi: ...Don't you even know why our daughter is full so quickly...?
"It's alright. She's probably not very hungry. If your daughter isn't eating, you should eat more."
......
A few days passed in the blink of an eye.
We had arranged to have dinner at Xu Junhui's house on our day off, and Chen Zhaodi had prepared everything well in advance.
I went to the market early this morning and bought a pound of meat and a few pounds of ribs.
It wasn't that Chen Zhaodi didn't want to buy more meat, but she simply couldn't compete with the others.
I don't know if it's because the time for going to the countryside is getting closer, but there have been a lot of weddings lately.
This has led to a recent shortage of meat and sugar. Because regardless of whether a banquet is being held or not, people will inevitably need to buy some meat when visiting someone's home.
Needless to say, candy is a must-buy. With a marriage certificate, you can buy two pounds of candy for free, and no newlywed couple would refuse to buy it.
Such good things don't happen every day. If we use them sparingly, we can save these candies to entertain guests during the Chinese New Year.
Sure enough, Chen Zhaodi sent Huang Eryuan out to buy meat at around 5 a.m. They only managed to get a pound of meat, and it was all lean meat.
But it's better than not being able to buy it at all.
Xu Junhui had originally planned to pick them up today, but Huang Qinqin thought about it and declined.
Since there's only one bicycle and so many of them, it's not a good idea how to arrange things. It would be better for the whole family to walk there slowly.
Yes, several days have passed, and the supply and marketing cooperative still hasn't received any bicycles.
After going for several days in a row, Huang Eryuan finally accepted the reality. He didn't go back yesterday.
Huang Eryuan: (T^T)(T^T) A man's pain is in his heart! No one understands his sorrow!
So, with only one bicycle, it was actually more convenient for them to walk there.
Huang Qinqin recalled the shock she felt when she saw Xu Junhui's house last time, and thought she should give them a heads-up.
"Ahem, well, Mom and Dad, my older brother and second older brother, Junhui's family is quite big, so don't be too surprised when the time comes."
Chen Zhaodi dismissed it, calmly saying, "What's so surprising? How big can it be?"
"Besides, what kind of situation haven't I seen?"
Huang Qinqin watched their dumbfounded expressions while secretly chuckling to herself.
See? You didn't believe her, but now you're stunned. (*ˉ︶ˉ*)
Then Chen Zhaodi asked the same question as Huang Qinqin: "This, such a big courtyard, is it just your family living here?"
"Yes, it's just our family living here."
Huang Eryuan thought this was too outrageous. Were all the dormitories assigned by the Public Security Bureau this big?!
"This is not an assigned dormitory; this house belongs to us."
It turns out that Huang Eryuan had unconsciously spoken his true feelings.
Upon hearing this, Xu Weiguo explained, "Before I was discharged from the army, I had performed meritorious service. However, due to the severity of my injuries, I had to be discharged and transferred to civilian work. The army said they could give me a reward and asked me what I wanted."
"At the time, I was thinking that waiting for the company to assign a dormitory might take a long time, and even if they did, it probably wouldn't be very big. So I just asked if they could give me a house, and then the company wouldn't have to assign me one."
So, this huge house actually belongs to the Xu family!
Chen Zhaodi suddenly felt that her daughter seemed to be marrying above her station. Given their family's circumstances, she could probably find a partner easily.
Seeing that the Huang family seemed a little uncomfortable upon learning that the house belonged to them, Xu Weiguo awkwardly touched his nose.
Changing the subject, she asked, "By the way, does Qinqin still not have a job?"
"Yes, it's so hard to find a job these days. If it weren't for the steel mill hiring this year, neither of my sons would be working."
Huang Eryuan also felt a headache when talking about work. In fact, given that both of them were employed, they should have been able to save up enough money a few years ago to buy them jobs.
However, seven or eight years ago, Huang Eryuan's eldest brother's eldest son, Huang Jiancai, got into trouble.
When Huang Jiancai got engaged, in order to save money, he planned to go up the mountain to see if he could hunt pheasants or catch some rabbits to use at the wedding banquet.
Unfortunately, they encountered a wild boar. Huang Jiancai had gone there with two other people from the same village.
The three young people were all planning to get married at the end of the year, and on a whim, they decided to go hunting in the mountains together.
They didn't think there would be any danger, after all, they had lived in the village for so many years and had never heard of any wild beasts.
Who would have thought they'd be so unlucky as to encounter a wild boar? Lacking experience, they ran as fast as they could when they saw the boar coming.
In the end, Huang Jiancai and one of the others, one had his leg broken by a wild boar, and the other had his hand broken by a wild boar.
The remaining person was trampled in the chest by a wild boar. Although they carried him down the mountain as quickly as possible, they were also injured.
By the time they returned to the village, the man was barely breathing.
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