Banggeng breathed a sigh of relief; thankfully, they weren't talking about him anymore.
He doesn't gamble...
Li Ping's experience is similar to that of a modern-day "brother-supporting demon" (a woman who prioritizes her brother's well-being over his own). The word "brother" is a homophone for "older brother," so the meaning is essentially the same.
Her brother gambles all the time, and when he loses, he comes back and asks her and her sister-in-law for money.
Her sister-in-law wouldn't give her money, so she beat her; Li Ping followed You Fengxia because she was rich and You Fengxia was very generous in giving her money.
But this is strange. Logically speaking, since Li Ping's brother is in this state, shouldn't she and her sister-in-law be on the same side?
But what happened today?
Li Ping, her face flushed, explained, "She looks down on me, thinks my money is all dirty. She called me a slut and a 'paper woman'." (The implication is clear!)
Bang Geng thought to himself, "So that's how it is."
After a satisfying meal, Bang Geng was wondering where to go next when Yan Jiecheng came over with the bill: "Bang Geng, are you here to eat with your girlfriend?"
That "girlfriend" was so perfectly delivered, it made me incredibly happy.
The key point is that Li Ping didn't refute it; she just sat there sipping her tea.
Yan Jiecheng tapped his finger twice on the menu: "It's 11.06 yuan in total. I'll give you a 1 mao discount, so you can give me 11.5 yuan."
Goodness, the last time I ate at Qilige with Gangzi, it only cost 12 yuan, and that was for 4 people;
The two of them only spent 11.5 yuan on this meal. How much can they eat?
Banggeng, who had money in his pocket, paid the bill very generously, leaving Yan Jiecheng completely bewildered.
When he got up, Banggeng tentatively reached for Li Ping's hand again, and she didn't resist, which made Banggeng even happier.
Of course Li Ping didn't resist. Where else could she find such a fool who would fawn over her so desperately?
This is the kind of thing that's done to please people, like spending only 11.5 yuan on a meal.
As soon as Banggeng led his "girlfriend" out, Yan Jiecheng couldn't wait to go to the kitchen to find Shazhu: "Hey, this is really strange, this kid has really struck it rich, he paid the bill without even frowning!"
Sha Zhu put down the large ladle and muttered, "This kid wouldn't have broken in and picked the lock again, would he?"
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At noon, Qin Jingru hummed a song, carrying a bag of braised food, and walked briskly home.
Xu Xiyue has already finished school and is waiting at home for her to cook.
Qin Jingru heated up the rice, poured the braised dishes into a plate, looked at them and thought they were too dry, so she said to her daughter, "Xiyue, go buy two bottles of soda."
As soon as Xu Xiyue heard that there was soda to drink, she ran to the chest of drawers with her short legs, moved a small stool, stood on it, and took the money.
As soon as I took the box out, I was dumbfounded.
Seeing that she hadn't moved for a while, Qin Jingru assumed she wanted to buy snacks again and was planning to bargain with her.
Before she could say "No snacks allowed," Xu Xiyue said, "Mom, there's no money left in this box."
What? The money's gone!
Qin Jingru rushed over and looked into her hand. The box was empty. Where was the money? Where was her money?
Xu Xiyue got off the stool and said, "When I came back from school at noon, I found that our door was unlocked, so I just pushed it open and came in."
"Impossible!" Qin Jingru remembered very clearly that she locked the door when she left home this morning!
She didn't pay attention when she came back, because Xu Xiyue had her own key, and she thought the girl opened the door.
Qin Jingru rushed to the door and immediately understood everything.
She hurriedly grabbed Xu Xiyue and ran into the yard, heading first to Liu Haizhong's house: "Second Uncle, something terrible has happened! Our house has been robbed!"
What? Qin Jingru's house was robbed.
Not to mention Uncle Er and his wife, even Liu Guangtian came along.
The second uncle, wearing glasses and looking quite respectable, first looked at the door frame, then went inside to look around, and asked Qin Jingru, "Is anything else missing from your house?"
Qin Jingru hadn't really looked closely, so she could only say, "I discovered the door had been pried open, so I came to you immediately."
After a thorough search of the house, Qin Jingru discovered that her radio was missing!
They just bought this last month, apparently because Chen Mengqi wanted to practice her English listening skills.
Unlike the 1990s, when Walkmans were all the rage and English textbooks came with two accompanying audio tapes, schools didn't care whether students had the equipment to play them at home!
No, can't you just buy it with your own money?
At this point, there are essentially two ways to practice listening comprehension: one is to try to get English audio tapes.
Listen to the recordings of textbooks, news articles, or review materials repeatedly to improve your English listening skills.
Another option is to listen to the radio.
Last year, in 1983, English was officially included as a subject in the college entrance examination.
To facilitate students' review, Beiping Radio Station specially launched an English broadcasting program.
The listening test questions back then heavily utilized content from radio programs.
Therefore, listening to the radio has become an important way to review listening skills.
After Chen Mengqi came back and told him, the fat man went and bought a radio without thinking.
The model number was "hx114". Driven by a competitive mentality that "if Fatty's family has it, my family must have it too", Xu Damao quickly followed suit and bought one as well.
Consider it a way to entertain Qin Jingru and Xu Xiyue, mother and daughter.
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As mentioned earlier, this model of radio is worth 120 yuan.
At that time, 120 yuan was equivalent to the modern yuan!
We all know that the threshold for filing a burglary case is only 1,000-3,000 yuan, while tens of thousands of yuan is already considered a large amount.
This time, it really came true what my second uncle said in 1965: "A thief has appeared in our courtyard, a big thief!"
Before long, Liu Guangtian had also summoned the eldest and third uncles.
The old man, who was quite composed, went inside and began searching for clues.
On the contrary, the third uncle, who couldn't keep a secret, asked anxiously, "Jingru, did you look carefully? Besides the money and the radio, is there anything else valuable that's missing from your house?"
Qin Jingru shook her head: "Nothing else is missing."
There was another half-sentence she didn't say: she didn't keep things like gold and silver jewelry, bankbooks, or deposit slips in the courtyard at all.
There was a safe in Xu Damao's factory manager's office, and Qin Jingru had already told him to put all these things in that safe.
Luckily it was put in the safe, otherwise it would have been really cheap today. Great job!
Qin Jingru was convinced that Bang Geng had stolen it from her, and she stormed out.
Seeing this, the eldest, second, and third uncles also quickly followed.
Qin Jingru was a very energetic person, and she walked quickly. Her leather shoes clicked as she walked a few steps and she arrived at Qin Huairu's door.
Then he kicked the door open, startling Qin Huairu and Jia Zhangshi, who were staring at each other in disbelief inside.
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