You wouldn't believe it, it started rolling up as early as 1984.
Take the breakfast stalls at the alley entrance, for example. The one selling fried pork rind soup already has a line at 5 a.m.? The one selling wontons sets up shop at 4:30 a.m.!
The tea egg vendor doesn't arrive until 7:30. Everyone's at work by then, and those who aren't at work have already made their own at home. Who's going to eat them?
Fatty's family business is already quite large, but he still has to get up at 7 o'clock every day to get ready, make breakfast, and then wake Chen Mengqi up for school.
Yu Qian came to my house for a free meal before heading to the central courtyard.
Yu Li asked the fat man, "Where exactly did you arrange for Auntie to stay?"
The fat man chuckled and said, "A grand hotel, the Kempinski!"
What kind of shredded chicken?
It's no wonder Yu Li didn't know that the Kempinski Hotel wouldn't open in the Lufthansa Center until 1992.
Chen Mengqi, who was forcibly turned on, was clearly emotional: "My dad said 'ski,' and my mom said 'chicken shreds,' it was like we were talking past each other!"
Yu Li glared at her with an unfriendly expression: "What time is it? Hurry up and brush your teeth, wash your face, and go to the toilet!"
Chen Mengqi's eyebrows were furrowed together: "Even wine needs to breathe for a while after it's been opened, but once people are awake, they have to go to school immediately. It's so unfair."
Yu Li nearly choked on the congee with preserved egg and lean pork in her bowl with a "pfft" sound...
"..."
As soon as Sha Zhu saw Yu Qian, he said, "They're here, let's go now."
To everyone's surprise, Yu Qian actually started to hesitate: "Um, let's wait a little longer. Brother Zhu, you don't mind if I call one more person, do you?"
Sha Zhu was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly realized: "Little Dang..."
Yu Qian blushed and stopped him: "No, it's not Xiao Dang!"
Not Xiao Dang? Then who is it? Someone from this courtyard!
Sha Zhu was successfully intrigued by him, so he said to him, "Alright, it won't make a difference if you call him quickly."
Yu Qian excitedly walked towards...the other side!
Then, when they arrived at the three small rooms of Qin Huairu's house, not knowing which one belonged to Huaihua, they could only call out, "Jia Yi, Jia Yi!"
Jia Yi is the real name of Huaihua.
All three children in the Jia family have single-character names: Banggeng is Jia Geng, Xiaodang is Jia Dang, and Huaihua is also a single-character name. However, everyone is so used to calling her Xiao Huaihua that they don't remember her real name.
Even Huaihua herself, when she suddenly heard someone calling her name in the courtyard, her first reaction was not to answer, but "Damn, I've been discovered!"
Once she heard Yu Qian's voice clearly, she opened the door with delight and asked with a look of surprise, "Why are you here?"
Huaihua had just finished washing her face and had only combed half of her hair. She was so happy that she suddenly realized the problem—had Yu Qian seen everything?
She quickly raised her hand to cover her face again, saying as she dodged, "Wait a minute..."
But to everyone's surprise, Yu Qian leaned closer and asked, "What happened to your face?"
Huaihua's hand was forcefully pulled away, and the two stared at each other. Just as she was so embarrassed that she wished she could disappear into the ground, she heard Yu Qian say, "You're doing great, you're quite pretty!"
He...he complimented me on my looks?
Huaihua's heart instantly brightened, and she became as radiant as a lotus emerging from clear water. She asked him with delight, "Did you come here specifically to see me?"
Yu Qian, however, acted like a straight man: "No, it's because Brother Zhu's family is going to the Summer Palace, and I'm driving. I thought you probably haven't been there either, so I came to ask if you were free today?"
Of course I'm free! Let's skip the B shift today. The factory can't even pay this month's wages, why would we go?
Huaihua hurriedly said, "I'm free, I'm free, just wait for me a moment."
After saying that, he couldn't wait to go back into the small room.
Yu Qian's actions left Sha Zhu completely dumbfounded!
Hey...you little brat, instead of looking for Xiao Dang, you're looking for her sister?
And the two of them seem to know each other quite well, they obviously have a relationship.
Sha Zhu turned to look at Xiao Dang in surprise, only to find that his daughter also had a surprised expression on her face.
Sha Zhu asked her, "Huaihua, him, and you, what's going on between the three of you?"
Xiao Dang was confused: "I don't know, and we don't have any issues..."
Well, it's pointless to ask. Xiao Dang is a great girl in every way, except when it comes to relationships, she's like a blank sheet of paper.
This doesn't mean she's never been in a relationship, but rather that Xiao Dang seems to be missing a screw!
Take someone you know as an example: Fatty's sister-in-law, Yu Haitang, is a hopeless romantic and has already been divorced twice.
But Xiao Dang, six of his seven orifices are open, but the last one is still completely blocked!
However, what Sha Zhu didn't know was that Xiao Dang, whom everyone thought was carefree and indifferent to romantic relationships, was actually feeling inexplicably sad at this moment.
She's neither stupid nor foolish, so how could she be without feelings?
She just hasn't decided yet whether or not to accept Yu Qian.
That might sound a bit pretentious, but to put it bluntly, she lacks a sense of security.
The problems she faced back then left her with severe psychological trauma.
Just like what the fat man said when he was pursuing Yu Li: "If a person is so calculating even in marriage, then he's really pathetic!"
Xiao Dang is in this situation now. She can't rely on her relatives. Even her own mother is scheming against her. She would rather send her to the countryside when she is 14 years old than send Bang Geng who is already 20 years old!
Later, he even went so far as to try to sell her to an old and ugly man for a dowry of 1,500 yuan.
It was these experiences that made Xiao Dang hesitant to trust others.
Over the years, the only people she could truly trust, besides her mentally challenged father, Fatty, and Yu Li, were Huaihua.
But why locust flowers? Why specifically locust flowers...?
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Yu Qian's van has a lot of capacity.
Later, people often said not to easily provoke people driving vans, because you never know how many people will get out of that van, what kind of weapons they will have, or how they will gang up on you!
Sitting in the passenger seat, Huaihua was curious about everything, just like Yu Qian's mother many years ago when she rode in a jeep for the first time.
The Sha Zhu family, on the other hand, are all worldly-wise.
Sha Zhu was still chatting with Yu Qian: "How much does this car cost?"
Yu Qian, focused on the road, replied without turning his head, "My boss said it's over 30,000 yuan!"
"No, who is your boss?"
"Sister Chen Yan, that's what everyone calls her in our area."
Sha Zhu gasped in shock and couldn't help but say to Qian, "So that's why Fatty turned over a new leaf. Goodness, the gang was still around all along. They just turned into your moving company!"
Yu Qian's lips twitched as he listened, and his hand trembled, causing the van to start twirling like a folk dance on the road.
Huaihua screamed in fright, Ran Qiuye turned pale with fright, but He Sui, the fool, found it exciting!
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