Chapter 140 Chapter 140 We are truly a match made in heaven! …
"What do you mean 20,000 yuan? You want to buy a house?"
Lu Chongfeng looked at Liang Xin curiously as she walked over after hanging up the phone, "Buy Jiang Jing's house?"
"Qian Shuyao wants to sell the facade of Jiangjing Bakery."
Liang Xin sat down, "Do you have any objections?"
"You're kidding. I always support my wife in everything she does. I've never had any objections!"
Lu Chongfeng said: "I'm just curious, I've never heard that shops can be sold privately."
"Most of the shops are public housing, and there is no demand for them even though they are priced high. Even if someone wants to sell them, few people would dare to buy them at such a high price."
Liang Xin opened the pull ring of Jianlibao and helped Dudu pour it into the enamel pot. "The price of twenty or thirty thousand is not two or three thousand."
"Do we have twenty thousand dollars?"
Lu Chongfeng handed in his salary on time every month, and Liang Xin had the final say on how to spend it. He never asked and didn't know how much savings the family had.
"Let's do the math. It should be enough."
Liang Xin raised the enamel cup and said, "Let's not talk about this anymore. Let's eat the New Year's Eve dinner first. Cheers."
Dudu held up the enamel cup with both hands, raised it shakily, and said, "Cheers!"
Lu Chongfeng didn't think about it anymore. He raised Jianlibao and Liangxin and put them in front of his daughter's cup, clinking them lightly. "Happy New Year's Eve. Dudu has grown one year older. Our family can spend the New Year together in peace and security again. Cheers!"
"You're the only one with too many lines."
Liang Xin smiled and took a sip of the drink, put down the cup, picked up the tender yellow croaker meat and put it into Dudu's bowl. Lu Chongfeng also picked up the nine-turn large intestine and put it into her bowl.
Then he held the bowl, looking as if waiting for Liang Xin to pick some food for him.
Liang Xin raised the corner of her mouth and helped him pick up some crystal braised pork, and also picked up some braised pork with fermented dried vegetables for him.
"I have more than my daughter, and more than you."
Lu Chongfeng's expression changed to satisfaction. He picked up the crystal braised pork, dipped it in rice vinegar and ate it in one bite. "Delicious, fragrant!"
"Mom, I want to eat braised pork, too."
Liang Xin picked up two slices for her daughter and started eating herself.
The color TV was playing the news broadcast. Although the family of three was not large, it was warm and lively.
Before the New Year’s Eve dinner was over, the cadres’ families who wanted to watch the Spring Festival Gala arrived one after another.
Liang Xin asked everyone to sit down and continue eating eight-treasure rice pudding and spring rolls without being disturbed, occasionally chatting with the family members sitting on the sofas.
Dudu saw his kindergarten classmates and friends coming and gradually became restless, "Mom, I'm full."
Liang Xin took out a handkerchief and wiped Dudu's mouth. "Go play. Share the melon seeds on the coffee table with the other kids."
After eating, Lu Chongfeng put down his chopsticks, piled up the dishes and took them to the kitchen, then washed the rag and wiped the table.
The family members in the living room did not discuss it, but they all pushed the cadres around them and signaled them to look at Lu Chongfeng.
Liang Xin took in the whole scene and went to get a dish cover to cover the dish. "Anyone want some tea?"
Most people who came to watch the Spring Festival Gala brought thermoses and enamel teacups. Some only asked for water, and no one came over specifically to drink tea.
Liang Xin had finished cleaning up the dishes and Lu Chongfeng had finished washing the bowls when they heard the family members shouting, "Liang Xin, the Liangxin instant noodles ad is out again!"
The Conscience Instant Noodles advertisement has never been off the air since it was first aired before 8 o’clock.
Although the Spring Festival Gala is only held on New Year's Eve, 8pm is also CCTV's prime time. It may not be as good as the 7pm News Broadcast, but it's not much worse.
It's CCTV after all.
When Liang Xin followed Lu Chongfeng to the living room, she just saw half of the new advertisement shot by Lu Wei.
It is a scene of transition from the raw material fields and chicken farm of Jiangmen Farm to the pot, still highlighting the theme of conscience.
Lu Chongfeng said: "It's a pity that I didn't see the front."
Liang Xin comforted him, "It will be available tomorrow night, it's just premiered today."
Besides, New Year’s advertising is not the focus of this year’s promotion. The focus will be on the advertising after the development of high-quality braised eggs.
It was not the first time for the cadres' families to watch TV. Just like they usually went to watch an open-air movie, they brought their own benches and chairs, and deliberately left a space in the middle of the sofa.
Liang Xin handed the teacup to Lu Chongfeng and they sat on the sofa together.
"This year's Spring Festival Gala was held at the Beijing Workers' Stadium where our martial arts performance conference opened."
After hearing Liang Xin’s explanation, the cadres’ families seemed to feel more attuned and closer to the Spring Festival Gala.
Many old songs that became popular in the 1980s appeared in this year's Spring Festival Gala.
Such as "Night in the Naval Port", "The Girl from Alishan" and "Where the Peach Blossoms Bloom".
There is also a future comedian who is just starting out.
There are also several later generations who saw the deceased through news reports and then made their debut on the Spring Festival Gala.
Lu Chongfeng turned his head and looked at Liang Xin several times, "What's wrong?"
Liang Xin looked at him in confusion, "What's wrong?"
Lu Chongfeng: "You are not watching carefully, your mind is wandering."
Liang Xin: “…”
Suddenly I became sensitive to the point again.
"Maybe he was wondering if we have 20,000 yuan."
Lu Chongfeng was surprised: "I don't know how much money my family has, and you don't know either?"
Without waiting for Liang Xin to speak, Lu Chongfeng said happily: "We are really a perfect match!"
When the cadres' families in the living room heard the sudden noise behind them, they all turned around and looked at Lu Chongfeng.
Lu Chongfeng looked back with pride.
The living room was silent for a second.
The laughter continued.
But as Lu Chongfeng has never tired of showing off his good relationship with Liang Xin over the years, everyone has become accustomed to Deputy Commander Lu's personality and thoughts, and soon turned their attention to the wonderful Spring Festival Gala.
Liang Xin smiled and retracted her gaze, "After watching TV, go up and count them and you'll know."
"How about we go up now?" Lu Chongfeng said, "I see you are not interested in the Spring Festival Gala either."
"What nonsense are you talking about?"
Liang Xin lowered her voice and asked, "So many people come to our house to watch TV. Should we leave them on the first floor and go upstairs to sleep?"
"Look at you."
Lu Chongfeng also lowered his voice and said "tsk tsk" twice, "I said to go up there to count the money, who said to go up there to sleep."
"We are going up now. Tell me whether everyone will think so."
"...I definitely will."
Liang Xin chuckled, "Let's watch it first. I guess we won't have the chance to watch the Spring Festival Gala together like this in the future."
"Oh, right." Lu Chongfeng said, "I suddenly remembered that I don't have to go to the division to wish the soldiers a happy new year this year. Why didn't you go to the factory to wish them a happy new year?"
"We'll have a holiday on the 29th." Liang Xin said, "Most of the employees are family members. In the past, they would get off work on the afternoon of the 30th and then rush home to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner. It was hard work and they didn't have enough time. Another part of the martyrs' families have been allocated houses. They always eat in the cafeteria and can't reunite with their families at home. There is also a small number of employees. Jiangmen Farm is far away from their homes. Every year they have to rush off work to go back to celebrate the New Year. Everyone is so hardworking, so starting this year, we'll have a holiday on the 29th so that they can have a good rest and spend a reunion year."
"happiness."
Lu Chongfeng nodded in approval, "Director Liang is really a good director."
"You praise me every day. You praise me about everything. It's like you're drugging me."
Liang Xin raised her lips, "If I didn't have the willpower, I would be so overwhelmed by your praise that I would be at a loss."
"It's okay. We have plenty of compasses at home."
Lu Chongfeng pointed to the study and said, "If you really can't find the direction, I'll just hang one around your neck at any time."
Liang Xin glanced at him and looked at the skit "Mutton Kebabs" which was beginning to be performed on TV.
On New Year's Eve, the living room was filled with laughter all night long.
As the clock was about to strike midnight, the cadres' families in the living room left one after another and went home to set off firecrackers, cook dumplings and glutinous rice balls to welcome the arrival of the New Year.
Dudu had fallen asleep in his mother's arms a long time ago, but was woken up by the sound of firecrackers.
Liang Xin and Lu Chongfeng took the red envelopes and teased the baby so much that he couldn't open his eyes, and his little face kept pouting as if he wanted to get into his mother's arms.
Sister Ji also took out a red envelope from the room and gave it to Dudu.
Lu Chongfeng went to get a hot towel, wiped Dudu's face, washed his feet, and then carried him upstairs to sleep.
Dudu is growing very fast, and it is now very difficult for Liangxin to carry her upstairs.
We cooked some glutinous rice balls and dumplings, and Liang Xin and Lu Chongfeng ate a bowl each.
When Lu Chongfeng came out of the bathroom, he saw Liang Xin taking out an envelope and a stack of banknotes from the camphor wood box.
"Are you still counting money so late?"
"Divide it first, and you can leave directly the day after tomorrow."
Lu Chongfeng threw away the towel, went to see if his daughter had kicked off the quilt, walked to the sofa and sat down, picked up a few treasury bonds and looked at them, "Is it enough for 20,000?"
"It should be enough, but Yueji is giving birth now. I want to buy her a new necklace and a gold lock necklace for the baby."
Liang Xin sat cross-legged and said, "Let me report the details of our family's property."
"I dare not."
Lu Chongfeng quickly sat behind Liang Xin, taking the opportunity to let her sit cross-legged in his arms, and then said, "The leader is speaking, I'm listening."
Liang Xin smiled and said, "If you sit behind me, I won't be able to see your face."
"Can't you just not look at my face for a minute?"
Lu Chongfeng raised the corners of his lips, and also sat cross-legged opposite Liang Xin, "Look, put the ones you have counted on my side."
Liang Xin first picked up a passbook from the People's Bank of China. "This is all the money you saved from your salary. Before you were promoted to deputy division-level cadre, your monthly salary as a regiment commander plus military service allowance, as well as long-term honor allowance, minus a small amount of theater allowance and wartime food allowance, you could get 160 yuan per month. Before that, you were promoted to deputy regiment-level cadre. In the first few years, you saved less than 10,000 yuan, about 9,000 yuan."
"So much?" Lu Chongfeng was surprised: "We didn't eat, drink, or spend any money?"
"There are two of us, and we usually have simple daily expenses. A lot of fabrics and daily necessities were sent by my mother, so we didn't spend much money. Later, I went to college for four years, and I ate and lived at home, so I didn't spend much money. You ate in the cafeteria, and your clothes were all military uniforms. Apart from buying books, you didn't have any hobbies. I think you basically didn't touch the money."
Liang Xin said: "Most of the money you used to buy the gifts came from the rewards of the medals of honor and the extra royalties you earned."
Lu Chongfeng nodded, "We are really good at saving money. We saved nearly 10,000 before we were promoted to deputy division commander. Shouldn't we be able to save 10,000 later?"
"You have a long military service, so your subsidies and allowances are higher than others. We don't have elderly people, children, brothers or sisters who need help. Apart from eating, we basically don't spend much money, so we can save money."
Liang Xin turned to the next page of the passbook. "After you were promoted to deputy division-level cadre, we had Dudu, and we also hired Sister Ji. Although your salary increased by 40 yuan, you still have to spend money. The difference is not much compared to before. In the past three or four years, I have saved 8,800 yuan."
“It’s still a little short of 20,000.”
Lu Chongfeng picked up the money on the sofa and asked, "Anything else?"
Liang Xin slapped his hand away, "Of course I have, this is only the part you earned, now it's mine."
Lu Chongfeng put the passbook he had just taken out back into the pile of money. "What do you mean mine or yours? I gave you all the money, so it's all yours. Why are you keeping it separately?"
Liang Xin: "We just settled part of it, are you going to try to mess it up again?"
Lu Chongfeng silently took away the passbook.
Liang Xin leaned over to kiss him on the mouth, leaning forward to support herself in the pile of money. "Good boy."
Lu Chongfeng grabbed Liang Xin's neck and pressed her mouth against his to prevent her from moving back.
Liang Xin: “…”
After tasting them all, Lu Chongfeng let go and kissed her again, "Keep counting."
Liang Xin licked her lips.
Lu Chongfeng: “….”
Just as I was about to press forward, I saw Liang Xin narrowing his eyes.
"I told you to keep counting."
Lu Chongfeng hurriedly picked up a stack of money and said, "Count it."
Liang Xin smiled at him and picked up another passbook. "This is my passbook. I opened it earlier than yours. Mom asked me to open it so that she could transfer money to me. My salary was thirty yuan both at the bakery and in college. After the salary adjustment according to the administrative level 13, plus the seniority subsidy and bonus, I got one hundred and thirty yuan a month. Over the years, I have saved less than five thousand yuan. Last time, I made some extra money, six thousand yuan. We kept one thousand for ourselves to buy gifts, so we still have five thousand yuan, a total of ten thousand yuan."
"Is that enough?"
Lu Chongfeng said: "I have thirty thousand now, which is enough to buy a house and a gold necklace."
"I'm not done yet."
Liang Xin flipped through her bankbook. "Since I got married, my mother has given me 60 yuan every month. She has never stopped giving it to me over the years. She also gives us extra money every time she sends us something. The amount she gives me alone is almost over 9,000 yuan. If you calculate carefully, it should be 10,000 yuan."
"That's enough. That's definitely enough now."
Lu Chongfeng put away the passbook and money and said, "Wash your hands and go to bed."
"What's the hurry?"
Liang Xin opened another small wooden box. "We still have gold. These are the rewards for the medals of honor you earned with your life. They are gifts for me. The gold has almost doubled now. Together with the gold from Dudu, we have several thousand yuan."
"I didn't expect that our family is quite well-off."
Lu Chongfeng said: "I thought we had eaten and used up everything."
"We don't have to spend money on housing or going to the hospital. We just buy some groceries on a daily basis, and we only buy meat. We grow our own vegetables, so we have Dudu, so our expenses are a bit higher."
Liang Xin looked at the glittering gold jewelry and said, "Money cannot make money if it is kept in a box. With reform and opening up, times will change very quickly. We must always save some confidence for Dudu."
"Wife thinks long-term, and what you are best at is seizing the initiative and getting ahead of others."
Lu Chongfeng put the box and the money into the camphorwood box and said, "My financial acumen is far inferior to yours. My daughter's confidence depends on your advance planning, but I will do my best to give you enough confidence."
“You’ve already done that.”
Liang Xin leaned back on the sofa and looked around the bedroom. "Others are still trying their best to live in the regiment building, but you let me live in the division building a long time ago. There is such a big yard, so I can grow as many vegetables as I want and whatever flowers I want."
Lu Chongfeng picked up Liang Xin and carried her into the bathroom. He put her in front of the sink, turned on the faucet, and stood behind Liang Xin to help her wash her hands. "I will strive to be the first in the class and get promoted soon, so that you can live in the military building again!"
Liang Xin smiled silently, "I always heard you say this when I lived in the teahouse. At that time, I just listened to it casually and felt that it was something out of reach. I didn't expect that you would really do it in the blink of an eye."
Lu Chongfeng rubbed Liang Xin's hands to make them full of foam, "Every time I say something, I'm serious, but you just listen to it casually!"
Liang Xin: "...I just don't want to put pressure on you."
"real?"
"Of course it's true."
Lu Chongfeng was happy again. He washed the foam off Liang Xin's hands and whispered in her ear, "Let's take a bath together?"
Liang Xin picked up the toothbrush and said, "What time is it? Why don't you go to bed quickly?"
Lu Chongfeng picked up Liang Xin and walked into the shower room. "I don't have to go to work tomorrow. I told you that the last time we did it was last year."
Liang Xin: "......It's only been less than an hour since last year."
"That's long enough!"
“You can’t take a shower on New Year’s Day.”
"It's still daylight, it's not New Year's yet."
"That doesn't count as last year?"
“.......”
Lu Chongfeng couldn't argue with Liang Xin, so he lifted her waist and covered his mouth.
After making a scene in the bathroom and continuing to make a scene in bed, Liang Xin woke up the next morning, and the things that she had not done the night before popped into her mind.
Somehow Dudu fell asleep in her arms again, hugging her neck tightly.
It seems that Lu Chongfeng has gone out for drill.
We still do exercises on New Year's Day.
Liang Xin took Dudu's hand away and covered her daughter with the quilt. After a while, she sat up from the bed. Then, she heard footsteps coming up the stairs outside the room.
"woke up?"
Lu Chongfeng walked in fresh and smelled of soap. It was obvious that he had just showered after returning from drill. "I've already boiled the water. Wait for you and your daughter to wake up and start cooking the poached eggs and rice cakes."
Liang Xin looked back at Dudu, who was sleeping on the bed with a rosy face. "You stayed up late last night, so you should be waking up soon. I have something to ask you, but I forgot because of your noise last night."
Lu Chongfeng returned to the bathroom door, picked up Liang Xin's slippers, walked to the bed, and put them on Liang Xin's feet.
She didn't even let her feet touch the ground last night.
"What's up?"
Liang Xin walked to the dressing table, picked up the comb, and tidied her messy hair. "For the latest promotional plan for instant noodles, we need to make a batch of bonus cards. In addition to educational patterns and classic literary figures such as the 108 heroes of Water Margin, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and Journey to the West, I also want to make a batch of military and transportation tools. Although I am thinking of weapons and equipment that have been published in military magazines, yearbooks, and news reports at home and abroad, I don't know if they can be drawn into cards and used as popular science knowledge for teenagers and children."
“Good idea.”
Lu Chongfeng said, "At present, there are very limited ways for children and young people to obtain military knowledge. If we can draw pictures of the weapons and equipment that have been made public and display them in front of children, and add a brief text introduction, we can cultivate and arouse the interest of these children and young people in military machinery from an early age, stimulate their curiosity, and actively exchange and discuss information, which is also indirectly promoting the spread of information, and ultimately plays a good enlightenment role. However, doing this does have advantages and disadvantages, and it is very likely to cause unnecessary reporting trouble. After I finish breakfast, I will go and ask about this matter."
Liang Xin finished combing her hair, turned around and hugged Lu Chongfeng's neck, "Thank you for your hard work, husband."
Lu Chongfeng hugged Liang Xin and said, "Don't worry, I will find out the truth after the New Year!"
Liang Xin laughed and said, "That's great. I'll report this to the General Logistics Department together with the house purchase."
There was a noise on the bed.
Dudu's pigtails were all messed up, and she climbed out of bed with her butt sticking out, "Mom."
"Why."
Liang Xin took a sweater and a down jacket and walked over, hugging her daughter's warm body, "Baby, did you get enough sleep?"
Dudu hugged his mother and asked in a daze, "Where are Sister Meiman and Sister Xiaodan?"
Liang Xin smiled gently, tucked her daughter back into bed, and then put on her clothes. "It's already the first day of the new year. Sister Xiaodan and Sister Meiman, like Dudu, have already gone home and slept all night. Wait for Dudu to brush her teeth, wash her face, go downstairs and have breakfast, and then go to pay New Year's greetings, okay?"
Dudu had just woken up and nodded obediently, "Okay."
Seeing his daughter's soft appearance, Lu Chongfeng couldn't help but come over to play with her.
After breakfast, Dudu called his grandparents to wish them a happy new year.
"I will go back to see you guys tomorrow. Don't miss me too much for now. Take care of yourself and eat well."
"This little mouth."
Lu Chongfeng asked Liang Xin, "Who did you learn this from?"
Liang Xin glanced at him and said, "The disciple is better than the master."
"Better than me. When I was five, my daughter didn't talk as well as me."
Lu Chongfeng thought about it and said, "Basically, people hate him and dogs hate him."
Liang Xin laughed out loud, "You said that yourself."
"I want strawberry cake, big, the biggest one."
Dudu knew that he had to go back and celebrate his birthday with his grandparents again, so he started to ask for the big cake that he couldn’t eat too much of at home.
Liang Xin walked over and answered the phone. She first wished a happy new year with Lu Chongfeng, and then asked about Yueji and the child.
After hanging up the phone, the family of three went to Teacher Yang and Xia Xia's home to wish them a happy new year.
Dudu received a thick stack of red envelopes along the way.
Lu Chongfeng stretched out his hand, "Dad will keep it for you."
Dudu immediately gave all the red envelopes to his mother.
Lu Chongfeng touched his daughter's head and said, "The disciple is better than the master!"
Liang Xin smiled and assured: "Mom won't open the red envelopes. She will write her name on each one. You can open them yourself when you grow up."
“Thank you, Mom!”
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Lu Chongfeng picked up the bag that Liang Xin had helped him pack for the year and set off for Jiangjing.
Before leaving the 11th Division, the leaders of the division headquarters and the cadres of the 22nd Regiment came to see us off.
"I'm just going there to study, and I might return to the 11th Division after graduation."
As soon as Lu Chongfeng finished speaking, a group of leading cadres became unhappy.
"Bah! That's not a nice thing to say!"
"We only want to see you at the headquarters and the military district. We don't want to see you in the 11th Division again!"
"You are the first person in the 11th Division who might go up there. Don't let bad luck happen to you at this critical moment!"
Liang Xin looked at the group of cadres who started talking about "metaphysics" and smiled, "After graduation, no matter where you go, you have to come back to the 11th Division. We still live here."
"Yes, if I have to go back, I will come back to pick up Liang Xin."
Commander Yang patted Lu Chongfeng on the shoulder with a sincere smile on his face, "Go, and study hard."
Lu Chongfeng saluted the division leaders.
Turn around and get in the car.
When we returned to Jiangjing again, Lu Heping and Zheng Xiaojun picked us up at the train station.
After Chief Lu retired, the military district still retained security protection.
But Chief Lu himself requested that everything be simplified. Not only did he not use the guard driver provided by the military region, he even recommended the cook Xiao Shi to go to the capital to participate in the military parade early on.
Usually, you can eat the daily meals provided by the retirement home and clean the house by yourself, without the need for the full-time cleaning staff provided by the retirement home.
"Stubborn."
After listening to Lu Heping's words, Lu Chongfeng said, "It's good to have something to do, so as to avoid psychological problems."
"Mom, can you take care of Yueji?"
Liang Xin asked with concern: "Who prepared Yueji's confinement meal?"
My mother-in-law's cooking skills are not that good, so Chief Lu agreed to let Xiaoshi come home.
"I cooked two meals, but Yueji refused to eat and asked Dad to eat." Lu Heping said, "Dad ate one bite and asked me to go to my hometown to pick up Aunt Qi that day."
Lu Chongfeng's exaggerated laughter instantly drowned out the roar of the engine starting up, causing Liang Xin's arms to tremble.
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