Chapter 174: Home Affairs Chen Yin said angrily: "Don't mention that you are still in school, just...
Chapter 174 Home
The physical exercise during recess has just ended.
Some students hurried to the toilet together, some returned to the classroom to wait for class, and some were so energetic that they were reluctant to go back to the classroom until the preparatory bell rang, seizing the last bit of time to play and have fun.
The junior high school campus wasn't very large. After walking past two or three rows of classrooms, Teacher Wang pointed to a classroom with mottled white walls and said, "That's our Class 2 (3)."
The sharp-eyed students saw the teacher coming and ran to the classroom like mice seeing a cat without even having time to see who it was. Those who were a step behind also hurriedly jogged along the side.
Yan Jiuru stood outside the window looking into the classroom with a faint smile.
In the somewhat shabby classroom, there are rows of desks and chairs that have clearly been 'inherited' for many years.
Thirty or forty "greens" were either whispering to each other or playing with each other with books. The whole classroom was filled with the unique atmosphere of student days.
On the three-foot-high podium was a desk that had long lost its luster. Jingjing, who was on duty, kept jumping up to wipe the blackboard.
However, the little guy, who is only eleven years old, is still a child in every way. Even with good nutrition, his height has not reached the peak of development and he is still short and fat.
Seeing her jumping up and down to wipe the blackboard, many of the students below burst into laughter and pointed at her.
Jingjing brushed off the chalk dust on her collar, feeling annoyed. She was only twenty centimeters away from wiping it all off.
Outside the classroom, the head teacher, Mr. Wang, looked very bad.
The duty period is five days a week, and the half-day on Saturday after school is group labor, which does not count as duty.
Each duty group consists of at least 7 students, and some groups have one more.
There are only a few things to do: wipe the blackboard, fetch water, sweep the floor, and take out the trash.
Anyone who has been to school knows that taller students are generally the ones who wipe the blackboard.
What's going on with this group?
Assigning a short and fat guy to wipe the blackboard is obviously not harmonious.
Mr. Wang, the class teacher, was thinking about having a good talk with the group leader, class monitor and other cadres. The principal was quietly reflecting on whether he had been focusing too much on grades recently and neglecting the ideological and moral education of helping each other among classmates.
***
Fortunately, at this time, the naughty little brother grunted and brought a chair for his sister to use as a footstool.
After moving the chairs three times, the brother and sister finally worked together to wipe the blackboard clean.
Jingjing patted the chalk dust off her hands and clothes and was about to go downstairs when she suddenly turned around as if realizing something: "Dad!"
Jingjing immediately jumped off the chair without caring about anything, pulled her brother and ran out the door cheering.
The two little ones ran out and I went up to them, hugged them and clung to them.
The little girl couldn't help but sound a little coquettish: "Dad, why are you here?"
Yan Jiuru patted the two little ones' heads and said softly, "Say hello to the teachers."
The two children finally realized it and quickly stepped back, adjusted their red scarves, and saluted the two teachers in unison: "Hello, Teacher Wang, hello, Principal!"
The teachers nodded in return and tacitly walked around to several nearby classrooms, giving them space to talk.
***
Yan Jiuru glanced at the two of them, then looked away and patted the two children's heads with a smile, "It's okay, Dad just took some time to see how you study."
Jingjing looked up at her father and saw that her father winked at her. The little girl covered her mouth and laughed.
I see, Dad is here to support them.
"Why don't you ask for help if you can't reach the blackboard?" Yan Jiuru asked his daughter.
Xiaohu quickly answered: "Sister said she doesn't care, so as to avoid being called a shorty..."
Jingjing put her hands on her hips and snorted threateningly at her brother: "Don't call me short!"
Throw a few punches and beat you!
Xiaohu: A little bit~
We are not afraid!
Well, judging by his mischievous behavior, it shouldn't have a big impact. Besides, he made such a high-profile trip today, so I'm sure there won't be any such problems in the future.
The family of three had not said a few words when they heard the sound of a car horn behind them.
It turned out that the driver saw that time was too tight and drove the car over.
Yan Jiuru nodded slightly and said to the two children, "Dad has a meeting, so he has to leave first. After school this afternoon, let's go to Yili Fast Food for burgers and French fries."
"All right, all right, I want a sandwich and fried steak too!"
"Well, let's go back to class."
"Goodbye, Dad!" The two little ones waved goodbye reluctantly and sent their dad into the car.
***
When the bell rang, the students quickly sat down and took out their textbooks for the next class.
"Hey," Jingjing's deskmate gently bumped her arm before the teacher arrived, leaned over and asked, "Was that your dad just now?"
Jingjing murmured "hmm".
"Is your father from the Education Bureau? Why are you here with the principal?"
"What Education Bureau?" Jingjing asked in confusion.
Desk mate: That’s obvious. He’s sitting in a car and has Lao Liu accompanying him. Who else could he be but the leader of the Education Bureau?
Jingjing: I don’t understand this logic.
"Knock, knock, knock!" The sound of an eraser hitting the table was heard from above.
"Stop talking!"
The two looked up and saw that it was the physics teacher standing there.
"Teacher Yao and I have switched over to teach English this time. Students, please take out your physics books!"
Jingjing secretly stuck out her tongue, wondering if it had anything to do with her father coming to school.
***
As soon as Yan Jiuru entered the office, he heard the phone on the desk ringing non-stop.
Li Zhonghua quickly picked up the phone: "Hello!"
"Yes, it is."
"Oh, wait a moment!"
He covered the receiver and whispered, "It's Secretary Chen from the Organization Department..."
Yan Jiuru stretched out his hand and Li Zhonghua carefully handed the phone over.
"I'm Yan Jiuru."
"Well, sure, let's try to arrange it as soon as possible.
Well, computers are the trend of the future, let’s take turns...”
Yan Jiuru hung up the phone and said to Li Zhonghua and Song Hongwu, "The organization will talk to you tomorrow morning. Whether you can stay or not depends on you.
Remember, when I hire people, I look for loyalty and integrity, strong execution, and intelligence. If you meet these requirements, you'll have plenty of room to develop your abilities."
"Understood, Leader."
"By the way," Li Zhonghua looked at Song Hongwu and hesitated for a moment before saying, "Director, you're still short of a business secretary, or translator. Take a look..."
Yan Jiuru thought for a moment and said, "Then let the Organization Department find a few male secretaries to come over for the interview this afternoon."
***
As a result, Yan Jiuru wasted more than two hours in the afternoon interviewing business translators, but was not satisfied with any of them.
Yan Jiuru called the Organization Department Director to express his dissatisfaction: "Where did they pick these people? Not only do they speak with an accent, but they also lack basic business knowledge..."
Minister Huang has a terrible headache.
"Okay, okay, do you think everyone is like you and can learn everything in one go? There are two very good female comrades, how about...
"No!" Yan Jiuru refused flatly.
"I'm so handsome, and I'm always accompanied by a female secretary. If she falls in love with me, it will be really troublesome."
Minister Huang almost threw the phone in his face, "I've never seen someone so narcissistic as you! The woman is already in her thirties..."
"That won't work either. There are so many aunties in their 50s and 60s in our alley who are obsessed with me..."
Minister Huang hung up the phone angrily.
I really don't want to bother with him.
Thinking back, what Yan Jiuru said makes sense.
She looks like a signboard at a certain station, so it's possible that we'll fall in love over time.
It is better to eliminate it at the root.
The only requirement is that the candidate needs to be good at translation, know many languages, be male, loyal and reliable... After a thorough consideration, most of the candidates who meet the requirements have already been taken by others.
It's difficult.
There is a lack of talent.
Minister Huang had no choice but to look up the phone book and call his old classmates at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to ask if there were any candidates.
***
After Yan Jiuru finished his work, he did not forget to call Chen Yin first and agreed to take the children to eat the fast food they had been longing for after get off work.
"I'll ask the driver to pick you up then..."
"No need," Chen Yin said proudly, "My driver's license has been transferred. I just got the new license today."
With a driver's license, she can drive.
The driver's license she originally obtained in China had expired because she had been abroad for too long, and the driver's license she obtained in the United States could not be used directly when she returned to China. In order to transfer it back, she had to submit relevant materials and take a road test.
Fortunately, after more than two months of waiting, I finally got it.
After get off work, Yan Jiuru asked the driver to go back and rest, and he drove to the school to pick up Jingjing and Xiaohu.
"Let's go first. Mom is going to pick up big brother."
***
Yili Fast Food in Yancheng is the first Western-style fast food restaurant to open two years ago. It mainly serves red stewed mud sausage rice, hamburgers, sandwiches, and potato salad. Dishes like French fries, fried chicken, fried steak, and fried pork chops depend on their availability that day.
Although the price of a meal here is much higher than that of an ordinary restaurant, it is still full of customers every day.
It was dinner time and they arrived quite early. The two kids quickly went to grab an empty table by the window, otherwise there would be no place to sit if there were too many people.
"Order whatever you want to eat first, mom and brother will be here soon."
Sure enough, just a few minutes after they ordered their food, Zhuangzhuang was knocking on their glass outside the window.
The two little ones were so happy that they gestured to their big brother to come in quickly.
Chen Yin parked the car and came over, and the guys had already started serving the food.
"I ordered you a red stewed mud sausage rice, a chicken burger, a salad, fried chicken skewers, and lemonade. What else would you like to order?"
"Well, I've had enough." Chen Yin glanced at the table full of fast food ordered by the old man and asked, "Are you guys full?"
Zhuangzhuang chuckled and said, "That's tough. Let's just eat something first to fill our stomachs. At worst, we can have another meal when we get back."
Chen Yin looked around and before she could say these words, all the empty seats around her were filled.
She whispered to Yan Jiuru in surprise, "I think if a KFC fried chicken restaurant or Uncle Mai's hamburger restaurant opened here, the business might be booming."
Yan Jiuru smiled and handed her a burger, "You are right.
Look at the people eating here. They are either trendy young people on dates, or parents bringing their children to try something new. There are also a few who should be foreign friends, probably looking for the taste of home."
Here, ordering a classic red stewed mud sausage rice costs 3 yuan, hamburgers and sandwiches are 2 yuan each, potato salad is 1.5 yuan, and grilled chicken skewers are 0.8 yuan each. It can be said that such a meal is equivalent to the average person's weekly food expenses.
The key is not necessarily being able to eat enough.
He does have a few fast food projects that he's applying for, and the market seems to be good right now.
However, he would not talk about work matters casually.
***
When their family was abroad, they often ate real fast food, so they were not surprised by the taste here. However, the children still missed fried chicken, hamburgers, French fries, etc. after not eating them for a while.
While they were happily scrambling to eat, the two little ones also vividly described the reactions of their classmates and teachers after their father left.
Many classmates asked what my father did and what kind of leader he was.
Chen Yin frowned as she listened. "This classmate's relationship is too... I think if it doesn't work out, I should just switch back to Yanda High School."
Yan Jiuru raised his chin and said, "Can't we take them out for fast food? We'll see. We have to finish this semester first."
As he was speaking, he suddenly heard someone shouting, "Hey, Yan Yujing!"
The whole family looked in the direction of the sound and saw a girl of about twelve or thirteen waving at Jingjing.
"Hey, Wang Tongtong! You guys come and eat hamburgers too."
Wang Tongtong glanced at the family sitting there, nodded, and said, "Hello, uncle and aunt. I'll go find a seat first, and my grandpa and grandma will be here soon."
Someone had just left their area, and Wang Tongtong was quick to act, otherwise the item would have been snatched away.
Jingjing introduced: "This is a classmate from the first grade class. We jumped the rope together a few times, and she was pretty good at it."
Chen Yin greeted the girl: "Sit down and wait first. How many people are there? Is a small table enough? If not, we can move one over here."
The girl politely declined by shaking her head.
They didn't force it.
When the girl's grandparents came over with trays of food, wow, they knew them after all.
"Hey, Director Chen, are you bringing the kids here to try some Western fast food?"
Chen Yin responded with a smile while her mind quickly turned over. Oh, it turned out that it was Accountant Xue who worked in the cafeteria of their computer center and who exchanged the meal tickets for them every time.
No wonder we know each other.
"You and Tongtong are classmates, so you have to play together in the future."
Chen Yin smiled, "No, this is my eldest son, he's already in high school. These two younger ones are in the eighth grade this year, so they might be in the same middle school as you, Tongtong."
Because the tables were next to each other, the adults had to introduce themselves to each other.
Seeing that Yan Jiuru didn't mind, Chen Yin said, "This is my wife, she works in the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation."
"Oh my, that's incredible. The people who can work there are all top-notch people."
Chen Yin was a little modest on Yan Jiuru's behalf: "It's okay, he also came back from studying abroad this year."
Fortunately, the other party was sensible and did not ask any further questions.
Moreover, they didn’t order much and finished their meal before leaving.
After seeing her acquaintance leave, Chen Yin said to Yan Jiuru, "I'll go order a few more dishes. We're about to drive, so I'll send some to Ruyue and Rusong to try."
Both of them are busy, so I'm afraid they don't have time to go out for dinner.
"Okay, I'll listen to you."
Fortunately, Yili Fast Food Restaurant now offers takeout, so Chen Yin ordered hamburgers and sandwiches, which are more convenient to carry, as well as fried chicken skewers, French fries, and lemonade.
***
When Rusong heard the counselor shout that someone was looking for him, he was curious if he had called the wrong number.
When he came out to see that it was his eldest brother and his wife and their family, he jumped for joy.
It's exactly the same as when I was little.
"Brother, sister-in-law, why are you here? What a surprise!"
Zhuangzhuang treats his uncle the best. He immediately hugged his uncle and said, "We just went to eat fast food. I brought you a hamburger to try."
"Oh, that's great! I already had a stomachache from the little meal I ate last night. Let me see what delicious food there is..."
The young man didn't care at all. He immediately picked up a burger and started to bite into it, finishing half of it in one bite!
"Don't choke, there's lemonade." Chen Yin treated her brother-in-law like her own brother, "There's also ketchup, it'll taste even better if you spread it on."
Rusong smiled: "I know, I ate it when I went to your place last time."
He was talking about when he went to Berkeley, Chen Yin and her husband took him to a nearby fast food restaurant.
***
Ruyue and his third brother grew up together and have similar personalities.
When she saw that her brother and sister-in-law had brought her some delicious food, she cheered and hugged the bag, but she didn't start eating it on the spot.
Chen Yin asked her sister-in-law, "Are you missing something? Why don't you go home for a month? You don't go home on weekdays, but you should go back at weekends. It's good enough if you can eat at the cafeteria. You definitely won't get enough nutrition. You can make up for it when you go home."
I also said this to Rushong.
Ruyue hesitated.
She felt that her parents and grandparents were not at home, and her eldest brother's family was all together, so she felt like a little redundant.
Chen Yin said angrily, "Don't mention that you are still in school. Even if you are married, it is still your home. You can come back whenever you want. Don't worry about anything else."
After saying that, she glared at her husband.
Yan Jiuru received the signal and scolded Ruyue, "Don't think about it, just listen to your sister-in-law."
"Okay, I'll go back this weekend, sister-in-law. I'll also bring back the laundry and quilt covers."
Yan Jiuru waved his hand and said, "There's a car today. You can pack it up and send it down now, so you don't have to go back and get tired carrying it."
Ruyue hurriedly ran to the dormitory with the bag.
***
A roommate saw her running back and asked curiously, "Who is it? Your boyfriend?"
Ruyue put the fast food bag on the table and busied herself with packing the dirty clothes she had saved. "Don't talk nonsense. Is it my eldest brother or sister-in-law or my nephew or niece who brought me a burger? Hehe."
“Wow~” Several girls in the dormitory immediately came over to look at the bag of fast food.
"I heard from Li Qian in our class that red clay rice is really expensive, and hot dogs and other things cost several dollars a meal."
Therefore, no one rushed to eat the food like they did with the food they brought from home, because this food was rare and expensive, so how could it be so superficial?
Two female classmates helped Ruyue deliver the two packages. After returning, they secretly exclaimed to a few classmates, "His brother and sister-in-law drove two cars! One for each of them!"
"Ah? Didn't they say her parents were farmers?"
Before going to bed that night, a classmate couldn't help but ask Ruyue: "Which unit do your brother and sister-in-law work for? Can they drive the unit's car?"
Ruyue was silent for a moment, then said, "My brother and sister-in-law both studied abroad and have master's and doctoral degrees. Those two cars don't belong to their employers, they belong to our family."
The whole dormitory suddenly became quiet.
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