"Aunt, are you looking for someone to build a kitchen? I can also build a stove. Do you want to try it? It's only one dollar and fifty-one yuan." Cheng Hongliang volunteered.
"Can you do it?" He was too young, which made Li Shuping a little skeptical.
Cheng Hongliang patted his chest and said, "You can definitely do it. When you went to the countryside, you learned from the village master. Let alone building a kitchen, even if you ask you to build a two-story building, it will not be a problem."
"How much do you want per pound?" Li Shuping asked.
Cheng Hongliang: "It's only one dollar and fifty cents."
"Okay, then I'll let you try, but if you don't do it well, I'll have to find someone else."
For a young man like him who went back to the city after going to the countryside, he did not have high aspirations but chose to work odd jobs as a bricklayer. He should be a good person.
"If you don't do well, I won't give you any money."
Cheng Hongliang followed Li Shuping and Zhang Qiangdong frowned at his wife, "Why are you raising the price? When will it be raised to two yuan? You're ruining my good job."
"No, no, if you don't take her, you can take someone else. I'm not sure if I'll let you work for a divorced woman who dresses up seductively."
After all, he had a criminal record when he was young. He went to a widow's house to renovate the roof and almost had a child with the widow.
Besides, her family's Lao Zhang has good craftsmanship. Whenever anyone needs to renovate the roof or build a partition, they will go to her family's Lao Zhang, and they will never worry about not getting the job.
Zhang Qiangdong: “…”
She was dressed seductively, in a floral shirt and black pants. Her face was fairer and her hair was permed, which made her look pretty.
Cheng Hongliang followed Li Shuping to the store. Li Shuping told him about her plan and asked him to calculate how many bricks and other materials would be needed.
"Aunt, let's go back and settle it. Can I give it to you later?"
"Sure." Li Shuping nodded.
The two left the store, and in the afternoon Cheng Hongliang gave Li Shuping the calculated bill, which was expected to cost about seven yuan.
Because Li Shuping wanted to install glass, the cupboards, counters and stoves all had to be tiled, so the cost was a little higher.
Qin Ye waited for a while, but Aunt Li didn't come to find him. He thought Aunt Li didn't want to look for him, but the next morning she came to him and went out together.
Li Shuping first took Qin Ye to the flea market to buy an old tricycle, and then asked Qin Ye to take her to the cement factory to buy cement and sand.
The amount of cement and sand required was not much, only five or six bags in total, and the tricycle could carry them all in one trip.
At noon, he had a bowl of noodles at a state-owned restaurant, and then went to the brick factory to pull bricks. Because the bricks needed were not many, and the brick factory did not help deliver the goods to the door, Qin Ye took three trips to finish the work.
Qin Ye unloaded the last load of bricks into the house, and Li Shuping joined him. As they unloaded, she said to him, "Starting tomorrow, you will follow Cheng Hongliang from Yard 24 to build the kitchen here, and you will help him."
"good."
"When the renovation is completed and the dumpling shop opens, you will work in the shop as an apprentice. I will give you 25 yuan as salary for the first month. If you do a good job, I will give you more later. Your salary will be calculated from May 1st of next year."
"Bang." The brick in Qin Ye's hand fell on the floor, but fortunately it didn't break, nor did it make a dent in the floor.
"Is this okay?" Will she be reported again?
Li Shuping nodded, "Okay, the policy has changed now, Zhao Renren told me personally."
"Thank you, Aunt Li. I will definitely work hard with you." Qin Ye bowed excitedly and wanted to kowtow to his Aunt Li.
Aunt Li was like his second parent.
Today Qin Ye followed her for a while, pulling goods and moving bricks, which was also very hard. After he was done, Li Shuping gave him one yuan.
Qin Ye didn't want it, but Li Shuping forced it into his hands.
Thinking that he would have a job in the future, Qin Ye was very happy and bought two sesame meat patties to take home.
"Here." As soon as he entered the room, Qin Ye threw a sesame meat pie wrapped in oil paper on his father's bed.
Qin Xiaoshan smelled the meat, turned over and picked up the meat pie on the bed and stuffed it into his mouth.
"What a good day today is! We even get to eat meat."
Qin Ye: "..."
He found a job and lived a good life, but he didn't plan to tell his father.
Qin Xiaoshan ate a meat pie in three or four bites, and then sighed and said, "What's so good about this meat pie? I'd rather give you two taels of wine."
Qin Ye looked at the emaciated Qin Xiaoshan and said, "All you have eyes for is wine. Do you want to look in the mirror and see what you look like? Qin Xiaoshan, to be honest, if you continue like this, you will really drink yourself to death."
Qin Xiaoshan: "It's better to die from drinking than to have no wine at all, Xiaoye..."
“No money.”
…
It was Saturday again. It was a rare Saturday when Gu Zhenyuan didn't have to work overtime. He got up in the morning and ran a few laps in the yard.
On the way home from running, I saw a familiar military jeep. I stared into the car and saw a familiar face. I waved to the people in the car.
The people in the car also saw him and asked the driver to stop the car and roll down the back window.
"께Far."
Gu Zhenyuan walked to the side of the car and said, "Second Brother Li, it's almost as if you're far away, and you're still shouting, 'Wait a minute,'"
The person in the car was none other than Li Boyan, the second son of the Li family.
Li Boyan, who was wearing a green military uniform, smiled and said, "In my eyes, even if you are seven years old, you are still better than following behind me and calling me second brother."
Gu Zhenyuan smiled helplessly, "Second Brother Li, why did you come back today?"
Li Boyan frowned, "The old lady is ill, and she has to go to the city for a meeting on Monday, so she came back early to visit her and stay at home for two days."
"Is Aunt Yu sick? Is it serious?"
"It's still the same old problems." Anyway, it keeps repeating itself over and over again.
"Then after breakfast, go see Aunt Yu."
"Okay, see you later."
Gu Zhenyuan looked at the car going away and turned back home.
"Mom, second brother Li came back and said that Aunt Yu was sick?" Gu Zhen went to the kitchen to wash his hands and sat down at the dining table.
Mother Gu: "Did you? Then go see her later."
After breakfast, the mother and son took some nutritional supplements to Li's house.
The nanny said that everyone was in the old lady's room upstairs. Gu Zhenyuan gave the nutritional supplements to the nanny and went upstairs with his mother.
"Mom, please eat something. Your body won't survive if you don't eat."
When she reached the door of the room, she heard Li Yunshu persuading the old lady to eat.
"Knock knock." Gu Zhenyuan knocked on the door.
Li Boyan turned his head and saw them and said, "Aunt Mu, please come and persuade Mom. She didn't eat last night and she's not eating now."
Mr. Li also looked helpless. This old woman, when she got stubborn, wouldn't listen to anyone.
I just hope she can listen to the advice of her old sister Wanxing.
Old Mrs. Yu was lying on a mahogany bed propped up with pillows. She looked pale and frail.
Mother Gu walked to the bedside, sat on the edge of the bed and advised: "Sister Yu, people are like iron and rice, and they will be hungry if they don't eat. How can you survive if you are sick and don't eat?"
"Oh, mom, please have a bite." Li Yunshu also said, "This yam porridge that I cooked for two hours early in the morning is soft and fragrant."
The old lady closed her eyes and shook her head. She didn't even want to smell the yam porridge.
"Oh, I don't want to eat. I can't eat."
"Even if you can't eat, you have to eat a little." Gu's mother continued to persuade, "How can you recover if you don't eat? Don't you want to see Shushu?"
Hearing this, Li Yunshu lowered her eyes with a hint of annoyance.
A trace of grief flashed across Li Boyan's eyes, and he thought of the scene when his younger sister was lost.
There were a lot of people at that station, and the train was about to leave, with the spy chasing them behind.
Mom brought her six-year-old brother to help move their two uncles, one holding the four-year-old him and the other holding the three-year-old Shushu.
The secret agents opened fire, and the platform was in chaos. The crowd separated them and Uncle Shushu who was holding him.
After finding out, my mother wanted to go look for Shushu, but her uncle, who was holding him, dragged her into the car. Because the spies were getting closer and closer, no one could leave unless they left.
My uncle said that he was a comrade and would find a way to get on the bus if he could.
Even if they couldn't get on the bus, they would find a way to take Shushu to a safe area. However, they searched the bus for two days and two nights but couldn't find Shushu and the uncle.
After arriving at the safe zone and waiting for a week, they received the news that their uncle, who was responsible for transferring them, was caught by the spies and died.
When he was caught, Shushu was not with him, but they had no idea where Shushu had gone. They had been looking for Shushu for the past few years, but there was no news.
When her daughter Shushu was mentioned, Mrs. Yu opened her eyes. Ah, she was still waiting to find her Shushu.
"Come here, mom, have some porridge. I'll feed you." Li Yunshu suppressed her unhappiness, scooped up a spoonful of porridge, and brought it to the old lady's mouth.
The old lady looked at the porridge in front of her and turned her head away, "I don't want to eat porridge."
Li Yunshu: "What do you want to eat? Go and cook."
Old Mrs. Yu looked at Gu Zhenyuan and said, "I want to eat dumplings."
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