"What's wrong? Diarrhea?"
Li Chu was a little puzzled. For the past twenty years or so, not a single person in his family had coughed or sneezed. Why was it happening these past two days?
First, he inexplicably binge ate that day, and in the end, he still couldn't figure out why. Today, his wife has diarrhea again.
"I don't know why, but I have a bit of diarrhea."
How many times today?
"Just now, I was chatting with someone up ahead when I suddenly felt unwell in my stomach."
"It's nothing serious!" Li Chu released Ding Qiunan's wrist, which he had just grabbed, and had already taken her pulse in the short time it took to speak.
"Check again later, and let me know if you still feel unwell."
"Okay, it should be fine. What do you want to eat? I'll make it for you."
"Just put a bowl of noodles in a poached egg on top."
"Okay, you can rest for a while." Ding Qiunan rolled up her sleeves and prepared to go to the kitchen.
"Don't rush, Qiu Nan. I heard from Tian Jun that Lao Song's matter has been resolved?"
"Yes, it's resolved. He was probably still a bit upset when he saw the document this morning, so he went to Vice President Wang's office. I don't know what he said, but after he came out, he went to Lao Liu's office to complete the handover procedures around lunchtime."
"Heh, at least he knows what's good for him." Li Chu walked over and turned on the TV. The evening news was just starting, a program he had to watch every day whenever he was home.
"Alright, go watch TV. I'll go make you some food. We can talk about anything else later!"
"Thank you for your hard work, darling."
Ding Qiunan rolled her eyes at him, lifted the curtain, and walked out of the living room.
"Mom, Dad's back, right?"
"Okay, they're watching the news inside. You can go in now. I'll get your dad something to eat."
"Dad!" The curtain was lifted, and Wenxuan walked in carrying the little stinky baby.
"grandfather"
"Hey, come here, let Grandpa hug you!"
“Dad, when I was having lunch with Chang Bin today, he told me that Guo Xiangyang and one of his former cellmates who had been released were both beaten up.”
Li Wenxuan handed the child over as he spoke.
Little Stinky Baby heard a voice and kept saying "hit, hit!"
"What did you say?" Li Chu wondered if he had misheard and looked at Wen Xuan in disbelief.
Seeing his father's somewhat shocked expression, Li Wenxuan smiled and said, "You don't know, Dad."
"What should I know? Is what you're saying true?"
"I don't know if it's true or not, but Chang Laosan told me. He thought it was you..."
"Nonsense, when have I ever done such a despicable thing?"
Little Choubao seemed to sense that his grandfather was a little angry, and somehow produced a tiny bit of cookie crumbs, stuffing them into Li Chu's mouth.
"Grandpa, eat!"
"Mmm, good, our little rascal is the best, it's so delicious! Little rascal, you should eat some too."
"He didn't say when this happened? Sit down, what are you standing there for?"
"It seems like the incident happened yesterday, and he only found out this morning. I heard that the person outside had both legs broken, while Guo Xiangyang was beaten in prison, and the beating was more serious; his head was smashed open, and he was immediately sent to the prison hospital. The people who beat him were subdued on the spot."
Li Chu genuinely knew nothing about this matter, and he would never stoop to such despicable tactics.
He just spread some rumors, but no one said anything out of the ordinary. Among the pile of porcelain he bought, there were indeed a few rather good pieces. He didn't care about this matter at all.
"Never mind him, whoever he is, it has nothing to do with our family. Sweetie, are you sleeping with Grandpa and Grandma or with Mom and Dad tonight?"
Little Chou Bao, who was watching TV, looked up when he heard his grandfather's question. He then turned to look at his father and didn't say anything, but just pointed at his father.
The relationship between the father and son has warmed up rapidly in the past two days. The awkwardness that existed when Li Wenxuan first came back is long gone. The little rascal is especially clingy to him and wants to follow him everywhere.
Sensing that the child wanted to get down, Li Chu casually placed him on the blanket. Zeng Zeng quickly climbed over to the dogs lying there, then took out a crumb of a biscuit from his small bag and offered it to the third-year student, saying, "Eat, eat."
With a lick of his tongue, the little crumb on Xiao Choubao's hand disappeared. He stared blankly at his fingers for a long time before turning his head to look at his grandfather.
"oh oh"
"Oh, it ate your cookies."
"oh"
"Isn't that what you feed it?"
I don't know if he understood or not, but he turned his head away and continued to take things out of his pocket, then fed a few more.
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"Wenxuan, we've got the yard we bought for your father-in-law's family. Your mother seems to have put the key on the cabinet. Take it to him and tell him to come and take a look tomorrow. We'll need to tidy it up until after next spring."
"Dad, how much did the yard cost in total? Yueyue said she'd give you the money."
"It cost three thousand to buy the yard. As for how much it will cost to renovate, she can pay for it herself."
"Okay, she'll give you the money after she withdraws it tomorrow."
"Just give the money to your mom."
"What kind of money is fine with me?" Ding Qiunan walked in carrying a large bowl of noodles.
"Yueyue said she would pay for the house, but I told her to just give you the money directly."
A bowl of fragrant scallion noodles, topped with two poached eggs.
Little Choubao came over attracted by the aroma, sat on Li Chu's lap, and insisted on sucking on two noodles and an egg yolk before stopping. Then he climbed over to play with the dog.
“I didn’t tell you earlier, but when I came home from get off work today, Aunt Zhang asked me if we were still buying the courtyard house. She said that everyone in her courtyard wanted to sell their houses. They didn’t want money, they just wanted an apartment building.”
Li Chu, who had just taken a bite of noodles, almost spat them out of his nostrils.
"Ahem... Aunt Zhang? Their courtyard is a standard two-courtyard house, right?"
"Yes, there are a total of seven households living in the front and back yards."
Do you want it or not?
Li Chu definitely wanted it, but to be honest, he would rather pay for it, even if it was expensive, because apartment buildings are really not easy to get these days.
Not only do you have to rely on personal connections to get ahead, but if you do too much, it's easy for trouble to arise.
The key issue is that there are no commercial residential areas now; they are all staff housing built by individual work units. There aren't enough apartments for their own employees, so if you squeeze in two other work units, the employees might cause a commotion, and you might end up in serious trouble.
"No rush, let me think about it. It's not easy to deal with apartment buildings right now."
"Yes, that's what I told Aunt Zhang." Ding Qiunan reached out and picked up the half-knitted sweater from the sofa, gesturing to it on Wenxuan, who was sitting next to her.
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