Chapter 113 Motorcycle
Early the next morning, Zhang Guixiang ran to the newsstand as if she had been injected with chicken blood.
"Sister-in-law, the Spring Festival couplets will not arrive until noon!" Lin Qiu thought she had remembered the time wrong.
"I know, but I can't stay at home!" Zhang Guixiang has been excited since she learned about the household registration issue yesterday.
"I will work hard to make a lot of money!" she said with clenched fists.
"Ms. Lin, do you know? My house is less than 100 square meters and can only register three people, but I have two children."
"What should we do then?" Lin Qiu also began to worry about her.
The couple works in Pengcheng and they are the heads of the household, so they must register their residence there. So it would be unfair to the other one no matter who gets the residence there. This matter is difficult to handle.
"Don't worry, it has been resolved!" Zhang Guixiang said in detail.
"We have to thank Brother Man! After he found out that one of my family members couldn't get a household registration, he searched for houses for sale in Bao'an overnight, and then lent us money to buy a bungalow. We finally got the household registration issue resolved!"
Lin Qiu felt relieved, "This is a good thing!"
"It's a good thing! For this, I will be grateful to Brother Man for the rest of my life!" Zhang Guixiang wiped away tears of excitement, "Although I still owe more than 40,000 yuan, my two children are now free of debt!"
"That's right! Parents have to treat their children equally. Otherwise, look at my son Xiu Ren, he has suffered enough and still hasn't complained! Alas." Lin Qiu felt sad for Wang Xiu Ren when he thought of these things.
Zhang Guixiang agreed very much, "So I would rather take on the debt than settle the two children. So your brother Zhao and I have to work hard to make money!"
"Well, let's gather our strength together!"
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The Spring Festival couplets business is as booming as ever.
After selling Spring Festival couplets for three consecutive years, there is no need to hang samples at the newsstand anymore, as regular customers will come to ask about it.
The same goes for Zhang Guixiang. She just set up a stall in front of the vegetable market and her previous customers came back to patronize her business.
After Zhao Dalong returned to his hometown to obtain the household registration transfer certificate, he brought his elderly parents and children with him.
Maybe the old man and the children also knew that the family owed money to their cousin because of settling down, so they didn’t go out to play and just followed him to set up the stall every day.
After the holiday, Wang Xiuren also joined the team selling Spring Festival couplets. He set up a stall in Hua'an Garden during the day and in Jinxiu Garden at night. His business was very prosperous.
The Spring Festival couplet business continued until New Year’s Eve, when everyone closed up their stalls reluctantly.
New Year’s Eve is also Wang Xiuren’s birthday.
Since coming to Pengcheng, every New Year's Eve, Lin Qiu would buy a cake for Wang Xiuren and prepare a table of delicious food to celebrate for him.
This year was no exception. Lin Qiu brought the cake back early, and Wang Shan was circling around the cake on the table.
Lin Qiu couldn't bear it, so he took her to the market to buy ingredients for today's birthday party and New Year's Eve dinner. Passing by a flower stall, he bought a bunch of pink lilies.
As soon as Wang Xiuren walked in with the leftover Spring Festival decorations, he was pulled to the dining table by his daughter.
The table was already laid with sumptuous dishes and exquisite cakes.
After Wang Xiuren sat down, the mother and daughter clapped their hands and sang the birthday song.
"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you..."
Wang Xiuren's eyes were filled with tears as he saw his daughter singing with all her heart and his wife with a smile on her face.
"Dad, make a wish!"
The crisp voice brought Wang Xiuren back to his senses.
He clasped his hands together and wished for good health for his wife and daughter and happiness for his family.
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The sumptuous birthday dinner and cake made the family of three lean on the sofa with bulging stomachs to digest the food. The warm sunlight shone through the balcony onto the sofa, making people feel warm and comfortable.
"Yes, this is what Daddy and Mommy asked me to give to you. Let me wish you all the best!"
Lin Qiu took out a bulging red envelope and handed it to Wang Xiuren.
“Oh, there are red envelopes!”
Wang Xiuren was very surprised, "It's quite substantial!"
"They said they were supposed to celebrate the birthday together, but..."
"I understand. I know what my parents mean!" Wang Xiuren raised the red envelope in his hand, feeling warm in his heart.
After all, it feels really good to be valued!
After eating and drinking enough and the weather is warmer, I want to sleep.
"Do you want to go out for a walk?" Lin Qiu suddenly suggested.
Wang Xiuren looked at the sunlight outside the window and pulled his daughter up without hesitation.
"Walk!"
Wang Xiuren thought they were just going to take a walk in the community, but Lin Qiu took their daughter and walked straight out. He had no choice but to follow them, and the family of three walked side by side, hand in hand.
The streets and alleys were ablaze with red, and even the trees were hung with lanterns. Various bright flowers are blooming wantonly, as if they are also busy preparing for the New Year.
"Are you planning to go to the newsstand?" Wang Xiuren couldn't help but ask as he looked at the familiar road.
Lin Qiu smiled and replied, "Go get something!"
"Just let me come and get it. It's much faster on a bike!"
Lin Qiu's eyes flashed darkly, and he smiled meaningfully, "It's good for us to walk here together!"
Wang Xiuren didn't notice anything unusual and just thought that Lin Qiu liked to take walks hand in hand with his family.
"Hey, who parked a motorcycle in front of our newsstand?"
Wang Xiuren noticed from a distance that there was a bright red motorcycle parked in front of the newsstand. The white windshield was obviously the Chongqing Yamaha that was often seen on the streets.
When I got closer, I realized it was a new car with a shiny body and not a speck of dust on the tires.
As a man, who doesn’t like cars? Wang Xiuren is no exception.
Whenever I see motorcycles speeding by on the street, I always stare at them with envy, and always dream that one day I will ride a motorcycle on the street.
So when I saw this new motorcycle parked in front of the newsstand, I couldn’t help but turn around and look at it.
The more he looked at it, the more he liked it and the more his heart was moved. He couldn't help but secretly touch the car body a few times.
"Do you like this car so much?"
After being caught by his wife, Wang Xiuren felt a little embarrassed and said, "I just took a look."
"Don't you like it?" Lin Qiu deliberately stared at him closely.
Wang Xiuren rubbed his hands, "It's not that I don't like it."
"Should we buy one too?"
Wang Xiuren was very excited by Lin Qiu's words and he almost agreed. However, when he thought about the price of the motorcycle, he held his words back.
"I don't need it now, maybe later!"
Having said that, his eyes were still fixed on the motorcycle.
"Since you said so, I'll let Ah Xing return this motorcycle."
"What?" Wang Xiuren thought he had misheard and his eyes moved back and forth between the motorcycle and Lin Qiu.
Lin Qiu leaned close to his ear and said word by word: "If you don't like it, I will tell Ah Xing to go back!"
Wang Xiuren was stunned for nearly a minute, then suddenly picked up Lin Qiu and spun around.
Lin Qiu was so scared that he patted his shoulder hard.
"Wang Xiuren! Are you crazy? Put me down quickly!"
Wang Shan saw it and jumped up: "Dad, Dad! I want to spin around too!"
Wang Xiuren cooperated by squatting down, and Wang Shan hung on her father's back.
"Hold tight!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Xiuren held his wife and daughter in his arms and turned around a few times before putting them down.
The faces of the three members of the family were all red, and it was unclear whether they were excited or shy.
“Go and try it!” Lin Qiu took the motorcycle key out of his pocket and put it in Wang Xiuren’s hand. “I don’t know if you can ride it, so be careful!”
Wang Xiuren picked up the car keys with trembling hands, got on the motorcycle, kicked up the side stand, turned the key, turned on the ignition switch, pulled the clutch, started the engine, and shifted into gear.
Although the movements were a bit bumpy, there were no mistakes.
Perhaps men are born with the ability to control a bike. After Wang Xiuren slowly rode around twice, he was already able to ride it quite well.
"Come on, get in! I'll take you for a ride!"
Wang Xiuren propped his feet on the motorcycle and looked at Lin Qiu and his daughter with satisfaction.
Lin Qiu was a little worried, "Is it okay?"
"Of course it will work! Don't worry, you and your daughter won't fall!" Wang Xiuren was full of confidence.
Wang Shan was brave and climbed onto the back seat of the motorcycle in no time.
Lin Qiu carefully sat on it and said, "Drive slowly! We are taking Shanshan with us."
"Hold tight!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the motorcycle rushed forward rapidly. Mingqiu hugged her daughter in front of her tightly, and her hands tightly grasped the clothes around Wang Xiuren's waist.
Wang Xiuren drove very steadily, and soon she relaxed.
In the sunshine, a brand new motorcycle, carrying a family of three, rushed forward.
At the New Year's Eve dinner, Wang Xiuren drank an extra glass of wine because he was happy to own a motorcycle and was a little tipsy.
When they were staying up all night, he kept laughing. Finally, Lin Qiu couldn't stand it anymore and stuffed an apple into his mouth, and he stopped laughing.
When it was twelve o'clock, with the sound of firecrackers and the bloom of fireworks, the couple stood on the balcony looking out the window.
He suddenly asked: "Why did you buy me a motorcycle?"
"I see you like it!" Lin Qiu said without hesitation, "You don't even know what you see when you see a motorcycle on the street."
"It's your birthday and I don't know what to give you, so I might as well buy you something you like!"
Wang Xiuren looked at his wife beside him with emotion and trust in his eyes.
“So expensive!”
"As long as you like it!"
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