Chapter 175

Demolish the house

After two days of hard work, Leng Qi came to work and startled Staff Officer Feng during the meeting. "Minister Leng, did you not sleep well last night?"

"Really?"

"We are already this age, and we still have a lot of work to do. Your family is still so young. I think you should consider more about your future companionship with her.

Instead of being unrestrained all day and finally ruining your body, haven't you heard that there are only broken plows, but no broken fields?"

Anna is twelve years younger than Leng Qi. The comrades in the Armed Forces are a little jealous and think that Minister Leng may not be able to handle his young wife.

Leng Qi was so angry that he slammed his fist on the table. After a pause, he asked Staff Officer Feng, "What should I do if the child refuses to eat?"

"What's the meal?"

"Rice on the stove, millet porridge, steamed buns, noodles, and stir-fried vegetables."

Nie Weixing has been here for two days. At first, she was willing to eat. However, the food on the stove was something that the adults were used to, but the child refused to eat. Giving her only milk was not good enough, and Leng Qi felt.

After all, the child is over one year old and the nutrition is not enough. In two days, the child has lost a lot of weight.

"You can make a steamed cake for me. Do you know how to do it? Just beat the eggs, add a little water, and steam it on the fire. It will be soft and tender when it comes out. My son loved to eat that when he was a child." said Staff Advisor Feng.

Leng Qi was taking notes quickly. It was almost eleven o'clock and it was not time to get off work yet, so he hurriedly prepared to go home.

It was a sweet torture. Thinking of the little girl at home who was always sitting facing the wall, Leng Qi felt as anxious as when Anna refused to pay attention to him.

As a result, just as he was about to go downstairs, the phone rang.

"Just say I'm not here," he said.

"It was Hongyan who called. She said she was your ex-wife and it was an urgent matter." Xiao Wang said.

Leng Qi paused but didn't stop. "Just say I'm not here."

When Anna got home, she had brought Nie Weixing back. The little boy was so well-behaved that Leng Qi and Anna could not imagine it. She hardly moved from her bed, concentrating on watching the fish swimming in the glass fish tank. She drank milk but refused to eat rice, showing a sense of dignity and a sense of justice that she would not eat barbaric food.

"I have to go to Uru to escort the truck and collect payment. I have to leave now. You take her to the office this afternoon." Anna was helpless for a long time and said, "If Weixing doesn't eat again, you should take her to the hospital to see if the doctor can help."

"Staff Officer Feng told me to steam an egg cake. I'll try it first," Leng Qi said.

As soon as Anna left, the little satellite lost its support and became even quieter. From time to time, he would glance at Leng Qi.

Leng Qi hummed a song and followed the recipe given by Staff Advisor Feng, steaming the egg cake with boiling water on a beehive coal stove.

Suddenly he turned around and saw the little satellite standing at the door, looking at him timidly.

Leng Qifeng fanned faster and faster, and soon the pot opened. He lifted the lid and looked at it several times. After finally waiting for the eggs to solidify, he dared not add anything. Before he could blow on the air to cool it down, he saw Nie Weixing taking a small spoon, moving a small stool, and sitting in front of the stove, already waiting.

So, this child just doesn't want to eat the food cooked on the stove, but she can't say it, so she has to leave it alone.

She was also very hungry, so she blew on herself and ate by herself, sitting on a small stool. She was well-behaved and lovable.

Leng Qi clapped his hands and said, "Little Satellite, Dad will buy kitchenware this afternoon, and starting in the evening, Dad will cook for you." He has now automatically upgraded to the little satellite's father.

The three Nie Weimin brothers slept on the same bed that Nie Gong used to sleep on when he was a child.

It was a hot day, so the three brothers squeezed in all night. When they got up in the morning, they heard the birds singing and the flowers blooming, and there was a sound of flapping outside. Rubbing their eyes, Nie Weimin came out first.

There was a huge pear tree in the yard. Nie Weimin frowned and looked up when a ripe pear fell onto his nose with a pop.

The child hit me and my nose felt sore. I licked it and the juice was so sweet.

Just then, Chen Lina came in from outside and said, "I bought you some fried dough rings and spicy soup. Come and eat after you wash your face and brush your teeth. After you finish, wash your own bowl."

Nie Weimin took the doughnut and went to the steps of the living room. "Mom, living in a big yard is different. It's so spacious. It would be great if we could live in such a big yard forever."

There was construction going on next door and the yard was a mess. Chen Lina was preparing to clean it up.

"When you get older and have children, your dad and I will move here to take care of your children. What do you think?" she said.

Nie Weimin blushed. "What you said doesn't make any sense. I tell you, I will never get married in my lifetime, huh."

"It's fine if you don't get married and just keep working. I'm an open-minded person and I won't force you brothers to get married just to have grandchildren."

Nie Weimin finished washing, grabbed a big oil ring, took a bite, and drank a mouthful of spicy soup. He always felt that the taste was different from the frontier flavor. "Mom, this soup is unpalatable, and the cake is not delicious either."

He was a picky eater and wanted to put it down after taking two bites, but Chen Lina was watching him, so he didn't dare to and went back to chewing the oil rings.

The police didn’t come last night, but early this morning, Nie Gong reported the case and the police came to his house.

"The overall image transformation of the provincial party committee is an outsourced job. You are right next door, and they are all old buildings. Maybe the construction team didn't pay attention and got the locations mixed up. I will go to the provincial party committee to negotiate and notify them to withdraw. What do you think?" Director Gao of the police station, who was retired from the army and was once a subordinate of Commander Nie, is very concerned about this matter.

Worker Nie was worried and whispered to Director Gao, "We grew up together, so I'm not going to be shy with you. I just want to ask you, do you think this is normal? No one is blind, and you should know better than me what they are doing here."

"Then tell me, is there anything?" Director Gao asked the worker.

The laborer laughed. "Before Landlord Ma left, he had dug up everything he needed to dig, and he had taken away everything he needed to take away. There was really nothing. If you ask me, I would tell you there was really nothing, nothing at all. But the main thing is that no one believed it."

Director Gao then said, "Someone has evil intentions, and there is nothing we can do. After all, there is a thief who will steal for a thousand days, so who the hell can guard against thieves for a thousand days? You guys can walk around this yard, clean it up, and curse them a few times. If there is really anything, take it all away as soon as possible, and then they will give up their intentions, okay?"

As he spoke, Director Gao saw that Nie Weimin was having trouble swallowing his food, so he patted him on the face and said, "It's hard work to hoe the field at noon. You are a boy, and you look so delicate. Hurry up and finish your meal and help your father with the work."

After seeing Director Gao off, the worker stared at the living room for a long time.

Chen Lina stood beside him and said angrily, "If you were really on the roof beam, you should at least cover yourself up. Look at the scaffolding next to you, there are people all over it, and they are all staring at you."

How could the laborer not see it? It was early in the morning. The scaffolding on the opposite side was full of migrant workers. Xiao Zhang, the general manager of the construction team, Zhang Baosheng, was also standing on the scaffolding with a bowl of porridge, staring at him closely.

"This house has to be demolished, but Ma Xiaofang is hiding very deep, she won't show up easily. Besides, we are here, we are bound to scare the snake out of its hiding. You take the guards to the provincial party committee and put on a show..." Nie Gong's voice became even lower.

After hearing this, Chen Lina came over and saw that Nie Weimin had not finished eating the doughnut, so she said, "Put it on the wax paper and give it to Erdan later. Look at your future. I want to ask you, Nie Weimin, what will you do if you have to go out to work and the food is not tasty?"

Nie Weimin had a great dream, "I will take both you and my dad with me."

Erdan and Sandan were still asleep, so Chen Lina took Nie Weimin with her and went out the door to negotiate next door.

The provincial party committee was relocated to another place due to overall renovation, so there were no guards standing guard at the gate, but there was a temporary office.

"Comrade, we are from Commander Nie's house next door. May I ask, is your construction manager here?" Chen Lina asked outside the window.

"Xiao Zhang, someone is looking for you." Someone inside shouted, and the voice spread inside. After a while, Xiao Zhang, smiling, came down from the scaffolding and ran out.

"Young man, I just want to ask you, when will your instruments be taken away?" Chen Lina asked.

Xiao Zhang was so shameless. "Director Chen, that instrument doesn't belong to us. Really, you got the wrong person."

"Then I'll just sell it as scrap metal," said Chen Lina.

Xiao Zhang still held the steamed bun in his hand. "Sell it, it's really not ours. But, Director Chen, let's discuss something in advance. You should also wear safety helmets at home, okay? During the construction, there may be falling rocks, bricks, etc., which may hit you."

In fact, you see Chen Lina working in the yard, and when she passed by, she deliberately threw a brick down. It was an accidental injury during the construction process. What can you do about it?

"It's okay if you hit me, but please don't hit my house. You can't afford to pay for it if you do. Do you understand?" Chen Lina said, and looked at Xiao Zhang with ulterior motives. Xiao Zhang nodded and said, "Yes, yes, yes, I understand. These are ancient buildings. Every brick and tile is valuable."

When I brought Nie Weimin out of the provincial party committee, Nie Weimin said, "Why waste time talking to them? Can't you just take the things yourself?"

"Silly child, if you remove the beams, the house will collapse. If the house collapses, won't the people from the construction team next door report it to the police? Even though the house belongs to your father, if there are things in the house, they belong to the country and you have to pay for them. Do you understand?"

"Then there is nothing we can do?" Nie Weimin was very disappointed.

Chen Lina said, "There is another way, but it's a little troublesome. We have to use a scaffold to fix the roof first, then take out the things inside, and then slowly backfill the beams. In a short time, the house should not collapse."

Suddenly, she turned around and saw a young man following her. Chen Lina pulled Nie Weimin and they hurried back to their yard.

Xiao Zhang finished installing the grandson in front of Chen Lina. When he entered the construction site again, someone came up to report, "We just looked through the telescope and saw the laborers knocking on the beam. We estimate that the thing is inside the beam."

Another person came in and said, "The woman just discussed with her son, and they were talking about moving the beam."

When Xiao Zhang heard this, he thought that the things should be safe, so he grabbed his small purse and ran away early in the morning.

In the military compound, Ma Xiaofang had just gotten up and was eating breakfast.

"Didn't the geologists say it was underground? And you dug it up, and found an empty box inside. Does that mean it must be on the beam?" Ma Xiaofang subconsciously thought that was impossible. She was inclined to believe that there was still gold underground, but there were too many people watching and they couldn't dig with all the fanfare.

Xiao Zhang said, "The geological team only measured underground, not the beams. Anyway, I think the thing is on the beams."

Ma Xiaofang has never been to school, so these common sense things are like a barrier to her.

Xiao Zhang has never been to school. Even though he is a contractor, he does not know anything about architectural mechanics. "I have heard that landlords in the old days had the habit of putting gold on the beams, and the laborers even climbed up on the beams themselves. How about we take a risk and dismantle the beams to see?"

A large hall would have three main beams, which are all large logs one foot thick. If they were hollowed out and filled with gold, it would become a golden beam. This sounds reasonable. But if there are three, which one would it be?

Ma Xiaofang hesitated for a long time. After all, we live in a society ruled by law, and no one would dare to steal things by force unless it was absolutely necessary.

So, he called Leng Qi to discuss whether he should coordinate the relationship, and then robbed him violently.

But in the morning, Leng Qi didn't answer the phone.

It was already afternoon. It was the first time that Leng Qi brought his baby to work, but Nie Weixing wouldn't let him hold the baby. The one-year-old child was staggering as he walked behind him.

The yard of the Armed Forces Department was full of young and old men. When a bald young man in a long gown entered the yard, the squad leader who was leading the team in training shouted "at ease" and "salute". Leng Qi saluted and walked away with big strides.

The little satellite, who was holding a little rabbit, was frightened and stopped, then he raised his hand and saluted.

When the leader passes by, you should stand at ease and salute.

The little satellite walked slowly under the gaze of a group of uncles whose skin was darker than his.

Leng Qi was very annoyed because she wouldn't let him hug her. He thought, "Hey little bastard, this is Anna's first time coming to the Armed Forces Department and she scared my guys. Look how scared you are, rushing over to me and asking me to hug you."

As it turned out, although the human satellite was small and could not walk steadily, with short legs and a long way to go, it saluted and walked forward step by step without any fear.

Lengqi's eyes are crooked.

I wanted to force Nie Weixing to compromise just now, but now seeing her walking so steadily, I give her a thumbs up. She is worthy of being my daughter. Even though she is young, she is not afraid of the stage. When she grows up, she must join the army.

When he got to the office, Ma Xiaofang called again, and this time he had to answer the call.

"Leng Qi, you are such a boring person. I promised you that if we really got the things, you would take 40% and I would take 60%. Why did you still pass the news to Bo Zhao?"

"I didn't say anything. I guess the couple is just going on a trip." Leng Qi certainly wouldn't betray himself.

Ma Xiaofang said on the phone, "You didn't come, but you asked the laborers to come. I won't say whether you are honest or not. I just want to ask you one question: is the thing you said inside the beam? If it is, I will really be ruthless this time."

Leng Qi thought to himself, this woman is so stupid.

Beams are used to bear weight, so a little crack is a big deal. Who the hell would dare to make grooves and put things in them? Aren't they afraid that the house will collapse?

He said, "I don't know. Don't ask me if this is okay."

"But Nie Gong is looking at the beams. I think it's on the beams. Oh, by the way, why don't you take a plane and I'll arrange the ticket for you, okay?" Ma Xiaofang started to act coquettishly. "Look at your life. You can't compare to Nie Bozhao in anything. You may not be good at literature, but you are better than him in martial arts. Don't be so useless, okay?"

On the day of the divorce, Ma Xiaofang was very straightforward. She didn't have any other requests. She just asked Leng Qi to sleep with her for another night.

Leng Qi slept with her all night, but because he was afraid of being entangled by her, although Ma Xiaofang reminisced about the past and told him about her virginity, and although he was also in a sexual mood, he did not dare to do anything inappropriate.

However, what Ma Xiaofang meant by this was that as long as he was willing to go, her door would always be open to him. After all, although she and Chen Junyan had a child, they were just lovers. It was not as easy for a woman to find a man as it was for a man to find a woman.

Leng Qi also wanted the gold. After all, it was floating wealth and he would be wasting his time if he didn't take it. Besides, Ma Xiaofang's temptation was obvious enough.

If he really returns to Hongyan, he still has all his old connections, and with one call and a hundred people's support, it will be easy for him to grab the gold.

"Dad, Dad." Just when Leng Qi was hesitating, Nie Weixing pulled his trouser leg.

When Leng Qi lowered his head, he saw Nie Weixing holding a date in his sweaty hand, standing on tiptoe to feed it to him.

Bastard, Leng Qi thought, no wonder Nie Bozhao couldn't stop smiling when he talked about his daughter-in-law.

Dates were nothing, the attendant washed them for Nie Weixing. But why did he feel so comfortable when a child pulled him by the trousers and handed him dates to eat?

"Ma Xiaofang, do whatever you want and don't bother me anymore." With a click, Leng Qi hung up the phone.

He sat down on the ground and asked, "Wei Xing, what's your last name?"

Nie Weixing, who was holding the rabbit, was chewing a date in his hand and shaking his head.

After several days, the child didn't understand what was going on, but he also realized that the familiar father and mother were really gone, so he had to reluctantly accept the new father.

"Your last name is Leng, Leng Weixing. Do you remember it?"