Chapter 62
Qin Shi walked him downstairs.
A group of people chatting not far ahead had not yet dispersed, and the sound of children chasing each other and adults scolding could be vaguely heard.
Lu Qin held the child in his arms, his slender figure standing still. "Comrade Qin, we can just drop the child off here. You can go back now."
Qin Shi's gaze lingered on Kong Dongdong's little face for a moment longer. She pursed her lips and smiled, "Okay, come over next time when you're free."
"Okay." Lu Qin smiled and poked Kong Dongdong lightly with his finger.
Kong Dongdong glanced at his uncle and made a goodbye gesture, "Sister."
Lu Qin: This child is really smart.
"See you next time." Qin Shi was amused by him.
Lu Qin nodded, then carried the person away.
Qin Shi returned home. Sun Juan had just tidied the table and straightened up. "Let's go."
"Yeah." She turned and closed the door, blocking out the noise from downstairs.
Sun Juan shook the rag and sighed, "This child is grateful."
He knew to come over, but his way of expressing gratitude was very ordinary, so ordinary that it made people feel comfortable.
It was worth it for them to run around to do him a favor.
But she quickly pulled herself out of her thoughts and looked at her daughter, "What do you think of the one my aunt introduced today?"
Qin Shi was helpless. "Mom, I'm not in a hurry. Honghong is about the same age as me, and she hasn't found a partner either."
Lu Qin stayed at the Qin family for almost an hour and a half. As soon as he walked out the door, he quickened his pace and protected Kong Dongdong's pocket with one hand to prevent his candy from falling.
"Uncle, I can do it myself." Kong Dongdong sat firmly on his arm and put his little hand into his pocket.
Lu Qin held him up and weighed him. "Okay, okay, you do it yourself."
Kong Dongdong's eyes curved as he reached out to press down on his small pockets. He took one in each hand and suddenly stuffed them into the inner pockets of his clothes. Lu Chunnong had made the clothes with inner pockets because children always throw things around.
Lu Qin glanced at him casually and followed him.
He even patted it and said, "Uncle, it won't fall off."
"Yes, yes, you are really smart." Lu Qin couldn't help but whistled twice, but then he held back when he thought of the child in his arms.
The old lady who was knitting and chatting was still sitting there, and she noticed with her sharp eyes that the young man came out again.
The young man smiled and said, "Aunt, I'm leaving first."
“Hey!”
His enthusiasm was contagious, and he responded again in a daze.
When Lu Qin came, he hid another bundle of vegetables somewhere else. As soon as he turned out of the family compound, he found the place where the vegetables were hidden and went to find his sister Liu with the vegetables.
Secretary Liu also lives in a tube-shaped building in the city, half a step away from the food factory where they work. She has two children, a son who is married and has children, and a daughter who is only fifteen years old.
"Oh, you're here! I was worried you couldn't find it." Secretary Liu heard the knock on the door and opened it.
Lu Qin smiled and said, "Sister Liu, I'm sorry. I was delayed on the way."
He casually glanced inside, only taking in the general situation of the living room: three adults and a child sitting in a cramped space. The two men looked quite similar to the child.
The scene inside the house is probably a common living situation for urban workers nowadays: a large family living in a room of 60 to 70 square meters. But it is enough to make many people envious.
"It's okay, it's still early. Come in. It's not convenient to talk outside." Secretary Liu invited him.
"This is your nephew, isn't he? He looks quite like you." Secretary Liu closed the door, blocking out the outside gaze. There was no other way, that's how it is in a tube-shaped building. If a stranger comes to one family, the whole building will know.
"Hello, auntie!" Kong Dongdong touched the candy in his pocket and knew how to call someone without being taught.
"Okay, okay." Secretary Liu thought the child was really sensible.
Kong Dongdong looked at him eagerly, and after a while, he lowered his head and played with his fingers.
Lu Qin had already nodded and greeted the people in the room.
The three people are Secretary Liu’s husband, her son and daughter-in-law, and her eldest grandson.
Before coming, the two men were repairing something.
They are all standing here now.
"Hello, is this Comrade Xiao Lu?" Secretary Liu extended his hand. He was a tall and thin man with calloused hands.
"Hello, I'm Lu Qin. What's your name, brother?" Lu Qin put the child down, casually pulled Kong Dongdong's clothes, and freed one hand to hold his.
"Just call me Lao Jiang."
"Hello, Brother Jiang."
Secretary Liu's daughter-in-law was standing not far away with her five-year-old son, watching. Her eyes fell on the things he was holding in his hand, and then moved up to his face.
After Lu Qin greeted everyone one by one, he handed the dish in his hand to Secretary Liu and said the same words as he did at the Qin family.
Secretary Liu took the things and went into the kitchen with her daughter-in-law, and then everyone sat down.
Jiang Guochao sent his son to clear the table. "How old is Comrade Xiao Lu this year?"
Lu Qin glanced at the pile of waste on the table and said, "Brother Jiang, I'm seventeen this year."
"Seventeen, that's quite young." And he's handsome.
His son Jiang Hai also looked up, and the two smiled as their eyes met. Jiang Hai looked quite similar to Jiang Guochao, both were tall and thin, with ordinary facial features.
Lu Qin smiled but said nothing. He asked Jiang Hai, "Comrade Jiang, is this a radio?"
It doesn't look like it's new, it's been disassembled into parts.
Surprise flashed across the faces of the father and son. Jiang Hai didn't accept this thing anymore. "Yes, Comrade Lu, you have come into contact with it..."
Secretary Liu came out of the kitchen carrying tea. "This is made with freshly picked tea leaves from the spring. Comrade Xiao Lu, please try it. By the way, what have you come into contact with?"
Jiang Hai sat back and said, "Mom, I was talking about this radio. Comrade Lu seems to know about it."
"Really?" Secretary Liu put down the tea and sat down aside.
A radio is a big item and ordinary people can't afford it.
Lu Qin thanked him and took it. Under the gazes of everyone around him, he smiled and explained, "I saw it somewhere else when I was studying, but this is the first time I've seen it up close."
His gaze inadvertently shifted over again.
Noticing his action, Jiang Hai asked, "This is some useless stuff we brought back from the repair shop. Do you want to take a look?"
Lu Qin put the child aside, looking a little embarrassed, "Is this not good?"
"It's okay, it's useless anyway." Jiang Hai was not a procrastinator, so he just piled a pile of parts over.
He and his father both worked in a repair shop. Later, when they saw someone had lost this thing, they privately spent five dollars to bring it back, hoping to see if it could be repaired. However, it turned out to be a piece of scrap metal.
Although the radio has been disassembled, its original shape can still be roughly seen. It is a two-band semiconductor radio, a large brown rectangular block. The upper two-thirds is a mesh sound outlet, with knobs on the left and right sides and a button in the middle with the numbers '550 600 700 800' on it.
It's a really simple thing.
You can also vaguely find similarities with modern radios.
The main reason is that Lu Qin's face is too eye-catching, which makes his every move still attract attention.
After watching for a long time, Lu Qin suddenly asked, "Brother Jiang, were you guys repairing the radio just now?"
Jiang Hai replied, "We just brought it back to check it out because it's still working. It's already been torn apart like this, so it can't be fixed."
At first they all thought they had gotten a bargain, but ended up losing five dollars.
In the end, I didn't ask him for money because I had spent money on it.
But the next second, Comrade Lu's next words surprised them.
"Since it's useless, can I try to fix it?"
Lu Qin's hands felt a little itchy.
Jiang Hai opened his mouth, not wanting to discourage him, "Okay, but we've been trying to fix it for a long time and haven't been able to fix it yet. I guess it's useless. If you want to try, go ahead."
Lu Qin took a pile of parts and examined them carefully. The resistors, coils, ceramic pieces and the like were all taken out.
Everyone just saw him taking it apart and putting it back together, starting with the single-tube machine, and even cutting half of the wire short, which actually made people think that this thing could still be saved.
But the reality is indeed like this, because twenty minutes later, Lu Qin said, "Okay."
He fiddled with the left and right knobs.
A crackling sound was heard.
"How fascinating! For whom do the cattle and sheep run? For whom do the mountain songs sing?"
Kong Dongdong widened his eyes and leaned towards his uncle when he heard the singing sound coming from the big brick.
It’s amazing that even Lu Qin himself was not prepared for such a sudden sound, and it was a song he had never heard before.
Jiang Guochao's hands trembled as he drank tea, "That's it!"
Lu Qin lowered his voice and nodded, "It should be fixed. Brother Jiang, why don't you try again?"
Secretary Liu's daughter-in-law, who was busy in the kitchen, came over with her child.
Who would have thought that when I invited him over for dinner, he would end up fixing the radio at home.
Jiang Guochao tuned two or three programs, and except for those that were not on the channel, he could hear them all, which meant that the system was really repaired.
"Comrade Lu, you can do this."
It completely changed their opinion of him. Before that, he was the kind of excellent male comrade that Secretary Liu talked about, but they had no actual understanding of how excellent he was.
Lu Qin said modestly, "No, I was just trying it out. I was just lucky."
While eating at the dinner table, even Secretary Liu's daughter-in-law had a smile on her face.
Secretary Liu praised him at the time, "Comrade Xiao Lu, you really know everything."
A radio costs about a hundred yuan, and they now buy this for five yuan.
Lu Qin waved his hand, "That's all I know."
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