As the sun set, Gu Yi walked into the west gate of the shipyard with brisk steps and whistled.
Unexpectedly, as soon as I arrived downstairs on the first floor overlooking the river, I saw my nephew squatting on the steps, holding his chin and seemed to be in a daze.
"Hu Zi?" Gu Yi approached suspiciously and asked, "What are you doing here?"
Little Tiger blinked tiredly: "I'm waiting for my mother."
Gu Yi said "Ah?" and asked, "Doesn't your mother have classes this afternoon? Who picked you up after school?"
"Mom." Little Tiger replied lazily, turned his chubby body, and pointed his little hand at a pile of things in the stairwell, "Mom, move the things upstairs, and let me stay here and wait."
Gu Yi took a closer look and discovered in the light of the sunset outside that there were actually several rattan chairs and a wooden table, with a few cute little stools in the corner.
"Huzi, did your mother buy this?"
"Hmm." The little guy rubbed his belly and answered, "Mom brought a chair up. Uncle, I'm hungry. I want to eat baked buns!"
Gu Yi rushed into the stairwell and shouted, "Don't sit there. Go upstairs and let these uncles move it."
When little tiger heard this, he finally perked up and jumped upstairs.
Gu Yi was a strong and sturdy man. He bent slightly and put the wooden table on his broad back, then climbed up the stairs step by step with ease.
The east-facing door on the third floor was open. Chen Xingling was about to go downstairs in a hurry when she found that her son had already run upstairs, and Gu Yi was following behind him, carrying the wooden table she had pulled out of the space.
She smiled happily and shouted, "Ayi! You came back just in time! I was just wondering when to move to the new place!"
In order to accommodate the empty family these two days, she moved a lot of supplies out of the supermarket.
Fortunately, Gu Yi was a rough-minded boy. He was young and not very thoughtful, so he just thought that she was bought from outside.
The rest were small items that her frail arms could handle, but today they were all large items, either wooden tables or a bunch of rattan chairs, which were definitely not something a weak woman like her could carry from outside and carry to the third floor.
In the afternoon, she sent the certificate from the Personnel Department to the kindergarten, and secretly glanced at her son at the kindergarten gate. She found that the little tiger was happily playing "Eagle Catches Chicken" with a group of older brothers and sisters, without any negative emotions such as restraint, discomfort or depression.
So she went home with peace of mind and entered the space with her textbooks.
After washing my hair, I put on a facial mask, listened to soft classical music, and slowly flipped through the text.
Only after she had easily finished the first few units of the text did she go to the family leisure area to find a dining table that would match the rattan chairs. After searching for more than half an hour, she finally found this brown square table with a pure wooden mortise and tenon structure.
The color matches the rattan chair and the height is also very suitable. Although the raw materials are different, the family is in urgent need of a dining table for dining. We really can’t continue to squeeze on the wooden sofa in the living room, so we finally had to choose it.
In order not to arouse Gu Yi's suspicion, she just went downstairs quietly, dragged them out together and placed them in the stairwell.
Living in a factory area means that you are surrounded by people from the same unit, and they are more or less acquaintances. There may be petty thefts, but there is no need to worry about large items like this.
Then she washed the rice and cooked porridge in the space. After turning around, she ran to Director Guo's office.
The secretary saw her coming again, said with a sullen face that the director was not in, and then went away to do his own thing.
Chen Xingling was turned away again, but he was not annoyed. He didn't want the secretary to chase him away, so he quietly went to the stairs and waited patiently.
After waiting for more than twenty minutes, the factory manager still didn't come back.
Just as she was hesitating whether to continue waiting, the factory director's driver hurried up from downstairs.
The driver had picked her up before and had a very deep impression of her. Because of Gu Qi's relationship, he was very polite and enthusiastic to her and immediately took the initiative to greet her.
The driver then explained that the factory manager had something to do at home that afternoon and did not come to work.
Chen Xingling could only look back and ran to the kindergarten gate to pick up his son after school. He asked him to wait for Gu Yi at the stairs while he moved a rattan chair upstairs and was just about to go downstairs to move the small stool.
Gu Yi raised his head and smiled, then lowered his head again.
"Sister-in-law, from now on, just let me do the heavy work! This wooden table may not look big, but it is very heavy. You, a woman, definitely can't lift it."
Chen Xingling let Xiao Huzi enter the house first and shouted, "Okay, I'll give you the big one, and I'll bring a few small stools."
While they were talking, Gu Yi had already walked quickly to the door, turned sideways to estimate, and then carefully came in carrying the wooden table.
"Sister-in-law, this wooden table doesn't look painted. Why do you like unpainted furniture?"
Chen Xingling helped him remove the wooden table and explained, "I don't like the smell of paint. I heard that the smell is not good for children. Although I don't know if it's true or not, if you can avoid painting it, then don't paint it. It will make you feel more at ease."
"That's right!" Gu Yi moved the wooden table and asked, "Sister-in-law, is this location okay? How about putting it in the living room?"
Chen Xingling reminded: "Move it towards the kitchen, not in the middle of the living room. The living room is for entertaining guests, so the wooden sofa must be placed in the center."
Next, Gu Yi brought up a few rattan chairs, and Chen Xingling brought up a few small stools, and they quickly emptied the stairwell.
Soon, the dining table was finally settled!
Gu Yi drank water while staring at the dining table.
"Sister-in-law, where did you buy these? Looking at them carefully, the styles are very special and give people a very fashionable and elegant feeling."
Chen Xingling pretended to be careless and answered, "There is a small rattan factory in the south of the city. It's not very big, but you can buy all kinds of furniture there. If you want to buy, you have to choose carefully and know how to match them. I spent a whole afternoon choosing and spent a lot of money."
The topic ended here and she turned and went into the kitchen.
"Are you all hungry? Wait, I'll make two simple dishes to go with the porridge."
Little Tiger came running over and asked pitifully, "Mom, can I have some roast chicken? I'm so hungry!"
He had played like crazy in kindergarten for an entire afternoon and was already starving.
Chen Xingling's eyes flickered slightly, and she smiled, "Mom has already arranged it. You performed very well in kindergarten today, so I have to give you a little reward. Wait, I'll go get it from my room."
Little Tiger Tuqi followed her to the room, but was chased out by his mother.
After a while, Chen Xingling brought out half a roast chicken.
Little Tiger's eyes lit up and he clapped his hands excitedly, "Ah ...
Chen Xingling smiled dotingly: "Wait for uncle to tear the chicken, and mom will go to the kitchen to make some cold seaweed. We will have porridge with chicken and seaweed for dinner."
Gu Yi glanced at the newly decorated dining table, smelled the fragrant roast chicken, swallowed his saliva, and hesitated to speak.
Chen Xingling didn't see it and quickly went into the kitchen to bring rice porridge and kelp.
The dinner was rich and delicious, and all three of them ate very well.
Gu Yi helped to clean up the dishes and after hesitating for a long time, he finally stammered out the words.
"Sister-in-law, you just moved in, and you need to buy furniture and bedding to settle down. Everything costs money, and you have to eat meat every day... Actually, I am a family member, sister-in-law, you don't have to spend money to buy meat for me every day. There is a little meat in the cafeteria at noon, and you can't eat roast chicken for dinner... It's too expensive, really."
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