Siheyuan: Big City, Small Love

He Lai thought that since there was no meat left at the steel mill, he might as well get some pork for Li Huaide.

I went out and discussed it with Li Huaide. After an afternoon of work, I successfully brought back another ten tons of wild boar meat for the steel mill.

When it was almost time to get off work, everyone in the third technical department received the braised pork they had been craving for.

After get off work, He Lai took some things to Grandpa Zhou's place to see how the little girl Ke'er was doing.

As soon as I entered the yard, I saw Old Mrs. Zhou and Ke'er planting vegetable seedlings.

"Grandma Zhou, Ke'er." He Lai called out.

"Come here, brother!" When Ke'er saw He Lai, she immediately threw down the watering can and ran towards He Lai.

He Lai took her into his arms.

"What are Ke'er and Grandma Zhou doing?"

"I'm planting vegetable seedlings. Grandma said that these seedlings can grow into very long vegetables!" Ke'er said while gesturing.

He Lai also knew what it was. It should be the legendary bean stalks. Many people in the north eat this, especially in Shandong. Every household has it. This bean stalk is easy to grow and grows a lot. You don't need to take care of it even if you build a vegetable rack. It grows very fast!

These bean sticks can be fried, stewed, or eaten cold. If that doesn't work, you can pickle them and make sour beans.

Some people even use it to make dumplings and buns! It’s really enough!

If there is not enough food, we can use vegetables instead!

"Okay, then let me come and help you plant." He Lai walked to Grandma Zhou, squatted down, and began to hand the seedlings to Grandma Zhou.

Old Mrs. Zhou didn't refuse and continued digging the hole with a smile.

In this way, Grandma Zhou was responsible for digging holes and planting seedlings, He Lai was responsible for carrying the seedling basket and delivering the seedlings, and Ke'er was responsible for watering.

Soon the three of them finished planting while chatting and laughing.

"Grandma Zhou, I'll get you some pumpkin seedlings someday. They can grow really big, one can weigh thirty or forty kilograms, enough to eat for a long time.

And the winter melon can grow to 50-60 kilograms. When the time comes, we can build a rack in the yard and it will definitely produce a lot of melons!"

He Lai said.

"Okay, okay, Grandma Zhou is waiting for your seedlings. We'll plant them when the time comes. Come on, Ke'er, let's go wash our hands."

Old Mrs. Zhou said with a smile, and took Ke'er's little hand and walked into the house.

……

In the living room, Old Mrs. Zhou sat next to Ke'er and fed her, while He Lai could only watch from the side.

He Lai smacked his lips. Was he out of favor? Why did he have the urge to leave?

"Grandma Zhou, isn't Grandpa Zhou back yet?"

He Lai asked.

"Well, he just called and said he had something to do that evening and would be back later."

Old Mrs. Zhou answered He Lai's question directly without even raising her head.

"I'm leaving."

"Okay, let's go, be careful on the road."

……

This is this...

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When I returned to the courtyard, the house was empty. Oh, how sad!

When He Lai was lying on the sofa in a daze, Wu Juan came over with a big bowl of noodles.

"Mom, how do you know I didn't have dinner, hehe." He Lai took the noodles from Wu Juan's hand and started eating.

"Child, why don't you come and eat by yourself if you haven't had dinner? How can I not cook for you?"

Wu Juan scolded with a smile.

“This noodles is so delicious!”

"It tastes good, right? Mom learned how to make it from your brother Zhuzi. She even put two eggs under the noodles. Turn them over."

Wu Juan pointed at the bowl and said.

"Thank you, mother." He Lai picked up the egg with his chopsticks and said with a smile.

"Xiao Laizi, are you busy at the steel mill?" Wu Juan asked with a smile.

"Uh... Mom, you don't want me to help you take care of Wu'er again, do you? No way! I can't always bring Wu'er to work, it will have a bad influence. Besides, we have a nursery in the steel mill now. If you really don't want to take care of her, just leave her there. I will bring her back to you when I get off work."

He Lai didn't even want to eat the eggs anymore and said quickly.

"How can that be possible? How can I let someone else take care of my child? Forget it, forget it. I'll just take care of him myself. My son is grown up now and doesn't want to help me anymore."

Wu Juan sighed, then stood up and prepared to leave.

He Lai had already noticed Wu Juan's little thoughts and slurped the noodles silently.

Seeing that her son was only concerned with eating noodles and ignoring her, Wu Juan felt a little embarrassed and could only go back to think of a solution.

He Lai smiled slightly, how could he be bothered by a little girl every day!

He Lai suddenly remembered that he hadn't bought the pagoda candy yet! He quickly finished his noodles and rode his bicycle to the supply and marketing cooperative in Nanluoguxiang.

"Comrade, do you have any pagoda candies here?" He Lai asked quickly.

"Yes, how many do you want? Ten for one dollar, how many do you want?"

the salesperson asked.

The price of pagoda candy is much higher than that of ordinary candy, but it does not require candy coupons. This is the key point, after all, it is medicinal candy.

After all, even White Rabbit milk candy is only 2.5 yuan per pound, the cheapest brown sugar is only 3.2 yuan per pound, and white sugar is 7.8 yuan, but they all require sugar coupons.

"How much is this tin box? I want them all." He Lai said, pointing at the tin box of pagoda candy behind the salesperson.

"What? Comrade, you can't eat too much of this candy. What are you buying so much for?"

the salesperson asked.

"Well, my grandfather is from the countryside, and most of the children in his village have roundworm disease, so I bought some more and brought them back for them."

He Lai explained.

"Oh, I see. Wait a moment, I'll go ask our director."

"Okay." He Lai agreed.

The salesperson walked to the back. The people in this street office supply and marketing cooperative are quite nice, and there is no such thing as arrogance!

Soon the female salesperson came out with a middle-aged man.

"Hey, isn't this Comrade He Lai from our neighborhood? Do you want to buy a lot of pagoda candies?"

The middle-aged man obviously knew He Lai.

"Well, I want to buy some to feed the kids in the countryside," He said.

"Okay, okay, Xiaomei, quickly sell it to Comrade He Lai. He is a celebrity in our neighborhood office! From now on, you should be more polite when you see Comrade He Lai. Got it?"

The middle-aged man hurriedly ordered. The salesperson named Xiaomei immediately took down the tin box containing the pagoda candies and began to count them on the counter.

"Thank you, uncle." He said.

"Hey, we should be thanking you. Everyone in Nanluoguxiang knows about the good things you have done for our street." The middle-aged man said with a smile.

He Lai could only smile awkwardly.

Soon, Xiaomei counted the pagoda candies, a total of one hundred and fifty, which is fifteen yuan.

The middle-aged man gave the tin box to He Lai, who paid the money promptly and rode away on his bike.

"Director, is He Lai very famous?" Xiaomei asked.

"Famous? He's really famous. Even though he's younger than you, he's very capable! You've heard of the Red Star Steel Mill, right?"

The middle-aged man said.

"Of course you've heard of him. Is he a worker there?" Xiaomei asked.

"Worker? He graduated from a technical secondary school at the age of 16, and now he's only 18, but he's already the head of the technical department! He earns more than 100 yuan a month! And he's an engineer!

He is so capable that even Director Wang from our Street Office has to ask him for help every day!"

The middle-aged man said slowly.

"Ah? So awesome? Only eighteen years old?" Xiaomei was so shocked that she was speechless.

"Are you stupid? Let me tell you, it's only because he has a childhood sweetheart, otherwise, the door would have been broken down by someone."

……

Soon, everyone in the supply and marketing cooperative gathered together to talk about He Lai. There was nothing they could do as He Lai had done so many glorious deeds!