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The air conditioner was bought back on the third day after Liu Xia and Maoer had a little quarrel and then reconciled. Although it was nearly half the price of the window machine, Liu Xia did not hesitate to ask for a split unit: no noise, Cats can sleep peacefully, which is good for growing up.

This time, young people bought a lot of air conditioners, a total of [-] units, [-] units of window units and [-] units of split units. The split units are basically bought by younger ones. Hero one.

Du Tao also wants a split body. His wife Shi Ruiling is pregnant, and the pregnancy reaction is very severe. After a B-ultrasound, it turned out to be a boy. Originally, because Shi Ruiling was a successor from the countryside, Du's parents were very dissatisfied with their daughter-in-law. The attitude immediately turned 180 degrees and asked Du Tao to provide the best protection for his daughter-in-law. Shi Ruiling stopped going to work after she knew she was pregnant. Now, the two elders of the Du family want their daughter-in-law to raise the baby in an air-conditioned room.

Yue Desheng said Liu Xia: "It is a natural law that summer is hot and winter is cold. People should live with the flow. Young people should not be too greedy for enjoyment."

Liu Xia smiled and replied: "When Liu An grows taller than me, I won't need the air conditioner. Then I will live a hard and simple life. If not, I will go back to my hometown and dig a small cave on Fengxi Mountain to live as a caveman." , absolutely natural."

Maoer is very supportive of buying an air conditioner. My uncle is afraid of the heat, so other things are fine for a while. You must buy an air conditioner first. It would be great if you can buy two, and install one in the kitchen, so that my uncle can cook easily. It will be hot.

The cat asked Fu Dong who was leading the man who installed the air conditioner: "Uncle Fu, isn't there an air conditioner that can heat the house?"

Fu Dong asked: "Why? I haven't heard of it."

Mao'er was a little disappointed and said: "In winter, my uncle calculates data and draws, and his hands are frozen after a long time. It would be great if there is a hot air conditioner. My uncle is afraid of being cold."

Liu Xia scratched his nose: "Is uncle so delicate?"

Fu Dong said: "The original city has municipal heating, and the family room and office building of the General Administration have heating. It is not cold to take a bath at home in winter. Unfortunately, Rongze does not have it. The leaders of the team discussed this when building these two buildings. Captain Ma wanted to solve the heating directly, and asked the infrastructure department to inquire about the market and made a budget. The cost of heating was too high, and the other leaders said it was not suitable, so it didn’t work out.”

Liu Chuan, who came here specially to experience Liu Xia's air-conditioned house, sighed: "Your unit is really rich. Our unit's family building has been built for so many years, and there are only two windows installed. You are three points better than others, and you have twenty sets at once!"

Liu Xia said: "In two days, I'll let you take a break, Third Brother, just wait!"

Liu Chuan was inexplicable: "What are you asking me to do? Come here every night to rub your air conditioner?"

The cat said: "That doesn't count, wait, third uncle, you will know in three days at most."

Three days later, Liu Chuan received a call from Liu Xia, and brought over two servings of braised pork ribs from the canteen at noon.

After Liu Chuan put the dishes on the plate and brought them into the master bedroom, the cat who had been waiting inside jumped up to him and hid his hands behind his back: "Third Uncle, guess what I'm holding in my hand? If you guess right, I'll leave it to you, if you guess wrong I want it myself."

Liu Chuan tilted his head and wanted to take a peek, but the cat retreated to the wall: "If you peek again, it will count as a wrong guess, and I won't give it to you."

Liu Xia smiled and reminded him friendly: "Brother, think about it, what do you want most this year?"

Yanagawa frowned and thought: "Leather jacket? No way? It's too small; a pile of money? This Grandet cat can't bear it either!"

Mao'er bared her teeth at Liu Chuan and stared.

Liu Chuan looked at the ceiling and continued to think, suddenly slapped his forehead, and suddenly realized: "Oh——I see." He suddenly bent down and picked up the cat: "It must be your uncle who knows that there are mice in my place, so he took the cat away." I gave it to me, hahaha, now I can make a lot of money, and this little cat that can only be housekeeper and catch mice will be mine—"

The cat was hugged by Liu Chuan, struggling desperately, but he didn't give Liu Chuan what was in his hand: "It's a good idea, uncle said I was his cat, so I won't catch mice for your housekeeper, uncle——"

Liu Xia laughed and suddenly struck from behind, took the things in the cat's hands away, and threw them up and down in his hands: "Third brother, what do you think this is? Do you think it's a good deal to exchange this for a cat?" ?”

Liu Chuan looked at the thing in Liu Xia's hand, and was a little moved: it was a BB machine.

Taking advantage of Liu Chuan's stunned moment, the cat jumped down decisively, and then passed the BB machine in Liu Xia's hand to Liu Chuan: "Here, third uncle, this is bought for you by my uncle, he bought two, you two One for each person, whenever I want to listen to my uncle in the future, just send him a page, and he will call me back."

Yanagawa took the black gadget and fiddled with the buttons on it. It was round and cute.

He patted the cat's head: "Well, if my uncle is busy in the future, I can tell my third uncle if I have something to do. Although my third uncle is also busy, he is much better than your uncle. At least I don't leave Rongze very often." Mao'er Liu Chuan only found out about the fight at school last time by accident from Ma Xiaojun, and he felt very guilty about it. The cat who was finally brought out of the village by Yaoer was bullied in Rongze. The big and small uncle actually didn't do anything for him.

Cat nodded: "Got it."

Liu Chuan pressed the button, and the small screen emitted a faint light green light, very beautiful, very... heartwarming.

It was indeed one he had always wanted.

Where there are many young people, comparisons are inevitable. Less than two years after the popularity of BB machines, the criminal police team basically has one man. Although he is not a vanity person, he lives in a group. There are some things that you Pretending to be invisible and ignorant may pass, but there are still some things that are really invisible, but you can’t pretend to be ignorant, such as deliberately acting inadvertently, but you can clearly feel it Superiority.

Liu Chuan doesn't admire vanity, but he is not a saint either. Even if he doesn't have vanity, he will long for something that can really bring a lot of convenience to his life, and most of the people around him already have it.

Liu Xia said: "Brother, the Internet access fee is cheap now, we started late, so we directly came to a higher starting point, all I bought were Han Xian, and after paying the fee for one year, it will be convenient for us to contact in the future.

Good cat, remember the paging number of my third uncle and me. I will go to school in the afternoon and tell you Brother Xiaorui. If he has anything to do in the future, he can directly leave a message with me or my third uncle. "

The cat said: "Well, I can remember it by heart."

Because he was worried about cats when he left, Liu Xia wanted to have a BB machine for a long time, but last year Liu Hai needed money to go abroad, and later bought a house and borrowed debts, so he couldn't afford to buy it.

The last time Chu Fenghe introduced the job to him, it was very inconvenient when Chu Fenghe wanted to contact him. There were a few times when Chu Fenghe was in a hurry, so he simply ran to the gate of the hydrology team to wait for him. The longest time he waited for him Almost three hours, in the cold winter months, Liu Xia felt very sorry.

This time the land bureau is also doing sand table work. Originally, Ma Qianli would be able to retire if he got him on the line, but because it was inconvenient to talk about things no matter whether he called the unit office or the communication room, Wang Dongping called him every time. Liu Xia has to go through Ma Qianli, Liu Xia thinks this is too inappropriate, Ma Qianli is the captain, he has a lot of things to do every day, for his own affairs, he is always used as a mouthpiece in the middle, isn't it a bit too ignorant .

After receiving the first batch of construction funds from Sang Deshan, Liu Xia was not sure whether he could belong to him, so he didn't dare to use them at first; After saving the minimum target of at least 5000 yuan, the remaining 2000 yuan is barely enough for the air conditioner, and this money cannot be messed with, so he still didn't buy it.

After Wang Dongping paid him 5000 yuan, he immediately sent over all the 3000 yuan commission that Ma Qianli should have received, and there were [-] yuan left. When he came back from work at the Land Bureau today, he abducted him to the post office. He asked about the price of the latest Hanxian BB machine and the network access fee, but he couldn't run out of money, so he bought two directly.

Liu Xia felt that the third brother's work needed a pager more than his own.

In a secluded room on the third floor of the Land Bureau, Liu Xia straightened up, took a few steps back and sat on the chair, heaved a long sigh of relief, and pulled off the white towel wrapped around his neck to wipe off his sweat.

Because the fine sand and sawdust used to make sand table models are too light and loose, it is not easy to shape, and there is no wind at all, so let alone blowing an electric fan. It is a bit windy outside today, and he can’t even open the windows. The weather is 37 degrees. Liu Xia I feel like I'm going to faint.

Sweat continued to seep out from every pore in his body. Liu Xia felt that the water he just drank didn't pass through his stomach, but was directly excreted by his body. He glanced at the quartz clock on the wall, it was ten past ten.

It's too hot, I'm really overwhelmed, why not come here in the morning and work longer in the afternoon.

Just as Liu Xia was about to get up and go, the BB player on the table next to him rang. He picked it up and pressed the button: Uncle baby, I just bought a candied haws (a kind of popsicle) to eat. It’s hot, so you should buy one too. , wait for me to go home.

Liu Xia lightly brushed the screen with his thumb, and couldn't help laughing: "Little smelly cat, you can send anything, and you are not afraid of jokes from the paging station."

Putting down the pager, he decided to work for another hour.

Be sure to finish this work before the summer vacation, or the baby cat will not have time to accompany him during the vacation, and if you let him know that I come out to do this every day, it must be uncomfortable, little guy look To put it bluntly, the heart is actually very soft, and it is very soft. It is a normal job. He feels too tired and hard when I do it. It is better not to let him know.

Liu Xia wrapped the towel around his neck again, walked to the table and started working.

Wang Dongping and several people from the surveying and mapping department came to see Liu Xia several times, and each time they stayed for no more than 5 minutes.

Wang Dongping now felt that the price Ma Qianli offered might not be too outrageous, and the child's sweat and suffering these days alone was worth a thousand dollars.

After having an air conditioner at home, Liu Xia felt that he had something to look forward to while working.

The first thing he did when he got home was to turn on the air conditioner, then he rushed into the bathroom and took a cold shower. He felt alive, so he wrapped himself in a towel and spread himself out on the mat on the floor of the master bedroom to cool off for about 10 minutes. , get up, hang a pair of shorts, and cook.

After getting the air conditioner, Maoer felt much more at ease with Liu Xia. After returning home every day, he no longer looked at Liu Xia with the eyes of the captain of the criminal police monitoring the old spy. There were also some other factors in this. Nervously reviewing and preparing for the exam.

When Liu Xia was outside in April, Maoer participated in the school's five-subject league qualifiers. The little guy was ambitious for the first time, but he failed in the end.

It turned out that the school stipulated that a class has three pre-selection places, and there was no cat in the Sanyi class. Later, through hard work, the teachers of the two key classes added two places to their respective classes. Teacher Chen Xiuyun took a chance and made mathematics, physics and chemistry the best in the whole grade. Liu An's classmate pushed him up, hoping that his composition would be a hit. As long as he can pass the passing mark, Liu An's classmate should be able to win an award.

As a result, Liu An really gave her a cold shock.

Forty points for the composition, Liu An scored a miserable 61 points. He didn't do a single thing right in rearranging the disturbed paragraphs and correcting the wrong sentences. Liu An got [-], but the gap in this subject was enough to kick him out of the top three, not to mention that there was an extra short essay topic in English this time.

The teacher who gave the Chinese test questions this time didn't try to be unconventional. He came up with a very traditional composition topic, "My ***". Dogs are fine. It should be said that this is a good proposition. It is orthodox but not rigid, with few restrictions and easy for students to play. The requirement is [-] to [-] characters.

Liu An’s composition was not read by the teacher who corrected the paper, so he directly gave it five points. Later, it was Teacher Chen who argued for it, and the teacher was very reluctant to add ten points to him. The reason was that the composition would be almost full. Four hundred characters, the teacher who corrected the paper thought that if it didn't even meet the basic requirements, it should be scored zero directly, and the five points were given by him to the small half sheet of bold and unrestrained Xingkai characters.

Maoer wrote "My Little Uncle", which made everyone think that Maoer would definitely be able to write a composition proposition that was full of emotion and even moved to tears. Maoer wrote it as an introduction and commendation of a hero A collection of idioms.

Mao'er used at least 25 idioms to describe Liu Xia's handsome appearance and good qualities, and used about [-] more to express Liu Xia's concern and love for him. Even so, Mao'er couldn't make up the minimum number of words required by the teacher.

My brother-in-law is the most handsome man in the world. He is graceful, graceful, has a face like a powder, looks better than Pan An, has a majestic appearance, a feather fan and a towel, a fruit-throwing car, and a profound elegance...

Teacher Chen held Liu An's composition test paper and blamed himself for a long time: "I am obviously in my 30s, why am I so careless? It's not like I haven't seen Liu An's composition, why? return……"

Liu Xia rolled on the bed laughing while holding the test paper: "Ahahaha...my face is like a powdered powder thrown into a cart...My Xu Gong in the north of the city is tall and tall...I am carved with powdered jade and have bright eyes and bright teeth...Ouch, Baby cat, you... have you ever seen someone put black powder on their face?"

Because of Liu Xia's bad attitude and the loss of the beautiful diary that he had bragged about in advance for Liu Xin, Mao'er was depressed for several days before recovering. Now, Mao'er is working hard like never before, hoping Get a good grade in the exam and redeem the negative impression that my failure in the last competition brought to my uncle.

That's why he has relaxed his supervision on Liu Xia in the last few days. When Liu Xia returns home, as long as he puts his sweaty clothes in a handful of water to dry in time, he can hide from the cat's sharp eyes and work for two more hours a day.

Liu Xia tried his best to finish the sand table before the end of June, but he failed. He couldn't delay the work of the team because of private work. Can't get through all the hurdles.

He and Ma Qianli went to Yuancheng to hold a meeting to standardize the surveying and mapping industry standards, and also took over the task of surveying and mapping the production base of a joint venture that was going to settle in a small town between Rongze and Yuancheng. During this period, he could only work every afternoon. After returning, I went to the Land Bureau to work for more than two hours.

So it was not until the end of June, the day when Maoer started the final exam, that Liu Xia completed all the procedures and placed the sand table model in the lobby of the Land Bureau's office building.

On the last day of Mao'er's exam, he came home drenched in sweat at noon, and when he opened the door, Liu Xia embraced him, "Oh, the butler is back—"

The cat yelled: "Don't, don't, uncle, my undershirt is soaked, let me take it off first, or you will sweat all over."

Liu Xia didn't care, he strangled him and ran into the master bedroom, rolled down on the mat, and then loudly asked the cat lying on his chest inexplicably: "What did Chairman Mao teach us?"

The cat replied loudly: "Study hard and make progress every day; exercise to defend the motherland; plant trees and afforest the motherland; do you want more?"

"Oh - no, enough, the next question, what is the most fashionable adage now?"

Cat's eyes rolled: "Time is money!"

Liu Xia put his index finger on the little guy's forehead: "Fifty minutes, the correct answer: knowledge can change fate." Liu Xia wiped the sweat off the little guy's face: "Go, get up and look in the middle drawer, look at that What is it?"

Cat blinked suspiciously, and slowly got up: "Our teacher said several times a day, Shenzhen speed, time is money, saying that if we get up at four o'clock every morning to start studying, we will learn two hours more than others, accumulating When you wake up, you will be able to study better than others, and you will be able to get into a good university in the future, and then you will be able to get more...ah, uncle, so many, so many..." Maoer looked at the thick stack of books lying quietly in the drawer. Qian, I can't believe my eyes.

Liu Xia lay sprawled on his back, giggling triumphantly: "Take it here, let's count it again, let you feel the charm of knowledge."

Maoer came over with the money and sat beside Liu Xia. Liu Xia said, "Come on, let's have dinner after counting. Let's try our best to spend extravagantly on the braised mutton my uncle bought you at the restaurant."

The cat counted three times before it was clear that it was one hundred, one hundred, that is ten thousand!Mao'er looked at Liu Xia with wide eyes: "Uncle, where did you get so much money?"

Liu Xia sat up cross-legged like a carp: "What did you say just now? Knowledge can change your destiny. What are you talking about? Time is money, right? The combination of the two of us is: knowledge is money.

Hehe, this is my little uncle's use of his rich knowledge reserves, and little spellcasting to do some private work to earn money. How about it, little uncle, right?Are you handsome?Has no one given my uncle some rewards? "

The cat got up, knelt in Liu Xia's arms, and kissed the left cheek, the forehead, and the right cheek, but the person was not so excited, and even a little listless: "A few days ago, when we two quarreled, didn't you Is it just to do this private work? Uncle, you have a salary, and there are so many bonuses, our family can't spend it all, so don't do private work in the future, okay? I don't want to make you so tired. "

Liu Xia patted himself on the chest: "With my uncle's body, that kind of work is nothing at all, but it's just that it's hot early this year, so I feel a little uncomfortable, which has nothing to do with being tired.

Baby cat, uncle, hurry up and finish this job before you go on vacation, and I got back the balance today, I am very happy, you are like this, uncle... oh, hey, let’s do it again here , hey, hey, that's right, this is my uncle's big cat! "

Mao'er kissed Liu Xia on the forehead again: "Don't be so tired in the future, I will be good and happy every day."

Liu Xia stood up happily: "Okay, uncle, listen to our good cats. From now on, if it's too cold or too hot, I won't take on private jobs. Let's go, let's eat!"

For the next week, Liu Xia lived happily ever after. The field part of the project of the joint venture production base had already been completed. During the hottest time of the day, he would coolly calculate and draw at home, while the cat sat beside him and watched him. college textbooks.

In the mornings and evenings when it was still not so hot outside, he and the cat walked around the streets.

He invited Wang Junyu, who had finally completed the formalities and started preparing for the opening of the clinic, to eat at the night market once, with Liu Chuan and Chu Fenghe as his companions.

Liu Xia originally planned to invite Wang Junyu to eat at the Kyoto Restaurant. He felt that the atmosphere of the night market was incompatible with Wang Junyu's temperament, but Wang Junyu declined with a smile, saying that he hadn't eaten kebabs yet, and he had been thinking about it for a long time.

Liu Xia also took Mao'er to Rongze High School to look for Wang Zhanjie twice, but he didn't see anyone.

Su Xiaohui said that the current number of students in Rongze High School has already doubled the capacity of the current school building. Wang Zhanjie applied for more than two years to build a branch school, and it was finally approved a few days ago. Wang Zhanjie asked Su Xiaohui to send a letter to Liu Xia, so that He went over and wanted to ask him about the surveying and mapping in the early stage.

Liu Xia and Ma Qianli talked about this matter, and asked him about the general situation of the project payment, and then wrote a letter for Su Xiaohui to send to Wang Zhanjie, explaining to him in detail the normal process of the hydrographic team's contracting project, and also explaining his own Please Wang Zhanjie consider the best discount that can be obtained with the best efforts.

Finally, he wrote down his pager number so that Wang Zhanjie had time to call him. As long as he was in Rongze, he would definitely rush to see Wang Zhanjie as soon as possible.

Liu Xia and Mao'er went shopping, not entirely to relax. Liu Xia and Liu Chuan had been discussing for a long time, trying to find a suitable small business for the elder brother.

He didn't have the capital to do business before, mainly because Liu Xia always wanted to let the whole family follow him to live in Rongze, so he didn't seriously plan this matter.

The attitude of the family members when they moved let Liu Xia know that at least until he could independently buy a house for the family, the family would not live in Rongze for a long time, so Liu Xia had to make another plan: Choose a small business that can be done in Wangning and is not so hard.

But he had no money at the time, so he could only think about it.

Now, Liu Xia felt that his money could help his eldest brother to raise a business with confidence, so he immediately took action.

But Wangning is just a few hundred meters long street, and the original small businesses are basically saturated, like restaurants, just one stewed noodle shop is still doing business, and the others basically have to close down when they open a new one An old one, or the words "good luck" on the lintel of the new storefront are still brand new, and the store door has been covered with dust and will not be opened anymore.

Following the example of Rongzegai's commercial street, although the houses have been completed, few people buy them. The rough and inferior imitation European-style streets are deserted and deserted, and they can't drive any high-end business.

A small town in a remote mountainous area has such a large population and low living standards. The floating population may have two dollars in their pockets, but the number is pitifully small, which is not enough to support an industry that hopes to survive for a long time.

Liu Xia and Mao'er visited for a week, and for the next few days, when they got home, they sat cross-legged and worried: Oh, it's really hard to find a suitable business in Wangning!

Some people say that opportunities always come unexpectedly when you decide to give up.

Liu Xia didn't decide to give up, he just stopped looking for it temporarily, wanted to calm down, and slowly looked more and asked people to inquire about it. It is very, very important to choose the right project, and he doesn't intend to spend his hard-earned money to buy a failure experience of.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, the opportunity fell in front of him in such a careless manner, and it hit his feet directly, making it impossible for him to accept it.