Bai Lu dragged the chair and sat down, and asked, "Are you going home for the New Year?"

Liu Wenqing glanced at him: "What are you asking for?"

"You won't be without a home, will you?" I've known each other for so long, and I've heard Liu Wenqing complain a lot, but I've never mentioned anything about home.

"You don't have a home. ”

Bai Lu thought about it carefully and said seriously: "I really don't seem to have a home. ”

He likes this big three-story house because it is crowded and lively, because there is Shasha here, but Shasha is not his family. As for the desert, all the houses belong to the state, where is the existence of a home?

Liu Wenqing paused: "I'm sorry." ”

Bai Lu smiled and asked repeatedly: "Do you want to go home for the New Year?"

"No, I don't go back. Liu Wenqing replied very simply.

"For what?"

"It's not for anything. Liu Wenqing went to the bookshelf to get the book: "I want to read books." ”

"Look. Bai Lu got up and looked at the bookshelves.

A simple three-tier bookshelf, hit the wall. There were more than a dozen old books piled on top, as well as two magazines and a large stack of color pages.

Bai Lu picked up this magazine and flipped through it, it was the fashion of more than ten years ago. Looking at the books again, there is a book of 300 Tang poems with a volume on the cover, and the stack of color pages is a lot of beautiful women, and they asked curiously: "Why do you keep these things?"

"Look. ”

The answer was simple enough, and Bai Lu picked up a book of Muslim funerals, a very thick book, which seemed to have a bookmark in it. When I opened it, I saw that it was not a bookmark, but a small advertisement cut from a newspaper.

There are roughly twenty or thirty of these advertisements in various sizes throughout the book, and the smaller ones are about the same as matchboxes. The big one is the advertisement of several matchboxes lined up together.

There are crews recruiting actors, companies recruiting artists, record companies recruiting singers, and teachers recruiting students, all of which are advertisements from ten years ago.

"Can you sing?" Bai Lu asked again.

Liu Wenqing didn't reply.

Bai Lu put the book back on the shelf and sat down at the desk. The desk has two drawers, one of which is open and contains two notebooks.

"You keep a diary?" Bai Lu turned into a curious baby, with infinite questions.

"Yes. ”

"What is there to remember?"

"Yes. ”

Liu Wenqing did not speak enthusiastically. Bai Lu continued to be speechless. Pointing to the books on the shelves and the diary in the drawer, he asked, "After coming to Beicheng for more than ten years, you have saved such a few memories?"

"Yes. Liu Wenqing still didn't want to speak.

"Let's talk about it. ”

"Say what?"

"Talk about your past, say what you don't want to go home for the New Year, and say what you don't want to talk about. ”

"Are you a bosom aunt?"

Bai Lu smiled: "I am a confidant brother." ”

"Nerves. Liu Wenqing pushed Bai Lu out of the room.

Rustle sat in the living room watching TV. See the white road back. asked, "What's wrong with Sister Wen Qing?"

"I don't know what to do. Then he asked, "What about them?" and asked Liv and Jennifer.

"I went back to my room and rested. They let me tell you that they love the clothes you gave me, they look good. After saying this. Sha Sha asked: "Brother, did you do it on purpose, how can there be such a short cheongsam." ”

"Nonsense, I deliberately did something deliberate. To avoid this question, Bai Lu ran back to his room.

Another day passed like this, and after breakfast the next day, Liu Wenqing said that he had something to do, so he went out with his bag.

Bai Lu didn't care too much, the day after tomorrow for the New Year, there are many things to prepare, such as today, buy fireworks.

There are regulations on firecrackers in Beicheng, which are not allowed at certain times and in some places. In order to avoid trouble, Bai Lu did not buy firecrackers, only fireworks, magic bombs and the like, which had small movement and beautiful patterns, and easily filled the van.

When I returned to the community, I asked the security guard to help me move to the roof room for storage, and I went to buy lanterns and couplets.

He was busy, He Shanqing called and asked, "Do you want to attend Grandpa Xiaoqi's birthday banquet?" The answer, of course, was not to go, and the white road was driving around, just to buy things, and he was busy all day, until seven o'clock in the evening, but there was still the most difficult work to be done, cleaning the house.

A few days ago, cleaning aunts were the most sought-after and busiest profession in the city, and the price doubled and was in short supply.

The property said that most of the cleaners went home for the New Year, and the schedule was full before they left, and there was no one to take over the work for a house as big as yours.

The day after tomorrow is the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, since he can't find a helper, Bai Lu can only do it himself, take a rag and a bucket, start mopping the floor from the third floor, just dry for a while, Liu Wenqing called.

Answering the phone, Bai Lu was a little surprised: "You're not at home?"

Liu Wenqing on the phone was slightly tired: "I want to ask you for a favor." ”

Say. "Bai Lu stretched.

"My mother is here and wants me to go home for the New Year, and I want you to prove that I do work in your restaurant, and I am busy for the New Year, so I don't have time to go home. Speaking of this, Liu Wenqing paused: "I told my mother, I work there with you, I have five insurances and one housing fund, a dormitory to live in, and an annual salary of 200,000 yuan...... I know that this price is a bit high, don't worry, my salary must be much lower than this, just to trouble you to help deceive my mother, okay?"

"Why are you going to lie to your mother?" Bai Lu asked with a rich imagination, "She asked you to go home and get married?"

"Well, my mother asked me to go home to see the object, saying that the conditions are very good, I have a house, I can solve the job or something, but I don't want to go back, way, help my sister, okay?"

Bai Lu said: "No, according to the plot on TV, your mother asked you to go home and get married, you should find me to pretend to be a boyfriend." ”

Liu Wenqing smiled and asked, "Then you pretend to be my boyfriend?"

"No. Bai Lu simply refused.

"Then help me trick my mom. ”

"There's no need to lie, you are the general manager of the standard hotel, your salary is 20,000 yuan a month, and you will be given 240,000 yuan a year, and you will open it according to this standard in the future." ”

Liu Wenqing hesitated and said: "Give too much, I'm not worth so much money, I will cause trouble for you since the hotel was renovated, and then the Industrial and Commercial Bureau went through the procedures, and it was Sima Zhi who helped, I really didn't do anything." And...... I've never been a manager either. ”

"What are you talking about, are you coming back at night?"

"Not coming back. ”

"See you tomorrow. Bai Lu hung up the phone and continued to mop the floor.

The poor bald boy, in order to welcome the Chinese New Year's Eve, wiped the ground in the middle of the night.

At eight o'clock in the morning of the twenty-ninth day of the Lunar New Year, He Shanqing rang the doorbell downstairs, but Bai Lu resolutely did not open the door. He Shanqing yelled at the walkie-talkie: "Hurry up and open the door, someone will give you a gift." ”

"Tell me earlier. Bai Lu smiled like a flower and pressed the door lock.

Five minutes later, He Shanqing came with Xiao Qi, followed by two young men. Everyone has a bunch of things in their hands.

Bai Lu pretended to be serious: "What are you doing here?"

"For you. He Shanqing put down the box in his hand.

Lines from the Bailuxue advertisement. Zhengse said: "You are insulting me!"

"Well, we don't dare to insult you. He Shanqing picked up the box again.

Bai Lu shouted, "Put it down, let me check what dangerous thing it is." "I grabbed the box and opened it, and there was a box full of palm-sized prawns. Look at what the other three people are doing. It's full of dried scallops, crabs, and a bunch of other things from the sea.

I'm looking at it. Later, someone pushed in a pickup truck. There was a lot of meat on it.

Bai Lu was taken aback and asked He Shanqing: "Do you need to be so exaggerated?"

He Shanqing said: "It is mainly given by Xiao Qi, but also by me and Gao Yuan. In addition, the duck and the forest, as well as Sima Zhi's, will be delivered later. ”

"What do you want to do?

Xiao Qi smiled and said: "Xie Lu thank you Shou Tao, my grandfather is very happy, my father is also happy, let me thank you well, Xiao San said that you are a chef, it just happens that there are these things at home, after thinking about it, it is better to give them to you, so as not to spoil things, that half of the beef is from Kobe, Japan, half of the pork is a wild boar in the forest, two suckling pigs are grown up drinking milk, and red silk fish and tuna are not available on the market." ”

"It's all good. Bai Lu sighed.

He Shanqing was unhappy: "Damn, Xiao Qi, these things are made up by the three of us, don't say it as if you took it out yourself, are government cadres good at grabbing credit?"

Xiao Qi smiled: "I'm afraid you won't understand." ”

"You don't understand. He Shanqing asked Bai Lu: "Is there anything to do today?"

"Something. ”

"There's a, don't you leave for the New Year, right?"

"Don't go. ”

"My mother said that our house is close, if you don't leave for the New Year, you can go to our house for the New Year. ”

"Don't go. Bai Lu instructed the young men to carry their things to the kitchen.

Thankfully, there were two huge refrigerators in the kitchen, and two huge freezers, to hold the pile.

More than half an hour later, the ducks also came, also bringing a large pile of food.

After the six of them got together, he refused to leave, and took the beer to the chess and card room to play cards.

After a while, Liu Wenqing came back with Liu's mother. Bai Lu was very humble and enthusiastic and stepped forward to say hello.

Mother Liu is a little blessed, she looks like she is in her early fifties, she is well maintained, and she is slightly capable.

She didn't believe what Liu Wenqing said at all, the purpose of coming to Beicheng this time was to take the girl home for a blind date, and she didn't want to be shocked as soon as she entered the mansion.

After a brief visit to the house, Liu's mother still couldn't believe it, and asked Liu Wenqing in a low voice: "The house belongs to that child?"

"That's my boss, you also saw the restaurant yesterday, the three floors there, and the three floors here, are all the boss's own. Liu Wenqing dragged his mother back to the house: "This is my current dormitory, my current salary is 20,000 yuan a month, I finally found such a job, I really can't give up easily, 20,000 yuan a month, as far as the objects you introduced, which one can give me a job of 20,000 yuan?"

"Yes, perhaps. Mother Liu hesitated a little, and then said: "The housing prices in Beicheng are so high, no matter how much you earn, you can't afford to buy a house, you are in your thirties, you can't keep floating outside, it's time to settle down, listen to Mom, go home." ”

"No, I don't go back. Liu Wenqing insisted: "I've survived so many years, and I've survived the days of having no food and no place to live, so let me give up now?" ”

Mother Liu wanted to continue to persuade, but after thinking about it again and again, the words turned into a soft sigh: "Alas." After a pause, he said, "Ask the boss for a leave of absence, is it okay to go home for the New Year?"

Liu Wenqing said: "You have to promise me that you can't go on a blind date." (To be continued......)