Chapter 53: Door-to-door
The afternoon sun shines on people warmly, as if spring has arrived, and bursts of firecrackers sound from time to time in the distance, which sets off the atmosphere of the New Year more vividly.
The taxi stopped on the side of the road, and Lin Chenwan handed a fifty yuan bill and said, "Don't look for it,"
The driver was slightly stunned, and then immediately smiled happily, and said continuously: "Thank you, thank you, do you need me to wait for you here, it's not very easy to take a taxi here, especially today is still the Chinese New Year's Eve," seemed very enthusiastic.
Lin Chenwan thought about it, but waved his hand again, and said, "No need, for the New Year, you should go back to reunite with your family as soon as possible,"
"That's good," the driver said with a smile, "I'll tell you the truth, I was going to go home, but I happened to bump into you beckoning, and the place you are coming to, I will also stop by the way, otherwise, I won't run away, and the family is still waiting for me to go back to dinner."
After the taxi drove away, Lin Chenwan glanced around, and what caught his eye was an old and old-fashioned community, the buildings were arranged very neatly, and the anti-theft windows were installed on the balconies of every house, which looked like a pigeon cage, and various lines between the buildings were horizontal and vertical, messy, and there were traces of wind and rain on the exterior walls.
When Lin Chendui walked into the community, few people walked around in the community, but the corridor was wafting with the fragrance of various stir-fried vegetables, the New Year, regardless of whether there was money earned this year, but also always had to get a delicious meal, a large family sat together, reunited, happy to eat a reunion dinner, at this time, the lonely Lin Chendui heart swelled up with a strong desire to go home, especially missing Pinghai's mother, missing the sweet and sour fish made by my mother, and I missed the joy and joy of eating with my mother.
Climbing up the narrow and steep stairs to the seventh floor, Lin Chenwan took out a note and looked at it, No. 3 on the 7th floor, but the signs on the doors of every household were either blocked by the Spring Festival couplets, or they had already been rusted, and they couldn't see it clearly. It can be seen that he must have worked calligraphy.
raised his hand and was about to knock on the door, but Lin Chenwan hesitated a little, this is the New Year, will it not be good to find the door by himself, what will others think, but don't drive yourself out with a kitchen knife.
Just when he was still struggling and hesitating, the door was suddenly pulled open from the inside, and the sound of "quack" startled Lin Chendui, and the people inside the door didn't seem to expect that there would be a person standing upright at the door, and he was also startled, and he couldn't help but cry out, but it was a girl's voice.
"Yes......" Lin Chenwan was about to say sorry, but the person in the door shouted in surprise: "Lin, Senior Lin, you, why are you here?"
Lin Chendui was stunned for a moment, and looked at it, standing in front of him was a well-behaved and lovely girl, with a white jade-like melon seed face with light makeup, faint eyebrows, long and neat eyelashes, deep and charming beautiful eyes, a tall nose, and a ruddy and seductive cherry lips with crystal luster, everything exuded infinite charm, exciting, and the girl looked a little familiar, as if she had seen it somewhere.
"Xiaoqi, who is coming, is your brother-in-law coming back," In another door in the house, a woman in her thirties with an apron and a spatula in her hand leaned out, looking a little similar to the girl, but there was a little more vicissitudes on her face.
"It's not my sister, it's my senior......" The girl replied hesitantly, but her pretty face suddenly turned crimson, and Lin Chendui could clearly see that her neck, which was originally as white as jade, was like a layer of red glow in an instant.
"Senior," the woman seemed to be a little confused, glanced at Lin Chenwan deeply, but said, "Since we are friends, why don't you invite people to come in and sit,"
"Oh, I see," the girl looked a little flustered.
Lin Chendu's mind had an idea, and he suddenly thought about it, so he asked, "Feng Qi, the work is quite smooth, right?"
The girl nodded vigorously, looking at Lin Chendu's beautiful eyes, full of gratitude, if Lin Chendui hadn't spoken for her, how could she stay in Heyang as she wished, and also entered a good unit like the National Development and Reform Commission, which made her classmates who had a lot of relationship backgrounds and showed off their might in school were shocked, but then, Feng Qi seemed to remember something, her face turned even redder, her head lowered, her eyes didn't dare to look directly at Lin Chendu's eyes, her fingers clenched the corners of her clothes tightly, and asked in a low voice: "You...... Are you here for me?"
The woman was obviously surprised, but she didn't say anything, just shrank back.
Lin Chendui touched his nose, not knowing how to answer, and after a while, he asked, "Wu Yu is ......?"
"He's my brother-in-law, what's the matter, the senior knows my brother-in-law," Feng Qi asked in surprise, but at the same time, he denied this idea in his heart, imagine that if his brother-in-law knew a big man like Senior Lin, he wouldn't have been discharged from the army and returned to be an assistant policeman, and he would be fired.
"Your brother-in-law," Lin Chenwan was slightly stunned, but he also sighed a little, this world is really too small, turning around, he actually met acquaintances, since Wu Yu and Feng Qi are related, this matter should be easy to handle today.
"Yes, Wu Yu is my brother-in-law, but he hasn't come back yet," Feng Qi said, and then as if he realized, he said to Lin Chenwan in a hurry: "Senior Lin, you hurry up and come in and sit,"
Lin Chendui followed him into the house.
Take a look around, this is a three-bedroom house, the living room is not big, at best it can only be regarded as a dining room or a hall, the decoration looks like some years, the style is a little old-fashioned, the furniture is very ordinary, but the whole house is very tidy.
A room with only a single bed is also filled with a living room, with a coffee table and a sofa, and the TV is also twenty-five inches, two old men with half a hundred hair are sitting on the sofa watching TV with relish, and on the side, a **-year-old boy is scratching his ears and cheeks doing his homework, with a bitter face.
Seeing Feng Qi enter the house with a strange young man, the two old men stared at Lin Chendui curiously, Feng Qi's face couldn't help but turn red, and he said expectantly: "This, this is the senior Lin who helped me solve the work......"
When the two old men heard this, they glanced at each other, and then stood up with a smile on their faces, and the old man said to Lin Chendui: "Ah, you are the senior who helped a lot that Xiao Qi mentioned, thank you so much, you are the great benefactor of our whole family,"
The old lady dragged the old man, glared at him dissatisfied, and said, "You old man, what are you talking nonsense, it's all a family, what are you doing outside?"
Lin Chendui and Feng Qi were stunned for a moment, and the old lady asked Feng Qi again: "You girl is really, if you have guests come to the house to celebrate the New Year together, you don't say a word in advance, I want your sister to cook a few more good dishes, big girl, big girl......" In the kitchen, the woman in her thirties who had poked her head out just now responded, and the old lady shouted at the top of her voice: "Hurry up and cook a few more good dishes, there are guests at home,"
Lin Chenwan didn't have time to excuse himself, and the old lady was like a general who gave orders, and also instructed her grandson who was doing homework on the side: "Xiaohua, go to the alley and have a look, your father hasn't come back,"
"Oh," the little boy replied, scrambling to pack his things.
The old lady urged impatiently: "Don't hurry up," and then muttered: "Your father is really, the family spends so much money, let him go to work as a traffic policeman, but he is good, the traffic police did not work for a few months, he was fired, tens of thousands of dollars were wasted, what a waste......"
"Mom, what are you talking about," Feng Qi said with some complaint.
"Originally, your sister just stuck a flower on the cow dung," the old lady seemed to be chattering a little, and then saw Lin Chendui, and smiled apologetically, and said: "Housework, let you see the smile, come, sit down, Xiaoqi, hurry up and pour tea, use your father's can of good tea,"
As soon as Lin Chendui sat down, the old lady looked at Lin Chendui with a smile, really a little bit like a mother-in-law looking at her son-in-law, Lin Chendui couldn't help but feel a little hairy in her heart, and was just about to explain a few words, but she heard the old lady ask: "Your surname,"
"I can't afford to be expensive, my surname is Lin, and my name is Lin Chendu,"
"Hehe, this name is good, good," the old man said with a smile, but the old lady touched him without concealing it, and glared at him again, as if she was dissatisfied with him interrupting her words, the old man smiled and took the teacup to drink, Lin Chenwan couldn't help but smile, it can be seen that the old lady is a powerful master, and her wife lets her on weekdays.
The old lady smiled again and asked, "Xiaolin, I heard Xiaoqi say that you are a big official in the provincial capital, but I don't think you are very old, how old are you this year?"
Lin Chendui said: "I'm not a big official, I'm just an ordinary staff member in the Youth League Provincial Committee, and I'm not too young, twenty-seven, it's been five years since I graduated from college,"
"Twenty-seven," the old lady pondered, this age seemed to be just right, and the smile in her eyes was even fuller, and when the old man heard the provincial party committee, he couldn't help but be in awe, and asked: "Provincial party committee, that is the highest authority in the province,"
Feng Qi, who came up with tea, couldn't help laughing when he heard this, and said to the old man again: "Dad, you are mistaken, the Provincial Youth League Committee is in charge of the Youth League organization, which is very different from the Provincial Party Committee,"
The old man was wide-eyed, and said unadmittedly: "How is it different, the regiment is the reserve of the party, and sooner or later it will be transferred to the party, you think my old man doesn't know, I think at the beginning, I also joined the regiment first, and then joined the party, and the party age is older than you......"