Restarting life in Siheyuan

Chapter 392 Being followed

The people at the street office probably knew about his relationship with his godmother, and since Uncle Zou paid the money to become Lao Zhu's private house, they didn't come to arrange for anyone to move in.

"Mr. Zou means well. Let's not talk about this matter. We can talk about it later if there is something else."

"Brother, there is one more thing about Chef He. Guess, you won't expect it."

What can happen to Silly Zhu? He either goes to work or goes home every day. He originally liked to go out for a walk after dinner, but this problem disappeared in the second half of the year. Now that the capacity of the steel rolling mill has been adjusted, there are fewer overtime workshops, so he can do it when he is free. Come back and have a sip with Zhu Xuefeng.

Zhu Xuefeng said he couldn't guess, and the younger sister came closer and said mysteriously, "Did you know that the girl who wanted to learn English with us last time was brought to the courtyard by Chef He after the year, and she even took him to visit her? The old lady and the uncle were all smiling and cheerful, and it looked like they were in for a happy event. "

It seems that Silly Zhu and Lou Xiao'e are really in a relationship. This guy's stubbornness has made big news. It seems that he is bringing him to meet his elders. It should be almost settled. I have to give him a few drinks when I find an opportunity. Ask Given the situation, there might be two pairs in the yard this year, and it seems that the eldest son of the Yan family is about to become one.

"Second child, have the eldest brother of the Liu family come back?"

"He's back. He came back with his wife two days ago. He came to our house to find you and said he wanted to thank you for saving him. But when you weren't there, he left a four-color gift and went back."

Zhu Xuefeng listened quietly. Liu Guangqi was still much more sensible than his old man. The second brother continued.

"We went back to our hometown and came back. Others have left. I heard that it was fine at first, but then the second uncle got angry. Liu Guangqi should have left in the second grade of junior high school."

Why is he so angry during the Chinese New Year? This second uncle is really a little confused. His eldest son and daughter-in-law are coming all the way back. Who can he show his face to?

Zhu Xuefeng couldn't understand the second uncle's special temper, so he quickly explained when he saw it.

"Brother, you don't know, right? The second uncle and his team had a production accident years ago, injuring three people and almost killing no one. I heard that his team leader was also dismissed."

"So that's it, it's another safety incident."

It seems that we need to find an opportunity to sort out the HSE system. I always forget about it when things get too much, so I should have written it down long ago.

Seeing that the second brother had finished speaking, the younger sister quickly interrupted.

"Moreover, Xu Damao's house in the backyard was also divided years ago, and the person who lived in it was also named Xu."

Ever since Xu Damao was arrested and later sentenced, this house has been vacant, and some people have applied for it. But every time the street said that this house has been allocated, but no one has come yet. After asking several times, no one has come. After thinking about it for a while, I slowly and deliberately forgot about it.

I didn't expect that the person finally came now, but why is the surname still Xu? Could it be that it was assigned to Xu Damao's father again? That would be interesting.

"Who has moved in or not?"

Zhu Xuefeng was also very curious and asked quickly.

"I just say that he works in the steel rolling mill. I don't know what he does specifically. I don't know anyone in the yard. However, I met your classmates a few days ago. They are the two girls named Chen and Liu. Come to our house and say hello.”

This is strange, who could it be? He is from the steel rolling mill, and he has an intersection with two of his classmates. Who are the two classmates? There were many classmates in the steel rolling mill, including those named Chen and Liu, but they were not girls. Zhu Xuefeng couldn't remember them for a while.

"Have you moved in now? I'll go check it out later."

The second child shook his head, "He got a lot of lime from nowhere a few days ago and painted the house white. I haven't seen him in the past two days, so he probably hasn't moved in yet."

I really can’t remember it, I simply don’t want it anymore. I’ll find out when I meet the person in a few days. Zhu Xuefeng turned to the two children and said.

"Tomorrow, Sister Xia and Sister Lin will take you two to Wangfujing for a stroll. If there are any foreign language materials that are missing, we will add them by then. We will change into beautiful clothes and dress them neatly. We will also take a group photo."

"That's great. I haven't taken a photo during the Spring Festival in several years."

The little girl suddenly jumped for joy. The old Zhu family had not taken a group photo for several years. When mother Li Jinglu was still there, no matter how difficult it was, according to the rules here, we must take a picture together during the Spring Festival. Since mother left, my father has I no longer have the interest to take a group photo, after all, there is one missing person in the family. The most recent one was taken with the whole family during the Spring Festival of 2004. The three of them were still young at that time, and Zhu Xuefeng had just entered junior high school.

Thinking about it, it's still early and it wouldn't be appropriate to let a few people wait for me tomorrow.

"You two pack your things, and I'll go see my godmother. Didn't you go to pay New Year's greetings during the Chinese New Year?"

"I went. I went to the street to pray that day and gave me a red envelope."

Xuemei was so happy that she took out a red envelope from her pocket. During the Chinese New Year this year, both her uncle and sister-in-law received red envelopes. After returning to the city, the red envelopes from her godmother's house were as big as ever. Each one was five yuan, which was a lot of money. , most people pay only fifty cents to the sky.

"Okay, you performed well. I'll give you the prizes when I come back."

...

During the Chinese New Year, even though I was at work, there weren’t many things going on in the street. Several offices were gathered together, leaning on the radiator and cracking melon seeds.

Unexpectedly, heating has already been installed at the street office. This gadget from the steel rolling mill has been well received by the masses, and several factories have followed suit. Now many homes have installed heating, and some units directly use boilers. Boil water and keep warm.

Zhu Xuefeng pushed the door gently, but it was just closed and slowly opened. Director Wang turned around and saw his godson, threw the materials away and said with a smile.

"The little monkey still knows how to come back. You said it was only about half a month. It has been almost twenty days."

Zhu Xuefeng was a little ashamed. It took a lot of brainpower to tell lies. It takes countless lies to complete one lie. Now Zhu Xuefeng is telling lies even when he opens his mouth. At that time, he went south on the pretext of going to Yangcheng to do business and stopping by a classmate's house to celebrate the Spring Festival. Now, now I traveled to several places and even had a fight before the Spring Festival. If it hadn't been for a chartered flight, I wouldn't have been able to come back for a month.

"It took a long time, but I couldn't help it. My classmates' families were too welcoming, so I stayed a few more days. They said that it would take six days to go back and forth. If I didn't stay a few more days, it wouldn't be worth it. I visited a lot of places and saw I saw some of the excitement of the New Year in the south, which is really different from ours, and I just brought you some Spring Festival specialties there. "

Director Wang should be about seven months pregnant. She has changed a lot and her movements are obviously louder than those of ordinary people. She noticed that her godson brought something in early and wanted to take a look. However, she was not feeling well and was too lazy to get up, so she simply pointed at the small bag.

"Give it over and let me take a look. After the troops reached Yangcheng, they were not allowed to continue to attack Xiangjiang. However, they stayed there for a few months and tasted some snacks. I still remember some of them. Open it and let me have a look."

Zhu Xuefeng picked up the small bag, and there were all kinds of snacks, including oil horns, sugar rings, winter fruit candy bars, fried rice cakes, egg rolls, etc., all packed in separate small paper bags.

"It's really something from over there. This oil horn smells delicious. It should be filled with coconut pastry. In fact, the peanut filling also tastes good. I guess there aren't many nowadays."

Director Wang picked up one and tasted it, and was full of praise, "Yes, that's the taste. It's a pity, you boy, I will accept this filial piety. I will taste one after a while, and let everyone share the rest." "

"I brought this back from all the way. You won't let Uncle Kong taste it." Director Wang said angrily, "He has another mission and is traveling far away. When the little one is born, he won't know. If we can come back in time, we won’t be able to live well during the Chinese New Year.”

Looking at the pile of small specialties, I couldn't help but try a few more, and finally stopped.

"I can't eat it anymore. If I eat it again, the doctor should criticize me. It's not a good thing to eat."

Director Wang couldn't help but stroke his belly. His expression was completely different from his usual seriousness.

"Don't laugh at your godmother. This woman is pregnant and is like this in the later stages. She is so greedy that she always wants to eat."

Zhu Xuefeng did not dare to comment, and the mother and son chatted for a while before saying goodbye and leaving.

...

The group visited the department store and walked around the Gongmei Building, admiring many rare treasures. The whole Wangfujing area must have been during the Spring Festival. There were people everywhere, most of them were old people and children, and then there were students. It has a calm and peaceful atmosphere.

Wangfujing Street at this time was still very different from that of later generations. It started from East Chang'an Street in the south and ended at the Art Museum in the north, with a total length of less than two kilometers.

Probably because of the festival, the Lisheng sporting goods store, department store, and Dong'an market were all full of people. Even the Jingcheng painting store and the children's products bookstore were also crowded.

Seeing that it was almost noon, Zhu Xuefeng stood alone at the entrance of Lisheng Sports Goods Store, took out a cigarette and lit it. Shopping was too tiring.

Lin Na and Xia Yuhong were looking for sportswear with their two children inside. They wanted to give them a set, but Liang Yan looked at it boredly.

Zhu Xuefeng planned to find a restaurant in Wangfujing soon, but there were queues at the entrances of Muslim Building, Donglaishun, and Quanjude.

Many people were wandering around the entrance of Quanjude. Zhu Xuefeng didn't notice that a girl had separated from her companions and had been secretly looking at him carefully.

It was impossible to enter the restaurant for lunch. Zhu Xuefeng turned around and entered the store, where he found a few people who were still choosing sportswear with great interest.

"Hey, I'm still inexperienced. I'm sure I won't be able to take my turn at noon now. Let's go to Dong'an Market later to see how our luck is. The meat buns there are pretty good. Let's just take a bite at noon and get something delicious when we go back. "

"We have no problem, but you have to make a trip and buy them all, as well as some of the fried cakes. Xiaohong and I both like them, and Yanzi probably likes them too."

Lin Na glanced sideways at Liang Yan. Liang Yan was very casual and said, "I don't care, as long as it can fill you up, senior brother, how about I go with you?"

"No, there are too many people in this place. Your mission this time is to watch the four of them and don't cause any trouble. Don't leave even after you've picked them. Just wait for me at the door. I'll be there as soon as I go."

"Xiaoman, you guys wait in line first, I'll find a place for convenience."

A girl saw Zhu Xuefeng leaving Lisheng Sports and quickly whispered to her companions to leave.

"You must have had too much butter tea. Go quickly. It will be our turn in less than ten tables."

The companion laughed and joked, and the girl left in a panic. There was no public phone at this time. It took a long time to make a call to the doorman of a nearby newspaper office.

"Leader, I saw it. I saw it. It should be the person you are looking for. Oh, we are in Wangfujing now. We should have gone to Dong'an Market just now. Yes, I saw him alone. Okay, I will Go stare."

He put down the phone and threw five cents in a panic. The doorman picked up the money and returned it, asking seriously.

"Comrade, have you discovered the spy? Do you want our help? I'll find someone right now. You are from a girl's family. It's too dangerous to follow you."

Gulinazha quickly explained, "I'm sorry, I didn't make it clear. He's not a spy, but a very important person. If he doesn't let his influence expand, I'll just go find him. Thank you, uncle."

Without further explanation to the guard, Gulina dove into the crowd and hurried towards Dong'an Market.

Dong'an Market has four gates: one north gate and three west gates. The gate between Huada and Silk Shop is the west gate (across the road is the foreign language bookstore), the freight-only gate is the middle gate, and the one to the south is the south gate. Across the road from the department store.

Inside the south gate is a courtyard with a corner. To the east of the courtyard that turns left is a restaurant. In front of the restaurant is a meat bun seller. I have passed by here several times and the buns here are very delicious and full of oil.

At this time, people's stomachs are short of oil and salt, and they can't even make sense of the white flour vegetarian steamed buns. The oily meat buns are undoubtedly more popular.

Zhu Xuefeng waited in line for a long time before taking his turn. He took out the money ticket and bought the three-drawer steamed buns that had just come out of the pot, causing complaints from those waiting in line behind him.

"I said, big brother, you can wrap up all three drawers at once, can you eat it? There are so many people waiting, so you can't come less and leave some for us."

Zhu Xuefeng hunched over, his face full of embarrassment and a smile on his face.

"There are a lot of us, and we are all still hungry. I'm really sorry. Please wait a moment and borrow some."

The people at the back were not in a good mood either. They were in the front and had money and tickets. This place did not limit how many people could buy per person, so I had to give up.

After finally squeezing out of the queue, Gulinazha, who was in a state of distress, noticed at a glance that there were too many people in the Dong'an market, and after searching for a while, he couldn't find him. Now he spotted the person and hurriedly followed him.

Zhu Xuefeng had just vaguely felt that someone was staring at him, but he didn't pay much attention to it. At this time, he could clearly see that there was a beautiful girl who was always following him. She was very clumsy and obviously not a professional. Although he was curious about why the other party followed him, But he was careful not to make any big mistakes. With a few small moves, he quickly disappeared from Gulinazha's sight.

Looking at Gulinazha who was looking around in the crowd at a loss, she really couldn't remember this person, so she carefully slipped away and headed straight for the north gate.

The north gate faces Jinyu Alley. The north gate is actually a very wide and large trumpet. There are many snack bars and food stores on both sides. It is very lively and fancy. The fried cake Xia Yuhong wants to eat is here.

The fried cakes are all fried and sold freshly, priced at 20 cents per plate, or five in a plate. They are extremely delicious dipped in sugar, and paired with a bowl of fragrant lotus seed and adzuki bean porridge, it is addictive.

He kept an eye on what was behind him, but luckily the confused Gulinazha didn't catch up and was probably still wandering around the south gate.

Who is targeting me? As a non-professional, Zhu Xuefeng was very surprised that he was being targeted just after returning to the capital. If it had nothing to do with this holiday, what could it be?

When they returned to Lisheng Sports, several people had already bought sportswear, in big and small packages. They really bought a lot. Xia Yuhong was still holding a big bag, and she didn't know what she bought. This girl is usually quite simple, but Every time I see the second child, I always think of ways to spend money, but I don't listen to what I say, and I don't change even after hearing it. It's really a headache.

(End of this chapter)