"Third uncle, it's so late? What's wrong?" Ding Qiunan hugged Wei Dong and asked with a smile.
"Master, have you stayed at home?"
"What a coincidence, he and his little sister went out to exercise."
Seeing Yan Bugui's anxious expression, Ding Qiunan said with a smile: "If you are in a hurry, I will tell him when you come back and ask him to come to your home to find you."
Yan Bugui wiped the sweat from his forehead and asked, "Where did he and his little sister go to exercise?"
"Hey, that's hard to say. You may not know that these two brothers and sisters often run around at night recently."
"night run?"
"Night running means running at night. In East China, it is good for your health." Ding Qiunan explained with a smile.
....Wouldn’t it make you hungry faster if you run at night?
Yan Bugui didn't know whether it was good for health, but he was certain that this kind of exercise would definitely consume food.
Since Ding Qiunan didn't know the running route of the two, Yan Bugui could only move a stool and sit outside the door to watch.
The moon is above the treetops, and the night is withered and silent.
Yan Bugui shivered in the cold wind, standing up and looking outside from time to time.
He muttered in a low voice: "Where have these two people gone, and why haven't they come back yet?"
....
"Brother, where are we running to?"
Li Xiaomei stopped and panted, turning her head to look at her surroundings.
She regretted it a little.
I regret that I should not have listened to Li Donglai and went out for a run at night.
At first, we agreed that we would only cover five miles, but now we estimate that we have traveled seven or eight miles.
But my brother is still in high spirits.
Li Donglai slowly stopped and looked around, looking a little confused.
"I don't know, but if we run back along the way we came, there will definitely be no problem."
"Come on, it's a bit cold today, let's run for a while."
"If you want to become a pilot, you must have physical fitness that is beyond ordinary people."
Li Donglai started running slowly again while he was talking.
Since participating in the Beijing Spring Festival race around the city, he has found that he likes running more and more.
After running for a certain limit, you will feel a wonderful and refreshing feeling in your body.
As a doctor, Li Donglai knows that this is because when the muscles deplete glycogen and the body has oxygen, the pituitary gland secretes endorphins.
Endorphins are hormones that make people feel happy and can quickly relieve people's worries.
Not only did I exercise my body, but I also felt happy.
It's a win-win!
Li Donglai was feeling a win-win situation when he heard Li Xiaomei's urgent voice.
"Brother, do you still remember the way back?"
"...don't you know I'm a road idiot?"
Li Donglai stopped and looked solemn: "Are you lost?"
"...."
Li Xiaomei always felt that there was something wrong with Li Donglai's assertiveness, but she couldn't explain why.
But now is not the time to pursue this matter.
"I originally remembered the route, but I was so tired just now and all my energy was focused on running, so I neglected it for a while."
Li Xiaomei lowered her head in shame.
"You really disappoint me..."
Li Donglai straightened up and looked around.
I don't know when, large areas of farmland have appeared around me. The cold wind blows, and the wheat seedlings dance with the wind.
What a strong farmhouse atmosphere...being in it, the tired soul tortured by the world is purified.
"Brother, please quickly think about where this is and don't close your eyes."
"ah....."
Li Donglai woke up and said in a deep voice: "Little sister, I can confirm that we have arrived in the suburbs."
"..."
Li Xiaomei looked at the endless wheat fields and fell into silence.
There is really no way to deal with such an unreliable brother.
You still have to rely on yourself.
Li Xiaomei looked around, and suddenly her eyes lit up.
"Brother, there seems to be a light there."
"Where? Oh, it's true."
Li Donglai looked intently.
Sure enough, I saw two lights in the distance.
The light kept moving and getting louder, and the sound of the engine could be heard in the air.
"A car! That's a car."
Li Donglai clenched his fists excitedly.
As a time traveler, your luck is indeed much better than ordinary people.
If you get lost, you will encounter a passing car immediately.
The car was getting closer and closer, and with the dim moonlight, Li Donglai could vaguely see that it was a truck.
The green paint on the front of the long-nosed car is mottled, the wooden front is in tatters, and there seems to be some problem with the headlights. One is brighter, while the other can only emit a dull light.
It appears to be a truck of some age.
While I was watching, the truck had already arrived.
Li Xiaomei stood on the side of the road waving her hands: "Master, stop for a moment! Stop for a moment!"
"Click..."
The truck stopped slowly like a monster, with billowing white smoke coming out of the front.
Li Donglai walked up to him, smiled, took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it over: "Comrade, your truck is smoking."
The driver was a middle-aged man in his thirties, tall and wearing thick work clothes.
After taking the cigarette, the driver comrade put it on his ear and laughed loudly: "I can't help it. The water tank is like this. After running for dozens of miles, it will boil. Usually I will stop and add some cold water. I'm almost home, right?
, too lazy to add water."
Li Donglai had also driven a jeep before, so he naturally knew that the driver was telling the truth.
He smiled and said: "Back to the capital? That's just in time. We have to go to the city too. Can you give us a ride?"
This driver seems to be very generous, and he probably won't refuse this kind of help.
Who admits it.
Hearing this, the comrade driver's expression suddenly became alert.
"Are you entering the city now? Are there any roads?"
"Roads..." Li Donglai fell silent.
He left the capital on a run and had no intention of going to the commune below, so he naturally would not apply for a route with the Security Department in advance.
Seeing that the driver's expression was getting more and more nervous, Li Xiaomei hurriedly explained with her hand under the driver's seat.
"Uncle driver, we are not bad people, we just got lost while exercising."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Exercise?" Comrade driver was confused.
"Yes, it's just running. My brother and I ran from the courtyard of the steel rolling mill to here..." Li Xiaomei stared with big innocent eyes.
"The courtyard of the steel rolling mill is in South Tongluo Lane. It's seven or eight miles away from here. You two traveled seven or eight miles?"
As the comrade driver spoke, he had already taken out a pistol from under the driver's seat.
The black muzzle was pointed at Li Donglai: "I, Zhou Dakui, have received professional training. You two bad guys can't even think of deceiving me."
Good guy, this vigilance is too high.
"Comrade, don't be nervous, I'm from the steel rolling mill."
As he spoke, Li Donglai took out his work permit from his pocket and handed it over.
The comrade driver took it over dubiously, looked at it carefully with the help of the dim moonlight, and his expression suddenly softened.
He jumped out of the car, handed his work permit back to Li Donglai, and then took out a cigarette from his pocket.
"It turns out to be Director Li from the poverty alleviation workshop. Misunderstanding, misunderstanding, smoking a cigarette."
Li Donglai took the cigarette and asked curiously: "Have you heard of me?"
"My name is Zhou Dakui, the driver of the machinery factory." Zhou Dakui said, clasping his hands to help Li Donglai light the fire.
He smiled and said: "My sister works in the poverty alleviation workshop. I often hear her mention you on weekdays."
"Your sister?"
"Hey, her name is Zhou Dalan. She got that kind of paralysis when she was little, but she looks like a child." Zhou Dakui's face was filled with gratitude: "She got married with great difficulty, and her husband is not a harmonious person either.
Since they were unable to pick up their shift, the two of them had to work as temporary workers to make ends meet. Life was very difficult for them."
"Last year, the poverty alleviation workshop was recruiting people. My sister met the requirements and joined the workshop. She can now get a salary of more than 30 yuan a month."
"Life is getting easier now. Every time my sister mentions you, she always says that you are a great benefactor to their family."
"..."
After Li Xiaomei heard this, her eyes lit up when she looked at Li Donglai.
Unexpectedly, my brother did so many things without saying a word.
The Li family has also experienced poverty, and Li Xiaomei knows very well what it feels like to be hungry.
The significance of the poverty alleviation workshop to her is greater than winning the Nobel Prize.
Zhou Dakui also woke up from his memories at this time, jumped out of the car with a smile, and opened the passenger door.
"I have said so much and wasted your time."
"I'm going back to the machinery factory and I'm passing by South Tongluo Lane. Come get in the car. I'll take you back later."
The machinery factory seems to be in the western suburbs of Beijing, and South Tongluo Lane is located east of the center. How could it be there?
Li Donglai smiled and said nothing.
Just when I got off the car, I quietly put two cents under the seat as fuel money for the truck.
....
"Brother, let's not run so far from now on."
"If we hadn't met the truck driver, we might have had to sleep in the wild tonight."
After getting out of the car, the two of them walked toward the courtyard along the dim lights.
Li Xiaomei pouted.
Li Donglai chuckled: "It's okay, I'll bring a map next time, and then we'll go around a few streets to make sure we don't get lost."
Li Xiaomei:......
Hearing the footsteps of the two people, Yan Bugui shook his stiff body and walked up.
"Master, please wait a moment, I have something to ask you."
"Third uncle, if you have any questions, let's talk about it tomorrow. My little sister is a little tired. I have to send her back."
"....It's an urgent matter, so I'll take you a little time."
When Li Donglai saw Yan Bugui's attitude, he frowned vaguely.
He turned to look at Li Xiaomei: "Little sister, go back first and ask your sister-in-law to help you wash up and go to bed early."
"OK."
After Li Xiaomei left, Yan Bugui pulled Li Donglai to a corner leeward.
"Sir, I heard that the steel rolling mill laboratory is going to send Yu Li to the port city to be the manager?"
It seems that Yu Li is already making preparations.
Li Donglai nodded: "That's true. Comrade Yu Li has strong abilities and dares to fight hard. She is a suitable candidate. She will definitely be able to make achievements in her new job in the future."
Li Donglai thought Yan Bugui was worried about Yu Li, so he explained his thoughts to him.
"Well, first uncle, you see, the relationship between our two families is not bad. Ever since you entered the compound, the third uncle has helped you a lot. Could you please stop sending Yu Li to Hong Kong City?" Yan Bugui
He pursed his lips, hesitated for a moment, and whispered.
Li Donglai was a little confused: "Comrade Yan Bugui, working in Hong Kong City is a good opportunity for Li. She can learn more and her future will be bright."
"It's just too bright." Yan Bugui gritted his teeth and said, "Donglai, the third uncle won't hide it from you. Your third aunt and I are afraid that Yu Li will have other thoughts after seeing the world. You also know
Yan Jiecheng's temper is too weak and he cannot subdue her at all."
After hearing these words, Li Donglai finally understood what Yan Bugui and the third aunt were thinking.
In their view, it is a good thing for Yu Li to take a job in Hong Kong City, but not for the Yan family.
Sure enough, all ten fingers are unusually aligned. Even a family has its own little calculations.
He also heard workers at the steel rolling mill talk about Yan Jiecheng. Since Yu Li started working in the laboratory and received a salary every month, Yan Jiecheng felt a little like letting himself go.
Yan Jiecheng made a few friends and often took advantage of their breaks to hide in the warehouse of the workshop and play cards.
Nine times out of ten you will lose, nine times out of ten you will cheat.
Yan Jiecheng's monthly salary is not enough to fill in the salary, and he also owes a lot of money to others.
Of course, as an outsider, Li Donglai cannot control this kind of thing and has no way to control it.
"Third uncle, I understand everything you said, but Yu Li's appointment is a collective decision made by the laboratory, and I alone can't change it."
Li Donglai looked at Yan Bugui and said: "If Yu Li is really unwilling to go to Hong Kong City, she will bring it up to the laboratory and we will seriously consider it."
"Donglai, you really can't help the third uncle?" Yan Bugui asked sadly.
He knew that Li Donglai was now the only leader in the laboratory, and his words just now were just perfunctory.
Li Donglai said in a deep voice: "It's not that I won't help you, third uncle, Yu Li is an independent person. Now that she has been liberated, she can no longer act like a feudal patriarch."
After saying that, Li Donglai left without looking back.
He can understand Yan Bugui's thoughts.
but.
Even parents cannot control their children's lives, let alone Yan Bugui, who is only a father-in-law.
It would be best if he could understand.
If you don't understand, there is nothing you can do.
....
Yan's house is brightly lit.
The three aunts, Yan Jiecheng, Yan Jiedi and Yan Jiekuang, were all sitting in the main room.
Seeing Yan Bugui come in, the third aunt went up to greet him and took Yan Bugui's hand: "Old man, what are you talking about?"
"He was polite and said that the collective decision cannot be changed. In fact, he just didn't want to help."
Yan Bugui snorted and said with some dissatisfaction: "He wants Yu Li to propose it to him personally."
"this...."
Li Donglai's decision was beyond the expectations of the third aunt and Yan Jiecheng.
In their view, Yan Bugui is the third uncle, and no matter what Li Donglai does, he must give the Yan family some face.
Yan Jiecheng spat: "I see, Li Donglai is a bit arrogant now that he has become a leader!"
"Jie Cheng, what nonsense are you talking about!"
Yan Bugui stared at him with wide eyes and angrily said: "Have you forgotten the ending of the Jia family and the He family? Jia Zhang, Bang Gang, Yu Qiuhua, He Wenyuan and He Wentao are all in the police station now. You also want to
Become like them?"
"But, Li Donglai is clearly bullying our family!" Yan Jiecheng was puzzled.
