Chen Hua has already entered Li's house at Ding Qiunan's warm invitation.
"Sit down quickly and drink some water."
Chen Hua is Ding Qiunan's cousin and can be considered a member of her natal family, so Ding Qiunan naturally has to treat her well.
He took out the enamel jar, put two spoons of brown sugar in it, then picked up the hot water bottle and poured a cup of brown sugar water into the enamel jar, and handed it to Chen Hua.
Chen Hua took it and secretly looked at the furnishings in the house, including the pink and white walls, the blue health cluster, the fresh new furniture, the TV, the radio on the table, and the sofa with springs under her butt.
This family can be regarded as one of the best in the entire capital.
I also heard that my brother-in-law is also a scientist and has developed many new drugs and even won the Nobel Prize.
In this day and age, the Nobel Prize may be unfamiliar to ordinary people. Even if it is reported in the news, most people will just praise it and forget it soon.
But Chen Hua graduated from a formal university and studied mechanical design. Her knowledge of Nobel is far beyond the average person. It is the highest palace of science. Even her teachers and professors spent a lifetime to obtain it, and this representative
My brother-in-law is only about thirty years old.
Thinking of this, Chen Hua glanced past a half-open door and could see a desk inside, filled with various books.
Obviously, inside is the study room of Li Donglai, a Nobel Prize winner.
Chen Hua's heart was filled with curiosity. He stood up involuntarily and was about to open the study door and walk in.
At this time, Ding Qiunan, who had just taught Wei Dong a lesson, turned around, saw her, and quickly stepped forward to stop her.
While gently closing the door, he explained with a smile: "Chen Hua, your Donglai brother doesn't like others to enter his study room. The children must have pushed it away accidentally just now."
Her eyes and tone were full of apology, but Chen Hua could understand it.
She is also engaged in research and hates others looking through her materials.
"Cousin, I was negligent."
Chen Hua woke up and remembered the gifts he had brought. He quickly turned around and walked out of the house, taking down the big bags from his bicycle.
"Cousin, I was just talking and forgot about these things."
Seeing that Chen Hua had brought a gift, Ding Qiunan said angrily: "You are really a kid. You have just graduated not long ago and you don't have much money. Why spend all this money."
Ding Qiunan still knows something about Chen Hua's family.
Although Chen Hua's family lives a wealthy life, Chen Hua's father, Chen Dongfang, is a very strict father. He has always believed that a spoiled child is a spoiler. After the Chen family's children graduate and join the workforce, they will not be able to get financial support from the family.
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Chen Hua said sheepishly: "Cousin, I should have come to visit you a long time ago. Besides, my cousin-in-law has helped me so much this time. If I don't buy something, I will feel very guilty."
"Help?" Ding Qiunan was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that he had asked Li Dong for help last night.
She said in disbelief: "It only took less than a day, how could your brother-in-law handle it so quickly?"
"I don't believe it either, but the green man who harassed me before has been imprisoned in a fence now, and his father, who he usually relied on, has also been imprisoned. How can the security department be so efficient?
Who else but my cousin-in-law? You work in a steel rolling mill, and you also know how taboo the security department is against incestuous relationships between men and women. If you can hide it, hide it. How can you inform the whole factory and get to the bottom of it?" Chen Hua said.
As he spoke, golden stars appeared in his eyes.
Ding Qiunan is now considered an old employee, and of course he understands this. Then he believed that it was Li Donglai who took action, and nodded with a smile: "We are all a family, and we should help each other. If you do this, it will appear to be alienating."
"What's the point of birth? I didn't come when you got married, and I didn't come when you gave birth to your child. Now I think I'm making up for it."
Chen Hua spoke and opened two bags. In one bag was a bright red woolen coat.
The clothes in this era were mainly black and blue, and bright red clothes were rare. Only those coastal areas in Guangcheng would wear such fashionable clothes due to the influence of the outside world.
The price of this kind of clothes is quite high in Beijing.
Even though Ding Qiunan had a monthly salary of more than 100 yuan, she was reluctant to buy it. She took the woolen coat and kept saying it was too expensive.
"I saw this dress at first glance on the clothes rack in the department store. It matches you perfectly." Chen Hua looked at Ding Qiunan enviously.
Ding Qiunan said it was expensive, but she felt happy in her heart and said with a smile: "Thank you very much."
Chen Hua opened another bag, which contained two sets of children's clothing.
Seeing this, Ding Qiunan felt relieved and glanced at Chen Hua appreciatively. This little girl was not familiar with the world.
She was most worried that Chen Hua also bought a piece of clothing for Li Donglai. According to the rules in the capital, a young girl like Chen Hua who was besieging the city could not give clothes or other items to her cousin's husband.
Ding Qiunan called Wei Dong and Wei Guo over: "These are the clothes your aunt gave you. Quickly say thank you to your aunt."
When the two children saw the new clothes, their eyes instantly lit up, and they obediently took the clothes: "Auntie, thank you."
"So good!"
"By the way. I also brought small gifts to Wei Dong and Wei Guo!"
Chen Hua seemed to have remembered something. He took out a handful of glass balls from his pocket and spread his palms.
Looking at those glass balls, Wei Dong and Wei Guo's eyes suddenly lit up. They threw their new clothes aside and ran over.
"Auntie, auntie, I want colorless ones."
"I want colorless ones too."
The glass balls have sailboat-shaped colors inside, including red, yellow, blue, green, and there is also a glass ball without a sailboat inside.
It stands to reason that the glass ball with a sailboat is more beautiful, but children prefer the transparent one.
Ever since the two little guys became sensible, everything has been exactly the same. For example, Wei Dong fell down and injured the back of his hand. Then Wei Guo also fell down in the same position and injured the back of his hand.
Ding Qiunan helped the two children make clothes. Even though the color was chosen by Wei Dong himself, Wei Guo still wanted to fight for it after seeing Wei Dong put on new clothes.
Ding Qiunan looked at the two of them and hoped in his heart that it would be best if there were the same number of colorless glass balls, otherwise the two little guys would definitely fight.
Fortunately, I was lucky this time. There were exactly four colorless glass balls, which prevented a family war.
The two children took the glass balls, said thank you to Chen Hua, squatted at the door and played a game of bouncing marbles.
Ding Qiunan saw that it was getting late and started preparing dinner, so he asked Chen Hua to look after the two children.
At this time, Chen Hua said that it was getting late and wanted to go back, but was stopped by Ding Qiunan.
"Chen Hua, this is the first time you have come to my house. If I let you go back, your mother will definitely scold me if she finds out. Just sit there and watch them. Just don't let them fight. You don't
Brother Lai may have to work overtime and will be back later."
After hearing this, Chen Hua agreed and sat on the sofa, drinking water while watching Wei Dong and Wei Guo bounce marbles at the door.
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At this time, Li Donglai had been busy all day, riding his bicycle back from the laboratory.
After today's busy work, the distribution of the first batch of electric bicycles has been completed. Li Donglai mobilized the truck fleet of the steel rolling mill to transport the electric bicycles to major supply and marketing cooperatives in the capital. At the same time, the ministry also distributed electric bicycle tickets to qualified comrades in advance.
Waiting until tomorrow, electric bicycles will be available for sale in several large cities such as Beijing and Jincheng.
By then, the steel rolling mill laboratory will be able to move to a higher level.
Thinking about these things, Li Donglai couldn't help but feel excited.
He picked up his bicycle, crossed the threshold of the gate, and walked slowly inside.
Just took two steps.
A dark shadow jumped out next to him.
Li Donglai was startled and stopped suddenly. When he saw the person opposite him clearly, he couldn't help but frown.
That person was clearly Yan Bugui, the Third Master of the Siheyuan.
"Lao Yan, you're trying to scare people to death in the middle of the night!"
Yan Bugui waited outside for two hours and said with a smile: "Donglai, are you working overtime tonight?"
"It's really a bit busy at work..."
When Li Donglai saw Yanbu Gui's small eyes behind the tortoise shell frame, he blinked, and it became clear that something was wrong with him.
If it were in the past, I would definitely have a few more chats with Yan Bugui.
But now his stomach was already growling, so Li Donglai asked directly: "Old Yan, what is going on!"
Yan Bugui chuckled, came over and said in a low voice: "Dong Lai, who is the girl who came to your house today?"
"Girl?" Li Donglai was confused.
"He's the tall, thin guy with a ponytail and wearing the uniform of the Beijing Automobile Manufacturing Factory." Yan Bugui explained.
Although Li Donglai didn't go home, he guessed it from Yan Bugui's description.
"It should be Chen Hua, Ding Qiunan's cousin."
"Yes, yes, I did hear Ding Qiunan call her cousin." Yan Bugui whispered: "Is Comrade Chen Hua married, where does he work, how old is he this year..."
"The little girl just graduated and was assigned to work in the Beijing Automobile Manufacturing Plant. This year..." Li Donglai was halfway through his words when he suddenly realized something was wrong. He raised his head and looked at Yan Bugui: "Old Yan, why are you asking so many questions?"
Yan Bugui said with a smile: "Isn't it true that my family has never found a partner? I think this girl is quite good."
Although Yan Jiecheng expressed that he was not interested in Chen Hua, Yan Bugui was moved. He had just inquired with the second uncle Liu Haizhong.
The wages of workers in the Beijing automobile manufacturing plant are much higher than those in the steel rolling mill, not to mention that Chen Hua looks like a knowledgeable and educated person, probably a researcher.
Then the salary will be higher, at least more than fifty yuan a month...
This is much higher than Yan Jiecheng's salary.
Hearing this, Li Donglai couldn't help but rub his ears: "What did you say?"
"I would like to ask you to introduce Chen Hua to my family, Yan Jiecheng..." Yan Bugui repeated.
"no!"
Li Donglai rejected him without hesitation.
Just kidding, Yan Jiecheng is a bad person now. Those messy things he does will sooner or later be punished. It's just that Li Donglai is busy with electric bicycles now and doesn't want to pay attention to Yan Jiecheng.
Besides, Yan Jiecheng has not graduated from elementary school, while Chen Hua is a college student, eight or nine years younger than Yan Jiecheng.
Yan Bugui is simply wishful thinking!
When Li Donglai returned to the backyard, he couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly.
These people in the courtyard have an inexplicable self-confidence. They think that it is natural for others to treat them well.
Once this self-confidence is broken, they will become angry, turn into beasts in an instant, and bite you hard.
What I met tonight was Yan Bugui, the most upright person in the courtyard. If he had been a member of the Jia family, he would have started scolding him by now.
Inside the house, Ding Qiunan, with Chen Hua's help, had already prepared a large table of dishes.
Hearing the footsteps, Ding Qiunan quickly opened the door: "Dong Lai, you are back."
"I heard from the third uncle that Chen Hua is here." Li Donglai entered the room. As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Hua quickly stood up from the sofa.
This was the first time she had seen Li Donglai in recent years, and she felt an inexplicable sense of fear.
"Director Li, you are back."
"We are all from the same family. I am still your cousin-in-law. Just call me Donglai." Li Donglai waved his hand to her, hung the canvas bag on the hanger, and then washed his hands in the basin brought by Ding Qiunan.
Sit down at the dinner table.
"Today is really rich."
On the square table, there are scrambled eggs with tomatoes, scrambled eggs with green peppers, stir-fried green beans, stir-fried cabbage, peanuts, and shredded potatoes.
Although there is no meat, it is still rich.
Li Donglai looked up at Chen Hua: "Sister Chen Hua, I took advantage of you today."
Seeing Li Donglai's warm attitude, Chen Hua breathed a sigh of relief and became less reserved.
"Brother Donglai, are you so busy every day?"
"That's not true. Our steel rolling mill laboratory has released new products in the past few days, so it has been a little busy. On weekdays, I am a good husband who gets off work on time." Li Donglai said with a smile.
Chen Hua put down his chopsticks, widened his eyes and asked, "Is the new product an electric bicycle?"
Before Li Donglai answered, Ding Qiunan asked curiously: "What is an electric bicycle?"
Li Donglai adheres to the principle that work is work and life is life, and he rarely talks about work at home.
In addition, the early research on electric vehicles needs to be kept confidential, so Ding Qiunan didn't know about it.
Chen Hua said with admiration: "A while ago, in Brother Donglai's steel rolling mill laboratory, a battery-powered bicycle was developed that can run as long as the switch is turned."
Ding Qiunan couldn't help but take a breath and turned to look at Li Donglai, his eyes full of admiration.
This rough man came up with another great invention without saying a word.
Although Ding Qiunan is not a researcher, he knows that this kind of energy-saving electric vehicle will definitely become popular all over the world in the future.
Li Donglai didn't expect that Chen Hua would be so well-informed and looked at Chen Hua suspiciously.
Chen Hua quickly explained: "Brother Donglai, don't forget, I am a researcher in the Equipment Department of the Beijing Automobile Manufacturing Plant. Our automobile factory is also very interested in electric bicycles."
Only then did Li Donglai understand and said with a smile: "It's almost ready, and it will be available for sale tomorrow."
"So fast?" Chen Hua was surprised. It is not a simple matter to turn a product from a design drawing into a finished product, and then realize large-scale production of the finished product.
