They are not eating hot pot here, but are having a meeting.
In the bright conference room, Section Chief Mao Sen was speaking and setting out tasks for the new year.
The attendees were very mixed, including men and women, old and young, with the oldest being forty or fifty and the youngest being sixteen or seventeen. Judging from the seat rankings, some young people seemed to have a higher status than many old comrades...
"It's not good!"
A familiar scene appeared again. A young man suddenly broke into the conference room and told everyone in the room about Chu Heng's handling of Gan Pingjiang and others.
"How dare he!"
"This is not over yet!"
"Let's go find him!"
Half the people in the room were excited and furious, feeling that this was a slap in the face.
The other half looked at them expressionlessly, and some even went around touching bricks and table legs, waiting for soldiers, just waiting for the leader to give an order to kill the group of bastards who were shouting around them.
Mao Sen looked at a man next to him who was looking at him coldly. He was so frightened that he broke out in sweat. He hurriedly said something to stop the noisy crowd: "Quiet, everyone, please be quiet. What's the fuss about? Gan Pingjiang and Fang Haijun are no longer us.
What do they have to do with you? Hurry up and have a meeting!"
He is a native of Sijiu City, and he is very familiar with Chu Heng's name.
I am also very aware of the gap between myself and him.
Let's put it this way, he is on the same level as the man just now, and this man wants to call Han Xu Brother Sheng. Han Xu is Du San's little brother, and Du San is Chu Heng's pawn.
If you calculate it this way, there is a gap of five or six floors between him and Chu Heng!
If he really dares to climb upstairs to fight with Chu Heng, there is a high probability that he will be thrown from the upstairs, and the remaining probability is that he may be thrown into the Jinshui River...
It’s not good anyway!
So he would only care about Gan Pingjiang unless he was crazy!
…
evening.
The light snow that had been falling all afternoon finally stopped, and a thick layer of white snow accumulated on the ground. The entire Sijiu City was covered in silver.
"Crunch!"
Chu Heng stepped out of the car through the white and fluffy snow, holding a cigarette in his mouth, swaying his arms and walking casually towards the door of the Sanliang Store nearby to pick up his wife and go to his father-in-law's house to pay New Year's greetings.
After experiencing the purchasing wave two years ago, the business of Sanliang Store has calmed down. There have been few residents here all day long. At this time, a group of idle employees are gathering together for a long-lost tea party.
The center of the conversation was none other than Da Da Heng, who had just used thunderous means to clear out the Sixth District Grain Management Office. Everyone there was ecstatically clapping their hands and applauding.
"What Tsuneko did is so beautiful!"
"Relieve your anger, it's so refreshing!"
"I heard that Gan Pingjiang got punched several times!"
"You deserve it! Why didn't you beat me to death?"
"Oh, life will be much easier this time!"
The chat here was lively when Chu Heng walked in with his hands behind his back. He glanced at them gathered together. The familiar scene made him feel more cordial in his heart. He smiled and greeted: "Happy New Year!"
"Ouch, Tsuneko!"
"Happy New Year, happy New Year!"
"We were talking about you!"
"You have done a great thing this time!"
Aunt Sun and others immediately came forward with all kinds of chatter. After Chu Heng chatted with them for a few words, he couldn't help but stretched out his hand to pinch the fat face of his sister-in-law Ni Yingxia, and went to the back room amidst the sound of her teeth grinding.
Gone to find a wife.
After a while, the golden couple came out from behind talking and laughing.
Sun Mei saw it and said with a smile: "Tsk, tsk, look at these two standing together, just like in a painting. The more they look at each other, the more they match each other."
"Quickly pull me down. When Director Lian said he wanted to introduce Ni Yinghong to me, didn't you stand in the way and say I wasn't worthy?" Chu Heng curled his lips and said.
"Ah? Is this happening? Why don't I remember it?" Sun Mei looked confused and her eyes evaded.
Xiao Ni's eyebrows were crooked and his mouth was smiling, and he helped them remember: "Yes, why not? Not only you, but also Aunt Liu and Aunt Han, who all disagreed at the time, saying that he was too handsome to be reliable.
!”
The aunties who had been exposed immediately turned red in the face, and drove them away angrily: "Okay, okay, it's all a matter of sesame seeds and rotting millet, why are you talking about it? Can you two leave?"
"You guys are really accomplished. Even the director dares to chase you away. Just wait for me. I will put on small shoes one by one when I turn around!" Chu Heng walked forward with a smile and pinched her sister-in-law's face again: "Don't pinch me.
Come on, pack up quickly and go together in my car."
Ni Yingxia is also going to Ni's house.
After all, no one is rich these days, and it is impossible to cook and entertain New Year guests like later generations, so the Ni family took the initiative to invite all relatives over for a meal on the second day of the Lunar New Year. This not only saves money, but also
save trouble.
"I'll do it right away!"
When the little fat girl heard that she could ride in the car, her eyes suddenly lit up. She didn't even care about being pinched in the face. She turned around and packed her things, and then came out of the shop with Chu Heng and his wife.
After the three of them went out, they walked straight to the place where bicycles were parked nearby. After stuffing the sisters' bicycles into the trunk, the couple took Ni Yingxia, who seemed a little excited because it was her second time in a car, into the car and left together.
Went to Sanliangdian.
Naturally, they couldn't go empty-handed to pay New Year's greetings, so Chu Heng and the others first went back to the Chu family's mansion in Banchang Hutong, picked up some cigarettes, wine, candies, fruits and other things, and then set off again, towards the Ni family's house.
And go.
Along the way, chubby girl Ni Yingxia's eyes never left the things Chu Heng put on the back seat.
Ouch!
Those juicy peaches and plump and juicy grapes are so appetizing!
She swallowed like this for more than twenty minutes, and just when she was about to fill herself up, Volga finally came to the familiar courtyard.
"belch!"
Ni Yingxia got out of the car with a burp. She immediately went around to the back of the car and took out her bicycle from the trunk, carefully checking whether there was any damage.
After Chu Heng stood aside and waited for a while, seeing that she was not finished, he couldn't help but urge: "Can you leave?"
"Okay, okay."
The little fat girl quickly locked the bicycle and followed the couple into the yard.
When the three of them arrived at Ni's house, no one else had come over yet. Only Ni's father was sitting on the bench, drinking tea at the table where several dishes had been laid.
"Dad, happy New Year!"
"Happy New Year, uncle!"
"Okay, okay, you guys are early enough."
Father Ni quickly put down his tea cup and stood up, taking the things from his precious uncle's hand.
"We're not busy today, let's leave early." Chu Heng naturally lowered his head and opened his arms, letting his wife take off his scarf and cotton-padded clothes.
Mother Ni in the kitchen heard the noise and came out. Seeing that they didn't bring Chu Zhecheng, she couldn't help but feel disappointed: "Where is the child? Why didn't you bring the child?"
"We just fell asleep when we went back, so we didn't bring anything with us." Xiao Ni explained casually, looking around with charming eyes, trying to see what he could bring back when he left later.
Although her family now lacks everything, she would not be able to think clearly if she didn't take something with her every time she went back to her parents' home.
This leaky cotton-padded jacket...
"Come here!"
The sister-in-law also came out of the kitchen at this time, holding a plate of someone's favorite black fungus in her hand. She smiled and said to Chu Heng: "What do you think of this fungus? It's big, thick, and delicious."
“Really good!”
Chu Heng took a look and nodded with a smile. This year's fungus is much bigger than last year.