It's night, the moon is bright and the stars are few.
Outside the Yanchuan County Guest House, Chu Heng sent away Kong Jun and others who were drunk by him one by one, then turned around and wandered back to the Guest House, preparing to go back to the room to rest.
When he passed by Chu Qi's room, he saw that the lights were still on. He paused and raised his hand to knock on the door.
"Dong dong."
"Come in."
Upon hearing the response, Chu Heng opened the door and walked into the room.
It was already past nine o'clock at night, and Accountant Li had already finished cleaning up and gone to bed, and was lying on the bed smoking a cigarette.
Chu Qi was sitting in front of the dilapidated desk in the house, using the dim light to look through the study materials related to terraces that he had brought back from the Agriculture Bureau. There was also a notebook at hand with excerpts of his notes.
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"Comrade Chu! Sit down quickly."
Seeing him come in, Accountant Li suddenly became excited and hurriedly lifted the quilt and sat up, going down to the ground to pour him some water.
"No, no, you can lie down. I'll talk to Chu Qi for a few words." Chu Heng quickly raised his hand to stop him, and then waved to Chu Qi: "Come out and I'll talk to you."
"Okay." Chu Qi immediately put down the pen in his hand, came out of the room with him, and went to Chu Heng's room next door.
"Brother Hao."
After entering the house, Chu Qi smiled and greeted Cen Hao, who was sitting on the bed studying Jin Ping Mei.
"Um."
Cen Hao groaned lazily, turned over and faced the wall, and continued reading, focused and serious.
Chu Qi had long been accustomed to his personality and was not surprised. He walked to Chu Heng's bed and sat down. He picked up the cigarette on the table and lit one, and then asked: "What do you want to talk to me about?"
Ah, brother?"
"Let me tell you something." Chu Heng sat down next to him, grabbed the cigarette he had just smoked, held it in his mouth, and asked with a smile: "How did you study today?"
"It's okay. The teacher arranged by the Agricultural Bureau was very attentive in teaching, but I'm a little tired. We have to go to the site to study during the day, and we have to read the materials and study by ourselves at night." Chu Qi yawned tiredly and casually said
Lighted a cigarette for myself.
"Repent?" Chu Heng glanced at him: "Then go back with me?
"I don't know how." Chu Qi puffed up his chest with firm eyes: "Now I shoulder the hope of the whole team, and I am very motivated! Besides, it is not my character to give up halfway. Just look at it, I am just tired and vomiting blood.
We need to build this terraced field for Liujiagou!"
"Okay, boy, he is from our old Chu family." Chu Heng smiled happily, and then said: "Tomorrow I will help Kong Jun and the others sort out the goods. They will be leaving the day after tomorrow. You...
If anything happens in the future, just go to Lu Bin and I will be very close to him."
"Are you leaving so soon?" Chu Qi, who had not seen his family for a long time, suddenly felt reluctant to leave. He pulled him and said, "It's not easy for you to come all the way, so just stay a few more days."
"It's time to go back. There are still a lot of things to do back home." Chu Heng shook his head, raised his hand and put his arm around his shoulders, and warned: "Don't forget your promise to me that you must go back during the Chinese New Year, otherwise your mother will
I’m so angry.”
"Well, I will definitely go." Chu Qi lowered his head and was not in a very high mood.
"Also, be careful when you are with that girl Ji Xuemei. Don't make her pregnant before you get married." Chu Heng reminded again.
"Oh, what are you talking about? I, I, I..." Chu Qi suddenly blushed, a little embarrassed to speak.
"Don't leave me alone, your brother, it's not like I haven't been young before." Chu Heng thought about it and felt uneasy, so he got up and went to the suitcase placed in the corner, laid the suitcase flat, opened it, and used his body to
To cover up, I took out a few boxes of small umbrellas and talcum powder that I didn't know when I stuffed them in from the warehouse, and stuffed them back into my little brother.
"Take it."
"What?"
"Small umbrella, if you really can't control yourself, just use this. After use, wash it, dry it and apply some talcum powder before using it. By the way, blow it before use to see if there is any air leakage." Chu Heng opened a box.
He took out a small umbrella that was not much thinner than the rubber gloves of later generations and asked, "Can I teach you how to use it?"
"Why are you giving me this?" Chu Qi, who was holding two boxes of small umbrellas in his hand, saw this thing and threw it on the bed in a hurry like he was holding a soldering iron. His face turned even redder and he was panicking.
He said: "I can't, I definitely can't."
"Hey, I'm still embarrassed. Take it, just in case you need it." Chu Heng smiled and gathered the things together, stuffed them into him again, and then gave him some uneasy instructions on how to behave, before letting him know.
He goes back.
Before Chu Qi left, he still took the small umbrellas and talcum powder with him, stuffed them into his clothes, sneaked out of the room, went back to his room, and stayed up late to continue studying.
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Two days passed in the blink of an eye.
It was also time for Chu Heng to return.
Early in the morning, Kong Jun and other county leaders came over to see him off.
"Thank you, Manager Chu, for your guidance and help over the past two days. I wish you a safe journey."
"You are polite, as you should be." After Chu Heng shook hands with Kong Jun, he turned to look at Chu Qi and the others.
"Have a nice trip, brother." Chu Qi stepped forward and hugged his brother hard. Although after more than half a year of experience, he has matured a lot, but after all, he is still a young man and has not adapted to separation. At this time, he couldn't help but blush.
Eye socket.
"Have a safe journey, Brother Chu...Brother Chu." Ji Xuemei, who was standing aside, said softly.
"Okay, I'm going home, and I'm not dead. I'll see you in a while. Why are you crying? What a bitch."
Chu Heng punched Chu Qi, let go of him, looked at Ji Xuemei, and said with a smile: "My brother sometimes has a bad temper, Xiao Ji, you should take more care of it. If you are wronged, I will give it to you later."
Make the decision and beat him to death!"
"Ah? I, I, I... Okay." Ji Xuemei's little face was so red that it almost bled. She lowered her head shyly, holding the corners of her clothes tightly with both hands.
Seeing this, Chu Heng didn't say anything more. He turned to Accountant Li, shook hands with him, and asked him to take care of Chu Qi. Finally, he said goodbye to Lu Bin, and then got in the car with Cen Hao and left.
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After leaving the county town, the two of them did not return along the original route. They planned to run from Qingjian to Luliang, then to Taiyuan, and change the route to continue playing back.
Because they took many detours, it took them five days to reach Sijiu City.
After Cen Hao returned to the scrapyard and chatted with Dou Laodao for a while, Chu Heng, who had been away from home for only half a month, hurriedly drove into the city.
After returning home all the way, Chu Heng, with the help of Yang Guizhi, brought the specialties he bought on the way into the house. The first thing he did was to run to the deaf old lady's house and hold his precious daughter in his arms for a while.