webnovelfull Chapter 280 70 The Educated Youth Heroine's Excellent Sister-in-law 65
Chapter 280 70 The Educated Youth Heroine's Excellent Sister-in-law 65
"Hey! What a coincidence, Dazhi, you guys just came back from outside? I was thinking that since you guys were coming today, you would have to rest at home for a while in the afternoon, right?
Is this your sister-in-law? Hello, sister-in-law, I am Zhang Tao, this kid’s best friend, only two months older than him, you can just call me Taozi.
You are so lucky, you have come a long way to find such a good wife like your sister-in-law. What do you call this? This is called a marriage made in heaven."
Xiao Yun also smiled and replied: "Hello, I'm Xiao Yun, I'm a few years older than you, but who made me marry him? I'll just pretend to be young and call you brother."
"Oh, I really can't tell. I thought you were several years younger than us. You've grown so fast. You look like you're only eighteen or nineteen."
Zhang Tao was really surprised. Li Xingzhi never said that Xiao Yun was older than him. He had met Xiao Tiedan before and thought that Xiao Yun was only two or three years older than her brother, which meant she was younger than them. Moreover, when they met, he found that she looked very young. He didn't expect that she was actually several years older than them.
"Come on, stop complaining. It's so sunny outside. Let's go inside. We have so many things."
Zhang Tao pointed at him from a distance and said, "You little brat, I'm at your house now, but you don't open the door for me to come in, and you think I'm delaying your entry, right?"
As he said this, he pushed the door open with ease and removed the threshold so that he could push the bicycle in.
"You guys are going shopping. You really don't feel tired. You've been on the train for a whole day and a whole night, and you still have the energy to go shopping."
"No, we went to register our household registration. The sooner we do it, the better. We don't have to take time out to go there. We also went to the Friendship Store to buy some fabric for clothes. We didn't bring any clothes with us, so we need to make new ones."
Li Xingzhi said to him as he pushed the cart inside.
"No wonder there are so many bags, did you make it yourself or find a tailor? If you find a tailor, my mother knows someone with good skills and the waiting time is short."
Xiao Yun smiled and said, "I can make it myself. It's just for home wear, and it's easy to make for summer. There's no need to find a professional tailor. I'll have to trouble you later when I make formal clothes for autumn and winter."
"You're welcome, it's just a matter of a word, it's not a big deal.
Let's go in quickly. Didn't they say that my grandparents are here too? I have to go and pay my respects to the elders. You see, I'm not empty-handed. I'm carrying some fruit."
As he spoke, he lifted the net bag he had been holding. Inside was a bag of peaches, which are fruits more suitable for the elderly. It was really thoughtful.
The three of them walked around the screen wall at the entrance and saw Grandpa Xiao and Grandma Xiao sitting under the eaves in the front yard. There was a mat on the ground, and little Hanfei was rolling around on it.
Not far from them, a large basin of water was drying in the sun, and on the clothesline were the clothes they had changed out of in the morning.
Seeing them coming back, the old couple stood up from their stools and asked, "You're back. Is everything done?"
Li Xingzhi parked his bicycle and walked over with Xiao Yun carrying the things. As they walked, he said, "It's all done, grandpa and grandma. This is my good buddy Zhang Tao that I told you about. We grew up together and have a very good relationship.
Taozi, these are grandpa and grandma, just follow me and call them.”
"Hello, Grandpa and Grandma. You have worked hard on this journey. I wanted to come here at noon, but I thought you would not be able to rest well on the train and would need to relax, so I came this afternoon.
Today I went to the morning market and bought quite a few peaches that had just come off the outskirts of Beijing. I don’t know if you two like them, but I’ve tasted them and they’re big, sweet, and juicy.”
Grandpa Xiao and Grandma Xiao's faces were wrinkled with laughter, and they kept saying: "The child is welcome to come, it's really a waste of money to bring anything.
We've heard Xingzhi talk about you. You're his best friend in Beijing. You're the one who often sends him things, right?
By the way, this time when I went back I told you that you really liked the fruit wine brewed by our Xiaoyun. It will be mailed to you in two days. We made a lot of it before, so I will ask Xingzhi to send more to you when the time comes.
In order to keep the monkey wine going, Xiao Yun would go up the mountain to pick wild fruits and bring them home to make wine in the summer. But in fact, it was just for show. In the end, he replaced it with diluted monkey wine and filled many jars.
Xiao Yun took advantage of the time difference and told Li Xingzhi that he had sent it in advance, and that it would arrive before the food. In fact, he was planning to pretend to get it back while Li Xingzhi was at work.
Zhang Tao was immediately overjoyed when he heard this. Drinking is a family tradition for him. His grandfather used to work in a winery. There was always wine in his home when he was a child, and wine was always a treat during the New Year and other festivals.
Even though my grandfather is retired now, there are still a lot of drinks sent to him by his younger generations, and he can't just leave them there and not drink them, so everyone in the family has developed a good tolerance for alcohol.
Logically, they should not have been craving for alcohol, but after drinking the fruit wine given by Li Xingzhi, they felt that other kinds of alcohol had no taste. They didn't know if it was a psychological effect, but after drinking it, they felt extremely comfortable, as if they had taken a hot spring bath.
For this reason, his grandfather asked him several times whether it was medicinal wine and whether there was ginseng in it, after all, this was produced in the Northeast.
Now that he heard that there was more wine and the winemaking master had arrived, he would definitely not have to worry about not having enough to drink in the future. How could he not be happy?
A few people sat under the eaves and chatted for a while before Zhang Tao started talking about the main reason he came here, which was to talk about Li Xingzhi's reporting tomorrow.
Zhang Tao works at the station. His father also works in the railway system and is a leader. However, Zhang Tao got in through his own efforts and did not use his father's connections.
Zhang Tao found this job for Li Xingzhi through his connections. Although he had to start as a temporary worker, it was not easy. Nowadays, a temporary worker would earn four or five hundred yuan, so this favor is quite a big deal.
"I originally thought that since you just arrived today, you should at least take a day off, so I told them that you should report in this afternoon and start work the day after tomorrow.
You look quite energetic and your household registration has been processed. Why don’t we go together tomorrow morning and start working right away?”
Li Xingzhi thought about it and shook his head, saying, "Let's just follow what you said originally. Don't give people a bad impression the first time you go. It won't make a big difference if you go for a day or two."
Zhang Tao thought about it and agreed. Although he had his father's support and was not afraid of being criticized, whether he could be converted to a regular employee in the future depended on Li Xingzhi himself. He really had to leave a good impression on his superiors.
"Okay, I asked about the salary. It's 18.5 yuan now. It's a little less now, but it should be enough for daily living expenses. It will be more after I become a regular employee."
He knew that his buddy was not short of money, and this was what he said for Xiao Yun and the others to hear.
Li Xingzhi is indeed not short of money whether he works or not, he just wants to have something to do so that he doesn't seem so eccentric and can reassure Xiao Yun and his grandparents.