Return to Splendid

Chapter 201 Neighbor’s Child

There was a strong wind all night. Xing Yi was awakened by the sound of the wind and could not fall asleep again. He was only worried that the pigeon loft would be damaged. He put on his clothes and got up in the middle of the night and used a flashlight to check. Fortunately, the pigeon loft was safe and sound, and the pigeons were not frightened. The child was blinking in the electric light.The master who made and installed it did not tell lies, and his production and materials are absolutely guaranteed.

At dawn, the wind stopped and he was not sleepy, so he made breakfast for Ni Shuzhen, his children and Wu Xiaomei.

After a while, everyone got up. Wu Xiaomei got up first. After washing, she went to the kitchen and came out soon. She said embarrassedly: "Brother Xing, have you done everything?"

Xing Yi said: "It's rare that you have time to make it. Try it first. If the taste is not suitable, just adjust it."

Wu Xiaomei said: "It smells very good."

After a while, Ni Shuzhen and her children got up, and the family sat down to have breakfast. Wu Xiaomei asked, "Sister Ni, how does it taste today?"

Ni Shuzhen said: "Very good."

Wu Xiaomei said: "Brother Xing made today's breakfast."

Ni Shuzhen said: "I didn't expect that your brother Xing has such skills?"

While eating, there was a knock on the door. Yuanchi asked his mother to hold hands and open the door together. It was Uncle Jiyong who came.

Xing Yi invited him to come in and have something to eat.

He said that after eating, he stood at the door and said that the roof of his house was damaged by the wind and asked Brother Xing to find someone to repair it quickly.He bent down and touched Yuanchi's face and left.

Ni Shuzhen looked at his back and muttered: "I'm so ignorant. I don't even call out, and I don't have any etiquette."

Xing Yi said: "Forget it, brothers, don't worry about it. I'll go over and take a look. Grandpa must not do it himself."

The couple went to work respectively. Wu Xiaomei sent Xiao Yuanchi to kindergarten. Xing Yi called the village and said that he had something to do at home today and could not come to the village.

He went to his father-in-law's house, checked it out, and found that one of the three bright tiles on the roof was damaged. It was not a big deal, so he could just buy one and replace it.Xing Yi went to the market to buy bright tiles and borrowed a ladder from his neighbor's Aunt Jian's house.

Aunt Jian's house is also repairing the roof. Her son is squatting on it while her mother is handing out materials below.

Xing Yi saw it and said, "I want to borrow your ladder. Your family is using it. I'll come back later."

Aunt Jian said: "Our family is still short of materials and we can't use them now, so you can use them first."

Aunt Jian asked her son Huang Niu to come down and help carry the ladder to Uncle Nee's house.

After the bright tiles were built, Xing Yi told his father-in-law: "Aunt Jian's house was also damaged."

The father-in-law said: "Her house is built with asbestos tiles. It has been there for a long time. If the wind is so strong, it will definitely not be able to support it."

Xing Yi said: "I will return the ladder and help them by the way."

I carried the ladder and went over with a hand hammer and clamps.

My father-in-law looked at my uncle intently. His waist and legs were straight. He thought to himself that it would be a pity not to join the army and become an officer with this body.

A lot of asbestos tiles on the roof of Aunt Jane's house are damaged and broken. We need to repair them quickly. We can't repair them today. If the wind blows again tonight, there will be problems.

Aunt Jane found plastic sheets, linoleum sheets, and an old blanket at home, and planned to use these things to cover it first.

How can this work?Xing Yi gathered the asbestos tiles that could be used, and calculated that he still needed about ten tiles. Without saying anything, he went to the Beimen Shang Building Materials Store and paid for the asbestos tiles.

Aunt Jane greeted him and said, "I'm going to get the money and give it to you."

Xing Yi said: "Don't worry now, we will wait until the house is repaired."

My father-in-law couldn't stand alone there, so he came too, and together with the scalpers, he handed the asbestos tiles upwards.In two hours, the house was repaired.

Aunt Jane said: "Get some rest quickly, I'll make dinner and eat together."

Xing Yi's mother-in-law shouted from the roadside: "It's fine here, just eat here."

Aunt Jane said: "It is common for your son-in-law to eat your family's food, but ours has never eaten it."

Father-in-law said: "Aunt Jian's craftsmanship is good, and I often smell the fragrance coming over there. It's a pity that I don't have this good taste. I have high blood pressure and high blood lipids. I can just have a bowl of porridge and a steamed bun at home. Xing Yi, you are right here , eat more and make Aunt Jane happy.”

Xing Yi sat down. Aunt Jian was cooking potatoes stewed with green peppers, stir-fried lotus whites with minced garlic, stir-fried dried cowpeas with dried chili peppers, and fried eggs with tomatoes.

Aunt Jian asked scalper to get some wine, but Xing Yi persuaded him. He usually didn't drink much, unless it was for work activities or when he went to the countryside and people brought out the wine they roasted, he would inevitably drink a little.His body lacks enzymes and cannot break down methanol, so his face turns red and his heart beats faster when he drinks it.

Aunt Jian said: "That's good. If you don't know how to drink, don't learn. Our scalpers don't drink either."

Aunt Jian kept adding vegetables to Xing Yi's bowl, which was full.Xing Yi saw that the scalper rarely picked up vegetables and was immersed in picking up the rice without looking at the plate, so he gave him the vegetables.

Aunt Jian said: "I'm not sensible and don't know how to persuade others. I only care about eating for myself."

The scalper had rice in his mouth and stared blankly at his mother.

Xing Yi said: "If I remember correctly, you graduated from high school this year, right?"

He nodded, "Yeah."

"That means,?"

"Ah."

"Are you taking the college entrance examination?"

He shook his head.

"Didn't take the exam? Then prepare to work?"

Thinking of the recruitment of workers at the hydropower plant, I asked the scalper if he knew about it.

The scalper muttered, "I know."

Xing Yi heard his voice a little strange: "What? Did you not take the exam?"

He said: "I passed the exam."

Aunt Jian hurriedly came over to add boiling water and touched the ox with her knee. The ox stood up, took the thermos bottle, and refilled Xing Yi's water.He put down the thermos, looked at Xing Yi, and walked into the back room.

The door panel was closed gently, and the thin wooden board was still shaking even after it was closed.Xing Yi felt that the expression in his eyes didn't look like sadness, but rather like dissatisfaction.

Xing Yi thought that he did not do well in the exam, and his mother would not let him speak out because of her face. He himself was embarrassed, so he avoided it.

Xing Yi laughed and said: "It's nothing. There were almost 200 people who took the exam, twenty to one. Most of them failed, and only a handful of people were admitted. It's nothing special. Just review carefully. If you can't do it this time, try your best next time." That’s it.”

Xing Yi said that he had a friend's cousin. When he came back after taking the exam, his family asked him how he was doing. He shamelessly showed off that he had done 32 out of 24 questions, which was more than 70.00%. He looked at the candidates next to him and saw that there was no Whoever takes more tests than him should be in the top ten.The results were announced, ranking No. 40 and eighth, which is embarrassing to say.

Aunt Jane just rubbed her nose and turned away.At this time, the board door opened, and scalper stood at the door and said calmly: "I have done all 32 questions."

Xing Yi was surprised: "Really? Have you done all the questions?"

"All done."

He handed Xing Yi a piece of paper with the standard answer on it.

"Have you checked?"

"Checked."

"Are they all correct?"

"correct."