After a ten-minute journey, Liu Guangqi finally arrived at the scrap collection station outside Zuo'anmen.
Liu Guangqi had just parked his car in the yard and squatted in front of the scrap iron pile. Not long after, he heard the roar of a tractor outside the door. When he looked up, he saw the person he least expected to see and the person he most wanted to see.
Naturally, the last thing they wanted to see was Xu Huizhen and Cai Quanwu. The reason goes without saying. Apart from being embarrassed, the three of them didn't know what to say when they met. They pretended that nothing happened. Liu Guangqixin wasn't that big yet. .
So in order to avoid this situation, Liu Guangqi rarely goes to taverns to drink. After all, with the situation between him and Xu Huizhen, any man would be upset if he knew about it. In comparison, Cai Quanwu is already generous enough. If he continues to wander around in front of others without the sense of humor, he will simply be giving trouble to others. People are causing trouble.
Naturally, what he wanted to see most was Xu Jingping, his son with Xu Huizhen. This child is now two and a half years old. In order to prevent Xu Huizhen and Cai Quanwu from thinking too much about it, Liu Guangqi rarely sees him. Occasionally, he can only take a look at him from afar.
"Son, isn't it fun to ride in the car?"
After the tractor stopped, Xu Huizhen jumped out of the car with Xu Jingping in her arms, touched Xu Jingping's face and asked.
“It’s fun, I still want to sit down”
Xu Jingping, who was in his arms, raised his head and replied crisply.
"Okay, no problem. Let's sit down later when mom and dad are done. That's not a bad idea."
"good"
Xu Huizhen coaxed Xu Jingping and walked towards the scrap iron pile with her child in her arms. When she looked up, she happened to see Liu Guangqi. When the two saw each other, they were both stunned.
"coincidence"
After being stunned for a moment, Liu Guangqi smiled and said hello to the other party.
"Yeah, what a coincidence."
Xu Huizhen replied dryly, and then the two of them fell into an awkward silence again, their eyes wandering and looking around.
Taking this opportunity, Liu Guangqi took a good look at his strange son. The little guy was more than two years old and was about to be three years old. He had a tiger head and a very strong head. Perhaps it was influenced by the soul power in Liu Guangqi's body. At first glance, the little guy It looks exactly like what Liu Guangqi drew when he was a child in his previous life.
"Can I hug him?"
When Liu Guangqi looked at Xu Jingping, Xu Jingping also looked at Liu Guangqi with a pair of dark eyes. The father and son looked at each other, and Liu Guangqi's heart suddenly felt like a sauce vat had been broken.
He regretted that he should have forcibly taken Xu Huizhen to space to give birth to the child. It was really uncomfortable to separate his own flesh and blood just to consider other people's feelings.
Liu Guangqi couldn't help but directly asked Xu Huizhen what he wanted in his heart.
"Ah, of course."
Xu Huizhen hesitated a little and handed Xu Jingping to Liu Guangqi.
"Hey, the little guy is quite heavy."
The moment Liu Guangqi took over Xu Jingping, it felt like he was holding a stone egg and his arms suddenly dropped.
Seeing this scene, Xu Huizhen immediately gave her a hand nervously. Cai Quanwu had just stopped the tractor and walked over when he saw this scene. He stopped for a moment, not knowing whether he should walk over.
“It’s quite heavy”
When Xu Huizhen saw Cai Quanwu coming, she immediately let go of Liu Guangqi and took a step back to distance herself, then waved to Cai Quanwu.
"Dr. Liu, why are you here too?"
Cai Quanwu came over and said hello to Liu Guangqi.
"Oh, the school and hospital are organizing large-scale steel smelting. I'll come over to buy some scrap iron. How about you?"
"Oh, we"
"We heard that we collected some old furniture here and came to take a look."
Cai Quanwu wanted to speak, but was pulled by Xu Huizhen and answered Liu Guangqi's question first.
“Well, that’s right, come and look at the old furniture.
"What kind of furniture is it? It's worth bringing you two over here together."
Although he knew that the other party was here for scrap metal, Liu Guangqi did not criticize the other party, but followed the other party's words.
"I think it looks like something from the Chongzhen period. You are an expert in this field, so why don't you give me a look?"
"Okay, where is the thing?"
Liu Guangqi was worried that he would not have the opportunity to stay with Xu Jingping for a while, so naturally he would not pass up this opportunity.
"The things are placed over here. Come and take a look."
Then the three of them arrived at the warehouse of the scrap collection station.
"Hey, there are a lot of things in here. They are all found in second-hand furniture stores in the city."
Liu Guangqi was surprised when he walked in. He saw that the warehouse more than four meters high and more than ten meters deep was filled with all kinds of old furniture. It was no better than the one he took Ding Qiunan to last time. Second hand furniture store is bad.
"It can't be compared with the ones in the city. The furniture collected in the city is all good, but the ones we collect here are missing arms and legs. After all, not every household can afford such complete furniture. When you get up, come over to our place and pick out a few missing arms and legs and go back to tidy them up and make do with them."
The old man looking at the warehouse heard Liu Guangqi's sigh and explained. When Liu Guangqi heard the words, he took a closer look and found that what the old man said was indeed right. Although there were a lot of furniture in there, most of them were broken and only a few pieces were left. A few of them are in pretty good condition, and most of them are made of extremely ordinary poplar and elm wood with little collection value.
"Uncle, let's go in and see if we have anything better to take back and make do with."
Naturally, Cai Quanwu couldn't take Liu Guangqi in to see things in front of others, so that people would know at a glance that Cai Quanwu and the others were interested in something good. Although the family is not short of money, we cannot allow others to be taken advantage of.
"You can drive a tractor and still buy things here."
The old man glanced at Cai Quanwu and said
"They didn't buy it for us, they bought it for our store clerk. The store hired a new clerk. They rented a house with nothing but a bed. There were no two places to sit."
"Okay, look, look"
Hearing the reason for Cai Quanwu's nonsense, the old man waved his hands and leaned on the chair and squinted. This season of spring and autumn is a good time to take a nap.
Seeing the old man closing his eyes, Cai Quanwu led Xu Huizhen and Liu Guangqi straight to the depths of the warehouse, pointed to a gray armchair and whispered,
"Dr. Liu, please take a look at this chair. It looks like something from the Chongzhen period, but I feel like there's something wrong there. Let me tell you, I can't tell."
"Here, take it off first and let me take a closer look."
Liu Guangqi took a wide look. Judging from the shape, there is no problem that the thing is old. However, because it has been stored for too long, it is covered with a layer of dust, and the position is too high, so the details are not clear.
"Come on, stand aside."
Hearing this, Cai Quanwu rolled up his sleeves and moved the chair down from the pile of furniture without saying a word. Then he took out a sweat towel from his pocket and wiped the chair.
Then he made room for Liu Guangqi. Liu Guangqi hugged Xu Jingping and circled around the armchair, and quickly discovered what Cai Quanwu said was wrong.
"It's old, yes, and it's still made of huanghuali, but the backrest board and the rear legs were damaged in the middle, and they were repaired later. The repair time was probably during the Qianlong period.
The reason why you feel something is wrong is that although the material used is also huanghuali, the workmanship between the Chongzhen and Qianlong periods was still different. This slight difference caused the entire furniture to be incoherent and look strange. of.
But there's nothing wrong with the thing. I can just go back and change it to a jade seat surface. If it doesn't work, I can just change it to an ordinary nanmu seat surface. "
"Awesome, this cultural man is different. I came here several times to look at it, but I'm not sure, for fear that I might have misjudged it. You can tell at a glance that something is wrong. After you said that, I also thought about it. , this backrest board really doesn’t look like something from the Ming Dynasty.”
Cai Quanwu stared at where Liu Guangqi was talking carefully and then Liu Guangqi gave him a thumbs up.
"It's a pity. These chairs should be a pair. I'm afraid it would be pointless to take this one chair back. I can only put it in my own room and cannot take it out to entertain guests."
Liu Guangqi looked at the chair in front of him and shook his head regretfully.
"It's a pity, look over there."
At this time, Xu Huizhen, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly pointed towards the door.
Liu Guangqi looked in the direction of Xu Huizhen's finger, and then realized that the chair the old man was sleeping on was exactly the same as the chair in front of them, and it was much better in quality than this one.
"Congratulations to both of you, you have made a big mistake this time. If these two chairs were put into the world, they would be sold for a lot of money."
"Thanks to you, we can be sure. Since you are here, why not help us see if there is anything else worth buying in this place. If there is anything, we will take it away together."
Cai Quanwu chuckled, a trace of treachery flashed in his eyes.
"You really know how to seize the opportunity to order people around. Okay, I'll help you take a look."
"Then you choose here, and I'll go talk to the uncle."
Seeing this, Xu Huizhen walked towards the old man squatting at the door, intending to take away the chair under the old man's butt.
"Why haven't you had a baby yet?"
After Xu Huizhen left, the two grown men who had just been chatting and laughing suddenly fell silent. Liu Guangqi saw this and talked about the child. According to Xu Huizhen's character, he must give Cai Quanwu a child of his, otherwise it would be too wrong for Cai. All gone. But Xu Jingping is almost three years old now, and Xu Huizhen's stomach has still not moved, which means there must be something wrong.
"The doctor said that Huizhen's first and second children were too close together, which hurt her body and she would have to recover for two years, otherwise she would easily miscarry even if she was pregnant. The time is almost here, and we plan to have it in the next year."
"That's good"
Liu Guangqi nodded. He wanted to say a blessing but thought about it and forgot about it. The words of blessing always felt weird coming from his mouth.
Not to mention, there are a lot of good things hidden in this small waste collection station. After going around, Liu Guangqi actually discovered a complete set of Eight Immortals tables, complete with tables and chairs, although the materials are not expensive. The material is old enough, the quality is good enough, and it belongs to the early Qianlong period. If Cai Quanwu hadn't been there, Liu Guangqi would have really wanted to buy it back to match his Arhat bed with a set of Qing Dynasty furniture.
Seeing that the time was almost up, Liu Guangqi reluctantly handed Xu Jingping back to Xu Huizhen. It was strange that the little guy didn't make any fuss in Liu Guangqi's arms. He just let Liu Guangqi hold him obediently. Even Xu Huizhen watched from the side. Amazed.
Seeing that Xu Huizhen and his wife were still lingering there after buying the furniture and refusing to leave, Liu Guangqi knew that the other party was waiting for him to leave, so he picked up a hundred kilograms of stuff from the scrap metal pile and rode towards the city. Go.
"Why did you drag me just now? It's not a shameful thing for us to buy scrap metal, so why do we do it so secretly?"
After Liu Guangqi left, Cai Quanwu asked in confusion.
"You are stupid. He and Chen Xueru live in the same hospital. If he knows that we are here to buy scrap metal, he will definitely tell Chen Xueru when he goes back. By then Chen Xueru will realize how much money we will have to spend to get it. Number one."
Xu Huizhen held the child and rolled her eyes at Cai Quanwu. Cai Quanwu didn't know about the relationship between Liu Guangqi and Chen Xueru, but she knew that although Liu Guangqi only confessed to her about his ambiguous relationship with Bai Mei, she could still tell from her observation of Chen Xueru over the years that the relationship between the two was unusual, especially in Chen Xueru's family. The Chen family looked more and more like her Xu Jingping. Unless they were the same father, she couldn't think of any other possibility.
"That's it. How about we buy more."
Cai Quanwu suggested after reacting.
"Okay, let's wrap up the remaining points. I will definitely win this competition. Let's see what Chen Xueru will compare with me this time. You can see when the time comes, she will definitely stamp her feet in anger. Hahaha"
Thinking of Chen Xueru's furious look, Xu Huizhen held her stomach and laughed.
During the public-private partnership, Chen Xueru took the lead before she became the head of the household. This time in the steel smelting, she had to come back first no matter what. Chen Xueru can't let Chen Xueru take all the titles.
After riding out of the buying station, Liu Guangqi, who was a little worried, took a detour to the buying station where Tong Fengquan was. This time, Liu Guangqi did not deduct the money from Sosou, but directly bought 500 kilograms of scrap iron with a wave of his hand. A cart was sent back. Buying so much scrap metal at once frightened Tong Fengquan. He thought Liu Guangqi had a fever and burned out his brain. Why did he buy so much scrap metal? It wasn't until Liu Guangqi told him the whole story that he let go of Liu Guangqi.
Although this is just a spontaneous competition among street merchants, there is neither a medal nor a certificate. But since Chen Xueru wanted to win so much, Liu Guangqi naturally wanted to help her. Five hundred pounds is not safe, then one thousand pounds. If you want to win, then be tough and beautiful.
"Oh my God, where did you get all this scrap metal?"
When Chen Xueru returned home after a tiring day that night and saw the pile of scrap metal in the yard, her eyes suddenly widened and her face was filled with disbelief. Then he jumped up excitedly.
"Where else could it be? Of course I spent money to buy it at the scrap recycling station. Otherwise, I would have been able to conjure up so much scrap metal. For your sake, I traveled all the way to the scrap recycling station. I hit him so hard that my legs almost broke."
"Oh, thank you for your hard work, husband. Let me rub it for you."
Upon seeing this, Chen Xueru immediately ran to Liu Guangqi's side, put Liu Guangqi's leg on her own and started beating it gently.
"You just want to get rid of me. You won't forget what you promised me, right?"
Liu Guangqi sat up and lifted Chen Xueru's chin with a smirk on his face.
"Death"
Seeing Liu Guangqi's evil look, Chen Xueru pinched Liu Guangqi, then gave Liu Guangqi a look, and then the two of them disappeared on the sofa.
When Chen Xueru returned to reality again, her face was red, her body was sore, and her clothes had been changed into another set of skirts.
It is said that the skirt has actually turned into strips of cloth, hanging on Chen Xueru's body strand by strand, barely blocking the important parts of Chen Xueru's body from being exposed.
In a blink of an eye, the day after tomorrow arrived, which was also the last day of the scrap iron donation competition for merchants on Qianmen Street.
After today it will be next month. People will only remember the first one, and it doesn’t matter what comes after.
With the help of Liu Guangqi, Chen Xueru won the first place in this competition with a weight of more than 1,600 kilograms, which was a full 500 kilograms higher than the second place. In the end, Xu Hui was so anxious that even the tavern staff All the pots and pans in the house were donated, but the result was still no more than Chen Xueru.
Seeing Xu Huizhen throw away her hands and leave, Chen Xueru was so happy that she rewarded Liu Guangqi well that night.
Xu Huizhen also quickly guessed that the reason why Chen Xueru was able to win was Liu Guangqi's idea behind the scenes. Otherwise, with Chen Xueru's character, he would have taken out the thousand kilograms of iron. You will definitely not send things over quietly until the last hour.
After figuring it out, Xu Hui was so angry that she couldn't even eat. When she passed by the Bai Family Medical Center on Sunday, she stood at the door and glared at Liu Guangqi. This made Liu Guangqi feel embarrassed.
Speaking of Bai Family Medical Clinic, Liu Guangqi has now started his internship career at Peking University, so he wanted to quit his job at the medical clinic. However, everyone from the headquarters of Baicao Hall to the manager of the medical clinic, Hu Zi, disagreed. Even if Liu Guangqi only goes one day a week, Liu Guangqi must be left behind.
The reason why they are so crazy about retaining Liu Guangqi is because the Bai Family Medical Clinic is currently in a period of drought. Mr. Liu has retired due to health reasons. Now the medical clinic relies on Liu Guangqi's signature. If Liu Guangqi is no longer here, what will happen to the medical clinic? The sky really fell. Although Liu Guangqi doesn't go there much now, everyone knows that Liu Guangqi will be there on weekends, and many people are waiting to find Liu Guangqi at this time.
He had no choice but to take care of him for so many years, and because of the old man's reputation, Liu Guangqi had no choice but to agree to the medical clinic's request. Continue to stay in the hospital as a mascot and wait until new people are trained before leaving.
