Siheyuan: A Cook in the 60s

After meal.

Lou Xiao'e proposed to go back.

Father Lou didn't care and waved his hand to let her go.

It doesn't matter where you live.

It was Tan Xiaoli who chased after him.

Looking at Lou Xiao'e.

Lou Xiao'e inexplicably felt a little guilty.

Those moves of hers were not taught by her father, but by Tan Xiaoli.

"Tell me about it." Tan Xiaoli crossed her arms.

"What?" Lou Xiao'e was very calm.

"You have always been proud. You can't get along with those people in your courtyard. You are my daughter, I know you. You will just deal with people you can't get along with. You won't care about their background, let alone investigate what's behind them. A cook came to your courtyard, and you are so concerned? You even went back without staying at home?"

"I'm bored, so I'm going to find something to entertain myself." Lou Xiao'e shrugged and sighed, "Mom, you don't know how boring the courtyard is. They chat in the yard all day long, talking about trivial things. If I don't find something to do, I'll go crazy."

"Really?" Tan Xiaoli expressed doubt.

"It's real, why would I lie to you? Besides, what else can I do?"

"That's true. Then go ahead." Tan Xiaoli nodded.

"Then I'll leave." Lou Xiao'e turned and left.

"How are others?"

Lou Xiao'e paused and turned her head speechlessly: "Mom, are you bored?"

"Cheng Cheng Cheng, go ahead." Tan Xiaoli waved her hand and went back to the house.

Lou Xiao'e let out a sigh of relief and left.

After returning to the house.

Tan Xiaoli looked at her husband worriedly: "This Xiao'e, there must be something wrong."

"What could possibly happen to her?"

"I just asked her what her relationship with the cook was, and she said she was having fun because she was otherwise too bored. It would have been fine if she didn't try to hide it, but now that she is hiding it, there are so many secrets involved." No one knows a daughter better than her mother. Tan Xiaoli was asking about Cao Wei, and Lou Xiao'e seemed to have answered, but in fact she was trying to change the subject from Cao Wei to her own boring affairs.

This transfer is quite clever, but in Tan Xiaoli's eyes, it is just so-so, allowing her to capture more information.

"If you ask me, you're just making too much trouble. Why don't you just ignore it?"

"It's so easy for you to say that. She's my daughter! She's also your daughter!" Tan Xiaoli glared at Lou's father with dissatisfaction.

Father Lou was helpless and put down the newspaper: "Then tell me, what can we do? In this situation, you send some people to investigate? What happens after the investigation? The worst case scenario is that she and the cook are having an affair. But what can you do? Twenty years ago, I could have made the cook disappear without anyone noticing and it was fine. What can we do now?"

"After you found out, did you go and warn them? Or what? If we go and warn them, they will sue us, saying that we are threatening the workers and that we are acting like capitalists. What will Xiao'e do? Will she be caught in the middle and testify for us? Or for him?"

Tan Xiaoli was speechless.

Yes, it’s difficult to investigate, let alone take action?

They themselves did not know how many eyes were watching them in this city. Some people were watching to see if they made any mistakes, while others were hoping that they would make mistakes so that they could share the spoils.

"So, don't worry about things that you can't do. My daughter is grown up now. She knows what she is doing. But that boy, he is so bold. In the past, he would have been very successful."

"Do you have any conscience?" Tan Xiaoli patted him twice.

"What I said is true. I have a wife, and..."

"You still said that!"

"Okay, okay, I won't tell you. I won't tell you."

Lou Xiao'e also knew that she couldn't hide it.

Everything else is easy to explain, like being a cook or making friends with big bosses, all of which are understandable.

There was only one thing, it was New Year's Day, and Lou Xiao'e was alone in the courtyard. What did it mean that you had to go back in the sunset? If there was nothing wrong here, then there must be something fishy. But Lou Xiao'e didn't care, and walked briskly back to the courtyard amid the sound of firecrackers.

At this moment, the children already have firecrackers in their hands.

As we all know, once children have firecrackers, it is difficult for the courtyard to have peace and quiet. However, it is not bad in this era. Each child does not have much pocket money. Only occasionally will the family give some, and the amount is only 5 cents or 10 cents, which can't buy much. Most children are unwilling to play with firecrackers at night, not for other reasons, but just to show off in front of other children the next day.

Before entering the alley, I saw Qin Jingru following Cao Wei, jumping up and down, muttering something, and holding a cloth bag in her hand.

When we go home, we usually take food and things with us.

Lou Xiao'e stopped and Cao Wei seemed to sense something and looked over.

The two looked at each other and both smiled.

Qin Jingru also looked over and saw that it was Lou Xiaoe. She waved at her excitedly.

Lou Xiao'e quickened her pace and walked over.

"What a coincidence." Lou Xiao'e said with a smile.

"It's fate arranged by God." Cao Wei pointed to the sky, and at this moment, with a "whoosh" sound, fireworks whistled through the already dark sky and suddenly exploded.

"Wow!" Qin Jingru opened her mouth wide, her eyes full of little stars: "So beautiful."

"It's really fate." Lou Xiao'e looked at Cao Wei strangely.

Logically speaking, this is not the time to set off fireworks.

"The first one, what a coincidence." Cao Wei sighed.

What a coincidence!

As the fireworks bloomed, the bustling Nanluoguxiang fell into a brief silence, and then the voices of discussion became louder.

Some people called their friends to watch together, some told their children who were too tired from playing during the day to get up and watch the fireworks, and some pushed their elderly mothers out of the house to watch this grand event. It was noisy and noisy, but also unusually harmonious and comfortable.

Cao Wei stretched, yawned, and felt a little more relaxed.

"Come on, let's go home."

One in the left hand, one in the right hand, and he walked away holding them.

"You're trying to kill yourself!" Lou Xiao'e slapped his hand in annoyance.

"Don't worry, we are all looking at the sky. Besides, no one wants to take this road."

"Who said that? The third uncle is guarding the door all the time." Qin Jingru expressed a different opinion.

"You're wrong. With Third Uncle's personality, he would feel he's lost out if he didn't see the fireworks end after they explode. If he was in charge of this place, he would probably cover the courtyard with a piece of cloth, and only allow a small hole to be opened for anyone who paid to see the fireworks."

"Pfft..." Not knowing what tickled Lou Xiao'e's funny bone, she couldn't help but laugh out loud.