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Chapter 378 [Family Affairs]

Chapter 370 Two [Family Affairs]

Naturally, it is impossible for this kind of car to have air conditioning, but a small electric fan is set up in front of the passenger seat.

The weather in September was still a bit hot, but the wind from the fan was facing Ou Xiuhua at the moment.It was just this wind that made Ou Xiuhua even more anxious.

"After a while, pick up the child, I'll take the child myself and go there, I really don't need to trouble you..."

As Ou Xiuhua said that, he turned his head and glanced at the inside of the carriage...

The seats in the van have been removed, and the vacant compartment is used for hauling goods.At this moment, Ou Xiuhua's bicycle was also placed in the carriage.

"No trouble, Xiaoou." The driver waved his hand and smiled.

"No." Ou Xiuhua shook his head: "You should go back quickly. If the manager finds out that you drove out to pick up the child in your company's car, your salary will definitely be deducted."

"It's okay, the manager isn't here today. And... he usually turns a blind eye to this kind of thing.

The last time the manager's sister moved, I drove the car over to help pull things.

The manager is very good. As long as we don't delay the company's work of pulling goods, we usually use the car to do our own business, and the manager does not ask. "

Ou Xiuhua pursed her lips hard, thought for a while, and then said, "It's really not good, I'm not at ease..."

"It's really okay." The driver smiled hard, then waved his hand: "By the way, it's still a while before school, right? You sit down, I'll go buy a pack of cigarettes in the shop opposite."

With that said, the driver opened the door and walked away quickly.

·
Hou Changwei is 44 years old.

Ordinary appearance, ordinary ability, ordinary ability, ordinary mind.

The most ordinary person who is thrown into the crowd of people on the street and can't be found again.

I have never done anything spectacular in my life, nor did I plan to do anything spectacular at all.

Hou Changwei didn't read many books. A generation of his age was delayed by that special decade when he was young.

After graduating from elementary school, I stopped studying. With today's educational level, it is no problem to read newspapers and read books by myself, but no matter how much ink there is, there will be no more.That's it, occasionally, when reading books or newspapers, I still rely on guessing when encountering some uncommon words.

But it doesn't matter, just understand it.

My father died early, but my mother was still alive.

He himself has no children.

To be precise, Hou Changwei is a middle-aged widower.

My wife passed away seven years ago from leukemia.

Before his death, the couple was still in love and quarreled occasionally, but overall it was okay.

Just have no children.

I went to the hospital to check and said that the problem was with Hou Changwei.

He was puzzled at first.

Since I was married with my wife before, the affairs of the two have always been quite normal and harmonious.

I never felt like I was useless.

However, the doctor explained that this problem is not the same as the man's ability.

Later, the doctor used an image metaphor: empty bullets.

Hou Changwei finally understood.

After I understood it, the couple couldn't do anything about it. The disease was incurable.

Hou Changwei was very kind to his wife later, and felt a little guilt in his heart.

I have this problem myself, I am afraid that I will have no children in my life, and my wife will end up with no children and no daughters after following me, which is quite unlucky.

Then, a few years later, my wife fell ill.

Hou Changwei has no regrets and no regrets, waiting on the front and back of the horse, and running from large hospitals.

After a year and a half, I still couldn't keep my wife.

The man was gone, and in the end there was an urn left, which was buried in a suburban cemetery.

Hou Changwei was in his 30s when his wife left.He is still in the prime of life, and he is not short of arms or legs. He is ordinary, but there are always people around him who say they want to introduce another one to him.

Hou Changwei refused all of them.

In the first few years, when his wife had just passed away, the uncomfortable feeling in Hou Changwei's heart had not yet been released, and he did not want to look for it.

In the next few years, the grief subsided, but Hou Changwei refused to introduce anything to the relatives and elders in the family.

The reason is simple: I don't want to drag others down.

Only his family knows about his infertility, and he deserves to have no children or daughters in this life.Why marry another woman and take away the happiness of the family's children and grandchildren?

Stop hurting people.

Living alone like this, I was over 40 before I knew it. After more than 40 years old, the number of people who recruited him also decreased.

An old man of Hou Changwei's age is no longer popular - because he is only old, but has no money or talent, and his appearance is ordinary.

Okay.

What a day, how is it not a passing day?

Hou Changwei originally thought that he would be like this all his life.

Until I saw Ou Xiuhua at the unit.

·
From the looks of Chen Nuo and Chen Xiaoye, it can be seen that Ou Xiuhua looks good.

Although the first half of his life was rough, he met unkind people and was imprisoned.His face became haggard, and he had gray hair in his early 40s, but after he was released from prison, his life became stable, and his complexion gradually improved.

Hou Changwei really saw Ou Xiuhua in his eyes.

It's not noble, nor is it indecent.

It was in the work unit that day, when I saw this woman resting, wearing work clothes, but the clothes were clean, the sleeves were neatly worn, and the hair was tied up with a headband.

That afternoon, the silhouette of the oval face shot straight through Hou Changwei's heart with one arrow.

Later, he paid attention and secretly inquired about Ou Xiuhua's situation.

A woman who has been unkind in the first half of her life, has been married twice, and the men married in both marriages are scumbags.

In the end, he was imprisoned.

Now he lives alone with his two children from his two ex-husbands.

It must have been difficult.

When Hou Changwei heard about books when he was young, he said that since ancient times, beauty is like a disaster.

He just thought, according to Ou Xiuhua's appearance, she is so good-looking now, she must have looked better when she was young, and it can definitely be regarded as a "disaster".

But this calamity, but how did he make his life become bitter?

Usually pay attention to Ou Xiuhua's situation.

This woman has a good character.Work carefully and conscientiously, never be lazy, divide work every time, don't pick or choose, let everything be done conscientiously.Every time she divides the area of ​​the contract, the evaluation is the cleanest, and the complaints are the least.

There is no competition or grab in the unit - the only particularity is that there are two children in the family who need to be taken care of. When changing shifts, I always have to find colleagues to ask for a more convenient time.

But she never changed for nothing, and promised to work with her colleagues who changed shifts, and she would usually help out at work.

Food and clothing are very simple, just ride a bicycle back and forth every day, the same in winter and summer.

She had never seen her wearing any jewelry.

Relations with colleagues are also good.

Yes, that kind of thing, not bad or bad, everyone is a good person.But she never joins the crowd, and she never gossips about Zhang's family and Li's family in private.

It can be seen that she is a woman of duty, and she lives a life.

Hou Changwei's heart was hot and hot.

The most important one...

Ou Xiuhua has two children.

Hou Changwei suddenly felt that this directly removed the biggest knot in his heart.

I can't give children to women, so I don't want to hurt others.When it came to Ou Xiuhua, it didn't seem to be a problem.

Hou Changwei's sense of Ou Xiuhua is very simple, two words: I like it.

It's not the condescending mentality with alms: you've been in prison, you've been married twice, you've carried two oil bottles.

Not this.

I just like it.

That's the kind of thing. When I go to work, I occasionally see her a few times, and my heart is inexplicably happier.

Occasionally met, nodded to say hello, and heard Ou Xiuhua politely calling himself "Master Hou"

——Why does this sound so pleasing to the ear?

Then, Hou Changwei started to act.

Lao Hou can't chase women, but at least he was young.Otherwise, there will be two:

Diligent hands and feet, diligent mouth.

On weekdays, every day, I would find opportunities to meet Ou Xiuhua a few times in the work unit. After getting to know each other, I would occasionally be able to say a few words of gossip politely.

In the mouth, you can also politely say a few more words of concern for your colleagues, and ask some insensitive other people's family life gossip.

In action, that is, when you encounter it, help to carry something, take a heavy object.

And then, I met him on purpose when I got off work, so I "dropped in" and drove to pick up each other for a while.

Later, I heard that something happened to Ou Xiuhua's house.

It is said that the accident happened to her eldest son.

What exactly, I don't know.No one in the unit knows, just heard.

Ou Xiuhua was in a very bad state during that time, and he had taken leave many times.Later, when I came to work, I was also very haggard. Every day, my eyes were red, and I didn’t talk much. I just worked hard.

When Laohou met, sometimes he would help him or something, help him run an errand or something.

In winter, when I transport labor insurance items, I give her two extra pairs of gloves in private.

In summer, when I saw her working, I left a bottle of water and left.

When they were resting and eating, they also brought a lunch box over, sat and ate together while pretending to chat, then said that he had a stomachache, and put a half of the bowl of beef in sauce that he brought from home to Ou Xiuhua's lunch box.

And so on.

Hou Changwei felt that he was doing it carefully.

But Ou Xiuhua is not stupid.

When she was young, she was as beautiful as a flower, and she was really a flower far and near.

How many men have chased and shown goodwill.

Later, after Chen Nuo's father ran away, a woman in the family lived with a child, and it was not that no man had made a crooked idea.

Ou Xiuhua has resisted countless flies.

I have also seen countless open and secret gestures.

Hou Changwei thought he was careful and well-covered, but in Ou Xiuhua's eyes, it was actually the simple clumsiness of an honest person.

It's always been foolishness and deliberate shirk.

But it wasn't until one night, after going to get off work in the evening, that he could "ran into" Hou Changwei at the door of the unit, and Hou Changwei offered to "drop by" to take her home...

Ou Xiuhua felt that she couldn't keep pretending to be stupid.

I was on the night shift that day, what kind of night shift did Hou Changwei's driver who was pulling goods from a unit work on?
Actually very grateful.

Hou Changwei is a good man, an honest man, and approaching him sincerely and sincerely, helping himself with sincerity, the kind of carefulness, anxiety, simplicity, and sincerity...

It's hard to come by.

But Ou Xiuhua didn't want to.

It's not that he looks down on Hou Changwei, but that he doesn't have that kind of mind.

I just think that when something happens to my son, for the rest of my life, I will pull up the rest of my daughter, which is the biggest wish in my life.

Other things, don't think about it.

I dare not.

·
Hou Changwei bought a bag of Hongta Mountain in the small store. Before turning his head to come out, he saw the fruit oranges on the shelf, so he took a bottle and paid for it together.

He walked back and pulled the door, and directly put the fruit orange into Ou Xiuhua's hand.

"Here, you women like to drink these sweets."

Ou Xiuhua was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly pushed out: "No, no..."

"I bought it all. You don't like it. I'll give it to your little leaves later."

With that said, Hou Changwei unscrewed the bottle cap: "Once the bottle is opened, it cannot be returned."

Ou Xiuhua pursed her lips, but she made up her mind. After picking up the child today, when she got home, she would stop Hou Changwei and have a good talk with him.

·
The first grade pupils lined up to the school gate after school.

Then the children dispersed in a hurry and ran outside the school gate.

Chen Xiaoye didn't run, and walked slowly with a schoolbag on his back - this walking posture, you can tell who he learned from at a glance.

I have a car after school today, so I don't have to take the back seat of my mother's bicycle.

Then there is actually a bottle of fruit orange to drink.

Chen Xiaoye looked at Hou Changwei a little happily.

"Thank you Uncle Hou."

Because it wasn't the first time I saw him, Xiaoye Ye was very enthusiastic and didn't recognize him.

Along the way, Hou Changwei drove the car very prudently, and was more attentive than when he was hauling goods to work.

In the car, Xiao Ye Zi was chatting and laughing all the way, as if he could not wait to pull out his lunch box, like Ou Xiuhua showing his achievements in eating all the meat today, and his great work of washing the lunch box very clean.

Talking about the interesting things among the classmates.

These things that children say are actually boring and uninteresting to adults.

But Hou Changwei listened with relish.

Just happy to hear it!Very happy.

The woman in the car seriously asked about the child's school, and the child laughed and showed off his achievements.

The car drove through an intersection...

Hou Changwei suddenly had a thought in his heart:
From now on, it would be great if it was like this every day.

Hearing Chen Xiaoye talk about his classmates going to the zoo, Hou Changwei held the steering wheel with both hands, and immediately laughed, "Little Ye Ye, when I look back, Uncle Hou will take you to the zoo to see the giraffes, okay?"

The child had nothing to think about, and immediately said excitedly: "Okay!!"

Ou Xiuhua immediately lowered his face: "Don't talk nonsense, Xiao Ye Zi, Uncle Hou has to go to work, so how can there be time..."

"It's okay, Little Ye Zi, let's go on Sunday, uncle doesn't work on Sunday." Hou Changwei cut off Ou Xiuhua's words with a smile.

Just like this, we drove all the way to the gate of the community where Chen's house was located.

What surprised Hou Changwei was that this time he went to the gate of the community as usual, and when he was about to drive away while waiting for his wife to get out of the car, Ou Xiuhua stopped him.

"Master Hou, if you're not in a hurry, go upstairs and drink a glass of water."

"Ah?" Hou Changwei's heart trembled, and he was suddenly overwhelmed by a surprise: "Drink, drink water?"

"Actually, I want to keep you for a meal. You have driven me to pick up the child three times. I invite you to have a meal to thank you. You also take good care of you when you are in the work unit..."

Speaking of this, Ou Xiuhua took a deep breath: "I don't know if it's convenient for you. If you have something to do when you go home tonight, another day..."

"Convenient!" Lao Hou immediately turned off the car!

Could that be inconvenient?

What inconvenience could that be?
go home?What can I do at home?
Ah, by the way, Lao He and the others invited them to play cards at night, and they all agreed...

not going!
What a good card to play!

Probably because the reaction was too excited, but it made Ou Xiuhua a little flushed. Lao Hou quickly patted his head: "Wait a minute, I'll find a place to park the car, wait, very soon, very soon!"

After parking the car, the three of them walked into the community. As they went upstairs, Ou Xiuhua and Lao Hou both had their own thoughts.

Comrade Lao Hou's heart is about to bloom.

But when he reached the fifth floor, Ou Xiuhua was suddenly stunned.

The door of the house is open.

Seeing that Ou Xiuhua stopped, Hou Changwei reacted and looked at the wide open door: "Your home...is there someone at home?"

"No one's home..." Ou Xiuhua was suddenly incoherent.

Hou Changwei reacted immediately, pulling Ou Xiuhua behind him, blocking him in front of him with his insignificant body, and took out the wooden handle of the dustpan placed at the door of the house, pinching it in his hand. inside.

"Don't go in! Wait first, don't be a thief... Xiaoou, take the leaves and go back downstairs first, or call someone if you can't!"

With that said, Hou Changwei took a stick and probed his head towards the door of the house.

But Ou Xiuhua finally reacted at this time.

She let out a low whimper, and suddenly her expression became extremely excited.

·
In Chen's house, Chen Nuo was sitting at the dining table in front of the kitchen.

He had already taken off the thick winter clothing and threw it directly on the ground. His hair was messy and his face was a little dirty.

He didn't take off his shoes, the big snow boots left several footprints on the ground.

At this moment, Puppy Chen is holding a bag of torn instant noodles and chewing hard!

Moreover, looking at the garbage bags on the ground next to them, this is not the first bag he has eaten.

Ou Xiuhua rushed in and saw this scene, and suddenly his body froze as if he had been caught in the immobilization technique.

The old man who had reacted had already rushed to Ou Xiuhua's side with a stick, stared at the young man at the dinner table who was munching on instant noodles, and was also stunned.

Just then, a scream came from behind.

"elder brother!!!"

Xiao Ye has already rushed up with a gust of wind, and plunged into Chen Nuo's arms.

Pfft, Ou Xiuhua sat on the ground with one buttocks.

(End of this chapter)