Chapter 72: Eat people and talk softly
Cai Quanwu swallowed and felt that the meal was not so delicious.

"Uncle, please write down the words you know first."

"it is good!"

Qin Changchun took the paper and pen and started writing. He learned a lot of characters back then, but it has been thirty years. He was still a child at school, so he could remember nothing at most. He just had a vague impression.

"Uncle, isn't this the name of my sister-in-law and her husband?"

Cai Quanwu scratched his head. These dozen words are the names of your family members, and they are not written well.

Afterwards, Cai Quanwu gave out a few arithmetic problems. The shop assistants brought the wine and peanuts, but Li Ge'er did not come back.

"Uncle, shouldn't seven plus five equal twelve? How come you are thirteen?"

"Young man, your calculation is more than ten. I'm not very good at it."

Qin Changchun was not used to counting, so he just asked for money under 100, which was actually not a big problem.

"Uncle, drink first. I'll go see if my brother is back."

Cai Quanwu wanted to hide. It was not that it could not be taught, but to reach the level of accounting at a grain station was difficult, too difficult.

"Brother Li..."

"Old Cai, you don't have to say anything, I understand!"

Brother Li was smoking in the corridor at this time, and was also thinking about how to frame Lao Cai.

The best strategy is to attack the opponent's strategy. Directly forcing the opponent is the worst option, because if you do it a few times, the other person will definitely get emotional and something bad might happen.

It has to make people willing to do it. So does Lao Cai have any weaknesses? Of course he does.

"Old Cai, you are not young anymore. I was married when I was your age."

"Yes Yes!"

Cai Quanwu was very confused. I am only one year younger than you and you haven’t been married for long.

"I have a palm technique that can drop from the sky. Ahem, I got off topic.

So, when you have a sweetheart in the future, I will teach you how to pursue a wife. How long do you think it will take for you to teach my father-in-law how to do his job?"

Li Zhiguo has already taught the noodle shop guys, so it won't be a problem for him to teach a few more apprentices.

It seems that Lao He wants to learn, and Sha Zhu is also interested. There are three grown men in Lao He's family, so he might as well teach them all. Then they can all use the same method to pursue widows. How great is that.

"Brother Li, give me a day and a half and I promise to teach my uncle. It doesn't take many words to keep accounts at the grain station. My uncle has a good foundation. If he's not good at using a fountain pen, he can write with a brush."

Cai Quanwu was very motivated. Everyone in the hospital knew about Li Ge'er's ability. If having three wives and four concubines was not prohibited, then Dongxu's wife and Damao's wife would not be able to escape.

There is also Mr. Chen, the boss of the silk shop, who seems to be interested in Li Ge'er as well. In ancient times, Li Ge'er would be a high-ranking official!
"Okay, then I'll reserve this room in half a day. Donglaishun's business isn't that good right now, so most of the rooms are empty and the cost isn't high."

Li Zhiguo had a feeling of returning to modern times. If he wanted to discuss things, he had to find a high-end place outside.

"okay!"

Cai Quanwu immediately returned to the private room, poured half a glass of wine and drank it all.

"Uncle Qin, let's continue..."

When Li Zhiguo came back from smoking, Lao Cai was already chatting animatedly with his father-in-law. He was looking at a notebook and saw that he had already written the three words "Da Qianmen" with a brush borrowed from the clerk.

"Let's eat first. The mutton hotpot here is really good. Ten years ago, we still had to wait in line for a table."

Li Zhiguo is also very knowledgeable when it comes to food.

The three of them started eating. After they had eaten and drunk their fill, Cai Quanwu immediately turned into a teacher and taught them seriously.

His father-in-law also learned actively and wanted to stay in the city. Otherwise, if he boasted too much, he would be driven back to the village and lose face.

"Dad, you should learn from Lao Cai. I have to go out first. I have already settled the bill and paid for dinner in advance. If you need anything, just ask the waiter to get it.

I'll bring Guangming and Huairu to see you later. Try your best. If you can't make it, you can work overtime at night."

Li Zhiguo had to leave. He hadn't drunk any alcohol at noon as he was trying to stay healthy. So he could just take some time off in the afternoon to visit Chen Xueru.

After leaving Donglaishun Restaurant, we soon arrived at the silk shop. A slogan written by Yan Bugui was posted on the door, saying that only the last two days would pass, and the business was better than expected.

"Li Zhiguo!"

Chen Xueru spotted the person at first sight, he was so different.

"Ok!"

Li Zhiguo nodded and went to the small office. Because there were people in the inner hall at that time, after waiting for a while, Chen Xueru pushed open the door and came in.

"Why don't you open... ugh!"

"Save electricity!"

Later! He talked about something else.

"Xue Ru, my father-in-law came to the city today. He studied in a private school for a few years in his early years, but he gave it all back to the teacher. He is slightly better than an illiterate. I asked Lao Cai to give him intensive training and he will be assigned to work at the grain station in two days."

He has implicated two families, so there is no need to be discreet in what he says.

Even though the country has been founded and we are in a new society, the old bad habits have not been easily changed. Take the preference for sons over daughters, for example. Even after several decades, they still have a market.

It is not illegal to have a mistress, can you believe it?
"You are so kind to sister Huairu and her family."

The same thing, viewed from different angles, will lead to drastically different results. Now Chen Xueru felt that her lover was very filial.

"Ahem! What I want to talk about is literacy. Just wait and see. There are too many illiterate people in our capital. You should keep this in mind. It may come in handy someday."

He just mentioned it briefly. It hasn't come to that time yet, but it will be soon.

"Ok!"

Chen Xueru took note of it, and suddenly the man whispered in her ear, "Xueru, when is your period?"

"Oh, how can I explain this, it's..."

When Li Zhiguo heard this, he understood. Now was the critical period, so he had to kill the enemy with one strike.

"Hou Cheng and I have agreed to go to the Civil Affairs Bureau to get the certificate next week. He will go to the Ugly Country next week."

Chen Xueru has been pushing this matter forward. Although it is not fair to Hou Cheng, Hou Cheng did not say that he would stay for her!

Besides, the marriage certificate would be useless once they arrived in Chou Country, and Hou Cheng could still find someone else, so she didn't feel guilty.

"Okay! Xueru, if the time is right, I will give you a status. Now I have to let you down."

Li Zhiguo had no better solution, so it was fine as it was.

Not long after, Chen Xueru got dressed and went out to bring in the account book.

Li Zhiguo, wrapped in a blanket and sipping coffee, calculated the store's warehouse and cash flow, analyzed the market, and made a number of suggestions.

After five o'clock in the afternoon, he left the silk shop and informed his brother-in-law to go to Donglaishun after work. He then went to the steel mill to pick up his wife.

"Li Zhiguo, you're here again. I know that the labor insurance will be issued today."

The security guard came out and offered me a cigarette, which was a rare move.

Li Zhiguo took out a match, lit one and lit two cigarettes, full of the sense of the times.

"I am an unemployed worker, and I have to have a share of the labor insurance. I am afraid my wife can't get it."

"Hey, you're so thoughtful!"

The security guard has seen countless people, but this guy is the one that impressed him the most.

"The factory is organizing a movie screening next week, are you coming?"

"Motion pictures?"

This is a traditional program of the steel rolling mill, which is occasionally played and falls within the scope of the Propaganda Department's work.

"I'll see. I've been pretty busy lately."

Li Zhiguo exhaled a puff of smoke and saw workers coming towards the door from a distance. At this time, the bell for the end of get off work rang. How positive.

The security guard thought to himself, what are you busy with? That's just for leisure.

Li Zhiguo held a cigarette in his mouth, moved his bicycle slightly to the side, and posed while waiting for his wife.

"Look, it's Li Zhiguo. He's standing up and he's not fainted."

"Hey, don't guess blindly. I estimate that it took less than half an hour. He really didn't miss any advantage. He knew that the labor insurance would be issued today."

"But we have to thank him for the labor insurance. The pencil sharpener factory is doing well."

The workers came out of the factory happily, each carrying a bag. Some even held the new enamel cups in their hands, fearing that others would not see them.

But gossip is gossip, but no one leans on Li Zhiguo. If he touches bad luck, it will be a tragedy. "Hey, Li Zhiguo, why are you here?"

Sha Zhu came out of the small door with a lunch box in his hand and greeted the guard first. Although his name is Sha Zhu, he is very smart most of the time.

"Wait for your sister Qin! Silly Zhu, have you packed your lunch box?"

Li Zhiguo made a joke, knowing that the He family had this tradition. From the time he started as a kitchen helper, he knew how to carry a colander and lunch box, and he taught his apprentices the same way.

"No, stop yelling."

Sha Zhu hurried forward and said, "We are distributing labor insurance today. There are meat dishes at the factory for lunch, so I got two extra spoonfuls and asked Sister Qin for more too."

"Okay, we're from the same courtyard, so I won't cheat you. By the way, your uncle, my brother, won't be home for dinner tonight, so don't wait for him."

It was just right that he told this matter so that Sha Zhu’s family would not be unable to provide meals.

"Where did you take my uncle?"

Shazhu’s first reaction was that his uncle had been tricked.

"Don't ask about my affairs. Come back quickly. Your sister Qin is here."

Li Zhiguo saw his daughter-in-law coming out.

"elder brother!"

Qin Huairu also saw her man and was so happy that she came out with Sister Hua and the others.

"Hey, Li Zhiguo, you finally got around to picking up our Huairu from get off work."

Sister Hua looked at this bad boy and felt that he was getting more and more handsome, but she couldn't find a chance to show him the melon.

"Sister Hua, you are wrongly accusing me. I am not recovering from my illness."

Li Zhiguo subconsciously wanted to cover it up, sensing ill intentions. He thought, he was not afraid of being watched, he was just afraid of affecting the family harmony of the female workers.

"Okay, take Huairu and go first."

Sister Hua also went to catch him and wouldn't let him go, and would deal with him after he entered the factory.

"Got it!"

Li Zhiguo didn't bother with this tiger girl. The factory also needed a team of fierce female workers.

"Brother, this is not the direction to go home."

Qin Huairu was sitting in the back seat and soon discovered something was wrong.

"Let's go to Donglaishun. Our father is doing literacy training there. No, let me ask you a question! There are nine chickens. We took three away last time. Today our father brought two. How many are left?"

Li Zhiguo thought of the answer his father-in-law had given before. He didn't expose it at the beginning because he wanted to earn one more dollar.

"Four, what's wrong?"

Qin Huairu is quite good at settling accounts.

"Dad said five. Tell me, he can't even do addition and subtraction within ten, and he can only write a dozen characters. How can he get a job? I asked Lao Cai to teach him literacy, and he will teach him for another day tomorrow."

Li Zhiguo almost sighed to the sky. There is gain and loss, and his family cannot escape.

"Ah! How could my father be like this? He went to a private school and lost all the cows in the family. This is all he learned?"

Qin Huairu was stunned, her cheeks turned red and she felt ashamed.

"It's not bad. At least we only lost one chicken."

Li Zhiguo made money, so of course he wouldn't gossip.

When they got outside Donglaishun, Qin Huairu saw the tricycle and then realized, "Brother, the old Cai you are talking about is Shazhu's uncle Cai Quanwu?"

"That's him. Although he was a bit of a wimp before, he has a junior high school education and is good at teaching people how to read and write. He went in first. I also called him Guangming, but he didn't get there so quickly."

Li Zhiguo immediately led the people to the private room, only to see Cai Quanwu teaching seriously with a small board, and the father-in-law also wrote down the problems seriously.

"Brother Li, Uncle Qin learns very quickly."

Cai Quanwu had a smile on his face. The situation was much better than he had imagined.

"Dad, how many words can you write now? What is nine minus three minus two?"

Qin Huairu was still a little worried, so she asked again.

"I can write more than 40 characters. That's equal to five. You're asking about our chicken."

Qin Changchun reacted quite quickly.

Qin Huairu was stunned. The man did not lie to her. This was really the level of her father's arithmetic skills.

Cai Quanwu also said awkwardly: "Uncle is a little bit bad at arithmetic, there is no need to keep accounts, just be able to write numbers, accounting is the job of accountants."

Li Zhiguo nodded, "Then focus on Chinese and give up mathematics."

"Hey guys, order now."

He went outside to order food and also made a reservation for tomorrow's meals. He won't be coming tomorrow.

We will arrange dinner after Qin Guangming arrives.

After three rounds of wine and five dishes, Li Zhiguo wiped his mouth and said, "Old Cai, you follow and teach for a while, Guangming, you also stay with me, it's almost time to call it a day, and we'll continue tomorrow morning, in this private room."

"Okay brother!"

"Okay brother-in-law!"

Qin Guangming glanced at Cai Quanwu and said, "You are our uncle, so why do you call your brother-in-law 'brother'?"

"Then I'll leave first."

Li Zhiguo did not mention any compensation for Cai Quan, but he would make it up to him later so that his hard work would not be wasted.

He brought his wife back to the courtyard and saw that it was only 7:30, which was still early.

"Li Zhiguo, you're back just in time. Jia Zhang came back from the hospital this afternoon and was looking for you."

Yan Bugui came over to greet them. From the location of his house, he could just see the gate of the courtyard.

"No, why did Jia Zhang look for me?"

Li Zhiguo was confused. I don’t think they had a deep friendship!

"That's not clear. She asked me to go to Jia's house when I see you come back."

Yan Bugui also found it strange. Jia Zhang used to have a grudge against Li Zhiguo, but now she is almost inseparable from him?
"Okay, I'll go over and take a look."

When they arrived at the middle courtyard, Li Zhiguo said, "Huai Ru, go back and boil a kettle of water and make a cup of tea for me."

"Ok!"

Qin Huairu thought of something and nodded shyly.

Li Zhiguo immediately went to Jia's house, and before he reached the door, he saw Jia Zhang-shi lifting the door curtain and coming out.

"Li Zhiguo, I've been waiting for you for a long time, come in quickly."

"No, why are you looking for me?"

He was really a little confused, but he still went into the house. They had already eaten at this time, and he saw Chen Bihua operating the sewing machine.

Jia Dongxu pretended to read a book on benchwork and didn't even say hello when he came in.

"Bihua, go make some tea. Dongxu, why are you still standing there? Come here and listen."

Jia Zhang stayed in the hospital for a few days. She was fine, but she couldn't figure out what was going on.

"Li Zhiguo, sit here."

Jia Zhang pulled out a stool and asked the person to sit in the main seat.

Oh my god, this was Old Jia's position back then. Otherwise, even at such a young age, Li Zhiguo would have been worried that Jia Zhang would have some feelings towards him.

Soon, the tea was served and Jia Dongxu sat down opposite reluctantly.

Jia Zhang stood next to Li Zhiguo and said, "Dongxu, you have grown up now and become more independent. You are treating your mother worse and worse. Today, I would like to ask your brother Li to be a witness. Tell me, will you continue to eat alone in the future?

You guys even secretly went out to eat at restaurants, leaving me alone at home to eat sweet potatoes, which made me sick."

After hearing this, Li Zhiguo finally understood. It turned out that he was asked to hold the scene. Isn't this Yi Zhonghai's job?

Jia Dongxu said with an unpleasant expression: "Mom, why do you tell everything to others?"

(End of this chapter)