Chapter 1274 You are a man!
At a quarter to nine, snowflakes slanted into the alley.
The blizzard hit Yanjing again.
The gray brick walls held up cotton-like snow balls, and in the orange-yellow glow of the street lights, thousands of snowflakes danced like broken silver.
The 28-inch bicycle was leaning under the locust tree, and the snow on the basket was getting thicker and thicker, like a white velvet hat.
The warm light from the coal stove leaked out from someone's window, reflecting the snowflakes passing across the glass, as if the old times were flying.
A silver dragon was curled up sleeping on the roof of the courtyard. Occasionally, the snow fell to the ground, and the rustling sound woke up the wind chimes on the eaves.
Two figures rushed into the alley in the wind and snow and walked to the vicinity of the yard of No. 80. The bombed public toilet was covered with a thick layer of snow, giving people an illusion that the hustle and bustle of yesterday seemed to have happened a long time ago!
"It's really hard to ride a bike in this heavy snow. Anyway, I'll get some money together to buy you a motorcycle. Then we won't have to go through so much trouble to get home! After all, it has more horsepower! I can benefit from it, too!"
After climbing up the steps to the yard, Lei Jin picked up his bicycle and stomped his feet on the bluestone bricks with Li Xiangnan to remove the frozen snow from the uppers and soles of his shoes.
"Hey, where can I get the money? Let's talk about it after the New Year!" Li Xiangnan shook his head, knocked down his bicycle kickstand, squatted down, and punched Lei Jin's pedals with his fists. "Where did you get this second-hand thing? The pedal joints are all crooked. No wonder it's not smooth to ride. Find someone to fix it tomorrow!"
"I wouldn't have noticed it if you hadn't told me!" Lei Jin smiled innocently, "I've never ridden this advanced bike before, so I don't know many of the little details!"
Li Xiangnan stood up and pointed towards the yard, "Take your time! We all started from scratch! You didn't lose out by buying this car, did you?"
"No, that's where Weidong took me!" Lei Jin shook his head, "They are locals and know the way there!"
"Yes!" Li Xiangnan nodded, "Let's go home!"
Lei Jin followed into the yard. The closer he got to home, the heavier snow fell into his fur collar, and he didn't feel so cold anymore. Thinking of his mother and Ge Dongxu, he said with emotion, "I never thought that Dongxu would open up to me! I can rest assured when you go home for the New Year!"
"I have taken the first step! It wasn't easy!" Li Xiangnan grinned, in a very good mood.
"Just like you said, take your time!" Lei Jin followed him into the middle courtyard, "But I really hope that people like Aunt Gong can live a hundred years!"
"Will do!"
Li Xiangnan knew that he saw the shadow of himself and his mother in Ge Dongxu and Gong Xinmei, so he nodded seriously.
"Doctor Li!"
Suddenly a voice sounded at the door of the backyard, startling the two people who were coming from the corridor.
"He Dashuang, what time is it? Why aren't you sleeping yet? What are you squatting here for?!" Lei Jin couldn't help but roll his eyes at the other person. Normally, he wasn't the type to get angry easily, but tonight it was snowing heavily and the sky was dark. He was concentrating on chatting with Xiao Li, and was suddenly startled by He Dashuang's action.
"I'm sorry, Doctor Lei! I have something I want to see Doctor Li about, so I've been waiting here! I really didn't mean to scare you!" He Dashuang quickly ran over and handed him a cigarette.
"Don't be sneaky here next time!" Taking his cigarette, Lei Jin glared at him. Guessing that He Dashuang was thinking something was wrong, he winked at Li Xiangnan and went home through the small door in the backyard.
Li Xiangnan looked around the courtyard and saw that only He Dashuang's house had its lights on. He put down his bicycle kickstand, lit a cigarette and asked, "What do you want now?"
He had no idea how many times he had run into this old guy at the backyard door!
There is always something going on, and he believes that today will be no exception!
"Hey, there really is something going on!" He Dashuang grinned, pulled him outside the unused house of his family, and asked, "Doctor Li, did you buy Damao's house?"
"Hey, Dashuang, you are well-informed!"
Li Xiangnan curled the corners of his mouth.
The transfer of ownership happened in the morning, and he asked his father to go.
Unexpectedly, He Dashuang found out about it that evening.
"Da Mao told me!" He Dashuang did not dare to hide it.
"That's what I guessed! This old guy..." Li Xiangnan exhaled a puff of smoke and rolled his eyes silently.
"I begged him to say that!" He Dashuang quickly explained, "It's not that he's too talkative!"
"Hey, Brother Dashuang, are you on good terms with Brother Damao? When did you start speaking for him?" Li Xiangnan was really surprised.
"It's not easy for anyone!" He Dashuang sighed.
Hearing this, Li Xiangnan was quite surprised.
He Dashuang and Xu Damao have always had a bad relationship. I didn't expect that today, the old guy would actually speak for the other party.
This is rare.
But no matter how strange it was, he believed that He Dashuang was waiting here not because he came specially to congratulate him on buying the house of Xu Damao!
There must be another purpose!
As the saying goes, one does not visit a temple for no reason!
"Brother Dashuang, are you in trouble?" Li Xiangnan shook off the cigarette ash and analyzed.
I bought the house from Xu Damao for three hundred yuan, which I gave him directly in the morning.
He Dashuang might have heard about this matter and knew that he could take out a lot of money at once, so he came here...
"Tell me, how much do you want to borrow?" Li Xiangnan immediately spoke out the words that were stuck in his throat for the embarrassed old brother.
"Hey, Doctor Li, it's not about borrowing money..." He Dashuang shook his head.
"Not borrowing money?"
This made Li Xiangnan curious again, "Why are you blocking me in the middle of the night if you don't want to lend me money?"
After he said this, he thought of the time problem that He Dashuang had mentioned to him before, and thought: "You look like you have something to hide. Could it be that the medicine my father prescribed for you is not working properly, or the time is short?"
"Doctor Li, Chunlian and I are still quarreling recently, so I don't have the mood to do that! It's something else..."
He Dashuang's face turned bitter, and he felt that Doctor Li was the only one who understood him.
He sighed slightly and took a deep puff of the cigarette.
Li Xiangnan looked at him steadily, and immediately realized that what the old man was going to say would not be that simple.
"Doctor Li, if I really borrow money from you, I'm afraid I won't be able to pay you back in my lifetime! I also want to sell the house to you like Xu Damao did!"
"???"
Li Xiangnan was shocked.
My scalp is a little numb.
He really wanted to buy a house, and was asking Xu Damao to find out who was selling a house. But it was only morning, and Xu Damao probably hadn't even started yet!
So He Dashuang is going to sell the house that night?
"I know my salary level, and I have a lot of burdens at home. If I borrow money from you, I can't pay it back. The creditors will block my door and my reputation will be bad! My father is a gambler and owes a lot of debts. He ran away out of desperation! It took me seven or eight years to pay him back... I have been tough all my life, and I can't do such a cowardly thing! I simply won't lend money anymore, I'll sell the house!"
He Dashuang lowered his head and finished speaking these words, which had obviously been brewing for a long time. After he raised his head, he looked at Li Xiangnan with hope and said, "Doctor Li, take a look at my house. If you like it, I will sell it to you!"
"You are a man indeed!"
Li Xiangnan looked at him with a little admiration, then raised his head and his eyes fell on the house behind him.
This quadrangle has three courtyards, front and back, and the most spacious one is the main house in the middle courtyard where He Dashuang lives.
There are three large tiled houses in a row, one in the west, one in the middle and one in the east, with carved beams and painted rafters, and they are ingeniously designed. They are very majestic and upright.
"Okay, show me the room! Is it the west room?"
He Dashuang lived in the main house, and the east room was He Xiaoshuang's room. Li Xiangnan knew that the west room was previously occupied by He Dashuang's father and had been empty ever since.
Unexpectedly, He Dashuang shook his head, sighed, and pulled Li Xiangnan to the middle.
"Doctor Li, it's this room, the main room, the central hall!"
"???"
Hearing this, Li Xiangnan was shocked and became inexplicably excited.