Sugar Blueberries

"What are you talking about?" Si Ke sat down and asked.

"Ice wine!" Cheng Feiyang answered quickly.

Si Ke: "Isn't it bad to hold back? Just say whoever is not around, isn't this the essence of our dinner party? You must gossip about me!"

Wang Mengmeng reacted quickly: "Yes, just gossip about you! When will you have a partner? If you are single again, you will really become an old girl."

Si Ke smiled and sighed, "Making money to support your family is the most important thing."

More than a year ago, Si Jianguo spent a lot of money to build a dentist APP with his friends. Because the market and timing were not mature, the money was burned for a year, the APP went offline, and the partners ran away with the money.The failure of Si Jianguo's investment directly led to his original three dental clinics, and finally left only one old shop.

At the beginning, he always felt that he could make a comeback, tried his best to be true to himself, refused to face the reality, and always said that the partner went abroad to find financing and would come back with money.

With the passage of time, this idea gradually became like a dream and nothingness. Si Jianguo also had to face a reality-a friend and partner he once believed in lied to him.Finally, on a winter day, Si Jianguo was in a car accident on the highway driving home.

The reason was a sudden cerebral infarction caused by high blood pressure, which led to a slight hemiplegia. I lost my sense of direction while driving and hit the highway fence.Although his life was not in danger, Si Jianguo's right side has been inflexible since then and needs to be taken care of.I have been raising him for more than a year, and until recently, I was able to write with my right hand, so that my hand does not shake when holding chopsticks.

It was also during that time that Si Ke transformed from a little girl into an adult overnight.On the one hand, she has to go to the hospital to take care of Si Jianguo, on the other hand she has to worry about her graduation thesis, on the other hand she has to find out the loans that Si Jianguo secured in the bank when financing, the money borrowed from friends, and some accounts of the APP company, and the other end she is still looking for work.

Fortunately, her cousin Nian Sixian took out his wife's book, and finally saved the first smiling dental clinic that Si Jianguo opened when he came to Beijing decades ago.

Si Jianguo felt that after tossing and tossing for half his life, he finally returned to the original scale of business, which was really decadent for a while.Then slowly, I faced reality.He handed over the power of the clinic to Nian Sixian, and he began to concentrate on recuperating, only occasionally smiling and talking when he was in better condition.

This also caused Si Jianguo's shareholding in the dental clinic to become smaller. The dowry he planned to leave for Si Ke was all gone in one go, and his savings over the years were almost wiped out.After dealing with his debts and surgery, he had little left of his daughter's dowry and his mother's pension funds, and he felt as if he had returned to pre-liberation overnight.

Although the mortgage of the big bungalow they lived in would not be a burden, it seemed to be one thing.Li Guilan has a lot of pension, so she took the initiative to take out her salary card to share some responsibility for the family's misfortune, saying that she would use it to pay off the mortgage.

Si Ke and Si Jianguo discussed it. Grandma’s money was pension money and medical treatment money. In the end, the father and daughter combined together. Si Jianguo was responsible for the daily expenses of the family and part-time labor expenses. Maintain their original standard of living as much as possible.

Therefore, since then, Si Ke has changed from a child of a clinic prince with no worries about food and clothing to a working girl who has to support her family.

At the age of 22, it was time to fall in love, and she started a life of working hard to make money.There are many people around her who would introduce her to someone or go on a blind date, but she refuses them all.

At this time, Si Ke drank the wine in the glass in one gulp, "Shi Anran has a big belly, and she is still clamoring to introduce her cousin to me. You all should rest, I am not beautiful enough by myself."

After drinking and eating, it was already past nine o'clock. On the side of the road at the entrance of the restaurant, Cheng Feiyang said, "I'm going east, and there's still a banquet. What's the matter? Brother Ke, I'll take you to the subway station."

Si Ke: "I won't go with you, I'll go to Grandma Tian's house, and install optical fiber network tomorrow."

The city of Beijing is too big, and none of the four of them made it along the way, so they each took a taxi and broke up.

Yazhu Garden is outside the Sixth Ring Road, and the advertising circles in Beijing are all along the Second Ring Road. From Tangzhi’s advertisement to home, the distance between the two is [-] to [-] kilometers. If there is a traffic jam, it will start every minute and two hours one way.

After Si Ke found a job, she rented a three-bedroom apartment with others near the company. She rented the smallest bedroom at a price of 1 yuan a month.But after renting for only half a year, she couldn't take it anymore. After all, a fledgling advertising practitioner earns a basic salary of just over RMB [-] a month. After deducting miscellaneous expenses, there is not much left. She still has to pay several thousand in the mortgage.

Since she stood up and told Si Jianguo that she wanted to support her family, and she couldn't say one thing and do another, she resolutely quit the rented house and started to drive the old company's car to and from work. Occasionally, she would take the subway when the traffic was severe or the numbers were limited.Although tiring, the cost is much lower than renting a house.

Fortunately, she has been drawing ancient-style illustrations. After several years of accumulation, she has gained a little fame. Occasionally, she can receive some IP picture books, and she can make a small fortune and be in charge of the family.

A year ago, Grandma Tian came to the house as a guest and talked for a long time with two old sisters, Li Guilan.Ever since Lu Xingchuan went abroad, Tian Guilan had no interest in being alone, so she went back to live with her son in the city, but she had to come back every now and then to take care of her small garden.In this way, the two old people see less in winter and more in spring and summer.

The two had a rare chat for a while, and they talked about each other's recent situation.Tian Guilan knew about the failure of Si Jianguo's investment, and also heard about Si Ke's repayment of the mortgage and the cancellation of the rented house, so she offered to rent the house allocated by her former unit to Si Ke.

It's not so much about renting, it's better to say that she just asked Si Ke to help take care of it.The house was notoriously dilapidated, but because it was in a school district, she kept it and did not sell it, thinking that her grandchildren would be able to use it for school in the future.

Such a house is easy to sell but not easy to rent because of the quota of the school district.Later, Tian Shuxiang was really tired of managing, so she put it aside and ignored it.

In the past two years, the old unit has adjusted employee benefits. The government also has various policies for the renovation of old houses. Some neighbors have redecorated. She met her old colleague’s circle of friends and saw that the refurbishment effect is good, and various subsidies are also helpful. It was very suitable, so I asked my son to find a decoration company to fix it.For fear of excessive formaldehyde, it was left for a whole year after the decoration, which was the time when all things were left to be done.

Tian Shuxiang said, let Si Ke take care of her. The 80-square-meter house is an old-fashioned small two-bedroom house. Because it has been newly renovated, all water, electricity, heating, and heating networks are closed.She originally offered to live with Si Ke for free, but Si Ke refused.In other words, Si Ke will bear all the costs of water, electricity and heating in the property, which is equivalent to paying rent.Si Ke is not stupid, these series of expenses add up to a maximum of [-] yuan a year, such a bargain cannot be taken advantage of, so she refused.

Later, Grandma Tian thought about it and found a way to get the best of both worlds, letting Si Ke live in one of them and manage all the expenses.Then let her rent it out, which is equivalent to taking a step back for both of them.Tian Shuxiang repeatedly stated that she had no energy, and Li Guilan also felt that Si Ke could help, so Si Ke agreed.

On weekdays, Si Ke lived in Tian Shuxiang's house called Fangting Community from Monday to Thursday, and went back to the suburbs to spend the weekend with Si Jianguo and Li Guilan from Friday to Sunday.

In Fangting community, Si Ke has lived in it for more than half a year, and the house has been listed in the agency, and the room has not been rented out.The reason is simple. First, the house has only been renovated for a year. Many people are worried about excessive formaldehyde. No matter how much Si Ke emphasizes the use of environmentally friendly materials, few people entrust an intermediary to inquire about the price.Secondly, most of the people who rent houses of this generation are families of three who accompany their children to school. She only rents out one room, which is inconvenient.In addition, there is no broadband in the house.

Si Ke didn't go back to Yazhu Garden this weekend because he made an appointment to install broadband on Sunday.

Grandma Tian's mobile phone number package is a very simple basic package, which does not include Internet broadband.Just in time for the operator to have an event, the 199 phone bill plan will give you a broadband network, because Yazhu Garden uses Si Jianguo’s broadband and operator network, after Si Ke asked Grandma Tian, ​​she first gave it to her operator The broadband service has been placed in Fangting Community. If the house is sold or there are large tenants, it will be more convenient to go through the procedures now, just go through it.She thought, at least with broadband, it would be easier to rent out.

It was almost ten o'clock when we returned to Fangting Community, and Si Ke was still not sober.In Beijing in June, staying outside for a day is like taking a sauna, sweating all over your body.

After entering the house, he put the keys and bag at the entrance, took off his shoes, went into the room, took the pajamas, and went into the bathroom.

She threw the clothes she had worn all day into the washing machine in the bathroom. After taking a shower, she dried off the water droplets on her body, wore a lavender silk nightdress, and was drying her hair with a hair dryer.

Drying her hair every day is definitely a big project for Si Ke, because her hair is very long, and if she doesn't dry it, she will have a headache the next day.The buzzing sound of the hair dryer rang for half an hour, making Si Ke's ears tingle.

The moment she put down the hair dryer, she suddenly heard a "click". She thought she was hallucinating, so she calmed down and listened carefully, but there was no sound.

She put her hand on the handle of the bathroom door and opened the door.

In the dimly lit living room, only a small floor lamp was turned on, and Si Ke usually went straight back to the bedroom to sleep after washing up.

When she walked through the living room to the bedroom, she suddenly found a black figure standing at the door!

"Who?" Si Ke grasped the mobile phone tightly, which was the most convenient weapon for her in the nick of time.

In the blink of an eye, the main switch on the switch panel at the entrance "clicked", turning on all the lights in the room.

"Don't get me wrong..." The black figure at the door was 1.8 meters tall, almost reaching the lamp on the ceiling. He was wearing a light blue shirt, which was tucked into a pair of black trousers.Standing beside him was an oversized suitcase with a height of half a person, and the hand that just pressed the switch was carrying a black suit jacket.

The moment the light came on, the two people facing each other were stunned.

I only heard the man's voice like a lemon slice falling into the sparkling water, low and clear, and he said, "Ke Ke?"