Chapter 6 Family Matters

  Skillfully riding his bike and gliding through the crowd, Zhao felt the faint aroma brought by the crowd.   This is the countless female body soap and shampoo mixed with body odor to bring a special flavor, only in the textile factory this unit filled with a large number of young unmarried women you will be able to enjoy this strange feeling, Zhao Guodong can detect a large number of women projected over the gaze, surprise, surprise, more is a kind of curiosity.   After all, there are not many people riding bicycles in the factory, the entire factory is like a self-sufficient closed circle, in addition to the vegetable market to sell vegetables in the neighborhood vegetable farmers, almost everyone is known to everyone, even if it is the new recruits into the female workers, but a year and a half to establish their own circle of friends.   And Zhao's image is obviously not very much like the neighborhood vegetable farmers' children, while the factory children seem to be no more him, an outsider who has been out of the circle for many years.   Early summer girls fully in the air to show their beautiful body curves, female workers are the vast majority of unmarried girls or just married young women, or T-shirts, or short-sleeved shirts, or dresses, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black and white, colorful colors in the off-duty at the moment to get the full release of the fairness, but also to let Zhao Guodong a good reminiscence of some of the feeling of a few years ago.   Some of the old brown wooden door, with greasy kitchen windows in the still still floating a few wisps of grease and smoke, the original honeycomb coal the year before last has been changed to natural gas, which makes all the housewives in the factory are all the factory this term of leadership is full of praise, trance Zhao Guodong has been rushed to the door before awakening, fierce pinch bicycle hand brake, hard braking in front of the threshold.   "Mom! Dad! I'm back." As soon as he stepped in the door, the familiar scent that came to his nose gave Zhao a burst of indescribable warmth, Zhao Shang's pot was stewing pig's trotters, the tempting aroma made Zhao Guodong couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, and the iron pot was frying slices of meat with fungus, and that was Zhao Guodong's favorite as well.   "Guodong is back ah?" Father's back was slightly bent, working for decades, the family did not save anything, just to bring up five children, Zhao Guodong was also a little sentimental.   "Guodong, how come you're back at this moment? Thought you were going to come back at noon, are you busy at work?" Mother Xu Xiuqin's face is always so kind, Zhao Guodong seems to feel the warmth of home for the first time, before coming and going in a hurry to come home to brake a foot, rarely have such a feeling, the father and mother seems to be more of a vague impression exists.   "Well, mom, I transferred to the Jiangmiao police station, it will be convenient for me to go home in the future." Zhao nodded and put down the carrier bag in his hand.   "I heard from Changqing that today is the weekend, and your father and I also expect to be back today." His mother's words were always the most considerate, and she didn't ask why he was transferred back to the Jiangmiao Police Station in half a sentence, which made Zhao Guodong's heart warm up as well.   "Guodong, the criminal police force did a good job, why did you transfer back? Did you make any mistakes?" His father's serious face used to be Zhao Guodong's greatest fear, but now it had lost its former power.   "Nothing, it's entirely because of work needs, Jiangmiao lacks people to work on cases, the bureau wants to send one down from the criminal police team to go, my family is on this side of Jiangmiao, of course, it became the first choice." Zhao Guodong did not want to pick up this conversation, but in the face of his father's caring eyes, he could not afford not to answer.   It seems that his son's answer is a little dissatisfied, but seeing that his son does not seem to want to say more on this issue, the old Zhao head can only sigh and say no more, his son has grown up, but also a public security police officer, in a certain way, the role of the father in contrast to the role of the public security officer, I'm afraid that it is still the public security officer's role is more powerful.   "Brother, you're back? When did you come back?" A figure with a strong odor of sweat broke in, the basketball still rotating flexibly in his hand, and immediately shouted in surprise at the sight of Zhao Guodong.   "Well, just got home, you went to play basketball again?" Zhao Guodong smoothly grabbed the other's basketball, shot it twice on the ground and threw it back to the other, "Won, or lost?"   "Oh, brother, when have we ever lost?" The person is Zhao Guodong's second brother Zhao Deshan, a meter eighty-three, more than one hundred and seventy pounds of block, naked upper body pectoral muscles as practiced bodybuilding as into the plate shape, dark blue sports shorts are also some white, foot sneakers or their own police college when bought, this kid, the two years can be a lot of growth.   Was sent to the Jiangmiao a little unhappy quickly annihilated in the warmth of the family, when the family of six people are seated at the dinner table, Xu Xiuqin casually asked: "Ling Shan, how is it that Xiaoliu did not come? Didn't I ask you to call him?"   Zhao Lingshan glanced at Zhao Guodong, her face suddenly reddened, "He had something to do, and he had to work overtime at the factory."   Zhao froze for a moment, then looked at the other three brothers' somewhat secretive looks, and immediately understood, "Oh, big sister has a date too?"   "No, no, not sure yet." Zhao Lingshan immediately reddened her face and hurriedly differentiated.   "Look at Liu Cheng that brat's talentless vigor, he doesn't even dare to come and see my brother, he still wants to marry you? I told him a long time ago, in order to enter my house, he first has to pass my brother's hurdle, if my brother can't even look at him, then he should die while he still can and get out." Zhao Deshan had a disdainful look on his face, obviously not too satisfied with his big sister's object.   "You!" A trace of anger flashed across Zhao Lingshan's face, she had known for a long time that her second brother was dissatisfied with Liu Cheng, but this was her own object search, not her family's object search, and for Zhao Deshan to openly talk about her object in such a contemptuous tone, especially when her eldest brother knew about it for the first time, of course, made her very angry.   "Alright, Eldest Brother, do you need to be in charge of Big Sister's matters? Do you still have a say here? I didn't come back for a few days and you're still not big enough? Get lost!"   Seeing his elder sister's face reddened, with hidden tears in her eyes, Zhao Guodong hurriedly scolded Zhao Deshan, this guy's mouth never stinks, and during the school days, his brothers didn't know how many unnecessary fights they had because of his mouth.   Heavy grunt, Zhao Deshan no longer say more, just buried head to eat.   This family since graduation, in addition to the big brother, Zhao Deshan see who are not good, more than two years after graduation, to the present factory recruitment is no chance, Zhao Deshan suffocated panic, all day like a wild horse in the outside wandering, three days and two days someone to find the door to the complaint, but the old Zhao head now where there is still control over him, coupled with the feeling of not being able to let Zhao Deshan into the factory to work, the heart also feel guilty, only to go around in private to compensate for the faults.   Zhao Guodong see this atmosphere because of this topic became a little cold, quickly chimed in: "Lao San you will soon graduate, how to test the university have no grasp?"   "Big brother, the teaching quality of Jiangmiao Middle School is also general, I'm in the middle of the class results, I really do not have much grasp." Zhao Changchuan see big brother gaze toward himself, eyes also become a little evasive, their own things they know, in front of Zhao Guodong he can not dare to talk nonsense.   "Humph, regardless of the test on the test, you have to give me a good reading, can not afford to test the university, give me to read the self-test, these days, no ability without a diploma, I see how you mix? Is the family waiting for the factory to arrange jobs?"   Zhao Guodong also knows Zhao Changchuan achievements in the children's school can be considered, but to get the Jiangmiao middle school is very common, Jiangmiao middle school a year rely on the university college plus junior college is only so few ten people, Zhao Changchuan is obviously not in the list.   Their own family of five, big sister fortunately has been arranged into the factory, the female workers need a large amount of good arrangements, the male workers, factory children are arranged quite tight, if you did not test out, I'm afraid that the family really want to worry about the fog.   Now this is difficult to tight, the oldest two around, mom has told himself a few times to come back to teach a little DeShan, but the first half of the year they are too busy, no mind to ask just now, and now there is finally some leisure can be strangled Zhao DeShan this wild horse neck rope, otherwise there will always be a day out of the big thing still do not know.   A family is only the fourth Zhao Yunhai is still quite competitive, now in Jiangkou County in the middle school in the first year of high school, the whole family is counting on him to be able to like their own test out, but also for the old Zhao family to fight for the old Zhao family, a test out of the two college students, that is in the cotton mill is the first one.   A meal because of Zhao Deshan's two words to make the interest greatly reduced, Zhao Guodong also realized that his family seems to have some less harmonious factors, long time not home, I did not expect the original has been harmonious their own family will also be out of the situation, Zhao Guodong also have some headaches.   Father at the dinner table did not say a word, apparently has been unable to pressure Zhao Deshan, mother is also want to say a face of worry, Deshan did not work, Changchuan will soon be graduated from high school, the family has two strong laborers at home to stay at home, it is no wonder that the mother and father worried.   After the meal, only Zhao Guodong and his mother left in the living room, washing dishes has always been the eldest sister's thing, the father went to find a few chess friends to kill a few games, a few other younger brothers have quietly slipped out the door, seems to know that the mother and elder brother have something to talk about.