radicalducati Chapter 609 Wang Feng treats his purchasing department colleagues to drinks
Chapter 609 Wang Feng treats his purchasing department colleagues to drinks
Courtyard 28.
Lou Xiao'e brought the dishes to the table and said with a smile, "Brother Feng, Sister Jingru, dinner is ready."
At noon, Lou Xiao'e made a braised fish, a spiced beef, and a hot and sour shredded potato dish.
Wang Feng took the rice served by Qin Jingru, picked up a piece of beef and put it in his mouth, saying:
"Jingru, tell Banxia tonight that she doesn't need to cook for me. I'm treating my colleagues from the purchasing department to drinks tonight."
Qin Jingru was somewhat surprised: "Brother Wang Feng, you're the deputy section chief. Shouldn't they be the ones inviting you? Besides, you just helped them this morning!"
"Hey, this is what we agreed on before. When we got married, we didn't have a banquet in the city. After I was promoted to deputy section chief, I didn't invite any guests or anything. I told them that I would invite them when my wife got pregnant. Now that you're pregnant and you quit your job in the kitchen, you can't get away with it now."
"Oh, then go ahead." Qin Jingru nodded.
Lou Xiao'e placed a piece of beef on Qin Jingru's plate, rolled her eyes, and said, "Brother Feng, our family isn't short of money. It's just treating you to a drink. Why do you seem like you don't want to go?"
Wang Feng gave a wry smile: "What's the point of drinking with a bunch of grown men? Besides, don't you know what kind of situation small taverns are in now? Even if you have money, they can't cook good food, and they don't have the ingredients. This afternoon, when I go to a small tavern, I have to bring my own meat, otherwise there's practically nothing to eat."
"Hehe, that's true. You can't buy meat in the market right now, and there's a shortage of grain. Without grain, you can't brew wine. I think you'll have to bring your own wine," Qin Jingru joked with a smile.
"Hmm, that makes sense. I'd better bring a few bottles of wine with me, just in case I don't even have any to offer as a gift. That would be ridiculous."
Wang Feng really didn't want to deal with these social niceties, but he had no choice; he wasn't a bachelor anymore, and sometimes he had to put on an act.
For example, Jingru's parents and Lou Xiao'e's parents. Since he slept with their daughters, he can't just ignore them, can he?
After lunch, Lou Xiao'e brewed a pot of tea, washed the dishes, and then eagerly pulled Wang Feng back to their room.
Seeing this, Qin Jingru rolled her eyes, waved her hand, and went to another room to take a nap.
Now that Qin Jingru is more than two months pregnant, Lou Xiao'e's belly shows no signs of pregnancy, which makes her even more anxious.
Wang Feng had told her some time ago that he would be going to Hong Kong Island again in three or four months. She hoped to get pregnant with Wang Feng's child during this time so that Wang Feng could bring the good news to her parents and put their minds at ease.
Now that Qin Jingru is pregnant, she can only watch helplessly as Wang Feng, Lu Banxia, and Lou Xiao'e make love, which makes her very uncomfortable.
It was alright with Lou Xiao'e; she could go to another room to take a nap. But it was tough in courtyard number 95, where there was only one bed, and she couldn't go even if she didn't want to.
Wang Feng had previously tried to provoke her by suggesting that she give the child a physical lesson in advance, but she refused in order not to hurt the child.
Wang Feng was as strong as a wild bull, and she had finally gotten pregnant; she dared not risk the child.
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4:30 PM.
Wang Feng got up feeling refreshed and, with Qin Jingru in his car, left courtyard number 28 and returned to courtyard number 95.
After dropping Qin Jingru off at the back of the house, he rode his bicycle towards Mao'er Hutong.
Arriving at a secluded, deserted alley, he thought for a moment, then took out three catties of wild boar meat from his spatial storage, along with a wild rabbit, and four bottles of lotus white wine.
Arriving at the entrance of Xiao Zhen's Tavern, he saw that Ma Hua, Zhang Dali, and Li Jianjun were already there. He parked his bicycle, pointed to the wild boar meat and rabbit in his hand, and joked with a smile:
"You guys are on time! Look, a whole three pounds of wild boar meat and a rabbit. I'll make sure you have a good meal tonight."
"Haha, Wang Feng, you're so thoughtful! We just asked the proprietress, and all they have left in the shop are potatoes, cabbage, peanuts, and pickled vegetables. They're even out of alcohol. We were planning to wait for you to come over and then have a drink at my place next time. We didn't expect you to have already prepared everything," Zhang Dali laughed.
Wang Feng smiled smugly: "Do you think I'm as careless as you guys? I knew all along that the tavern couldn't buy meat or brew wine. If I hadn't prepared properly, would we even be able to drink today?"
"Alright, enough nonsense, hurry up and get the landlady to cook the meat and rabbit."
"Alright."
Zhang Dali laughed loudly, took the wild boar meat and rabbit from Wang Feng, and walked into the tavern. Wang Feng, Li Jianjun, and Ma Hua followed closely behind.
"Boss lady, hurry up and take this meat and rabbit and cook it. Add plenty of seasonings, don't waste such good ingredients."
As soon as Zhang Dali entered the tavern, he found the tavern owner and handed her the wild boar meat and rabbit.
"Alright, I promise you'll eat your tongues tonight," the proprietress promised with a smile.
The proprietress is a middle-aged woman in her forties who has been running this small tavern for over ten years. However, the tavern no longer belongs to her; it became a joint public-private enterprise several years ago. Now, she is just an employee, barely making ends meet by running the tavern.
The year is bad, the tavern can't buy meat, and even the wine stored in the cellar has been sold out. There's no grain to brew wine, so her little tavern basically doesn't have more than two customers a day.
Seeing so much meat and guests who even brought their own wine, she was overjoyed. With so much meat, she definitely had to cut back on some of it, as her family hadn't had any meat in a long time.
The proprietress took the wild boar meat and rabbit and happily went to the kitchen.
Wang Feng and his group found a table and sat down. He took out two packs of Daqianmen cigarettes from his pocket and handed one to each of them.
"Have you notified Section Chief Li Huaiming? Why hasn't he come yet?"
Li Jianjun lit a cigarette, took a deep drag, and said, "Wang Feng, have you forgotten? Section Chief Li Huaiming is no longer in the Purchasing Department. After you took over his position, he was transferred to the warehouse to retire. Working in the warehouse isn't as free as working in the Purchasing Department. It's not time to leave work yet, let's wait a bit longer."
"Hehe, that's right, I almost forgot about that," Wang Feng laughed.
The group of men smoked and chatted about their recent situations, mostly complaining about how difficult it was to buy things and how tough life was.
Wang Feng was helpless in this situation; it was a tribulation that ordinary people had to overcome.
He can only take care of his own family now, and at most his father-in-law's family as well; there's nothing else he can do.
Time flew by as the group chatted and laughed, and before long, Li Huaiming arrived on his bicycle.
"Haha, Wang Feng, you're a true gentleman. You said you'd treat me to drinks last year, I thought you'd forgotten. Today I finally get to drink with you."
As soon as Li Huaiming entered the tavern, he burst into laughter, showing no sign of the loneliness he felt from being reassigned to guarding the warehouse for retirement.