When Tiemin saw Xie Guizhi, his face turned red before he spoke.

When he heard Xie Guizhi's question again, he hesitated a few times and didn't know how to answer.

"Tiemin twisted his waist, and I was massaging him." Wang Li's reaction was relatively quick, and she relieved Tiemin's embarrassment in time.

Xie Guizhi also preferred not to believe that there was anything. She asked Tie Min: "Is it true?"

"Yeah." Tiemin lowered his head and looked at Xie Guizhi without looking at him.

"You just helped me twist the cart." Xie Guizhi believed it.

She asked Tiemin to lie down on the kang, roll up his arms and sleeves, and then massage Tiemin.

Tie Min was like a child who had done something wrong. He lay on the kang with a red face and allowed Xie Guizhi to press back and forth on his waist.

Xie Guizhi asked him: "Does this hurt?"

"It hurts." Ironborn answered mechanically.

"What about this?" Xie Guizhi asked again.

"Yeah." Ironborn won't lie. At this moment, he can only say, ah, this is it.

Xie Guizhi was anxious. "Xiao Li, help Tie Min to the health center quickly. His back injury is serious."

"Mom, what are you doing here?" Wang Liming knew what was going on with Tiemin, and she wanted to send her mother away as soon as possible.

"I..." Xie Guizhi couldn't tell the truth.

She was just afraid that Tiemin and Wang Li would do something inappropriate together, but she couldn't find a suitable excuse for the time being.

After a few moments of depression, she took Wang Li outside and reminded her in a low voice: "You have to control yourself. At this time, you must not..."

Wang Li's face turned red after being told by her mother, and she could only pretend to be angry and said: "Who do you think I am?"

Xie Guizhi kept sighing and wandering around the courtyard, unable to get out of the courtyard.

"Okay, I will accompany Tie Min to the health center for treatment of his back injury later, and then let him go home." Wang Li promised, and Xie Guizhi hurried back to the market.

After her mother left, Wang Li stayed in the yard and muttered. She was discovered by her mother only after she dated Tiemin for more than a year.

It was the Mid-Autumn Festival that day, and the goods Xie Guizhi took away were quickly sold out. Wang Li didn't come to the market to deliver the goods for a long time. She became anxious and ran home to pick up the goods.

From a distance, I saw coal piled at the door of my yard. A young man was pouring coal into the yard with a basket. Wang Li was holding a shovel and was responsible for filling the basket with coal.

It was said that Wang Li put coal into the basket, but in fact it was the young man who poured the basket of coal into the yard, came back, took the shovel from Wang Li, loaded the coal, and then handed the shovel to Wang Li.

The two of them were talking and laughing, which aroused Xie Guizhi's alert.

Wang Li explained that this young man was his classmate. He happened to catch up with the family to load coal when passing by, so he stayed to help.

This young man is an Ironborn.

When he saw Xie Guizhi, he just bared his teeth and smiled, without even saying hello, and just poured coal into the yard.

He heard that the market was out of stock and customers were queuing up to buy goods. Without saying a word, he got on his bicycle and took Xie Guizhi back to the market.

Later, when Xie Guizhi asked about the matter, Wang Li refused to admit her romantic relationship with Tie Min. However, every now and then, Tie Min would take Wang Li to the market to deliver goods on his bicycle.

As time went by, the Ironborn came to the market alone to deliver goods.

After some cross-examination by Xie Guizhi, Wang Li admitted their romantic relationship. Xie Guizhi only knew that Tiemin worked in the operation workshop of the small town railway station and was a state-owned worker.

In those days, state-owned workers were in hot demand, especially workers in skilled trades. Unfortunately, the ironmen were highly skilled workers, and connectors had no technical content.

Fortunately, he works in the railway system.

Railway work guarantees harvests despite droughts and floods. As long as the trains keep moving, there will be food to eat.

After frequent contacts, Xie Guizhi saw that Tie Min was honest and kind, never glib, and only knew how to work hard, and she liked him from the bottom of her heart.

Xie Guizhi knew Tie Min's personality thoroughly, and also knew that Tie Min's parents both worked and his younger siblings were all in junior high school. She just forgot to ask what his parents did.

No need for Xie Guizhi to say anything more, Wang Li realized that it would be difficult for Zhou Zhiqiang to get through the matter between her and Tie Min. Otherwise, even if he gave birth to a child, he would not dare to yell at her mother.

After Wang Lisi thought about it, she returned to the room and asked Tie Min: "You really want to marry me regardless of your family's objections."

Tiemin raised his right hand and was about to swear, but Wang Li interrupted and said: "Swearing doesn't work, and swearing doesn't hurt. If you really plan to marry me, let's build the house first."

Wang Li, mother and daughter, had already planned to build a small room at the entrance of the courtyard.

The original plan was to build a room for processing cooked food.

Wang Li made up her mind to build a house immediately. She also wanted to improve the standard of the house and build a wedding room that everyone would envy. She and Tiemin got married in this house.

"Why don't you discuss this with mother?" Ironborn revealed his weakness and couldn't do anything without his parents' instructions.

"I said so." Wang Li didn't tell Tie Min. When she heard that Tie Min's father was coming to meet his in-laws, her mother and she discussed building a house in the yard and recruiting Tie Min as his son-in-law.

Wang Li took out the 5,000 yuan she had prepared from the cabinet, handed it to Tie Min and said, "Buy bricks, tiles, sand and stones, find a construction team, and be the supervisor for building a house. You will be responsible for everything."

Ironborn's eyes widened and he refused to accept the money no matter what.

"What do you mean?" Wang Li was unhappy, thinking that Tiemin had backed down.

"I..." Tiemin blushed again, and felt his face burning hot.

It was an unspeakable embarrassment, and Tiemin couldn't find an explanation for it for a while.

He wanted to tell Wang Li that marrying you as my wife was a blessing I had earned in my previous life. How could I be embarrassed to let you use money to build a house again?

But then again, Ironborn has never seen this kind of money in his entire life, let alone has the financial strength.

Ironborn's father's temperament was about saving face and suffering, and the gene passed down to him was that he would rather suffer physically than let his face get heated.

He felt depressed for a while, but couldn't find a suitable reason to explain his helplessness.

Wang Li didn't insist. She returned the money to its original place and sat down to chat with Tiemin.

"That time when Liu Shoucheng arrested you and took you to the police station, why did he let you out again?" Wang Li mentioned this past incident and promptly dispelled Tie Min's embarrassment. He told the truth: "I don't know either."

"Tell me why he wanted to arrest you." Wang Li asked knowingly. Tiemin had already told her about this experience, but she insisted on letting him repeat it again.

There is a popular song: Boy, don’t guess what a girl is thinking. You keep guessing and you still don’t understand...

This lyric is very suitable for the occasion and completely expresses Wang Li's mood at this time.

That night, Zhou Zhiqiang was riding his bicycle home from get off work and passed by the railway police station. Liu Shoucheng was waiting at the gate.

"Old stubborn, it's time to get off work." Liu Shoucheng said hello first.

"Old Liu, you are on duty." Zhou Zhiqiang greeted Liu Shoucheng with a smile on his face.

Here we need to rectify the names of those who are called old and stubborn.

In many literary works, when it is mentioned that someone is very stubborn, he will not smile as soon as he appears, and he will speak loudly and loudly at every turn.

In fact, this is all misinformation.

In the Northeast Railway system, there are quite a few people who are called stubborn. However, Zhou Zhiqiang's reputation is relatively high, and he is stubborn to a certain extent.

Most of them fled from Henan and Shandong.

Some of them came from their hometowns and walked to the Northeast to make a living, and some of them stayed in the Northeast after serving in the army.

Among these people who are called old and stubborn, the most typical characteristic is that they never smile or speak when they see others, and they are also very enthusiastic and willing to help others.

The so-called stubbornness of this kind of person means that he is straightforward, sees problems simply, and likes to be more truthful.

There is a saying after saying: The old man is so awesome, he has identified a door.

Zhou Zhiqiang is this kind of person. When he saw Liu Shoucheng, he first nodded and bowed to say hello.

"Let me tell you something." Liu Shoucheng took out a box of Dazhuang brand cigarettes from his pocket and pretended to take out a cigarette.

Seeing this, Zhou Zhiqiang jumped down from the petrel. He set up his bicycle, took out a box of Qianmen cigarettes from his pocket and said, "Smoke mine."

Liu Shoucheng stood there taking out the cigarettes for a long time without touching the cigarettes in the cigarette case, but Zhou Zhiqiang took the lead.

He took out a cigarette, handed it to Liu Shoucheng, and helped Liu Shoucheng light the cigarette.

"Why don't you smoke?" Liu Shoucheng made it clear that he was up to something. He took a deep breath of cigarette and said, "Stubborn, it's okay. I've already smoked by the front door."

"I smoke this." Zhou Zhiqiang put away the Daqianmen cigarettes and took out a cigarette pouch from his pocket.

He took out a piece of cigarette paper, put his thumb and index finger into his purse, pinched out the tobacco, put it on the cigarette paper, and gathered it together slightly, so that the cigarette paper formed a barrel shape. Gently hold the cigarette paper with his left and right hands, and twist the paper tube with his right hand.

One end, twist it a few times quickly. Then wet the edge of the paper with your tongue, continue twisting it a few times, and a cone-shaped cigarette is rolled.

Zhou Zhiqiang held the tip of the cigarette in his mouth. Liu Shoucheng handed the lighter over and turned the gear. With a strong smell of gasoline, the lighter ignited. At the same time, Zhou Zhiqiang put the cigarette on the flame and took a few puffs.

The cigarette was lit.

"What's the matter? Tell me." Zhou Zhiqiang took a deep breath of the cigarette and blew it out again, always smiling on his face.

"Let's make an agreement first. I think we have a good relationship with each other, so I'm waiting for you here. Otherwise..." Liu Shoucheng took a puff of cigarette, exhaled the smoke gently and said, "Your son went to the arrival site today to steal iron. He was arrested."

I caught him and he ran away again."

"You have misjudged the person." Zhou Zhiqiang also took a puff of cigarette and said, "Old Liu, I have no control over what happens to other people's children. Our children will never do this."

"Are you so sure?" Liu Shoucheng half-truthed, completely confusing Zhou Zhiqiang.

"One hundred percent guaranteed." Zhou Zhiqiang became stubborn.
To be continued...