Siheyuan: Xu Damao's New Life

Xu Damao left the key and said goodbye to Nan Yi and his wife. After all, he still had to go to work, and the couple also needed to clean and move. However, the two sides agreed that when they officially moved in, they would invite Xu Damao and his wife to come over for dinner.

"Brother Yi, who do you think Brother Damao's wife is? Her dowry is just a courtyard house." Ding Qiunan said with some confusion.

"I haven't asked about this, but it should be a big deal. If they want to talk, we should listen. If they don't want to talk, we shouldn't ask. Okay, let's clean up the house first. Tomorrow we have to vacate the dormitory of the machine repair factory and move our things here!"

Xu Damao had lunch outside, found a post office and delivered a few songs he wrote to the newspaper before returning to the steel mill. In the afternoon, he went to see the rehearsal of the participants of the party and made some suggestions. When the time came, Xu Damao went home directly after get off work.

When Xu Damao passed by the front yard, he told Yan Bugui that he had a meeting in the evening and that Director Wang from the street would also be coming, and then he went straight home.

"Mozi, I'm back." Xu Damao parked the car and went straight into the house, but he didn't see Lou Xiaoe. "Mozi, Mozi. Where have you been?"

Xu Damao walked into the inner room and found Lou Xiao'e lying on the kang, so he went up to her and touched her forehead and found it was not hot.

Xu Damao's actions woke Lou Xiao'e up, "Brother, you're back. I'll go cook now."

"There's no rush for what you've done. Why are you still lying down at this hour? Are you feeling unwell?"

"Well, I felt a little dizzy after lunch, so I just wanted to lie down and rest for a while. Who knew I would lie down until now."

"Then you take a rest for a while. I'll go cook. Let's make something delicious tonight. I've asked someone to help me catch a fish."

"I've been lying down for a long time and I can't lie down any longer. I just want to get up and move around."

Lou Xiao'e got up and walked around the house, while Xu Damao went to the kitchen to cook. An hour later, the fragrant rice with braised fish and bacon and fried potato shreds was ready, and Xu Damao called Lou Xiao'e to come over for dinner.

Lou Xiao'e couldn't help but frowning when she smelled the fishy smell. She always felt that the fish today seemed particularly fishy, ​​so she picked up a piece of shredded potatoes with chopsticks and started eating.

Seeing that she had never eaten fish before, Xu Damao gave her a piece of fish with chopsticks. Lou Xiaoe was too embarrassed to refuse Xu Damao's kindness and took it directly. But as soon as it entered her mouth, Lou Xiaoe felt nauseous and vomited it out.

Seeing this, Xu Damao quickly took a glass of water and patted her back. "What's wrong? Why did you vomit again? Is the fish not tasty?"

"I just feel that the fish today is particularly fishy. I feel uncomfortable when I smell it." Lou Xiao'e took the cup of water and rinsed her mouth. It took her a while to recover.

Xu Damao's heart was moved. Could it be that his silly moth was pregnant? "Xiao Ling, can you tell if my wife is pregnant?"

"Okay, ...Ding, the scan is complete, your wife is indeed pregnant, and..."

This was the first time Xu Damao saw the system hesitate to speak, but now was not the time to care about this, so he could only temporarily suppress his doubts. "Mozi, are you pregnant?"

Lou Xiao'e counted the days and found that she hadn't had her period for more than a month. "Da Mao, it seems that you are really pregnant. How about I go to the hospital for a check-up tomorrow?"

"Okay, then I'll go with you tomorrow. You can't eat meat, so I'll make you something light!" Xu Damao was very happy when he knew he had a child, but he had to pretend that he didn't know.

"Yeah." At this time, Lou Xiao'e really couldn't eat anything too greasy, so she didn't act pretentiously.

Xu Damao pretended to go to the cellar, then brought back celery, carrots, cucumbers, and added black fungus and peanuts from home. He planned to make a mixed dish and fooled Lou Xiaoe by saying that the ingredients were from the greenhouse in the countryside. In fact, Xu Damao didn't want to hide it anymore, he was too tired!

Lou Xiao'e reluctantly ate two more bites of shredded potatoes and put down her chopsticks to chat with Xu Damao. Xu Damao also talked about his experience today while cooking, and said that there would be another meeting in the evening, and the street office would come to recover the old lady's property. After all, it is now the street or the country that is taking care of the deaf old lady. If it weren't for the fact that the old lady is too old, they would definitely not take her so lightly.

Xu Damao prepared the mixed dish and brought it up. This time, Lou Xiao'e did not have any morning sickness after eating it. She even liked it quite a lot. She actually ate two bowls of rice for this meal.

It was past seven in the evening when the sound of banging on a broken basin came from the central courtyard. This was the signal to notify everyone of a meeting. Xu Damao didn't like notifying everyone door to door, so after he became the third uncle, he changed to banging on basins. Of course, it would have been even better if there was a gong.

"Ezi, you stay at home and rest. I'll go to a meeting and be back soon." Xu Damao said. Lou Xiao'e responded, but she was too lazy to move.

Xu Damao came to the middle courtyard, sat down at the table, and whispered to Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui about the purpose of Director Wang's visit. The two nodded to show that they knew what to do, and got up and went back home to get their things.

At 7:30, Director Wang walked in from the gate on time. Xu Damao and the other two uncles quickly stood up to greet him.

This time Director Wang was more straightforward and got straight to the point. "I heard that people in our courtyard picked up a lot of good things from the ruins of the old lady's house in the backyard. I hope everyone can hand them in truthfully. Now the old lady's retirement is the responsibility of our street, and the old lady has made a mistake and should be punished, but because she is too old, she handed over the house and all her property to the state in exchange for leniency. So these things belong to the state, and we must not embezzle state property. Once this is discovered, the consequences will be very serious."

After hearing this, Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui immediately expressed their opinions and took the lead in putting some deformed silver rings, silver hairpins, silver bracelets, silver dollars, etc. into a box on the table. This box was previously used for donations to the Jia family.

After hearing what Director Wang said, and the two old men taking out their belongings first, everyone in the compound felt that the things in their hands were a little hot, so they all went home and took out the things they had picked up and handed them in.

Director Wang looked at everyone's performance and nodded with a smile. He also praised Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui highly, which made Liu Haizhong feel relieved.

Director Wang continued, "Thank you for your cooperation. I have one more thing to tell you. The land of the old lady's house in the backyard has been bought by a new employee of the steel mill, and a new house will be built in the spring. So within three days, I will arrange for someone to clean up the ruins and the things left behind. Everyone should pay attention to safety and do not approach easily. Well, I have finished my business. Do you three gentlemen have anything else to say?"