Siheyuan: Banggeng and I are classmates

The next day

The neighbors in the courtyard all slept soundly until mid-morning. There was no New Year's greetings. The three old men gathered in the central courtyard to celebrate the New Year together.

After finishing the collective activities in the compound, the Li family returned to their house and cooked a pot of dumpling soup - no, it should be called meat soup.

Li Fuhai glared at Li Qinghua while he was drinking soup, which frightened Li Qinghua so much that he locked his shoulders and buried his head in the bowl. Li Muhua saw this and thought to herself that if today wasn't the first day of the new year, Li Qinghua would have been beaten up.

During the Chinese New Year, they just stayed at home eating and drinking until the tenth day. After the tenth day, they started to go out to attend temple fairs. This year, the Li family did not go to Baiyun Temple, but went to the Dalongfu Temple fair.

At the temple fair, Li Muhua also bought a candied haws that was as tall as himself. Fortunately, he only bought one, because after several people shared it, they all felt their teeth ached.

When the temple fair is over, families begin to take down their window paper-cuts. The Spring Festival is over, and those who should go to school go to school, and those who should go to work go to work.

"Ugh!"

"Time flies, and suddenly it's already been a year and I'm back to school again!" Li Muhua said dejectedly while carrying his schoolbag.

Li Aihua's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he thought to himself that his younger brother really had the literary talent to write a book and could recite doggerel at will.

Li Muhua walked into the classroom with her head down, but saw that no one was sitting next to her. She couldn't help but laugh and said, "Liu Xu, she's even lazier than me after the winter vacation. She hasn't come to school yet."

But even after class, when Xu Ming walked into the classroom, the room was still empty.

"First of all, I wish you all to grow one year older and return to our campus again..."

Listening to Xu Ming's long-winded nonsense again, Li Muhua lay on the table in boredom. He was suddenly back to school after leaving behind the free and easy life of winter vacation, and he really wanted to find someone to talk to.

"But life is full of separations. Liu Xu and Sun Zilei transferred to other schools for various reasons. Our class lost two more students."

Hearing this, Li Muhua couldn't help but sit up. Xu Ming looked at him, then glanced at the students in the classroom.

"Zhou Ru, you go sit in Liu Xu's seat. In the future, you should learn more from Li Muhua and work hard to improve your academic performance. Tao Yong, you go sit in Sun Zilei's seat. In the future, you should also learn more from He Jing. Feng..."

As Xu Ming spoke, he shuffled the seats in the class and moved Bang Geng to the corner of the last row.

On the first day of school, Xu Ming saw him lying on the table. He was so unlucky that he didn't want to see him again.

After glancing at Zhou Ru, Li Muhua turned back in boredom.

"Hello, we will be desk mates from now on!"

"Well, hello to you too!"

……

Li Muhua spent his days in boredom. He stopped writing novels and didn't pay much attention to his new deskmate Zhou Ru. He felt annoyed when he saw the word "Ru".

He went to the store and bought a few thick notebooks. Li Muhua took a pencil and began to write down the building specifications he remembered, including the introduction to civil engineering, house architecture and other knowledge he remembered.

It’s true, there was some knowledge that he hadn’t even remembered in his previous life, but now he could actually remember it. Li Muhua was very surprised for a long time!

Unfortunately, no matter how completely he remembered it, no matter how much money he could save the country, and no matter how many lives he could avoid, this notebook could not be seen by the public, because a lot of the knowledge in it about construction conditions, building materials, etc. was out of date and could not be used at all.

Li Muhua remembered it just to kill time, thinking that when the era of large-scale infrastructure construction begins, these things of his might be useful, and it is not a good thing to keep them idle all the time.

At the same time, a rush to buy "Drawing Sword" quietly swept through the bookstores in the city. More and more people noticed Li Yunlong and shouted out the words: "When we meet on a narrow road, the brave will win. When we meet an enemy, we must draw our swords. Blood will splatter seven steps away. It's either you or I who will die!"

Twenty thousand copies may sound like a lot at first glance, but there are only about seven or eight thousand copies left for sale in the city. If you divide it up among all the bookstores, each store will only have a little over a hundred copies.

As the popularity grew, the bookshelves were sold out in a flash.

Seeing the strong sales momentum of "Drawing Sword", the leaders of Youth Publishing began to discuss the second round of printing, but not many people knew who the author of "Drawing Sword" was.

After all, Li Muhua's neighbors are all ordinary workers, and there is a gap between them and these intellectuals.

At the same time, that morning, a girl with two braids came in from the gate of the compound. Her pretty cheeks were almost dripping with tears, and her eyes were black and round, showing her youthful beauty.

"Hello, I'm looking for Qin Huairu. Where does she live?"

Yang Ruihua looked her in the eye and asked, "Who are you? What do you want to see Qin Huairu for?"

"My name is Qin Jingru, I'm Qin Huairu's cousin, and I'm here to visit my relatives!" As she spoke, Qin Jingru raised the cloth bag in her hand, indicating that she was really here to visit her relatives with gifts.

Yang Ruihua wiped his hands, stood up and walked towards the central courtyard.

"Qin Huairu has gone to work, but her mother-in-law is at home. I'll take you to meet her mother-in-law."

Qin Jingru's face flashed with joy after hearing this. She was glad that she had found the right place. She followed and said, "Thank you, auntie. I want to ask, what is my cousin's mother-in-law like? Is she easy to talk to?"

After hearing this, Yang Ruihua's face flashed with a strange look, and then he said: "Easy to talk to, her mother-in-law is very easy to talk to now."

Are you particularly easy to talk to now?

There was confusion in Qin Jingru's eyes, but she didn't dare to ask Yang Ruihua for details. While they were talking, the two of them had already entered the central courtyard.

"Sister He, Huairu's cousin is here to see you and Huairu!" Yang Ruihua shouted into the house. He Zhang, who was lying on the kang with a matchbox stuck to her face, glared with her triangular eyes and slowly got up reluctantly.

"It's really unfortunate. My family is already in such a difficult situation, and her family still comes to ask for money..."

Cursing under her breath, He Zhang walked to the door and put on a warm, welcoming smile.

"You are the Jingru that Huairu told me about, right? You are so pretty!" He Zhang walked forward with a smile on her face and took the package from Qin Jingru.

Seeing that her cousin's mother-in-law called her name directly and welcomed her with such a warm smile, Qin Jingru felt warmed up after the tiredness of the journey.

She thought to herself that her cousin must have often told her how beautiful she was at home, and her mother-in-law seemed easy to get along with. It must be that her cousin was lucky enough to marry into the city.

So he smiled and nodded and said, "Yes, auntie, I am Qin Jingru!"

He Zhang didn't reply to her, but looked at He Ruihua and thanked her: "Auntie, thank you so much. This is Jingru's first time to come to our house, and I bothered you to lead the way!"

He Zhang smiled brightly and warmly. Yang Ruihua just nodded and walked back without paying any attention to her.

She was an old lady and lived at the gate of the compound. It was her duty to guard the compound's safety, so she brought Qin Jingru to the He family. However, she was unwilling to establish a relationship with the He family, especially with He Zhang.

He Zhang's face was filled with gloom after feeling humiliated, but it was soon filled with smiles again, and she pulled Qin Jingru into the house.